skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They offer a nice (free) secondary DNS service, which I use for all my domains. From my limited interaction with them, they seem like a great company. They also provide some nice IPv6 tutorials as well, and offer free IPv6 tunnels for those who can't get native IPv6. All in all they seem like a model company that believes in giving back to the internet community in meaningful ways.

Unfortunately, I use them to host secondary DNS for all my domains, so this Network Solutions stupidity is hitting home for me right now. Then again, I had enough issues with NS back in the 1990s that as soon as that monopoly was broken I switched and never looked back. TBH I'm a little surprised that HE would use NS, but perhaps they did thinking that NS would provide proper enterprise-level support for a major backbone provider and not cut them off on a holiday with no recourse - behavior you might expect or fear from a cut-rate provider.
I’m actually curious about the linguistics of something like a telegraph for ancient Egypt - I’m not particularly familiar with the Egyptian writing system from that era, but a strongly pictographic language, and one in which they seemed to regularly intersperse actual pictures and do things like manipulate symbol size to convey information doesn’t seem to immediately suggest translation to an encoding like Morse like phonetic written languages do.

In other words, if the ancient Egyptians had found themselves with the technology to create something like a telegraph, I wonder what they would have done with it - what possibilities suggest themselves given the visual representation of the Egyptian language.

(I could actually see something like the Incan quipu being a much easier translation, if we’re talking premodern “written” languages)
Anyways, I think ARM is on to something with their Edge AI IP, which enables inference in microcontrollers. So far, there is no Nvidia of microcontroller ML. If ARM managed to build a moat with proper software, they can go very far...
what's pg&e?
We should slowly expand what “set and forget” means. Dishwashers and clothing washers for example, we could modify our behavior a little bit without any major inconvenience (load it up, put in the soap, and then let it schedule itself, you’ll get a notification when it runs).

Ovens and stoves are, I think, an unusually bad case. Although, slow cooking should be shiftable, right? Maybe we’ll have to eat slow cooked ribs instead of hamburgers. You know, to save the planet or whatever.
Maybe not more efficient, but maybe more resilient to electromagnetic storms, not prone to overheating (maybe), etc... Maybe it's about fitting constrained scenarios.
They did. It worked so well, they wanna do it again. /s
Could you maybe link me one of those? I've googled a bit but didn't find ready-to-use DBs with that data.
Lowering interest rates wouldn't have solved this. The problems are multi-layered because this was a multi-layered economic attack that's been almost 3 decades in the making.

The action of lowering interest rates will pop the bubble that started with QE in 2010, but has ballooned since then. At this point it is inevitable, and will be the worst financial crisis to date because we'll be seeing foreign held reserves of USD come flooding back (now that the petrodollar agreement expired).

This is what always happens when you deficit spend forever thinking MMT is a solid strategy (when its magical thinking sacrificing your children's future for short term gain).

We have already entered a depressionary stagflation (Dec 2023), if you normalize the currency value, and undo the changes in metrology the Fed snuck in, its pretty clear.
This is probably the best argument in favor of universal basic income (UBI). Any nation that leans into that can then focus on innovation.
I was with Network Solutions from 1997 to 2023. They were bought by web.com in 2018. They keep the name on the old domain and don't redirect to web.com because they have some non-API automation in place on the old domain.
I’ve never heard of this outside of government contracts that require n+X. Is this a visa related workaround or what?

Or is it just chatter from the grapevine?
Keep in mind, they also might be lying.
> Most of the stuff we threw away ends up in landfills, mining those will get lots of resources and knowledge.

I actually think this is something that’s inevitable for us today. The amount of high-value material that we’ve “discarded” by collecting it into one place and then ignoring it - the processes need to be developed, but at some point we’re going to recognize how much useable stuff we’ve just been piling up in the corner.
Note that this almost certainly uses Google's indexing API. rshzrh, please correct me if this isn't the case: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/qu...

It's intended use is for job postings and short lived pages:

>Currently, the Indexing API can only be used to crawl pages with either JobPosting or BroadcastEvent embedded in a VideoObject. For websites with many short-lived pages like job postings or livestream videos, the Indexing API keeps content fresh in search results because it allows updates to be pushed individually.

Not too long ago some SEOs figured out it would get any page indexed. A bunch of services similar to this sprung up.

Currently this method works and incurs no penalty. However, it doesn't followed Google's intended use of the API and it's not impossible that some future algo update could downrank pages indexed via this method.

Search console allows you to manually request indexing for 10 pages per day. This seems to really work when google hasn't reviewed a page. I would love to use a service that took a queue of urls and indexed ten per day using the search console request form. I'm not sure if this is technically possible however. It is tedious to do ten pages per day, every day.
Nit: There appears to be both a "React Native" and a "React-Native" bubble in the JS framework graph.
They expanded the CSA to include Baltimore so as to reduce the average salary rate, and thus they didn’t have to pay for COLA wage increases.

