skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The energy generated by the system while reeling out is greater than the energy consumed to reel the kite back in.

There's something about it that just triggers the "perpetual motion machine" identification heuristic.
I think you misunderstand me.

I'm not saying MSFT is intentionally frustrating you to increase sales.

But that, where engagement drives sales, your frustrations are disregarded.

They are different links.

MSFT could easily build a toggle to disable PRs (default, enable PRs). They have these toggles for all other features already.

They don' build this, because, as many other commentors point out, the few people that would benefit from such a toggle, don't outweigh the amount of engagement, data, and usage it generates.

I merely take that a step further: there are quite certainly many features disregarded or not even conceived that would save a (small) group immense effort. Simply because MSFT has done the excel-thingies and knows that features that make people visit GitHub less often, are not positive to their sales.
sounds like it's
Not. For. You.
Visited when I was a kid it was fun seeing all the belt driven machinery that wasn't so different than my father's machine shop (job shopped manual and CNC milling and turning.) The 90s was when we saw the manufacturing downslide then my father got sick and passed. We kept it going but by the 2000's China was eating everyone's lunch. Though the fall of the Berlin wall killed a lot of aerospace work which was big business on Long Island. We sold the business in 2006 and somehow the guy who bought it is still in business though downsized and runs it himself now.
Unfortunately people from the US (including those who have never lived in an apartment or thought about fire regulations before) instinctively get really worried about this whole idea and assume people are just going to get killed.

Happens in this thread and whenever it is brought up in social media. The original article talks about statistics, various extra measures to ensure safety and limiting to buildings 6 stores or less.

But US commentators have trouble getting past their initial reaction. They also do the usual US thing of discounting anything from overseas as "not applicable to US conditions".
It's not the way for me. If I'm being hosted on someone else's machine, then I'm still at the mercy of some company somewhere. It's not "self-hosting" in any sense that has value to me.
> You should have higher standards too, then.

That's right you didn't call me dumb or irrational, you're just using a metaphor where you look down on me from your higher plane.
That's the point. If kinder to find the leader of a terrorist organization and shoot him with a handgun than it is to nuke their headquarters and the whole city surrounding it.

The innovation is in the "search" part.
You never heard of the Quest 3?
I think the behavior is that if you have a Vec of u128 (say 1000), filter that to fewer elements (say 10), and then collect it into a Vec of u32 you might expect the resulting value to be around 40 bytes but in beta Rust it is 16000 bytes. In current Rust the collect would cause a new 10 element Vec of u32 to be allocated, in beta it reuses the original larger allocation. The author's code is doing a bit more but essentially when moving to beta Rust the new optimization caused memory usage to increase by a big multiple.
Fire escapes haven't been a thing in a long, long time. Not in new construction.

Older buildings only.
Literally, yes. On the NHS, they will exhaust cheaper solutions that have a fair probability of working before trying more expensive ones. Age, long term prognosis, whether they have dependents, and some other factors are also considered.
Robinhood settles Massachusetts 'gamification' case for $7.5M
While they do indeed have a random number generator, I think the main strengths and weaknesses of these models (and humans) are in the structures rather than at the token temperature stage — I expect a human to answer any given question slightly differently at different times, but asking the same doctor for a second opinion as the first is considered the setup for a joke rather than a sensible idea.
It's also subjective down to the individual, so how would you even quantify it properly?
How is he supposed to refer to her? ex-wife is incorrect. By name doesn't provide enough context for people that don't know about him.

The fact is - he killed his wife.

> To all practical intents and purposes she was no longer 'his wife'

It doesn't work like that, though. My soon-to-be-ex-wife is still listed as spouse on our health insurance because I can't remove her until the divorce is finalized. I still have to specify her in many legals documents as my wife.

Even outside the legal field, many in my personal life consider her as my wife, go "call me when it's finalized".
And sometimes we manufacture things badly by design, in order to create planned obsolescence, and more revenue in the long term.
Look, I've been using Scala professionally for 8 years. I don't notice that my compile times are any slower than Java, although I haven't tried any meaningful comparison. There are some notorious libraries like Shapeless than can kill your compile times; the solution is to not do that, unless the trade off is worth it to you.

It could be x1.2 slower, maybe even 2x, and I wouldn't notice it, because it is fast enough. IntelliJ has incremental compilation. Compile times only matter when I do a full rebuild, and it is still fast enough.

If I had to build a giant mono-repo like at Google, then the compile speed of languages like Go become important.
> but most company cybersecurity teams just freak out at this.

Yeah, and we can see(in general) how good they are. is there any such shitty consumer thing that doesnt have atrocious security?
I'm not going to split legal hairs here, merely point out that 'sudden strong impulse' (a requirement for 'crime passionel') is incompatible with subsequent testimony by Reiser claiming that he had 'killed their mother to protect his children'.

