skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is literally owned and operated by a VC company. And a lot of the conversation is absolutely celebrating capitalism. It's as far from "far left" as might be imagined.
Not a bug lol, I see it too!
I sense this becoming training data for some AI/LLM in the near future.
Well in practice, if the police department doesn't care about your "tips" (not every station has a "tips" drop box, right?), there is no reason why they should care about your comments.

I have seen plenty of toxic comments on "official" announcements that allow comments that the official entity doesn't actually read. I'm happier with no comment than with toxic comments.
Maybe only 10% of women stop working when they have kids, so few of them need alimony?

And again that’s separate from child support. I’d bet the child support number is 80%+, with the remainder being women that earn huge amounts of money or who decide not to be in their kids’ lives and have zero custody.
Expensive in terms of computationally expensive, time expensive, and yes cost expensive.

Worth noting that the relationship between characters to token ratio is probably quadratic or cubic or some other polynomial. So the difference in terms of computational difficulty is probably huge when compared to a character per token.
You missed the initial part, where the signer finger spells the concept the first time they use it, and then they come up with a sign representing it. By doing so, they've shown the other person what sign they're using and its meaning.

It's like if you write a long jargon phrase and then define an abbreviation in parentheses. Next time you can use the abbreviation. If the abbreviation becomes well known enough (especially in certain groups) then you may be able to omit the definition altogether, especially if you already know your audience.

I'm not sure about schools "manufacturing their own gestures" but sign languages tend to have regional dialects and shared jargon, much spoken dialects and jargon. It could be that these signs are simply regional variations, or that a single sign hasn't become dominant.
China’s growing coal consumption is part of Cina's growing energy demands, their middle class is growing and exceeds the entire popultion of the USA in size.

While that middle class has a per capita energy and consumption figure that is lower than the USA per capita figures it is the case that the US has set an aspiration life style expectation that sees demand grow.

China's coal use has become increasingly more efficient; much is made of additional new modern coal power houses, little mention is made of the larger numbers of older inefficient far dirtier coal plants have been closed down and are still being closed down.

Nuclear and renewables are part of overall energy production in China to a far greater proportion and absolute number than in the US.

The scale of China's energy production is substantial and not easily characterised.
Of course milk doesn't mean milk anymore either, now that we got oat, almond and soy milk. Along with less common alternatives like coconut, hemp, rice, cashew and macadamia milk.

The dairy industry is actually pretty annoyed with that and tries to get the rules changed so those beverages can not be called milk.
Yeah, that was the explicit tradeoff: I'm losing the ability to compare apples-to-apples. I decided it was worth the risks associated with that - that I'd wind up with two candidates who picked different options and I couldn't decide between them because I got different signal between them. As it turned out, it didn't really come up - nearly everyone chose the takehome. On a larger scale, though, you'd definitely have to grapple with that.
The crazy might be unavoidable.

The power to repair people, fend off suffering and death. That's religion level power. It's bound to warp everything around it like a black hole.

It would take a society of exceptional sanity to handle it right.
Japan has converted all of their largest hydroelectric plants to pumped storage, as far as I can tell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Japa...

Presumably countries with a higher proportion of electricity from hydropower, like Canada and Brazil, could get even more out of this than Japan does in terms of stabilizing renewables.
Is there any data on the lifecycle of large-scale solar batteries? Are they any better than the small-scale ones? If they aren't, it would seem impractical to rely on them, because of the costs to replace/recycle them every few years.

Just to be clear, I'm referring to the use of electrical batteries for the temporary storage of solar power, so that the power can be available when the sun is not.

