skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a pro in these systems (yet, I hope), but my understanding is that, beside lack of demand, HVDC is a safety nightmare compared to AC, and inverters are getting more efficient each year. So, even given the choice, I'd keep AC home-wide distribution and set up inverters in key places, with exactly the highest required voltage.
> What's the process to bring it back up so fast?

It's called black start (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start), and power companies plan for it, and the necessary components are regularly tested. It's not a fast process, it can take many hours to bring most of the grid back up. We had last year a large-scale blackout here in Brazil, and a area larger than Texas lost power; most of it was back in less than a day.

> if the Texas grid went down it would have taken weeks to bring everything back online.

The trick word here is "everything". Every time there's a large-scale blackout, there's some small parts of the grid which fail to come back and need repairs. What actually matters is how long it takes for most of the grid to come back online.
Should have been called "pop-tarts."
I totally agree with you... this is why Java being so verbose is actually not terrible either, lmao come after me
It's better than that. As an analog computer, both the inputs and outputs are _continuous_. So it's possible to get down to very small deltas that are only limited by the internal precision of the system itself, and the precision of measuring those inputs and outputs.

At the same time, precision is dictated by machining tolerances for the instruments in the calculation chain, as well as any mechanical forces in play at the time. Even the temperature of parts can change the dimensions of parts which can introduce error. And then there's the accumulation of error across a deep enough mechanical "pipeline".

What really gets me is how there is this tradeoff between analog and digital computers. Digital systems don't have precision errors from miss-shaped parts, but instead opt for errors in quantization (digitization) instead.
just went to the site, read what was there; Click install, go to settings, approve, click install. Go to app library, launch epic store; DONE

RTFM
The fact you're using quotes around innovative indicates, even to yourself, that you're replying to a straw-man.
I wouldn't apply the term 'underrated' to him. He was treated poorly by Eddington and shamefully by Gale in Chicago who wouldn't let him lecture on the main campus until Hutchins intervened. He's been the subject of a couple of biographies and has a space telescope named in his honor.

His body of work is impressive but, candidly, I am not sure what of that body had the impact of the white dwarf result. His radiative transfer book is still referenced but I am not certain that's what the Nobel Committee considers, at least in physics. Woodward and Corey won in chemistry for bodies of work but I am not sure that would apply in Chandrasekhar's case of if he would have been offended by a "lifetime achievement" award.
The band Queen had a prominent note, "No Synthesizers!", on the sleeve of all of their albums from Queen II through A Day At The Races. Presumably it was good branding to emphasize that they were an authentic rock band. By the 80's, however, the initial synthesizer backlash had worn off, and the technology had improved to the point that they were a universal piece of studio equipment...and one that Queen used heavily in their later albums.

It seems likely that acceptance of AI technology will follow a similar pattern.
Why not take money from payroll and give directly to retirees like they do in the Nordics.
> redundant UX is bad UX

In general, I think the best use of toasts are to present options for further action (if needed).

Take the example of deleting an email and getting a toast that lets you undo. Your action has already been completed and you can see it. But you have more context that can be acted on. In this case it's not redundant, even though it relays the action you just take.

In this scenario, it's ideal to move this away from the viewport the user was in. In most cases, they don't need it. But if they do, it's onscreen.

Simple confirmations that do nothing else are redundant. But toasts don't have to be used that way.
That's more of a function of your web server's access logs (or your hosted service's analytics, if in the cloud) than Node.js itself.
I really like the short and visually descriptive layout of this article. It clearly conveys the message. I'm not in agreement that toasts are always bad though.

It can be useful to follow an expected pattern; users are likely to understand that a toast gives feedback for an action they have taken. Although other ways exist to accomplish this, they will follow different formats depending on the action (by necessity).

As with lots of design, expected patterns change over time. Although they are non-local, toasts are familiar.
this would be why you see the trend of using the classical paediatrician with the a, to distinguish it from the ped as in foot.
> Are toasts overused?

I think so, yes.

> In which cases do you use them in your own apps?

I don't. But I don't write mobile apps (where they make more sense) for distribution, so they don't address any need my applications have.
Huh in what way does publishing a source tarball alongside a release introduce a lot of work, risk and distraction? Your explanation makes literally no sense

EDIT: I implore the downvoters to think about this for a second. You can, actually, publish source code for a project without also committing to providing support and documentation and testing across a variety of systems. Publishing a tarball takes very little time and effort.
> no one told her she needs to message us

Did you have that written down somewhere? In instructions, which was my point.

