skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxxing and real-life harassment.These actions have tied Kiwi Farms to the suicides of three people targeted by members of the forum.

Sounds like a pretty abhorrent website
As mentioned in another comment here, the unwind is expensive. That is, searching back through the stack finding the original call site that triggered the exception. How do algebraic effects handle that performance hit?
It’s funny because their QA was already mocked for how bad it was back in the 1990s.
175 comments and +350 points in 1 hour is anything but "vanished interest" imho.
I might use this in an emergency but otherwise this seems spectacularly inefficient and unappealing.
Catching Snook
I've learned the best hack for catching snook. Use shrimp as bait.
Field size for American football is definitely standardized: 100 yards between goal lines and 160 feet wide. Lots of Americans will have an intuitive sense for how long something like "three football fields" is.
Add driveway to garage or carport, but I get your point.

Individuals can’t install them, but cities or parking garages can. Level 1 or 2 chargers down a city street makes more sense the more EV adoption increases.

Right now only 1% of cars on the road are EV’s, but EV’s and plug in hybrids are 18% of new car sales. Even if adoption stalls we will still build a lot more EV infrastructure, which then makes EV’s more attractive.
> should be classified as extortion.

It meets the definition of a RICO "enterprise". The question is, will anyone bring it up for judicial review?
> Yeah it seems going to https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/12088655 the report doesn't even exist anymore.

That link is for Apple engineers. Feedback reports are not public. They're only accessible by the reporter and Apple.
These things don’t generate very much power, 5kW @ 208V 3-phase is only 13.88A which means it can’t even run a single 5HP motor. It’s equivalent to ~25 200w solar panels.

You’d need 30 of these just to power a single 208v three phase 400A panel, and the size of building these would be installed on will typically have a 2000A or larger electrical service.

Assuming it runs at full capacity for an entire year and electricity costs $0.10/kWh, it would save $4,380 a year, but obviously it won’t generating at 100% all the time.

I fail to see how these would ever pay themselves back, I’d guess one of these units is between $30-50k installed, possibly more. The roof might need structural reinforcements which could push the cost higher. There will be electrical distribution equipment to transfer loads between the wind powered generators and utility power.
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> China has its own standard

Standards. China is deprecating the GB/T plug and Japan is deprecating the CHAdeMO plug. China and Japan will switch to ChaoJi (aka CHAdeMO 3.0) which has a new plug and protocol changes. It would be better if they just used CCS, even if they want to insist on yet another plug:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaoJi

There's nothing wrong with it on a technical level. It's just dumb to introduce yet more incompatibility when they could harmonize with the rest of the world.

Japan in particular should harmonize with right hand drive countries (which would mean CCS Type 2 Combo).
Ain't no one gonna use the tech if they have to spend 30 minutes doing a background check after it flags someone.

I also guarantee this is not how sales and marketing are pitching it.
Instead of fixing the inherent structural problems of the Texas grid, they intend to keep applying tax payer funded bandaids --- and claiming it is a reliable, low cost system based on "free market" ideology.
Not just to validate, but to explain. There are plenty of cases where the earliest descriptions of a discovery required further work to develop a more convenient notation and language for use by non-specialists. Algebra, calculus, and electrodynamics come to mind. As time progresses, a broader range of people are able to understand the content.
Maintenance and operation is a big factor, but engine-outs do happen.

It also seems like you are talking about helicopters, which have a special exemption:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.119

In a fixed wing, altitude is absolutely your friend and gives you more options to land, which equates to a higher probability of finding a nicer emergency landing spot.

And to your point, power lines that are shorter than 199ft don’t have to be on the charts. I could erect a tower off major airways or near an airport to that height without prior warning.
“Predict the market” is an insufficiently defined phrase to argue over. Strictly speaking, of course they cannot “predict the market.” You’re describing a time machine or a crystal ball, and no, they don’t have either.

What they can do, as demonstrated consistently since approximately their founding, is eek out tiny, repeatable edges on the market and exploit them at rather large scale in a variety of market conditions for dramatically longer periods than anyone else.

That is in practice the most consistently-slightly-correct market prediction anyone has ever achieved.
Is he saying that nothing important is being gatekept by writing quizzes, therefore AI is not so bad for writers?
I don't think a deaf person's inability to listen to music with their ears makes them incapable of depth and clarity of thought, no.

I don't think people who aren't hard of hearing necessarily have particularly deep or clear thoughts simply because they listen to music with their ears either. It's very easy to confuse correlation with causation.

(I've specified "with their ears" because deaf people can perceive music through other means than the cochlea + cochlear nerve.)
Does nobody on HN read the articles? That exact video is what this article is commenting on.
https://archive.ph/T3dvs
If anyone believes this, they can't seriously be surprised when most people can't be bothered to learn their superior tool.

