skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I run ads for some clients on Google and Social media and they have amazing results. If you know what you are doing with targeted ads you can make a big difference.

What you refer to is called re-marketing to people who visited the website, engaged with ads, but did not buy. The problem is that there are lots of advertisers that do not exclude people who already bought their products and this is bad marketing because people getting bombarded with ads for products that will never re-purchase.
> Is the "electric" part of the diesel electric a commoditized technology?

Not really. You can't use the electric side of a locomotive drive train anywhere else than in a locomotive, and for fully electric locomotives you can't even use the transformers in any non-railway setting simply because the frequencies used are generally incompatible with usage on the normal power grid. Old electric locos sometimes are used to provide auxiliary power for parked cars [1], though that has fallen out of fashion here.

What is commoditized is the engine side of a diesel locomotive, that's your run-off-the-mill CAT, MTU or whatever industrial diesel engine. As long as it fits into the locomotive body and accepts a hydraulic or electric generator at the output, it can be used. IIRC there even were some experiments with gas turbines on French high-speed locomotives, but these had atrocious fuel economy.

> Is it a single motor or one per axis?

That entirely depends on the engine model, and can be inferred from the wheel arrangement code [2].

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafostation_(Elektrolok)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_arrangement
Just did some DDG noodling. Turns out, Flickr themselves have open-sourced this!

https://github.com/flickr/justified-layout

Now to look into porting this to Hugo.
Comparison to historical death rates contradict this speculation. See for example the Economist link provided in an earlier comment.
Seconding IEEE Spectrum, it covers a broad number of fun technical topics. Off the top of my head, some articles over the past year included supersonic transportation, satellite transmissions, crowdfunded space travel, COVID detection mechanisms, software failures, and data compression.

Communications of the ACM is also a good print magazine if you are interested in computer science. It has more of an academic bent, but is meant to be of general interest to computer scientists (disclosure: I'm on the Editorial Board of CACM). Again, off the top of my head, some recent articles include K-12 computer science education, a survey of word embedding techniques, software-defined cooking using a programmable microwave (I'm a co-author of this), differential privacy, a survey of AI bias issues, and Green AI.
Make magazine

https://makezine.com/
A government has “lost control” to peaceful protest? I don’t know, and haven’t been following this closely, but it sounds kind of like… democracy working.
https://logicmag.io/
From the beginning of the article:

"Whether those microbial deficits actually help cause the disorders is unclear, [...]"

For the time being it appears to be careful in only suggesting correlation, not causation.
That would be annoying, my use case is both but many times the hours of work to compared to gaming. I guess that is why my B6 is amazing, not the brightest out there compared to what is available today but no automatic limiting.

I wonder how the crazy gamer ones are going to be, like the ASUS PG42UQ [0]. Also how much a premium above the regular LG one. Also would get annoyed by having that UFO on my desk.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22867178/asus-oled-gaming-...
I would add that it’s not only expensive financially but also in terms of time.

I grew up very poor and was fairly poor as an adult until about 6-7 years ago. I constantly had to make time trade offs. Do I exercise or evaluate and cut coupons to make my meager grocery budget last longer? Do I meal plan to make my money stretch further or spend that time investing in a skill? Not to mention things like not having reliable transportation, which meant taking the bus to and from work which tends to be a 2-3x longer commute. And if the bus was ever late, minimum wage retail jobs don’t really care so you get a “mark” on your record and potentially written up/fired if it happens too many times.

I consider myself very fortunate that I was lucky enough to find myself a tech job and pull myself out of my previous financial situation. But I get the sense that a lot of people here haven’t been through that so they underestimate just how much more difficult it is to be poor, at least in the US.
There are two types of countries in the world... Those where people can assemble in the capitol and those where people cannot. In general, the former is better than the latter.
I haven't used this framework, but this has been my experience with pretty much all UI frameworks and especially with Python ones. Even the demo projects are often a pain to package and starting from scratch means hours of reading docs and changing parameters almost at random to see what happens.

