skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm defending this site for its intended purpose. That's all.

You could be a positive force for the world, Dan, if you chose to be, but that would require you to become more compassionate and maybe even work for an organization that considers compassion as a motivating force.

> but because you're repeatedly and egregiously breaking the rules.

Thanks for the warning; it's the first anyone's ever told me that I've been a bad boy around here, to my recollection. I've certainly seen many bad folks coming my way, that's for sure.

I'll try to be better, if I continue to hang around here.

> (I don't track those, nor care what they are)

You should, Dan. Traverse my comments, from the first to the last, for all I want is for you and all our fellow human beings to be happy, and I have endeavored to teach all who read my comments how to achieve such happiness.

Remember that PG would've never hired you if you cared about compassion; it almost certainly wasn't a part of your interview questionnaire. He hired you to tow the company line. It is REALLY important which company lines we are towing in this life, Dan. Your inner peace and happiness depends upon it.

I am at your service. I love you, and may peace be with you.
A desperate attempt to pretend that the money isn't ultimately being taken from Americans.

Last time he did this, it was equivalent to a yearly tax of $831 from each US household.

[0] https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2019/05/new-ch...
The claim is that the company did this for their own random reasons. It is a required market test with penalties if you file a petition and had a qualified worker you couldn't reject, not filing a petition because you do puts you out of their responsibility so whether you are hiring after their fraud is your own business.
Is this just a modern spin on trickle down economics?
Depends on where you host.
The generous interpretation of analog in this case refers to the physicality of the CD, not the encoding of the information. It's about creating habits that instill presence and intentionality, not being a Luddite.
I mean, what do you expect? The dude asked Xi Jinping to name his unborn kid
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-...
Now try getting Adobe Acrobat to run inside Doom.
I don't really mind agricultural consumption because there has never not been enough water for human consumption.

And agricultural water consumption produces food.

You can't eat a lawn, or a swimming pool, or a long shower.

Well, I suppose you can try to eat anything once but the point stands.

There are very few places as ideally suited to agriculture as California so the water distribution priorities should be:

1. Humans: drinking and cooking

2. Farms

3. Humans: personal hygiene

4. Nothing this far down really matters so I don't care if they get a single drop. yes that includes data centers ps: kill your lawn

Also, I don't care if #2 gets 99.999999999% of the water and the agribusinesses make a quadrillion dollars so long as #1's (and #3's) needs are met.
Like the seasons and the phases of the moon and wandering of the stars?
We don’t. We expect some, but you’re right it won’t be transferred easily.
I feel like I need to see an Adam Curtis documentary* on this.

[*] Spanning 5 hours.
I have a child that is severely disabled, and will probably never be able to support herself.

SSI is a joke, and the incoming Cruelty Administration is likely to make it worse.

I’d like to think that I can leave something to her, so she won’t wind up spending the remainder of her life on the streets. I’ve seen that happen, frequently.
I've heard this before but haven't seen it myself. Seems very easy to test.

Edit: "I compared hotel room rates for five different sites: Kayak, Booking.com, Trivago, Expedia and Hotels.com. The tests were all performed on Dec. 11, 2024, within a two-hour span, and involved searching for a hotel room in Manhattan For Valentine’s Day weekend, Feb. 14 to 16, 2025."

Haven't used those before, so that could be it. Also suspect that it's very specific to the hotel and won't show up for mine. Anyway I'll try it.
> they are significant because Nix can be used to create a fully featured OS instead of just a VM

Look up Bootable Containers project by RedHat [0]. Fully featured OS built from a Containerfile, bootable on bare metal.

I agree that Nix design is much better than Docker, and has a bunch of features that OCI ecosystem doesn't (e.g. remote builds[1], partial downloading of the build tree, non-linear build process[2], nix store import/export, overlays, I/O isolation, much better composability), but "creating OS instead of VM" [did you mean container?] is not one of them.

[0] https://github.com/containers/bootc

[1] You can use DOCKER_HOST, and I'm happy that this option is there, but Nix does it better.

