skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what way is concrete a sustainable building material? It's a huge carbon emitter, a poor insulator, concrete production is devastating to natural habitats turned into sand quarries, etc. Plant-based construction materials, e.g. hemp, seem to be vastly superior on every ecological consideration.

Plus, an unreinforced concrete dome has to be one of the inherently least population dense structures, and density potential is probably as important a consideration in sustainability as actual construction techniques.

Edit: not necessarily a dome, but also not able to safely scale the structure very high with this technique without losing the only purported advantage, the low labor cost.
Local mutability is not particularly difficult in either Haskell or OCaml.
Latest death of Moore Law

Shocking
I had a very similar experience with using scsh for shell scripts instead of bash and it was great and far more convenient than using Python or any other language with poor support for the shell style of command execution.

I have also been forced to revert to bash later so it is good to know that there might be an update for it.
We’re bringing RAM bank swapping back!
Does it pay as well? When your community is impoverished, that's kind of the most important factor; any compute (for which people pay you) is useful compute in this context, that usefulness scaling with how much people pay you.
I am talking about a mixture of both such that both the applied and theoretical parts are well explained. But not in a theory first way.

More like this:

Here is a tool you can use to perform these many tasks in these many situations. Now that you have seen how it works, let us investigate why it works and where does it come from (maybe with a bit of history). Because stories are always easier to remember.
File size is still limited to 0xffffffff (the dir entry only has 32 bits to store it). Some broken implementations even treat it as signed, and files over 2GB become problematic
Primary data aquisition aquired during the 1980s is still stored as "original" on various optical formats .. although secondary copies have been made.

Exploration | geophysical | seismic surveys that "can never be repeated" ( the atmosphere | climate | ground has changed since ) and cost thousands to millions per day to acquire have troves of original copies - SEG-9 (SEG-21) track tapes, DAT tape, optical discs, that tend to be preserved "for reference" despite much of the data having migrated media-wise forward.
Naturally I'm sure you are law abiding, but I question how easy it is to live and work in Argentina without violating the law (I've heard it's practically a requirement to survive there -- if nothing else the tax laws). Maybe it's just a scam, but I had heard if you file for citizenship (which apparently anyone can do) it makes it harder to get deported?

I read some bizarre reports on baexpats that the easiest way to get deported is actually to follow the official legal residency pathway!
Don’t freak out about that tape on your plane’s wing
Why yet another key value store?
I'd love to try out larger OLED monitor sizes, especially on personal computers.

I have a 16 inch i9 MBP from the before times (pre M1/M2 Max Plus Ultra Pro+ ) but I feel like OLED screens would degrade faster than normal LSD screens.

The iPhone X, which I had at the time, I am pretty sure was the first and last OLED iPhone, and it looked gorgeous, but I do recall a year later there being a ton of graphic / pixel issues in terms of burn in or ghost out or whatever you call the graphical artifacts in the screen after a lot of use.
Unless they bring OS/2 to CI the open source software support for it will fade away.

If they did show it's OK to use in CI, then the community support will have a chance of staying alive.
The worst issue with pixels for me is the missing HDMI alt mode... in 2022 pixel's still lack the ability to connect a monitor to the phone. Even worse, samsung has samsung dex, and now there is great tech like the nreal air that we're missing out on for no good reason. I've heard rumors that google likely disables hdmi alt mode to protect chromebook sales. I also wasn't able to use the $100 USBC DAC I got for the phone for like 8 months after I first got it. It's a very simple concept to make sure you support an alternative before you deprecate a feature but lo and behold.

Next phone I get will definitely not be a pixel. Hopefully the next fairphone will be a tad more competitive, and hopefully by then linux on the fairphone will be more polished. A boy can dream...
GDPR applies to doing business with EU citizens. That's why a US company like Meta can be held responsible for data stored in the US if it's about EU subjects.
I used to be concerned about optical media longevity. I bought Taiyo-Yuden discs. I checked their integrity. I stored them carefully. But the format became obsolete (for me) long before the media degraded. Recordable discs are just too small for the backup use case I had. Optical drives are still available of course, but they are now rarely standard with a new PC or laptop, and soon will become specialist components, and then it won’t be long before the drives become a greater limit to longevity than the media.
And bnb, the coin of binance just got hacked...
Creditors are usually published by the trustee. End-consumers can be a toss-up.

