skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're mixing up two different arguments. One is about whether it's unwise to believe tech companies when they say "unlimited". I would agree it's unwise to believe them, because I have insider knowledge (that this word tends to be a lie in the tech industry). The other argument is about whether companies should be allowed to tell this lie without being penalised. These are completely separate things.

Note the word "unlimited" sometimes really does mean unlimited. For example, "unlimited train travel for a month" – there really is no limit to how much you can travel on that ticket. So it's not as if this word is always false by its very nature. It can be true, and it can be false. For some reason, in the tech world, we often encounter people like you defending this particular lie, apparently on the grounds that you personally have learned to see it as a lie so everyone else should just learn this too. It's a contemptible position. And you have the gall to call people "petulant" and "childish" for asking not to be lied to.
Oh okay!
The fossil fuel industry is well known for lobbying and trying all sorts of underhanded tactics to give themselves subsidies and undermine renewables.
I have the second to last generation Panasonic plasmas. 42" 1080p display. At first the picture was amazing but over time it degraded slightly with what looks like subtle noise affecting the entire display. Solid colors have a faint shimmer of noise in them. As if white noise was blended with everything.

I still use it as a bedroom TV. I can barely lift it myself and it claims to use 450watts of power. It's certainly a lot. It's notably warm near it and will heat my room if I don't open the door.

Still the picture quality is very good at a distance. Only oled or micro led displays look better.
We are still seeing the effects of negative sentiment campaigns even today through industry lobbyists and social media campaigns. There is an unusually large number of people and opinions aligned against renewable claiming that they are unreliable, cannot produce, are environmentally worse than their peers, etc. None of which are factually true aside from issues on cloudy windless days.

Suppression is probably the wrong term, but it's naive to believe that there isnt a counter campaign against their uptake being funded by various pure play fossil fuel providers.

I used to work for a company who was one such organisation, we had several PhDs funded through industry bodies we ultimately funded directly and through subsidiaries who had sold their soul to produce material using their "doctor" titles to demonstrate that coal was good for the environment, that wind turbines killed birds in extraordinary numbers and sent people mad, and the solar was poisoning the environment because of a lack of recycling capability. All largely false claims and often based on 30-40 year old early availability chemistry which was no longer in use. It was absolutely disgusting behaviour.
"A greasy-spoon cook would also experience a period of adjustment if dropped onto the line of a Michelin-starred restaurant."

I've worked both. The greasy spoon cook would fare better thrown into Michelin-star service vs the Michelin star cook going into general food service. General food service is ROUGH. In a Michelin starred joint (let's take Curtis Stone's 'Maude' for example) things are prepared quietly, quickly yet slowly enough to allow for precision in presentation. You often have quite a bit of time between courses, so you can collect yourself and prepare for the next course for your guests. Courses generally don't exist in general food service, and you aren't getting any real self-collection time unless you're on your break, as short as that may be.
Australia's continued reliance on coal when they have one of the most abundant insolation is a global embarrassment.
That’s the one I had. What a beast. I gave it away around 2009 when I got my first LCD.
"You don't think "Michelin star guys" had to start as line cooks and could easily do 500 plates...?"

Very few were forged right in the fire of the kitchen. The vast majority went to a culinary school.

I started my taxable life in the kitchen of a combination Chinese restaurant and grocery market.
I'd be perfectly fine with modular homes if they were any cheaper than traditional construction, but they're not. It really makes no sense at all for anyone other than remote/rural builds.
Is the Oxford comma also on purpose?
Partially, this is because parallel works that exist often reference them pejoratively as part of a polemic. As the article mentions, she could be Lilith from the Bible (Isaiah 34:14), mentioned only once, whose identity is largely uncertain (and usually translated as "night creatures" or "night owls"... which is unfortunate). The author of Isaiah was probably aware of who or what this creature was, but as with most other references in the Bible, its use is only tangential and occurs in the chapter relating to the judgment of Edom. We see something similar in Habakkuk 3 with Deber and Resheph translated as plague and pestilence, though the Hebrew words are also the names used for Canaanite deities, suggestive again of a polemical quality that we lose in the English.

The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible has an interesting article on Lilith, but it doesn't provide substantial evidence that this creature is the same as represented by the Babylonian carving. Lilith is attested to, most likely, in other Mesopotamian literature, but distorted by later Jewish and Christian lore.

This is one of the reasons why I find ancient Near Eastern materials so fascinating. We're always discovering something long forgotten, and then it provides evidence roping it back into other surviving literature, stories, or mythologies (the Epic of Gilgamesh being one such work).
Much more entertaining: Get the list of advertisers. Find the ones who aren't allowed to share your data with Facebook, e.g. due to lack of consent or because they're bound by professional secrecy (e.g. banks or health related things). Report to your local DPA.
Here is a colorized version of it based on extracted pigments: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2317/the-queen-of-the-nig...
Lets hope Costco actually gets into the home building business and offers dozen packs of homes with a Super Premium Membership, $1000/year. Like they do with Chicken.

