skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, I have a printer that really needs a dedicated circuit. When it warms up the toner, it draws 12 amps for 1-2 seconds.

Printing often pops the breaker. I had to move the printer out of my home office into a bedroom, but even then we've popped the breaker when printing while vacuuming.

(It's not a case of bad wiring, either.)
Except in the self driving computer's recordings of its inputs...
I think the confusion is one of definitions. Basically, the whole point of cryptocurrency tumblers like TC is to obscure the original source of funds. That can be used for both legal and illegal funding sources. I think some folks in this thread are using the term "money laundering" to refer to both legal and illegal fund-source-obscuring, while others are using it to refer purely to illicit sources.
Ironically the people who wouldn’t be able to bike to the event would probably benefit the most from it.
There are many such things in historical PL design. I consider immutability in Erlang to be another example... what Erlang needed was processes to not be able to send each other mutable references. Full immutability in data achieves that goal, but is an over reaction. It was sufficient when the type system simply doesn't have references in it.

Another example is the whole dynamic scripting language world considered as a reaction to the terrible static world of the 1990s. Yes, the 1990s were too static, no question, but that didn't mean we needed to turn all objects into hash tables, be able to dynamically re-write classes on both the class and the instance level, and just generally make everything, everywhere so dynamic that the language spends the majority of its runtime basically checking to see that nothing has dynamically changed since last time it did something.

The PL design world is learning and growing and I find it an interesting story over time. Unfortunately when proving out a theory takes a minimum of about 20 years from thousands of programmers it's a slow process.

(Also, while my comments above are certainly in some sense criticisms of the languages, I actually don't intend them as criticisms of the people involved. It is still an amazing achievement to move the state of the art ahead at all in such a harsh environment; I'm not angry that they didn't in one fell swoop fix all problems forever, even for decades not yet here.)
Fermat's Library – interesting Twitter feed
Banks store money, right? Does bitcoin store money?

Banks have accounts, right? Does bitcoin have accounts?
Those are all improvements to their main product lines. I’m talking about apple car or credit cards or whatever else they’re going to do. If people at apple want to build a car they should form a new company to do it. I don’t want my phone, computer, car, and credit card all issued by the same company.
I've used AI to create stuff like music album covers and posters. It's cool and fun to mess around with, but I think it still takes a real person with an aesthetically trained eye to be fully effective. It does basically what I would do anyway, which would be to composite different images in Photoshop and then apply effects, etc. But you still need to edit for composition and text, and most of the time the images have to be fine tuned, or not at all what I wanted. I can easily see AI taking over most image compositing.
> Yes, there are always a few folks who will pull their bikes out in 0°F (-18°C) and go out on icy roads, but they are a vast minority. And a lot of cities in the world experience those kinds of temperatures.

The majority of population centers are outside of regions with that kind of low temperatures. Even if the temperatures get that low, its usually not for the majority of the year. And cities with well planned out and maintained cycling infrastructure do demonstrate that cycling even with low temperatures is a feasible mode of transportation.

> Also, bikes (especially individual bikes) are not very compatible with many types of disabilities.

Getting rid of cars that don't _need_ to be in a city makes space for cars that do need to be there. Very few people who are seriously debating this topic are for banning every kind of motorized vehicle outright. Obviously there are many cases where cars/trucks are the only feasible/best option, even in a city. Emergency vehicles, delivery trucks or vehicles for people with limited mobility.

> We really should keep accessibility in mind when working on Urban areas.

Cars are incredibly expensive. They are even more expensive if you have special needs (that is, if your disability even allows you to drive at all). Pedestrianized and bike friendly areas, that often go hand in hand with well designed public transportation infrastructure, are far more accessible than car-centric planning ever could be.
The "we are not a person or organization" argument sort of breaks down once you file a lawsuit.
Nothing is faster than speed of light. In fact signals transmitted via copper wires are traveling at 2/3 the speed of light. Don't know the details about fiber ocean links, but it certainly won't be faster than speed of light.
Is the current state of the UX Design industry a “shitshow”?
The series of articles I posted talks about a tribe where this is the case. Very fit people who get a ton of calories from honey.
Handbook for non-fiction writers. :)

If you’re writing a novel, a lot of this doesn’t directly apply.
> Film critics will quickly be forgotten because they created nothing

I think that's terribly dismissive. I mean, take Ebert's reviews of the Mummy series for example. There's something touching and wise in there that actually makes the films themselves better because they give us pause to reflect on these things.

Or in a completely different ballpark, the Red Letter Media "review" of Star Wars Ep. 1 that manages to be not only a valid critique of the film, but is longer than the film and arguably a better film in its own right!

