skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The low river issue 2 or 3 summers ago was overblown. When there is not enough water, the production can be slowed down to use less water.

Regarding what happened during that heatwave, there are, rightfully so, regulations on how hot the water can be to be dumped into regular rivers. These regulations ensure the protection of the marine life and ecosystem of these rivers. During the that summer, the rivers' natural temperature was almost as hot as the threshold set by these regulations, so they could not dump any hot water into the rivers. But there are add-ons solutions to this in the future, such as cooling ponds where they would let water temperature dissipate before dumping it into the rivers.
I still don't understand the iPad lineup.

What is the point of iPad Air? It's compatible with the latest Apple Pencil, but iPad isn't, but iPad Pro is, and the Pencil Pro is only compatible with iPad Pro, iPad Air (not M1), and iPad ... MINI (not iPad). (Edit: Actually the Apple Pencil for our iPad Air M1 isn't even sold anymore, I guess?)

The Apple Pencil USB-C compatibility matrix is even more confusing.

Why is this division of Apple run like Google's messaging apps?
It's very, very expensive and (until last week) it was critical to keep the US on side, which would be jeopardized by breaking the nonproliferation treaty.

The MAD argument still applies: Ukraine can't threaten to nuke Moscow without Russia obviously threatening to retaliate with nukes.
You say that sarcastically but isn't that obviously good? If this turns a terrible healthcare system into a merely quite bad healthcare system then that could help millions of people.
There's no reason to believe nuear couldn't benefit from economies of scale.
Putin was elected
Orban was elected
"Stopping" can mean many things.

Reaching the altitude of space is much, much, easier than reaching orbital velocity.

This meant that during the Global War on Terror, people had legitimate questions about if Al Qaida could damage the ISS. The answer then was "no", but amateurs reached the Kármán line in 2004, students in 2019, and the current altitude record holder is 143 km.

I suspect that it is well within the capacity of random drug cartels in the US, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Haiti and Jamaica to destroy a Starship during launch, if they so desired.

A functioning US government is a reason not to do that. Nobody in any of those countries will want to risk Musk asking Trump for a favour in the form of a USSOCOM operation.

Destroy the US federal government, and there may well not be an USSOCOM left afterwards. And so far, DOGE has shown zero regard for the value of who they cut, e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/02/doge-nucl...
I watched Flow in the theater. On the big screen, the less-polished look definitely comes across as an artistic choice, enhancing the otherworldly quality of the world and scenes it depicts. Combined with the great animation of the animals and the audio, you leave the theater in wonder. I suspect the visual roughness becomes more jarring in a less immersive environment.
Very technically speaking Ukraine didn't have a nuclear weapons program the way we speak of China or India having one.
What they had was nuclear weapons left over when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Some people just live under a rock; or they have never been impacted by god awful management decisions.

Sometimes I wonder what that life looks like? Maybe just sipping champagne at beach side (or on the couch) all day in ignorance. Watch whatever reality trash is on streaming services. All while the world burns around them.
What nuclear industry does Germany have?
Well said, this kind of comparisons always bugged me.
Umbrella Reinforcement Learning [new RL method] – a tool for hard problems
Slightly unrelated, but that reminds me of all the thousands of "Git demystified" videos out there. There's a lot of confusing software out there!
iPad is a product I want to love, but still never find a reason to use.
Every RTO order, public sector or private, is about creating attrition. Not efficiency, productivity, or performance. Attrition.
A lot of Americans have been getting screwed for 30 years and have little invested in the stability of the system.
Firefox 136 Desktop gets Vertical Tabs
Interesting, although would be great to see some comparative results, e.g., with and without the html alt tag approach.
Kind of. Last I checked it’s broken under Wayland, and under X11 there’s a lot of apps that don’t populate it.
Cobol, Vimscript/VimL and Ada
The Budapest Memorandum had no security guarantees.

