skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To help put an end to this meme...

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. - https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/13-354

> While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-profit corporations is to make money, modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not do so. For-profit corporations, with ownership approval, support a wide variety of charitable causes, and it is not at all uncommon for such corporations to further humanitarian and other altruistic objectives. Many examples come readily to mind. So long as its owners agree, a for-profit corporation may take costly pollution-control and energy-conservation measures that go beyond what the law requires. A for-profit corporation that operates facilities in other countries may exceed the requirements of local law regarding working conditions and benefits. If for-profit corporations may pursue such worthy objectives, there is no apparent reason why they may not further religious objectives as well.
Because the pixel I got suffered from connectivity loss (even on official ROM, not a GrapheneOS problem) and I needed a reliable phone for holding on-calls. :/ It is a shame, I really liked the system.
AirDrop uses Bluetooth and UWB to find nearby devices and then creates Wifi Direct network between devices to do the transfer.
I don't think we do, its just that just like I don't want to work for big oil, defense, or tobacco companies, I have no interest in working on cryptocurrencies when their biggest contribution I see is rug pulls and proof-of-waste algorithms.
> it's clearly an attempt to price insurance against a person's actual driving habits.

I think it's a combination of two strategies.

1) searching for a reason to not pay a claim.

2) searching for a reason to increase your pricing, while hiding average driver behavior from you to increase their bargaining power
I didn't say bringing lawsuit against anyone. The lawyer advises how to approach the university, possibly approaches the university themself, and monitors how things are developing.

What you say highlights an aspect of the risk and harm to grad students that I didn't articulate, but is implicit in my suggestions of how to approach this. (And there's also a related aspect of "damaged goods" that a wise person told me about: even if it was clear that the student was totally in the right, the mere fact that they got burned by someone else suggests they might have lingering problems from the stress, and people would prefer a bright-eyed clean slate student.)

You need the right level of the university to know they have to take you seriously and cannot just neutralize you. And preferably before other university people compound the problem with "coverup is worse than the crime", creating more reason to cover up.

Approach this game-theoretic, and make it in everyone's best interests for the university to do the right thing, early -- before the underhanded and the arrogant scattered throughout positions of influence in the university do what they would do otherwise, and make the problem much harder to fix.
Nancy Reagan was a pretty decent president [for Ronnie's 2nd term, probably its entirety]. Not my favorite oligarchy figureheads, but definitely not the worst. May they rest in peace.
I feel like this isn't really a general statement on maybe functions but unnecessary maybe functions. If you can make it not "maybe" but "always" then of course that's obviously better.

The real use case is when it really is maybe. (Network call, error handling). Then it's about forcing people to deal with that in a typesafe way and not hiding that it really is maybe.
US Dept of Energy.

> There are 1,974 Tesla Supercharger stations in the U.S. housing 21,852 Tesla Supercharger ports, according to data collected by the U.S. Department of Energy. That’s roughly a quarter of all DC Fast (the quickest type of EV charger) EV charging stations in the country and nearly two-thirds of all DC Fast EV charging ports.

https://www.fool.com/research/tesla-supercharger-stations/

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/fi...
or, and this is a crazy thought, when someone pays for something they expect to have the right to do what they want with it. When a 3rd party is able to exert absolute control in hampering that ability, it becomes a problem.

you purchase a video game from your religious friend and they decide you shouldn't be allowed to play the game between 8pm and 8am and they have the ability to ensure you can't.

their ability to limit you isn't a social construct, it's as strongly bound as physical violence, and that's the problem.
The former definition seems to me necessary and sufficient.
I don't think there is any evidence for this belief.
As a maintainer of an open source JavaScript infinite canvas application [1], I was very interested, and now I am a little disappointed. The set of supported objects on the canvas is quite minimal.

[1] https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir
Is Bitcoin or Blockchain the Bigger Breakthrough?
That's even worse with Booking (half of their listings are now Airbnb-like rentals). After I paid the full non-refundable amount, I was requested to send an extra deposit, pass video-based verification, holding a passport next to my face, explain the purpose of my travel etc.
> the length of the array is being inferred based on the type provided in the assertion

Wow! I hate that with an amount of emotion that surprised me!

Does Rust do this kind of look-ahead inference a lot (specifically for deciding what the result shape/type is for a statement)?
We have solar and a battery and I think about this sometimes. Air conditioners are very noisy and solar panels are on display for anyone to see. People know. It's not an actual, safe off-grid solution during a major event when you're in the middle of suburbia.
As an American kid, I didn't understand some of the signs in this Lego set: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6315... - and they had already modified it somewhat to make it more clear.

