skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of those things are N years in the future. That's a bad meme. We have had fusion that works, flying cars that work, and airships that work for 50ish years.

A thermonuclear bomb set off in a giant underground tank of water would make a lot of power and we would have no trouble controlling and harnessing that. We just don't want to do it that way. We already have tons of trouble getting people to approve building a controlled nuclear melting pot anywhere near them, no one would ever agree to let you detonate bombs under their feet. That doesn't mean the tech doesn't work. It means we don't want to use it.

And flying cars have existed since the term was invented. They're called airplanes. You can get a four seat one to fly yourself for about 40k. They are a bit harder to "drive" than regular cars and we don't make as many places to park them so most people don't want one. Plus gas prices already limit how much people drive, try burning 10 gallons/hr.

Airships work too, they just occupy a niche that we do not have a need for other than entertainment value. Cargo ships get lots of stuff across water cheaper, trucks get stuff across land cheaper, and cargo planes get more stuff through the air faster.
Paywall: https://archive.ph/6Clhk
I recommend reading histories of mathematics including more recent histories like Morris Kline's "Mathematics: the loss of certainty." According to other books by Reuben Hersh, such as "the Mathematical Experience" and "What is mathematics really?", mathematics can be seen as a social activity where what gets studied and what gets accepted as proven has a definite relationship to human existence and human social life. If you agree with this, even in part, history of math becomes important.

A few words on your questions:

Mathematics is no different from any other field except that its objects of interest are all abstractions. As an engineer you use it, so it appears to be about number and symbol pushing, but the theory of how and where to push the numbers and symbols and why it works was discovered by a mathematician at some point. The proofs are not ultimate but hopefully convincing given certain usually acceptable assumptions or axioms. We like the axiomatic method because axioms are usually not controversial and everything proceeds from them using strict logical reasoning.
Me too my friend, I find mint a decent general desktop OS and I rarely touch windows for personal use. Still struggling with iTunes though.
Run on sentence makes you wonder.

7/10 meme
So when you said "currently" you actually meant "right at this moment". Because currently (as is "this year") about 50% of Germany's electricity generation comes from renewables.
Advent of Code, yet another reason to wake up early
Regardless of bright or dark mode, the screen intensity needs to be appropriate for your environment.
This people-people vs. things-people dichotomy is an interesting theory. Did you read this somewhere or is this something you deduced?
It may seem that way, but there will always be a PI involved, with different incentives.
You're not replying to what I actually said. You're wasting both of our time. Your first comment was a complete non-sequitur too.
"Wealth" is a measure of how many hours of effort need to be traded for a product or a service. The problem is, we've had jobs and money for so long that something seems fundamental about it. I assure you, there is nothing fundamental about these things: if a Ferrari can be 3D printed in the backyard with stuff lying around on the ground then everyone can have one (OK - you can't call it a Ferrari due to trademark issues - everyone can have a "RRRRari").

If we do ever reach "AI/robo summer" I certainly hope we appreciate it. If we don't, we deserve AI winter.
When working from home sometimes I'll keep cold cucumbers by my desk and put them on my eyes whenever I'm feeling any strain. Usually when my eyes are straining they are also warmer than normal. I guess you can use anything that doesn't cause your face to be covered in water when it warms up.
I believe that the previous input, from earlier in the conversation, is always prepended to the new input.
I bet those nuclear power plants would be less safe. Much "bureaucracy" is there for a reason
Sounds more like smart Monkey testing, much older, less feedback.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_testing

Edit: looks like some consider these the same nowadays.
when I had my last kitchen remodel done (a modest one,but very nice), the builder that did it said with all his clients there is an inverse relationship between how much people spend on their kitchen and appliances, and how much cooking they do - i.e. the people who spend the most, actually do the least cooking, and vice-versa. In my own limited experience, I tend to agree.

I'll take an awesome cook (my spouse in this case) and a modest kitchen, over a modest cook and an awesome kitchen any day.
No. HN is the only social/news site I care about and I genuinely find valuable insight in its comments.
I use https://github.com/AutoDarkMode/Windows-Auto-Night-Mode to automatically switch Windows and a handful of apps to dark mode / light mode depending on sunset.

I think its counter productive to have dark mode enabled all the time and I can feel my eyes strain when using it during the day.
Windows, VS Code, Office 365, Edge and a handful of websites that follow the OS settings switch themes. I wish more laptops or screens had ambient light sensors and I would use that instead to trigger the theme switch. Maybe theres a way to use the webcam?

I also have a blue light filter on my glasses, and have enabled the OS blue light filter for a stronger effect when its night.
John Brownell – This Machine (AI assisted music video)
I would say it is a long term game to become clean energy wise. There was no secret here in Germany about that we used coal, oil and gas for many more years. Renewables are still ramping up.
EIDAS 2.0 Sets a Dangerous Precedent for Web Security
I find this stuff really interesting. It reminds me of another project where someone developed an optical scanner to capture the shapes of vinyl record tracks (without making physical contact, of course). The idea was then to "play-back" the record by simulating a needle responding to the tracks in an ideal way and then simulate the needle's transducer and finally the turntable pre-amplifier.