Lehman Brothers just finished up it’s liquidation after 14 years. It’s trustee listed all its creditor claimants’ names and addresses and their claimed amounts, even if it’s just a few bucks.
Good question. Avoiding blanket endorsement/nudging people to do their own research, I guess.
I suspect they are just being political. It is a good move. Keep up the good work, I say.

That being said, Joe Biden has been a key player at the highest levels of US policy for decades. He only narrowly missed out on entering the US Senate to vote on the original Controlled Substances Act of 1970 that it seems people are being pardoned for violating. 1973-2009 he was part of the exact group of people helping build up the war on drugs. 2022 elections he throws out a bone to deal with the symptoms.

You can see why people like Obama or Trump do so well vs incumbent politicians. These ex-Congress people are, by and large, responsible for all the messes they campaign on fixing. The internet is making it harder for them to escape their own decisions.

The US really needs to look back and get rid of some of the people with the more appalling track records. I think there are still people in the US Congress who enthusiastically supported Afghanistan and Iraq. They shouldn't be allowed to tell people what to do any more. It is hard to do worse than that.
Details and analysis : https://at.tumblr.com/ctify/697431685577474049/djq4tlkppe7n
The hutter prize is a competition for compressing Wikipedia:

http://prize.hutter1.net/

So the best algorithm to use from there is starlit, with a compression factor of 8.67, compared to lzma in 2MB chunks which can only achieve about 4:1 compression.
There are false negatives, such as the one mentioned in the post after “A particularly dangerous pitfall with set -e is combining functions with conditionals.”
Now, I'm from a place where HVAC is rare, and thus this sounds like a mold disaster waiting to happen. But is that actually best practice where HVAC is common?
This argument was used against alcohol in the early 1900s, according to Smashing the Liquor Machine.

According to them, US alcohol prohibition was lobbied for, in some part, by the left, because they saw it as exploitation. We saw how that turned out.

The same thing happened in Russia, where the Bolsheviks banned alcohol for a period, under the same justification.

If a policy is known to lead to bad outcomes, it is not a moral policy, no matter the theory behind it.

The left has started to realize this. That's why they now advocate for decriminalization, public health campaigns, and mental health support.
bfloat16 is stable enough for ML training, which is what TPUs exist for
This is one of those laws that you should want to break. I’d rather have energy independence than follow rules.
They have lead, etc. In them. If not properly recycled (they won't be) that'll end up in the environment.
And they cover up and mar the beauty of the land. Maybe that's fine if you live next to a desert.
You can search here:

https://www.happyscribe.com/public

Didn't find Hidden Brain through a quick search, maybe it's there and I didn't have enough patience.

I'd love to know if there are other services similar to happyscribe.com .. anyone know any?

It adds so much value to a podcast to be able to search for words/text and read instead of just listening.

Also, if you want to add your own thoughts to something that was said, with a transcription you can simply make a PDF and attach an annotation or highlight sentences.

If like me, you like to listen to podcasts and take notes and add your own thoughts, and if you have found some handy tools for that or come up with your custom convenient workflows, I'd really like to know.
Oh, and if you are happy to wait days or weeks for your compressed data, Fabrice bellards nncp manages even higher ratios (but isn't eligible for the prize because it's too slow)
KV stores are a complex topic and research continues. Each new tool comes with its own set of trade offs. It would help to go through the documentation.
Good quality prefab panels from eastern Europe installed by incompetent foreign companies with no incentive to stand behind their work result in occasional sob stories here in Switzerland.

