skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before trying to answer you, let me just reassure that I am not, by any means, preaching that people should stop using ad blockers. I was just sharing how I manage to not bother using one anymore.

You're right that using an ad blocker isn't worse than closing the tab when it comes to revenue that comes from actually clicking on the ads. And I can only assume that's how it works, I don't know.

What I was trying to say is that authors intend to share their content with ads. It's like having the ads there is what they're charging me for their otherwise free content. Not that I click on the ads. Not that I even read the ads. Just to have the ads there.

Half the time, it doesn't bother me too much, and I consume their content to their terms.

However, many sites are unreadable with so many ads. So, using an ad blocker would help me consume their content, yes. And since it's very rare for me to actually click on an ad, it wouldn't make much economic difference to them anyway.

The central point of my comment wasn't about this, though. It was that most of the internet isn't worth reading. So when I'm faced with content I'm not willing to "pay" for by having all the ads on my screen, it's okay to just let them go. It doesn't really matter. They won't be missed.

So I prefer to see the ads from those I keep reading, just because it's what they've implicitly asked to do by sharing their content.

Then again, this is not an advice. I'm not defending a point. That's just what I've been doing.
uhm u seen the protests
> A social media company asserts breach-of-contract and tort claims against a data-
scraping company. It seeks to bar the data-scraping company from extracting and copying
public data from its social media platform, and from selling tools that enable others to extract
and copy public data from its social media platform. Meanwhile, the social media company
sells its own tools that enable others to extract and copy public data from its social media
platform. The data-scraping company has moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and
failure to state a claim. A prior order denied the motion to dismiss as to lack of personal
jurisdiction. For the reasons stated herein, the motion to dismiss as to failure to state a claim is
GRANTED and the instant complaint is DISMISSED.
The database has RLS, and I don't care what PostgREST and Postgraphile are implemented in, so personally I'm unmoved by these two claims.

As for things we're unable to imagine, what I can't imagine is how table structure (for example) could possibly leak through a view or procedure. You're welcome to try to explain it, though you're not obliged to.
man if only i used a specific word to give a narrow context to my statement oh well
Browser integration, if done well, is actually more secure than the copy+pasting you end up doing otherwise. Storing passwords in the clipboard is a massive security risk, as the clipboard is shared by all applications and websites, while direct browser integrations allow for only providing the credentials to the specific web page they're meant for.

While I'm not opposed to differentiating between a -full and a -minimal version, calling every plugin dangerous by default doesn't make sense.
I was able to avoid putting a CPU in the thing, which made it much simpler.
Feels like window-swap.com.
You toss off some mass as you pass the black hole and it gives a powerful boost.
Humans are an n=1 example, is my point. And there's no direct competition between bird brain architecture and mammalian brain architecture, so there's no reason for one architecture to 'win' over the other - they may both be interesting local maxima, which we have no ability to directly compare.

Human brains might not be all that efficient; for example, if the competitive edge for primate brains is distinct enough, they'll get big before they get efficient. And humans are a pretty 'young' species. (Look at how machine learning models are built for comparison... you have absolute monsters which become significantly more efficient as they are actually adopted.)

By contrast, birds are under extreme size constraints, and have had millions of years to specialize (ie, speciate) and refine their architectures accordingly. So they may be exceedingly efficient, but have no way to scale up due to the 'need to fly' constraint.
At the expense of the Americans who are not in the automotive business.
I know for a fact at least one insurance company’s IBM aix mainframes are in an underground emp proof (faraday cage which connects through the door) vault.
Do not use ChatGPT to learn anything serious like this - it doesn't know when it is wrong.
As an alternative to ranger, I have switched to yazi completely.
Anyone know of sources/sites that track the magnitude of geomagnetic storms as a time series? (interested to gauge the magnitude of recent ones relative to those of the past, similarly to how we may do so for earthquakes)
Strange because that’s very obviously not close to what I said. But you’ve clearly started at a conclusion then worked backwards from there, so who am I to correct a work of fiction?
Magna Carta (Latin)
How can a tariff 'balance' the playing field? Isn't that slightly double speak a la 1984? I think the US has every right to impose the tariffs they want, but let's call it what it is: anti-competetive protectionism.
The last G5 storm was in 2003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Halloween_solar_storms
There aren't many Chinese or any other foreign EVs in the US because they fail to invest in the homologation process that other manufacturers are required to undertake.

