skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their servers exist somewhere, and while it's called The Cloud™, that ain't literal ;)

Datacenters, offices, warehouses, factories... these all sit on top of land. Even a fully-remote company running off Raspberry Pis in someone's closet still requires some quantity of land on which the employees' homes and that closet full of Raspberry Pis sit. Even if the companies themselves don't own that land directly, somebody does.
Regular minesweeper counts these too, but the different shapes definitely make it harder!

I found it much harder to register two acute angles as "adjacent" than two right angles are.
Sure, but because "the majority thinks it is the right way" does not mean it is. My point is that when the majority of people don't know how the most basic tool they use is meant to be used, then it is a problem.

It would still be better to say "I know how a hammer is meant to be used, but I choose to use it this other way", but that is not the situation right now. The situation right now is that more and more devs don't know that git != GitHub. And that inequality is an objective fact, it has nothing to do with network effects.

Everybody believing that the Earth is flat would not make it flat.
SCOTUS has already decided that these courts and the things they "permit" do not violate your rights.

So there's that.
you can have your opinion, but ultimately the question is: do you want me to tell you what you are allowed and what you are not allowed to do with the electricity you PAY for?

you may not like what I do with the power I PAY for but you don't get a say in how I use it.
Seriously, “ruleboys” is a good one or what I thought of as “hall pass monitor”. I work remotely and have worked remotely from several countries, not once has it been an issue. I just don’t walk up to the customs agent and naïvely say “oh hi, just an FYI that I plan to work remotely for this month from your beautiful country”.
> which I admit I personally despise

That's extremely funny. I don't even notice them, but my dad ruined his sun visor once trying to get those damned stickers off, hahaha.
Yes in the same way that a lookup table can compute anything if you make it large enough (and where you need to know the size beforehand).

"Transformers are not Turing complete"
https://www.lifeiscomputation.com/transformers-are-not-turin...

See here for example for a survey of work on the limits of computational expressivity of transformers
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Transformers-as-Recogn...
FileBot is your friend ;)
It is not HIS garbage. He is involved in numerous companies. Starlink is a product of SpaceX and that is full of thousands of great engineers. To be disinterested in SpaceX technology because of Musk is to be completely dismissive of the amazing accomplishments and effort of those thousands of great engineers. Would you like to have your work dismissed because the head of your company was a bizarre jerk? By any rational measure, SpaceX is NOT producing garbage tech.
Cocaine Boom
> Bitcoin replaces these things with servers and decentralization.

This is totally absurd. We would still need police and military even if the USD stopped existing and we switched over to Bitcoin. You cannot replace them with servers because servers can't protect a nation or enforce laws.

> The fact they do other things is not important.

It is important, because it means they must exist anyway. So it makes no sense to factor in their cost if the cost would still need to be paid regardless of which financial system we use.
Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about.

> filter out beneficial minerals

Take a supplement if you feel you are deficient in any specific mineral because it doesn't justify whole body fluoridation or ingesting sketchy tap water. Flint, MI isn't an isolated incident.[0,1,2] Anecdotally, my mom's cousin's family died from silent uranium contamination of the tap water in the Four Corners region.

> are $$

I bought a 100 GPD RO system for $180 that uses generic parts. Running cost is $70/year including cleaning and membranes. Yes, it's work.

> waste a lot of water

FUD. Using less water on landscaping, hygiene, and laundry are far more important. Brine only leaves the system during generation. If there's no demand, e.g., you're not taking any water out of the tank, then there's zero waste. Permeate pumps ($50 option) reduces brine waste considerably by saving the backpressure leaving the system and boosting the intake pressure at the membrane. The brine waste stream is roughly 2x with a permeate pump vs 8x without. RO water at our house is only used for drinking and ice, which is ~2 GPD, so the total water usage is trivial.

0. https://mytapwater.org

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/cities-worst-tap-water-us-20...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/31/americas-tap...
Welcome to our patent system.
“I’ll drop the phone” is a pretty big statement. I wonder how eyesight will be impacted. Will more people get myopia because of Apple Vision Pro..?
it's crowdsourced so it may not have been removed from the other location. it's possible though that they have the same machine though... you can call them and find out if you're motivated to update it
True but I feel I should mention that the term pr0n specifically is much older than TikTok and modern social media censorship, more of a "leet speak" slang than a tool to avoid censors.

Nowadays the youth call it corn or p*rn or just (insert corn emoji here).
Types on the fields is interesting. The examples suggest said types are lost when you serialise to json or xml, though it seems like at least some types should be expressible as schemas.

Language reference doesn't mention schemas either https://pkl-lang.org/main/current/language-reference/index.h...
For touchpads that don't have a real Right mouse button, you can't Left+Right click at the same time. Windows Minesweeper adds Double click as an alternative way to trigger Clear Around.
I'll play the devils advocate.

