skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my difficulties when buying a new monitor is that there's no way to evaluate a particular model before purchase.

A few months ago I got a BenQ PD2705, as more than satisfied with the last BenQ. Cheap, 4K. Nowhere in the online specs I looked at was there any mention of the puck that's included - an unexpected bonus. A 2 system KVM that I use to switch between macOS/windows. Handles USB-C and Display Port. Not perfect - there are issues if the mac goes to sleep, that needs a couple of extra clicks of the puck and keyboard, but way better than the setup I had before.
Neither is a good thing, but Japan definitely punishes people merely for standing out, beginning at school.
Probably not if you include the cost of decommissioning and dealing with nuclear waste (which is still an unsolved problem).
Interesting they have tried to do the same thing Assange did with the kill switch torrent:

> In the 2022 film `COCKCON 2020 (2019)`[0], a 250MB encrypted file was hidden in a second video track of the 1080p release. You can download this film here[1]. I don't know if the encryption key will ever be released, but if it does, you'll want quick access to that file.
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> Furthermore, two more files are released today, 2024-11-12: ins10.luks[2] (555MB) and ins11.luks[3] (64MB). Please download these torrents and seed them as long as you can. Please consider your privacy when seeding.

I don't remember Assange every releasing the key to his?
One way to solve this at the language level would be to require that each lock has a specified priority associated with it, and have the compiler enforce a constraint that locks can only be obtained in the order of their priority.

For each statement, the compiler could keep track of the current "lock priority". If an attempt is made to obtain a new lock with a lower or equal priority, the compiler would reject this. Otherwise, the compiler would use the priority of the new lock as the lock priority for all statements within the scope of the block in which that lock is held.

Aside from modifying the language, the same basic idea could be implemented at the library level by exposing a lock type which still requires a priority to be specified at creation time, but tracks the current lock priority (per thread) at runtime and panics when the constraint is violated. Since the panics would be deterministic, they and the book-keeping required to track the current lock priority could be enabled only in debug mode.
Cool. But I absolutely HATE geolocation via IP.
You can stop selling new ones and invest in alternatives...
It would be a lot easier to replace the cars with electric ones if not for those tariffs on the biggest manufacturers of electric cars.
> One can potentially use Nix on a Mac Mini to keep similar development environments to those used in Linux, but AFAIK some packages are not supported on ARM. Any experiences using Nix and nix-darwin as a daily driver?

Been using that ever since M1 became a thing; nothing worth mentioning, "not supported" is vanishingly rare in practice.
If you continue reading the sentence, it gets even more bizarre:

> it's around €650, including VAT.

Whatever taxes and discounts apply to the commenter’s own idiosyncratic situation have nothing to do with the price of the product.

A couple of years ago, I might have cared what the price of an M2 with Pasadena sales taxes was since I lived there at the time, but I sure wouldn’t have included them when talking about Apple prices here.

Similarly, VAT costs are between you and whatever jurisdiction you live in that’s levying them. Apple isn’t the one to thank or complain to about them.
Do you have any calculations to back this up? With which carbon price is this calculated?
I assume it's because the person deciding what goes on the screens is some manager somewhere. They probably just don't really thing about it.
Tell the Apple TV to restart and you have 15 seconds to clean the remote.
Musk is pro- nuclear energy (https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-explains-why-pro-nuclear... ; https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/elon-musk-its-possible-to-ma... ; https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-22/tech-bill...), and one of the projects he's best known for is Tesla (i.e. the first name in electric vehicles). And as you say, he agrees that climate change is a real phenomenon and a serious threat. His statements on the record agree with some policy proposals to fight climate change and disagree with others. This is consistent with him having actually attempted to reason about the expected effects of those policies, rather than judging them based on the supposed intent.

