skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think this is a very interesting approach to take. This might be a pipe dream but it would be really cool if we could just turn a big chunk of desert into a battery by plumbing some heat exchangers through it.

Or maybe just putting a gigantic Fresnel lens in the desert and pointing it at the ground. I almost wish someone would try this just to see what would happen.
Citibank reissued my credit card well before the expiration date to upgrade it to a "World Elite Mastercard" with attendant higher interchange.
Ask HN: Its almost impossible to talk to Amazon customer service
I am having trouble with a delivery. Cant return it because its stuck with bot loops and wont let me chat with a human. It used to be the best customer focused service. Now it's all poor quality bots and done.
I run Win10 on my desktop and Win11 on my laptop. It's quite possible to defang Win11 and make it look and run very similarly to Win10. There's ample information online about how to do that.

I certainly see no advantage to Win11. As with Windows 7, sunsetting 10 will be a long drawn out process, so it probably will have a useful life well beyond 2025.
I have worked quite extensively on the PinePhone, though only for my own purposes. Have been dogfooding my own system for months as a daily driver, and have implemented quite a lot of things, except for one thing: voice calling.

Even Google and Apple have problems getting that 1 thing working reliably (even though half of smartphone is supposed to be a phone) - I don't even try to take a stab at it. There is some serious bug every once in a while, which sounds so ridiculous... I just carry a dumb Nokia for calls, and for everything else, I can use my slab (assuming its battery is still not dead)
EVs are the worst proposition for a car rental. When you rent a car, you're planning on driving it. Much more than the car that sits on your driveway and only takes you to work and back every day.

But it doesn't help that Tesla is a tech company and their product is sold as a tech product. No one wants to buy a 3 year old used iPhone, either.
World Central Kitchen has stopped their actions in the area for now. I don't think people like these would stop doing that because some of their colleagues died in crossfire, or by mistake. The nature of this killing is pretty clear. The intent is here for anyone who wants to know. They were targeted, and would be murdered again. Law of the land is clear, it is a grave crime to feed the hungry. Because the hunger and the famine is by design. It is indeed a weapon of war, or genocide, of extermination and even humiliation. And do not attempt to change it.
Rsult: Rust-inspired Option and Result types for safer TypeScript code
Did you hear that?

It's the sound of another opencore AI startup unknowingly participating in NVDA arbitrage becoming irrelevant overnight.
Amazon I'm not renewing my prime membership.
In my experience, a late call gets you nothing more than a routine day on the next.

I think most people would be happy to take an 11pm call if they could roll in late the next day. Generally, that’s not the expectation.
> Would you please provide references for us that don't know this background?

Of course.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423

This is is an informative and well referenced HN comment that captures the nature of this supreme court quite well.

There were some "environmentalprogress" articles submitted to HN about this matter. Not idea how trustworthy that source is but they seemed to be quite thorough. I generally only link major news websites so I'll refrain from linking them.

> I won't even get into the separation of the "Three Powers" (legislative, executive and judiciary)

Doesn't matter. Separation of powers? Ha. This is Brazil.

Legislative? Supreme court legislates, has been legislating for years, decades. They were all voting on the legality of abortion and drugs just months ago. This one judge even went to the actual legislators with "suggestions" on the censorship bill that he personally supported. When he didn't get his way, he used his electoral court judge position to ram it down our throats anyway.

Executive? Our world touring champagne sipping socialist president would not even be in power right now were it not for these guys. They literally released him from the jail he was incarcerated at in order to take out Bolsonaro. It's not even a secret, they literally showboat about it in public. They're quite proud of it all. In fact it's probably Lula's political strategy to ally with the supreme court to impose whatever he wants on the people, just like his Venezuelan dictator buddy.

Judiciary? They can't even keep themselves separate. All this began in 2019 or so when some magazine published some damning article on one of these guys. Thus began the "fake news" inquisition which is still on-going to this day half a decade later. They gave themselves seemingly unlimited powers to censor anyone they want over a magazine article or something. The supreme court itself is the victim, the investigator, the judges and the executors. It's comical.

> he shares "the power" with other 10 supreme-court judges, and he is not even the president of it

Guess whose name is listed as the leader of the aforementioned inquisition which greatly expanded the supreme court's powers.

> But Bolsonaro is being investigated for his attempted coup d’etat, and instead of collaborating with the Justice system, he is attacking a Supreme Court's judge.
True. My thinking is to sell it for $1 to someone who could make good use of it.

