skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dependency chain flows upward, not downward. Later claims depend on the earlier ones that they reference ("2. The method of claim 1..."), but the presence of claim 2 does not alter the meaning or enforcability of claim 1.

(I should point out that IANAL, so if there are instances in which this isn't strictly correct, it'd be interesting to learn about them. Downvoting without comment doesn't enlighten anyone.)
> Guessing / hoping they meant the chemists would be responsible for determining / ordering PPE suiting what they’re working on, not that they’re supposed to pay for it out of pocket.

That makes more sense, thanks.
Solving Wordle in 3.64 guesses on average, 99.4% of the time
As someone once in the military, I never cared much about guns. When I got out, I got one just to feel safe from all the idiots with guns. For example, I got in a friends car once and opened the glove box to put something in it. I found a gun pointing right at me. I carefully picked it up and cleared it. It was loaded with the safety off. I chewed him a new asshole and we weren’t friends after that (not my doing, but they didn’t appreciate my verbiage after accidentally threatening my life).

Part of the problem is like me, getting one just to protect yourself from everyone else that has one.
I don’t get it what an ebike really brings that wasn’t already available in a moped or scooter? At least for me the #1 reason I don’t bike much is that there is no way to get places safely. Sharing the road with cars is quite risky while not quite motor cycle risky still very high risk that’s simply not worth it.
A trend I've noticed every time this happens is that saying "tech stocks" is kind of like saying "cell phones". At some point they're just "phones" and "stocks".

Not 20 years ago, it was rare to be employed in tech outside of one of the major hubs. Today, some small towns couldn't even exist without Amazon. When I was a kid, if you worked at Wal-Mart, you probably screwed up. Today you can have a high paying SWE job for Walmart. Microsoft is now one of the largest video game developers in the world, and Netflix and Google have essentially killed the entire business of cable TV for anyone under 40. Apple has the most successful and widely adopted consumer electronic device on the market, and without it, people would lose their collective minds.

Everything is now tech.

So, there's a third, middle option: the fed actually walks the tight-rope and the amount of inflation is acceptable and stocks take a couple of years to regain their losses. This is the most likely option. That could mean raising rates as planned, raising fewer times than planned, or not raising at all.

If that works, then great, everyone's stocks will recover over time and they'll be happy, and inflation won't get too out of control. Keep in mind that some inflation is considered "good" in this system and has been going on pretty consistently since we started central banking.

If that doesn't work, then the fed has so much authority to take direct action in the markets, they have essentially infinite capital to deploy to move markets in any direction they'd like. Using this authority is a risk, but they have been successfully doing some type of "quantitative easing" since 2010.

There's a lot more creativity to go in engineering financial markets before they'd simply give up the game and accept loss of control of the currency, because it would invalidate the idea of central banks and be incredibly disruptive to society.

With most of congress filled with wealthy elites, if it comes down to a crisis like in 2008, everyone will cooperate to preserve their elite status, which is exactly what happened then. It's essentially mutually assured destruction between governments and business if they can't work out a deal, which is what they were able to do. They'll do it again if needed.

Also, as long as things change slowly, people generally don't notice, or don't do anything about it because it's become normalized. There's $1.7T in US student loan debt and that's barely crossing the threshold for people being upset enough to take political action about it.
We have such a "community" at my org, it is well intentioned but there's a lot of navel gazing. Linking to random engineering "leadership" blog post on slack and such.
Also see:
https://github.com/freifunkMUC/wg-access-server/blob/master/...
This is interesting but only seems to work to town/city level, is there any plans to go to street/full address level?

I have used loqate.com for autocomplete on store checkouts, but it not cheap. Always have my eye out for alternatives.

I know it’s a difficult one to provide as, unlike in the US with zip codes being effectively public domain, in the UK the Post Code database is “owned” by Royal Mail. You have to pay them to access it or resell access to it, which is why Loqat is from 6p per lookup (this is 0.35p).

There are a few “open source” database projects to recreate the Post Code geolocation lost but it’s not vary accurate or complete from previous experience.

