skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical PT populist reaction. It's not very hard to debunk, but this sentiment is very strong in some crowds in Lisboa & Porto. The foreigners, the nomads, usually well off people and golden visa people are what keeps the doors open on a lot of places that would simply disappear. I lived in some area where the people complained about the noise and misery, so the city council/mayor had places close earlier, gave out less permits etc; 3 years later the locals complained that so many nice smalls bars & restaurants & coffee shops disappeared and that there are only a few chains left. THEY weren't spending their days in these places; THEY weren't spending $100-200/day on food & drink; the nomads / tourists / expats were, so these places all closed.

There is a lot wrong with this place (and every place I have lived by the way; nothing is perfect obviously), but getting rich folks in is not it. In my bar the American immigrants, who are currently the affluent gentrifiers here, spend vast amounts every day on food & drink, 365 days of the year, vs locals who have 1 coffee, if that, per week. I guess you know what's wrong when you lose it.
In Arabic there is no word for "uncle". There is only "dad's brother" and "mom's brother". Often times an English speaker will leave out the paternal/maternal portion and the Arabic sentence may be ambiguous. If the English speaker later specified the needed information and the Arabic translator guessed wrong then there's a confusing problem here and the Arabic listener might get confused.
"This is a really, really high bar."

And an arbitrary one, in my opinion. We will be racking up millions of driven miles by hundreds of autonomous trucks before that bar is reached. We will have drivers in the trucks. We will have connections to remote operators.
The Age of Extremes
For my taste - wind turbines are disgusting. A blight on the landscape for minimal benefit compared to other energy sources. Give me 1000’s of acres of solar vs 100 acres of wind farm.
If you have to live close to them - they never go away… everywhere you look, giant white (why are they white anyway? Why not sky blue?)
Not to mention the nighttime visual pollution. Drive into Rockport, TX after dark and its endless skyline of red flashing lights — that all cycle at the same time. Beyond obnoxious.

That just my view of the aesthetics…

Nobody ever bothers to talk about what will be done with these football field sized blades (I’m guessing at least 100k of them by now?) when they’re decommissioned? Completely useless material that has to be buried somewhere… I guess everyone here will volunteer to bury one in their backyard?

You think the “buy and dump” problem is bad in oil and gas? … do you think any of the companies who signed these 30 year leases will be around to de-com the turbines when they start falling apart? (Answer is no)

https://www.power-eng.com/news/evolving-regulations-for-wind...

Then there’s the never ending problem of freezing… nobody has good solutions and most of them involve the same harmful chemicals or secondary energy sources or helicopters or whatever that all derive from the hydrocarbons everyone seems to hate.

https://www.windpowerengineering.com/the-cold-hard-truth-abo...
https://energypost.eu/how-to-keep-winter-ice-off-a-wind-turb...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/dozens-scot...

——

As for oil wells - most are hidden from view (unless you’re in West Texas, of course … not much growing to hide them…)

Also fwiw - a pump jack is only one form of artificial lift for a well. There are lots of others systems that are far less obnoxious (i.e. you can’t see them in the brush unless you get close)

https://www.estiscompression.com/learning-center/how-to-comp...
It is a thing – I have one
I've been listening to Vienna Teng's music since she released her Waking Hour album independently in 2001. Hymn of Acxiom is one of her more recent works and is one of my favorites.

https://www.npr.org/2003/01/12/910087/vienna-tengs-waking-ho...
The Importance of QA at Netflix
The article addresses the big miscalculation by the telecoms, as I see it, though somewhat obliquely.

In the telecom world, the telecom was the network. If you wanted to exchange data with someone, you placed a call to someone directly. Everything was envisioned as some form of point to point session between subscribers. Whatever it was, it was one subscriber contacting another. The telecoms didn’t really conceive of what would become the Internet as we think of it now. As far as they were concerned, the Internet didn’t provide anything the telecoms couldn’t offer—and bill for.

They were caught flat footed when customers started dialing up ISPs and cutting the telecoms out of the loop. If you wanted Internet, you got ISDN, but you used it to call an ISP that was not the phone company.

Not that the telecoms weren’t visionary — they largely foresaw everything we do today. They just assumed they would continue to be the sole provider of those services. They built a network with that in mind.

And then we all went and built our own network on top of that.

They scrambled to try to charge us for using our voice lines for data, and then they managed to slide DSL onto the rate card, and ultimately became actual ISPs.

But that wasn’t the future ISDN was built for. It wasn’t built for a world where an ISP was even a thing. It was built for a world where everything we now do on The Internet would show up as a line item on a bill from AT&T.
The last Ubuntu I ran was with Xfce, with the whole Unity interface being where I lost any interest in anything that Canonical has a hand in steering--adoption of Snaps nailed that coffin. I still have some Ubuntu server cloud VMs which will switch when next rebuilt.
Why iphone? We had internet on mobile phones before that point.