Costco’s inflation-proof $4.99 rotisserie chicken, explained: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23207301/costco-rotisseri...

"But there’s another reason the birds have remained so affordable. In 2019, Costco made an unprecedented move to source its chicken at even lower margins: It set up its own feed mill, hatchery, and slaughter plant in Nebraska, and contracted nearby farmers to raise over 100 million birds each year, all under the name Lincoln Premium Poultry (LPP). It could be saving the company up to 35 cents per bird."
When I wrote Perl regularly, the first two lines I wrote after shebang were use strict and use warnings - they saved me many many times. It is not a universal rule but using warnings as error also helps expose systematic issues.
> Also fairly trivial to rig up a resistive heating system for melting the snow

Couldn't you just run power through the solar cells as if they were giant LEDs? Or don't they like that?
Ah, I did miss that in the article!

I see the accessibility angle though I suppose if someone made a turn-key esp32-based sky tracker that might help get them adopted, save people money, and free up their pi.
And then, the Netherlands just killed off an ecosystem of installation and service of solar, crafted by 2 decades of subsidies. In just 2 months. Such a waste.
Those third parties upload the data they have about you to Facebook (clicks, cookies, times, geo, non-psychology factors)

Facebook then refines what the third-parties have with what Facebook has (enriches this coarse data with rich psychographic data that only Facebook has)

This cuts off that relationship
Replace "conservatives" with "libertarians" maybe.

Independence from the government was the revolutionary idea of the American colonies, eventually culminated at founding the USA (with checks and balances to limit the government). Calling this idea "conservative" is weird, but I understand why some may see it like so.
I was previously using Anybox (macOS, iOS) and it worked great for me, especially with focusing on a small amounts of tags acting as collections. I've moved to a single org file with tags and links as second level headings. I'm thinking on moving these to a wiki style with pages as collections of links like (emacs, linux, writing,...).

As @sandreas said, try to extract context from these links. Like if there's some workflow or high level explanations in the page, a quick summary would help greatly when attached to where you noted the link.

For me links serve three primary purposes. Quick access, interesting resources, and snippets of informations. For the first kind, they might as well be in my browser. The wiki style repository is for the second one. And for the third, I'd rather add them to my notes, citation style. Meaning, I extract the relevant information as a note and add the link as the source.
Why Playing the Long Game Can Be Your Competitive Advantage
My father had a fragrance company (now owned by Givaudan) as client and every time he visited he came back with reproductions of famous perfumes (sampler size). I always found it interesting that they lasted longer or smelled nicer than the original. Of course, most of the time he only brought it back for mom.

First time, I visited, the company with my dad, I was surprised in how much things a fragrance is used. From perfume, shampoo but also cleaning products. It's a fascinating business.
I don’t think this is accurate. While most popular concatenative languages are stack-based, that is not a requirement for the paradigm. The Wikipedia article calls out a few alternatives, such as Om.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_la...
Great article. One of the papers it cites is https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183, which is also great and looks at the issue of LLM usage to write peer reviews.

It’s an issue I’ve noticed personally, as I’m seeing an increasing number of reviews that lack substance and are almost entirely made of filler content. Here’s an excerpt from a particularly egregious recent example I ran into, which had this to say on the subject of meaningful comparison to recent work:

> Additionally, while the bibliography appears to be comprehensive, there could be some minor improvements, such as including more recent or relevant references if applicable.

The whole review was written like this, with no specific suggestions for improvement, just vague “if applicable” filler. Infuriating.
Am I missing something?

How is logging into ssh (sshd) AS root more secure than using sudo? I honestly don’t even know how dangerous that is because I’ve always been told to never allow it. I see here thought goes into preventing that for a remote user, so I’m not talking about that aspect of security here.

Maybe it has to do with #3 in the sudo limitations — I certainly don’t see any benefits vis-a-vis #1.

I totally get that this is an experiment, but I suspect it is more vulnerable than using sudo, not less (the open socket proxy looks interestingly vulnerable to a man in the middle attack).

Having said all that, I did learn some tricks old tools are capable of, so kudos for showing me something new.
> The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada and Britain were among the other countries with plans to bring air conditioners to France.
It's going to look like an apartment building. I don't see an issue.
The health and environmental impacts of centralizing and industrializing food production are lamentable, even if most Americans don't think about it.
“The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada and Britain were among the other countries with plans to bring air conditioners to France.”

