skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this ispretty coomon in Alberta for all services. Right now electricity is epensive but natural gas was costing as much or more to get to your house as the actual gas itself. There are a lot of governments and government owned/associated companies all taking a flat fee and then a % of your usage.
Fuel consumption: 14 kg of plastic per 100 km, but to be fair it's a Volvo 240 with a tiny refinery mounted on the roof.

Why don't the fuel producers do this? Is it less efficient than recycling the waste?
Tail risk is simply outright difficult to get through folks' head.
I was excited in Smalltalk around 1999, during my Master Thesis. The sad story is Java Hotspot had more technology than ParcplaceDigitalk(Cincom) and kept growing.
I love Smalltalk but Java won, even when it was closed sources.
Try Squeak (or Cuius): it is beautiful,but sadly it has little traction.
Yeah it badly needs that.
I wonder why we don't lower the ambitions: chain five trucks together, so that for long stretches of highway (hundreds of miles) one driver can drive the "train of trucks" while the other truck drivers sleep. The trucks could be really close together so no cars can come between them.

What problems am I overlooking that are not easily solvable?
Consider https://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Programming-Coding-Interviews... for the most pedagogical approach I have seen.
Humans can often identify the need to slow/stop further out then current AV systems.
You might want to try via (https://www.caniusevia.com) instead, actually. I know at least Bastard Keyboards switched from vial to via because vial-qmk (the vial fork of qmk_firmware) was lagging 9+ months behind upstream qmk at one point.
For the East / West routes between California and Nevada / Utah / etc. I80 is that corridor. I5 would be an interesting one in CA, but you have the grapevine in the south and Siskiyous in the North (again, Siskiyous not fun in weather).
I did my civil service as a paramedic near a curvy mountain road. I don't ride motorcycles thanks to that...
In many ways. Like adjusting to the new company's culture. In staying the relevant length to exercise options. In producing at a similar caliber prior to acquisition. The list goes on and on.
i've been doing the exactly same thing. Some risk is the data safety - years of log is attached to the icloud account is concerning.
It's hard for me to understand what is meant by "similar characteristics to psilocybin" without hallucinogenic effects. Is the idea that the hyperreality of the subconscious / inner life would dominate conscious perception, but without the confusing or distressing associated overload of the physical senses, e.g. seeing or hearing things that aren't there?

It's almost impossible to imagine the one aspect of the dreamlike state dominating the mind without the disruption of the other, but even if the senses are perfectly unperturbed I would think the unconstrained and disordered psyche alone could be very upsetting or confusing.
> I might be biased but those that chose to quit military service more often than not drifted into the sidelines in terms of career, social integration, and other aspects.

When you phrase it like this, it seems to me that you value having a good career and social integration.

On the other hand just seems to me that one's career and social integration is exactly the sort of thing that someone who quits conscription values highly. Without more information, it seems to me that such a person as you describe may consider themself to be leading a good life (in terms of satisfaction and/or morally).
"If you're seeing this message, that means JavaScript has been disabled on your browser, please enable JS to make Imgur work."

Well, it's a client that has no Javascript engine.

There is no need to use Javascript. This works for me just fine:

https://i.imgur.com/YtepoDbh.jpg
Well, it does have quite a lot of European state ownership. It would be very surprising if it didn't win a lot of European contracts.
World's most advanced AI says moon photos are faked [video]
The outsourcing and the SC facility are also motivated by Boeing’s decades-long war with its unions in Washington. Unfortunately for Boeing, the unionized workers in Renton and Everett were really good at their jobs compared to the workers in SC and at the subs, to the point that customers specifically demanded only to receive 787’s that were built in Everett.

