skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. That dismissal would be crazy. We've known about bird flu, because we've been watching it, dreading the day when it might mutate and cross over to humans.
You sure do like editing other folks...

"Original books to be kept in print following criticism".
How is this a Show HN?

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

This cannot be tried out, except in the way that any website can be "tried out".
Kerbal Space Program 2 Early Access Is Out Now
> The bank is not in the business of allowing overdrafts
> and then somehow collecting the difference.

But one's main bank is? I don't see how the intermediary is any different in that regard?
Beyond Bias and Compliance: Towards Individual Agency and Plurality of AI Ethics
I don't pretend to understand the "keyfile" thing here. I guess that's what I'm asking: if this is at bottom just a symmetric key cryptosystem, like, even an encrypted DMG is "safe" in that sense.
This is the feature every social media company needs to copy. Please ban those who post baby pictures.

Send those to your family via your favorite messaging app. At least 50% of them might care and those are the only ones in the world that do. Save the rest of us the effort of pretending we saw little Brooklyn's picture and thought they looked so cute instead of like every other baby.
Luxury EV maker Lucid appears to have a demand problem
I modeled sustainable vehicle transition market dynamics in graduate school around 2010. One of the trends my model identified was that only higher income people were going to willingly adopt EVs because only those with disposable incomes were really equipped to take advantage of the financial benefits of EVs.

However, the luxury car market is tough. The manufacturer must deliver perceived value for the money, e.g., your $100k car better match its competition at that level or it's not going to sell.

Interestingly, what came out, was that consumers want cheap ICE vehicles when energy prices go up. The issue is that the efficiency returns do not make up for the additional costs of the electrified drivetrains, especially when disposable income is limited.
What if my feelings looking at these is also nothing?
> I'm not aware of any commercially available engine that does

Engines with knock sensors and advanced valve timing + phasing can do that. Source: mine does, stock '08 K20 engine, which has a very wide operational RPM range, so these things matter.
Cars are not the only engines that use gasoline. Lawnmowers, weedwhackers (with added oil), and snowblowers, just to name three things in my garage that get E85 gas[1], all have some degree of problems with it.

[1] Because that's what's available around me, not because that's what they should be getting.
I think it's a cultural hangover from getting a thinly populated continent for free at a stage in the civilizational game when you have all the technology to settle and develop it, but still early enough to feel like it's infinite in extent and that there's enough for anyone who wants it.

An interesting comparison is Saudi Arabia, which liberated itself from external rule just a few years prior to the discovery of its vast oil reserves (and just a few years after the realization that oil would fuel industry for the century to come).
For example. Sylvester Stallone: Accused of raping a minor in the 90's. The complainant's name has never been publicly released. Dismissed by lack of evidence.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-enough-evidence-cha...

Ian Cole:

https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/nhl-finds-no-evidence-for...

And there was also the (particularly outrageous) Shitty Media Men list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitty_Media_Men
If there was so much fat to trim, why have they been relentlessly growing headcount for the last 2 years?
i think it can be most of those things.

but i definitely think layers of middle management suddenly were shown to be largely irrelevant and unnecessary in a remote work-centric environment. so for (especially extrovert) folks who made middle management their careers, i’d expect nothing less than them advocating for the good-ole days.
A federal court judge ruled that these emojis are financial advice
Oh, guessing the latter, thanks! I hadn't added anything for a secondary or bottling stage.
I am used to regular beer brewing, I think that runs out of steam sooner. Will have to try the two-bowl method.
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This is 100% true.

We rely very heavily on imports in winter. The majority of this stuff can be grown in the UK but isn't because UK supermarkets are obsessed with lower prices. We need more onshore production and higher prices.

If you look at tomatoes, we actually had some domestic production but these places chose not to grow this winter knowing that supermarkets wouldn't pay the higher price. So they rely heavily on places like Morocco and Kenya that can offer lower prices, and sometimes that doesn't work out.