It has many things that work, and it seems we could build on it and throw the old parts away as they age. Keeping it as is until 2031 means keeping everything running in top notch condition and then throwing it away, which seems dumb. Obviously keeping astronauts on something that is not full working order is even dumber though. That’s why I like the idea of selling it and throwing out parts as they age, but building onto it as well.
One of the things that came to mind when I was listening to the ToS song it generated was a video I had watched years ago on the very dry topic of Rule 803 - Hearsay Exceptions but it was put to a catchy tune and made it very memorable and easier to digest. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJ6fgIKYy8)
A barebones recipe is a complete commodity on the Internet and aside from maybe some ratings you have no idea if you should make it or not. The life history on some sites can definitely go too far but mostly I appreciate some of the backstory about why they made certain choices in a recipe and what else they tried.
> As a result, Indeed was able to improve cost and latency by reducing the number of tokens in prompt by 80%.

There's some exact words shenanigans here. Indeed may have reduced the number of tokens in the prompt by 80%, but they didn't reduce the cost by 80%: the prompt cost of inferring from a fine-tuned GPT-3.5-turbo ($3.00 / 1M tokens) is 6x the prompt cost of inferring from the base GPT-3.5-turbo ($0.50 / 1M tokens). If prompt tokens are cut to 20% of normal, then that implies the overall cost of the prompt tokens is 120% relative to their normal prompt: a cost increase! That's not even getting into the 4x cost of the completion tokens for a finetuned model.

Of course, Indeed likely has an enterprise contract reducing costs further.
The difference is smaller than that if you optimize it. The memory bus is about 50 ns in latency, and PCIe you can get down to sub 500 ns.
Speculative Technologies – A Playbook for Research Leaders
*suspending disbelief
One person brought order to their note taking chaos
But they literally did. FTA:

>> To achieve its impressive data transfer rates, PCIe 7.0 doubles the bus frequency at the physical layer compared to PCIe 5.0 and 6.0. Otherwise, the standard retains pulse amplitude modulation with four level signaling (PAM4), 1b/1b FLIT mode encoding, and the forward error correction (FEC) technologies that are already used for PCIe 6.0.

Nothing else changed, they didn't move to a different encoding scheme. PCIe 6.0 already uses PAM4. Unless they moved to a higher density PAM scheme (which they didn't), the only way to increase bandwidth is to increase speed.
I don't believe they are as close to lies as possible, I believe they are outright lies, solely put there to generate revenue by selling a service/good.

Ads today, like all things when humans are involved without guardrails are simply out of hand. Pages with more ads than content, stashed behind a clickbait headline, and configured to make you click to the next page, to continue the article, solely for the purpose of putting even more horse shit ads in your face. The fly-out videos are particularly annoying to me.

FFS, I rarely get on the web anymore without Pi-hole.

A simple example of the acceptance of horse shit ads/marketing.

Walk into any fast food place you can name, order something, then compare it to the picture on the menu (ad) that you were told you would get for $XX.
Experience isn’t the only source of confidence though
I did wonder if it was Lodi before even reading the article. I don't have any direct experience to know if the reputation is deserved, but indeed it does have one.
The "journal" is a preprint server rather than peer reviewed [1] and the paper is written in Word, so don't get too excited ...

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_SSRN_Electronic_Journal...
I don't think this is a competition, but to clarify: XMPP has long been used in the public sector (via suppliers such as Isode) since before Matrix was conceived, and continues to be still. I've spoken with multiple organizations for whom the Matrix data model was not a good fit. As you say, they are quite different and each has strengths and weaknesses.
Apple's OpenDoc [1] was another attempt to break out of the silos of monolithic apps each completely responsible for their own document formats.

It died.

I don't think there are any real technical of programming language challenges to making this work. It's a problem of economics and sociology.

Economics:

If your doc/app/thing is composed of a multitude of widgets developed by different developers, who pays for those widgets to be developed? If you have to buy them, does that mean you get a doc that you can't send to anyone else unless they have they've paid for the same widgets?

(This problems exists today in the world of music production where there is a thriving plug-in model of third-party VSTs which are wonderful for extensibility but do make it quite hard to share projects with people.)

If that's not the business model... what is? I don't think anyone ever figured out a good way to make money making software like this outside of limited domains.

Sociology:

Conway's law [2] isn't a joke. It's a real observation that for different software components to interoperate, the teams making them need to communicate at least enough to create protocols.

Defining software protocols that are expressive enough to be useful but simple and stable enough to be widely used by completely independent competing organizations is really hard.

Imagine you had to design an API for composable UI widgets. How would you handle text rendering? RTL? Theming? Colors? Layout? It's not intractable, but it's not far from it.

Both:

Then you have to consider that if you have competing organizations trying to make money selling widgets, they don't want their competitors widgets to be successful. They are incentivized to undermine compositionality whenever they can (Microsoft's old "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" [3]).

Also, a fundamental tenet of usability is that the interface as a whole should be consistent and hang together. Users don't want apps that are a patchwork of jarring widgets each with its own style and convention. If you could get a platform like this off the ground, users would still like converge onto a small number of companies that made large sets of widget suites that are designed to compose together harmoniously. The usability benefits of doing so would work like network effects to lead towards platform consolidation.