> Another key point was that U.S. State Department lawyers made a distinction between "security guarantee" and "security assurance", referring to the security guarantees that were desired by Ukraine in exchange for non-proliferation. "Security guarantee" would have implied the use of military force in assisting its non-nuclear parties attacked by an aggressor (such as Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for NATO members) while "security assurance" would simply specify the non-violation of these parties' territorial integrity. In the end, a statement was read into the negotiation record that the (according to the U.S. lawyers) lesser sense of the English word "assurance" would be the sole implied translation for all appearances of both terms in all three language versions of the statement.[17] In the Ukrainian version of the document, the wording "security guarantees" was used though.[19]
As a matter of personal character, the people who would be more likely to stand up and shout or protest vigorously in today’s situation are the people which society generally considers obnoxious and disruptive.

So in each workplace most were already marginalized or learned to hide these traits for their benefit. There are way more people in the ‘flight’ than the ‘fight’ camp.
The result of 40+ years of pseudoscience from neoclassical and neoliberal economists.

America is cooked.
> Ladybird is also not ideologically captured by anti freedom extremists with self contradictory beliefs. Mozilla refuses to allow anyone to donate to firefox development because they demand the right to redirect funds you give them towards discriminating against people they don't like.

Can you expand on this? This feels wildly editorialized.
Huh.. maybe that's why it always runs out of battery on the rare occasion I put it in a backpack and take it somewhere...
Did you encounter any instances of hallucinations or omissions?

One would image those to be the biggest dangers.
Sanity Studio: the missing UX guide
Anyone have recommendations for chip datasheets? Ive explored a couple options so far, but getting some bitfields wrong is super annoying.

I see plenty of examples like the one here that are on easier extractions. A PDF to HTML or Markdown converter will probably get it right with OCR.
Boring how there was no questioning of the goal post that is moved constantly. This (generative) AI industry suffers from an absurd level of sunken cost fallacy.

Unless there are more fundamental changes in the technology, I only see us in the biggest bubble of the modern world.
I propose Foogle as a new name.
There is no binding commitment that the US broke. You may not like that fact, but it is a fact.
Yes, that's how I intended it.
RGB to YCbCr conversion and back is well defined, and RGB->YCbCR->RGB should give you back the original RGB values, no matter what the colorspace was.
> He favours the aggressors.

What is your response to this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD_KEFpuIro

Transcript here: https://singjupost.com/transcript-jeffrey-sachs-on-the-geopo...

>What was Putin’s intention in the war? I can tell you what his intention was. It was to force Zelensky to negotiate neutrality. And that happened within seven days of the start of the invasion. You should understand this, not the propaganda that’s written about this.

>Oh, that they failed and he was going to take over Ukraine. Come on, ladies and gentlemen. Understand something basic. The idea was to keep NATO. And what is NATO?

>It’s the United States off of Russia’s border. No more, no less. I should add one very important point. Why are they so interested? First, because if China or Russia decided to have a military base on the Rio Grande or in the Canadian border, not only would the United States freak out, we’d have war within about ten minutes.
When discussing debt you need to factor in the interesting fact that people in Italy have savings sleeping on the bank that basically counter weight the debt.
Do you know how many people die because of coal plants every year?

It's far, far more than nuclear per unit [0]. Nuclear power is nearly a thousand times less murderous.

0 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...
Belgium is the same, and I don't know about you, but F16's and F35's are the only ones that can carry those bombs. That's why Belgium ordered a bunch of them and not some European planes.

It's too late to cancel now, but I guess in the future we will have to reconsider the true value of these bombs and airplanes. Once we really need them, US might "force us into peace".
Were it not for constantly updated buying guides from tech news sites, Im not sure anyone even Apple employees themselves would know which iPad to recommend to anyone.
FedFlix
About 70% of the land in the UK will never be built on for various reasons. This leaves 30%. That 30% contains all the towns, cities, suburbs, and various industrial estates, ports, airports and so on. The actual amount of land vaguely available for projects of any sort is rather small, and those projects face heavy headwinds in terms of planning permissions, NIMBYs, and other interests expressed often by people living nowhere near the land in question.
Not sure which device suits your criteria the best, but feel free to take a look at the supported Laptops/Tablets: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Tablets_in_classi...