I can't understand the basis for your views. While he has also spoken about increasing oil production, that's about energy security - not about increasing energy consumption or GHG.
Not having a political system that leads people to polarisation is probably a good start.
Musk can't even restrain himself from taking his jet for 15 minute flights to the beach. That's the flight time. That doesn't include the APU running while the pilots get the plane configured/engine warmup time, /taxi time pre takeoff and then taxi time after landing.

It's just about the most CO2-intensive fuck-the-planet way one should possibly travel ~60 miles...and doesn't even get into the pollution aspects of jet emissions at high altitudes.

For 2022, his jet usage equaled 2,100 tons of CO2.

To put that in perspective: if you drive 10,000 miles a year, and get about 25mpg, then you're using about 400 gallons of fuel, which equals 7.6T of CO2.

Just from his flights alone, Musk generates as much CO2 as nearly three hundred cars.
> You can’t just snap your fingers and replace millions of cars, [...]

The Chinese are trying to help, but Americans like tariffs more than they hate climate change. (At least that's the preference that their political system expresses.)
That's the neat thing about trends, the next wave of colours will always feel more modern and sophisticated.
Reminds me on how I setup laptops these days for geodisplaced vpn enjoyment.

Have the laptop on the vpn even during OS install. Never run the vpn client on the laptop. Never connect to any other network. Use the target's localisation (language, kb, timezone) during install. Have a dedicated browser with detailed location features turned off for your target sites.
Does it also import saved passwords and then "safely" uploads to cloud storage?
From their domain list:

horsefucker.org

Fancy!

I'm really grateful for services like this. What they note in this piece is absolutely true; it is really hard to just get an e-mail address anonymously these days. There are partial solutions like masked e-mail (Fastmail, Firefox, etc.) and sometimes one of those shady disposable e-mail websites has domains which aren't blocked, but just taking out a clean e-mail address somewhere is at best a lengthy process if they require some form of SMS confirmation (where you then use shady SMS receiving websites with low success rates for each listed number).

Sometimes you just want to interact with some service from an online identity not linked to your private person. Reasons vary, but there are plenty of valid, legal reasons to do so (lack of trust, sensitive topic, research, etc.). I think being able to do that is quite important for society, but there sure are a lot of actors out there who wish this wasn't possible at all!
Recreating DoorDash for My Dorm
Does anyone know which decompilation tool produces these graphs, as shown in the blog post?
> Its worth using the Determinate Systems installer to avoid reinstalling Nix on every macOS update though.

I've had Nix installed from the traditional installer since the very first M1 and never had to reinstall nixpkgs across OS updates.
I've heard that the best way to solve a hard problem is to create a language in which solving that problem would be easy.

Basically creating a Domain Specific Language.

Raku isn't necessarily that language. What it is, is a language which you can modify into being a DSL for solving your hard problem.

Raku is designed so that easy things are easy and hard things are possible. Of course it goes even farther, as some "hard" things are actually easy. (Hard from the perspective of trying to do it in some other language.)

Lets say you want a sequence of Primes. At first you think sieve of Eratosthenes.

Since I am fluent in Raku, I just write this instead:

( 2..∞ ).grep( *.is-prime )

This has the benefit that it doesn't generate any values until you ask for them. Also If you don't do anything to cache the values, they will be garbage collected as you go.
A pro tip from a Mac sysadmin who gets to clean a lot of filthy laptops: https://folivora.ai/keyboardcleantool
Sure, that (minimally distro-patched software) is why I use Arch too, but I don’t think the original commenter was confused by the distinction between Arch (which is upstream to Manjaro) and the software making up Arch’s standard base packages.
Big fat wire to somewhere which isn't in a blizzard.

Or just build the metal foundry in the non-blizzard-prone area in the first place, because the blizzard takes out power lines even if there was a nuclear reactor on the other end.

I've done the maths, and I'd it wasn't for geopolitics, China makes enough Aluminium to make an HVDC grid so thick that it would have so little resistance that they could usefully connect every grid in the world for a cost of 250e9 USD for the Aluminium.

