skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a lot of emphasis put on insulation values, thermal mass, and temperature differential. Half of the dog houses were like 20 pounds and open to the air on all sides. We put a 150 lb garden on top of ours to act as a heat sink and then insulated all the walls of the dog house. We were able to keep 10 degrees below ambient after 3 hours out in the sun.

The rubric also put a ton of points on the technical report which seemed like an after thought for most people but at the end of the day it was an engineering competition so the whole point was the technical portion and the dog house display itself was kind of just the fun bit. We did really well just because we bothered to do all the requested calculations on life cycle cost analysis, heat losses, carbon balance, etc.

Our final product looked like a tank, but it won by a long shot.
That's non-sensical.

Bezos and Musk provided more value to society than one of their employees.

The convenience of Amazon wouldn't exist and it saved normal people a ridiculous amount of man-hours.

If you contributed something more valuable to the world you could also get more than $1M for your lifetime.
When in doubt, go with classics, "best books of all time", Nebula Award nominees, etc.

[1] https://taylor.town/eschew-the-new

[2] https://johnnywebber.com/book-lists
No. Drug dealers always hurt people - we have the word Pharmacist for good drug dispensers.
Kim is not a political opponent, he is a convicted criminal who now very deep in fake news, conspiracy myths and other lies. This is not someone who has just a different opinion on some things, but one with a long history of seriously harmful behavior.
So we're led to believe. But Ulbricht was identified via domestic NSA wiretaps; they used parallel construction to prosecute (oh yeh, the FBI just happened to stumble onto a Stackoverflow question of his years ago and used proper warrants against that!).

Why would I swallow any childish stories that the US attorney made up?
Yeah it's totally fine. No uncomfortable thoughts bubbling below the surface here.
OK, I'll need to see a source on increased pollution. I really doubt that a motorcycle is putting out more pollution than an average American-size vehicle. For example, my sport bike gets 59MPG, and I've owned multiple bikes that got >100mpg. Even without a catalytic converter, how is that more pollution than a single commuter driving in a truck or SUV getting 20MPG and likely shedding more road and tire particulate due to the increased weight.

Edit: although the noise thing is valid, I'm perpetually annoyed with the "loud pipes save lives" crowd, that's obnoxious.
The problem is determining the coverage, the contribution of the polygon to a pixel's final color, weighted by a filter. This is relevant at polygon edges, where a pixel straddles one or more edges, and some sort of anti-aliasing is required to prevent jaggies[1] and similar aliasing artifacts, such as moiré, which would result from naive discretization (where each pixel is either 100% or 0% covered by a polygon, typically based on whether the polygon covers the pixel center).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggies
Public companies exist to enrich shareholders. If you are in a position to abuse your market power, you're sorta obligated to.
FDA Delenda Est, sure. But I'm still glad that seatbelts and frame strength standards aren't optional for auto manufacturers. Maybe we just need to regulate regulatory capture; have penalties for it that actually hurt the pocketbooks of the market juggernauts who try it.
It can certainly be obnoxious (I remember everyone calling Microsoft, M$ in the early 2000s), but if the goal is communicating an idea to an audience spelling it iPhone vs IPhone vs iphone vs Iphone doesn't make a difference.

What I don't get is advocating for radical civil obedience to a company's preferred trademark names.
A decade ? That's optimistic.
Not every company operates at that scale.

And if you click their first article about making the decision, they even acknowledged what I said about the ability to scale up and down being a major feature of the cloud and then said that does not apply to them anymore but it also was a big advantage for them at one point.

They are an example where moving to their own hardware made sense but for many companies it doesn’t.

For me I need to be able to spin up several hundred high power GPU instances for a few hours and then it’s quiet for a couple week.

The couple thousand dollars (if that thanks to spot) it costs to run that workload is far better than the cost of that same hardware for machines that would not be doing anything most of the time.

So yes you are still over simplifying the situation ignoring that there are real reasons that a company would use the cloud, which your example even references.
He was predominantly stealing US intellectual property, films, TV shows and music and the like. And unlike say normal use of bittorrent, making a lot of money off it. And being the largest player doing that. I'm not sure about the morals but you can certainly understand financially why they've gone after him.
Not to mention that Microsoft wasn't broken up because Bush intervened: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/sep/07/microsoft...
According to others in this thread, Kim posted pro Russian Twitter messages. Another pro-Russian commentator, Scott Ritter, had his house searched this week and had his UN Iraq WMD documents taken.

