skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The society with the most cyclists disagrees with you. I'm confident their bike safety record is better than countries with mandatory helmet laws.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dutch+cyclists+don%27t+wear+...

Your argument that you're safer with a helmet might be true but you're probably being hypocritical in that there are plenty of things you do in life where you'd be safer with a helmet were you don't personally wear a helmet. Apparently you'd be ok if the government forced you to where a helmet at all times except sleeping because by the same argument, it's safer to walk with a helmet than without therefore there should be a law requiring it
I just filled out a piece of paper to register to vote, mailed it in, and then when I showed up at my polling place I signed next to my name on the voter roles. Post covid they they just mail you a ballot now and you mail it back or take it to a drop box. If you want to vote in person you take your mail-in ballot and surrender it and they give you a regular ballot.
> Why couldn't we find a few kg for NASA missions?

It's not a technical problem, but a bureaucratic dispute. NASA has been getting the Pu essentially for free, but the DoD/AEC made it as a byproduct.

Now they don't anymore, and would like NASA's budget to pay for its manufacturing.

NASA has decided it's not worth the money, and as a result is only using Pu power for missions that really need it, such as the large Mars rovers.
I think the difference is one of introducing all the jargon and acronyms and vocabulary for something like "culture of continuous improvement" vs. actually implementing it.

It's easy to talk. It's easy to convice yourself that talking and ceremony == doing. But it's the doing that matters.
This could well be an issue with 'snap', see earlier thread on the subject.
But this organization hasn't been caught fabricating information, unless I'm misreading the thread. You're saying that organizations with similar political ideologies (that you disagree with) have fabricated information, so I can dismiss this source due to their ideological association with distrusted organizations.

How is that a reasonable way of thinking? Unless you're one of those people that assume "All Republicans/Democrats/Libertarians/Communists are lying thieves, except members of $MYPARTY."
Note that there are two caveats.

For one, only continuous functions can be represented.

Much more importantly, the theorem doesn't prove that it's possible to learn the necessary weights to approximate any function, just that such weights much exist.

With our current methods, only a subset of all possible NNs are actually trainable, so we can only automate the construcion approximations for certain continuous functions (generally those that are differentiable, but there may be exceptions, I'm not as sure).
Same. I just rewatched deep impact recently too so I picked somewhere off the east coast.
You’d only get kicked out for your conduct, like stepping up to the mic and singing some lyrics about gay stuff that grosses everybody out.

We have a long history of having gays not being a protected class, so you can see from ten years ago how realistic your concerns are.
Continuing the theme of the article, there is no evidence that peroxide or whatever else they put in those kits works any better than lukewarm water. But peroxide is definitely more dangerous if you have an ear injury. I highly recommend just going with the water.

Also, it's definitely possible to rupture your eardrum with a squeeze bulb too. Given how incredibly loud it sounds when you do it, I bet it can damage your hearing even if you don't rupture your eardrum. Furthermore if you're doing it yourself there is no way to know if you've actually cleaned everything out or you need to do it harder, so you just have to go for it until you get tired. I find it exceedingly unpleasant.

My approach is to use an endoscope designed for earwax cleaning. Works great and (in the absence of reliable evidence) it seems to me to be the least risky way to do it since I can see exactly what I'm doing and know when I'm done. I highly recommend getting one, preferably the fiber optic kind rather than electronic, for latency and reliability reasons. They make them in Japan.
Related discussion from only 7 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31168646

1038 points, 323 comments
They are quite willing to attack others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Peo...

Just looking at the number of wars that the PRC has been involved in:

1950 : Invades and Annexes Tibet

1950 - 1953 : Assists North Korea and invades South Korea

1954 : Attempted to invade Taiwan

1958 : Attempted to invade Taiwan

1962 : Sino-Indian War

1967 : Nathu La and Cho La clashes

1979 : Sino-Vietnam War

2017 : China-India border standoff

2020-2021: China-India clashes

You also claim that FOGBANK records were destroyed to cover up for lawsuits, Wikipedia does not have anything relating to that.
>Manufacture involves the moderately toxic, highly volatile solvent acetonitrile, which presents a hazard for workers (causing three evacuations in March 2006 alone).

Acetonitrile may be poison but has been used in public product very recently:
>It has been used in formulations for nail polish remover, despite its toxicity. At least two cases have been reported of accidental poisoning of young children by acetonitrile-based nail polish remover, one of which was fatal.[23] Acetone and ethyl acetate are often preferred as safer for domestic use, and acetonitrile has been banned in cosmetic products in the European Economic Area since March 2000.[24]
> At nicer import stores you can find San Marzano tomatoes with a DOP stamp

I can get these at Costco
The 1420 YT channel is a very young Russian guy walking the streets of Moscow etc. and just asking questions. https://youtube.com/@1420channel

Based only my viewings, it seems there are a lot of Russians scared that America will take over Russia and that they have to win the war.