I had a friend whose family ran one of the largest potato farms in the UK. They stopped working with supermarkets in the 90s because it was so horrendous (Tesco notoriously used to do multi-hour contract negotiations with farmers, they would deliberately not give them seats so they had to stand for the whole thing and turn the heat up in the room without giving them water, they also had specialist negotiators who were notoriously abusive...this is how the largest supermarket behaves), they did food service, and then they went into food manufacturing. It was the only way to retain margins (many of the largest food groups in the UK came out of farms that needed to keep moving up the supply chain because of pressure from supermarkets).
This presentation would be more effective if the key information were explained more clearly and not hidden in dropdowns and modals.
NIMBYs. Hopefully the Builder's Remedy upcoming in California will demonstrate whether restrictive zoning is indeed to blame.
How many would you consider acceptable to have an international banking system? North Korea hackers stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank, and it was only a fluke that they didn't get away with over a billion from that one hack.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57520169

More prosaic wire fraud is common in real estate and B2B transactions, and if not noticed immediately the funds are often lost after being transferred internationally and cashed out. It wouldn't be surprising if NK is behind some of that, given what they managed against Bangladesh.
This was a plasma physics experiment to prove continous operation. Apparently going from 8 min to much larger timespans is less of a leap now.

Next stop in research: divertor design. Right now the divertor is still a challenge, as it heats up too much when the plasma gets hotter. You can see it in the video, the area that gets really bright in IR.

After the divertor is figured out, the blanket comes next. Neutron embrittlement of the structure is another issue. So power generation is still way out there.

Still, a great day for plasma physicists over the world. Decades of hard work went into this. Congrats!
It is AI generated or it could be, if it has no meaning.
Different priorities for different people, I don't mind doing a few hours but really value having time to exercise, cook, and have general free time. I don't think 10 hour days would leave me with much time to do the things I want every day.
Looks like Agile to me:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60111856

(source: worked as a mainframe engineer in an "Agile" team a large financial corp).
New business idea: Mug the fake ambulance drivers.
I misspelled capitalist - defined as laws that benefit those with capital.

My point is you are distinguishing between government and capitalism - capitalism is an attribute of the government and power structure. The people with capital are the ones preventing the transactions (to their own benefit of course).
You can absolutely fire people in France and many companies have done it by the thousands. They just did not happen to have billions in profits at the same time.
It’s unreal how much ethanol lowers your gas milage too!

Experienced my local station switch to 10% and saw my milage go from 28 to 24. Pretty positive no other factors changed.
> like the global market for cocaine.

The global market for cocaine is highly regulated by very violent men with guns.

It is for that reason that drug consumers favor legalization but drug suppliers oppose it.
see, the flat earthers have it all wrong, which is evident by this comment. clearly, it is the sun that is traveling around the earth. i mean, if it disappeared, it wouldn't be coming back. so at least my theory is much more logical. and mars just likes to screw with us by reversing course a couple of times just to see if we're paying attention
The implications of your previous comment suggests so?

> Saying just buy from a competitor to See’s is completely missing the point. The point isn’t See’s candies specifically (which I’m so surprised everyone really held onto), but rather the mindset of the MBA type (doesn’t matter if they actually have an MBA) that says let’s just keep increasing prices on this commodity forever until we’ve squeezed all the juice, and once we have, we’ll do it some more. When you apply this to every sector, over time you disproportionally hurt those at the bottom and make them poorer. You also cause inflation, which dwindles the power of savings. This software in the article is doing it for housing, and worse, it seems that it does it more than a human would. You especially see it in entertainment, where now a basketball game is something well beyond the capacity of most. It’s very unfair to me as a society that we say only rich kids can go to Disneyland, and NBA game, or a concert. Or if they do, it’s far less often and they’ve had to save for a long time for it. But you also see it with eating out, car insurance, almost every good except fast fashion, TVs (which are largely subsidized by monetizing your viewing), and some other consumer electronics. The percent of people’s average income spent on most sectors has gone up over time.
I’ll leave you with this: https://youtu.be/X29p13cAT1g?t=17

It appears to be trying to argue some point, advance some claim, advocate for some cause, etc., relating to organizations increasing their pricing for their goods and services.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They are an exclusively business-to-business company and their customers are major telecoms. I would guess the whole telco market is not affected much generally, especially not one more link down the chain. I already have trouble believing people use mobile networks less in a recession (or pay for them less by a considerable degree) and telecoms mainly pay Ericsson for goods and services to provide a certain capacity, which I also have no reason to believe would go down.
This post has a curious absence of even mentioning distrust of Google with yet more of our personal data, which was a major theme of discussion in all venues I saw this issue mentioned in, and certainly seemed to play a major part in distrust of an opt-out configuration.
I go to the grocery store multiple times a week and see different prices for things I buy. They are constantly changing prices, with sales and offers and 2-for-1. I know this is to confuse me into not knowing what the "real" price of a good is, so that when I run out of ketchup I'm somehow fine paying $8 for a bottle.
Don’t let buzzwords drive your cloud architecture
I find the description of dark matter confusing. I hear statements like "dark matter has negligible interaction with ordinary matter". So, how do scientists know that dark matter exists?

