skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody uses solar trackers anymore. And "falling off" is not a thing anybody does out in a field.

So, you are concern trolling, and badly. That is unwelcome here.

Too, anybody not already handy with putting up fencing is no farmer.

Finally, sunshine really is as free as anything ever, and the buckets are cheap and getting cheaper.
Hahaha! Right?! The Bible says twice that Jesus wept and nowhere does it say he laughed. I think some people have in mind that Jesus was mostly dour and stern, even morose. Whether he had a sense of humor and how he might have expressed it is a fascinating question for me. I think some of the things he said and taught might have a tinge of humor to them. Like when he called Peter a Rock, was that him ribbing Peter that he was a bit of a blockhead? I wonder what things he said that got people chuckling and guffawing. Maybe one day I’ll write a book. I am sitting on didjesuslaugh.com. :-)

Interestingly there is some scholarship on this question. I myself would probably write for a popular audience though, maybe with a bibliography in the back.
For others who didn't know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
Out of curiosity, is this purely enthusiast and hobbyist or do people do this for more than recreation?

Maybe there's say, large industrial machines (think like an oil refinery), infrastructure level computers (think the elevators of a skyscraper built in the 90s) or say, shipping vessels stuck with these chips and this is actually the cheapest solution, I have no idea.

It looks like the end of the line here was the MC88110 in 1992. Don't get me wrong, hobby away, I'm just curious if there's any production reason for this.
I once ordered from a UK seller on Amazon UK and got my package months later from China.
This ("life is about fun, drink a can of coca cola a day") has been brought up multiple times by multiple different people in this comment section and quite frankly it's one of the more bewildering things I've seen on HN, and I have showdead on.
Russia invaded Crimea because shortly before enough gas was found at Crimea to replace Russia.

That they can threatened is just a whataboutism excuse.

They didn't had problems with Finland joining NATO...

Help Ukraine all you can, deliver heavy arms and buy gas from a partner, not a bully in 5 years.
"The amount of pressure this robot applies is totally adequate for its normal operating environment which is far away from humans."

it's interesting to watch some of the Boston Robotics videos. They're mostly supposed to be entertaining, but even then, it's clear that they've thought about safety.

In one, they're dancing, but the dance area is surrounded by observation walls. In another one, a guy tests a robot's sense of balance and ability to react to unexpected events. He uses a broom stick to push the robot to try to unbalance it, and a hockey stick to knock a box away from the robot as it was about to pick it up.

In other words, you just don't go right up to the robot and do what you want, you maintain distance in case the robot does something unexpected. I presume they have some kind of kill switch, too, in case the whole experiment goes tits up.

That whole robot chess stunt seems pretty dumbass in retrospect, but instead of learning the lesson that industrial robots are potentially dangerous they go and blame the boy. So, lesson very much not learned in this instance.
Incredibly creepy. What if one day we found a fractal that contains a message from God?
Great, now I want to play Return of the Obra Dinn again
Ha, you like to ask the hard ones, and I have to head out right now :) Short version: for every view of the world, there's things it explains well, and things that are a challenge for it. Some theistic views I think as a whole do a great job of providing a solid worldview. However, problems of evil -- why is there natural evil, moral evil, misery, etc -- these are one of the areas that are probably the biggest challenge for theists that believe in a good God. Needless to say, there's a massive amount of words written about this topic. The short answer is: there is no logical problem of evil -- one where this kind of thing is logically incompatible with the existence of God. i.e., there's no proof that shows that a good God cannot have a reason for allowing evil/suffering/misery/etc. But it still presents an emotional challenge, and it does seem like they're an uncomfortable pair, even if not logically incompatible.

I have my own views on how to explain this, but it would take a fair bit to explain.
Worth also saying that Amazon’s PoD books are really, really poor quality.

Terrible binding, thin, crappy paper, weird textured covers.
GitHub – six-ddc/plow: A high-performance HTTP benchmarking tool
Oh, that settles it. Robot cannot do things that are outside of the rules of chess.

