skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 80's, when you were in charge of your computer, if you had a hard drive and didn't park it before shutting off power, not only could you lose anything cached but not written, but you could damage the drive itself, lose all of the contents.
So if you visualize milk spilling on a table in reverse that sense of that being fake or wrong or not possible is just your human point of view? Better to think of that like you are seeing a pendulum. Moving time backwards isn't impossible. It's just improbably?
Dictators are bad regardless of religion or lack thereof.

IDK what ZFC is, so perhaps you can enlighten me?
Are they misquoting anything that Google said?
> Democracy isn’t sensitive to manipulation.

So I guess Russia, China, Iran, etc., have been wasting their time and money in seeking to manipulate elections.

And the thousands of political consultants around the globe have been just scamming the candidates for whom they work.
I like my Kindle because it was cheap (nobody can beat that price) but I've never bought a book from Amazon nor do I plan to.

If they aren't interfering with (2) Amazon can do what it wants.
> You're still revealing the existence of myTopSecrets to the world, though.

Not if you only present that name in local DNS, and use a wildcard certificate to avoid needing to reveal the name via a SAN cert or other externally referable information.

Also, perhaps refrain from calling it myTopSecrets. Perhaps ProjectLooBreak instead.
This is somewhat unrelated, but I am curious what hardware there is for small scale printing (like an independent press) or scanning (for automatically converting books to digitally archive them for personal use). Does anyone in HN have recommendations?
These quotas you speak of do not and have never existed.

James was a below average engineer who wanted the special treatment of his daddy’s generation.
My issue with taxi has always been the scams, not even the long detours.

The local law requires that the taxi must take credit card and/or debit cards. If the machine is broken, they can’t take customers till it’s fixed.

30% of the time they tell me that the machine is broken and they want cash. When I say I don’t have cash they offer to drive to the ATM so I can take out some cash, while still on the meter of course. When I asked them to turn off the meter to take me to the ATM, they say it’s illegal.
>The reason is that the overwhelming majority of the budget is spent automatically - pensions, medicare, social security, and all of these expenses are unavoidable and in a mandatory expenses category.

Don't worry, they want to cut that too:

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/gop-targets-88...

March is going to be a bloodbath. For who, I can only wait and see.
Alaska, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Maine all get weather colder than Sweden. Other northern states hover at around Sweden-ish levels during winter, varying based on elevation and lake effect.

We just don't really give much of a shit about our people or infrastructure. So we all just make do. When my power goes out every winter, my furnace doesn't work, so I break out the portable propane heater, sleeping bag, extra blankets, winter gear. I keep telling myself I'll buy a generator, but the expense and complexity aren't really worth it for a few days. A bunch of my neighbors have wood stoves.
I think that’s somewhat unclear. In principle, the new carriers with F-35s should have a much bigger advantage over the Argentinian navy and air force than the tiny carriers we sent to the Falkland’s with Harrier jump jets. But of course it is impossible to know until such a thing actually happens. (Even in the case of a far more antecedently plausible conflict such as Russia/Ukraine, expert predictions were all over the place, and mostly wrong.)
Markov chains of fools
That looks like a decent article, but for the general case, ESR is not credible on name alone. Go look up criticism of that guy.
I recently got a Palma as well, but just had the display randomly break in my soft coat pocket (note screen and touch are totally fine, just the eink). I would recommend other people avoid them due to this random breakage.
oci images, yaml configs, single signature admin security, poor arbitrary hardware support, poor edge support, non distributed defaults, metering as afterthought. these are not good bases and defaults of k8s.
In more detail:

https://www.c-thru.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ammonia-Te...

"Generally, in the ammonia synthesis loop there is no need for an external heat source because the ammonia
synthesis reaction is exothermic. The produced heat from the reaction is a high-valued source which can be
recovered to satisfy the temperature requirements of the converter feed-stream and to generate high pressure
steam for use in other plant processes. In modern plants, the compressors of the synthesis loop (the
syngas/recycle compressors as well as the ammonia refrigeration compressor) are usually centrifugal ones
driven by steam turbines which work with the produced steam from the recovered waste heat available
within the plant (European Fertilizer Manufacturers’ Association (EFMA), 2000). Overall, electricity
consumption values of ~0.32 to ~0.64 kWh/kg-NH3 have been reported in literature for the synthesis loop,
depending on the variations in the syngas production pressure, synthesis loop pressure and compression
efficiencies (X. Liu et al., 2020)."

Note that the figure given there is an order of magnitude less than the electrical energy needed to make the necessary hydrogen by electrolysis.
No disagreement about the wack government. I'm not big on the conservative christian bits, but I respect those people's beliefs and their right to hold those beliefs, no matter how much I may personally disagree on some fundamental aspects of those beliefs. I find that most people, even most of those people, are willing to be kind, respectful, and accepting of others who treat them with the same kindness, respect, and acceptance... even if you don't personally accept every idea they believe. To your point, though, I wouldn't object to a little bit less of the conservative Christian stuff in my state government, all else equal.