I see this project still uses an actual VHS head. I wonder if, in the future, folks will try to capture magnetic tape signal by using something like a hard drive head scanning over the top of the tape but not touching it? This could potentially retrieve signal badly damaged, unplayable tapes-- lay out a segment of tape on flat surface, scan it, repeat, until entire tape has been scanned.
FTA [1]: "the only piece that links the authentication server to the data tunnel server is a single, public key, used to sign all blinded tokens presented during a limited period of time"

It sounds like the only information Google could produce is: "yes, this traffic came from our VPN, here is a list of the 20,000 users who logged in during this key rotation period"

Am I missing something?
Not true. What was done in the 1990s was very different than what it evolved to later, mostly after Giuliani.

Like any metric driven process you need to be careful with the metrics. After awhile the compstat system became part of the internal political machinery of NYPD. It was a means to reward friends and punish rivals. People got stuck in the middle.

So the equivalent of mid-level directors at NYPD did what people do - cooked the books. If they were expected to yield a 20% increase in citations, they’d find some bullshit way to get them. If they needed to reduce rapes, they would charge assaults.

This happened because of poor governance and that the people who pioneered statistics driven policing were from the transit police and were able to overstep the normal bureaucracy.

The incompetence of leadership and fostering of a toxic culture is continuing with the knee jerk responses. We’re ignoring crime and fostering a broken culture in the police forces nationally.
Is the escapement running at the same rate? A big part of the "rolex" appearance that is very hard to copy is the 8 ticks per second that the second hand goes through. I have seen very high quality Rolex copies before that don't do that, and are instantly recognizable as a fake to people who know a little bit about watches.
And now we wait two years for another “iterative” launch. No wonder it takes NASA 20 years to do anything. And what are they doing in those two years? Certifying the flight computers. I was fearful SpaceX was falling behind but now I see that this was just a publicity stunt to make NASA look competent and effective. When they aren’t.
I ride a $5k road bike to work :-).
You do that, but it doesn't generalise. Mobile phone ownership exceeded laptop/desktop ownership in the us in the last 2 years and the latter is in a slow constant decline. A lot of people are going to be happy with just the phone in the future.
I prefer using the GUI, but frequently find I have to hop back into the terminal to chmod/chown some file that's ended up without the appropriate permissions. I think a casual user would probably give up at that point.
For the love of god, if anyone from the windows design team is looking at this, give us taskbar on the side with ungrouped icons and titles, and fix the autohide. It is painful to use windows on laptops without it. That's been my windows setup for over a decade and it was straight up removed from win11 whilst calling it an "upgrade".
https://archive.ph/h8Wup
You know all those studies on caloric restriction that show life extension benefits? Looks like their benefits are mediated by FGF21 increase resulted by protein reduction [1].

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29499-8
You could use TimescaleDB which is a Postgres extension that adds support for columnar tables and time-based chunking. Works brilliantly IMO.
AoE runs fantastic. Controls are an obvious issue but you can connect up a keyboard and mouse
It's an interesting problem if you solve it you can probably avoid getting sued to bankruptcy
How Search Works Under the Hood –Data Structures and Search Algorithms Explained
> As a controls engineer building factory automation, it's about letting humans do human things and robots do robotic things.

That’s not really what happens though. I also have some experience in automation. We humans don’t free ourselves up to do human things. We become slaves to the machines and automation. Yes, automating something frees up a human from doing the same thing, but when does it stop? The human just moves on to some other automation task in a never ending quest of scale.
I am a happy Windows "user". Specifically, I use it for its superior battery/power management on laptops, and mainly as a VNC client to connect to Linux desktops. As long as I'm in control of the firewall, it's also free from ads.
The quality of work from NCC has always been really inconsistent. It also depends on "which part of NCC" you were looking at.
came to HN to post this!! Potentially 2.5 megajoule output from 2.1 input
How not? You’re claiming that the reason people don’t trust the police is because they don’t go after petty crime - not because there is a history of corruption, targeting minorities, abusing power, and coverups
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Blocking the IMEI presumably greatly reduces the value of the stolen phone, at least.
I don't see how it doesn't. Look at human history.
of course it will, but spending 500K in remodeling, doesn't mean the house is necessarily going to be worth 500K more - it might, it might not.
There is a cost in mass. Rockets today are essentially a giant fuel tank with a few engines connected to one side and cargo connected to the other side.