Scaled down to just the USA, no international stuff, it's something you can easily do if someone convinces Trump or Musk to delete any internal obstruction.
Trump's election is not due to polarization. If you believe that, you're in a (center-left to liberal) bubble.
The idea of paying cash doesn't hold up when you account for changes in the currency notes over time. What would you do with a suitcase full of 1990s hundred dollar notes? Eventually they go out of circulation and using them looks highly suspicious. A casino tried giving me one and I asked them to swap it.
Found it out myself, https://binary.ninja/
Musk has an established track record of pro-nuclear sentiment (see my other comment for example). I see no reason to expect him to do any such thing.
> It’s pure opinion, but you are entitled to your opinion.

Exactly! So I’m not even sure why you commented.

> dogmatic, classist, racist

Oh dear…
> Data collection like what?

Like any at all?

There's this deep sense of entitlement coming from software devs and vendors, that's completely unjustified. Comparisons on the amount and type of data collected is missing the point. It doesn't matter whether Manjaro is sending more or less telemetry than MacOS - neither of them should be doing it in the first place.

They have no actual right to that data, no matter how much having it makes the devs' jobs easier. What they should do is ask for it, honestly and convincingly, like asking users for a favor, because it's exactly what it is (and it's not like anyone is considering compensating user for the service).
The fact that you can do this and still be a bit cheaper for those periods than nuclear power is what makes it really ridiculous:

https://theecologist.org/2016/feb/17/wind-power-windgas-chea...

Of course, we'll never stop building nuclear power in spite of this because it provides indirect subsidies for the military.
That’s a bummer, I use it daily in SF and the tracker it has for upcoming buses/trains has always been super accurate, and the stop countdown is always dead on. It even tells me when I need to speed up my walking to make it to the next bus in case it’s running a little early.
Yeah I had the same issue of my EC2 that I used to host my personal websites randomly getting to 100% CPU and being unreachable.

I put a CloudWatch alarm at 90% CPU usage which would trigger a reboot (which completed way before anyone would notice a downtime).

Never had issues again.
I'm still a little confused as to how this shows where a train actually is, it seems like this is only a solution to know when you're on a train or not. Does it just guess based on what trains should be moving at that time?
Okay, I'm moving my metal foundry to a location that's sunny all year round, just like I've previously moved it to Iceland for geothermal or next to big hydro dams. Cheap energy makes it worthwhile.
Indeed I've been liberally using nix-collect-garbage -d after every darwin-rebuild switch without issues for years.
And RFK jr. is opposed to nuclear energy.
I've often thought of Raku as being a lot like the English language. It borrows heavily from other languages.

Of course since Raku has the benefit of an actual designer, it is more cohesive than English.
>you're in a (center-left to liberal) bubble.

This is, after all, Hacker News. The demographic here isn't that different from Reddit's, as much as many would try to deny.
Japan also seems to make pretty decent games, and manages to export them to eager fans around the globe. (Nintendo just being the most visible example.)
You can also buy (or pick up) concert tickets, print out documents (including official government documents), pick up package deliveries, and in some places ship items you sold on Mercari.
Remixlive Premium APK and Mod (Gratis) Ultima Versión v8.1.0
And is that also true for the various AI tool offerings? If they train their AI on your data, how could they guarantee that the AI is not reproducing parts of it for requests of a different customer?
> I can't understand the basis for your views.

Maybe it has something to do with being the co-head of the announced Department of Government Efficiency with Vivek Ramaswamy, who he definitely supports, and who yelled at the Republican primary:

“The climate change agenda is a hoax”.

Musk sure criticizes Dems for every single little thing but I haven’t heard any criticism about that…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ye9lg8hWfQg&pp=ygUjVml2ZWsgcmFtY...
USB On-the-Go on the ESP32-S3
Nurture. That's why the Asians are better in Math. Their language allows to shift from one operation into another at light speed.
I am not trusting my storage to something without ecc. It is as simple as that.
Ona similar note I always thought it would be cool if there was a standard allowing (trusted) WiFi access points to relay location data, so that in-flight WiFi could pass on the plane's GPS feed.
Ultimately it's about energy return on investment.

