skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A question is: what kind of computer would have run both a 100meg and 1gig HD? Many computers that would have run a 100meg would have various BIOS or other limitations with a 1gig.

Proposed Scenario: The 100meg drive was bought for ~$330 in ~1991. It was brought over during an upgrade to a 486dx2/66 in late 1993/early 1994. Then, in late 1996/early 1997 the 1 gig drive was bought to make space for bigger games and to try to run Win95 on the computer.
Only yesterday I successfully exposed the CPU temps of all my machines as custom sensors in Home Assistant by creating a 30 line python webserver. The Home Assistant configuration took a few minutes more than the webserver portion, but it was mostly a matter of locating and reading the appropriate documentation. Entire job done in 45 minutes (from idea to completion, including SystemD'ification, deployment to 3 snowflakes, and git'ification for reproducibility).

Erlang, Elixir, and the BEAM are super cool space tech for sure, and are also overkill sometimes. For example, for a simple LAN service where a minimalist solution will get the entire job done in 20-30 minutes (or in the case of TFA, a few hours).
Could these changes be attributed to smoke inhalation?
i am usually to lazy to replace the default terminal. most of the time i did that i found some problem that gnome terminal didn't have. rarely i found features that i wanted in other terminals.

but occasionally i get curious, so lets try this:

1: ugh, the theme is dark. gnome-terminal also starts with a dark theme. i go into settings to change that. there doesn't seem to be a settings gui so let's look at the documentation. no mention of switching themes there. a search online reveals that i need to run "kitten themes". there are tons. the day theme looks good to start with.

2: font is to small. ctrl-shift-+ helps. i don't frequently open new terminals so this is good enough for now.

3: attach my already running tmux session. (sorry but i use tmux for the one thing that kitty doesn't support: persistence). works. no problem there.

4: next up: connect to a distrobox container where i do dev work. no support for xterm-kitty terminal type. reset $TERM to xterm-256color, phew. now it works.

5: open new tabs. manpage has a nice table of the necessary shortcuts. i like ctrl-tab because i can do it with one hand.

6: let's look at my email (sup-mua runs in a terminal). oh there is a problem with the colors. the status bar is hard to read. let's try another theme. adawaita shows the list white on white? huh? ok, CLRS seems reasonable. github theme looked better, but the fish terminal colors were to bright, especially the git commands. ironic.

7: faded tabs look ugly. tab_bar_style powerline looks better.

i think that's it for now. hopefully i don't have to spend more time with configuration. i am not really a fan of having to fiddle around to much to get things working.
Casetext: AI Legal Assistant
I'm not an expert, so I defer anyone who can present information contrary to my statements. That said, it would seem that "well-prepared" and "the tsunami wiped out all links" are contradictory. IIRC, many buildings and pieces of infrastructure were not up to anti-earthquake/fire/tsunami regulations due in part to their age. A quick check turns up an NHK article claiming that Ishikawa Prefecture's disaster preparedness plans were deemed insufficient by experts. https://web.archive.org/web/20240201140804/https://www3.nhk....

Additionally, I recall several documentaries and news reports that referenced the difficulty of delivering aid, including food, and the lack of preparedness for the extended period of dislocation.

In any case, I think it would actually be scarier to find that the conditions present after the recent earthquake were to be found in a country considered well-prepared for such disasters. Combined with the collective experience following Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, we as Americans might be, for lack of a better term, f*cked.
CrossLine – outliner with sophisticated cross-link capabilities like Ecco Pro
I don't think the intent matters (though it's moot in this case because I think there is clear intent): If someone unknowingly used a celebrity's likeness I think they would still be able to prohibit its use since the idea is that they have a "right" to its use in general, not that they have a defence against being wronged by a person in particular.

For example if someone anonymously used a celebrity's likeness to promote something you wouldn't need to identify the person (which would be necessary to prove intent) in order to stop have the offending material removed or prevented from being distributed.
In many scenarios, the observer is a machine or tool, not a human mind. And of course there's that whole aspect of replication along with that "scientific method" thing. If science was simply the act of humans making observable predictions and telling them to others, then there would be no difference between "science" and "personal anecdote".

