skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This may be true but it makes it sound like there's no connections, which is false

It sounds more like there are no major connections, which is what a plain reading of that sentence says. And as you said, that's true, there's no alternate interpretation where interties that can carry around 1.5% of the grid's load are "major connections".

And you're ignoring the fact that the lack of interconnections is a deliberate political decision, not a technical oddity. By keeping their grid independent, the Texas grid can escape regulation by FERC. The limited interties they do have are used for used for scheduled and emergency power trades and are not treated as interconnections supporting interstate or international trade.

https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/connecting-past-and-...
Compared to other countries, America has normalized a different level of deviancy. Perhaps 5 things are worse in America while 3 things are better when making a single country comparison. It's important to understand the tolerance and need for service varies. For example, single family homes without fireplaces and firewood storage areas and also lacking natural gas service and off-gridable power storage are completely reliant on grid electricity power for heat.
> (Unless you DRM-crack, and get into the gray areas of the piracy culture that's creating much of the DRM problems.)

Meh. Even if there was no piracy there'd be DRM. It's not only used to limit privacy but also how you can legitimately use stuff you bought. Like how many devices you can access it on. Or how many times you can view video content.

In fact I think the presence of piracy helps keep prices low. I'm sure Netflix would raise prices even more if they weren't losing customers to piracy every time they raise prices or add crap like ads.. And really, DRM does absolutely nothing to prevent this. It's not as if the latest shows aren't on the pirate bay hours after they appear on Netflix.

> But it would be healthy for everyone if people supported a DRM-free and non-surveillance ebook ecosystem.

That would be very nice yes, if there were one. I don't think there's anything like GOG for books. But yes I do always buy my games on GOG if they are available there.
It breaks SLAAC so routers won't do it. Or if they do, it's non-standard and they won't easily let you do it. /64 is the smallest PD by spec ( RFC 5375 )
If that happens, aren’t you pretty much walking to the closest mobile phone store?

A basic device that’ll give you access to the internet, mail and maps is basically a commodity the same way a toothbrush is.
At the risk of coming across as being a spoilsport, I think when someone says "anyone can write a calculator app", they just mean an app that simulates a pocket calculator (which is indeed pretty easy) as opposed to one which always gives precisely the right answer (which is indeed impossible). Also, you can avoid the most embarrassing errors just by rearranging the terms to do cancellation where possible, e.g. sqrt(2) * 3 * sqrt(2) is absolutely precisely 6, not 6 within some degree of approximation.
Maybe best not to invoke the period with the worst economic inequality in US history as some sort of example?

You're also forgetting the tremendous amount of social unrest during that time because of that inequality (and as a result, the workers rights we enjoy today which largely arose from that period, and the Great Depression, though there have been great efforts to erode them).
>The dropping birth rate is neutral,

No, sorry, I don't quite agree that trending towards population and demographic collapse is "neutral".

I don't think it's neutral either that younger generations will have a painful fiscal responsibility to support the older generations who got to live their lives out already.

>exhaustible consumable

Stop with the fixed pie fallacy, that's not how our world works. We innovate and adapt. Look at how renewables are trending, electric cars are growing in market share, poverty rates lowered significantly as population grew the last 50 years, etc.
I have tried a bunch of things. This is what worked best for me: Surya [0]. It can run fully local on your laptop. I also tried EasyOCR [1], which is also quite good. I haven't tried this myself, but I will look at Paddle [2] if the previous two don't float your boat.

All of these are OSS, and you don't need to pay a dime to anyone.

[0]: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya

[1]: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

[2]: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle
TypeScript definitely won't add checked exceptions, because Anders Hejlsberg considers them a mistake[0].

[0] https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...
But Darcs replaces slow branch changes with something that no other VCS has (that I'm aware of), slow commits! Making a commit can take 5 minutes!
Oh, nice - thanks! So it was a bug afterall.
Mandatory caveat: beware of ground loops when using a USB oscilloscope! Most budget USB scopes share ground with your PC via the USB port. If you're probing high-voltage circuits (e.g., mains power, switching supplies), this can create a dangerous potential difference, risking damage to your computer or worse. Some scopes offer isolated inputs, but if yours doesn’t, use differential probes or an isolation transformer. Otherwise, you might end up debugging your laptop’s fried USB controller instead of your circuit.
I'd imagine most of everyone here knows about Caddy.
Even mholt. :)
Could you please stop taking HN threads on these offtopic tangents? Once in a while is ok, but when it's your primary use of the site, that's not ok, especially when it's this repetitive.
Interesting, my 3060 uses 150-170W with 14B model on Ollama, according to nvidia-smi.
>that's not mDNS that's just dhcp+dns

Actually mDNS does exactly what they said just fine. You’re confusing it with the ability of a DHCP server to make updates in DNS on behalf of clients. There is more than one way to skin the cat. Both achieve the same affect, just differently.

