skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you really 100% for wind turbines then?? Is there a way to make them less harmful to birds? Maybe keeping the speed lower? Maybe putting up some more static installations that keep birds away? (Like, say, bright trailers on the fan blades? Is that a real idea?)
I agree.. Except that, our exploits are so good now that we are not going to be victims of anything. Humans will adapt and continue to expand, we are absolutely not in danger I think.

As for wiping out any other living ecosystem that is not directly in symbiosis with our food production chain, that’s a completely different story, and very likely.

I don’t know if this is less or more sad..
> Video games are like the cheapest way to keep a kid busy for low income working parents

Source on that? Video games (console or pc) is very expensive and not something low income folks can generally afford for their kids.
This article is dated 2012.
I’m inclined to disagree based on antithetical first hand experiences. In fact the only console we ever had growing up, my father smashed in front of us after a year because all he gave a shit about was our grades. When a few classes started slipping he blamed the box.

Also, “associated” is different from “causality”, right?
FZF is awesome but I would hesitate to remap ; as you lose that binding for movement repeat.
Swoon editions
So now people that discover exploits should be bullied and threatened by corporations for asking for more money? Heck, I hope Apple does this so that no one will ever want to use them again.
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Animated movies take years to make.

> The story likely takes place in 1998, though Jacob admits he’s foggy on the exact date.

In 1998 we were living in Internet Time. The amount of stuff that changed from '97 to '98 and from '98 to '99 made people's heads spin. Google incorporated in September of 1998. 56K modems were brand new that year. At the end of 1999 when Toy Story 2 came out, Napster had been out for 5 months, and Java 1.2 was just about to exit from beta into general availability.

People were still introducing each other to WinAmp when they started storyboarding this movie.
That's glib. Do you know much about Mississippi? Do you live there, or have close friends who do?

I live in a neighboring state and it's unthinkable that the people of this state would bring back slavery or segregation. In fact, a much bigger portion of the population here lives amidst people of other races -- break bread with them, celebrate each others' big life events -- compared to certain other states where an attitude like yours about Mississippi is common.
I had the idea that Siri could only recognize "Hey Siri", and after that it would offload the task to Apple's cloud. If it's offline now, it would be great, but I don't see how the ML cores would help. Speech-To-Text is practically solved for most devices, after that you're interacting with a regular chat bot.
You are right that multiplayer arena FPS with a vibrant community is a rarity now. I think the most popular one is Splitgate (sitting at ~600 players ingame on steam right now)[1]. Xonotic seems to be semi popular too but not on Steam if that matters to you.

Part of the problem is many of the modern FPS games have adapted arena FPS features (even Halo now is much faster than it used to be) making it difficult for people to go back to them unless they were deep fans of arena FPS games in the first place.

Ultrakill is a great one for singleplayer though!

[1] https://steamdb.info/graph/?tagid=5547
> buying into all the marketing about it

How much research did you do? Genuinely wondering.
I met someone recently who told me they SLEPT on their way to work in their Tesla. On purpose. They bought the car specifically because they had a very long 2.5 hour commute.

The marketing for this stuff is absolutely liable and as much as I like what Tesla has done for electric cars in general we are one big, massive accident away from this all absolutely blowing up.
It'll suck if you ever lose function to type with your fingers.
Thanks! It's great to have some approaches and terms to structure around and as a bonus you've offer a few glimpses of a world I don't know enough about.

I was hoping there would be an affordable option for programming in place, but the examples I've come across so far seem uncomfortably fragile ( https://flashrom.org/File:DIP_socket_as_SOIC_clip.jpg ), so I guess I am most likely in for reviewing some heat implements and trying to refine my soldering skills on a more expensive board than I'm used to.

Will have to give more consideration to option three in the future, though in principle I appreciate having the access to keep modifying if needed, so maybe more importantly be more careful with the hardware selection.
TristanB9 of SF by chance - that’d be a blast from the past! At any rate - Hmm. Know loads of people with Teslas and never heard of anyone going over 10 minutes on AP unless it’s just down a single lane of interstate or something. What kind of 5 hour trips are you doing?
I've pondered that, but why did the energy shock kill everything?

Prices came down, even with stagflation, things got better.
> how much dead weight the team was carrying in students who participated in the middle school Lego league, who did not have even the basic coding/engineering skills to make any contribution to the high school team other than paying the membership dues

That kind of just sound like middle school. The clubs and sports I was involved in were things I was very bad at.
Short of being drunk, it's pretty difficult to go to prison for killing someone in a car, even if you were driving like a moron.
It's definitely funny. Save the paternalism for your kids

Don't run random shell commands you find in the comment section folks.
PyTorch Lightning on Paperspace
Handle beer?
I’ve found that the same games I was playing around that age are actually still fun - Commodore 64 games. Basic, non-distracting graphics and simple joystick controls make things easy for young kids.
I filed an issue for Scala in 2009, that was answered like "sorry, this particular Java code cannot be used in Scala". In 2012 it still wasn't fixed.

