skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tldr: the world seems fine, but it could have been so much better if we would have taken advantage of nuclear power.
In my opinion the real issue is that all ppl (me included) are incompetent to an incomprehensible degree.
No, not really. There is sensing tube (which terminates on the sensor) and a venting tube (which lets the air flow through). This is the same technique used in other similar commercial instruments. You can see both tubes in the assembly instructions: https://github.com/jcard0na/haxo-hw/blob/main/docs/assembly....
This guy's history in this thread alone is crazy. Racist is an understatement
I support you brother
Before airBNB I used to rent cabins quite often on the California coast where you would probably spend $350-$500 for a weekend. That amount right now is just the cleaning fee. Maybe better for owners and airBNB to have fewer guests who pay more but it sucks for consumers.
The vast majority of drinkers should be kept away from children.

The drinking brits would like to know how you came to that conclusion.
WipEout HD on the PS3 managed to get super stable 60FPS at 1080p. It dynamically scales the horizontal rendering resolution for every frame and then scales it to 1920 pixels using hardware. So the resolution might vary a bit but at that framerate and such speeds in races it's not noticeable. The controls were super smooth at any speed, only achievement popups caused the whole game to freeze for half a second.
See Reolink+Neolink, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33091698
Web3 for data preservation? (Or is it just another expensive P2P?)
That is a good point, remote work could provide an opportunity to move for those only in CA for the economic opportunities. But I would assume many will continue to be willing to pay a premium to live in CA.
Now at 86.4M... almost tripple Biden's follower number.
Running an exchange out of the Bahamas that has never been audited is a major one.

Of course, neither have 90% of their competitors.

8% yield for customer deposits is another one.
My favourite solution to water scarcity is water traps. It seems like such an amazingly simple concept with underrated potential:

Make sure that whatever water rains down in a place stays long enough to nudge the micro-climate in the right direction - by digging some water barriers in the right places.

While it cannot possibly(?) solve water shortages everywhere it can turn some deserts green:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39QHprz-x8
I blame hacker culture, were to gain with little input effort, aka a parasitic existence is cherished. Its prevalent in lots of places now, including the financial sector, were leveraging is more important then long term investment. The good thing though is, its self destructive, and the resulting riots will know who they want to take it out on.
I’m reminded of the moral panic my parents generation had around televisions.

And their parents generation had over serialized plays on the radio.

And several generations removed, the panic over the printing press.
I use a Reolink camera, my one supports a standard video stream or jpeg output accessible via a url on the device itself, no cloud required (though they’re iOS app presumably uses cloud for its connectivity, but it’s optional to use the apps). Combined with a Tailscale node in the house could provide external access without open ports.
One could say that providing Python modules is an OS concern as well.

Debian IMHO has the worst take on that (see the venv module).

Pyenv definitely solves it, but I talked about an officially supported solution.
How I fixed Mopac and why it had it coming – The importance of bug reports
With text content, most frames are exactly the same. So what adaptive sync can do is delay a refresh until just after the content has been updated. At a minimum, it can delay a refresh when an update is currently being drawn, which would lower the max latency.
> Standard of living is very high.

Yeah, if you're willing to look the other way and lock your car doors in literally the most unequal country in the world: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coef...

And since you're also a Saffer, I don't need to say anything about the daily threat from crime, and how everyone lives basically in a castle with electric fences. Do you have electric fences and private security? Of course, just like all the other white people in South Africa. Afrikaans was my first language, I know how it is over there.

Sorry but I'm going to have to disagree about "brilliant place to live", having lived in so many countries (including Poland, Czechia, Germany, NZ, England, ...).
“a detailed list of tweaks and bug fixes I would make to the Twitter UI”
Near 100%. If you look at the binwalk output in his later posts you can clearly see certificates as one of the first things in the binary. I’ll be shocked if this guy ever actually gets his own firmware to run here.
> Adaptive sync can only delay drawing, never make it happen sooner.

That’s a matter of perspective. If your goal is to crank out frames at exactly 60 Hz (or 120 Hz or whatever), then, sure, you can’t send frames early and you want to avoid being late. But this seems like a somewhat dubiously necessary goal in a continuously rendered game and a completely useless goal in a desktop UI. So instead the goal can be to be slightly late for every single frame, and then if you’re less late than intended, fine.

Alternatively, one could start compositing at the target time. If it takes 0.5ms, then the frame is 0.5ms late. If it goes over and takes 1ms, then the frame is 1ms late.
>Standard of living is very high.

Ignoring the obvious massive disparity you are glossing over here I have perhaps a less antagonistic question.

