skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun little anecdote:

Jimmy Carter had solar panels put on the roof of the White House. Ronald Reagan had them removed.

Hypothetical that makes me want to cry for all the wasted time and cumulative life years:

What if Reagan had kept them instead, even promoting a nascent American PV industry in the 80s?
New slogan and company name: “eyeRobot - we clean your floor and keep an eye on your stuff!”

These types of leaks of information only damage the reputation of smart product makers even further. There really needs to be a push towards local processing on the smart devices. Most of them call home for nefarious reasons either to gain or gather marketing information or to outright spying on their customers.
Id argue the static typing is great, and the best part of Java that is otherwise ruined by OOP. Give me the types and leave out all the OOP factory garbage, and you are left with the best parts. That’s what typescript ends up being.
>Fiat is not anything new

You're right. Fiat has been tried many times before, and ultimately fails. I should've said it was relatively new in its current iteration.

> neither is the concept of money. Earliest writings are for accounting and bookkeeping.

I did say there was a ~5000 year history, alluding to the Sumerian clay tablets/ledgers, like the famous "Kushim" tablet.

> The idea that money was minted only from precious metals, notably gold and silver is false.

Correct, but that's not what I was saying. I was simply providing the most well-known examples of commodity money.
It's a fine line to walk when publishing. For example, is it ok to use the term "Hilbert space" in an article? Perhaps in physics, but not if publishing in biology - or at least in biology, a few sentences to describe the term may be more appropriate. But the use of the term is actually quite useful, as in this manufactured example the article may apply only to Hilbert spaces but not all vector spaces. So since the distinction may be important to the finding, the terminology is necessary.
The problem is taking the most expensive power source with a large portion of the costs being the initial investment and then not running it 100% is economical suicide.
For the derivative, shouldn't there be some notion of continuum, of a limiting process to define a slope at a particular point? Otherwise this is just a delta is it not?
There were carriers in the Typhoon rolling 70 degrees.

Virtually every aircraft in the fleet either tossed into the sea or damaged beyond even wartime economic repair
I almost had the same reaction, but technically they didn't say anything about cosmology not making progress. It's entirely reasonable to assume a scientifically minded person describing a field as "piling up question marks" means they think it's making a LOT of progress. Imagine a field that answers questions more often than it finds new ones; that'd be a pretty stagnant field to be in.
also (citation needed, this is from memory from university cosmology classes over 20y ago, maybe misremembering or info out of date) the shape of the universe may be less like a sphere and more like a toroid, or a multidimensional moebius strip.

so (hand-wavy, impossible IRL but maybe illustrative / fun to think about) if you could freeze time and look far enough in one direction, you'd see the back of your own head.
It doesn’t solve non-trivial bugs. It can bugs that match patterns that have been asked a lot if Stackoverflow or something like that.
Instead of one big bang, imagine an infinite number of big bangs, all colliding on a cosmic scale in time and space. That’s not necessarily a multiverse, but it is a megaverse with universe as the old paradigm.
See for example [0]

[0]https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra...
This is one of those things where fairness is less important.

If real-sokoloff is hurt, someone fucked up and needs to be held accountable and make real-sokoloff whole.

We can debate the how and the why, but the spirit of that sentence needs to be respected more highly than fairness to the bank or credit agency. Part of the reason they can be so Laissez Faire about it is because it's not their risk and they're not the ones that need to be made whole.

Regardless of how it happens, it needs to happen. Making it their risk would convince them to figure it out.
The flip side of that is that not all problems are as complicated as they seem. "You Ain't Gonna Need It" is a thing for a reason.

Often the best solution from a business perspective is to ignore the complexity and throw the problem down the line. Sure, it won't scale to 1 billion users, but right now we are a startup trying to acquire our tenth customer. And there is often more than one way to skin a cat: why waste developer time trying to optimize something like CPU & memory usage when you can just spend a few dollars and throw an extra AWS instance at it?