[2] Perhaps with BuildKit it's no longer true, I haven't checked what happens if you have multi-staged build with one stage depending on multiple previous ones (which are otherwise unconnected). I think Earthly can parallelize this scenario https://earthly.dev/
It seems they lost the first game in the gGmbH (gemeinnützige GmbH, thus "charitable Ltd") leading to a normal GmbH (similar to a Ltd.).

In Germany only certain purposes qualify as "gemeinnützige" which makes the formation of non-profits at times difficult, especially in the computing space.

Maybe I didn't read careful enough. But it's actually not spelled out which form the new European non-profit is incorporated in.
Same. The only thing that sticks is converting from format X to .mp4. Everything else I need to look up every single time.

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1168/
It's when there were being rounded up to be sent. Not during the event itself.
If I'm reading the table correctly, there was only one vehicle for which reflective strips were worse than normal clothing (the Mazda), for the Honda reflective strips didn't always help but don't seem to have hurt (judging by the body text they did on the order of 12 tests, so 9% vs 0% is 1/12 vs 0/12).
Never heard of Super Flower power supplies, are they any good? Interesting they rate them as their best in class for their builds.
That time San Diego nearly had a floating ballpark
It mostly goes the other way, I think. The community surveys haven't asked about NixOS desktop usage in particular. Still, I'm certain that a large majority of contributors are running NixOS on their desktops/laptops/workstations.

That said there are prolific and longstanding contributors who focus on non-NixOS and even non-Linux platforms, and corporate users are likely to be running Nix on macOS or Ubuntu (under WSL). It's not surprising that some users who don't use NixOS on laptops or desktops have still become Nixpkgs contributors or maintainers, imo.
It's very true! (about locking the wheel with coaster breaks)

I broke my jaw this way when I was 6 or 7. :-) Tried to do a 90 degree skid going down a steep alley and did an endo, landing on my chin. Do not recommend.

I mean, I probably would have broken some bones anyway with the way I biked at that age, but this particular one might not have happened without the coaster breaks.

We haven't quite gotten to that stage with my 7yo yet. 12yo wasn't too rough on her bike but 7yo is, um, er, let's say he doesn't have the wisdom of being older yet.
> There were plenty of kids when I was in school who were not allowed to watch TV. Like at all.

The kids I knew like this were definitely ostracized for that. Hell, even kids that didn't have _cable_ were usually seen as a little weird.
It's fun to read letters written by children in the 18th century, as it gives you a little glimpse into what it was like to learn to write at this level of complexity, and what aspects of written language children were being taught to master.

Here for example is a letter from John Quincy Adams to his father, written when he was ten:

>DEAR SIR,—I love to receive letters very well; much better than I love to write them. I make but a poor figure at composition, my head is too fickle, my thoughts are running after birds eggs play and trifles, till I get vexed with myself. Mamma has a troublesome task to keep me steady, and I own I am ashamed of myself. [...] If I can but keep my resolution, I will write again at the end of the week and give a better account of myself. I wish, Sir, you would give me some instructions, with regard to my time, and advise me how to proportion my Studies and my Play, in writing, and I will keep them by me, and endeavor to follow them. I am, dear Sir, with a present determination of growing better, yours.

>P. S.—Sir, if you will be so good as to favor me with a Blank Book, I will transcribe the most remarkable occurances I meet with in my reading, which will serve to fix them upon my mind.
I've just maintained my own note doc, going on 15 years now, of my most commonly used syntax. When that fails, I grep my bash history.
I would think it's because the large group of people who don't really want to use a smartphone buy a cheap Android one.

Could your statistics compare iPhones with premium (e.g. largest screen size) Android phones, therefore excluding most of the budget Androids?
There are a lot of valid critiques already, but here's another:

This technique will have to allow for over-all slow connections. This connection latency could be caused by over-provisioned office connections, torrents, bad gsm reception, cheap internet or a cheap device.

