skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s puzzling. Just the other day, it was reported that their power surplus was so significant that rates were even negative. So, why are end-users still paying high prices? Is it because of the distribution costs?
One thing to note is that British Columbia, especially the bike park in Whistler, is basically the Mecca of [this type of] mountain biking. For most people around the world it's not a cheap trip, riding there might be something they've dreamt about for years, and they intend to make every minute count, even though they're tired and some of the trails are unlike anything they've ever ridden at home.
The high prices people pay is the cost of having power when it’s not windy/sunny
Older games are usually easier to run on newer versions of linux than windows, in my anecdotal experience. Not sure about cracked AAA titles, I guess that's a bigger part of the "illegal" stuff.
Highly doubt it. It’s not activist shareholders. It’s incompetent leadership. Same at pretty much every company.
The channel stands corrected: Hardware is a refresh cycle business now
It's because it's not a race track. Race tracks are designed with safety in mind. Large areas on the outside of curves, gravel runouts, and padding on all fences.

The TT is a street track with rock walls, telephone poles and stop signs. Those things don't exist on race tracks for a reason. You're going to have a bad time hitting a rock wall at 180 mph.
Proton is a wrapped/enhanced version of Wine, which has been a thing forever. A large chunk of the Steam library worked perfectly fine on Linux before Proton.
> They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Just because you are somewhere on that sequence, it doesn't mean you have any chance of moving forward. Also, most things don't follow those steps at all.

But yeah, those are the steps that "disruptive innovation" follow. The real kind, that the famous book was written about. Not the bullshit kind that people throw around to confuse others.

(Also, apparently, Carl Sagan wasn't much of a history nerd, just a physics one. I expected that phrase coming from somebody else. But well, at the time people knew very little about things that were not their specialty.)
I've used that article several times in the past. I'll also note that many years ago, on projects which were not cost sensitive, we would often use the MC14490 IC for hardware debouncing (mentioned in part 2 of this article).
That's why it hasn't been part of MotoGP since 1976. It doesn't meet the security standards of MotoGP.
Not sure what your point is here? Current gen models don't satiate the need for photos yet.
> SteamOS maybe works well for dedicated handhelds

If someone just wants to play games, why pay extra for Windows? Especially if all they are going to do is play games on a handheld / console.
They can leave a voicemail.
I think the performance thing isn't that big of a deal with the deck yet.. gaming at 720p 30 or 40 fps still works quite well on the device even for recent AAA titles ... You can always install Steam OS clones on Lenovo Legion Go/Asus rog ally etc.. and get a decent experience.

Where it is slightly annoying is the anti cheat/the recent Sony shenanigans about their overlay not running in Linux/such issues.

But with such huge PC gaming library...i don't think I'll run out of new games to try on the deck any time soon...
> It’s not a higher level of security than password-based authentication. Why do you state that?

It could be, depending on how the user has secured their email inbox access. I know I pay a lot more attention to my inbox than some random account. I don't have data, but I think this is true of most people.

I'm also more likely to enable MFA on my email account than I will on every random account I sign up for. And as far as the account providers, I trust the big email providers to be more secure than some random website with an unknown level of security.

You raise some valid points about tying access to a third party and what makes sense. It's not a simple issue.
The Royal Society Report – Science in the Age of AI [pdf]
The Royal Society - "World's Oldest Independent Scientific Academy Dedicated to Promoting Scientific Excellence."

This report, Science in the age of AI (PDF), explores how AI technologies, such as deep learning or large language models, are transforming the nature and methods of scientific inquiry.

