skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In JPEG*

The title should reflect that. Obviously this is misleading otherwise, there are a million ways of representing grayscale in data.

Sure, you can argue just picking a color channel and making it the grayscale source is not gonna work as expected, but what if we're talking about the data off a pan sensor vs an RGB array? What about a pan sensor created by taking an RGB sensor and removing the filter so it's producing an image with 3x the resolution but in pan?

This is a complicated question.
Never forget Kareem Serageldin - the one person who went to jail for the 2007 financial crisis.

In fairness, he was an exec making $7M per year - so not a nobody, but he was only managing 70 people (Credit Suisse was a ~50k person company), and obviously not the only person who should've went to jail.
Yep. The FAA is slowly enforcing the rules around drones more and more harshly. Someone recently flew a drone over a concert and got a letter from the FAA asking for an explanation of their flight. From what I read, that guy is looking at potential jail time. At some point, the FAA is going to start making some examples out of people.

I'm also pretty sure people have already gone to jail for shooting down drones.
> There used to be certain things that all nerds knew, and could talk about, use as analogies and metaphors.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Brief of the news:

"Eli Lilly will buy bowel-disease drugmaker Morphic Holding for $3.2 billion in cash, adding firepower to its immunology pipeline. The Massachusetts-based Morphic is developing a drug to treat both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, a condition in which the immune system causes inflammation and ulcers in the colon. The drug, currently in the advanced stages of research, would complement Lilly’s own colitis treatment and add to the pharmaceutical giant's lineup of best-selling diabetes and obesity drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound."
One thing I note is that many people I know who work in food service believe their job is "bullshit", however in food service jobs it is usually directly obvious how somebody benefits from your work.

Those people don't like their work or the way they are treated and they seem to express that they personally find it meaningless.
A lot of things feel self-evident then turn out to be completely wrong.

We don't understand the processes in the brain well enough to assert that they are doing computation. Or to assert that they aren't!

> say the brain is non-computable is to assert the existence of a soul, in my opinion

I don't believe in souls, but the brain might still be non-computable. There are more than two possibilities.

If it is the case that brains are doing something computable that is compatible with our Turing machines, we still have no idea what that is or how to recreate it, simulate it, or approximate it. So it's not a very helpful axiom.
From a quick search, ethylene (C2H6, not C2H2, btw) is worth ~$700 per ton. If the researchers could re-tune their process to produce high-quality ethylene, that's fine. (Within limits - the potential market for ethylene is probably far smaller than that for methane.)

For on-site "methane battery" uses, it's probably fine if your methane is fairly contaminated with a known-when-you-designed-the-system mess of somewhat-higher hydrocarbons.

But from a quick search, gas and power utilities seem very much concerned with higher hydrocarbons in their methane. And "higher" = "worse". Which makes sense. Those would alter the proper fuel/air ratios, and probably impact emissions. And they do not want liquid hydrocarbons to condense inside their high-pressure gas lines in cold weather, then cause "water hammer" damage to equipment.
I don't think they were suggesting you engage in fairytale thinking. The way I read it is that they were just trying to get you to realize this isn't about you, it is about the person skipping the line. The reasoning behind it could be anything, from cultural, to a dying relative.
Fake Toll Payments Phishing Scam
Yesterday I was targeted in a fairly convincing phishing attack disguised as the Washington State toll payment system known as Good To Go.

Luckily I realized it was a scam before providing any important information to the attackers.

I took this opportunity to learn more about the scam. The linked gist contains my findings.
I'm sure they can try. But put yourself in the shoes of that engineer. Imagine what would go through your head. My entire MO would be CYA. Every 1on1 conversation, secretly recorded (thank you favorable NY state laws), and a paper trail a mile long. For just this reason.
It doesn't have to be very efficient, but it is has to be cheap. Batteries aren't cheap but they discharge every night so their cost is spread out over ~365 days and their cost becomes feasible.

Pumped storage is ~10% the cost of batteries, but if used as seasonal storage so they only discharge once per year that makes them ~36X as expensive. Especially in Alberta where they're competing against Natural Gas which is also approximately free (it's often flared off as a waste gas from oil wells rather than captured and sold because the value is less than the cost of capture).
> The whole PowerToys suite looks useful.

The old one was.
The new one, not so much.
There’s a huge difference between load shifting a couple of hours and seasonal storage
In the US, sometimes the court may “pierce the corporate veil” when actions are particularly egregious or unlawful and hold the shareholders or directors personally liable.

Rather than go into all the specifics of law (since I'm not
a lawyer), I'll cite some examples where corporate executives were charged personally:

(Tax evasion):

-https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-multibillion-dollar-softw...

(Securities fraud):

- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-medical-device-company-ch...

