skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is about free speech. I think a man should be allowed to say what he thinks. Thats it. No exceptions.
Toasters (usually?) don't have RCD (what they call GFCI in the UK) in the US. Maybe your circuit will have a GFCI, but it depends where you put your toaster. Do all circuits have RCD in the UK?
Nice to see a D based project in the news.

Cool project as well.
> For years I had been planning how I would handle a MCI, but I rarely shared it because people might think I was crazy.

This is such a huge problem.
Maybe it has gotten less bad but Java was the main counter-argument and foe to static typing: a poor and inexpressive type system coupled with significant verbosity, Java required a lot of buck and provided very little bang for it. And that is just the langage, ignoring the horrendous best practices.

I very much credit Java for having turned a generation away from static typing, dynamic typing did get buoyed by a combination of moore’s law and good press but could never have done it without Java having smothered the other side and being dreck.
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To second this sentiment: I toured a couple of city run traffic control facilities during my stint as a city employee and this doesn’t look radically different or “cheaper” than the ones I saw. And local government budgets are already pretty tight.
Maybe it is me, but product market fit sounds like a term people would use that are far away from any particular market. Like adults who lost touch with their inner child trying to come up with games that would sell to kids.

Sure in the end you need some term to explain whether a particular product at a specific price point within its context would do well on a market or not. But it still feels like something people would use who don't care if it just makes them the bucks.
(I'm in Europe)

My son went to a new farther school this year, it took nearly a year for my wife to get used to the fact that he goes there alone (bike / public transport). However I had to buy him a phone to know his location in order to ease my wife.

I'm not naturally worried, but i got contaminated by her stress.
I don't know where the stress comes from. I think it maybe maybe the lack of trusting other people: you do not trust that strangers help you
Issue is to have to give additionnal identifying information to the biggest ad company in the world ...
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Parenting is hard. A freshly-minted parent has so many good resolutions.

After eleven years of parenting we had five weeks of summer without holidays (holidays meaning staying at least three nights not at home). We just had some events like zoos, museums, hiking, rope parks, grocery shopping, household chores, and so on, and each week about two or three days of doing nothing at home. And in the last week I found a way to curb the excessive online time when being lazy. Alternate between being online and offline every hour and use something like a tomato timer and switch when it buzzes off. I also was not telling the kids what they can do when offline. They had to figure out themselves what to do when bored. After two days of this regime, my older son told me he liked it and was not in a hurry to go back online.

I keep thinking about this experience. Why is it so hard not to be online?

On the days we were not at home, we all had almost no online presence. More often than not I told my older son not to bring his cell phone along, and we parents also left our cell phones mostly in the bag, sometimes even in airplane mode.

But it is really hard.

That's what has changed when I was a child. Online presence is difficult to avoid. And that's what's making parenting difficult today.

Sometimes I have to look up things to organize a short trip while the boys aren't allowed to be online. I always feel guilty towards them that I can't stop being online and still don't allow them the same. There are a few applications which could be understood as not being online, like reading an ebook, but others don't, like playing Exponentile or being on Hacker News.

By the way, my wife and I are early retired because of some serious health issues, so we don't need to do business, but sometimes we are exhausted. I know all parents are exhausted sometimes, but perhaps we are more than others.
A note for other readers: this is a lot more impressive with 'WebGPU' available.
Discussions:

(20 points, 13 hours ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248453

(50 points, 9 hours ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41250749
What's the laundry pattern?
Theodore Gray has one of these in his periodic table. This quote stood out to me:

"I've held this thing up to the strongest sources of radiation I have and the balls don't budge... I think it's safe to say that if you do ever see the balls drop, you should run, not walk, to wherever you think there might be less radiation around."

https://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Samples/094.4/index.s...
The problem with this strategy is that the product that might exist is always better then what actually can exist.

People building AI-powered things are doing this a lot: add AI and clearly the product will now do <thing it's not clear you can actually deliver value on>.
It seems that GitHub is still recovering as I can’t clone or fork the project. Anyway, it seems like an interesting project.
Sincerely I hope you don’t try reading Jonathan Swift - you may start trying to eat children.
I'd use de-ionized water and Simple Green (a citrus-based cleaner which evaporates at about the same rate as water), but I'd expect a toaster to survive once dry. I've cleaned several Teletype machines that way. The problem isn't water; it's solids left behind when the water evaporates, and corrosion.