Kid should have known better than to open with the classic, "break my finger" opening from the regulation standard rules.

Industrial robotics are incredibly dangerous. They operate without concern for anything in their path. Robotic arms like this can be lethal, and the idea that the robot wouldn't ever do anything unusual is, quite frankly, laughable naive.
Generally speaking, the top-end of xz very slightly beats the top-end of zstd. However, xz typically takes several times as long to extract. And generally I've seen xz take longer to compress than zstd, as well.

Example with a large archive (representative of compiled software distribution, such as package management formats):

$ time xz -T0 -9k usrbin.tar

real 2m0.579s
user 8m46.646s
sys 0m2.104s

$ time zstd -T0 -19 --long usrbin.tar
real 1m47.242s
user 6m34.845s
sys 0m0.544s
/tmp$ ls -l usrbin.tar*
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 998830080 Jul 23 23:55 usrbin.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 189633464 Jul 23 23:55 usrbin.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 203107989 Jul 23 23:55 usrbin.tar.zst
/tmp$ time xzcat usrbin.tar.xz >/dev/null

real 0m9.410s
user 0m9.339s
sys 0m0.060s
/tmp$ time zstdcat usrbin.tar.zst >/dev/null

real 0m0.996s
user 0m0.894s
sys 0m0.065s

Comparable compression ratio, faster to compress, 10x faster to decompress.

And if you do need a smaller compression ratio than xz, you can get that at a cost in time:

$ time zstd -T0 -22 --ultra --long usrbin.tar

real 4m32.056s
user 9m2.484s
sys 0m0.644s
$ ls -l usrbin.tar*
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 998830080 Jul 23 23:55 usrbin.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 189633464 Jul 23 23:55 usrbin.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 josh josh 186113543 Jul 23 23:55 usrbin.tar.zst

And it still takes the same amount of time to extract, 10x faster than xz.
You seem to be comparing only the worst-case impact and not the probability. To see why that's fallacious, consider that an asteroid could also kill the entire human race, but nobody would agree that asteroids are more dangerous than drunk driving.
Thanks for raising! I guess I feel it's a necessary disclaimer out of respect to people who do have the first-hand experience. But I can see how it can come off as an excuse for not getting it right, and it certainly shouldn't be.

FWIW, I did talk to a screen reader user for this article (the accessibility consultant I mention – he is the chair of a local blind union), but indeed I don't know anybody personally and he could have easily brushed me off as random cold emailer, so I'm grateful for his comments.
Cold emails and Twitter (2018)
For what it is worth, the tube does not entirely shut at midnight: https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-do... The equivalent cut-and-cover lines have Aircon and are roomy (they are now also entirely walk-through carriages https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Bombardi...). The deep-level lines though are often uncooled.

Public transport in London is notoriously expensive though it is true.

One major failing of the NYC subway in my mind is the near total lack of signage. There is like one map per carriage (which is often hidden behind people standing or sitting), and the platforms have almost no signage or maps or directions. You look out the window to see where you are when you pull into a station and there are no signs. Perhaps there is a single letter initial every 30 meters or so... WTF? At least in London the station name is repeated all the way along the platform (along with route maps and network maps and colour-coded signs to other lines etc), there are like 8 maps in every carriage at above-head-height so you can see it over people etc.

