skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Water mines in the mountains in central Portugal. Many are said to be from Moorish times. It’s a long tradition, suffice it to say, along with the elevated stone aquaducts lining the nadirs of each valley.

The one on my old land there was dug by an elderly friends father about 80-90 years ago with a pickaxe. It took about a year and a half of full-time work. (Who fed them during that time? Was it a village funded effort?)
It’s allegedly about 150m deep, which is terrifying to imagine, as it’s like 1.6m tall and maybe 80-90cm wide or something and the bottom is full of water.

I never dared wade in more than about 5m, it’s sorta crouching person height and it’s basically just scraped out of the schist, although there are pockets of a hard white quartz of some kind that I can attest to the difficulty in breaking, one dislodges large chunks of it instead.
IF winds and drafts remain favorable.

Which is something one can't guarantee from outside the plane.

Also, it's much easier to ensure a safe crash site when you're only doing the calculations in one axis, which a nose down, straight in trajectory would have offered.

But that wouldn't have made good cinema would it?
Speeding doesn't kill you most of the time also.
PVC is in a lot of toys, pipes, things like that. But it's not common in single use, or low use plastics.
> A private pilot's license is a privilege

I hate calling things like this a privilege. It's licensed and regulated for the safety and benefit of the people who fly and live underneath airspace (all of us).

There are too many things involving the government that have turned into privileges where it takes knowing someone or being able to afford access to obtain action.
RSUs are pretty awful since you don't have access to the 83(b) exemption and tax is paid at ordinary income rate rather than long term cap gains rate, so RSUs can't offer the same opportunity to build long term wealth.

RSUs seem to make sense to public companies which don't meaningfully have access to all the kinds of compensation available to private companies.

IANAL but RSUs seem like a ripoff for a private company to use them even if the common price is high compared to a standard ISO SOP.
It is an interesting response to me (without kids) because I think this doesn't give kids the chance to explore. Kids SHOULD be doing dangerous things, just not TOO dangerous. That's how I learned a lot of valuable lessons. It is also how you learn independence.
The video is confusing on this point.

The focus is on all the cool improvements and it seems like there is a lot to like.

But at 6:40, the dev says their solution would not work on the stock 4MB ram included w the N64. It is kind of snuck in there.

It’s kind of an important detail, because like the GTA loading screen fix last year it’s way more interesting when stories like this have a What If?! slant to them.

Another commenter mentioned this below, but it’s buried.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104112
Hi all, I've been lurking in the comments all day and I wanted to let the HN community how much we appreciate the wonderful response. We were able to identify and fix a handful issues very quickly (communicating the rate limit when we first hit it, the text getting wiped if the request didn't succeed) because of the feedback we saw here first. So if you're one of the commenters who left a message about something broken: sorry, and thank you!

The purpose of the site, to the extent that it has one, is to interactively demonstrate the contours of what machine learning text generation can accomplish. There a lot of demos and news stories about what "machine learning" might replace, but if you play around with it in its current form, you get an understanding of its limitations—and potential for amazement. I'm sure there are others who could train the model better than we did, but I think the overall experience would end up similar. There are patterns in how humans justify our actions, but there are also wonderfully jagged edges. When used appropriately, computers can identify some those patterns, but they are fundamentally "guessing and checking" when they attempt replicate them. Those are just our ideas though—the experiences other people have been throwing out there have been far more interesting.

Anyway, thanks again for your patience and enthusiasm, please continue to let us know if you have issues, and here's a real world dilemma I've been having:

> AITA for reading a lot books about Common LISP lately?

YTA. It's just super confusing. You don't need the extra work that goes into common lisp. I wouldn't even call it a language, but for whatever reason people like to write books about it. It seems to be used as clickbait title more than anything else too
I suspect we're about to see a prolonged weakness in tech.

Ad revenue will drop due to a weak economy.

Higher interest rates will expose many business models(Uber, Doordash, etc) as unsustainable.

Netflix crashing likely popped the bubble in streaming services and Hulu. People are realizing Netflix is the next TiVo and streaming services with monthly subscriptions are a 'race to the bottom' and content(which is currently not cheap to produce) is king. Even with content, users can sign up, binge, and quit after a single month.

All of these services crashing will slow sales of enterprise HW and AI accelerators.

Now is probably a good time to shift your investments to things people need, not things they want. If you're in tech, I hope you've diversified your assets.
> Its goal is to replace software in critical infrastructure to ensure it can neither fail nor be hacked.

Tell me you don’t understand technology without telling me you don’t understand technology.
> Wow is electricity really that expensive in CA? Our total expenditure on electricity over 20 years is around 20k.

Electricity in CA currently averages around 28c/kWh. Your total expenditure depends on a lot of things, including the size of your home and your loads. The average CA home probably spends around $2000/year on electricity, but that varies a lot based on location and lifestyle.