Not all parts will survive this. Microphones and MEMS devices tend not to do well. Motors and transformers with paper insulation don't do well. Most modern electronics goes through a dishwasher-like process after assembly, to remove any excess solder and paste. A few parts have to be added past that point.
Fantastic article, exactly my kinda thing :)

One significant limitation here is that the polygon needs to have constant colour, unfortunately.
Metaprogramming in Bash
And people are born and die
I agree with what your saying but I believe this applies to everything in life.

From what you do at work or say to your friends to whether you break a writing rule or whether you jump a fence.

When you observe people in their element, you can tell apart the people who know know when to break rules and who haven’t figured it out.
Are we really getting to a point where Windows is so bad that "emulating" software made for it is faster than running it on the real thing?
Haha, you spent a lot more thought than me!
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A suggest addition "time-based partitioning" or when your notes have a time-based taxonomy like:

- archive/ for notes spanning an indefinite amount of time, as long as they exists

- YYYY/ an year by another

- YYYY/mm/dd notes etc

Might seems strange at first but one of the problems of wikis and notes is outdated/garbage content. Keep notes/wikis clean it's essentially an impossible task because it's alone a full time job. Using time-based subdivision allow to have noise/garbage without polluting much the "normally used wiki/notes space" still retain bits that might became useful in the future.

Aside almost all wikis/notes tools fails miserably in attachment management. The real point of notes is being themselves an "information system", much like a file system not constrained by files and directories. Managing files it's essential to complete the game and merely "you can attach a file" does not suffice.

Dynamically composed pages (transclusion, pages formed out of queries) are a must. The original idea was probably the Libraries of Babel, by Conrad Gessner [1] with hist idea of "information cut to atoms (books cut with scissors) reassembled on the fly by the human" because when we need some bits we just want them and a whole book [or file, or page] it's simply too much noise to deal with for some bits of signal. Far more modern Mundaneum [2] was essentially a pre-web web. XML-based feeds in modern time are another. The issue is having a proper UI.

So far some have arrived nearby: org-mode allow some aspects, TiddlyWiki some others (good transclusion), BookStack some others as well but ultimately all fails the complete picture IMVHO because most of them are designed by devs without library knowledge experience and librarian have next-to-zero needed IT knowledge to offer the other bits needed to know to create a complete system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_library circa 1545

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaneum first half of '900
The link no longer works (why google?), but she uploaded a separate video of that test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi4KXpA9hS0
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At least one did,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series

Current generation still making engineering students happy, https://www.amazon.com/HP-G8X92AA-Prime-Graphing-Calculator/....
The author was replying to everyone, even me, but didn’t respond to my question about how the list is made.

This makes me assume that it’s hand-made. If so, it’ll probably get 1 or 2 updates (if even that many) and then remain static as the creator loses interest. Wouldn’t be the first time.

EDIT: list has changed. Trying to track it, we'll see what happens. I really hope the author has some way to search Youtube for trending videos based on some query/tag, and re-generates a list once a day or something like that.
But that’s the big safety advantage of pods over railcars. Only a small number of people can die in pods. /s
And So
It seems this is a common problem with larger organizations, that everything turns (corrupts) into a process. I've even seen processes for following processes.

To make the problem worse, nobody dares to remove from a process as that would mean they would be accountable for the consequences of the "missing steps", and at the same time adding to a process is almost always safe - another step in a process to clarify or verify can't really fail and having contributed to the process work in a process driven organization looks fantastic on your yearly review. So we get more and more processes that are perpetually growing in scope.

The long term damage that heavy processes do, what I've seen first hand, is extreme stagnation. Even simple and straight forward improvements are avoided if it means that you need to produce ridiculous documentation that nobody will ever need, or seek approval from a (very busy) group of people who contribute nothing other than checking that you followed the processes.
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AGPL is great; CLAs are not.
I'm using Brave for 5 years now and I've yet to see anything crypto-related. Maybe that's because I spent 10 minutes in Settings after installing it.
Try being raised as a nomadic homeschooler. I didn't have an actual concrete street address until I went to university :)

About half of those mandatory questions I legitimately don't have an answer to.
Decoding an old SkyScan wireless weather sensor
You wish. Minix is one of the most widely distributed operating systems (because it's inside Intel CPU's Management Engine).
Dude it's just a joke
I mean, it makes sense since the diameter is 1 dimensional while the boring area grows quadratically...
Not only that, you can separate the waste into several different categories.