Sorry for the snark, but I think "no one knows how to do anything" coupled with "Oh, the idiot didn't know to discombulate the canooter valve before inserting into the tinklerater--it's so obvious we didn't write it down" supports the point I'm making.
Show HN: A new kind of book recommender
Books are complicated and so are your preferences. Your specific mood and desire for what to read can change from day to day. Just because you enjoyed certain books doesn't mean you want the next one you read to be highly similar to those.

Yogurrt, the book recommender I created, is different: You can select specific low-level preferences it generates on the fly. The preferences are generated based on one or more books you provide. Each run is unique.

Notes - This is a solo project I made over a couple weeks part time. I learned React while making this and it's been awhile since I've done this kind of dev work - I've been a product manager for the past several years. I feel the UI is reasonably usable but unpolished - next time I'd start with a component framework instead of not doing that :)

Please let me know what you think!
For years I've used https://github.com/anatol/booster to unlock LUKS partitions using network bound disk encryption with https://github.com/latchset/clevis and https://github.com/latchset/tang. Works well, especially as Tang is stateless (so deployment and high availability is easy) and Booster falls back to password entry if Tang is unavailable.
Very good point!

The best answer to "ban tiktok" (which I think is good for many reasons, including data collection like this and mental health), is "... and ban data collection like this too, right?"

I think that both of those things would be beneficial for the public - and you can use the response to this point to judge whether someone actually cares about privacy or just wants data collection to be limited to their preferred government.
I'm old enough to know I'd be the first firefly in there and probably would take a friend down with me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299268
I develop on a Windows machine so you're left working out which version of which JDK you need to install.

That isn't really a problem with other languages.
Not just military training videos, older ones in general are often superior to what gets made today. My favorite is probably this one on vehicle differentials:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
nice effort on putting this together!

i've seen a lot of people get burned by those 'guaranteed' placement bootcamps.
Any blockchain is easy to fork, just have a fully copy of the chain and make a new block.
only just a little better that a pdf file enthusiast.
Clearly Jensen is a genius and just ensured us infinite job security. Well, either that or he was just driving the hype b/c nvidia sells the shovels for the AI gold rush.

Personally, I'd wager the latter.
With iOS 17.4 they allow other rendering engines for users in the EU.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-chang...
"Navy Electricity and
Electronics Training Series"
There are a few of them like Filtr or Digster

Usually I find them _by accident_ while browsing public playlists on Spotify
New Jersey to forgive $100M in medical debt
It’s just you dawg. Default dark mode is best thing to happen to my eyes
If Outlook showed a toast for every action I take, I would immediately do everything in my power to make it stop, up to and including hermitage.
This is nonsense. It's the same argument that people use against memory safe languages "it's possible to write memory safe code in C, you just have to not be incompetent". The truth is, all people are various levels of incompetence, and varies according to many different parameters that are all perfectly expected (like sleep deprivation).

You design a system to be as robust as possible to all operating conditions, which includes human fallibility.
Innovators and entrepreneurs in Europe are not happy about that, however. They can’t compete internationally because hiring people is so expensive.
I've only been bitten by the TPM stuff when trying to run Windows in a VM, but annoying (and seemingly pointless in that particular case).
The speedometer on most cars is a kilometers - miles - kilometers calculator.
>> In Go case though the version can only go higher, not lower

That is good to know, assuming that the newer hypothetical toolchain is not vulnerable (e.g. a zero-day in the newer toolchain).

My opinion is still that toolchains (newer or older) should not be implicitly installed without the developer's explicit permission. This could be a configuration setting that the developer has opted-in or a "This package requires toolchain version X. Install it? (y/n)" prompt.
AFAIUI the Liar's Dividend:

- https://www.brookings.edu/articles/watch-out-for-false-claim...

... basically, the mere existence of fakes, of lies, allows people to claim truths to be lies.-

PS. The case above is kind of like an inversion of that.-
To be frank, the public rage to me still seems very engineered by a dying media old guard who cannot admit to any of their faults and blames the newcomers for everything especially the consequences of their very own actions.

People as a whole seem stupid, specifically in that they are more easily influenced than ChatGPT. Enough that when told "be angry about X" repeatedly they get angry instead of getting annoyed or angry at constant transparent attempts at emotional manipulation.
Doing so will mean turning American economy to the like of European. That is, socialism, generational stagnation and people checking checkboxes rather than doing things.

Why not just educate people into investing better instead? It has a side consequence of (purely by chance) making some people multimillionaire heirs simply because their granny lived a very long life and markets were good, thus creating a lot of surplus money to spend or invest. Old people tend to be stingy so that money is unlikely to be spent before their death.
I've uploaded a quick recording here (Seems Youtube forced it to be a "Short"): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rdZ25pyqqmA

So ideally it should "solve" a sudoku puzzle when there's one in the frame. Then you can use the snapshot button (taking you to /image) to save and download the solution.

