skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Very few of us reach the pinnacle of our ability to commune with the vast information system that is the universe around us.

what did you smoke to get this power?
I'd like it if I could zoom on my phone on a site about ui/ux with small pictures.
You are absolutely right about electric cars and how fun it is to drive them. I just want to make the obligatory statement that street racing is very dangerous for innocent people and nobody should do it or encourage it.
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No one has time to verify/double check literally everything they're told. And if they did, they wouldn't have the time to learn everything that one would need to know to verify everything. It's impossible. Therefore, some level of trust is necessary: moreso for those who have less time/opportunity to learn and verify.

While I understand the sentiment, blaming ~everyone~ provides no value here, while blaming the institutions who actively misled the world might.
The last interview I did was for an electronics design role, so I asked the applicants to compare two datasheets for different kinds of transistors and determine which applications would benefit from one versus the other.

For software the closest thing to a component's datasheet would be documentation for a library or API, although it isn't the best stand-in, because unlike software, hardware has documentation that is thorough and correct.

It was an effective question, because it made it immediately clear which applicants understood why they made the choices they were making. I came up with the question because it was one I knew a less-capable coworker I was currently working with wouldn't have passed.

If nothing else, think of someone you don't want to work with, due to a lack of capability or understanding, and try to come up with a challenge that coworker would fail at.
And because solar and wind power boost sales of gas turbine power plants that can spin fast enough to react for the wind and solar instability
Seems to be related to a known bug with unsigned apps.

I'll implement signing and notarizing in the next release.

Wanted to enroll today, but apple seems to have a maintenance window now.
> Hm. The actual facts say otherwise

They don't.

> So number go DOWN, not up, is what I'm seeing.

The comment I replied to is comparing germany to france. The map I linked literally tells you that in 2024 Germany generated 370g CO2 equivalent per kWh, where France generated 32, that's an objective number you can straight up read.

Yes Germany is 58% renewable versus France's 28 (something the map also tells you), but then 30% are gas and especially coal, the link you provide agrees with that. Coal is insanely polluting, especially because Germany mainly uses lignite which is the least energy rich coal (so even more emissions for the same production), coal represents >3/4th of its emissions.

Meanwhile gas is a minor component of france's electricity mix (pretty much just peaking plants and a few combined cycle district heating plants) and coal is a rounding error.
It’s legitimately unpredictable in outcome to start talking this way and it’s been with a very heavy heart that I’ve been slowly but steadily turning up the volume for a few years now and I wouldn’t do it on Reddit because there are some hotheads over there.

I say it here because many people in this community are a coffee break away from telling curly-haired Zuck with a chain to “lay low, let the bullshit blow over. shear a sheep don’t skin it.”

The GP is both articulate and exceptionally brazen in the standard operating procedure of Vichy pribclings with micro clout: to state as fact the inevitability of some outcome where Goldman Sachs defrauds even more customers by shorting the products they sell as fiduciaries even faster and somehow less than zero people go to jail now based on a theory of economics that can charitably be analogized to a giant clock on the inside of a sphere: exigent shock, Laffer Curve, supply side, rational agent, strong efficient. Wazy woozy fairy dust never landed not on the elemental chart. Goldman quants know this.

It’s a low key flex/threat that belongs to Weinstein or something, not our aristocracy of merit and nobility: this is happening and it’ll be a lot less painful if you just lay as still as possible.

The GP correctly states that it coming to blows will be bad for everyone, it’s wild speculation that the harm will skew a certain way, it’s not ridiculous but it’s also a sleight of hand: it’s an argument that the working public should back down before it goes to hell.

Irrelevant, spurious, adversarially stated with malice aforethought.

And also just deeply wrong at the level of a sign bit: the kleptocracy has a lot to lose and any robust pricing would see them more inclined to compromise than the recently evicted or in some places the shopkeeper who douses himself in gasoline and lights a fire that’s still burning.

This tired song is the lazy propaganda bedazzled with GSElevator wit and sneer and the implication of secret hidden knowledge. I spent a regrettable amount of time getting drunk at Catch in the Meat Packing district in 2017 and after three gin and tonics they’ll happily tell anyone who can get past the Face Kontrol how much contempt they regard the rest of us with. They think it’s fucking hilarious that we fold hand after hand.
Because it drives inequality. We're proposing a policy that explicitly benefits large owners of capital over small ones.