(Identity theft and fraud):

- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-medical-device-company-ch...

(RICO - Providing encryption to avoid law enforcement):

- https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/sky-global-executive-an...
How cool! There's a lot to learn from here. Thank you for sharing.
Sort of?

One of the really nice things in Literate Programming

http://literateprogramming.com/

is that one gets a nicely typeset PDF which has a hyperlinked ToC which does serve as a "structure overview": https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepre...

I agree, some facility for automatic re-organization and adjusting what is shown/readable in terms of hierarchy based on how much or little of the program is being shown would help a lot.
Browsers that don't show the full URL are only showing the domain name.

So I don't understand what you're trying to say. The domain name is actually more prominent, to help a little bit against phishing.
No, you never weight each ski evenly. Former WC mogul skier here and even in moguls there's a slight difference in weight on each ski in a turn. Shaped hour glass skis make it easy to turn but you still need more weight on the outside downhill ski.
All this burn and recruiters and bots still match on keywords in CV.
> But there is no "reasoning" occurring here - just syntactic templating and statistical auto-complete.

I don't know why people continue to be so sure that "reasoning" is not some form of syntactic templating and statistical auto-complete.
Once upon a time, whale oil from whaling was a major factor in the Canadian economy. Then whale oil was replaced by kerosene and then the electric lightbulb. Tar sands will go the same way, and Canada's booming wind turbine economy will replace it to some extent (wind power can be exported in several different forms).
Playstation 4 Emulator ShadPS4 Can Now Run Bloodborne on PC at 1 FPS
Worth a shot! He does have a bit of an odd way of writing characters. I preferred the setting and culture of Player of Games, but I do think Use of Weapons and Consider Phlebas have stronger characters.
This came up in my FAA drone training. There is nothing legally preventing a drone pilot from hovering an inch over the grass in your backyard. They can't land as it's your private property but class G airspace extends all the way down to ground level and is under federal control.
> let's all take a moment to stare at the horror show that is the 13% that is real estate.

12% in both USA (2023) and Mexico (2015). Other countries that use a similar classification seem to also be in the same range. Japan, for example, also sits at 12% (2022).

Is a single percentage point really that horrific?
Perhaps it would make you feel a little better to learn that RDP was created from Citrix’s ICA protocol during some cross licensing between the two companies.

I worked on using hardware acceleration to replace parts of the ICA client application’s raster functionality for “thin client” devices a lifetime ago.
Why would you let your hydraulics freeze?
I don’t think the hot side gets hot enough for it to be a particularly useful heat, but it does help heat the space that the fridge is in. The rest of the fridge is cooling the surrounding space though, via whatever heat leaks in through the insulation and particularly whenever you open it.

I’ve sometimes wondered whether somehow having the hot side go outside (like with a heat pump) would make sense during the summer, so it acts as part of the air conditioning.
> but we could also just order them without the subscription for that right.

Sure, but then you're losing out on "have the thing on hand at all times without having to think about it".
A business that people are willing to pay you for is a good business.
That's why I didn't specify it needed to be seasonal, but it does need to be stored, as a lot of that load isn't shifting. At 7pm on a -35 day there is zero solar generation, but every furnace in the province is on and people are doing their evening cooking and cleaning.
Thanks for pointing that out, I did misread that and have seen/written such things in rails land. We used active record import which gives the option of running validations.

But yeah, layering your safety nets is generally wise. I would include testing and code review in that as well.
I would be more concerned with a small SSD with limited available storage... But I've generally just treated SSD/NVME like yourself and not really worried about it.

I did experience a bug in the first gen Intel SSD that one day it showed up as an 8mb drive, didn't know of the fix for it until well later, and it was so small (64gb) that I just swapped it for a larger/cheaper drive by that time.

I also experienced some issues with another drive I replaced a few months ago, that turned out to be an issue with RAM. Again, swapped the 2tb drive for 4tb as I wanted more storage as well.

Other than these, I haven't worn out a drive yet. I have decade old SSDs from an old home server from 12 years ago currently running in RPi boxes via usb-sata adapters.
> In no way does "Turing Completeness" imply the ability to reason

Unless you believe in magic, then yes, it does.

A system that is Turing Complete absolutely can be programmed to reason, aka it has the ability to reason.
The way Xpra works is that it's both a server and client in it's own right. So it needs to be aware for the final client involved to be able to learn about it from the other side of the chain, so it does need to be aware of it in order for applications to know that they need to adjust themselves. What this results in is that the client you're running through Xpra will just assume it's a normal 96 DPI display from yesteryear usually. I think you can do some stuff to tell Xpra that it should be a higher DPI but that'll also make it so that the application will be gigantic on a low dpi display, something that's pretty typical for X11 since it doesn't properly support mixed DPI environments (i.e. a laptop screen that's high dpi and an external monitor that is low dpi).
Ask HN: do you know Contest Website for Developers\Designers?
Hey guys, we are looking for a platform on which users could create a Contests like telegram has(https://contest.com/) for example but for any SaaS product. If you know some, can you share please?
I heavily 3D print and only run Linux. I'm no expert on the subject, though, so I'll just say what I do without asserting it's the best (or even correct) way.