It also explores how notions of research integrity; research skills or research ethics are inevitably changing, and what the implications are for the future of science and scientists.
If you are running into BSODs right off the bat, that sounds like you could have faulty hardware (bad memory, sketchy PSU, etc).
Yeah, that's true. The other week I tried to get Svea Rike II (1998) to run on my desktop. Tried everything with Windows 11 since I thought it would be easier but nope, nothing worked, couldn't even get past the installation. Switching to trying it on Arch with Wine and boom, five minutes later I was up and running.
Counterpoint: LTT recently tried SteamOS on PC[0] and found that even without an official desktop release from Valve, it just works.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdR-bxvQKN8
I'd not be surprised if it comes from the existance of '[Ideal] Standard' (the european branch of 'American Standard') brand toilets, someone seeing them and quipping about how it's a 'standard bog' and then 'bog standard, bog' is plausible, IMO).

Between 1929 and 1967, both American Standard and Ideal Standard often omitted the first word on their porcelain products, and just had 'Standard'.

The only real downside I see with this theory is that [Ideal] Standard were far less popular than Armitage Shanks in the UK, although American Standard purchased Armitage Shanks a while back.
Board games and puzzles aren’t AGI.

AGI is, among many many other things, inventing games based on random objects around you when no board games exist.

If you execute MuZero with no game to play will it, absent any direction, invent a game on its own and try to get others (people or other programs) to play it, explaining the rules and making up new rules on the fly to make it fairer or more fun, or will it just sit there idling and wasting electricity like a bunch of dumb tensors strung together by a bunch of people who think being good at Q*bert makes you intelligent?
This whole “Windows just works” mantra gets less and less true with every passing day. The number of times I have to fight tooth and nail to stop updates, uninstall edge, nuke bloatware shit installs from orbit, or hell just get my audio to go out the correct output device is astronomical.

Windows is no walk in the park. And Linux is easy to use these days.

So… sure maybe this is still sorta true. But we’re long past the days of needing to be a hacker to use a Linux OS and it’s only getting better, while Windows is only getting worse.
Me writing over 14 years ago: https://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/facebooks-dkim-rsa-key-should-b... This was doable 14 years ago for 512-bit keys.
Feeding Ducks – on the misalignment of good intentions and outcomes
> the panels simply plug into power sockets

Is there something about German electrical systems that let's this just work? I feel like everything I've read about solar for the US isn't this simple.
512 DKIM was exceedingly rare even 8 years ago when I worked in email.

You're essentially asking "why aren't we doing what we're doing"
> I doubt Vavle would help Lenovo with support on a device they'd shortly eclipse with better specs.

Why wouldn’t they? It more or less locks the user into the Steam store where Valve gets a cut of every sale. That’s their primary income stream.
Germany is deindustrializing in many ways thanks to a lack of reasonably priced fossil fuels, with many facilities moving to the US. This is the current reality that you might want to check in on.
> starts spamming trashy news.
Think I am on my 4th or 5th time going into the settings to turn it off too.

I think google may be starting to do something similar too. I think I got caught in an A/B test a week or so ago. Little bits of news popping on the landing page. Off to the settings to turn that off. Which then somehow messed up the settings on my phone as well.

Computers doing 'surprising things' makes users angry and feel like they do not have control.
Operating electrical power grids requires a very careful balance between production and consumption. Long term trends are regulated on the consumption side through pricing, short term jitter is regulated on the production side through switching power plants on and off.

Traditionally, a power grid only had medium and large power plants, and they are not only connected to the power grid but also a control network. Adding many small power generators poses a problem in how you communicate and coordinate with them.

"Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4ipM2qjfw
To be fair pretty much all of that stuff can be disabled by tweaking a few settings (on pro/enterprise at least). I do get the update notifications but that’s it.
They don't directly embrace open source, but their more advanced watches that don't require the connect app for certain features like sleep (such as the fenix series) are nearly completely supported by https://gadgetbridge.org/ - the only thing I can think of that doesn't work is the weather map. You can even update the firmware and maps over wifi directly on the watch or use the PC software.
It would work with American electric systems; it's simply illegal to do that (ostensibly for safety reasons, actually for protectionist reasons (ok, maybe also because utilities don't want to build out grid-scale batteries and other smoothing solutions)).
Lots of quotes and perhaps you missed my point. Its going to happen but in the near-term models are not good enough to satiate the demand.
I don't think we're disagreeing
Garmin watches are specifically engineered to be off-grid devices.
I get the impression that a load of people are preparing to jump ship once Win10's sundowned and they're faced with having to get rid of a perfectly usable computer to install Win11. I know I am, loathe as I am to move over to Linux, but Microsoft's making its own bed and continuing on its quest to alienate long-term users with 'peculiar' interface and OS changes.