Inequality is a natural outcome of capitalism, and critically it will get worse without limit unless there is significant policy intervention (ref. Capital in the Twenty-First Century). Existing progressive income taxes are not sufficient, even in Europe where they are far more aggressive. So from a policy perspective, this is exactly the opposite of what is desired.
How broad is that CA Supreme Court ruling? The CA Constitution can't override the First Amendment rights that social media sites have to decide what user content to remove from their servers [1].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/22/social-media-isnt-a-shop...
13 months ago, but Baldur’s Gate 3 is fantastic.
detachable menus is an undervalued feature, being able to detach a menu or submenu
and cycle through its element, is great to have when you need it
That's not the position of the article. Did you get to the part where it says

> Because privacy is something that regular folks value for licit reasons, their welfare would be reduced.

There is a tradeoff which the article discusses.

Also all of your points can be addressed with a CBDC. Cash is not necessary and we should work together to eliminate it because the social cost greatly exceeds the social benefits.
I can't say if this question is asked in good faith.

Pretty obviously it's better than what the other European countries have been doing.
Yup--electric performance vehicles are unreal when you first give one a try. I test drove a Ford Lightning this week and it is ridiculous what a 7,000-lb vehicle can do with that powertrain (to the point where honestly maybe it should require a CDL to drive). Just for kicks I also tried a Mach-E, which was the same kind of zip but without the novelty of being in a three-ton monster. Both felt glued to the road and they were real pleasures to drive.

I really wanted to pull the trigger on the Lightning, but it really was Too Big (won't even really fit in my driveway). Instead I picked a PHEV Escape SUV that'll become my wife's in 4-5 years (so we retain gas ranges on at least one vehicle) and I'll reevaluate what I can get in electric then. The Escape PHEV, however, has all the other advantages except the instant torque; I've never had a vehicle so able to finely control power and the eCVT smooths out the kind of lagging a conventional transmission has on hills and the like. Using zero gas for an hour-long drive is a nice plus, too.

The future of cars, including and maybe especially fast cars, is exciting.
If you have not been to a Top Fuel drag race, and have the opportunity to go, you should go. They are quite the spectacle. Being there, hearing, feeling, and seeing those 10,000HP monsters fly down the track is worthy of experiencing live, at least once. The kind of thing you can't watch on TV.

I can say the same for a Monster Truck rally. Go there and embrace your inner 10 year old watching those machines Move. (And, boy, can they move!)

Bring earplugs.

There's more to the sports than the pinnacle of achievement. There are innumerable classes within drag racing, something for everyone. It's not a "solved" problem by any means. Folks will continue to try and master the start, getting traction, keeping that beastly powered thing straight in the lane, trying to not choke on their beating heart that has surged into their throat.

Bracket racing is a hoot where folks bring whatever they like, and they're rated by time (i.e. a "time bracket"). Whether you're running a old 60's hot rod, a Jet Powered car, or anything else, if you can run within the time, it's pretty much fair game. And it can be fun to watch, and real fun to participate in.

Racing of all kinds can be a fun culture to be around.
When living in university halls of residence, I could identify each of the thirteen residents of my block by their footfall along the corridor outside my room. Training was entirely subconscious. Validation was easy, because people would often walk along a bit before greeting someone or talking to themselves.

There are all kinds of reasons someone might change their footsteps based on health or what they're carrying, but most of the time people probably walk in their own characteristic way. It's a shame that the panopticon is always creeping in on us, but in this modern world, it's easy to imagine footsteps being used for security, to flag someone for review that they may not be who they are presenting as being.
Kind of confused about what you want.

Are you asking for a Point of Interest listing (i.e. an API to let you look up the nearest Target, Walmart, etc.?)? If so, https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-... is one. There should be others.

Or are you asking for a way to render multiple locations of your OWN stores on a map and such? In that case, I don't think you need a whole SaaS, it's usually just a part of your frontend. e.g. for Wordpress there's a bunch of plugins (https://wordpress.com/plugins?s=store+locator), and similar exist for Shopify, Wix, etc. You can also build it yourself with Google Maps (https://developers.google.com/codelabs/maps-platform/google-...) or AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/build-a-serverless-store...) or Leaflet (https://leafletjs.com/examples/custom-icons/) or OpenLayers (https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/icon.html) or Mapbox (https://docs.mapbox.com/help/tutorials/building-a-store-loca...).

There are also commercial hosted offerings (just search for something like "embed store locator").

Is that kinda what you're looking for, or...?
Why did this disappear from the HN front page so quickly?
Bluesky / ATProto app to view feeds as any user
All of the numbered qualities listed are true of some cryptocurrency, and it would be easy for the Fed to issue a CBDC that has all of them.