None of us has the necessary information. Ritter clearly overshoots massively in his Russia commentary and I disagree with almost all things he says about Russia.

On the other hand, you can find associations of both him and DotCom with LaRouche. And LaRouche is a mystery:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/cult...
It's not a myth. Your second paragraph basically agrees with me and contradicts itself.

so you’ve effectively got a gigantic resistor between you and the wires (assuming there’s a continuous path through the water at all). So even if the least resistance path is through you, the amount of current will be tiny due to Ohm’s law.

That is, by definition, NOT the "least resistance path".
How is Hollywood not compensating the people making the movies? Don’t they have contracts managing the payment? Taking a finished movie and just distributing it without consent is something different than making contracts with the creators. Or are you talking about something else?
It also speaks ActivityPub, and can thus talk to Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. servers.
And yet low-speed vehicles are allowed....

Low-speed vehicles are coming to Rhode Island streets
https://turnto10.com/news/local/low-speed-vehicles-are-comin...
Microsoft for a good long while made money on two things: Office and Windows. You could break them up into "Office", "Windows", and any combination of "everything else", and for the most part what would happen is that the Office and Windows parts would make more money proportionally, and most if not all of the "everything else" would die. Even products that could nominally have survived on their own if they had grown up on their own would die because by the time the corporate culture adapted to the new realities they'd mostly already be dead.

Given that monopoly-breakups are supposed to be in the public interest, it is a complicated argument to make in court that the public is advantaged by all those ancillary services getting killed. Now, I'm happy to declare that; I think the "culture of free" is corrosive, to probably an even greater degree than most other HN users. I'm outright willing to call it morally corrosive, for both the companies and the consumers. You, dear $READER, may not be inclined to go that far, especially perhaps on the consumer side. I'm just putting down my cards so that you can see that when I point out that in court that's going to be a difficult argument, it's an admission against my interests and biases.

Google is similar. They make money on ads and everything else is a distant second. Even search might have trouble standing on its own because it is funded on ad revenue; split them up that way and how is search getting funded? Google Cloud could certainly survive on its own for a time, but if it had to reduce investment it could go into an uncompetitive death spiral of having to match investment resources to profits over the years. Gmail could in principle make radically more money if they charged $5/month or something, but how many customers will do that?

And how on Earth would you even break up Android? You can't just hack it out as its own thing; it integrates with a lot of Google things and there's no way they'd all end up in the same entity.

I'm willing to just hack them to pieces and let the market figure it out. I think in the long term we'd come out stronger. But I'm arguing here in a relatively friendly forum for that and probably a lot of you still disagree with me. I'd hate to be arguing this in court.
Genereally such a trial would take place in the jurisdiction of the accused unless the crime was physically committed somewhere else.
The US seems to have this knack of sliding itself into this narrow gap between individuals they're idealistically pursuing and something worse. "If I could just slip in there, ooh, that's tight, yes, thank you, aah comfy, this feels like where I belong".

In their desperate attempt to not lose a fight that's been going on for, what, 10 years? 15 years? They're increasingly looking like a child that cannot move on from a primary school sleight.

The US look like an ass because the law they're seemingly-autistically pursuing, is an ass.

Pragmatism has no place here, it would seem.

Also, downloading from Mega will get you a (partial at least) red flag from intelligence / law enforcement.
Those 10's of billions are billions that will never be used for fighting global warming, so the whole planet looses on wars.
It’s a completely reasonable rant, and timely. You could write largely the same rant regarding digital books and how Apple advantages itself over competitors when it comes to their “fee” and the distortions this causes in the purchasing experience for those products.
> it's pretty undemocratic to "call him out" incessantly

I don't understand this sentiment. Using your freedom of speech to criticize a politician doesn't feel undemocratic to me. If anything, the implication that critic should be reserved feels undemocratic. You can vote and speak, and without critic we don't have a true democracy because voters aren't educated. Democracy requires not just voting, but informed voting.
> super annoying that Safari doesn’t allow me to switch to Kagi

What does Apple not allowing you to set a custom search engine on iOS have to do with Google?
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Yeah but he got a _decade_ of _world-wide_ man chase and legal arm wrestling.

That's 2 orders of magnitude up the resources invested.

And not even for stealing in the case of Mega, but for assumed money people would have paid to IP owners if the service hadn't existed. Which is a premise pirates have been debunking for years.

When I used mega, I didn't have the money for the content. Today I pay for netflix and steam games.

This is not about justice, this is about power.
> "So we women are nothing more than props to you? We are only at BlackHat to be lampshade holders?"