I also don't understand why the mind is relevant. We are trying to prove something that exists outside the mind right? However, even if this phenomena was something that only humans could observe, it would still be testable with science. Science makes observations about human behavior all the time.

Ok, all that said, almost none of this is relevant because my proof standards are not as rigorous as scientific standards. I just want to see some videos of the beings, I'm not asking someone to perform a study here.
Aren't there symbols missing for the mid central vowels which are common in English? I.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel.

How do you write e.g. "learn" or "bird"?

It seems to be needed in the first "This is a sentence..." example as well. Right now it uses U for the lone "a" and I for the second syllable in "sentEnce". But U represents /ʌ/ (as in but) and I represents /ɪ/ (as in bit), but a symbol for /ə/ would be a better fit for these two, right?
no, it's not html-only editor.
editor has JSON data structure which can be exported in different formats (html, md, mjml)
The psychology is fascinating. I would have thought that $1 feels smaller than $0.99. Two nines feels heavy. But despite what my mom would say, I’m surely wrong if everyone else is doing it.
Only a sith deals in absolutes
you can expand the video into "theater mode" and it will fill the window width. just as before.
I get that many/most non-customized items are also available on Aliexpress. But all of the handmade is bespoke, and many of the customized items aren't available elsewhere.
Plz elaborate on long-term implications.
A Neural Network made with Minecraft Redstone [video]
That climate anxiety has existed at least as long.
This is an active topic of conversation in the law enforcement community. The changes and adaptations of not being able to catch criminals using the illegality of weed as probable cause.
In light of me prefacing electronics by saying “somewhere down the line,” I don’t see the quality in this comment.

While there are professions where half-way through you kind of have to go back to the early things you thought you knew, and examine them in a more educated light, I’ve yet to see one as egregious as this. Nobody past a certain very early cut off limit benefits from using water analogies, and there is a push in education right now to move past water analogies because too many students enter first year post secondary with, simply put, incorrect ideas, and it has teachers baffled.
I had always daydreamed of the inverse. A world where we get rid of road signs because the cars HUDs fill them in for us.

But there’s some grotesque likelihood to the idea that the world ends up positively littered and we use technology to filter it out.
I still buy handmade stuff on Etsy. We've gotten coasters with our family name etched in them, vases made-to-order, and other handmade or customized items on Etsy in recent years.
Agreed! I migrated from Manjaro to EOS after Manjaro broke packages and installations for the second time in a couple years, and my experience has been rock solid with EOS.
oh, sorry. i didn't read your comment close enough. that actually sounds interesting. i'll have to take a look. although i prefer mosh over ssh because it is more reliable with the slow connection that i have. however if wezterm can reconnect like mosh that might work. thanks.
tmux a
Does rust have float128 support? This is probably memory bound anyway, so software (rather than hardware) support might be fine(?).
Zellij? Why this name?
I never like thinking of pricing in this way. When you price something as $9.99, you're signaling to your customer that you're trying to manipulate them. Whereas a flat $10 is honest.

Integrity means a lot. The software I sell is priced in whole numbers.

However, the magnitude of effect claimed in the article is huge. It's the difference between selling at cost and a huge margin. Between doing well and shutting down your business.

Given the replication crisis is worst in these types of studies - the kinds of studies that beg to be the subject of TED talks - you have to wonder how reproducible these effects are.

Are we selling our integrity for bad science?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
An extremely, miserably stressful and depressing experience I have been through countless times! I’ve gotten somewhat better about it over the months and years (especially as its impact becomes more of a problem) but now I tend to channel it more into bikeshedding and perfectionistic tweaking....

Not diagnosed and got a high functioning score on an ADHD test so I may or may not have as bad of a problem as others. On the other hand, I failed out of college twice. it’s not great.
This would look incredible in VR.
The PDF linked to in the article explains how it works: https://26011849.fs1.hubspotusercontent-eu1.net/hubfs/260118...

