skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> working 60% or 80% were fantastic for my lifestyle and building relationships outside of work

Whoah, it seems fantastic! That alone seems like a good reason to work for Google. Unfortunately, none of the companies I worked for was interested in less than 100%. I told them many times, you can keep your money, I just want to spend 20% or 30% less time at work, but they always insisted on 100%. I have a feeling they would go for 120% if legally allowed.
Electricity infrastructure like substations and power lines already have a proven method of redundancy by building more of it than needed. Also Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure shows that substations and power lines can be rapidly rebuilt.
You can also instigate by saying "what is going on here?" in the wrong tone of voice.
Denmark announces world-first climate tax on agriculture
original title: Denmark announces world-first climate tax on agriculture – earmarks billions for rewilding
Do the pipelines want to explode? How high is the pressure? There’s no oxygen there so the gas itself won’t explode.

The pipeline must be fairly heavy duty to handle pressure and rough conditions on the seabed. And punching a small whole is probably not enough as it could potentially be fixed?
Well its feature list seems positively delightful: https://github.com/riot-ml/riot !

Basically, it seems, it's Erlang for OCaml. Hot reloading would be a cool feature, though, but I can see why it's not implemented, at least not yet.. I recall the OCaml native toplevel is able to load code in dynamically, so that could be the mechanism to do it.

It seems to use open types for handling messages (per just looking at https://github.com/riot-ml/riot/tree/main/examples/3-message...) reducing the benefits of exhaustiveness checking, but it still seems rather interesting!
How to Protect Your Mail-Order Prescriptions from Extreme Heat
Per the article, _align_ is for vertical distribution, and _justify_ is for horizontal. The example is actually behaving correctly. The naming is confusing though, imo
"Handling a 500 kg payload"

1kg would be enough to breach a pipe. A single determined diver, not necessarily following OSHA rules could do it.

The question I have is, what side is Germany on? They're cutting or suspending military aid, they are indicting Ukrainians, they are blowing up their own energy production making them more dependent on Russian natural gas. WTH?

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-halt-new-ukraine-mil...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-halve-military-...
Another one: "We're moving our stack to <flavor-of-the-month>."

or one that I lived through: "We're switching from SQL Server to Oracle." That one burned a few years that could have been spent on new features or improvements.
Then you probably have either a very old mpv or one that was compiled without including the "gpu-next" video output driver.

Or else the GPU drivers for your GPU card have not been updated for a very long time.

A recent mpv and recent GPU drivers should solve this problem, because it was frequently encountered only up to a couple of years ago.
Very cool style! I wonder if one could further reduce some of the constraints (i.e. # colors on palette), maintain the pixelated style, but improve overall aesthetics.
https://archive.ph/CKyL1
Check fraud was significant . But overall finance fraud has seemed to increase despite improved security
So, I made this site this year and want it to grow.
You have any feedbacks on what kind of site I should make this?

Right now it focuses on Startup growth hacks. But I am considering new opinions and perspectives on this.

Do reply with any feedback you have.
This was already a feature for flex box and grid. They’re just adding this to flow layout. Still a welcome addition but consider that all browsers that add support for this will already have support for flex and grid.
The German state and media has always been fanatically pro-Russia and pro-China but they don't get criticized for it unlike Hungary. I wonder why.
Yes, it's a bank, they hire tons of consultants all the time.

Moreover, they could also order an executive summary in order to learn what is the procedure if they need to do this check themselves in the future.
Most of the work of a manager is not coordinating the work of subordinates but instead justifying the necessity of employing managers.
In general Go DX is fantastic.

But having done some Rust development lately, I really miss the ? thing every time I go back to golang. It's such a small change and purely syntactic but ould make ones code much shorter and maybe even more readable.
You believe your government? The track record on transparency for most western governments has been so bad the last 25+ years that trusting them is kinda psychotic honestly
As it does under most socialist ideas
I think you just picked up the goalposts and brought them home with you. Why ask for a standard in the first place?
it's annoying that the clsid fork isn't associated with the website- it adds a lot of confusion to what is probably the video player that compromises between user friendliness and customizability. It's usually the video player that I recommend to people because it seems beter than vlc and has a GUI for settings as opposed to mpv.
I still like Xidel[0] for this reason; it may be a little older, but for a CLI scraper a lot of data transformations needs can be satisfied with Xpath/XQuery.

[0]: https://github.com/benibela/xidel
"I strongly doubt that Norway was involved, it would have poisoned relations with the EU."