Someone smart will solve the issue a few years down the lines when it actually becomes an problem.
Yikes, it's BlackLight! I had no idea this joker was still around. For reference: this was popular snakeoil on USENET back in the 90's when I was in college. This is some really crufty nonsense, and I'm kinda shocked it's still being recycled.
At this point I just internally assume that ‘general purpose’ C/C++ codebases that aren’t at least open to the idea of Rust are the “if your code has memory issues, you’re just an idiot, except for the times that my code has had memory issues” types of C developers.

More browser code being written in a language with fewer footguns is always cause for celebration
Has been for a longtime. the real world just forced corporates to admit it. And even then they try to back pedal.
ahem

“In the former film, the deceased Sith lord, still in his full black armor, is set ablaze atop a funeral pyre on land.“

Anakin appears as a force ghost at the end of the film alongside fellow Jedi Obi-Wan and Yoda. In the case of the others, we saw in the films that their bodies vanished as they died. There is every reason to think that Anakin’s body similarly vanished off-screen and the funeral pyre was just to burn the Darth Vader armor.
The project has stalled due to the two billionaires funding the project having a “spat”.
So your complaint is that those (here) with an intimate understanding of tech and its capabilities are sharing their qualified and often nuanced opinion about tech implementatiioms without exclusively following the market's "everything is flawless and there are no anti-features" rhetoric?
A love of tech should mean people care to point out the problems seen from an educated vantage - what do you expect?
Are backup cameras flawless? Is collision detection flawless? Do humans lose anything by permanent delegation of their skills? What exactly are you saying is a problem here?
An analogy might be the horizon. There is no fixed horizon, it is just the boundary of how far your can view, given both the curvature of the earth and the quality of your eyes. It is relative to where you are on the earth, and by your altitude. So while it is calculable, it isn't a fixed boundary like a river, or a wall.
> but that the distance between us is growing so fast that light sent from one part will find that after traveling toward us for some amount of time, the remaining distance to travel is actually more than than when it started.

Good clarification, that's what I meant, I guess I didn't say it accurately. I don't actually think of us as moving, but more like the scale of the entire universe is increasing while the ability to traverse it - light speed - remains a constant.
Capsule networks were conceptually an early attempt at transformers.
This is the triboelectric effect, and the low-lying mechanisms are poorly understood & poorly characterized.
I don’t think a filmmaker is someone qualified to do this kind of judgement.
> You can't really decouple JS libraries from TS. Most JS libraries still maintained support TS these days. My point is that many of them are still documented using JS with JS examples, and don't fully document the types that go along with all their methods.

Ok, but... what you're saying here is that, while you're not convinced by TS yourself, you expect all JS library creators to be convinced. Why should they be?
There can be multiple folks doing it in parallel and checking each other’s work, unless I’ve misunderstood?

If problems of circularity arise they can try to clarify the issue, or go back to the drawing board.
This is just garden-variety narcissism (btw, not trying to accuse the author of anything, I think we all feel this way sometimes) telling you that when you made the right decision, you were right and even when you made the wrong decision, you were actually right all along, you just let your true self be overridden. In reality, a lot of difficult decisions involve you being on both sides of the decision at different times, so it's very easy to look back on any wrong decision you made and decide that the real issue was not trusting yourself.

I'm also a bit surprised that she's throwing the "big company executive" under the bus here, given that it's very easy to identify who this is. She doesn't seem to be merely saying that the fit was the issue, given this:

> 1. They frequently use the wrong pronoun “I” followed by “[contribution to the company]”.

> 2. You dread having 1-1s with them.

> 3. They blame you or their peers.

> 4. They complain laterally and downwards.
Indirectly, yes. They can use foreign intel agencies to spy on Americans; they can use third parties (Twitter, Facebook, cellular networks, your cars, and all data brokers) to spy on you, thanks to the third-party doctrine.
ChatGPT using voice instead of text (any language) (Python)
there's no npm install and there's no etc.

