skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One possible explanation is that I live in a different market. In any case, the weight comparisons are the real data to use. The Nissan LEAF is heavier than some cars, but much lighter than the most popular ICE-V choices being made by consumers.
There are lots of DIY electric car kits out there too, but suggesting one as a viable alternative daily driver to mass-market consumers seems a bit unrealistic.

Apple was nice in theory because it provided out-of-the-box privacy and security that laypeople could just go buy.
Please source your quotes.
To a designer, I would guess those really look like midtower PCs someone was told to spiff up, and they came out looking... much like midtower PCs, with powder blue and other bits. :)

HP also made some other attempts...

Our HP 9000/3xx HP-UX porting workstations had a decent very sturdy lab HP modular/stackable boxes, with a reasonably stylish grill that unified them. It also wasn't a mismatch, now that I think of it, for some other HP gear I had personally, like a 2392A terminal I had.

HP 9000/7xx (HP-UX on the hot new HP-PA architecture) were different, and not as carefully standardized-looking that I recall.

I once saw some very interesting minicomputer(?) design in a museum that might've been HP? It was built into a desk.

For targeting cosmetic-sensitive designers, pivoting engineering workstation vendors could've taken a cue from Next, or some of the more clean white Macs over the years (even the Apple IIgs). Or gone wild and daring like SGI (which was maybe analogous to the fruit iMacs, in that it might look cheap if you didn't know what it was, and it really wanted attention).

Update: Here's what Sun did with the PC midtower, when they made the 386i to run SunOS 4 with SunView, and possibly be a gateway for PC users to migrate. I used one of these for a while as my main workstation, and it was nice. It looked a bit like a PC midtower that had been refined and had high build quality. https://web.archive.org/web/20160402201116/http://sites.inka...
Yeah looks like the nigerian prince who emailed me is promising millions of dollars in bitcon now
Fees and privacy, I suppose.
Well apparently it's taken people out of poverty in Nigeria. Now I agree it's a tax problem. Coulnt smart contracts solve that?
Except that the people who use the most fuel are not the most wealthy. People in rural or low cost areas who need to commute. People who work shifts at odd hours. Trades who need to carry tools. The people who buy the least gas are those who can work from home and drive a Tesla: rich people. They don't need more money.
A well-designed republic will not rely on the self-restraint of those in power. Indeed, it will assume those who seek power have little self-restraint, and it will have systems of checks and balances intended to prevent would-be tyrants from seizing the entire state.
Isn't a "tonne" always 1000kg, while they only would have to disambiguate if they had written "ton"?

Edit: yes, seems to be like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne
That could be, or it could be a process related issue, or a change in formulation of a paint that performed well, or a change in formulation of the polymer that the fiber is embedded in, there are a very large number of options to choose from.
'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into wall
You can't hold a language responsible for "mistakes" if you don't understand how the language works. Quotes intentional.
They have ~30$ fees and take a day-or-two, depending on how well connected the banks involved are.
I don't find your first two points convincing. The structure of the data put in the buffer is equivalent to the interface of the function. The buffer does encourage you to use data instead of classes. I want more guidance to my users about the contract that they're expected to fulfill and I don't think buffers help with that problem. I do appreciate the temporal aspect you're talking about. I'd be all about if I was Erlang, but I don't think it's worth it for my purpose in Python.
The typical central bank scam in developing countries is to make them ostensibly independent, but in reality they print new money and hand it to politically favored industries and entities. It allows the ruling class to loot their citizens very efficiently. Furthermore their stranglehold on remittances, where dollars are sent back by emigres and then converted into the local fiat scam coin, then enables them to centrally control what gets imported as they have the bulk of dollars.

Bitcoin and other cryptos fix this scam and enable people to not lose 5 to 90% of their money per year to inflation. It’s really not hard to understand and why hacker news can’t wrap their heads around why crypto has utility is a lack of awareness of how the average government operates.
Uh oh, here come the ketamine hucksters.
What the hell kind of glowie account is this?
I haven't tried Julia yet, but suspect there is a large class of problems that are best suited for Julia. Your question motivated me to do a bit a research and it looks like a cloud based Julia runtime exists (JuliaHub). It looks like a promising solution, especially if you need to leverage a Julia lib.
> Somehow I’ve avoided gaining an understanding of the details of the SNI protocol

You put the requested hostname (e.g. example.com) into the Client Hello message in cleartext so that the server knows which SSL site to direct you to / which SSL cert to give you. And the server has a config that matches up server certs with hostnames (and a default server cert) to return.

That's it. It's why people want to encrypt the client hello message, because that leaks info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
The result of chemical pollution, but climate change is still being invoked as the culprit.
For the first one it depends on how much growth and in what crimes specifically.

For the second one, maybe, but I seriously doubt icloud encryption is going to do that.

