skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were several shots heard in the video I saw. I assumed they were all from the rifle.
AWS doesn't even have proper IPv6 support yet. If they can't find anything to improve in their conventional stack, it's only because they aren't looking.
That's great. How horrible was the process of generating the fuel to only emit water by the final link in the energy chain?
> the not-so-pleasant bridge to Libera Chat.

That's gotta be one of the understatements of the year. Very complex set up, almost no useful "how to use" documentation, and numerous outages made me give up on it.

As for why there is no good open source ones, it seems simple but is complex. What is often summarised as "text chat" becomes a long list of requirements when you probe deeper. People want history, power efficient notifications, be able share stuff like pictures and PDF's and when you press they always want to talk, video chat (with a funky background please), and broadcast their desktops and cameras too. And stickers. Who can function without a personalised sticker pack? They want e2e encryption, no unencrypted messages stored on servers, rooms lots of people that implement all those features, and hey don't forget infinite chat history. Oh and public rooms, with no central server, and provision for bot automation (with an AI plugin to reduce support questions of course) but no spam please. They want hierarchies of users in those public rooms - admins, mods and regulars and newbies. They want to be able fork threads and subgroups. They want a web interface, and a app, and gateways to all the protocols they prefer using despite all the effort you put into this one. And being open source it must be a lightweight and easy to understand protocol, with trivial setup.

We've had three attempts - IRC, jabber and matrix. None are there, IRC least of all. But IRC is simple and mostly just works.
If you look through history at insurrections, whatever January 6 was, it doesn’t seem to be in that category. If it is in the same category, it’s one of the lamest, most peaceful, bungled insurrections on the books. It looks more like a rowdy protest, and that’s probably what it was.
>like in that episode of Black Mirror.

that's never a sentence you want to hear about your product
Market manipulation is how these people get elected. How else are they supposed to stay in power?
There are a lot of nice things about H3. At work it's our default tool for partitioning and indexing of horizontal position data.
Well, it's a battle for control over the courts, for control over the administrative state, for control over the school systems, for control over the election systems. This is why judge appointments got so strained in the last 15 years, why the Heritage Foundation wants to take back the federal government with Project 2025 (by firing 2 million federal employees en masse), why conservatives are so concerned about indoctrination in schools, and about attacking the Deep State. It's also why Democrats are campaigning on keeping democracy from ending, and keeping elections free.
GenAI can definitely churn that code out, but most of the code that we write is extremely situational. We rely heavily on specific customer needs and very specific use cases within the products we're trying to sell.
"Emitting only water vapor"--which is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2.
And many good people die because of hungover doctors.
Don’t forget those fuckheads at ERCOT. How many deaths are they responsible for?
> Here are some images from Street View - and recall that this is what about 25,000 people per sq km density looks like in London. This is half the density of the highest density places in Paris, Barcelona or New York, and about a quarter of the highest densities globally (found in cities like Manila, Cairo and Dhaka).

Huh -- high-density London looks like.. Queens, NYC?
> Trump proved in two minutes that whatever else you can say about him, he's very capable of responding well to pressure.

What capability he showed? Knowing you are guarded by tens and hundreds of officers, anyone would raise a fist.
A big part of life is influencing others act in your interest even when it’s against their interests, we can’t replace people with better people and must work with the people we have. Sure you could try your luck elsewhere but that does not solve this problem. Appeals to superiority are not where I would start.
That reply proves my theory.
Yeah, the CIA wetwork branch should be the only people allowed to hold a gun
I was paying cooler 5 dollars a month so I didn't have to worry about any of that.

And for that it worked remarkably well
Related content: Corey Quinn on the AWS GenAI obsession

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-genai-services/
I'm glad translucent plastics are coming back in style.
Several shots, a pause, a shot, and someone says they're clear and they start moving. Presumably the final shot is the Secret Service.
the open internet demolished aol and compuserve. a paywall doesn't always work; it depends on circumstances
He was shot in the ear and presumably frazzled and had the presence of mind to recognize an enormous political windfall he could capitalize on rather than just letting the Secret Service usher him away as they clearly wanted to.
SpaceX rivals challenge Starship launch license in Florida
Is the audio on a separate track, that could be recovered more easily then the video? Also, was this before or after the invention of helical scan?
I mean, it disqualifies products from existing at reasonable price points.
to be fair, expecting most software engineers, who typically have a bachelors degree, to be able to communicate well in english is not asking for a lot. Via a textual medium no less! But apparently it is…

Most of my colleagues communicate with chatgpt in broken english, or they ask a question while leaving out crucial details about their problem. They’re always surprised when i am able to get a useful response from chatgpt when they couldn’t. it’s comical sometimes.