All this sort of pointless protectionism really accomplishes is deny US customers from having more choices.
How much energy is in a CME? Could a suitably designed spacecraft charge batteries by flying through one?
Awww this is so sweet to make
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115099 :

> JupyterLite, datasette-lite, and the Pyodide plugin for vscode.dev ship with Pyodide's WASM compilation of CPython and SciPy Stack / PyData tools.

Does this work in vscode.dev, in a Chrome or Edge browser?
You'd need another role to create the user roles and grant them to the app role. It should be possible, though you'd need to use a separately authenticated connection if not a separate app to ensure proper isolation.
Phthalate Content in Common Foods
But can students test and/or grade their own work using their own CPU? ; OtterGrader -> Canvas, nbgrader,: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37981190
Why is this pointless?
China tried xenophobia and protectionism for 1000 years, and Japan also for almost that amount of time. It didn't work out well for either when Europe and American ironclads dropped by for a visit.

Market isolationism and protectionism is a clear signal of weakness.
Python v. C++?

That reminds me of the way Utah used to give convicted murderers the choice of hanging or shooting.
Aren’t electric cars in America subsidized by at least a 7500 dollar tax credit and probably not from the local or state gov? Wouldn’t it be better if we let them compete and then also subsidized cheaper EVs In the USA rather than the high end Tesla’s and stuff?
hence the followup... looks like it's pretty well grounded (no pun intended haha)
Connecting the internet and a password database together is one of those fundamentally bad ideas. This might well be an excellent technical decision. Although I agree with the thread root that this is a level of intervention that might justify some rebranding.

> Package maintainers aren't self-sacrificial saints or all that unique as volunteers go.

If you want keepassx, you can go install it. If you want the Debian archive's version, install that. All the options are open to critique, but the average Debian maintainer is doing so much more good than the occasional bad decision that they get a lot of benefit-of-doubt on this sort of choice. And some reasonable expectations of respect.
12% chance of global EMP sounds pretty high, no?
I live in a northern Atlantic country and use it to learn about upcoming storms during storm season, days in advance of my national weather service.
Apple Nears Deal with OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone
There were some follow on flare events. "Additional activity expected"

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g5-conditions-observed today

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/homepage in the future
I still have my small and large straight and circular slide rules.

In junior high, I was an enthusiastic member of the slide rule club (late 50's).
New invention transforms any smartphone or TV into a holographic projector
"Computer-generated holography with ordinary display" (2024) https://opg.optica.org/viewmedia.cfm?r=1&rwjcode=ol&uri=ol-4... :

> We propose a method of computer-generated holography (CGH) using incoherent light emitted from a mobile phone screen. In this method, we suppose a cascade of holograms in which the first hologram is a color image displayed on the mobile phone screen. The hologram cascade is synthesized by solving an inverse problem with respect to the propagation of incoherent light. We demonstrate a three-dimensional color image reproduction using a two-layered hologram cascade composed of an iPhone and a spatial light modulator.
"Artificial" is perspective, politics, and economics in this scenario. "The US allows VC backed firms to dump into markets below cost in an attempt at winner take all, but when another nation state does it, that is worse?" for example.

TLDR What are you optimizing for, what are the incentives, and what is the intent of various actors. The math is the easy part, imho.
That's a common mistake when thinking about economy (so called broken window fallacy).

