skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of the symbolic markers presented in the article the spikes and thorns one seems the best to me too.

I think it’s very likely that modern designers could come up with some really good ideas that would better convey the danger than anything presented on the wiki page.

I’m not arguing that it’s impossible to come up with a good approach…I’m arguing that the approaches presented seem unserious about achieving the stated purpose.

Take the “forbidding blocks” concept. It honestly reads like something from a low budget sci-fi horror movie: “A space crew lands on planet, finds the crumbling remains of forbidding blocks. One crew member warns that the blocks look forbidding. The warning is ignored and bad things happen.”

And what I just described is strikingly similar to the plot of the Alien series movie Prometheus :) [0]

The space crew disturbs the Alien bio weapon facility and unleashes a proto-Alien.

So again, my “complaint” (so to speak) is that the wiki article makes it sound like the amount of effort spent here was comparable to the effort spent on a mediocre sci-fi film script. It just doesn’t seem to me like a truly studious attempt at a framework to warn future generations.

I think I would probably say that it’s a serious attempt at making the case for the need for such a framework though. The people who did the work are clearly very intelligent people but some of the ideas presented just seem so fantastical.

For instance “The plans included a suggestion that the building be designed so as to create a ‘dissonant and mournful’ whistling sound when wind blew through it, acting as a Level I message.”

Would this whistling still even work right after 1000 years of weather and crumbling? Would a future culture have the same sense of dissonance and mournfulness that we have?

Much of it seems so rooted in the present for something intended to be so timeless.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)
I've heard this argument before, but this isn't true.

In shell, f x y z, x y z are all augments to f. Doesn't matter if f takes one argument, all are passed to the function.

With many functional languages this gets very confusing. IE what ie what does `f f x` do? In shell I know for sure.

In the example f f x, it might be easy to parse. But in f x y z, any of x y z might be functions.
Ford does over 3 million per year. It is arbitrary but if anything it is a bit low for "at scale".

I hope EV startups succeed! I am just pointing out how hard it is to do it from scratch and that anyone who even gets close should be recognized.
In Hamburg there are similar, but slightly smaller things at almost every bus stop, indicating which line to which destination arrives next in minutes.
In 4 rows for a single panel, where larger bus stops have more panels. Or also smaller ones, single lined under the freestanding roof in some. Also delays, if they happen. Seems like they are all over Germany, too.

Not exactly 'comfortable', but informative. Don't have to use an app, don't need to look at the timetable, don't have to wait in uncertainty. Just go, see, ride, done.
OP, please feel free to ignore this suggestion. it's already useful and impressive as it is and being so dismissive on free software is extremely unwarranted.
They're irrelevant. True or not, they would not warrant extradition to the US. I see no reason to assume they are bogus, if true they don't subtract from the fantastic things WikiLeaks has done.
Building power transportation networks makes building out large solar arrays look cheap. Getting the right of way and environmental impact statements for these things that cross rivers and cities is a massive undertaking.
>Please continue to review the first 6 words of the definition until it sinks in that a bug is an error in the code, and a bug is not a quirk of interface design that you don't care for. If there is no flaw in the code, then there is no bug.

A software bug is an error, flaw or fault in the design, development, or operation of computer software that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result, or to behave in unintended ways.

This behavior is a fault in the design of the browser code handling full screen video playback based on a user click, it produces an incorrect and unexpected result that can lead to breaking the programs execution (Safari crash).

You are doing some serious mental gymnastics over a single word "bug" that everyone else seems fine with. You still have not provided a legitimate use case for this behavior that would explain how this is expected and correct behavior as seen by the designers.
Unions have abused the power they have?

Which union in particular? There is only one in the US that you could reasonably say that about and it’s the police union.

These companies are nothing without their workers. Remember that.
Maybe a good thing that companies in that space are going down. Clears the way for more decentralization.
I for one have gotten rid of my smartphone. Where the PC extended your mind smartphones are only tools for corporations to manipulate you.
Why cryptocurrencies have gone from the next hot thing to a full-on meltdown
That's what you get in a zero-interest rate environment with no industrial policy. Building physical infrastructure would cost real-world money and cut into profits, hence what you end up with is virtual casinos.

No one is better off with that. At least in the runup to 2008 there was housing built speculatively, but since then there has been no productive investment at all.
Not all of these crypto projects will survive. When the tide lowers, we will be seeing who is swimming naked and it looks like these DeFi projects have been caught after the hype has died with the market sentiment turning bearish for crypto in general.

