skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did you realise that Chornobyl will not be rebuilt in our lifetime?

What are you talking about exactly: the destroyed reactor #4 won't be rebuilt but I don't think it's relevant, but the other reactors were still functional a decade after the accident, and people have been working there since then.

And Pripyat won't ever be rebuilt mostly because it was never destroyed in the first place. In fact if Ukraine wasn't facing a chronic population shrinkage due to low natality, Pripyat could have been resettled long ago with only minor restrictions (and since the area is mostly a swamp, it's not like it had a big agricultural value before anyway).

> but radiation will poison land and sea for hundreds or thousands of year.

This is Nuclear risk misunderstanding number 1: “radiation” poison nothing except living thing receiving them in very high doses, radiation don't stay. What stays is the “radioactive material” which (unless at the epicenter of the accident) do emit a limited amount of radiations. What's harmful is eating or inhaling such material like any pollutants, and unlike other pollutants, radioactive material decays and only a fraction of it remains after a decade.

People are routinely exposed to environmental pollution that are as dangerous: if you had lived in Pripyat for the past 20 years, your risk of cancer would probably be lower than someone having lived in Kyiv, just because there's no car and the related air pollution in Pripyat.
> I'd pay good money NOT to have it delivered to my home

Wait, are you being forced to get home delivery? Or are you already paying good money to buy things at the markup of your local stores?
Okay Boomer… yeah we’re old now I’m afraid!

Tasteful uses of libraries like this can add a fair bit of “fun” and friendliness to an app, and younger generations do dig them from my user testing at least. Depends on the app and use case I think.
Poodle Wars: A Conversation with ChatGPT
Ah, so you didn't listen to the first half of the video, in which he said, that JS would be a less beautiful and less powerful language than elisp and that it would split their focus? OK! But keep the claims about what he said or did not say comming.
I wonder if this may lead to unintended consequences /s
Yes, that is also my impression. Interesting to note that your entirely reasonable comment is currently downvoted to grey.
The modern financial system is built on arbitrage, without it almost nothing works. Arbitrage typically takes advantage of small differences so it needs leverage to make interesting levels of profit. Flash loans are great for arbitrageurs and they're also great for the other side too - imagine being able to make a profit from lending money at interest without having any risk of the party you lend to not being able to return the money.

I think perhaps you're only hearing about blockchains in news stories, where of course the shadier aspects are emphasised.

As for "stuck within this context", that's actually one of the areas that I think blockchains have a huge advantage over traditional finance. Of course, at the moment there's a lot more traditional finance than there is finance on blockchains, but hooking together different financial institutions and their products is a massive pain, with data sharing (frequently it's just csvs periodically uploaded to an ftp site), and reconcilation taking up lots of time and effort with each hop. Blockchains have the potential to make this much more efficient, standard, secure and transactionally interoperable.
That sounds like it was a lot of fun but I'm wondering what assembly gave you that was not available in e.g. C? My understanding is that most compilers can out-optimise the average developer, so are you an above-average developer (well I guess you are) or did assembly enable you to do something that was difficult in a higher level language? Or was it more about the challenge (which I'm totally on board with by the way)?
TSMC founder Morris Chang says globalization 'almost dead'
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Everett_Factory#Current...), they are left with just the 767 (currently only available as a cargo or military tanker plane) and 777. 787 production was moved completely to the (non-unionized and reputedly lower-quality) South Carolina plant in 2021.
Very simple explanation: imagine you want to start a software company with 5 people you met on the internet. You each live in 5 different countries. How do you decide who holds the treasury? How do you decide which jurisdiction to register a partnership agreement in? There's a lot of friction there. And a lot of trust involved. Even if one person takes it upon themselves, the other 4 members have to trust the 1 guy in charge of the legal org & bank account won't rug pull on them and run off with the money or spend it needlessly.

With a multisig smart contract wallet (https://gnosis-safe.io/), it's frictionless to setup a simple smart contract for holding the treasury and for enacting M-of-N rules on any expenditures from that multisig. This may be a 3 of 5 signature requirement or even a 5 of 5 signature requirement. It's fully programmable. So when starting a Web3 project, it's possible to jump into a partnership with a group and be productive without having to worry as much about establishing trust, navigating five different jurisdictions for employment agreements, or centralizing control in a single person.

In addition, far more elaborate org structures are possible, and there exist plenty of tooling for making those happen without even needing to know how to code (https://juicebox.money/, https://daohaus.club/).

