skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had some more R134a added to my car recently. The mechanic said when he had his shop, he would have completely evacuated the system to measure how many ounces of refrigerant were still in the system. He also said the old R12 systems were less leaky than R134a. R12 was phased out because of the ozone layer.

I think refrigerator and AC repair companies are required to capture and recycle the refrigerant - they don’t seem to have the equipment to capture and measure refrigerant like auto mechanics.

R22 (phased out refrigerant for home AC) has chlorine in it, while R134a doesn’t have chlorine, making it easier on the ozone layer. R134a is being replaced with R1234yf.

The best refrigerant is CO2, but this has the greatest tendency to leak.
I just provided the original text of the snippet that was quoted.

you can see the difference for yourself:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/16/24039883/google-incognito...
> I think the App Store resonated a lot more with people back then rather than the iPhone as a device

You are forgetting, there was no App Store when the iPhone launched. Apple was originally against the idea of Apps. The App Store launched a year later, with the iPhone3G. Yet the iPhone was wildly popular not just from the day it launched, but from the day Apple first demoed it.

I think what caught people's attention with the iPhone is that it's one of the first phones where you could easily browse websites from your phone in a way that didn't feel like a gimmick.

Other phones had web browsers, but they only really worked on special mobile versions of websites. They were also slow and painful to use even on those mobile optimised websites.

Then iPhone came along, and Apple had someone managed to squash a full desktop web browser on it. It did a half decent job of reformatting desktop-only websites to fit on the screen. When pages didn't reformat, the new touched-based panning and pinch-to-zoom gestures allowed you to still experience them with ease.

And Apple managed to make the whole OS feel responsive, despite using the exact same hardware as their competitors.
Energy is the fuel for machines. And machines build more and faster than humans. To increase productivity, we need more machines, and so more energy.

If energy was 10 times cheaper than currently and still available (no shortage) then we would automate more tasks and increase the global productivity. We could mine more, build more, to train/run more LLMs.

GDP is tied to energy price and availability. It is likely the main reason why US enjoyed a growing economy thanks to its free oil reserves (and the reason why Texas alone is the 8th economy in the world). Now one could argue that after pumping oil for a century now, it might not be as cheap or plentiful to extract in the future, and we better be prepared for it.

It is all about energy. No energy, and we will reduce to human/manual or animal (bring back the horses!) labor. Productivity will decrease significantly.

One issue I have with the paper, is that it equates energy and electricity. My favorite chart about US energy: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2023-10/U...

shows that in 2022, electricity was just 13.3 Quads of the 76.07 Quads of the energy consumed in US by residential, commercial, industrial and transportation. So unless US "electrify" the whole economy having more electricity would only help a small part of the economy.
For "most use cases" (by far) of arbitrary fractional numbers, floats are significantly better than integer based representations, which is why they are pervasive. For certain niche uses (such as some kinds of money accounting calculations) alternative integer-based representations have some advantages, and those who need them use them where appropriate.
More context here: https://icculus.org/finger/flibitijibibo?date=2024-06-15&tim...
As a previous comment noted, Elastic _did_ take them to court over the trademark and it was _not_ thrown out: https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-and-amazon-reach-agreeme...
I’m here and I made the update. I think it will have an effect on both and I considered putting library in the title but decided to have a shorter title, however by popular demand I changed it.

Edit: looked at the closure compiler repo and maybe it’s good, though I always thought of it as partly depending on the library…

Edit 2: This explains the situation. Sounds like Closure Compiler has a bright future! I could see ClojureScript eventually taking over maintenance though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41396522
The inherited decision thing reminds me of the fictional(?) "monkey ladder experiment" or "5 monkeys experiment".
Crowdstrike could have included a BPF interpreter in their driver and used it for all the dangerous logic.
What, when Amazon forked an open source project, as was allowed by the license, and continued to support that open source license even when the original company abandoned theirs? I’m not an Amazon fan, but they did the same thing (forking) that many others do, and they did it perfectly legally according to the license.
Can’t be worse than Solr heh.
Having your data unexpectedly lost to you (yet still being funneled into their AI) is never a good feeling.
"Unrepentant financial supporter of opposition to same-sex marriage" is a more accurate description.
>Solar input in orbit is higher than what is received at ground, but similar order of magnitude.

On a sunny day, it's only something like 30% brighter above the atmosphere IIRC. I guess you beat cloud cover (assuming you can deliver it to ground through the clouds efficienly), but I agree it doesn't seem worth it.
Their skill is in winning huge government contracts, which is not easy.

