skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another married dude — there are many worse fates than to be a young man in a world full of hippie chicks. (in the old days achieving this outcome used to require a high tolerance to patchouli and veggie burritos)
I made a utility for myself to backup Diskettes to audio cassette tapes directly and at a pretty high speed but for the Apple II+. It worked but it also suffered from lack of error correcting / recovery so any errors would ruin the entire backup... I could probably do a lot better if I rewrote it today! :)
As a sibling pointed out, they state that as the cause.

Further, right under the image at the top of the article: "Tukpahlearik Creek in northwestern Alaska's Brooks Range runs bright orange where permafrost is thawing".

It doesn't help climate's cause to be hysterical without actually reading things you want to critique.
Maybe if you’re using a Pixel with the latest OS updates but the average person like my mom is using some off the shelf budget Chinese/Korean phone full of apps with spammy ads and confusing interface flows. The privacy settings are confusing and unlike my dad who comfortably uses his iPhone my mom has barely scraped the surface because the Samsung OS UI is such a mess (ie, 2 different messaging apps named Messages came preinstalled) and it’s slow, the UI with fonts scaled up for vision hides entire buttons in 3rd party apps (a joy to debug over the phone) etc.

Just this week she had to install a work app for scheduling from Googles Store and got duped into a fake clone that installed 4 other apps with repeated pop up apps emulating a signup wizard.

Those non standard androids are far far more worrying and the Google App Store is way less locked down.

If my dad was in the EU I’d have to tell him never to install an app using anything but the Apple App Store.
Europe to Require EV Battery Passports That Reveal Material Origins
Oh I'd definitely be into this... i should ask around.
At one point I was using an old phone as an IP camera and I had it plugged in to a battery bank that was constantly charging. The battery bank died pretty quickly, I think within weeks. Then I just plugged the phone directly into power, and the phone battery died eventually too (it started bulging, glad I noticed before it got worse). So yeah, Li-ion batteries don't like constant 100% power.
From the article

>A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Elon Musk's bid to modify or end his 2018 securities fraud settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that required a Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), opens new tab lawyer to approve some of his tweets in advance.

Appealing a court decision is nowhere close to "ignoring court orders"
Year of inaction leaves children at risk from bad cancer drugs
It's never turning around. Salton Sea is literally a looming national ecological/toxic disaster with a series of triggers, one of which is potentially time-based.
I've been meaning to give Coalton a try: https://coalton-lang.github.io/20211010-introducing-coalton/ (found via a previous HN post)
And the Bay Area is the outlier everyone points to when talking about absurd housing markets.

So, you know, ridiculous.

It also seems to be finally hitting a wall post COVID.
Otoh, it's very convenient for a company if you stay humble before a real person and choose okay-sad route. It can then only escalate really bad situations and ignore those who are calm all day. So as a clever lifehacker you know that you have to be the loudest to get the service.
Make sure to heed the maximum input and use an attenuator!

These are very cool and fun, but I found myself using my NanoVNA a lot more than my TinySA

https://nanovna.com/
I routinely get embedded linux devices at $dayjob that need my time and attention and they basically never have the tooling I need to get my job done. I'm a pro at looking at how Alpine builds a tool and then just making my own statically linked / minimal size tool to drop in place on the device. The allure of something like this is that I can just potentially grab a drop-in binary and get on with my day. I simply don't attempt to link to libraries already on the device since they're all built in wildly different ways, old tools, old compilers.

Hopefully that's helpful context. Overall since I did linux from scratch half a lifetime ago I've always wondered why something like Oasis hasn't gotten more traction. It's got some ambitious ideas in the README so maybe others have other nice use-cases atop all that. I just see small, statically linked and think 'oh boy if i never have to build my own tools again for some weird board'. If so, I'm here for it.
How do these community versions, like Old School Essentials, differ from using the real BECMI rules? What would motivate a group to pick up one of these, rather than say a reprint of the Rules Cyclopedia (or using a free digital copy from archive.org)?
That's amazing to see those things in WASI finally.