You get what you pay for.
The Library page has three identical looking entries, 100gb, 50gb, and 15gb without any explanation about what is or isn't included in each
> The more deeply I think about this topic the more I lose my grasp on reality.

The past is clouded by faulty memory, but the present has crystal clear solidity to ground you through mindfulness. Maybe you can't recall or you misremember the contents of your original post, but you can be certain you're reading a direct reply to it's contents in the words you're reading at this very moment.
In the Japanese translation of Inside Out, the animation was changed to replace broccoli with green peppers. This is obviously not a literal translation. However, the change serves the point of the scene. The point of the scene is to introduce the character Disgust. In Japan, the cultural norm is that kids hate green peppers, so changing the vegetable makes it clearer that the newly introduced character is Disgust.

If the point of the passage was that this character is "a good parent", then getting that point across to American audiences would depend on cultural context. If the point is to describe without judgement, then a more literal translation makes more sense.
Hmmm, so I'm aware that a significant difficulty in normal concrete construction is ensuring that all the concrete gets everywhere it needs to go - and that's with relatively direct access a lot of the time.

I'm also not entirely clear what the saving is here - you still have to get concrete from somewhere to the construction site, to somewhere that presumably already has some local material that could be use instead?

Also if it's just making a box, that's not the problem - people have already have shelter. Where things break down are access to clean water, food, and similar. But I guess those don't sound sexy and so don't get funding.
You forgot to mention that PVC comes from oil, and is a health hazard.
If you had 300ms latency, back when I played League of Legends "your ISP is having problems today and you cannot play".
Anything above 70 is considered very bad
Just for information: you can ask to have it replaced at any station that has human presence
Drugs in pill form don't really expire, they just lose efficacy.
And if stored well it takes a long time.
I cant find it right now but someone found some pills that had been stored like 50 years in sealed containers and testing for the activr ingredient showed they were still like 80% or more good.
It happens for men, just that it is a low conversion rate. The conversion rate is even higher for women who are pregnent or breastfeeding, which makes sense from an natural adaptation point of view. You can also elevate the level of DHA in chicken eggs (up to a point) by feeding the chickens flax seed in their diet. Seems like DHA is nutritious for any young, growing brains.

The key thing about the ALA conversion in women is that you're not going to OD on it. Having too much DHA gives you insomnia (though, that is not such a bad thing if by circumstances, you are already sleep deprived).

I havn't seen any papers on it, but my personal experience is that the ratio of DHA to EPA is also important for mental health. EPA seems to help with smoothing out burnout and protect against spiraling into depression.
Thanks!

Note to self: I really have to get around to reading fundamental papers in the area as opposed to bothering generous HNers :) .
Great, the ultrasonic sensors are about the one thing that works flawlessly on my 2019 Model 3. I hope they don’t get taken away in a future software update like what happened to radar.

I bought this car expecting it to get better with every software update. For a while that was true (auto wipers are much better now, though still mediocre). Lately not so much.
With VMs being able to run the original IBM Warp4 (didn't notice any issues when I tried), not only really really want to run it, but really really want to run it on some bare metal modern hardware.

The $129 are a lot cheaper than $250 in 1995-$, inflation-corrected probably nearly doubled since then. If someone needed it back at that time, today that's a real bargain.
That's a cool link thanks for sharing. Seems pretty thermally efficient and they mentioned being quieter than wood walls. Curious what data they're looking at for "withstanding natural disasters"
edit: okay that was a bit harsher than it needed to be, for internet points. Uh, just maybe don't criticize it without a closer read.
> Nowadays I use Python for complex scripts, but it's not the same as a language with native support for redirection and pipes!

While this is no doubt right, I think you could build a little abstraction that simplified piping syntax considerable. The subprocess module is not terribly convenient, although it has gotten less confusing over the years.

