skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Retention doesn't require it to be online.

Conversely, offline doesn't mean unhackable/unleakable.
Yes, it is.

Which makes the only truly zero parameter system the collection of all systems, in all forms.
Fusion OS: Writing an OS in Nim
Another way to do this would be to crowd fund. Instead of 1 person paying 50$ per book (just a random number, I dunno how much it costs) 10 people can pay 5$ each. 11th person onwards can get it for free.

You could also get some credits from these companies in return for advertising “this book is sponsored by blah company”
Batteries can also be installed basically instantly, with storage being added incrementally. Unlike a years long project of constructing a hydro battery before it enters operation.
>> Age and ability are not correlated

> ... cognitive decline..

I know this is not the age groups you thought about, but on the topic: I think they ARE correlated, but the other way: At 40 I have had time to get to know so ridiculously much more than someone starting out in their early 20s. And I see its effect very real, people in early 20s (generalizing ofc) can spend so long on things on have seen so many times...or spend more time making lots of bugs and finding them than just writing the code with fewer bugs.

Or spend their brain cycles on the "how to code" part of the job, instead of that just being second nature and focusing on the underlying ideas.

Or young people may be be competent coders, but completely baffled reading and really grasping underlying ideas in existing codebases (especially this I know I have progressed at with training over the years..)

I feel experience can be undervalued in our industry in a way it is not in others. It is valued... but not as much as I feel it should be..

Of course this effects drowns a bit in the noise of all of the programmers like the OP talks about that barely get by, in all age groups. But within the set of skilled coders... from what I have seen, I would always prefer working with the older to the younger to get a project done..

(Ofc there may be a point where this turns. I lack personal experience with coders 20 years older than myself.)
Isn’t the implication that it wasn’t spotted and therefore nobody else knew?
Cool device but doesn't look very pocketable.
I agree. I recently started using an R4RS Scheme called "STk", the precursor to STklos, which I modded into a build system (replacing Make and Sh, for the most part) and a graphics DSL front-end to C. The author wrote a demo app web browser with Scheme as a scripting language, as was the original plan with Mozilla, and Tk as the GUI. Writing extensions in C is a breeze too, as it supports dynamic loading:

https://github.com/egallesio/STk

I like Common Lisp too, although not as much as Scheme day-to-day--it is nice now to have both. I was thinking about adding a TinyCLOS using Common Lisp. Pseudo Scheme transpiles source to CL, so I might be able to do it with CLOS underlying it instead of how TinyCLOS does it.

Jonathan Rees, the original author, has a Pseudo Scheme repo up on Github, with a branch that uses ASDF (which I am testing with SBCL).

https://github.com/jar398/pseudoscheme

Thanks for your comment, and thanks to the maintainers of both of the linked Scheme implementations.
> The large scale introduction of Battery Storage is going to be a game changer for renewables

Who are the major players in industry grade solutions for this?

Tesla? BYD? Hitachi? Siemens?
> If some people are poorer than you, you are not the bad guy

This is completely missing all the reasons people say rich people are the "bad guys".
TFA put it clearly and succinctly:

>> You would think, after having been on the side of labor in its fight with capital for almost two centuries, that the far left would be happy that labor has finally prevailed. But none of them seem to be. You can almost hear them saying "No, no, not that way."

> And there we have it. The slight injection of PG's true ideology relegated to the notes section and vague enough that some might ignore. But keep in mind this is the same guy who argued against a wealth tax. His seemingly impartial and logical writing attempts to hide his true intentions.
It is hard to see when you live in the culture but as someone who lives outside it but has spent a lot of time living in the US you really are constantly in fear of violence. You can even see it in the comments by people here when gun restrictions are suggested.

So yes, for the whole history of america you lot have been in a state of perpetual fear of things you believe your guns will protect you from which have only shown to be made worse by your dependence on guns.
Could this have been possible almost 5 years before Wolfenstein 3D? Wolfenstein was a huge technical achievement!
Then speak about their sins, being rich is not one.
Read this as “solder” and really walked away confused
Fair point. I don't know why BlackRock did it, then.
Grid battery deployment is faster than EV market penetration in the USA. This is not something that can siphon off a fraction of EV batteries. It is a huge market in its own right.
Maybe consider using https://quad9.net for DNS? It's nice having archive.today work. Otherwise you can always copy/paste the link to TFA into https://archive.org
I believe this is largely the case and I would add that there general pro-gamer attitude would make it quite difficult to dethrone.
> no science, that justifies our current economic conditions.

but there is.

lots and lots and manipulation and misdirection honed thru the ages and written in plain view in traditions and old symbols.

there's a reason old lord of the mannors had dog and horse breeds on their walls, while having power of who marries who on their domains. but modern science will never touch those points. still, there's lot of science on why you agree to the boom bust cycle and all that.
Anecdotally, it seems like many people seem to underestimate how difficult accurate shooting actually is. I genuinely can't count the number of times I've taken someone interested in shooting out to the range for their first time and they get dismayed when they can't place accurate shots even at a fairly close range (<25 meters), from a sitting position, with a rifle rest and being able to aim as long as they want with no stress or pressure before firing.

