skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s possible to have a nuanced debate on this topic.

I’m just saying as someone against strong armed empire building, arguments that ignore the increasing imperialism of certain countries in order to decry the historical and waning imperialism of others feels not like an argument with imperialism but more like picking sides in a team sport.

as someone against imperialistic takeovers that does anger me.
> just not what Google wants.

or what developers like myself want. There was absolutely a significant period of time where it felt like I was dealing with the new IE in the age of evergreen browsers.
The short answer is trivially, but the longer answer is renewables include hydro and biomass not just wind both of which inherently provide long term storage. Having excess solar or wind on Monday means you curtail biomass and hydro for Tuesday. Excess power on Monday through Friday and you have a great deal ready to ramp op over the weekend. 0.01% edge cases don’t need to have anything special just as long as the general case is oversupply.

At the same time Solar is always going to produce some power and the more excess generation you have to charge batteries and curtail hydro etc the higher that minimum worst case generation becomes.

Net result is you don’t need to build some huge battery bank to store energy from sunny days in the summer, you just ‘over build’ cheap generation and eventually you have no need for seasonal storage.
> You watch a YouTube video or participate in a video call etc. where humans are talking.

If transcriptions of my video calls are being performed in the cloud on an untrusted server, then this feels like a big security risk...?
> the question is does that meaningfully reduce the price of the battery.

Battery manufacture isn't rocket science. The cost of raw materials weighs heavily.

Also: safety, and raw materials that can be sourced anywhere.

Nice to see sodium battery production scaling up.
Warren Buffet famously used private underwear sales indicators as an economic bellwether .

Billions of dollars moved because people were or were not buying underwear.

Economists are extremely sensitive to consumer behavior. The abstract indicators like CPI, WFPR, M2/M3 etc are trailing indicators not leading indicators for them.
"Did Jeff Bezos launch a public company with essentially no revenue"

Perhaps not, but this is pretty much how venture capitalists do business. Most VC backed 'unicorns' don't make any money. Are we now going to fake being shocked and appalled when someone we don't like politically is doing the same thing?
I don't think that is the case. Amplifying would be if X promoted the tweets, or allowing ads of that kind. What exactly is censorship preventing? Is it that normal people would be convinced by this and a larger movement would form? I would hope that there is a lot more than censorship in the way of people adopting bad ideas, with the exception of children, which is what this boils down to... treating the majority as children that need to be protected from certain ideas (which is arguable since the Internet is not safe for children for the most part, but that is a different matter).
Ask HN: Anyone interested in cofounding a startup together?
Anyone interested in cofounding a startup together? Currently I am working on: https://taggerapp.io/
Lmk if you're interested, we could also explore some other side project and build together something users want, fast launch and check if users wanna use it. Feel free to ping me also via email dane.sto@gmail.com
Why would airmen need to know about a submersible?
Here is the original article about the finding, including a complete list of the books: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/b/article/view/38294/35... (PDF, in Polish)
You can download a book called "The Anarchist's Tool Chest" by Christopher Schwarz free as a PDF here: https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-tool-chest

You can also download his follow-up, "The Anarchist's Design Book", free here: https://lostartpress.com/products/the-anarchists-design-book

Between those two, they will teach you what tools you need and how to build simple furniture by hand. Start small.
> In that case, it's the probability of one dying, which was no more unlikely than the first one.

Yes, and that probability is very low. Approximately 1% based on actuarial data.

> ..and of course, people have said this about whistleblowers and witnesses who testify thousands of times.

Because it did indeed happen many times. Hence why things like the witness protection program have been set up.
I do not see a quote/citation of the law he is discussing.
I think Safari's priorities closely map Apple's priorities and DNA.

So when it comes to presentation (how text is presented, typography, color spaces, HiDPI, etc, all things that benefit an overall design, user experience) Safari always seems to be way ahead of the rest.

But when it comes to stuff that developers want (stuff that mostly makes devs more happy), it may tend to lag more behind.

That mirrors Apple's general priorities of often prioritizing user experience over dev experience.

And even though I'm a developer, I happen to kind of agree with that prioritization..... on most days :-)
Someone (may have been Julia Evans) discussed how easier it is to hit the front page if you add "in xxx" to your title.

"xxx" being the current hyped technology. She mentioned Go and Rust as examples
While it would be neat to build batteries that handle manufacturing defects akin to a CPU with 4 cores but 3 useable, I suspect the additional complexity, wiring, and circuitry is limiting. Batteries today are almost (or actually?) a commodity. Detecting and simply replacing the entire battery is probably cheaper and easier at grid scale.
What CNC do you use? I've been into 3D printing for a bit and was debating getting into CNC as well.
If you searched the web, inflatable bodies have been used. The problem is Mars atmosphere is 2% and gravity is 38% that of Earth's. Gravity-corrected wing loading to reach the equivalent of say a small plane on Earth would require 20x the wing area.