The ones that will survive this crypto crash are probably going to be around for much longer, especially most cryptocurrency coins and blockchains (and not the ERC-20 tokens)
Tell your family you won a holiday in a competition. Spend a week or two of earnings on that family holiday where you can all hang out and just spend time without the grind of work. Hopefully without any knowledge of what the holiday cost, they can appreciate the experience without trying to decide whether what it cost was worth it. And hopefully with your valued family around, you can enjoy cooking/dining/exploring together and worry less about the dramas of the world which are out of your control.
I've started using micropython to interact with embedded arm chips, it's a revelation to interact with hardware through a REPL instead of compiling, transferring, resetting, and writing print statements to serial...

This talk by the creator of micropython [0] gives his reasoning for why to implement python on microcontrollers despite it being hundreds of times slower than C. Starts @ 3:00

- it has nice features like list comprehension, generators, and good exception handling

- it has a big, friendly, helpful community with lots of online learning resources

- it has a shallow but long learning curve. It's easy to get started as a beginner, but you never get bored of the language, there's always more advanced features to learn.

- it has native bitwise operations

- has good distinction between ints and floats, and floats are arbitrary precision, you're not restricted to doubles or even long longs. (I'll add that built in complex numbers is a plus)

- compiled language, so it can be optimized to improve performance

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvGhPmPPzko
Is it not more efficient for the larger ships to over provision on nuclear?
They... don't? I thought trans people only use HRT if they're going through gender reassignment treatment? Or do they use them all the time?
That is no passenger station, as is visible by the missing platforms. That is part of a servicing yard.

edit: Not meaning to say they don't have giant stations, but the passenger parts don't look like this.
> breaking everyone's crypto

Symmetric encryption and hash functions with 256 bits are already quantum proof.

Post-quantum algorithms are here in few years. Some of them are already in use in critical applications.
> more powerful vacuum cleaners ((as in, more expensive to run)

I know it's not your point, but on top of everything "more powerful" is misleading.

- Typically this means more power consumption, not suction power

- Most modern vaccums improve with cleverer working designs to be better, not by just chucking more power into it

- The majority of houses in the UK have carpet, which makes this kind of vaccums silly, as anyone with a carpet and 2kW vaccum can tell
>but if it's prepaid and fully catered

Which is why I qualified the statement.
Honestly, I think you all should consider changing that policy. Not only because I've seen it broken before, but because major version changes imply things can be broken at upgrade time, and features are settled for a long time. Good to let people know about major releases...
> since a goto is faster than creating a whole stack frame

Yes, as I mentioned in parentheses--creating a stack frame costs because it is writing to memory, other than that it's just an increment of the stack pointer register in compiled/JITted code. But it's not a large cost, so you usually won't notice it or at least not much. Especially if your recursion depth is small, as then the memory writes might not leave the CPU cache. Sure, making some code 10% faster by way of TCO can still be useful, and it's probably why C compilers are doing it (they don't guarantee general TCO so you're limited in what you can do with it, so the only guaranteed advantage is a little speed gain), but if we're talking some JavaScript app there will be worse problems. Especially, the problem that with large enough data you're going to allocate lots of temporary memory for the stack--that's something a user will notice. Especially if the memory temporarily used is not given back to the OS, which is the case in C, and I rather expect JavaScript as well, which will mean that every tab running JavaScript will have some amount of RAM tied down to (even if rare) temporary stack use.

> and then destroying it again

This is then really just a decrement of the stack pointer.
Why would it be based on an imbalance? The way we interact with other persons is definitely informed by our hormonal makeup, regardless of whether that makeup is temporary, permanent, balanced, or unbalanced.
> "Running a trainset four times along a 100 mile route, or 40 times along a 10 mile route, you're still travelling 400 miles."

We're not talking about 100 miles on battery power here - although there are already battery electric transits that are capable of that and more. For the most part, inter-urban trunk lines in Europe are already electrified.

There are many outer-suburban/regional routes that are, for example, 50 miles along an electrified trunk line then 25 miles on an un-electrified branch line. Currently that means whole route needs to be operated by diesel trains. But a battery train only needs to be capable of doing (eg) 50 miles on battery, then it can recharge when it's running under the wires.
> and more powerful vacuum cleaners (as in, more expensive to run).

Let's not pretend appliance power limits are a good thing, I'd rather pay double or triple if it gets the actual job done first time than run something cheaper 2-4 times.
low is relative :-D my thought exactly.

IMO the only low level language is assembly. Everything else is some form of abstraction.
C/C++ and the likes I tend to call lower, since in 2022 it is closer to the hardware, and then sugar languages like python, c#, js, and the likes I call high level.
I’d highly recommend actually using a real bank instead of a fintech for business banking.

As others have mentioned some of the “go-to” options like SVB have terrible (digital) services.

I’m biased but Grasshopper Bank has one of the best digital experiences, and is an actual FDIC insured bank. They are also much cheaper once you start needing services like Letters of Credits, etc.
Press Release

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-data-laws-to-boost-br...

Consultation

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/data-a-new-direc...