That's one of the problems with all of the Reiser defenders: they are usually unaware to what degree Reiser has incriminated himself.
I think a lot of people who have never really used anything other than a major cloud provider don't really understand what goes on behind the scenes. I was a sysadmin at a hosting provider and even though we were magnitudes smaller than AWS, we still saw a lot of the same issues, just on a smaller scale.
I’m wondering if there would be enough FUD to crash one coin’s value. And then if one falls perhaps more could.
At first look, it seems like simply by having so much less mass of material involved that you have a good head start at competing on LCOE, even if the system needs the kite and tether replaced every 5-10 years.

I think the biggest roadblock would be making sure it can return to the perch with high reliability otherwise you will have a lot of service calls for kites that landed on the ground.
European houses in climates where it matters have better insulation that American houses.

You can check it's true by looking at the energy use per capita.
If you fork it, do a proper git clone and git push. Github can and has DMCAed direct forks in the past.
I'm pretty hard on the gamers. I'm a dad now and most of the gamers are like 13 year old boys. So I try to teach them life lessons and I give them real consequences. I'm not very sensitive to negative feedback.
Larry Fink and BlackRock don’t own the 6% of Google managed by BlackRock index funds. Nor does Google or other co’s decide to make adverse decisions to their morale and productivity because of a very minority shareholder. What you’re describing is conspiracy theory.

Occam’s razor. These co’s came to the same conclusion co’s like OpenAI did, that in persons benefits outweighed the negatives. Only when the conclusions don’t agree with the preferences people like you have, that the cope, conspiracy, and rationalizing come out. Also, what may be good for the individual, doesn’t mean it’s good for the org.
Ben Franklin's phrase seems to be quoted often in this kind of discussion but I haven't seen anyone explain (1) why one thinks he's right; and (2) why that would translate to tech and surveillance.

Or, to be more upfront: I simply don't think blaming individual people (and deciding whether they "deserve" whatever) is very fair or productive.
Doesn't the firefox resistfingerprinting setting fuzz most of these things? I see a lot of misconceptions about it on here when people use amiunique. It will say you are unique but if you look for a historical match there aren't any because you are unique, but also different each time you show up.
Show HN: izi - a simple self-hosted file sharing system
I was at my local Vons the other day and had two identical boxes of rice at the self checkout. Scanned the one in my right hand and put the one in my left hand in the bagging area, then tried to scan the one in my right hand again (this was all to speed things up just slightly).

The screen threw up a message asking me to check on what I had put in the bagging area. Below it was a video of me shot from the ceiling, with bounding boxes drawn around the two boxes of right (basically identifying that the thing I had scanned was not what I had put in the bagging area).

I was actually pretty impressed... at my work we do some computer vision work, and we're dealing with fairly high-resolution, static images. This managed to draw perfect bounding boxes on a video, and the whole thing processed in less than a couple of seconds.

Seems like if you can do that, there ought to be other ways you can speed things up. Currently for produce with no bar code, I have to type in the name of the produce and then weigh it. They ought to be able to identify it as a zucchini via computer vision and skip the first step, at least.
I think the author's specified use case is to address transient conditions that drive failures.

When the given (transient) condition goes away (either passively, or because somebody fixed something), then the service comes back without anyone needing to remember to restart the (now dead) service.

By way of example, I've run apps that would refuse to come up fully if they couldn't hit the DB at startup. Alternatively, they might also die if their DB connection went away. App lives on one server; DB lives on another.

It'd be awfully nice in that case to be able to fix the DB, and have the app service come back automatically.
One of the largest consumer appliance companies in the world... the own GE Appliances, for instance.

They do about $30 billion a year in revenue.
The second one is the larger issue. Patreon is working well for many things but still not easy or integrated enough.
For those who need it will be free - but not to the health service, who do have to pay the sticker price.
It's pretty hard for me to get past the very first sentence.

> Technology is supposed to make our lives easier.

Technology isn't supposed to do anything. Technology is a tool to be used. Anyone can use tools incorrectly. Lots of people do, including myself!
Say what you want about Facebook, the size of their dataset and computational resources definitely make them competitive, and their data science and ML teams have been always top notch. I think the Verge is missing the mark with the headline and general focus of the article. "Building AGI" is whatever, like half the companies with enough GPUs are claiming that and AGI is like more poorly-defined than "metaverse". The more interesting point seems to be this general incoherence with building chatbots and trying to run a social media company.

>Meta is still a metaverse company. It’s the biggest social media company in the world. It’s now trying to build AGI. Zuckerberg frames all this around the overarching mission of “building the future of connection.”

