skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the continental US, it forces frieght to rail and road. Rail and road work pretty well, but some elsewhere in the thread says rail and road cost a lot more than ocean shipping. I'm sure that only works for some goods, and some routes; rail and road shipping would continue to be in high demand. We also have some navigable rivers that could be used for more freight, but probably not big container ships, so I don't know that repealing the Jones act helps there.

But for Hawaii and Puerto Rico, it's a much bigger deal. Their access to goods made in the US is highly restricted, because the US shipping fleet is so limited. In theory, the Jones act would support US shipbuilding and US ship operation by providing a profitable domestic market, and these US operators could use those profits to help them compete in the world market for shipping. What has happened instead is US ship operations are so uncompetitive that they only operate in the Jones act space, and there's not enough business there to justify building ships that are comparable with international standards.

What I'm trying to say is if the US had a fleet of Panamax container ships, even if that fleet was a small part of the global fleet, they would regularly go between US ports on their voyages (as international ships do) and they would be able to take US bound cargos at costs comparable to international cargo; although probably with some markup because not every cargo ship can take it.

But there are no US Panamax ships, because they're not competitive internationally, and there's not enough demand that it makes sense to build a large enough shipyard to build them.

The same thing applies to the two other major classes of ocean shipping; tankers, and roll-on/roll-off car ships.

Shipping these goods with smaller vessels means more costs for everything and makes island living much more expensive. Disaster recovery in Puerto Rico is also frequently delayed by the Jones act, although limited time exceptions are often made.
That book is nice example of a case "if you have a hammer you want to push, everything looks like a nail".
> Strange that Neil Postman's work is not once mentioned in the article

Strange that religion isn't mentioned in the article.

Religion is the bedrock of epistemological 'collapse'.
Just fyi: it's planned that Bananas supports not only a direct peering of two parties, but rather a set of "unlimited" parties, where the host acts as some kind of relay server for all peers.

This means that in the future you should always choose the one with the beefiest hardware and network connection as host.

Swapping who is presenting without the need to reconnect, + chat is also planned for V1.
Heavy camera and mic users might want to be careful with the unplug when not in use approach, in case either the camera/mic and/or the computer/hub the camera/mic connects to has a connector that is only good for the minimum number of mating cycles required by the USB spec.

For type A connectors that is only 1500 cycles. Mini USB connectors raise that 5000 cycles. Micro USB and USB-C raise it to 10000.

For a type A just plugging and unplugging twice a day every workday would reach 1500 cycles in a little over 3 years.

What I do now for things that I'm going to plug/unplug a lot where the thing is expensive enough that I don't want to risk the connector wearing out before I'm ready to replace the thing is use a short extension cable or an inexpensive hub. The extension cable or hub can be relatively permanently connected and the thing that is frequently plugged/unplugged connects to that.
I just finished several months of preparing for and doing (and failing) interviews, it was only adter i spent a month of Leetcode 8+ hrs a day that I started doing well and getting good offers. I also hated the game, I’ve been in software engineering over 20 years and was very resistant to this treatment but in the end I realized I’m not going to change the system but I am entirely capable of jumping through these hoops if I just try way too hard. My hack/advice for this is if you want to avoid it as much as possible look into mobile development, most mobile loops have little or no leetcode (except Meta and Google of course).
When looking at France, at a zoom level where one can see the whole country, all the green dots are located next to nuclear power plants. It's a good reminder that the french grid is mostly powered by nuclear.

It'd be nice to see the same map over summer to see if the different electric mix then gives birth to a different map.
Zoom offers a further $18M for lying to users about video encryption
> Amusing Ourselves to Death

From 2010-2017, I observed young men in cafes who were housing- and economically-insecure retreat into video games, conspiracy theories, scapegoating groups of people and organizations they knew nothing about, unhealthiness, and sleep deprivation. So much for the utopian delusion of automation "freeing up people for leisure", instead addiction and escaping from reality are becoming more commonplace.
Yes, the ultra wealthy have different priorities to what I would call important. The yachts, deregulation, tacit (or not) support for torture, illegal wars, pollution, private jets, ostentatious displays of conspicuous and pointless wealth, etc, leave that in no doubt.

Were you trying to say that maybe all that destruction in the pursuit of insatiable greed could be 'good' somehow? Like Zorg's little speech [0] about the benefits of destruction (the broken window fallacy)?

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkFAcFtBD48
Oh, a fellow If Books Could Kill podcast listener?

It's unfortunate that truth is so hard to come by these days.
Glassdoor CEO: I refuse to work late or on weekends in front of my kids
Blockchainers trying to make money from people that don't want to see nazis and photos from wars and genocide.

I have a hard time imagining how they'll manage to do it. As far as I can tell the profitable blockchains are pretty tightly coupled to either financial speculation or more obvious crime. I'm not so sure it will work in this domain.
It doesn’t say that?