I am not, in general, a pro-union guy, so I’m arguing against my natural bias here. But Boeing fucked up big time moving production out of Washington.
GP was being sardonic.
Low-rise apartment buildings without parkades are very common in Calgary and (I assume) Edmonton. Block heaters, extension cords, and high-quality ice scrapers are standard fare.
We kind of already do - just instead of making diesel, the plastic is burned to generate electricity. Since machines to harvest a difference in temperature or exothermic processes scales with size, one could argue it's more efficient to burn it in a massive, very efficient furnaces instead of converting the plastic into diesel that is then burned in an engine that must be operational at a far larger range of RPMs.
It likely does, I moved to BBEdit after TextMate and it feels very, very similar.
> 64 Kbit/s ISDN leased line

That would have been Kilostream which wasn't part of the ISDN system. Kilostream pre-dated ISDN. The reason for its high cost was that you could throw as much data as you wanted to 24hrs a day and it was a point to point dedicated circuit, i.e. you couldn't "dial up" different locations the way you could with ISDN.
I've added it back. For the future: you can use the 'edit' link to change the title after submitting.
I think the poster was being ironic. ie let's reinvent the train.
ChatGPT-3.5 or ChatGPT-4? There is a big difference.

For fun, I just asked ChatGPT-4 to generate a normalized database representation of vcard information: https://chat.openai.com/share/1c88813c-0a50-4ec6-ba92-4d6ff8...

It seems like a reasonable start to me.
Are DevOps, SRE, and Platform the same thing?
Of course. He has figured out that separate lanes, or even complete separate infrastructure (subway, tram) is easier for self driving implementation, however it did not occurred to him, that if he wants door to door self driving, then developers needs to implement fully autonomous vehicle anyway thus separate lanes makes no sense. If he is ok with walking into a point of collection, then it is just public transportation.
In countries like Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands it’s kind of done indirectly through waste to energy systems where plastic waste is burnt. I think there’s a few systems in place to mitigate the environmental impact.
OP's proposed logline for Star Wars would have been a total fail in the era when the logline was needed, namely before the film was made or known.

>Luke Skywalker, a spirited farm boy, joins rebel forces to save Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader, and the galaxy from the Empire’s Death Star.

This is probably not an article you want to learn logline writing from.
Can you provide a few examples of people expressing a general desire for "more stuff faster" before 1500 and outside Western Europe?
I don't think that's South Korea - in South Korea you aren't allowed to just "quit" because you hate the army.
Whatever. It just proves my point it’s all about perspective and how we justify things.
To some degree. Limited, IMO.

Quite a few companies serve the general public and avoid making a choice out of principle, ranging from a three-person legal partnership that follows the "taxi rank" principle to a supermarket chain that sells food (or knives!) to everyone. Those don't choose their customers, they serve anyone who walks through the door, to the limits of their capacity.

If you want to blame them (and I don't) for the ultimate outcome of their efforts or goods, then I think you ought to reject e.g. the taxi rank principle for lawyers, as well as the principle that anyone can walk into the nearest shop and buy things for cash, without identifying themselves.

(The taxi rank principle, if you don't know it, says that lawyers accept anyone who walks in through the door, assuming they have free time and the new customer can pay or has legal assistance. It's an important part of "anyone has the right to legal representation".)
Whats the point of putting the design choices in the name? If trend changes or someone puts a theme ?;0
Private equity playbook: buy, squeeze, discard husk

https://www.blackstone.com/news/press/blackstone-completes-a...
I didn’t interpret “poor performance” as “productivity”; rather, as “low-value”.
I’m not sure if only ordering from legit chains helps anymore. I’ve heard (and it’s mentioned elsewhere in this thread) of chains sub-contracting with ghost kitchens to offload the delivery traffic from their real locations. No idea on how they can do quality control with these sub-contractors.
IMO, the helplessness of the US people when they talk about electricity distribution is hearth breaking.

It's not even a "our society can't orchestrate this", but the opinion is usually "it's impossible for people to organize that way".
This Economist article on the same topic seems to agree with you: https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/01/09/the-dwindl... / https://archive.is/ZU0ws

> But projects like CIIT may still struggle to entice cargo away from the Panama Canal. The largest vessels that go through it can carry 14,000 containers. Mexico’s government accurately reckons that the coast-to-coast rail journey will be quicker than passing through the canal. But it neglects to mention that the trains’ capacity and the speed at which they can be loaded and unloaded mean that the overall rate of goods’ transit between the two oceans will be much slower than the canal.

