skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ask informed consent

I think it's a bit cliché; where do you draw the line? Should free software also display a copy of their license at first start and ask their users to click "I agree"?

When you start using a piece of software (free or not), there is a set of terms and conditions that you agree to (explicitly as is often the case with proprietary software or implicitly as with free software), which may include opt-out telemetry. As long as this is communicated, I don't see any problem with it.

To give credit where its due, I agree that Manjaro users may have never accepted opt-out telemetry when they first started using the OS and now this is being rolled out after the fact. Still, for a general-purpose OS that makes no privacy claims (e.g. Tails), I don't see how collecting their screen resolution etc makes a big difference. An average webpage today collects more than that in a single page view.
Guix Users and Contributors Survey
Guix is gathering feedback from users and contributors on their experiences; what they love and what they've found challenging. Whether you're new or a veteran we'd love to have your opinion and comments!

As the projects never done this before it should be super interesting. So submitted this for anyone that's a current user, or tried it in the past.

For those that don't know Guix is like Nix, but uses a single language (Guile Scheme) to define and configure the system. It's has four elements:

- a package manager that can runs on top of any Linux distribution (e.g. like homebrew)

- a dotfiles and home environment manager

- a complete GNU/Linux distribution

- a way to create isolated development environments
Hell, 2 grand to get released from a felony is a steal!

Amusingly, I bet it also scales based on apparent wealth/income, so is a type of [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine].
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>> You don't need an RCT. You need a study that compares COVID's many consequences and sequlae

Effectively zero for healthy men under 40.

I do think common sense needs to play a part in your risk assessment.
I bet that's what it is, and they are either being gatekeepers or subscribe to "XYZ for me and not for thee."
Ethical is not the same as legal. Legal actions can be unethical and ethical actions can be illegal.

The Nuremberg trials established this after WW2: just obeying orders is not sufficient [0]. This is why modern militaries have a duty to disobey.

It's the same in civilian life: you have a personal duty to disobey an instruction that you personally consider to be unethical. You cannot hide behind "I was just obeying the law". You absolutely should break the law if you consider that law to be unethical. It is your personal responsibility to decide this.

So yes, you should do illegal stuff if not doing said illegal stuff would be unethical.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_principles
"Thousands of miles of big wires are free"

Why don't we just assume that power will be free and infinite and plug our grid into that assumption? We can even write it down on the socket and paint it green, based on how these arguments always read out that's the only thing needed to maintain electrified high tech society.
"The climate change agenda" clearly means something different to him than "climate change". Again: his statements on the record are very consistent, and completely congruent with a belief that other people are wrong about how to solve the problem, while also agreeing that the problem exists.
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Along with cost, the biggest issue is still local opposition, right? Is there any plan to solve that?
Kill and restart the service.
This seems to be the coder solution to everything.
We do it for our service as well.
The programmer could fix their stuff but alas, that’s too much to ask.
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I agree with @gibbitz and @wmf. Whilst Apple Silicon has excellent battery life, that is only true if you're running macOS - that efficiency is lost when you run Asahi or other Linux distros (and I say this as an M1 MBA owner).

There's also the Snapdragon X Elite if you want a different ARM machine, but it has similar issues as where not everything works under Linux.

So at the moment, x86 is still the best bet if you want full Linux compatibility, and ThinkPads in particular have the best Linux support.
What does yahoo-esque mean in this context?
> shut down option won't show up on login screen.

It does. At least I can see it on my personal MBA and work MBP. To right corner
> "certain kind" of discipline, indeed... not the good kind.

Not OP but this is a somewhat normal case of making a tradeoff? They aren't able to repair it at the moment (or rather don't want/can't allocate the time for it) and instead trade their ressource usage for stability and technical debt.
>who will

ITT I see many people who seem to believe they can predict the future with perfect confidence, and that supporting evidence is not required for these predictions.
The chaos would be great for the bean counters. "Productivity" will be up for a month or two. Until it isn't.
The tool is great, I would definitely use it couple of times a year to see the "pattern" :) The design is great!

Adding to the comment on "calculations". Perhaps the wording could be improved, now it feels a bit like a dark pattern in sales.

This is not the best version, but explains what I mean:

"Let's turn your X days of time off into Y days of holidays."
Yes. China has also opened more coal power plants than the rest of the world combined over the past couple of years.

It should be clear from these three examples that some regulatory environments are more conducive to rapidly building infrastructure than others.
The problem wit those "old" democracies is that too much within these systems hinges on the participants desire to honor the rules.

