skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's differences. e.g. MOSFET vs TRIAC

Zooz (popular zwave manufacturer) has some interesting tidbits on their homepage.

https://www.support.getzooz.com/kb/article/1103-zen72-vs-zen...

"The ZEN77 Dimmer is recommended for 3-way and 4-way installations since you won't need to rewire your other switches in the set-up, you can simply replace the main switch with direct connection to power with the ZEN77 dimmer.

This model can control up to 100 Watts of LED bulbs but we don't recommend using it in installations with chandeliers or large groups of lights over 6 bulbs.
Version 1.0 and 2.0 of the ZEN77 (700 series Z-Wave chip) were MOSFET dimmers so if your bulbs work better with trailing-edge (or reverse-phase) drivers, those versions of the model worked best.
Version 3.0 of the ZEN77 (700 series Z-Wave chip) is now a TRIAC dimmer so if your bulbs work better with leading-edge drivers, this model will work better.
The 800 series version of the ZEN77 is also a TRIAC dimmer.
Why We Changed to all TRIAC: We found that newer LED bulbs dimmed better with TRIAC dimmers, and considering limited availability for MOSFETS, we decided to transfer the ZEN77 model to TRIAC as well."
What do you mean? It's a DSD that only affects males. The penis is malformed and the testes, which still produce normal levels of testosterone, are internal. No female sex organs are present.
I don't know anything about Agnes or their work, but I agree that such a general trend exists. There is a whole cottage industry of self-professed self-help gurus that make their money by presenting a lazy, straight reading of e.g. the stoics (ignoring any actual academic research) and repackaging their work as mantras to get you through your nine to five—oh but, no don't develop a critical consciousness about society please, just accept the current structure without question and repeat these dumbed down versions of the "ancient wisdom" and keep buying my books, thanks! It's a complete bastardization of the real heart of philosophy, and I really dislike such grifters.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160308070438/http://centxesdas...
Some of them fixate on one kind of person. They have a type.

I knew someone who got a bird at a pet store. The bird's favorite caretaker looked like a younger version of my friend. So the bird was intrigued. When she surrendered the bird about five years later, the girlfriend of the man running the sanctuary also had the same hair color and skin tone. So again the bird was eager to check out the new person. Most other people could fuck right off.
This sort of advice is parodied in "Yes, Prime Minister" as the 4 step strategy for "crisis management"

1: Don't worry, nothing's going to happen.

2: Something may be happen but we should wait and see

3: Maybe we should do something about it, but there is no clear action

4: Maybe there was something we could've done, but it's too late now

Stringing along a bunch of people who think they are being heard and listened to when you are not is a morale killer when the tide goes out & we see who's been swimming naked.
I realize that you are asking a rhetorical question, as the answer is supposed to be a bit obvious and maybe even mind-blowing... but I actually struggle to come up with really good examples. Most of what I come up with are places where math struggled to keep up, notably in cryptography and consensus (and thereby, quite powerfully, in the intersection of these we have cryptocurrencies). Oh, here's one great such example: compression algorithms!!

However, the vast majority of the crazy things I feel like I'm able to do in software today aren't really because the software is--or even the protocols are--better, but that I'm capable of executing so many instructions in so little time on such vast quantities of stored data while communicating massive results over large distances reliably using computers that are so cheap and so small that virtually everyone in every financial class is surrounded by them.

Hell: even with large language models and the recent birth of working/useful AI, we are right on track for the timeline for progress along the road towards the singularity laid out in the late 1990s by Ray Kurtzweil, who was merely looking at computation per dollar, working off of the expectation that if the hardware can do it the software will figure it out. I could go back in time with the code for a modern LLM and I'd still have to wait for 2020 to deploy it.
You cannot use bold or italics in plain text mode in TextEdit. It is truly a plain text mode. If you try to switch from rich text to plain text, and you utilize any rich text features in your document, it will warn you that you're going to lose that information.
Doubly Linked List – Pointers vs. Arrays
Yea right. Drugs and violence are never mixed together /s. Just because he didn't commit violence himself (let's exclude his murder for hire. ahem.) does not mean no violence was ever caused because of his market place.
I like Coteditor [1] as an open-source, minimal editor. TextEdit isn't even plain text by default, IIRC.