I’d be comfortable betting my house that they’ve never produced even mediocre software. Why would they if the government is willing to pay for garbage-tier work?
The true irony being that elasticsearch would be no where near what it is now if it wasn't opensource and receiving contributions in the first place. AWS had employees dedicated to contributing to Elasticsearch (same as Redis).
> Laws are loosely written to effectively apply to anything and are interpreted by the courts.

This is called "English common law" and it is a feature American law shares with many other English-speaking countries.
A few reasons!

* More than anything, I think it's good for things to end! I figured interest in the site would die off over time (and it started to), and I thought it was better to close things out providing a special experience for the people that used it than to keep it up to get a few more users
* Costs started adding up; donations stopped matching them. I coulda figured out how to lower my costs but I wasn't excited about it.
* While the site was up I felt an obligation to make sure someone hadn't found some trivial workaround to deface the thing and I didn't want to do that anymore.

I'm very pro ephemeral stuff! So I feel good about the decision. But it's a good question.
But starlink does that for everyone. They don’t do anything special for mining.

Just like the mining operations use petroleum to mine. Petroleum directly enabled mining.

Mining uses electricity. Electricity directly enabled mining.

Directly enabling something doesn’t matter. If the tool is made to only do that, then it does. There are a lot of cases in the US about this. Like Betamax case where the court ruled that just being used for something illegal doesn’t give culpability, it’s necessary to be made specifically to do something illegal.

If starlink specifically added functionality to enable illegal mining then you might have a valid argument.
If you're trying to ship something to production that has consistent behavior within bounds and handles edge cases you'll need to do quite a bit of work. For ChatGPT use your strategy works fine
For me at least the whole thing could be solved with a change to the cookie management panel. Let me mark cookies(domains) I want to keep, stuff where I do want to stay logged in, and then set it to clear all unmarked cookies at the end of the session.
The more the merrier if you ask me. Eventually one will win but we need more experimentation in this space. The existing GPU APIs are too hard to use and/or vendor-specific.
It isn't interesting. All EV charging networks should be built to common standards and all brands of charger on all brands of charging network should charge all brands of EV by default.

The fact that Tesla built their network to be closed and incompatible in the first place is the problem. That action is antithetical to their supposed mission.

Europe's EV infrastructure is much further advanced than North America because it has been built to common standards. All charging networks charge all brands of EV, even Tesla's network.

Tesla's chargers are behind the state of the art. They still perform poorly for 800-volt cars. It's still the case that most of them have annoyingly short cables. It's still the case that most of them require a Tesla account and an app just to do something as trivial as charge a battery. But, slowly, gradually, Tesla's chargers are improving to meet the minimum expected standard.
Incognito clearly states how it works every time you start it, including what it doesn't protect against.

If we're saying that developers can't clearly and obviously state how things work, and are instead bound by however people think they work based on not reading anything at all, we're in a lot of trouble.

Though... can we at least then get rid of every intrusive TOS screen and cookie banner in existence? Because people click past all of those too without reading them.
I told a prosecutor during voir dire that I wouldn’t follow a judge’s instruction if it was a case involving drugs (I think it was a shoplifting case, so not relevant to the particular case). That was enough to be excused by the prosecutor.

Nullification in not so many words.
Software did not kill anyone in this story.
> Well, that's not actually in the US constitution.

It's a rather simple application of the premises that (a) the Constitution supersedes other statutory laws and (b) the courts have jurisdiction over disputes about the application of the law.
It’s called incognito mode. Isn’t the icon a little spy or something?

The fine-print might indicate otherwise, but I think it is obvious why non-technical people were confused.
I really want to do one of these systems in the US, but I am a renter and don’t want to make it a whole thing with an inverter panel.

I know they claim to synchronize with the power grid, but I am super suspect, cause I grew up with stories of incorrectly installed house generators hurting linemen in Florida after hurricanes during outages

Are these truly safe? Do they really require no modifications? Are there any that are plug and play wind and solar?
If it were a different web browser, then I would agree, but I feel that kind of confusion is actually just the other side of the coin for something these large companies have very deliberately gone out of their way to create and promote through branding and feature design.

When they purposefully blur the lines between products or sub-companies to create The Google Everything, it isn't fair to let them reap the rewards of confusion while evading its costs.
> I just provided the original text of the snippet that was quoted.