What prevents a client from strategically delaying specific requests, to simulate a slow device in the target geography. AFAIT, this would be indistinguishable from the scenarios mentioned above.
This bug can be mitigated via inflation.
The Power and Security Pitfalls of Printk and Pointer Formats
For me it's Musk too. The refreshed Model Y is the cheapest and most efficient car that fits all my requirements. I didn't like Musk before but I admired him. But supporting AfD in Germany, asking the king of England to kick the government and all other recent acts crossed a few red lines for me.

I have to change my car in May and it will be probably more expensive or worse car than the Model Y. I need 500+ km range, big trunk, efficiency, silence and confort, acceptable fast charging, heat pump and all for around 50k € max.

The Chinese options are cool but much less efficient. Not that cheap but better equipped. Also no service in some countries where I travel often.

KIA/Hyundai are a bit overpriced and okish but the EV5 is the only I would consider and it's not here yet. The VW group are overpriced and need a new platform. However my current first choice is the new Skoda Enyaq. Otherwise maybe a slightly used VW ID7 but it's too long for parking...

From Stellantis I could consider the Renault Scenic and its clones but I think they are a bit short on trunk capacity and they use too many capacitieve buttons

BMW is out of my reach but they make the best EVs from the ones I tried
I agree. Additionally, the authors haven’t considered data deletion policies. Most SaaS providers delete data within 30 to 90 days after contract termination. It’s unlikely that data from 100,000 failed startups, each using 20 to 30 SaaS applications, still exists.
> In fact in a fully optimized system, once consumers have all of their wants and needs met, they will have zero dollars left over.

What are your parameters for optimization here? If the point is to maximize extracted revenue then this is a reasonable outcome but we could optimize for any number of targets. We could optimize to make the best use of resources, we could optimize for best consumer reviews, we could optimize for the ideal buyer/seller price that makes both entities in the transaction walk away with the best deal for each of them.

But there's this persistent notion in the current business zeitgeist that the only metric worth optimizing is profit maximization and it's one that we should reject. Companies need to make a profit and workers need to take home a salary and that's fine, but we get to build the world that we live in. Living in a world where we care about quality of life and equity in transactions is much more interesting to me than living in one where all we care about is the velocity of extraction from anything that isn't nailed down.
Reminds me of the Ukraine war. The original intent was clearly a very short intense “operation” and then a quick annexation. Nobody planned to grind hundreds of thousands of bodies through a war machine, but “here we are” and now everyone is “forced” to go through the motions.
Good point! I'm not against the idea potentially charging for this if people like it

I'll track if some other people besides me will still use this 3-6 months from now and potentially introduce a paid tier to be able to run it forever if there's lots of people relying on it
I've started a repo with some of these scripts, the most recent one being my favorite: a wrapper for Microsoft AutoGen's very recent Magentic-1, a generalist LLM-Multi-Agent-System. It can use the python code, the CLI, a browser (Playwright) and the file system to complete tasks.

A simple example a came across is having to rename some files:

1. you just open the shell in the location you want

2. and run this command:

uv run https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SimonB97/MOS/main/AITaskRu... "check the contents of the .md files in the working dir and structure them in folders"

There's a link to Magentic-1 docs and further info in the repo: https://github.com/SimonB97/MOS/tree/main/AITaskRunner (plus two other simple scripts).
Man... I'm not kidding. This morning I thought "I should build a news aggregator for my reMarkable". Thanks for saving me the work
Can your phone or your car remove you from real life? Are you required, by definition, to use a car or a phone to talk to people, in real life?
> there are microwave links operating closer to the speed of light, though these are mostly reserved for high-speed trading

This is so sad.
Nice! This reminds me of my own ffmpeg cheatsheet; I would imagine that everyone who uses ffmpeg frequently has a similar set of notes

https://github.com/fastily/cheatsheet/blob/master/ffmpeg.md
That's great to hear, thanks for the explanation! Super excited to try this out.
The trick is not to have a voltage across the channel while it's transitioning states. For this reason, adiabatic circuits are typically "phased" such that any given adiabatic logic gate is either having its gates charged or discharged (by the previous logic gate), or current is passing through its channels to charge/discharge the next logic gate.
If you're looking for robust, nonfree packages for Guix, you can find them here:

https://github.com/nonguix/nonguix
Can't excessive anti wokeness be a form of priggishness.

