skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Operating a gasoline-powered leaf blower for one hour produces as much volatile organic compounds and NOx as driving a 2017 Toyota Camry from New York City to Orlando, Florida,”

Wow. I think of all the leaf blower persons working full time throughout the state and it must be in the hundreds of thousands. I think unless they try and regulate that, there will be an enormous black market in gas powered leaf blowers that’s going to make some criminal enterprise very wealthy. Would be much better to ban the blowers themselves than the sale of the blowers.
I decided i have no motivation or life today so I tried them all.

Drake Meme - Doesn't Work

Fry - Works well

American Choppers - broken

Distracted Boyfriend - Really Works well often funny.

Women yelling at cat - Works well

Skeptical Third world - Hit or miss can be funny

Batman Slap - Works pretty well

Disaster Girl - Works well often funny.

That Would be great - Works very well but not funny.

Change my mind - Totally broken

Interesting Man - Works but not usually funny

Epic handshake - Usually nonsense

Exit ramp - 50/50 broken funny

pikachu - works but not funny

Grandma internet - works but not funny

One Simply - Hit or miss on funny but works

Leonardo Cheers - Broken

Trump Signs - Broken

Mocking Spongebob - Broken

Doge - Broken

Yoda - Nonsense and broken

Expanding Brain - Mostly broken

Seagul - Broken

Tom - Broken

Escaping ballon - 50/50 broken funny

The Rock - 50/50 broken funny

Spongebob dont - often funny

Boardroom - broken

Is this a pigeon - often nonsensically funny.

Evil kermit - broken

Third world success kid - Works sometimes funny

Uno Draw - Works not funny

Yall got any - kinda works but not funny

Ancient aliens - works well often funny

Scroll of truth - works sometimes funny

killed hannible - all over the place

Waiting skelly - Mostly works not funny

Hide the pain - Sort of works can be really funny when it does

Marked safe - works not funny

X everywhere - half broken can be funny

oprah - mostly broken

sad spongebob - works but not funny

Thinking - all over the place mostly nonsense but can be funny

Tuxedo poo - all over the place can be funny

hard to swallow pill - works can be funny.
A USB lavalier microphone.

1. It is easier for people to hear me, which improves communication.

2. I have QC-35s and having a separate sound input source removes the irritating buzzing sound that the QCs give off when on zoom calls.
> I doubt that IP of tractor designs is a major factor in third world poverty.

what's your logic here? the intellectual property system is the way the global north propertied class dominates the global south; i.e. renting out the commoditized blueprints/designs and charging insane royalties [1]

[1] Vijay Prashad, https://mronline.org/2019/09/29/iphone-workers-today-are-25-...
Corrosion can improve materials’ durability
if you don't understand chain rule then you dont understand backprop, which means you do not really understand how deep learning works. at most you can follow recipes cook book style. it is kind of how one can make a website without a deep understanding of networking
Why is that depressing? Unless you have some silver bullet to remove the need for oil or prevent any future oil spills it seems like creating innovative technologies to detect them as soon as possible is a good thing.

It would be like if someone developed a cheap, non-invasive technology that could detect cancer extremely early, and then you complained because they hadn't cured cancer instead.
That's not what the OP is suggesting, though. "calories in, calories out" does not mean that my 2,000 calories is the same as someone else's 2,000 calories. It means that if I am gaining weight eating 2,000 calories a day, I will eventually lose weight if I eat fewer and few calories. (ie, I may not lose weight at 1,900 calories per day, but I would absolutely lose weight at 500 calories per day.)
Training data has 0.339T tokens, less than the number of training parameters. A model like that could store all of the training text with 100B+ parameters left for computation.
Also

https://dart.dev/guides/language/language-tour#cascade-notat...
are you implying that the (imputed) risk-free rate (which ideally the inflation rate would track exactly) is naturally higher than the fed rates would imply, so then we need set fed rates negative to induce a lower than 'natural' inflation rate? or is it just ambiguity around the use of dashes, which look like minus signs?
https://github.com/WICG/indexed-db-observers/blob/gh-pages/E...