From late 1989 to mid 1998, I lived in various parts of Northern Virginia and the Capitol region of Maryland, and made many trips to Baltimore. Totally not the same metro.
Utility company somewhere in the US.
Wikipedia has it incorrect then, as they list it as "formerly web.com" ("Network Solutions, LLC, formerly Web.com is an American-based technology company"). Thanks for the clarification!
> Due to rising power costs I moved one of my homes completely to solar and battery

Were you able to disconnect that home from the grid? Most places you're required to maintain a grid connection unless the home is in an exceptionally remote location.

While pricing tends to be usage-based, true costs tend to be dominated by the capital expense of building base-load capacity for the few days your home might need to run fully on grid power. So as long as you're connected to the grid, you're still forcing the utility to spend about the same amount of money even if you only use grid power a few days out of the year.
Why not get a second sim? Most phones can have 2 sims active, and a phone / text only plan is dirt cheap (3-6$/m).

Offer the second number with much greater discretion.
Wdym, electricity distributor? I thought hydro Québec handles 100% of the distribution too. Is this something new?
You’re thinking of Diskmantler https://garnerproducts.com/products/hard-drive-destroyers-so....
It's incredibly likely. Lots of money spent on weapons and helping refugees, which has to come from somewhere; huge amount of fuel prices going up, which drives most other goods up. Straight after Covid.
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork:

> While the data fork allows random access to any offset within it, access to the resource fork works like extracting structured records from a database.

So, whatever the on-disk structure, the motivation here is that from an OS API perspective, software (including the OS itself) can interact with files as one "seekable stream of bytes" (the data fork), and one "random-access key-value store where the values are seekable streams of bytes" (the resource fork).

So not quite metadata vs data, but rather "structured data" (in the sense that it's in a known format that's machine-readable as a data structure to the OS itself) and "unstructured data."

The on-disk representation was arbitrary; in theory, some version of HFS could have stored the data and resource forks contiguously in a single extent and just kept an inode property to specify the delimiting offset between the two. Or could have stored each hunk of the resource fork in its own extent, pre-offset-indexed within the inode; and just concatenated those on read / split them on write, if you used the low-level API that allows resource forks to be read/written as bytestreams.

This in mind, it's curious that we never saw an archive file format that sends the hunks within the resource fork as individual files in the archive beside the data-fork file, to allow for random access / single-file extraction of resource-fork hunks. After all, that's what we eventually got with NeXT bundle directories: all the resource-fork stuff "exploded" into a Resources/ dir inside the bundle.
Or imagine if AI provides access to extending life and youth indefinitely, but that doing so costs about 1% of the GDP of the US to do.

Combine that with a small ruling class haveing captured all political power through a fully robotic police/military force capable of suppressing any human rebellion.

I don't find it difficult to imagine a clique of 50 people or so sacrificing the welfere of the rest of the population to personally be able to live a life in ultimate luxery and AI generated bliss that lasts "forever". They will probably even find a way to frame it as the noble and moral thing to do.
They can absolutely be recycled, lol.
Please elaborate, how would block chain solve this problem?
Is a grid-charged battery backup different than a UPS? I guarantee there's UPSs in use in Minnesota.
You can’t just look at distance and judge. I knew guys who lived north of Baltimore but commuted every day to the Pentagon. That doesn’t make Baltimore and DC two parts of the same city.

Just like there are people who commute from New York to London, or vice-versa. NyLon is a thing, but that still doesn’t make them two parts of the same city.
I don't know anything about the man; what kind of life did Kafka have that happiness was easily had IRL and he needed books to experience misery?
Bevy makes it much easier to write reasonably fast, easily maintained, refactorable code. It's great for situations where you have a lot of complex logic, want to do something particularly weird, or require a lot of non-rendering performance (Unreal still crushes us on rendering performance due to several decades and billions of dollars of investment).

Factory builder and simulation games are the classic example of "when should you use Bevy". You should absolutely pick Godot right now for games that are more content-focused that need a lot of level design: puzzle games, platformers, walking simulators...
Is the obfuscated-C style really necessary?
Last I checked, compacting C source did not directly result in tighter object code.
And even on platforms that allow unaligned access, isn't there usually a performance penalty when the access straddles two cache lines? Still best avoided if possible.
>I purchased pallets of used panels for more or less the cost of transportation ($34 per panel 270w)

For comparison, I've seen pallets of new 24 410w panels at 58€ per panel (transportation included), hopefully I'll see similar deals in the future when I will ready to jump into solar.