A proposal demonstrator of this was suggested in a paper:

https://www.icas.org/ICAS_ARCHIVE/ICAS2014/data/papers/2014_...
agree this is interesting and worthwhile.. notice however that the divergence of letter forms in Eastern Europe (into Central Asia) is really a reflection of the drastic cultural conflicts in that area over centuries.. from a distance, it seems that "modern" typeface, and the type it replaced, together really are not very old compared to the cultures that were using them... and those cultures merged by imperial forces from multiple directions.
> …even if you almost never use the special keys they're missing, it will still be annoying the .1% of the time you need that key. I guess at that point you just grab another keyboard…

Unnecessary with layers, e.g. FN + 1 = F1, which covers the 0.1% use case well enough.
The ergonomics of a full-size keyboard are atrocious, because they weren't designed with mice in mind. You've got a relatively unimportant set of keys occupying the exact piece of desk space that a mouse should be. Unless your shoulders are three feet wide, you'll either end up with your QWERTY keys too far to the left, your mouse too far to the right, or some awkward compromise.

If you really need a num pad - most people don't - then you can get a separate one and position it to the left of your keyboard.
He's running a telecom provider. Nobody has even declared actual war on anybody. During the Cold War we had phone lines to Russia, China, you name it. Of course all communications were heavily monitored, like today. If a war was declared by Congress things would be different of course. But they haven't done that in ages. I think WWII was the last time? Pesky legal issues crop up of course. It's better not to declade war apparently.
Alternative: use jless and copy the path of the thing you want, then (maybe) generailze
When you read this and think about the world he was in — it’s even more remarkable. How did he come up with it?
Willing to bet that most people who take up something that pays much less don't have kids
FYI they are transparent about buying outdoor ads: https://mullvad.net/en/help/policy-reviews-advertising-and-a...
maybe this gets into the why more, like is the ISP doing a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes.
As a lawyer, I find the law (which is supposedly 'logical' and 'rational') to be highly absurd at times. It's unavoidable, given that the law heavily involves humans.

I am in part drawn to software development and programming, because it's logical and comparatively rigid (at least programming itself is, if you take away the environment/ecosystem/cults that develop around the idiosyncracies of different languages). I find programming very far from absurd.

I am therefore surprised to see software programmers claiming that software development is absurd - and that woodworking could somehow be less so.

The grass is always greener on the other side. (And I still can't accept that programming itself is absurd.)
My favorite German proverb is "children are not responsible for the crimes of their parents".
>But then there’s (c)(2)(B), which says:

>> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1)

It's right there on the page,
> Floating gardens using soil are practically impossible

but very cool when they do exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island
Why rely on an inflated wing that can be punctured or change in stiffness with temperature and altitude when fiberglass and carbon fiber rods exist?
Do EMRs improve the standard of care?
National and Regional service companies that will inventory spares nearby and have available professionals to replace faulty units do exist. How much talent does making some phone calls and signing a contract require?
Dividends have nothing to do with stock buyback and you obviously have a comprehension problem since the link I shared explains it in very clear terms. It's right there in the name. The intention of a stock buyback is for the company to buy/own more shares and this effect drives up demand for anyone looking to acquire those company's shares in the open market.
Yeah totally, that viewpoint (the US/west is uniquely bad, we should not try to prevent imperialism elsewhere) is not one I've personally encountered much but if you have I can totally see why it would be super irritating.
Polish heavy cavalry was entirely innocent for a thousand years?
You're equating "freedom" with "democracy", which as a far from established fact.
It appears to be "giant" in the way that a small private airplane is "giant". It is larger than a sandwich but significantly smaller than all other underwater craft.
&T is noalias - while there may be aliases none can write, which is the important thing - without UnsafeCell, and &UnsafeCell<T> loses noalias for that reason.
NASA awards studies for commercial Mars missions – SpaceNews
> prefer big buffers

If the second one fails, you still have at least 75 miles [1]. (More engines would have actually hurt in that situation.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
I can highly recommend it, unless you've got a cat.
Two problems, first everyone went too far and put out all fires. Second if we let those careless fires burn they would stay small as nature was already doing the job.
> Lithium isn't happy above like 30 Celsius, which a fast charging portable device can _easily_ reach.