What if someone says "that was sexist" and let's assume it was. Then, complaining that s/he who said it, is too woke, can itself be priggishness? The morally right thing, in that community, might be to be anti woke.
Since you're getting some responses to this, I'll add to what we started.

It's important to note: I think "judging" parents isn't productive. People don't understand there are an insane amount of variables involved in raising kids, especially day-to-day.

So even though, I agree with you: we have tried since the beginning to raise children who can go to museums, who can read for long hours, etc. On vacations, we always packed a big bag of books, mini-games, etc. This will keep little kids busy for hours.

The BIG part though...

Really, sometimes you simply have to let stuff happen. Part of being a parent is engaging your child when they're frustrated and bored, NOT getting rid of them. It's a HUGE part... walking with them outside to talk through their feelings and your expectations.

Is it a pain in the ass? Absolutely. Is it one of the most valuable things you'll ever do with them? Without question.
I ran NixOS while I attended university and don't remember any problems with this. Is it a NetworkManager issue?
If you select one of the keys in the keyboard preview on the right, you can add and move keys around to wherever you like :) That should allow you to put keys under your knuckle.

Speaking of palm presses, someone shared a “palmtyl” design with several keys under the palm in the discord (here’s a video: https://youtu.be/D8ev08mnSmg). It’s an interesting way of squeezing in more keys without requiring finger travel.
Honda Sensing also includes a radar.
Making a guess reading the article, I'd say near Clear Lake, possibly as far south as Waldo lake and as far north as Breitenbush hotsprings. Although it looks like the claim is that similar amounts of water could be found under other regions in the Cascades. Both lakes are very deep and impressively clear, Clear lake has trees at the bottom that were killed in the creation of the lake when the volcano nearby erupted relatively recently.
LMDB users also unearthed a btrfs data corruption bug last year: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169947
Yeah, it was a potentiometer. Is an encoder not simply any device that provides a signal proportional to its position or displacement? It had wiper arms (brushes?) that dragged along a conducting surface on a PCB below the rotor.
It's the start of a long war on economy and the US being transformed back to manufacturing. Takes time. Meanwhile it will be a pain for all of us
I've always wanted this and had daydreamed of building this before!. If it supports QMK and ortholinear, I'll have to get this. I've always dreamed of building a keyboard into the arm rests of my chair.
> Just like children of smokers know their smoking parents telling them not to smoke are full of shit.

Wait. Surely these aren't the same. My dad smoked and always told us he'd kick our ass if we started smoking. From as young as I can remember, I understood it was bad and that he was addicted, he had tried, and would continue to try to quit numerous times. He didn't often smoke in front of us when we were young. He passed away before my own kids were born. Emphphysema. At no stage in my life did I ever have any desire to smoke.

However, parents using their phone in front of their kids all the time. Well it's not obviously harming them, as far as the kids are concerned. There are also plenty of legitimate uses for technology. Kids can't discern between the two. Heck adults regularly can't.

Smoking by comparison is pretty freaking obviously a bad idea.
But which programming languages are most amenable to automatic runtime optimization?

Should we go back to FORTRAN?
As we know from the history of many disasters, both response and recovery are _extremely_ dependent on the local environment.

Disaster planning begins with input from local professionals and local survivors of previous local disasters.
I know -- in popular markets, for more general roles, you will get lots of valid candidates.

If you need specific skills in a specific geographic area, you probably still get a lot of responses, but the vast majority (if not all) aren't going to be suitable. Really, these jobs don't have much luck being filled on job boards, because it isn't the best medium to hire those people, but many companies will put them out there anyway to broaden their reach.
I like it! Thanks for the explanation of your process.
Apparently Google removes pagerank from expired domains to prevent gamification of their Search Index.