In fact all but one (tolling) are event true of BTC
Except when there are two books. The old guard, and the progressive. “Will the host turn the traditions around and serves the guests by alphabetical order, or will they keep serving the oldest people first?”
Might work with coturn or turn-rs, others?

https://github.com/coturn/coturn

https://github.com/mycrl/turn-rs

Maybe there are some projects doing only stun - if that is enough?
That’s great until you cross cultural boundaries. Different cultures interpret these things completely differently so, for officials who have to interact with many cultures. What I consider respectful is different to what you would. Protocols are used so people don’t accidentally offend each other by, say, refusing food when offered (or offering a gift when it’s not appropriate).

You might think “just have respect” but what seems innocuous to you might be the equivalent of spitting in someone’s face in a different culture.
I shoved a disused Raspberry Pi running cups behind my Laserjet MFP connected over USB. Works great. As a plus, I could install SANE and get network scanning from it, including from the ADF. scanservjs is a nice frontend for that.

https://sbs20.github.io/scanservjs/

I cheated adding power to it by just using a power cable splitter so I could shove a reliable USB power brick up next to the printer.

https://www.amazon.com/Tekit-Splitter-Single-Female-Adapter/...
I think this is a very salient point, namely the danger of passive consumption is the losing the sense of oneself. We can be become so absorbed by the objects of our attention that we forget ourselves and this has very real consequences both on of physiology but also our psychology. So part of the solution is to "remember yourself" while you're consuming or directing your attention towards any object, so you are the subject and you are attending to an object. The last piece of the puzzle is that both you, the subject, and the object of your attention are located in space, so location/context is the third essential aspect of the experience to internalize for proper harmony, as far as I understand it.
Take my upvote you greedy bastard.
> As you can see, the trend is downwards and steadily at that

Lignite numbers:

2019: 114TWh, 18.7%

2020: 92TWh, 16%

2021: 110TWh, 18.8%

2022: 116TWh, 20%

2023: 88TWh, 17%

I've seen steadier terminal alcoholics.
The average is still 1.3 person per car, if you get outside a little you will see tons of single person in cars, and not in minitruck like artisans.

https://www.paris.fr/pages/le-bilan-des-deplacements-a-paris...

Indicate 13% of the traffic is for utilitary vehicule. This number include people taking their utilitary vehicule for personal reason.
50% is for personal vehicules.

Also, why were you driving around Paris ?

> most alternative routes usually take longer

It depends.
FWIW shrinkray gets to 162 bytes if I leave it to run for about 10 minutes. https://gist.github.com/DRMacIver/ee025c90b4867125b382a13aaa...

I think it might do a little but not a lot better if I left it to run for longer but it looked to have mostly stalled then so I got bored and killed it.
I used to think that Zuckerberg was going to do the same with Facebook. But it seems like he was too focussed on the ad revenue and making the metaverse happen.

And now Musk has come along and stolen the kingmaker role.
I imagine the people behind this furiously knocking one off while watching the "Greed is good" bit from Wallstreet on loop.
Bluesky Has a Verification Problem
Man, I was so afraid this was going to be about Fortnite. Turns out it was a fantastic read. I feel really sad but unsurprised about his description of what it's like to be an Open Source maintainer.
By their own goals, they're only "wrong" if people don't actually talk that way. That is their only measure of truth.

But yeah, the people who feel ownership of a word often get cranky about semantic drift.
What about racist brain surgeons?
> The tetanus vaccine is required for school in many places. Why are you saying something so obviously incorrect

No, it isn't. You're describing the _combined_ Tdap vaccine. Why are you saying something so obviously incorrect, and even worse, _intentionally_ misleading?

Tetanus is not communicable. You see the problem with your focus on this one point? You're clinging to it as a defense when it's _entirely_ invalid to do so.

> I can’t even.

Then why try? All you've done is inject emotion and falsehoods into this discussion in order to defend your ego and ideology. Just stop. It's okay that people have a different opinion than you. Running around like a psychopath and labeling things as "complete horseshit" is an absurd response. You are doing this to yourself.

I'm minimizing and ignoring this thread now. Have a nice Thanksgiving!
The reality is that the restaurant food is brought by trucks from warehouses. There are special companies that specialise in providing everything that a restaurant needs.

Aside from Michelin star places chefs don't go around buying anything the whole ordering is highly automated.
Oops, yep, so I have. Should’ve read “much more widespread in Europe than the US”. Sorry, long day.
My Samsung phone on Chrome lets me.
Something like the stray palm trees in the background of ads and shows that are supposed to take place in the US Midwest.

I know where you really are!
Unlike what GP claimed, Mark Zuckerberg was putting on a show [1][2][3], pretending that the FBI's FYI suggestions during Trump's first term were threats and pretending that the Biden administration coerced Facebook into removing content.

