skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Henrik Fisker wants to sell you an EV you can afford
I've known about phage therapy for a while. That's quite interesting in your last paragraph.
> Even currently code isn't "immediately readable"

I read code in text editors (not full IDEs) all the time...

> it does not provide any features besides basic string editing, which is mostly useless.

I also do write code in text editors all the time. Not always - I do use IDEs sometimes. But at least half the time, I would say.

I use vim a lot, and all I want there is syntax highlighting. I would hate it if I was forced to use a heavy IDE everytime I want to read/edit some source code. Also I like grepping into sources without having to run an IDE that can search through binary code.
Appreciated! I've followed philliphaydon's suggestion and edited that bit out of both your comments. This way I can mark the moderation scolding off topic and collapse it.

Normally I'd never do that without getting your permission first, so if you object, please let me know and I'll put it back forthwith!
> An important question will be whether viruses, which evolve far faster than eukaryotes like Halderia (let alone than humans), can turn the tides in the evolutionary arms race and become the exploiters of the Halderia.

I'd assume that's the case, otherwise I feel like there would be more Halderia and/or less viruses
Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture
It's the difference between Miami, a city whose population is more than fifty percent immigrants, and Detroit, a city whose population has declined more than fifty percent.
Meh. This is a pressure wave. I wouldn't be surprised if tapping your finger on the table creates more pressure than that. Or hammering a nail, at least¹.

Even your TNT figure has a distance indication. Pressure decreases with the square of the distance when it dissipates as a sphere. Doubling the distance = -6 dB

¹ 20*log(k)=180 => k=1e9, factor to reach between rest state and max pressure, I think.
It doesn't have nothing to do with it. It's much easier to sell software if it's closed source. Some people manage to sell open source software but it's obviously pretty hard to compete with some guy who just compiled your software, changed the name and is giving it away for free.
There's a recent Kickstarter for physical Scratch blocks that control a robot:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coboblocks/coboblocks-s...
Ok, I've done that. Thanks for the suggestion.
> Feminism is not about making men's lives more difficult or about cheering when men struggle. Most feminists believe that gender equality can benefit everyone, including men, by creating a more just society. It is not about oppression or mistreatment of any group, not of even men.

The problem here is, that in many places, we've gone past equality to clear privilige for women (and other groups, that mostly are not young men). In my country women can get a grant every year for 3-5k eur to start a private company. Up until recently they had to work less years until (government) retirement, got higher pensions for the same amount of money paid in (still true), and since they live longer, they get to receive the money for a longer time in average. For same crimes, they get lower punishments, they get priority due to hiring quotas (especially in tech), and in recent times even existential threats are better for women than men (eg. being able to leave a war-torn country or just not get drafted to war). On the other hand, there are many support systems from women, from women-only workshops, places, scolarships, sponsorships, to shelters, support groups and treating mental healt issues way differently than with men. Add to this a lot of media (both social and mainstream) propaganda how (white) men are the problem of the world, how women are better in everything,...

How should a young, not very-pretty and not rich men feel in such a society? They're basically worthless if they don't provide for others while being treated as shit by everyone while playing at an uneven playing field. I totally understand that more and more of those men will just say "f*ck everything" and remove themselves from society that doesn't value them.
Hello Stewart, I think the only addition I would want to the website is an about page with a few paragraphs to explain your motivation and goals. Without that entry point, I was clicking through, feeling like 10x was something I might be interested in but not really sure what it was.
You can unstick it with one hand easily because you’re normally using something like a vertical stand or a mat that’s heavy enough. You just have to lift the phone from the bottom or top rather than the middle.
In my experience, it's the exact opposite. It's the first and second generation immigrants who tend to have more kids and who tend to bring in fresh labour pools, and therefore more business making and running opportunities. This is a longstanding problem for any country that has an aging population, but the going solution (at least in Europe) has been to import labour by turning the needle on immigration. Japan hasn't done this, and they're notoriously anti-immigration. Think about the businesses that get created - local cultural food shops, cultural clothing shops, even in some cases entire submarkets to service immigrant communities. As time goes on, like or not, but countries that failed to adapt to the global era will fall behind to those willing to take a chance on immigration.
Sometimes. If the services are all interrelated, you’re as dead on the water with Microservices was you would be in a monolith.
Residential solar reduces retail power costs @ $0.30/kWh, whereas grid-scale solar supplies wholesale power @ $0.02/kWh. (Representative figures from California.) NEM (net energy metering) amplifies this effect.