First, I use a Prusa MK4 printer. They're great. I use PrusaSlicer to convert the model files into the gcode files the printer wants. It has a linux version and is quite capable.

3D printers are standalone machines that don't require integration into your OS. At its clunkiest, you just copy the sliced models to the printer and away it goes, but there are things that make the experience more seamless (such as running an Octoprint server, and many printers, including the MK4, can provide their own web interface).

I design my own models about 90% of the time. I use FreeCAD and OpenSCAD for almost all my modelling. They can both generate the stl files your slicer will need. Both of these have a pretty steep learning curve, but once you've learned them they're great.

When I'm looking for existing models to print, I usually find what I need at one of two repositories: printables.com and thingiverse.com. General web searching is sometimes fruitful as well.

In short, don't sweat the Linux aspect of this. It matters far less in the 3D printing world than you probably expect.
Alberta’s population growth trend in the last 5 years is anything but linear. It has accelerated significantly driven in large part by new to Canada immigrants and those escaping higher cost of living provinces like BC and ON.

Source: https://www.alberta.ca/population-statistics
Well they usually locate in industrial buildings which means rent per square foot can be under a dollar a month. And energy where some miners are at is 7 cents per kilowatt hour. So the things you are talking about might add $.25/hr we can go with $1.75. If you are renting this for $3.5 you are doubling your money. Any wise investor would take this action all day long. DCs full of non mission critical workloads that require low bandwidth aren’t hard to setup and run.

Source: I live in a town with dozens of industrial sized mining ops. We have the cheapest power in the country.
The business model here is the same as semi-conductor fabrication/design. 2022 kick started the foundation model race, teams were readily able to raise 5-25 MM to chase foundation models. In early 2024, several of those teams began to run out of money due to the realization that competitive modeling efforts were in the 1-10 Billion dollar range.

If a 100 Billion dollar training run produces the highest quality model in the land across all metrics and capabilities. That will be the model thats used, at most there would be 1-2 other firsm willing to spend 100 Billion to chase the market.
ILDA is the standard you'll want to use - check out Pangolin
Internet Archive blames 'environmental factors' for outages
What's your point? If I'm going to blow up a carrier with a drone, the fact that the carrier can also carry drones makes no difference.
However that 23.3% undersells its importance. Primary industries like mining, oil and gas extraction have large knock on effects on the rest of the economy. Many of the retail and service companies would go out of business if the fossil fuel industry were to disappear overnight.
> Does it really harm you at all if someone else believes 5G causes covid? And does it harm you enough to say that their speech should be limited rather than free?

I would far rather restrict their right to vote than their right to speak. If they're sufficiently influential, that also means that everyone's vote who doesn't fall for their charm is worth just that much more.
If you're only working on Linux, you almost surely want waypipe [0] instead of xpra. If you need support for other platforms, though, xpra is still a pretty good solution.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe
Galvanically isolate the ~100mA of supply current you need - the Ethernet interface is already isolated.
Had that on my wish list for a long time. Useless for me, but so cool.
That’s a great way to annoy someone else that may already be sleeping in the room.
I have only taken two economics classes, so you're right about the naiveté. But it's hard to get excited about continuing such study when so many signs point to status-quo macroeconomics being a mechanism for harming the many to benefit the few. We're facing down a probable future where large swaths of the planet will be uninhabitable due to a deteriorating climate, and the only thing macroeconomics has to say about it is:

> Look at all of the growth we've achieved, high-five guys!
Ask HN: Modern Meteor.js Alternative Stack?
Meteor is great, is there a modular approach, regardless of the technologies involved, that can replicate its main features (realtime, isomorphic client/server, reactivity, etc.)?
> because my suspicion is that since this tool just exports React, you could relatively easily achieve this using Next.js SSG building

At the core, we generate pure HTML and CSS, then serialize those into React and Tailwind. It would be one less step to expose the HTML and CSS instead. I wanted a narrow scope to this so that's the focus but I imagine there's a plugin setup we can do to swap in what framework (or non-framework) you would need.
Policy Statement on Onshore Wind
The UK government is "immediately removing the de facto ban on onshore wind in England, in place since 2015."
I think you are missing the point. It's not that interest in these things is what is essential to the old internet but that a shared interest and shared language is - and this includes as gp has pointed out metaphors and imagery.