This is especially clear if you compare it to more modern democracies who had fallen ill to fascism before and had to harden their rules after the devastations of WWII. I don't think the dysfunctionality of democracy both in UK and the US is a coincidence. Up to a few years ago the last mental hurdles have fallen and bad actors discovered that there are surprisingly little hard rules preventing them to play the game in bad faith — and so they did. The media landscapes in the UK and US (Murdoch!) did their part.

US commentors I discussed with always pointed to free speech, I just don't hope they mean it like Elon Musk: Free speech, as long as it is the right kind, and I am deciding which is.
I’m working on a nextjs project, nextjs made a bunch of breaking changes and doesn’t document things consistently or comprehensively, I have a lot of grief using LLM on this framework.

This is something framework/libs/apis should factor in for future, how can you make your project LLM friendly in order to make it dev friendly.
Well I think "one-liner" here adds more weight to "substanceless" and was not indented to be taken literally:

- it has no useful meaning in a media you can resize.

- adding dots (.) does not noticeably change the meaning, you could replace with a comma : "Oh thanks goodness, I new…", allowing cheating on the fight rules. I don’t think that’s desirable way we want to interact as a HN-user-community (personal opinion)

- taking the literal read anyway, I see one line and two sentences right now. It’s a one liner. (not English native, may I missed a secondary meaning?)

Dang clarify it bellow the post in linked and cite scott_s, none of which talking about the length of the joke but both referring to noise.

I personally also found it funny BUT I also saw like 10 substanceless not-so-funny jokes today on HN. INHM problem is not the joke itself but the emptiness of the post if you take the joke aside.
AWS charges instances in 1 hour increments - so you're paying 150% the EC2 costs if you're doing this every 2 hours
What worries me about nuclear is that it requires sophistication to maintain.

And that's not a fixed thing. Just look at Boeing safety today vs two decades ago.

Why not go all in on solar?
Outside of North America, it would be bizarre to not include VAT. Anytime you see the € or £ symbol, you can assume it's VAT included.
Congrats on the Show HN launch!

> It's been 3 years of Gitlab post-IPO and they're still MIT, and that's the boat we're on as well :)

I totally understand your optimism but keep in mind that GitLab was exploring a sale as at 4 months ago https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/google-backed-software...

If they get bought or have a change of management, they might revisit the MIT license.
I'm not. I believe in people setting good examples. Electric cars like Tesla sell are still completely unsustainable and enormous sources of CO2 and pollutants. They are doing nothing for the larger car problem that we have. Arguably they make it even worse.
The other thread has more repos listed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118097
I don't have any faith in these kinds of plans. The US doesn't seem capable of actually finishing nuclear projects. I assume this is just a grift for someone to siphon away a whole lot of money.
The differences actually are quite huge. As far as I know, the M series chips all use LPDDR5 RAM, which is indeed more expensive than the DIMM/SO-DIMM modules you would add to your diy build.

Still, you can easily get a good kit of DDR5 DIMMs for 110€/32GB from a retailer. So while LPDDR5 RAM is more expensive, it is most certainly not expensive enough to justify a 230€/8GB price as being driven by BOM costs
:-D

It's amusing to me that I have no idea if you mean to:

1. Agree, yes, center-left to liberal bubble.

2. Disagree, it's not a center-left to liberal bubble.

3. Sardonically point to something else by comparing to Reddit.

4. Other?
Political positions - in general, and for each individual person - are nowhere near as straightforward as your argument requires them to be.
Yes - lots of writing for a common solution to a bug...

Memory leaks are often "resolved" this way... until time allows for a proper fix.
Better later than never, I was disappointed with NGEN capabilities, given the Delphi influences on .NET.

Microsoft research had Sing#, System C#, which never came to us, Mono AOT had its issues, and finally Windows 8.x MDIL/Bartok, UWP .NET Native, which were still special cases.

I always vouched the opinion that had .NET supported AOT properly since the beggining, there would have been much less people reaching out to C and C++, as one of the reasons was getting real executables (same applies to Java, and the issue AOT until recently being a commercial JDK feature for deep pockets).
We used to create private Google groups with corresponding team and Google would provide a shared email like sales@ourdomain.com. Now admin has more control over who gets the shared mails. It is essentially free but with few caveats.
If they need to make it a culture war thing, they could just call it the Keystone pipeline of electricity, or the Trump Powerline, or similar.

(As a non American, I may be misjudging this: I don't care too much about US culture wars, they don't connect to me any more than the US or Chinese sports teams whose names I don't know).