So... Maybe that's why they won't admit it?
"...actual scientific studies..." eh? Let's set aside that one can find studies that say anything one wants, let's set aside that replication is much less likely in the social sciences, please list the top three studies that you personally read that persuaded you that your position is true. If you do provide them, I will take the time to read them; my extensive time spent in the lower social economic strata of society gives me a lot of data points that say otherwise but I'll give the papers a fair shake. If you pull the "do your own research" rhetorical gambit or just dig up the top hits by Googling, that means you were bluffing about "scientific studies" all along.
> many use alternatives as mpv, IINA when I used macOS, SMplayer, etc.

Those are all basically the same alternative in terms of backend. They're all based on ffmpeg and of mplayer lineage. I don't think there are many (any??k others comparable to VLC in terms of covering so many formats that are independent of FFMPEG. Maybe GStreamer?
The Unknown Craftsman
Indeed, as long as they keep deploying clean energy, storage, and larger interconnects with neighboring grids, I think these targets are actually far too conservative; Germany could be done with coal by 2030 [1].

Tangentially, the world will be deploying ~660GW of solar per year by the end of this year (2024), and is on track to achieve a 1TW/year deployment rate within 18 months [2] [3]. Good trajectories, just need storage and transmission to pick up the pace.

[1] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE?wind=false&solar=fal... ("ElectricityMaps: Germany")

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40727619 (citations)

[3] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/06/20/the-exponential... | https://archive.ph/JuoYa ("The Economist: The exponential growth of solar power will change the world")
> This type is about the order of its contents by value.

No, by key.
ATC were forbidden from striking (or rather not protected from retaliation for striking) because they were federal employees, not because of how critical they were.
Hey Phil, the blogpost says pg_duckdb is being taken forward by duckdb labs, hydra, motherduck, neon, and microsoft azure. We're fully invested in developing pg_duckdb and I'm happy to work collaboratively- do you have something valuable to add to pg_duckdb?
A gunman killed power for tens of thousands by shooting electrical infrastructure. A coordinated attack at a lynchpin could do much worse.

A gunfire attack on two electrical substations in rural North Carolina has left tens of thousands of people without power, schools closed, a curfew imposed, and authorities investigating what they say was an intentional, criminal attack.
As the outages continued into Monday, questions persisted about who carried out the attack and what could have been their motive in knocking out power to Moore County and its 100,000 residents.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1140775417/north-carolina-sub...
Not sure I understand, but SQLite itself sort of does that. You can take a look at the architecture here: https://www.sqlite.org/arch.html
Well... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Abraham_Crijnssen_(193...
> Ask advice, ask permission, whatever. It'll be okay.

Let's take that at face value for the moment.

The person making the request cannot know ahead of time that the person they are asking treats advice/permission interchangeably. Their interlocutor could instead be what the author calls a gatekeeper, in which case permission-seeking will trigger the gate but advice-seeking will not.

On the flip side, someone fielding a question cannot know ahead of time that their interlocutor essentially randomly chooses between advice/permission-seeking, and that their interlocutor would treat the response the same either way. The person asking the question could be a narcissist looking for a place to lay blame if things go wrong.

Where such a choice is possible, standardizing on advice-giving therefore minimizes gatekeeping and ass-covering. Permission-seeking invites one or the other, with no apparent gain.

The results are even more in favor of advice-seeking when you take into account the number of people who have an easy time claiming what you've written-- be direct, we're all adults here-- but end up being gate-keepers/ass-coverers in practice. That discrepancy between words and deeds characterizes the vast majority of narcissists I've ever met.

There are a lot of narcissists out there, so I don't see any reason not to take the author's advice. At worst the standard has no effect at all, and realistically it will probably do what the author says it will.
United Airlines flight 1175 [video]
But the hacky solutions actually get done what people want the software to do. The point between me and the parent poster is that a solution necessarily being hacky is not a good reason to not implement a feature.

And TBH the VLC example hardly even seems hacky. If you have a stream that can be seeked backwards in, then find the previous I-frame and internally run the video forward to the frame the user wants to see. That is exactly what the user is forced to do manually anyway.

As far as it sounding like I'm boasting, all I can really do is assure you that was not the point. I was contrasting my experiences with how people tend to write about software development in blog posts and in comments on places like here. I do not think I'm better than them simply because I am ok with implementing hacky solutions where I think they make sense. But I am annoyed when useful features are denied because it would require a hacky solution. For FOSS, it's entirely within the devs rights to operate that way, but to me that's one way FOSS software can sometimes fall short of commercial software.
We all know he would have been better than Bush, the bar is low, but you don't have to make it look like we missed out on the least shitty president in all of US history.
I think it's also partially an issue with video + audio being paired by region.