I 100% hear you on the “not a fun way to interact” though. To each their own. I personally enjoy it, it’s like a rubber duck that can actually talk back. :) not for everyone though.
I'd say there's a pretty important difference!
I mean, the author explains this and it makes perfect sense. Starting a class with "OK guys, wipe your entire OS on your personal device" is a total nonstarter.

Yeah WSL exists, but that's adding a whole new layer of complexity and indirection and leaves developers without any ability to program natively for the most popular consumer OS around.
That seems a bit harsh. I don’t see how it was a bad idea. It lasted over 2 decades and was a nice option for people who didn’t want or couldn’t afford a subscription service, but wanted to rent the occasional movie… and/or those without good broadband. Every time I went to the store I saw people at the Redbox machine.

Once physical media dies and subscriptions are the only option, I think we’ll realize we screwed up and how good we once had it.
The soundtrack he links to reminds me of a game from the 90s called 7th Legion. It was average at best, but the music was killer
A lame insurrection is still an insurrection. When was the last time the US Capitol was stormed by organized revolted people?
Also the above-mentioned SaaS customers will face no negative consequences from investors or otherwise, just some bad press that will be forgotten quickly and amount to nothing. It's great if your SaaS vendor gets hacked and not you: it spreads blame around in the eyes of the public, and makes it harder for legislators, regulators, and plucky DAs to come after you.
Here’s one I’ve actually used/played with (though never measured performance of): https://github.com/lewissbaker/disruptorplus

And here’s one I saw linked on HN recently: https://github.com/0burak/imperial_hft/tree/main/distuptor
Yup. It was just a bunch of people who just wanted to show up and say they were there and basically just pushed their luck with how far they could get into the Capitol building. There was little if any organization to it all. It was not the murderous democracy-threatening insurrection as the Democrats have repeatedly said it was. And as another poster said further up, their years of overblown fearmongering is what led to what happened today.
Sorry to hear that. Like others in this thread, LOS has been great for me (Essential phone model)
Well, twelve words can certainly be transferred verbally, even though the generated words are not that memorable.

Encoding a link to a much better memorable scheme could be done through a url service which parses a web page through an LLM, generates some tags, and creates custom routing using the tags. Rails or a more modern tool like Actix-web can do that easily.

For example i asked Llama-8B to suggest tags for this HN thread using the title and the first 2 comments, and it suggested: web, URLs, hyperlinks, online-identity, permanence, flexibility, referencing, resource-management, web-architecture.

The user can select which tags better represent the link, and create custom routing as such: https://yourlinkservice.com/hn/hyperlinks/referencing/
Bad move unless they're actively day trading. This won't have any serious effect on Disney stock.
Then you have 24 TB with RAID10, not 30 TB. I guess that's why he was wondering.
> A 1998 ministerial inquiry criticized both the Auckland Electric Power Board and its privatized successor, which had halved its staff after taking over in October 1993

> The inquiry report also said, "Internal expertise in 110 kV assets was not maintained at a sufficient level"

It's almost as if you put public infrastructure under the control of people who only care about collecting short term rents bad things happen.

Other comment California has underground transmission lines. And yes sometimes they fail. Had a smaller one oops in my old neighborhood in San Francisco a few years ago.

PG&E is spending about $20b to underground 10,000 miles of lines in fire prone areas. Seems like a lot but it's $40/foot. Still that's only 10% of the total.

https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering...
I'm the opposite—I've only ever been able to vouch for flagged articles, the vouch button for comments is always missing when I need it.
Soldier flies are amazing protein generating/converting factories, amenable to closed cycle modular environments. Ducks love them too.
Your economy would be based on what exactly?
From what I’ve read, liquid hydrogen isn’t a great option due to the energy required to create it. Where does that energy come from?
If the utility of all computers is based on the right sequence of magic words why do we call them software engineers instead of something better like "code wizards" that encapsulates the nature of it?
Loved Lightwave 3D back in it's Commodore Amiga / Babylon 5 heyday. Also Cinema4D, and Imagine3D. Switched to Windows for a while (for gaming purposes), and the 3D software landscape oddly enough just wasn't great for "hobbyist" level folks, so I kinda put that on the "back-burner" for a while. By the time I got back into 3D again, I was heavily hooked on Linux (the most "Amiga-like" OS I'd yet found on PC), so skipped 3DS Max entirely and went straight for the (at that time) recently open-sourced Blender 3D. The learning curve on it was horrific but once actually over that bit, the software itself is crazy powerful and easier to actually use than one might at first imagine it could be. For me, the last little push over that initial learning curve was Blender Guru (Andrew Price) on YouTube. His beginner tutorials are pretty much the best (at least they were for me). Nowadays Blender is pretty much my first and only "go-to" tool for everything 3D that I find myself in need of (except Godot, for "game-enginey" realtime related bits, but Blender's involved there also, for modeling, ofc).

