skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't geothermal heat up the surface of the planet? You're essentially taking the heat that normally stays very deep and being it to the surface.
Everything Xiaomi Unveiled at MWC 2025 in 11 Minutes [video]
4 years vs 40. Different timescale and use?
A lot of young children will have accidents because they forget, or don't want, to go to the washroom. That's true even if it is urgent. (They either don't know what their body is telling them, or they are fearful of washrooms, or they are simply having too much fun to be bothered by what their body is telling them.)
There's a lot of assumption about mentoring here and they're not great. Specifically:

- When mentoring you're not supposed to remove autonomy. In this case, the first contact can be just: Hi, this seems a new complex area to you. WOULD YOU LIKE me to tell you about how we make these changes safer or answer YOUR QUESTIONS?

- Mentoring is not managing or micro managing. You don't need to do any hand holding. Instead it can be knowledge transfer about a concept. "I think you're going to have problems because... You can read up on XYZ or look at (example from the past) to learn more."

- "not letting them experience the viscera of failure or fear" What's the point? They're adults. We don't teach people to watch out when crossing the road by hitting them with a car.

I mean, all those points apply to seniors too. The only difference is that you're proactivly reaching out to say "knowledge transfer is possible and probably a good idea right now - would you like to do that?"
Not OP, but for rolling back we just… revert the change to the setup_k8s_stuff.py script
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In practice it’s a module that integrates with quite a large number of things in the monolith because that’s one of the advantages of Infrastructure as Actual Code: symbols and enums and functions that have meaningful semantics in your business logic are frequently useful in your infrastructure logic too. The Apples API runs on the Apples tier, the Oranges API runs on the Oranges tier, etc. etc.

People call me old fashioned (“it’s not the 1990s any more”) but when I deploy something it’s a brand new set of instances to which traffic gets migrated. We don’t modify in place with anything clever and I imagine reverting changes in a mutable environment is indeed quite hard to get right (and what you are hinting at?)
Gold is similarly useless when it's heavy and hard to move. There is little chance of that, and Bitcoin offers advantages in ease of transfer, transparency of transactions, and lack of government interference.
Thank you for your question, it was thought provoking.

Many things brought me here. One of them is that I’m a UX designer, and I like to stay in the loop with my dev friends—not just to build better products together but also to have interesting conversations.

I also have a lot of respect for development because I deeply value that knowledge. In a way, this aligns with a philosophical idea: understanding and respecting different fields of knowledge helps us grow and build better things together. As Montaigne suggested in his Essays, true wisdom comes from embracing our limitations and staying open to learning. I find it exciting to discover new things, knowing that there will always be more to explore.
A platypus?
Okay you had your FUD, now for the just desserts: This is actually a feature that is likely to reduce the amount of JS that needs to run on the web. It allows for common component-oriented styling patterns to be employed without bloating CSS bundles or using runtime CSS-in-JS functionality to accomplish it. Source: I work on a web development platform (booo, hisss)
it's Purdue... it's a good school no doubt but this guy acts like he's acing things at MIT or Stanford... c'mon.
The most 3-D experience that I have had with the moon, on the cheap, is when its not in it's full phase. With a cheap telescope, when you observe the edge of the partial-phase moon's crescent, you see the "terminator." It suddenly feels so different, finally you see the moon's bumpy spherical nature. It's like you are flying just above it.

> The terminator is where you'll see the most pronounced shadows cast by the lunar features like craters, mountains, and valleys. This is because the Sun is at a low angle relative to the lunar surface, emphasizing the topography and allowing you to see craters and other features in sharp relief
I have a theory that the volatility we have seen in crypto historically is due to the influence that speculators have in the price of the asset given the % of speculator vs non-speculator money sunk into BTC

As more and more "non-speculator" money enters BTC, the swings in the price will decrease. I see the "rainbow chart" as a backing to this theory. It shows how the price has been slowly settling . In 25 years we should have a very stable deflating BTC price.
The reason solarpunk aren't hopped up on nuclear is that nuclear is an incredibly slow process that requires governments to fund it, corporations only run it if it's profitable (the Vermont Yankee power plant was shut down due to not being competitive with the price of natural gas even though it was emission free), and there's just too much red tape and delays and lack of public goodwill in comparison to Solar, which in comparison scales down to where individuals can afford it and make a difference RIGHT NOW, without waiting for the stars to align with government funding or cost overruns, licensing, etc.

Solar with battery storage is the cheapest, quickest, and most effective source of power currently on the market, and it can reduce our emissions when time is of the essence.