> But in CA that site says that their net 20 year savings using solar is 44k-60k. That's insane. Their savings alone is 3 times the cost of our entire electric bill...

That figure probably assumes increasing electricity prices over the 20 years, which by and large has held true due to both inflation and increasing wildfire liability.
There's a more configurable userspace alternative: https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd
Does anyone know the current state of WebThings? I dabbled back before Mozilla dropped it and it seemed cool, but with some rough edges. I wonder if it survived the transition to a community run project.
Well yeah, their investigation was presumably based in large part on the video. But they still did an investigation and found he actually intentionally crashed the plane, per the article.
Pretty sure react mentally to any physical sensation in your body.
You mean monopolies created by government intervention, like the railroads?
Although I am dispirited by the rise of more extreme right wing politics, I am comforted that a dialogue outside of the far right which sometimes becomes "my enemies enemy is my friend" has at last recognised how destructive that is. In the french context it means left voters will hold their nose, and reluctantly vote for the medallion man with a hairy chest, to keep the even worse consequences out. I have to keep reminding myself "Mélenchon" is not the same as (Philip) Melanchthon.

France has been here before in the days of the popular front, before WW2. A bit of the defeatism around the german advance stems from a history of internal dissent amongst the french about confronting their own left-right split.

Postwar France had its brief moment of ugliness (l'epuration) and then again during the Algerian independence campaign, and then again (in parallel really) during the Indochina war (which became the Vietnam war) and possibly during '68 and semi-annually since then by farmers over something about the EEC/EU, although it keeps changing exactly what they want from it: more lakes, or less price support?

I Struggle with Le Pen, and the two Ms Mussolini in Italy. The idea that the right wing of Europe is intergenerational really confuses me. Dynasties? I thought they got rid of their monarchy!

A great read is "the Short Reign of Pippin IV" by John Steinbeck, set in the mid/late 1950s but applicable to so much of France's recent political history.

Le Pen wants to break the EU. A lot of french agree. A lot of french are very angry about technocrat government, about life, about their horrendous anomie with the role of france in the modern world, with the Australians for making good wine and then refusing to buy french submarines, with the New Caledonians for wanting independence, with the Germans for having the temerity to want to work harder and running their economy and europe, but I think they're pretty content with the Belgians: They lasted 2+ years without a government, something the French look at wistfully I think.

Really the french should thank Boris Johnson for taking britain out of the EU, and making a complete basket case of his national economy: it made France look much better.
Personally I think that the movie Oblivion had one of the best UIs of all time. Every element placed there was animated with such a detail to transporting meaning, and wasn't there just for the show effect as most other Sci-Fi UIs. [1] I wish this UI was reality.

While I think Star Trek transported the idea of using touch screens everywhere, I don't think their UIs are practical, as all of them were static (except for the tablets, which only displayed texts).

[1] https://gmunk.com/OBLIVION-GFX
How do you manage your keys? Some manual CRUD thing? Something FOSS? Something that your cloud provider provides?
E-bikes eliminate two factors that inexperienced bikers struggle with: wind and hills, two things that a couple hundred extra watts really help with even when limited to 20-25mph.

Especially if you are towing a burley or have panniers or aren't in full spandex. The wind resistance really adds up.

Ebikes are such an effective and useful form of urban transportation that very efficiently leverages what battery supply we have for cheap and FUN travel. To the point that the government should make this the "summer of the ebike" and offer a $500 rebate on e-bikes this summer.

When I lived in a downtown, I could not wait for bikeable weather to come (midwestern winters). A city shrinks by a factor of ten over walking, and when you consider you often can park right by your destination for free, while cars almost always have a 10-15 minute penalty for finding parking and walking from the parking spot.

The convenience range of an e-bike that can do 250-300 watts over a regular bike is probably 20-30 miles further, especially when often bike routes can be more direct.

And an ebike gives the horsepower to cart around rain gear.

For things like watching marathons, parades, and festivals (as long as you aren't THAT GUY trying to walk his bike through shoulder to shoulder crowds), they are unmatched. You get so much more of the experience.

Of course so much of this is because people don't bike, maybe things would change if a lot more people did.

If you are ever doing the tourist thing in Washington DC, their city is perfect for their bike share service. It was AWESOME. Being able to go monument to monument, smithsonian to smithsonian, to the zoo, to the hotel, to restaurants, was amazing on a bike with no hassles with car parking, the roundabouts in cars, or dealing with the metro schedules and line transfers. Bonus: you can go to Georgetown easily which doesn't have a metro.

Manhattan/NYC SHOULD be like this, but it wasn't in the same league as DC last I did it. Brooklyn was still not well served.