She took that awfully personal. Does she have lampshade experience? Seriously, faux outrage is not convincing.

Not that I want to defend a quite silly exhibition, but there is a very fuzzy reference for non-silliness on security products on exhibitions like this.
> Why not? Are we all beholden to the Apple marketing department style guide?

Aren't they proper nouns?
Likely due to the high profile nature of his crime. He still only served time in a tame white collar prison too.
No, it would be buying an android phone
In their defense:

- Microsoft's biggest monopoly candidate is Windows, and outside of business the PC space is too small for this to be as problematic as it once was

- Apple's devices have competitors, although they are really bad about sucking people into their ecosystem and mistreating the outsiders

- No one is forced to use Amazon, although they do have scummy tactics for their sellers I believe (you're not allowed to sell it cheaper elsewhere or something like that?).

I'm sure similar arguments could be made for Google though.
Interesting.

Actually, this conversation has made me realize I only do this sort of “give me more options” interaction in Safari (long press) and Panic Prompt (double tap). I think I hadn’t noticed the inconsistency because 2 is not very many, and also the Panic Prompt behavior is a sort of nice analogy to the typical Linux terminal behavior.

Still though, only two programs and the inconsistency is immediate, haha.
Best time of my professional career, broadly (although there were obvious frustrations). I’d 100% recommend at least a couple-year stint at GDS if it’s an option, as it completely changes the way you think about a huge number of things.
There's a trivial way to not re-add data that was removed: don't do it without user opt-in, whom admittedly you have access to ask at the moment of data collection. If you don't have the ability to ask users to opt in, you probably shouldn't be collecting the data anyway, with very few exceptions like criminal records.

edit for clarity: by criminal records, I mean for the official management of them, not for scraping their content.
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Didn't like the guy when he was in the news, but this is too long ago, give it a rest. Why does NZ even play ball on this, just tell the US to f off.
I don't think you get it because you wouldn't have asked the question in the first place if you did.

If there is actual competition in a market, the surplus generated by economic transactions is more fairly distributed by the participants in the transaction. When there is competition, businesses also need to compete and improve their products to drive efficiencies (for better margins) and to make the product more attractive to buyers.

Because Apple is in a monopoly position, the only way to sell to Apple device users is via their app store. If you want to sell on their App store you need to give apple 30% of revenue. To be clear, Apple does not provide 30% of the value here. This 30% is pure rent seeking, once the app is installed Apple provides 0 value.

If you really wanted to equate Apple and Amazon, it would be like Amazon taking 30% of the initial transaction then forcing all revenue generated from products sold on Amazon to give 30% of revenue in perpetuity to them.
Called on the phone - and the person who picked it up said the dude was dead.

Which is how it plays out when someone dies, generally, and the family is there dealing with the aftermath. FYI.
Would like to see a Harfbuzz WASM implementation for this :)
I'm inclined to think that this must be a state sponsored attack, yet I wonder the about the value of pissing off the public. Seems like it would just help to galvanize support of the Iranian government.
I dunno, man - a competitive market for browsers likely involves the browser itself inserting a bunch of ads all over the place. It becomes another axis for enshittification, rather than a mostly-neutral window into the web. It's not enough to hope that a business model appears... Ask any journalist.
Feedback wanted: I open-sourced a Mac Terminal helper (Grammarly for Terminal)
A few friends and I have been frustrated by the lack of AI assistance in Mac Apps. So we built something (this time for the Mac Terminal). It runs alongside your terminal and dynamically fixes errors in your command line usage. There are several other AI-enabled terminals and shells, but nothing that quite did what I wanted. I'd love feedback!

A video walkthrough is here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/shellmate

Codebase here: https://github.com/srosro/deepspring-shellmate
YouTube has been profitable in recent years -- thanks to an investment in hardware transcoding reducing costs. So that is potentially separable.

One point to mention is that there are two different "Google Ads". Search ads are very different from page ads (DoubleClick). You could certainly take away the DoubleClick part, but separating Search Ads from Search is much harder.
Obviously nothing more than a coincidence, but very interesting this news came out days before 9/11. I wonder if this would have gotten more attention at the time.
However, the highlighting examples do not work with JS disabled (I think because JS is used to load the fonts) so what is the advantage of not using JS for highlighting over calling a JS highlighter on <code> tags?
Just imagining that many horses on that space chariot.
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Are you missing the point on purpose? The suspicious thing isn’t that he has money, it’s that he’s storing the money physically as cash in his home. You think Google has a safe at the HQ filled with dollar notes?
Fascinating. But I (non-physics person) don’t understand how the neutrinos won’t interact with atoms in the earth’s crust and their trajectory be deviated in the long journey between the 2 sites.
Plex and GPM never distributed pirated content, they just allowed users to host or upload their own content.