I heard the Xiomi Mi Pad 5 Pro had good support (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Xiaomi_Mi_Pad_5_Pro_(xiao...), but we also support a lot of Chromebooks like your Duet 3 (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Lenovo_IdeaPad_Duet_3_(go...) :p
It's too bad that Linux doesn't come with Apple Silicon. And while 20s me would have loved configuring things, once I had a family and a lot less time, I just want it to work.
Saying a group was all aboard a train is not a common way to indicate a minority. And they said they wrote off most of the people here.
I would definitely buy an iPad Pro that had regular MacOS on it like a MacBook. Otherwise I have had an iPad for about ten years and it’s been collecting dust for about 9.5 (will sell a cheap iPad 1, DM me!).
> Subsequent president might realize that America might want allies

And to gain those allies they will give them control over these key supply lines so that said allies can dictate America's foreign policy?
The anti nuclear lobby was funded by the KGB.
Well, if you can have (and projects do have) >5 consecutive symbols, then it is symbol heavy. I am pretty sure I made this comment a long time ago with an example but paging on HN is dreadful and time-consuming. I will try to look for it. It was on GitHub. I came across it when I was interested in Rust and checked somewhat popular Rust codebases.

Can you think of such cases?
Yeah, I'm sick of the "I learned I was wrong the hard way" clickbait that's cropping up everywhere. We are past the time for that.

We need to be building a platform that houses the left and right in order to have a chance at standing up to this. This will be a real litmus test for the US: do we favor our tribal affiliations more than the country that enables us to have those affiliations? Or are we willing to put them aside for the greater good?
It could be a great do-everything machine if they let you run macOS on it, but of course they don't want to sell one machine that does everything, they want to sell you an iPad and a MacBook even though they are basically the same hardware plus or minus an integrated keyboard.
sea.dev - Software Engineer - UK/EU - Freelance - Fintech

Python essential

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help accelerate our AI backend. We'd like someone who can jump in and accelerate/own large components of the development.

For someone London based, this could very likely turn into a FT role.
Must have highly relevant experience and strong references.

Please share your details at https://www.linkedin.com/company/seadotdev/
Trump is slapping 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico because the USMCA agreement "is a scam" and he was the one to negotiate and sign it. After ripping up NAFTA. The USA's word is worthless now.
>>Where are they doing anything AI related with your data? Where's the proof?

https://www.mozilla.ai/

>without need for payment from you and

No need to pay YOU, you are twisting things around.

Have fun, i stop here arguing.
Agreed.

Russia can pull out of their invasion literally any time.
Watching shows, playing games, occasional drawing.
Live Updates: China and Canada Retaliate Against New Trump Tariffs
> It's very, very expensive

May be you mean uranium enrichment? When plutonium is already available, like in Ukraine, it is completely different game - you just need to chemically separate plutonium from the spent fuel. That is the only noticeable expense - needs facility with safety protections, etc. Or just a few people willing to die for the Motherland. The rest is putting charges around the plutonium sphere and timing them correctly with electronics. That is basically all. Couple weeks really :)
Totally agree. It’s like, I get the hard core MAGA voters. The smart ones knew exactly what they are voting for, and they’re now super elated. The not so smart ones just voted for the movement, and their leader, unlikely to be disappointed by anything he does (read Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt).

Everyone else… yeah.
Yah, got a m4 ipad with a keyboard addon ... it just doesn't work, its not a computer.
That's a suspicion, as I made clear. And thus based on circumstancial evidence. Were I to have actual proof then I would have been more forthright in making a claim.
No, it's just that I don't customize systems anymore. It's not worth the hassle of maintaining a bunch of extra stuff just to fix issues that shouldn't be there in the first place. All those extra ux tweak programs just end up costing time to keep them working across updates, etc. because they're not part of the system.
Went fine for Chamberlain, people talk unfavorably about him now but he's dead and doesn't hear nor care. How it went for millions of others is more relevant.
It's a Good, Better, Best strategy. iPad is good, iPad Air is better, iPad Pro is best.
iPad (cheap ol reliable)

iPad AIR (pro lite)

iPad mini (mini with iPad tech)

iPad Pro (for artists or people who think they can replace their MacBooks with it but in the end they can’t)
> By your logic, Apple would never get bad press.

