skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid my experience with poor people has been very different. You should go visit some poor people in a suburb and hear their conversations - "I need to do an oil change but I can't spare the $100. I wish I had a ride to the grocery store"
I really hope the answer is "robot chess"
If there's truly no meltdown risk with micro reactors, I'm all for it.

In terms of fusion, I'd much rather make the tradeoff of increased cost in order to remove issues of vulnerability completely. I want to be able to not even have to think about / plan for dealing with a meltdown scenario.
> A ski lift that breaks legs one day per thousand would never be acceptable.

People are injured getting off ski lifts all the time.
The internet died in 2016.

https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php?threads/dead-internet-...
What doesn't cost that much in the US of A medical world?
Speaking only for myself: because...I don't see it in the stuff that I buy?

I've bought tools from Amazon fairly recently. They're things that you could totally counterfeit if you were interested in doing so, but at the same time they're things that I can immediately identify as being either legitimate or indistinguishable from such. Like, I purchased a set of iGaging double squares on Amazon and tested them against my surface plate and my Starrett square. They pass. Maybe somebody's counterfeiting the thing and selling it at the same price to me, but it's also not a worse product, so I couldn't tell.

I don't doubt that there's a lot of counterfeiting going on, because it's the internet, but it probably depends on what you buy as much as anything else. I'd be much more worried about substandard quality from buying things from the bajillion sellers with what sound like generated names (because they all look the same but did this one swap out component X for one that's a couple cents cheaper?) because there's no good way to control for it--but in those circumstances Amazon's return policy is also pretty great.
Even if a sentence is meaningful standalone in vacuum, no communication between humans ever happens in such a way. It always matters who said it and why; we never take the substance independently from the agenda and the mind behind it, the context in which that mind existed and its relationship with our own, and so on.

This strikes me as a crucial part of what intelligence (whether in humans or other creatures) means.

In case of an algorithm, there is no intent of its own—except the intent and the minds of humans who trained it, ran it and supplied inputs.

IMO the onus is on AGI believers to prove that material world is somehow the source of consciousness or intelligence (it wouldn’t hurt defining the terms first either). Otherwise it’s a philosophical position, and while one is entitled to hold their own one is not entitled to force it onto others.
I don't really think airport design matters as much as people doing the checks.

Just flew from Prague to Sofia and both airports were very fast to pass through, in Prague with online check in, just scan boarding pad to get through gate, go to passport check, then walk through unnecessary shops to security check right at the gate and wait for flight work my kid playing in kid corner with water fountain and toilet nearby plus free wifi, everything I need. Both checks took minutes with max 2-3 people in front of me.

Immigration in Bulgaria also quite fast, officially landed 14:50, in less than an hour have been in central bus station 15 subway stations away including one transfer. Though not sure whose idea was to paint navigation to subway in airport as line on floor, while I'm looking for signs above. Also can't swipe one bank card at same turnstile for more passengers, I can understand why, but it should be communicated better than Invalid card, it should say Use another turnstile or card.
Photos of Vis-O-Matic, the pre-Internet online shopping store, 1950s
Solving a problem people don't want solved
I didn't find the distinction in the Wikipedia article, but in the US "public transit" is commonly used to refer to local transit options and "trains" usually refer to intercity travel.
I agree that this is a possibility and a risk, but I think that a bit of common sense goes a long way. One of my classmates tried to frame everyone who disagreeed with him as nazi, but nobody fell for it, because it was obvious that he just tried to evade criticism. There also needs to be some leeway - for example a German court has ruled that a public service worker could not be fired for calling his boss an "old asshole", because they've known each other for very long. Context matters.
100 km isn't that close.

https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/workshops/nucogen/presentations...
> Is your microbiome not "you"? It's as active a participant in your hormone balance as any other organ in your body.

Your microbiome is definitely not "you". You can take antibiotics and nuke your entire microbiome, and you'll be mostly fine. Nuke "any other organ in your body" and you're gonna have much bigger problems.