Solar + battery requires plenty of materials and energy to put together. It also needs to work in the middle of winter for it to be a fair comparison. When you consider it in that way it favours nuclear. It also has a shorter lifespan than nuclear, so that should be included.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment
The revolution has succeeded and is eating itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son

And if nobody looks at it, the value of the company making the thing, drops to zero..
That's an issue with Windows in general, not just Win 10. Let's not pretend that 7 is any better on a moral level than what 10 represents.

Among other things, I'm meaning updates to Win 7 like this one:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/213183-once-more-with-...
As a student in non linear complex dynamics & applied mathematics 40 odd years ago in a non US country (Australia) we looked at how repeated iterations of First-past-the-post voting systems tended to converge to two party systems and to blocs that nudged up against each other and didn't particularly represent the demographics of the country.

A result in the vicinity of Hotelling's Law with vote capture rather than profit maximisation.

It's a damnable doom spiral emergent from a system setup by founders largely opposed to party politics.
An answer to basically all your questions is: doesn’t matter, they did their best to stabilize in a short amount of time, and it worked - that’s what mattered.
I'm completely fine with the most productive individuals we have in the world being extreme CO2 consumers. Impact on global emissions is, in any case, negligible. However, the impact on having companies like Tesla selling around 2 million electric vehicles a year or more, really compensates for those 2,100 tons of CO2.
Nuclear plants take at least 10 years to be build. During that time millions of cars, stoves and boilers can be replaced. Look at Europe, their natural gas usage peaked in 2010.
It's never let 30 do the work of 50. The corporate fantasy is always about firing people.
Gas boilers and stoves aren't common anywhere else in the modern world.
I'd assume it's the length (in time) of the vibration since the last stop. There may be edge cases where if the train is moving slowly, but overall it's a smart technique.
I agree, the myth and mystery around "perfect Japan" which is funny because the west also loves its "wabi-sabi" and "ikigai" among other things. Japan in up on such a pedestal for some people, especially through the narrow lens of being a tourist or a consumer of their goods/services/media.

Heck, A LOT of things that have that desirable "made in Japan" sticker are made by abused migrant workers with very little protection and pay. They aren't even made by the "mythological perfect and careful Japanese hands."

Note: been here 15 years and I have many friends in the manufacturing industry
Art by Etienne Jacob
I found these art pieces by Etienne Jacob yesterday. They are all ShaderToy worthy, although a few of them can be quite hard on the eyes.
The headline reminds me of Mike Oxmaul scene.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7UdP9JyM2nQ
D.O.G.E –> Elon Musk, Ramaswamy land Trump admin roles
I tried that AMD thing, and getting things to work properly is hard. Hardly any motherboards advertise ecc support, and getting it to work is finicky and brittle. I stopped using it on my main computer after it silently stopped working and started giving me other memory issue after an OS update.
1000000000 € giveaway art project?
Friends shared this, seems like internet art to me, very confusing.

What do you think?
Not really. If Ryanair is half the cost of say Lufthansa for a 2 hour flight, I'll go with Ryanair. A flight is a flight, I'd rather spend the money on a better hotel or eating out rather than a marginally better short flight.

I've never once seen people fighting or screaming on a cheap flight.

For long haul I have no problem going with better airlines (which still means European or Asian over US carriers every time...).
The comment is less about which of two bad choices floated to the top and more about the system that only coughed up two viable poor choices from a demographic in the hundreds of millions.
>"Normalize your data"

>"You don't need to write SQL in uppercase"

>"What's an index ?" section

From reading this, it's clear that the author never sat down and learned to use databases from the ground up. The author started using them and learned as he went, so his "tips" include things you'll be told in the first hour of any course.

