skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that could be assembled cheaply in a makerspace from off-the-shelf components, an Arduino-class microcontroller, and a PROM.

Excuse me? You can get off-the-shelf batteries (although LFP batteries with real BMSes are not actually interchangeable, sadly). But you also need the power electronics, and you should not be doing that as a DIY project unless you really know what you’re doing.

I would look to the off-grid/RV space for disruption. For example, here’s a “portable power station” for $600. It costs about 2x as much as a random 1500VA APC UPS I looked it, except that it can deliver twice the actual power (if your UPS is powering a modern power-factor-corrected PSU, you just need watts and the VA isn’t a big deal, and APC is cheating their specs by including unnecessary reactive power capacity in their headline number) and 20x the energy storage and thus runtime. APC tries hard to obscure very low capacity of their batteries.

No one will buy an off-grid setup that can barely power an espresso machine long enough for a single shot.
Yeah, this is just baffling. A team can be so averse to learning new tools, good ones too, that they would rather dump their time into rewriting. Instead of getting paid to level up their skills, they'd rather block forward movement of the company's goals to maintain the status quo.
Here we go, kernel panic in the M-series chip: https://twitter.com/0xjprx/status/1753575170101461266
> Writing any markup or markdown syntax in an IDE is a disaster for the creative process

MS Word or markup in an IDE are not the only options.

I used to use Lyx quite a lot. The best of both worlds in many ways.

There are text editors which give you a simple UI than an IDE without the distractions and complexity of a word processor. I find Kate quite pleasant to write in.

There are distraction free writers editors (which will often save in wordprocessor formats) that exist only because a lot of people find wordprocessors are a "disaster for the creative process".
Erm, maybe this idea:

> This report was commissioned by Mozilla
My guess: some PM looking at a conversion funnel and proposed these "features" to move the numbers up.
This article is really an indictment of healthcare costs, not that car insurance is too cheap. Change my mind.
But but but growth over everything... Right?
I thought it was already established that's exactly what happened?
Could you explain in simple terms how knowing how to change the PCIe card in your computer without looking up instructions has had an effect on your ability to write software?
Yeah I have $500k/$500k liability that (no collision - my car isn’t worth much) and it costs $100/mo and another $5m liability with $1m UM and that costs $25/month so I’m a little confused about the comments around liability being expensive - in my experience it’s the collision coverage that is so expensive I think the annual premium for it was going to be like ~10%-15% of the insured value of the car
BBC debate on whether Jews are an ethnic minority group sparks outrage (2021)
I feel like the guy in "Big": I just don't get it. Using Java and learning a new syntax in order to automatically generate JSON & YAML? The complexity for what seems like a fairly simple task unless you have either massive files or a massive number of files? What's the fun in that? I just don't get it.
Variations on the this has been done many times, so I wouldn't be surprised. E.g the broader "protagonist lives in a bubble" theme includes The Truman Show, or Brian Aldiss' novel "Nonstop".

As someone else pointed out part of the problem w/how Shyamalan handles it is that too much hinges on the twist in some of his movies.
Hertz, becquerel, et al. are algebraically defined as s^(-1) yet intended to be used for different kinds of quantities. The SI brochure also allows replacing radian by 1, which brings angular velocity into the fight. Further reading: https://doi.org/10.1088/0026-1394/52/1/40
> To be able to write performant programs

Wait we’re teaching kids to write performant assembly language?
Does the fact that you can drive to a national park make it stop being beautiful?
Their UI has long been more focused on getting you to click on other questions and/or ads rather than seeing the answer you want, and they do it by making it really hard to tell which is which. They intersperse a sponsored question that has nothing to do with yours between the top two replies.

I guess that’s probably the only way they could really monetize but it sure is annoying.
Or gods forbid, someone had a slightly open ended question.
I think you're right that The Sixth Sense is worth rewatching more so than his later ones.
> The more shares you hold, the greater your voice, when it comes to corporate governance. It's not at all the same as the typical idea of democracy as "one person, one vote".

"One person, one vote" is not how the presidency works in the USA.

Beyond that, you seem to trying setup some strawman positions rather than engaging in a discussion about anything anyone actually said.
memo() does not require a team of experts.
Some companies have both massive files and a massive number of files
Perhaps it’s because getting hit by a SUV tends to be much worse for a passenger or cyclist than being hit by a smaller car?
IPv6 NAT is "bolting on thing after thing" but IPv4 NAT is good architecture :P
> Huh, wonder if people who aren’t familiar with the subject saw “GPT” and thought you were going off into AI gibberish land?

