skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I assume you can draw a few strokes to "get someone started" on a character and they'll pick it up

In my experience this is not actually the case; I can usually remember a few parts of the character but draw a blank on the rest. You can see the picture of the grocery list that for some characters he got basically half the character right but gave up on the other half (shrimp is the combination of 虫 and 下, you can see he remembered the first half).

I guess there's several levels of character amnesia here, from "I remember half the character" to "I have no clue but I'll recognise it".
It doesn’t sound like it’s that expensive. Certainly less than most households pay for electricity, although I imagine they also use less than most people judging by their very tiny house. Probably some kind of financing available to reduce the initial capital outlay.

Unless you just mean they’re privileged in the sense that most Americans and Europeans are relatively well-off and secure by global standards, in which case sure, but what’s your point?
What do you mean "can't", this is exactly what already happens in countries that already implement a wealth tax (eg, Switzerland). If you own a corporation that has assets worth millions, then the corporation is the asset that you're paying wealth taxes on (as part of your personal tax return).

Doesn't matter if the company is based abroad either, you'll still need to supply the companies balance sheet as part of your personal tax return. Last time I checked, the Swiss economy (unsurprisingly) has not come crashing down.
The next big flip to disappear is A380s :( quite a few have been decommissioned already (so soon), production has ended, and we’re left only with a350s and 777x (lol) to follow in its footsteps.

Meanwhile airports haven’t gotten bigger and more people are flying.
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More performant than using HDF5?
While I'm continually frustrated by the complexity and opaqueness of the US tax code, your analogy doesn't make any sense to me. If your personal finances "struggle with fraud", it means you committed fraud. So yeah, of course you should be held directly responsible. That's very different from a large organization doling out money for tons of various complex projects, and those 3rd parties (or 3rd parties down the chain) commit fraud.

Heck, if you give money to someone and they commit fraud and abscond with your money, you get to take a tax write-off for the stolen funds.
When you say "save a laptop," do you mean extract the data or revive the hardware?

If the latter, is it worth saving?
By the same reasoning, have you talked yourself out of plate tectonics?
The next step for computer hardware is mixed-reality glasses like Meta's Orion right?

And maybe subtle haptics like rings and wristbands?

Or what else is there that would be a progression?

I also wonder if we might eventually see easier plug-and-play computing expansion. Such as home servers with AI and/or graphics accelerators ports that plug in without removing the case and somehow have integrated liquid cooling. Maybe the connector and board for each accelerator has a standardized heat exchange fluid channel built in or something.
This compared to my own experience shows how much location matters for these things.

I live in a place with cheap and stable hydropower. There's winter time price spikes but average solar earnings compared to grid cost from solar during sunny months would be pocket change. In winter solar would give virtually nothing.

The overwhelming conclusion was that instead of buying a pile of hardware to install, configure and maintain I will earn more by clicking a button that puts it as a financial investment into anything with more than 2-3% annual yield and just paying the electricity bill and reinvesting whatever is left over.

I wanted to find an edge case that would make me feel smart for buying a multi kWh home battery but with the exception of a market apocalypse or the likes every outcome suggests that I just put it in dividend stock, high interest savings accounts or whatever else until either power prices increase tenfold or $/kWh for batteries drop tenfold.
it's not the regulations that are at issue, but people demanding irrelevant credentials.

after a few decades working as a programmer, do my highschool or university grades really still matter? yet some companies ask for them (notably canonical, they are also asking how i did in math in highschool. wat!?)
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This is in fact what my home installation already does.
And/or: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/26/elon-musk...
All modern inverters have control interfaces that allow them to fold back their power output on command, this can be set up to track feed-in rates going negative.
All the volatiles from the plastic will have long evaporated on something that old; as the other comment suggests, it's likely to be capacitor electrolyte (a distinctive "fishy" smell) or something else. Disassemble it and find where the smell is coming from.
It would be neutral which is current status quo, not that bad?

The nice part is that it would work the other way around as well – from article/subject back to people who endorse or object it – in case you want to follow (attract/repel their pov).

In reality who to follow should be easy as it would be recursive – if you follow MIT and MIT follows ie. Noam Chomsky – you wouldn't have to directly follow Noam as your trust would already exist as transitive one from MIT etc.
It’s great to be on hacker news and be part of American society that doesn’t have to worry about finances the same way the majority of country does but for everybody else, surge/dynamic pricing means you don’t know whether you’re gonna be able to complete your grocery run and what compromises you need to make. Companies need to take on setting prices long term based on what the analysts and supply chain experts deem suitable like they always have.
Changed from https://news.stonybrook.edu/university/sbu-helping-bnl-devel... above. Thanks!
Those scams are not isolated to Bitcoin. You see them in many content creator industries. They are giveaway scams and templated to fit a niche. You can do them for gambling, gaming like cs-go skin giveaways, makeup giveaways and so on. They are really easy scams to do because you can just wait for the next trendy thing to happen and then target that trend with bot accounts. On youtube they will often just recycle what accounts don't get reported.