I'm a renter, property taxes are baked into my rent. I live in an exceedingly safe and quiet area, a high income, low crime primarily suburban zip code. This isn't a discrimination thing, this is part of how I've learned to cope with feelings that I struggled with after being the victim of a traumatic, violent, and unprovoked attack I experienced a few years ago in a less safe environment. I have an attached fully enclosed garage in a townhouse-style apartment where I have nobody above or below me, and I pay less in rent for that than I paid for a condo-style apartment in a rough part of town in the cheaper southern side of the front range.

My (rent + state income taxes) in CO were about $2400/mo more expensive than my (rent + property taxes) here in TX, and that was living in a place with 6x as much violent crime per capita. To get somewhere as safe in CO as I am here in TX would've been even more expensive.

For as many downsides as you point out, there is still a lot to be said about the power of the market efficiencies made possible through the lax regulatory and pro-business environment that Texas has produced for itself.

As for your assumption, I absolutely understand the frustration with the changes to medical care laws down here, but that doesn't affect my partner or I, as neither of us are engaging in any kind of activity that could ever get either of us pregnant, so the question of medical care in the event one of us ever did get pregnant is functionally moot for us.
> it only gains features, never loses them

The article is about losing features due to incompatibility of plugins. Perhaps you refer to some more abstract open source concept?
could you show some example page where you use this color pallete?
>For anyone who values anything other than those things

Nah, we'll cut those too: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/gop-targets-88...
More people are capable of pinpointing pain points during usage than actual implementation of patch fix. That's reasonable, no?
I usually evaluate people based on how they behave by their own stated values and codes. It's been a good rule.

What's been amazing to me is how skin-deep the stated values across the tech industry were. Virtually every executive is behaving in ways they would fire their employees for just a few months ago. The executives have no moral compass as human beings. I believed this to be the case before, since the people I've interacted with who rose that high did so by being psychopaths, but what's amazing is how on display it is.

I don't mind the before or the after so much as the very, very transparent about-face.
That is still a conspiracy theory, some conspiracy theories are right as I pointed out.

So everything I said was right, the people who responded to me validated it, they think there are conspiracies! That means there are a lot of conspiracy theories, I explicitly noted that I didn't say they were right or wrong.
Yep I've used franken a few times it's the easiest php setup one could imagine
That's cool that you haven't been affected, but they happen frequently in Italy.

https://www.thelocal.it/20230719/blackouts-hit-italian-citie...
No idea why they are doing it, but I can say that on upgrading an old Windows machine, I discovered their financial software was completely non-functional and no windows emulation mode on the executable would work. I ended up running it in virtualbox in "seamless" mode in ubuntu+wine set to autolaunch the software... plus a windows share. For some reason that worked with no issues. The alternative would have been purchasing a half dozen upgrades and going through them one by one, with repeated database upgrades, for software that was working fine.

Probably not too much risk if the XP machine is isolated.
There could also be licensing issues with upgrading, as well as unmaintained proprietary software.
Maybe it does, however the system requirements page makes it looks like it supports everything BUT AMD.

https://docs.openvino.ai/2024/about-openvino/release-notes-o...
Unless you are suggesting total anarchy, usually criticism of one system would imply you desire some kind of alternative to replace it, or perhaps even some kind of amendment to the current system. It sounds like you don't have one?

But in that case, what now confuses me is your critique on private ownership. State ownership would be the alternative in this case, no?

But under the old systems, the ones that naturally manifested across the world for millennia, the natural flow is that elites in control of the state kick down the ladder and form tiered societies that limit social mobility. Through this they secure their position for generations. To do away with private ownership is to remove the checks that have been put into place to limit the power of elites who would otherwise have exclusive control.

While there have been many historical attempts to prevent this from happening, only the more recent political philosophies prescribed by liberal democracies in the past ~200 years have been effective in, even if only partially, mitigating this core issue of resource consolidation by elites. By focusing on meritocracy to the extreme (relative to before), liberal democracy and "capitalism" make power more fluid, it makes the ladder kicking more challenging (but not impossible). Yet these checks alone have given way to the explosive increase in innovation and quality of life we all now benefit from today.

Can we do better? Absolutely, especially as innovation opens doors to new ideas and capabilities.

But don't get confused by the semantics and abstractions masking the core of it all: Power. If your solution is to just re-centralize power to the group of elites in charge, even if they are elected, then regression is destiny.
Did he? I was under the impression that Biden did a lot of the stimulus in 2021. Trump did a bit, but if that still hid how badly he did that's crazy.
It's very nice :)
The AI items are concerning.