If they don't know GPT is a type of partition table, I think their stereotypical dislike of perl is the least of their problems!
Our ancient basement fridge died. We replaced it with a Best Buy Insignia SKU 6472692. It's currently $500, and we paid $550 plus a bit more to take away the old one. Its primary features include having two doors, staying cold on the bottom, and staying really cold on the top. We love it.
+1 to this, I was also there and it was lots of fun
One will want to be cognizant that Garage, like recent MinIO releases, is AGPL https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/src/tag/v0.9.1/L...

I'm not trying to start trouble, only raising awareness because in some environments such a thing matters
I live in a rural area not far from silicon valley and there is no cell coverage here and there is no broadband. The trees are too tall for satellite (redwood forest) and so when AT&T pulls out, we, and our little neighborhood of about 50, half of whom are fixed income seniors, will have no connection to the outside. A couple neighbors on the hillside can get satellite but the latency's too much for wifi calling so that doesn't work. Fortunately we have a ham radio operator who can reach the sheriff if something catastrophic happens.
he has nothing to say. his strategy has been to keep riding the gravy train for years. now the growth is slowing and he can see the core search business will be under attack and there is no answer. he'll essentially coast for the next 5 years. play politician, take few risks, "streamline operations" and fire a bunch of people, then walk off into the sunset. what is their future? cloud is still very small and has really difficult competition, youtube has challenging competition and isn't super profitable, maps/search/mail/docs/drive all feel quite stale. what's next?
I think it’s just a really logical way for them to monetize. If the UI was good you’d never click on (or likely even see) an ad.

I’d bet they just tested it and found that’s how they make money.
Freezing/Defrosting and/or toasting favorably altered glucose response of bread
He spent 2 years in Vancouver as a linebacker with the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League while continuing his acting studies:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/carl-weathers-dead-1.7...
I’m sorry this happened to your daughter and you!

As someone with two kids, can I ask, does health insurance not work in this situation? I ask partly because at the moment we own no cars. If health insurance doesn’t cover it I’m wondering how we should insure.
Transforming PR is different than transforming. I don't think Microsoft is any less scummy than it was in the past, it's just gotten better at recognizing that its audience includes both "normal users we can trick with dark patterns" and "gaming/dev enthusiasts who will lose it if we try to pull anything shady".
What's the SEGA HOME STAR EXTRA?

The site only lists Flux, Classic and Matataki.

Then there seems to be Original, Earth Theater, Pro.

Pretty confusing line up
Donald Braben's book touches on what's changed pretty well I felt (published by Stripe press too): https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Freedom-Civilization-Donal...
Apple Vision Pro Unboxing and First Impressions (The Perfect Device?) [video]
Do uninsured drivers exist in the EU? We're not barbarians, here ;)

(no insurance, no plates)
They're actually doing some pretty nice things with Edge despite these evil anti-competitive UIs/ad injections. I'd add telemetry to the list too, but since Mozilla does a lot of that they probably won't write up a nice doc like this on it.

It is possible to get a clean Edge build running via containerization + disabling some Windows background services + blocking outbound/inbound requests to various Microsoft + partner IP addresses. Big hassle though.
There are millions who don't live in a city.
Native Vertical tabs. Google Chrome doesn’t even have viable extensions for this (and yet brave and edge have it native).

(My oft spoken rant)
Horizontal tabs are useless if you have more than 8 tabs open at once. Or if you are one of the very few that has a monitor with more vertical pixels than horizontal.

Also, Safari’s vertical tabs implementation is weak whereas Orion’s is workable.
Nope, you're the clueless one.

> Your people are dodging tax

I said I'm using USDC. That makes 0 sense.

No, the reason we're using crypto is because the transaction fees are literally 0 and it's instant.

PayPal takes super high transfer fees. Wise is a cheaper alternative but it's still much more expensive than crypto.

> there's no point in losing money on exchanges.

Once again, I'm using USDC

It's a stable coin tethered to the US dollar.

It's really strange how HN users are so confident on things they know nothing about.
"point of existence"

To go see it.

Why would the ability to visit other planets, and see them, suddenly negate the point of existence, since we can then go see it.

Like there is only a point if things can only be imagined, and not actually seen.

That would be like. "now that cars exists, and we can visit the Grand Canyon, suddenly there is no point of existence".
It’s the other way around. Not all coupon users are worse customers (who would refuse a 5$ discount offered during checkout?) - but the worst customers will also go out of their way to find coupons.
> Unlike traditional computers, blockchains ensure that any code they run will continue to operate as designed

It's the perfect storm of proof-of-waste, unpatchable code, and a solution looking for a problem!
Pretty sure "England making up evidence" is behind half of America's constitution.
Amazon Prime and any other service that went from "free with ads" and "paid ad-free" to adding a "paid with ads" and "pay even more to remove the ads you used to have removed".

This includes Windows as a whole. It's almost incredible how many different settings you have to dig into to get most of them out.
Similar but no DSL because we're about 6 miles from the nearest town. We're literally screwed here. The redwoods are too tall for satellite so there's just no other option.
> For most 8-bit CPUs the tools are either proprietary or of lower quality than for the 32-bit CPUs.