The first is purposeful waste. That is, a corrupt program that diverts tax dollars into the coffers of some corporation with lobbyists. This is extremely common in the DoD, for example, and identifying these has extremely high gains because the program can be deleted wholesale.

Then there is simple inefficiency. The government's website is incapable of doing something it should be capable of doing and then the government has to employ an army of clerks to do it by hand. These can be pretty big gains too. If you can reduce the number of clerks by 80%, that's a lot of money.

Then there is unnecessary complexity. Most of this comes directly from Congress. Somebody needs to go through all the existing laws and do a cost/benefit analysis to see which ones are still relevant and have a net positive effect, and get rid of the ones that don't. More than that, look at the laws as a whole and see if they make sense. We have a slew of programs that all have the same ostensible purpose, e.g. to provide assistance to the poor, but then they all have different applications and qualification conditions and phase outs and benefits. Combine them all into a single system that provides a cash benefit and you can eliminate a lot of bureaucracy. And for both of these, the savings isn't just to the government -- it's also to the citizens who have to interact with the government. So even though the savings in terms of tax dollars might be smaller than the other categories, the value here gets doubled because it's also a savings to the public in time and paperwork.

We have to start doing these things.
When Python started to become popular as Perl alternative, and Zope became a thing to be aware of, I already learned about Caml Light, Objective Caml, Miranda, Standard ML, and the new kind in town Haskell.

Also, even within the constrains of C++98 type system, expressivness wasn't something C++ was lacking.
Shorten announced details yesterday of another attempt at an Australian digital id that actually seems informed by Optus and Medibank

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-13/trust-exchange-digita...
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The main benefit of TV was (and sometimes is, e.g. bbc if we ignore news) editioralized picking of programs. There was someone deciding if a video is worth watching (and in many cases acting in good faith).

Very useful in modern Youtube world.
In germany its codified. If an clause is uncommon and unexpected, its invalid. This case would not even hold up in court, since other regulations come first and would cause for the restaurant to be closed for multiple weeks
This is false, and always has been.
Australia's proposed TrustExchange digital ID
Well that will surely stop the scammers that use hacked VoIP systems
Confused Robotaxis Gather in Droves to Honk at Each Other All Night
It seems unreasonable to claim that Boring Company has failed when they were founded in 2017, won their first contract in 2019 which was executed to requirements and multiples cheaper than the competing bid, and Vegas Loop was approved in initial form in 2021, a design now >3x the length of all subway built in the US in the last 20 years and for which construction is happily underway. Imagine subways were held to this standard! Done in 3 years or bust!
great article highlighting how a programming language's design philosophy can make such a big difference - the UUID example, fantastic.

I found it funny when I was reading, in the middle article there was an ad for a book to be a production grade Rust programmer - if anything, that article convinced me to go with Go ;-)
I think medium still does a lot of really good SEO for free. My last company moved from self-hosting to medium because the same content on medium drove more views and generated more leads.

But this was a few years ago, so maybe this effect has since collapsed on itself.
> There is a surprisingly long (in comparison to other items) script for answering questions about the flamethrower.

Flamethrower!? Can anyone explain what this means?
Also known as Type Driven Development, a much better approach than the other TDD abbreviation.
I used your free api and the response gives no insights, is that how it is supposed to work?

e.g.
[
{
"url": "https://pretzelai.github.io",
"host": "pretzelai.github.io",
"status": 200,
"statusText": "OK",
"duration": "0.167 s",
"location": null
}
]%
> It's trivial to bulldoze a European start-up by having complaints filed in a bunch of jurisdictions alleging this or that nonsense.

You vastly overestimate the responsiveness of data protection authorities. Your complaints will be filed and requests be sent in what, months? Certainly not all at once; and for pretty much all requests, even a small startup will have general answers prepared (or can make them up) they can send out immediately, with clarifications sent later.