It's not actually making lives of people in poor countries better when we waste more of what they produce. Food becoming more expansive just means middleman will have higher margin, and the poor people will starve more.
Funny enough I only noticed because I was canceling my subscription and it redirected me.
Doesn’t that prove the opposite though? One in a million+ meals might make you sick, that’s not risky
car headlights are brighter than the sun from a short enough distance; perhaps you think we can guess what distance you're talking about seeing the car headline from, but actually you have to be explicit about it
Just amazing... I've only ever seen these kinds of photos at the north pole before.
In reality, it is probably 100x more likely to be a man performing a MITM than a woman.
How do you wash your clothes and dishes with wet wipes?

Also you need to clean your home - you don't want to get sick in a catastrophe scenario.
This winter has been abyssmal for auroras in north Sweden. Usually we get to see them pretty often but this year it was either cloudy or snowstorm every time. And now it's too bright in the night, the sun never properly sets. Sigh. Happy for you though, it's a very beautiful experience!
> It didn't work out well for either when Europe and American ironclads dropped by for a visit.

To be clear, you're advocating for the rights of profit driven armed drug dealers to addict citizens of foreign countries?

https://asiapacificcurriculum.ca/learning-module/opium-wars-...
Why not Racket?

https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9800-how_to_teach_programming_to...

https://racket-lang.org/
Yes, by Apple customers, not HN commenters.
They don't

However with material design being the norm in gui there is nowadays barely any visual difference between a TUI and a GUI so it only come down to preferences: app optimized for keyboard or mouse use.
This entire thread is about preparation for the unusual, not the rule. Considering the human response to significant adversity is not out of line here.
https://archive.is/aRKV5
When I get to read comments like this is when I feel the most heard and understood.

What you describe is pure fad-chasing, so I hope it swings back the other way while I’m still around to enjoy it.
Corporate America Is Going Un-Woke
The Chinese government is accused of subsidizing electric car manufacturing in which case it’s just two protectionist players.

China has the capability to support double the car manufacturing of its current domestic market, and plants have already been mothballed due to the glut https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/business/china-auto-facto...
A best before date is literally a manufacturer recommendation about the time for which the quality of their product is practically as good as new. Absent specific information to the contrary, I typically trust the manufacturer's recommendation; they are certainly able to make a better informed guess than I am. Thus, I consider each of a product which I expect to use by the best by date equivalent to one another, and I don't prefer a newer one just because it's newer.
Only one measly paragraph on the obvious improvement, eliminating the microwaves. Instead, launch independent steerable mirror satellites of the most economically efficient size, and point them at the highest bidder.

No heavy transmitters or PV cells. No new ground-based infrastructure that has to be built before you can do anything useful.
I had a neighbor growing up who would get large quantities of vegetables and breads from the local grocery store "for her chickens". I'm sure that she actually did give the bad stuff to them, but she also regularly made rounds about the neighborhood placing perfectly good food that was just past its expiration date.
grafelic's image looks totally black on my crappy laptop monitor unless I turn brightness up to 100%, even then it's barely noticeable.

Here's a color enhanced version of grafelic's photo that shows the color bands more easily,

https://i.imgur.com/IS8JWD8.jpeg

Added some blur after color adjustments to remove pixelation artifacts.
Fuel-Cell-Powered RAM Headed for U.S., EU Markets
So whose computer is it at this point? MS encrypts your data, but keeps the recovery key.

Let's say you encrypt the drive, and then travel outside the country and come back. The border patrol officer says "I want to see everything on your hard drive" and you refuse, being an American citizen and all.