Edit: I'm mostly worried because I don't know how sustainable the industry is when you can buy solar panels at such dirt cheap prices.
> All the historical details are so intricate that they are almost impossible to match by a novelist writing about a fantasy world or the far future.

This is a thing game designer / writer Ken Hite always says [1], and he's absolutely right. If you dig deep enough into even the most boring corner of history, you will find more interesting details than any person could possibly invent. And if you base your creative work on an exciting part of history that people are familiar with, you have huge advantages.

[1] It's a frequent subject on his podcast, but this talk is also good introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwVcbZ0CKCY
> https://tamerc.com/posts/ask-hn-who-is-hiring/#what-javascri...

"Node.js" and "NodeJS" are drawn as separate spheres, is that intentional? Similarly for "Vue.js" and "VueJS". (Maybe the same for "Angular" vs "AngularJS" too, although the former might be referring to Angular TypeScript).
> These elements lead people to say that PowerShell looks like Perl.

> whipupitude

Historical roots and original intentions aside, the verbosity of Powershell syntax and the clumsiness of the shell place Perl and Powershell on opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of "looks" and the ability to quickly whip up something.
Probably better off installing from PowerShell Gallery instead. https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Microsoft.WinGet....
This blog post is all over the place. The 2030 price projections are taken from extrapolations of Lithium battery costs, but he’s assuming Sodium chemistry batteries will take over and become ubiquitous at rock bottom prices. The first Sodium batteries barely became available within the past year.

He’s also treating batteries like the only component of the system. The associated charging, inverter, and physical structure components aren’t going to follow the same downward curve. Those are fixed costs on top of the battery itself.

Finally, there’s a lot of vague futurist writing mixed in, from congratulating himself on predicting in 2017 that EV trucks would be a thing some day to something about the blockchain for coordinating power grids:

> I think this is also an area where distributed ledgers with low energy requirements (so not Proof of Work but Proof of Stake) could shine by creating an ‘trustless’ system (meaning the system justs works, also if there is no ‘trusted’ party that plays the boss).

This statement doesn’t even make sense when you read it. He defines “an [sic] ‘trustless’ system” as meaning a system that “just works” which suggests to me that he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about but has been led to believe that blockchain is the future for everything.

Fun read, but I didn’t get much out of this article other than “prices are going down”
So I don't believe the NSA are out to get me, if I did I'd want something a bit more thorough. My main "threat model" is someone picks up the drive from the trash and tries to read it.

However you're wrong about this. As we know from when capacitors and batteries leak, the acid or alkali in those can get inside chip packaging by being wicked through the leads, which will destroy them thoroughly from the inside as well.
Outside of the core reactivity and scenes work, I'm really excited about the improvements in both text rendering and picking. I think both of those will make a huge difference in terms of usability and correctness.

Once those are a bit more stable, I'd like to target a focus system for UI, to enable good keyboard and gamepad menu navigation and to hook up to screen readers.
Step #2 is trickier than it seems, because you can't just make up an identity and you need to include details.

Step #4 (not shown) is where the entity that you did this to has their lawyers grind you into a fine paste. That's why most of the DMCA fuckery happens to targets that can't fight back.
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Aside from it benefiting energy companies, is there any justification for such a law?

In South Africa we’ve had load shedding on and off since 2008. It’s becoming pretty standard for middle class homes to have inverters with batteries and optionally solar.

It does create an issue though that when a load shedding window ends, a whole lot of batteries start charging all at once (especially during non-daylight hours).

Also due to load shedding, I don’t get full use of my batteries. Ideally I would like my batteries to pretty much fully discharge over night with energy from my solar during the day, however, because load shedding is somewhat irregular here, I have it set to not go too low so it has enough energy to tide me over.
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Yes. Totally disconnected, zero power bill. That home is in a jurisdiction where that is permissible.
Bro. "Aliens" ;D
Fair. I guess I have an issue with technology projections that assume the technology will follow some fit, because it always has. Every bit of progress is made with tons of risky work and breakthroughs, and none of it is guaranteed like you would think it is just by looking at a fit.
I remember this site from the 00's: http://cdrfaq.org
Freeze dried foods. They have already appreciated over 100% in two years. They will be good officially for 25 years but in reality longer than anyone I know will be around. This is not advise to others, I might just be a little touched.
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Yes, you are right and statistics is confusing from the outside.

My opinion is LLMs are just applied statistics and you see people losing their minds thinking the models have "come to life". Most people just really have no intuition for stats.
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What could be a more Vim-like experience than feeling like you're constantly hitting a wall when first learning? :)
What do you mean precisely by "character addressing UI"? I can infer approximately what you mean, but I had never heard that phrase before and could not Google it, so was wondering how precisely you define that as presumably slightly distinct from other more common terms for text mode applications.
It seems like they may be prone to overheating in some fashion. All that electricity and motion has to cause some kind of thermal load. Or am I way off base?
Hi, MurmurHash and SMHasher author here.