Most people's first experience with a new tool will be to launch it with the default configuration and get a feel for it. That is an abysmal experience with far too many tools, so people go back to what they were already comfortable with even if its potential is more limited.

There's some nuance here when distributions change the default config. For example, some distributions made vim act like vi by default, while others enabled a reasonable set of modern features. People can form completely different opinions of the vim experience based entirely on what distribution they happened to try it on first, and you can't exactly blame the users for that.
This is probably compiling to bytecode (like luac) and bundling the result with the lua interpreter as an executable. Doing the latter by hand involves writing a very small C program that passes a static char array to the lua entry point - I think this is nicely packaging that process.

It might be compiling to native code instead but the readme doesn't look like it.
It may have a separate timeline but it does seem to hint at going out the door in similar order on Office as well. I think the Python in Excel stuff is still in beta but things like lambdas, regex or Office Scripts all actually work (even on the web versions) and start taking big bites out of why you'd want to look at VB. New Outlook dropped VB support even on the desktop and I don't think they plan on maintaining separate development platforms for the other apps forever.
>The author claims a reasonable intent

Right, I'm not arguing that they're guilty, just that the legal system doesn't operate off pure black and white rules like "if you have two seemingly unrelated domains then you're trying to evade bans".

>and they give a traffic number that proves they're not doing "domain rotation".

Are you talking about the part where they said "95% of our traffic through the main domain"? Without additional context behind that number it's a stretch to claim that "proves" they're not trying to evade bans. For instance if their country is banned in country A, but country A is a small country that only makes up 3% of their overall traffic, they can confidently claim "95% of our traffic through the main domain" while still theoretically using alternate domains for ban evasion purposes.
In the last 10 minutes, it got 35 more upvotes, but dropped from 27 to 30.
Ask HN: If body transplants become possible, would you make yourself unhealthy?
You might want to look unhealthy because you don't want to get murdered by someone looking for a healthy donor body.
I think that is being transparent with what actually happens in the real world (engineers, at least in part, being human and emotional in their decisions), rather than just talking about impossible ideals (engineers thinking about tradeoffs in a purely objective matter).

NIH, CV based development, preference for shiny/new things and a myriad of other "engineer/organizational diseases" exist, you know. And there are even SaaS/PaaS/XaaS marketing teams exploiting such human qualities when making software sales.
You can take issue with "obsessed", but it's a bit disingenuous to go to other end of the spectrum and misrepresent the entirety of the facts.

In the least, Altman made it a product priority to strive for replicating the AI "experience" illustrated in the movie.

How do you we know this? He first approached the actual actor voicing the AI in the movie way before the product launch.
You can tell because code has no narrator voice in your head when you read it.
You can have 2 automation, one which enable grayscale when certain apps are open and one that disable it when the apps are closed. It’s under shortcuts > automation > app > is closed.
Can any1 explain how HN algo works that this post, which at time of writing has 355p, 180comments while being posted 1 hour ago, isn't even on first page (ranked 31)???
While I agree with you, I think the call is for companies to be less psychopathic and stop onboarding people within 90 days of mass layoffs.

Especially in a world where people pick up their whole lives and relocate for jobs. Recent joiners aren't getting any sustainable kind of severance either. The idea is if you're hiring them you have a minimum commitment to support their success.

Yes she was an obvious fire, but it's also the organization's fault. Enterprise deals also take way longer to close than that...

All that said, salespeople can and do move jobs a lot. I'm sure she'll be fine.
The fossil i3 is notoriously much worse than the electric one. Heavier, less reliable, more expensive to run. It only makes sense if you don’t have a dense fast charger network where you live and you somehow decide to use this car to drive long distances.
That isn't how the world deals with risk.

If you think something your client wants could explode into a liability, you can turn them away or you can just make sure their bill covers your exposure.

If it's a legally questionable service, there's likely to be plenty of abuse contact, or they're going to be a big target of crime, they're going to end up paying more. This is the same reason why some industries (eg porn sites) have always paid more for card processing.
Going to play the pedantic card and mention that there's also no universal agreement on how to measure a building's height. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat on its own has three different methods and not everyone accepts those as being the correct and true way of measuring the building's height.
The KSA license doesn't sound too unreasonable on the surface. What was the hang-up?
Book Review: Understanding Privacy – Heather Burns
"Nushell" has a "TODO" for half the basic features, like flow-control. Can you go into specifics about exactly what Nushell is implementing "so much better?"

Powershell is a mature offering that uses standardized (albeit verbose) naming to allow you to infer what a command should be called Verb-Noun (Get/Set/Start/Stop/etc)-(Process/Service/File/etc).