But I agree with idea that internet became dumber with more people in.
macOS Monterey automatically updated to Sonoma after attempt to normally restart
Quit early quit often. In start ups one they have a down round it’s basically over for you making a good exit unless you are the ceo
I'm assuming you mean sending a one time passcode to the AP account? I think that would be a great idea. But it's also highly phishable. And full AP integration allows users to own their data if they want.
Beta decay is emission of electrons. They quickly slow down in the air. A beta emitter can only burn you if you literally pick it with you fingers, or maybe swallow it. Throwing it in a campfire is not a great idea, but nickel is not going to burn or melt in a campfire, so it won't become a dangerous pollutant. Nickel is also chemically pretty stable, so underground waters are not going to carry around any significant amounts of it after you have extinguished the campfire and put some soil on its site.

172m2 Hafnium decays into regular 178 Hafnium, but it readily burns in the air, so if you throw a battery with in into a campfire, chances are you'll add some beta radioactivity to the environment nearby, or inhale part of it yourself.
Storms should be named after fossil fuel companies
Culture – Which Is the Best?
Unless they really break it on purpose, you would have the same permission choice when installing from third party sources.

On android, the permission needed in the store doesn't mean I can't revoke any of them after the fact, or revoke one and not the other, and if an app install from outside sources they still need the permission request to be granted.
> They don't use S3.

Wrong.

> The company hosts its primary photo-serving application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to store all photo and video data. “We were one of the first customers to use Amazon S3, and we’re now all-in on AWS,” says Meyers. “AWS takes care of the heavy lifting for us, so we can focus on what we do best—reliably storing and delivering photos and videos.”
Former German Colony, Namibia Condemns Germany for Defending Israel in Genocide
The backend is straight Rust. Bun is used as a package management tool & as a script runner, to invoke Tauri commands that start up a Vite webserver to provide the UI, and start something that rebuilds the binary when Rust files change.

Typescript is used for the Svelte UI. Svelte talks to the Rust backend through Tauri (by default). Both support a headless/web mode where the Svelte frontend connects to the backend over HTTP.
When I was younger, I heard lots of stories about how Margaret Mead was the best anthropologist. Then, later I started hearing about how some rivals were digging up how she just made up half of the stories because she wanted to believe something different. I wonder if there's been any more exploration of her research and whether she applied this wishful thinking to LSD too.
I bought a V60, one of the few remaining station wagons for sale in the US. And it is great for those with 1 or 2 kids, but, like the author implies, doesn't really work for those with 3 car seats. The only thing that has grown faster than the size of our cars is the size of our car seats.
I've done the same thing for years (yikes-- 20 as of last year-- I'm old!), albeit sometimes I use an opaque identifier for the username portion (because some sites treat addresses with their own domain name in then funnily and I've had humans question it). As a bonus I've identified and reported two previously unknown data breaches by reporting the date I started receiving spam to a one-off address.
So much manufacturing is moving from China to Mexico that Mexico is now the US' biggest trading partner [1] [2] [3]. As China ages rapidly, labor costs rise, and deglobalization occurs, the future won't be the past of enormous container loads from China eastbound. North American infra is the new hotness [4] [5]. Tangentially, 40% of ship cargoes are fossil fuels [6] [7], consider how that reduces marine traffic volume with the global energy transition underway.

[1] https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/americas-biggest-trading-partn...

[2] https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/china-exports-plummet-as-us-fi...

[3] https://www.marketplace.org/2023/11/21/with-mexico-the-top-u...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFTA_superhighway

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_69

[6] https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2022/01/12/almost-40-...

[7] https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/rmt2019_en...
This just reads like a boomer hipster rant that gathers points on Reddit and HN for some bizarre reason.

The 1970s car had a ton of parts and mechanisms only professionals could fix. Not being able to touch car software is good, and demand will dictate how many cars will cater to your ideology in the future. Probably not too many.
FWIW, in case it's useful to other readers: removing the DRM from a Kindle ebook is super easy using Calibre and the DeDRM plugin. You put in your Kindle's serial number into the plugin, download the ebook from Amazon, drag-n-drop into Calibre. From there you can convert it to pdf for specific formats, e.g. I use the Supernote A5X which is a great reading and annotation experience.
I had to fight massive intrusive mobile banners, cookie overlays, and other godforsaken UX patterns for over a minute and still never got to see a simple example image. Museum websites. In Europe. Name a more catastrophic internet combination.
Ask HN: Are you an optimist for the next 5 years?
Damn long-form journalism takes forever to get to the point, so my skimming sometimes misses something crucial.