Hopefully one day Royal Mail will be nationalised again and someone there will decide, quite rightly, that it would be of national interest to make the Post Code database freely available.
As long as you only want to message just a few contacts, Threema has an unlimited plan for a limited number of recipients (15ppl/~5€pm - https://threema.ch/en/broadcast/pricing). Only the gateway service you listed is quite expensive.
Interferometric Modulator Display (Mirasol)
About 10 years ago, I used the translations of KDE texts to estimate how much space texts in a given language could take when translated into another language (we had an internal web page editor that only allowed putting texts and widgets at fixed x-y coordinates, so allocating extra-space for translation was a sad work-around).
http://fabsk.eu/i18n/#en;fr
Real-Time Communication Library for Deno (WebSockets and WebRTC)
This seems pretty iffy for introducing static/persistent variables to a function. I mean, it can work, but it's semantically very confusing. Parameters are part of a function's interface. A global variable would be much better.
Orbital View: Atmospheric Plume from the Tonga Eruption
I think those days are over. Universitys are super corporate now they want to own everything you touch
Quirky sites alleviate my disdain for humanity, somewhat. Thanks.
The current CPython maintainers believe that a JIT would be far too much complexity to maintain, and would drive away new contributors. I don't agree with their analysis; I would argue the bigger thing driving new contributors away is them actively doing so. People show up all the time with basic patches for things other language runtimes have been doing for 20+ years and get roasted alive for daring to suggest something as arcane as method dispatch caches. The horror!

This cements the CPython team as sort of a known "don't waste your time there" in PL research communities, distancing themselves from the people most likely and willing to help maintain their runtime.
I don't know. Average PER should be around 15. Netflix is at PER 36 and there are doubts about the sustainability of their future growth. Amazon is at PER 56, and they do depend on margins which will be impacted by inflation.
Loneliness: Coping with the gap where friends used to be
Who thinks that? I've never heard this. People thought Watson was a lot more capable than it actually was just because of the Jeopardy PR stunt. People outside tech were buzzing about IBM and Watson. In my experience, people outside tech barely know Palantir exists.
> Drought, Covid-19 and the economic sanctions imposed after the Taliban seized power in August 2021 have had catastrophic consequences on the economy.

More on these rarely mentioned US-imposed sanctions: https://theintercept.com/2022/01/19/crypto-afghanistan-sanct...
> Who is forcing the compiler to store fracking arrays in registers?

The people who want their program to be fast. "Just do everything in main memory" means your program will be extremely slow.
Two days later this kinda proves my point above. Had you asked about anything my OP there would have been 7 different work arounds or solutions offered up. But even on HN nobody cares enough about Word to really be a master at it because there is no point to mastery. You're not running $400m models on a Word doc.
You can create a new issue with the feature request. Alternatively PRs are always welcome :P
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30050231

I did :D
They don't only run two routes per day; most US districts stagger elementary, middle, and high-school start times so the same busses can be used for all of those systems.

(this leads to other problems with kids waking up early, ofc)

> My home country Australia has free public transport for children

I am not opposed to this when possible, but I'm suspicious of the implication that Australia either has (1) convenient, frequent bus service in all suburbs or (2) no suburbs.

Edit: little bit of research:

> The vast majority of schools in Australia (both government and private) do not have their own buses for transporting children between the school and their home and thus most school children in Australia that do travel by bus travel on public transport buses, either on standard scheduled public transport routes, or on specific 'school travel' routes. Most school routes do not allow the general adult public to ride along with the children, although this does vary by location according to practicality (i.e. remote areas) and local regulation.

Ok yeah so you end up with kids-only "school routes" for a lot of public busses when public transit doesn't align, nominally within the same public transit system... cool, but that doesn't really seem completely different from the US system.
, I like it, but I am not sure about diving into Golant again.

Any way to use it in other languages?

Or do I just keep poking at Rich[1] in Python?

[1] https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Being profitable is only one angle though. Youtube is the biggest media network right now. I wouldn't be surprised if it beats Spotify as a music streaming service and a host of other unrelated sectors as well.
I can really only speak to CloudFlare workers in latency sensitive, user-facing settings, but from my experience their cold start times are insanely low, like 5-10ms. They use V8 Isolates (uberjar for js?) running WASM bytecode, so there is very little runtime overhead. So in that case, there is an actual benefit that being a short hop away, but otherwise I think you're right.

I've also used some AWS Lambdas and GCP Cloud Functions in background data processing settings where there are under 1M invocations/month, so its cheaper than running a tiny instance 24/7. In that setting latency doesn't really matter as much, but I was seeing cold starts ~2 seconds and warm start invocations on my node and python code responding within 30-60ms in most cases. Once the container is up and running its reused for follow-on invocations, but eventually(and opaquely) times out and the next invocation will be cold. People who are using serverless runtimes have historically done hacky things to ensure they always have a running container like invoking the function with a cron job. At that point it seems a bit silly not to just run a small vm / container.
Is there no service out there where you can just buy a number and use it for text validation
Yep. There's also a Jupyter kernel or an Atom plugin if you want. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...
In my experience, the important part is sometimes that _faster_ means _cheaper_. In many cases, 20% faster code means you need almost 20% fewer CPUs, which really adds up at scale.
The nuclear missile is a worse example because there is already this element of hostility and self-defense in the scenario. You might be able to justify killing five million people in another country in order to prevent them from launching a missile onto your country that would kill a million of your people. [1] I have no idea what utilitarians have to say here, will they be okay with getting a million of their people killed because that is a smaller lose of utility than the prevention of the attack which costs five million lifes in the hostile country?

