skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Encoding data in cell formatting is questionable practice.
Unhappy is being used here to mean "unhappy enough that it affects you." It's not about concern for the mental health of the locals.
It is $0.0125. So more like $30/mo
Germany to keep two nuclear plants as a backup as it faces an energy crisis
I find the framing "break the laws of physics" to be curious. Does that mean the Newtonian laws of physics, which are enough to launch rockets but not enough to create the GPS network? General relativity is enough to create the GPS network, but not travel faster than light or connect two points in space without the intervening distance or whatever.

It's fallacious to presume that we -- or any other species -- will automagically find ways to beat the lightspeed barrier, but it's also hubris to presume that our current understanding is the most "correct" that it can be. Could there be some new sea change in our understanding of the world, that allows for things general relativity considers impossible or incoherent?

My understanding of the "peaceful zen wizards" trope was that if you've got the technology to cross the unimaginably big [0] gulfs between stars, let alone the gulfs between inhabited stars, you concomitantly no longer want for resources or territory in any way that civilizations of our Kardashev type [1] understand them. What's the point of belligerence, culturally, [2] at that point? And if you do want territory and mining and extraction and whatever, why not use a combinatorial explosion of Von Neumann machines? The only reason to send actual people would be to say hello to the locals and look around.

[0] cf. Douglas Adams' intro to THGttG

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale

[2] I acknowledge that humans are genetically belligerent, but we can just choose not to be, especially in conditions of plenty. The fight is close, but culture ultimately beats genetics. I present, by way of example, the condom.
Don't you think manufacturing semiconductors in deep space adds even more complexity on top of the already ridiculous complexity of doing it on Earth or Mars?
No, do<lowercase>l</lowercase>t vs doIt.
Nokia used to make toilet paper and rubber boots.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Nokia
Until now you said that no car has power brakes, now you’re saying well they do have power brakes but they keep working when the power’s gone. I really don’t understand why you’re arguing with me.

But it is all beside the point. It’s easy to point out problems with BEVs because they’re new, but ICEs are far more mechanically complex and are therefore also subject to many kinds of failures. Simply because they have fewer moving parts, complete loss of power in a BEV is far less likely than in an ICE. This is why I said that we shouldn’t be overly nostalgic for ICEs.

Perhaps you’re just overly focussed on my throwaway line about “blowing a belt” - ICEs can also fail from a damaged cam, valve, pushrod, crankshaft, distributor, piston, timing chain, injector, air intake, turbo, fuel pump… I’m not really sure what your point is other than to nitpick at my example of one of the literally dozens of complete power failure modes of an ICE.
Not a developer but I'm really impressed with the quality and high fps.
Following to keep updated. Good luck!
A bit of bullshit. Ublock Origin, git://bitreich.org/privacy-haters, enable that config to either Firefox or Chrom* based browsers. Under Windows you can set he env vars properly to the desktop shortcuts as pure arguments for the exe.
Seriously, I tried with > 10yo Celeron netbook and it was perfectly usable once you set up ZRAM/zswap and Ublock Origin. Oh, and some tweaks on about:flags
to force the GL acceleration. OpenGL 2.1 capable, go figure, and yet browsing it's snappy on the Celeron.
Was it googles? I thought they were building a development environment in VR. But I can't find any reference.
> There's no more reason to think Weird Al might not have known what RAM was than there is reason to believe he didn't know that having Bill Gates do your tech support was unrealistic

I understand why you might argue that, but I've been surprised in the past by people who were fairly-well-versed on computers (no pun intended), but still called hard drive space "memory".

I should go listen to that section of the song again (like I said elsewhere, it isn't one of my favorites of his). By intentional absurdity, I meant that I could see Al intending this to be a case of bragging in an absurd way "Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills, I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM".

But now that I noticed the "I" in the middle there (I had missed it before), I'm guessing I was wrong in thinking the lines could be cause-and-effect (which would be the source of the absurdity).
Hard = cut into our profits.