Do you have to spend a lot on security? Some of these houses look like compounds with wire fences and huge gates etc.

I’m remember the coverage of the Pistorious trial showing all that etc.
> Heck, even pornhub shows you different content in different countries... at least a friend told me so.

This is true, and even more fine grained. All content driven industries optimize their delivery to target audiences.
That is some pretty disturbing comment.
That sounds more along the lines of "all crypto is a scam" than something that you can write a news story about. I'm not going to deny it isn't shady (I don't use them for that reason), but at best the only thing you can write for this is something like

"the exchange has drawn criticism for being domiciled in the Bahamas and not being audited"

but that might be tough. To my knowledge there wasn't significant criticism around before the crash (unlike with Tether, for instance). People seemed to be largely okay with the state of affairs, or the people who weren't okay and went to Coinbase/Gemini/Kraken.
I always thought that Apple ][ + was as good as it gets. It's been downhill from there, for Apple and for the rest of us.
No. Some 4090s had issues with power connectors. The 4090 does not support NVLink (though there is evidence that they were designed with the capability).
One would hope that knowledge not to trust others financial schemes would take hold quickly. It’s easier to scam people who implicitly trust you.
That is dumping it in the sea, which creates a new set of problems.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2190929-growth-of-desal...
Bots?
the CEO of FTX stole his customers funds, nothing to do with crypto, nothing to do with reporters
Yeah they came with and were not successful in their job searching, had to go back.
Depends on how you use it.

A few years ago I used to have an IDE template that was like

// TODO ($username $date)

It was great and a central part of my work flow. I'd just leave them in the code whenever I saw something that needed fixing or could be improved, and every once in a while I'd just grep for this string and get my todos.

Some stuff was urgent, some was to be fixed later. Some never got fixed, but because it was all timestamped, it was easy to identify and clear those out. Also saved my coworkers the git annotate archeology to figure out who wrote the TODO and if they wanted additional context.

This flow felt extremely productive. Being able to just drop these when you think of something reduces the context switching. It also becomes an implicit bookmark as to the code the remark applies to (unlike jiras that are typically not well integrated into the code). Creating a jira is either an expensive context switch, or something you postpone and typically forget when you're done with the task and even if you don't, you've wasted a lot of cognitive energy keeping this in the back of your head all day.
We're well aware that people like Elon and yourself what his daughter dead. I guess you're celebrating today!
The later posts show binwalk output and there are certs at the top of the binary. He’s never getting his own firmware to run. Fun hobby project for him I’m sure though.
Can we at least stop posting these dating articles written almost exclusively by straight women? There’s literally nothing new here from these gals - they whine about their own lack of initiation and fear of rejection rather than overcoming it like the overwhelming majority of men have to.

These articles offer no nuance or substance compared to the last. The woman here has many options (literally talking to ten different men at once!) but refuses to go forward with any. This is the crux of many of the articles. The girl and all her friends are hoping for the white 6’3” huge cock multi-millionaire intellectual adonis to fall into their lap and beg her to date him. I know a lot of these women IRL and they become spinsters because they keep holding out while they go past 30, 35, and then past 40. Some eventually fall prey to their baby panic and actually just marry the nearest guy to them and pop out a baby within 2 years of meeting the guy. Unfortunately, divorce follows a bit too often after.

The funny thing though is that it’s still worse for men. The number of single and never married men compared to then number of single and never married women only gets worse as you age - even though men kill themselves >4x the ratio of women and are born 5-7% more often. No, women are still the victims… always.
They kept the tone knob, though.
Zero Energy Cost Fresh Water. How do they do that?
Forth is even more "down to the metal" than lisp, but yes I agree it is quite impressive.
Ridiculous_coding for Godot
> anyone could have decided to buy bitcoin when it was cheap

Wrong; the vast majority of people were unaware of bitcoin, and how its emission worked, in the first 4 years when half of all bitcoin was emitted and it was still relatively cheap.
I have a feeling it's just the effect of being an expat. The reason I think that is I recall an Irish friend who went to the UK (from NZ where we both lived at the time) and commented his surprise that the English were the friendliest people he'd ever met.
Is this something for your own use or for others to sign up and use?

A couple of ways to send yourself some simple notifications included services like Gotify or nfty.sh. You'd still have to put together any type of scrapping you want/ need, but either of those (or others) would handle the notification aspect with a simple http push.
That was true of solar power 20 years ago, too. But eventually, we got there.

We will probably get there with carbon capture too.

Though I do agree, we should focus more heavily on nuclear power now, because it is much closer to ready-for-prime-time than carbon capture.