1. Ownership and Security

Bitcoin is the only solution to really "owning" your money.
Everything in your bank account can be stolen / frozen / or made "inaccessible" at a moments notice because of some vague bullshit reason like supporting right extremists or terrorists - even if you donate a single dollar - like it happened in in 2023 Canada / freedom convoy.
Everything a bank claims to be secure/safe goes away like a poof of smoke if it really comes down to it. The can't be any safety in our increasingly multi-polar world the political boundaries are redefined daily. Today Russia/China is the enemy, tomorrow it's some other country that will suffer economical sanctions. Or your own country decides to apply punitive measures against some minority group because of political opinion - all the control mechanisms are there and politicians are itching to use them.

2. It's less than our current banking sector

Yeah, consuming this much natural resources / electricity sucks.
That's the alternative?
Do you count how much money is spend on the banking spector as a whole? I assure you it consumes much more then the 2% in capital expenditure - so indirectly it's more (you could have build renewables with the same money) .

3. Scalability

About the famous argument that bitcoin does not scale: the 7 transaction per second argument -> this problem is completely solved by the lightning network. Lightning protocol does the same with much lower transaction cost and much less energy usage - something like 100x less. Yes support at major vendors is still a bit lagging behind but that's only temporary.
Need a 100% confirmation? Do full transaction (for example for accounting purposes). Small sums and personal funds -> can be completely handled by a lightweight lightning network transaction. Bitcoin is a highly technical solution and there are myriad ways things can be improved upon if scalability really becomes an issue - even if the lightning network would become saturated.
For example, resistance training increases bone density.
Schroedingers treat is simultaneously in the pantry and my stomach until you actually check the pantry.
Bucking Bronco: Adaptive Ride Experiment No.1 (2009)
A camera-based anti-facial recognition technique
why would they? you can present the "virtual" items to appear far from you, a similar distance that you would hold your phone.
Sometimes the signal to noise ratio is so bad that I can't blame the experts for no longer engaging and/or me disengaging before I encounter an expert steering the discussion towards more fertile grounds
I didn't read the question as a swap proposition but whether the guys are happy within themselves. Should have excerpted more for the quote.

I've been reading about Putin being offed for quite some time now. Anything could happen but a lot of predictions have been wrong.
I think it's faster now. Thanks!
I think it’s not a coincidence that land value tax is popular on Hacker News. Replacing all the taxes that tech companies currently pay with a land value tax that hardly affects them would be an incredible boon.
Divide into testing market/user-experience vs technical hypotheses:

"Would it be fun" you can test by faking it, like curating it by hand for a small specific area (e.g. a popular street in a popular part of a popular city; or your hometown; or somewhere that appeals/you want to visit).

"Can I make a general algorithm using publically available data to do this for everyone, for everywhere, automatically" is the technical hypothesis. It seems like a really challenging problem! But because it is clearly defined and scope-limited, I feel it's more straightforward than the first one.
The US House Speaker was voted out primarily by Democrats, not Republicans. There were only a handful of Republicans that voted to remove McCarthy. It took the Republicans a while to get enough voted to replace him. Certainly plenty of infighting in both Democrat and Republican parties, but the Speakership contest was the entirety of the House Democrats allying with a very few extremest House Republicans.
The more Google loses market share, there is hope we will see competition rises.
I'm liking OpenAI, Archive.org etc.
Can you explain the “Data Tracked and Linked to You” in the App Store? The game looks fun but I’m hoping to see something a little more privacy friendly, that isn’t collecting and selling my data.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minesweeper-twist/id6473121693
Why is "doing more" a given? Why do we need infinite growth?
Why are people climate change deniers? Study reveals unexpected results
Is it compatible with OpenStack?
The issue is one administration will say yes agency y should do x and the next administration will say no it shouldn't. Only congress though its own actions can determine the remit of an agency. The issue isn't the congress has to be specific its that up until now agencies didn't even have to follow the plain meaning of the law. We should not give so much deference in a democratic system to the unelected.
And also using unused telco dark fiber to listen to earthquakes in Iceland. Live video feed here: https://www.youtube.com/live/1_3NBuVrmCs?feature=shared
I can imagine several ways to manage that outcome that don't involve engaging in an unrequested medical intervention on their behalf using the public water supply.

They also didn't "find" that. They have a very limited study with exceptionally poor controls that they openly acknowledge and thus they're only capable of suggesting an "indication" that this "may be true."

For such an important question, I would want a lot more work than that particular study, which only examined 2nd graders, has done before arriving at a conclusion that we should medicate an entire population without consent.

Finally, I'd suggest a better study, between the cities that had fluoride removed, were the citizens even informed that a change was made to their water supply? 2 to 3 years later, instead of looking at kids teeth, how many adults understood the ramifications of the change? How many of them even consciously _knew_ the change had been made?