That's not to say solarpunk would advocate to shut down existing nuclear plants or stop construction of ones already underway, but most in the movement have decided solar and wind as the most expedient and decentralized way of achieving energy independence and emissions reduction.
It would be like each telcom having its own area code and expecting to be able to move a seven digit suffix from one to another. That’s a closer analogy to how email works.
Maybe people could just write quirky rom-coms set in the setting (not for me, but not everything is!)
All currency is made up, and even physical reserves (gold) have very little intrinsic value. Bitcoin is just another one.
Can you elaborate on what objections you have to Librewolf and why IceCat is better?
Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests
Take a group of humans who each make observations and deductions, possibly faulty. Then, they do extensive checking of their conclusions by interacting with humans and computer proof assistants etc. Let us name this process as HC.

A program which can simulate individual humans should also be able to simulate HC - ie. generate proofs which are accepted by HC.

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Penrose's conclusion in the book is more weak - that a knowably correct process cannot simulate humans.

We now have LLMs which hallucinate etc that are not knowably correct. But, after reasoning based methods, they can try to check their output and arrive at better conclusions, as is happening currently in popular models. This is fine, and is allowed by Penrose's argument. The argument is applied to the 'generate, check, correct' process as a whole.
Yup. I'm seeing this as well in trying to write Solarpunk fiction that has near zero hand waving of technical and economic challenges. I've had to rethink a bunch of everyday stuff that today relies on substantial heavy industry behind the scenes (like toothpaste).
These are not mutually exclusive proposals. Houdini provides a way to extend e.g. CSS with arbitrary JS. This is merely a new abstraction for code-reuse in CSS. It’s inspired by the same concept from Sass, but doesn’t need to be compiled and thus won’t bloat your CSS bundle.
> 2000ies

Now this is interesting. I've seen a lot of "40ties", "90ies", etc around, and I'm not sure why people do that. But once you've done it, it's clear how to read the text. Most of the non-numeric suffix is redundant; people mean "forties", not "forty-ties".

But "2000ies" has no potential redundancy and no plausible pronunciation. It's spelled as if you're supposed to pronounce it "two thousandies", but there's no such thing as a thousandy.
Solarpunk is firmly rooted in the anti-authoritarian camp. It's fundamentally inspired by Murray Bookchin's books on ecological anarchism.
Not the same thing at all. An email address is a hierarchical construct with different ownership at each level, and a phone number isn’t.
Better yet, why not AMERICAN tax payers. I (non American) would be extremely happy for trump to pump BTC price so that I can sell my crypto at a 50x win. Thanks !
Weren't Blender working on a more efficient cycles renderer?
The structure of the archive looked very similar to the sample I was analyzing.

The securelist article [1] also describes the same malware techniques and stealer behaviors, just in a way more undetailed manner than the original reddit post.

[1] https://securelist.com/gitvenom-campaign/115694/

edit: update my grandparent comment with the reddit links. It was on /r/netsec and /r/hacking and not on /r/cybersecurity where the author posted it first :D
I love this, love the writing, and share the joy of watching hummingbirds and swallows, but....

Hard disagree on the mockingbirds. Fuck those guys. A long time ago, I had one singing less than a block away all night, every night, for the whole summer. Loud enough to be heard with the windows closed. I either didn't try earplugs (this was a long time ago), or maybe they just didn't work for me. It woke me up and kept me awake for long periods due to the unpredictability of its song. By the end of the season I was seriously considering getting a bb or pellet gun and shooting the thing. Not to kill it, just to get it to shut the hell up. I still can't hear one today without getting vague twinges of anger over all the lost sleep.

Fuck those guys.
> For me, this setting makes macOS snappier

For me, it just replaces the slow movement animations with slow fade animations instead, which is just utterly infuriating.
<3 the license

https://github.com/tensorchord/VectorChord/blob/main/LICENSE
Going from plain CSS to BEM more or less meant abandoning the "cascade" part of CSS. We've basically spent the last 15 years styling our markup directly, bouncing back and forth between different strategies for doing so in the most capable, and aesthetically palatable way possible.
I was in middle school in the 1990's, in Canada so the legal bit wouldn't be all that different from the US. We had welding, machining, and all sorts of power tools. That said, the teacher used their discretion while deciding who could use the more dangerous tools and supervised their use carefully.
To fight this I mostly do ping-pong pairing with llms. After e discuss the general goal and approach I usually write the first test. The llm the makes it pass and writes the next test which I'll make pass and so on. It forces me to stay 100% in the loop and understand everything. Maybe it's not as fast as having the llm write as much as possible but I think it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
What am I missing? I don't see anything except the scroll bar itself, on both Firefox and Chrome. Do my custom scroll bar colors have something to do with it?
> Would it be fair to describe it as a utopian claim?

In the case of water heating (and water based space heating also) it's already here in terms of technology and availability. Heat pump storage water heaters are now widely available. The problem is that they can only be phased in as fast as existing gas water heaters reach EOL.