Windows is the absolute worst for packaging Python (unless you give up and package everything in a self-extracting exe, but then antivirus is even more likely to eat it) and Android barely runs native Qt (seriously, the demo project from their website straight up doesn't build), so I can imagine that running something with 4 layers of stuff in between would have even worse odds of working.
Does the government not have a responsibility to protect fair use of the commons by all people?

If you agree that the government has that responsibility, then the government needs to maintain its rule over the commons, which has clearly been lost in downtown Ottawa.

Also, the demonstrators have been there for over a week, lacking a permit for their demonstration, often honking all night long and keeping awake the people who live nearby. There have been numerous reports of assaults by demonstrators because the victims had the audacity to wear a mask while walking in the vicinity of the demonstration.
Yeah, that's a good assessment. It is troubled, but I don't think you can do big projects without trouble. Think about how high tensions can get when planning a two week software engineering sprint. Now imagine a project that's a million times bigger than that, where people will have their houses torn down. There's going to be some trouble. What is amazing that despite the trouble, some progress is being made.

(There are lots of things working against CAHSR. The route has been chosen politically rather than to minimize SFO-LAX travel times. Given infinite budget, you travelers on that route don't want to go through Bakersfield, as it's out of the way. And, the SFO/LAX city pair is already not a particularly optimal pair, it is kind of reaching the high end of distances that make high-speed rail the best travel option. That's why I look at Texas Central and Brightline for models of what to do in the future. Texas Central is a really good city pairing, in a region where their 16 lane highways can't handle the traffic volume. But I temper my enthusiasm in that not a lot of construction work has been done; I can't find any updates newer than September 2021 when the CEO said pessimistically that there is only a 50/50 chance that construction will start in the next 6 months. We're near the end of those 6 months.)
Late‐life physical activity relates to brain tissue synaptic integrity markers
Uh... You'll never stop running into problems that require a driver to take conttol. Automation is only as reliable as the sum of it's parts. Can't wait to see the first set of failures that prevent automated driving back of defective units under their own power without a human backup option.
Business buyers care about text... which is better with higher pixel density.
I started to make my own photo gallery, and I found that while the masonry-layout shown here (where different ratio pictures are put together to a common height) looks really pretty, I ended up preferring either cropping/zooming them or adding a margin and keep a square grid.

Why? Because that allows you to easily click and drag a select area and select multiple pictures, where I can then click a button to tag them all at once. With Files Gallery, you cannot drag to select so this doesn't seem a concern, but then again I would love to be able to _manage_ files easily and not just look at them.
4k, 43" LCD Tv for $300 https://www.amazon.com/TCL-43-inch-Class-Smart-Android/dp/B0...

Once you go 40 inch, you can never go back.
My current subscription list includes;

Wired -- has slipped a bit, I worry they have lost the will to cover cutting edge.

Smithsonian -- a wide variety of topics, some tech, some archeologh etc.

Smithsonian Air & Space -- (now quarterly :-() which has good space technology as well as interesting stories of both military and civilian aircraft.

Science News -- which culls from a lot of journals and finds interesting papers to highlight (I will often follow up on an article by writing to the researchers for copies of their papers)

Popular Science, Popular Mechanics -- These have become remarkably similar in their content focus, that said they keep me up to date on a lot of commercial gizmos that I might otherwise miss in the noise.

QST (part of the ARRL membership) -- Which is all about Amateur Radio and so it hits a lot of interesting topics as I continue to explore software defined radios both in theory and in practice.

I use Scansnap scanner and paper guillotine to save articles that I find either particularly interesting, or I am curious if they will go anywhere. There are many interesting "over night" revolutions that appear years earlier as some sort of "wouldn't it be cool if ..." article. Indexing them is a pain, my indexing foo is weak :-).
Since current locomotives are diesel electric hybrids anyway, seems like US Railroads could electrify certain potions of track, maybe steep changes in grade or places where trains frequently stop/start, yielding an opportunity to cut diesel consumption 50% or more on certain routes, since maintaining speed requires modest effort.

