skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to our Chart of the Week blog series!

Today, we’ll visualize the world’s biggest oil producers in 2023 using Syncfusion’s .NET MAUI Doughnut Chart.

Despite ongoing efforts to decarbonize the global economy, oil remains one of the world’s most vital resources. It’s produced by a relatively small group of countries, granting them significant economic and political leverage.

This graphic illustrates global crude oil production in 2023, measured in million barrels per day, sourced from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
You actually can: not the infra of course, but the operating organization.

In Melbourne, Australia, the state-run Public Transport Corporation was an MTA-style mess and the trains in particular were notorious for delays. In 2009, the operating contract was handed over to the company behind the Hong Kong Metro, and punctuality has ratcheted up from the low 80s to the mid-90s; not quite HK-style 99%, but still a marked improvement, all on the same crusty old infra.

https://www.metrotrains.com.au/metro-performance/
I like sesame. Should sesame be banned world wide because 0-5% are allergic to it? (I assume: no)

Can company choose to produce sesame products? (I assume: yes)

Can company choose solely sesame products, without doing sesame-free stuff? (I assume: yes)

If new regulation comes along, and business deems new requirement is unacceptably high, can it pivot to a different market where it can reuse same investments? (I assume: yes)

Law can be flawed. (Because people definitely are)

Maybe it can be improved? E.g. require random testing, and then say there are 7 seeds in every 100000 of pies.
As far as I understood it, plate armor would help very little against things moving at orbital speeds. Either it penetrates or it creates spalling on the other side. Either option isn't particularly nice.
They also provide plausible deniability. "Look, we have independent research by a reputable firm."
It probably isn't the answer but should be - LAN party.
Thanks. Do you know how the limit is enforced?
Its not about dismantling infrastruture, its about dismantling legal and contractual obstacles that keep MTA a financial disaster and corruption pit
You're using industrial language to talk about food staples, and then suggest that the government is the problem.

Bread is flour, water, yeast, and heat. It feeds people. It's easy to make anywhere you have those things, which is... almost everywhere.

It doesn't require production lines or manufacturing facilities or packaging or even freight. All those things are artificial contrivances, and if they make it hard to practically address concerns like allergens, then maybe they're not a viable approach to providing foodstuffs after all.
1.3 GWh Tesla Megapack project is going online in Arizona
Just noticed this:

Because Microsoft does not allow third-party IDEs to access the official VS Code
Marketplace ...

Anyone know why?

My wild guess is it means MS doesn't want third parties to build their own VS Code based IDEs (like this one)?
Perhaps you didn’t hear about “Real ID”. You need it to fly, and it involves data sharing/matching with the federal government. They did a back door federal ID system by simply integrating with all of the state ID systems.
I've met uncomfortably high number of Mac users who cannot navigate the file system on their Mac.
Im on Ozempic and if I can help it, I'm never getting off.

280 -> 240 with no need to change anything. Easy and simple.

Went from 240 -> 250 since February going off it for a few months.

Back on and weight is coming off.

It works very well, as you just stop thinking about food all the time. Snacking just seems dull.
'Epigenome editor' silences gene that causes deadly brain disorders
EFF: Forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban is unconstitutional
Snipe-IT Free open source IT asset management
It's a scale difference. If you're making bread product for a million people you have a massive factory.. And nuts be there
You need to judge over-regulation as it relates to society as a whole.
Why does it make sense for drivers?
That hasn't been my experience these days, however I do use meteograms which are far better at describing the weather conditions than the basic weather spiel stating highs and lows and whether it will rain or not.
> We use the same data filtering techniques as Gemma 1. Specifically, we filter the pre-
training dataset to reduce the risk of unwanted or unsafe utterances.

Hmmm. I'd love to know what qualifies as "unsafe".
> But what that mean in practice?

I think the key idea is that this system is meant to require zero maintenance; it automates updates, it provides rollbacks if anything goes wrong, it prevents most ways of modifying the OS and sticks applications in containers/sandboxes.

> Every Linux distro promises they are the ”works out of the box” one

Well not every - Arch, Gentoo, Alpine, Slackware, NixOS...
This is the kind of thing LLMs are great at.
James Joyce was a complicated man
GPUs will be reused for mining Monero and exfiltrate money to the founders at the expense of the investors.

Oops, don't tell I told you.

EDIT: Sorry Dogecoin, thanks to the tip!
> FDA has some culpability

They appear to have left the oversight up to two individuals - ones with whom there was an obvious quid-pro-quo [1]. It's a stain on the agency and they should take responsibility and make changes.

[1] https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-fda-failure...
That’s just because they haven’t thought about it enough. Sanctions are unjust.