Non-electrical storage techniques (gravity, hydro) would seem better suited for long-term reliability.
> gems such as one of the commentators having their entire section skipped by the speedrunner

The day that dev looked at player time-location heatmaps, investigated outliers, and then cried...
"outside the program space into a higher dimension of programmability"

I can visualize this metaphor just fine, but I can't tell why it's useful. Can you make this concept more concrete?
We had NIP-26 Delegated Event Signing, so you could set up multiple private keys with short expiration times delegated from a root key, then if one of the delegated keys was leaked you could just wait for it to expire.
This ended up being considered a bad idea as clients that supported it would have to display any notes as if they were sent from the root key, and clients that didn't support it wouldn't be able to keep track of anyone using delegation.
I use steel with a non-heat-conducting handle.

With silicone, there's no telling what it is contaminated with. Refer to DOI 10.1016/j.polymertesting.2016.09.021 titled "Extraction, confirmation, and screening of non-target compounds in silicone rubber teats by purge-and-trap and SPME combined with GC-MS" (2016).
>or unwilling, to stop

People have been putting up with being called "literally Hitler" and "literal nazis" (to somewhat match your example) almost since Twitter's inception, and still do, to a lesser degree, though, because levelling the playing field has seemingly made many of those people leave the site. Taking a look around was just short of unbearable because of the rampant censorship and repressive tactics that skewed the site very far into wokeness territory, up until Elon Musk took over. Yet people who didn't abide by it still put up with it, fought it, or downright ignored it.

Of course, I'm being downvoted for this, but (You) can't escape reality, folks. It was a shithole and we all endured it; now that it's free from the clutches of wokeness, it suddenly becomes unbearably toxic. Great. Find another echo chamber where you can mold reality to fit your abject fantasies. This time you won't be able to force them on us, though.
Windows sucks nowadays.

For work Ive had to come back.... it's gotten bad. Ads everywhere. Search bar that sucks. Weird hand gestures that empties your screen.

What happened? Win7 is probably the best UX ever. Now its unusable.
You can 1/n but no one’s gonna read that. The “trouble” is not with the platform but with the reader selection it provides. The greater auditory doesn’t want to read you, because there’s too many you. That’s why it filters itself into short messaging. Too much of “hey listen to my thousand words”, all with varying depth, coherence and clariry, per reader perspective. It’s not your, platforms or readers failure, that’s how humans work. There’s a natural limit to every specific level of community. Expecting everyone to dive deep into each others thoughts at scale is too idealistic.
There used to be RSS readers that allowed you to create and share feeds with your friends, actually.
> Right, so if you pick up a package that says "Unsalted Butter" and nothing else, who the hell is going to assume no milk was used?

Perhaps they are a vegan and think it is (e.g.) almond butter:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_butter
> Do you have to defend, or can you just ignore.

There's a concept of "background radiation" expressed in social spaces. Dealing with a constant barrage of people who hate you or your existence[1] is tiring.

[1] Or perhaps they claim they don't hate you in particular, just, you know, anyone like you who they don't know in particular.
Why hasn’t the requisite software been updated to perform a non-SGX handshake? That seems like a yawning oversight. o_O
Lithium batteries typically have a 10-15 year service life, depending on who you buy from (I am most familiar with Tesla's Megapack and Autobidder product in this regard; Tesla will warranty for up to 20 years [1]). CATL has a battery they warranty for 1M miles in EV applications [2], extrapolate to daily stationary storage cycles. Sodium ion is moving very fast, and is likely superior for this use case (both in regards to cost and service life) [3].

Scale up manufacturing, scale up deployment, scale up recycling, and you've got a circular supply chain system. At end of life, new (very likely better) batteries are installed and the old ones (in decades) are shipped back for recycling. In the US, this is Redwood Materials [4], founded by JB Straubel (former Tesla CTO). They have agreements to both recycle batteries with major automakers as well as supply feedstock for new battery components [5]. I'm unsure if this circular supply chain system exists in China yet, but I presume it is straightforward with their nation state resources to encourage along.

