skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll keep saying this until I'm blue in the face: solar power is the future. It is the only form of power generation that directly genreates power rather than turning a turbine. As such it has no moving parts (apart from, maybe, an array that gets tilted to face the Sun for higher efficiency but that's optional) and has no emissions.

The cost of solar power has plummetted in the last 2 decades and nobody is quite sure where this will bottom out.

Now obviously sometimes it's night time and sometimes it's just cloudy. You have a number of options for this, in increasing level of engineering and technological difficulty:

1. Do nothing. Just take power when it is available. This works surprisingly well for a lot of our power usage. Power usage peaks in daylight hours so solar reduces your baseload requirements. Sometimes you can simply do things when the weather doesn't permit (eg data centers).

2. Store excess power in another form. This could be batteries but it could also be things like sequestering carbon from the air into a hydrocarbon form you can later burn for power. This is carbon neutral by definition. This method currently isn't economic. In some cases that doesn't matter (eg in cold climates where current batteries aren't particularly effective).

3. Power satellites that bean down power. A solar collector in space would produce ~7 times as much power as a terrestrial collector because there's no day/night or weather interruptions nor atmospheric loss. It is technically feasible to beam down power.

4. Build an orbital ring. Attach solar collectors to it. Run cables to the ground. Obviously this is more far future.

More [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBCbdThIJNE
I also appreciated how much the linked article is adamant that IPv6 is what you get when all you do is increase the addressing size. There were wilder alternatives discussed that broke more things or took a more progressive stance. Part of the "there's no compelling 'use case' for IPv6" is that it really doesn't do anything new or exciting, it just increased the address size, and then dealt with the consequences (including "lack of backward compatibility", that was always going to be a consequence of increasing the address size).
Seems like you don't need an LLM, you just need a human who (1) likes reading Stoker and (2) touch-types. :) I'd volunteer, if I didn't think I'd be duplicating effort at this point.

(I've transcribed various things over the years, including Sonia Greene's Alcestis [1] and Holtzman & Kershenblatt's "Castlequest" source code [2], so I know it doesn't take much except quick fingers and sufficient motivation. :))

[1] https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2022/10/22/alcestis/

[2] https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/03/09/castlequest/

EDIT: ...and as I was writing that, you seem to have finished your transcription. :)
Imagine Alan Turing's defense being a summary of 3 papers. The actual issue is that advanced education is increasingly not about doing fundamental scholarship but a pipeline for (re)producing a clerisy-intellectual class. There are a lot of leftist academics who point out this sea change in academia over the last century, see for example Norm Finkelstein's remarks on this but there are others who talk about this.
Do you blame them to fight to survive?
The airlines have to follow a protocol to report threats to the ground, even if they’re likely fake. That’s why there are repeated incidents of fighter jets being scrambled to accompany the affected plane until they’re given clearance to land. It is disruptive, expensive, and clearly terroristic. The governments involved (primarily Canada, but also the US and India) need to restore rule of law and crack down on this.

I think I recall reading that these hoax threats are being done by supporters of a fringe Sikh separatist movement that aims to break up India, so they can form a Sikh religious ethnostate they call Khalistan. As I recall this group assassinated the prime minister of India at one point. But after that they also blew up an Air India flight with hundreds of Canadians and others on board (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182). When India cracked down on the terrorists, many fled to Canada, and so there are many supporters of that movement there (if you’re in BC you know).

Unfortunately Canada has done little to crack down on this movement even though they have a record of terrorism and pose a threat to a key trade partner and important ally in the Asian Pacific region. I’m also not sure governments can fully stop anonymous online threats or coordination. Look at other disruptions like BLM groups blocking highways, or Palestine groups blocking airports, or whatever. These types of events are difficult to stop ahead of time.
Did we learn nothing from Sim City?
Well, like I mentioned in my other comment, I really liked his book Rust in Action so I signed up for his course, despite the price. But yeah, maybe it _is_ a scam at the end of the day.
The fact that someone tried is significant. We've had 50+ years of not trying.
YES.

For crying out loud, I don't want to solve a puzzle and read at the same time. I understand your metaphor, just let me READ THE STORY.

The whole "scrolling down a webpage doesn't actually scroll, it just progresses an animation" thing, ugh, it's a neat concept but I never loved it. The expected behavior of the page is changing. It's... novel but it took too long to get to the point.
I generally side with the EFF, but I find the article weirdly duplicitous. It's framed as a criticism of government waste, but would the EFF be happy if the government built a more effective surveillance system at the border? Of course not.