The "two cars next to each other" was always a perpetual mystery as to where I should put it.
I don't think there's any way to do that in pure CSS (which is what I was comparing to). You can specify transition duration, but not speed.
Are you on iOS or Android?
Mostly Web 3.0 is dying because it is a scam.
Haha that’s currently a way to explain to people who are used to hosting/sync based cloud solutions that anything that is (a) local p2p and (b) doesn’t need to upload-before-download is much faster. It’s also faster than WebRTC based solutions which there are dozens, WebRTC kind of sucks for large stuff.

That said, the next version will have multi connection tcp striping, which is a lot faster than any single tcp solution in many cases, especially over long distances, similar to some ftp/usenet clients. (Spoiler there will be online p2p transfers. See https://github.com/betamos/rdv if curious)
I'm saddened to see the honorable name of Extropy and Extropianism, which carefully never descended to this level or anything like it, be stolen and captured by this nonsense.
I'm in California and see it
Moderation really used to be just removing spam or abuse. At some point it became enforcing topics.

While yes a subreddit about trains should stay in topic space about trains, mods have overstepped that. Take for instance the Star Trek subreddit. Criticism of Star Trek discovery is banned, despite being clearly on topic.
Probably hardware dependent too as I get 8.11 on my fairly old Samsung S21. My newer laptop gets 14.9 so I'm not sure whether I agree performance is "very bad" on mobile -- it may be less performant but that is surely to be expected given the hardware constraints on mobile. YMMV.
AOL wasn't a "portal." It was the whole site. Companies advertised "AOL keywords" instead of domain names, and the content on AOL was specific to AOL. AOL didn't become what you'd think of as an ISP until later. You could think of it more like a really big BBS that charged hourly.
The auto industry has fought tooth and nail against safety requirements[1] and still fights today against more stringent fuel standards[2][3].

Not only would they fight regulations like data safety that would open them to potential litigation when lose the data or sell it to the wrong player, but they would win. Privacy isn't the political football that the environment is, and you can't point to death statistics like you can with safety issues.

[1] https://www.the-rheumatologist.org/article/revisionist-histo...
[2] https://texasclimatenews.org/2022/03/19/decades-of-lobbying-...
[3] https://www.cbtnews.com/auto-lobby-group-warns-fuel-efficien...
The future sun, yes. The current sun is far, far too dense, which would make it cataclysmic (dramatically more energy released than Shoemaker-Levy 9) for the Earth to be inside of the sun.
One tricky area of feedback culture is the question of "is the person open to feedback right now?".

In particular, if I'm working more than 50 hours in a week - I stop being open to feedback unless that feedback is "this is how we reduce the workload.". I'll take feedback once things have settled. As is obvious, this makes the organization as a whole more rigid - but it's difficult to blame employees in this state. Since the recent tech contraction, I suspect many find themselves in similar boats.
Never heard of taichi before looks promising. Do you know any shop that uses it for prod code?
I don't think companies like Coinbase, Circle, or Kraken are rug pulls. USDC is a very interesting concept. Ethereum uses Proof of Work (which is an interesting game theory problem to solve itself), which does not energy consumption to secure their network.
Show HN: Just launched an app to help you find Pocket Knives
If you’re on iOS, Apple gates Firefox from using JIT JS compilation which massively hinders performance.

E: I was wrong/extremely out-of-date - it does have JIT but relies on the Safari/Webkit implementation. In ancient versions of iOS, the WebView widget that third-party browsers were forced to use had JIT disabled, but that’s long since changed.
What an awful time for a tech company to IPO, I bet they are kicking themselves for waiting so long. A decade ago the idea was to maximize for user engagement and you can always monetize later. As companies began to monetize we adopted to term "
enshittification" to describe how that feels on the user perspective. Today, after several products have gone down this path, we see that the revenue of a fully monetized community is less than investors originally thought, and there are moat concerns.

Reddit is way to late to IPO. They cannot sell the idea of future growth. They have already gone deep down the enshittification path and are still not profitable. On top of that, they missed the top of the market for what they are selling by several years.

Are we watching the internet die? We are certainly watching a lot of it become worse, and the Reddit IPO is a good time to point that out.
> The tradeoff isn't just memory use or performance -- it's also user-facing crashes that weren't present before. That is likely the bigger factor in deciding whether or not to enable the feature.