Yes… “American” things.
You can also DIY a generator. Mine is tied into my 500 gallon propane tank, and would probably run the house for a month or more. And it cost less than $2k. No automatic transfer switch, but I actually prefer that because if the power goes out for a short time I don't start it up, and I turn it off at night as well.
Internet of Bodies

Basically, the end of the world
My bank telling Facebook that I'm their customer is a breach of privacy. If you care about ethics not law, it's none of Facebook's business to know who I bank with. If you don't care about ethics, only law as written, it's a breach of the law for the bank to share this information with Facebook.

And at least one European Neo-bank no longer does this. I don't think I was the only/first one to report them, and unfortunately I don't think they were fined for doing it, but I sure did report them.
You meant Microsoft's PowerToys Run, correct?

Spotlight is Mac-only and uses Command-Space by default.
And tonight, it will generate 0%.

Solar without batteries should be illegal; we are just creating a massive problem and doubling down on non-renewables. (Coal, gas, and nuclear plants can't shut down and start up that quickly.) Of course, batteries have their own massive ecological issues to worry about.
Every time I hear about that stuff, I see this website listed as source. What is their source?
Yup. While I'm very pro-climate-measures, hosting guests for the event where they must be at absolute peak performance at events for which they have trained for typically over a decade is NOT the time to skimp on environmental controls.

Room temp of 23°-26°C (73°-79°F) may be fine for ordinary couch-potato activities, but not for athletes needing to optimize for performance in the heat. The design is simply not fit for the actual use case, and should have provided the ability to set cooler temps. Optimizing the environment around the competitions, including everything up to bringing their own pillows on tour for sleeping is not uncommon at this level of performance and has been shown to make a difference. The building officials failed to understand the priorities of the assignment. Too bad.
> in their peak can't handle 26 Celsius

Why would any athlete or group want to risk the chance of not being able to sleep well if they are too hot.
I’d be curious what the carbon footprint even is compared to all of the plane and vehicle travel. With France having roughly 90% of its power from nuclear or renewable sources, this seems like a weird misdirection from all of the fossil fuels used for travel.
I'm going to try making that salad, sounds intriguing.
I've worked in the trades off and on since the 90's and modular construction has always been superior to stick built in terms of build quality. Why this style of construction gets lumped in with manufactured housing (trailers) is an enduring mystery to me.
Uh oh! Somebody missed out on some pop culture!

Dumb question for the folks with kids: how are they indoctrinating the kiddos these days? I remember SpaghettiOs ads from Saturday morning and after school cartoons. Do kids even still do those things?

N.b.: all the people in my life with kids are weird. Delightfully weird, but weird nonetheless. I feel totally out of touch with anyone I might describe as a mainstream parent.
That’s definitely not always desirable. Very often I only want the signer to know what (or whether) I wrote, and on top of that I don’t always want them to be able to prove it to a third party. Non-repudiation is often a bug, not a feature!

I believe the concept might be called designated verifier signatures, but I’m not too familiar with it, so I was hoping somebody could shed some light.
"how long it will take to fix?"

"I will let you know as soon as I have the fix"
My immediate thought is that Sun beat both of these guys to market with the T1 20 years ago. Not exactly the same thing, but I wonder how close to the same idea they are; the line seems to have stopped with the M8, which is a 32c/256t part from 2017.
No because a lot of loads can be made to run only when solar is present, so you just suck out excess power when it is there.
Energy-intensive is fine, as long as the energy is renewable.

Smelting aluminum and silicon or mining aluminum and iron ores with electricity produced by solar and wind is ideal: else that energy of light and air motion would be wasted.

Steel and concrete are harder to produce in an emission-free ways, but steel smelting in arc furnaces is very much a thing, and can be powered by renewables, at least partly.
> I think Git's roots show in its lack of DX. But I'll take it over the horror that was SVN and prior tooling.

This statement really confuses me. SVN was so much easier to use than git. It was incredibly straightforward: make changes, commit, done.
I think it’s a bit remiss to not include all of the downsides of this approach. sudo allows control over which groups can exercise which commands, what args those commands accept, subshell spawns, etc, etc, etc.

This approach loses a lot of this fine-grained control, and also relies on trusted keys, which are harder to manage than editing a sudoers file.

To see all the amazing things that sudo can do, I’d really recommend the Sudo Mastery book.
ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability
Err, perhaps I'm missing something, but if the ACM Software System Award is presented to an institution or individual(s) recognized for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, how come Linus hasn't got his yet?
It was right as we were getting picked up, the Waymo was kind of weirdly diagonally positioned, they were 100% honking at it hah.
It is possible to back-feed power through a solar cell such that it emits photons (or maybe just heat - I'm not entirely clear on that). But all solar panels include diodes to prevent this and provide protection from hooking them up in reverse.
26°C isn’t even 80°F. Unless they’re used to training all winter in Fairbanks, it seems like an exaggeration.
> Do you see in your circle that the demand for junior developers are decreasing?