> nor do they necessarily ever consider your local DNS server.

Hardcoded DNS servers are just as equally a thing with IPv4.
Only in the South, and shortlived. The elite quickly regained control of both the land and means of production.

It also had nothing to do with Marxism. There was no redistribution of land as in social revolutions in other countries (France, Russia, China).
How many users know how to "open a port"? UPnP exists because people don't want to deal with these things.
NOAA Ocean Explorer: A Collection of Sounds from the Sea
Warm up with this fresh and herby Romanian tomato soup! Made with ripe tomatoes, paprika, and dill, it’s a delicious way to use up extra tomatoes before they spoil. Light yet comforting, this easy recipe is perfect for a quick, flavour-packed meal any time of the year.
The only way we can make that assumption is if the -human- makes it obvious. Tell me the people mass producing AI slop for YouTube/Spotify are approaching this with sincere intent.
Incised artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity
It doesn't have to work in every case, and it doesn't have to be simple, but nevertheless there remains significant disagreement and ambiguity that gets to be decided by the person in power. In the end, it's a false dichotomy.

Consider the freedom from being infected by disease. Does your positive freedom to use a public space trump my negative freedom from you interfering with me by bringing a contagious disease to it?
When doing an image search there are times you specifically don't want AI images, ever, period. If I search the name of a real artist I want to see their their works, not a diffusion models half-remembered knock-off of their style. If I'm looking for reference photos then I want reference photos, not synthesized images which resemble photos but may or may not reflect reality. If I'm looking for historical photos then no, a generated image vaguely drawing on the stereotypical vibes of that era isn't going to cut it.
It needs to show % instead of n-k+.
The personal freedom thing has always been rules for thee and not for me, particularly in the religious South. Lawrence v. Texas led to legalizing consensual homosexual activity.

The personal freedom thing might gain traction again because people are realizing that explicitly endorsing Christianity as core to the identity of the country often goes hand in hand with picking a favorite version of it and demonizing others, which is why the separation was historically included.
Unsloth's 5 challenges to get a job offer of $500K/year and equity
Also regenerative breaking exerts force which leads to particle emissions from the tires. Breaking earlier and slower also helps when you otherwise would have stayed in the range where you can break regeneratively.
At least kobo still has physical buttons on most of their devices. The oasis has them yes but it hasn't been updated in many years. It lacks mod cons like light temperature and white on black mode.

The one thing that really bothers me about Kobo is that they no longer have a b/w reader in the Libra format. The Kobo colour has so much worse contrast. That degradation is not worth the slight benefit of mediocre colours for me. It really means always needing the blacklight.
The link is to their poweroutage.us, but they also cover Canada (https://poweroutage.com/ca), the UK (https://poweroutage.com/uk) and the EU (https://poweroutage.com/eu). For some reason they don't link to these from the US site.

Really interesting data, particularly when you compare the very low level of outages in Canada/UK compared with the US.
Walk through your typical preferred travel day when traveling to build a checklist.

“I’m going to be on a plane for 14 hours,”

“I need to get ready for bed at night,”

“I am going to walk through the city”

or “I am doing a wilderness hike.”

I only say that because everyone’s checklist is very different and I think it can be too easy to overpack.
Hey, just created a finite mathematical system from unique first principles
That's probably true. But offending people with prudish attitudes or without a sense of humor is a pretty common old-school hacker goal.

It serves a valuable community function by protecting the community from corporate interests, non-technical bike-shedding, and overload by "bug" reports that are actually just the user not being technical enough to use the tool properly.

Edit: Also FWIW, I've had no problem introducing GIMP to church groups and in various professional settings.

Double edit: since you mention schools, I should also add that I taught my wife GIMP and she had no problem sharing it in her school (US public high school).
In fairness, California is pretty big as well. Bigger by population actually.

But yeah, Texas is definitely laid out in an enormous fashion. States outside of California are just not good comparisons.
Those are a cancer on YouTube, they don't offer any way to disable the shit. And on mobile it's even worse, there is a dedicated tab button you can't hide, even if you are a paying customer no way to avoid it.
The train v car debate is for losers - cars won and will always win. Privacy and freedom will always be more important. Use trains to ship goods around, not people.
China is also heavily exploiting African countries by using corrupt politicians.
Supermarkets pretty much all have generators on site now. There's enough value in frozen and refrigerated inventory that it's worth it. Small grocery stores probably not.
Yes, it (Spring) is. However its current scope creates more problems then it solves.
By the way, all kindle models are currently jailbreakable: https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/
This is a temporary problem that the market will solve for. Either the search companies will fix their algorithms, or curated websites and platforms will arise.

One way or another, this bug will be fixed in time.
No the books are downloaded from the Amazon site. This is what is being removed.