You may be correct that I am over-optimistic, though for what it's worth my optimism is not universal to all of the aspects of Musk let alone Trump (mostly pessimistic about him), and not with regard to other greenhouse gas emissions besides electrical, heating, and transportation.
95 was very bad for me, I had to reinstall it on my PC like every week, because it was just unstable. Vista is also not great, and it's missing from your list. XP was also very, very bad first, and got better over the years with its service packs.
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The battery industry being built at the moment in Sweden is having some major issues right now when investment money and subsidizes are running dry. The biggest actor are close to bankruptcy and rushing to find new sources of money.

There seems a general pattern that if you need to build it outside of china, be that batteries, nuclear power plants or solar panels, it becomes too expensive.
H1-B's will have to go home when their contracts end. But that's the premise of the program. It's not a ticket to permanent residency despite the fact that this is how it is used.
You didn't list the possibility that there may be money and power on the table, convictions secondary.
The video is desoldering chips, getting new compatible ones and soldering them back (exactly like Mac Studio).

I wouldnt call that easy. Most people would call that the exact opposite.
AWS has been charging by the second since 2017: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-...
It's very much not backwards compatible, that's why they are doing it in an Edition.
depends on what you use it for
One thing is clear above all: countries which have nuclear weapons or the capacity to build them do well to never, ever give up that capacity no matter which promises are made in return for such a move. This does not bode well for attempts at non-proliferation and it is likely that the number of 'nuclear powers' will only grow, not diminish. If Ukraine had not given up its nukes it is doubtful whether Russia would have invaded, even if it remains unclear whether Ukraine could actually have used the devices.
I have given evidence; thus far you offer only personal sentiment. Feel free to explain how increased nuclear energy capacity would even hinder Musk's interests in the first place.
Top of the line AMD zen5 core can sustain ~80GFLOPS@FP64 and ~160GFLOPS@FP32 using AVX-512, 2x FMA units and ~5Ghz of clock frequency.

This is way way lower than what you claim M2 Pro is capable of and since I'm comparing it against the state-of-the-art datacenter CPU I'm curious how did you get to this number?

M2 Pro core runs at much lower frequency, what it seems to be around ~3.4GHz. And I couldn't find any information about SVE vector widths supported nor number of FMAs.
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I'm sorry this is happening to you and I know all too well how distressing it is to be a compassionate onlooker in an event like this.

Something similar (although likely less severe) happened to my wife in a not too distant past. More or less from one day to the next she started feeling very very unsafe, thought people were after her and conspiring to take away our child. She started writing protective symbols on the walls and doors of our house and felt she was talking to ghosts. I would find her yelling at passersby from our flat window. No one in her life, including me, felt like a safe person anymore.

To me it felt like this foreign power had invaded our life and started ripping everything to shreds. I honestly have never been so stressed in my life.

Luckily we did find our way out of it. My wife was on ADHD medication at the time (dexamfetamine) and we had been going through a rough time our marriage. Covid had just happened and we had a 3yo son. I think by the time she started developing delusions she probably hadn't slept well for months.

Her mother came to live with us for a couple of weeks, we stopped the dexamfetamine and we focused on just making our life as low stress and loving as possible.

I am honestly so grateful that we managed to navigate our way out of this together and that we are fine now. I can't give you much by way of advice. The position you are in is unfair and whatever you do to help your friend is commendable.

One thing I realized is that once the human mind is stressed enough it becomes a sort of runaway nuclear reactor, stuck in a cycle of every more stressful thoughts. The kind of behaviors you will see in that situation are hard to witness, and the best thing you can do as a friend is to provide safety, even when the other person sees the opposite. Living together with this person might not be a workable or safe situation for you or for him, and unfair as it might be you might end up in a position where you have to make this call. Your friend might see this as a betrayal. Be compassionate to yourself and your friend in this moment. Know you are trying to make the best out of an impossible situation. Understand you are not in control and that you are afraid to do the wrong thing and that the fact that you feel this way is what makes you a good friend. Best of luck!
Remember when Greece went broke 10+ years ago? Apparently no one was paying their taxes because they looked around and saw no one paying their taxes. It was a contributing factor because it impaired the nation's ability to get loans because it lowered the government revenue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis
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Put in a couple more if statements checking the output of rand(), call it AI, and you'll be CEO in no time!
The port on the bottom is really the least offensive element of the design. I know people find it fun to clown on, but if any of them had ever used one for 5 minutes they would realize it's a terrible mouse for a bunch of other more important reasons (weight, feet quality, tracking accuracy, polling rate etc.).
Don't you see how racist those programs are?
Second-largest solar plant goes online in China
It would make it fill up with dust, even while idle. Also, and fluid spill would be much more likely to cause damage.