The DEI stuff though is gone and isn’t coming back. The concept was well intentioned but, quite ironically, these programs turned into a hub of biased discriminatory behavior and it was becoming increasingly hard to paint them as anything else.
The goal isn’t necessarily or primarily work or productivity. The goal is to regularly achieve a state of flow, which tends to induce happiness and satisfaction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)#Effects

I recently listened to the following talk by Csikszentmihályi, which I found useful: https://youtu.be/7Vfw7Du3XLU
Looks nice, but hard to get a feel for it without a real UI. I have to imagine it looks great
I always wonder how they do it. These spineless corporate suits. One month they're shoving DEI down your throat ("underrepresented, marginalized"), next month they're killing these programs and writing that they have always hired the "best" people for the job. Obviously, some people of the organization are different, but not all.

How do they do it? Just treat it like a job and do whatever the bag full of money demands? Or do they double-think like in 1984 and convince themselves that they themselves also believe it?
I’ve managed the kindle library for my wife and I on two devices for close to 10 years and I’ve never dealt with syncing or file systems full stop. I hit “buy” on amazon and about 15 seconds later the book is on the kindle and ready to read. There _is_ no management to do.
Yeah, that's the pretty part of the life chatter XD
For people worried about somehow exposing commercially or otherwise sensitive information by the registration of DNS names, a SAN certificate is out because of certificate transparency logs.

A wildcard certificate is safe from that though. Or just choosing names that don't give secrets away.

A certificate signed by a locally trusted CA would work too of course, but unless you already have that setup for other reasons it is a bunch of admin most funny want to touch.
This action seems consistent with the larger Trump admin strategy, whatever one's feelings about it. I was curious whether government YouTube channels were receiving the same kind of "archive team" response that governmental websites have been, and to get HN'ers thoughts on the practicality of mirroring that content in the fediverse.
Done, it's added to the top panel (cloud icon)
Nothing trusts them, they're just regular self-signed certificates. There is no benefit to using these over your own self-signed certificates except that you don't have to ask your LLM for the commands to generate them ;)
Both Japan and Germany attacked other countries to expand their empire.

Like Russia in this conflict.
One of the worst streaming experiences of all the services (although Prime is giving it a run for the money by overriding the scrub feature and a few other things), abysmal exclusives, and they constantly hike rates while shrinking the catalog. My partner is the holdout but they are close to breaking, can’t wait to kill that sub.
Genuinely don't know why you think Uber / Lyft are so much better than taxis? They cost slightly less now (used to be tons left till they needed to turn a profit), but it's still basically the same drivers driving them. They give the same type of service and do the same stuff. Only thing they don't do anymore is drive excessively long routes to run up the meter.
It's more-or-less impossible to become a sufficiently-senior executive at a sufficiently-large company without being a psychopath. You should have a baseline assumption that all executives at large corporations have no values whatsoever beyond doing what benefits them personally, you'll be a lot less surprised at their behavior if you do.
I don't think that it's as easy a two-way-street as that makes it seem.

humans developed extraordinary nuanced expression that most other animals cannot get near matching the depth and breadth of primarily because of the role that those expressions play in society itself.

an aardvark never has to put on a front so that their children aren't taken away by CPS. A donkey's livelihood is never reliant on them selling a poorly maintained used car to a sucker. Rhinos don't run for mayor.

BUT when you start considering animals that do seem to have a culture and society -- take for instance bonobos -- you start to see increased depth and breadth of expression and emotional response.

That signals to me that (most) emotions and expression come after the point of them playing a larger role than just familial maintenance. They seem to be largely reinforced by the needs of a growing social network that uses them to determine individual roles and the prioritization of 'maintenance of the group' rather than the individual.

that said, I am sure your example individual would be good at reading the expressive state of the 5 meter tall dog; I just contend that the emotional states of that dog are more simple and straight-forward than his human pet -- although maybe not since these dogs drive cars...

further research is needed on 5m car-driving dogs.
It's partially blocked. The old version of Kindle for PC won't let you download books published after Jan. 2023.
Kobo ereader is way more expensive. You can get the basic Kindle for 80 eurodollars (because Amazon expects to make it back).
perhaps off topic, but I love your personal site being webb.page… that’s perfect
And nowadays Windows simply just doesn't shut down.
Honestly 80% of the time on both my wife and my work computers, the shutdown process encounters some error and just stays on.
There’s an interesting middle ground also. I live in a city where you still need to be a licensed taxi driver to drive for Uber and the cars must be marked (in the UK; it doesn’t seem to be that uncommon here). I don’t in all honesty know how much regulation that actually involves, but certainly more than “some random person with a car”. So there is a least a little bit of accountability.

From idle chit chat with the drivers that used to drive for a traditional firm, many have told me they prefer it. They’re very keen on their ability to vet passengers first via ratings, and that people can’t hop out and run away without paying, which apparently is/was not uncommon on Friday and Saturday nights. As a passenger, I like that I can’t be fobbed off with “he’s just round the corner mate” for 30+ minutes and I don’t have to worry about getting cash.