I cannot find the issue now, but I remember I was trying to use gae-mapreduce-java library (built on top of Hadoop interfaces). It couldn't compile with Scala.
User mapping is now a standard feature in Kubernetes, so escape vulnerabilities aren't so much an issue anymore. Additionally, you can use gVisor.
> Doing away with the Electoral College and going for a direct democracy is a recipe for disaster. Direct democracy does not work on a large scale.

This is a talking point that doesn't make any sense. Electing the president and vice president by popular vote is not "direct democracy". It is how virtually every other representative democracy with a presidential system elects their executive leaders.
Because the number of variables, an experienced human driver has to be ready to make decisions that they can't specifically train for. What AI can reach that deep?

I once had a few seconds to choose between 1) a multi-vehicle collision at 60mph with oncoming vehicles in both lanes that had a steep up-hillside to their right (one was a gasoline tanker), and 2) getting my vehicle stopped on a two-foot shoulder with a long steep 45-degree down-hillside next to it (no guard rail). I would NOT have wanted computer assistance, thanks anyway.
If you can't get over one broken form you simply aren't cut for the job.

I guess the good people will just have to go work for one of the 20 other companies who will hire them based on a personal introduction and a couple of reasonable interviews instead then.

Two of the most reliable indicators I have ever found for places I wouldn't want to work are employers who think they're special and only want to hire true believers who agree and employers whose HR and/or legal teams manage to create so much unnecessary friction in the recruitment process alone that it's actively difficult to work with them even if the people doing the useful work there would want to make the hire. These behaviours seem to be quite accurate predictors of poor working environments for those who do get hired in the end.
If you are worried about IME you may want to check if your laptop or desktop has Intel VPro with KVM enabled. Much bigger real world threat. It can also have some very very cool uses though for remote management. Sometimes VPro needs a separate Bios update - make sure you do this and if you do keep it enabled make SURE you set a good password.
So then users experience will be poor due to the slowness and non-standard implementation. A better solution IMO would be to provide a container with SSH access.
Have you looked at any of the Pi clones like the Orange Pi?

Also if you're building these IoT things at scale, have you looked at the more simple/cheap chips like an ESP32?

Obviously I ask without context for what you're doing, but also as an amateur hobbiest who's not even sure which board I should use for my own minor project after Raspberry Pis became unobtainable.
Hmmm, tax dodge? If you can get away with claiming a donated value for your car of $X, on your taxes, and you can only get $Y for it at trade-in, could you have a $Y sufficiently less than $X such that you get more back in your taxes than you would from the trade-in?
Thomas didn't just single out Obergefell. He also mentioned Lawrence v Texas, which overturned sodomy laws.

And Griswold, which lets you pay for birth control with your own money. It says nothing about the public paying for it.
Or actuall Tesla has a great legal department. I am definitely not happy how they pitch Autopilot/FSD, but if you check all the wording, the small print, carefully, there are no fraudulent claims.
Ask HN: Does anyone have experience with GS-441524?
My friend’s cat was diagnosed with feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) today and he asked me to do some research about it.

I have seen some conflicting information about it, namely one site will say “There is no treatment and it is universally fatal” and another site says “It’s actually curable, you just need to buy this non-FDA approved compound and administer it yourself.”

I’ve also seen its sourcing being described as “black market” which is quite confusing. Does this mean this stuff is illegal (in the US)? If it is legal, is there a good way to figure out if a supplier is legitimate?

If there is in fact a safe and viable cure to an otherwise fatal disease in cats, I find it mind boggling that it doesn’t appear to be readily available to veterinarians.
My only usage of it is as a push-button dictionary/translator, "define x", "how do you say x in Spanish". For every other use I've found it extremely limited, you have to ask the right questions, otherwise it defaults to a web search on my wife's phone, even if she's not in the room.

How, after all these years, is it still so stunted? There are Telegram bots with better interaction.
Replace them with who is the real question. The pay is garbage, especially in already struggling schools in poor commmunities. So many great potential teachers leave to get far better paying jobs in any number of industries, and that leaves lots of bad teachers as the only qualified candidates that want the job.
I use it constantly for brainstorming ideas and thinking out loud. Very rough first drafts of essays, stuff like that.

Basically whenever I just want to get my thoughts out and I'll be the only person reading it, so I don't worry about typos because I can always figure out what I meant.

It's a godsend in terms of speed. I type fast but my brain still goes faster. But I definitely speak faster than I can think.