AFAIK, the video you are being served is always based by the geolocation and what video was licensed for that. E.g. in a French version of a movie, text in the movie may have been localized into french inside the video. Additionaly there might be additional/missing scenes in the localized version to get the desired age ratings in that market.

The audio is then synced to that version of the video. That means that e.g. the French audio produced for the US video is not 1:1 the same audio as the French audio for the German video.

So that takes it beyond a licensing issue, and would mean additional effort to produce compatible audio tracks for content that they may only have streaming rights for temporarily. For content native to the streaming service they usually put that effort in.
Worldcoin's Orb Factory, Audacious and Absurd Defender of Humanity
Leadership in the Minimum Effort Game (2015)
Up until a few years ago WF didn't process case in passwords. you could set your password to Hello and log in with hello
It doesnt sound like we will be able to agree on the definition of any words, and I dont think you are using them in the conventional or scholastic manner. have a good day.
Firefox has supported this since 125. So if you are on ESR 128 it should work fine

https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_align-content_block_c...
That is one funny, informative read! Although, the first response, I feel, aught to have been 'non'. I can hear it now.
Maybe they've been running low on Chinese golf cars?

Yes, they've been sent to the front.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

If I ever have a need for a metrics solution I'll consider your products.
Solve real world problem in a formal way, not ad-hoc.
It was enlightening to read/watch the realtime assessments of the sabotage from US leadership. The original storyline from American leadership was that Russia did it. That this story got any legs was an insult to the intelligence of any thinking person. The pipeline was a major revenue source for Russia, and probably a major reason why Germany was slow to back Ukraine.

Eventually leadership realized that this was a terrible angle, and now the story is that they have no idea who did it.

My take is that it was either Ukraine or the U.S. And even if it was Ukraine, it was done with the U.S. president's approval and tactical support.
Totally agree. The key idea here is automaticity, the ability to execute low-level skills without having to devote conscious effort towards them. Automaticity frees up limited working memory to execute multiple lower-level skills in parallel and perform higher-level reasoning about the lower-level skills.

For instance, think about all the skills that a basketball player has to execute in parallel: they have to run around, dribble the basketball, and think about strategic plays, all at the same time. If they had to consciously think about the mechanics of running and dribbling, they would not be able to do both at the same time, and they would not have enough brainspace to think about strategy.

(This comment is basically the intro to a detailed article I wrote on the topic with plenty of scientific citations: https://www.justinmath.com/cognitive-science-of-learning-dev...)
Thanks! I actually like most of the Xiaomi hardware I’ve come across, just never used that model. Have added it to my list of prospective replacements (will be a year or so before I actually worry about doing the upgrade)
Because - and more so for the maintainers/managers of those projects - being able to communicate effectively is part of what it means to run a successful project?

That may even mean that you have to hold yourself to a higher standard than some low-effort post on the part of some casual user. Especially if you're the boss, the maintainer, the leader. And if that's asymmetric then yes it is - but to be a maintainer/manager of a project is also asymmetric. Good managers might also promote that culture more widely across all the project's contributors and so yes it may apply to all developers, too.

Not everyone that engages with your project is going to be perfect, some may even be rude. But as a representative of that project it's a skill to be able to cope with that, on behalf of the project (not you). I think one of the most underrated skills of a FOSS maintainer is a degree of fault-tolerance, to use a systems analogy.

Or, you could argue that no, it's not incumbent on a maintainer to be anything, even to be kind. But then don't expect your users to come back.
> The thing is, even here on HN (where I expect, maybe not warranted, the level to be higher), people seem to absolutely proud and entitled to chargeback whatever for whatever reason. Those are almost 100% Americans (I check) and that is where I got the idea; this sentiment is much higher on tiktok, youtube, reddit etc. I even saw some shorts of people screwing merchants with chargeback like it is some batch of honour.

That's an example of selection bias and other confounding factors: HN users are disproportionately American, Americans are more likely to know of chargeback rights than people from other countries, Americans are more likely to have credit cards than people from other countries, American statutory rights in this area (especially for credit rather than debit cards) are stronger than in most other countries, people who abuse chargebacks are more likely to be American than from other countries for all of the foregoing reasons, Americans are more likely to boast than people from most other countries, Reddit has disproportionately many Americans, and people who make shorts about chargebacks are more likely to do chargebacks than people who don't.