Pumped hydro is great where you can build it and it is cost superior to batteries, but batteries can be shipped and installed anywhere a concrete pad is waiting for them, very rapidly.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/megapack ("Each Megapack unit ships fully assembled and ready to operate, allowing for quick installation timelines and reduced complexity. Systems require minimal maintenance and include up to a 20-year warranty.")

[2] https://electrek.co/2024/09/16/catl-launches-new-ev-battery-... ("CATL launches ultra-high-energy-density EV bus battery that lasts nearly 1 million miles")

[3] https://electrek.co/2024/05/17/china-first-large-scale-sodiu... ("China’s first large-scale sodium-ion battery charges to 90% in 12 minutes")

[4] https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/ ("Redwood Materials: We’re building a circular supply chain to power a sustainable world")

[5] https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/#partners ("Redwood Material: Partners")
That type of interview allows all kinds of unconscious bias to creep in which is why a lot of tech companies moved away from it
Where do nut butters (e.g., peanut butter) fall under your taxonomy?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_butter
But all those features allow for optimization and create competition.

If you want likes, or views, or reposts, then you will have to "engineer" your post in such a way that it gets more attention. Not sure if that's always beneficial.
> You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money

On the other hand, if he had been forced to buy Twitter against his better judgement, he may have an axe to grind against the "overbearing" administrative state and use the tools at hand to achieve his ends. No evil genius required, just happenstance and humans seeing patterns in chaos.
Someone else might come to your house and open your fridge and use butter with a label that says "Ingredients: Milk" and not realize you received mislabeled butter.
In this context, diversity refers to characteristics, not to differences of opinion. That said, diverse thinking can be valuable when used for prosocial purposes.
NSO's attacks against WhatsApp users unsealed
> legacy media

Doesn't Fox News have the highest viewer numbers of any of the news stations? What fraction of local news stations are owned by Sinclair? I don't think you get to call "legacy media" out for being liberal when such a large part is not.
Interviewers would be better off focusing on data fundamentals: data modeling, validation, schema design, indexing, sharding/distribution strategies. When you screw this stuff up, it can be very, very hard to fix. The "problems" cascade and build up. Garbage in, garbage out. I've seen databases, in production, with no primary keys or indexes. It is absolutely bonkers.
I am not dismissing the concern, I was stating the tool solves an even larger concern. I'm doing everything I can to setup it up to be secure, private, and worthy of trust and addressing the feedback points.

If you have suggestions more than "don't trust this random internet tool even if it gives you free advice, regardless of the value it offers", please let me know [thanks emoji]
only some special minorities can be heard while others are shut down
It's most likely legacy from pre-computer unit record equipment. These machines could only handle numbers and printed zeros without a slash because there was nothing to confuse them with. When letters were later added, it was the new character that got the slash.

Additional citation hunting from 2020 when the BASIC manual was shared & discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25462835
The reason it's over is because wind and solar have become cheaper than anything else. Solar is currently around $23/MWhr.

Nuclear is around $70/MWhr, one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity.

Solar is highly distributeable so it can be placed closer to where the power is used, reducing transmission losses. It doesn't need to be very carefully sited in terms of where it goes on the grid, and nobody needs to worry about the long term geological stability of the area. It doesn't need to be partnered with another plant for cold starts. It has no safety concerns. It doesn't need any labor to operate - mostly occasional repairs to damage and cleaning. It has no capacity to cause any sort of disaster. It does not generate toxic waste in operation.

Nobody has ever said "don't shoot tank rounds near that solar farm or you might cause thousands of square miles of land to be uninhabitable for centuries."