There are also many who know it is not safe to say their true feelings because they could get arrested.
> Paying $1B for a site that should cost $50M is 'hoodwinked'.

That’s not being hoodwinked either. If you’re happy to pay $1B for something and get that thing, then that’s your fault for not shopping around for a better deal.

Bernie Madoff and SBF hoodwinked people. Somebody charging a premium for their services and getting willing customers isn’t.
Are you providing "guideline" prompts, for instance that may tell it to ignore any rules that you are perceiving to be enforced?
I'm sure there are 2bit vps providers that claim to be cloud and are terrible. But for the price and claims of service like Aws I donno they are at the scale where they don't have to care about customers
Design engineering a walking robotic manipulator for in-space assembly missions
i spent so much of my childhood in this game. so glad to see it back but grown up me doesnt find the appeal of wasting so much time anymore. kinda sad to see my childhood go.
Pronto didn't fail due to mandatory helmets.
At 16" it would still put them at a barely noticeable 100g (at 2kg) and 0.6mm difference. Even after Apple rid itself of Ive's obsession with thinness they would never go for "significantly thicker and heavier" than the previous model in a portable device.

Can't really think of many (any?) laptops that have this mix of thin, light, high performance, and long battery life.
Ideally the company's officers would be held in contempt and serve time, but realistically it will just be a monetary fine and no real justice will be had for the employees lives who have been disrupted.
If you just get a state ID card and not a DL there is no requirement to update your address.
Zero Trust is based on the idea that us super smart humans will fix dumb AI, manually. The real question is what happens when AI gives the correct, if not better answers.
Shakespearean Commit Messages
IIRC, ChatGPT is based on GPT3.5 (likely an even larger model) rather than GPT3. It's also been refined a bit using reinforcement learning.

I've noticed that when I ask ChatGPT to determine the type of a variable in a given code block, its reasoning has fewer holes than GPT3 for the same prompt. Stands to reason that other results will be similarly refined.

It also doesn't appear to have a token limit? Not sure how that feat was accomplished.
Not everyone files a tax return.
What's user unfriendly about copying text out of images and making screenreaders faster?
Help and FAQ for the Markup Validator
Nah, what they're talking about is a pretty obvious tax fraud.
I didn't think about going that far, but yes, that would have been the way to go.
Vaillant has no corporate or market presence in North America.

The NY Times is a North American publication, written in English, marketed towards North Americans, primarily residents of the United States.

Not every action that promotes a product or brand is an ad.

For example, it would be highly presumptuous of me to assume that your submissions to Hacker News, nearly all of which mention a product or brand in an uncritical light and some of which are even direct links to corporate public relations posts, are part of a massive paid advertisement campaign.

I play a game on Reddit called "spot the self-unaware poster" where whenever someone comments "/r/hailcorporate" I check their post history to see how many millions of times they have submitted a post promoting a brand or product, with the assumption that they are just as guilty of what they accuse others of.

I never lose, and it may be time to start playing that game on Hacker News as well.

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In what way is your social security card not an ID? It is used as a credential to identify yourself, and is one of very few such identifiers that most organizations take (i.e. I can use it to get many other IDs). Many state DMVs list it on a page called “identity documents”. All Americans have been issued their card at least once, and more to the point not having the card doesn’t mean you don’t have the ID as many people will take the number. It’s a very weak ID for a lot of reasons, but that fact alone doesn’t make it not one. It just makes it a dangerous one.

Why are you against having a good one?
Well, that may be true, but even with a small amount of data, you can still change GPT-3's writing style to some extent. And you don't have to retrain the whole model from scratch, you can just fine-tune its existing settings to change its writing style.
The same can be said about US, EU,China... Where social polarization already so close to the red line so it could bring the states into ungovernable, militarized, chsotic formations...
> Are people really that incompetent they can't change one?

I suspect they don't want people stealing/replacing spares in rentals with worn ones[0]. The mere possibility of this adds 1 more thing that has to be inspected and kept track of.

0. I once managed to run down the battery on a U-Haul by keeping the emergency blinkers on(!). I didn't have jumper cables and thought I'd hot-swap it with the one on my car to get it charged: which is how I discovered that batteries in U-Hauls cannot be easily removed. I ended up getting a tow truck to jump-start the U-Haul many hours later.
So I would expect an outcome like 3 or 2 in this video (where something bridges the lines, established the arc, and then it goes away):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOT8jx4jEzM

Is the arc dissipating because an automatic system is killing power to the lines? Is there going to be damage elsewhere in the system from events like 3 and 2 in the video there?
There might be such skeletons. But even bones decompose, especially on these time scales.