"The answer is that our galaxies spin too fast for the visible matter alone to hold them together. Dark matter, which makes up 27% of the universe, provides the additional gravitational force needed. In contrast, visible matter only makes up 5%."

However, I'm left wondering whether dark matter does or doesn't interact significantly with visible matter.
What I see from people I know at different companies is that Friday--and especially Friday afternoon--has sort of gotten normalized as a sort of wind down into the weekend day. Minimal number of meetings. People catch up on some reading. Stuff like that. People aren't fully off in general but they're cleaning up from the week, getting organized for the next week, and maybe closing their computer early.

So, while most companies aren't on a 4-day workweek, a fair number have at least some percentage of employees who are on sort of an informal 4+ schedule.
There's nothing even close to open source here.
Can Ethanol be sustainably produced from corn?

Which other crops have sufficient margin given commodity prices?

Can solar and goats and wind and IDK algae+co2 make up the difference?

Is solar laser weeding a more sustainable approach?

What rotations improve the compost and soil situation?
I don't think there's any shortage of managers who actually think people work better when able to collaborate in person. In addition to the ones that just want to see your butt in a chair. It does not help that there is also no shortage of people who used the remote-work opportunity to put in a whole lot less effort.
I think it boils down to, “different people have different opinions, much to the chagrin of internet commentators.”
At some point the cartel will run out of capital. Before then, the mispricing becomes evident enough that speculators come in on the other side and burst the bubble.
Yeah, it's far from settled in detail, and for a long time there was a camp that maintained that mantle plumes did not really exist in the normal sense.

However, further imaging work seems to show that 1) they actually do seem to be a classic plume shape in many cases (or, more precisely, have complex shapes compatible with convection), and 2) most do have temperature anomalies associated with them. Some things we thought were plume related may not be, but folks are much more in agreement that they look a lot more like convection-related features.

E.g. compare these two papers (which are both basically review papers):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00128...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-021-00168-6
> Transformer learning explained

Well, "explained" seems to be a stretching term; I would rather call it a mathematical derivation of the operation of a transformer which is certainly interesting for some specialists.
Yup! Hence my mention of tomatoes, which is the main place where I've seen any disruption. I'm not saying that there's no disruption here, but Ireland is a lot more food secure than the UK. Our shortages are relatively minor compared to the UK, which is what makes their earlier attempts to threaten us with food shortages somewhat funny.
The Spotify logo could be, to someone, a depiction of child labor. Suppose a child is forced to work at Spotify. That child, or people who know the child, could come to think of the Spotify logo as representing child labor.
For me, they’ve moved on to spam texts. I get 5-10 variations of “Hey”, “How are you?” a week. No provided names, just social engineering attempts if I were to reply.
I think because the continents fade out as they approach the point closest to the viewer it makes it look like they are actually fading into the background and behind the red blobby thingies.
No tomatoes in 2 supermarkets today.

The egg section has seemed quite Soviet for quite a while. Now the veg aisle is getting the same way.
I think this might have been a popular solution once, but my guess is that it came with its own set of problems. Hotels often being pretty big (bigger than most churches, which also tend to be relatively open structures), usage of the license free bands from other devices, audible interference (which you don't care about in ham radio or portables as long as you can still understand what's being said, but for music in a hotel even low interference is bad as soon as it's audible)... though admittedly, I have no experience with radio transmitters for that particular use case.
It’s possible they were buying them to throw at Therese Coffey.
Going back to the question you're responding to:

> How can [corporations] be, in good conscience, allowed to get a pass?

I sort of expected you to answer that corporations don't get a pass. I agree with your premises:

1) corporations will follow their own incentives

2) legislation is the means for "caring for society"

3) legislation changes a company's incentives and should be enforced

It goes against the Zeitgeist simply because Americans understand that their representatives and senators are largely corrupt (regulatory capture) so enforcement and legislative remedies are a pipe-dream until we deal with legislative corruption.
Yea kids should read the bible its much safer than any of these books.
I was speaking more broadly of the tech industry but yes in this case you're correct.
I wonder if they are hiring though
Monopolies not random companies. Also, what’s legal isn’t particularly relevant only what’s enforced as nobody actually cares as about what infrastructure YouTube is using.
In my attempts it just spewed word to word copies of original songs.
Tried Christmas and Rain as prompts.
Neat. I'd have liked to hear more about their custom programming language and its toolchain's implementation.
These calculations are always bogus. Once mining starts, the price of iron will plummet. The exact same reason some reserves are seldom explored, as the decline in price will render the effort pointless.
The JavaScript Site Generator Review, 2023
Well there's been no real porn use for crypto, so the tech had no hope of really catching on like the VCR or the World Wide Web did.
The public health emergency is ending in a few months and these jobs are not remote.
maybe they'll get a new neck tie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_necktie
It would be interesting to see this study with some actual quantitative sleep data.
> capitalism is an attribute of the government and power structure

I don't think that is a common formulation of the idea of "capitalism".
Check out the new science fiction novel The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler https://www.raynayler.net/
It's about minds and intelligence (octopus and otherwise).
The examples look like normal Scheme to me. There is nothing odd going on with custom macros.