Still, I think that carbon capture is an excellent future technology for the production of carbon-neutral liquid fuels. Liquid fuels are super great, and they can be made into a very clean portable power source through the use of nuclear power and carbon capture tech.
lol. I just love casual racism on HN.
> The precise technical details of how SWRO works are not critical to this analysis, but a summary is presented here.

Yeah. This blog post spends a lot of words on the idea of large-scale desalination, but it's closer to a child's blueprint of a spaceship than even a rough proposal for a viable engineering project.

The Carlsbad Desalination Plant near San Diego was completed a few years ago and is now operational. It is the largest, most technologically-advanced and energy-efficient desalination plant in the United States. It is approximately the best we can do right now for large-scale desalination.

It cost about $1 billion to construct, about $50 million per year to operate, and produces about 150 acre-feet of fresh water per day.

"Stage 1" from this blog post proposes to produce multiple millions of acre-feet of freshwater.

All of the costs in the blog post are off by a couple orders of magnitude.
AI image generator simulates synesthesia with the Teenage Engineering OP-Z
Is schadenfreude not your favorite flavor of ice cream?
"Could" eh? Seems like an enormous risk and expense just for a "could" doesn't it? I'd like to see some verified proof that it WILL yield enough geothermal energy to power Earth before we start. "Could" isn't good enough.
Yeah, kept china, japan, south-korea and Hong Kong down. 3 generations later, they still suffer. The atrocities were real, the explanation power for current day missery diminishes rapidly.

My prefered theory is that human capital stays valuable even through crisis and that it pays of to be the direct cold conflict zone for two super powers, who then prop you up.
This sounds like a silly straw man. Here, I am an environmentalist and I would enjoy living in such a city.
> No evidence of that

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/07/13/1111341161/how-trumps-will-be...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHhB1ZMV_o
While it would be interesting to play with analog keyswitches, it would depart from the experience of a real sax, where the "half pressed" key is of not much use. And it would dramatically increase the complexity of the design.

But the full design is published, just in case anyone wants to try :)
It is a good point although I wonder how much of the top 0.5% simply employees with big paychecks or are employers and business owners who are personally invested in real estate and companies that are based in the state. While some do things like establishing residency in Nevada for example it can be a challenge.
I've become a proponent of OtEL tracing in recent months having used it successfully to diagnose some performance issues in multi-language, multi-service systems. I've found it also useful in single-process scenarios where heavy use of "async" prevails. Async-ish things (Kotlin coroutines and Scala futures in this particular case) make it hard to reason about the linear behavior of code using traditional debugging tools, I find. Disclosure: I've also made a couple of very small contributions to the project.
> Intel's NetBurst (Pentium 4) wasn't great, so they brought something old back, made improvements, made it dual core, and we had the Intel Core Duo.

Core was based on the mobile-focused Pentium-M design from their Israeli team. That lineage traces back to the Pentium III but both the Pentium-M and Core designs had significant modifications so I wouldn’t describe it as bringing something old back — more like admitting that the NetBurst big gamble had failed and they switched to a design more like what everyone else was making. The P4 was kind of interesting as Intel’s second bust around the turn of the century based on a design which tried to hit higher performance assuming everyone had access to highly-sophisticated compilers and would use them carefully. As with Itanium, I do wonder whether anything would have been different if they’d open sourced icc – the profits weren’t significant and while that could have benefited AMD, I doubt that would have outweighed two major flops.
I skimmed the article so sorry in advance if I missed it, but to me one fairly trivial way to gauge whether AlphaZero has human-like conceptual understanding of chess would be to throw a few games of Fischer random at it.

I remember with Deepminds breakout AI one very easy way to see the difference to human play was to change the shape of the paddle. Even very slight changes completely threw the AI off, so it was obvious it hadn't understood the 'breakout ontology' in a human way.

I'd expect the same from chess. Humans who understand chess at a high level well obviously play worse in non-standard variants but the familiar concepts are still in play. If an AI has a human-like grasp of high level concepts it ought to be pretty robust to some changes to the game rules like changing the dimensionality of the board.
The time taken to update text should be negligible on any modern hardware.
Early usage of TVs consisted in living the tv set turned on constantly, which in the hindsight was insane. With time, we learned to « master » the technology that was put in our hands. Much along the lines of what this article points out.
That part is true, but things like that are usually not too bad by themselves. For example, you can use open source tensorflow to access files on Google's internal filesystem with tf.io.gfile.

It's possible other infra is somewhat hairy to decouple, for example the code they use to allocate and use GPU resources is internal.