[1] For simplicity ignoring all the complications of who wants to attack, probably the government or the military, and who would be victim of the prevention, probably military and civilians, and that you therefore might have to kill people that do not support or even oppose the attack.
I mean, I can definitely see their point. I work in distributed systems for a decade and I can tell you, when you kick the can downstream, it just gets worse later when it’s spread out and systemic.

You should nip overloads in the bud, and not propagate them. Have backpressure be at the protocol level, and every node only deals with its neighbors.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that the main reason for these failures is because we have monolitic, global addressing systems like DNS or IP routing tables, which let me send spam email to anyone, or DDOS a site from many machines at once. It’s totally discontinuous.

What a good distributed system should have is be continuous in distributing capabilities. Each node can grant capabilities only to trusted neighbors, and revoke any that have been misused. Neighbors can then delegate some capabilities to others, or — if the node wants — forward an invitation to them, to become a neighbor.

That would also solve all the issues about “real names policy”, and other crap like that. It shouldn’t matter whether you are “the real” Bill Gates or not. Your email shouldn’t be accessible to the whole world.

And websites would also be stored using a FileCoin-type market, which recruits more machines as more readers SPEND MONEY using micropayments to access the files.

Right now micropayments aren’t feasible, so instead we essentially have the publishers pay for hosting and collect micropayments via subscriptions and bundles.
> Go export the ONS data yourself and analyse it unless your[sic] too lazy to see what I mean

If you're going to make such claims then the onus is you to provide the evidence.
Huh? What videos ignoring their own guidelines?

You are aware that the car keeps nagging you if you don't keep your hands on the wheel, right?

And no, they don't call it "'autopilot'/'FSD'". They call FSD FSD, and Autopilot Autopilot.

Promising FSD has got nothing to do with Autopilot. FSD is a completely separate package you have to purchase.

You are lying about their marketing.
I upvoted for the web design...
There are no photos (article seems to include only renders), and no easy way to get a sense of scale. But if this is really designed for children: What about ingress and egress?

Using the one measurement: "14.4 inches of ground clearance".. the first ladder-step is 16-18" off the ground, with the second being perhaps a little closer.. maybe 15" above (this is just a guestimate from the images). There are no obvious hand holds. It's not clear if the bottom of the door ends at the metal/bumper divide or in the bumper section (possibly the small orange light is on the door), but perhaps the door provides a small amount of climbing assistance (on one side only). How is a small child, someone not particularly agile, or even someone later in life going to board (climbing?) or exit (jump?) this thing? Especially with cargo? It's strange they mention the decoration on the seats, but not how it could actually be used.

Update: The Torus website[0] (which this article (by way of a another by Auto Express) just seems to be printing a press releases from) goes into a bit more detail, there is a mid-body door which can optionally have a pneumatic pop-out step, which will improve things (it's still a steep decline - would children be expected to board here too?) Only renders there too. Auto Express estimates the bus approximately costs an eye watering $475K USD

[0]: https://torsus.eu/en/praetorian/school-bus
I was using Autopilot 2 years ago. Not even close to 15 minutes. Within seconds.
Because range numbers are more important than driver safety
It's a fun looking piece of equipment, but it costs at least twice what a ordinary, brand new school bus costs. And as other posters point out, school buses see a lot of miles during their lifetimes.

In the northern US, excluding Alaska, I _think_ that most school districts try to keep snow days (cancelations) under 5/year, and the average is lower.

I doubt it would make sense to pay at least twice as much for buses in order to allow schools to open 3 to 5 more days per year. How many districts in the world see enough snow days to make this worthwhile?
Ok then think of another cool project that doesn't require an electron microscope.
It's the equivalent of sharing your bank account number with scammysitedotcom. Even if there are no security implications, sharing your entire financial history with any website is very privacy hostile.
Autopilot is Autopilot.

Wikipedia: "Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle"

No one is confused about Tesla's Autopilot because not only do you have to agree on how to use it before you can enable it, but it constantly nags and reminds you while driving.
This looks amazing. I've already got a number of projects in mind for this.

It seems like since this is a standalone executable it should play nicely with different environments as long as those environments have the components needed for that engine. I'm thinking about how this would integrate with multiple different Conda environments.
We used the Upstream project for a while, but we were missing some features like IPv6, so we started this fork and added them ourselves, hoping it would be useful for a few others as well.
There are 2 costs:
1. Cost in money to purchase,
2. Cost in time to use and manage.
By paying these costs you gain a benefit (of any kind, monetary, pure enjoyment, etc).
These are given.
So far this is pretty easy to agree on, and could be stated in several ways including probably in terms of opportunity costs.