Platforms do their best to take care of this, but these scams are so easy to run that you can automate them and spin up new accounts very quickly. Even if there are financial barriers it can still be madly profitable to accept the costs.

There is no clear way to deal with the concerns you mentioned, but I think playing too safe and not exploring technology will quickly put you behind the curb. Most of it can be resolved with good financial regulation.
If you think people who chose not to learn a language you like are insecure it tells more about you than about them.
Out of genuine curiosity, what are the scandals?
(We've changed the URL since this was posted - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41965388)
It also depends on the batteries themselves. An older Nissan leaf? Doubt it. A newer Tesla? I sure hope so.

Im curious as to how car batteries will be repurposed to use for energy storage. Once they degrade to the point of only holding charge for short trips, can they still be used for other scenarios that don’t require as much from them?
Just want to say you have solid takes. You're getting all my upvotes. Thanks for fighting the good fight against this kind of nonsense.
I think a helpful analogy here for the non-chinese is recalling the names of pieces of music from hearing a short part and vice versa. I'm classically trained, and in my circles I can probably hum out a short piece of music that'll have other musicians go "I know the piece but am drawing a blank on the name" and vice versa. I know I'm not the only one to have had that happen to pieces I'm actively practicing :)

Anecdotally, I can usually remember a few parts of the character but draw a blank on the rest. You can see the picture of the grocery list that for some characters he got basically half the character right but gave up on the other half (shrimp is the combination of 虫 and 下, you can see he remembered the first half).

I guess this is analogous to only remembering the main themes of a piece and forgetting how the rest of it goes. I'll recognise it when I hear it, but can't recall it off the top of my head.
<< You claimed delivering this perspective would “undermine the institution”, whereas I think it would strengthen the institution, in what might be a very timely fashion.

Friend, if the lecture means institution being pulled into political fray, then it will do a lot, but it will not strengthen it. You don't believe me? Look how well FBI is regarded these days after being pulled in on a semi-regular basis.
Thanks!

I agree that laying out PDFs could be made easier by using a declarative mechanism instead of coding. However, I'm still not sure what the best way would be to do that. Using HTML/CSS for this and doing it right would entail implementing something like PrinceXML...

With the current layout model you have the possibility to implement price layouts, like the one needed by Swiss QR bills (see https://x.com/_gettalong/status/1748823670368117154), or just define the general layout and let HexaPDF decide the final position (see https://hexapdf.gettalong.org/examples/pdfa.html).

If you have any ideas, how laying out PDFs could be made simpler, I'm all ears!
> the frequency of hedging words such as “might" and "probably" has fallen by about 40% over the past 2 decades...

Sounds all too right. That certainly seems to be true in the low-end brands of Nature (Nature Food, Nature Water, Nature Joule...) which read like press releases with some random math thrown in.

It's really bad in results associated with "green", "nanotechnology", or batteries.
I am also confused how this project improves upon Wikipedia's moderation issues. Especially calling Ibis "federated", is it more "federated" than Wikipedia is?

It's also not like Wikipedia is unusable because of these issues. As with any source of information it is necessary to be skeptical with wikipedia articles. Wikipedia has the major advantage over any other source that the edit history is public.

And even though there are many incidents with Wikipedia's moderation, the website has also existed for a long time now and contains millions of articles. With the scope and size of Wikipedia some incidents are expected.

Wikipedia also compiles their own backup collections.[1] If at any point Wikipedia becomes actually unusable anyone could use the existing article to produce a new alternative database.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
You're discounting what's actually being said here, and said by many people.

I don't play Factorio for the same basic reason as so many others in this thread: it's too much like programming, and I want to use that energy actually programming. Something I enjoy very much, something which has paid every expense I've had for the last fifteen years, and something which directly produces value for other people.

I also pick up a little handheld most evenings and play games on it. Lately, Puzzle Bobble and Galaxian. Scratches a different itch.

The dichotomy between 'play Factorio' and 'program computer' does not reduce to the dichotomy between 'have fun' and 'joylessly pursue productive endeavors'. Clearly for some people Factorio doesn't produce the former dichotomy in the first place, and more power to 'em. For others it does, and the conclusion that this means we don't like fun is simply invalid.
It’s too early to judge. Yes the C919s have had some embarrassments (like cabins filled with fog) but I bet they’ll work out the growing pains quickly and learn. New models often have issues - remember the 787 having issues with composites, batteries, etc?

