skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> loud or dangerous

This seems to be mostly a US problem, I only really see people from the US worried about this...

As someone from the UK who travels on two trains and a bus both ways (6 journeys total) most weekdays to university, I never had any problems with other passengers, I guess very occasionally there might be a loud baby or something but then you can just put headphones in, and the worst thing that ever happened to my property is my bag got accidentally handed into lost property when I wasn't paying attention because I got on really early and the staff assumed it was left there from the last trip
Excellent idea! I'd focus on the open-sourcing and community elements (e.g. creating feeds) so it can get traction, rather than features like Markdown and longer posts at this stage.
So... a person who by their own admission had never previously applied for a job online (because they "hadn't needed to") is finally in a position where they need to apply to jobs online, then gets frustrated and swears it off forever. Or so they say.

Don't get me wrong—job apps are grueling at best, soul-sucking at worst. But if you've never applied for jobs before, you're not gonna be familiar with the best practices and conventions for doing so, and so of course it's gonna be frustrating. It's a learning process! Your resume and applications aren't gonna be as polished as someone who's more familiar with the game!

And then the proposed solution ("If you want real opportunities build relationships, create value publicly (publish ideas, case studies, etc) and put yourself in a position where companies and decision-makers seek you out.") is like, well, okay. Great advice. All you have to is be extraordinary in your field and very, very lucky, and the rest will follow.

I would wager that at least some of this is facetious (literally being "hot takes" and all) but it's still hard to take any of it seriously. The whole thing reads like someone saying "I had a bad time trying to deal with health insurance, so I've decided to simply never get sick again and save myself the trouble." If only the rest of us had thought of that! :P
It violates the guidelines as off-topic.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reasons to Not Parse Localized Strings
calling propaganda spam propaganda is against site posting guidelines?
You're thinking about energy and not cost.

For example, when solar plus direct air capture can remove a ton of CO2 for cheaper than it costs a container ship not to emit that CO2 then it's reduced cost for the same CO2 outcome even though it's using more total energy.

Regardless of whether it actually makes sense to capture carbon, you'll see a lot of sky-is-falling fanatics and vested interests dismissing it because it caps the price of carbon credits and limits economic damage estimates. You can't price CO2 at $500/ton to necessitate change when it only costs $200/ton to capture it - without quickly going bankrupt that is.

This is why the IPCC not even attempting to evaluate mechanical capture shows they aren't serious about solving the problem. They seemingly exist to push a fear narrative, and having an upper bound on the impact of CO2 limits their ability to do so.
Start with a verb in imperative mode, first letter uppercase, no punctuation at the end, for example: “Add about page”.
I worked for a household-name-prestigious school (not as an academic) and they essentially used adjuncts for their cash-cow open enrollment classes knowing that people that were passionate and/or wanted to get the big name on their resume would essentially work for free compared to what even full-time non-tenured faculty got. They made a lot of noise about the university “community” and wellness but I guess that didn’t include adjuncts. It wasn’t UPenn, but the conditions are similar:

https://www.openculture.com/2013/09/death-of-an-adjunct-a-so...
Generally the modem would support EDGE/E-GPRS (2G) and 3G simultaniously. In Europe, EDGE/E-GPRS is still quite popular and unlikely to be sunsetted in the next 5 years. It is a pity that many manufacturers tightly integrated the modem into their PCB, instead of creating a separate "communication box" - especially as some use-cases have the budget for it.
Its not about efficiency of operations, its about efficiency of applied ideology, Musk and his cohorts' ideology to be more precise.

It's a pity, because it would be cool if it was what it proclaimed to be.
It's perfectly fine to have both a car and a motorcycle. Motorcycles are dirt cheap, so it pays for itself in gas costs pretty fast.
Give it up, dude.
That is not true. Annual number of prescribed burn acres had been stable since the 70s with a sharp increase in the last two-three years.

The main issues are sprawl and aging, above the ground electrical infra
I wonder if the former employees' salary expectations have changed.
> it's theoretically possible to burn hydrocarbons and turn the CO2 to coal and leave it like that with a net energy gain - it's just hugely impractical compared to not burning them in the first place.