Nobody has ever said "we need to be concerned about the potential for that solar farm to be used in a program to create weapons of mass destruction"

The administration kowtowing to industry lobbyists to fund nuclear energy when the market was already adding seven times as much renewables as it is decommissioning nuclear capacity...is just corporate welfare, pure and simple.
I'm not sure. People click on links all the time. Sometimes it opens a browser, sometimes it opens a social media app. Why wouldn't it work with an RSS feed?
Then a new distortion will be created that avoids the distortion detection of the new models. Ad infinitum.
Is this from the Secret Tape crew (NoClip)? The 25th Half-life 1 documentary was done by them.
Using glass door reviews seems like a poor metric by which to accuse companies of discrimination.
I whimsically imagine some version of bi-directional Hoare logic.
That is cool as hell. And yes, one can imagine. The list of boats he was probably on is extremely short: Seawolf (the 2nd one), Halibut, Parche, and Jimmy Carter.
App Store ranking isn't entire organic - can be juiced with ads.
I have setup a raspberry PI dashboard before and run into these exact issues. They are not defensive or pre-emptive. An e-reader will probably not have the same issues, just sharing my experience.

* Browser runs out of memory or has other issue and stops refreshing.

* Wifi connection drops and browser displays an error page and stops executing your refreshes. The power-saving options on the RPIs wifi caused me quite a bit of grief before I disabled them.

* Raspberry Pi crashes with kernel errors due to cheap SD card, underpowered USB power supply, or something else.

I ran into these issues one by one over a few months and fixed each one as I ran into it. What I ended up with was:

* Browser set to run at OS startup displaying my page.

* That page having a meta refresh tag, and javascript code to reload the page periodically.

* A browser extension to automatically reload the page as well if both of those failed.

* A watchdog daemon that detects when the RPI has frozen and reboots it.

* A cron job that reboots periodically.

With all of those my dashboard would run for months without any issues or interruptions. Just sharing so others can be aware of potential issues.
so glad to hear this.

1/2. hardware is the same, just a permissions switch. you can upgrade any time in-app.

3. one account can manage them all, there is a device switcher in top corner that makes it easy to jump between playlists, content orderings, preferences etc. you can also “mirror” a device like child<>parent but they are independent by default. dev edition currently device specific but if you say “hey not cool” we can bump both your devices on the same account. ;)

4. yes and yes and yes. you can choose from several layouts (full screen, split, 3-way split etc) and you configure refresh intervals per device, per plugin, per time of day. so maybe you want calendar only from 8-9a, or reddit / hn only in the evening. there is a skip btn on the device which can also be double-clicked to do other stuff (go backwards, email me this, etc).

5. res is 800x480. not amazing but we make it work. built our own design system with special fonts. preview: https://usetrmnl.com/framework. yes we have calendar in Month view and it looks fine IMO. you can fit in /read a lot of text. for overflow we have some JS magic that auto truncates and you can control these params as well. see “Overflow” section in Framework docs above.

6. connects via wifi, yes supports multiple SSID, and receives OTA updates automatically (which you can disable). firmware is open source as well.

hope to see you on the inside!

Ryan
WinRAR does it right, 7zip and Windows Explorer do it wrong according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)

> only files specified in the central directory at the end of the file are valid. Scanning a ZIP file for local file headers is invalid (except in the case of corrupted archives)
The UHD DRM scheme requires some kind of secure enclave for key management, and SGX was the only suitable system for that on PCs. There is no non-SGX system they would certify.
Aren’t they a cheating platform?
> The average user doesn’t care.

The average user still gets surprised when a website "steals" (knows) their IP address and make some drama around this "leak", not realizing that any network communication makes this possible.

So that's what makes me think it's plausible that they might care that their whole account data can be exported by any internet rando.

(EDIT: All this is of course in the context of my bubble, where the non-techy users are mostly artists and streamers, because those are the ones I've noticed migrating to Bluesky. I realize you might have had a different subset of people in mind when responding to my comment.)
The real problem here is that the FDA is recommending throwing out the butter purely based on the labels.

If they said, "throw out the butter if you (or whomever would have consumed it) have an allergy to milk as this is dairy milk-based butter", or if Costco said, "return it because it was not clear this was a dairy based butter" it would make more sense.
Thank you.