That, Mac and Mobile ownership and I do have to wonder what MS's long-term strategy to avoid pissing away Windows Desktop users is, because I can't see it.
> Could someone help me understand why we're not dramatically ramping up key sizes across the board on all encryption? Not as a solution, but as a buy-some-time measure.

We've been doing it for decades now… (DES used 56bits back then, AES started at 128).

Also, keep in mind that increasing the key length by 1 means that you need twice as much compute to crack it through brute force (that is, unless cryptanalysis shows an attack that reduces the difficulty of the scheme, like for instance with the number field sieve on RSA) so you don't need to increase key size too often: following Moore's law, you need to increase it by on bit every two years, or 5 bits every decades. Additionally key size generally account for many years of compute progress and theoretical advance, so that you really don't need to worry about that over a short period (for the record higest RSA factorization to date is 829 bits, yet people started recommending migration away from 1024 bit RSA a decade ago or so, and the industry is in the process in deprecating it entirely even though it's probably going to take years before an attack on it becomes realistic.
Infowars was based in Austin. Joe Rogan is in Austin. How does moving to Austin mean they are "ideologically" in California?
Rojee, could you provide more information about grabbing the FIT file from the watch? Also, what kind of analysis do you do locally?

... Sorry, what type of file is it? Just a CSV?
https://demo.f4map.com/#lat=-33.8564200&lon=151.2149210&zoom...
f4map does a pretty good job, although I'm not sure if they use some extra model here or just render it based on osm data. Sydney opera house seems pretty well mapped and I think you could get something like that from it.

But definitely something similar can be rendered. Streets Gl handles complex shapes quite well:
https://streets.gl/#52.23135,21.00506,45.00,0.00,1466.87
I’ve been looking for this too. I could replace basically all my laptop computing with something low powered that sshed into a server. So far I’ve found:

https://github.com/ByteWelder/Decktility
https://www.clockworkpi.com/
https://soulscircuit.com/pilet
On Priesthoods
Not to mention that by purchasing a Steam Deck, you are helping Valve financially support many opensource projects. Valve invests in the Linux kernel, Proton (and by extension Wine), various KDE software, the Fex emulator for gaming on ARM systems, and more.
... for modest values of "fine". Compatibility, stability and performance have improved immensely the last couple of years, for a large part thanks to Valve!
... nah. I usually remove all unwanted software once and only after a fresh install, and a Windows installation lasts years without maintenance nowadays.
I got the feeling that people were just not telling their electricity provider that they were doing this.
Just a pet peeve with passkeys (and other authN) that presses users towards biometrics -

In the US, because the Fifth Amendment Self-Incrimination Clause, passwords cannot be demanded. Passwords are testimonial evidence. [United States v. Hubbell (2000); re Grand Jury Subpoena Duces Tecum (11th Cir. 2012)]

Biometrics on the other hand are not. The court ruled that a defendant could be compelled to unlock a phone with biometrics because it is not testimonial. [Commonwealth v. Baust (Virginia, 2014); State v. Diamond (Minnesota, 2017)]

Basically, passwords cannot be compelled to be disclosed, while biometrics can.

There is similar legal stance in Canada, UK, Australia, India, Germany, and Brazil to name a few.

Finally, under duress, passwords can be held, while biometrics cannot, without self harm.
Because we need that compute for our React frameworks.
Probably a nomenclature thing. The 2024 death's event is "Qualifying" while say 2023s is "Supertwin" and 2022 is "Sidecar TT".
Your claim that yahoo uses a 512bit key are counterfactual.