Obviously, it's not bladeless - you just can't see the blades. Page 4 of the PDF explains how it works: the airfoils create a vacuum above the propeller, which then sucks air from below, which generates the power.
It's just a bona fide written by AI article?

There are misspellings, pointless verbiage on the merits of an open standard without using the words open standard.

A 2. Numbering without a 1.

A blurb about 140 billion network AI put of the blue, what does that have to do with a network protocol
Yeah well I am all about a broadcast of spdif using red led's, this is so much fun, there is plenty of bandwidth for activties
This provides a good overview https://spy.com/articles/lifestyle/gifts/etsy-downfall-12030...
Actually, the .99 price-point started as a clever way to prevent theft, manage inventory, and keep track of sales. The idea was that pricing something at $1.00 might tempt a cashier to pocket the bill, but pricing it at $0.99 meant they’d have to open the register to give change, reducing the risk. Back then, most registers didn’t print receipts.

This method also helped with inventory control. For example, if the total sales for the day ended in .56, it meant 44 (or 144) items were sold, no matter how many customers bought them.

This pricing strategy stuck around because it was really useful for running a business smoothly.
Then why do you continually mock Apple and Steve?
Retailers don't do this because of published studies. They do it because they've tested it internally for the last 40 years.
No objects and GC so far. I guess local variables are stored on the stack and for everything on the heap (globals, strings) the transpiler maps MSIL loads and stores to 6502 loads and stores.
Sure. So don't antique shops, but your customers do discovery and retrieval on their own, and the scale is orders of magnitude smaller. Auction houses can organize things into collections that are mostly accessed and cleared out all at once-- there's no random access to individual pieces in a giant churning collection, and they don't keep things around that don't get sold in case someone wants them. People can't get a single item from any collection auctioned whenever they want. It's the same problem space-- like going grocery shopping and sourcing food for a large hotel-- but to calculate the logistic viability of nearly anything in one task based on the other just doesn't make sense.
Please point me to the part where it talks about Etsy putting the users first, then the sellers, then Etsy itself.
If anyone wants this without the hacking part - look at homekit compatible infrared blasters.
Never heard of it. Podman or bust
I really respect what the maintainer is doing: Save up, work on something awesome full time, hope that people will love it and help keep it going. Some might call it naive, I call it bold.

(No affiliation, I just want to be like them when I grow up.)
It means two hours drive away from the nearest paved road.

Massive fuel trucks load up local tanks, smaller fuel trucks fill up from there and take it directly to the tractor in the field, a drive that can easily take an hour on its own. Tractors are slow and usually operating out in some distant field, you can’t bring the tractor to a central point every time you need to power up and you can’t run cables that long for those power levels. It’s really hard to beat diesel for utility.
That's it. Google's cancel culture is getting out of control!!!! /s
I relate to this through my childhood. I had no inner voice, it was all images and feelings up until college woke my inner dialog. I always felt others knew better, and I became a people pleaser due to the lack of autonomy I felt.

It took one unimportant moment of standing up for myself that turned me from a yes follower, into a combative agreer. I had a series of nights where a puzzle appeared to be being solved in my mind, and an inner voice began to form.

Social interactions go much more smoothly when you can think before you speak in terms that others can understand when the words leave your lips.

Thanks for sharing.
I don't have any prompt customisations and am constantly amazed by the quality of responses. I use it mostly for help with Python and Django projects, and sometimes a solution it provides "smells bad" - I'll look at it, and think: "surely that can't be the best way to do it?". So I treat my interactions with ChatGPT as a conversation - if something doesn't look right, or if it seems to be going off track, I'll just ask it "Are you sure that's right? Surely there's a simpler way?". And more often than not, that will get it back on track and will give me what I need.
> I have realized I spend a lot of time trying to keep managing projects rather than doing the project itself.