If it can’t be automated, Facebook isn’t interested in complying.
A better analogy would be the Breguet range equation, as the rocket equation is explicitly about delta-V, not distance.

https://aerospaceengineeringblog.com/breguet-range-equation/
mad lad

I'm so glad geohot is back to streaming. I was afraid he had left for good because of trolls.

George, if you reading this: 1) we cannot let trolls win; 2) I'm still waiting for the Cherry computer
I am not familiar with the R ecosystem, but have you tried PoweredQuery?

I had become my go-to for all sorts for all sorts of data munging in excel.
According to Vice:

> PornHub [removed] all videos on its site that weren't uploaded by official content partners or members of its model program

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all...
Daszak acted unethically regardless of the actual truth of the lab leak hypothesis.

His actions were a self serving attempt to muddy the waters on investigation of the virus origin, and may have prevented conclusive proof one way or the other from ever emerging. I doubt Daszak himself knows for sure. But if there is a risk that you are responsible, why not try cover it up anyway. Just in case?

Same reasoning goes for the Chinese government.
I think you are being downvoted because you pretty clearly need to build the exchange to make the payment thing work.

They just never got to that part, so it's arguable if it's a pivot.
We use Ublock Origin and try to compress the RAM as a virtual swap everywhere.
Chrom* based browsers have optimized switches for low end machines, starting with --light, that's it, append that parameter to your desktop shortcut and things will speed up a bit.
Using the web today without UBo today it's suicidal.
This is hopeless. The point I've made repeatedly is, the education is what makes an engineer competent. Not the state of their license.

The guy is clearly what was said: not licenced (briefly). He corrected that; they even charged a late fee recognizing he was still licensed but late in paying.

The article lists several egregious cases that did not result in a fine. Are those dozen fines in 2022 about people who's fees lapsed? If not, then we're right back where we started: this guy is getting an unreasonable fine for a paperwork issue. Not for endangering the public. Which is the only point I'm making despite the army of strawmen being marshalled.
Amiga E was pure distilled productivity, built in a way that it wouldn't make sense anywhere else but on an Amiga. I wish there was an equivalent on modern systems.
Isn’t this similar to solidjs?
This is perhaps the best talk I've ever heard on startups, ever. Chesky is such a good story teller and Reid Hoffman is such a great interviewer. I think a lot of founders would benefit from watching this.
I also have 64GB on my home PC and Firefox tends to get into bad states where it uses up a lot of RAM/CPU too. Restarting it usually fixes things (with saved tabs so I don't lose too much state).

But outside of bugs I can see why we're not at 100GB - even with a PopOS VM soaking up 8GB and running Firefox for at least a day or two with maybe 30 tabs, I'm only at 21GB used. Most of that is Firefox and Edge.
A lot of safety/security isn't hard, people just don't do it if it isn't forced on them/ easy.
For some reason your making the assumption EVs and related infrastructure are not improving all the time. ICE cars are not improving very much, where EVs are getting cheaper each year. Eventually there will be cheaper options, and a 2nd hand market. Eventually there will be heavy duty trucks. Eventually there will be options with generous seating capacity.

Yes there are some people that love the roar of a v7, some people think the choice is political. But the vast majority don't give a shit. It will come down to function and economics. Eventually EVs will beat out ICEs in more an more usecases per $ spent, and then many of the people holding out for ideological reasons will switch because they're friends and family are all driving them.

There will eventually be a tipping point where gas stations start shutting down because of EV becoming a significant part of the market, which I think will start a feedback loop. Gas stations that survive on slim margins will be uneconomical with 20% EV adoption, will either shut down or raise prices. This will make it worse to own an ICE for more people, that will switch to EVs. Then more stations are out under pressure, rinse and repeat.
Digitizing Smell: Using Molecular Maps to Understand Odor
So what goes wrong with budgeting apps? Sounds like there would be a huge market for personal (or small business) finance, targeting traditional CPA/CFP approaches.
Ant Colony Optimization for the Travelling Salesman Problem
> Now we are talking about mirrors, temperature control, salinity control, food sources, killing competing organisms, water intake and filtering

lol, this comes across as FUD. Mirrors aren't high technology. They have no moving parts and do not require batteries.