The general pop culture opinion cultivated by movies, shows, video games, etc. seem to mislead a lot of people towards the idea that guns are just a "point and shoot" type of deal at any range in any situation. When the reality is like any other hobby it takes many many hours of practice and lots of $$$ worth of ammo to get to the point where you can consistently place shots on target at decent ranges and even then that's in a controlled environment with a paper target that doesn't move, no pressure on you, you're probably not firing standing up without a support etc.
I answerd this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963194

I like the idea of letting people donate the audio they purchased to the community.

Although I'm scared that I'll have no money.
A reader is immune from letting you think a change you're making is redaction by not letting you make a change.
If you don’t have a reputation, why would there be AI generated content exploiting your likeness?
"Anyone that wants an abortion can just fly to a liberal state for one as long as at least 1 liberal state still exists."

Let me just take time off work book a hotel and buy a plane ticket when I can't even afford rent.
I almost caused a version of our product to be shipped with a 'Blah' hyperlink on the About window. I was testing a new style of button, and the About window was just a convenient place to put it. This was a long time ago, prior to our adoption of source-control in the company, so I made the builds directly off my laptop.
There were many lessons I _should_ have learned, but what I chose to do was to surround all my testing code with #ifdef _DEBUG to make sure it didn't get out to real customers.
I vaguely recall there being some multicore stuff in UEFI, but it's been years since I looked at it.
Or, the first person underwrites the initial generation, and then gets some credits as subsequent people pay a small amount.
It is essentially everything but costal San Diego that has been melting. Even 20 miles difference from the coast shows a huge spike in temperatures.
Recent local news story on this:

"Arizona farmers turn to solar panels to shade crops, save water and generate power"

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/08/arizona-drought-so...
Totally agree. One of my biggest critiques of entrepreneur and hacker circles is how much they ride PG. dude is rich, not some sort of genius policy maker.

The difference between a lot of hackers now and PG isnt talent, it is that someone was making a good website when the internet pretty much was empty lol. Google was still a baby compared to yahoo.

edit: since i was pretty negative here, i will sing some praise.

Graham is incredibly technologically capable, knows what problems are worth investing in, and is great at leading people. Those qualities are great, and he is a world star at it.
UBI gains traction over the impacts of AI and encouraging socially valuable work
Looking at this site's other articles on China I'm fairly sure that this is not satire; the author either apparently takes the public statements of the Chinese government at face value or is acting to spread their intended messages on the behalf of the continued well-being of his relatives in mainland China.
It’s not too expensive to buy your own small aircraft
The Weirdest Hoax on the Internet
Will there be an effort to encourage devs to add support for free-threaded Python like for Python 3 [1] and for Wheels [2]?

Is there a cibuildwheel / CI check for free-threaded Python support?

Is there already a reason not to have Platform compatibility tags for free-threaded cpython support? https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platfo...

Is there a hame - a hashtaggable name - for this feature to help devs find resources to help add support?

Can an LLM almost port in support for free-threading in Python, and how should we expect the tests to be insufficient?

"Porting Extension Modules to Support Free-Threading"
https://py-free-threading.github.io/porting/

[1] "Python 3 "Wall of Shame" Becomes "Wall of Superpowers" Today" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907755

[2] https://pythonwheels.com/

(Edit)

Compatibility status tracking: https://py-free-threading.github.io/tracking/
Odd. I posted this same essential news story on the day it occurred only to have it flagged for no apparent reason, despite being major news about a famous figure, on a site where notifications about famous figures and major non-tech news aren't uncommon.
Pure witchcraft. Maybe this is how the singularity is alpha testing on innocent targets? Had I seen this back in the day it would have been downright scary. Now, it’s still surreal.
I checked out the omnivore TTS.

They're using a previous generation of TTS models, which most of the reader apps are using. They're reasonable, cheap, but sound noticeably worse than OpenAI's or 11Labs. I don't like them.
This gives me goosebumps.
> Are the massive profits immediately syphoned out by the execs and owners?

Have you actually looked at the numbers or are you just parroting memes? In the numbers I'm looking at some divisions are $1M per employee.
I assume no based on your comment, but have you ever run into issues where your vfio setup didn’t work with AAA games with intense anti cheat? Like cs:go/cs2 or valorant? That’s what’s always held me back
you wish their headcount was for the customer safety team!

their lobbying team is probably larger than this one.
> but for me personally what makes a difference and why I keep preferring them is their dedication to Linux as a platform and a general feeling that they are not just driving me towards rent seeking

For what it's worth, I have the exact same feelings. They provide so much value on-top of just being a store, and it does feel like they take the money and re-invest it into their ecosystem to make it better.