People’s grandmothers in Russia who can’t get their chemo drugs right now are no different than if your grandma couldn’t get her meds because Bush invaded Iraq.
"Now the property is going for $2,695,000—the lowest asking price it has had on Zillow in the past three years. The public record of the property shows it was sold for only $40,000 in 1994, but between 2021 and late 2023, the asking price remained steadily above the $3 million mark."

That's almost disgusting.
We can punish those who make egregious errors, like saving passwords in plain text, either literally or figuratively during code reviews (i.e., if a senior developer rejects a PR because it is too insecure)
Look at the profile of the person you replied to.
The two hard things in computing: Naming things, invalidating cache and off-by-one errors.
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”

David Frum
Exactly. I wouldn't call this article very balanced. It actually is perpetuating a lot of myths about lithium ion batteries popular with the anti renewables pro fossil fuel crowds.

It opens emphasizing the scarcity of lithium. It's actually one of the more common elements on this planet. There is no shortage. We're not going to run out. It's literally everywhere and we've barely scratched the surface looking for rich deposits of it. There are indeed several viable ways to store energy that don't involve using lithium at all.

Flammability is of course called out as well. Never mind that most car and truck fires are good old ICE vehicles. Battery electric fires are so rare that most fire men will never deal with one in their careers. Very much unlike ICE car fires which they deal with on a daily basis. And never mind that there are lots of very safe lithium ion batteries now. LFP is pretty safe for example.

Calling out long duration storage is another red flag. How much of that is needed? In giga watt hours please. Nobody ever bothers to qualify that. It's just asserted that we need stupendous amounts of it and insinuated that we'd need to bankrupt the planet getting it.

As soon as you put numbers on it, it turns into a simple logistics problem. Oh we need X amount of batteries and it's going to cost Y amount of dollars. And of course while people seem to assume that we need stupendous amounts of it we are actually witnessing the effects that very little amounts of short term storage are having already on the electricity markets. It's wiping out coal and gas plants as a viable way to generate power economically. Short term energy storage is a lot cheaper and apparently removing all these plants is not causing any issues as we have still got way more base load than we need. That's another thing that is rarely qualified with a number.

A lot of coal and gas plants are facing early closures because of batteries. Modern gas plants designed to run for many decades that came online only recently are already being replaced by short term battery storage. It's simply cheaper and gas is expensive. With relatively predictable and stable daily cycles of peaks and dips in renewable energy production, short term storage is covering most of what we need.

Batteries are now being produced at a rate measured in TWH per year. Most of those batteries are kept at a high charge rate most of the time. That's a huge amount of untapped potential energy. It's cumulatively going to amount to hundreds of twh of stored energy that we have just sitting there in batteries designed for short term storage distributed all over the place. That's an enormous buffer of energy expanding every year. Only a small fraction of that is cycled on a daily basis.
Sadly ISP's won't support this without an arm and leg. Small businesses can jump onto Cloud, but no way they can self host. Even getting a email provider that gets past spam is really hard.
Although I agree that navigation via device orientation makes some navigation aspects difficult, I also find it oddly fascinating. It's like my phone has become a window into another world.
To be fair, the tweets are very misleading and the person tweeting has possible deliberately cropped the letter to support their narrative. I suspect the tweets were made in the hope of a little free publicity.
Just had a look, it is worse than this post implies. Actually crazy that a platform the size of Reddit can essentially eliminate a narrative altogether for no reason other than to hide and quiver behind reality.
If I understand some of the videos correctly, their innovation seems to be in the diffusion layer, which makes the LCD appear paper-like. One video mentions quite a few technical details in this area (sub-wavelength nanoparticles, dichroic dyes, etc), so much so that I can't decide if I'm impressed, or that it's just moat-signaling technobabble. But the devices look great in either case.
You definitely shouldn't eat or breathe anything inside a battery. Agree they should be disposed carefully.
There's some thoughtful speculation on this here:

"Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture" - https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
Earlier today:

TeamViewer Security Breach (85 points, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40815074
I don't believe that this is actually unconstitutional. The whole argument about the Fed not being able to set up a Federal ID hinges on the Tenth Amendment, saying that it's not a specifically delegated power.

But that is a ridiculously weak argument, there are tons of ways the Federal Government can mandate the unified ID. For example, it can be tied to the Social Security number. The government can (quite reasonably) argue that it needs to positively identify people to be able to correctly track their SS contributions.