Every social media allows image uploads and no one thinks about that but images online are constantly breaking copyright law.
This library doesn't deal with the notion of local time at all. It's all UTC-based times, possibly with a user-supplied timezone offset, but then the hard part of calculating the timezone offset must be done by the caller.

I do think the documentation could be a little clearer. The author talks about “time zones” but the library only deals with time zone offsets. (A time zone is something like America/New_York, while a time zone offset is the difference to UTC time, which is -14400 seconds for New York today, but will be -18000 in a few months due to daylight saving time changes.)
> A fair amount of “this is fine, governments enforce IP laws and that’s a public good” vibes in here, which is all a very reasonable perspective.

I'd say it would be a a reasonable perspective if his case was being tried where the offences actually took place and/or where he was a citizen of and not a country who refuses to give the same rights to non-citizens being tried there compared to citizens[1] and wasn't even where the offense took place. This is absolutely chilling for anyone who isn't an US citizen honestly.

[1]:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511y42z1p7o
he did not and at least there is no written evidence that he did. something that OP could look up tho is the stats of the giant reduction of child trafficking/child abuse content posted on X since Musk took it under his wing. Why wasnt it adressed before? this could be a much bigger story but one OP will never address
Yikes! Yes. WIll correct. I do not know what happened to my brain there.
If so, then Ipad and Iphone (or perhaps IPad and IPhone) are more grammatically correct: https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/proper-noun-capitali...
i admit i've only used them in countries that don't really have winter, where they were great. except the time i got shocked
This video basically sums it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92w5doU68D8

TLDR, the guy does an identical drive in both Polestar 2 and a Tesla, the Tesla just works at every supercharger, he plugs in and that's it, no app no nothing, the car charges at maximum available speed every time. With the Polestar every charger requires a different app, the chargers themselves are not built properly(advertising higher charging rates than the cables they have been installed with can support), broken stalls, and the car almost never charged anywhere close to its maximum charging speed.

I love EVs(I own one!) but the state of public infrastructure is absolutely dire, unless you own a tesla and can use superchargers.
Not OP but as a public utility it would be paid for through both taxes and usage

The actual computational resources required to provide search would be a fraction of Google’s operating costs

Added benefit would be pitting private providers against each other so they’re incentivised to provide better outcomes, as opposed to the current decoupling of utility and market position

The current situation is immensely wasteful of everyone’s time and resources (Alphabet shareholders aside)

It really is a Standard Oil situation, but as it’s just inflaming - but not halting -the global economy, it’s been flying under regulators’ radar until a few years ago

No moat is too wide for the flick of sufficiently powerful pens, business models be damned
So we all came together, agreed on a shared store of value, then said no one can "poof it" into existence, and then gave said power to only a single entity that now makes more of it without doing anything and we're all supposed to think "that's normal".

It's not theft, but it's not that far off from it. But at this point, we've normalized things like "taxes" anyways, so peoples' definition of theft doesn't align with reality, so why would it be different when it comes to printing of money.

Everyone is just post-rationalizing about this because they can't cope with the logical inconsistency of the world they live in.
Highest ocean heat in four centuries places Great Barrier Reef in danger
Apple is the only big tech company left that even pretends to care about privacy and does even a half-assed job of it. If they're doing it in part for self-interested reasons, that's fine. It's better than nothing.

Their cloud storage product even has on-device encryption. Nobody else offers that, and in fact AFAIK Google and some of the others even have it listed as against their ToS. They're also working on privacy-respecting AI services and on-device AI as a first class citizen, which is different from any other company. All other AI products are designed for maximum privacy invasion.

Google, Microsoft, and the entire mobile app ecosystem are all actively hostile to user privacy and seek to undermine it as a primary mission and policy.
Absolutely, we have several full time people who specialize in COBOL variants for VMS and OS2200.
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It both predates the Apple approach and is more thorough. I cannot inspect or ensure the software BoM of my image with Apple’s approach, I just have to trust them. With Oak you have trust down to the hardware.
A brief history of AI from the 50s to today's LLMs – without any math
chatgpt is doing just that and they re being praised for it. hell they even break deal with gov agencies
How many miles do you get if you make an even worse assumption about the hybrid battery?