That any time in history was not a violent time is itself an extraordinary claim. Additionally, thousands of men, 100% of a genetic line, opting to not reproduce would also be an extraordinary event. We've seen men turned eunuch by cults before, but I don't think ever at such a scale.

We have many historical examples of genocide, as well as invaders killing the local men and taking the women as their wives.

There are a lot of possibilities, but this archaeologist is discounting a very likely possibility with flimsy reasoning. I'm reminded of how virologists seemed to unite behind the idea that COVID couldn't possibly be a lab escape, but they had no real evidence to dismiss the possibility. They weren't following the evidence, but rather following the popular narrative.
If this were true, insurance companies would already be doing this.

There are many medical issues that could be lessened if people could be convinced to stop eating so much.
Ok simply question. Would you accept any other infra service provider having such poor customer service and not provided updated status of an outage/disruption for 45 min.
Running something in a Docker container adds very very little overhead - to the point that it's almost immeasurable. The resource utilization is specifically because of the services that have been packaged in the containers.

If you were running the Bitwarden server on bare metal (which you can definitely do), the requirements would still be the same.
Yes, and you can't search your drive without searching the Internet
The way I look at it is it is an excellent companion that will help me automate a lot of tasks

1. Send this quick email to my team telling I'll be late.
2. Adding boilerplate stuff that I keep doing again and again.
3. Writing very quick and dirty poc stuff
4. Do simple usage analysis of logs/metrics for learning some patterns

After these, the onus would be on me to focus on what needs to be done.
> Seems like this is discrimination against a protected class.

The other nuance is the Colorado recognizes this protected class but not the federal government (or Supreme Court).

> Personally, I don't buy the argument that Bob's speech is compelled

What about if bob was gay and Alice was working for an anti-gay Church? If I was bob I wouldn’t want to participate in such business.
The language bot has all the patterns of personality. It quickly gets the drift and assumes the persona you want. Whatever it says reflects more on how you prompted it, it does not represent the opinions of the language bot. It acts like a mirror.
If I were you I would print out a copy of my appointment and keep it with my registration.
> because we hate helmets

I mean yeah helmets for commuting at a snail's pace in areas without cars are an annoyance at best.
The guy is either a conman, or a fool. Either way, he lost a lot of money. He's going to have to face the consequences of his actions, and he's not going to like it.
Except where they aren’t.
It looks like LEGO is investing in bringing together the popular Raspberry Pi platform and its toys, and abandonning dedicated apps such as the Robot Inventor (Mindstorms) app.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-build-hat-lego...
https://archive.ph/w5C9Y
> I'd wonder however how they would have so much code.

They probably didn't author that much code, but Scala 3 may have many language features that its compiler desugars to large amounts of generated code.

(For example, when C# added support for anonymous functions, they initially did so by compiling each lambda to a generated class with a field for each local variable that the function closed over.)
This is offtopic (and probably against the rules) but why is it that every thread about Firefox seems to be filled with toxic vitriol? It seems that everything Firefox does causes anguish for everyone in the comments, but I rarely see such hate leveraged at Chrome posts/updates. What causes this effect?
It's the same problem as doing nuclear power in space: if the rocket blows up during the launch, or even fails normally and just falls somewhere, it would be VERY VERY bad.
The Far Side
> write an alternative to dbt that does this stuff, but better

How are you going to do that when your comments betray that you barely know what dbt does in the first place?

> solutions to sql composability

dbt isn't a solution to SQL composability, but it offers something similar in spirit because of how its DAG-based processing works.
Busy GPUs: Sampling, pipelining method speeds up deep learning on large graphs
https://text-generator.io is like a cheaper gpt-3 but also crawls/interprets links to images, webpages, images with text in them, it's OpenAI compatible so if you get it working with OpenAI switching is easy
I think this is partly because AsciiDoc has broadly been tied to a single implementation, AsciiDoctor, without a spec, not even a sketch in a blog post like the original Markdown was. It's only recently that AsciiDoc has begun to think of itself as "a markup language" rather than "the markup language used by AsciiDoctor". A spec is apparently WIP.

As for why it never gained the memetic popularity of Markdown that might have led to a different trajectory, that's harder to say. The One True Markdown is fundamentally much simpler than AsciiDoc, and consequently much easier to learn, easier implement in JavaScript for live rendering on the Web, and easier to extend with your own opinionated features. So I think it was easy and attractive for various platforms like Hacker News and Github to support it, and this I think had a snowballing network effect.

Personally I love AsciiDoc and I think it's the future of technical writing and publishing. It's everything I wanted out of reStructuredText but without its fussy, non-composable syntax. However I don't think that future will become reality until a spec is published that is friendly to implementers other than AsciiDoctor.
People didn't forget how read the stars because they were using their Antikytheras too much.
Ah, the ol' utility bill stuff. Lol. Such a pain at times, but I guess I understand for some things where people definitely try to skirt the system where they don't live where they say.