But not all of it. From that article:

> However, the bullets beneath the incognito notice remain unchanged. These point out that browsing activity might still be visible to “Websites you visit,” “Your employer or school,” and “Your internet service provider.

The new text is probably clearer but more or less just restates the bullet points and adds "including Google".
Hi!

I am the main author of 2 papers evaluating the Topics API from Google: [1] and [2] and working on more research in that space.

I have also started compiling different papers and analyses on projects like the Privacy Sandbox initiative from Google (https://privacysandstorm.com/proposals/) as well as releasing other resources (datasets, tools, etc.), contributions welcome if you are interested!

Best,

Yohan (https://yohan.beugin.org/)

[1] Interest-disclosing Mechanisms for Advertising are Privacy-Exposing (not Preserving) https://petsymposium.org/popets/2024/popets-2024-0004.php

[2] A Public and Reproducible Assessment of the Topics API on Real Data - https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19577
Seconded: great paper, clear and comprehensive.

I cited it from the first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_formula#Numerical_ca... when I was working on it back in March but I'm sure the discussion could still be more complete there.
Could be a defensive move of Elasticsearch to win the mindshare of the community. OpenSearch has been gaining some momentum, albeit far from being comparable to Elasticsearch. See OSS Insight: https://ossinsight.io/analyze/elastic/elasticsearch?vs=opens....

I'm not sure Amazon is willing to go all in to win the war of search services, for that means they need to to handsomely reward the best coders that contribute the most to the OpenSearch project to produce insane amount of high-quality code for better and new features. See the great article Code Hard Or Go Home: https://hypercritical.co/2013/04/12/code-hard-or-go-home. Nonetheless, there's a chance that Amazon may be determined to make OpenSearch catch up with ES, just like Apple has made Apple Maps comparable, even not better than, Google Maps. Therefore, open sourcing ES with AGPL is not a bad choice to retain the talent in the ES community.

And AGPL is kinda restrictive to many large customers too, as the customers do not want to risk being forced to open source their business-critical code. In fact, many companies simply ban the use of licensed software. Therefore, AGPL reflects quite the spirit of OSS while in the meantime will not undermine Elastic's business model.
Honestly at this point I just see little reason to invest in Elastic Search.

I have to wonder how much what is happening with terraform and tofu is related to this.

While I can understand why they went down this path, it burned a bridge and I just don’t know why I would even bother instead of using opensearch.
Now substitute the first one for "gay", and you might get a death sentence in several parts of the world. Why does almost nobody on this site thinks about the wider world bedsides their own extremely privileged position?

I would very much prefer for advertisers to not even be able to determine my city, for personal safety. Throwaway account for obvious reasons.
Incognito mood has always been clear about what data is private. This lawsuit is ridiculous and I hope it fails in court.
Elon Musk is not in Brazil so action against him would be a waste of time.

Action was against X, and then Musk shut down X's Brazilian office and left outstanding debts. The supreme court evaluates that X and Starlink have same ownership and therefore Starlink (which still has local representation) is being held responsible for X's delinquent debts.

I am not a lawyer so can't comment on legality of this but it's obvious that X's stance on free speech is incompatible with Brazil's legislation on hate speech. My opinion is that X never had any intention to observe Brazilian law, and ran out of options to delay and deflect.
>(If the driver is leaked, I would imagine it to be illegal to distribute it.

How so? This would be a 1st Amendment issue: you can't ban free speech. They tried this with deCSS, which could be printed out on a T-shirt. Of course, if it were leaked, it could be called a copyright issue, but copyright claims require the copyright holder to actively pursue those claims: if AMD didn't bother to pursue any claims, then what could anyone do about it?
It can be both, but I'd say having types for the arguments in your method signature is more "moderate and safe".
Lol. How far back did you leave? Did you not hand it over to someone or this was a freebie from you to the company?
I agree with Jonathan Blow, everything should go through userland/userspace. Even the graphics stack. I can’t tell you how many times my workstation would freeze due to a weird USB driver implementation.
Looks pretty cool. "Lesson 011 - Draw polyline" returns 404 though.
I updated the title but perhaps you could summarize the situation and submit closure compiler to HN and that story could take off and paint a more accurate picture of the situation? Maybe there’s a blog post that explains it more fully? It sounds quite promising, actually.
Every time you see a comment marked as [dead] that means a moderator deleted it. There is no auto-deletion resulting from downvotes.