People are welcome to critique Powershell but more often than not they don't state what the problem actually is.
Ex-devs who quit programming as a job, what do you do now?
About me:

> Learnt to code 10 years ago to build stuff for the sheer joy of it and hopefully make some projects into some fun software business

> Got seduced by high SWE salaries and trapped in that life

> Lost my soul and passion over the years with multiple burnouts

> Got disillusioned with startup culture / working at any software company for multiple years now ]

> Still seduced by the comfy life, good money, yet I'm burnt out / zoned the f out

> Want to quit and perhaps be a farmer / garbage man / construction worker instead, little to no mental stress

> Want to start passion projects which I fantasise will make money but I'm curious if they'll even make any money at all

About you: what do you do nowadays after quitting being a SWE? How hard was it to transition? How was your financial security like before / during the transition? Any advice for someone who is fed up with that industry?
Flags below the [flagged] threshold are invisible but still act to downweight the post.
> Using hash-of-validation-WASM as a state key is a really cool idea and I'm excited to see how it goes operationally.

Thank you :)

> Using (blinded) proof of donation as an anti-abuse signal is a clever band-aid but seems fraught in the long term.

Agreed.

> Is there a plan to switch off of it to something less centralized, or is it staying this way until it causes problems?

These blind trust tokens are a proof-of-concept because while it is anonymous and has the benefit of funding the project, it is centralized which is far from ideal.

Proof-of-work could be used as a decentralized mechanism for mitigating abuse but I don't like deliberately burning energy. I quite like a concept called "proof-of-trust" that I describe here [1], but the design needs to be fleshed out.

[1] https://freenet.org/blog/799/proof-of-trust-a-wealth-unbiase...
Even if you consider it communication, that doesn't make it a language. Plenty if communication happens through other means.

If we look at the debug session or bash scripting, the closest thing of a two way communication. It doesn't "answer" in code.

I see code closer to something like a Floor Plan an architect may use or a CAD drawing from an engineer. Both of them also communicate, but they are not considered languages. They also have a rules (grammer?) and patterns (vocabulary?).
Please stop using cloudflare, cloudflare captcha and google captcha is spyware and it needs to go away.

> captc
Huh. Now that was some high-stakes poker right there. It seems the casino knew they were breaking the TOS and paying too little and Cloudflare caught up with that. Then knowing their situation they decided to ask for payment for all the expenses of the previous years (and some extra). In quite passive-aggressive manner.

But the casino still decided to stretch the penny and alas, whoever at Cloudflare was in charge got quite upset their extortion-tactic failed. So they decided to resolve it the American way and kick them out with zero warning - ouch! How fascinating.

I myself like using Cloudflare as it's quite affordable to setup and use. Makes me sad to know they have to resolve to tactics like this to finance their service. Well, at least I don't work in dubious businesses that violate TOS so perhaps I can at least wish for a graceful termination when my Enterprise bill is due.
Look up "www.crimeflare.org/cfs.html" in the web archive on http port 82.

This guy ran a DNS for years to prove it until he disappeared. Lots of nazi websites, ddoxing sites, crime networks, conspiracy sites, ransomware groups and russian misinformation campaigns that he uncovered.

Honestly I don't see another way to gather the data necessary for this otherwise. You have to have the DNS data to be able to imply intent.
More Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012)
>Someone appears to have flagged it

I think the whole ipv6[.]rs domain was shadow-banned at some point, last two submissions are marked [dead]:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ipv6.rs
Show HN: My Math Puzzle Simulacrum
If you depend on one vendor, as CTO always have a plan-b prepared that you can pull out and execute. Stall, stall, stall while you're executing your plan.

$120k will never be enough, price hike is incoming for renewal.
I fully agree.

However here we are not talking about laymen, we are talking about people with PHDs in related or exactly this field. If they can't understand it, who is left?
> I don't think so.

OK.
This is an article about Electrified Thermal Solutions.
I guess it's the natural cycle of money always spreading its tentacles to everywhere, and specifically applying pressure after sufficient metastasis and entrenching.
Porsche did it a few years ago.

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2020/company/porsche-high-po...

Here is an ev influencer talking a bit about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6lmTJiNTJc
Yeah I commented, refreshed and was shocked to see it disappear. It's ironic that we're (reasonably) asking for transparency about a post which is kind of about non-transparency.
I'm glad that Microsoft takes a really long time to deprecate these things.

