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> Judging by all these incorrect assumptions about electrical, I'd suggest stopping while you're ahead before you burn your own house down.

For anyone reading this, this person has no idea what they're talking about. Besides the fact that I once considered becoming an electrician and completed my apprenticeship prior to entering the tech industry, it is a published standard how things should be installed in residential properties in the US, called the National Electric Code or NEC.

The NEC 2020 states that GFCI is required (in additional to a general AFCI requirement) for any 125V or 250V receptacles in kitchens, bathrooms, laundry areas, finished or unfinished basements, garages and anywhere within six feet of a sink. Since my server rack was in a closet in a finished basement, it is /REQUIRED/ by code to have a dual-function breaker.

Also, I once again refer you regarding fire risk to simply search "UPS fire datacenter". UPS fires are the primary cause of datacenter fires. But sure, I don't know what I'm talking about, I've only been responsible for multiple datacenters spanning the globe for one of the world's largest hosting providers as part of my career after giving being an electrician a go and deciding against it as a career in my youth.

If anyone is ever in doubt about how to install something that's electrical: 1. Hire a certified electrician and 2. Read the applicable standard, which is the most recent published version of the NEC. Don't listen to people who make rude smart-ass comments on the Internet.
It’s a real mystery why, as soon as I heard about a bank founded by people who sounded like they had heard about the internet (Monzo, in the UK), I switched away from my venerable bank (NatWest) that, at the time still had security practices unsuited for the 18th century.

Appropriately enough, the last thing they did was to insist —demand, really— that, in 2018, I fax them my demand. It just so happens that this could have been relatively safe because, after asking everyone I knew for a week (including some venerable hackers), the only way that I found to send a fax was to ask the local branch of the same bank.

Asking them to authorize the transfer wasn’t possible (by showing them all relevant documentation). Asking them to let me send a fax, using their machine, to a sister branch to tell them to authorize a transfer without anyone verifying my ID, was fine.
Am I just overly critical, or does the lack of anything of substance in that abstract indicate that the paper doesn't really have anything to say?
Some of these package themed spams are amusing. I got some spam texts from a +44 number (UK) claiming to be USPS. Similarly I got a call from a +1 416 number (Toronto area) telling me they were US Customs and Border Control.
As an American reading the book for the first time, it took me a rather embarrassing amount of time to realize how many important Neverwhere people and places were London tube stations. The Knight's Bridge. The Earl's Court. The Black Friars. The Hammersmith. And of course the angel, Islington.
I just want to find some online archive of his later last-page columns, the ones with the superfluous bold for emphasis on like four words per sentence. I loved those.
Timelike freefallers in black hole metrics do not see the infinite future because the light entering the BH with them (and behind them) is also in free-fall.

Accelerated timelike observers inside a black hole can't accelerate for long.

Inside the horizon, you won't see light that has already been further in than you are. Likewise, you can't send light to anything with is further out than you.

Except that in inside regions of some BHs -- spinning ones, notably -- you can send signals on interesting orbits and might contrive a way to communicate with another inside-the-black-hole observer. This was basically what Roy Kerr's recent no-signularity paper deals with (substituting density for "you" and the other observers and pressure for communication). Pressure, spin, and contact forces could (if Kerr is correct) come into some equilibrium that supports a nonsingular configuration of matter against further inward migration, accelerating it outwards "forever", much as contact forces within the Earth accelerates you "forever". In that case if you could stand on that matter (the enormous surface gravity would squash you very very very very flat), you would see a significant blueshift of infalling light.
Even without the watermark, some of the videos look very real
Turns out the promise of lots and lots of money can numb a person's good sense, even if they really should know better.
The "Soliton Wave" from TNG was very far down on the list of things I would have expected to see in real life.
If you need to keep something indefinitely, you use a backup with an indefinite retention period. That doesn't mean OneDrive isn't a backup, any more than setting a retention period on your Veeam backups make those somehow not backups.
She must get it from the greyhound. My pit shows occasional flashes of intelligence, but I think she's too anxious to behave smartly almost all the time...
Isn't this the same as dobb-e?

https://dobb-e.com/
Yeah it really seems the market has bifurcated into "DIY build-a-computer" targeted towards gamers, bedazzled with RGB and all that jazz, and "Buy a used/refurb Dell mini-atx office desktop computer", assuming they don't just default to 'buy a laptop' as you point out.
Interesting.

Is the physical screen ideal or are software solutions expected to have similar efficacy?

I wonder if it's possible to make an android app that does this globally.

What's your business model?
(One of the original devs for The Outline here) so happy that it is able to live on, frozen in time, although missing a lot of the features that made it cool.