(Edit: Another good example that just occurred to me is one that I heard in a recent episode of the Rest Is History podcast. They were discussing Tolkien and one of the hosts pointed out that even if he hadn't written any of his Middle Earth fiction, he'd still be well-known in literary circles for his critical examination of Beowulf that changed how we see it today.)

Like any other "content" there's a spectrum from prolefeed and seo spam on one end, and actual art and literature on the other. Pull that rabbit out of a hat enough times and there's definitely a niche to carve out a legend there.
I don't think we should allow half the headlights that are currently in circulation. Once we get height and brightness levels under control, we can talk about extras.
And in a more bike/public transit-centric society, probably wouldn't be in as such a poor state to begin with.
They really shouldn't be pitted against each other. They have some similarities but typically EDI is intended for bulk data transfers where a Web API is more suited for smaller amounts of data, like one record per request/response. Sure, an API can do lists but compared to an EDI, the file can handle a lot more records.

*EDIT* Typically, EDI is good for a once daily update where an API can handle the incremental changes that occur throughout the day.
Maybe we should bring back buggy whip craftsmen too, so we can truly turbo-charge this economy with people who are busy doing jobby looking stuff.
You'd get far by consciously reducing the number of roads where cars have preferential access and high speed limits without banning cars entirely.
Tell it to Rosa Parks.
The benefits the US gets from globalization come at significant cost: huge military expenditures plus a hollowing out of manufacturing and other local jobs, leading to a lot of social unrest. Globalization wasn't something the US did for its own sake, but as a way of bribing the world to help them contain the Soviets.

Nevertheless, the US will find the end of globalization somewhat unpleasant for a while. But unlike most of the world, the US is self-sufficient in food and energy, faces little direct military threat, and its largest trading partners are on its borders. In relative terms, the US stands to come out well ahead.

Being less homogenous is also an advantage. Almost every advanced country has terrible demographics. The less homogenous you are, the more you're able to attract immigrants to fix that. Despite periodic discontent, the US has long welcomed immigration and benefited by it. On top of that, US demographics aren't that terrible in the first place.
Spent many an hour writing OS code in CE (Concurrent Euclid) using the `ed` editor on an IBM 3270. Still have my copy of the scrabble book. Good times for sure.
The easiest way to charge something thin would be a proprietary pogo-pin adapter and pads.

Protecting it would certainly be a challenge. If I were to try, my first attempt would be to sandwich it between two sheets of stainless. (0.76-0.4)/2 only leaves .18mm left over... that's 33 gauge. Maybe too thin to add enough rigidity? If you used 28 gauge stainless that would bring the sandwich to 1.04mm, which might be a better compromise.

It would certainly need some prototyping.

Apple gets 1 year of battery life from 225mah. So, it seems reasonable to get a month from 30mah. Not great, but hey, we're just entertaining the packaging requirement.
It's like the NIMBY problem - everyone claims to want the variation and difference, but they act so as to make everything uniform and identical.
So is semiconductor fabrication, and Apple has been ridiculously successful as a middle-man there in both directions: Customers get the most advanced chips available at consumer prices. TSMC gets whatever capital they need, either advanced or in guaranteed order contracts.
I think some of this will be the eventual undoing of some large companies. Take for example facebook; it early on came into a huge market dominance as a relatively simple social media site. Now it's hugely overblown with algorithms trying to wring a couple extra ad dollars out of existing users, at the cost of making the whole platform (imo) a lot worse, and this may be speculation but I think we've reached peak Meta and they will start to lose massive amounts of users and be replaced in the same way they replaced Myspace.
Eliding a branch makes not only compilation faster, but the resulting code as well. That’s how for example some logging statements become zero-cost when the debug level is set lower than their corresponding one. JIT compiled languages don’t care too deeply about startup, they shine with longer runtimes.
I think we should also be aware of the technological reasons for separating AI-produced and human-produced images: New effects/risks can occur when the ML system is naively trained against its own outputs. It's not hard to imagine multiple companies trying to periodically scrape and build new image datasets and retrain the newest models against the updated dataset. But if stablediffusion vN is mostly trained against stablediffusion v(N-1) images, then it's possible for the sequence to not actually improve even though more data and computation are being thrown at it.
An ebike can help with that. I have family that live in Joshua Tree and use ebikes for some trips during the summer.
What could contain information is a book of all 512x512 images that a human being would perceive as being "an image". Ie, the vast majority of possible 512x512 images look like random noise to humans. Excluding those massively shrinks the size of the book.

So that does mean image model AI like dall-e/SD are effectively compression over this space of images that they can generate (which is at least attempting to emulate the space of 'meaningful images' to a human), since given a seed, they'll deterministically produce the same image, and that seed is much smaller than the information needed to describe every pixel in the image.
Here is an example: in Texas, unauthorized use of a vehicle, which would include driving a car that you can't prove is yours, can be punishable by two years in jail. [1] From what I understand getting caught driving without a license the first time is generally a misdemeanor, but for repeated offence in for example CA can land you in jail.