Even mentioning certain topics, such as Israel's invasion of Palestine, even when the mention is on-topic and not disruptive, as in this comment you are reading, is practically a death sentence for a comment. Not because of votes, but because of the moderators. Downvotes may prioritize which comments go in front of moderators (we don't know) but moderators make the final decision; comments that are downvoted but not removed merely stick around in a light grey colour.

By enabling showdead in your user preferences and using the site for a while, especially reading controversial threads, you can get a feel for what kinds of comments are deleted by moderators exercising. It is clear that most moderation is about editorial control and not simply the removal of disruption.

This comment may be dead by the time you read it, due to the
previous mention of Palestine - hi to users with showdead enabled. Its parent will probably merely be down voted because it's wrong but doesn't contain anything that would irk the mods.
I enthusiastically agree - and really all that matters is that you feel good about it. As a software engineer who's built (and shut down) many projects, I have always been envious of art forms in which the artist gets to create a piece of work and then "finish" it. We are often at the mercy of perpetual maintenance.

Well done and nice execution.
Too late. We just deployed a new project with OpenSearch after learning from an Elastic salesperson that their licensing fees would eat up significant portions of the projects profits. Also, since it's not spelled out clearly, I'm supposing huge parts of vital functionality are still subject to a paid license, even if the core functionality is technically open source now.
slight off topic: I have quite a few low end Android phone bought between 2013-2017, only 1 of them is still bootable, all others cannot pass recovery like author’s tablet. Is it something related with older Android versions or just the cheap flash they used in if?
You didn't keep detailed daily logs of which browser you used that day? I thought everyone did that.
It is pretty annoying that some folks here seem to be trying to make it into a tech competency issue or something.

I understand how it works, everybody on this site does, as you note it is obvious to anybody who knows how the internet works. Zero points for meeting the minimum standard.

But, the name is “Incognito mode.” The icon is a little spy. If somebody doesn’t understand how this is misleading to non-technical people, they might have computer literacy, but they desperately lack human literacy.
I use this extension to do just that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
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Having a C API like that is always nice. I don't wanna fight Rust.
Got it, how about a manual trigger for diagram creation and an explicit description of LLM/server usage on the page with the trigger?
They're all names of popular Kendrick Lamar songs. Don't ask me why though
Just to point out that the reason why solar panel costs have been decreasing is because china as part of their 5-year plans set solar energy as a national priority and the world is now benefiting from their upfront investments and economies of scale. This is a clear datapoint towards economic planning for the green transition and rational management of natural resources.
You're conveniently quoting me out of context. That comment continued:

> they may have received material support from the Soviets. If they did....

It should be obvious that it would have served the interests of the Soviet Union if their geopolitical adversaries had less abundant energy and less practical expertise in nuclear technology. I make no claims about whether or not the Soviets attempted to advance these particular interests by interfering in the domestic politics of their adversaries, even though they did interfere in other ways to advance other interests.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:indetermin...
I was one of those hating on the bots. Thank you for this post, I needed it. I too got in trouble at school for programming things I shouldn’t have. But I’ll forever be grateful to the math teacher who said I was allowed to use programs on my TI-83+ calculator as long as I was the one who had written them and I didn’t share them with anyone else.
But email addresses are not inextricably tied to a provider at all.

Mine - paul@linuxaudiosystems.com or paul@ardour.org - have no relationship to whoever handles my email.

The fact that everybody got conned/tricked/was too lazy to NOT use @gmail.com doesn't really change that fact.

By contrast, Mastodon handles are truly tied to a server.

As for sending email to the whole world, let me know how to toot to the whole world, I'd like know :)
would 1 watt have mattered?
> the DuckDB backend can do everything the pandas backend can do, but better

Maybe this should be a focus. Putting together killer demos that show this to people. Because I don’t see it.

Maybe I’m thinking about it in the wrong terms. I think of DuckDB in terms of what we’re doing with pandas (which isn’t perfect but works), and also as an embedded database like a SQLite alternative.

In both aspects it seems like we have more friction working in DuckDB than in pandas and SQLite. Most common problem is getting errors about the DuckDB file being locked or in use, by the process that’s trying to read from it (which just spawned). I thought maybe it was me, but even Jetbrains tooling had the same weird issues with DuckDB.

Compared to SQLite, which just works, with virtually any language or tooling, I don’t see the benefit to DuckDB. I see some people say it’s better and more efficient for larger data, but I couldn’t get it to work reliably with tiny data on a single machine.
Which is why you need a modern firewall that MitMs both TLS and SSH. Not hard to do these days.