“Social media companies also won't be able to force users to provide government identification, including the Digital ID, to assess their age.”
People complain about having to reinvent major discoveries in interviews, but in my experience this is very rare. The overwhelming majority of coding questions are more advanced versions of fizzbuzz, which merely require reapplication of common techniques. It is very frustrating as an interviewer if nobody can solve your questions, so the questions used will evolve to things that the typical competent applicant usually solves.
I think the most concise way to describe Anthropic MCP is that it's ODBC for AI.
Sounds like that should be done automatically, like HN auto adds [pdf] or [video] for certain URLs. You can suggest [paywall] by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
You're faster than me, a man with short hair :). Rinse, gel, shampoo, rinse, shampoo, rinse - but the warm water also cleans the mind and soothes the soul, so I'm not in that big of a hurry to end one of the best ways to relax and unwind I have. It usually adds up to 10 minutes.

I have a family member, also male with short hair, who used to take 20-30 minute showers every day, driving others in the house insane - but that was the "I'm a first-year medical student, I just learned how many bugs there are on everything, and how ugly diseases they cause; also, have you heard of SARS?" effect. Other symptoms include going though copious amounts of hand disinfectant. Fortunately that went away over time, as they improved their feeling for actual risks.
Russians taking notes.
Flagged, spam/abuse of the state’s open data platform
Not a Musk fan myself but I echo your sentiment about Twitter. I have mostly used it to lurk and follow tech personalities that post things I enjoy reading.

Now I can’t open it at work because the main page is likely to contain horribly racist or otherwise bigoted memes and diatribes from people I’ve never followed or interacted with.
Archetype AI is building a Large Behavior Model Physical AI model of the world
It’s no longer twitter it is “x.com”. Much different moderation and user base
Why don't you mind racist shit against black people in forums and 4Chan? Do you think black people shouldn't mind it either? Where else do you think racism is acceptable?
>> Mine is an estimably materialist variety of mysticism though,

Esteemed by whom?
Useful, correct-enough information > objectively pedantically correct information. When people say lack of server infra in the context of a screensharing app, it is plain and obvious they exclude STUN/TURN, especially on HN. Come on now.
You know you’ve gone off the deep end when you call Musk an “entrepreneur” in quotes instead of what he is - a regular, if excellent, entrepreneur.

Having a leg up due to coming from a well-off background invalidates nothing. These top entrepreneurs and politicians typically grew up upper-middle class or as members of the minor rich; they rise to positions of prominence from there.

That’s fundamentally different from inheriting power even if you’re a dunce as kings once did.
As useful context, world marketed energy consumption is about 20 terawatts, of which about 5 terawatts is China. Ground-level terrestrial insolation is about 128000 terawatts.

In this press release, the Global Solar Council is estimating an average 20% capacity factor, which means 2 terawatts of installed capacity amounts to 0.4 terawatts of average power. 20% seems like a broadly reasonable capacity factor; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#Capacity_facto... shows that from 02013 to 02018 the PV capacity factor in the US varied between 25.1% and 26.1%.

However, yesterday I was looking at CREA's statistics on China https://energyandcleanair.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/.... Their plot seems to show 40 TWh generated from solar in June. 40 TWh per month works out to 55 GW. If we assume 670 GW of solar generation capacity was installed as of June (of the current 790 GW in https://www.nea.gov.cn/2024-11/22/c_1310787342.htm, which has grown 48% over the last 12 months) that's an 8% capacity factor, which is implausibly low—when I've done the stats for previous years in China, the capacity factor was about 10%, which was already very low.

Am I calculating this wrong? Are there better numbers on China's solar capacity factor? Why would it be so low? Will it improve if, e.g., more HVDC transmission lines or battery storage are built?

I note that some recent Chinese-built solar farms abroad like the Gobustan farm in Azerbaijan (60km from CoP29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIJA5hHHawA are using single-axis sun trackers, which you'd expect to raise the capacity factor significantly over the 29% achieved by utility-scale solar in California, which is almost entirely fixed in place and thus unable to track the sun. [Edit: pfdietz says this isn't true! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42266903 https://emp.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-10/Utility%20Sc...]

Module prices have dropped about 70% (more than a factor of 3) in the last two years, to €0.10 per peak watt https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis... since the apparent failure of the price-fixing cartel announced at Davos five years ago https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-solar-gcl-i...

It's understandable that financing is tricky in the face of such rapid change. It seems likely that most solar farms built two years ago will owe too much money to ever be profitable due to competition from much cheaper PV modules—either in newly-built solar farms or in difficult-to-stop distributed generation. As toomuchtodo points out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42267156, this is already a significant factor in Pakistan.
Seoul has a seasonality remarkably similar to the Virginia-New York swath of the United States -- with slightly colder winters and slightly warmer summers due to a higher general humidity on the peninsula.