Solidity is not all that esoteric. It's similar in syntax to JavaScript, but it's statically typed. There are also widely recognized and audited open source code bases to build off of (https://www.openzeppelin.com/contracts). And tons of developer tooling (https://docs.ethers.io/v5/, https://wagmi.sh/), along with countless resources on the web.
If you have available storage space, keep a backup of information that you find to be useful or important.
It works best when working with something you have domain knowledge of and/or can easily verify the answers. For example programming.
And there have been 60+ hull losses, so one out of every 25 has been lost.
Actually, that's a pretty clear tradeoff of moving faster. You can't say "ok, we want to move faster because we want to heal people faster" and have absolutely no downside. That would mean you were just inefficient before. Truly upping the pressure comes with downsides, which you accept in the name of speed. And one of the most obvious is that you accept a higher probability of things breaking, as long as overall you make better progress.

Parallelizing is very similar to the way modern processors do speculative computing: they go ahead and run several branches of code at once, before knowing which one will actually need to be executed. Once they know, they just use that result and discard the others. It's a pretty standard strategy every time you want to trade money for speed.

In the first push for reaching the moon, there was mass production of rockets that went a lot faster than a slow build-test-analyze-modify-build. By the time one rocket went kaboom, quite a few were already in various stages of being built or even finished.
Deep sleep, currently they have a s2idle state that eats a bit too much battery.
I've come around on wasps. They just do their thing. You got stung? Don't tread on them.
I am reminded of an episode of the 1995 TV show sliders, where people can withdraw unlimited cash from ATMs but it puts them in the draw for population control measures.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702744/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_...
I mean if you got nitpicky 3000 or 30000 transactions doesn't tell you anything... but in this kind of evaluation you need to think dimensionally. That's why I intentionally assumed all of their traffic shows up in one contiguous block of 8 hrs across all locations every day: that added a massive fudge factor even bigger than the number you're focusing on...

> But I doubt you'd find any Fortune 100 company relying solely on Postgres and Redis.

I mean, yeah?

Across every system they use of course that wouldn't be it: what would be generating the data that goes into them? Where would the data that goes in be going out?

I'm simply referring to their "glue" for day to day operations, which here is a pubsub system built on Kafka. Most organizations of a certain size start to pick up some set of technology that new efforts default to being built on top of if only to have access to what everyone else is doing... that's essentially what AWS started off as before it was spun out from internal usage

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But more importantly, Fortune 100 is a very random pairing of problem spaces. I mean you won't find any built solely on Postgres and Redis for the very obvious reason I mentioned above... but you will find billions of dollars in revenue on even more boring stuff than that. The number of Oracle shops using repackaged technology that makes Postgres look like Cloud Spanner is staggering.

I find the opposite of what you do, that people tend to overestimate what it takes to handle large amounts of data reliably. And I think it's because you need some experience with this stuff to understand why you can't just think in terms of "underestimated the transaction volume by possibly 10x"(hint: 10x can mean 3 million => 30 million).

What happens is people hear that system A is going to need to go from 3,000 to 30,000, then start to architecture the way someone going from 3 million to 30 million should have, and suddenly you're building out a system that's less reliable, more expensive, and just generally worse except for what shows up on resumes.
Don't have an offer but I'd suggest Shropshire or Norfolk or mid-wales. All have good rural areas. Can't offer space myself but airbnb?
Had we discovered the fast fourier transform sooner, we could've avoided the nuclear arms race as the US/USSR would've been able to observe the other's underground nuclear detonation waves with 1960s computers
I was just explaining why the cat phone has only 9 fps. It's using a FLIR sensor.
Yes and yes. We've done it in the past for millennia now, and we recognize some will not heed advice regardless. It's a battle between recognizing women are individual agents who can make mistakes and bear responsibility doing so, or seeing them more akin to children.

Frankly, it's a necessity given the opposite is either stripping away rights (no humanitarian person is in favor of that) or somehow squashing every would-be predator (good luck doing that without a massive false positive population). We already see the latter happening today and many are unhappy about it.

The same is answered to people in similar situations the moment they become adults. Either we revisit all of that or keep the status quo.
I’ve recently started using active noise cancellation headphones that are powered by a single AAA battery, and this significantly lightened my battery life anxiety[0]. It’s a completely different feeling when a device that’s with you every day is not “disposable” anymore and liberating to not be hostage to battery condition. It’ll probably last for as long as I maintain it, and if charge runs out at an inconvenient moment I can simply pop in a spare.

In case of smartphones it could work if we go through a fundamental shift: switch to e-ink or similar, reduce expectations of hardware performance, be much more efficient as app developers and have reliable ways of testing that efficiency. I’d welcome this personally, but I doubt even Apple with its marketing prowess could make it desirable for mainstream audiences after years of stressing CPU, GPU, RAM numbers and gaming capabilities.