Python does have operator overloading, so you could even make it fancy.
Creating a new favicon for my blog with text-to-image AI
I'm quite surprised that CD-Rs have such a long potential longevity, though I suppose they are only a certain kind (that I almost certainly have never used when I was burning CD-Rs) that are designed to be more durable. It also kind of assumes that they're keeping them in an environment suitable for archival purposes, which does not exist in my home. Still, even the lesser CD-Rs are rated for much longer than what I would have pegged them at, given just how many CD-Rs I have that have already begun deteriorating. Perhaps the ones I was buying in giant spindles weren't advisable for archival use. I've many CD-R that I or friends have burned that have their layering flaking off, making them completely useless, and I'm sure that many people out there do as well, which is why I am skeptical of using them for anything important.

In the end, for people's personal archives, they should certainly follow typical data integrity advice (i.e. the 3-2-1 rule) and also importantly, heavily curating what they choose to hold on to.
Concrete without rebar lacks tensile strength, and Roman concrete is no different. When using materials with insufficient tensile strength, you're severely restricted in the kinds of structures you can build. That's why Roman buildings used so many domes and arches, and why they were massive.

Practical Engineering has a good video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0BB2PRY7k
> That is, just because you can model something mathematically, does not mean that the thing being modeled is the same as doing the math. Falling is not the same as calculating an equation, as it were.

Interesting. The other reply to this, along with its subthread, assumes that "calculating" means "calculated using a digital computer".

Does anyone know what I do in my head when I calculate 4 + 4 is 8? Does anyone know what they do in their own head to calculate 4 + 4? Is that process the same as 2 + 2? as 38 + 153?
How to use VS Code as your Git editor, difftool, and merge-tool
DARPA ERI (Electronics Resurgence Initiative) has promoted chiplet interoperability and included $100M funding for open-source EDA tools, https://www.eetimes.com/darpa-unveils-100m-eda-project/

> With $100 million in funding, the IDEAS and POSH programs ... aim to combat the growing complexity and cost of designing chips, now approaching $500 million for a bleeding-edge SoC. Essentially, POSH aims to create an open-source library of silicon blocks, and IDEAS hopes to spawn a variety of open-source and commercial tools to automate testing of those blocks and knitting them into SoCs and printed circuit boards. If successful, the programs “will change the economics of the industry,” enabling companies to design in relatively low-volume chips that would be prohibitive today.

2017 vision, slide #22, https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/eri_design_proposers_day.p...

My DARPA dream

$ git clone https://github.com/darpa/idea
$ git clone https://github.com/darpa/posh
$ cd posh
$ make soc42

ERI Summit 2019, Intelligent Design of Electronic Assets (IDEA) & Posh Open Source Hardware (POSH), https://youtube.com/watch?v=pJubnAN3VKw

UCSD OpenRoad, https://theopenroadproject.org/ & https://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/Publications/Conferences/378/c378.p...

> OpenROAD is a front-runner in open-source semiconductor design automation tools and know-how. Our project reduces barriers of access and tool costs to democratize system and product innovation in silicon. The OpenROAD tool and flow provide autonomous, no-human-in-the-loop, 24-hour RTL-GDSII capability to support low-overhead design exploration and implementation through tapeout. We welcome a diverse community of designers, researchers, enthusiasts and entrepreneurs who use and contribute to OpenROAD to make a far-reaching impact.

https://semiengineering.com/will-open-source-eda-work/

> All the big EDA providers, as well as leading chip companies, are active contributors to ERI projects. In fact, Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor, NXP, Intel, IBM, Intel, Qualcomm, Arm, Nvidia, Analog Photonics, SRI International and Applied Materials all have contributed speakers and engineers or materials to ERI effort ... the key to getting industry players to accept open-source EDA is whether it makes the design process more efficient without breaking anything—and whether it is possible to extract decades worth of design experience from libraries of millions of existing designs and use that to spot errors in real time in existing designs.
I think you're over complicating it in your head and that's making it difficult for you to see. You need a different perspective. Instead the perspective you need is that you rate each of the candidates and then put that into the system. The system will look at all the ratings and determine which has the highest agreeability as a whole. If you're too focused on your own individual "should" then maybe this is hard. You'll over think how you should play the strategy and game the system to make your preference dominate. But the entire point of cardinal systems is to take this out because we don't want people gaming the system. We just want to find people's preferences and elect candidates that are most representative of the people.