The tenants in an apartment are not the apartment. You're the apartment, you're letting the microbiome stay as tenants as long as they pay their rent (break difficult foods to your advantage). Unruly tenants get thrown out. Of course it takes some effort to evict - this is the craving for particular foods that must be overcome to consciously stop eating those foods.
This is a blanket ban of multiple countries. It's most likely something very unspecific and probably unrelated to local regulation situation. Also fanbyte seems to be an influencer marketing platform. If they wont serve influencers in these countries anyway, it makes sense for them to block all users from there to stop messing up their metrics or targeting or whatever.

This isn't really much value to most people. If you ask me the less influencer crap that exists in this world, the better.
The loss of blogs is so huge in all sorts of ways.

Some random person's travel blog in 2008 would be full of genuinely useful information. That's gone now, replaced by regular people just posting pics to social media and then affiliate-link filled seo-optimized travel sites, half the time written by someone who hasn't even gone to the place but is just copying info and adding sponsored content.

The same is true for essentially everything- gardening, video games, books, bikes, bird watching, baking. The genuine amateur enthusiast content isn't published on the open web in accessible text. It's locked in walled gardens or just never created in the first place, with people choosing to post a couple pictures or videos rather than write a blog post about it.
Ventilating Tight Homes in the 21st Century with Fantech (2019)
I think it's famnominal (sorry)
Give everyone NFC cards to use the system but don't charge them?
The vast majority of the discussion is around xz’s inability of dealing with corrupted data. That said, couldn’t you argue that that needs to be solved at a lower level (storage, transport)? I’m not convinced the compression algorithm is the right place to tackle this.

Just use a file system that does proper integrity checking/resilvering. Also use TLS to transfer data over the network.
What if you don't actually want to be alive, but your bio-chemistry has been evolved over millennia to make chemical reactions that cause you to fear death, crave reproducing, and strive for a culture of preventing death of your species?
I agree, and I don’t much like cold brew. I’m not particularly a snob about brewing methods (I use a French press out of pure laziness exactly as a recent article making the rounds suggested), but I do have a snobbery about beans (light roast, generally natural process fermentation). I don’t think I even dislike cold brew per se, I think it’s just often wasted on nondescript coffee so there’s not much flavor to distinguish.

Now I’ll gladly destroy any hipster cred I might have accrued saying the above: I do quite like stashing half a pot of yesterday’s coffee, in an open pint glass, to make iced coffee for the next afternoon.
While Maxwell's equations certainly can be written with quaternions, they were not originally written that way. Maxwell originally just "wrote them out", meaning component-by-component. He had 20 equations! That's why H is sometimes used for magnetic fields: the electric fields were E, F, and G.

Nowadays we usually write 4 vector equations, or 2 in the language of differential forms.
Correct, xz is no longer particularly useful, mostly annoying.

For read-only long-term filesystem-like archives, use squashfs with whatever compression option is convenient. The cool thing about squashfs is you can efficiently list the contents and extract single files. This is why it's an ultimate best option for long-term filesystem-esque archives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS

For everything else, or if you want (very) fast compression/decompression and/or general high-ratio compression, use .zstd.

https://github.com/facebook/zstd

I've used this combination professionally to great effect. You're welcome :)
> Are ML driven robots in factories killing people or Something? Because I haven’t heard of anything else.

All the videos on the YouTubes I’ve seen show industrial robots with crazy amounts of safety equipment where you can’t get close enough to it while it’s running for someone to get hurt.