TLDR; Wall of Text: Blender 3D is awesome!
(Godot + Blender = Even Better.)
Storage can be considered commodity too yet big three charges massive premium for it
Some years ago, for a reason I can't remember, I was browsing tiny phones (not smartphones) in a Chinese e-commerce site. I was amazed by the vast range of devices in this category (at the time).

After a few Google searches trying to understand why there was demand for such small phones, one article suggested that these phones are perfect for getting smuggled in prisons "you know how". Don't know if this is true, but it sounds plausible and the vast range of devices could be explained by this.

They were tinier than the smartphone in this article, though.
I still do not understand why people feel that they are subjected to voodoo algorithms forced on them by Twitter. The only things I see on Twitter are written by, reposted by, or replied to by people I actually know in real life. You do not have to be subject to random content on Twitter! The only things that appear unbidden in my feed are ads, and in 2024 their inventory is so thin that there's hardly any of those.
Trump just secured the election with today. Have you seen those pictures of him with blood on his face and his fist in the air? That shit is going in the history books. If you didn't think all the people who voted for Trump in 2020 and everyone who didn't but wants Biden gone weren't galvanized enough already to vote, they sure as fucking hell are now.
Commercially viable hydrogen production starts with methane, goes through a combination of "steam reforming" followed by "shift reaction." So far as I know, liquefaction involves essentially mainstream cryogenic refrigeration.
If you are engineering around spot instances,just go to a cheaper cloud already.
so, ex bitcoin miners are pivoting into gpu clouds

whats the point ?
That title is a real garden path sentence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence)
Unfortunately this will simply be abused to take down videos that aren't AI generated, but which individuals consider disfavourable to their reputation. YouTube has made it clear they're not interested in providing a way to mediate conflicting claims in a non-Kafkaesque manner with the way they handle copyright claims.

I understand YouTube is in a very difficult position with that system, so I'm not even expressing anger, but I'm not hopeful that they're going to actually wade into mediating these kinds of claims sensibly either. You need to build institutional skills and processes and a culture of commitment to doing the hard yards on resolving these kinds of difficult issues, and YouTube has stayed away from doing that this long...
Why did they get so diluted? Or does that mean they were just 1-2% of Homo Sapiens total population by assimilation time, so the original proportion was just kept instead?
I don't think there is any with official or unofficial Play Store support. Japanese phone are rarely flashable too.
Yep. Good for kiestering.
Autopsies and any remote call-center work that's too complicated for current models.
You might want to consider that 70% of the planet is covered with water which emits a lot of water vapor per day, everyday.

Water vapour condenses out of the atmosphere in a matter of minutes to hours. CO2 in the atmosphere has a half-life of 120 years.
It's not so much that communicating in English is the problem, at least for me. I'm a native English speaker and have a reasonably strong command of the English language. I'm able to craft my words to convey specific tone or meaning.

The problem is that GenAI is a complete black box with nondeterministic outputs. I can write code and I know with a very high degree of confidence what I expect it to do. Asking an LLM or a generative image program for something, I have no idea what it'll give me. It gives no feedback other than results, which may or may not be what I want. If not, I have to reverse engineer what I think it might want me to say in order to get desired results. And the same query placed another time might give a completely different answer. I don't deny that it can do some impressive things given the correct inputs, but I am not inclined to spend my time searching for the magic words.
I bought one to carry on while doing physical activities and, eventually stay connected.
Who Are We Now?
Somehow it's been 13 years and none of the available phone OSes have managed to be as usable or user-focused as WebOS was. Nor as easily hackable. The hardware was smooth like a river rock in your pocket, but still had an easily found physical slider switch to silence the device. It had wireless charging as a standard feature. And the software stack was familiar to any desktop Linux user with just a custom display layer on top. Complex multi-tasking was effortless on it (thanks in part to the gesture area and also the OS's cards interface). And it combined all contacts and messages regardless of communications channel into a unified interface. Oh, also, replaceable batteries!