It can be a mutually beneficial thing, it just can’t be an unregulated free-for-all which it sounds like many implementations are.
Yeah it's not a perfect article. But I appreciate the sentiment ultimately
https://blog.anacrolix.link/posts/how-not-to-implement-a-dht...
Just use Mathematica.

ar = Sqrt[ax^2 + ay^2]; atheta = ArcTan[ax, ay];
br = ar; btheta = atheta + theta;
cr = ar; ctheta = atheta + Pi + theta + Pi;
bx = br Sin[btheta]; by = br Cos[btheta];
cx = cr Sin[ctheta]; cy = cr Cos[ctheta];

In[2]:= bx == cx

Out[2]= True

In[3]:= by == cy

Out[3]= True

This seems so elementary that I think open source computer algebra systems can do it.
I realised that as a socially anxious person who wants to be more confident, an LLM might come useful in summarising the local law to this effect quickly and especially the right steps to take.
>Congress dictates budgets, not the President. The President has veto power (which can be overruled by Congress), but nothing more.

congress makes budget, but the president has always been a means to apply pressure and influence the budget. After all, if a president declares an emergency or crisis, and congress doesn't fund for that, then they may risk re-election. That's always been the "legal" means of the president settting the budget.
Ive never had trouble finding any sci-fi books on the high seas, even newer ones. I did try to grab some trash romance novels for my mother before though from her wish list and 9/10 of those simply weren't available and half of the time he one I could find was in some crazy ass format that stock kindle didn't want you to read.
Remember that both the WTC Bombing and Oklahoma City bombing used Ryder rental vans. Should we distrust Ryder van rentals?
The guy had to order 2 cars since the first didn't show up, his second car was illegal to drive but still rented out to him, and then he was charged a bunch of clearly fraudulent fees by an angry "host" who is mad his car wasn't street legal.

Idk, I think he has the right to complain about that. It's all wrong, and his time is worth something and should be compensated for.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna835836

Seems like his firing was completely justified. But is also a knock against Google for hiring him in the first place.
As Hume called it, a convenient fiction. It isn't how any government came to be, and a contract imposed under threat of force isn't valid anyway.

I'm reminded also of that meme cartoon with the annoying person coming out of a hole and observing the suffering citizen is still participating in society, "how interesting".
Cool. 100% of Italy lost power in 2003. That's over 50 million people.
This is a concept that actually exists. Would probably be wise to read about it.
Very cool! A similar app that I've been using a lot lately is: https://grayscale.design
So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
The same party controls both houses of Congress, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court. Surely they'll work this out.
Honest question...

I've had several ideas sort of like this over the years in areas/industries where it hadn't been done yet, but I'm always somewhat scared of running into copyright law issues. In other words, the data isn't mine, but if I gather it, transform it, and repackage it, it would likely be useful to people and certainly more useful than in its current raw form. But again, the data came from elsewhere.

In this case, as someone else mentioned, they likely just scraped other states'/private power companies'/rural cooperatives' maps or websites to get the data. How is that not problematic?

I understand that larger companies do this all the time, but isn't the risk pretty large for smaller entities?

*Edit* - I see I didn't read far enough to see that you guys are saying that you are often working directly with the utility companies etc. But the question still stands. I understand that some things where data is pulled are just attempts to get paid for other people's data, but some are not - some, like this, legitimately add value via visualization, aggregation, and transformation. I'm talking about things like the latter case.
In fact, even cheap no-name calculators are using BCD (binary-coded decimal) instead of "normal" representation of numbers.
Solar-powered flow reactor turns captured CO2 into synthetic fuel
We're talking about different kinds of bugs. One claim i'm making here is the poor iteration time imposed by Rust's complexity, significant design constraints, and so on, themselves cause kinds of bugs which are more readily addressed in C. Eg., I think memory leaks are easier in std Rust than in the kind of C i'm talking about.

I don't think we have a good evidential basis for comparing the total class of programming bugs in Rust vs. comparable langs -- since there isn't that much Rust code.

One "empirically ambitious" claim here is that the very high complexity of rust isn't design-bug-free, and "getting to 95%" with a modern C toolchain retains a very low-complexity get-it-done-and-iterate style of programming which has many "bug free'ing" advantages. Esp. if supported by a "debugger-oriented std lib"
What special treatment did he want?
"both fights" are presumably the Ukrainian war and Iraqi Freedom. Automotive power sources is oil.

What that all that means pretty much boils down to parroting Russian talking points.
They will try to: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/gop-targets-88...

But despite being a minority, such a budget will be highly unpopular and democratic congress can still use that to push back against it. It's faster for Trump to just force it through, if he's going undeterred.