They made gaming on Linux as easy as gaming on windows. They improved the controller situation in games. They do the whole remote-play stuff so you can play local-coop games online. They do the family sharing stuff. They do the steam link stuff. And they don't lock any of it down to their first party offerings. e.g.

* They could have easily made steamlink only work with their set-top box, but they just made it an android app.

* They could have limited the controller bindings and tech to only their controller, but they made it work for all controllers.

* They could have forced you to use their VR headset with steam, but they let you use any headset.

I can't think of any other company off the top of my head that has done something similar.
I suppose they could discharge slower, though, if eventually there's not as much demand?
How many people who win lottery tickets become wealthy? Most of them squander the money they win, so your point about simply being lucky is not true.

As for your question lottery winner having the power proportional to his money, is much better than bureaucrats having power to take anyone's money.
In Texas I have seen a lot of Chinese brands.

Sungrow and CATL as examples.
False, according to OpenSecrets, lobbying is under $2M a year.

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
At this point Valve should open source all of their games if they’re not planning to develop new ones.
There are times it makes sense - when you have a remote location you need power in that is more than batteries can provide for example. Say you need 300kW in a farm miles from the nearest supply for 3 months.
Thing I harp on is the logistics of battery installations are fantastic in about every way.

If you have a couple of brown field acres of land next to an existing substation you can just buy and install containerized batteries. And you don't need specialized contractors to handle the job either. Pour concrete pads, forklift operators to take batteries off the truck and put them on the pad. And then standard HV techs to hook them up.

And the permitting and environmental review is nil. Go ahead try and get a pumped storage system permitted somewhere.

A fun one. Three gorges dam. You could replace the whole thing with solar and batteries for the cost it took to build it. And the area covered by solar panels would be the same as the lake behind the dam. Except you can put the solar panels on some ecologically and economically low value land where ever.
on bro
Love this graph, really demonstrates the power of low cost solar and increasingly lower cost batteries.
Show HN: A mutliplayer word game where all state is stored in the URL
GitHub repo: https://github.com/jcparkyn/scrobburl
I never even considered buying games again until gog.

pay. download. run in dosbox or something. done.

steam is just a crap I refuse to put up with. and that's the store. imagine the drm.
....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL-8gBt0fgU

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-ri...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-su...

Please, stop
Do you think the leadership at Uber _isn’t_ making bank?
It's easy to say "Epicycles! Epicycles!", but people are going to continue using their epicycles until a Copernicus comes along.
Did Facebook Kill the Car Forum?
Call it the blackjack rule ... once you cross 21 it's a bust.
This article feels like an attempt to morally wash one's hands of the moral stink of capitalism. Do you really think that because you're in tech and not mining, that the accumulation of wealth is any less driven by exploitation?

By the way, I don't know the answer to this. I myself am a landlord. But if we're getting into morality, let's fully examine this.

11.5% of Americans are below the poverty line. The same economic system that makes is possible to become rich enforces a roughly 5% unemployment rate. This unemployment rate is necessary to prevent a wage price spiral. There are people who are paid a lot of money (Federal Reserve), whose job it is to pull levers and turn dials until the unemployment rate is at that magic 5%. They actively ensure people can't make a living, to allow you the chance to accumulate wealth.

You may not be directly responsible for their poverty– but their poverty makes your accumulation of wealth possible. Without a 5% unemployment rate, the delicate balance of the economy cascades into oblivion in a wage-price spiral.

So here's my moral question– do you then owe them anything? Do you owe society anything?

Maybe there is something wrong with "just being rich" if you don't attempt to use some of your money for the betterment of your community and society that is actively made worse to allow you to get rich.

If you want to get rich, get rich. But don't fool yourself into thinking that it's morally good. It can be, but it's probably not. Because it's probably at the expense of others in some direct or indirect way.

By the way I'm pulling punches here. This is a very gentle response to try and get you to think differently about your ethics.

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If you're the sort of person that always needs to feel morally right, then I would say getting rich probably isn't for you. Any moral argument you can come up to protect your ego would be fragile, and easily undone.
Well, we started this journey with bitmap fonts that wouldn't scale up, then most computers have been Western-oriented and didn't include full character sets for most of the people living on this planet. Then it turned out to be useful to be able to render languages and glyphs from dead ancient languages. And most languages other than English use all sorts of weird combining systems and accenting. When you type English it looks just like the keys you press. But type Arabic, especially with vowels, and it looks nothing like the keys you're hitting due to all the joining.