Please adhere to honesty and good faith arguments.
It wasn't nearly as streamlined though. Average person wants to just click play on Steam, which is the biggest thing proton brought to the table.
Yikes. NIST wants to forbid even 2048-bit RSA by 2035, because it doesn't offer a good enough security level.
Here are some benchmarks: https://github.com/raviqqe/stak/actions/runs/12654408322/job...

For pure computational work, Stak is 2 to 2.5 slower than CPython. These are E2E benchmarks for the interpreter commands. As you said, I should probably add benchmarks of scripting use cases with Lua.
Of all the things that did not happen, this one did not happen the most. And is boring. He should have chosen [ALGOL 68](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42572803) instead of Prolog, then it could certainly be fun.
SteamOS is a much more streamlined console-like experience for gaming. Even things as simple as system updates is far less annoying on Linux/SteamOS than it is on Windows. This is especially important in, for example, a set-top box media PC you might want to have for your TV and you don't run every day.
And, over time, as SteamOS in its various forms becomes more and more popular, game publishers will be motivated to support it. Many already are, from Steam Deck alone. And, in a few years, it's possible that a "casual PC gamer" will actually prefer the far more plug-and-play SteamOS experience versus the Windows one (which, I, for one, highly dislike, but I understand that's a preferences thing).
https://ssotax.org gets more updates. There is also a Friends of SSO page :-)
These things just plug into a power outlet. Requirement for Austria is a Smart Powermeter, because the old, analog ones would run in reverse if the solar panels produced more then you are currently using. They may not exceed 800W and are required to turn off if no power grid is detected, e.g. during a power outage. Apart from that, just institutional conservatism and inertia as far as I know.
I don’t really exercise, there’s basically no muscle, so I’m inclined to believe the “obese” diagnosis.
Lost me when they got the definitions of semigroups and monoids wrong.

Semigroups are not required to have any identity, and the monoidal identity needs to be both a left and right identity.
Ask HN: What AI Agents have you made that helped your personal life?
Are you sure about that? I have a Garmin Fenix 6 and the Connect app on Android. While it's true that all data is stored locally on the watch and it doesn't need to be tethered to a phone to work, I'm pretty sure that syncing the watch to the Connect app does require the Connect app to be connected to the server. I have experienced this multiple times, after completing a hike in a remote area and I try to sync the Hike Activity to Connect it fails due to not having a cellular connection despite the watch being connected to the phone via Bluetooth.
Linux gaming is great. Running Bazzite myself, but for proper support you should run full AMD (CPU and GPU). Nvidia drivers seem to be a pain in the arse.
Indeed. Having to share wine prefixes (or having multiple Steam installs) was a problem. I don't think I bothered running more than a game or two.

Proton also include DXVK and VKD3D which weren't a thing at that time (Wine had ok DX9 support, awful DX10/11 and non-existent DX12).
New method transforms ordinary fibroblasts into mature cardiomyocytes
Collatz's Ant and similarity of Collatz sequences
Maybe it’s due to peripheral driver support? Not every device works without issues on Linux. Also maybe because of specific mods or tools which only work on Windows. Besides that, currently all the “awesome anti-cheat root kits”, are not supported by Linux.

There are a few reasons, but I agree with you that if you use only a handheld, SteamOS probably will work fine.
A phone with Termux recently had the USB port go bust. I could neither charge it nor use ADB to back it up. But I was able to SSH into my desktop and back up the important files (voice notes, photos) via scp with the clock ticking at 3% charge and dropping. Very impressive and honestly being able to install ncdu on the phone to quickly find large, important files was a revelation in the usability of both bash and Android.
Would love to see this normalized across the country (or world). Mountain bike trails in the Pacific Northwest are very different than, say, Central Pennsylvania. Riding loamy downhills on a full suspension bike might as well be a different sport than a low-speed rocky/rooty technical trails on a hardtail.
Even that can fail. I’ve had multiple cases now where my name (!) was auto-parsed wrong in a way human would never do, not even after copy-pasting into Notepad.