They have broken some argument lists into currying, that's all.

(define line (lambda (x)
(lambda (w b)
(+ (* w x) b))))

Firstly, it's not full currying; the w and b parameters are not separated from each other into different lambdas.

These kinds of nested lambdas are not unheard of in Lisp and Scheme programming.

Lisps do not have automatic partial application. If you have a (f x y z) function,
you cannot just call it (f 42) to partially apply it, to obtain a function which
takes the y and z arguments. You have to do a clumsy thing with an explicit
lambda like this: (lambda (y z) (f 42 y z)). There are
macros for that, which can make it look like (op f 42) or what have you.

If you need partial application regularly over some functions, it may behave
you to write the function in the curried style. Passing all the parameters
becomes a bit less convenient:

((line 1) 2 3) ;; versus just (line 1 2 3)

but the partial application you want is a lot less verbose:

(line 1) ;; versus (lambda (w b) (line 1 w b)).

So basically it looks like the authors may be after low-verbosity partial
application without macro assistance.
It's true, it was well known internally that internal chat that are sensitive would be auto deleted.
In particular - the anti-vaccination movement has gained significant social traction and, in some places, has been openly embraced or at least tolerated by the majority of politicians. Our ability to socially pressure good behavior is quite depleted.
Viability of 1hr per 4hrs charging aside...

I think I had implicitly assumed that most people with commutes do not park outside (and thus would miss the valuable daylight charging hours, and would thus be better off charging a wallpack at home). But in hindsight, I think that's incorrect. _most_ people probably park outside at work, wouldn't they?

those statistics would make or break a solar car.
Why are there so many Arduino clones but barely any Raspberry Pi clones?
I do too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25061563
I bought some Lucid stock before the SPAC merger and I'm disappointed. With the amount of money they have, there should not have been ANY quality problems that made it out to the public. And there should have been much more marketing. Why is every car on TV a gas car? Lucid could have fixed that.

I also think it's a mistake to keep pushing for the ever higher-end, as with their new $250K model. As investors, we were told future models would be less expensive so as to fill-up that shiny new factory. And that's not happening.
yeah why, when discussing large powerful groups of capital owners colluding to screw the working class, why would we discuss the most successful tool at stopping them: groups of working class people large enough to claw back a tiny amount of power?
Yes, there's a chemical component as well. I was simplifying. Regardless, though, they're not core material rising up. They're still basically olivine+pyroxenes+etc, same as what's around them. They're not the exact same, and indeed they bring deep mantle material up, but they're not nickle-iron rising up from the outer core, which is what I was trying to get across.
not sure i'd want to have to meet my shop steward in that organization though
Yes. Because people end up working extra hours on the days they're working, especially if they have a commute, and they just have the overhead of getting settled in the now 6-day workday. Furthermore, weekends are the time a lot of people get together for activities.
The way the human mind works makes it basically impossible to declare something like this, so when someone does anyway, it makes me suspicious.

So yeah, I guess I feel suspicion when looking at this art, like the artist concocted a world that lets us control our own brains as a… idk, way of introducing control where there is none?

I guess that’s the point, but was it one worth making?
Yup. That is another example of this exact same thing. Probably the more common one.
The (rental) market can remain irrational far longer than you (the renter) can remain solvent.
Here's a doc that was recently scrubbed from the marketing page of the company, Entrata, that provides software to my property manager (thank you, Archive.org).

https://imgur.com/a/D3gsLBL

If there's any integrity left in our legal system, this will be a slam dunk for renters.
Emojis aren’t text, though. Nobody “writes” emoji outside of the digital world so I don’t think emoji could accurately be called “text” or part of a “writing system:

> Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,[note 1][note 2] is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems

People write smiley faces, but there was already a code point for basic smileys.

I think standardized emoticons are a good thing, but I don’t think the Unicode spec is where they best belong.
Could a screwed up supply chain for food be a symptom of decline?