I suspect it’s probably less of a possibility with laptops. Keeping battery designs proprietary, being free from regulatory friction, being able to charge for replacement is probably part of the incentives that got them where they are in terms of capacity and size. If we mandated using standardized easily replaceable batteries a la AA/AAA, we would have bulkier laptops that can’t last a day (let alone on any demanding task), and spares would be too bulky to carry for those who want to walk light.

[0] Stressing over battery charge and battery health of our devices. A situation where battery runs out just as we vitally need the device is enough to be in once, so we charge defensively. We also know that battery health decreases over time (the device is gradually “used up”), and we try to prolong it: we experience stress every time the battery is too low since this runs it down and every time we leave it connected for too long because constantly topping up the charge to 100% also runs it down. So we subconsciously track short-term battery charge and long-term battery health, and we are painfully aware that they deteriorate with every second—and unlike external wear, this deterioration concerns not aesthetics but device’s ability to be more than a brick. (It is probably less concerning to those who drive a fossil fuel car everywhere, those who spend most of their time home or at work, or those who feel financially and ethically OK just getting a new device whenever it seems as if the battery doesn’t hold or a new model comes out.)
People scale poorly. Once the group exceeds a clan, the relationships weaken.
I get that, and would agree if it was a balanced relation. But they obviously have double standards in this case.
Thanks!

Yeah we have JLPT word lists available and you can set them as a focus and learn the words from the JLPT word lists from clips / snippets of videos and articles -- perhaps there's deeper integration we could do there too.

I agree with JLPT being a useful tool, I personally used their word lists as a core vocab builder when I was studying a lot of Japanese.

> I'm useless at learning languages, basically foreign language dyslexic.

Don't be too hard on yourself! If you were able to pass the JLPT at any level, I think you're doing great.

One of the motivating ideas of Polyglatte is to make language learning more fun. I'm a big believer in mass exposure and quality time spent with the language. I think for most people, most of the time, just being able to have fun with the language will give you great results.

If you're looking for new ways to improve your listening, consider watching some YouTube videos, not with the intention of understanding everything but with the intention of having a good time. For me, listening skill is something that largely came out of nowhere. I gave my brain a bunch of stimulus (Japanese YouTube videos I'd watch for hours every day, even if I didn't really understand it) and then I woke up one day and I just understood most of it or it felt like my brain was suddenly able to keep pace at the very least.

Anyways, the most important part of that system is finding videos you want to watch even if you don't fully understand them and that you'd want to watch even if it wasn't helping you develop a skill.
>You wouldn't ever need to be in a crowd.

Have you been inside of a grocery store in the week before Thanksgiving or Christmas?
I sure hope not. Look, the problem is pollution of the environment due to dirty energy. Energy per se is not a problem, but the solution to many problems.
People can make use of C dependencies from Emacs it seems. If we look at vterm, it uses libvterm, a C library.
>Tbh I thought David Lynchs Dune captured the oddity of the universe, the cruelty of the universe, and did it's own stuff as well.

Wait till you hear about Jodorowsky's Dune[1][2], the best film never made.

With Pink Floyd doing the soundtrack, H.R. Giger doing the visuals, Jean "Moebius" Geiraud creating the story board, Dan O'Bannon on VFX, and Salvador Dali agreeing to play the Emperor, you'd get a lot to say about the oddity and cruelty of that universe.

...had anyone had the guts to actually fund Jodorowsky on that one. Alas, after assembling the all-star team, doing the pre-production, securing the rights, and being ready to go, he simply didn't get the funding to implement his vision.

Giger, who hasn't been involved with film till that point, went on to make Alien with O'Bannon; and the project - despite never been made! - has influenced all subsequent space sagas.

The documentary about it[3] is fascinating.

[1]https://www.jodorowskysdune.com/

[2]https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/14-hour-epic-film-dune-t...

[3]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
> Phone batteries do not do this - they are designed to fit in a certain (few) phones, and market change on phone sizes mean there is no standard size.

It would be nice if that wasn't the case.

I've seen power tools from certain companies adopt the same battery type across multiple of their tools, so that they are interchangeable. I can imagine something like that happening industry-wide with a bit more lawmaking, like happened with USB types.

Actually, it would be even better if we had a few common phone battery standards and every manufacturer had to use those (ideally with removable batteries). This might mean that phones would have to be built with the batteries in mind, not vice versa, which doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.

Then again, personally I wouldn't even mind if there were like 10-20 common phone form factors in the first place.
Probably a holdover from older assumptions that using/loading a constant is free or cheap enough to be considered free.
Great job, Wix team!