[1] https://coteditor.com/
Yep. GetEnvironmentStrings and FreeEnvironmentStrings are probably even more noteworthy as they seem to substitute for an exposed environ array, though they push more effort to the application.
This is worth considering in the context of driving at night.

I used to get terrible eye strain, causing fatigue and sleepiness. Obviously not good.

Then I bought a Saab 900. It had a 'night mode' that disabled all dials except the speedo. The lights went off and the dial went down. (It came back on if it needed to alert you of something, say low fuel.) [0]

This made a radical difference, and led me to the dash-brightness dial that nobody ever touches. Turns out if you turn that way down, reducing the contrast between you and the road, it's actually enough to get you 90% there. Because you probably don't drive a 1992 Saab (more's the pity).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIfzUqYEkiw
It can do the 80% of common stuff. You need to do the 20% novel stuff. And if you don't have that, you probably don't have a decent idea anyway.
In addition to my sibling comment (which I can't edit any more), I noticed earlier that you said

> A universal claim about truth can't exempt itself without contradiction.

But the claim in question is not a universal claim about truth; it’s a claim about truths about God.
> You could use it to make typescript prevent forking and code-duplication within a codebase of engineers you dont trust, I guess. But it doesn't seem like a great use either.

Right, for that you are better off using unique Symbols. That's definitely the modern JS way to nominally type something in a private way that stays inside your API boundary and is very much more useful because it is also enforced at runtime, too, and not just an accident of old type mechanics.
> the rule of law" is the only thing holding together your country, my country, everyone's countries, and civilized society in general. Take that away, and everything around us will collapse, regressing the few survivors of that event to the prehistorical lifestyle of small tribes slaughtering each other

I've seen this sentiment expressed before, including with the movie "The Purge" (that I admittedly haven't seen, but I understood the concept as law becomes suspended for a day and everyone becomes violent). That idea that the only thing keeping people safe is the rule of law seems absurd to me.

There's a sense of empathy, there's religion (e.g. desire of heaven and fear of hell), there are family values (keeping extended family ties together which can induce pressure to do what's considered right), a concern over reputation, a sense of unity with one's culture and wanting the betterment of one's people, collectivism (the psychological/social tendency to put others before oneself), stuff like not wanting to bring shame to one's parents and extended family, a hate for hypocrisy, a simple lack of any desire to be violent, etc. etc.

I like to believe that between most people and their potential for violence, there's a lot of things besides the rule of law. Law enforcement is for outliers that have a desire for violence and nothing else to stop them.

If law enforcement would disappear from one day to the next, people would be less safe, but I don't think to the point that you'd have "few survivors of that event", especially if you consider just a single country/culture going through that experiment, since this probably depends somewhat on culture and its particular values. I'm more inclined to think that life would mostly just go on as normal, carried by habit/convention and the values we instill in offspring.
I bought a used Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra phone and it's astonishing how future proof it was to begin with. Even now, the phone barely stutters, the battery life holds, the camera is surprisingly good and I was recently able to play GTA San Andreas (Netflix version) on it with surprising smoothness. I haven't tried but I believe the phone won't have any trouble emulating lot of consoles from 2010-2020 era as well. A really good purchase I must say.
Ask HN: What cars do you drive?
Title says it all. What does your car say about you?
I was surprised to see what looked like restaurants. It seemed like they served food to people walking by. They had a counter facing the road with a hole in it. I could imagine a fire inside the hole, with presumably a pot with food above it.

There were a lot of mosaics that were preserved too.

I saw marble in the temples, a bath house, and in the cemetery.

The roads still had ruts carved into the stone from all the carts that had run over them.
> cLAsSIc WhATAbOuTiSm

tl;dr? Cratermoon cannot in fact cite a source for their claims.