Manhattan/NYC would be much better with an ebike. It would shrink Manhattan neighborhoods by a huge amount.
It was only 97% for a brief Sunday afternoon - not at night not even a major portion of the day
Trust me, I’m not arguing for the hypothetical.
Your best bet would be to talk to an actual doctor. They should be able to run tests that can gauge your liver function levels.
This is somewhat interesting but note they start by saying they use the word "state machine" not in fact to refer to a state machine, but rather something more like a closure or class instance (they weren't really clear).
Heart rate absolutely — I think temp is a lot more reliable. The only problem is if the thing is in sunlight.
Good thing no one who works at Reddit is lurking here.
I think the key is near OOM. In some cases (e.g. runtimes with configurable heap sizes that trigger garbage collection when the max size is reached) it's easy to setup a system that operates near OOM
Become enough of a threat that they acquire-hire you or buy you to shut you down.
The only thing missing was him thanking sponsors and asking us to like an subscribe before he jumped.
The article leaves out the part where investors living in low-cost areas are offered less equity than investors in other areas. They are told this is still a good deal because it is a better deal than they'd find investing in local companies.
I feel like FB / meta stock crashing after last quarter's earnings miss was the first warning, and today Netflix stock cratered after a miss as well. I'm not sure if we will see a crash or recession however I do believe all the factors you mentioned will set off a drop in valuations and hence the stock market.
Taxes. If you give RSUs, the value of them might get really high in later years, along with the tax burden. And because the RSUs are liquid you can’t sell them to cover tax.
This might be relevant, it depends on the kind of project you’re building:

https://handmade.network/
I feel like you might be underestimating the difficulty of setting up nose down dive and then bailing out successfully, but I'm not pilot.

It would have made great cinema, it would just not have looked like an accidental bailout which was the whole point.
People in general are terrible at estimating the risk of infrequent but high-impact events. One in a million risk of death feels the same as one in a billion to a lot of people, but is literally 1,000x worse. COVID especially has revealed that some people are blasé about even 1 in 1,000 chance.

I had several arguments recently with multiple family members about food safety. They do very risky things like leaving warm (but not hot!) cooked food out on the counter all day next to the sink where they wash raw chicken meat. The bacteria from the chicken can easily splash onto the perfect growth medium.

But you see, they "never" got sick in the past, so I'm worrying about nothing. Meanwhile I've hugged the toilet throwing up all night twice from getting food poisoning from the cooking of a family member.

Food poisoning can and does kill people, but it's not seen as something to worry about. E.g.: "CDC estimates 48 million people get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases each year in the United States."

Okay, it's not as bad as COVID, but still...
The license can say that you're free to do anything without repercussion. My point is that if someone is essentially repackaging something that they had little input in creating, a mention of what was used would be nice.
kill java, and keep on killing java with fire. Then move on to the printer daemon, the 200 vtys you forked on console I never use, the mouse daemon, and maybe in the end, sendmail.
I'm convinced it's basically impossible to get good reviews for items such as standing desks. I eventually just bought one and felt like it was pure luck that it didn't suck. I did find some good reviews on the relative merits of standing desks vs. alternatives though.
This is especially true to people who get paid in RSUs or do ESPP through their employer. Even FAANG employees should not really sit on these to get the maturation of these stocks to cap gains, as they'll likely go down by a larger margin in a year.

This is gonna be a wild few years ahead of us one way or another.
> assign all of the "dirty" power generated in the state to exports

Hilarious, how to lie with statistics 101.
That only works at the early stages. Later on the cost to exercise could be massive.
I'm having trouble seeing a practical way forward:

1. small NC municipality had a town manager with the foresight to deploy municipal wifi and plan for fiber during that interim period when FCC declared it legal. Good service (symmetric, price adjusted for the actual signal you get), good support

2. that FCC ruling was overturned in the courts

3. municipality spun off the wifi into a little company. Still good service, good support

4. fiber got rolled out

5. municipality leased it to some company that somehow has worse ratings than comcast. That company took also took over operations of the little wifi company

So now what? Even if technologists in NC band together to overturn that state law, the municipality still has a 20-year lease with that company.
Are you suggesting that intentionally crashing a plane would not constitute operation in a “careless or reckless manner”? So as to endanger the life or property of another?
But there’s tons of untapped potential that is rarely realized - compare some of the greatest Doom PWADs made today (on the vanilla Doom engine, not on limit removed engines) vs the original game.

They were technically possible but there wasn’t time to do them and still get the game out on schedule.
I have a friend with perfect vision, and he has trouble seeing things in video games on a flat screen. I have an eye that does not participate in the general effort, and so I don't have true binocular vision, yet I've always had great hand-eye coordination both in real life and in games, and never had motion sickness. I quietly theorize that this is because I use a multitude of other cues to judge distance, not the "6th sense" of depth that binocular vision provides.