This doesn't hold any value for someone who's been using databases for almost any length of time.
They had plenty of time to prepare for this. There were advance warning signs as well, for example, the end of the active support for Win 7 at, let's see, 9 years ago.
The biggest issue with giving and receiving feedback I consistently find is that it's not just an individual issue. It's not even just an issue between the feedback giver and receiver. It's a huge cultural issue that every company I've ever seen consistently underestimates the difficulty and value of. The entire company needs to demonstrate that it's safe and valued to give and receive feedback and even criticism.

I've been on teams where this is done well on the team-level. I could give feedback to my teammates without worrying about offending them, and they would work on the issue. I could receive criticism from my teammates without worrying they hated me or that this would impact my job. This also meant there were almost never huge personal issues on the team, any issues were handled before they became a big deal. But even there, this didn't extend beyond the team. If we had an issue with another team or with management, suddenly any criticism or feedback we gave was interpreted as an attack and was impossible to solve.

To give actionable feedback you need to be in a culture that shows you it's safe to make mistakes, and that improving is noticed and appreciated. A high-functioning team can do this. But I think it's hard (borderline impossible) to do this on an organizational level because this requires a certain level of mutual respect and trust that is frankly just not there when there are huge asymmetrical power relationships at play.
The most hilarious thing is to see Elon raging against immigrants and then move first thing to support H1Bs
How much of this is those SMEs that people are making specifically to power AI?
Would you happen to recall where you found that?
Post-soviet Estonia si an exception rather than the rule, plus it has little industry other than digital services with next to no manufacturing compared to Japans which si at the cutting edge of manufacturing and little digitalization.

In General post-soviet countries have a larger focus on the digital industry as it was the lowest hanging fruit to build up the economy quickly as the other industries were not competitive after the fall of communism, too far behind the cutting edge west, and too expensive compared to the cheap east, so internet and software it is.
> "happy customers" should converge with "happy leadership"

This is the exact opposite of what we're seeing with Enshittification at the moment.

Customers are locked in to a platform and then made completely miserable by management who have goals utterly unaligned with customer happiness.
I'm sure that there has been more changes from Perl 5.8 to Perl 5.40 than there is between Python 2.0 to Python 3.x (Whatever version it is up to at the moment.)

What's more is that every change from Python 2 to Python 3 that I've heard of, resembles a change that Perl5 has had to do over the years. Only Perl did it without breaking everything. (And thus didn't need a major version bump.)
I think a 'linear types' ish model where the compiler flags an error if you didn't write the explicit unlock call, and only compiles if some acceptable unlock call (or set of calls) is added, would be a good design. It can / would also prevent use-after-consume. I do want the static checks, but I don't think that means that implicit function calls need to be generated on a } or a = (assigning to a variable causes a drop) etc. This is what Rust already does with `.clone()` -- needing the explicit call -- and I think it makes sense for a lot of cases of implicit drop. I have seen discussions about implementing this for Rust and I have it implemented in a C borrow checker experiment I'm trying. ATS is also an example of this, and going further is something like Frama-C or seL4 and so on.

The main point being: the implicitness is not necessary for "compiler makes sure you don't forget". So the original comment about how usage of the explicitly named and paired APIs can clarify intent both for the writer and reader can still stand while not implying that forgetting is involved. I see this dichotomy often being drawn and I think it's important to consider the language design space more granularly. I think a reminder is a better fix for forgetting, rather than assuming what you wanted and doing it for you.

(the explicit calls also let you / work better with "go to defintion" on the editor to see their code, learn what to look up in a manual, step in with a debugger, see reasonable function names in stack traces and profiles, pass / require more arguments to the drop call, let the drop call have return / error values you can do something about (consider `fclose`), let the drop call be async, ...)
This doesn’t seem like it outweighs the arguments made above.
Us non-americans watching americans arguing amongst themselves over nothing is enough proof to show that polarisation is absolutely working

It's baffling why america treats political parties like sports teams