> Moreover, Niels Rasmussen, chief shipping analyst at Bimco, an industry association, says that carrying cargo by train or road has big snags. Most shippers would prefer to rack up extra miles on other maritime routes than to deal with the hassle of unloading and reloading. And if push comes to shove, many would probably prefer existing routes across the United States to untested road alternatives in Latin America.
Same. First time I went low carb I couldn't get through a full workout for close to a month. Adapting to keto can take longer especially if you're metabolically unhealthy to begin with.
There's an actual test you can run, There's a specific HTTP Status Code for it.

https://github.com/tg12/RUBC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
fwiw, Mitsu has had a long history as a legally troubled registrar, with the IN Registry (NIXI) terminating their agreement, and then being forced to undo that by an arbitration court.

I’ve documented it here: https://gist.github.com/captn3m0/3ca2752f1394ef779d0e0bd0e04...

In general the advice of sticking to large registers, and commercial registries (not ccTLDs) seems a good one to follow.
Not overly related, but I just received a kit for Christmas and I am a little worried about sending my DNA to a company for storage and possibly sale later on?

Does this concern anyone else, that in some not too distant future, ads etc could be DNA targeted?
When writing a web assembly interpreter I was surprised at how it didn't map cleanly to the underlying hardware. The interpreter had to keep track of the types of everything. I can definitely see how a RISC-V based solution would be faster.
Not a security expert, so take everything with a grain of salt.

Traffic between your browser and a website using HTTPS is encrypted. Large scale plain text sniffing could happen by enforcing government owned certificates like Kazakhstan[^1] does.

Another possibility is getting access to root certificates, issuing valid certificates for domains and redirecting traffic. This attack is expensive and I don't know if it's possible to perform at scale.

The ISP has connection records and metadata (how much time, how many connection, what time of day). That is enough to re-construct internet activity and extract valuable information (e.g. build a user profile).

DNS records can be protected by using DoH and DNS records featuring DNSSEC can be used an counter-measures for DNS spoofing. DoH and DNSSEC play well together (e.g. dnscrypt + unbound).

Non compliance with a country's laws will surely lead to some sort of punishment, but I'm pretty sure it's legal to use a VPN in Switzerland so if you are worried about your privacy you can use a VPN service. Install the VPN server to your router. Just FYI, many government, service (e.g. audio/video streaming services) and such block access to their service based on GeoIP.

ps. "Operation Rubicon"[^2] is a very interesting read and somewhat related.

[^1]: https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/kazakhs...

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rubicon
I wasn't racist or xenophobic, but I had a lot of spite and a fairly negative world-view due to experiences I had growing up.

I had a chip on my shoulder, so to speak.
The UK is heavy reliant on gas heating currently so only a small fraction of electrical energy on this graph is used for heating. With the switch to heat pumps and other forms of electrical heating the picture will change.
Your mileage is sadly spot on.
I could hear the significant apathy in the gas station attendent's voice even though their comment was narrated by the presenter. That was nice.
Ottawa, ON, Canada: https://hydroottawa.com/en/accounts-services/accounts/rates-...

I can choose my rate plan.

Regular:
7PM-7AM+weekends = 8.7c/kWH
11AM-5PM = 12.2c/kWH
7-11AM, 5-7PM. = 18.2c/kWH

UltraLow:
11PM-7AM = 2.8c/kWH
W/end 7AM-11PM = 8.7c/kWH
W/day 7AM-4PM,9PM-11PM = 12.2c/kWH
W/day 4PM-9PM = 28.6c/kWH

Tiered:
First 1000kWH = 10.3c/kWH
Over 1000kWH = 12.5c/kWH
The entire thread started with a comment claiming that the cold ruins everything and the province is mismanaged so that's that there is no solution.