The express routes in NYC subway are awesome and I wish London had those
I think tiny relative to a coal installation? I'm just guessing here, though, all nuclear facilities I have seen are fairly enormous, albeit their size is small compared to the number of required non-nuclear plants it would take to replace their energy output.
You need to realize though the West has embraced multiculturalism, largely. Russia has not. It does not mean there are no diverse cultures in Russia - or even Moscow, but it does mean there is one dominant culture, and closer you get to the places where power is accessible, the more dominant and more exclusive it becomes. There are various cultures found in Moscow (and any big city in Russia), but there is also the Culture. In the West, a lot of effort is taken for the old Western culture not to be the culture of Paris, New York, London, Berlin, etc. Some endorse these efforts, some decry them, but it is obvious they happen. In Russia, nothing of the sort happens, on the contrary, if you want to be in power, you will abandon whatever culture you came from and embrace the culture of power. If you do not, you'll never get to wield any power.
What is your role now (just curious), what do u mean by testing? And what was your prior experience before making this move?
Oh yea, I won't be switching HACK to Flutter. Mostly looking into it for newer apps I build.
Interconnections too. I have had to keep a car around because even if the train can comfortably take me to my family's city, I would then need a bus to the bus central and from there a bus to the specific suburb.

Point two, I've now a daughter, and in a car I can stop whenever she needs, find comfortable places to fix whatever the issue is, and resume journey.
You aren't penalizing the lower emissions vehicles such as ebikes and regular old bikes which is the point. Switching to a 5000lb EV that you exchange every lease isn't the solution.
I disagree - VPNs are not a solution for this whole issue, but legislation is. The whole VPN business looks shady to me, maybe Mullvad is an outlier and a good citizen, but for how long?

Make data collection transparent, force companies to have opt-in for it and fine non-conforming companies.

Dt. Telekom and Vodafone recently lost their zero rating business (StreamOn or what it was called), they're in constant search for new sources of revenue.
This is huge. To date, Tesla has been the only non-Chinese manufacturer talking iron. LFP is often touted for being cheaper than NMC, but given growing insecurity around battery-grade nickel supplies, using the far-more-prevalent iron and phosphate isn’t just about cheaper cars. It’s about having cars to sell in the first place.

With respect to range anxiety, pretty much every EV in the 200 to 300-mile range is sold out. (I was looking.) And Ford deploying LFP doesn’t mean it has to go 100% LFP in every vehicle. Just having the extra vehicles will win it market share.

(As to why now, the last of the patents in a critical suite expired in April [1]. Steve LeVine writes excellently to this topic [2].)

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1167178/000104746912...

[2] https://subscriptions.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-ele...
https://archive.ph/i87ay
See also subsequent reemergence, similar to Shingles. Herpes infections are forever hiding from your immune system among the neurons.
It is a popular notion that God exists outside of time but this is a modern idea with very sketchy biblical support. Certainly there is nothing in the Bible that directly says anything like this.
It's only really seekable if you don't compress it further. That's because a tar file gets compressed after the fact. Even with compression formats that support starting decompression somewhere in the middle, you now either need an additional file index that tells you which files there are and where in the compressed stream to start reading, or you have to try and scan the while archive as you would with an uncompressed tar by seeking along the headers and hope the files are large enough that you can actually skip large enough chunks to matter.

It is indeed really odd that the *nix world never came up with their own, agreed upon, indexed or at least efficiency seekable archive format. I think if one of the extensions would have added per-file compression that would have had the highest chance of success.
Tire tread is already something that is measured on the books legally speaking but is never enforced really as such. You do need to legally maintain tread. As far as compounds go once again that's something that regulation can enforce. I don't think today that people are buying hard tires that are apparently too hard for the purpose of getting less wear out of them.
For a technology that has the promise of clean energy for humanity, I am shocked it's receiving that small amount of funding, while we have been distributing literally trillions globally during the pandemic...
6 mos ago when this pathogen entered the news cycle, virologists reassured that monkey pox was a stable, well-researched dna virus that didn't mutate rapidly like Covid does. Except, come to find out a few mos and a few thousand cases later, it does.
https://www.dw.com/en/monkeypox-virus-mutations-challenging-...
Here's the abstract:

> Three ongoing mega-trends are reshaping corporate governance: indexing, private equity, and globalization.
These trends threaten to permanently entangle business with the state and create organizations controlled by a
small number of individuals with unsurpassed power. The essay focuses on indexation. After providing
background, the essay describes the rise of and reasons for indexation, noting that “passive” indexed investing
takes a variety of forms. Data on indexation are presented -- with the bottom line that indexation has
progressed farther than most realize, because foreign ownership, institutional indexation, and “closet”
indexation are often neglected by observers. Index providers’ incentives, resources, and methods are reviewed,
with an emphasis on the how such providers have greater practical importance than simpler analytical
approaches might suggest. The essay ends with an outline of policy options, and preliminary analyses of which
seem likely to address the “
Problem of Twelve” – the likelihood that in the near future roughly twelve
individuals will have practical power over the majority of U.S. public companies.
The inventory stuff is weird. I’ve had twice now where a company has repeatedly sent the wrong product again and again with me sending it back each time, then I think Amazon notices because they disable the listing for everyone
All governments do it to a certain degree. But usually when American government gets caught on it, it is considered an embarrassment, and people involved may have to apologize or, in very rare cases, even suffer some consequences. In Russia, it's how it is expected to work and there's no shame in it. It is very sad to observe that American government (and American politicians, and American press, and many other institutions) are sliding to that direction lately. Not there yet, but the vector definitely points to that direction.
The problem with "free or extremely cheap transportation" is that it's neither free nor cheap. It's expensive and paid for by tax payers through constant budget deficits and debt issuance that will indebt future generations.
Do you use any system to take notes?
Jeff Bezos' API Mandate
How much room for improvement is left on the consumption side? Electric cars seem to require around 15-20kWh/100km. Can we get that below 10 for regular highway driving, say at 130km/h? What are the numbers for city driving like?
No, they're just different devices with some overlap. When searching for a laptop to buy, providing Apple MacBooks in the comparison would be about as useful as adding iPads or Chromebooks - it could work as "if you only care about X, check out our article on this other type of product", but that's it.

Apple's products mostly make sense within it's ecosystem. If you're not already there, there are a lot of hurdles and useless things.

As a lifelong Windows and Linux user (with a couple of years of iMac usage at school), i now have a work provided MacBook Pro. Almost every other week i discover something new about it that annoys me - be it Pages automatically saving in its own shitty proprietary format instead of the original, the impossibility to have separate scroll order between mouse and touchpad, that while it sleeps Bluetooth is still on thus tricking various devices to connect to it, that i have to run a keylogger to add custom shortcuts and remap some keys, that fullscreen apps go to a separate workspace so I can't switch between their windows, etc. etc. And there are extra annoyances due to the architecture change, like having to re/cross compile stuff manually (for my specific use case). And it can't run games.

As others said, it's apples to oranges. "Casual" users can usually barely handle the OS they know and use, what makes anyone think they can switch to a different one with different logic?
The French need to process ideas more, but they do get there in the end. Panels will be cheaper when they do.
Looks like the GWT community just released a new version in June.
"Still, the NRC and industry consider the leaks a public relations problem, not a public health or accident threat, records and interviews show."

https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2012/part-ii-ap-impact-tri....

And this is why we should not trust any fission-bearing folk. Or apparently fusion-bearing folk either.
Could anyone recommend a broad scoped evaluation of current compression / archiving formats / algorithms which explores their various merits and failings?
The stated aim being «to act as a Catalyst for Curiosity in a general sense – as well as trying to identify possible starting points for (re)cultivating interest in scientific, academic, and of course, armchair-based research [... also as] curiosity does tend to wane significantly as years go by», the ambition is not the most intent and practical.

https://wikenigma.org.uk/curators_rationale
There is no big voting bloc of stiffed authors
I'm not.

Did you ever work on AI or robotics?
Han Solo was apparently wrong when he said "droids don't rip people's arms off when they lose."
Yeah. I learned better typing ergonomics by switching to dvorak layout.