> Do you use JIRA for life, or Linear, or Obsidian, or pen and paper? Yearly goals, monthly+weekly breakdowns?

The tool doesn’t matter. Just pick a simple one and be done with it. The reminders app built into your phone works great. You sure as hell don’t need JIRA to manage your life.

You are procrastinating doing the work. Sit down, make a list of everything you have to do. Then pick one thing and do it. Then, choose the next thing to do and do that. Rinse and repeat.
JEP 471: Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in Sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal
Do a Brad Pitt and choose both!
LoRa was already taken.
Eh, from my perspective as a buyer it's still a decent place to look for customized or handmade items. I have many treasured items that were purchased on Etsy, and I wouldn't hesitate to buy items like these again. For example, I bought hand-turned knurled wood pens and razor handles (as gifts for myself and my groomsmen), with wood chosen based on my color preference. The seller is still on the platform, and I'd happily buy gifts from him again. I also have several carved/engraved wood items from other sellers.

Is there tons of non-customized stuff that's drop-shipped from somewhere else? Yes. But you can ignore if what you want is the old-school Etsy stuff. I'm sure some sellers have bailed as they've been edged out by big sellers. But for me, it's still a useful platform that I enjoy using.
1. Etsy far as I can tell charge a 20% mark-up on sale price direct from the merchant's own web-site. This is too high - this is Apple tax money.

2. Etsy also look to be charging 4% for currency conversion (which occurs if you view the Etsy site in a currency different to the currency the store issues its prices in). Esty I think are deliberately hiding this charge; it is listed _nowhere_ in the invoice or in billing. Furthermore, Etsy base their conversion choice on the country the bank card comes from, which is not correct for multi-currency cards, and so you can end up paying Etsy 4% and the 0.5% to the multi-currency FinTech as well (when you should be paying only the 0.5% to the FinTech).
This feels like it was written by an LLM and I'm not really sure why it's getting upvoted.
This is well intentioned but bad advice.

Studies in behavioral finance are clear that ordinary investors should not invest in individual stocks over indexes. There are too many pitfalls.

Even hedge funds with teams of sector analysts rarely beat the market consistently.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/14/home-computer/
Related: If you are into this kind of thing and the extra fun that is GPUs + pydata, we have a 1mo or 2mo project around adding rootless to our GPU graph AI containers & packer flow. Ping build@graphistry.com .

Niche but a project we have been wanting for awhile. Base containers get OSS'd etc. This stuff is twisty!
Also it was on a literal “dog” profile picture.

Folks, this is how dog whistles are supposed to work.
I came here to say that part about EndeavorOS.

I've never had any problems with Manjaro, and it seems actually quite good to me, too. But the key difference is that it uses its own, different, package repositories.

EndeavorOS is similarly "arch linux plus and installer and large set of GUI packages" but after it's installed, you use the exact same main Arch repositories to update your system, as if you had installed Arch yourself, and then installed all the same packages that EndeavorOS chooses.

This is what makes EndeavorOS "the most Arch" arch-like distro. The experience with Manjaro is pretty similar to Arch, but not as similar.
"aside from everything else, it seems like it's really, really late in the game to suddenly realize 'oh we need magical compression technology to make this work don't we'"

https://x.com/JohnSmi48253239/status/1794328213923188949?t=_...
Reddit? Metafilter?
> Technology is doing more with less. This is a definition we should not lose sight of.

I disagree: technology is doing more with more. The wheel allows you to carry more by having more (you just added the wheels).

Technology typically transforms energy into profit in a society that maximizes profit. We use more (energy) with new technology in order to make more (profit).

We should strive to do the same with less, obviously. But nobody wants to pay for that.
the /actual/ etsy creators can't afford an expensive bond.

etsy should vet their sellers, simple as
That's not just a flippant reply. The fundamental purpose of invention in our society is no longer about benefitting our lives.