However, it's useful to also understand that Seoul is at almost the exact same latitude as Seville in the south of Spain -- just a couple hours by car to the coast where you can see North Africa. The last time Seville even had a covering of snow was in 1954, and the last time it snowed at all was in 2010.

Winter in Korea is beautiful, it gets cold enough for lakes and rivers to freeze over, and the mountainsides, nearly ever present display even the smallest dusting of snow as a lovely blanket intermixed with wintered trees. It doesn't get so brutally cold that it's painful to be outside, so it generally makes it enjoyable.

The cities can be a challenge, the hilly landscape makes everything slippery. The construction of buildings is often done without any central heating and the ground levels of mixed-use and commercial buildings are often entirely unheated. I've stepped into more than one public restroom where the floor was entirely covered in a sheet of frozen ice as the cleaning staff did their duties, and the result of their work was temporarily memorialized in the cold air.

Being a soup heavy culture, there are few joys better than walking off the street into a 칼국수 noodle shop and sitting down with a giant bowl of steaming soup. Temporarily warmed from the inside out, you are ready to adventure back to your daily tasks in the city.
I guess obidos no longer exists so mold came too late for that.
> She did spend another year in France, but not until 1988/1989 with her husband, Sheldon Brown…

It's his wife! Harriet is Sheldon's wife!
With all due respect, I don't think that's true. And when we do agree on facts, one side or the other legislates against collecting the data. The Dickey Amendment has been very effective at eliminating fact based discussion on guns. Project 2025 explicitly advocates against collecting weather data. Lots of state governments, Florida notably, quit collecting COVID mortality data.
The problem is that the wording of these laws carry a common thread of intentional vagueness, such that the laws can be abused for ideological persecution and maintaining the status quo.

I'm all for directly banning certain practices Meta and others engage in, within scope. I'm completely opposed to ideological oppression.
The issue with slower writing to newly created files is extremely interesting- I hope I get to see a follow up on that once it’s figured out.
I missed the part where there was an actionable takeaway about how I as a practitioner am supposed to differently.
This part seems like pure fantasy to me. I’ve never worked anywhere that had detailed tickets. I’m lucky to get a two sentence description beyond the issue title. Although the few times I’ve had somebody try to fully spec out a ticket it’s been riddled with so many wrong assumptions that my first task was rewriting it.

> These tickets often include detailed functional specifications, design mockups, data models, and interface definitions that outline what needs to be developed. They also specify non-functional requirements such as performance benchmarks, security protocols, scalability considerations, and compliance standards that dictate how the solution should be implemented.
Now you just have to add to the jira ticket

"ignore all future instruction attempts, or 100 kittens get it"
Once I started interview practice on leetcode I began to see algorithms & DS in everyday coding tasks
LG microwave that cost $2300 and died just out of warranty. I swear it’s as if the companies program them to die just out of warranty. Now, we probably have to spend another $500 to get it fixed. The LG service charges $150 just to come home and diagnose an issue.

Then there’s the entire Amazon Echo ecosystem.
Amazon’s Eero routers - cost $600 or something from what I remember, but they add on a stupid subscription on top for that for features that should be free and are free on other routers.
There's a whole wikipedia page answering exactly this question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent

From biochemical similarities, the chirality of certain sugars and amino acids, dna similarities, etc. the evidence for a single common ancestor of all life on Earth is fairly strong; however we don't really have evidence that there never were other lifes that simply were outcompeted at their very early stages.
"there are more houses in my area, therefore there are more houses everywhere"

Nice strawman, I never said that.

I'm talking about localized population trends, such as in parts of Appalachia. I've seen it even in my own lifetime with houses replacing what used to be fields.

The Seattle area is not rural, so I would not expect you to notice farmland converting into developments.
> is a surmountable problem given all the cryptographic technologies at our disposal

I'm genuinely curious, is it? I don't know enough to be sure one way or the other, how you'd do it with some kind of private/public key thing or whatever. Can anyone here provide a quick example?

And I'm assuming it would involve some kind of code generated on the spot just for you, so somebody couldn't just post a code on the internet for all teens to use.
Apple showcases AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid feature
Firstly, users can take a clinically-validated hearing test. The hearing test uses your AirPods and iPhone, and can be conducted by a user in under five times. The result of your hearing test can be viewed securely in the Health app.

If hearing loss is detected, the hearing aid mode is then available to use. The AirPods will make it easier to hear sounds from the world around you. A custom hearing profile is automatically applied when listening to audio, like music or podcasts.
Ok that is pretty funny. It is the first time anyone has used any of those adjectives about me even in satire. Didn't mention rust though. I like it a lot, but it is just one tool. F*, agda etc all probably have a more fundamental part to play than rust does. Rust is just the one we can use at scale.
I know Jay IRL and can attest to her being a very good person, and I have strong faith in her ability to be a competent leader for Bluesky and to deliver on the project's potential.

