skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To light the factories, more energy used to correlate with more light, until we swap out the incandescent/halogen lighting sources for LEDs

this is nonsense. lighting hasn't been a significant fraction of the energy usage of factories since they switched from being lighted by fireplaces to gaslighting. not in 02024, not in 01974, not in 01924, not in 01874

> Seems that measuring [gdp] growth by energy consumption is like Bill Gates' famous example

it's true that higher efficiency is better, of course, but your comment embeds the false assumption that higher energy efficiency reduces energy use. in fact, higher energy efficiency usually increases energy use, because it increases the scope of things to which marketed energy can be economically applied more than it reduces the use of marketed energy for things it was already being used for. (this is the well-known jevons paradox mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392248). so, even today, it turns out that the countries with the lowest gdp and lowest energy use also have the lowest energy efficiency

similarly, using high-level languages reduces the number of lines of code to implement some given functionality; but you would be completely mistaken if you used that fact to predict that the vast majority of programmers spend their time writing assembly language instead of python because python requires one twentieth of the code to do whatever. many things are done with python not just because companies writing python outcompete companies writing assembly, but also because programs that would be unprofitable to write in assembly language become profitable to write when you can write them in high-level languages!
Satellite watches as hazardous wildfire particles drift into the air
> FlyCASS seems to be run by one person

Bobby is growing up
I suppose if you don't read. If you open an incognito tab you are greeted with this text:

"You’ve gone Incognito
Others who use this device won’t see your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won't change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google. Downloads, bookmarks and reading list items will be saved. Learn more"
I think companies will simply quit doing business in California. They are killing the golden goose with all these regulations, just like they poison their own real estate markets allowing NIMBYs to dictate regulations that keep housing prices high and allow petty criminals to run rampant while cities like San Francisco continue to diminish and suffer
Their post[1] from three years ago explains in more detail the reasons behind the license change and what they consider not ok behavior by AWS. The "it worked" likely means that they consider these problems resolved or otherwise no longer relevant.

[1]: https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-aws
I wonder as well -- I have witnessed extremely low churn in the people I know that use it, but that's obv anecdotal.
They're not saying
Quantum computing will break existing encryption algorithms
I just checked my .screenrc and while I don't have a date in it, the file was last modified in 2010. But that's around the time that I switched to tmux. I've been _very_ happy with tmux over the years…

Looking over the screen 5 release notes it's hard to tell what I've missed being out of that world over the past 15 years. Does anyone have a good rundown on their current differences?
https://www.servethehome.com/ddr4-dimms-system-power-consump... which is the only source I've seen that looks even vaguely trustworthy gives 2 watts per 8 gb of ddr4 (and ddr5 should be about 10% lower since it drops to 1.1 from 1.2 volts assuming similar amounts of current).
Also, BAT being a cryptocurrency already turns off people who aren't fan of crypto.
Per Apple's docs[0],

> Transmission of identity data to the identity reader follows the ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard, which provides for multiple security mechanisms available that are able to detect, deter and mitigate security risks. These consist of identity data integrity and antiforgery, device binding, informed consent, and user data confidentiality over radio links.

Wish granted.

[0]https://support.apple.com/guide/security/ids-in-apple-wallet...
It's more nuanced than that. If I sent a hateful letter through the mail and someone gets hurt by it (even physically), who is responsible, me or the post office?

I know youtube is different in important ways than the post, but it's also different in important ways from e.g. somebody who builds a building that falls down.
Apple signed for using OpenAI in their products, so they are strategically interested to keep OpenAI afloat.
Most disturbing was when I listened to what was explicitly (heh) marked as an explicit version of Eminem's My Name Is, but half the lines were from the "clean" version. Felt like being gaslighted.
>Did they endorse the DNC and I missed it?

They did endorse BLM (the organization, along with its very specific message which is not related to the business of writing code). You seem to have missed the link I previously fed you:

https://discuss.python.org/t/the-psf-should-be-less-politica...

Which was in reference to:

https://x.com/ThePSF/status/1267591714925133825
> Digital driver’s licenses cannot be used as proof of name and address to fulfill the lawful order of a police officer.

This drives me nuts…a police officer can look up my license if I offer my name and address. Why do I need to carry an easily lost piece of plastic and paper to prove I’m me? It’s harder to forge a record on the DMV db than my license…

This is a genuine question, if anyone knows the reasoning behind this I’d be thrilled.
This is literally what open source is. If you don't support this, you don't support open source.

There isn't a 'purer' form of open source which does exactly what you want with respect to big companies using the code.