But they also mention components. Does that mean components are part of the web assembly standard now?

And am I correct in assuming that components are an option for projects where the functionality of WASI still isn't adequate?
Reluctant to say this in the current climate of "yay static typing" but I am starting to find some things easier to express in SML than in scheme. The type driven pattern matching is a really big thing.

Currently liking lisp for exploratory programming and ML for precise communication of fully formed ideas to the machine.

Anyone happen to know a lisp/ML pair that target the same VM/IR for seamless interop between the two?

(in this context ML is metalanguage, ideally StandardML, though ocaml/miranda/haskell are the same sort of idea)
> ...and one of the most important things I learned early is to never trust commit messages. This has been just as true at places that spent an ungodly amount of time grooming their commit messages. It's pretty easy now to work with diffs directly, and diffs don't lie.

That's a sentiment that's very easy to take too far, and shy people away from valuable commit message practices out of misplaced perfectionism. Diffs definitely can lie. Not about the way it is, but about the way it should be. Commit messages are insanely valuable, and often convey important information that's impossible or unreasonable to communicate in any other way (for instance, things like like intent and rationales).

Diffs can say ABCD, commit messages can say CDEF. They all should be considered, together, but with a reasonable dose of skepticism, when you're figuring something out.

Some things that are true (if you're system lives long enough):

1. There's a good chance your documentation wiki will get purged or severely corrupted in some migration before you lose your commit messages.

2. There's a good chance your ticket system will get purged or severely corrupted in some migration before you lose your commit messages.
> the OS became nothing but eye candy

It's still a real Unix, no? What kinds of things could you do on your 1999 Mac that are more difficult or impossible on your new Mac?
> The connection to selfies is really weak. It's just classical conditioning.

Isn't the idea that the compulsion to take a selfie being classical conditioning the very point of the piece?
These are being used by the Ukrainian army for detecting incoming russian drones.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eyesonukraine_drone-detector-...

The firmware source is on GitHub at https://github.com/erikkaashoek/tinySA.
During a water shortage, if most of the water is being taken up by few wealthy individuals, then there are negative externalities being created: people dying, falling sick, being hospitalised, protests and violence that takes policing resources, etc.

The market has failed to fully price the external effects generated by some economic activities, thus the government must step in and impose a tax on all water use so that they can correct the negative externality.

At the simplest level, the government can use the proceeds to buy the water themselves and distribute it to those in need. For example, to reduce bureaucracy during a crisis, they could pay for the first 5 litres of daily residential water use for each individual directly on their bills.

The problem is again: the resource is not being priced correctly.
Show HN: Cssfact – Lossy CSS compressor based on binary matrix factorization
You are a junior operator. Senior operators get red pilled on this stuff and build up their intuition about people based on these experiences. Welcome to the real game. It has just begun.

If you or anyone else wants advice on founder dynamics, my email is vinay@loom.com. Happy to give advice and be a sounding board over email. I’m sorry you’re going through this.
> blub languages like Lisp

I see what you did[0] here.

0: https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox
> Yes, and I'm saying I'm finding his point weak.

This would be a stronger point itself if you didn't succinctly validate it with the second sentence of your initial post!
No, they were quite happy with Samurai
> I suspect there does need to be a regular social renewal to resolve the tragedy of the commons problem.

Wouldn’t the solution offered on LWN work great?

Just excise a tax (well, I guess a licensing cost) for open source use to any corporation that is above x$ amounts of revenue. Make it a tiny percentage (0.1%?).

2022 revenue:

- $400 billion, Apple

- $200 billion, Microsoft

- $120 billion, Meta

- $80 billion, AWS

$800 billion * 0.01 = €800 million of “sovereign OSS fund” funding.

And that’s just the big ones. Bing tells me the 2022 combined revenue of all NASDAQ listed companies is ~$6900 billion. That’s $6.9 billion in OSS funding you’d skim off!