I have seen people experimenting with robot arms next to their CNC machine where it could easily take off someone’s head if you piss it off but these are small shops where they expect the operator to keep on the robot’s good side, no inappropriate sexual comments and biology shaming.
Honestly, I don't disagree with a lot of what you said, and I did the same "recalibration" on myself years ago. But a while back I started allowing myself to eat junk food again and it has not at all diminished my taste for "bland," natural foods.

ymmv, but some (many? most?) people are able to drink a can of diet soda a day and not totally abandon eating vegetables as a result.
Non-doc version: https://preview.ninja/04b08c61c2a02e8255bbe268fe0e4049f7230b...
Or it is an owned term used by people in such areas (me) when people on the coasts lecture us how things are in our own backyard. By using it we hold a mirror to those with such attitudes re rural areas.
Nim is great, shame it isn't more popular; it's my go-to for what would previously have been Go/Rust/Python.
Doesn’t sound like it. Seems like a cheap shot from the GP since I’m not sure what the relevance is.
It’s to move pcbs for firmware uploading and testing.

I built the jig for firmware uploading and testing last year. Had to place the pcb on the jig manually and wait (~2 minutes) for the process to complete.

I’m building the robot cell this year which will do a batch of ~15 pcbs at a time.

I update often on Social Media! http://www.instagram.com/kokonautinc

MG400 is really affordable, Dobot also has a smaller educational/tinker version called the Magician (lots of other ones: uArm, mycobot/mypalletizer, mirobot, etc). A step above the MG400, price wise, would be an Epson Scara or a 6-dof Yaskawa MotoMini. Lots of Scara Robots in the 5-20k price range. 6-dof like UR3 or Motoman Mini are like 20-50k. Ebay has a bunch of used ones that are much cheaper too!
as opposed to where?
Why would you ever want to fool your body into thinking you're eating something you're not? If you want to taste sweet then eat sugary foods. If you don't want to eat sugary foods, why in the world are you eating artificial lab-created pretend-sugar?

As much as you should aspire to be truthful in your life, you should also be truthful in your diet. Eat actual food. Artificial sweeteners are a scam.
Define “performance”?

Depending on how you define it I think it either isn’t the causal reason for the lack of success, or has actually 10xed. Batteries were more of an ease than a step function as well.
I think it's on a shoddy webserver and is already being hn'd. A refresh fixed it for me.

Certainly not confidence inspiring but from the pages I visited it seems to be an excellent aggregator. Short summary, long enough for me to gadge if I want to head to Wikipedia.

Thank god for that, was worried it was going to be another wiki that is essentially just an unmaintained Wikipedia fork slowly diverging away
Right, this is why when we have robots that operate around humans we make sure they sense behaviors like that, and that they don’t use enough force to hurt humans.
Wouldn't the fix be to just get an "incorrectly" sized AC?
Security nightmares all over. There is a good reason why not all primitives or arrays or hashes are not objects, esp. over the wire.
> and you also probably want a variable furnace

Or just get a variable-speed heat pump to handle cooling and heating.
I used to work on AViiON and I loved it. DG/UX was awesome.
There is a gigantic stable fusion reaction from which we just need to convert energy into electricity - our sun. Bring out the dyson sphere.
Which can be so frustrating when a bad answer gets propagated this way.

I've had times where the same "bad" information (whether completely wrong, incomplete, misleading, not best-practice, confusing, whatever manner of "bad") showed up on multiple different sites all on the first page of Google, often clearly copied from one another or the same original quora/stackoverflow/whatever.
I suspect being able to directly observe consciousness will involve transcending the individual self and end up solving the problem of free will, in that there is no single self to have free will, i.e. consciousness is not tied or confined to any single individual.
Yeah, free is not a great idea.

They should charge fees and subsidize poor people instead.

Money to improve quality has to come from somewhere.

People rarely choose to use train because it is free.
No, do you have a link to that? I can track back to my other sources and maybe do a better job.
Does the quality of the laptop enclosure never matter to you?
How do you quantify that $1M? What about the product manager, designer, and QA person that were involved in the features you coded? What about the account manager and customer support rep that will now need to provide on-going support for your code?
Interesting, i used xz till today for compression, but i think i will use gzip and zstd ffrom now on.
The foods are not fake sweet, they are actually sweet. Being sweet doesn’t mean being sugar.
Ski lift fatality rate is about 1/10 of cars, with only one death per 700 million miles traveled and average of 0.34 deaths per year.