This sort of shit is why people can't reasonably trust accusations of logical fallacy on the internet. You can't just yell whataboutism whenever you don't want to answer challenging questions.
If a dimmer switch were a resistor, it wouldn't work at all with LED lights (the AC->DC converters in them don't just lower the current they provide when the AC input gets lower).

In incandescent lights, a variable resistor would burn a lot of power unnecessarily, so instead they use phase cut dimming (with a triac switch) where the dimmer cuts out a variable portion of the AC cycle. That way you reduce the effective duty cycle of the power without burning the energy. This works well for incandescents because the filament glow scales nicely with the with the power being delivered to the bulb. It works poorly with (some) LED bulbs because the turn on/off time is slow relative to the power cycle, and the LED brightness itself doesn't just scale nicely with the current from the rectifier.
First off, it's now clear from the evidence that the "insurrection" was the FBI working hard to entrap all the people they could, after everything was done to limit security on the day of the protest.

Secondly, the riots in Washington DC on Trump's first inauguration are rather pretty, the way the fires of businesses glowed in the night.

I'm really tired of pretending that somehow the Republicans are the "uncivil" ones, while the Democrats are perfectly innocent, and wouldn't harm a fly.
Now do before 2018 when the NCFSAC didn't exist...

It's simply returning to the status quo of 6 years ago.

The committee should be producing results.

We have data of incidents: https://uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_statistics.php

There's virtually no change since 2018 (various incidents go up and down but stay similar from 2018-2023).
HP 10-series ("Voyager") calculators.

Admittedly they mostly stopped making them in the 1980's - but both of mine still work fine.
Yeah. How do you point out the truth when people will believe obvious and blatant lies?
So, I’m seeing politician followed through on promise to voters. I’m sure this can swing to some orange man bad, I’m just not seeing it.
I don't think that is the case but I could be wrong. My eyes do not feel dry at all and drops or hot washclothes haven't made much difference. Maybe that compress you speak of is better though
Houthis Release Hijacked Crew and Signal End to Red Sea Attacks
How do you do mental factoring?
Thanks for this! It's possible I'm misremembering and this was the map I saw in school, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are others like it out there that maybe are a bit closer to what I thought I recalled
https://archive.ph/Q068K
Interesting. Could an external stimulus trigger a subconscious blink?
Separating the drugs from the adjacent crime and problems that come with an illicit industry by finding a way to make it run kinda like normal business seems pretty admirable to me.
Ceiling downlights can me (for most people and most purposes) quite nice, but they need to actually be spotlights. If you have a light that is close to being a point source (very bright per unit solid angle), which includes most lights aimed at people, you want that light to avoid emitting light at an angle that you're likely to be able to see. So a downlight on a ceiling should emit very little light past an angle of, say, 45 degrees or even less from vertical. After all, for most purposes (but not bedrooms when in bed!), you are not looking straight up, and a light that's shining on the top of your head or even on the tops of your eyebrows is not irritating your eyes. But a bright light, shining at you, that's in your field of view when looking horizontally, can be extremely annoying.

The office-style solution is big diffuse ceiling lights. The easy but rather inefficient solution is indirect lighting. The expensive solution is to use high-end architectural lights that have a trim or lens design that makes the light source almost invisible from shallow angles. An excellent and cheap solution is to use highly recessed lights with standard, inexpensive designs. A PAR30S lamp in an ordinary (not "shallow") 5" or 6" ceiling can, with a trim that allows it to be installed at a respectable recess, can work very nicely. (That "S" is important. The whole point is that it's a "short neck" light, so the bottom surface is farther above the ceiling. And the PAR part is important, too -- PARs are reflectors, not floods, and they emit over a narrower angle.)