The article's point is that there's a particular relationship between these costs and benefits. Namely, that the first cost only enables you to gain the benefit, but that you can't actually receive the benefit until you pay into the second, time cost. This is interesting because it's easy to forget or miscalculate that second cost, and because the second cost gates the benefit that means you may not be getting the full benefit from paying the first cost.
Plumbing seems harder than loading and unloading a dish washer. Or doing laundry.
>“I was forced to sell two of my daughters, an eight- and six-year-old,” she says.

Hmmmm... I wonder how old they'll be allowed to get before the marriages are consummated?
> Given that Simplified and Traditional chinese have (for purposes of discussion here) identical characters, just represented differently, from an information standpoint they are exactly the same.

This is not quite true; sometimes separate traditional characters have the same simplified form. For example, traditional 後 ("behind") and 后 ("empress") share the simplified form 后.
> I wonder if there is space for a new text-based web browser that adopts some of the design features showcased by Charm

Not sure if you're aware, but older protocols are still around to be used for this use case, and Gopher has even had a bit of a resurgence as of late
You assume the customer has the information needed to make that decision before the purchase. In reality, most people don't have a reliable way to compare the repairability of products/brands before making a purchase. Even if they did, if the majority of the market doesn't valie repair, that can easily ruin it for those who do. It especially punishes those who are behind economically and can't afford replacements or "authorized" repair options (assuming they are even available).
I took a course from the Complexity Explorer on the origins of life. It made the point that although understanding life is hard, life is actually seemingly easy when considered in terms of it showing up or starting. It pointed to evidence that life began basically as soon as Earth formed, basically as soon as the oceans arrived.

The Solar System itself has plenty of examples of water. For example, Enceladus is surmised to be completely covered in an ocean below its icy crust. As far as I know, there's not much evidence that points to life as being special. Earth is certainly special in the time window that we are experiencing it in given its balances of energy, heat, water, etc.

Utilizing models to predict what's out there doesn't seem all that controversial when evidence points to life not being all that hard cosmically. We just don't have strong enough binoculars yet.
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# Arch Linux (btw)
yay -S glow

Heh, nice take on the whole "I use Arch btw" meme.

This is really cool.
Remote learning may not be perfect, but to the extent we truly need to "end all snow days", it seems like it should be sufficient, no?
I feel the new list feature is missing the ability to have many lists. 10 (or whatever the max is, can't remember) is too little. I'd like to have many more categories available. What do you all think?
Thanks. I think here in the West we have turned our backs on religion, and are now seeing the fallout from that. Religion not only defines a culture's moral code, but produces all sorts of additional glue binding people together. I'm am atheist but appreciate the benefits of Christianity for example, as that's what I grew up with and have continued with Christian traditions.

Celebrating Christmas is an obvious example here.

I'm not sure what the answer for the US is? Forcing everyone to church? As a kid I hated Sunday mass. As an adult I'm glad i went through that.
> You can optimise, as long as you keep the semantics of the code.

In order to do this, we need to define the semantics. Actually doing this is a much harder exercise than you might think, and largely involves creating a PDP-11 emulator since modern machines simply do not behave like the systems that C exposes. We don't even have a flat buffer of memory to address.

Things get way way worse when you start considering nontraditional architectures and suddenly the only way to match the proposed semantics is to introduce a huge amount of software overhead. For example, we might decide to define signed integer overflow as the normal thing that exists on x86 machines. Now when compiling to a weird architecture that does not have hardware overflow detection you need to introduce software checks at every arithmetic operation so you can match the desired semantics appropriately.
Not sure what you mean by "unfolding". But, unlike Watson, Google Health seems to be building tools that may be useful for healthcare providers rather than just marketing hype.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71DVIWZnOho
I still think your comment would be better suited to the cell process with its programmable SPE's
But it is exactly what it is sold at. The page where you choose the FSD package makes it 100% clear. There is no confusion about what you get.
Thanks for the feedback... But did you read the rest of my comment?
You can see it for free, but you're gonna have to sign their NDA before.
My favorite way to do this is to encourage people to email me their comments. If anyone has something to add to the discussion I may ask for permission to quote them in a "Responses" sections, or more often, if they write their own post I'll link to it.

Why do this? Well, for one, it gives me absolutely quality control over my website. I am the final arbiter of what I want to present and how I want to present it.

But this also changes the shape of the comments; it is not a public remark into the void, it is a letter to the author. I've been amazed and the quality and thoughtfulness in some of these notes.