Arduino IDE is definitely not low quality.

>It is true that I have never used an Arduino, because every time when I looked at any model it appeared overpriced and without any advantage whatsoever over a Cortex-M board, so I could not understand why would someone waste time with it.

- Because you don't need 32 bits to turn on a LED and read an ADC.

- Because in 2008-2014 there were not many cheap Cortex M boards, and hobbyist ARM tooling was low quality or expensive (Keil, IAR, etc) and didn't come out of the box with pre-made sample projects that could get you up and running on stuff like UART, ADC, SPI, etc.

- Because Arduino coade was easily portable meaning sharing projects that drove particular displays or other external peripherals or widgets would just be copy-paste plug and play instead of having to tailor the C code you got from someone else to your particular ARM microcontroller, and configure the peripherals, clocks and keep fucking with it to get it to work like ti worked for the other person, etc.

Project portability and cross compatibility was the big selling point of the Arduino ecosystem. You didn't need to know any programming or C to get some humidity or ultrasonic senor from Adafruit to work on an Arduino, because most likely someone already published the code or library for it.
Weirdly enough, some of the worst memory leaks I’ve debugged in my career were in GCed languages. Because any object can reference anything, retaining references can hide anywhere in the code. (Including via closures and other exotic things you forget about). And because in GC languages we don’t often have a destructor (or anything like it), it’s very common for people to forget to clean up resources. (Eg filesystem handles, sockets, wasm object references, and so on).

One weird thing about rust is that network sockets and file handles are automatically closed when the handle drops out of scope. The borrow checker takes care of that. If you do the same thing in JavaScript (open a socket then do nothing), the program won’t even quit on its own and you’ll have no idea why.
See also Google: I knew they were embracing the dark side when Quora not only went unpunished for search cloaking but seemed to get even more solidly rewarded with high search weight.
The analogy is the costs and risks of storage. Data might not cause cancer if you stand next to it, but there’s plenty of risks involved in mass accumulation of data controlled by government entities. And anything that gives more incentive for that accumulation, like being able to run in house ML models, will surely lead to even more accumulation.
It is important to note they could access an image in the memory up to 0.75 seconds after cutting power, but after 1.0 seconds everything had completely decayed. This sounds less like a "cold boot" attack and more like the residual power is still flowing on the substrate for 0.75 seconds.
It looks like you're driving a car without a touchscreen or black-box computer that the manufacturer can mine for "data", let's fix that!
Have you, perhaps, not run a mail server? The limitation of SMTP/IMAP is that they're built with the assumption the connecting party can be trusted and acting in good faith (like many of the original protocols).

You can implement TCP rate limits on top, but that doesn't work when botnets and spammers (likely using "crowdsourced VPNs") rarely use the same IP twice. Further if you're running robust mail infrastructure (backup/fallback mail exchanges) communicating these limits/ reputations is left up to the operator (not supported by protocols, rarely supported by servers). I don't think MAPI/OWA/EWS is better, at all, especially not against open mail standards, but SMTP & IMAP don't cut it either. On a new server, it only takes a few hours before someone connects over IMAP and starts testing passwords against accounts (faster if the server is assigned to the MX or A of an existing domain, and valid emails might be known from hacks/cracks/dumps/leaks/people posting their email in their profile).
> The West is undergoing a bureaucratic collapse where incompetent or out right maliciously corrupt people are subverting regulators.

I don't know where you're getting this from. Generally speaking, regulations and enforcement are tighter than they've ever been. That doesn't mean they're perfect, but you're going to have to show some evidence it's getting worse.

I really don't think you want to go back to the 1970's and 1980's, or the 1940's and 1950's.

I mean, I totally believe you about your water -- I just don't know where you get the idea that it was better in the past. If anything, you as a consumer just didn't have the ability to detect it or filter.
You are describing the possible collection of circumstantial evidence, not systemic surveillance inherent to cash. Completely different thing than the transaction logs of electronic money transfers.

There is a reason why governments don't want large cash transactions. It enables illegal sales, tax evasion and money laundering. Dude/ette, if you think the police can track a single 20€ bill that precisely, they wouldn't have a problem seeing through 500k€ cash deals when drug money goes legit through real estate. Basically every restaurant and cafe on earth uses cash to do creative accounting.

However, of course, there are particular crimes where money tracking does matter. If you rob a bank or break into an ATM your cash prize comes with strings attached, as those known bills will get flagged. I think the most important implication would be these bills becoming actual evidence instead of an happenstance mysterious cash finding. If a bank scan finds them in circulation again, they may be able to narrow down your location, do statistics with mobile network data and so on, but it's not like every note is tracked by default at every endpoint.

Crime runs on cash. How often have you read about anyone getting caught on cash serials??