It's also theoretically possible to have chemical reactions that bind carbon from the air into solid compounds that aren't themselves combustible without a net energy loss, but then you need a very large volume of reactants and produce a very large volume of industrial waste and it still turns out to be highly uneconomical compared to the cost of replacing fossil fuels for power generation.
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You could always go back to emailing around file changes :-)

Most VCSes including git have some level of complicated algorithms behind them. Darcs does have significant weaknesses when it comes to handling conflicts but the core logic of figuring out how to apply changes to files has been pretty solid for its entire existence.
Carbon capture isn’t about pulling carbon out of the air - it’s about pulling carbon out of smokestacks just before it hits the air.
The UK experience varies quite a lot depending on the details. It helps to have a bit of money so you can buy a house or similar. Also personally I like london but find middle of nowhere England boring.
And yet, despite the wild west regulatory situation you claim, bicycles kill and injure way fewer people than cars, and don't require insurance because it's nearly impossible to cause the level of damage with a bike as even a minor fender bender in a car. And, even considering how "dangerous" bicycles are, studies have repeatedly shown them to increase life expectancy of the rider. Meanwhile cars are among the highest cause of accidental death of children of nearly all ages in the US.

Your argument is actually a strong one in favor of bicycle-favoring transportation policy: despite limited existing regulation they're still incredibly safe, and we can always tweak policy to handle the worst case exceptions as needed if they end up causing significant problems as bicycle share grows.
Napkin maths would suggest something like 20% of a normal EV battery per household, so indeed a big investment, but perfectly reasonable. The harder part is that solar power production is much lower in the winter (depending on latitude), and seasonal battery storage is still a bit out of reach.
Because that's not what we're in business to do.
If it was what it proclaimed to be, from an IT point of view, I am guessing they could have done a lot of good work by growing the existing US Digital Service.
Be sure to put your env vars next to the invocation and not at the start, or it won't apply.

Like for npm, correct way is

"./bin/do.sh && NO_TELEMETRY=1 vendor build"

Incorrect:

"NO_TELEMETRY=1 ./bin/do.sh && vendor build"

With the latter, the environment variable to disable telemetry doesn't get passed in to the vendor script.
Microsoft 365 costs are too much
Fellow founders, anyone else fed up with M365 turning into a commodity cash drain? What once felt like a premium productivity suite now feels like another unavoidable bill—with pricing hikes and a labyrinth of licensing options that seem designed to make us overpay. The recent price bumps and constant misselling of features force us to jump through hoops, all while we’re busy scaling our startups.

I’ve started cutting the fat by regularly auditing our licenses, matching team roles to the right plan, and even considering one-off purchase alternatives where it makes sense. Has anyone else found clever workarounds or discovered any tool that offers real value? Would love to swap notes on keeping M365 costs under control.
> vote for legislation that will allow you to avoid watching ads.

This! Technology can only lead to dystopia if we let it do so.
New emissions are on the scale of several tens of gigatons per year and we have a century of accumulation at those kinds of rates to remove. I am not sanguine about the timelines.

The term “large scale” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. We are talking about something qualitatively higher scale than the largest “large scale” projects. We don’t have orders of magnitude of extra capacity anywhere in our existing supply chains, never mind across all of it that would be necessary for such an endeavor. This would all have to be built, and building that has its own supply chains that need to scale to an extreme. It will create severe resource pressures very far removed from the actual carbon capture. It is a “for want of a nail” kind of situation.

This is also economically non-productive. We can’t divert enough expertise, manpower, and minerals from the normal economy to make it plausible. We are a very long way from having the kind of automation that would let us work around this issue.

I am interested in viable solutions but the impossibility of scaling this particular solution is kind of basic industrial engineering. It is hard to explain where the resources will come from.
how long did it take you to complete the course?
That only works on the weak minded...
Slower braking is generally accepted to cause less brake pad wear. I was only able to find this article, but I'm sure more convincing evidence can be found if you do more research than the quick ddg and clicking on the first result I did.

Hard Braking: Less experienced drivers often react late to situations, slamming on the brakes instead of slowing down gradually. This creates more friction and heat, reducing pad lifespan.

https://www.bimmer-mag.com/car-disc-brakes-wearing-out/
I wonder at what point Google will stop returning "DEI" or other information determined to be "wokecraft"?
Only for the initial post.
> we need to shine a light on evil and wrongdoers globally and imprison them

bro you need to turn of your computer. what the heck are you concerning yourself with here actually? Look outside your window, THAT is your TRUE reality. (as an exercise point your finger at anyone who you want imprison...).

Those, who are endlessly shouting at each other on Twitter etc., arguing with AI bots, addicted to things irrelevant to their lifes ... are just lost. Don't be one of them. Tune out and focus on things that actually matter to you.
Say something spicy on Facebook: lose your job. Make a living pushing prescription painkillers triggering an opioid epidemic: awww shucks guys, he deserves another chance.

This quote at the end is particularly funny cope:

> "Just like [Tsai] distributed the drugs, maybe he can distribute the solution to the drugs,” Beal said. “Hopefully, he can use the knowledge he has from helping to create the monster to figure out how to solve it."

