skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China does promote potatoes. But the key advantage of the potato is that it grows where rice will not, in the drier and colder west of China. So it allows China to expand its food growing capacity.

Unfortunately, while I had plenty of good experiences with food available in China, it was my experience (2018) that the restaurants just didn't know what to do with potatoes; they were usually served like a turnip or carrot or something, and not treated as a starch. It probably doesn't help that most of the potato dishes that Westerners adore involve dairy products or olive oil in some way, when these are not so accessible in China.
The overlap between places with lots of charging stations and places I would really like to spend and hour for lunch while on a road trip isn't huge.

I'm not saying you cannot road trip with an EV. Lots of people obviously do. But there is something about having to plan your route in detail before you leave and having all your stops dictated to you by your GPS which feels unappealing.
> let Windows Update install all firmware updates

I did in fact say that in the article. (I wrote the story at the top of this post.)
Also, the letter only presents threats.

Part of the ethical consideration needs to be the opportunity cost a six month delay could cause.

As an example, let's say that GPT-N will cure cancer.

Over a six month period that's at least 5 million people dead if the date it arrives and cures cancers broadly was pushed by that long.

What about negotiating foreign policy treaties to prevent war, or identifying a way to reverse climate changes, or any number of other positive effects?

The fact the letter even positions 'should' such an advanced AI exist as a legitimate question I find pretty gross.

Should we hold back the progress of intelligent life in the universe out of the ego of humanity?

I get superintelligence is an unsettling idea.

But inherent to that name is an indication that there's a seat at the debate table that's currently vacant which might have important and interesting things to say on the subject, and anyone suggesting aborting it is a valid course of action (particularly given the myriad of existential threats we already face from fellow humans) I can only regard as being quite far from super.
For what it's worth: this would still make sense today. It's insane how modern cities restrict the freedom and safety of people just so that a few people can drive SUVs more resembling a tank than a car in a city. Shit like Rezvani Vengeance should not exist, period.

It's insane that the top leader in accidental death of children and adolescents involves automobiles [1].

[1] https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001915.htm
Sorry, but proof of stake makes the concept even more nonsensical than it was before.

Of course I disapprove of old school banking scams as well. Beyond that, I won't engage in your whataboutism. It's not making the crypto pyramid schemes any better.
Klarna is an example of outsourcing, underpaid and unmotivated workforce. And it involves another party which doesn’t care.

If something goes wrong during an order (too many items shipped by merchants mistake) you’ve an uncooperative party on the other side.
the whole thing is stupid. are you suppose to be cooking with digital onions?
There were very similar concerns about mobile bandwidth not long after the iPhone came out. Mobile carriers just built like crazy and handled it. No reason power companies can’t do the same thing.
Really shocked by this. Who could possibly have seen this coming.
I think we should stop focusing on how much waste FOOD that humans live on produces and focus more on renewable energy.

I can see good intentions turning into famine very quickly.
I sometimes use Adobe Color (which is very similar to this) to come up with new palettes when I’m stuck and want something different. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t, but it’s another point of inspiration.
Recumbents are notoriously difficult to ride as the grades get steeper. Upright cyclists have the advantage using different body positions (i.e. standing), but 'bent cyclists can't do that. On the steepest grades, it can be a challenge to even keep a 'bent's front wheel on the ground.
I agree with your conclusion but come on, before the pandemic there were 4.5 billions air passenger per years, so airlines are globally flying way more than the 1%.
A parser for Things

is a function from Strings

to lists of pairs of Strings and Things.
It would have to be very quick as it would need the thread to be started before your object has finished being constructed. So it seems unlikely. What's not clear to me from a quick reading of the code is whether the store is actually correct. Although it is only being filled by a single thread that isn't the one that is going to read it on shutdown and I'm not clear on whether there is anything forcing a barrier before the onExit thread has starts reading the hash maps on the nodes.

Actually, is there anything stopping the sampler from taking another sample while onExit is running?
Just use AppImage then. Or create a good old tarball. Problem solved.

These should be absolute exceptions, not the rule, anyway.
Funnily enough, looking into it, there are apparently some measurable differences between winter and summer births.

From the abstract: "Winter/spring birth, while associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia, is generally associated with superior outcomes with respect to physical and cognitive development."

Source: Schizophrenia Research 81 (2006) 91–100.
"Season of birth is associated with anthropometric and neurocognitive outcomes during infancy and childhood in a general population birth cohort". https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3743679/sdarticl...
> and also struggling with quality.

The problem is that the media's endless obsession with Tesla means that criticism of their products become mainstream news, whereas criticisms of the average Toyota or Ford are never more than bullet points in car reviews. A few key points which contradict the assertion of Tesla "struggling with quality":

• Tesla products consistently get high satisfaction ratings by their customers. [0] (Perhaps panel gap consistency isn't as high on the list of customer importance as car reviewers think it is?)