We're only proposing enabling it for the base OS and user installed apps opting into it. Google has already fixed nearly all the crashes due to testing with HWAsan and MTE. They don't test enough with real world usage yet because they haven't deployed it for all the dogfooding devices. To do that, they need to set up enabling it for the base OS without enabling it for all user installed apps because that's not currently very practical. Google has already done most of the work for enabling it for the base OS, not us. We have to fix some bugs, but they're almost all regressions which don't live past the next quarterly releases since they do find and fix them. Google is 100% capable of enabling MTE for the Pixel stock OS within the base OS without a significant increase to crashes for users. In fact, it will significantly decrease user-facing crashes once it matures. It will result in so many memory corruption bugs being fixed. Testing internally with MTE doesn't do the same thing as deploying it to production in terms of bug fixing and also doesn't provide hardening against the bugs not occurring during regular usage.
I think mandatory code reviews with picky peers.

I eventually started internalizing good practices instead of having to consciously work at it.

I needed people keeping me honest to get to that point.
You must spend a long time in residency with brutal working hours and typically very little pay. It's been a well known complaint for years that this system tends to naturally exclude people who don't come from privilege.
I think they mean the actual dark ages, as big tech has effectively created feudalism where users are trapped on their platforms/software/hardware generating profits for these companies. Much like serfs stuck farming for their lord/vassal/king.
No come on, some of those are crazy, no one is expected to clean the oven after normal use.

I've seen this lots but I've never actually done any of the things they ask me to. Bringing out the garbage? Sure, but only if it's overflowing while I'm there. I will start the dishwasher. We've also never received a bad review so I think at least where we stayed, while those things are explained in their handbook or wherever there's no downside to just not doing them.
Ah, but running an experiment like that risks it returning an answer you don't like.
> using our very powerful smartphones, locally, no server subscription needed.

> connect it to a USB battery in a box

I think these choices would put this idea at a serious disadvantage to other competitors in this space. The reason others are using purpose-built hardware is because it solves problems that repurposed consumer hardware in a box will experience.

Municipalities don't care what your hardware or software stack is. They want to know what problem you're solving for them. If you tell them that you can count traffic to do traffic studies, they're going to tell you that they already bought something 10 years ago that does that. Why would they buy your solution?

If a municipality wants something cheap and offline to count traffic, they can just buy a tube counter today, or use the one they probably already have in their storage room.

Take a look at something like: https://diamondtraffic.com/
> Nevertheless, it’s still a garbage browser.

That seems like quite an absurd statement. Why do you think so?
The US needs Boeing, it doesn't need the current C-suite of Boeing. Cleaning house would be an opportunity for the powers that be to put their guys in charge and make an asset work better for them. Boeing's lobbyists aren't on the chopping block, nor are the shareholders; if change is good for the institution they have no reason to invest substantial resources in resisting it.
Thanks! Yep, Egan is one of my favorites
Kagi shows the way forward: monthly subscription to not get an enshittified product. And once one service gets enshittified, the user will move their subscription to another service.
No one runs numbers thinking the non-apartment dwelling population is going 100% EV. So 30% EV adoption is pretty mainstream, but not if it's 30% of 65%.
Delegation maybe
TikTok: Shareholders who make 'disparaging statements' will lose their holdings
renaming iTunes to "music" has pissed me off

and making "Apple Music" also refer to a subscription service is even worse.

you can only get away with so much by using "music.app" and "photos.app" - and it really doesn't apply on the phone. (Aside: how long until the iPhone is just the Apple Phone?)
Elie Wiesel responded to one of my specific questions [in his classroom response letter, decades ago]. Very powerful moment (hopefully not staged by my great English teacher of yesteryear).
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I don't think hosts have the ability to set variable nightly fees like that.
And yet Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent gasoline and crude up:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-gas-prices-expensive-116467...

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2023/10/the-ukraine-wars-eff...

There’s also been global inflation since then for various reasons, not least of which is that destabilization in Europe has ripple effects. It’s not the sole reason, but it’s a big one and energy markets are tied even if the commodity is different (e.g cut off natural gas to Europe & their demand for other sources of energy goes up & higher prices there means higher prices for their goods and refineries). Prices have come down because Biden released strategic oil reserves to combat higher prices.

Your explanations explain why gas is higher in California than the rest of the country, but fails to explain why it’s also higher US-wide and globally.

And yes, it does matter how the fungible commodity gets out - if India / China were a better price, Russia would have been sending their crude there in the first place. That means India / China is more expensive whether it’s because it has to be shipped a longer and more expensive route or because the partner’s form of payment is not as valuable (e.g. Russia tried accepting the Rupee for oil payments for a while but has since stopped). So yes, while there are headwinds that mitigate the impact, there is still a negative impact to price.

Anyway, my main point was that there are geographic locales where EVs are cheaper regardless of whatever local and geopolitical factors are involved.
Cool to see continued work on this. At various points I've tried ShotCut, OpenShot, and Blender's video editor, but haven't found a clear favorite.
On Firefox iOS: open in a new window because you won’t be able to press back to come back to this discussion easily.
In that (extreme) example, each transistor requiring at least 1 atom, would be your fundamental limit.