All the files needed to run a node application are in node_modules. If node is on the container, you can just rsync the scripts.

I think you're comparing distributing stand alone binaries, vs distributing the source code for a node app, and then installing its dependencies, and maybe doing some transpiling. That's not a fair comparison.
I realized, I forgot to complete my sentence here: "...because of this every semi-structured graph model historically has been extended with a schema." Examples include, XML and RDF. More relevant to this discussion: there is an ongoing effort to define a graph schema in GQL, which is an industry-academia effort including I think all major players: Neo, Tiger, Oracle etc. (https://www.gqlstandards.org/home).

You can search for this on the link: "GQL will incorporate this prior work, as part of an expanded set of features including regular path queries, graph compositional queries (enabling views) and schema support."
It's a good idea, or at least originally it was a good idea. In reality it devolved to, well, see the links I provided.

Edit:

Note: those three are the ones I remember because I was reading about them at the time, or participating in some form in the discussion. How many are there that just slip through? Well, you can kinda see for yourself (second hand guessing, by proxy etc.):

1. MDN lists various web APIs, including experimental ones: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API Almost every single one that's marked "experimental" is shipped by default in Chrome

2. Mozilla lists its position on various standards. Almost all of those marked as "considered harmful/negative" are shipped by default in Chrome https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ (exceptions are a few deprecated and removed ones like HTML Imports)

3. Chrome currently ships 1100 more APIs more than Firefox: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence (note: a single standard like "File System Access API" may expose dozens of these APIs) Is it because Firefox is lagging, or is it because Chrome just powers through, all consensus be damned?
Dbt-fal: a dbt Python adapter with local code execution
We built a dbt adapter that helps you run local Python code with your dbt project with any other data warehouse. You can see it here: https://github.com/fal-ai/fal/tree/main/adapter

It is very simple to use, but also very feature rich. For example, you can run each dbt model in an isolated Python environment and avoid dependency hell. We use isolate, an open source library we built to do that: https://github.com/fal-ai/isolate
I find this useful!
At that point why not call it “witchcraft;” a sciencey word for something is not an explanation.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/JavaScr...
The ventilation retrofit is likely much cheaper for any home that already has central HVAC. I would know this because I did that exact upgrade on my home and spent <$2500 to have a professional install a high end oversized ERV to replace the inefficient ventilator that was installed per code. If you don't have central HVAC, of course it's much more difficult, but most US homes from the past 40+ years have central HVAC.

An induction stove, on the other hand, would require me to rip open a bunch of walls to run a new 220V line from my outdoor electrical panel (the garage subpanel doesn't have sufficient 220V running to it), remove or shut off the existing gas line, and install a many-thousand dollar cooktop to come close to the cooking quality I get from my modern gas range.
Why not using Org mode files instead of Markdown files?
I think you are assuming a big crunch?
Where does the UBI money come from in this system, particularly if the surplus gets so bit that there's no reason to take a government job?
It's just amazing how industrious and creative a small group at Mozilla was in order to boot strap Rust.

Cheers to Graydon and Mozilla. Let an elevator never fail you again.
The comment you're replying to is obviously being sarcastic and trying to "stir the pot."

But I will respond to you seriously. Most Americans who use the word "racist" mean "intentionally and adversarially racist," e.g. The three boys who called me a "spook" and assaulted me on a Toronto subway platform in the early 1970s.

Apple and their feature is manifestly not that kind of racist, and I think it's misleading to use the word racist by itself as an adjective, because this is the connotation most people associate with the word." (I personally only associate that connotation with the noun "racist," as in "Hitler was a racist.")

There is also a systemic kind of racism, where no one person participating in a system is a racist, but the overall outcome of the system's behaviour is to be discriminatory in an unjust manner against people of a particular race. I think that's something you acknowledge by saying that the outcome of a bunch of people making what they felt were reasonable choices in the system ended up making something with an "unfortunate bias."