Also, while reduced fuel consumption is nice, another major beneficiary would be the environment, specifically when operating in urban centers. I’ve lived near heavy-use railways and currently a switching yard for most of my life, and some days the diesel exhaust is quite strong, depending on the prevailing winds. The engines are usually pretty clean burning for the amount of work they produce, but not always…
Sometimes I gaze into the stars and wonder how many programming careers were ruined by nebulous "stack overflow", "null pointer exception" and "segmentation fault: core dumped" messages.
I have noticed SO similar problems during last week, maybe slightly more.
New Scientist
Maybe you have a cynical outlook that people will take from you but will never give back, people who grew up in poverty, or had a rough life will sometimes have this attitude, or it might just be pure selfishness, only you can know.
I get a simple "the service is unavailable"
That's why I said "hyperbole." I should have said "mild hyperbole," but I didn't bother to look up the actual numbers.
The ABL isn’t that much of an issue as the WRGB sub pixels that it uses which make text fuzzy.

Also even at 42” the PPI is not good enough for text rendering.

And lastly the biggest issue is actual comfort there is almost no way to balance the right distance and scaling to prevent strain on your neck when working with such large monitors.
I'm running a couple of 28" 3:2 ratio displays ( https://consumer.huawei.com/uk/monitors/mateview/ for the exact model). The extra vertical space is great, been wanting desktop displays in this ratio ever since getting a Surface Book and I'm upgrading to a Framework partly down to the 3:2 display there too.

Downside of this particular monitor is the lack of VESA mount, it could be a tad brighter (but is fine for the office), and I'd prefer 120Hz vs 60. I'm really hoping there is more choice in this 3:2 space down the road. Like if Microsoft released that Surface Studio as a monitor..
I’ll take spinning disk over vdi any day. VDI is the worst
It is well known to be home to most antivax and conspiracy stuff.
With mail, the only information that is verifiable is the address that received the mail.

The return address can be made up. Although the general area it is sent from is recorded in the form of zip code.

The contents of the letter are also not known.

So even if that info got out, there’s really not much information beyond the fact that mail was received, and we probably know who sent it.

Thats a world of difference from cryptographically signed transactions between known parties with known amounts.
I think it's the Nazi flags. Symbols of treason and rebellion, expressions of violent intent towards fellow citizens. It stopped being fellow citizens with disagreeable and even laughable views expressing their right to freely assemble and express themselves then and there.

Personally, for the vast majority (hoping) that only care about the vaccine mandate I don't care one bit. But for the nazi and confederate flag waving people, my frustration is against the law much more than the people, why is it unlawful to grant them their wish and meet them with violence if the government is unwilling to arrest and punish them for it. Nazism is not protected speech, it is worse than the classic example of "shouting fire in a crowd" it is promoting and seeding hatred and violence in hopes of genocide! The only acceptable Nazi is a dead Nazi. 50 million people didn't die so we can forget.
Quite often you want to communicate with the person on the other end without disclosing your identity.

Communication platform that enforces "KYC"-like disclosure to the platform itself is misleading their users about security.
Scuba Diving - it's great, everyone should try it. Although it's fairly expensive as hobbies go.

Equalise early and often!
Yuck, I know the feeling - just for me it was a piece of lightning rod conductor that snapped out of its coil, still have the scar in my face, but it has faded thankfully. Hope you did recover from your injury!

> I believe I have managed to collect the majority of the abandoned wire but now I face the dilemma of what to do with it. I don't want to take it to the land fill and make it someone else's problem but don't want to have it in my way either as it is very heavy and cumbersome to move.

Sell it at a scrap yard. They will sell it to a smelter and that's it.