Which highlights the point here, it's fundamentally unethical for a government to wholesale dose their entire population, even if they think they're doing them a favor.
This is so cool, thanks for the tip! :D
Fyi, in the readme, the screenshot for the logs is the same as for the traces. I wanted to see the traces, so that was confusing.
Let's hope the Chevron doctrine gets overturned. It's being debated now before SCOTUS.
This is a tangent, and I am not a parent yet, but when I am, I've been thinking I would follow Ernst Haeckel's saying "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" for computing. I.e., little kids get Commodore 64's, 12 year olds get old Macs, then teenagers get late 90's desktops, then finally iPhones and modern computers when they're 18.
Fantastic, I’m glad I asked! Thanks for the insight.
Colleges Are Lying to Their Students
softICE was not for the faint of heart, running as a driver would often bsod Windows.
I didn't reject it, I just wanted to make the simpler premise clear too, looking at the situation before talking about potential solutions.

And I didn't say anything about "telling people what they can and can't do", you pulled that out of nowhere. The earlier comments were talking about "shaming" and "what's the fuss", not legal mandates.

Also in practice a law like that is almost certainly going to be implemented as a fine, which is pretty close to a tax.
The roots of longstanding cultural interactions across the Tibetan Plateau
Ouch. It’s also downloaded twice (in Safari at least), putting the total page weight at almost 40MB.
Yeah, I completely misinterpreted your comment, sorry about that!
When the gender is unknown. Why apply it in every case?
It's an incredible boon to the vast majority of society. The only ones who suffer under LVT are land speculators and landlords.
Smoke detector + fire = Firefighter
"What if I have 3 raspberry pi 4's [...] with no significant performance requirement?"

Ceph is nice, but performance is lackluster on anything but a proper cluster (pun intended).

It's also somewhat heavyweight. I ran ZFS over iSCSI with four RPis serving the iSCSI targets via SATA-USB. It was network limited mostly. The advantage of that is that you can take the same disks and plug them all into a single host and import the pool directly (ie not via iSCSI), if needed.
Off-topic: Can you explain why cloud storage is so expensive?

You charge 1c per gigabyte per month, so $120/TB/year. I can buy a 20TB HDD for around $300-$400 in my bedroom. On your rack, same drive runs $2,400 / year.

Your prices are in-line with everyone else. This is an almost the definition of a frictionless commodity market, so if things could be done cheaper, someone would.

What's stopping me from plugging a 20TB HDD into a RaspberryPI, tossing it on a high speed connection (and charging for transfer), and getting 6x annual returns for providing the world's cheapest (if not fastest / most reliable) storage? For backups (as opposed to e.g. web hosting), that's good enough.

What am I missing?
How is GitHub still IPv4 only? Ridiculous.
I often wonder how it would work out if instead inheritance, all wealth at death was deposited into the $USA$ fund, then in aggregate got redistributed as universal income (or start-up fund) to all citizens (in equal amounts), save for some moderate amount. Complications sure re property, but would it squash or enhance the economy?
Bought his book just to support his efforts, yes I'm the one guy. He's got the type of chaotic energy real hackers generate. Love everything he's put on youtube.
This is how I prefer to remember him (on Arrested Development).

I'm going to miss that man.
React is still doing reconciliation for your full element tree, even if you minimize updates. The approaches are not really comparable.
I agree it’s very nice. I’d also like to know how it was done.

Also if you click two bytes that are in the same caption group one after another then it bugs out.
Tim Cook teases AI, but won't pick favorites
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/
Damnit. I forgot he was in that. (And played it so well!)
> but when you start saying what other people 'should' be doing then they're going to speak up.

That's not a prerequisite for the Latex folks, in my experience :D

(I'm also in the "wrote my masters thesis in word, including the fair number of equations" group)
I am aware of some research into operating systems with a database rather than filesystem as a base layer. If SeaweedFS serves a middle-ground between databases and filesystems, could it also suggest a middle-ground in conceiving of research operating systems??
But also it’s not really a requirement, original Windows minesweeper doesn’t have that, so it’s kind expected to have to try your luck sometimes.
That's weird, I did the same thing but I just got "Twilight".
It doesn't seem particularly related as <title> has about the same percentage: https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_title. Rather it seems more to do with how it counts browsers it knows the usage of but doesn't have validation of support one way or the other for.

Trivia: That HTML is actually invalid, <title> </title> gets treated as a blank title, which is not valid. If you change it to <title>.</title> or similar it should be error free though.
What insurance? What doctor prescribed? ENT + UnitedHealthcare = "haha, no. You need a sleep study and that's not covered either."
I think I know what you mean. For me personally: aggressive only happens when I start to go limbic; assertive is when I am calm. I can prevent the transition when I can feel myself getting defensive or scared, which turns to anger, and then aggression. But that takes patience and practice! Still working at it.
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Firefighter turnouts both have PFAS right after manufacture, and continue to emit PFAS though wear and tear.