Yeah, ok. I guess this is also why we usually hire people arrested for carjacking to head police task forces on auto theft. /s
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usaid-guatemala-gender-aff...
They idle at pretty low wattages, and since the bulk of the TDP is rated for raster workloads you usually won't see them running at full-power on compute workloads.

My 300w 3070ti doesn't really exceed 100w during inference workloads. Boot up a 1440p video game and it's a different story altogether, but for inference and transcoding those 3060s are some of the most power efficient options on the consumer market.
> The maintainers in question did not ask for people to add Rust to the kernel. They have no obligation to be welcoming to it.

Their boss, however, did ask for it, so yes, they do have an obligation to be welcoming to it.
You can use Session Ticket's w/ UDP too.

Nevertheless, with modern cloud providers moving the state into the OS/Networking layer is still easier to scale. You don't need to write your own services to handle it.
> But the word "Kolumbo" is used 11 times in the article about "Kolumpo"

This is just you not knowing that Κολούμπο is "Kolumbo". There's no discrepancy to explain; they are the same thing and "Kolumpo" would be an error.

It's still true that Columbo isn't a Greek name. But there's nothing unusual about its Greek spelling; there's no other way to spell "b" in modern Greek than "μπ".
Few months I think.
My problem is a co worker has put an OK-ish wooden toy train in front of me presenting it as their own work, so I take some time to show them how to hold the plane for a better finish on the grain, how to pick timber so that the knots are faced inward, and how contrasting stock takes up wood stain in different way highlighting the elements of the piece.

They nod politely, go back to Ali Express and pick a slightly different toy train to present as their own, commit it, and move on.

Too romantic? Quite probably.
Just a note, you're mixing kW and kWh.

A connection to a home wouldn't be rated in kilowatt-hours, it would likely be rated in amps, but could also be expressed in kilowatts.

> 100wh/month upgrades are like +100 euros.

I can't imagine anybody paying €1/Wh. Even if this was €1/kWh (1000x cheaper) it's still a few times more expensive than what most places would consider expensive.
With brothers I'd assume you mean Ukraine and Russia?

While something could be said about the role of US in starting the war, it is entirely a decision of Russia's leadership. There is a war, because Putin wanted a war. It is as simple as that.

Europe's sins are extremely weak leadership at the moment and to some degree defragmentation of priorities. I have to give it to Putin, he did put an enormous amount of effort to break up the west. At the expense of Russians IMHO, but nevertheless results are evident.

Something tells me though that however the Ukraine "deal" ends, it won't be the end of wartime in Europe. As far as I read the other day drafting continues in Russia across all Oblasts with large sums of money paid to people signing up. Appeasement never works.

edit: typos
Google Search seems like a finished product that has been making money for years without much investment in research. AI chat systems, however, are currently spending heavily on research and development, and it's unclear what the final product will look like or how AI will generate revenue in the end.
I beg to differ. AI made it possible for human to pursue critical thinking. Overwhelmed by the basic facts and routine works, limited by bandwidth and 8 hours a day, we hardly have the luxury to think above and beyond. That's when you hire consulting firms to stuff the content, the ocean of information, the type of work now potentially suitable for AI.

It is time for human to move up the game and focus on the critical thinking, even only the critical thinking while the AI is still unable to perform the critical thinking. Eventually there is the hope that AI would be able to handle the critical thinking, but it remains a hope at the current state of art.
Too bad it wasn't Tony Schwartz, the actual author of that book, that was elected.
"...narcissists with extreme wealth running riot without consideration for humanity as a whole. "

Is this article attention seeking or entitled? Both are traits of narcissistic behavior
Why choose? Farm both!

Especially for grazing, raised photovoltaic allows the photons to be harvested along with allowing goats or cows to graze the landscape.

Crops can also be grown in between rows of solar.

This arrangement also mitigates the often destructive effect that large utility scale solar has on the landscape.

The landscape degradation is why having generation, and transmission, be as locally contained as possible is the best technical solution. But utilities often fight this, since they make money on large utility scale project, and loose money on building and neighborhood scale generation and distribution.

As always, the middle way is the best. Too bad nuance is not longer an allowed perspective...
Bitcoin and Ethereum don't have "insiders", and the ownership pool is sizeable and diverse enough to make pump and dump difficult to perform with them.

It's important to recognize that pump-and-dump coins (scams), memecoins, and (for lack of a better term) cryptocurrencies have separate characteristics.

Pump-and-dump coins have insiders that control the majority of the coins and know when to exit. They are "in" on the game, and they specifically manipulate others to exit with a windfall with no expectation of the coin to last past the exit. TRUMP is an example of a pump-and-dump coin.