> My only idea is to get a forge or smelter and transform it into a less menacing product.

If you go that far in yak-shaving, there are some pretty amazing how-to videos on Youtube that detail how to build a proper forge - and actually make an axe or other medieval weapon out of ore.
I agree with your underlying premise - without stimuli such as pain and pleasure to give motivation it is difficult to foresee an AI which will think enough like humans to be useful or that we feel we can trust. But perhaps that is just chauvinism.
I personally store everything in I cloud following a similar directory structure as tacostakohashi (elsewhere in the thread), though it seems like Google Drive might work for y'all as your split across iOS and Android.
People who are looking for an excuse to give others grief for harmlessly violating social conventions probably should not be posting on a site named "Hacker News"—after all, hackers have always been weird, think of Turing. In any case they are not capable of engaging with my substantive points, should I have any, so I'm not losing anything by discomforting them.

And it's good to know who those griefers are before that becomes a life-or-death question, as it eventually was for Turing, Swartz, Assange, and so many others.
An un-mentioned advantage for battery-electric locomotives, especially for yard duty - trains are already composed of many heavy modules (locomotives and freight cars) which are pretty quick & easy to switch in & out. If (at least to start) you put the batteries in old gondola cars (roughly, a flat car with low sides, designed to carry heavy scrap metal & such), then it'd be easy to have a few "battery cars" charging on a special siding somewhere, while the locomotive and currently-in-use battery car are working.

Side note on supplying power to battery-electric locomotives from overhead wires (via pantographs): The railroad industry has a lot of experience with pantographs, overhead wires, and the infrastructures needed to power said overhead wires. That stuff is expensive to build and maintain. And if your RR depends on it, then you can be utterly screwed when a large blackout occurs. Or (say) when all the power lines in an area have to be turned off, because the wildfire danger level is too high.
It’s nuts to me that Apple never sold the iMac 5K 27” display as a standalone monitor. There was/is the LG UltraFine, but by most accounts it’s rather unreliable and of poor build quality for the price—not to mention it seems to be totally discontinued outside of the US.

It would be the perfect Mac monitor, especially with macOS’ odd scaling method making 4K @ 27” really suboptimal. It would be overpriced I’m sure, but considering it would be less than the price of the iMac that normally contains it, I think it would still have been a popular choice. Unlike the Pro Display XDR which blows right past overpriced and lands squarely into unattainable for the vast majority of people.
>A bit like airplanes, or space tech you know, have you seen those improving by a 10x factor recently?

Is space tech included ironically here? There's been 10x (or more) improvements across dozens of space tech problems in the last couple decades.
Regarding your advice on eating plants, do you know if it matters wheter they are cooked or eaten raw? I mean, is one preferable over the other, from a gut biome perspective. By the way, thanks a lot for your answers!
Just about anything that can connect to the internet is a potential privacy nightmare. I assume that by specifying "webapps" you're making a comparison to native apps.

Configure your browser to block 3rd party cookies and you'll be fine.

It's nice to have the private window privacy feature. That's a standard feature of web browsers, but I don't know of any consumer operating system that makes this easy for native apps.
Why are you using very optimistic scenarios instead of realistic ones? Do you know that most startups don't see an exit at all let alone one that can be measured in the hundreds of millions?
>who of course turned out to be a cop who wasn't subject to DNA collection.

He was fired as a cop for shoplifting (according to wikipedia) so why wasn't his DNA collected then?
If you want to give up your $1M salary (seriously WTF) and you want to have much more control over a technology stack, sure.

I halved my salary and worked in startups for quite a few years, some things were fantastic. For example, bootstrapping a bank from scratch. I left all that chaos for an established large firm and it totally sucked the life out of me.

The chances of getting a million dollar a year income, in stock or salary in a new startup is next to nil. It is like being a muso and saying you want to be a rock star or actor.