They are for the specific purpose of officially supported sideloading so that is also being removed. Sideloading books from other sources is still ok.
It's not Russia driven.

It's driven by Trump and Musk egos. It's Nero watching Rome burn, to bring about his new greatness.
I'm not against AI music. From my point of view, perception is everything, and it's all relative to one's point of view. I do understand, though, that for some people, the whole point is to gain a real understanding and connection to another real human's feelings and insight. I can't really fault somebody for considering art to be about more than the end result, and feeling that it's empty without the process.

Also, I do feel at my core that creation is superior to consumption, so even though I'm not bothered by AI output (even as a musician and an artist), I have a feeling of respect and admiration for those who create that I simply do not feel for people who type a request into a prompt. Effort and work for a goal are respectable.

The ends do not always justify the means, and even if the end result is identical, there is a greater implication on what it means to be an artist, and possibly many negative (and positive) externalities as a result of being able to get the same results with little effort. The art is identical, but the effect on humans is not necessarily. We are changed by the journey, both the artist and consumer. The actual effects of short circuiting the journey isn't something we can fully appreciate until we've had generations of humans who have lived with this. It might be a good thing, but it's not guaranteed that it won't be potentially more negative than positive in the long run. I'm optimistic, but I think it's foolish to not be cautious and skeptical about potential side effects.
First of all, the way CDC works, it's just a board of directors from many pharmaceutical corporations. There are known conflicts of interest here.

Secondly, USA is considered a very unhealthy in comparison to Europe and other countries, while that's mosrly related to FDA, CDC also plays a role here by promoting drugs/vaccines in cases you only need a change of habits (like eating well to minimize flu severity)

Third, the way CDC dealt with COVID was unacceptable, their mixed messages about facemask, social distancing, herd immunity, reapiratory machines caused many people to die, and not because of the virus necessarily. This is a 15k people agency.

And worth to mention their controversy to require social media companies to censor posts about Wuhan Institute of Virology, when we all know today it was true, and CDC was partially responsible of the COVID 19 crisis. Also their censorship of scientists who disagreed with CDC conclusions, and some of them resulted to be factual.

After all of this, I do think it's fair to reform the CDC entirely. The economic impacts of their mistakes destroyed millions of business and caused many people unemployed. Even today 2025 you see few large companies struggling or going bankrupt because of their debt under COVID.

You may think we had to do that to prevent COVID spread, but all current data says the opposite, and many countries who never took hard measures had same or lower spread than US. CDC had to rectify all of their errors.

I have many friends who lost their jobs, VISA or green card process, because CDC was incompetent to act against a virus they previously knew, and recommended things they didn't encourage in the past (like paper/cloth masks to prevent spread of a viral virus).
There was a thread here recently about OCR4All ( I haven't used any of these tools recently, but I'm keeping track because I might be doing that soon ).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043671

https://www.ocr4all.org/
The freedom from having to pay for hot dogs, duh.

But I agree that some things are obstacles, and others are creative acts. But so what, I'm not going to let you or somebody called Snyder tell me that one of these is virtuous and the other is mean-spirited, because that's bullshit, and the two sides of it go together, and he's only trying to prise them apart because he's more comfortable in a world where people declare their intentions in advance so that they can be vetted for constructiveness by some overbearing authority.

And you can definitely virtuously overcome obstacles, or be creatively evil.
The quest for performance has turned modern CPUs into something that looks a lot more like a JITed bytecode interpreter rather than the straightforward “this opcode activates this bit of the hardware” model they once were. Things like branch prediction, speculative execution, out-of-order execution, hyperthreading, register renaming, L1/2/3 caches, µOp caches, TLB caches... all mean that even looking at the raw machine code tells you relatively little about what parts of the hardware the code will activate or how it will perform in practice.
Careful once you start adding elements individually you’ll tend to focus on those supporting your viewpoint rather than the total. Electricity is after all used by more than just residential homes. If you want to look at “Total Energy” in a more brand context than electricity that’s not just heating and electricity it also includes gasoline and industry etc.

So on average people in Texas drive 16,171 miles per year vs 10,949 for Washington state etc. Similarly the oil industry both flairs and burns a great deal of fuel in order to crack longer hydrocarbons into shorter ones etc.

However, in the widest definition all of this is just a rounding error. It’s actually plants on farms which have the largest energy supply/demand by a huge margin, but being free we rarely consider it in such calculations.
ebooks.com does tell you if a title has DRM or not, which seems to be the best option currently. Outside of that I haven't found much.
Most Companies Experience Weekly Outages: The State of Resilience 2025 Report
The link lists a few places that have DRM-free ebooks, and some examples of good technical books I've bought that way.
Lol I sleep fine at night.

I don’t eat meat, I live in a small apartment, I don’t drive, I don’t fly, I don’t have kids. I buy crap I don’t need though.