But that's not that, clearly there is a solution, and that's to start improving the grid and increase the use of EVs. When every house has a battery backup system and charging infrastructure, and they build more power generation capabilities, nuclear or green, then you will see a hugely more robust grid and cars that will actually work well in even the coldest months.
im a veteran of the war on drugs.

i served cod:b0 - mw3

now give me my wendys discount please
Rust does not protect against race conditions, since these are mere logic errors that don't impact memory safety. This program can panic when unwrap() fails, but that's also a safe operation.
You pay to have your DNA put in the database to be shared with insurers.

Optionally you can get access to the results if you pay more.
The plastic waste is heated in a boiler to about 700 degrees Celsius, after which it evaporates. The gas is then cooled down and turns into a diesel-like liquid one hour later.

A kind of pyrolysis, I assume, and very energy intensive. Does this process really produce more stored energy in the output product than it took to run the reaction?
Gasoline can freeze well above -75°C/-103°F, it all depends on the actual composition and various additives. And even if it's not frozen it can be so sticky (viscous) that you can't use it anyway
The issue for me is that the popular claim against psychoanalysis seems to be exactly that, binary.

Thanks for bringing nuance and providing quotes!

I’ve personally benefited tremendously from work with the ego structure and from realizing I can strenghen my will/ego capacities and learn to more and more discern and deny excessive power from my superego - from past learnt protective and restrictive impulses that no longer serve a purpose. This understanding alone seems like a treasure trove that keeps on giving year after year while doing introspective work and self inquiry with others interested in the work.

However I have little understanding how this fits in a modern understanding of psychoanalysis or psychodynamic psychotherapy.

What I do know is that CBT I did younger didn’t seem to have nearly sufficient explanatory powers to help me personally. Most of the skills I was offered seemed more or less trivial or perhaps were taught ineffectively.

Another thing that I would have needed was tapping into the resources of my body in the context of therapy and how that links to having capacity to work with myself. CBT seemed obsessed with, umh, overly just cognition.
> assume good faith and be civil.

I did.

Twice in two comments foldr quoted from a source. Both of those quotes are literally right next to another sentence in the source which is exactly the opposite of what foldr asserted.

The Affila wikipedia page section titled “Grievance studies affair” is four sentences long. The sentence right before foldrs quote, which is the first in the section is this.

>In October 2018, it was revealed that the journal had accepted for publication a hoax article entitled "Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism."

The New Discourses link does say the paper was rejected from a specific journal in the first footnote which is . The second footnote says the article was accepted. Both footnotes quoted here:

> Peer reviewed and rejected by Feminist Theory

> Accepted by Affilia , August 21, 2018

At this point I am no longer sorry for not assuming good faith from someone arguing that a reformulation of kompf could be “not that bad”.

> We're not in youtube comments here

Be civil.
I chuckled reading this, as we're trying to do exactly what you described at my current startup, https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis ! More seriously, I've been mulling over the idea that humanity is going through a continual process of modularization and unification:

First came machines, to perform simple "computation" tasks.

Then came the computer with instructions to represent the generalized notion of computational work.

Then we wanted a way to DRY instructions so we got functions.

Then we wanted a way to package collections of functions so we got libraries.

Then we wanted a way to manage collections of libraries so we got package managers.

Then we wanted a way to distribute collections of packages so we got containers.

Now we're in a world where instantiating and configuring a collection of containers is error-prone, burdensome, and rarely portable.

Each level adds something (containers have the benefit of being language-agnostic), but the price is complexity.
Blaming "outsourcing" sounds like passing the buck.