What’s more, with how much that would improve open source projects, those companies would see enough productivity improvement that despite the 0.1% in skimmed revenue, they’d see a net benefit.
It's more that Linux is a better dev environment than windows in general. I develop in docker so it's not platform dependent.

I am doing UI,backend API services, ML research, ML services
It's quite an entertaining rant, but the scattergun approach means that it's one of those things where it's impossible to address the points made because there's so many. But to just look at the first paragraph:

"There is only so much space available in a city."

Is there a limited number of possible LISP practitioners in the world?

Looking at the broader point: yes, there are a lot of factors to take into account, but perhaps we should be looking at the factors that specifically involve LISP.
Unintentional. Fixed.
Entrepreneur creates career pathways with MIT OpenCourseWare
And so as ever I should link perennial HN favourite investigation of this joke:

https://www.dirtyfeed.org/2021/04/what-the-papers-say/
You’re confusing unbalanced with unequal.
Tonality is a more ancient part of us than linguistics. As we get better and better sound simulations + measuring tools, I think this type of science is going to get a lot more interesting.
It seems nuts to me that the Post Office was allowed to prosecute their own cases rather than pass what information they had to the police who could conduct an independent investigation.
Thanks, will do.

But curious, what's the gist of their meeting?
> I do use a single cable in that it's just one cable coming from my monitor or dock.

I do, too. However, what I wrote is a fact. Almost everything in the USB-C spec is optional, and you can't deduce which optional parts a USB-C cable supports from the cable alone.

For example, here's a charging USB-C cable with max transfer speed of 480 MB/s: https://www.clasohlson.com/se/USB-C-kabel-2m-USB-C-till-USB-...

Good luck connecting it to your monitor. And no, it's not a "cheap bullshit from trash vendors". This is literally in the standard
I clicked on the link for the pictures. Then looked at the wiki article on Einstein Rings. It makes me wonder if there are examples of nebula being mistaken for the rings (or vise versa).
> Of course in some sense it is still real, just like triangles are real. But it's not real in the same sense that rivers or rocks are real.

Rivers and rocks are less real than consciousness. Our minds can work with mental objects only, these objects often are built as an images of something outside of our minds. Most of the time images have nothing in common with underlying reality of an imaged phenomenon: for example we need to remind ourselves that you cannot cross the same river twice, because our model is a static object, while really a river is a dynamic process of H2O molecules falling out of sky and then rolling down to an ocean.

But our consciousness is the model of ourselves. The object (me) and its model (me consciousness) are much closer, there is no long chain of causes-effects passing information from external river to neurons. And moreover consciousness is a pure magic among other images: I can believe as hard as I can that river must be made of milk, and it will not change the river. But if I believe something about myself, it leads to real changes. Doesn't it mean that "I" is more real than any river?

Or... scratch that. I can agree with you we have confused naive understanding of consciousness mixing causes and effects. But I'm not sure that the rest is as simple as you describe. I'm sure a dualist will find a way to explain qualia as something that can't be reproduced in AI.

These things are never easy and they never have a definite answer.
What you can afford is based on what you've modeled based on assumptions about your future cash flow, unless you're talking about what you can afford to pay out of pocket, without taking on any debt in the process. Which isn't how people talk about buying houses.