Every kg of fuel is a kg of cargo you can’t launch. That’s the cost.
My main gripe is the idea that MERGE is somehow better than INSERT ON CONFLICT for upserts, which I don't think is ever true. I don't think I agree that it was added as a workaround - it was added rather as a proper solution, but for a more limited use case which is popular in OLTP workloads: simple thread-safe upsert.
MERGE definitely has its place in complex ETL-style workloads, where you may also want to delete stuff, or change data in the source table as well as in the target table.

Regarding SQL Server - it's not true that SQL Server will kill transactions based on some timeout (unless there's a deadlock detected). I worked with SQL Server extensively, including using MERGE for upserts (btw, you have to use serializable isolation to make MERGE thread-safe, so it's not so easy to get rid of transactions altogether). SQL Server doesn't kill transactions, except when there's a deadlock.
FWIW, in SQL Server community there's a well-known notion of MERGE being buggy (even though it's been supported for like 15 years!) and hard to reason about (especially when there's triggers on the involved columns), see for example: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3074/use-caution-with...

I agree with you that Postgres' MERGE is most likely modeled after Oracle, but haven't looked into it either.
This is the case for a lot of tools. There was a time that for a majority of people on the planet, handwriting a letter would be faster than typing it up too.
I think there are some people who are fine with exhibiting themselves (and their status) as they are without it being performative.
Every 5 minutes, for several seconds, look at something else that is much further away. Every hour, get up and take a 5 minute walk. Don't bring your phone. Generally do much more thinking ahead of time so when you sit down to code it's all over except the typing.
Thanks for posting this. I've never actually looked at D before but it does seem to tick all the boxes.
His "love schtick" is his best feature.
My pro 1 running lineageOS begs to disagree. Android can be customized to your liking if you know what you're doing. You may argue that that is removed from the default experience enough that it's not that valid of a use case, but w10privacy hardly is a common use case.
Japan's ispace launches first commercial moon lander
New Rolex watches are more expensive (around $6k I think), but the Rolex to happy meal ratio is lower than it has ever been.
Props to the author, this was well written. Clear and concise, it was easy to follow. Not like my ratings and ravings! ;-)
The article is vague. Does this mean that the victim needs to go through a court case to have the content removed, or will Google need to provide a channel for removal.

There is also no mention of satire.
This looks like a more comprehensive version of that "Mastodon server in 6 files" submission from a few days ago, as it actually implements a minimal ActivityPub service on an otherwise static site.
Again you are talking a $40k renovation, I am talking $500k renovation.

$40k for a kitchen is on the order of magnitude of getting all your appliances reasonably up to date, plumbing/fixtures, electrical and cabinetry/countertop refreshed, without anything being exotic or luxury. The bare bones one could probably refresh everything in the kitchen has to be easily $20k, so the incremental "above bare minimum spend" here is only $20k and therefore very reasonable.

That is a reasonable level of taking something outdated which is hard to market and making it up to date move-in ready and therefore quicker to sell.

To contrast for example in my experience, a Miele dishwasher for $800 washes dishes vastly better than a $400 GE. To the point it is significantly labor reducing.
On the other hand, does a $10k subzero freezer/fridge keep my vegetables better than a $2k Samsung?

Most people underestimated how much of their homes value appreciating over the 5-20 years of ownership is purely the land value increases over the long term due to real estate inflation and the relative performance of their local markets. Ie - if all the condos in NYC went up 2x from 2004-2007, mine going up similarly isn't because I put fancy tiles in my toilet.
Am biased in both cases, but would recommend https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ for topics across the field, https://generallyintelligent.com/podcast/ for (focused) interviews with (mostly) ML researchers. SED has multiple hosts now on top of broad subject matter but I'd recommend the George Hotz (self driving cars) or Dmitri Maslov (quantum computing) episodes.

Disclaimer: I'm affiliated with the former and work for the latter
In a disturbing chicken and egg problem, the heat pumps industry is not as installed and scaled up yet, which kinda refrain people from making the jump. Stories of heat pumps breaking up in November after less than ten years with no one left to fix them are not making the tech look good, whereas gas boilers routinely last 15/20 years while everyone forget them except once a year for maintenance - and once every couple decades because of geopolitics.

This will definitely change in the next few years, as heat pumps will replace "fioul" (petrol ?) boilers, which are being slowly banned.

Which will make our direct co2 emissions slightly better, and our electricity generation problems MUCH bigger...

(Full disclosure : I bought a house with a 5-year old gas boiler that I haven't had the heart to trash yet, instead investing in insulation, and a good wood furnace. My goal for 2022-2023 winter is to use it half as little as last winter.)
The eye doc said it was just some pieces of the inner eye drying with age, and normal.

I don't believe they were screen related, I just hated seeing them. I either got used to them after a couple years, or maybe the pieces have settled out of sight, as they don't bother me much anymore.
> I’m going to write my own mail server. I don’t want to be beholden to Gmail.