If you look at a system-cost ROI analysis, the difference between residential and grid-scale is that the latter requires more transmission lines and provides fewer jobs (which is a key part of the political economics), but residential solar comes out looking very bad.

Explicit subsidies -- which pay a part of residential solar capital costs -- are a much smaller force.
A video call isn’t face to face…

I for one prefer actually face to face, then text chat, then voice chat, video chat never. Screen shares are almost always a signal that this call will be a huge waste of time, but I suppose it’s fairly necessary if you insist on voice chat.

Video chat is obviously here to stay in the software industry, which is why I’ve left it. I worked started working remotely from 2015 onward, felt ambivalent about it, but the the proliferation of video meetings with the pandemic really made it bad. I worked in office in 2021 and 2022, but once the genie was out of the bottle, you’d get calls all the time. Used to be you could just send a status report to sync up with overseas teams, but now, why not a daily video call? just a bizarrely irritating and draining way to spend your day.
Your solar panels tend to produce power at times when power is cheap - because there is so much solar power.

When you do net metering, the utility has to pay on top: They have to sell the power that you produce on the spot market, but the price they get for it is less than what they have to pay to you.

It's not a scalable approach.
Or just let him park at your place.
Ah, Lua... That programming language that still invites you to implement a split function a zillion ways and get it wrong: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SplitJoin
Found this out when I had to implement a snippet in nginx... Avoided at all costs since then.
This might be the setting you're looking for? https://www.howtogeek.com/816620/microsoft-is-finally-fixing...
if we thought VPN adoption rates were already fast
Update is valuable, but I'm surprised there is no word on you looking for another payment processor. I do realize it's a painful process from the integration & KYC bullshit perspectives, but I'd be looking for alternatives after experience like this.

Also, it's good that Stripe deservedly gets bad publicity for shit like this, but nothing will really change unless they start losing paying customers.
I like the idea of a prompt based sort! E.g., books.sort(key="publish date"). I'm not sure if that's best done with a dict-like approach (i.e., actually calculate the key) or let it get really fuzzy and ask it to sort directly based on an attribute. Then you might be able to do books.sort(key="overall coolness factor") which is an attribute that doesn't necessarily map to any concrete value but might be guessed on a pairwise basis. (This might be stretching GPT a bit far.)
Elon's twitter feed is 5% about this issue lol
Letter Motion to Redact Names of Two SBF Bail Sureties [pdf]
Not a great concession, but FWIW, the MagSafe puck also charges the AirPods case. Same goes for the Apple Watch charger.
Off topic, but 70s computing papers are just the best aren't they?
Interesting that you mention Syrians. I know Nassim Taleb talks a lot about people from the Levant really prize running your own business. People who work in a regular office job get little respect even if they earn more money. Skin in the game.
This is an interesting concept. But I'm not sure why a company would want to do this if they didn't have to. Currently even publicly traded companies don't have to completely open their books to an auditor unless they get into trouble, right? Even then is it public? But for this to be a public benefit, wouldn't it have to be mandated? A government requirement to have a cryptographic chain of evidence for your books seems like the opposite of the crypto ethos.
Does it make sense? I thought there was a survival advantage to having a giant chunk of metal absorbing the impact of a head-on collision. Assuming that it is routed under you instead of into you - which it is.
How We Made Computer Game Conversions
I think the other element is a move from hardware to software. The zoom calls that replace the video phone booth are not just iPhones, but also conference rooms, computers, iPads. Smartphones bring all these solutions together, but the variety of ways to engage on such a wide variety of platforms is just as transformative.
Im working in IT (kind of obvious on HN) and I’m playing with the thought of buying some kind of business from someone who is retiring. Something completely different (like plumbing or electrician), where my knowledge is close to zero. It would be quite a risk, but in IT we are used to learning a lot of new things quickly. And I would need to have employees who are experts in that field anyway.

A lot of those professions became way more complicated in the last years (smart homes, computerized appliances, …), and many people who stepped up their career from being craftsmen have trouble running those businesses nowadays.
not to mention how awful they are in slippery (ice/snow) conditions, which is related to exactly what you mentioned with oversteer
Yup. We can pat ourselves on the back about changing gender roles, but the fact remains that when a man loses his job his chance of divorce goes way up. [1]

Personally I think trying to reprogram humans to fight biology is a lost cause. But people keep trying.

[1] https://time.com/4425061/unemployment-divorce-men-women/
They weren't wrong. They are one of the biggest cell carriers, backbone, and broadband providers. I'm not sure what role they imagine they would take, but it is similar to the role they have had in the past.
I have been told “have fun staying poor” on HN.
Don't understand the downvotes but I do disagree. What the industry needs is not overtly racist hiring practises but rather people who are aware of these issues and have the know-how and the power to address them.