I worked for 4 startups over 9 years. Three are gone completely and the one that may be successful has diluted my equity so much it is now near worthless. Basically I will never get the salary cut I took back, ever.
I made a Kivy/KivyMD mobile app as a part of my diploma project like a year ago, and I surely wanted it to be a cool little learning experience, too. It was a disaster!

I mean, the KV language is pretty neat, but the insane amount of tooling involved (that always, always fails) to actually open your app on your phone is disgusting. Disgusting as in using three different versions of Python, setting up mismatching Android tooling, cross-compiling wheels on your virtual machine only for it to fail with some cryptic GCC error disgusting. It's also pretty outdated (e.g. camera doesn't work properly with the last ~5 Android APIs), and of course very slow, even if you pre-optimize your code with pagination and stuff.

Kinda regret using Kivy at all, despite its community being amazing. So, can't recommend. Perhaps, you could consider learning Flutter instead? It will take just about the same time investment, but the whole experience is incomparable. Even better, make a test app in Kivy, and then make one in Flutter. (This is only partly a joke, though. It's really that fun.)
As of others have mentioned here, VR solves a lot of these problems. E.g.

> [VR], on the other hand, gives you the ability to move windows or even your entire workspace around at will, allowing you to change positions and achieve more ergonomic working stances throughout the day. You can even experiment with supine computing without purchasing any expensive desk setups.

VR computing also allows you to walk while computing (using an "AR mode" supported by passthrough front facing cameras).[1]

[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/why-vrcs-are-better-than-pcs-and-l...
UK supermarkets have some extremely cheap products - 13p (US$0.18) for a can of spaghetti in tomato sauce [1], 20p (US$0.27) for five meals worth of pasta [2].

They're so cheap I can't believe they make more than a penny or two of profit. And raising the price by even a few pennies is above the rate of inflation. And if they stop selling those super-cheap products? The next cheapest product is 3x the price.

[1] https://groceries.asda.com/product/tinned-pasta/asda-smart-p...
[2] https://groceries.asda.com/product/spaghetti-tagliatelle/asd...
My photographed documents go on Google Photos and I can just use the image search. I pay for it and don’t really care if Google sees it all- I get what I need.
Low-protein diets promote health in humans, but sex and genetics maters
I'm in the process of setting up paperless-ng.

https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng
As a non smoker, I still used to love chilling outside chatting to smokers. It would be quiet, relaxed, and everyone was open to the idea of just chatting whilst enjoying their cigarette.

The idea of standing still for 5 minutes and talking to whoever happens to be around seems farfetched outside of that social norm
I've seen (non-passenger) railroad yards in Switzerland, and they seem to get along fine with overhead wires. But the infrastructure there is much better in the USA, I get why we can't do it here (nor in Canada or in Australia for many routes).
Fascinating how the perceived tone of the initial response can change the outcome of the deepest thread. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Human conversation meets James Gleick’s Chaos conditions!
Two-stroke Diesel engines used in ships have an efficiency well over 50%, up to 59% for those with waste heat recovery systems.

High-temperature gas turbines can also have efficiencies over 50%.

Modern four-stroke internal combustion engines used in cars and trucks can have an efficiency over 40%, up to 45%.

That said, such efficiencies remain low compared to electric motors with efficiencies over 95% and with combined cycle power plants which can reach an efficiency of 65% (while power plants with heat cogeneration may reach efficiencies around 80%).
Huh, great idea. Might (attempt to) do one of these for metars.
Start by working at a consulting firm to get used to that sweet consulting life without having to worry about finding clients. Then transition to hang your own shingle.
For me is less about the money and more about how the risk is asymmetric for the investors. I get it is how the system works...

The issue is companies DO try to sell the idea their equity is going to be extremely valuable in the future, which is what started me on this rabbit hole to try to quantify how valuable they actually are.
GMO roundup resistance allows us to use a bunch of herbicide without killing the food crop. This seems to indicate that we’d be using a lot more roundup on those crops than otherwise.