Includes nuggets like the gov planning

- "removal of consent requirements in relation to audience measurement cookies"

- that "organisations should be able to use cookies and similar technologies without consent for a wider range of non-intrusive purposes"

- "to remove the need for websites to display cookie banners to UK residents"
Hello, author here! As the website says, the compiler itself is still in a very early state where basic things like functions, types, traits, inference, monomorphisation, and codegen are implemented. The fun stuff of algebraic effects, lifetime inference, and refinement types are not however. Though I can elaborate on implementation strategies of these for anyone curious. For example, algebraic effects in existing languages can be quite slow at runtime due to the use of continuations, the translation to a monad stack, and/or dynamically finding handlers at runtime. It is my plan to monomorphise them away and inline all these cases as in the following paper (1). With this, handlers are inlined into functions, continuations are normal closures, and continuations that aren't called multiple times are inlined.

(1) Zero-cost Effect Handlers by Staging:
http://ps.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/publications/schuster1...
Assert: Testing and assertion library built on top of Go generics
And all they are used for to run slow and heavy Electron "apps" with three buttons.
Where I used to live, the digital signage only showed the schedule, not the actual train ETA. The schedule was almost completely useless, however, the online website (at the time) didn't show the schedule for every station (edit: they still don't). So there was some use, at least. Not that it mattered, since the train never met that schedule, outside of the first run of the day.

Then covid hit, the city paused train service, I moved out, and I really don't care to commute to work (or school, at the time) again.
Yes, it's a clear case of foreign inf and corruption
But the coal can still be exported even if you aren't convinced by the environmental arguments.

Plus renewables still provide jobs.
> Most common tools havent changed their names since win95

The trick is to rely on decades of acquired arcane knowledge about .exe filenames. What a great UI!
I'm a big fan of teaching the fun part first, but that really ought to be followed by learning the boring stuff. I think of it as teaching the What followed by the Why. Too many programs seem to stop after the first part.
I have not read the leaks myself but as far as I know it was about sabotaging Sanders' campaign.
Sounds like HTML to me, or at least the output of it.
That is rather weird metric. Mentions per brand mention... In what?

And how could that take in account how often brands are talked about in general.
Interesting, well have to see how it develops in the future. Although, I normally dislike languages without {}, but I suppose that is just preference.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Com...
Although I 100% agree with you, the problem is that these costs don't affect the original developer; it is an externality; a lot like carbon pollution. It's cheaper for the organisation to optimise for developer speed, even if the cost of that is borne by all the users.
The first statement isn't really true. Even a perfectly seasoned pan seasoned with high sulphur drying oil will still stick a little, even when greased up when cooking, depending on the food. Teflon is magic.
>I mean, what would you expect of a magazine that named itself after a bunch of "heroes" of the French Revolution whose own extreme, fanatical leftism was a pioneer for mass murder of civilians in the name of ideological purity.

>The name of the magazine derives from the 1938 book The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James in which James ascribes the Haitian revolutionists a greater purity in regards to their attachment to the ideals of the French Revolution than the French Jacobins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(magazine)#Title_and_l...
> more powerful vacuum cleaners (as in, more expensive to run).

They'll be able to have bigger numbers though. If your 900 Watt machine doesn't pick up the mess your 5 year old just made, what's the answer? Empty the material it has sucked up already? Clean the filter like it says in the manual? Hit a "boost" button the cleaner has for that one area? No! The answer is to buy a 1200 Watt machine. Still not helping? Buy the 1500 Watt machine.

Definitely don't read anything that would explain it's just not really practical to turn those extra 300W into more suction, but very easy to turn them into more noise and heat and charge extra for the bigger number.

Consumerism's answer has to be more consumption, bigger numbers mean better, if you authorise consumers to think maybe they don't need bigger numbers, how will you have infinite growth?
GDPR, that still applies to the UK, doesn’t allow dark patterns, people who use them are just waiting for the regulator to call them. Been there, done that.
Do you have a significant other or friend network? Might I suggest putting down the work and computer and go out? If you're pulling in 20k/month, just keep banking it and after your 9/10 hours of work a day get out. Find someone to spend time with outside of your family. Platonic or non-platonic, just someone that isn't YOU and the echo chamber of your family. It'll make you feel much better.
Ha, that actually looks pretty cool and good tech. I'd wonder if that can even be called Python anymore but still, it looks to be very useful. Thanks for the tidbit!
Google is unambiguously a monopoly - they have a 90%+ market share in search. Whether or not they're engaging in anti-competitive behaviour is the big question - whether or not they have a monopoly in search is not really debatable. For example Standard Oil, the 20th century poster child for monopolistic abuses and origin of modern anti-trust law also had a market share of ~90%.