Not "never", but it is indeed my observation that the press is much "nicer" in their reporting and much more "forgiving" to Apple than to other similar companies.

In some circles, this observation already has become a running gag when the pen pusher is again too impressed of some Apple marketing.
Wrong link, the article is about ferries to St. Pierre and Miquelon.
Has the US ever honored their word when it mattered? You do business with them because otherwise they roll up with warships.
Sounds like cars should be slowed down in your city, and public transport should be expanded
For me the iPad has become one of my favorite ways to use applications like ZBrush, Procreate/Clip Studio, Photoshop/Affinity products.

Now I just need to find good texturing and basic modeling applications I can use on the iPad and I could do a lot more from the comfort of my couch or even outside in the spring.

ZBrush especially on the iPad is an impressive feat and is almost a 1:1 port. I don’t have years and years of ZBrush experience so I actually much prefer the iPad ZBrush GUI to the traditional one.

edit: Shoutout to Paperlike screen covers.
Everything seen so far does not suggest it will improve.

SMRs might, possibly, change that — we shall have to see. I have nothing against SMRs, but they're novel, and I've seen a lot of novel ideas that seem interesting, go nowhere.
Agents.json and LLM.txt files could be simple de-factos like robot.txt and I hope something takes off. CrewAI or Letta/MemGPT or OpenHands/OpenDevin all have some kind of swarm orchestration tie in points but there is nothing beyond borders. MCP is probably the most flexible approach and could play nice with agent.json which I would like to see if it's possible to stay open source all the way.

Also, a little bit under the radar but the Netlify team are onto something interesting thinking about Agent Experience (AX) which both Anthropic and the wildcard folks should consider closely:

https://agentexperience.ax/
The map I found says there's still a couple operating reactors.
You want to escape slow UI and bad corporate rulers... and you chose Ubuntu?!

Dude... Mint, Arch / Manjaro, Void, even Alpine is better. Plenty of good and very lean+mean options out there.

Ubuntu is the Windows of the Linux world. Has been for several years now.

Try looking up what Canonical did and still does with the Snap store.
This honestly. I honestly think this is so easily solved at the OS/browser level. Apple already does parental controls. Just pass 'Can view adult content' and 'can watch ads' from there to the browser. Don't even expose the actual age.
It's pretty simple. Get the Air if for yourself. Get the Pro if for work or if you want a better screen. Get the iPad for kids.
The top 10% of tennis players have 80% of ATP points.
Anyone who still thinks Elon Musk is trying to make the government more efficient is willfully ignorant at this point. Elon, Peter Thiel, and JD Vance all want to dismantle government. Trump is a pawn in this.
I stopped saying thanks to ChatGPT – here's what happened
I mean he changed the path of a hurricane via sharpie in the first term. He is incapable of admitting being wrong ever.
https://zirk.us/@cratermoon/113796212085352331

also see https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CfPPqWBVkbo
Which people?

I hear that it is the same people who voted Donald last time who voted Donald again this time. No others voted for him.

The issue seems to be that many people who are not trumpists did not vote at all.

Maybe i'm wrong, but it seems that if everyone who could vote actually did vote, then Donald would have lost.

So ... maybe he won, but i hardly think he represents the majority is US citizens.
I agree mostly, but the mechanisms of domestic and external propaganda are basically the same, it's just that autocratic regimes have a "home field advantage" domestically via repressions. And yes, it started before 2011, but this is approximately the year when IMO the tide really started to change for worse. Before that there were some more or less free press and a semblance of political discourse in the country, but since the peak of election fraud protests it progressively got weaker, and by now it feels like the "opposition" is completely destroyed
Railway Metal: No cloud on cloud
Not legally binding perhaps.