I’ll put myself up against nearly anyone else in the developed world as far as carbon footprint goes.
It’s unclear how this is related to the article, but I’m intrigued by your simple DIY bookbinding process.

It seems straightforward except for the canvas strip (I assume this is part of the binding?), and whether you add thicker pages/boards on each side as covers.

Do you have any photos of the process, or at least of a finished product? Thanks!
This is the first time I'm curious to potentially actually learn Lisp. Using Lisp as a shell language is where it's at.

Where's my book The Little Schemer? :D
Hell, even reading was decried as a way to wreck your memory - why remember when you could always open a book?
I’ve never worked in grocery but from my experience in other pre-internet industries I can easily imagine a politically marginalized CTO who would rather spend $1k on a turnkey solution than herd 100 cats who can’t reliably format a spreadsheet of data.
Where I live the City helpfully^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H performatively lets you see where the power is out, but provides no historical information. They pay VertiGIS to provide this service. At least today (I checked, it was something else last time I checked). Woot!

"Performatively": yes. If you can't see historical information, it's performative, it misses the historical case which is the important market. If you're there and the power's out, you know. If you can do something about it in realtime, you will; otherwise you will wait until the power comes back on and disaster recovery kicks in: From when to when? For how long? If you're not there, then go directly to disaster recovery. That's my opinion, and I'm not changing it.

The second important consideration for a democratically governed entity would be: are we equally served? If not, why not? Retrospective information for the entire stakeholder group is required.

Too much ado is made of "security", and that historical information is somehow a threat to operational security. If the power is out now, the live info is the impacted targets of opportunity right now (or the ones to phone / smish when the power comes back on); if the power was out in the past, what's the threat? Are adversaries going to pre-position in areas where outages are predictable due to some foreseeable conditions? Then maybe the City should preposition resources, too. I welcome other viewpoints on this aspect.

On a practical level I have systems which are always on and logging with sufficient granularity so I know when the power went out... and when it came back on. I would think that telemetry from locations within the service area would be ultimately a more reliable way of collecting information about outages, without relying on the utilities which can't be relied on (outside of a contractual arrangement). This telemetry could be active, or passive: geolocating web browser and other internet activity (even pinging or SYNs) would likely do an adequate job, I'm sure that stationary resources could be identified in the dataset. I'm sure this is colored by the fact that I'm an "internet plumber" and telemetry and observability is what I do for a living.
And it's a terrible low quality experience. I feel dirty after having typed in the literal name of an app and being subjected to a FULL PAGE AD for another, scummy one.
There is a solution to this: RFC6887.

You have a firewall at the edge of the network. It blocks incoming connections by default, but supports Port Control Protocol. The cacophony of unpatched legacy IoS devices stay firewalled because your ten year old network printer was never expected to have global connectivity and doesn't request it. End-to-end apps that actually want it do make the requests, and then the firewall opens the port for them without unsophisticated users having to manually configure anything.

The protocol is an evolution of NAT-PMP (RFC6886) for creating IPv4 NAT mappings, but RFC6887 supports IPv6 and "mappings" that just open incoming ports without NAT.
> So in the case of the toot mentioned above there is an AAAA for the FQDN. But the connection doesn’t work. But the end user doesn’t notice. Because there is a browser feature called Happy Eyeballs (HE). Basically: A browser tries both protocols and uses the faster on. In case of non-working IPv6 IPv4 is always faster.

I mean even if there is no "Happy Eyeballs", it would still work for end users, no? Unlike `curl`, you don't specify -4 or -6 with browsers. Without HE, wouldn't (shouldn't?) it just try both in sequence?

> HE can have some funny side effects. In a project a connection to a development web server sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. The solution was quite simple. The customer used a split VPN tunnel. IPv4 was routed via the VPN tunnel and those IPv4 addresses were allowed in the web servers access list. IPv6 was routed via the normal Internet connection and those addresses weren’t allowed.

This following sentence makes no sense, when the author literally said HE help it work when one IP family was broken and the other is not. So why would it work sometimes if IPv6 is consistently broken and IPv4 is not? (I'm not saying it won't happen; just that it shouldn't be "caused by HE" -- HE literally is the solution to this issue in general as the author said themselves!)
If you agree with the first quoted statement of mine then I gather you retract this statement:

it’s people with means who can’t afford healthcare
The US just decided to negotiate with Putin directly, leaving Europe out of it even though they're the ones affected by the Russia-Ukraine war, not the US.

And Vance explicitly said that Russia can't be expected to go back to the pre-war borders. In other words, Russia gets what they want (Donbas).
> (Also, you are right, our country has lost almost all sense of empathy)

From the outside, it looks worse than that. It seems more like the US has developed a weird active aversion to empathy, to the point where even enlightened self-interest gets rejected because it looks suspiciously like empathy.