(I work on ML at Google and we use some of Deepmind's stuff)
Yeah desalination itself is a solved problem now we have solar power what is not a solved problem is the waste remediation. Brine is a real problem that needs solving somehow before massive global desalination efforts can take place.
> Have they ever tried to emigrate? And if yes, why are they still there?

Because, while crime is high, and power is intermittent, it is not bad enough to make me give up my 700sqm house on a 2000sqm plot in a (somewhat safe) suburb close to everything, to live elsewhere in about a quarter of the space.

Every time I look at emigrating I face a large drop in my standard of living if am in a similar role in any high-paying area in the US or UK.
This web design reminds me a lot of when Apple "bravely" removed the 3.5mm AUX jack from the iPhone. Everyone scorned and mocked their simplified design, then copied it a year later. However, I don't know if there's anything equivalent to forcing companies to make better Bluetooth headsets in this case - maybe making people appreciate big fonts more?
People do, but it's hard to get out. There are monetary controls, so you have to break the law to get your money out. You will also end up with very little once the exchange rate and fees are covered. So you will take a huge haircut on standard of living. But the standard of living in South Africa is something of an illusion anyway with horrific crime, a corrupt and incompetent government that confiscates private property, a jobs market heavily biased against people of non-African descent (very strong affirmative action), rolling blackouts, etc. My grandparents opted to stay and they did pretty much live out their days in relative comfort in their own house - but rarely saw their children or grandchildren.

Source: my parents are from South Africa
Until 2012-2013, we met at Internet Cafe to play LAN games with my high school friends. It was not common to carry your PCs in our culture but a lot of folk went to cafes to play Age of empires, counter strike, middle earth, generals. Then came non-LAN games. And we started to not meet. I still miss those days with almost zero latency.
Fast, cheap, heavy ordnance. Pick two.
The Selfie Trick: Networking for People with Bad Memory
Yeah in hindsight I’m probably not. Probably my own bias of 1) hearing from people that online communication just isn’t the same 2) my own struggle with eye contact 3) being American.
That article is trash. The link to the study doesn't even work.
Thanks! Yes, I plan to eventually sell it. I’m debating with myself between doing a shareware model where it’s perpetually free with the occasional nudges to buy a license or a more straight forward trial plus $30-50 license. Probably the latter would be more sustainable.
Specifying language versions is planned.

Versions are locked using devenv.lock and everyone gets the same version.
Turns out, lots of people want to follow Trump.

He was always very popular amongst people who aren't welcome on places like HN (which is why he seems so deeply unpopular and yet gets so many votes and overflows so many stadiums)

Also turns out lots of folks like to follow Trump who really hate him because he supplies them with content by saying lots of exciting things to react to.
Experts do not understand Khan Academy (2020)
Just to add some numbers. So you can make your own conclusions:

Total Tesla's sold in 2021: 935,950

Toyota Corollas sold: 1,1 million

Toyota RAV4: 1 million

All Toyota's sold in the US 2021: 2,2 million

Worldwide Toyota sales in 2021: 10,5 million

VW group EV sales in 2021: 452,900

Total EVs sold worldwide 2021: 6,9 million

Sources: Google results
Why would an invasion be necessary there? If the US government does not accept USDX as payment for taxes, there remains a foundational difference between USDX and a real USD.
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It’s possible to implicitly filter your population, like in the hospital example given on the wiki page.

Any situation where you make assumptions about the population could cause Berkson’s paradox.

The Ellenberg example on the wiki page is a classic situation. Less attractive people are filtered out of the dating pool due to standards. This is reasonable, but it creates Berkson’s paradox.

It’s often hard to realize this is happening.
Xbox System link was a thing, for a time.

Xbox Live and co. was probably the real death knell of LAN.
Seems like a neat little tool. I've always found Confluent Platform to be slow, clunky and overkill. Any plans for Windows?
Earlier this year it seemed like all the Tesla owners in my village in the UK overnight got rid of them and bought Polestars.
No I genuinely derive joy from seeing others, be it individuals or entire nations, do well.

I’m not perfect of course, so sometimes I do feel schadenfreude. But I never mistake it for a good thing, but rather a sign of my own imperfection.
That house is probably much more guarded that the one they set on fire, which was a museum.
> I've always wondered what's wrong with my continent.

It's a source of raw materials for powers outside of your continent, who pour money and arms into the hands of the cliques most willing and able to get those materials out of the country at the lowest price.

Any hint that a resource-cursed country wants to reign in its elites, regulate its environment or labor, or negotiate better prices is replied to with a torrent of funds directed to the people most willing to murder the reformers.