I'll take an example. I'm making an adventure/strategy game that is set in the 90s Finland. We had a lot of Somali refugees coming from the Soviet Union back then and to reflect that I've created a female Somali character who is unable to find employment due to the racist attitudes of the time.

I'm using DALL-E 2 to create some template graphics for the game and using the prompt "somali middle aged female pixel art with hijab" produces some real monstrosities https://imgur.com/a/1o2CEi9 whereas "nordic female middle age minister short dark hair pixel art portrait pixelated smiling glasses" produces exclusively decent results https://imgur.com/a/ag2ifqi .

I'm an extremely privileged white, middle-aged, straight cis male and I'm able to point out a problem. Of course I'm not against hiring minorities, just saying that you don't need to belong to any minority group to spot the biases.
That's the reason I use it too but in my opinion, their technical ability to blanket censor content while offering little to no recourse completely justifies hosting important things elsewhere. At the end of the day, the amazing value-adds they provide only contribute to vendor lock-in and drastically increase switching cost.

I've had a project shut down by Github because of petty ( and unfounded ) content flagging by a competitor. It took a week to get a human involved and it almost killed the project. I will never again put the fate of a product in the hands of someone else's arbitrary, black-box algorithms.
“Have fun becoming poor!”
For home solar power, does your PG&E metering meter "power generated" separately from "power consumed"? I'm not sure if that's what you're saying or not.

Do you have details on how home solar is or will be metered in California, with regard to credits for power generated, and if it will be different depending on whether it's "net negative" or not?
Isn't this the natural progression of a shrinking population? If you don't want this to happen, have lots of children.
Love Zeihan.
It doesn't stick strongly enough that you can't push it off with your fingers-- easier to do that one-handed than unplugging a Lightning or USB-C cable.

With a heavier Magsafe charger (like most of the stands out there), you can just lift the phone off and the charger won't come with it. MagSafe's just strong enough to hold a phone on a stand or hold a charger puck to the phone, but not much more.
So what, this will not solve anything, they should reduce the taxes for companies in rural areas as does Norway.
So in short, Russia becoming a local hegemon is fine in principle, there is just no way this will happen by any acceptable means, correct?

But now I don't actually know why I went down this thread, I don't think Putin believes he should and can become a local hegemon.
What does stops current cafes to have regular wireless charging spots ?
I pick up my iPhone on a MagSafe charger with one hand all the time. As I pick it up I just use a finger to slide the MagSafe puck sideways and it releases. Not a big deal at all.
> Most analysis/commentary I've seen says that partisan differences in turnout are a much bigger factor in winning elections than appealing to the center.

I've heard a lot of people say this, I've never seen any good data on this. Every analysis I've seen that compared how moderate and more extreme candidates did compared to the president consistently showed the moderates did better than the extreme. I'd be curious to see your analysis/commentary that shows the opposite.
So if you were going to explain it to someone who's less technical, maybe saying "remove HTTPS" would be an oversimplified way to explain?

(I don't think my contacts aren't going to know what SSH or PGP is, if that helps.)
It sounds like you are talking about Schneier (the blog author and well known security researcher) and the parent post is talking about the paper Schneier is blogging about. And comparing it to another paper by a different author.

I don't think there was a comparison between Schneier and Shor, or I missed it.
We stop this like any other issue with the law. Somebody is going to use LLM and cause harm. They will then get sued and people will have to reconsider the risk of using LLM.

It’s just a tool
Very little of the carbon emissions of food come from its transportation.[0] People living in cities have a lower carbon footprint than those living in more suburban areas.[1] We should be allowing more people to live in economically vibrant, low emission cities.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food?ins...

[1] https://theconversation.com/suburban-living-the-worst-for-ca...
And will people work around it by "filling" a site with 69% ChatGPT output?
I doubt they are more against building "low-level prisons" than they are against building "maximum security prisons" -- they are just against building prisons, period.

If you build prisons, they will be filled. When you have lots of hammers, everything is nails.
GitHub has some old software-on-cassette already. The best part is you don't need a cassette player to use it, just connect the headphone jack of your cellphone (if the manufacturer wasn't courageous enough to remove it) to the casette-in port of your favorite 8-bit machine and hit play on the WAV file from GitHub.

https://github.com/sonic2000gr/TI99
>A load balancer only works together with servers running the same code.

Uh - what?