Here's a decent article about it:

https://www.agcled.com/blog/glare-and-ugr.html

As far as I can tell, this is almost completely ignored for residential and small business lighting, especially with LED lights from places like Costco and Home Depot. You do not want a bright light that emits over 180 degrees installed in plane with your ceiling.
The perfect setup for me has been to have my iMac for home work, browsing, design et al, and I have another two laptops, a dedicated Ubuntu for development but not work related stuff, personal that I also use for anything Linux, and a gaming laptop with Windows (latest) just for gaming. That way I don't mess up with anybody else's workloads and I don't crowd the systems with mixed concerns... but I do find that there are things I do super comfortably on each one of these OSs and I cannot just find a way to do them all on the same box
Relevant, dangling cloud resources.

DEF CON 32 - Secrets & Shadows: Leveraging Big Data for Vulnerability Discovery - Bill Demirkapi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXgcWuv-Ug&t=288s
It’s almost a scandal that politician followed through on a campaign promise.
XFS is from SGI IRIX, not Linux. They might as well add ZFS too, which is from Sun.
>A security fix should never be bundled with or uninstallable without a UI/feature change unless that change is critical to fixing the vulnerability.

That's a nice thought but in practice it's infeasible to keep different branches for different UI/feature sets around in perpetuity. Consumer of Windows only gets 2 years of support, which is short compared to Ubuntu's 5 years of support for LTS (10 years if you pay them), but you can get similar support periods through enterprise contracts. It's also longer than mobile platforms, which only offer 1 year (if that).
It's not solely the fault of government, but heavy corn subsidies and the food pyramid travesty didn't help.
You buy a bunch and try them. Philips is generally reliable, but their online catalog is often out of date or incomplete, and they change their SKUs all the time.
Would love to know how did you generate those renderings? Is it blender or something else?
Lol you're crazy. Learning curve for something that is built into your keyboard, that once it breaks you have to replace the keyboard for.

While I have a regular BT travel mouse that requires NO learning curve and can easily be replaced by any other mouse.
And also the reason that houses in Amsterdam are so narrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Netherlands#Arc...
Dates in JavaScript
You're letting your personal opinion color your ability to think through this logically.

"Limiting government" ≠ "no fence". It is a fence on government regulation. A "meta-regulation" if you will.
Ah ok, so in other words we have to consider hypotheticals in order to even try and draw a comparison to the other state in question.
'22 Subaru Outback Touring XT.

My choice of car says I (respectfully) don't particularly care about cars. That or I'm a happy lesbian.
Holy fuck

People like Byran live amongst us

Making their own laptops but from SCRATCH

Imagine how good this man’s pasta carbonara tastes
No, with the parameter '--modern-bpf' you can use eBPF. So, no kmod required any more.
Will absolutely have the reverse effect
> but the basic blueprint is what we ascribe to female bodies – that's why, for example, everyone has nipples and not just those people who might end up lactating (although everyone has the potential to do that).

What a stupid take. As everyone has nipples, it very obviously isn't an anatomical feature ascribed only to female bodies.

The author needs to learn some basic embryology and stop publishing incorrect and misleading articles on this topic.
Ford Focus Estate 2007 with manual transmission.

Love this thing that's worth about the same as my phone.

It says I'm practically minded and cheap.
> So at 40k you're paying an additional 3k in taxes

Your calculations don't take into account personal allowance, which is £12750($15680) in the UK.

At $40k the difference is much closer to $1.5k.

Also there's the question of costs of living. That same 40k buys you 30% more in the UK if you're including rent.
Amber Case is awesome. I'm personally building a silly app that makes it annoying to use social media. It will sometimes display cookie banners, cats, and more in the middle of your screen :)

https://nullderef.com/blog/phone-jan25/
A dimmer is either a "phase-cut" device, either (commonly) forward-phase/leading-edge or (less commonly) reverse-phase/trailing-edge. At all times, it's either on or off, and it cycles between on and off once per half wave, so it produces 120 pulses per second. A good-quality light fixture will smooth out that waveform and produce approximately constant output.