And from what I've read, Apple realize that sometimes a product needs to evolve to be more inclusive and takes steps to address that.
> there isn't even an accepted explanation for why rubbing a balloon on your head makes it stick to a wall

You mean dielectric moments and static electricity? Electromagnetism is the one thing we know the most about. It's that spooky gravity junk that makes us scratch our heads. It never seems to behave quite right and doesn't mesh with all the other forces.
I guess that suggests an over-optimization in favor of working on more of the same documents eventually - but I might not do that any time soon... I opened an app, edited a document in it. When I am done, unless I have other files open in that app, it seems like it might as well be completely closed, until I launch it again or open one of the document types associated with it? I guess some users may only work on a few kinds of files, and in a few apps, so they might benefit from slightly quicker load times; otherwise having a bunch of things running on the off chance I use one again seems like a waste of RAM.
Reproduction of experiments generally comes after publication, not before acceptance. Reviewers of a paper would review the analysis of the data, and whether the conclusions are reasonable given the data, but no one would expect a reviewer to replicate a chemical experiment, or the biopsy of some mice, or re-do a sociological survey or repeat observation of some astronomy phenomenon, or any other experimental setup.

Reviewers work from an assumption that the data is valid, and reproduction (or failed reproduction) of a paper happens as part of the scientific discourse after the paper is accepted and published.
Fields of science should always be willing to change based upon empirical evidence.

I think there are several other scientific areas where we know less than we ought.

1. The sub-atomic level

2. The cellular level

3. Ocean biology

4. Geology, particularly effects of earthquakes and volcanic activity

5. Weather patterns over time
Lawrence Krauss to Joe Rogan: "Nothing can travel though space faster than light, but space can do whatever the hell it wants."

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WGSYKoUqvps
From the article

> the National Grid pays the windfarms to turn off, and pays a (typically gas powered) alternative generator, closer to the demand, to turn on.

Curtailing wind means paying someone else to generate that energy in the “right” location, which usually means burning gas. So all the extra wind being built isn’t reducing amount of gas being burned, it’s just increasing the total cost of electricity.

> Probably the cheapest and best option is to build more wind and not care too much if it increases curtailment.

We can build all the wind we want, but if connected to consumers by nothing more than a long extension lead that barely run a kettle, then it’s totally useless. The wind needs to be located so the energy generated can actually be transported to end users. Curtailment is basically a direct measure of the amount of wind we’ve built, that can’t actually be used. Building more isn’t helpful in the slightest.

The article certainly doesn’t advocate for reducing the amount of wind built, quite the opposite, they just point out we need it built in the right places so we can actually use the energy produced. Rather than built bunch of wind turbines that will forever be pointed out of the wind.
Way back of course, when aviation was in short pants and most planes didn't have anything electrical much less anything electronic, the ASI (Air Speed Indicator) was basically an aneroid barometer that measured the difference in air pressures between the forward-facing Pitot Tube and the non-forward-facing Static Vent.

The faster the plane went, the higher the air pressure at the end of the pitot tube, and the greater the difference in air pressures, so the higher the airspeed reading.
Is that Portuguese? Valetudo is also Latin for health.
> "just short the generator coils and you have a free brake"

You'll soon end up with a burning/melted generator.

> "pump some water in a loop"

OK, but you're going to need huge pumps (1000+ MW!). Expensive.