But the real kicker was emojis which threw a real spanner in the works. Prior to this text rendering had been universally mono, but we really had to add color then.

It's really about being inclusive. Writing (historically) was always something very analog, varying wildly between people, with all sorts of unbelievably arcane rules. Tech is just finally catching up with 5,000 years of history.
Right, and a conservative that doesn't want Trump is still a conservative.

It's just as easy to surmise that this is a conservative who would rather have anyone but Trump. What I dislike is that immediately there was a reaction to kill liberals. Anecdotally, I have group text messages with my friends from the military and the theme was similar to what it was on HN last night.

Hence, people should probably hold their horses.
Luobo Kuaipao: Fear and excitement as China embraces robotaxis
When every city or even district is forcing you to honor arbitrary rules there… your sw becomes complicated
Tracking monthly/annual bookings (or whatever the MRR/ARR number is) for investors seperately from monthly/annual recognized recognized revenue for conservative operations seems simpler and achieves the same?

And yeah, the blog's advocacy of spending unrecognized revenue is indeed risky, and how to do that safely is an interesting q...
Show HN: I built a site that helps you find which plugs you need for your trip
I made this simple site that tells you which travel adapter you need for your next trip. I found myself googling this info and always being linked to a random article that was super long. Decided to make this crisp page that gives key info above the fold.

Built with NextJS + Tailwind. I'd love some feedback and what should I add?
There's also the surveillance economy. I'm not too happy about that, either.
I like to watch short movie recaps on youtube instead of the whole things.

I also read summaries of books for research purposes or for dull school homeworks.

They both have a place before or after ai.
The distribution grid did not do as well — lots of outages in the sierras and points north.
What about wealth you build for yourself ?

Many of the duplexes in town were built by small builders who passed them on to family.

Now they are treated like rich landowners but in reality grandpa built the wealth.
It's interesting but at the same time I think some points miss their mark like :

> The wealth of America’s billionaires was estimated at around $5.2 trillion in 2023, while federal government spending was about $6.4 trillion. Confiscating every last penny from Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and all the other billionaires wouldn’t fund the U.S. government for one year. And of course you could only do it once.

Ok so just 750 persons can replace all form of taxation in the USA that's incredible. It's not like just replacing taxes from all 330m persons but all the companies too ...

And the USA budget is not the most efficient per capita (something around 20k ?), if you do the same for France you are closer to 6k.
There's also Nutaku that's supposedly as big as Steam (they are focused on NSFW games).

Imo Epic is the only competitor to Steam that tries to offer a similar service to Steam. It's just popular to hate on it among pc gamers.

Many people cite a lack of features on Epic's store as the reason, eg no forum feature, but then turn around and decry Steam forums as the worst place on the internet. I don't think the problem is a lack of features (for players, devs have a point), but rather the Epic Games Store isn't cool enough.
Vopt921.exe is an excellent defragment utility (for Win 7/10, Vista & Xp) made freely available by its author. https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/vopt.html
Do you not see how this was luck? Certainly, actions were taken to encourage an outcome (holding an asset of potential future value), but luck as a component of a favorable outcome cannot be overstated.
New Study Reveals 3D Quantum Hall Effects in Weyl Acoustic Crystals
While Steam did have a rocky launch, the competitor stores since launched are laughably bad. Seemingly no attention to detail in making a product people would want to use. Epic has a huge war chest from its successes, but the application is still not at feature parity with Steam.
Unlike Wolfenstein, it even has shadows and a sky!
Anyone watching the video of the shooting can see it for themselves: Trump is talking, suddenly puts his right hand to his right ear, apparently hears and feels something very unusual, and gets down rapidly, to be covered by his secret service detail just a couple seconds later. By then he's already bleeding as seen in another photo taken of his head, on the ground under all those agents. I may be wrong but it seems plainly obvious that the bullet really did graze his ear, considering that 1. he was being shot at, 2. that and other bullets went into the spectators behind him and 3. he was bleeding from the ear just a second or two after multiple bullets were fired in his direction.

People claiming he was cut by his secret service detail or by glass (from where the fuck?) are spinning an odd little story despite excellent visual evidence to the contrary. Possibly to play down how close he came to being shot dead right there and then.
Bark is better in expressing the right emotions, but the voice quality and hallucinations are bad.

Maybe generating a bunch of runs and then asking the users to vote could get us the best narrated book overall.
Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job?
The primary way I've found work in the past is usually through my professional network in some way (15+ years experience). I have landed a couple on linkedin (recruiter connections), and a couple through a random recruiter message. I do see lots of jobs posted and I have activated premium so I can see how many apply, and it looks like for the top jobs (faang and hot startups) there are hundreds of applicants just through linkedin. It got me thinking about how many companies actually hire directly through job listings. I know that times are different than in the past, but I'm curious what the HN community's experience has been recently.