The worst choice is a no-neutral-required forward-phase dimmer. Neutral-required forward-phase dimmers are usually better. Reverse-phase dimmers can be excellent for LEDs (but disastrous for magnetic transformers) and always require neutrals. Some dimmers can operate in both modes.
Big deal! Look around you stop making problems out of your asses!
Oh, I dunno- my experience is that in "reality" almost every group of folks I have worked with, from software teams to stage hands to bands has (when functioning well) been more or less organized around those kinds of ideas.

It may sound hyperbolic to say that "anarchism is the default way humans work together". At the same every production I have worked in may have a boss, but at the same time usually the folks actually doing the work are getting along with very little direct hierarchy- people who know what to do go do it, folks who don't get tasked with doing things.

Most folks have watched stuff really get into the weeds when every action needs to be dictated from above.
Puppet is actually a very competent infrastructure-as-code tool. I never liked the typical architecture where you run a few central puppetmaster nodes with hundreds or thousands of puppet agents all syncing to that...

There are other ways to use the tool, however. In contrast with a centralized infrastructure, it's also possible to just collect a few puppet manifests in git, then you simply clone the repo and run `puppet apply` on demand.

Puppet is still a powerful language for declarative representation of system configuration. Works to apply a specific configuration at a specific time or as a way to automate the construction of VM images.

One place puppet excels is when you want to reuse a bit of configuration in bare metal, virtual machine or container images. With puppet you can pretty easily generate all three from one source of truth with minimal special-cases for the config variants.

All that being said, I haven't reached for puppet as my first choice tool in quite some time. Maybe time to change that and give OpenVox a look. It'll be a win if OpenVox saves me from further suffering through the indignity of working with Ansible.
> Income tax ~40%

Actual or marginal?

Makes a big difference to your calcs. I worry when I see people quote their marginal rate because it shows a fundamental ignorance of finance. I know nothing about Germany, but in NZ top marginal rate is 39% and actual tax rate is below that.
It's a fair comparison. Stargate is fundamentally about two things - America's industry needs a cash injection, and we're choosing a completely hype-dominated vein to push the needle into.

Problem is, the parent comment is right. Even if you think student loan mitigation has washy economics behind it, the outcome is predictable and even desirable if you're playing the long-game in politics. If not that, spend $500,000,000,000 towards onshoring Apple and Microsoft's manufacturing jobs. Spend it re-invigorating America's mothballed motor industry and let Elon spec it out like a kid in a candy shop. Relative to AI, even student loan forgiveness and dumping money into trades looks attractive (not that Trump would consider either).

Nobody on HN should be confused by this. We know Sam Altman is a scammer (Worldcoin, anyone?) and we know OpenAI is a terrible business. This money is being deliberately wasted to keep OpenAI's lights on and preserve the Weekend At Bernie's-esque corpse that is America's "lead" in software technology. That's it. It's blatantly simple.
The delivery in "Yes, Prime Minister" is very good. Here's the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSD1d-6P6qI
Hot wash clothes don't maintain the heat long enough to release the oils. Decent eye compresses are $20. Here's a decent one. Certainly others work too.

https://www.amazon.com/Bruder-Activated-Recommended-Professi...

I got a fancier one from Tear Restore that has little cut outs, so I can see while using it (instead of keeping eyes closed). It may not work quite as good as the bruder, but it lets me get things done while using it.
You're correct. Parent comment is inaccurate. The problem is that a different library in the same process can use getenv without locking (or without locking the same lock as your code)
> A js programmer can get around it by setting up a ref and then using the reference to set innerHTML without the word dangerously appearing.

If DOM nodes during the next render differ from what react-dom expects (i.e. the DOM nodes from the previous render), then react-dom may throw a DOMException. Mutating innerHTML via a ref may violate React's invariants, and the library correctly throws an error when programmers, browser extensions, etc. mutate the DOM such that a node's parent unexpectedly changes.

There are workarounds[1] to mutate DOM nodes managed by React and avoid DOMExceptions, but I haven't worked on a codebase where anything like this was necessary.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11538#issuecomment-...