The reason? My resume lists my name as follows, where I means the initial for my middle name:

Firstname I. (Nickname) Lastname

And yes, even professionally I do use my nickname and my last name, except for things which must match my government ID, such as offer letters and payroll/tax records, where of course I omit Nickname and use the legal Firstname as well as sometimes the middle initial or full middle name.

With this format, how does Personio parse my name? It thinks I’m called Firstname Nickname. No human would make this mistake, nor would a copy-paste into Notepad cause a human to do that.

And if it has any LLM intelligence at all, it should know that this is unlikely, because Nickname is actually a very common nickname for Firstname, so it should suspect a disperse and have a human double-check its conclusion. Alas.

I’ve also had other issues with these systems misparsing my employment history, since they don’t always properly parse jobs that span corporate acquisitions (changing title and employer at that point but being the same job) and are accurately reflected as such on the resume.
Yeah, WINE may have been around forever but its development was massively accelerated by Valve dumping truckloads of money on CodeWeavers to have them work on fixing games full-time. Plus neither of the two most popular anti-cheat solutions worked in WINE at all until Valve lobbied them to support it.
Sorry to break it to you, but yes they do.
In india, atleast in my state, they let us add solar to our roof and let us give excess energy back to the grid. And they pay us back for the energy that is sent back to the grid
Because they are potentially deadly in certain failure states. Normally system you expect system to be dead when main switch is turned off. But in this case something might be feeding in power. Same goes for over current protection. You really do not want power when you expect there to be none. Even if you should always check.
Which could be privatized too, if the incentives were provided.

The safety reasons are actually valid. You can not safely turn off a power-topology with a N-to-N setup. The providers just cant life without that power..
I cannot think about single time it happened, like seriously

Maybe you are using wifi like majority of gamers and blame the wrong thing?
Mega-Fortresses in the South Caucasus
It was loading a blank white page. Looks like it's back now though!
They are: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338778/microsoft-xbox-ha...
What a blast from the past. We did exactly this in '99-2000 (yes), and it was ridiculed as being over-engineered. At the time, it was the future because "XML will underpin all data transfer everywhere", and therefore we would be set up to run on any device, should any other device begin to exist. Needless to say, the winds changed way sooner than that became a real use case.
It's not that it's unwieldy, it's that cotton absorbs and holds onto water, so if you fall in water on a hike, or get soaked from a downpour, you're going to be stuck in cold, wet, pants.

It is, however, possible to coat the fibres with something to make them not do this, perhaps that's what the 'performance denim' did.

Basically, if you have a chance to be stuck far from indoors with soaked clothes, you want them to be made of a material that doesn't hold water as cotton and wool do, it's fairly easy to find nylon, acrylic or polyester pants.
you can cut back the table size at the cost of 1 cycle latency by shifting the lzcnt right by 3. this works since 2^3<10
2010, Nostradamus :)
Have your cake and eat it ?
https://solarbringer.de/solar-inselanlage-mit-netzunterstuet...
I think you'll find basically everything is political. Do you have a fear of debate or criticism?
> then half year of windows updates until I was able to enjoy my free time

That sums up my experience with the PlayStation and switch. Don't touch them for awhile and 'we are installing updates for the next 2 hours'. I use my pc often enough that it is not an issue. But I have one computer I do not use very often and then it is update city.
Prices fluctuated a lot based on weather and demand. Seeing order of magnitude fluctuations day to day is not uncommon. Prices can be close to zero one day and hit record highs 24 hours later.
> Many technical people find platforms far more interesting than trying to convert an excel sheet to a user viable product.

Perhaps in part because they feel, deep down, that an Excel sheet is superior in terms of user-friendliness, capabilities and ergonomics, to whatever the "user viable product" company is trying to sell? A platform may serve different purposes, so the technical challenges, even if self-inflicted, don't seem pointless.
Isn’t he supposed to be CEO of like six companies (one of them public)? Oh, and preparing to take up a government role later this month?
> It is not even possible to see local data on the phone.

I can still see and navigate through everything