If you'd like something more code/dev-oriented and open-source, check out https://impulse.dev/
One common explanation to such things is that it is a filter: if a person doesn't notice something like that, there's a good chance they won't become suspicious later either.
WebP's lossy codec is based on VP8 intraframes; the lossless codec is original. Either mode of which is contained in a RIFF file, which is where the dimension limits happen (RIFF's headers have enough space to represent 2^14-1).

WebM is, strictly speaking, a container format that is a subset of Matroska. It doesn't have any real relation to WebP.
I used to fly over to the US a couple of times a year for family holidays (from the UK) and almost always went on a 747, the difference in comfort was massive.

We often flew with a small little airline called 'Travel City Direct' who have since been merged into Virgin Atlantic. They leased two 747's from a charter company, one of them was all dolled up in their own livery, the other was just white and a looked super ropey on the outside...but inside it was still night and day a better experience than anything else.

We were fortunate enough to be in the 'bubble' on that one so had a great upstairs view - it was still only economy, but felt more like premium.

I later found out that the blank white plane we flew on so many times ended its days as the white 747 you used to see at Dunsfold - where Top Gear is filmed. Yep, that 747. The one they modified and used in the 007 film Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace to be the Skyfleet S570.
Didn’t you see Ocean’s Eleven? He undoubtedly lost it all card tables (“all red!”).
Does this enable Mac mini dual screen on Linux? Really been looking for that before switching!
Thanks for reminding me. Point taken.
I'm OP, and I did not appreciate this rebuttal, and consider it alarmist and terrible. I responded here if you want to take a look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33891710

To your point, though, there is an explanation there too.

The word is complex and full of many intersecting axis of considerations. For example - it can be logically consistent to be both pro renewable energy investment of all kinds, but also be wary of nuclear power, and the long-term consequences to our world if we expand investment into it. It's not a simple solution. Turning off nuclear power plants to burn coal or gas is clearly terrible. Not investing in solar/wind/etc because nuclear plants seem better in teh short term is also not great.

Likewise, the reality is that our society DOES contain strong gender norms. You might think we don't because women make up >50% of colleges, are in the professional world, and might believe other concepts like the wage gap are exaggerated. And those can be all true. But our world is definitely still deeply GENDERED.

There are people who believe it shouldn't be, and are working to buck those trends (and those people, generally, receive equally as much backlash as those transgender).

There are people who are working on "dismantling the patriarchy" and associated systems of capitalist economic systems, and other things that may or may not be reasonable, may or may not be possible, and may or may not make things worse.

But the point is that some of those people are transgender. And some are not. It's an independent axis. Transgender people - by and large - like most people - aren't looking to tear down the binary gender norms in our society - they're just seeking to exist in society as the other gender.

Now, if you claim that a society should be more tolerant of being male and exhibiting feminine traits (and vice versa), I would agree with you. If you claimed that IF our society became that, there would likely be fewer transgender people, I would also theorize that is true.

And if you believe that is a virtuous thing to pursue, let's both do so. But it's not a process that we can achieve overnight, and requires the support and progress of many others. Things have been progressing, but very slowly.

Meanwhile, we have people who are suffering today, and who we have statistical evidence that there is a solution for what ails them. Why deny them this?
Can I install to an external/USB disk?

Apple Silicon machines cannot boot from external storage. While it may look like they do when you choose an external macOS volume, behind the scenes parts of its boot components are being copied to the internal drive to make this work. It’s unclear whether this mechanism will ever be usable by third party OSes, for technical reasons.

Instead, we recommend using the UEFI environment only installer option to install only a UEFI bootstrap to your internal drive. This only requires around 3GB of disk space, and it will then automatically boot from any connected USB drive with a UEFI bootloader. Note: installing the Asahi Linux desktop images to a USB drive automatically isn’t supported right now, though if you’re adventurous enough it’s not terribly hard to do manually :-)

> https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/
From a lot of (bad) places you don't know at the time of order whether it is going to be home delivery or not. Amazon is probably the worst in this regard but especially when ordering abroad they might use something like fedex or UPS (which both do have local services where you can pick packages up, but depending on what the sender opted to when they sent it might not be possible. "And because everyone likes home-delivery why not default at that").

Or like in the UPS case, oh, no, our store can only handle packages going by air. Boat packages are a completely different thing. There is no way we can help you because they have a different tracking label. The kinds of problems humans create for themselves...
> what incentive to the population

Historical incentives have often been closer to stick than carrot. One scenario could be a change in the definition of legal tender, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOuiWIID2vo. If there is sufficient awareness voiced by the general population, elected representatives could have the political capital to push back against those lobbying for new powers in a post-CBDC economy.