Domestic water heating comprises almost 18% of household energy use in the United States.
Either working for them, bribed by them, compromised by them, or useful idiots for them.
I agree with a lot of your top 5 so I’ll try to continue

5: I enjoyed sections of this book but as a whole I didn’t like it

4: had some cool ideas and there were moments when I got excited but the execution wasn’t there. Basically an amateur with a good idea

3: readable but unsatisfying. I finished it but was roasting it in my head the whole time

2: garbage. Bad story idea and bad writing. Nothing good to say except that it seemed like the author was trying

1: offensive. Celebrity cash grabs, polemics, etc. no artistic value whatsoever, author was not trying to write a good book. “Book” is just a format here
> It is a dictatorship.

Where do you get the idea that Ukraine is a dictatorship?
The way you've written this comes across like the AI is influencing your writing style....
It absolutely has breaking changes! But most developers will never notice. I work on a complex browser based web development platform and we’ve had certain specs change under our feet leading to incidents that required us to disable features until major browser vendors reverted things. I do not envy spec authors. Huge respect for their patience.
A takeaway may be that cutting-edge rendering doesn't really matter for cartoon-stylized films, especially for kid viewers
This is a great scale to use when you’ve got a group of people because it’s easy to teach without needing to do calibration: -1 is bad, not meeting expectations, 0 is “not good, but meets expectations”, 1 is “good, better than expectations” and 2 is outstanding.

It’s hard to come up with a nice visual for it though, you just have to use the numbers themselves (or rather ugly emojis)
Huh. Here they only sing in the morning. Are you sure it was a mockingbird? I've heard people have that reaction to whippoorwills and other nightjars that sing loudly and repetitively all night.
The middle of software development is going is getting squeezed [video]
How long did you fast for? Or did you do intermittent fasting?
I think of it as a continuous feedback loop between engineering, finance, and QA that ultimately ends in a product being manufactured as inexpensively as possible without dying in the warranty period.
You're never really forced to upgrade because of battery. If you don't want to get Apple to replace it (which though expensive is still much cheaper than a new phone), then you can take it to your local phone repair shop which will do it for not much more than the cost of a replacement battery.
Upvote for the mockingbird. One fellow has for years perched himself in tree near the sidewalk tables at my favorite restaurant. His songs are as good as the food.

> only three species of birds survived the Chicxulub asteroid impact

I think it was three clades that survived, not individual species.
That's correct. There's nothing technically special about the French nuclear plants that load follow. It's just that France has so much nuclear power in the grid that some of their nuclear plants do load following.
Crypto companies accounted for almost half of corporate donations in the 2024 election cycle, with some contributing tens of millions of dollars to help Trump win a second term in office.

Trump previously called Bitcoin 'a scam against the dollar', but after crypto industry plowed tens of millions into the election, Trump is now for it.

John Reed Stark, former Chief of Internet Enforcement of SEC, explained Crypto on 60 minutes:

Crypto is a scourge, it is not something you want in your society. It has no utility. It is pure speculation. There is no balance sheet to crypto, there is no financial statements. There is no audit inspection, examination, net capital requirements, no licensure of individuals involved, and there is no transparency into it. That creates real systemic risks, not just risks for investors.

But the other part people don't talk about enough is the dire externalities that are enabled by crypto. Every single crime you can think of, is easier to do now because of crypto. Especially ransomware, human sex trafficking, sanctions evasion, money laundering. North Korea is financing their nuclear program using crypto.
Do you think that of past generations? I don’t. They were limited by what had been invented.

I mean they had things like slavery and gladiator fights, I’m really not very sympathetic to them in general, I think they were quite cruel. But dumb? Nah.

Solar panels are currently very expensive as building material. We could be exploiting passive solar more effectively I think, though.
I bought a 50MB (yes, megs) Quantum HD from an acquaintance. It was freaking slow connected to my Amiga, like 20-30KB per second. It also made a horrible high-pitched whine.

Figuring I had nothing to lose, I turned it over and squirted some 3-in-1 oil on the motor spindle. The whine started increasing in pitch as it quietened, and slowly the HD benchmark program started creeping up toward a more reasonable 1MB/s or so. I didn't use that drive afterward, and just copied the, ahem, public domain apps and games off it and then threw it away.

I have not before or since sped up a computer by oiling it.
Three bullet points, each with three sentences (ok last one has a semicolon instead) is a dead giveaway
Is this somehow worse than humans talking each other into it?
That's why I've decided that my next mouse won't have any rubber in it, but it's difficult to find a good mouse without rubber. I'm still looking for one.