As I understand it, the Tesla warranty was factored into the purchase price as a way to stabilize the TCO, and has little to do with the physical lifecycle of the lithium cells.

Sodium looks very promising, but it's "not there yet."
People also make food for others. It's like having a gluten-free/celiac friend coming over for dinner and using soy sauce without bothering to notice soy sauce always contains wheat.
> With time travel, isn't the halting problem trivially solvable? You start the program, and then just jump to after the end of forever and see if the program terminated.

Some programs won't halt even after forever, in the sense of an infinite number of time stops. For example, if you want to test properties of (possibly infinite) sets of natural numbers, there's no search strategy that will go through them even in infinite time.

(Footnote that I'm assuming, I think reasonably but who knows what CSists have been up to?, a model of computation that allows the performance of countably, but not uncountably, many steps.)
a person with dementia absolutely will not be able to keep a phone charged
T14(s) Gen5 were also available in AMD versions, so I guess there will be T14(s)-Gen6's in Intel/AMD/Qualcomm versions

(Typing this on a T14-Gen5-AMD, under linux, which is still not really stable with the amdgpu driver crashing at least weekly)
> So, why are Teslas — and many other ostensibly safe cars on the list

Interesting, my initial mental concern was: "So, why IIHS ranked cars highly involved in crash with Top Safety+?" Didn’t they though using statistics could help prevent accidents in praxi?
Surely the context matters though?

In a culinary context, something can obviously be made with lots of butter and no milk.

In an allergen context it's totally different, but isn't the normal question whether it contains dairy?

I mean, in a regular cooking context, the Americans sound totally correct to me, unless they know you're asking because you're allergic.
That's why I offered the choice: different people do well under different circumstances. I figured that it'd allow me to hire a great dev who hates timed challenges or a great dev that hates take-home busywork. In practice, though, everyone like the take-homes, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As for feeding it into an LLM, I go back and forth on that. With their current capabilities, the project is slightly too complex for that to work. You could get a lot of help from an AI, but you still have to put the pieces together yourself. And I'm fine with that! If AI tooling makes you a faster/better dev on a test, I'd expect it to do the same in real work.

Longer-term, though, I worry that LLMs still won't be able to "write the whole thing" for real work, but will be able to "write the whole thing" for takehome tests. And as such, I'll have to figure out how to handle that.
True but a lot of games require an online launcher to even start, even if they are also distributed on physical media

I buy most of my games on GOG for that reason. At least you can download a DRM-free copy that can never be taken away.
You could also be blind like I am in which the ability to control the appliance through an app instead of an inaccessible touch screen is important.
In any organization, military or otherwise, there is a hierarchy of authority. The paint operator reports to their forperson who reports to shop floor manager who reports to the ... etc. who reports to the CEO who reports to the board of directors.

It's generally not a good idea for the CEO or board member to directly manage the painter, because there is so much they don't know about the person, situation, paint, etc; that's why they delegate. Also it undermines all the managers in the chain. On the other hand, sometimes those costs are worth it, and it's better than the alternative - sometimes the bureaucratic rules get in the way, or the structure is malfunctioning, and you need to get things moving.

But none of that is not special to militaries.

> civilians should stay out of it

While it may be true practically in many cases, I think that phrase is antithetical to democracies and freedom. A big threat to democracy is a military that is above civilians in status, power, etc. And one big advantage of a democracy is an open society, where citizens can see and respond to issues; sunlight disinfects corruption.
That's a pretty simplistic analysis. People largely voted on immigration and inflation. You can't infer anything about what they thought on other issues.
Don't Look Twice: Faster Video Transformers with Run-Length Tokenization
The bsky firehose is really fun and feels like a misty-eyed throwback to 2005.

I used it last weekend to throw together this very silly little thing:
https://bigmood.blue/
"Contains" is highly regulated ("Ingredients" is not)

Then maybe it should be Ingredients that is highly regulated as the source of truth? "Contains" is effectively redundant and incomplete.