You can be in favour of licensing that restricts Amazon or Microsoft's right to use your work. But that position is detrimental to, not supportive of, open source, since such a license would not be open source.
Their marketing department is run by children?
Cord cutters prep for political ad blitz as ads flood Roku, Hulu before election
Thanks, I'd missed that. Anyway, congrats on doing open source again
I’m actually with you on all these points for the record and again, this is a very specific scenario that isn’t going to be relevant to most people thankfully but for those people, it’s as you said… not a toy.

It’s also realistically not on you to give them the training required to operate in that environment because a tool like this is going to only be a tiny part of it.

In my mind there is a very specific kind of individual I’m thinking of who has maybe a bit more enthusiasm than brains or experience who will reach for a tool like this if it’s positioned to them a certain way who is going to get themselves into a very preventable world of trouble unless somebody can step in to just remind them that they should be sensible and think very carefully about what exactly they are doing because things can sound great from a technical point of view but really mess you up in the real world and I think this is one of those things in that situation.
> As the end-user, not quite my concern.

Complicated code is (probabilistically) slow, buggy, infrequently updated code. By all means, if it looks like a good enough tool for the job (especially if the alternatives don't) then use it anyway, but that's slightly different from it not being your concern.

I've seen enough projects need "surprise" major revisions because some team tried to sneak a dataframe into a 10M QPS service that my default is keeping pandas far away from anything close to a user-facing product.

I've also seen costs balloon as the data's scale grows beyond what pandas can handle, but basically all the alternatives suck for myriad reasons, so I don't try to push "not pandas" in the data backend. People can figure out what works for themselves, and I kind of like just writing it from scratch in a performant language when I personally hit that bottleneck.
Yes, and I said so in my other comment. I just find it absolutely hilarious and depressing that there are pro censorship authoritarians who are now complaining about an accidental false positive, when they supported actual purposeful mass censorship for years.
Google Closure Library has been archived
The premise of the article, that we would be richer if we used more energy is preposterously wrong. A light bulb used to be typically 100w, it's now a 1/10 of that. We get a lot more out of the energy now, which means we are in fact richer because we have more things. I just bought a TV which uses a quarter of the electricity of a Tv from a decade ago, and this with 4x as many pixels.

The big idea most people fail to grok is that we don't need energy at all, we need certain things energy provides us (light, heating, cooking, entertainment etc). But if I could super insulate my house and use 0 energy to keep it warm, this would not make me poorer. On the contrary.

Amory Lovins came up with the idea of "negawatts" a long time ago.
Thanks for those links. I am surprised at what I am reading as it is worse than I thought. It’s also disappointing to not see these angles explored fully in mainstream media, as Brazil is a high population country with significant global economic ties, and this political shift is a huge problem for everyone.
This is a good argument I didn't think of before. What's the response to it?
That's bc TSA is all theatre. They fail Homeland Security audits more often then they pass. [1]

It's supposed to give you the illusions of security while giving a DHS a bigger budget, and it employs a lot of low skilled workers.

It is what you should think of when you think "big, dumb government."

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-...
This neither makes modification easy, or that’s how owner of the code does modification themselves, and that’s where the difference is.
Agreed. Not a legal scholar so don't know how much that matters, if at all.

Though I was still disappointed to find out it was being used. I use incognito quite often to search for something I think may be questionable. No I don't need it super secret locked from the police, but it's not something I necessarily want tied to my identity/interests/Google account in any form.
Not your parent commenter but I love Firefox more after discovering that you can't even customize the toolbar buttons in Brave. That's such a basic functionality that I'd taken for granted, until I tried to move out of Firefox for a brief time.
Fostering High-Performing Work Environments for Software Development
That's why I tend to agree. IANAL and while this seems pretty simple for me to understand, I'm not certain that laypeople wouldn't also expect full anonymity based on some other aspect of the service and I'm not sure if this has been stated so succinctly since back in 2016. I think there's an argument to be made and if so, the case shouldn't been just tossed out without allowing them to make it
Oregon doesn't even have this on the radar anywhere, and I'm kinda bummed. Probably still carry my wallet with me for the indefinite future, but having an alternate option would be nice.

I'd be up for a mobile passport, too. Already has a chip anyway that gets read, so what's the difference? And on the plus side that would be something you wouldn't accidentally forget in the hotel safe.

What I'd want to establish, however, is what the backup plan looks like if your phone gets lost/stolen/destroyed. How quickly can I bet up and running on a replacement device, and what hoops will I have to jump through to get it working again?
IBM is the latest Western firm to retreat from China
> If you open an incognito tab you are greeted with this text: "You’ve gone Incognito Others who use this device won’t see your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won't change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google. Downloads, bookmarks and reading list items will be saved. Learn more"

They edited that because of the lawsuit.