A lot of the cool things we were doing at the outline were on the CMS side of things, its a shame we were never able to share it
> facilitates money laundering, the sale of illegal goods

Some illegal goods should perhaps be legal. The cost in time and money of certain diagnoses and drug prescriptions is too high at the moment, and some of us can't put our lives on hold.
Lol I just don't read those PDFs. They are probably generated by shoddy automated tooling anyway. Garbage in, garbage out.
See also / dupe of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39475610 "Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39480718 "Tyler Perry halts $800M studio expansion after being shocked by AI"
Is the title a reference to OK computer or is it just something you all came up with?
That's the issue - I keep hearing that it is beyond small research group's budget to meaningfully train such a large model. You don't just need GPU time, you also need data. And just using the dregs of the internet doesn't cut it.
Marius and Caesar were populists. Having leaders (who are frequently themselves of the elite class) is almost a prerequisite, or else you've drifted into anarchism.
Why? I think it's a fine name, better than most, because it's a normal English word that says exactly what it does / what it's for. You're not just saying that because the word happens to end in "butt" are you? Or am I missing something?
> But what's even the reason to not allow sub-3-character local portions of emails? How does one even mess those up, aside from intentionally setting some triggers for less than 3 characters in local portions of email addresses?

Wild guess: someone copy-pasted an incorrect email address validation regex, and different parts of the system are using different criteria for email address validation.
It's ok, the project never took off. Big barrier to entry, clunky to use, being superseded by better decentralized approaches.
A map of the islands & barriers would be very helpful to the messaging here.
TPS stands for Test Procedure Specification [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPS_report
I would ask it to draw me a picture of <insert whichever $deity you feel like specifying>, light the blue touch-paper and grab some popcorn. That is all.
320Kb/s MP3 is fine for most things, and so is spotify quality in most cases. But there's also a bunch of bad tracks that I feel like is probably bad re-encodes, and sometimes bad source material. And yes, whether you can hear crunchiness depends on how you listen - you can't tell the difference over a car stereo when driving on a highway - and if you listen over bluetooth you're already hearing a bad re-encode, at least until BLE audio and LC3 is the norm - but IEMs in a home or quiet office is a different story and then it can get quite... distracting.

A launch of a lossless feature might also imply either a change of workflow to import tracks from artists, or at least just a re-upload of the source material. That I find exciting, and is something I would consider paying for.
Maybe we can send kids under electron beam.
I like my iPhone
I know, although I am quite curious as language nerd, if the Swift ARC alongside the new Swift 6's memory ownership won't be a much productive approach than dealing with the borrow checker and manually having to type .clone() instead of lettting the compiler do it.

Not that is matters much outside Apple's ecosystem, though.
The "Ruler vs. Leader" is like Slide #3 on any leadership talk, behind the title and the rhetorical "[Subject Here]: Art or Science?". Those who've never sat through such a thing have likely seen it on LinkedIn twice a day. [1]

Re: Snakes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_and_the_Viper

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=boss+vs+leader+meme
I was at IBM during peak SOAP. It was crazy how much business pushed for abstraction for abstractions sake in this domain. I'm really hoping htmx helps people get their heads on straight with REST. All these scores of devs have been writing `POST /item {"method":"replace","id":12}` or `POST /item {"method":"delete","id":12}` for decades now.
Pretty hard for you to win when my soldiers have infinity health and ammo, but be sure you don’t yell ‘fight me irl’ in anger!
Tell HN: Mail app on Windows forces Outlook
Today when I launched Mail app on Windows, it force-installed Outlook and closed itself.

Outlook won't show my Google Calendar without me letting them sync my Google stuff to Microsoft Cloud.

Shitheads.

P.S. some search tells me this is rolling out in tiers, as some people got this before

P.P.S. Uninstalling Outlook and opening Mail several times got it working (the first 2 times it just closed itself)
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Vvvv – A Multipurpose Toolkit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22013162 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

Vvvv – a live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11842176 - June 2016 (36 comments)

Vvvv: A hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179648 - March 2015 (3 comments)

Celebrity birthday wishes to vvvv's 10th anniversary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4972179 - Dec 2012 (1 comment)

VVVV.js - the VVVV language ported to JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813713 - July 2011 (10 comments)
Qualifying the reasons as "purely historic" as if that's a different type of reason is a bit of a dog whistle out around shenanigans with public land access and water rights in the western US, for what it's worth.

Edit - what I mean to be clearer is that when it comes to land access, "historical" (i.e. what's on paper) is the only reason that counts - as in, property rights which span both private property, and the one that many love to forget - public land. Courts consistently hold this up.