Also, Brazil has agreed to provide consultation and technology sharing between Embraer and Comac. And Embraer is highly competent, with aircraft used in the western world widely, so they’ll help with a lot of the real world issues. This is happening now because of BRICS momentum and Lula (friendly with Xi due to some common ideology). But I think whatever China gains from this new partnership will remain even once it ends. Eventually they’ll make the engines and avionics natively too, it’s only a matter of time.

Meanwhile Boeing has almost no innovation due to a mix of financially focused management, union labor culture, and a brain drain over the last 25 years. They’re not going to increase their lead anytime soon, which means the gap can only reduce.
I'm not sure about averages, but given the second hand pricing I've seen: I thought after 100 or so megameters, even well maintained internal combustion engines needed maintenance of a price comparable to replacement?
> Has that actually ever happened? Lockpicking Lawyer shows most locks are almost effortless to pick. The same locks sold by the millions to all of us.

Then we need new rules for lockmakers too.
300k on my Toyota right now. Most modern ICE engines should last 200k with no problems. EVs (other than the battery) should last a million miles. Even the batteries are turning out to last longer than everyone expected, ignoring some notable notable failures.
The solution is better institutions, not less institutions.

Good institutions have mechanisms in place to correct themselves.

And most of the past failures of our institutions were discovered and corrected by ... the institutions (sometimes the very same institution or other institutions whose role was to counterweight the institution at fault)

Unfortunately the trap we all fell into is that we interpret this success at catching and fixing failures as proof that the institutions have failed and thus that they will never be trustworthy ever again.

We need to train ourselves that the trust we put in the institutions does not mean we trust everything that comes out of them, but we trust that the mistakes will be eventually corrected as they happen.

But that's not what's happening now. The society has equated the point-in-time failure of an institution with the failure of the entire process and also extended that feeling across the board towards areas of our society that haven't failed us much.

Nothing good will come out of that. For one, it will remove any incentive from future institutions to try to be objective and self-correct. If self-correction becomes a "capital sin" for institutions, they will be selected to favour absolute unquestionable truths which cannot possibly ever need a correction.

But also. it completely ignores the fact that most institutions are useful, even while they suffer from failures/corruption and that destroying them altogether is going to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Completely agree. I mainly mention it to dispel any notions that solar panels can expose you to financial risk due to negative energy prices. This is trivial to address. Negative prices should only be a concern for plants that can not be quickly or easily shut down, like thermal plants (coal/gas/nuclear).
That model doesn’t work because there are plenty of issues on which a vote by the US would increase my confidence in the truthfulness of a claim, but others where it would not make a difference, or even decrease my confidence.
I think a world where the price tag can change, automatically, as you walk up to it, because you are walking up to it, is pretty god damned awful. I would like to avoid that world.
A website should work at any sane screen resolution, landscape or portrait. At minimum it should crop itself down to an aspect ratio it can handle.

I would assume though that the news websites you've encountered were built with only office PCs in mind though, and just happen to work on the similar screen of a landscape tablet.
Great comment. On one hand I like what Oxfam has done, which is to show that the World Bank has poor financial controls and should do a much better job tracking where funds are actually spent. On the other hand I don't like how this is reported/interpreted (and Oxfam I think deserves some blame for how their investigation is characterized) as "there is a ton of fraud at the World Bank". That's simply not accurate, and your edit sums up the situation very well
> This is wildly unpopular.

Case in point. No one's suggesting confiscating anything, yet some people can't contain themselves at the suggestion that maybe housing policy is broken.
Wow, compelling evidence!
When you join a federated instance, the owner of it still isn't accountable to you, and is likely to be more eccentric than a centralized instance that is at least run by a larger number of people.

Speaking of federation in real life reminds me of people yelling about state's rights. I'm pro-distribution, but none of these e-institutions are democratic, they're all little fiefdoms. Governance needs to be distributed, not just bandwidth.
Can you name a single one that “laid out funny”?
Those people also use the public roads. Are you also turned off from driving on public roads?
Hey, Jim here, author of that article and long term HN reader. Never dreamed of seeing one of my pieces on the homepage!

Anyway, I’ve kinda bet the farm on making proper London coverage work, so every subscriber makes a massive difference. So please do give it a go, send any London tips you want investigating (my personal WhatsApp is on the site), and if you hate it… well please tell me why on the way out of the door.
So if they aren't using these things for "evil" (my editorializing), then surely they won't mind some regulation banning the use of these things for evil? Perhaps they're not allowed to raise prices more than once per day? That's not a complete regulation, but you get the idea....
> can't stomach a poor person getting to ride the bus for free.