But to your question, Tolkien, Asimov, Lovecraft, et al. are still a heavy influence on modern Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Horror. Why do you think a mere 45 years should mean that something is no longer referenced?
There are!

https://www.omenie.com/pipistrelle.html
That looks promising - thank you.
Without turning this into a criminal procedures lecture, the practical difference surrounds who decides the punishment. When a judge rejects a deal they are asserting control over punishment. But a prosecutor can fight back by dropping charges, or reducing to lesser-but-included charges [insert lecture re elements] which would place a cap on the max punishment the judge could adopt. It is a back-and-forth fight between the prosecutor and the judge about who decides punishment, who represents the wishes of the people.
I agree with you. Large tech corporations are making big bets to reach AGI first. As an example, if you are CEO of Google, do you want Microsoft or Meta to achieve AGI first.

This seems less like doing business as usual and more like betting big to be part of something really transformative.
To get started, buy a printer.

If I was starting over, I would get a BambuLab A1 https://bambulab.com/en-gb/a1

If you want to spend less, you can get an Ender 3 or one of its many clones https://www.creality.com/products/ender-3-3d-printer

I advise against self-assembly. Especially for your first one, let the factory assemble it. Doing it yourself significantly increases the likelihood of alignment/calibration problems.

These will be frustrating and hard to chase down, especially if you don’t have a mechanical background. You can make a whole hobby out of building, modifying and upgrading 3d printers… but that’s a very different thing from using a 3d printer as a tool for other projects.
It will be on Aliexpress in their store (not available yet) https://sipeed.aliexpress.com/store/911876460
Not Pascal Pascal, but a spinoff: AL for Business Central (Microsoft's ERP system). It is a very old system, but Microsoft heavily develops it (every year new language and std lib features, first class VS Code integration). Userbase is pretty big (and seems like it is growing).
I am running linux machines and I have one headless machine. I need to keep a browser running in that machine and occasionally check on it (see what it's doing, and possibly fix things in the browser). Would Xpra let me do that from a remote machine?
> Or just be a duelist and attribute it to a soul or whatever.

Best typo I’ve seen in some time.
And we put that in the cloud
A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations
Sorry, I did some research, it's not just hydraulics, but at below -30 materials experience significant changes in strength and many become brittle and prone to breaking, demanding that they be shut down.

My mechanic father has a saying - badly maintained stuff breaks down at -30 C, but everything can break at -40 C.
I also have used openSCAD and found it very easy to use for thing with simple shapes. If you are looking for simple over stylish. It is also scriptable and can be used for the same item repeatedly with simple onetime changes.

Sometimes use Blender to examine models or edit them but it has a pretty steep learning curve and should not really be confused with more proper CAD.
“Almost all of the thermal coal Canada produces comes from coal mines in Alberta and is exported, mainly to Asia, from ports in B.C.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/10392382/canada-coal-exports/
My point is that one line of thought is more likely to be escalatory? Is literally how I entered this thread, if I'm not losing my mind. (Which, fair, debatable.)

I am also not arguing for you having to assume pure motivation, oddly; but against assuming bad motive. My reasoning for this would be pointing at how many people are constantly escalating small encounters.
How to Make CI Fast and Cheap with Test Impact Analysis
You're right, you said "as much storage as production". That's actually a very tiny amount of storage. Generally a "24hr" solar plant for California usage patterns has about 4-6Wh of storage and about 1W of discharge per watt of solar plant. Alberta will likely need ~2X that for daily load shifting during the winter. Seasonal storage would require a couple of orders of magnitude more.
Location: Poland

Remote: Yes

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Brief: Software engineer with over 10 years of commercial experience, passionate about new technologies and continuous learning. Enjoys sharing knowledge and is always eager to learn new things. Loves not only implementing new features, but also debugging interesting problems.

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Most of the consciously vented is flared. However, the infrastructure leaks like mad and there have been no incentives incentive for the companies to fix it, it's a cheap invisible gas after all with almost all reporting being self reporting.
1. Build app wrapper around ChatGPT
2. Inject additional captcha, turning your users into a mechanical turk
3. Profit

Not saying the above is the case, but feels like an evil genious way to mechanical turk people.
Yes! Even as an engineer. I've quit jobs over ethics / safety concerns and I want that pushback to be the norm. When I need to convince other engineers I want to be able to point to such consequences as to why we shouldn't be dangerously cutting corners. And even if you only punish engineers it will decrease the pool of talent / cost effectiveness of workers available to the unscrupulous managers such that cutting corners could very well not be worth the cost. Money saved on cutting corners would be lost in trying to find competent engineers that were willing to cut those corners.

Of course I want the entire chain of those involved criminally punished but punishing people anywhere on that chain, even those at the bottom is a start.