Same should apply to OAuth, you would think.
It's an interesting concept.

Re: "Cannot be manipulated unlike GPS signal derived coordinates, which can be altered by the user's device before relaying them to the server"

Is it possible to ensure that the data is not manipulated? If the user had to install a voting software package on their phone, then couldn't that piece of software take responsibility for pulling the co-ordinates from the device and encrypting it? I am assuming most modern phones are secure enough that the signal from the GPS that is made available to applications can be trusted but maybe I am wrong?

Re Starlink: Is it possible to trace your route through a specific satellite and to look up the location of that satellite? That seems like a relatively easy and secure check (aside from the VPN/Proxy concerns which feel like they would be a larger challenge in this scenario since I am assuming the delays through the satellites would be more significant than delays through fiber.)
There's an argument that it is unwise to fleece your customer so hard they don't come back again.
He wrote in many different styles, depending on the subject and likely audience. Simulacra and Simulation, Silent Majorities and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place are very different texts.
Most hotel chains are trying to stop those agreements. Some of the agreements are fairly long term, but chains are starting to see that agents rarely give them enough to be worth what they are paying and so the chain is no longer making such agreements.
The FBI has legal authority - things like warrants, which are only issued when a court has seen sufficient grounds. This dude does not have anything like that.
Fair, one could say that Europe has better cultural institutions and safety nets, and is overall a nicer place to live (qualitatively and subjectively) than most of the US
Imapsync Quiz
It's essentially predatory behaviour, exploiting those in need. I think anyone arguing in favour of 'pure' market outcomes is essentially arguing in favour of unethical behaviour.
Why would you openly admit to committing a crime (visa fraud) on Hacker News?
In theory this discrimination will be discovered (as in, see article) and if people don't like it they will select for companies that do not have (or have less) such discrimination.

If all businesses discriminate then there is an opportunity to compete using no discrimination as an edge.

Just as, for example, if a business decided (if it was legal) to only allow people of a certain race to enter, I would like to think that most members of that race would be disgusted enough to boycott that business and the business will rightly fail.

Finally, people already effectively pay different amounts for all sorts of things due to varying amounts of tax paid.

The private sector can't detect or profit from your tax paid so they use where you live and other signals like whether you're using an iPhone etc. as a proxy for your income/wealth.
The second link was four years ago.

The third link was 2014. They didn't fix the vulnerability for the computer owners, but they did take over the control of the malware on them without notifying them.

Same for the fourth link.

2011, they disabled these bot net agents without notifying system owners: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/04/u-s-government-takes-dow...

Point being, it wasn't unthinkable a couple of years ago.
Yes, but when you show up to your hotel across the world and they can’t find your reservation or they gave your room away because they didn’t know you were arriving after at 8pm, they then tell you to take it up with your third party booking company.
There is a trick for this:

* Step 1: Make friends with a ZFS developer.
* Step 2: Guilt him into writing patches to add support as soon as a new kernel is released.
* Step 3: Enjoy

Adding support for a new kernel release to ZFS is usually only a few hours of work. I have done it in the past more than a dozen times.
>If consumers are willing to pay 1.5x, you are leaving money on the table by only charging x.

What about other businesses that are willing to charge x-1?
For absolutely positioned elements, if you set all four sides then the height and width will be automatically computed.
If you want the unsummarized source and not the chatgpt summarized version:

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/high-visibility-clothing-ma...
Yea agreed, these kinds of websites feel obsolete now with LLMs. I just tried a couple in ChatGPT and it worked flawlessly.
Lovely landing page, appreciate the care over the icons!
Author should stop feeding the trolls and get out of that bubble.

Blogging about how 'experts' on X attack you instead of engaging with you. Classic.
If the goal is to be safer than a human driver then it will require better than human sensors, such as lidar. Camera only approaches will not stand the test of time.