Sounds pretty bad for people living in warmer climates then, as they tend to be above 30 celsius anyway. ;)
Quick and Dirty Vector DB
I wanted a convenient tool to both compute vector embeddings of text and also perform similarity search over them. Thus 'babyvec' - defaults to computing Jina V2 embeddings locally and persisting them via 'npy-append-array'.
This tool is not yet battle-tested but has been very useful for me in experimentation. Hope you might find it useful.
does it matter if they are hugely compensated or not? I don’t understand this. General agreement is usually set when you sign on. Anything outside this agreement would be met with a stern “no”. Now if company wants to airdrop an extra amount into my bank account for this adhoc work, we can discuss terms. Otherwise, …

“Fuck you, pay me”

Not sure why this is so hard. Makes it even difficult when you have bendy co-workers.
As someone that considers images to be really important to most things I’m interested in, that completely sucks. As does Gemini for that matter.

Otherwise I do actually quite like the idea of a protocol that is styled by the user agent, not the creator.
Poznań has been Polish for a millennia, it was a part of Germany from 1793 to 1919.

It was majority Polish during that period, with Germans making up at most 40% of the population, or ~65000, when it became a part of Poland again.
My thoughts exactly. I'm on sway / wlroots for years and don't know how people put up with wl-recorder. GNOME's screen recorder works so much better.
API to automate social video editing with AI
Came across this paper while trying to research about a tangential topic: The phenomenon where almost every country in the world, at some point during the Covid years, encouraged their citizens to clap/make noise of some sort at a specific time.

Every country seems to have their own version of it, from collective clapping as an acknowledgement for social workers, to doing it simply as a social morale-lifting exercise, to banging plates to make noise (in case of India, I came across normal as well as 'spiritual' justifications for it).

I'm primarily interested in how it came about, why almost every government seems to have picked up on it, and what it takes for something like this to become a global exercise. I'm still exploring the topic, if you have any links/leads, they would be appreciated!
> When fertility rates went sub-replacement, humanity became functionally extinct, at least in those regions.

That is... also a way to look at it.

1) Migration is a thing, so unless total fertility is sub-replacement, "functionally extinct" is a tad bit premature. Turns out that across the world, we're still above replacement rate.

2) Fertility rates do change over time. E.g. the fact of group size temporarily inducing stress-related infertility until a population is below a certain level is well-known and understood. Here's a great experiment on it: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11100725/

It's at least plausible that sub-replacement rates in humans are a similar self-regulation mechanism. I'd suggest that "functionally extinct" is maybe a bit of a premature judgment.
Unfortunately, C++ containers generally cannot use realloc, because they are required to invoke their elements' move/copy constructors when their addresses change.
I have a Genmitsu 4040 Pro https://www.sainsmart.com/products/genmitsu-4040-pro-semi-as... with the upgraded XZ (if you experience chatter, you can send support an email with a photo and they will send a replacement part; I just installed it yesterday and it's greatly improved my results). I haven't really accessorized it, other than to replace the included spindle with a Dewalt 611 router.

Before that I had an XCarve but it was just too big and not rigid enough. I owned several early Shapeokos, which were simply not rigid enough. The 4040 pro is the first router I've had that's actually worked the way I expected (and even then, it clearly has some issues) in the cost window I care about.

CNC brings challenges (and joys) that 3d printing does not have. You have to spend a lot more time thinking about the tools and their paths, mounting the work in the CNC, dealing with dust, etc, etc, but it's really reawrding to hand somebody a carving and see them blown away by the results.
>I don't understand why more adults don't have awesome hobbies...

If the prerequisites for having awesome hobbies are, "Having a garage," "Inheriting tools from one's grandparents," and "Having the time do something with both," there would be your answer.
So you're saying the Chinese authorities were right in evacuating the Tiananmen Square, after all you cannot forcefully block public places without the proper authorization either. Like I said, let's cut the charade and look at the facts.
> Ah the old 'we were forced to use this free thing'. Sure.

Well, I was a tech lead of a Debian derivative when Debian held the vote. I have seen and read enough. Didn't see the other "threats" thing, but since I had access to debian-devel, I was in the middle of it.

My views about systemd has not changed since then, and can be found if you search HN.

On the other hand, I have used 4-5 init systems in the last 20 years, and none of them were that aggressive and had the "we know the best" attitude, while going against all the best practices and making the same mistakes done in the past.

> Pipewire combines alsa, pulse and jack. They all have different strength.

Nope. ALSA is always there, working as the primary sink, delineating user space and hardware. I used Jack back in the day for recording, and never got to like pulse because of its backwards defaults and lassies-faire behavior about multi-channel audio (plus glitches, etc).