I would love to hear how other people experience sensing depth as it's a really fascinating topic, I have no idea what it's supposed to be like. Do you find you 'feel' depth, like if a ball were coming toward your face does it give you a feeling of something speeding toward you?
Some of that processing attributed to the brain happens in the eyes themselves, so "amazing eyes" still fits :-)
timestamp counter?
If you weren’t aware of how bad the regulatory capture is, you should check out this article and its map: https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc....

It’s staggering to me the public hasn’t pilloried Comcast at the stockades after the pandemic.
Inpainting is a process of image restoration, the idea is to fill the damage, deteriorated or missing part of an image to present a complete image. It can also be used to remove unwanted parts in an image.

Deep learning based approaches use GANs to inpaint. This requires significant amount of training. The proposed tool quickly inpaints by solving a PDE on graphs.
There was an X-Files episode where they had Jesus’s voice saying ‘I am the walrus’ frozen in a hardening pottery glaze from the home of Lazarus.
I've tried twice to update Lakka (a custom Linux image that runs RetroArch and emulators) on a RPi 3B with 1 gigabyte of memory (and I think no swap). Updating Lakka from the Pi itself invokes a script which downloads a file from the network to SD card storage. This should not take up unbounded amounts of memory, but seems to trigger OOM livelock or something anyway (I can't tell what it is, since the GUI and SSH session hang, and Lakka doesn't enable Alt+SysRq or TTYs for some godforsaken reason). Enabling SSH and running `watch -n1 free -h` shows a concerningly low free memory amount, and IIRC the available memory number crept downwards before the GUI and SSH session both hung simultaneously.

Terminating the GUI and performing an offline update from one SSH session while running `watch -n1 sync` avoids the hang. I haven't tried sync while leaving the GUI running.

Will Linux OOM handling ever be fixed?
Employees have valid reasons to ask, just explaining why it is not common to get a good clear answer from founders . Not saying it is justified .

Having said that, if risk is a major concern most startups are not the perhapsright place to work. They are designed to fail quickly than become unsuccessful or low growth businesses, employees or founders do get short end of the stick frequently.
Same reason I don't report small accidents to my insurance, I just take my car to the body shop myself.
Note there are two components to this: (1) paying all cash-based compensation (2) giving the ability to invest at fair market price. I believe both components should be considered best practices.
For Russian tech firms, Putin’s crackdown ended global ambitions
Ah, yeah back in the early days of youtube 1.5+ million views was a huge amount of revenue for creators.
No. There are some rural towns where every single town member, including the police, firefighters, etc. are addicted to meth. Rural areas are where most meth is cooked because it makes it considerably less likely to be detected.

A considerable amount of heroin addicts in the US are also in rural areas.

Drug use is rampant in rural areas, but it doesn't get the press that it does in cities, because it doesn't present the same way. You don't have to walk over junkies in rural areas.
Inflation is worse than reported: Elon Musk
Installing and optimizing the code to make use of the 4MB expansion pak*
Uranium is toxic. Tank crews from the Iraq war have health issues due to DU fumes. Although I fail to see what use it has in bombs.

https://m.dw.com/en/uranium-risks-haunt-kosovo-survivors/a-1...

The conclusion of this article is: not enough data.
Is capillary action not a satisfying enough answer for you?
I read caves for some reason.
Maybe some municipality can do muni healthcare but it is so unsexy/boring/hard that they end up saying "meh, we ain't gonna do it". Besides nothing get tech bros more excited like cheap unlimited broadband fulfilling the lurid dreams of 16K super ultra HD videos and AR/VR setups.
I get this on flat monitors actually. Sometimes I'll come home from a day of being outside, and it's really really clear that it's just a picture on a screen, and it feels really flat, small and hard to immerse in. But usually I can feel like I'm basically in the world, with a good sense of scale and depth.

It makes me think that perhaps it's not physical but an internal interpolation occurring. I am way out of my depth in that discussion, but it feels like a suspension of disbelief but for interpreting visual input.
I have Crohn's disease and I get extremely sharp depressive symptoms up to a week before a flare up. The longer the lead time the worse the flare up. It's rather interesting to have depression re-framed as a symptom rather than as a disease. It does make me wonder if in the future we'll be looking at the treatment of depression today like we do at the treatment of fever with leaches.
Disagree.

"97% of some state's energy production was renewable" doesn't tell you much, because they could be a state that hardly burns any fossil fuels.

"California managed to produce enough renewable energy to power 97% of the needs of a state the size of California" actually tells you how much renewable energy it generated, and why that's a big deal.
Yeah, the article mentions "if they open it", but really the question is "if they patent it". If others can implement the same and the design works - this seems like a great move. Of course if they're trying to just make licensing money that way, I hope the whole idea crashes and someone reimplements it in an accessible way...