[1] Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/28/trumps-accidental-admiss...

[2] New Trump Book Threatens To Jail Zuckerberg, Putting Zuck’s Groveling Letter In New Light https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/30/new-trump-book-threatens...

[3] Zuckerberg Vows To Stop Apologizing To Bad Faith Politicians, Right After Doing Just That https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/12/zuckerberg-vows-to-stop-...
> we talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.

A thousand times this! This puts into words something that's been lurking in the back of my mind for a very long time.
Yes, its private property. They'll ask you to stop playing blackjack, limit the bets they will accept, or tell you to leave.
My family already does this.
Thanks for checking out the app. You're absolutely right, although that's still hard to stop with text input I guess..

I already use OpenAI's moderator tool to block the worst and am working on a blacklist of words to block.

Luckily I still choose the coloring pages for my daughter myself ;
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32531887
Definitely agreed!

If it makes you feel better, in one of them (I think it was in Okayama), there were three people at the venue - owner (70s), and two girls who lived in a different city but were younger than me (mid-20s). We chatted for a while, and apparently all three in a trio, where the owner plays ob piano and the girls do tap dancing. It was the coolest thing ever for me! He even played some on piano for us. But, if I recall my conversations correctly, there was some interest from younger Japanese population to open up a similar place after they retire. Maybe there is some hope!
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>How does the hair sample collection process work?

>Not at all! [...]

Heh.
Uber Fooled the Feds [video]
Christmas decorations and nappies both strike me as the sort of thing that would get left behind, they're pretty poor in the value/space tradeoff, not to mention that a lot of these houses were left behind when elderly people died. It's not uncommon for elderly people to have stuff they accumulated over the years, it would not surprise me if there's christmas decorations that have been unused for decades in my grandmother's attic, or nappies that were once for grandchildren that are now adults. In a country where the population is growing, this stuff just gets dumped as the heirs clear out the house to sell, but what are these houses in the middle of nowhere with infrastructure that has crumbled away worth?
> perhaps others consume things like tiktok or instagram like I do books

> Five years from now I do not think I will fondly remember a post, but probably I'll think about the books I read

Exactly what I was thinking. I can still tell you about the first novel I read, first trilogy, favorite books, least favorite, and also each of those per genre. I can tell you what was going on in my life at the time.

The only thing I can say about social media posts are that I have a handful of vague memories of times when someone I knew or knew of would post something that made me realize they had a side I didn’t know of, and not in a good way.

I’m reminded of a quote I read recently, paraphrased: social media connects limbic systems, not prefrontal cortexes. I might take issue with the pure dichotomous nature of that statement, but I think it holds generally.
The only silver lining of massive population decline might as well be a crash in real estate prices. But that would be extremely painful if we went through, from an economical standpoint.
That's actually pretty interesting. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers, and without many therapeutic options. Vitamin C is basically another drug to complement the existing standard-of-care drugs. Not a silver bullet, but definitely helpful.
i have insta360 with physical shutter. it even disables the camera as a device, which is great. i have lenovo legion notebook and it too has physical shutter.
If you're on Android, there's an accessibility option in Firefox and Chrome that allows you to always zoom on any page, even if the website normally prevents it. On Firefox it's under Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom on all websites.
Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?
I'm looking for inspiration for the Christmas holidays.

Mine were:
– Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai (2000)
– William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis (1991)
– John Ma, Polis (2024)
– John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice (1982)

(Apologies if someone has posted something similar recently. I did a quick search and couldn't find anything.)
Arithmetic Without Algorithms: LLMs Solve Math with a Bag of Heuristics
Can you please name some of these studies if you have them handy?
Love this attitude. I’d love to chat about applying when the time comes!
They don't have center diffs or transfer cases on electric vehicles because range would be harmed too much. Battery capacity is a real bottleneck that creates a lot of engineering challenges (must have an efficient drivetrain, efficient aero). Seems like they can program their way out of the lack of low gearing if they wanted too since you have good torque at low rpm with electric.
Book recommendation for The World Without Us which explores what might happen if humans vanished overnight: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us
How is an infection hidden somewhere in the friggin entire rootfs easier to detect and remove that one that literally replaces the one file for your kernel /boot ? What advantage could the latter possibly have ? Not to mention that something from a bootkit bootstrapping an infection in the root filesystem is the realm of useless tech demos like this one; while for something that can already write your rootfs, infecting the kernel is trivial.

The entire boot system has much, much fewer places for malware to hide compared to the entire "rootkit" OS attack surface which is astronomically larger. Secure Boot has always targeted the smaller and most useless of the swiss cheese holes.
Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years
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