Temperature control? Keep it the same temperature as your habitat, you should already have parts for that. Heck, keep it in your habitat. But algae isn't that sensitive, it can operate over a temperature range.

Salinity control is absurd, who's putting salt in the water and why can't you just tell them to stop?

Water intake and filtering? What? Dude it's essentially just water in a transparent container. There's no flowing or filtering.

Killing competing organisms? Algae is the competing organism, it can take care of itself, even if we brought competing organisms to Mars, which would be a silly thing to do.

I mean, maybe radiation is a factor, I don't know, but all that other stuff is not challenging.

And you're spending so much time inventing "challenges" for a simple algae farm, while just handwaving at a device that needs to compress the gas and heat it to 800 degrees celsius?

I'm not saying MOXIE won't work, or won't be useful in some circumstances. It's just that I don't understand why it's supposed to be simpler than tried-and-true alternatives.
JVM bytecode is, to my understanding, basically just a serialized, desugared Java. It has a concept of classes with constructors and it has objects and references and inheritance and basically all of Java's semantics encoded in it. Languages which aren't "java-like" have a hard time compiling to it. WASM, on the other hand, is more like machine code, so languages which are used to compiling to machine code have a fairly easy time compiling to it.
Nokia was originally a rubber boots manufacturer.
My last bug report I wrote a small C++ program to put all the values between 0x000 .. 0xfff into a tree structure and then iterate over the tree printing out the values.

I’d have loved if the library author replied with “why don’t you just print out the values directly?”
Minor aside, I really dig that there is a synchronous `signal.peek()`. Common accepted dogma is that an async value is ought only be accessible asynchronously, but having the capability to do the "you probably shouldn't" thing (getting/seeing current state synchronously) is, imo, the sort of escape hatch that adds potential & makes greatness possibility.

There's a lot of reason we let fear govern language design & direction, but I really believe we also need to give a lot of credit to what we make possible (or not) in these decisions too. For a long time, keeping async & sync separate has been the law of the land. I hope someday we can see values & their changes with less of a everything-neatly-in-one-box-or-another view, & more integratively.
> Most civilians understand that computers have to have some way to "remember" their files, but the fact that computers also need memory that "forgets" if the power goes off makes no sense to them.

Well, of course that makes no sense. It isn't true.

We use volatile memory because we do need low latency, and volatile memory is a cheap way to accomplish that. But the forgetting isn't a feature that we would miss if it went away. It's an antifeature that we work around because volatile memory is cheap.
What was negotiated was probably more blanket style discounts like "10% off your published medicare rate for procedures in categories a/b/c" for one customer and "15% off retail price for all categories other than x/y/z but only in these geographic areas" for another customer, and so on.

But, when publishing, they omit the context and just dump every negotiated rate. Because it's technically compliant, but keeps things opaque.
Straw man? The example was moving the can near the door so the janitor could efficiently collect them, without for instance entering your office and perhaps upsetting cables, equipment etc.

Let's quit jumping to strawmen about doing the janitors job, shall we? It's just about being respectful of the guy in the job next to you.
Defining Your Own Job
>It’s annoying that we blame everyone but ourselves
Using "we" here is doing exactly that.
Also it tries to search within files. I have a huge document library and it's often faster to look up a partial filename from the command line than to use Explorer's search, is slow and buries the file I want amid hundreds of irrelevant results.
>Sure, it doesn't need to happen to everyone to be a valid concern, but it needs to happen to someone.