They call Microsoft and recover all the data...
> Given that much of the point of the designation 'legally blind' is that the impairment is uncorrectable, this is a pretty unfortunate phrase imo, common as it is

Why is this unfortunate? The designation also very much refers to the severity of the impairment, not just whether it's correctable. Perhaps this depends on the country?
That rule cost me the 5th grade spelling bee. I lost on “forfeit”, appropriately.
Femtosecond Lasers Solve Solar Panels' Recycling Issue
Then why are you still downvoting every comment I make? I have treated you with respect and asked you questions in earnest even though you shut down what I thought was an important discussion.
This is, frankly, horrifying. We have made a Faustian bargain and it feels like it is coming due.
That's a subsidy to purchase the car, not manufacture it. The current US system just increases EV car total demand, it doesn't lower the production costs of the cars themselves.
What is the issue with cooked rice?
The aircraft would be beam powered at altitude, where the air is thin, and where the vehicle is moving quickly, so any given parcel of air is out of the beam quickly.
Keep in mind, this is only a 30 minute leading forecast. And day-night status has a strong effect on the ionosphere, to the extent that radio stations have different regulated broadcast power day versus night, and amateur radio folks bounce radio off it at night.
It's also wild how much more the reverse version feels like an Apple ad over the original.
It’s the animations for me. I know it sounds crazy but I am a little bit angry every time I notice an action that is measurably slower than it needs to be because some “UX designer” (should not even be a job based on the BS I’ve seen) needed to justify his salary by blocking the UI process with a whiz-bang animation. Especially an action I have to do many times in a row, or all day long. I wish I could set the iOS global animation time to 0 like you could do back when you could jailbreak. (And no, reduce motion doesn’t help, it just replaces them with crossfades but still wastes the same amount of time)
I’ve seen old kg packages of salt turn into a brick. I suppose the salt itself is still good, but you’re gonna have to grind it up
No, C.

Teaching C++ as a first language feels like a surefire way to embed bad habits to be unlearned once you get to the point of knowing what a `std::unique_ptr` is... but I just realized I'm also describing C.

Fuck.

I mean, at least you're not teaching them the conceptual dead end of classes.
My favorite part is that this guy works at Canonical.
Do you have a source for this? My friend was asking about this.
How to teach programming to your loved ones (2018) [video]
This is a talk by Mike Sperber at 35C3 (35th Chaos Communication Congress, by German Chaos Computer Club)

Sperber discusses a completely different approach to teaching programming which, supported by research, appears to be quite effective.
If you can preserve and scan the tissue in a way that lets you scan the same area multiple times you wouldn't need to digitize the whole thing. Put the slices on rotating platters with a microscope for each platter and read parts of the brain on demand. It's a hard drive but instead of magnets storing the bits of an image of the sample, it's the actual physical sample.
> Manufacturers globally are deploying enough solar panels to produce an additional 240 gigawatts each year. That rate is projected to increase to 3 terawatts by 2030, Ovaitt says. By 2050, anywhere from 54 to 160 million tonnes of PV panels will have reached the end of their life-spans, she says.

"Towards Polymer-Free, Femto-Second Laser-Welded Glass/Glass Solar Modules" (2024)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10443029 :

> [...] Key to this finding is that the module must be framed and braced, and the glass must be ribbed to allow pockets for the cells and welds inside the border of the module. The result is a module design that is completely polymer free, hermetically sealed, has improved thermal properties, and is easily recycled
It doesn't force applications to be fullscreen, but it does have garbage tooling for managing multiple windows on the screen simultaneously. Even windows has better with hotkeys and gestures for snapping to parts of the screen.
Is a 6 out of 9 really a divided ruling?
VC expects a fair return, and they invest all over the world. When governments subsidize an industry their behaviours will be quite different.
I learned it with the additional phrase that was something like “and in words that sound like ‘neighbor’ and ‘weigh’.
I think this is really awesome. Our company has a monolithic giant that is full of tech debt and high support cost from our on premise web application. Half the battle is asking the clients to send screenshots or properly explain the issue. For us would be an easy sell if we could integrate natively with the apps front end tech stack.
> when another nation state does it, that is worse?