If they invented consumer travel to Mars tomorrow I'd have no interest. In 2024 it would be stupid to believe the customer experience would take the form of anything better than the Star Wars hotel.
so, because this is steel recycling rather than smelting, almost exactly none of the energy used in the process ends up in the final product; 99% or more of it is lost as heat during the manufacturing process. one of the things mentioned in the video is that this furnace uses more electrical power than the entire neighboring town of witten (population 0.1 million), which means that you could heat all the houses. but you'd still need the big basins, because all the houses might not be enough to cool the furnace; certainly in the summer they wouldn't want to

creating electricity is unfortunately somewhat less practical due to the low temperatures of the water, although there are some interesting experiments with deriving power from low-temperature geothermal resources using n-pentane-blown turbines, and you might be able to use that work. getting the furnace's water jacket hot enough to boil water would create the risk of a steam explosion as well as increase plumbing corrosion problems

i mean, it would create a larger risk than the one that already exists due to having a water jacket in a place where a furnace damage could mix water with molten steel—as it turns out, cooling water is already the major cause of fatal accidents in electric arc furnaces, causing several fatal electric arc furnace explosion accidents every year: https://www.aist.org/AIST/aist/AIST/Publications/safety%20fi... and this is stimulating a movement away from pressurized water jackets for electric arc furnaces (at least, if we can believe this marketing white paper from a company that sells non-pressurized electric arc furnace water-cooling systems)

you could conceivably use a different, higher-temperature coolant than water, such as molten salts or sodium, as is done in nuclear reactors, so you could have an unpressurized coolant loop (maybe even using a coolant that wouldn't react violently with molten steel the way water does) but these do have disadvantages; water has a really astonishing ability to transfer heat by nucleate boiling

but then you run into the cost issue: the reason coal plants are not able to produce electricity at a price that is competitive with solar farms is, as i understand it, that the steam-turbine and electromechanical generator part of the plant still cost more than solar power, even in very polar countries like germany, whose utility-scale photovoltaic capacity factor was 10% last i checked. it's not because of the cost of coal; even if coal was as free sunlight, they'd be uncompetitive. and the same cost problem would make it uneconomic to generate electricity from the waste heat from electric arc furnaces, even if you could get the heat out at a more useful temperature. every million dollars you hypothetically spend on recycling eaf waste heat into electricity would have produced more electricity if you had spent it on solar farms and wind turbines instead

district heating is a good idea tho. i wonder if witten is already doing it?
Hellen Keller was 7 years old when her teacher made a breakthough. I don't think she noticed anything about money.
It does have a certain degree of verbosity without ever cutting to the chase.

This is going to happen on an increasingly frequent basis. Good times for those of us who prefer to know if we're reading human- or machine- generated content. :-/
> I've been wanting to sell some of my 3D printed designs, but I'm not paying a buck a piece for a listing that will earn me 5 to 10 bucks if I manage to sell.

The listing fee on Etsy is 20¢ ($0.20).
Looking at OP's submission history, half of it is LLM output, although in the past they had the decency to tag it as such.
A title can be accurate and misleading.
I still don't get why multi user. I haven't seen a multi user scenario that makes any sense for any Linux deploy in ages. Is this a shared prod server? Is it a shared Dev server? Why would those be multi user? For prod, why isnt it cattle where you don't ever SSH onto the server?
For Dev if you can't just run it all on your local machine why not do something like shipyard.build

Somebody tell me what im missing.
Can someone explain what this is attempting to do?
HomeAssistant seems nice enough, but everytime I sit down to try to bend it to my will I get real stuck.

I want to coordinate two thermostats that are on a zoned system, and I have a lot of things I want to do, but the first thing is I want to replace the automatic fan with something more specific, and I can't figure out how to get started:

If zone 1 is off (or fan) and zone 2 has had the fan run less than 30 minutes in the last 60, and less than 8 hours in the last 24, run the fan.

But I can't figure out how to write a homeassistant helper that gets recent runtime.

Eventually, I'll probably just write some Erlang to poll HomeAssistant (since HomeAssistant knows how to poll the thermostat with HomeKit, and HomeKit is otherwise inscrutable).