Software people just dramatically underestimate how hard composability actually is in practice. It doesn't matter if you can shuffle bits between two pieces of code. That's the easy part. The hard parts are all in protocol design, usability, competition, etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Debit txs are not free. For big ($10B in assets) regulated issuers they are pretty low, but for everyone else they are close to 1.9%

[1] https://usa.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/vis...
There is a government to government payment fee category in there. Why on earth would two government agencies ever need to use a CC to pay each other and lose over 1% in fees?
> The systems aren't hard to use, quite the opposite, but they can't help if you don't use them.

I'm not claiming that the systems are hard to use, I'm saying that it's an additional friction over ICE cars, in which you don't need to put in extra work to learn a piece of software, you don't need to wait for the rental assistant to explain how it works and you don't need to plan refuelling stops to coincide with rest times.

As a renter, I give them my booking number, my drivers license and my credit card, then jump in and head straight to my destination. All the other stuff that the Tesla's required may be easy, but we go from 2 steps (pay and drive) to 5 or more steps.

TBH, if Hertz had wanted this to be a success, the biggest thing they could have done was made sure that the cars were always fully charged before the customer drove off.

Route-planning is kinda irrelevant when you're doubling the friction required to rent a car.
The prevailing winds are generally west-to-east across the US, so east-to-west means more headwinds than tailwinds.
Hey folks I'm the Head of DevRel @ DataStax here and just wanted to share to the HN community that in conjunction with this big acquisition news, the LF team has shipped 1.0-alpha of Langflow.

It's a simple `pip install` and the team would love any and all feedback!

https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow/
Are you just opposed to the Linux kernel, or just a big fan of FreeBSD, or is there a technical reason why you think a FreeBSD base is better than a Linux base for a project like this?
The whole reason I started the novel was because I listened to The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas on Levar Burton Reads. I'll give the other short fiction a shot, thanks for the suggestions!
One of the advantages of reading older authors is the sensation of cognitive dissonance inspired by their taking it for granted that monarchies are superior to oligarchies.

You'll find a lot of this pre-1914, but also pre-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory#:~:text=Ac....
My admittedly limited understanding of Karmic reincarnation is that it's still not viewed as a terribly controllable thing

If you have positive karma in this life you will be rewarded in the next but the manner of the reward is more or less beyond your control

And that's assuming you believe in that sort of thing to begin with
I briefly tried out NextDoor but noped out right away after about two weeks of comments that were 30-50% "Look at this picture I took of a black person in the neighborhood. Stay safe, everyone!!" Total dumpster fire of the most awful, paranoid people in the neighborhood.
Yes, very much talking about things like means testing to prevent thing like this, while maintaining financial solvency.
So the Rust feature is "screaming obviousness"? Your argument is that the advantage of rewriting the module in Rust is that finding array accesses is visually easier?

Why not just use grep?
W(h)ither Programming?
I started with some idea/intention of doing so, but what I ended up with was mostly pictures, and short videos shared to social media.

… I think I may be one of those people who likes the idea of being a ‘writer’ or blogger, but lacks the enjoyment/drive of the work/time/effort it actually takes. OR I need to engage in the practice and make it a routine, create discipline, work out the kinks, before also taking on the demands of a new adventure.
Did you test this with arbitrary waveforms? Is it possible for you to accumulate complementary Golay Codes?
I never had any problem. Maybe it was related to what you downloaded.
> No, I find the court's ruling here reasonable because I read through the ruling and the included timeline of events and found their conclusion makes sense. That is quite different from handwaving away their authority because you just don't like their rulings.

But the post was about the 5th Circuit in general, which has come out with a number of incredibly unreasonable rulings. That was the criticism, that the 5th Circuit shouldn't inherently be trusted as reasonable just because.

>You could also read the ruling like I did and try arguing what about it is "wild" and "twisted" as the comment I replied to put it, an unreasonable sentiment also shared by most of the people in this thread.

I feel like you haven't been engaging with what I actually wrote with if you keep arguing this.
>Why would you spend crypto when you could get more for it if you wait a week?

that never stopped capitalist from spending their money even if they make profit from their investment. If your logic was true, no one who has access to investment opportunities (eg. the stock market) would ever spend any money.
The SK telecom one is highly suspect too. My guess is we are not going to see ChatGPT-5 until the AI bubble begins to deflate.

My question is will it be before or after US elections?
If you're into christian anarchists, consider Tolstoy.
Then, buy another EV?
When you jump out of a plane and your parachute fails and you know you’re going to die, there should be no sense of surprise. Only terror about what could happen next.
I like websockets. Sometimes I hit concurrency or reconnect limitations under load and I move to socketIO which is more high level. I don't like setting up another server just for communication.