[EDIT because I found bad data about Walmart] Walmart is definitely also a monopoly or close to it - they have a share of ~70% of the grocery market, and should also be subject to restrictive antitrust rules, or even broken up. They don't have a monopoly in online retail where Amazon controls over ~55% of the market. But the fact that Walmart has a monopoly in one industry does not say anything about possible anti-competitive behaviour by Amazon in another. Amazon's not quite a monopoly in online retail yet but it's definitely trending in a worrying direction.
To expand a little on top of that, you can think of Picard group of a variety as a group of linear combinations of codimension 1 subvarieties. For a 9-dimensional variety, these will be a dimension 8 subvarieties. To connect this huge free group to geometry of the original variety, we introduce certain constraint equations, i.e. we set certain linear combinations to equal to zero. These zero combinations are set to be those combinations that are obtained by intersecting the variety with a (codimension 1) hyperplane: if you take an embedded n-variety, and intersect it with n-1 dimensional plane, you typically get a result that’s a finite union of n-1 subvarieties. One can specify assignment of intersection numbers to each of these varieties, so that eg if a hyperplane intersects a variety “cleanly across” (transversally), the intersection number (and so the coefficient in the constrain equation) is 1, whereas if the intersecting hyperplane is tangent along the intersection, the intersection number will correspond to the degree of tangency (eg. the line y = 0 intersects the parabola y = x^2 at the origin with the intersection number (tangency degree) equal to 2).

Now, if the variety in question is a curve, the codimension 1 subvarieties will be of dimension 0, that is, finite sets of points. Moreover, if the curve is of degree 3, then hyperplanes (lines) will intersect it in exactly 3 points (counting the tangent intersections properly). Thus, we will get a bunch of constraints of the form:

P + Q + R = 0

This makes our huge group of linear combinations into rather simple group of points: take two points, P and Q. Run line across them, take third point of intersection: this is the negative of the sum P + Q. This is the procedure shown on the animations of the OP.

The point of this is that none of this is arbitrary: it’s just a lucky coincidence that happens only in dimension 1 and degree 3. One can introduce group structure on some other complex curves (which will actually look to us like surfaces), but it is not nearly as straightforward.
When children are getting hormone treatment, without any real oversight, with lifetime consequences, a lot of people feel like they have to get involved yes. That's just the way some people are.

You might not like that, but I do.

And in case you don't believe the truly terrible effects of this, have a read in the detrans subreddit.
UK interior minister approves Assange extradition
"Ceramic" is a pretty broad term. What's actually in it?
I’m really sorry you’re struggling with so much fear and anxiety. I’ve been there. Therapy and medication can help. I’m guessing you don’t get much exercise or good sleep. I had to focus on therapy and medication before I could try to get more exercise and good sleep but maybe for you, you can try to exercise and get better sleep right away. But definitely find a therapist.

And maybe talk to a financial advisor, if you’re anxious about money maybe they can reassure you.
Deploying the panels at sea, dragging them behind a warship, seems to be quite a challenge compared to deploying in a “pond” of calm water
Those phones were probably made for criminals who wanted to not be tracked...

I guess it might have worked for a while, but it was not a great idea...

I wonder if operators will block those IMEI, because in some countries, they might just refuse to block them...
It would be really easy to implement this, as a wrapper around pass.
To be clear, the actual proposal is to allow an opt-out model for mass data collection from sites – I'd say probably not something that we generally want to encourage!
Ministers have proposed the DNT header
The alternative is crawling around with your tongue and circling the shop hundred times before coming in. So intuitive!
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1'st Robot Interactive Podcast
Hey, what's going on everyone. My team and I have created the 1'st robot interactive podcast, Maya's E-Motions. We are on episode 3 and would to hear your feedback and suggestions you may have on the podcast

Check it out: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YKIdaMYKzQZ2PvjMCYJ0y
No, it already did - we're seeing the effects of it now though. The speed it cascades thru though is second.
Capacitors are power dense but not energy dense, compared to batteries. So for a given size/weight, you get a lot more range with batteries.

There has been some work, a few years back, using super-capacitors (alongside storage batteries) in high-performance electric cars to increase peak power output. But really, battery technology has improved so much that it's made that sort of thing unnecessary. Even your standard Tesla is pulling 8-10C if you really put your foot down.
How is the police investigating accusations of rape a joke?

Assange was called in for questioning. That's the most basic measure to take in any police investigation.
You’re right but Elon’s idea of free speech is little more than “speech I like”, and is the opposite of what free speech is.

That being said, employees of a company don’t have free speech rights. And hypocrisy is not illegal.

Elon is well within his rights to fire people writing open letters, and everyone needs to realize that companies are not democracies.
TL;DR is that AVX-512 provides >20% speedup compared to AVX2

It's a shame that intel isn't including AVX-512 on the 13th gen Raptor Lake consumer CPUs, and the newer skews of 12th gen like the KS processors have it fused off.