New semiconductor materials or entirely different approaches (like quantum computing, optical ICs, 3D stacking etc) may give us a few more orders of magnitude.

But as the article states: most likely it's economic barriers. Market conditions must support the technical effort required. Otherwise that tech is a dead end no matter how far it could go in theory.

FWIW: in a way I'd welcome an end to Moore's law. It's about time software bloat gets addressed more aggressively.
I highly recommend Rnote to anyone on Linux that misses the "hodgepodge" notetaking of apps like OneNote. It works like a dream on touchscreens and drawing tablets, with a surprising amount of configuration available for those who need it.

Also worth noting is Xournal, an older but similar project: https://xournalpp.github.io/
Former isn't the same thing and is in fact less efficient. Is latter actually possible on the platform?

Edit: At most latter is possible with complex rule sets. But I'm really not sure: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2061
The secular core of Buddhist thought has parallels in the Sankhya system of thought in the set of knowledge systems collectively called Hindu metaphysics.

Buddhism and Hinduism had active and passionately debated exchanges of ideas leading to continuous improvement of each.

Hinduism while considered to be a religion broadly speaking has a philosophical core that is rich and sophisticated in its treatment of the mind and how to observe and tame it. The thick outer layer of colorful belief systems makes it easy to reject it all as nonsense and hard to penetrate to get to the metaphysics of the mind.

The subjects discussed in this newsletter would be some of the first things a neophyte monk in 200 BC India would encounter whether couched in Buddhist or Hindu wrappers.
It would be nice if there were sources for this.

It reads as though the author is intimately familiar with Frank Herbert's life, but it is anonymous with no sourcing.
Is it though? https://wpt.fyi/interop-2024
The word "giving" is the thing that changed. Reddit plans to allow its power users to get in on the IPO, as in they'll have the opportunity to purchase an amount of shares at the IPO price. That may or may not be a good thing, depending on whether you think Reddit is worth $6.5 billion.
Boron and Nitrogen may have a chance. They form long weird molecules that are stable. Is it possible? I don't know. Can they compeat with Carbon base life? Perhaps no. In a weird planet where almost all the Carbon is sequestred by some weird chemical composition of thee rocks, can Boron or Nitrogen life have a chance. I don't know!

(My guess is that we still need a few thousand years to answer these questions. We still don't understand too may details about Carbon based life. I'm not very optimistic.)
I do this with bands I really like, particularly newer groups whose first "hit" I cannot get out of my head. Few respond, but the point is I directly give them more money than they'd get through their label's playcount.

Hint to artists: put up a bitcoin receiving address on your portfolio (it'd make it a bunch easier).
Yeah, I do take it with a grain of salt, especially since the valuation could be a form of self-dealing to hype up other investments. This is a legit company though and the researchers there are really moving the field forward and maybe someday it’ll have real applications. Certainly more interesting use of funds than other blockchain wastes of time.
You could be right, but there are enough legitimate issues with how science is done today that it seems strange to pick such a plainly absurd take as the propaganda to spread around. Plus it would make the comparison to religion even more bizarre since I imagine the anti-science crowd includes a lot of people who have zero problems with dogmatism and even an unfortunately high tolerance for misbehaving priests.
I feel Java deserves better. When Python finally gets true thread concurrency, JIT (mamba and the like), comprehensive static analysis (type hints), and some sophisticated GC, and better performance, people will realise Java have had them all this time.
Not just heart-stopping-dangers! I had a dishwasher whose wiring was damaged by a rat. I unplugged the dishwasher, and started working on the wires - maybe 1mm thickness. Next thing I know, I've punched myself in the face and knocked myself to the floor from something discharging, and need an ice pack on my lip.
Hasn't been a problem for me. I apply common sense and do the absolute minimum, usually starting the dishwasher. They can ask me to do whatever they want but it has no teeth. I've never seen one of our hosts complain in a review either.
> can we please stop using “hallucinations” to describe output.

Right. A better word is confabulation.

I.e. pseudomemories, a replacement of a gap in information with false information that is not recognized as such.
Wow great talk, I forgot about it, one peace of advice, play it at 1.5 speed, the speaker is a bit sloooow.
ALS or as Americans call it Lou Gehrig disease is a high-profile disease because of the ice bucket challenge despite the low incidence (6 out of 100,000) compared to other diseases like coronary disease or some cancers.

The disease is cruel, and it hits home for many of us as there are no mental deterioration like with dementia, Alzheimer's or FPD but you lose the ability to use your body and survival less than 3 years.

I can see why the FDA and congress are desperate to be seen to do something.