Something in the brain keeps them separate. I was able to basically start over with good form. To this day, when I type in qwerty, I hunt-and-peck, when I type dvorak I use proper form and technique. I _cannot_ use hunt and peck in dvorak or proper form in qwerty, it's quite odd.
I think you're missing the point that in terms of tradeoffs people are willing to make: absolute compression ratio loses to 80% of the compression ability with big gains to decompression speed (aka include round trip cpu time if you want something to agree / disagree with, we're not talking about straight compression ratios).

Arch Linux is a case study in a large distributor of open source software that switched from xz compressed binaries to zstd and they didn't do it for teh lulz[0].

[0] https://archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz...
You walk along major roads, railways, rivers and under bridges checking for manholes. They have the owners' names on them. If it's the name of a telco, there's fiber in there.
Since about five months after initial hardware availability, yes.
Amazon has been careful with the launch here in Australia, as our government won't hesitate to slap Amazon. They did a small launch where their inventory sucked, but they're expanding pretty rapidly with their own warehouses here in AU. The logistics behind it are pretty interesting, where I think they fly the packages from say Sydney -> Perth, then use to use Australia Post but now use their own contractors.

They would have to be very very careful with introducing random third parties, right now from what I can tell on Amazon AU you can only buy through Amazon directly (ie they have the item) or via an "authorised third party" where they are a pre-established brick and mortar (every store I've seen on Amazon I know who they are).

Steam (aka Valve) only started offering refunds to Australians once they were threatened by the AU government, and even then they were still shady. https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-is-being-sued-by-australian-...

Australia is pretty good with the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission), there are some horror stories from both side but most of the time it works out good for the consumer.
Everyone profiled seems young enough to have time to bounce back.

Separate, but related note: how far down does culpability run? In finance, bonuses and similar are subject to clawbacks in cases of wrongdoing. Should that be the case for senior coders at these firms?
Here's one perspective to consider.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference...
The assessment itself is here: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/194052138/200522253
- it does take into account the uncertainty in the data and the fluctuations; it concludes that the population has declined by 22-72% over the last 10 years. The threshold in this situation for Endangered is 50% (for Vulnerable, 30%, and for Critically Endangered, 80%) so the upper end is taken on a precautionary basis to lead to the Endangered assessment.
A friendly reminder that the idea posed by a pioneer of nuclear energy of just dumping big bombs in a hole and harvesting the heat energy with steam/plasma has never been invalidated and remains the most efficiently-simple solution immediately viable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_PACER

If containment is your concern (though underground blast effects are decently understood, and blast chambers could be constructed with still strongly net economic/energy positive) - this does not need to be built around any population centers. At a cost of 1.5% efficiency loss per 1000 km, UHV power lines can direct it from a single write-off location anywhere on earth. That single location can likely be scaled to supply well beyond the total current global energy production.

https://en.geidco.org.cn/aboutgei/uhv/
Of course he is. He's a thin-skinned, self-hating hypocrite who uses his power inappropriately.

This is the same Thiel who pals around with people who tell gay professors to "go die of AIDS".

This is the same Thiel who fights tooth and nail for free speech on social media platforms, but bankrolls an entire lawsuit -- in shadow, of course, because he's afraid of being obviously called on the hypocrisy -- against Gawker because his previous fee-fees got hurt.

This is the same Thiel who believes, almost unilaterally, that corporations should be able to do what they want without interference.

The same one who backs disingenuous, sociopathic goons like Blake Masters and J.D. Vance, and continues to back Trump despite all of his moral cowardice and treason.

I'm suddenly supposed to believe that he's some altruistic, moral figure? Why? Because some people didn't like Gawker's tone?

Fuck that. Thiel is slime.
Try this:

Z := 1/Z - Z - C

(in complex numbers, with Z0 = i). Plenty of Mandelbrot sets in there.

[Edit for Z0 value]
I think you're reading too much into this. The people who did this particular stupid thing were Russian. That isn't a claim that all Russian people are stupid. People of all nationalities do stupid things all the time.