Any time credit is involved, belief in one's assumptions is absolutely part of the equation.
I've used Windows for a long time and recently switched to Linux as I feel Microsoft has lost its way with Windows. The Linux DEs have become pretty awesome over the years and, IMHO, they have surpassed Windows. That said, I still need some things that are Windows only and keep a Windows VM running on a remote system for the times I need it.
Being first doesn't necessarily make a good outcome. Leadership is the most important to keep it going. Many incredible companies/products have failed as soon as leadership has failed. Musk is more and more worrying investors and customers. It doesn't mean it's going to fail, but it leaves more and more space to.
In the academic/semi-governmental, it was often easier to set up a non-profit in the US and get things for free (e.g. Slack) than to figure out how to do billing for them in a rigid system that wants POs
Normally having a lot of choices is a good thing, but here we are facing a dozen of vector dbs with very similar features - to the root it's just some version of ANN implemented in C++/Rust/whatever, the "peak" means there's nothing new. People are flooding into this field not because there's something worth inventing, but more of fear to lag behind and miss the quick money. That's what I feel about vector DBs in Jan, 2024.
The technicality I see here is that the ICJ can call a ceasefire in an armed conflict, this would carry the implicit message that the civilian casualties are collateral damage. Instead they are asking to stop the genocidal acts. In a genocide the civilians are the target. It’s bad for the Palestinians in the short term, and bad for Israel in the long
I wouldn't really characterize the Catholic Church's official doctrines that way or that flexibly, but again, I am a Protestant with a number of overall disagreements with them and less personal experience with them, and it is easy for me to read your post as someone with much more personal experience. And since HN isn't really the best place for extended religious discussions, if you are interested for any reason, my email is always open.
I remember my kid couldn't sleep for two nights when i told her about that to examplify evils of totalitarianism!
See also Bob Altemeyer on quantitatively tested ways of reducing "Authoritarian Follower" tendencies.

(personally, I found voting with my feet a much more effective use of my time than attempting anything political in my home country)
Banks are the new enforcers of govt policies, from KYC/AML, to full surveillance.

It is difficult to move countries and change banks/phones/2FA. Banks seem to think that changing a phone is significant - they Knew Their Customer last month, but getting a burner phone in a different country seems to mean they do not Know You Now as a Customer. Phones do not (should not) indicate anything other than travel or holiday - not residence, not tax liability, not property ownership, not marriage, not intentions for a full tax year, nothing.
> For example, if a language uses all available cores on the machine it's running on, that's a more efficient use of resources

I don't see how that's true. From an efficiency point of view, I think that what matter is resource usage per work done.
just slap an LCD/OLED panel to the side of any ATX cases. They are ridiculosly big nowadays, especially considering most of the time the only non-integrated or mounted directly on a motherboard would be a GPU
And to me the parsing aspect of lisp is key. It means the language won't resort to external tooling to improve. Most of the programming world defaults to increasing the number of things you need in order to do more, while lispers seemed to like absorption of concepts as the main strategy (see Steele: growing a language talk IIRC).
But this is the argument with the cookie banners again, isn't it? "Surely choice isn't a bad thing", except that everyone hates them and just clicks allow anyway. At least this regulation is only going to annoy people in the EU and not globally this time.
> What is the comparison between using musl and traditional glibc?

you get weird bugs and failures that don't happen with glibc (like the incomplete dns resolving routines that would fail under some conditions) but you can brag about saving 30-40 mb of disk space.

this project seems to be compromising on quality overall, in the name of having smaller size.

Even BearSSL, by their own website is beta-quality: "Current version is 0.6. It is now considered beta-quality software" (from https://bearssl.org/).
It's not us redefining "sartorial preferences or how one crosses their legs" as such matters, but those who push the whole worldview of "gender identity" as something relevant to these things and otherwise unchangeable. Toy aisles in retail stores are supposed to be non-gendered, but kids are being told in school that if they like "gender discordant" toys this means that their "inborn gender" is not the one they think it is and they must seek proper "reassignment".
And then we’d have a functioning property market with resellable claims suitable for building a speculative futures market over accessible near-surface resources and other land rights, sufficient to bootstrap a cis-lunar economy without government subsidies?

GREAT, mission accomplished!

IMHO Richard Garriot should go a step further and sell his rover for scrap. Use that to bootstrap a commodities market.
> Scientists who have studied these rusting rivers agree that the ultimate cause is climate change.

quelle surprise
The other issue is that heat pumps were pretty awful in even remotely cold climates for decades, and there is some hangover due to bad experiences. But the technology has suddenly experienced a leap from being effective around -0C to -25C. It takes a while for industry to recognize that the technology has improved, and there are multiple generations that have done nothing but sling gas appliances and don’t want to upskill to know how to install heat pumps.