If you don't accurately measure ridership you can't accurately serve that ridership. You'll waste money on useless services and you'll waste peoples time by not creating necessary services.

The system needs to exist.

It probably doesn't need to be outsourced. We're well past the internet revolution and it's time for these core competencies to be reabsorbed by government departments. Or it's time for private companies to be held liable for their complete and total failures to serve the public.

Ideally it should just be a system that lets you scan your identification card or drivers license. If you're of the correct age it should serve as a transportation pass. Simple. Compliant. Captures useful data.
It would be a mistake to think their experience is anything close to that of people in poverty, regardless of their ability to walk away from it. Poverty doesn't involve affording the capital outlay for $16k of solar/battery/hardware to give you 24x7 heat, heated water, electricity, and _an electric car_.

They're trying to have a developed world quality of life in a low-resource/low-cost way. In some ways, beyond average developed world quality of life: the place they're living is stinkin' gorgeous.

I don't know if it's generally practical for most people or even as energy efficient as living in a modest apartment in a large city (the transportation issues around food, medicine, and necessities factor in), but it's not an uninteresting thing to explore.
What? Your diet is by far the most important part of your health. You can be sedentary and still remain healthy if you eat the right things.

We’re good survivors for sure, but try eating only deep fried donuts for a year and let me know how omnivorous you feel.
High school dropout, here.

I didn't drop out, because I was wildly successful.

Exactly the opposite, in fact.

The process of climbing out of the wreckage is what helped me to become [moderately] successful.

I doubt anyone here, would be impressed by my career path, but I'm happier than I ever thought that I could be, now.

I think the apprenticeship model is really the best way to learn in a practical manner.

But that involves things like staying with employers for more than a year, and also, employers treating their employees in a way that makes them want to stay.

It also works with unions, because they have a whole infrastructure, wrapped around it.
Have read the book many times. And even played the game many times (Amiga mostly). I recall one mp3 where Gibson reads the book. It wasn't very good. Kind of rushed. Always been a huge fan though. I wonder if we will ever get the movie ;)
They didn't find that there was fraud. They just found that the World Bank has poor financial controls and a lack of transparency in determining where funds are spent.

Of course, a lack of financial controls makes it easier for people to actually commit fraud, but the Oxfam report didn't go to that next level and look for specific evidence of fraud.
In my experience, AI-assisted coding requires a lot of human involvement. Claude is certainly much faster than I am, but without my human-programmer hand at the helm, there would not be a working product.

So I'm always surprised to hear about "no code," and finally asked about it on a coder-focused Slack group.

Verdict: At least as of 2024, "no code" is nonsense smoke-and-mirrors. Claude can write functions when it's given well-defined specs, but for an entire application to work, you need a skilled human running the show.
Could you just use Home Assistant to do this?
Fiat currencies are also used for scams, hacks, etc. Does that make fiat currencies a hard sell for you as well?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversie...

One good thing about Wikipedia is that it is pretty open with regards to internal affairs. If you want to criticize Wikipedia, there is no better source than Wikipedia itself.
And TIC-80 (https://tic80.com/). It can be used with "lua, ruby, js, moon, fennel, scheme, squirrel, wren, wasm, janet or python".
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full text without the authwall: https://archive.is/YDfEW

A wise move. Australia is a great place to build houses and to dig up rocks to sell to China, but a really dumb place to build anything security sensitive.

Australia has legislation[1] that allows the security services to compel you to make design changes and build functionality to make your product more convenient for the government, and less secure for your users. It sounds like AFP were in the process of doing just that.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018A00148
Thanks and corrected!
The only car I've driven without power steering was my grandma's 1996 Fleetwood, and I recall turning that absolute aircraft carrier felt like I was trying to close a door on the Red October. Maybe others feel better, I'm honestly not sure.
As always, there is an article about it :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controvers...
Sorry to bust your minuscule lisp bubble but just because someone ignored your favorite niche language in an educated career choice, it doesn't mean they are ignorant.

Infantile language tribalism though, have no place in engineering and is blatant ignorance when coming from a supposed adult.
Savage Geese, The Autopian, The Drive, Road & Track, and Motor Trend all individually reported on some or all of these issues. The tonneau cover leaks became a meme that people reposted on places like TikTok and Instagram. It's not those terminally online, it's that in the first year of the Cybertruck's release a bunch of outlets were documenting it because it brings in readers.
> Firstly the most critical part of competing with WP is not the technology, it's having the critical mass of people willing to write article.

This is much less of an issue now that there are LLMs, even with the occasional hallucination.