It only works privately in an office or at home though, obviously. Not helpful on the subway.
Sigh. The correct way is to

1) Disable System Integrity Protection

2) Delete Time Machine and associated files

3) Run sudo rm -rf /

Now your Apple mail will be optimized and it will run faster.
If it is hosted on AWS the bandwidth of distributing the images is likely more than the cost of the compute.
The core of this extension's content script is this:

function handleText(textNode)
{
var v = textNode.nodeValue;

v = v.replace(/\bAI\b/g, "BS");
v = v.replace(/Artificial Intelligence/g, "BS That Doesn't Exist Yet");
v = v.replace(/Artificial intelligence/g, "BS That Doesn't Exist Yet");
v = v.replace(/artificial Intelligence/g, "BS That Doesn't Exist Yet");
v = v.replace(/artificial intelligence/g, "BS That Doesn't Exist Yet");

v = v.replace(/\bML\b/g, "IF");
v = v.replace(/\bMachine Learning\b/g, "IF Statements");
v = v.replace(/\bMachine learning\b/g, "IF Statements");
v = v.replace(/\bmachine learning\b/g, "IF Statements");

v = v.replace(/\Deep Learning\b/g, "Linear Algebra");
v = v.replace(/\Deep learning\b/g, "Linear Algebra");
v = v.replace(/\deep learning\b/g, "Linear Algebra");

textNode.nodeValue = v;
}

It does exactly what the manifest description says, nothing more.
As someone who, years ago, spent a little time with an RC flight simulator, I think I followed it.
I also think we're doomed, but I still go to my job and act normalish.
It's surreal. It's a topic that just isn't brought up in polite company, which reminds me of that 'Don't Look Up' movie.
> It's probably "slow" because of sdl and cgo not native Go code

The other languages are also using SDL via their respective interacting-with-C interfaces - what makes Go special here?
I was speaking to a high school teacher who said students come through her computer classes now having no idea how to type or use desktop operating systems because they're the first generation who have largely, and almost exclusively, been on iPad's and phones.
Banks Begin to Fund $13B in Debt Backing Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
I think PyPy runs under Rosetta on M1, so the overhead is probably from that.
Video gaming is massively better than mindless "content" watching because it has the perception-thinking-action feedback loop. On the other hand, I have little hope about gaming in the today's society: the pressure to make money will select the most addictive type of gaming that's going to be even worse than mindless watching (slot machines in casino?)

Btw, what does "associated with better outcomes" really mean? It means that in a large sample of lab rats, 10% demonstrated a sudden spike of activity, 40% didn't react and 50% slided into depression. The study gave each outcome a score and found that the average score is slightly positive, so readers are encouraged to think that all the lab rats had this outcome. After the study got completed, those 10% of the rats got suicidal and died within a week, but studying that was outside the scope of the study.
I think having parents who can help you develop a growth mindset is awesome and something generally reserved for upper/middle class parents. The part where your mind grows comes from practicing. So practicing video games is the same as practicing sports or instruments, the games encourage you to keep pushing yourself in the same way that a coach or teacher would.
I haven't had that experience. Literally any tweet I've seen that has more than five comments has at least one toxic comment (or just some insane barely-related crypto rant).

Reddit, by comparison, has subreddits that are heavily modded and have no toxic comments at all. There is no heavily modded part of Twitter, unless I suppose you use it as a private social network and everyone you interact with is set to private.
Right... you previously listed a home library catalog, local GIS data, motion capture for what, a home Nest device? You should have mentioned you need a solution for CERN collider data or that you have a collider at home for more relevant answers.
Because I passed through the education system? Because I managed to hold other jobs previously?

Hopefully you were joking, but it does seem like over and over you're required to go to the trouble of running little experiments on claims for which there already exist ample evidence in well-documented parts of my life.
Sam Zeloof’s project is the exact one I had in mind when writing my comment. His work is extremely impressive, but it’s almost shameful that for over 40 years (collective) we as hobbyists have not had the ability to manufacture even something as simple as a 4004. May Sam’s work progress, and may we all build on his success.

> I've thought about this, more in the context of post-apocalyptic computing rather than trust, FWIW.

Post-apocalyptic computing is one possible motivation to look at this, but other reduced-tech settings like a fully independent Mars colony also simply cannot function without a way to fab simple IC logic. That, or we’re happy to go back to early Apollo era tech levels.

RE: computers from scratch in the absence of IC fabrication. I think our best chance is vacuum tubes. Mechanical relay computers seem to have been phased out in favour of vacuum tube solutions pretty quickly, so I guess there must have been some compelling reasons to do so (my guess - speed and failure rate of individual switching components). Couple that with old-school electromechanical tech for IO/industrial sequencing, several K of delay line/core/Williams Tube memory, and you’re golden.
My camp? Fuck off with that. No one's in my camp - especially not radicals like you.