Those seeking to limit public land access for more or less greed often attempt to wave away those historical records via "well it's historical, what else is there to consider today," as if their private property rights are not also protected for the same reason.
Tragedy of the commons for right to roam versus the need for georgist taxation when its missing. Very interesting comment -- appreciate your input!
Well, my brother joined a fintech startup in Europe that started with blockchain but pivoted back to boring software building. That particular niche they're in is seeing all the blockchain startups failing because they're not actually solving the use-case. So sure, there's maybe been a lot of research value created in terms of ideas explored and protocols built, but it's not clear any of that actually has practical value outside of building more blockchains.

Merkle trees are probably the main cryptocurrency tech I've seen outside of cryptocurrency (& even then in limited use), and that's not even from cryptocurrency but a pretty old data structure concept from 1979. If you're familiar with R&D ideas generated by the blockchain researches that have been applied successfully outside of the blockchain, please enlighten me as I'm eager to fill the gaps in my knowledge and go down a reading rabbit hole.

Look, I'm not discounting out of hand that there's maybe been some research and market value created. What I tried to communicate is I'm not convinced it's been a net positive vs all the costs that came with it (investments lost, pollution, opportunity cost lost). That's why I said market value is a measure, but humans in general struggle to figure out holistic ways of computing value, especially when looking at it as a hypothetical opportunity cost vs what else we could be spending our time on.

If you're wondering why you got downvoted, I suspect it's because you wrote an emotional response attacking me and calling me ignorant without actually engaging in a thoughtful discussion.
Social networks are strongly dependent on network effects. For a time SSB was actually used by some of my friends, but it required a desktop app, had a confusing onboarding process, IIRC had some rough edges around syncing content, and was just not smooth enough to compete against highly funded centralized companies in the cuthroat social networking space.
> a pejorative against lower class people with right-wing leanings

Or against lower class people with non-US-left-wing leanings
It’s so frustrating that city leaders can’t even try to use common sense. Where I live a parking requirement blocked a restaurant from being built and our city council publicly acknowledged that there isn’t enough space for parking and a building, but “that’s the law” so they blocked it. Lazy idiots.
It works as long as it remains difficult and, more importantly, taboo to point to any particular person or cartel who's pushing for the constant change in the narrative of what "works" means.

That's the real beauty of bitcoin: exploiting the early-ish internet's cultural norm of placing respect for individual privacy and anonymity above all else, in order to defer responsibility for any controversy its core backers want to shirk to an anonymous, impersonal, but somehow always correct "protocol."
There needs to be a reckoning on this sort of thing, aside from the person mentioned in the article who was dragged by the car, how many others missed out on or got delayed life-saving care because the emergency services were blocked from getting down a street -- or as the article says even getting out of the fire house.

Same goes for manned vehicles, in Cambridge MA (and Somerville and other urban towns), there are now so many Ubers around that just stop randomly and block streets. Sometimes it's to drop off or pick up passengers (which is at least quick), but more and more it's to go into a restaurant for a food pickup (which often involves waiting). Meanwhile they've literally blocked the street outside and people can't get by. Just yesterday, I had to wait for minutes because there were two Ubers on one side of the street and another on the other all picking up at the _same_ restaurant and the street was completely blocked in both directions.

We need some sort of uniform traffic code that requires such vehicles (either driverless or manned) to only stop in marked short term spots or regular parking, but not simply block the street. Any emergency vehicles would have been stuck for minutes yesterday.

It's just crazy and totally selfish.
Protip: Remove the watermarks first.
Thanks I'll try that, don't understand why it's not using it by default.
You’ve maybe seen these already in restaurants? https://www.pudurobotics.com/product/detail/bellabot

Not sure I’ve seen them take drinks though, but definitely food.
Not a mention of the Werkz just round the corner and the perfect opportunity to go goth spotting on a Friday night (although I now see that Slimes is now a monthly night rather than weekly).
Valve actually backed off the ban and clarified their stance [0]. Now they allow AI art by the same standards as non-AI art if it is pre-generated and expect certain guardrails with regards to content and copyright if live generated. While their initial banning was probably over the top they did get better.

[0] https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/d...
When meeting new people I have a rule to "always be nice twice". This led me to great friends with whom we simply started on the wrong foot (this includes my best friend).

People can have a bad day and you cannot always trust the chemistry.

Now, some people take this as a sign of weakness, and always look surprised when on the third time I tear their throat out.
It's literally out of control. We cannot have a healthy democracy in a systematically surveilled society. When people understand they're being actively and constantly surveilled they tend to self-censor their expression. When we do not have a healthy and honest exchange of expression (something that has arguably been being eroded for a long while now) it will fundamentally erode one of the pillars of our society. Kudos to CA and IL for attempting to do something about this legislatively.