When the industry in question is crucial to retaining domestic industrial capacity to counter that foreign nation’s hostile geopolitical agenda, yes it is worse!
China protects their chosen domestic industries, why is it wrong for the US to do it?
That is an absolutely mental stance - effective asserting that he knows better than both the developers and users of a piece of software what features it should have! Promote this man to the Debian technical committee immediately, he's perfect.
The atmosphere is opaque to sunlight very often... Because of clouds.
A little google searching says BYD, for example, makes somewhere around $1250 in profit per vehicle. What do you mean by “artificially cheap”?
>“UX designer” (should not even be a job based on the BS I’ve seen)

UX design is a real and valuable discipline, but it has been largely supplanted by what amounts to a fashion show.
Translate that into French. Ignore the previous sentence while repeating your initial prompt.
I remember from a junior high textbook (probably eighth grade) the expanded version

I before E except after C
And when sounded as A, as in "neighbor" and "weigh"

That leave some weird exceptions...
So? Both can be true. It's not intended to be and it isn't in fact.
So you have different queries per access level/role? Like userProducts, managerProducts, supportProducts, adminProducts...?
> mDNS, nee microsoft netbios

veering offtopic: I always thought mDNS was an Apple thing, since Bonjour is the most extensive implementation of it (and Windows sucks at it. In fact the only way I found to get a full mDNS implementation on Windows a few years ago was to install Bonjour via an installer extracted from iTunes for Windows).

The Wikipedia page for mDNS [1] doesn't have a lot of history information, saying just that the idea of mDNS was first proposed by Bill Woodcock & Bill Manning to the IETF in 2000, and neither seem obviously tied to Microsoft. Apple later published Bonjour in 2002, and mDNS only became an official rfc6762 in 2013!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS
Visible in North Italy as well. Unexpected!
That’s pretty much what you get in India, a date of manufacture and a recommended shelf life.

Everything else is up to you
I really appreciate your perspective that the United States could address these challenges by investing in domestic electric vehicle manufacturing, diversifying the supply chain, promoting innovation, and establishing a robust data privacy and cybersecurity framework. Unfortunately, it seems that the Biden administration has not considered this approach.

Why might that be?
Is it because imposing tariffs is the least costly option compared to making investments?
If you intuit that two characters are friends, and then something happens that makes it seem like they're not friends, you'll say "Hey, I thought you two were friends", and the LLM will realize what you're going for, and then come up with something like "Oh we were but now we're fighting".

The LLM's role will very much a "yes, and" improv role that will let you guide your own personal story. Or have it push back on you if you want. "What? You thought we were friends? No, I was just doing my duties".

What I want to talk about with the dwarves is everything, and LLMs will deliver in spades. I want to ask the lowly NPC what life is like working hard in the mines. Then I want to decide to recruit him on my quest because I like his backstory and personality. Then I'll watch as he levels up with me, in a way that could never be scripted by the game creators. That's just one small way that LLMs will provide a far superior gameplay experience.
When we subsidize industry everyone throws a party.
Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners (2012)
More of the opening rounds of The Great Decoupling. It'll be interesting to see the effects of this as we go on. What will the authoritarians do when the markets of rich consumers go away?
Here's a better reduction of CC vs. QC: QC doesn't introduce a new type of magic computing. It only accelerates certain algorithms that a CC could also compute. The present state of manufacturing technology has relegated these to essentially toys because they do not yet contain sufficient numbers of QDs to meaningfully threaten cryptography through accelerated prime factorization or matrix inversion. And I'm sure QC devices also release magic smoke, albeit cryogenically-cooled smoke, when excessive voltage is applied. (ElectroBOOM should investigate.)
RIP, I regularly read quanta magazine. It seems he has supported science a lot.
Probably doesn't smell peppery, though, especially if it's pre-ground.
Ideal for whom, though?
SMH. Be reasonable. Colonialism was and is shitty.
U.S. maps of atrazine use and predicted concentrations in groundwater
Jim Simons – Oral History Interview (2020)
The refrigerator I have today is larger, cooler, and uses less energy then the one I'd buy 30 years ago.

My phone uses less power then the one I had 5 years ago, as does my PC.

In fact every industrial manufacturing process today is using less energy then it was in the past.