Consider statistical rather than anecdotal evidence in this area. According to one payments processing company, Clearly Payments, the USA has slightly below average chargeback rates, at 0.47%, behind the UK, Belgium, Germany, and France:

https://www.clearlypayments.com/blog/chargeback-rate-by-coun...
Betteridge's Law of Headlines says "no."
Electric cars are honestly just as noisy. Aside from big diesel trucks or wannabe fast n furious characters, you don’t really hear engine noise. You hear road noise from the tires, which is worse with weight and therefore worse with heavier evs.
(everything is working with no effort)

No one:

IT infra: let’s move our repo platform to SaaS!
> The preponderance of psychological evidence indicates that experts are made, not born. What is more, the demonstrated ability to turn a child quickly into an expert—in chess, music and a host of other subjects—sets a clear challenge before the schools. Can educators find ways to encourage students to engage in the kind of effortful study that will improve their reading and math skills?

This is an interesting point. I think our schools (in most of the West) are proficient in producing generalists. Especially our state schools.

I think there is potential for improvement in producing specialists.

As one example, go to the top universities in Europe, and look at classes in STEM fields. You will find a preponderance of Romanian students, far overindexing their relatively small 19 million population, which is especially surprising considering their relative poverty to other European countries. I would suggest that their specialist schools are the key to this surprising success.

One thing about specialist schools is that selection is necessary. So the public of most Western nations will never accept it.
You asked them to define successful. You asked them a question. I see them answering the question and defining successful.

You are, by definition, 100% wrong.
fwiw Chrome on Linux has no WebGPU support or hardware acceleration, so I often use Firefox for e.g. playing Ruffle content. The story is different on different platforms, and will slowly improve.
With more affordable sensor technology, citizen science has a huge potential to become a strong force just by being able to deploy a large number of people in a short time span.

However some of the problems is that it's not really recognized (yet) by academia and governments and thus also not adequately funded.

It would be great if there is a more systematic approach to citizen science but only in astronomy but also global challenges like climate change and biodiversity.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/7311

> An individual may not accept or hold a position in the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia if he—

> (3)participates in a strike, or asserts the right to strike, against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia; or
20+ years here. I've been exploring different ways of using them, and this is why I recommend that people start exploring now. IntelliJ with Copilot was an interesting start, but ended up being a bit of a toy. My early breakthrough was asking chat interfaces to make something small, then refine it over a conversation. It's very fast until it starts returning snippets that you need to fold into the previous outputs.

When Claude 3.5 came out with a long context length, you could start pasting a few files in, or have it break the project into a few files, and it would still produce consistent edits across them. Then I put some coins in the API sides of the chat models and started using Zed. Zed lets you select part of a file and specify a prompt, then it diffs the result over the selection and prompts to confirm the replace. This makes it much easier to validate the changes. There's also a chat panel where you can use /commands to specify which files should be included in the chat context. Some of my co-workers have been pushing Cursor as being even more productive. I like open source and so haven't used Cursor yet, but their descriptions of language-aware context are compelling.

The catch is that, whatever you use, it's going to get much better, for free. We haven't seen that since the 90's, so it's easy to brush it off, but models are getting better and there isn't a fkattening trend yet.

So I stand behind my original statement: this time is different. Do yourself a favor and get your hands dirty.
My wife and I do a retro date night once in a while where we hit up dandy’s to have burgers and shakes roller skated to the car, then rent a movie from Blockbuster… definitely a fun throwback.
This is not error-handling :)

In fact, this is the opposite of error handling. In any serious application this might be worse than ignoring errors
It was common in NYC even a couple of years ago. Very likely it was a bug indeed, but unless there's a good technical reason why such bugs would only happen with merchants who can easily be reached to arrange refunds and who will routinely cooperate with those refunds, unwarranted double charges should be disputable via chargeback. (Naturally, not all double charges are fake - some are legitimately paying the same amount more than once. Being able to start a chargeback procedure doesn't prevent the merchant from showing the bank evidence that the charges were correct.)
True, though I have to believe that the line the sensors themselves are coming off of has QC to ensure they the batches seem to be operating within spec.

And I knew I wasn't getting the full factory testing, but for a home installation I am not worried about that. If the values happen to be a bit off, it's no big deal.
Old books can have unsafe levels of Chromium, but readers' risk is low
They used a shabby charter yacht and the main suspect is named Volodymyr Z? Sure. The CIA has a sense of humor.

I'll stick with Seymour Hersh on this until there's a more credible story, since I doubt I'll live to see the declassified CIA report.

Norway? Why not? They like the Russians as much as their neighbour Finland and they also have gas. According to Hersh's article it offered a base for the operation.
I agree. Any reasonable person would agree VS is successful.
The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep
Well, to center the text in flow layout, you would use text-align:center;
Original paper:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.13.607810v1
I guess the ARD take is intentionally more on the side of infotainment. There's also this WSJ article from a few days ago which purports to know some very specific facts and even to have quotes from participants of the operation: https://archive.ph/Ka8HB