Running a whole operation around driving without a license is what tornado cash is more similar to, not accidentally forgetting your license once, which is what the misdemeanor is for.

[1] https://casetext.com/statute/texas-codes/penal-code/title-7-...
This sounds like a very American answer. Have you been to such an event in any other place, like Europe?

Near me is the largest open air weekend market of the Netherlands. Do you know how everybody gets there? By bike, public transportation, walking, etc. And then some small percentage that arrives by car.
I was at first excited, a new browser that isn't firefox or chrome. But then it said QT and this made me loose interest immediately.
Not only is it not an either or, but you just have to look at other countries to see how a bike friendly increases quality of life for everyone. If able bodied people significantly rode more bikes, this means less congestion, more pedestrian friendly zones for disabled people to drive, park and move around.
Ah okay well yes I see how that might be an issue. I basically do everything in Julia, including calling out to shell commands, running scripts in other languages, Python packages, etc. etc. It's effectively my shell.

I think the problem is that there needs to be a way to store the compiled code to disk and reimport it, which I think there are some plans toward that path. There were some developments discussed [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnsONc9DYg0) to help with this, but the holy grail of fully compiled function caching across Julia kernels is not there yet.
To bad self-driving cars won't be ready when we have to technology to convert talking to electric energy.
Bro it gets freakin' cold in the winter in Austin, TX and we're further south than Tunis, Tunisia; San Diego, CA; Alexandria, Egypt; Casablanca, Morocco; Tucson, AZ; Basra, Iraq and Osaka, JP. How much further south would you like us to go? Should we conquer Mexico just so we can ride bikes in December?

What risks should my very pregnant-for-the-last-three-years wife take? What if we lose a child or for that matter _her_ because she slipped on the ice? How is she going to get groceries for our family of five-soon-six from the grocery store that is miles away from our house?

You people don't live where the rest of us live. You're callously indifferent to the pain caused by policy designed to inflict economic damage on the middle class. POSIWID. You hope you can condense the economic violence into the other-world you would prefer to live in.

I'm from Ohio where I rode a motorcycle in the dark for my second shifts at the warehouse through the entire winter and I still wouldn't wish bicycling _by necessity_ in the winter here on my worst enemy. Good way to cull the elderly if that's what you're going for. We can't all be healthy 20-something males though.
I’ve actually been in the process of doing something similar to what’s described in the Medium article. I’ve tried to grayscale thing out before too but I switch back after some time.

I think what I’m getting out for myself is more so a UX issue? I’m not sure. It’s not a matter of attention span with me specifically. But the look and feel of certain Apple devices as a whole makes me feel like someone who I’d hate to become. I could still see myself using an iPad or a Mac mini or something like that, because I’ve taking a liking for some of the things those devices have to offer for specific tasks.

But I would love for my phone to just be a concrete brick that can spit out thermal printed slips of paper with messages on it as text messaging and emails. And if only voice calls were a distributed mesh of Solo cups and strings.
I get the arguments, I think, I just... don't want to be spending any percentage of my time supporting a task queue I've written. I don't want to respond to feature requests or bug reports or questions. I want to use something that already exists that let the people who developed that thing respond to feature requests and bug reports and questions.

That said, sometimes a task queue isn't the right tool for a job. At my last company, someone built something that could be called a task queue using AWS step functions. What she needed didn't exist, so she built it. Of course, now she has to respond to feature requests, bug reports, and questions about it.
I tried to find some July 4th where something Swedish happened:

> 1708 Battle of Holowczyn: Swedish King Charles XII defeats superior Russian force in surprising vctory

That must have been it.
> Interestingly, the PM in a Westminster model is actually more powerful than the President in the US mode.

One advantage is that you know who to blame, especially when it elections come around. Instead of the "dead lock" that can occur when both the Legislature and Executive say they have 'mandates' that are opposing to each other.
> you can't determine in advance if a certain (card) element is part of the main content or not. Therefore, `aside` should only be used if needed

Good point, I agree.

> Your `a i` and `a strong` solutions are pretty unusual and they show the limit of what is possible using a classless CSS

100% agree. This was a loose interpretation of semantic HTML IMO.

> I would have preferred staying even more minimalist and simply pass on button-like links.

Sure, from a purist perspective, but from a productivity one, the vast majority of product / service sites have a button somewhere, so I thought it was important to include it even if I had to abandon a strict-constructionist view of semantic HTML and go with a more progressive, interpretative one.

> You could think about adding the underlining for links in continuous text. See https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F73.html.

I agree. I think it's a strong candidate to implement this in a v2 if that happens down the road.