Generally, I try to avoid buying anything with rubber. It is usually the first part that goes bad. Either it gets sticky and starts melting or it gets hard and dry and breaks up. Also, I avoid using rubber bands. They usually end up damaging objects they hold together.

Here's a good page about conservation of rubbers and plastics for those who like to preserve their vintage stuff for a long time.
https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con...
Mentoring really only works if the junior person actively seeks out a trusted colleague, ideally in the context of a formal program (with clear guidance on expectations and such).

What you have here, basically, is a customer abusing an API. This is extremely common: mental models of systems differ greatly, and 'getting things to work from my side' will always take precedence over 'making sure I'm not missing an alternate understanding of the bigger picture'.

But one, possibly easy, thing you can do, is make the API more abuse-resistant. Add rate limits on expensive operations that should only be used seldomly (which may be hard in the case of "a SQL object", but still), just deprecate and/or hide such functionality completely, or add convenience functions that automatically do the right thing, and promote those.

If you do decide to reach out, make sure you very clearly describe the issues you've observed in a strictly technical way ('Hi, I noticed you're creating lots of Customer objects, which is really expensive since there are manual checks by various departments involved with that later on') and clearly outline solutions ('What you might want to do instead is only create Branch objects, which are basically what you want anyway and much cheaper and bore performant').

And be mentally prepared for not getting any response, them turning things around and responding that you are the one who's wrong, or even them running to their manager telling them you're impeding their progress by having way-too-hard-to-use systems. And just shrug that off, after briefly considering whether they may have a point, and making things better, for everyone, just in case they do...
> concerns about US companies (especially in the last months) have led many to migrate to Signal

And then, footer at the bottom of signal.org says “Signal, a 501c3 nonprofit” which is clearly an American thing. Am I missing something here? Both look American from here.
I have used both Frontpage and Dreamweaver. I currently use the vintage open source html editor Kompozer.
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It used to be before government regulations were put in place. I don't care much about the technical feasibility currently. When and if a law is put in place it becomes up to the developers to create a solution.
How are the videos captured or processed? The solar lens flares are smoothly interpolated but the moon surface shows lower FPS, almost feels like the flares were on a separate layer.
I think this didn't age well, for HN, and it prompts some serious questions about our techbro startup culture.

> Obvious but necessary: to incentivize productive work, we tie compensation to the number of characters transcribed, and assess financial penalties for failed tests (more on tests below). Penalties are priced such that subpar performance will result in little to no earnings for the labeller.

So, these aren't employees? The writeup talks about not trusting gig workers, but it sounds like they have gig workers, and a particularly questionable kind.

Not like independent contractors with the usual freedoms. But rather, under a punishing set of Kafkaesque rules, like someone was thinking only of computer programs, oops. "Gamified", with huge negative points penalties and everything. To be under threat of not getting paid at all.

I see that this article is dated the 16th, so it's before the HN outrage last week, over the founders who demoed a system for monitoring factory worker performance, and were ripped a new one online for dehumanizing employees.

Despite the factory system being not as invasive, dehumanizing, and potentially labor law-violating as what's described in this article: about whip-cracking of gig workers, moment-to-moment, and even not paying them.

I'm not even sure you'd get away with calling them "independent contractors", under these conditions, when workers save copies of this blog post, to show to labor lawyers and state regulators.

(Incidentally, I wasn't aware that a company working in aviation gets skilled workers this way. The usual way I've seen is to hire someone, with all the respect, rights, and benefits that entails. Or to hire a consultant who is decidedly not treated like a gig worker in a techno-dystopian sweatshop.)

I don't want Internet mob justice here, but I want to ask who is advising these startups regarding how they think of their place in the world, relative to other humans?

I can understand getting as far as VC pitches while overwhelmed with fixating on other aspects of the business problems, and still passing the "does this person have a good enough chance to have a big exit" gut feel test of the VCs. But are there no ongoing checks and advising, so that people don't miss everything else?
The 6 cent capacitor is more durable and can absorb an error like that without the product failing.

Like they say that anyone can overbuild a bridge but only an engineer can make it barely stand up. A lot of that cost cutting is useful but it tends to go too far.
This. Practically anyone claiming to be a mentor or wanting to be a mentor has issues. It's selfish ego boosting stuff. Additionally, in almost every discipline the world changes so much and the real decisions are so context dependent that any "mentor like" advice is as likely wrong as right. And if it's simpler stuff then it's just a random tidbit of advice from one person to another, or it's in a book somewhere and a random comment "dude i read awesome book x about y the other day" works - the person either doesn't care and won't read it or they do and they will.
Yes, it's possible that some of the diversification within those clades happened before the impact, but the start of the radiation is so close to the impact that I think it's unlikely that it happened earlier. It would be too much of a coincidence, and the error bars for the molecular clocks almost always include the impact.