Give me that and we can forget about web sql.
I’m aware of that. Tragic but happened decades ago. And the unfortunate subtext of it all is that blurring the line between adults and teenagers was an aspect of the sexual Revolution at the time.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28514998#28515629

> Cloudflare's bot protection mostly makes use of TLS fingerprinting, and thus pretty easy to bypass.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28251700 -> https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls

Disclaimer: haven't tried it.
There is specific commentary on the SQLite CVE page that addresses WebSQL, which you might find enlightening:

"A few applications do allow untrusted SQL scripts received from potentially hostile agents to be run direct in SQLite. The main example of this is the Chrome and Safari web browsers, which allow an anonymous web page to run SQL using the WebSQL feature of Javascript. This is done inside a sandbox with tightly controlled constraints on resources, lest the SQL script try to soak up all available memory or CPU cycles in a denial-of-service attack. Chrome and Safari have the infrastructure in place to allow a hostile agent to run code which does not harm or compromise the rest of the machine. They have to, as they also run Javascript which could, if not tightly controlled, do even more damage than unrestrained SQL. Apart from Chrome and Safari, no applications known to the SQLite developers deliberately allows an anonymous remote agent to run arbitrary SQL text.

"However, most CVEs written against SQLite flippantly assume that an attacker is free to run any arbitrary SQL in the database engine. So to a good approximation, this means most CVEs written against SQLite really only apply to SQLite as it is used in Chrome and Safari. Or, in other words, most CVEs for SQLite do not apply to you unless you are one of the developers of Chrome or Safari."
Yes, I had no idea that was possible! I have had a total of 5 silent migraines (aura but no headache) in my life, and each time was terrifying.

What's worse is that my current doctor says there's no way to know if my last one was a TIA or migraine (all my research shows otherwise) and now wants me to start on baby aspirin. So yeah, every time I have an aura I'm convinced it's a stroke.
The Apple A14 is etched using EUV.
Calories in, calories out is disingenuous when talking about anything but a literal mechanical machine / vegetative state patient you feed fuel into or not.

The PRIMARY in human diets to adjust weight is psychological including both degrees of willpower and degrees of not needing willpower due to the feeling of satiety. Pretending "you could have just accomplished exactly the same thing by cutting calories" ignores completely the implied second half of that formulation: infinite willpower and endurance in the face of discomfort. People have to work and earn livings and lead lives, they cannot persist indefinitely in ego depletion.

It's about as ridiculous as saying anyone with the requisite genetics can be a world class body builder, if they just "worked out". Yeah. No, they can't, because there is a helluva lot more to it.
> why don't we call "white" people "European-Americans"?

Because black was considered denigrating/slur, and white isn’t.
> Whether that is healthy comradery is a complicated question.

I've worked at a few places where it became an Us versus Them situation. Like we were freedom fighters, struggling against the oligarchy. I don't know what else we could have done to maintain any semblance of morale. It wasn't healthy, but it was the best we could do other than quit. In one of those it was the economy that kept us there. I can't say why we did in the other cases.

The thing is when it's a "band together to survive" situation, once a couple people quit, everyone is rushing for the door. I think that's part of why turnover gets away from management so often. Everything is fine and then it's Not Fine before they even have time to notice it's happening, because they've been ignoring the warnings and signs as unactionable.
Would you provide the related paper to this approach?
This is an example of a comment that is I think incorrect in a few different respects already reasonably explained in replies however its not rude or poorly written and in fact although incorrect in my opinion it prompted useful discussion.

This is an example where down vote to disagree isn't useful because instead of discouraging people from expressing opinions you believe are wrong a fruitless endeavor you may actually be discouraging the useful discussion that follows.
I'm pretty sure devs are still frustrated and Apple "surprised" since then.
Five years ago (IIRC) their reviews took 3-7 days. Someone made a really useful website where people would self-report the review time, and it estimated the current average.