Ski lift is one of the safest modes of transports known to man. It probably saves many lives vs someone walking up the mountain. That is, unlike the chess robot it creates a comparative net decline in risk for achieving the task of climbing a mountain. A wildly overbuilt (for the task) industrial robot as designed in this configuration here creates a net increase in risk vs playing against a much weaker human hand.

https://www.missionridge.com/sites/default/files/NSAA%20Lift...
I'd be interested in hearing the experiences of people who switched from React Native to Flutter, or vice versa. Especially those who needed web support.
Just because a service isn't overrun with bots already doesn't mean it couldn't be 10x worse to the point where twitter becomes usable if existing mechanism like blocking non-VOIP numbers didn't exist. If they got rid of that constraint I could easily spin up a million bot accounts (captcha bypass is trivial) if I wanted to.
Will this affect the reliability and sustainability of quantum computing?
I believe it has more about the lack of airflow and the compaction and moisture.
> You can never replicate the bond that comes with being in school during teenage years

I suspect you have not asked middle aged men and women where their friends came from.

Some patterns I have seen for finding close friends after 20 are A: the group-of-us versus them (graduate intake, military intake), B: shared scary experience (first pregnancy, catastrophe, sickness), C: linked by children (kids parents, school, kids activities).

Also cities full of itinerants are much more welcoming to making new friendships (however the friendships often fade when people move away again).

Currently I am doing friends of friends - although I end up with a very diverse group of disconnected people.
I remember
I understand that he received an estimated 74 mSv of radiation, somewhat below the level of 100 mSv acute / 300 mSv annual that has been shown to cause a measurable increase risk of cancer (e.g. from 40% lifetime risk to 40.1% lifetime risk). It's extremely dubious to say that this was definitely from Fukushima radiation. If that dose is accurate, the likelihood of it being from Fukushima radiation is probably less than 1%. Not impossible. But not likely, and far from a sure thing.

For comparison, the 23 firefighters who died from acute radiation syndrome at Chernobyl got doses as high as 13,400 mSv, almost 2000x higher than this guy.
Glad to see Paul Bourke is still active. I encountered his site almost 20 years ago and spent many hours on it. Fantastic stuff. Glad to see he still maintains a minimalist site.
Git-crypt: Transparent file encryption in Git
A brief review of a single Wikenigma article suggests that it doesn't cover known topics particularly well. The mechanism for color vision in humans is poorly understood. We do know that there are four ocular photoreceptors, and at least one extraocular photosensitive cell in humans. The Wikenigma article erroneously states that "human eyes have three different types of retinal cells (cone cells) which respond to light". Of the several human photoreceptors, it is accurate that cone cells respond to light intensities at which we perceive color, but these are not the only human photoreceptors.
I mean, that could trivially be changed by waving a magic "this section of the road is for bikes" wand. We feel unsafe on bikes because there are too many streets designed for cars and too few for bikes. Switch out 10% of streets effectively for bikes only and you'll suddenly see people biking.
I noticed this on the page about infinity:

> Are some infinities larger than others?

But didn't Cantor prove the answer to that is "yes" back in the 19th century?
I really hope the details he indirectly hints
(family, Berlin, male, expat in Germany) are carefully given to confuse potential threats.
It's good that the author is questioning how to make accessible content in ways that make the experience of using a site better for everyone, but it's incredibly disappointing that they scattered the article with points saying (I'm paraphrasing) "I'm not visually impaired so I can't know what this is like!"

You can know. Just talk to people who use assistive tech. Don't guess at how to improve what you build. Hire a diverse team who know these problems because they encounter them. Hire consultants. Just reach out to your friends to find someone who'll spare an hour of their time in return for a coffee - I guarantee that they'll be amazed and so damn happy that you want to make your code work better for them.