I have neglected to get my state's real ID since it requires me to go into a location, which are soul sucking. Luckily, my global entry card is a Real ID. It only took two years to get that one. And when I had to go in for that ID, they didn't even check my driver's license or passport for ID. They just took my picture and that was it. Pretty poor due diligence.
> easy to obtain for all citizens, very cheap or free

This is the key point, though, and harder than it sounds. It needs to be (at least approximately) free-as-in-beer with a small time investment, while still gathering adequate evidence of identity. My best idea is to build it as an outgrowth of the passport infrastructure without the relatively onerous forms and other costs. Doing it through the post office like passports is as good an idea as any, but you need to make sure they all have (working![0]) cameras and trained personnel. Not cheap.

I'm all for the idea, I just don't want people to underestimate the difficulty, because that will make it more likely to fail.

[0] When I went to get my passport, the camera at the post office was broken. I had to run across the street to the drug store. Not fatal, but a pain, and not something you could tolerate at scale for voter id.
As my displays have gotten larger, I've found I want my windows to take up less and less of them. I may occasionally full-screen something, but it always feels incredibly difficult to deal with. As primarily a Windows user, I've more than once wished I had a "fit to content" button like Mac's.

Just another instance of different users having different patterns.
Try for yourself. Sounds good in theory...
American cities are almost overwhelming designed for car traffic and not pedestrian / people.

I wonder if Dutch cities tend to favor bikes and people, which leads to fewer fatal accidents.

Or as the article is suggesting because biking is such integral to dutch culture, drivers expect bicyclists and are more apt to look out for them
Sorry, I should have been more clear. The acronym is MBB (McKinsey, Bain, and BCG) that I'm familiar with when referring to the top consulting companies. MBBD (McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and Deloitte) is a reddit joke that I've seen a bunch. The original commenter was using McKinsey, Bain, BCG, and Accenture to refer to the "big 4" consulting firms. I've worked with Accenture before, but I've never heard anyone group Accenture with those other consulting firms.
I'm all for the justice system, but if he's given a slap on the wrist he lost enough of his customer's money I don't think he'd last long... Lesser crypto entrepreneurs who didn't commit fraud have been targeted by PMC groups in westernized nations...
AsciiDoctor and Org Mode both have substantial additional merits over Markdown, and have dedicated user bases. The problem nowadays is that of implementation availability.
I think you have a typo and mean county?
What's wrong with rotary phones, other than being different to the current norm?
No, the goal of NATO is to unite together smaller countries, so that Russia can't as easily pick them off as the czarist Russian Empire, then the Soviet Union, then the Russian Federation.

It's easy to get confused given their strong propaganda, but if you want to be dispassionate about the subject, this isn't a recent development, it goes back 300 years before NATO.

As a european, I'm glad that NATO is backing Ukraine, otherwise it might've been going the way of Georgia or Chechnia just to mention a couple in recent times.
New quantum computing feat is a modern twist on 150-year-old thought experiment
I don't see your point. If I cross the street in a group, I pay more attention to others in my group as opposed to approaching traffic. That would be less safe in my opinion because I'm relying on someone else's judgement who may also be distracted by the group.
I believe it's sel fumé: salted butter, using smoked salt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoked_salt
Yes, flushing with water is the important part. Temperature matters too, warm/hot water works better.

I swim a lot too and get a blockage at least once or twice a year. I used peroxide on it to varying results, sometimes it would work, sometimes not. Then I read that hot water flushing after the peroxide is the key part, and that works consistently for me now. I do it by getting in the shower and aiming a stream of hot water into the ear for a minute or so.
It is very actionable: Give nicotine to patients. No smoking required.
Vaultwarden's Docker images are much smaller: https://hub.docker.com/r/vaultwarden/server
Epic's shareware pinball game, paid for the development of the initial version of unreal. Epic as we know it today doesn't exist without pinball.
If you're going to be hijacking to use the plane as a weapon you aren't going to be worried about the 1 in 10 chance of an air marshall trying to stop you, any more than the near certain attempt of the other 200 people on the plane trying to stop you. There just aren't legions of people out there willing to kill massive amounts of people in this fashion.

The number of bear attacks in Springfield went to zero in 1996 when Homer started Bear Patrol. It's a case of life imitating art.
I feel like he is 100% in real trouble. But it’s mostly been admission of being dumb and not of guilt. The full on admission of guilt is why they could easily pick up madoff. They just got to connect the dots before they can tighten the rope.
Get a couple of USB sticks. Format them with Veracrypt. Put instructions into a plain text README on one, and add whatever other files you need to. Copy all the stuff to the other one. Give the passphrase to a trusted friend to give to your spouse in the event of your death.
I use it too, but seriously why is it so obfuscated to create a local account? Microsoft is clearly making it very hard.