The MCAS software debacle and penny pinching walk-back on the MCAS remediations shows that the rot has set in within Boeing.
Don't do it. America has it's problems, but everywhere does and you'll find practically all places are worse to actually live.
Freight trains have a much lower fraction of human labor as cost vs. benefits relative to trucking or cab driving. 1 truck and driver carries 20 tonnes. 2 engineers on a freight train carry close to 20,000 tonnes, so there is only 1/50th (ish) the benefit.
It would seem more logical to me if the regenerative braking was tied to a physical user input. Like... the brake pedal from 0 to 30% could be regenerative, and beyond that engage the brake discs. Or it could be tied to the shift stick, on a L-D position, acting like a low gear on a manual car.
Looking for Feedback on Side Project
Is there any website where people can schedule and chat 1:1?

If not, is anybody interested in talking about my video-making tool?
Here's some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/@BitTherapy
Someone could have reasons for wanting to do something and reasons for not wanting to do it to. In the comment being discussed, that’s the desire to quit the military (the person did not want to waste their time) and the desire not to quit (not out of eating to be in the military but because those who quit faced negative consequences).
Which flavour of CS? A systems department should teach debugging; a theory department probably not.
Recently I wrote a simplistic RISC-V interpreter for educational purposes mostly, and a friend was benchmarking it against several scripting system in the context of game-character control routines.
Well, it's quite fast for what it is, though Lua is still somewhat faster, heh.

Some benchmarking code is here:
https://github.com/glebnovodran/roam_bench
Adding capacity to a grid is not like getting another rack of hard drives in server room.
It depends. Sometimes companies only permit testing in specific test domains, other times they permit it as long as your activity is clearly identifiable (e.g., including a custom header in all request).

It does seem like walking a precarious tight rope.
It is there in the paragraph: failed integration, a ton of employee churn, and/or a series of missed targets.
>The vast majority of repos should be able to run CI on pull requests with no privileges at all

When there are no side effects and no in-container secrets and the hosting is free or reasonably limited to prevent abusers, ideally yes.

Outside that, heck no, that'd be crazy. You're allowing randos to run arbitrary code on your budget. Locking it down until it's reviewed is like step 1, they can validate locally until then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorde...
There are services that will sequence your DNA and give you the same type of result Ancestry and 23 and Me would do for about $700 IIRC, with a bonus they won't sell your info.

I suppose that doesn't help with finding relatives by DNA though. I can think of a few ways to maybe do a public database that could hash DNA samples...if you submit a sample that's close enough to someone else it would unlock some contact details. That would be vulnerable to brute forcing, so there would still need to be a way for both parties to verify each others DNA before exchanging real names and other info. If that could be solved though, it would make services like Ancestry.com obsolete.
Created a GPT that generates UI components and you can visually iterate
planning to add more features like turn component to image or figma if someone finds it useful
> that's to start improving the grid and increase the use of EVs.

Notably, one of these needs to occur before the other.
The takeaway isn't the demographics of the audience, it's that we should probably focus less on personal transportation in the form of cars, focus more on mass public transport infrastructure, and encouraging people to work remotely whenever possible. There's precious little point in RTO to sit at a computer in a different room and still take Microsoft Teams meetings instead of going to the boardroom. It just represents wasted energy.

We need to use less energy, not more. Perhaps self-driving cars are a waste of brainpower in the long-term? If people don't actually want to drive in 2024, perhaps don't get a car, take public transport, hire a chauffeur, and/or work remotely. Self-driving largely seems like a half-baked solution in search of a problem. Self-driving should really be a lot like self-hosting—do it yourself.

That's just my two penneth though, and I can come up with exceptions, edge cases et cetera all day long too. There's no binary right or wrong with it, and there's trade-offs to everything.

Was only thinking earlier that if we should be using less juice, why are we adding AI gimmicks to consumer gadgets? I'd like to think the new hotness with the average Joe will end up being saving energy to spend less money, and having products that last longer. Sure, that's not what the HN demographics want to be reading, our current economic model doesn't exactly go hand-in-hand with this idea. There's a lot of very big questions ahead of us in the next fifty years. Perhaps UBI makes more sense instead of bad technology, forced obsolescence, gimmicks, wasted energy et al if it's helping the race and planet.