The normal orientation is fine for most people who want things to be as simple as possible (ie, most Mac users). There is very little reason to ever turn it off. If you still do that frequently for some reason, just leave it in a locatino where the button is still easy to access.
(based on numbers from German retailer Mindfactory)
China is not afraid of subsidies and central planning, for better and worse.
Since I don't want to pay for searching, I think that an alternative is to allow search engines to use my computer (one per cent of computer power). The problem is how can I be sure that the use of my computer is not reading my private information?

Another idea is to provide rating for some local products in exchange for searching.
Me: "world for a cost of 250e9 USD for the Aluminium"

You: "Thousands of miles of big wires are free"

If anywhere's going to get mixed up between "250 billion dollars" and "free", it's going to be politics.
>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?

Would this run anything Docker/ARM?

My entire home server setup is Linux/Dockerized and the Mac Mini hardware looks so good, but the more I read about MacOS as a server OS the worse it seems to get.
Maybe premium Android smartphones do? My Galaxy S24+ seems to have one.

Edit: at least the excellent Physics Toolbox Sensor Suite gives me a barometer signal indicating 102570 Pa right now.
See also Canadian data (https://www.cns-snc.ca/learn-nuclear/basics-of-nuclear/how-m...). We're blessed to have abundant access to hydroelectric energy which is even cheaper to produce here, but otherwise we should be outraged by the decommissioning of nuclear plants - and, indeed, there have been recent campaigns to revive old plants and step up production.
If you're a pro-boardgamer it's maybe not satisfying, but looks like many enjoy it: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/390566/aws-buildercards
Ok, that's your opinion.
A lot of French nuclear plants are scheduled to be decomissioned in the next years because these nuclear plants are getting old. There's an ongoing discussion about extending the life of some of those plants. And there are some plans for new reactors with estimated cost currently at ~50 billion euros. Of course that's extremely likely to go up further. Nuclear projects always balloon in cost.

Energy prices are set by the government and don't reflect the actual cost. French tax payers pay for the difference and have done so for years. The cost price probably excludes quite a bit that tax payers are also paying for.

The sad reality with nuclear is that it's a very unprofitable business unless you get governments to sponsor construction, waste disposal, security, etc. and then bail out failing nuclear companies when they fail anyway. All of these things have happened in France. France has nuclear reactors because it regards being a nuclear power as strategically important. Not because it's particularly cheap. It never was.

As of now, that somewhat artificial cost of 8 cents per kwh is actually on the high side for renewables. There are cheaper ways to get power these days.
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I think this is a thorny issue.

On the one hand standardization stiffles development and can even make the language worse going forward.

On the other I really think that before governments start pushing for Rust adoption it should be standardized, i.e. there should be an official document that explains the correct semantic.
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Definitely good news for making housing prices more affordable in DC, Virginia and Maryland.
Paris metro lines 1, 4, and 14 are automatic at the moment.
There's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution.
I heard conflicting things about it. Some claim it was trained so it can do well on benchmarks and in real world scenarios it's lacking. Can somebody deny/confirm ?
The lines get blurred because some parents overstep their boundaries to get the child ahead.
On my local tram network you could even do that just by listening to the noises made by the inverters, which drive the motors.

They have a very distinct hum that matches the rpm of the wheels. I once built a crude speedometer using SFTs, peak detection and kalman filtering.
>Why is no company building their own search engine from scratch?

Here's one list:

>A look at search engines with their own indexes

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...

HN discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26429942

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31820149

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626011
If the US and the EU had invested in EVs 15 years ago like China did instead of scrambling to do so in the last 5, then China would not have the advantage it has now on the other carmakers.

Also if the governments want people to move away from ICE cars, then maybe they should stop putting tariffs on cars coming from China.

At some point, you need to make a decision and stick with it.

The way I see it as a consumer in the EU is that the EU is simultaneously saying we need to transition to a lower carbon economy as quickly as possible but then increases the price of goods that could be used in this transition. Make it make sense.

Is it my fault that the carmakers in the EU failed to invest EV tech?

So why am I being asked as a consumer to subsidize the legacy carmakers who were very happy to rake in billions of euros in the last 10 years while selling Diesel engines all the while knowing the the Chinese EVs were just around the corner?
The first hit for "france nuclear power production cost" comes up with this:

https://www.enerdata.net/publications/daily-energy-news/fran...

> The full cost of existing nuclear power calculated by the CRE amounts to respectively €60.7/MWh over the period 2026-2030

And the first hit for "wind power cost europe mwhr" shows just how subsidized nuclear is:

https://windeurope.org/policy/topics/economics/

At its cheapest wind is half the cost of nuclear and at its worst is the same cost as nuclear - with none of the massive headaches.