Memecoins have enough diverse holders that there's nobody with enough coins for a dump to kill it completely. Memecoins are volatile because they still respond to hype and the people involved acknowledge their questionable value, but there's not a person or group of people that know what's going to happen to the coin. DOGE is an example of a memecoin.

The more classic, well-established cryptocurrencies are like memecoins where the market sees real value in them or their future. Not only do they have a large and diverse pool of holders, but they serve general use cases that the holders perceive has having value (note, not the same as the holders perceiving the coin has value, but that the use-cases for the coin drive its value). BTC is an example of a cryptocurrency.

BTC and ETH may still have as much inherent value as pump-and-dump coins, but if they take a ride to zero, it will happen differently than a pump-and-dump.
Are Expensive TVs Worth It? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores
Also love gnuplot, and and ministat for stats/graphs from the command line
The real paradox is why and how a stationary object in a perfect world that obeys Newton's laws suddenly started moving. There's only mass and gravity, not even thermal or atomic effects allowed. The best justification the author gives is that it happened and this thought experiment doesn't explain why, how, or even when.

TL;DR: Magic breaks Newton's laws
Having the government show up at your door for non-threatening things you've written online is very concerning.
Why is this news? All businesses have to abide by the local laws of the country they serve in. Both Google and Apple took down the TikTok app from their app store on the orders of the US government / US courts (and are now in the process of restoring it again, as per news). All the social media networks were asked by the US and some EU countries to "censor" certain "news" on covid and covid vaccines.
It's a good question, but when discussing grid energy storage, there are 2 important things:

1. How much power output the storage can replace (i.e. discharge capacity) . The appropriate unit for that is watts (or megawatts, etc.)

2. How long can it do it for (i.e storage capacity) - as you point out, the appropriate metric for that is megawatt-hours.
It's funny seeing Letraset described as popular through the 1960's. They were still available in most stationery stores well into the 1980's at least, and commonly used because they provided better headlines etc. for small newspapers and the like than dot matrix printers for anything you wanted to photocopy rather than sending to have typeset by a professional printer.
Great link. As a liberal California resident, there's a lot about the governance of Texas that I like a lot. From their permitting regime for renewables, to their high property taxes, there's a lot that California should adopt that would make our state function better.
European home heating using wood pellets is an environmental disaster. Cut down trees in North America, grind them into pellets, pack them in shipping containers, ship them to Europe, and burn them in low efficiency furnaces with zero carbon capture and high particulate and sulfur dioxide emissions. It's probably even worse than home heating using unprocessed wood, due to the massive amount of energy consumed in processing and transportation.

If we can't at least point capture stacks at the individual home level, then forget atmospheric capture.
> When you let off the brake pedal, the pressure is removed, but there’s not a “retraction” of any kind. So there’s no pressure but nothing is actually making that gap.

The wobble pushes the pads back in, right?
> Burning stuff for grid energy should stop ASAP.

Sadly I think the only viable route to this is wealthy countries paying poor countries to dismantle these power plants (and presumably replace them with something equivalent).

This has two nice benefits. One, wealthy countries show they act in good faith. Two, this will greatly reduce wealth disparity.

Of course, there's the chance some people will threaten to emit gas to acquire disproportionate power. This is true, but still preferable to the west just roasting the planet and then blaming china. Like grow tf up.
Presumably demand could drive down that price.

I bought a silly machine, a Faema Jubilee, and the only other I seriously considered was a Linear Mini.

Since then I talked with a repair tech and have seen inside both.

The Linear is an amazing machine but the combo of having lots of plastic parts and lots of computerisation makes me wonder about longevity. High heat and plastic is rarely a great combo.
The tech hated working on the Linea, and I can’t get past its fake brew paddle. No regrets on the Faema, it’s a beautiful machine and all the faults in its coffee are due to me, not the machine.
Everyday Project Isolation for Developers on Linux
It was absolutely tried before. The 08 Magic shot threes at a similar % and volume to the 2015 Warriors, yet they got rolled in the playoffs every time.
There is _so_ much money to be made moving our farms into artificial climate controlled environments.

A thousand years from now, the Earth will look like Mars, and humans will live in a ring of satellites around the sun.
The billionaire class controls most of the media and many politicians. They are remaking the world with little consideration for you or I. They have a very real effect on the real world outside your window.
is it just me or does calling these distilled models 'DeepSeek R1' seem to be a gross misrepresentation of what they actually are

people think they can run these tiny models distilled from deepseek r1 and are actually running deepseek r1 itself

its kinda like if you drove a civic with a tesla bodykit and said it was a tesla