Though if it's not solving it (Which is definitely not uncommon in less than perfect lighting etc), I can see the workflow being unclear.
Exactly, you said "little set of features" but this is anything but little.

You can also use any VST plugin inside of Cardinal using the Carla and Ildaeil modules.
Off topic, but: what food (and indeed what UI element) is "heroes"?

I've heard of "hero pictures" (detailed close ups, I think named via the highest quality film props), but not food or other UI uses.
https://cartes.app has all these features, but it's french only for now, in the alpha phase.

(I'm the developer)
Well, and some sort of stable target to aim at regarding ‘important’. There is pretty solid consensus in construction that things like foundation design, structural walls/supports, projects over a given size, etc. need engineering sign off.

There is no such consensus I can see right now on the software side, and software projects are also a lot more complex than a typical construction project in ways that are hard to quantify.

How would you even define a licensing test that wouldn’t be obsolete in a year or two even?
Personal Data Classification
This is my own personal experience and I'd like to preface this by saying that I hate the fact this is the case, but this was true for me.

I was an introvert, or thought I was, for a long time. A homebody.

But going out, and just being around other people, has legitimately improved my quality of life by an order of magnitude. It's very strange but I'm just... happier. It's like working out. You just do it, and then everything is better.

I don't get anxious anymore. I like myself a lot more. I actually look forward to tomorrow, which used to never happen.
ah come on. It's halloween. Brothers dress up as their sisters, sisters dress up as their brothers, kids dress up as their neighbours.

You are an acceptable costume. Face it. But context matters. The reading kid is not singled out, nobody is making this negative. It could also be perceived as a celebration 'hey I want to be like my adopted asian sister, she is cool'.

Live and let live, and give context if the kid is asking questions. But don't censor because you feel like a special snowflake
https://cartes.app plans to be the open source alternative to Google and Apple Maps. French-only beta version for now.

(I'm the developer)
While inactive blockdiag was small and nice for automatically annotating documentation.

As you can see it hasn't been maintained for a few years.

https://github.com/blockdiag/blockdiag

Graphviz is great because dot file are simple and easy to read and trivial to add to a build chain.

https://graphviz.org/

With complex diagrams, I find good old PlantUML diagrams more useful if not as initially pretty as mermaid. Plus it will output archimate without having to touch that UI

https://plantuml.com/

But really it is horses for courses.

Looking at the mermaid on mobile with a dark theme is pretty painful at least right now as an example of why it is not my preference.

But I am typically not targeting web display.
Netboot.xyz allows you to self-host an instance of it, which can cache ISOs. I was doing it for a time, and thought it neat, but not worth the hassle to keep running.
You don’t return readable errors from backend to user? You don’t wait for requests to confirm before assuming they do?
Michael Lewis: Sam Bankman-Fried, a personal verdict
iff P == NP.

Otherwise the market is just a heuristic for obtaining one type of workable solution and then refining it into a local optimum.

Business thought heartily embraces this when talking about how to make a profit - profit itself is an indicator of non-optimality, and nowhere near a small epsilon for most businesses. But then when criticizing instances where the heuristic has failed and created solutions/structures that look quite non-optimal, so many people want to brush this aside this reality and invoke the efficient market fallacy.
But that will mean taking a much much bigger proportion of income because now at least that money compounds while the person is working, now it will be taken and consumed directly? It means yes, European taxes (50+% total charged from employer+employee, for a median person), and poverty pensions.

Any government solution also means paternalism. Which is, government deliberately makes life better for worse people, and worse for better people. It can make anyone into a Republican!
You said it better than I could. :-) Thanks.
Ah. I'm only somewhat familiar with Trident.
I remember seeing one of those computers on Wisconsin, but I only saw it after decommission, as a museum piece. Those computers are truly mind boggling, if you're reading this and you're close to Norfolk you should visit battleship Wisconsin.
That's not what they meant, but... yes, I suppose that is something that could happen to a book cover.
I think the poster is making the division that getting shit done unsupervised is what most people mean as innovators and that not many people want true "innovators" that just spin off doing random crap just to see what happens.
I think the actual issue is that Google makes bad UX often, and not toasts in general.

Toasts themselves can be done well, but like every UI and UX element, they need to have some thought.

I know Google have some good UI (sometimes UX on Android) every now and then but they are so fractured as a company, with so much product and feature churn, that their UX is all over the place.

Every single Google app reinvents how things are done or communicated. Even within an app, it’ll do things differently because different teams implemented different features in the app since sections of an app might be shared with other apps.