This is such "Verge" writing. I'm by no means bearish on VR, but that whole passage is so unreflective and uncritical it's almost a satire of journalistic fluff. Chatbots that fill social media with greater and greater amounts of garbage content is just a nightmare. Bot content is already one of the reasons people are retreating into groupchats. The blurring of AI and human interaction leads to accountability problems. Hell, Snapchat and Discord basically already tried this to enormous backlash. The fact that this is entirely antagonistic with "building the future of connection" goes essentially unacknowledged.

There is something interesting with the fact that Facebook is more open to open-source, this is fairly credible actually given the quality and quantity of the company's open-source contributions. But I genuinely think LLMs are most useful as an applied technology, and the applications listed here are frankly uninspiring.
Another downside of Box<T> is that Vec::into_boxed_slice copies all elements from the source vector. Vec::shrink_to_fit does not appear to copy.
This is based on the stable docs.
It doesn't make syncing harder. I've worked for high-performing global teams for DECADES, so this debate is amusing to me. It shows me which companies absolutely cannot scale past a certain point, and which perpetuate terrible communication and management practices papered over with in person smokescreens.

Work requires effective communication. Global teams place a premium on that and nurture it if they're successful. The remote work dilemma is non-global teams discovering this well-trodden ground and attempting to reinvent the wheel, with a sprinkling of terrible commercial real estate decisions on top.

(Nothing in this response addresses specific team types that benefit from in person work or the entirely valid in-office preferences of individual workers.)
Also, most new tires have RFID chips that can be read out

https://rfid.michelin.com/what-is-rfid/:

“Permanently readable

- RFID used in tires is a passive technology that doesn’t require a battery

- Tire tag can be read even when the tire is moving or rolling

Remains in good conditions during entire lifecycle

- Tire tag is robust against any tire solicitations, ageing, weather conditions

- Tire tag is embedded into tire and can’t be removed, it's not an accessory

Secure

- Tag is locked after writing by the tire manufacturer

- Robust traceability technology against robbery and counterfeiting.”

And to top it off:

“To ease access to tire data between several tire manufacturers, a new organization called GDSO (Global Data Service Organization for Tires and Automotive Components) has been created. The purpose of this new organization is to provide an information service enabling to retrieve data associated to each tire ID (SGTIN96) in the relevant database. A data referential lists all standardized data that can be communicated through public or private access thanks to a standard API.”

⇒ If the governments wants to track the global whereabouts of all cars, they easily can.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interrèd with their bones.

(What's interesting to me is that it's often black and white; dead people become either perfectly good or perfectly evil, depending on where you fall - only if they're "not important" are they allowed to be human and gray.)
TSMC predicts delays, less advanced chips at second Arizona fabs
"Pedophile" back then often just meant "gay". In French pedé (pedophile) was the regular way to say "homosexual".

Also the age of consent was lower back then, and untold numbers of "normal respectable ethical people" who back then would otherwise condemn Wilde as "pedophile" did marry girls at 14 or so. Before the 20th century basically after 13-14 kids were considered more like short adults than as a special category of teens. Wilde surely wasn't any kind of pervert going with prepubescent kids or anything like that. In fact, the guy he went to prison for being a lover to was 21.

As for his "sex tourism", it was basically travelling in countries you could have gay sex with locals and the local authorities would turn a blind eye.
> See also Roman aqueducts. Slave labor or nearly free peons also probably contributed to this.

Surviving Roman infrastructure didn't just sit around for two thousand years, it has actively been maintained in that time.

You'll find that you can keep a lot of grandfather's axes around for as long as you want, as long as you keep them clean, and replace the handle and the blade regularly.
Looks great, but Kindle is the last device I am looking into when seeking responsiveness if I have to be honest.
Why would the cybersecurity freak out at that, that seems opposite. The company owning the data (and controls!) is much more of a risk.
Reisers' own evidence precludes a crime of passion.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/software-guru-ordered-pay...
> The reason five over ones are popular in the US has nothing to do with staircase requirements. The reason is money, like always.

Yes it is money. More staircases remarkably increase the costs of buildings. Single stairway, cheaper buildings, more profitable to do other sorts of buildings, more variety of buildings etc.

(see also no parking mandates)
A good with a massive supply and a relatively small demand is therefore worth little. It's a great thing that we've succeeded in producing an enormous amount of information, and art/entertainment...but it's all well past post-scarcity.
I have seen many people like you respond here, but I felt a need to talk to you. I have a different story. I have convinced 2 partners over my younger life to have abortions. I was young and stupid. I thought life would continue in the grandest way it seemed then, and got caught off guard and was terrified. I have since had 2 children, and the sorrow and devastation of my past choices now haunts me. The love I lost. Not getting to hold and care for them.