It needs to happen to someone on both sides. So let me turn this around: Who has KiwiFarms doxxed and harassed simply for the act of being trans and saying that CloudFlare should drop KiwiFarms (or something similarly innocuous).

imo the difference here is not "I have an example and you don't", but it's pretty clear from these discussions that a lot of people would be okay with people who defend KiwiFarms losing their jobs, while the thought of a trans person facing similar consequences for criticizing KiwiFarms is inplausible. Take the Cloudflare CEO's initial defense of not cutting service, which lead to a Harvard professor saying that Prince "simply wanted trans people dead", or something to that effect. If this is the kind of rhetoric that is considered okay in the current moment then what would happen if someone like me had posted a similar essay under my real name that caught the attention of Keffels or someone in her orbit? I can't prove it, but the outcome seems unfortunately obvious to me..
I, too, am a total sucker for a SR-71 story.
> What would you accept as evidence of "no lab involvement"?

Read the last sentence.
The obvious regulation which almost every other country has is direct price controls on medicines, treatments etc. Not profit percentage controls. A dead simple “this is how much you’re allowed to charge”.

I don’t really understand why anybody would be against introducing this in the US.
That is among the plausible definitions of "half-sized paper". LOL. But the A-series innovation makes it easier to imagine scaling content/resources because you don't have to "retypeset" in your brain.

But, mostly, my fascination with A-series paper as an American is rooted in my utter disappointment that we refuse to use the metric system (even though every single American does without knowing it).
Not all motherboards have built in wifi, which leaves the option of a USB external adapter or a PCIe card.
From the user's "about" section:

Perhaps you'll think my comments are unthinkable. My only response to that is that they were legibly written, not by a machine, but by a writer with a soul.
So you do not understand the difference between oppression and regulation, do you? One thing is to lock up people in Auschwitz, another one is to require them to separate trash or to stop smoking in public places. Building livable cities where people could afford renting or buying a flat for less than $1000 is certainly not oppression. Yes, you cannot put a fancy big grill on a balcony to keep up with Joneses, sorry. But being able to pay the bills and contribute less to a climate change, would be worth it, right?
You are of course correct that Ukraine officially gave up the non-alignment in late December 2014. What I have to check is whether in late 2013 or early 2014 there were any indications that Ukraine might reverse course.
Voice-Activated iPhone Cookbook App Helps Home Cooks Develop New Recipes
Hm... I had a Celeron machine running XP ~2004-2007 that had 512MB of RAM, and it wasn't hard to run out, eventually upgraded to 768MB but I was still jealous of my friend running XP with 1GB.

Then, I built a Vista machine in 2007 with 2GB to start, and it was clearly not enough, immediately filled the other 2 slots to go to 4GB.
Biology can seldom be reduced to such simplistic calculations. Do you have any actual evidence for that claim? Please provide a quantitative estimate of the relative risk reduction for a serious adverse cardiac event under your proposed course of action, and show your work.
Put Windows/MacOS on it and you'll use 3 GB just booting up :p.
I suppose the actual comparison being made is this machine versus a living organism. As of right now, this machine is more capable of producing oxygen on Mars than any organism that we're aware of.
wifi but the wi stands for wired
Ask HN: What technology is mocked today but will be common within 20 years?
Electricity, computers, and the Internet were all roundly mocked at one point, but now those anti-critics are dismissed as myopic and backward.

What technology, if any, will make today's critics look foolish in 20 years?
> The same Epik that turned down 8chan?

Epik hosted 8chan in the interim after Cloudflare dropped them. This cause Epik's hosting provider to drop them, and since Epik doesn't own their datacenters they had to abide by their hardware provider's decision: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/5/20754943/8chan-epik-offlin...

I'll still eat some crow, though; I forgot the entire business was owned by Rob Monster (a veritable idiot by most definitions of the word), and I completely forgot that they even provided hosting in the first place.

> I'm pretty positive Cloudflare and IA do not care about a moral crusade to stop Kiwifarms, and would not care if they went to Tor.