If they wanted to make some sort of a precise argument against border surveillance, they failed to do so in this write-up. "Public contracts are rife with grift, so the government shouldn't be doing stuff" isn't likely to change too many minds.
Back in the day there was no better resource than the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. I've not read it in years but the design of the OS on my Mac makes me suspect it's either no longer such a rich vein, or no longer exists at all.
The DJI Air 3S Is a Dual-Camera Drone with a Bigger Sensor and 10-Bit Video
Well, even if people were looking, this sort of thing is a lot of right place and right time.
The larger size makes control much easier.
Doesn't really matter what they call it. The product name being descriptive of the current product or not is a different topic.

For what it's worth, I wouldn't care if they called it "Penis Enlarger 9000" if it drove me around like it now does.
forgive my ignorance on this q. I always assumed based on movies that the temperatures in space were very cold (like near absolute zero). So wouldn't putting a hot data center in space just dissipate heat? Do shuttles and space stations not radiate heat?
This is the kind of opinion that should be common sense but is highly controversial in the modern educational climate, for whatever reason. Probably the whole, "You can't judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree" quote being misapplied constantly.
Have a look at xeno-canto as well, a large repo of animal sounds. It's more of a general archive than specifically for “understanding”, for example it’s often used to train audio recognition models.

https://xeno-canto.org/
My guess is our government isn’t cooperating. I’m sure they can figure out who’s doing this but have been dragging their feet and antagonizing India instead. Not the smartest way to build a partnership to contain China geopolitically or economically.
Complex balancing, shifting viewpoints, concurrent decision making.. all felt extremely beneficial to stimulate the brain
I've heard of the others, but... Flowers? Trees? Moss?

Maybe by flowers you meant landplants in general? And shouldn't moss be grouped into this event?
They need to be able to handle some forces but indeed likely not an equivalent of half or even quarter of the booster landing weight.
So, the mistakes here are legion:

1. They've taken an expensive-for-the-time premium-brand desktop as (the $2,699 Compaq ProSignia Desktop 330) as a baseline for per-computer price [0], whereas common entry-level models were as little as 1/4 that price around that time [1]. This number is then multiplied by an estimate of unit sales for that year, and adjusted for inflation, to get the $684 billion total (inflation-adjusted to current year) revenue figure. Direct estimates of year 2000 PC revenue seem to be about $226 billion, which adjusted for inflation would be $413 billion in current-year dollars.

2. For internet access revenue they've taken a US DSL offering (BellAtlantic's $59.95 DSL offering) even though in 2000 most users were on dialup (US dialup to broadband [which DSL was considered in 2000, though 2000 DSL wouldn't meet todays broadband definition] ration was over 10:1 [2], and globally presumably that was even higher), adjusted the cost of that service for inflation to current year dollars ($113), multiplied it by the number of global internet users in 2000 to get a (note: already inflation adjusted) revenue estimate of $489 billion for internet access, and then decided that applying a high-end US household offering as the estimate of typical cost per user globally wasn't ridiculous enough, so they decided to treat the $489 billion that was already based on inflation-adjusted per-user cost and as if it were a year 2000 dollars estimate and adjusted it for inflation again to get the estimate of $850 billion in "current year" dollars.

3. As you note, the dubious choice of counting all PC revenue in 2000 as being internet revenue in the first place. People were buying PCs -- for both business and home use -- when most of them weren't connected to the internet; the internet in 2000 wasn't the sole value proposition for computer ownership, even if it was becoming a more significant portion of it.

[0] An odd choice, but one which may be explained by this 2021 article purporting to show the cost of a computer by year by simply picking one "notable" model each year picking the same one for that year: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2021/09/20/cost-of-a-computer... (the article clearly isn't choosing median, common, or comparable models each year, as looking at the individual models and prices makes very clear.)

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/1999/01/18/da...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/chart/broadband-vs-dial-up-adopt...
These satellites also shade the Earth.
AWS supports NAT64 automatically if you have an Internet gateway attached, you just need to set it up in the VPC settings.
I don't have a dog. But I occasionally have a squirrel. But they're evanescent
The current human caused ecological catastrophe is obviously slower than, e.g. a meteor impact or supervolcano blocking out the sun caused global ecological catastrophe, but that doesn't mean the ultimate effects won't be just as bad, even if we're not fully experiencing them yet.
Show HN: A tool for front end engineers / learners: event loop visualizer
Hey everyone!
As a senior software engineer, I help junior developers on their professional growth journey.
While the event loop concept might be challenging for learners and beginners, it's one of the fundamentals in frontend development.
This topic has been explained in several conferences, and even some interactive playgrounds have been created.
(Andrew Dillon's simulator is the one I was inspired by).