I have had a hell of a time trying to get a trade anywhere near my small town that will actually install one. They all just use the introductory meeting to spread FUD about heat pumps.

Same thing happened when I swapped from a gas water heater to a heat pump water heater. Lots of FUD, but I finally got the switch made and am so happy I recommend it to everyone.

I also switched from a gas stove to induction and the FUD around induction was total bullshit and I’ve never been happier with an appliance.

/endrant
Low-level casters sucked, with or without cantrips (which didn't do anything useful in combat when originally introduced, IIRC, in Unearthed Arcana).

But at least they eventually leveled up.

Or…not, if they were non-human and hit their race-specific, often single-digit level cap.

Yeah, come to think of it, old school AD&D rules did leave plenty of room for improvement.

Demihuman level caps were even more annoying in the old school AD&D computer games that enforced them, as it's hard to role play a party of permanently underleveled characters in a high-level area of a brutal, combat-focused, non-level scaled CRPG as anything other than a pile of corpses.
Yes I have one SSD for each. Works great.
“Ketosis Begins” at 18-24 hours seems wildly inaccurate. People who follow the keto diet say it generally doesn’t begin until several days in.
Green threads/Virtual threads are one solution, but then you need to ship a runtime for them, then you pay for what you don't use.

Or don't standardize on them and have a split ecosystem of half libs supporting use `green-thread.rs` and the other half supporting `rust-gthreads`.
The left is defined as moving. That's what "progressive" means.

For 100 years there was a clear pattern where the center adopted the views of the left about 20 years after the left did, and the right about 20 years after the center.

This pattern no longer holds.
I have always suspected that sort of thing is somehow blocked by Google because it would make mean web assembly runtimes don't need web browsers.

Although now that there is actually a significant update to WASI, perhaps it's possible that they are just actually that slow? Or maybe both are true.

Probably I am just a "conspiracy nut". I mean I definitely am, but in this case it might just be paranoia.
The northern hemisphere is going into the dead of winter, heating is on a lot of peoples mind
I just use the IGP in Ryzen 7950x, so I can use the 16x pcie slot for 100GbE network.
I strongly second this. Mac84 or Action Retro would be good candidates, they specialize in old Macintoshes.
YouTube doesn't show "search suggestions" for Peter.

YouTube queries this "uri" when typing in the search box:

https://suggestqueries-clients6.youtube.com/complete/search?...

https://suggestqueries-clients6.youtube.com/complete/search?...
>It is 63x worse than reported by an industry that has routinely lied about their impact on the climate. It is very, very possible.

It's possible, but not plausible, to me.

You can talk about those "evil oil companies", but this is 2024. It's hard to imagine them under-reporting so drastically, again, to me. What is there to gain? If this is real, it's going to be the end of them.
Chinese Startup Is Winning the Open Source AI Race
> Even though I had 0 money, I promised them a salary

Why would you do this?

Sounds like it was a flawed plan from the get go.
You left out the next paragraph of that article.

"But excluding one-time items such as the $5.9 billion noncash tax benefit for deferred tax assets, the company made $2.49 billion, or 71 cents per share. That was down 39% from a year ago and short of analyst estimates of 73 cents per share according to FactSet."

https://www.kolotv.com/2024/01/25/tesla-4q-earnings-fall-sho...
GitHub repo here: https://github.com/nluxai/nlux

I hope that you'll find it useful! :)
There is one device which fits PDFs well, an ipad. It can be fairly awkward on laptops and deskptops as well.

> view in landscape or pan and zoom.

This is awkward, that's the issue I mentioned above, how annoying is to have to do that if you're reading for a 30-60 minute session.
Well, yes, and the discussion about the "factors that specifically involve LISP" has been going on since forever with no end in sight. So maybe there a at least some extra forces involved here. Who knows. I'm just exploring.