Source: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/01/wear-and-tear-...
You don’t pay property tax to keep your car. You pay registration fees to drive your car on public roads.

You can still drive that car on racetracks and other such places.

The car/house comparison doesn’t make any sense here.

You don’t own the land and never will. You just lease it from the government and we all get that.
> […] where a familiar notation would be appropriate.

And this is the problem I have been trying to point out. «+» comes from math, and – in the world of math – there are no bytes, no half-words, no overflows, no carry overs, no branches and no traps, and the imaginary «register» size is infinite – an addition always succeeds however large is the number. There are no decimals, no floating point numbers, either – in math, there is no distinction. There is just a lone exception being the handling of the explicit infinity values (-∞ and +∞). «Add and branch» or «add and trap» simply do not exist in math – math is abstract, and computing is concrete.

That is not the case in computing. The semantics of «add» varies across different CPU architectures, as the assembly language exposes the internal machinery and the internal state of a given CPU which may or may not be appropriate for another CPU. For example, RISC-V does not support the integer overflow flag, and most other CPU's do. Assembly is a 1:1 representation of the binary code for a given CPU, and that is where it stops.

In fact, I do find the charm in your proposal being along the lines of «r3 = r1 +.u8 r2», «r3 = r1 +.c r2 or branch label1», «r3 = r1 +.c r2 or trap overflow» etc. It will not be assembly though, more of a meta-assembly, which is fine. The real trouble is that the grammar will be able to handle just one ISA and might quickly become complex and unwieldy if ported to another ISA that has a rich set of addition operations that do not fit in the narrow constraints of such a design.
What makes you think I'm biased? In case you missed it, I said I'm also critical of other manufacturers. Pointing out a potential problem does not make someone biased. It seems like you interpret any criticism of Tesla as inherently biased which, ironically, is it's own biased worldview.

I think where we differ is that I don't think everything hinges on the word "recall." The article could be titled "2MM Teslas to be fixed OTA to correct non-conformance to legal design standards" It's still true, carries the same connotations, and is completely void of the loaded term you're hung up on.
The wheel in FSD is hard to take control over and when you do it goes absolutely slack leading to an overcorrection. Even after having my car for years it still does a wiggle when this happens. Not sure if that’s what you’re saying shouldn’t happen. Doesn’t happen with my CRVs LKAS
I feel like these examples, and most examples of what AR is good for, are largely based on what looks cool in movies rather than what is actually more effective than looking at a screen or having someone speaking in your ear.

AR definitely has real industrial uses but 90% of the examples people can think of are not better or are worse than current methods.
Yeah make sure you share the FDA link with them so they take you seriously and don’t think you are a hypochondriac or psychosomatic. Get the lung X-rays and copy of scans (whatever imaging they recommend) and save it in the cloud and in a safe.

This evidence can pay off big time if, god forbid, you have lung damage taking years off your life, but look up statute of limitations and talk to a bunch of personal injury lawyers for product liability cases, etc. Good luck and I’ll be checking in on my folks that have a machine as well to do the same.
What Physicists Have Been Missing
What type of NAT algorithm are you using for your NAT here? E.g. full cone, symmetric, etc. Such details can be useful for testing. Currently I'm having to code a small script to simulate different NAT behaviours so I can test trying to traverse them easily. I looked for a way to do this kind of thing with cloud networking ages back but they were no where near as configurable as needed. Normally the details were hidden. IDK what they would be using in that case.

The other thing is the port allocation algorithm. Many home routers try to preserve the source port (assuming its available.) But there's other algorithms that could be used here like independent delta +1 (increment each new mapping by +1) and others. IDK if there's a target market for something this specific or niche. But thought I'd put it out there.
You provide no evidence for your claims.

More representative, more locally bound, less tied to corporate interests because you don't need to raise that much money to run a campaign for 20,000 citizens you represent. That means instead of spending half their day, every day, fundraising, they can attend to business.
They're not the only ones either. OpenAI also doesn't have ipv6 APIs, and neither does Stripe, many many others....
Is... is this about trans people? Am I understanding you correctly? Are you suggesting a causal relationship between the use of PFAS and the visibility of trans people in society?
Whatever you think of 1907, the US went from a highly unequal society (an entire sector of citizens not even owning themselves) followed by being a failed state after an an insane civil war that decimated the population... To world power with a much MORE equal society, in five decades with no centralized financial institution
So the president gets to appoint eight judges, handpicked, to decide what is and isn’t an invasion of privacy? Couldn’t he choose judges that would let him spy on his political enemies without blowback?

I’m genuinely asking. The Politico article is really fuzzy about the appointments. I’m wondering if they even know the process themselves.