Why on earth would any commercial store invest in cash tracking? They only got one point of the cash flow, are you implying they are all connected in some grand conspiracy?? Such stores got an abundance of way more accessible and relevant customer data they could (super illegally) collect, like biometrics, RF device IDs, loyalty programs, ... I also never seen a self checkout store which accepted cash at all.

You are telling a fatalist narrative which only helps the abandonment of cash, especially for small, daily transactions, which matter most for privacy.

Crypto won't happen. Lol.
> What difference does the elimination of paper money at POS make to ability to access electronic deposits?

The difference it makes is that now you only have one way to access your savings. Any failures, technical issues, outage, etc. and you're out of luck to say the least.

The principle is that you shouldn't rely on a single system ever. If you're eager to go that way be my guest. I was using a real life scenario of how that turned out bad for people.

I don't care about paper vs electronic. I care about relying on a single point of failure.
Then you'd be wrong. Those service providers got their monopolies by promising the state they'd serve the rural customers. That you don't understand these basics disqualifies you from this entire topic.
Yes, that's useful information to those who aren't familiar with the situation but I would say that the way the Democrats voted in lockstep is a great example of the partisan lack of compromise that a two party system encourages.
Interestingly, a "conservation of matter" law can exist independently of atoms. I.e. it is mathematically consistent to create a universe in which a "mole" is necessary, but matter is not discrete. Therefore "mole" can be considered a bit more fundamental (in any universe). I find it reasonable to stick to using a "mole" unit on that basis, although I would not be dying on this hill.
Can't believe I'm saying it but twitter has become the main spot for me. Read.cv as others have pointed out is also good. Way less signal and noise than X of course, but the content is almost always very high quality.
Recently got a Hiby S3 II. Happy with it so far. The Tidal UI could be better but it works.
I can imagine that will be somewhat easier in Ethiopia than in many other countries. Ethiopia has one of the lowest per capita number of motor vehicles in the world, in fact out of 195 ranked countries Ethiopia is 189th (tied with Burundi, and just ahead of CAR, the DRC, Somalia and Sudan).

Even given that however, as the article states there simply isn't a charging infrastructure to support a shift to electric. More, this sounds like it's largely motivated by economic factors:

> "Ethiopian here. Main reason for this is the fact that it's currently struggling with a severe foreign exchange shortage, affecting its ability to import oil and other commodities. Aside from this surprising announcement, lack of foreign currency has also led to a significant push towards enhancing its agricultural productivity and boosting its local production of light manufactured goods."

It's hard to imagine how that's going to square with a nationwide charging network for the 1.2 million vehicle owners out of 128 million Ethiopians.

citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territor...
"found" ... but it was brought to police attention by the museum it was being donated to?

> the device is "in fact a Douglas AIR-2 Genie, an unguided air-to-air rocket that is designed to carry a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead". However, there was no warhead attached, meaning there was never any danger to the community. the device was "just basically a gas tank for rocket fuel".
Let's bring back the remarkable gift of wearing a mask
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component-based_software_e...
I'm curious to know if authors of great books know the "ending" ahead of time? In Stephen King's case, I'd say "no". In John Irving's case, where the ending is often "put the book down in awe", I'd assume he MUST, right?

I'd love to write a book, I have ideas, I just don't know if I'll ever have a good ending.

This must be the curse of most aspiring writers!?
Regulating mining would be a responsible economic policy. Like not printing money. Or regulating speculative markets (derivatives). But we currently doing our best to be least responsible :)
Multiple from two different homes, the sub zeros were the age of the house and still going strong.

I avoid LG/Samsung because of the countless articles here an other places were people complain about the quality of appliances, but yet the mass majority of [different] people still buy these crappy appliances with touch screens and glossy finishes.

My point is that these appliances do exist, no feature, long lasting, easily reparable, expensive. People do not want to pay for them as much as HN says they do. For a bunch of smart Engineers I don't understand why this is difficult to grasp. If you want quality, you have to pay for it.
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1. Larger vehicles pose a much greater threat to pedestrians and cyclists, both from frequency and consequence of incidents.

2. Tire emissions are more toxic than exhaust [1] and tire wear is dramatically greater on heavier vehicles. This is about air pollution in the city, not climate change globally.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyre...
There is a simple solution - use a small electric car/microcar with small battery for driving in the city.
I started on the "Let's make a button" page and got very confused. IIUC the missing part is "you point a camera at stuff and a program on your computer does things in response, including sending output back to the stuff via a projector". Printing things onto bits of paper and folding them up doesn't cause anything much to happen on its own.
Yup, and hate it all there too.
Particle pollution from car tires are much worse from heavy vehicles. Apparently recent research suggest that emissions tires are much larger and more dangerous than exhaust emissions.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/tire-pollution-toxic-chemical...