Also, and this is critical for understanding why accessible software is worth building, you should also realise that making something accessible makes it better for everyone. Accessibility features like enabling keyboard navigation of an app improves the user experience for everyone who chooses to use that feature, not just for people who need that feature. I believe that if you think of adding accessible feature as "enabling powerusers" you stop finding excuses not to bother.
What makes you think you are fooling your body with artificial sweeteners ?

And whats 'actual food' ?

If artificial makes it bad then is stevia fine ?
At one point they would have to fix their store or change brand if they want to keep charging a premium for AWS.
Scarleteen – Sex Education for the Real World
I recently got back from a few hundred mile road trip in >100F temperatures in an EV with decently high (40%+) humidity. Climate was <5% of the energy usage as reported by the car. Even when driving around town in 114F weather, its rarely been >15% of my overall energy usage.
Is time is distorted space ???
These benefits in Europe are grossly inflated though
I think it's all about cutting out jargon, and limiting vocabulary to the the most common denominator.

Back in the 1980s and 1990s we had "X for Dummies" books.

Or, perhaps you need the Cliff-notes version.

Or, can you explain it in "Basic English"[1], i.e. for a non-native speaker

[1] http://www.basic-english.org/
What overpass cost $250 million to build?

If true, it's is truly obscene. Salesforce tower only cost $1 or 2 billion to build.

An overpass could be complex, but not that much so.
null termination is not to be added to embed. embed adds a const sized buffer of unsigned bytes, not strings. files are not strings, files do contain \0.

and I still don't get why embed is so much better than xxd included buffers. it's more convenient sure, but 10x faster?
They Thought ‘Crypto Banks’ Were Safe, and Then Came the Crash
> Just use a zip like a normal person.

zip files are an ancient format, not without flaws too.
Depending on where you live it could be much more expensive to use a heat pump for heating instead of a gas furnace.
Sweetness is a taste we literally evolved over millenia to find sugar.
It was really disappointing when dpkg actively deprecated support (which I feel they should never do) for lzma format archives and went all-in on xz. The decompressor now needs the annoying flexibility mentioned in this article and the only benefit of the format--the ability to do random access on the file--is almost entirely defeated by dpkg using it to compress a tar file (which barely supports any form of accelerated access even when uncompressed; like the best you can do is kind of attempt to skip through file headers, which only helps if the files in the archive are large enough) and, to add insult to injury, the files are now all slightly larger to account for the extra headers :/.

Regardless, this is a pretty old article and if you search for it you will find a number of discussions that have already happened about it that all have a bunch of comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884832

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768425
If there is no per-mile fare, then there is no incentive not to use the road. Using gasoline as a proxy does not charge the people using complex and expensive overpasses more than people using surface streets.

There is no incentive to minimize construction and maintenance costs at all. No pay-as-you-go model like busses and trains have.
Averaging out alcohol sales over the entire population like that doesn't make much sense when 20% of the population drinks 80% of the alcohol.
What do the numbers on the right hand side mean?
> do you only use HN or HNAlgolia to watch them?

This hints that you mean keywords on HN and not on the entire web? I think the title should be updated to reflect this.
Hopefully no one treated these passwords as an actual security feature.
Exactly. Most of the commenters already have a family and local social life, and probably know their colleagues from when they worked in the office together. It's totally different for graduates.
Wow, point retracted. I'm honestly kind of shocked that heat can be transferred that efficiently.
There is nothing bad about it. The reason why it was attacked is another story

https://youtu.be/E-POAKKH5IM
Filling in the roofs and spending billions amounts to linear growth. (Spend $1, get $1 worth of energy; fill 1 roof, get that area in energy). The argument of the article is that the exponential growth will outshine whatever linear coefficients we throw at it.

Even going interplanetary; that is only linear growth -- go to 1 new sun, get 1 new sun of energy!

Exponential wins in the end no matter what.
Yeah if you live in the US then the trains and buses aren't really an option I guess.
Building efficient transit systems and moving away from the most inefficient system, that also happens to kill 100 people every day will make people's lives better.
Whats your point ?