Why this hasn't been done yet? Probably because nobody cares about that. Real ID gets postponed time after time, exactly for the same reason.
What are your thoughts on mandatory wheelchair ramps, fire extinguishers or AED machines? Most of society won't make use of those either.
Most of these seem like feelgood 0.01% savings
Not a straw man if you look at the spirit of the argument.
I have been using a Sony DPT-S1 and a reMarkable 2 for this for the last 4 years. The Sony has a nearly perfect display and weight but only supports PDFs and requires manual content transfers (usb, microsd, or download via a local non-https web server) while the rM2 has excellent transfer mechanisms but has a smaller display. The Sony is quite old now (released 10+ years ago) but still has excellent battery life and functionality - you can probably find it on eBay for a very low cost.
Yes, almost all food these days is an "industrial product" at some point in the pipeline. That's the reality of living in an industrial society and not an agrarian one.
Cheers, googled before I posted but missed that ta
Building high performance cross browser extension with Svelte and RUST
7x as many people in the US die from cigarettes every hour, day, week, month, and year as from all opioids combined.

Cigarettes don’t even require a prescription.

If there is an opioid crisis, there is a 7x larger tobacco crisis, too.
Doesn't seem like it would wear the pad very much, with the disc turning so slowly.
i just found out that my critique of chifir was apparently one of the influences on the design of uxn: http://forum.malleable.systems/t/uxn-and-varvara/107/7
This is the caliber of 'news' you get when you re-work and publish a company's press release nearly verbatim without concern for pesky things like asking questions, cross-referencing, or checking sources.

From the (air quotes) article...

> The chip's architecture integrates a high-speed mesh network fabric that provides substantial bandwidth and minimal latency communication among cores, important for applications that rely on synchronized operations across multiple threads. This efficient network integration manages interactions within the chip's core array and memory systems, ensuring optimal performance without the common bottlenecks.

If anyone can tell me what that means, as it relates to the reality we live in, I'm all ears.

Also from the 'article' as it were...

>InspireSemi also stresses Thunderbird I’s energy efficiency, a carryover from its initial design for energy-sensitive blockchain computing applications.

It's an AI Pump and Dump. It all makes sense now.
Did the Sacklers forget to renew their subscription to Clarence Thomas or something?
You shouldn't coexist with things like asbestos.

It's either ignorant or disingenuous to try to equate that with don't drink the drain cleaner.
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> My own interpretation of the business cycle is that growth cause externalities that stop growth.

The evidence seems to be against this.

https://eml.berkeley.edu/~enakamura/papers/plucking.pdf
Maybe, but we have all kinds of laws on foreign ownership of media. And for good reason: you don’t want the primary source of input to come from a hostile government. TikTok IS the primary news source for the American youth and is used by half the country. To not intervene is to give away future minds and the country to outside influence.

And for those who say FB is also ruining minds, I don’t disagree, but at least it’s “our problem” which means it’s up to us to solve it as well.
and water is wet
More often than not by working a full-time job somewhere else.

Besides that, there are support contracts, sponsorships and stuff like that, but I'd say there are not a lot of people able to live from that alone.
Yep: instead of a bunch of downvotes, that was exactly the right kind of response to your question. Those of us who don't have these kinds of allergies (or kids with them) would have no clue about this kind of thing, and that response summed it all up very well.
>In one of their bags packed for their flight, there was a book titled “Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive The System,”

Don't know your rights, people, it's proof you're bad!
This looks very nice, but a 2D visualization might have been more practical. For example, the fact that the dot size represents the total number of dependents is obscured by the fact that the dot sizes are also a function of camera distance.
The word "meritocracy" was invented for a book about how it's a bad idea that can't work, so I'd recommend not trying to have one. "Merit" doesn't work because of Goodhart's law.

I also feel like you'd never hire junior engineers or interns if you were optimizing for it, and then you're either Netflix or you don't have any senior engineers.
man that car accident + fire,will definatly not buy that
> if you take a highway into the city and stay on the highway, you won't be charged. The charge is only for entering the city grid

That's technically true, but it ignores the fact that both the Lincoln Tunnel (495) and Holland Tunnel (78) require you to enter the city grid. With the way the congestion pricing was designed, if you take either of those tunnels, there's no way to avoid the congestion pricing fee -- this was confirmed multiple times in FAQs and Q+A's.

I'm mostly in favor of congestion pricing, but I really think they need to figure out a better solution for that tunnel issue.
I _would_ like to know if they'd gonna make a KDE spin. Opensuse used to be all about KDE.
They might not be stranded, but Boeing has no reputation to use as defence in this blame game.
To be clear, I'm not talking about generated code or anything touching protobuf serde. Just grpc-the-library. Interceptors, retry policies, channels, etc.
I mean cloudflare worker.
A good question. The VS Code extension API is pretty powerful but extensions run separately from the main workbench process and they can't draw any meaningful UI on it. This was a great design decision IMHO as it is the core reason VS Code has a reputation for a minimalist UI and good performance despite being based on Electron.

However it also made it impossible to build the kinds of experiences we wanted to with Positron. Positron has a bunch of top-level UI as well as some integrated/horizontal services that don't make sense as extensions. We built those into the core of the system which is why a fork was necessary.