I expect the demand for junior developers to increase exponentially in the next years when the market adapts to the new AI tools as more than ever, every business will be a tech business.
It won't take long before it's possible to mask LLM use by making the text sound more human like, without the excess vocab.

The leap from how the LLMs write now to how a professional sounding scientist might write their paper is probably not that big.

Its possible now to train them on your own writing style.
This is a similar idea to run0 by Systemd: https://news.itsfoss.com/systemd-run0/
correct - it’s like playing an extremely low resolution “replay” of that moment in time.sometimes the frames skip but it’s still visible to me.
Same situation for me. Basically the only ads I ever see in my native language are for American expat tax services (I’m not American, have never visited the continent and have never expressed interest in doing so).

Sometimes I wonder just how good this adtech really all is when the best they can do is figure out I speak English (browser language) and live not in an English speaking country (IP address) and just assume therefore I am American.
You’re talking about an event where thousands of people are being flown around so they can do the activity they do every day but in a different location.

Of course no one involved cares about environmental impact.
the need for less developers will actually increase the demand because it will be easier for smaller companies or business not related to tech to have a software department.
After all of this time... why don't we just make the real DOM fast now?

Why doesn't Meta (creators of React) direct all of this effort into maybe making Blink and/or Chromium faster?

Would have that been really much harder? Given we are at the point of compiled DSLs they've really devoted resources to React.
SSH can do some of that with ForceCommand, though I agree that's not as flexible/precise.
Thanks, these are very exciting.

I'm interested in using Nerf to generate interpolated frames from a set of images. I want to do a poor man's animation. I'm interested in finding Nerf with code but it feels hard to find. Do you know of a good starting point? I tried running nerfstudio and the results weren't great.
Typically there was a projector in the bottom that pointed up at a mirror. The mirror was mounted at a 45 degree angle and pointed at a screen consisting of a giant Fresnel lens and another piece of plastic.
> What do they do with the leftovers?

They keep fine in the fridge for a few days and are still pretty good reheated with a little Tabasco sauce
This type of thing always seemed to be in the very cool but pointless basket, to me.

A lot of systems researchers were absolutely obsessed with clustering, network transparency, distributed systems, and viewed them as the pinnacle of the operating system. I never understood why. I completely understand the coolness factor mind you, I just never could see why it was so important that your server-laptop-phone-network system behaved as a single system.

I think a lot of effort was wasted chasing that dragon. Wasted is probably the wrong word because research into cool things is good and probably created useful things along the way. I don't feel there was ever enough justification put into it and it could possibly have been better spent though.

The alternative of having multi-system tools and programming models that allow you to manage multiple systems without having them appear as a single image at the lowest level didn't get much love from academia after TCP/IP, and was largely developed by industry.
The article is calling two-speaker mono “high fidelity” so I’d take details like this with a grain of salt. I’m sort of wondering if TFA is AI filtered content from another site.
I think these guys have a viable approach - https://xcimer.energy
Another update:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cdk-global-ou...
I have to say that as a page presenting a new programming, this is the best I've seen in long time.

Yes, give simple examples demonstrating the language!

Yes, explain the syntax and structure from these!

There are many languages posted HN. Many of them sound interesting but the linked page often gives no example code at all, weirdly enough. Or it gives the code for fibonacci sequence with no explanation (nth fibonacci number code is embarrassing just cause if you ever wrote a naive routine for the nth fibonacci number in production, you would be doing it way wrong).
>>If somebody told me "image you are walking a winding path. To your right there is a wood, to your left there is a mountain".
>>The image I see in my mind...

I see no image. No empty paper with an arrow, nothing. Same with sounds.

I don't have a problem identifying faces. I'm not great at putting names with faces, but that may be separate.
All this old SGI and SUN equipment was super cool. It was all before my time but it was all super high end and really well built.
Isn't France primarily nuclear powered? Why the heck would an environmental plan for the village consist of "let's not use the major dominant energy benefit the country has".

This is why I hate the environmentalist movement: it's full of "lifestyle austerity" types who don't want to solve the problem unless everyone suffers "appropriately".
With search degrading, it's quite nice to save things that you found interesting, but did not have the bandwidth for. Like I can stumble on a curated list of books, a repository of information about some niche, blog of someone that shares my interest... I prefer to add it to the pile instead of dealing with SEO trying to find it again. And as for read-it later, I prefer to hoard interesting things in case I'm actually forced to do it (They're saved offline on my tablet).