Edit: And that's even glossing over the fact that for your bulldozing, you'll have to research how to report your "nonsense" for each individual jurisdiction, in that country's language; and I'd be surprised if they wouldn't want to know which citizen encountered the privacy violation you're trying to report; the people working there aren't stupid, either. All that is to say: I've yet to see such a trivial bulldozing happen.
How can I play the game, if I just get killed within seconds?
Which... Is kind of a bug given Mallory can just say that if they know you do that
Something went very wrong then, given Go's existence, making Java feel like a PhD level language.
Economies of scale and learning effects are a pretty well studied phenomenon. So, yes, these are quite reasonable assumptions to make.

I'm more talking about replacing 1 massive tunnel between a handful of destinations with hundreds of tunnels going to many destinations. Why stop at 10?
How are you going to count them all quickly when the public demands same day results?
I believe this is not a question that can be asked.

Recently I pushed a change straight to production by myself with no approval and violated many rules but it saved us and carried us for weeks. Worse case if it broke, rollback would happen under in under 30 seconds.

I did it because not only did I triple check, I’ve kept mental track of the number of regressions and issues that have been logged against all of my work throughout my career. I’m good at determining risk and I know my bug rate is very low (I git blame every bug to find out who and why caused it. I don’t tell my coworkers but it does play a role in who gets what kind of tickets.) I did what I did because frankly I know it was going to work and no one was going to complain. And truthfully, I’ve done this at different companies several times. Of course, it’s still never a light decision and I rarely ever do it.

But if someone asks me if they could do the same thing, I would not be able to tell them. They would have to keep track of the same details and to be honest, if someone is asking if they can break rules, they probably shouldn’t.

This is the “tension.”
Hate speech should be allowed if we had real free speech. Until someone physicially violates your body or your property it should not be a crime. It is legal to vehemently dislike someone/something for arbitrary reasons. It should be legal to both think and advocate for whatever you want. It should be legal to have any qualitative experience short of violating someones physical property.

Every male under 35 has been told to kill themselves on teamspeak/xbox live 1000 times and were fine. Just ignore it. Stop advocating to put us all in a police state because some people dont know how to not look at their phone screen for five seconds, or close their laptop.

Its tiktok. It is 90% ads and 9.9% trash anyways. Just uninstall the app.
Using the earliest possible date isn't a great idea because it's very easy to guess if necessary for security purposes. Same for whatever the default date is, 01/01/1970, or any other date that follows a similar pattern
>I really wish states everywhere just banned electronic voting. The savings simply aren't worth the loss of trust and verifiability.

But the public demands same day results. How are you going to overcome this issue?
logical or well reasoned argument doesn't equal a casual or factual relationship. The well reasoned arguments on many issues change over time, just take the same issue and go back in time 100 or 50 years to find much less consensus and much weaker logical links. Elon shows pretty consistently that truth for him is mostly just what Elon deems truthful or useful.
I am quite convinced that if the goal is the best possible output quality, then the best approach is to analytically compute the non-overlapping areas of each polygon within each pixel. Resolving all contributions (areas) together in the same single pass for each pixel.
Perhaps, but I'm not even sure this strategy really works anymore.
I agree, that section read as a post-hoc justification given how much effort went into it. If the effort to determine if something is "worth" entering is more than the effort to enter it, it would be better to just enter it rather than wasting time on the verification part.

Particularly as there's no reputational downside to entering and failing at such a contest.
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Sure, but there's a lot more of them that happen to be on twitter even when it was still called that. Accounts are easy to make, tweeting is almost too cheap to measure.

The IRL stuff doesn't scale as easily, and the responses from others take them down rather than boosting them — the "Nicht unser Krieg" graffiti has a constant back-and-forth counter-graffiti that covers up "nicht", for example.
Like all good writing, this article is not about the subject in the title. This is the pertinent line :

> They are intellectually secure in the center of a vast mob; their wisdom was received, not crafted.
> more expensive and slower to build per km than the channel tunnel

Channel Tunnel: ~$22B / 31mi ~ $700m/mi

LVCC: $47m / 1.7mi ~ $28m/mi

??
> go to the outskirts of D.C. and talk to any worker who has to transit over what Macquarie Bank calls the giant american cash machine.

I live in the Washington DC area and have no idea what this refers to. Can you clarify?