I do have Redis running so I was thinking to use that for communication between systems. But I am not sure yet. gRPC seems like an overkill to me. Any thoughts?
See https://birchtree.me/blog/digital-wallets-and-the-only-apple... - the DPAN stays the same at a particular merchant, so Walmart sees all but can't necessarily directly "know" what you're buying at other stores.
I keep Dark Star in a nostalgic mental cabinet alongside Dr Strangelove and The Prisoner.

But somehow that last Cmdr Powell line, with italics, immediately makes me think of Schizopolis.

"Nomenclature"...
I think they are suggesting they’re not adequately enforced.

At least 10-25% of drivers I see in the road are constantly on their phone. So it’s definitely not enforced enough to deter that.
Pretty intense https://www.tabletmag.com/404
That should be the first thing you do, even as an employee you should know what your competitors are doing.

If no competitors exist in a space, and you're thinking of starting a new company you need to wonder why. There's a good chance there's just not a market for what you want to do. On the other hand, if the markets absolutely saturated with different competitors, what are you doing better than them?
I watched yours, so you should watch mine: https://h4x.zip/404.html :)
>In Germany industry was never destroyed for the sake of the service sector.

Until they ran out of cheap Russian gas.

Germany also has a high level of wealth inequality. Buying a home there is a luxury for the rich now. Yeah, rent protections and what not, but good luck to the average German affording rent and utilities in 30 year on a pension.
Yeah that's kind of how the system operates in the US. The CC duopoly fleeces merchants and gives out a share of the monopoly profits as rewards to consumers to make any antitrust action against them politically unpopular. It's a shakedown, and yes, getting rid of it would be bad for consumers, at least in the beginning. But it should be done anyway.
We're globally stuck in a local minimum.
Is this dockerized alternative to https://yunohost.org/ ?
> How do you think a person suffering from a mental illness would be affected by their psychiatrist telling them that he can't help him anymore and that maybe they should consider killing themselves

Is that happening as policy? Anyway, we can always add a rule not to do this.
ASan seems to do quite a lot.
My grandfather donated to this project quite a bit back in the 90s and early 00's.

He passed back in '06, so I'm happy to see this project still going strong.
I can't understand this perspective! Even now, just flipping through random pages looking for a quote, I keep getting sucked back in!

> He thanked her, with the simplicity of one who does not look behind the offer for the offer's motive. She studied him for a moment, her eyes shrewd, direct, and quiet. "I heard your speech," she said.

> He looked at her as from a distance. "Speech?"

> "When you spoke at the great demonstration in Capitol Square. A week ago today. We always listen to the clandestine radio, the Socialist Workers' and the Libertarians' broadcasts. Of course, they were reporting the demonstration. I heard you speak. I was very moved. Then there was a noise, a strange noise, and one could hear the crowd beginning to shout. They did not explain. There was screaming. Then it died off the air suddenly. It was terrible, terrible to listen to. And you were there. How did you escape from that? How did you get out of the city? Old Town is still cordoned off; there are three regiments of the army in Nio; they round up strikers and suspects by the dozen and hundred every day. How did you get here?"

> He smiled faintly. "In a taxi."

----

> "I was not to be near the powder mill. I was to be kept from the populace, to live among scholars and the rich. Not to see the poor. Not to see anything ugly. I was to be wrapped up in cotton in a box in a wrapping in a carton in a plastic film, like everything here. There I was to be happy and do my work, the work I could not do on Anarres. And when it was done I was to give it to them, so they could threaten you with it."

> "Threaten us? Terra, you mean, and Hain, and the other interspatial powers? Threaten us with what?"

> "With the annihilation of space."

---

How can you not want to read more!? I remember this, such a moving scene, from reading it many years ago. The entire story is rife with tension, in my view. How will the destinies of all these many billions of people unfold from the actions taken in these few moments by these few people?
I’d be interested in knowing if you’ve got that. I was going to buy one but the pull of the code put that on ice. I may pull the trigger if I can get the code!
It's a reasonable product when it is priced correctly. It's not priced correctly when the one taking on the risk is also the one who can pull money out of thin air.
It was 3400 for a married couple in 1980, but yes, many more people deducted mortgage interest until 2018 when the standard deduction nearly doubled.

Many people didn't math the interest deduction correctly - only the amount over the standard deduction should be counted, as you'd get the standard deduction anyway. Can vary depending on SALT and charity donations.
The video game that shares its name (if not its plot) isn't bad either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(1984_video_game)
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/0001263
It is an example that greed is everywhere. Not only among card issuers but also among merchants. The moment merchant find a socially accepted way to extract extra they will do it. Similar to tip screens on square terminals in all takeout places. Costs nothing to ask, generates some additional revenue.
See other top-level comment - direction was to keep counting, and you would indeed have won another prize (although it's unclear whether they actually paid out).
Install and Play Doom on Mautic