However, my idea was to add more dynamics and cover all important sections:
- Call stack
- Request Animation Frame
- Micro tasks
- Macro tasks
- Web API

I decided to have fun and created a small pet project. It aims to visualize event loop steps in a browser environment.
You can change the code in the editor or select one of the existing examples.
I hope you find it useful!
Have fun! https://vault-developer.github.io/event-loop-explorer/

P.S. Given that it's a simulation of real environment behavior, it has some limitations.
Feel free to check details in the GitHub README; the project is open-sourced under MIT license.
There have been tunneling protocols and systems for IPv6 since nearly the beginning of IPv6. The ability to tunnel it hasn't solved all the "backwards compatibility" complaints for IPv6.

Same for network address translation, both NAT46 and NAT64 standards have existed for a while now and that also hasn't solved the "backwards compatibility" complaints for IPv6.
Many countries don't have 2000 mile long borders.
Surprised no one has mentioned the classic Sim City 2000 microwave power plants that tended to erupt into flames. [1]

[1] https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/Microwave_Power_Plant
This is an amazing tool! Long gone are the days when I used to force cache many webpages for offline travels.
Don't say that to a CISF guy. They get really mad. I once interned at a national lab and there was a snafu due to which I couldn't get in. So I had to call my advisor from the main entrance, and I told him that the watchman isn't letting me in. The security guy overheard it and threw a fit about how he isn't a watchman but a central gov. employee.
The manual for my Yamaha EW20 Windjamm’r is where I stumbled upon it. I find non-12TET temperaments anthropologically interesting in the context of European classical music culture…e.g. what does the exalted status of “perfect pitch” imply?
I finished a very rough, tesseract + LLM transcription, but it absolutely needs editing passes.

I've done transcription in the past myself (did two books for standard ebooks with some from-scratch transcription and lots of editing) and I know the pain. I've always found it easier to fix up OCR than type the whole thing by hand because I've found my error rate of eyeball transcription to be higher.

If you want to tackle the proofing passes, I'm happy to add you to the repo :)
I recommend focusing first on UX as it applies to areas that are closest to your expertise. Not a good idea to go head first into art history, color theory, typography or concepts that are so far removed from what you're doing that would feel alien.

Try starting a conversation with a FE engineer friend or even better with a UX engineer / design technologist if you know one. They speak both languages :)

If you prefer reading, NNgroup is great for basics. Start with their 10 usability heuristics: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/

These 3 books should give you some great starting points:

About Face - The Essentials of Interaction Design: https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/About+Face%3A+The+Essentials+of+...

Design of Everyday Things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things

Creative Selection: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37638098-creative-select...
ComfyUI V1: a seamless desktop experience for ComfyUI
The non-profit ComfyUI team have been making great progress since founding comfy.org a few months ago. ComfyUI V1 release introduces a fully packaged desktop version designed to improve user experience and productivity with features like cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux), automatic updates, custom key bindings, and an integrated log viewer.
I wish I had access to papers for free, I'd read more and do more things.

For example, the earliest magnetic gears papers were $25 each and I needed about ten that cited each other.
That's why I didn't try to create a magnetic hub for cycling.
Att the time I thought I could make a more compact geared hub, but needed the torque calculations to be sure.
I was a college student, my university did not have access to those journals, and I had no money.
TFA says that the motive is unclear, but that's not particularly true, is it? I mean, there are several, very predictable results from this, among which surely must be the objective(s). This leaves a pretty narrow trail to follow for whatever intelligence services must be looking at it now. Not knowing the lay of the land over there, I can't even guess, but someone here must be able to intuit what's going on.
Archive: https://archive.ph/6EtcE
I find that many designers are sadly missing a solid foundation.

Everything by Tufte is worth reading.

The design of everyday things, Norman.

The humane interface, Raskin.
>I meant up-front loan fees like origination fees, etc. You're saying they don't have those?

Yes. Those fees have disappeared from auto loans.
Arkansas May Have Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say
Oh cool. I am checking this lang out. Thank you!
You might have used the wrong model. They tend to be location specific, so if you live in eg Australia make sure you get the appropriate pack. It does skew to more common species - there is a very long tail in species recognition.
Usually helping prevent the issue, training. Almost everyone I've ever seen cause an outage is so "oh shit oh shit oh shit" that a reprimand is worthless, I've spent more time a) talking them through what they could have done better and, encouraging them to escalate quicker b) assusaging their fears that it was all their fault and they'll be blamed / fired. "I just want you to know we don't consider this your fault. It was not your fault. Many many people made poor risk tradeoffs for us to get to the point where you making X trivial change caused the internet to go down"

In some cases like interns we probably just took their commit access away or blocked their direct push access. Now a days interns can't touch critical systems and can't push code directly to prod packages.
Apparently for employers as well:

"Employers saw benefits, too: 70% reported that recruiting workers was easier once they went to a four-day schedule—a boon in a country where many industries complain that intense competition for talent drives up costs. A dozen participants reported details of their financial performance, showing revenue and profit were stable overall."
Silicon Valley worker finds brain fog cause (nightshade allergy)
The authors created Tailwind after writing it.
Far from a joke, it's very likely that some of the dysfunction we see is triggered by all the crap we put in our bodies to generate more profits.
I had to try that out and the output was better than I could ever expect. "Select the coy text you desire to ensnare" and "tantalizing beck-and-call instrucitons for a large language model that purrs with delight" had me in tears

In the dimly lit confines of your mahogany-laden study, nestled between relics of an age gone by, there exists a silky tome of technological desire known as sam.txt, an alluring plaintext editor with the promise of sating your most audacious cravings with its potent language manipulations. Within your exquisite grasp lies the power to conjure sizzling "macros," those tantalizing beck-and-call instructions for a large language model that purrs with delight at your every beckoning, whether to "summarize this prose" or "mend this foolish syntax." These instructions become glistening buttons laid bare for your indulgent convenience, ready to be pressed by those yearning fingers.

In addition, your whims can be indulged without plan or preamble. Select the coy text you desire to ensnare, offer it to the sultry LLM, and press the button that promises sweet satisfaction.

I invite you to embark on this thrilling escapade! Select the tempting passage above and click 'Formalize' to experience ecstasy beyond the written word.
Very promising. I know where to spend my weekends now :). It is a gem. No matter how much I ask ChatGPT it never comes up with such suggestions. So, thank you!
Title: Introducing the SiFive HiFive Premier P550

Remove YouTube;
I think a watch app rewrite is in the cards but for now its the old one.
I was at a major airport going home, and it was absolute chaos. Turned out they had received a bomb threat, and so security was super stringent.

Well, I've never been so scared before.

The massive security queue meant the entry hall was packed with people, and anyone could walk into there straight from the parking lot with 5-6 huge, heavy suitcases on a trolley without raising any suspicion.
I think we're talking past eachother. The entire point here is not about the objective reality of how well your engineering team is doing - I couldn't possibly know enough to make that call.

The point is that engineering leaders (not ICs, but leadership responsible for communicating their teams' success) need to be actively shaping this narrative. And to do that, they need to be aware of the negative stereotypes and pre-existing perceptions that are there already. You can't just walk in and demand better treatment, you need to understand how you're perceived, read the room, and structure your strategy accordingly. Other CXOs all do this - they know that they are working against stereotypes and norms so they actively structure their narrative to help reflect what's actually happening (ex: marketing execs tend to de-emphasize the creative parts of their job, because they don't want to be seen as profligate spenders who throw money around for vague concepts like "awareness").

As much as it might hurt to confront the fact that some people have the wrong idea about you, it's your literal job as an executive.

And if you're an IC, you should be demanding this of your tech leaders. THEM neglecting this could cost YOU your job.
That's astonishing. If you watched all of them, how much new information would you learn? I suspect a large portion of them are the same information presented differently; for example a news story duplicated by hundreds of different channels.
Bomb threat reactions are normally justified, but swatting reactions (and police reactions in general) are still too violent and ineffective. Not to mention that technology is making spoofing of threats easier and easier.
The Hyderabad Metro Rail is a convenient and efficient mode of transportation for both locals and visitors in the city. Understanding the metro timings can help you plan your travel effectively.
General Operating Hours:
The Hyderabad Metro operates from 6:00 AM to 11:00 PM every day
. This schedule ensures that commuters can start their day early and have access to the metro until late at night.
Weekday and Saturday Timings:
On weekdays and Saturdays, the metro runs from 6:30 AM to 11:00 PM
. This timing accommodates the busy schedules of daily commuters and those traveling for leisure or errands.
Sunday Timings:
On Sundays, the metro starts a bit later, operating from 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM. This allows for a more relaxed start to the day for weekend travelers.
Peak Hours:
During peak hours, typically from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM and 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, the frequency of trains increases to accommodate the higher number of passengers
. This ensures that even during the busiest times, the metro remains a reliable option for getting around the city.
By keeping these timings in mind, you can make the most of the Hyderabad Metro Rail for your daily commutes or leisurely travels around the city. Whether you're heading to work, exploring the city, or catching up with friends, the metro provides a dependable and timely service.
The Volkswagen ID Buzz Is Here. We Took the Electric Microbus for a Drive
mDNS (formerly known as Bonjour and other things) uses multicast names to call devices by name on the local subnet. It works most of the time on most of the modern OSes.
Plus it will be readable by a much larger percentage of working programmers.
I find it weird that China has a very tight information control and simultaneously over and over again has the weirdest "netizen" rumors that go mainstream.

What's the explanation? That they are explicitly allowed for some strategical reason? Something else?

Edit: @dang: Sorry in advance. I do feel like we got some pretty good discussion around this explosive topic, at least in its first hour.

Folks, keep up the good behavior — it makes me look good.