Pipewire is a great sound server which sits on top of ALSA, and replaces Pulse transparently, and makes everything 100x nicer along the way.

Lastly, it's Lennart Pottering. Not Lennard. :)

P.S.: It's important to understand that my views are not against the persons, but the behavior of the projects. I'd drink a nice round of beer with all of them, if I had the chance. :)
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It'll be a good day when we can finally ditch lead acid.
Apple's hesitance on implementing browser features can also be a positive. They held off on web push forever which is a good thing because web push is horrible and just opened the floodgates for everyone's grandma's Samsung phone being constantly covered with online gambling ads. When Apple finally implemented it, they did it so it's only allowed for web pages saved to your homescreen like an app which I think is a good compromise.

Safari is the only thing stopping Google from running rampant with implementing new "web standards" because all browsers on the iPhone are Safari, so everyone needs to make sure their site works in a browser other than Chrome.

This is looking to be on borrowed time unfortunately because regulators are looking to force Apple to allow other browser engines. So look forward to Google's stranglehold on the internet being further cemented.
Well, the reality is likely once they get access to the data, are allowed to use it - they will likely be happy to be grandfathered into their accelerated position if legislation passes to create barriers of entry by preventing such mass data gather/access without express permission - to have an advantage on competition; but generally this won't be a winning tactic in the end because trust is the most important factor, even if consumers aren't driven by that yet as their primary driver.
You turn on a computer and connect to another computer which connects to... another computer!! (gasp!)
Let's do the 30 minute call, matey?
> We are entitled to a roof and food

What does that mean even?

> it’s a tragedy that some people don’t have those things.

Agreed.

> I don’t understand why you’d say we’re being forced to have food and shelter, that makes no sense.

I was trying to take your position to the absurd extreme. You said employment was not voluntary, I took that to mean that you're forced to have food and shelter.

> We need food and shelter, which is why employment isn’t voluntary.

I don't know how else to explain this to you. As an objective fact, there are people who choose not to work. They do without. Some of them even manage to lead fulfilling lives. How can you pretend it's not a choice?
I've never understood striking guidance either. It seems that over long enough distances everyone is a heel striker too, it's just more efficient. So I'd assume that any advice you hear is more pace-dependent than it appears.
Holy unsubstantiated accusations, batman.

This can be instantly disproved by examining the cases where valid warrants were presented to them by LEAs and they were unable to provide any user data.
Automatically generate docstrings for Python functions using Ollama
Jack London, Martin Eden and the Liberal Education in US Life Essays
All war is state terror. As the great Sebastian Haffner wrote:

"European history knows two forms of terror. The first is the uncontrollable explosion of bloodlust in a victorious mass uprising. The other is cold, calculated cruelty committed by a victorious state as a demonstration of power and intimidation. The two forms of terror normally correspond to revolution and repression. The first is revolutionary. It justifies itself by the rage and fever of the moment, a temporary madness. The second is repressive. It justifies itself by the preceding revolutionary atrocities."
Plasticity (https://www.plasticity.xyz/) is a new-ish one that looks neat, but I wish it offered a lower-price entry point.
I don't understand your comment. Nobody's looking at their mouse (or their keyboard) when gaming.
There are already too many restrictive law and rules in the US around healthcare, and here you want to add another restriction.
My reply was to the parent post, which started:

This seems very similar to self driving cars.

And continued discussing self driving cars.

Regardless, what I said stands.
Obsidian Sync costs money to sync your files between devices. Obsidian Publish also costs money on top of that to publish your notes.
I don’t use Twitter anymore, but folks on Reddit are saying that they’re getting recommendations and even push notifications for right wing pundits, despite not being subscribed to anything remotely right wing: https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1cj5jw7/elon_mu...
I opened to project to take a look at the source code, which I would not have done if the project were written in, say, C.
Yeah, that was another great one too. He always struck me as being well-known in NZ, but less so outside it, which felt like a real shame.
Court Supports NY's Requiring $15 Broadband for Poor, to Big Telecom's Horror
Unless there's mandatory, regular and thorough inspections of licensed work, making said work require licensing isn't actually going to increase quality. I've seen absolutely terrible, dodgy and unsafe stuff left behind by trained, licensed & well-paid professionals that only "worked" due to a combination of luck & safety margins.
The answer is probably explosives, but are there other payloads you think this thing might carry?

Comms? SIG-INT equipment?
How much of a typical transatlantic route (say, London -> New York) is within 75 miles of a safe landing zone? I assume routes are chosen to optimize for this, to some degree.