You might say "get over it and stop feeling bad - you have something good," and I know I do, but the past hangs over me like a never-ending storm. How can I ever forgive myself for what I did? The thought of them safe in their mother's wombs and being ripped out...I can hardly bear it. I carry this pain daily. I have since learned that having kids is the best thing that ever happened to me. It taught me how to love in a way I hadn't ever before. Having this knowledge makes the past even harder to accept. Who would those unborn have been today? What would they have taught me? How can I be a caring person to have done this?

I can't say I can relate to your situation, so please forgive any apparent glibness, but I would gladly sign up to go through what a lot of people here have done for their children with special needs just to have the chance to have known them. It may sound easy for me to say, but be glad you didn't make my choices. If someone else reads this who did, please know that there is also a part of me that realizes I thought things would be different, and I went on the information I had, which was bad. I'm not at all judging you. You did the best you could. Despite me sounding self condemning, I'm just very regretful that I didn't make a different choice.

All this to say: I hope you find a little more validation from my story that you are on a good path, and that you are not cursed, but rather have a gift. It's a gift I chose to throw away. It sounds like it's hard to manage at times but it's very much a gift. I know that sounds dismissive and cheesy, like everything everyone would say because it sounds good and doesn't acknowledge the real sacrifices you've had to make in comparison to friends who don't understand, but I want you to know that I truly mean it, and I understand, maybe unlike others who say it, what it really means, because I look at you and want so badly what you have, if it meant having all my children alive in my life. Your child taught you how to love - deeper and more alive than anything else possibly could have. It may seem like life/God used force to shape you like this, but I'm learning that's the only way it can work sometimes. You have to get to a point where you are willing to see it differently, and God will find a way to show you that. Maybe your child's presence forced you to make a choice to break through your own ego and be willing to love them. If so, it no doubt transformed you. Learning that is the greatest lesson life can teach. You are on a good path. It won't be evident for a time, but you absolutely are. I send you my best.
'Giving us oxygen': Italy turns to Cuba to help revive ailing health system
You can propel a boat forwards with only one oar, without lifting it from the water. It's a useful skill, Kayakers use the same stroke to move sideways, and for stability in rough water. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_sculling
> It's not fixing the underlying societal dysfunction, just avoiding it.

Absolutely true. But as one of the people who do this, my response is: self-protection first. Then continue doing whatever you can do to make things better in the larger picture.
Tell HN: Coinbase will not allow ACH transfers without Plaid
Something changed in the past 30 days with Coinbase. They disabled my connected bank account for ACH transfers, which I've used for years on Coinbase. They force verification with Plaid. Their help/marketing documents suggest you can do deposit verification if you don't want to use Plaid, or if your bank doesn't support Plaid:

- https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/getting-started/add-a-payment-method/how-do-i-locate-my-payment-method-verification-amounts

- https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/getting-started/add-a-payment-method/payment-methods-for-us-customers

These claims are not true.

The support agent told me my bank wants me to use Plaid. I called my bank and they said they do not support Plaid, and that giving my bank login (username and password) to an unapproved third party might break my contract and customer protections. So Coinbase lied to me. Three different people said the same thing, that because my bank "requires Plaid" that I should give Plaid my login, which I never did.

The only cash-out options available to me now are to pay transaction fees for using a debit card or PayPal account, or go create a new bank account somewhere and allow Plaid to have access to it.

I'm looking for and not finding an announcement about this, which would have provided an opportunity to move money before these changes were implemented. Best case, it's really crappy policy from Coinbase and outdated marketing docs, and worst case, it's intentionally misleading and fraudulent. Just thought the HN community with assets in Coinbase might want to know about it.
That would be wonderful! Most DMV stuff can be accomplished online in seconds, and if the task has to be done in person I can schedule my time and wait in a virtual line. I hope someday private companies will be able to match the government in efficiency
Of course. Some of them.

Not everone who joins the army is a volunteer killer. Some people just want to help. Treat wounds. Recover wounded. Scare the enemy away. Some tentatively accept that some people might die in the process. People tend to accept that in war people die. They are more like armed robbers who'd love to have their goals met without killing anyone but some are accepting that someone might die in the process. But fraction of people are killers. They participate in the process in order to kill. Those are the most deficient ones. They are present in every place where people die, on both sides.
I've always understood the plastic gears as a sacrificial, replaceable part designed to prevent damage to other components. (But I've got one of the old Hobart models that is pretty easy to service. Never worked on a newer model.)
A friend of mine went through an ordeal because a cop spotted a ziplock bag filled with climbing chalk in his car.
Is there anything more predictable than a WSJ article on electric vehicles?