You're having a hard time figuring out "the effect of your vote" because the entire point is for you to not be able to game the system. Obviously no system is immune to strategies and there very much are some here. But they don't have huge effects on the whole election. I mean we don't want to violate the monotonicity criteria.
I've had 2 Android OLED phones now (one Huawei one Samsung) and neither has suffered any degradation in the display... Seems like it's a solvable problem.
Will be interesting to see the benchmarks!

There's a lot of KV engines that uses RocksDB now, like CockroachDB (Forked into PebbleDB though), YugabyteDB and TiDB.

Those are all many times slower than Redis though, so having a middle-ground aimed to be similar to Redis, that doesn't eat all RAM, is very exciting!
yes, but they are counting them, not dreaming them. So the main question remains unanswered.
Does this one finally have video output over USB (AKA DisplayPort Alternate Mode)?

I know Google don't make a good Samsung DeX equivalent of their own but there are third-party apps which can provide a usable experience, and they remain unusable if Pixels still don't have this feature.
You'd also need to clean up the pollution of all the other coal plants, the counterparties to the hundreds and thousands of reactors that didn't explode.

Which we can't do for ~any amount of money, and definitely not for 200 billion.
>The human body is incredibly adaptive

They say this and then don't address the elephant in the room: the huge fall-out rate concerning vegans going ex-vegan.

Additionally, "completely sufficient to sustain the body" is about the lowest barrier to entry one can set. People aren't interested in sustenance alone, even if you take away cultural factors.
And if they were Oracle, he wouldn't have shown up after number 2. This isn't good. If you can't get a measure of someone after two interviews, four more isn't going to cut it.
The emergency services here can get anywhere in the city in eight and a half minutes. Having an eight minute response time inside a building is hardly impressive.
The two are deeply connected. See Iran.
Putting aside the fact that a US court is not a company doing business, the distinction still seems sort of academic. Of course the EU can pass whatever laws they want, but entities doing business with EU citizens, which don't have a presence inside the EU, will be hard to prosecute in EU courts.
I'm waiting for someone to comment that because some programmer was lazy enough to use Go instead of C or C++, Tailscale module takes 16 MB, when the entire CheerpX VM was 6 MB. Just the stack is almost twice as big as the entire VM.

Why is it written in GO when it could have been written in C? Lazy programmers.
Before traveling, yes. During traveling, no it does not make much sense. Especially due to the way health insurance works - it will pay if you get sick but usually not for vaccinations etc.

> To be pro or anti "vaccine" is as meaningless as being pro or anti "software" or "chemical" or "food". Details matter.

We are specifically talking about covid-19 vaccines.

? We are currently in the world's largest, unprecedented scientific experiment, and we are fortunate that the vast majority of participants have been healthy.

You are lying. Practically, it is not experiment.

> Data from the outliers will be studied for decades to come and future generations will honor their sacrifice and contribution to science.

What does that have to do with whether trying to imply vaccines are responsible for Kim Jung Gi? Literally for no reason other then "I want it to and it would confirm my priors".
This is pretty much my stance.

Kids searching for things out of curiosity is no problem...kid has full access to wikipedia and Google search app. Who cares if she sees a private part, especially in some educational context.

Social media is a cancer, and anything that opens them up to random chats and DMs might as well be injecting her brain with a cocktail of insecurity, pedophiles, and dick pics directly.

The internet certainly has its good parts, but most kids today seem more interested(naturally) in the addictive parts.

When she's 18 she can do whatever she wants. And maybe she'll resent me for it. I just hope that she understands I was doing what I thought was best, not being some strict ahole. Time will tell.
Show HN: Krestianstvo SDK 4 – OSS FRP Implementation of Croquet in SolidJS, S.js
Celcius Binance etc are part and parcel of the crypto world, where you like it or not