Either way, just talking about baselines and percents is a good improvement over just "this would decrease crime". Add in the downsides too and you have yourself a good platform for discussion!
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The source article in Antiquity says Xingyang, Henan province. That’s 河南省滎陽市. Trying to pinpoint it now. (But even Henan may have multiple cities or municipalities with the same phonetic spelling. Crossing fingers.)
I assume that catering to those 70 Uber wealthy might increase cargo needs slightly. But it would cut down on family visits. The kids might pay to have grandpa sent to the moon.
Apple: our staff can look at your tits if you take a sexy picture and look young enough or some other magic button.

Hm. Seems like a good attack would be take a celebrity, photoshop some nakedness, and put that in the database. Output: real photo of said celebrity.

This is not acceptable.
> “It’s so gross that this is what they like to do, as a corporation, rather than help people.”

It's not the corporation, it's laws, it's sanitation and accountability, it's logistics. It's far more complex than she's either researched or would like to admit.
"Entrenched interests", then. It's characteristic of the postwar global economy. Big companies who made a fortune producing weapons to defeat the Axis worked hard to prevent a meaningful postwar demobilization by the US. Of course all that military power also made it possible for us to politically and economically dominate the world. So, a two-fer.

My first apartment, in late 70s South Jersey, had gas heat while a lot of old construction in the Northeast was solidly slaved to oil. The economics of gas were well known 40 years ago, but all those oil burners needed to fail first. There was actually a resurgence of coal around that time.

I was big on nuclear right up until 1979, when TMI finally made the case that it might not be the panacea advertised: at least as deployed by the (monumentally corrupt) 20th century private energy sector. Just prior to that the biggest challenge everyone agreed had to be overcome was the waste problem. Seems no one wants to talk about that any more. Today's nuclear advocates sound more and more like the overoptimistic cheerleaders of the 50s and 60s.

Anyway, we just replaced our outdoor gas pack a few years ago. At the time I balked at the few thousand more that a heat pump would have cost (heat pumps make a lot of sense in the South where we now live). Looks like I'll be regretting that one for the next 7 or 8 years.
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> Where is the dichotomy in this?

> I am thoroughly confused.

I will calmly explain my thought process for you, and perhaps we can find agreement.

azinman2 said:

>> "airbags, which are also mandatory (I believe) have been proven in certain cases to have actually caused more harm than good"

>> "So much microfocus on the rare harm is losing the forest for the trees, particularly when the alternative is a mutating often deadly virus."

The implication of these statements by azinman2 is: although vaccines will sometimes (rarely) harm individuals, vaccination should be compulsory (the context of our discussion here), because the alternative is a mutating and deadly virus.

My reply stated: "the virus will always mutate regardless of whether everyone has been vaccinated or not"

Do you see the false dichotomy that I was addressing? You and I are in agreement that the virus is mutating AND deadly - but more importantly, that is not dichotomy I pointed out.

So there seems to be a misunderstanding here, I believe on your part.

I'm well aware of the literature on antibiotic and viral resistance, my other posts and citations throughout these threads should support that.

> Furthermore, the articles you have selected suggests that you have an elementary understanding of how resistance forms

If you believe I'm misrepresenting the findings in my citations, please elaborate.

So far you have not supported your opinions. In fact you seem to be angry or frustrated with me for no apparent reason, given the content of your comment is mostly ad hominem vitriol.

> you have an elementary understanding of how resistance forms

> I would urge you to study more

> explain elementary levels of biology in your defense

> This post seems childish at best

> holier than thou because I can cite random pub-med studies without understanding them

> Please, do some real 'critialtinker'ing before you comment

I had a good chuckle because there's a palpable irony in your words - talk about "holier than thou".

According to your bio you're a practicing internal medicine physician - since you're highly educated perhaps these topics are elementary to you, but for everyone else on HN these topics deserve clear and concise elaboration. So please, pretend we're you're patients and treat us with a basic level of respect. If you can do that, many of us will listen to what you're saying with an open mind.
Starting on August 10, he is holding a three-day symposium in Sioux Falls, where the validators, whoever they may be, will present their results publicly.

This should be interesting.
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> by 1000%

I am confused: is it tenfold or elevenfold?
Take out 'exhaustively', though, and everything parent comment said is correct. AI is just (big data + statistical inference) implemented in massively parallel ways using linear algebra.
Hi HN! hietalajulius and I have been working on a toolkit for solving computer vision problems.

These days, there are a lot of fancy solutions to many computer vision problems, but there aren't good implementations of the algorithms, getting to a working solution requires figuring out lots of different steps, tools are buggy and not well maintained and often, you need a lot of training data to feed the algorithms. Projects easily balloon into months long R&D projects, even when done by seasoned computer vision engineers. With the Stray Robots toolkit, we aim to lower the barrier for deploying computer vision solutions.