I'm certain they don't. That's the problem, though; this moral panic response to KiwiFarms has achieved nothing. Cloudflare knows that this is a zero-sum game, but they bent anyways. As businesses, their choices make plenty of sense. I disagree with businesses all the time though (check the comment history), and frankly I think Cloudflare made the wrong decision here. In my opinion, their actions here will be more destructive to queer populations in the long-run.
Lab-leaked doesn't mean lab-made. Those labs also study natural viruses.
Just to be clear, I did not in any way mean this as disparaging toward Weird Al. I've been a fan of his music for decades.

But as I said elsewhere in this thread, I have been surprised in the past by people I would have described as fairly tech-savvy, who still called hard drive space "memory".

However, if the two phrases are related (as opposed to just being adjacent in the song), at this point I'd guess Al does probably know the difference, and the relationship is intended to be intentionally over-the-top absurd bragging.
I don't know as Mono is any less native than .NET, they both have to JIT the program's IL, and the .NET APIs don't really expose much of anything that's platform-specific so there isn't really a "native" platform.
Building something useful out of that would end up comically large.

I should probably qualify my "first transistor" statement; the device I was referring to is the first prototype created at Bell Labs in 1947. The first transistor that someone could actually buy to build a circuit out of came out a year later and was only a little larger than today's through-hole mounted transistors. They did get used to build early minicomputers, before integrated circuits took over.
I'm always amazed at how in the US there are "garden variety ACs" that lack the very small amount of parts needed to be reversible. I haven't seen any models like that for sale in Europe. Since having AC is also much more frequent in the US than in Europe it's really a shame that isn't just regulated as mandatory or something so that electrifying house heating becomes that much easier.
My dumb guess: The people financially-conscious enough to budget aren't the ones willing to pay for a budgeting service.
So 'your thing doesn't work if I imagine that people instead do the opposite' as a rebuttal then?
What wars in the past, say, 200 years were fought because "people [had] differences that [were] actually legitimate" and not the basic imperialism and/or ethno-nationalism that has driven Russia's aggression against Ukraine?
It‘s not a jar. You can control your cookies perfectly fine. No one but you and the original host can access them.
I hope that’s the intention. Silicon Valley pretty much sprouted with military funding. Unfortunately, projects with long lead times are impossible to sustain in this new economy and research scientists will get scouted before NASA gets to increase their pay.
Reminds me of that time the RAF really wanted to drop some bombs on the Falkland Islands rather than leaving it to the Navy and its Sea Harriers.

Diagram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Refuelling.plan.black.buc...
Full article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck
I recently ported my side project app from React to Solid and it was surprisingly straightforward. I think this is an advantage of Solid over Svelte. The concepts and syntax are quite similar and it eliminates the manual dependency tracking headaches from React.
Juul Labs to pay $438.5mn to settle underage vaping investigation by US states
You are overthinking it.
Ah good catch I was moving the goalposts there - I think in my head public and universal and basically interchangeable - if everyone has it is it a public good regardless of if it's provided by a collection of "private" companies
> Kanban board

Does it have specific meaning in software engineering? Isn't Kanban just billboard in Japanese?
> many computer-related things actually do come in power-of-ten quantities

They don't have to do this, they do it because it confuses people.
This company pivoted 27 times before finding its current product market fit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W09ChyR6-DQ
I love the cold and winter. I'll run outside when it is -30F with the proper clothing. But damn, we keep our house at 60F in the winter and I often wear a winter hat inside. 39F in the house is nuts. Not to mention you have to be careful not to freeze your pipes.
What are you thinking of? Yeah, compressing the air at the base will increase its temperature, and then the pressure (and so temperature) will reduce as it gets higher, but it’s still going to be at a higher pressure than the air outside and so can provide support and reaction mass.

You might even be able to take advantage of this by chilling the compressed air before it goes into the beanstalk, so that it absorbs heat from the surrounding air on the way up. Or have separate pipes with one carrying methane to burn as fuel. Lots of options to evaluate.
Even suing them isn’t necessarily going to work. Eg, a class action against them this year ended with a whimper when a CA judge granted their motion to compel arbitration as per their ToS: https://casetext.com/case/evans-v-paypal-inc