It's "This gets extra awkward in 3 years, and dissappears some time after that", not "This disappears in 3 months".
Yes but it turns out humans don't think critically most of the time.
Well like you said the resistive heating is what sets it apart, and still makes it potentially useful as a thermal ESS because of the classic duck curve even if it's not the primary use case. Soak up excess elec during midday as heat in batteries, use TPV to convert IR back to elec during evening peak or outages. Antora (eg) does this with carbon blocks in shipping container sized units. Would be more desirable/flexible to do a setup like that where the TESS is just another prosumer on the electrical grid rather than using parabolic mirrors+firebricks which can't be used for time delaying supply. Can't speak to the pros/cons of this vs carbon block thermal batteries but still a potential avenue.
> It seems that VBA will continue to exist as the programming front end for MS Office

They already recommend that new projects use their JS-based Office Scripts instead.
How would you tokenize digits of pi?
Only when using tunnel vision for desktop and FOSS UNIX clones.
Python in Excel could have been amazing, except Microsoft executes it in a cloud environment and require a Cloud Service account to even open spreadsheets with it in.

I'd strongly recommend people avoid Python in Excel, it is a Trojan Horse into forcing you to subscribe to access your own spreadsheets.
Glad to see Nikon getting their legs under them, with the Z system.

They make amazing glass, and that's a really big deal.
As far as I can tell, the issue with this is:

OP runs a casino/gambling site. Gambling is a regulatory mess (I have spent far too long dealing with this as an RNG supplier), and so it's very hard to comply with every jurisdiction, and each one needs you to prove compliance to operate in that jurisdiction.* Gaming companies spend a lot on compliance and tracking, but since the internet is the internet, it's pretty hard to enforce perfectly, so some countries and ISPs take this into their own hands.

Due to that, IPs hosting gambling and gaming sites often get regionally blocked by internet providers or otherwise flagged as hosting illegal content. Those regional blocks consequently affect the reputation score of the IP, and if you are a traffic aggregator like Cloudflare, can cause other customers to have issues. One of the most aggressive and annoying regulatory environments for gambling companies is the US, so it's very possible Cloudflare has had some trouble due to gambling use of their IPs in states in the USA.

Cloudflare wanted them to use the BYOIP features of the enterprise plan, and did not want them on Cloudflare's IPs. The solution was to aggressively sell the Enterprise plan, and in a stunning failure of corporate communication, not tell the customer what the problem was at all. The message from Cloudflare should have been "Enterprise plan + BYOIP or ban, and maybe we'll work with you on price" but it was instead "you would really like the Enterprise plan."

*As an aside - we're lucky in that respect being a tech supplier with relatively uniform rules, but our customers (the gaming companies) get the short end of the stick here.
This definitely feels intuitively correct, at least for how my brain works.

When I'm reading language (prose), so much is happening -- what is the writer's overarching point and how does this fit in, parsing tons of ambiguity (a word can have lots of meanings), picking up on the writer's "style" (short and to the point? verbose and flowery?), sometimes enjoying the rhythm and even "musicality" of a sentence, visually imagining a "picture" if it's literature, and so forth.

When I'm reading code, it feels much more like following Lego set instructions, or a math proof. And I'm going slowly. It absolutely feels like I'm using a completely different part of my brain from when I'm reading.

Yes there's a little bit of overlap -- variables can use long descriptive names, and I might be reading a non-fiction article about economics that uses some of they math-y concept-building I use in reading code. But that's about it.

Technically both have a "grammar", but they written language grammar has a flexibility and artistry and ambiguity about it, while computer grammar is rigid and logical and unyielding. Interpreting them feels like they use very different parts of the brain indeed.
https://bdtechtalks.com/2023/10/09/llm-self-correction-reaso...
You are confusing fake or not with "confirms my moral bias or not" and "right or wrong".

Data is unbiased, the interpretation of it is not.
It should be enough to be cheaper if you include the environmental cost that fossil fuels cause to society and planet.
For an HTTP company they sure do hate hypertext. Their entire write-up is just a blank white page unless one successfully executes the javascript from 5 separate domains.
There is something strange to what the article says about modern drives dying hard and fast now. They used to just slow down a whole bunch and you knew you had time to grab info off them. (i assume the seal just broke eventually and they lost the special inert gas in there?)

But now they just die sudden, which i feel is worse. I think i have seen USB drives that die in a fashion where they become read-only which seems like a half decent idea
To be fair to CloudFlare - let's replace "unmetered" with "fair use".

Very typically free = actually "fair use".

Where it gets murky is when this becomes a shotgun sales tactic.
Care to go into any detail at all..?
I used Uber once, then it woke me up with a notification in the middle of the following night. So I deleted it. I still have Lyft though, without problems.
FYI, it looks like you're hellbanned - I vouched this comment back from [dead]. Might be worth sending an email to the mods.

Edit: It's been since at least 2018?