Currently, the toolkit allows you to build 3D scenes from a stream of depth camera images, annotate the scenes using a GUI and fit computer vision algorithms to infer the labels from single images, among a few other things. In this project, we used the toolkit to build a simple electric scooter detector using only 25 short video clips of electric scooters.

If you want to try it out, you can install the toolkit by following the instructions here: https://docs.strayrobots.io/installing/index.html

Going forward we plan to add other components such as 3D keypoint detection, semantic segmentation and 6D object pose estimation.

Let us know what you think! Both of us are here to answer any questions you may have.
Apparently? There is no real proof this has brought mostly normal people in Nigeria out of poverty, at least at large enough numbers to be believed. This is just some yarn spun up by proponents of cryptocurrency to rally more to their cause.

I'd be shocked if most people in Nigeria even have a personal computer and reliable internet. That's how impoverished most of them are.
Weather and climate may impact the severity. The root cause of the problem is pollution and that should not be obfuscated.
Try a search for Patek Philippe watches. Some of the used ones are under $10k, but new ones go into the millions.
My child's daycare is right by my workplace. Working from home would mean a double commute, not interested.

Finding a new daycare where I live would be very difficult, as there is a severe shortage of daycare spots here, with several years long waitlists.
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I'm a germ theory skeptic if you wish. AMA (on my germ beliefs).

It's a little more nuanced than being a casual skeptic. My problem lies with the mainstream, in overstating of germs as the sole cause of several illnesses, to the point of being religious. Ideally we ought to be also looking for other probable causes, for example contaminated food, air etc.
I would think that this was introduced at the same time as SNI was enabled for Lynx (2009-04-26 from the changelog, but I haven’t checked if it was actually vulnerable at that time). I don’t know if I’d call any URL processing issue basic though, I can safely say that I’m never even going to attempt to write a URL parser, just because of the number of potential edge cases. You can imagine when you’re enabling a (fairly simple, compared to the rest of the TLS spec) extension, you might not be thinking about all the different quirks of the URL spec which could occur and mess up what seems like a basic change.
Are we going to forget the exorbitant network and miner fees of Bitcoin as well?
The important part is that (unlike C/C++ headers) included modules can't be polluted with code that's coming before the @import(). Everything else is just an implementation detail.

@import also has a second mode where the string isn't a Zig source file path, but a package name. AFAIK currently this also just resolves to a package-root zig file, but it could just as well be extended to some sort of binary format, the question is just: why?
The best way to remember Pandas idioms is write your own cheat sheet, updating it each time you look something up.
I’m not sure who put it this succinctly, but I remember it generalized this way: a framework calls your code, but you call the library’s code.
My town, though much smaller, has its own "101" with similar bottlenecks. But there are now (at least) three bike bridges across it. While not free to build, they're doubtlessly much cheaper, especially since the bikes can use already existing neighborhood streets with minimal impact on the residents. I'm not sure there's a master plan for improving bike routes, but when they have to tear up a road for some reason, they usually design its replacement to accommodate bikes with dedicated lanes, bridges, tunnels, etc.
and pay off their masters degree loan :^)
At least with Bitcoin, the ledger is open for all to see. The privacy angle is specious at best.
Yes, protecting important food suppliers from some foreign competition to ensure a stable supply of food is protectionism.
I agree that most of the ML ecosystem libs are in Python, but don't think they're easily accessible via PySpark. PySpark is a thin wrapper on Scala Spark (via py4j). PySpark has better interop with Scala/Java libs. Here's an example PySpark function:

def input_file_name():
sc = SparkContext._active_spark_context
return Column(sc._jvm.functions.input_file_name())

You can see it's just using py4j to invoke a JVM function.
I was looking for a quick demo video as I don't really feel like signing up and the information presented doesn't express the fundamentals of what this actually is. Is it like a discord clone with additional tools?
Maybe, depends on the cost of battery storage. Regardless, it’ll likely be cheaper to overbuild renewables and curtail when needed instead of keeping fossil generators around.
The natural reserves there may be getting thin, too. (On the other hand, geothermal, for example, is pretty much limitless.)
I have a 3000sf house with one 150sf room dedicated to working from home, air conditioning, and a solid Internet connection. My desk at work is a 6 foot surface in a wide open room with 20 other people. I can see the upside of going back into the office. It will be especially appealing once my kids are back to in-person school and my wife starts going to her office. The only thing that actually isn't appealing is the 14 mile drive to get there.
Do nothing, do something, we lose in a way regardless.
> You're citing that looking at earnings from different fields as the place the "market" doesn't belong. If the market has no place in labor compensation, the where does the market belong?

I'm not sure what you are interpreting from my post, or what your first sentence means, but I will try to answer:

The 'market', such as it is, determines earnings. It is deeply flawed but please don't take that to a logical extreme, that the market has "no place". For very many things, I think markets are the best solution; they are also 'free', as in freedom - not constraining individual's rights to act as they wish.