With the code-golfing obfuscation unwound, Th64 is structured very similarly to MurmurHash. The source data is pre-mixed via "rol(x * r + i, 31)", the hash is mixed via "hash = rol(hash * r ^ x, 31)", the tail bytes are mixed via "hash = hash * r ^ x", and the finalization mix is three "hash = (hash ^ (hash >> 31)) * r" rounds.

I see nothing wrong with it if it passes SMHasher3, but it's also not radically different than other hashes - it's just smooshed down into four lines.
Is there evidence that it was actually made in Greece or could it simply have ended up there?
I looked at it and couldn’t find any that offered enough cranking amps. I’m not sure how easy it would be to design a lifepo4 battery for the application.
Nice. A media player mode for audio and video in Emacs.
Edit: since the domain is fixed, this isn't reproducable anymore.

An interesting thing is that if you have a .net domain with he.net nameservers, the .net authoritative servers will give you full glue records with the A/AAAA for nsX.he.net. But if you ask for he.net, you get back NXDOMAIN.

Example domain removed; no longer relevant.

NetworkSolutions is a truly terrible registrar, and anyone who still has a domain there should use this occasion to switch to somewhere better, which is almost anywhere. IMHO, it may be worthwhile for a real business where their domain is important to move to an expensive corporate registrar like MarkMonitor or CSC, and looking into registry lock, etc.
Diffusion policies are indeed started to be used in Robotics recently. See https://diffusion-policy.cs.columbia.edu/ and related research.
It's easy now. It was an unsolved problem two decades ago.

And it's not like there's no technical means for the phones either. Just enforcing caller ID would go a long way to curtail spam. Like in our great Red Tape Europe, even with uptick in recent years we have a tiny fraction of spam calls compared to the United States.
Status in whois response is “active” for me, and he.net resolves from DNS for me, so I guess it’s been fixed?

But why did they list a @he.net email address as one of the emails to contact them on? Wasn’t the problem that he.net would not resolve because of that very client hold?
Lead Acid batteries must get replaced every few years.

An equivalent LiIon battery would not need to be replaced so quickly.

So at some crossover point the environmental cost of X * recyclable Lead acid batteries is higher than LiIon batteries.
> Paper maps you can draw on, but erasing is hard/impossible

I am amused when movies show military situations where commanders draw on huge and otherwise pristine rollout maps. Are they going to be discarded after this one engagement? If not, shouldn't there be scribbles from prior uses?
How is that relevant to my suggestion to have PWSH add in cmdlets for everything from GUI to chart/graphs, to adding scientific/numerical commands as well? I was talking about a general solution and not just graphs for my queries if that makes sense. I appreciate the suggestion though!
> As a side note, I recently transferred all my domains away from NetSol/web.com as they lost the ability to define custom name servers

FFS is that what happened? They recently bought the registrar I use and a domain of mine with custom nameservers isn't working and I haven't had a chance to troubleshoot.
Have a chat to the developers and see if having copilot / chatgpt available has influenced how they break their PRs down first.
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Except we are not going to have cheap batteries and solar in the USA and never ever cheap EVs

Remember how tariffs were called "asinine" when the last administration did them?

Next year tariffs will double the price of batteries and solar imports, except there's no domestic production to even compete at that high price.

Oh semiconductors are going to double in price too in 2025, buy soon.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156249/us-biden-china-t...
Typescript/JavaScript libraries are in the list, but JS it's single threaded, so I don't know if there is really something missing here.
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> Classification models break down to regression problems under the hood, but regression metrics are not good tools to evaluate the efficacy of classification models.

You're simply wrong. Regression is a tried and true classification technique. Posting personal and baseless assertions don't refute that. I mean, pick up pretty much any textbook on supervised and unsupervised learning. You always end up with an approach which boils down to having training data, put together a trial function, apply a minimizer to fit trial functions to training data, and evaluate the resulting model by running trial data through it. Fitting trial functions to training data has a name: regression. Minimum squares has a very precise interpretation both in linear models and in probability. There is no way around it.
You have it exactly opposite - it is only the moneyed and well-connected who can get the regulators to make rules that fit their needs, while the small business has no hope.
True, but in my case I think it isn't enough of a Vim-like experience.
In that case I would have expected modes I could stay in for longer than a single cell entry.

It would be fine if I'm in insert/edit mode and I can move around entering values in several cells and then press escape to exit that mode.

The reason I think TUIs are attractive to use is because they're more efficient to use. But this one doesn't feel more efficient to use than its GUI counterparts.