> "or discharge through some resistors"

Again, you'll need extremely large resistors, and a way to dissipate an awful lot of heat. We're talking about a huge amount of energy here!
Modular breadboard base with attachment slots for various modules
Afaik, whiskeytown is kept close to full all year since it's downstream of the trinity lake reservoir, which looks more like lake Oroville with exposed shoreline.
Holy crap! This takes me back. I used this (or something based on it) on my TI84 SE+ to play around with grayscale over a decade ago. It's the first thing that came to mind when I saw this article. I never got into ASM on the TI calcs but I wrote a TON of TI-Basic. I spent a ton of time on those forums and posted a number of apps/games I wrote (though I can't find them now).
While they are hailing this as a deposit of REEs what it most likely is is a greenwashing by the Swedish state, and LKAB to more easily sell the public on more iron mining, as this is really just yet another iron ore that happens to have a high content of REE. Shockingly high to be honest, almost enough to make me a bit skeptical that they hadn’t misplaced a decimal in the press release.

The major iron ore deposits that are mined in the Kiruna area, Kirunavaara, Malmberget and so on are what are known as iron-oxide apatite deposits. These occur in other places in Sweden, including central Sweden, Grängesberg, Blötberget to name a couple, and in the world. They are rich in, well, iron, as well as the mineral apatite, which containes abundant phosphorus. Phosphate minerals like apatite have a habit of acting as sort of a vacuum for REEs, enriching them in thes iron ores. These deposits also contain other REE minerals, xenotime, monazite, allanite.

Now why do I suggest that this is greenwashing? Well REEs are a hot topic right now due to being metals that are critical in transitioning to green technology, as well as other high tech uses. The currently mined iron oxide apatite mines up right next door to this new ore body also are rich in REE. Not as rich, but they come out to be about 0.07 percent on average in these ores, but the sheer volume of ore means that the potential tonnage is high. But they aren't hailed in the media as a harbinger of European REE independance.

Now, apatite and its phosphorus is not wanted in iron, so when the iron ore is crushed and enriched on site, it produces a waste sand known as tailings, which are then dumped in ponds near to the mine. The tailings are enriched in the apatite and other REE rich minerals, as the iron has been taken out.

Just the tailings pond in Kiruna, which amount to 76 million tonnes of tailings (as of 2019) have been measured to contain 0.12% REE. Pretty close to what is reported from this new deposit. Combined with other tailings repositories in the area, it is potentially hundreds of thousands of tonnes of REE just sitting there, ready to go more or less, already mined and crushed. They could easily be exploiting that resource if they were serious about REE production. To be fair, there are projects working on it, but it is still small scale pilot projects.

But they don't get splashy international headlines because like I said, I doubt this is really about them hot to mine REE. It is because they want to get at the easy to extract, easy to process iron fast, so the Swedish government makes a big announcement, to sell this as an REE deposit and try and get mining it faster, and wrapping it up in a big green bow to try and make the environmentalists and the Sami keep quiet.
In fairness, the big question about the current sourcing of rare-earth materials is whether it'll cause similar problems at some point. At least in this method the explosions mostly happen at the site of production, as opposed to, say, in the Taiwan Strait.
So such an expansion phenomenon should affect everything uniformly right? Are we (people /animals) then getting "bigger"? Over time innthe extreme will it cause problems in signal transmission in our own nervous systems (since apparently we have a problem seeing light beyond the observable limit)
Not writing complex systems is a skill (that most engineers lack).
It's exhausting. Just, why? A decent, not-really controversial open source tech group exists. They use a native name. Okay?

Nothing about it is offensive. Nothing about it uses stereotypes. There isn't a rabid fan base mocking the culture.
It may be more a question of a new generation of physicists, willing to consider that particle dark matter is not the explanation for the acceleration discrepancy.
Generally it's about catching issues early as possible not necessarily preventing the issue from occurring. If you wait until you're experiencing impacting systems before getting things like this checked your likelihood of having the same quantity of quality adjusted years of life is much lower.
the result of leetcode interviews… hiring the wrong type of “smart” engineers
And only children of parents who were members of whichever political party had decided the scans aren't an evil hoax.
Meta acquires optics startup to build better VR headsets
Also radon remediation has become more prevalent
I don't understand going from Ruby to JS. Go or Rust sure, but Node for CLI? What is gained by doing that lateral move?