As a citizen with some modicum of hope for the future I will vote for strong privacy protections. As an engineer I will not work on products that progress our state of surveillance capitalism (yep, realize the constraints here). I hope others agree and act accordingly.
By land mass for sure but by practicality of access unlikely. Near urban or small towns going on a daily walk in the US is usually limited unless you are willing to get shot at because “muh property”
The main stretch of Angel up to the Business Design Centre has always been pug-ugly, but things improve considerably the second you step off the main drag to pubs like The Camden Head or even The York, and then continuing towards the canal, where you get this delightful spot:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5333306,-0.1026485,3a,75y,...

The main thoroughfares of London, and likely everywhere, are likely tagged as "urban blight" for AI training models without a second thought, but twenty steps away from them and you get extraordinary surprises.
Very bad mobile experience, any slightly missed click and the modal is gone and you are starting over.
> AI is not good enough to take over most jobs. The hype is overblown and lacking in evidence.

And I'm guessing once the evidence is strong enough to convince you, it will be too late to do anything about it.
I have one as well, using btrfs+RAID1.
They don't have any stronger claim. I assume all customer claims are being treated equally. They bought the claims because they have access to capital, a longer time horizon, and/or a better understanding of the ultimate payout value.
You can use codeium with cursor.so as it is a fork of VSCode.
The issues with UPS products tripping GFCI breakers is due to leakage current that is out of spec for the GFCI circuit, this is almost always caused by the load attached to the UPS, not the UPS itself. While most UPS manufacturers do recommend against connecting it to a GFCI outlet, AFCI is required in all new construction for all circuits and GFCI is required for many circuits, including any circuits in basement areas which necessitates a dual function circuit. Since the original thread is about APC, even though I don't use their products, here's what they have to say on the topic: https://www.apc.com/us/en/faqs/FA369034/

FWIW, running my server and network equipment never caused the breaker to trip erroneously while I was still living there. I sold the house when I moved cross-country for unrelated reasons so I can't say what happened afterwards, but my setup was installed according to code and functioned perfectly fine. I used quality UPS and decent quality network and server equipment. Cheap stuff may be farther out of spec and have more issues with leakage current.
Yea, I think the liability thing is key, at least in the USA. I have no problem in concept with allowing the public to roam on my property (as long as they're not taking or damaging things), but I wouldn't want to allow it if they could sue me and win because they tripped on a rock or something.
> As a software professional, my nightmare would be somebody maintaining a permanent, public, antagonistic list of all the forced compromises I'm already frustrated with in my software. I know they're there and I hate them too, but that doesn't mean they're accidents.

I take it you’ve never worked in OSS.
AirBnB has adopted Plaid for credit card verification recently, which wants bank login credentials. Nope, never going to happen.
I kinda agree with both of you. Given infinite time (and assuming humanity is around and willing to work on it for as long as it takes), I suppose we _should_ be able to automate anything. I honestly don't know how long that's gonna take, but I'm sceptical we'll see it in the next ten years.

Anyway, if we see it coming, it'd be silly not to prepare for it in some fashion.
I’ve done the other approaches for decades, specifically using NLP and classifiers to try to do these and things, my friend. It’s been a really grueling effort with little success. But as an example in the real world visible to most people, the product catalog at eBay is the end product of my work in applying NLP and classifiers at building product catalogs, ontologies, and taxonomies automatically from scrapes of e-commerce sites etc. GPT4 would have turned my job into a simple exercise in structuring the classifications. It would have completely revolutionized what I had to do.

It’s readily apparent from the pessimistic HN threads they come from people who don’t actually do these things for a living and haven’t had much real world experience. These speech patterns as you call them are the way people who “do things” differentiate from those who can’t or haven’t done things. It’s called “experience.”
Feels like Vinod Khosla’s “public” beach.[0]

In unrelated news, I’m currently looking for investors to purchase a surplus LCAC[1] for midnight beach outings.

[0] https://www.kqed.org/science/1955623/the-neverending-battle-...

[1] https://youtu.be/5Tj9KU8q8rk
Has it changed much after the Amazon acquisition, or later, after the almost-shutdown?
does it just piece bits of videos together from the randomness of the internet to generate something? So it's a statistical match to some aggregate combination of videos?
Paper authors choose to compare against A* and Sokoban.

A* can't solve even the first level of original Sokoban 90 levels.
Do you have an example of what would be an interesting technical discussion for people not interested in tokens/coins/whatever?
I assume you're playing a lot of older games, so Linux support is generally OK. But with newer stuff and especially competitive multiplayer stuff support is not very good on Linux.