This completely pulled down Apple's pants, which silently fixed their review process so it took less than a day. It was so effective the website became irrelevant, but it seems like the wheels are turning around.

Edit: this is the website https://appreviewtimes.com, and it seems like the review time has been stable at 1-2 days for a while.
Reasons to Buy Air for $1000
Ask HN: What do you think about 3 days a week work from office?
As companies are planning to return their employees to office, 3 days a week work from office seems to be the dominant option provided to the employees. Do you feel you will be more productive with this approach ? What are the other options provided by your company other than fully remote ?
what kind of batteries are meaningfully heavier when charged? are you just talking about like E/c^2?
Maybe letting your friend get pissed off at you was part of the process. You sound hurt by it, and that's fair, but maybe your mowing his lawn helped him more than you think.
The article doesn't explain why those savings aren't used for investments and why yields on investments are going down.

Quite frankly, it's because population growth is slowing down. Children used to be an exponentially growing consumer market.
with node, i've had success with puppeteer-extra using puppeteer-extra-plugin-stealth
I see this topic on first page this morning and now it's ranked 508. How did that happen?
Do you think cheap tractor makers in china or India give a fig about IP?
HN titles don't really have an option for that (the mods allow years only), but you could flag it to indicate that you don't think it's a valuable contribution to the front page.
Nice!

You may checkout my this work: :-)

https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22357374
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs8mosXwiL1hOfLjws_7S1A
I can't tell if this is satire or not, but taken in good faith, how?

A fully charged battery would necessarily have more mass than a fully depleted battery, but the difference should be so tiny as to be immeasurable. Or am I wrong? We're essentially talking about the sum weight of a bunch of electrons, which are extremely light. There's no other exchange of matter going on when charging/discharging a battery, just the creation/destruction of chemical bonds, and associated movement of electrons.
The American traitors were the criminals, obviously. /s. Mostly.

I'm told that, well into the 20th century, the American Revolution was often taught in the British Empire as the War of American Rebellion. And it had its own mythology/didactic purpose.

First, a cautionary tale on what to do if you want to lose a colony. After all the Americans overreacted but they had a point.

It also served as an exhibit for the dangers of deviant American republicanism. Populists overthrowing constitutional government. Causing a nasty war. And for no reason. After all, in this historical mythology, the UK would have granted self rule to America as it soon did Canada. etc. if only the Americans had been reasonable. (And they weren't reasonable because they were republicans: see France.). It even served as proof that anti-imperial and republican sentiments held back human liberty and progress. (Slavery was banned in the British Empire long before the USA. Of course, the region with the plurality of slaves under British jurisdiction had just seceded...)

I almost wish it were still taught this way today, if only for the perspective shift.
Thank you for the request! Request granted! 2x should now work. Equation input will also now highlight red if an error is present
Hi everyone! I made this thing! I'm glad you all like it :) This is actually my first time using javascript, so if there's any issues please let me know and I'll do my best to fix them.
Did your parents teach you to only spray on the upwind passes, or were you huffing *cides half the time?
I can't tell if you're being serious. You are technically correct, but also incredibly wrong in suggesting that the increased weight would be substantial enough to impact anything measurable. Depending on the size and capacity of the cell, you might see a difference due to general relativity on the order of nanograms.

see: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34421/does-the-m...
This is how metabolic tests work. When you burn fat, it has a lot of carbon in it, speaking generally, after that fat is metabolized, that carbon binds with oxygen and is breathed out as C02.

So you can (and people do) use grams in/grams out to determine metabolic weight, but short of a lot of very specialized equipment, it's much easier for someone to have a rough measure of calorie burn at rest by choosing a standard value (or measuring it by the aforementioned metabolic test), and then approximating the amount of calories going in.