> I associate MVPs (products) and rapid prototyping with more extensive and interactive interfaces than the typical text-based onepager

Sure, modern day MVPs look far more polished and interactive, but this was kind of in response to that. I was working through YC's Startup School (https://www.startupschool.org/) at the time and they were pushing the definition of an MVP as something that just barely works so you can test out a specific idea. So, while it won't work for an AirTable MVP, I think it should work for an API MVP, or most single-form MVPs. Beyond that, I agree it might not be a great fit for the project.
Scheduling side, we only schedule jobs if there have not been N of that type scheduled during that period. Works pretty good.

The jobs are still technically "queued" but they don't get consumed until something opens up (but workers can work on other tasks).
Money laundering means concealing dirty cash, clean money doesn’t need to be laundered by definition.

A mixer concealing the public address of clean money is not nefarious in any way and should be perfectly legal.
Or to "slot CPUs" of the P3 era, where the CPU and cache management were shipped on the same PCB. Or to still earlier designs where multiple VLIW chips were designed in tandem to act as a single component. The original IBM RS/6000's had (IIRC) a six-chip "CPU". There are comparatively few new ideas in semiconductor packaging.
Right—I just think public school districts are already in a bad personnel crunch, and that they'll revive online options (not all of them, but quite a few will try it) rather than significantly increase wages, because bad online school will be preferable to 40+ students per class and/or to holding classes only half-time and having kids do "study hall" in a gym or cafeteria the rest of the time, which is already de-facto the state of things at some schools in my area—including "good" ones—that are losing teachers and can't get more or get enough substitutes.

These issues are largely hidden from parents so far, but that's not gonna last as it keeps getting worse, and they'll demand a fix. They could fix it with a large wage hike, but I don't think they'll do it, and they'd need to be doing that now not to still have a significant gap in coverage for at least a couple years. I do expect many or most of these online experiments will happen in physical school buildings, not at home, though, because parents want the daycare aspect—two teachers monitoring & assisting 100 online-learning students in a big room, or whatever, or 30 students in a room looking at screens with some kind of low-wage paraprofessional, or something.

I think we're in for more online learning efforts because I don't think we can afford enough decent-or-better in-person teachers anymore to support the old model. But maybe I'll be surprised and we'll pass far-larger school budgets instead.

[EDIT] Though, I guess it's also possible we'll just accept public schools taking a permanent nose-dive in quality post-Covid and not do anything to try to fix it. I'd say that's more likely than significantly increasing teacher wages, in fact.
They make electric trikes, and they're a bit more popular around here (Nova Scotia). Electric trikes have their own balance problems though. Also thinner tires and there being no such thing as ABS brakes make it really easy to go into a slide, especially if you don't really know why ABS brakes are a thing.

Cold weather is difficult, you need to protect yourself from the cold but you also need to deal with heat and sweat from biking, so your clothing requirements actually change depending on what point in the bike ride you're on.

Visibility is reduced due to high snowbanks, so you're likely coming to a complete stop more often than you otherwise would. That's a good argument for electrics and regenerative braking obviously.

Road salt and ice are a big problem, since bikes have components exposed. Components like chains, brake lines, the steering yolk, etc. Those are probably not made for the weather here and will more or less dissolve if you use most bikes during the winter. I'm sure there are some that are alright, but it's an additional research task.

I think it's solvable, and a personal vehicle that can solve that will probably do quite well if they can hit the right price-point, but I think that vehicle ends up looking more like a golf cart or a kei-car than a bike.
> For artists who continue to paint, or use other physical means of expression through base materials and sell them as physical works, this entire AI art surge remains largely irrelevant in a practical sense. A buyer or patron who wants real, physical art will still need and want real, physical art, and I don't see an AI imitating much of that easily any time soon.

I don't think it would be that hard to get a machine to physically paint in layers. Sure, the velocity, pressure, texture etc. of a brush would take time to model, but you could start with spray paint.
Java or Python for Android – Why Not Both
There's something about it that's so undignified, and cringe inducing to me. To see someone pose, repose, inspect, repose, etc. I just could never want to put that much effort into how I'm appearing. The faux spontaneity is just so off-putting.
So if the developers of PGP were told that ISIL was using their service to facilitate terrorism should they shut down the project?
What is a black box and how does it work?
I recently went to stable diffusion for some art for a D&D campaign guide, to make the thing more immersive. While the pictures are impressive, there are a lot of things about the generated art that just don't make sense: In one picture, a tower had a staircase down 1/3rd of the way from the door to the ground, just stopping at that point. Most had issues like this. Several other pictures I wanted were impossible to generate.

The field of "art that needs human communication skills" seems to be a lot broader than just scientific illustration.
Things like caps are purely for show. Companies will find a way around it. Who's going to stop companies from wanting to grow indefinitely? You couldn't if you tried.