> Clinton and Yeltsin did promise Ukraine “full guarantees of security, as a sign of friendship and good neighborliness.” The two leaders also reaffirmed “the obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state,” including Ukraine.

Still - guess you have to check the small print.
My mom's iPad's screen has failed so she asked me to look into a new iPad for her. I'm not generally interested in Apple products personally; in just five minutes of research, I ran into the same confusion you have. iPads used to be simple: there was iPad and iPad Air. One would only buy an Air if one's use case was basic apps without a lot of hardware requirements (e.g., for children).

My mom also uses one of those magnetic keyboard attachments; she needs a new one because it's in rough shape. Come to find out some of them are over $300.
Plenty of dictators were elected. Someone being elected does not make them good. And Musk was not elected.
Exactly, Russia's numbers are most likely much worse than publicly known ;)
Never mind the cost, it has taken the UK over a decade from initial decision to not yet completing Hinkley Point C. Nuclear is really slow to build. You can get a solid decade of carbon-free electricity out of solar panels in that time.

Panels today. Batteries as available. Nuclear eventually - maybe.

(people will respond with "what about SMRs", to which I will ask "what's the shortest time from decision to online that a SMR project has achieved?")
Taiwanese here

Taiwan Econ has stagnated for decades.

Hence the top low birth rate in the world

Avg salary of tw is 1.5k usd. The same as 20-30 yrs ago
Canada has been refused nuclear submarines by the US which are an absolute necessity to patrol the Canadian arctic. But the US also decided Australia should get American nuclear subs and cancel their order of French nuclear subs. I believe the French would be more than happy to build a few subs for their Western NATO friends for a reasonable price.
> The whole world police thing came after WWII

Laughs in Barbary Wars and Monroe Doctrine
Water is the best insulant for radiation.

Apparently even mafias bosses know that famous cartoon where it says that you could swim in the exhaust nuclear bars cooling pool
Fundamental Techniques for Software Architects
Just so you know.

The Ukranian constitution states no elections during war.

All political opponents have come out and said we will hold elections after victory. Nobody is against postponement.

Ukraine has had healthy consistent elections since the Russian backed government was booted out.
I get that it's unclear. But in practice, this only matters upon purchase, and then it's simply an option whether you want one, or not.
How is it misleading? It would be impossible for someone to credibly claim something peaked in 2024, for example. So it must be some time in the past (and 2018 is not very long ago).
As all conspiracy theories, this provides a simple explanation to circumstances that otherwise require complex answers, but it holds no water. The KGB was ineffective and inept. It didn't reach the masses, it didn't influence public opinion. Of course a former KGB agent selling his story must tell you otherwise, but most of these guys spent their whole career feigning successes to their superiors.
> Take your pick.

Now now, there's no need to choose, you can just blame all of them all at once!
Could always dismantle and repurpose.
There are a few big caveats that I looked at when I recently upgraded my iPad.

Screen. The Pro screens are better. How much that matters is up to you. Given I am into photography and wanted to have the nicer screen this mattered to me. You can also get the nano-textured glass on the Pro but I don't believe you can on the others. This is a super pricey option though.

Processor. The Pro has M4, Air has M3.

USB-C port differences. I believe the Pro line have faster USB-C transfer speeds. Not sure if this has changed but it used to be a thing.

I skipped the Apple Pencil this time around, I just didn't use it enough with my previous iPad Pro to justify getting it again. I've had it for two months, so far I am happy with the decision.

There are probably others, so your point is certainly valid, that it is a pain to find the legitimate differences that might matter without digging into the specs.
I didn't say we shouldn't do both, just that since we are already in an energy crisis, ramping up solar very quickly should be a priority, compared to nuclear plants. Nuclear plants will improve the lives of our children, solar will improve our own lives. The problem is that I'm not hearing anything about solar investments from the Italian government.

Another great move would be to stop the warmongering and to start buying gas from Russia, while we work on solar and nuclear.