The psychology/physiology of weight loss is a complicated subject, but the thermodynamics isn't. It's very easy to just say "diet", but the hard part is the motivation, so while everyone is absolutely correct that counting calories is the "optimal" method of weight loss, it's not the strategy that optimizes results across the population.
RIP Schily
Even easier if what constitutes a "crime" can be arbitrarily defined into existence by a whole torrent of financial regulations and laws that often come into being for the sake of defending the government's ravenous need for control and funds.
Why wouldn't you use the wind energy also? It's a lot of fun, readily available and a lot cheaper…
Nice find. Looks like infinity was not being handled gracefully. Fixed now!
I would love a low cost electric ultralight.
In my own experience puppeteer is much better/capable than selenium but the problem is that puppeteer requires nodejs. its python-wrapper https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer was not as good as selenium when you like to use python.
Looked like infinity was not being handled gracefully. Fixed now!
Do people decide to go to work for a company based on the language they'll be working in? Seems like something that should be very far down the priority list?
I think its made remarkable progress, especially now that Proof of History exists and Proof of Stake is widespread, most of the ground work is set for efficiently creating trust-less game theoretic environments. I think developing blockchain techs is a naturally slow process, since it take so much effort to test and start a network. If you are used to thinking of blockchain dev like normal software, you would be correct in thinking that blockchain is unimpressive, based on its velocity.

Its not a magic bullet for society's ills, but its going to be a game changer if people really want the games we play to be more equitable and impossible to hijack.
I love the format! Short intro texts and self-explanatory code examples that I can copy/paste to fiddle with is, at least for me, a great way to actually understand things (compared to the "wall of text"-books that I never manage to read properly).
As an aside, this is one of the reasons Jews place a small stone on a gravestone rather than flowers.
>(5) brazen disregard of the law being applied to elites degrades the reliability of justice. People pick up on this

My sense is that this is getting better over time but sensitivity and viability to the issue is increasing. This makes it particularly challenging to meet expectations

I think the same is generally true of the economic in equality.
Unless we have misunderstood neurons, and microtubules are the fundamental computational unit in which case we are out by an order of magnitude
Thank you for the feedback. Indeed such a functionality would be nice. One could solve this via another hand pose or in some way also with the existing hand poses. E.g. make a fist for say 2 seconds to clear the whole screen. Anything shorter will just issue an "undo".

YoHa uses tfjs.js which provides several backends for computation. One indeed uses WASM, the other one is WebGL based. The latter one is usually the more powerful one.
Just switched out the backend to a more robust library (mathjs). A lot of the previous problems should be fixed now :)
Can you be specific?

E.g. precisely what patent, design patent, trademark, or copyright is stopping the entire of Africa from designing and building an indigenous diesel tractor?
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Modular_Construction
I don't think I'm claiming that the open tractor HAS to have a cabin. It should be an option, though. Possibly one with some positive peer pressure around it.

A box doesn't fix everything. You still have to get air into it from somewhere and it's all gonna come from outside. But sitting in a dust cloud is a little different situation than getting some dust through a vent. Especially if you're sweating like a pig the whole time.
This all gets complicated, because not everyone has 2 eyes :-/.

You end up with complicated systems trying to cover all of the edge cases.
There were no criminals, at least not after the war. There are victors and there are losers. It's bizarre to label a population of hundreds of thousands as "criminals", especially when the American Revolutionaries/Patriots didn't even do that.
Very well written and detailed counter views.

Personally I'm pro vaccination, but I do feel that media covers one sided opinions only.

We should hear the story why people don't want to get vaccinated than just label them in the wrong.

I respect your right to have an opinion, although it may be different from mine.
Many migraines are not migraines but stem (no pun intended) from spinal cord problems that chiropractors can easily treat. Doctors hate this fact and will gladly put people on meds or tell them to change their lifestyle or their career rather than tell them to visit a chiropractor. Doctors are not immune from the effects of ego and hubris.
Shout out to https://www.trailofdead.com/
True. But I'm pretty much stuck on windows so yeah.
Mersenne didn't "find" M(127) by using a method, he noted 2^n-1 was commonly prime for the first few well known values and wasn't able to immediately exclude M(127). That's the difference, not discovery by proof with some method rather lack of exclusion by method. Were the exclusions more reliable it'd be interesting but neither being able to exclude or include accurately is not.