>A load balancer balances traffic between servers

Correct.

> of the same service or mononlith

Incorrect.

Load balancers used to work solely at Layer 4, in which case you’d be correct that any 80/443 traffic would be farmed across servers that would necessarily need to run the same code base.

But modern load balancers (NGINX et al) especially in a service mesh / Kubernetes context, balance load at endpoint level. A high traffic endpoint might have dozens of pods running on dozens of K8s hosts having traffic routes to them by their ingress controller. A low traffic endpoint’s pod might only be running on few or one (potentially different) hosts.

The load balancer internally makes these decisions.

I hope this clears up your misunderstanding.
A lot of the immigrants don’t speak the language at all (and no other European language), or not very well, which is kind of a show stopper.
Most web sites I've seen in industry have just two servers, and only for active-active availability. Because of this, cache locality makes very little difference, because both nodes need to cache common data anyway.

Cache locality starts making a difference when you have over ten servers, and a significant fraction of the data is cacheable.

For "transactional" Enterprise CRUD apps, often there is very little that can be cached due to consistency concerns.
> We all make the laws so we can raise the limits

How democratic is your country? Will the limits raise or will your government take the extra revenue and keep things unreasonable?

You will find that people have many different answers for those.
You have to remember that immigrants tend to be self-selected - they're the people with the get up and go to leave their lives and travel to another country and make another new life - of course there are more entrepreneurs in immigrant communities
The irony of complaining about cherry picking statistics while yourself cherry picking statistics is astounding. If you combine federal and state prisons about 40% of prisoners are reported to be in prison for violent offenses (in 2019 according to statistics prepared by the Bureau of Justice Statistics). So, yes, the majority of prisoners are in fact imprisoned for non-violent offenses. But this is not the end of the story, there is no universal standard for what is considered a "violent crime" so states are free to set their own standards (often under considerable political pressure from the local legislature). Some states consider any theft involving drugs or even embezzlement as violent crimes. Beyond this, these statistics are collected and maintained by the same institutions which have a direct monetary incentive to over report violent crime in order to obtain increased funding. This is a clear conflict of interest.

But even if violent offenders were the majority, violent offenders in general are, perhaps surprisingly, less likely to reoffend. This is because the best predictors of violence in the general population are age and secondarily gender. The overwhelming amount of violent crime is committed by male adolescents and young men. While we may be fascinated with macabre cases where serial killers and other extreme offenders were released, these are outliers. We should not base policy decisions on our emotional responses to crime but on measurable outcomes.
Scrolling down a bit, I see this reply:

>If say, blue deep state dysfunction keeps getting worse, and it ends up couped by reds who purge & reform the federal government along the lines of less handouts, more guns, and set up the system so that political power of unproductive classes is minimized, woke may just die out.

Wow.
Engines are only ~100kg usually. And a full fuel tank is also about 100kg.

So the fuel tank and engine could be swapped without affecting weight distribution.
Designing Iterable HTTP JSON APIs
Twitter’s head of product and engineering resigned
I asked it to write some GPT-related code and it used a gpt3 library (which does not exist) instead of the openai library. I was amused by the self-blindness.

(Forgot to actually look it up... seems like it does exist but shouldn't, as it's an empty placeholder: https://pypi.org/project/gpt3/)
Ah, so both of us were in the dark about the others' expertise - I hadn't really thought about the fact that FPS is basically a start-stop frequency in analog film.

> Film seems soft and easy to damage, but somehow all that seems to work anyway.

I still think it likely that force transfer relies more on the filmstrip, but I'm also assuming that the filmstrip stays under tension (the shock absorber in the Wiki link appears to be that slash a belt tensioner for the filmstrip).

(Also, I wasn't aware that Geneva drives had actual real-world use cases. Thanks for the Wiki link!)

> He 3D-printed the pinion gear out of plastic, which achieves that.

Yeah- this part actually surprised me a bit. Plastic gears are great for low-torque applications, but my understanding is that with high-torque/high-force applications, you start running into shear stress material limitations. This is one of those "just try it out and see how it holds up" questions.

I'll also say that when I read your suggestion, I was really confused because the first sprocket that came to mind was a bike sprocket... :)

(FWIW, I'm not a MechE, just a software person who spent enough of their high school years in a shop.)
Shor, Schnorr, Schor and Schneier.
I always thought of bit boards in the same way, wow moment.
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Could you release the sdist as a separate package and only upload binary wheels for a normal install?
Joke’s on them, all I do is code all day, I barely even shower and I don’t buy anything except licenses for JetBrains products and productivity apps.