Before the lawsuit what it said was:

"Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won’t see your activity. However, downloads, bookmarks and reading list items will be saved. Learn more"

I think it's understandable that someone would take "you can browse privately" to mean "We aren't tracking what you do"
I think this is disturbing and should be made illegal—to tie a government service to a single corporate provider in this way. I don't care how much money Apple paid to develop this, or how convenient they made it for the state of Hawaii to adopt their ready-made product, or how inconvenient it would be to a do this in an platform-agnostic way equitable to all of their residents. This is simply a monopolistic abuse of government services, and of the public.

Any such service should be free and open to many providers, or not available at all. No fast-lanes for Apple customers. This is not how a fair, equitable public service should work.

- "Requires iPhone 8 or later with iOS 16.5 or later, Apple Watch Series 4 or later with WatchOS 9.5 or later" (hidot.hawaii.gov)

(I've browsed around this website and there doesn't appear to be any other option equivalent to this one).
The annoying announcements are due to very a real problem facing the U.K. - what do you think the “it” is that we’re supposed to be spotting? It’s not a herd of unicorns.
Are we talking about Chrome incognito mode? What is Google’s Incognito “private browsing” per the website. Details matter.
Alcohol (the consumption form) serves only one purpose to get you buzzed. Unlike algorithms and hammers which are generic and serve many purposes, some of which are positive, especially when used correctly. You can’t sue the people who make hammers if someone kills another person with one.
I am very skeptical of digital IDs and digitization in general. I have a feeling it will lead to violation of privacy and an increase in government surveillance and control. Why do people welcome this?
There's a version of "Never Gonna Give You Up" in ASCII art. Which means if you can access a .bashrc or something similar, you can rick roll them in their terminal on startup.

Found it: https://github.com/keroserene/rickrollrc
You're in denial. Nobody is worshipping a god here.

I'm simply saying the AI has superior performance to humans on this specific subject. That's all.

Why did you suddenly make this comment of "bowing before your god" when I didn't even mention anything remotely close to that?

I'll tell you why. Because this didn't come from me. It came from YOU. This is what YOU fear most. This is what YOU think about. And your fear of this is what blinds you to the truth.
How is this transphobic?
> Our views from democracy and the current state of things is very different I don't know how to reconcile them.

I don't know either. This is often my experience trying to discuss this.

For what its worth I will read your blog and try to better understand your position.

> You don't just bully yourself into power when there is a crisis, however long it is.

Who are we supposed to turn to when the Surpeme Court grants itself limitless powers? Gives itself the right to be the victim, investigator, prosecutor and judge? Starts creatively interpreting and selectively applying the constitution of the nation? Basically doing whatever they want, backed by the fact their pens move armed police forces?

It's the supreme court. There is no higher court you can appeal to. Is there anyone you can turn to?

Anyone other than the military? Which is actually listed as the "moderating power" that's meant to intervene in exactly such extreme situations?

I don't have a good answer to that. No one has has ever been able to give me the answer either. That's why I don't fault those folks for asking for military intervention.

I don't believe there is a democratic solution to this because the supreme court is not actually a democratic institution to begin with. They are not elected by us, they are appointed by our representatives. Once in the supreme court, their mandates are lifetime. Short of suffering impeachment by the other politicians, they're basically untouchable. There is a 100% chance that the politicians who can impeach them are hopelessly corrupt though, I seriously doubt they're gonna screw around with judges who can put them in the ground.
I've been following this for a while now.

Skimming the page, it appears the answer is no, but I'll ask anyway:
If all of the project's dependencies are pure Swift (+Foundation) Swift PM packages, is it possible to use them in transparently in the android project. Can they be compiled natively such that the transpiler's kotlin transparently calls into the native (Swift) libraries?
Regarding running a tab:

When I use Apple Pay at a gas pump, it first creates a temporary charge for more than I'm likely to spend. When I'm done pumping, it charges the actual amount and removes the reservation. I wonder if a bar tab could eventually work like that, where you temporarily hold $50 or whatever and then reconcile it when I close my tab. As a bonus, you'd never have someone forget and leave there credit card there again.
Theoretically, your liability is the same because the First Amendment is what absolves you of liability for someone else's speech. Section 230 provides an avenue for early dismissal in such a case if you get sued; without Section 230, you'll risk having to fight the lawsuit on the merits, which will require spending more time (more fees).
How do you feel about ${INCOME}, ${SEXUAL_PREFERENCE}, ${RACE}, ${WEIGHT}, ${RELIGION}? Those categories are at least as broad as the ones you mentioned and are absolutely profiled.
For the most part I don't think people are against shared source or closed software existing, being sold, being marketed, etc. There's really only two things people viscerally don't like:

- Marketing a project that isn't open source as open source. Debate about what the "definition" is or why it matters all you want; taking a term and using it in a way that contradicts the vast majority of domain experts is bullshit.