The exact method doesn't matter because poorly performed naive division checking with the first couple thousand primes gets you a more accurate list of primes so whatever he was doing isn't particularly interesting (and could have been as simple as something like that that, we just can't say how he messed up for certain without a time machine).
I don't know, sorry. I've already admitted defeat repeatedly here, so you're welcome to keep pressing me if you like, but I don't have any more data to offer you in light of this latest reply. Maybe I typo'd it when I was researching because I'm terrible at mobile touchscreens, and since I'm also dyslexic I misread MX-3 as MX-2. I don't know for sure, and obviously I'm not very familiar with Mazda or BMW model numbers, but I'm not going to dig into my browser history to try and answer your question, because — again — none of this is materially relevant to the point or to the discussion. Oops, I screwed up. Moving on.
ha, no the pump has nothing to do with lactase. It refers to blood filling your muscles -- you probably get a pump in your forearms from climbing. Feels like someone stuck a bike pump in your arm and "pumped" you up.
You can tell this where to go - weather balloons are utterly beholden to the whim of wind patterns.
An open source foundry might be an interesting project.
I've learned this lesson the hard way, but it's not a minor detail we can skip over. The article is shaped to ensure that we'll start yelling at each other if anyone tries to challenge the argument or question its implications. You can't bootstrap a respectful discussion on top of an article trying to get you riled up - it just doesn't work.
To bring "another language into it", i.e using numba for a JIT for python, this is another massive speedup for me, from 0.92 seconds to 0.26 seconds. The new code (needs some pieces from the old):

import numba
from numba import complex128, boolean

@numba.vectorize([complex128(complex128, complex128)])
def square_add(z, c):
"compute z² + c"
return z * z + c

@numba.vectorize([boolean(complex128)])
def not_escaped(z):
"compute |z|² < 4"
return ((z.conjugate() * z).real < 4.)

def compute_mandelbrot(cs):
"""
cs: complex grid subset
"""
z = np.zeros_like(cs)
red = np.zeros_like(cs, dtype=np.uint8)
mask = np.ones_like(cs, dtype=bool)

for _ in range(199):
# z² + c -> z
square_add(z, cs, where=mask, out=z)
np.add(red, 1, where=mask, out=red)

# mask &= |z| < 2
not_escaped(z, where=mask, out=mask)
return red

We can compare calling into numba with calling into luajit. In this code we see how much we get for free when using numpy ufuncs! All we did with numba is to define functions for the composite operations - one for z² + c and one for |z|² < 4 - which means we avoid storing intermediate arrays and do more in fewer array traversals.
At 62, I'd probably work for free for a company that used Common Lisp and had half a clue.
Star Trek's William Shatner on his plan to boldly go into space
I wonder how the engine can keep operating for such long periods of time without maintenance!
That's because there is no open standard for it, which is mentioned in the following sentence.

> A room of computer science students could write an open standard for that in like a month and have a working implementation within the year.

(While I don't share the optimism regarding the timeframe, I agree with the general sentiment)
the west is literally trying to provoke a huge war with china because china is no longer dependent on the west's intellectual property. your framing seems ignorant to me.

Vijay Prashad: What's the Left to Do in a World on Fire? | China and the Left, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd8w3ONjv6Y

Vijay Prashad: No Cold War with China, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj1ggllXmws
Are you using mobile or a browser? And could you please post a screenshot? I'll see what I can do! Thank you!
Why a 19th-century Russian anarchist is relevant to the mask and vaccine debate
These planes can compete with Starlink in certain scenarios, for example you can launch them in the event of floods that knock out the regular telecommunications infrastructure.
A water/gravity battery comes to mind. Definitely not the answer you are looking for, but an answer none the less.
How do you kill the robot? I keep getting electrocuted.