I'm not going to argue with you on vaccine effectiveness, because that's actually not my point. I'm not afraid of people discussing the effectiveness of vaccines - I'm certain the correct opinion will win out.

What I am afraid of is the cruelty of political radicals - which this issue has created in excess.

During the pandemic, people in my corporate slack channels were GLEEFULLY fantasizing about all the vaccine deniers that were going to be fired due to Bidens executive order. This behaviour is terrifying, and anyone who carries this out is reprehensible. Even a moron is a person and has rights.

And the fact that you don't see this as the actual issue is evidence you're still possessed by this nonsense. I posted a snarky sarcastic comment about government suppression and you're talking about vaccines.
>They chose not to fail them.

In Europe this isnt even a possibility. If you pass students without teaching them your school gets audited by state commission.
Why did you say "what we call" in reference to the Vietnam war?

Is there another name for it? Besides the obvious name of whatever the "enemy" called it at the time?
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic: The Great American Novelty
Lenovo has a pretty storied history with this sort of thing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...
Article is from 2021 so yeah definitely an earlier AI generated model. There's been a lot of advancement in 2022.
It can be real pressure cooker. Developers who come in not from the game development world are often shocked by the brutal hours. The artists have it the worst however. They tend to get laid off in droves as productions ramps down. Directors and writers also get fired. They seem to be less immune to being punished than other management types in more traditional software companies.
It doesn’t appear to even handle the case when they separate. It’s something different.
A term you may be interested in is "weaponized incompetence".

https://www.theskimm.com/wellness/weaponized-incompetence

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/weaponized-incompeten...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/weaponized-incompetence-women...
I credit RuneScape with teaching me the value of delayed gratification and basic economics. I credit competitive Halo 3 with teaching me team building and strategy skills. I credit StarCraft with training my mind to travel at warp speed.

Honestly. My video game experience was instrumental to my success so far in life. This is not surprising to me.
I mainly use my phone for three things:

1. Pleco

2. Wechat

3. Kindle app

Pleco (a dictionary) and Kindle (an ebook reader) work fine offline. Why wouldn't they?

Wechat, of course, can't do anything offline, because it's communication software. It is not even clear what "use wechat offline" would mean.

Android itself obviously works equally well whether you're connected to the Internet or not. What do you mean by becoming "almost a brick"?
Me, all day pretty much.
Related, this could be what happened to Mars: https://www.space.com/mars-microbes-triggered-climate-chance...

I think we're looking at a future with far less humans, but not one without humans. The poles will warm and become comfortable, the oceans will warm and bring humidity, bringing the tropics north, as they once were.

Life, and humans, will carry on with their never ending struggle.

I think the only end to humans could be political, but even then, humans would be just fine, even with a nuclear war. Nobody will be nuking the Papuans who live in the forests of Papua New Guinea or the random farmer who lives out in the middle of nowhere in the midwest.
> Direct democracy does not work on a large scale.

It maybe could with smart use of modern technologies, revocable proxies, and..., but that’s irrelevant because “adopt direct democracy for the US” is not even among the top 10 proposed alternatives to the current setup of the Electoral College.
> Something I find interesting about this discussion is that Rust seems to be held to a significantly higher standard than any other language developed in the last 30 years.

It's not. Rust lags way behind the standards help for decades by languages which the Rust community repeatedly claims Rust is supposed to replace. Rust has in no way, shape or form anything resembling an effort to specify it's core language and standard library in an international standard. Standards are critical because they are objective, clear, and well thought through specifications of how the language works now and anywhere, including and specially clean room implementations.

> I don't think I've ever seen someone lament that Swift or Go or Typescript or Dart or $ANY_LANG don't have an ISO spec.

Most of the top programming languages already are specified in international standards. Including JavaScript.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages...

Also, all of your examples, arguably with the exception of Go, are still in very early and unstable development stages, with projects repeatedly introducing breaking changes. If even the language designers don't make up their minds over what goes into it then we can't really talk about stability.
And the radioactivity problem (amongst the acid rain problem, the CO2 problem, the smog problem and the miner's health problems)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
alternatively: https://archive.ph/S3AiA
I don't think we're doomed as people seem to think. Things will change and we will react accordingly. Life might get worse but it will be hard for it be any worse than it has been for the majority of human existence.
Hydrogen...? Gonna have to live real energy-cheap though. Not much heating/cooling, good insulation, less bathwater, less appliance use, as little driving as possible. Honestly relieved that computer and internet use is lower on the list, but eventually that too.
Mark is facing innovator dilemma. Should he pivot the company to a new field while he still has funds or just wait until the zombification finishes his baby off? Maybe the way he chose is not optimal, maybe Reality Labs should be completely ambidextrous without any link to FB outside funding?
But what percentage of those people are playing as anything other than a lark? I might go to the casino one time every three years. I can guarantee I am utilizing a sub optimal strategy