With that disclaimer out of the way, (I think) it is distressing and damaging for young people to be doing this job. (And maybe the rest of the article goes on to say something like that.)

Still in today's world it is a job that has to be done. If it is to be done it should be by older more mature people with more life experience under their belts. And it should be revealed up front what the job is and how damaging it can be. I think you would have to be very spiritually grounded and take many breaks to refresh your spirit (mental health) to do this.
Ask HN: Navigating the Tech Job Market Post-Apprenticeship: Seeking Advice
Hey fellow Hacker News folks!

I recently wrapped up my three-year apprenticeship journey here in Germany, and now I'm gearing up to explore new career horizons. The thing is, while checking out the "who is hiring" threads, I noticed they often cater more towards those with a university background.

I really don't know where to start off now.

If you've got any tips, insights, or maybe even personal experiences to share, I'd love to hear them. Let's turn this into a discussion that could help others in a similar boat.

Looking forward to your thoughts and advice.
As always I really appreciate your input.
cloudflare blocked me from signing in to my petflow account to buy cat food. It was in an endless verification loop. Awhile back it did the same with my paid crunchyroll subscription. I don't code, I have a very ordinary setup with a well known browser. Apparently cloudflare now owns our access to the internet and can block whom it pleases, when it pleases, no recourse. The internet is soon to be available only to those who fit cloudflare's criteria, whatever that may be, as long as companies keep buying in to the third party control.
Which "multiple disastrous human catastrophes" has Boeing caused in the US for the FAA have stopped?
Tauri has been excellent. Occasionally I have to do some GitHub issues spelunking to find answers to issues, but that's common with piece of tech. Overall it's been great and I'll happily use it again.
No.
I'd wipe my computer and reload. Stuff is in the cloud, everything that matters.
> I wonder what happened though, and how kids managed to study constantly drunk.

They learned early how to be functional alcoholics. Drunk kids these days just don't know how to handle their liquor and society has been going down the drain because of it.
Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (Because of One Rule)
This post was a delight to read!

> That's down to 55KB! About 40% of the size of the original file. It is slightly smaller than ZIP, and about 9 bytes larger than Brotli compression.

Did you try compressing your image file with Brotli, too? I wonder the extent to which this would have an impact. I would expect a small impact, but I'm still intrigued.
Man this has been posted a lot: [0] (28 points, 58 comments, 4 days ago), [1] (23 points, 38 comments, 2 days ago), [2] (43 points, 82 comments, 1 day ago)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38943144
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38966352
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980963

- Chinese-developed Nickel-63 nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan 1pt
- Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge 56pts
- Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge 2pts (same poster as this)
- A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years 43pts
- Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge 2pts
- Betavolt new nuclear battery can last 50 years with the need for charging 2pts
- Nuclear smartphone 3V battery lasting for 50 years 23pts
- Chinese Firm developed Nuclear Battery that can Produce Power for 50 years 2pts
- Tiny nuclear battery be commercialised? 28pts
In many places, it is impossible to maintain this follow distance. If you leave this distance when driving on the freeway in California, for example, cars will repeatedly cut you off, shrinking your follow distance. It is literally not possible to maintain what you describe.
Systems engineer here, I haven't worked at a company that pays for Linux support in 12 years and this was at scale (10K+ servers). You don't need IBM or Canonical to get patches or a heads up about major vulns. Several ways to go with this but I get up to date patches for free with Debian. And I can count on my hand the number of times that any org I've been part of needed a kernel engineer or access to one. Support contracts for OS AFAIK aren't worth the money any more unless you really don't have anyone who can do system support.
> Yeah but do they calculate your personal time value in sitting at a charging station for an hour?

An even more interesting calculation would be how much you are shortening your life by standing at a gas pump inhaling carcinogens. Not to mention breathing the exhaust of all the vehicles around you.

LA has some of the worst air quality in the developed world [1]. Do you want to live there and breath that everyday?

[1] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-04-19/l-a-get...
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Having myself spent a period of my life thinking that all the world's problems would vanish if only we all took more LSD, MDMA and DMT... and since realizing that there really is no substitute for honesty, self-sacrifice and hard work... I'm reminded of Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing:

... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody - or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.
I like the idea, and I do something similar but this has a lot of rules and feels more complex than potentially necessary. I personally use Obsidian.md as the tool for my Zettelkasten method. It provides back links and the like. I also create engineering journals for projects.

The only rule I have is to avoid unlinked notes.
Stop trying to make scrapped happen, it's not going to happen.
Perhaps. Certainly worth trying, but a query like that is also ripe for short-circuiting with templates. For more complex queries it might well be very helpful, though - every little bit helps.