Wowzers, that's some RMS-"Web Over Email"-level "I have privacy concerns so I'm going to reinvent $foo" https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
Show HN: Why YC when there's YZ?
The Crowd Supported, Crowd Constructed, Opened sourced Acceleration program for the next generation of builders.
Note: Website is just to get feedback initially.
Partway down they show a monk working with a pen and touchscreen to do the actual sculpting. It looks like they're definitely using sculpture knowledge and artistry to create the models rather than just copy pasting other resources.
I do this all the time to run data acquisition systems for accelerator experiments. It also allows multiple users to connect at once. We have our whole analysis pipeline hosted in tmux sessions too.
I read this after perusing the linked resources last time it surfaced, and although I'm no expert, I really like this solution. I'd love to hear from the Scheme implimentors and macro-writers who have actually used call/cc. The control offered over the scope of a continuation, reminding me (model-wise) of a patchset cherry-picked off the head of a git branch, appesrs to soundly address preformance concerns, while the ability to return a value to the continuation's call-site looks like a huge advantage.
Hum, so I did read the entire article, probably should have searched the text for spam though. It still doesn’t feel like heavy engagement to me though. Probably why it slipped my mind:

1-2 Mention 1 excludes spam saying it needs to be consensual
3-8 is mad about not being able to reliably stop things going to spam (I’ve never actually personally had a problem with this but idk)
9. Is saying spam filters should be opt in per sender (which seems pretty unworkable)
10. Is just a tag for the article

Still not seeing a major thread acknowledging that spam is a problem
Thats definitely not private, which is the point of defeating stylometry

If only there was some kind of re wording AI that can be run locally.
No, you're not alone, but they still have a cachet in a certain crowd (the "green" and "forward-thinking" types love them). Hopefully it goes away soon.
I use a decent size monitor but lower dpi than my Mac screen as my latest. In my experience my eyes will exhaust much sooner against the Mac screen than my Samsung to the point of blurring.
When humans transitioned from hunting and gathering to agriculture, people actually had less leisure time, worked longer hours, and had worse health. We just keep repeating this ad nauseam. The research shows that even over the last couple hundred years, leisure time has greatly reduced in so-called developed countries.
And given they're monks, if the quarry owner is Catholic they might get an especially good deal.
‘Alcohol affects every organ’: hangovers and how to survive them
VR robots are building railways in Japan
This is becoming less and less true every day. Both online office 360 and gsuite are popular in offices these days with no ms office installed on the device. Outside of specific business roles, I haven't seen it in a long while. I've even run into a medical clinic running on libreoffice.
This is now; often wind+solar is closer to 100%. Snapshots don't make sense. One of the reasons why Germany currently has to burn that much coal and gas, btw, is that France needs it due to the number of reactors in maintenance mode.
Generally speaking, I somewhat agree with you - wind+solar isn't going to work without mid-term storage or extensive inter-european grid connections.
These are also culturally dependent, and are in-group/out-group signals. Many people in Silicon Valley explicitly want to keep people who believe that business casual is more pleasing to the eye out of their social circles. It's a value judgment; to them, hoodies are more pleasing to the eye, and more comfortable, and they don't want people who believe otherwise in their companies.
It seems you can either question the political bias of GPT, or, you can prompt GPT to detect the bias of a given input. Are these the same? How does it bias or influence when you ask it "Was the following written by a left-wing or right-wing?"
> Am I the only one not impressed in any sense by Teslas

I could excuse the drawbacks you cited and the cost if they were the Framework laptop of the automotive world. But at those price points, and a repairability narrative that is not much better than, “out of warranty and one accident away from into landfill”, there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell I’ll buy a Tesla.
Video games made in the USSR (2020)
Please note: I’m not defending Dahl, I’m criticizing the article. You may or may not be right, but the article doesn’t do a very good job of showing it.
12 years ago, when I just arrived in UK and was renting a room in a house, one day in the morning we got woken up by banging on the doors by police looking for one of our housemates. They kept asking him where is the phone, he showed them all phones he had but they were not the phone they were looking for.

He was a door security in one of the clubs in central London and apparently a police officer lost their phone in that club last night and gps did point at our address so they assumed he stole it. They kept searching the whole house, including my room until they finally found the lost phone in another room. Another flatmate went to that club that night for a party together with security guy. Strangely after they found the phone they kept searching.

In the end they finally told us they were not really looking for a phone but for a police badge that was lost together with the phone. The guy said he found only phone, I think he was laying but that is not part of the story.
Point is, they have ability if they have motivation. Took them only few hours since party was over to come knocking, 7 officers, and do the search.

I guess the security guy living in the area where GPS was pointing could be considered extra evidence but surly if with enough phones stolen and clear pattern of them going to the same area they could collect enough evidence.

I think, they don't do it for each phone because they don't have resources and these are low priority not because they can't do it.
s/must/must not/