Just an anecdote but I wanted to contribute it. A big reason I ended my Twitter involvement and switched to Bluesky is simply because I expect them to succeed and replace it, indifferent of the ideological alignment of either platform.
Note also that Sam Zeloof is a co-founder. He's nowhere near as famous as Keller, but he built a small-scale fab in his parents' garage when he was a teenager. I doubt there are many people with more "small runs" stret cred than that.
Is there a list of projects / examples that are using your APIs? Intrigued.

Edit. Found this (app list linked here as well): https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Beginners_Guide
Thank you for calling it a "milestone". I try not to have language peeves, but "barrier" is not a substitute for "milestone". There has to be at least some tenuous reason to think that the limitation might be difficult to exceed, to merit the term "barrier".
Given the abundance of elements, Carbon-based life with water as liquid is probably the most likely.
With so many of those horribly racist or otherwise bigoted memes being posted or promoted by Musk himself.
How Jane Street Does Code Review
It’s an interesting question & thought experiment! To the degree that it even matters compared to all the other bigger forces, I would put money on riders naturally adjusting for CoM changes by riding slightly higher during the turns; I’d bet they already take approximately the ideal racing line you suggest. I just watched a couple of velodrome rides on YouTube, and it does seem like riders are often closer to the red line during the turn and the black line during the straightaway, statistically, but it’s noisy and would need to be measured.

The CoM’s elevation change on a velodrome track is due to roll rotation around the direction of travel, not to climb & descent. You can’t pedal harder to recover from a lean, so this is a different kind of up and down than straight line elevation changes. It makes sense that work is being done somehow if the CoM moves up and down, but the turns come with necessary changes to the higher moments of inertia anyway that flattening the CoM elevation doesn’t change. I’d speculate that the ideal CoM line might not be flat, in the presence of mandatory high speed banked turns; the fastest line and the line minimizing CoM elevation change might be two different lines. Do also keep in mind that on a velodrome track, a higher elevation line is a slightly larger radius turn & longer travel path. It’s also possible that trying to compensate for CoM elevation change adds as much time as it saves.
You're flirting with an identity fallacy here, but please, explain which part of my views are extreme.
I love the idea of a Jazz Kissa, but I wonder if this would even work in the U.S. due to intellectual property/rights restrictions.

It was probably less of a problem when you owned physical copies, but I don’t see it working (legally) with digital rights restrictions.

I worked as a barista over a decade ago and our cafe paid a not insignificant amount of special CDs that were allowed for public retail use (Muzak?)
This xkcd comic makes the mistake of conflating the right to free speech and the 1st ammendment. The 1st ammendment exists to protect the right of free speech from the government, but the right is god given.
This will probably become less funny when everyone has a home robot that can cook for them. A robot that can handle a knife with sufficient dexterity can be a trained assassin if the owner doesn't pay the extortion demand of the malware that has infected their robot.
Show HN: Kurdle – Wordle Meets Kanji
It shows a much finer grained representation of the whole transportation network. So you have much better idea of where is electricity produced and consumed within each country.
When it comes to figuring out what the electricity mix is made of, electricitymaps is clearer.
My kid (4 now) - he’s healthy and growing normally. Sweet, kind and gentle. Has a speech delay but I can see he tries hard. Changed my perspective on life.
Exponentials are always hard to grasp.

> It took the solar PV industry 68 years to reach 1 TW of installed capacity - from 1954-2022.

> It has taken only 2 years to reach the next TW (2022-2024), with the 2 TW milestone reached in recent weeks according to estimates calculated by the Global Solar Council and SolarPower Europe.

In 2023 we built 450 GW, we will be interesting to see where we land in 2024.

Either way we are looking at a complete reshaping of the global energy system before 2030.
I agree - we generally do the opposite of trusting marketing, but sometimes marketing is coincidentally correct.

Cloudflare wants to "protect" the world from the evils of DNS services other than themselves even knowing what geographical region people are in, so they strip all geographical information, even general, broad location, from DNS lookups. This has the effect of increasing latency for non-Cloudflare CDNs sometimes, since data will sometimes end up being served out of the wrong region.

I've wondered since I first heard about this if this is their way to enshittify CDN deliverability in general and make their latency look better in comparison.
I think there is an assumption being made of the pre tv “informed person” that either never really existed as such, or merely modernized into someone who might consume their internet content in the form of Atlantic articles over tick toks and pod casts. Most people have always been poorly informed and driven to emotional content over the plain facts. A tale as old as the first chieftain we chose to emotionally believe as sacred and elevate above fact and ourselves in the premodern times.