Another thing worth considering in that respect is that ChatGPT at least understands grammars perfectly well. You can give it a BNF grammar and ask it to follow it, and while it won't do so perfectly, tools like LangChain (or you can roll this yourself), lets you force the LLM to follow the grammar precisely. Combine the two and you can give it requests like "translate the following sentence into this grammar: ...".

I'd also simply cache every input/output pairs, at least outside of longer conversations, as I suspect people will get into the habit of saying certain things, and using certain words - e.g. even with the constraint of Alexa, there are many things I use a much more constrained set of phrases than it can handle for, sometimes just out of habit, sometimes because the voice recognition is more likely to correctly pick up certain words. E.g. I say "turn off downstairs" to turn off everything downstairs before going to bed, and I'm not likely to vary that much. A guest might, but a very large proportion of my requests for Alexa uses maybe 10% of even its constrained vocabulary - a delay is much more tolerable if it's for a steadily diminishing set of outliers as you cache more and more...

(A log like that would also potentially be great to see if you could maybe either produce new rules - even have the LLM try to produce rules - or to fine-tune a smaller/faster model as a 'first pass' - you might even be able to start both in parallel and return early if the first one returns something coherent, assuming you can manage to train it to go "don't know" for queries that are too complex)
> Doesn’t treat his room.

He definitely did treat his room!

There's a documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b2IOOhJmxw . He starts talking about the room about 7:00 and then again about 8:50.

It is a custom-built room. It has cinder block walls, but inside them are 2x6 studs spaced 12 inches apart with purlins for extra bracing, then two layers of 5/8-inch drywall.

From the video, you can see that the ceiling of the room is sloped. The front and back walls are curved and have curtains hanging on them. Although the side walls seem to be parallel, there are a lot of irregular surfaces that should break up the sound, including a big fireplace that juts out. The floor is wood but is mostly covered in rugs.

And as far as acoustic treatment, he had a local manufacturer of acoustics products come out and measure the room's acoustics, and then they installed sound panels. The company's blog talks about working with him on it: https://acousticsfirst.info/tag/ken-fritz/
OP converted a Unicode file to an ascii file.

Isn’t the loss of precision what is “compressing” the file? The Shakespeare corpus probably doesn’t use any Unicode characters.
Yes — sorry! I hadn't pushed local changes yet. I didn't expect a big reception!

`main` is up-to-date now and SHOULD be building. Feel free to email me (phil at denhoff dot ca) if you run into issues, or add a GitHub issue.
Is there no structure to express a parent's (or father's or mother's) brother? It may not flow well but avoids making incorrect assumptions.
I had a very good algorithms professor. He studied at UCLA. His classes about dynamic programming were superb. He started with a problem for which the naive solution was simple and had exponential complexity. Then he broke the problem into smaller problems and reduced the complexity to something polynomial. Then he applied memoisation and the complexity dropped to linear.

I really would like to remember the problems he used.
This is not necessarily true. Google has allowed stores and sideloading on Android forever. E.g. Fortnite from Epic uses this, as well DJI drone piloting software. Play Store still has massive distribution and apps seek to be there unless there are revenue sharing issues.

Most apps would list on Play store if rated are competitive.
> “Bootstrap” is an imaged expression to point to the absurdity and impossibility of a task

This is an archaic definition that I didn’t know, and it’s fairly interesting. At the bottom of the opening section on the history of “bootstrap” is this comment:

“Critics have observed that the phrase is used to portray unfair situations as far more meritocratic than they really are.[8][9][7] A 2009 study found that 77% of Americans believe that wealth is often the result of hard work.[10] Various studies have found that the main predictor of future wealth is not IQ or hard work, but initial wealth.[7][11]”

Interesting (to me, anyway) because it used “meritocratic” which itself is a word that was coined with a somewhat different meaning than it has today. Meritocracy was originally used to point out that merit itself is an outcome of social advantages, not inherent skill.

https://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/social/the-surprising-soci...
the 3rd, LDC, uses LLVM as backend. Both all share the same frontend. https://dlang.org/download.html

open-D is not a 4th implementation it's a fork.
The American equivalent is probably the national flood insurance program.
Not directly my issue, but kids are my primary reason for needing a larger vehicle.

We live in an area too remote for regular public transit, and are not ready to sacrifice the convenience of having our own vehicle.

Because we own one vehicle, it must transport 2 kids (in carseats), 2 adults regularly, a third adult occasionally, and a dog regularly. Plus it needs a smidge of storage room.

In short, our environment and family makes an SUV a good option. Everything else is really difficult to live with.
Ytdlp can probably do this
You, ah, might want to check your numbers.

Fully 70 countries in the world generate more than 50% of their energy from renewables [1], and it's climbing rapidly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...
What about C89 or a similar subset of modern C?
Fujitsu Japan remains tight-lipped on the Post Office scandal