- Taking an open source project, which people adopted on the basis that it was open source, which people contributed issues and pull requests to on the basis that it was open source, which people evangelized and promoted because it was open source, blogged about, built on, and so forth because it was open source... and moving it to a license that isn't open source.

To be clear: yes, the unforced error here in many cases is accepting a CLA. That said, I think it's not even unreasonable that people initially accepted CLAs: many of them presumably believed they would only ever be used in good faith, as a sort-of CYA. But CLAs are now very commonplace, so refusing to contribute to any project with a CLA requirement is hard.

If nobody cared about the benefits of open source, then it would be easier for companies to just start with a closed or shared source offering and call it a day; not much backlash for not changing a license. Clearly, marketing something as open source helps... but once you've gotten what you need out of it, it's easy enough to click a button and change it back to being closed.

In my opinion the big advantage of open source is that everyone is on a level playing field. This isn't "fair", it's balanced, and that matters if you are serious about long-term software. If shared-source software is discontinued, that's probably the end of the road for it. For open source software, it only depends on if there are big enough stakeholders to keep funding development; it never has to stop.

There's ideas like BUSL, which might work better... but it's still awkward and experimental. I don't put much stock into any of the other "shared sorta-like-open source" licenses, they're mostly bullshit and sometimes catastrophically horrible, i.e. much worse than AGPL.
I know, this is why I said it's not perfect.
Why is this speaking of iPhone specifically, rather than some open standard?
In theory I agree, in practice I've had far more annoyance from wanting to listen to an album on a streaming services and it's the "Deluxe Edition" which has a bunch of extra filler tracks I didn't want.
Perplexity lets a firm switch on SSO and give perplexity to employees without a big barrier to entry. So, we bought it for our employees and if they use it great, if they don't great. Even though we're a small startup, this is true of almost any SaaS we find that lets us control the login to stay regulation compliant. If you like it, and show how it helps your day, and the SaaS let us control the login, we'll "just pay for it".

We will not, however, pay some four or five figure SSO tax for every SaaS. We'd be bankrupted.

Kagi should do this, or at least enable domain-specific OIDC/Oauth2 — the ubiquitous "Sign in with" or "Continue with" buttons like http://xsplit.com/user/auth or http://id.atlassian.com/login since MSFT and Google accounts hit almost all businesses — and then just bill the same as the individual pro price + usage pricing.

As it stands, we reimburse employees who buy Kagi individually, this costs us more than the cost of Kagi, and means it's only one off.

PS. Don't get me started on the MacOS and iOS apps that have no retail price version available. Apple provides no way for a firm to provide employees with IAP subscription apps whether BYOD or managed devices. We can, and do, provide any retail priced app for both BYOD and MDM. It shows up in a catalog on the device, people install it, you get a retail sale. Thank you to those devs who make a retail version available, even if its 2x - 5x the annual cost. Empowering employees with apps is a no brainer if devs just let firms pay them to do it.
post it on 4chan from behind seven proxies and let full disclosure do its thing
Show HN: First calendar app using health data from wearables (submitted to F24)
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It’s now available on the App Store, Play Store, and even as a Chrome extension.

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We've also submitted it to F24! We hope you'll give it a try, and we're excited to hear your feedback!
I had an engineer friend in an eastern European country who had a contract with their army to build automated equipment to dismantle artillery shells from WWI still in stock at their armories. So, yeah, we still haven't cleaned up from WWI.
Below engineer above progammer.
Compiling JavaScript to Wasm: partial evaluation and the 1st Futamura projection
while it's true that there's a retail markup, that markup is not close to a factor of 4. it's about 30%. the €0.12 per peak watt cost i mentioned for mainstream solar panels is not at the factory; that's a wholesale price in european markets, which are halfway around the world from the factory. if you went to the factory, you could probably get them for €0.10 per peak watt, about 45 dollars each for your 400-watt panels. (unless you don't look chinese, in which case trying to go to the factory might get you arrested, and you'd definitely have to buy more than 6–8)

the longer comment of mine i linked explains in more detail how you're getting swindled. in english!
Nah, you'll probably get $3.84 and the law firm handling it will get several hundred million.