It's a goal for Positron to be extensible, so it has its own API alongside VS Code's API, and both the R and Python language systems are implemented as extensions.
Google has become so horrible that an LLM that is right 80% of the time is better than a search that has links to pages that are 90% spam and ad covered pages.
ISO clearly needs to get their act together and start standardizing cross-language insult verbiage.
Of course, everything weird and whacky about the US can be explained because it’s just so much bigger - you wouldn’t understand coming from such a tiny country.
Yes, that's exactly what strawmanning is:

"Ignore the stated argument, discuss my weaker mischaracterization of it instead."
> One thing I miss from RStudio is the Rmarkdown documents with inline outputs

This is already in Quarto! https://quarto.org/docs/computations/inline-code.html#:~:tex....
Satellites and spaceships are classified as weapons, tours that actually showed anything to the general public without some solid verification would be a serious crime. You'd have to be a "US Person" which means generally at least green card or a citizen of a friendly country.

Like if you gave a tour to a Chinese citizen you could well be guilty of exporting protected technology.
Imagine being called out of bed to turn off a feature flag.

This is nonsense.
Not just the NYT, most media these days will try to stir up controversy and make you angry. First you are made angry about the implementation of the congestion pricing, then you are made angry about its cancellation.
It's had that meaning in the USA for decades, so Finnish probably borrowed it. The US doesn't get much exposure to Finnish media.
Reminds me of the 3D file browser user interface in Jurassic Park, which was an actual application. Looks cool but its not good to use (I mean the 3d file browser, not this software galaxies, which i found quite good).

3D interfaces rarely plan out, wonder if something like a vision pro or quest could make a 3D user interface work better than a 2D counterpart.
You are absolutely correct! Law enforcement should not in any circumstance be allowed to go through someone's library of books that are publicly available and then try to tie in one of those books with the fact that they've committed a crime. That is the problem, like many people in this feed they are totally oblivious of how much illegal control and power they are giving the authorities. Interestingly though, my gut tells me that they didn't even find that book that that book may have been planted as evidence against them. We live in a world where police are always getting busted on social media for lying in deception. We can no longer sit back and assume that they are doing the right thing behind closed doors. I don't believe for one minute that they found the book I think that was their way of adding a layer so that they could later charge the people.
If we don't fight this type of stuff now, our lives As Americans in the future lives of the next generations literally will not even be worth living!!!
Drivers are background checked but honestly they probably get more abuse and attacks than passengers. After all there's no accountability on riders but there is accountability on the drivers.
Love it! Had the soundtrack album. “Don’t touch me!” is my favorite.

https://youtu.be/pFO5hfumb1A?si=fUCyx-LBeuIlGBxL
Something fishy with that 40K selling price in 1994, because it sold for 325K in 1992, just two years earlier.

If you want to take a look inside: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/17371-High...
seems to be done in the same way, but the parameters are off. aswd (camera angle) + arrow keys(panning) works nicely when zoomed out but very sensitive when zoomed in.
Correcting in the other direction is way worse. I had a huge surgery last year in Germany and 8 days later when released from the hospital, bones still not yet fused, I was given no industrial-grade painkillers whatsoever.

I had to cop on the black market to keep from going insane from insomnia and screaming, until I could check myself into an inpatient clinic that would dispense them legally.

There is more harm in making them difficult to get.
> In the case where someone ran the sesame buns on third shift it very much wasn't a rounding error afterward.

If it is a rounding error compared to the level that you find acceptable now it was a rounding error compared to the level that you find acceptable now.

If 1% plus epsilon is acceptable and you can buy it now, 0% plus epsilon was surely acceptable and you could buy it before.
Obeying Computers just leads to the commodification of control and efectively humans-as-a-service
If engineering licensing organisations were in charge of hiring, the leetcode questions would be replaced with UML-diagram-drawing questions.
You don't to wonder, you can just look it up and find out that they did, right when they started this whole concept.
> Broadcom provided no code for its gear

> so Finger helped reverse-engineer the necessary specs by manually dumping and reading hardware registers

I really wanted to leave this quote here for all to see. The badassery of this act should not be underestimated.

I've done a little bit of work along those lines. Reverse engineering my laptop's features, writing my own free software to drive them from inside Linux, emailing the manufacturer asking for documentation and receiving user help pages. It was mostly USB stuff, the most well documented interface imaginable, and it was still hard. I simply cannot fathom how he reverse engineered this Wi-Fi stuff. That's just a huge inspiration for me, I hope I can get near his level some day.

Thank you so much for your work and RIP.
I use it for (non-German) computational physics and various sciency stuff. It strikes a nice balance between stability and updates. It just gets out of the way and does not need babysitting. It’s great.

It works fine with the nVidia drivers without messing around too much, which is not something I can say about most distributions I tried.
Was this published early? The date says July 1st, 2024