Unfortunately HP played musical CEOs (three in less than a year) and one of them didn't see phones or PCs as businesses they should be in.
Like the aws console?
There are other android alternatives that have a headphone jack - though getting fewer each year unfortunately. I want a phone that takes good pictures, has long feature updates, and has an aux jack - I haven't been able to find one in years, so I've been compromising with ones that only get one new android version (plus security updates for 2-3 years)
April 9, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/09/israel-ga...
There are a shortage of good lawyers
That’s where I (respectfully) disagree. It’s true that there are new things to thing about, and there are use cases where it’s not appropriate. That being said, overall it’s a net productivity boost and YMMV but for me I’d say it’s 4x or 5x.
There was a time around 2004ish where fashion was smaller the phone the richer you appear. So a status symbol. As they were usually more expensive to make them small back then.
“Writing helps you organize your thoughts more clearly”

I actually rely on email for this. I'm grateful to work with a project manager who does not mind me writing her 20 emails a day, some of which she does not actually need to read. But some of of it is relevant to her, and it helps me keep focused when I can then follow up and discuss things with her.
I don't like iPhones, and have never had one, but I will absolutely agree with you on that. The iPhone 4's industrial design was beautiful.
> a platform can't exist to be "an alternative." It should be able to stand alone

A good summary of why so many competitors fail to reach critical mass
I mean, that's well and good but I bought it because that kind of thing deserves at least some sort of compensation for the work.
I've also found that kind of situation.. I've learned that in an office environment people are often content using a tool and following the established procedure and are not considering it could be better -- even if you ask them! Until you show them something better....

Good job :) Hope you at least got some recognition out of your efforts
A sibling comment[1] provided the PR[2].

The change was to replace:

To prevent this, remove `anon` from the `wheel` group and he will no longer be able to run `/bin/su`.

With

To prevent this, remove `anon` from the `wheel` group and they will no longer be able to run `/bin/su`.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40956931

[2] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
that was my first question too. but maybe the perchlorates can be easily broken down into oxygen and chlorides? plants can tolerate a lot of chlorides
Yes and no. Yes, water vapor is more effective at warming than CO2, and is responsible for over half of Earth's total greenhouse effect.

But humans have very little effect on the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere [1]. Emit a ton of CO2 and that CO2 remains in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.

Emit a ton of water vapor and it is gone from the atmosphere in weeks. The average emitted water vapor molecule only stays for two weeks.

So no, as far as emissions go emitting CO2 is much worse than emitting water vapor.

[1] https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-do-we-blame-climate-chan...
Your customer is yourself.

My customer is hopefully you.

I do not want to piss you off, especially by telling you that the failure is because I bought used unsupported hardware.
isnt AGI around the corner for the last year or so ?

about time we are tired of this sh* .
You might be able to find them on ADS-B Exchange, either live or in the historical data sets. They are somewhat famous for only using citizen-sourced ADS-B data and refusing all requests to delist or hide data (allegedly anyway).

It looks like their tail number is N542B but I'm not sure how to translate that to the ICAO hex codes that they use to archive their data nor exactly what date and location the flight took place. Some more sleuthing would be required.

https://www.adsbexchange.com/products/historical-data/
It's only not a problem if you don't use banking apps, or anything else that cares about SafetyNet. I'm not willing to install something like Lineage and then figure out which brittle, unreliable hack will get SafetyNet to pass. Certainly not for my daily driver.

Sure, some people don't care about things like Google Pay, but many many many of us do. I really miss the days of CyanogenMod, before SafetyNet was a thing, when I never worried about losing access to functionality I care about when installing a third-party Android OS.

Even though the Pixel 8 is larger than I'd like, and the Pixel line has its share of problems, I'm thrilled that my new phone will get 7 years of security updates, and probably -- hopefully, if Google doesn't renege -- OS updates for those 7 years as well. That's incredibly important to me.
It really represented a certain historical period of IBM naming conventions – that originated with the IBM System/360 (before which IBM computers generally had numeric model numbers, e.g., for high-end mainframes, the vacuum tube IBM 70x series and its 707x transistorised successors), and ended in the early 2000s as IBM switched to radically different nomenclature (first the z/i/p/x Series, then z/i/p/x Systems).

But, back in those days, many other vendors emulated those IBM style naming conventions (ACRONYM/DIGITS, etc). Nowadays, they look old-fashioned and overly technical, the kind of branding most marketing people would recommend against. Most of them weren't recommending against it 40 years ago (well, ignoring they are by and large two different sets of people – marketing juniors 40 years ago are nearing retirement now, many of the seniors are already dead)
I think that's the idea, people buying these are probably hoping to reduce screen time
> They block the passing lane

What do you mean by block it?

I can't recall the last time I saw someone in the passing lane that was driving under the speed limit (or prevailing speed when there's traffic) except when preparing to turn left.
> The main challenges are around permitting

In other words, politics scales the other way: The more people you have in the same spot using the same resource, the more different ways they can be unhappy with the management of that resource.
This analogy doesn't make sense for a game designed exclusively for kids where the "totalitarian government" is the company that runs the game.
Regulatory butthurt: part infinity
How can you look at the US compared to any other western country and honestly believe your current situation around guns is the ideal?