Even Samsung offer a more cohesive experience. The most Google try and do is introduce new design guidelines every few years and then promptly have teams break them. Material design? Material You? Both barely touched UX but even with their own incredibly straight forward design rules, Google couldn’t adhere to them.
> Raspberry is overestimating their value.

The problem is that the competition in embedded is generally an utter pile of shit. Good luck even talking to some vendor if you're not willing to order 100k or more and don't have inside connections, BSPs (bootloader, kernel, userland libraries) are generally years out of date forked versions that barely build, and serious documentation is often behind NDAs...

RPi has a lot of room to sink before it gets threatened by the competition.
I've seen a movie about this recently.
High Altitude Low Open, of a parachute approach.
PgHero is also from him I believe. Very helpful to identify slow queries in production, remove duplicate indexes, see missing indexes, keep an eye on table size, etc.

https://github.com/ankane/pghero
Doesn't pick up my (non ttf) Terminus font and there is no obvious way to set the font manually.
But then you’ll still have an interpreter for fast start.

That’s why JSC and V8 have interpreters as their bottom tiers.

And you’ll also want an interpreter if you don’t have permissions to JIT, which is common these days.
Battle Damage or Engineering Casualty (Engine Troubles). Arleigh Burke speed is controlled by two factors, the RPM of propellers AND the pitch of propeller blades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-pitch_propeller_(mari... Obviously this controls steering as well if system isn't functioning properly.

In normal situations, computer mostly handles this and single station (Helm) has control over all 3. If computer fails, the pitch control fails or propeller engine fails, this will need to be controlled manually by the crew and workload is too much for single person. Also, in certain situations, like underway replenishment, all 3 control stations may be manned because if there is sudden failure, you need to be quickly able to respond.

Also, the problem is touch screen period. This is case where putting iPad instead of levers/switches/buttons is NOT an upgrade. See your car climate control as good example everyone can relate to.
What business does your friend operate
I think it can be a cycle. As in, the less you do something the more anxiety you have towards it. I think forcing yourself into uncomfortable situations and turning those into routine can help anxiety.
There are some “luxury” theaters that offer a better experience that really does rival watching movies at home, for different reasons.

Tickets aren’t much more than normal ($15 I believe). They have actual powered recliners so you can lean back most of the way to horizontal. They have trays that rotate over your waist to hold drinks and snacks (like an airplane, but bigger).

The nicest part is full food service. They have a full menu of cooked food, snacks, they run their own brewery so you can buy their beer, etc. They have an online food ordering system, and waiters bring it to your seat. They push people hard to order during the commercials so they’re mostly out of the theater during the movie.

No sticky floors, no stale popcorn smell, no 40 year old seats that smell like farts.

It is still dramatically too loud, especially that THQ intro that I can only describe as “a dick measuring contest with Klipsch”. I hate that with a passion; I’m already aware the speakers can get super loud, there’s really no reason to show me every damn time the movie starts.
I thought this was going to be about Android (which makes heavy use of that term), and I was expecting completely different complaints:

- The toast disappears quickly, so you might not have time to read it / take a screenshot

- It's not possible to copy the text

- Long text is truncated (e.g. exception messages)
Sure, and the nazis were socialist
This comment deserves a post. At least. If not a book. Appreciated.-

PS. Indeed the bicameral hypothesis is reminiscent of the nowadays fashionable multi-agent systems.-
The US model relies on perpetual growth, when in reality the problem is "do we have enough people to take care of the elderly". The issue is one of physical capital and human capital. The answer today is YES we have enough of both of those things to take care of our elderly, however we direct that human labor and capital towards things that produce more "value".

There is very little value in taking care of old people. Unless the government mandates that some proportion of the economy is dedicated to taking care of the elderly and expecting nothing in return, we are forced to rely on ponzi schemes.

And yes, this may be "socialism" but who cares? The government already owns all the land and all the dollars in circulation, they just lend them to you. The illusion of freedom is shattered for you by the word "socialism" but make no mistake this country is not some libertarian paradise.
Doing a great job on an open source codebase requires a higher level of polish, testing, design, ux, documentation, architecture, and general forethought than internal tools just like any internal vs self serve product.

Only solving your own problems on your own hardware while being able to rely on your own well-informed team to bridge the gaps sounds much much faster and easier to me.
What makes you think that AI art generators getting "better" (for whatever definition of better you see fit) will make them less unpopular? They're not unpopular because they give poor quality output.
Any IDE that isn't "AI first" is going to have a hard time from here on out. Cursor is beginning to eat the world much like VSCode did.

I'm sure there are some here on HN that will say "nah, I prefer the old fashioned way" but you will be decidedly in the minority very fast.
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The DA Says He's Innocent. He Might Spend Life in Prison Anyway