I am not an economist. My guess is that reducing distortions in the market mechanism might do wonders, particularly the distortion of imbalanced market power. For example, a single large employer has much greater power than a single employee, and thus has great leverage over them that doesn't yield economic outcomes.

Also, some things are not well served by market pricing. For example, the market serves those most motivated to pay, which is good, but also those most able to pay. Health care and education should not be distributed based on ability to pay. Another example is that the market serves work that is directly profitable. Some things don't generate profit or not quickly enough, such as basic scientific research.
Instead it lead to things like being sent to jail for calling his daughter she: https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/man-arrested-for-discussing-ch...
What a weird notion. Why do you think building transformations is not a good use for an (optionally) imperative OOP language?
I've been kicking this idea around in my noodle since judgement Day passed: a business like a local wine u-brew, where you come rent a stall in my warehouse and we grow your weed for you, in your name. When it's time to harvest, you can either take it home damp and dry it yourself or pay for us to cure it for you. Secure, safe, convenient.

I can currently easily grow a (reasonable) year's supply for someone within the legal 2-plant limit, this just takes all the pains and theft-risk away from the end user (mom and pop Canadian backyard growers)

Pretty sure this would be highly illegal under the current laws, but I'm old enough to remember when homebrew was illegal in Canada, too.
Crypto certainly doesn't offer price stability when it can go up or down by 5%. And, although you find the idea of defunding the Nigerian government appealing, what would replace it would be far more deadly.
Was there ever a public release?
Still sounds like guilty until proven innocent to me. If you do nothing, "oh you didn't try to invalidate it". Valve probably receives tons of "patent infringement" spam, and if they accidentally mis-file a serious patent lawsuit (which would be worth trying to invalidate) with the "not even worth responding to" patent notices, then they deserve to lose? Is that right?
Well so far the sales numbers don't follow your generous assessment...
What’s disturbing about it? I didn’t understand the slides or the implications thereof well enough to actually figure that out.
Get back to me on 3He fuel mining in the regolith after (a) demonstrating a working 3He cycle aneutronic fusion reactor (hint: it's much harder than the D-T fusion cycle that we haven't got working yet, although ITER is supposed to demonstrate it), and (b) ruling out other aneutronic fusion fuels like, oh, proton-Lithium-7, or proton-Boron-11 ... which are only somewhat harder to achieve than 3He fusion, and which run on fuels readily available here on Earth.

(My gut sense is that if aneutronic fusion is practical at all then it'll be cheaper to build more expensive reactors that can run on terrestrial fuels so cheap we use them for car batteries and as an insecticide, rather than slightly less difficult reactors that are fuelled by magic extraterrestrial unicorn sparkle-dust.)
Cannot agree more. Even using R just to read csvs, transform the data, and output another csv, can be an improvement, and it lets you still use python for other things.
Bitcoin, not blockchain - https://www.amazon.ca/Programming-Bitcoin-Learn-Program-Scra...
Why does anyone care what Jackson Palmer thinks?
I thought that too in the beginning, but the comptime features, type reflection and error handling really go beyond C, while still being a simple and elegant language (in a way even simpler than C). Also Zig is a nicer C/C++/ObjC toolchain than most C/C++ toolchains (because of simple cross-compilation and integrated build system).
Opinion: What a community of preppers taught me about survival
Doesn't we work still exist? I wouldn't say it is worthless or a total loss just yet.
My current workplace is so quiet. Even when they went to an open layout. Sometimes you hear keyboards, or quiet conversations. Not too intrusive, when I need to really get in the zone I throw on headphones with music anyway, just like I do at home.
Fine, then _you_ can work in the office, why does it mean everyone else has to, too?

People who want to work remotely aren't interested in forcing others to do so.
Senate shuts down debate on $1T infrastructure bill, advancing it
I don't know much about Axios, but I thought they tended towards impartial fact-based reporting, and I'm surprised at the emotionally charged language in this article

> "chronicling the wiles and humiliation of Adam Neumann, WeWork's day-drinking co-founder, former CEO, and chief snake-oil salesman"
One thing a friend of mine (hi Adrian!) did at my old workplace, that I found incredibly annoying at the time, but later realised was exactly the right thing to do, was set up a wiki for us to use and then refuse to answer any question or acknowledge any information except via that wiki. After a while I just gave in and before telling him about anything, stuck it on the wiki. Years later when I left, every time anyone asked me a question I could honestly answer "it's on the wiki."

People love to hate on Bezos (less here than elsewhere, though, I guess) but this is exactly the tack he used to convert Amazon's IT setup to services, and I think both were shrewd moves.
I have used pandas a lot and by now I am used to its quirks, but I still find R to be much more consistent. Just another data point.