• Tesla products have been consistently rated as among the safest cars on the road with respect to crash-worthiness. Most notably the recent assessment of the Model Y by Euro NCAP. [1] Maybe the panel gaps aren't perfect, but the chassis under the skin seems to have been well engineered.

• Toyota, the supposed world leaders in car manufacturing, recently admitted — in public no less — that the Model Y is "truly a work of art". [2]

[0] https://electrek.co/2022/06/15/tesla-tops-list-most-satisfie...

[1] https://cleantechnica.com/2022/10/01/the-tesla-model-y-earne...

[2] https://thedriven.io/2023/03/01/toyota-admits-tesla-model-y-...
It's so upsetting that canonical will continually come up with cool tech, try to keep complete control over it and ideally make it so it long term becomes the only option, which people understandably don't jive with. Had they learned that in the space theyre in an open approach works better, we could still be using mir, upstart and most importantly unity now. God I miss unity.
Oh but there is:

"What time is it?" (Looks at digital clock) -> 13:32:02 -> "It's thirtheen thirthy two"

"What time is it?" (Squints a dial clock) -> ( \| ) -> "It's.. something like (squints out window, okay, it's night so 12 means 24) -> "Okay it's something like.." okay, it's almost 24, and the minute pointer is nearest the 11, but when readin minutes there's 5 minutes between each hour.. so now 11 means 50, oh maybe the minutes arm is probably a closer to the next dot." "Yeah, okay, 12 means 24, and 11 means 50 and it's going this way around, so it's +1".. It's 23:51.

yes, objectively much simpler and easier.

I don't know why you think a gauge allows some intuition that is missed with symbolic representation. There's 24 hours in a day (because fuck decimals I guess), and it's intuitive that 12 is the middle of the day, that one hour is roughly a tenth of your waking day, that thirty minutes is half on an hour..

Sure, you feel a strong intuition for dial watches because that's what you've grown up learning, but the intuition comes from you having used it a lot, not from the display method itself. Places where dials make sense (somewhat) is for things with limits, maybe your fuel gauge or your temperature gauge, and here a simple "bar" is still easier and more informative to read. Gauges are primarily the way they are due to technological evolution, it's the simplest thing we know how to do, making things that turn around, we're really good at that, even early digital clocks relied on numbers printed on cylinders or and similar "rotation oriented" principles.
> Bugs should be fixed upstream, not kept in distro specific silos.

This is mostly a Debian issue fwiw. Debian is literally notable because they're obsessed with making sure that any package in their repositories is kept with the same "API"[0], no matter how old the software is. The result is that Debian packages can end up hugely derivative compared to the equivalent of upstream and other distros, but it's usually also because the software in question is half a decade old.

With other distros, packaging changes to upstream usually just reflect the preference to match a certain style of configuration (to pull another example from Debian: nginx ships with sites-{enabled,available} folders and is configured to load from sites-enabled by default. This is to match the same configuration style that's used for apache2 and that it's associated tools assume you configure apache2 with, even though nginx just uses a conf.d folder and has no extra tools to facilitate anything fancy with sites-{enabled,available}).

The extreme end is nix, which actively requires you to have the upstream written with nix in mind because nix will basically demand you configure the source code in ways to accommodate for it.

[0]: This includes actual software-intended interfaces and the ones hacked together by users by ie. reading out logfiles.
It's gross. That's it. Why should I, or anyone else, have to explain personal food choices to you? If finding insect-eating to be repulsive is embedded in a culture, who are you to question it or demand change/an explanation?
Flooding attack against synchronising OpenPGP keyservers
Which is fine. The canonical example: Parma ham has to be from Parma, and that makes good sense to me.

It gets more muddy with cheese, lots of cheese named 'Gouda' isn't Gouda, traditionally Gouda (and Alkmaar) were the big cheese trading markets and the stamp 'Gouda' originally meant traded in Gouda, not produced in Gouda (which doesn't really make Cheese). But Edammer cheese really is made in Edam (or Volendam!). And 'Old Amsterdam' is just a tradename for factory produced Gouda like cheese which has nothing whatsoever to do with Amsterdam and isn't really all that old (artificial high speed ripening). Tourists love it though and pay ridiculous amounts of money for it and now you can get it in regular stores as well.

So food named after towns isn't always historically - or even at all - connected to the town. But in cases where that is so it makes good sense to respect that history.
I believe they had yield issues, and the market for high-priced desktop monitors (~$3000 for 27" 4K) is limited. They may have fared a little better if they had served the Apple Mac 5K resolution; but maybe not.
It's indeed unsurprising that if you look at the designs produced to match a specific context (AirBnB) you'll get a good amount of uniformity, as sellers converge on efficient solutions. If you looked in other contexts (high end apartments for sale in major city, cheap new builds in small towns, mass produced single family homes in another country) you might end up finding more differences.
Of course, but with automation and modern mass farming techniques it represents 1% of the jobs it used to, the rest of the population has been pushed out in services &co

If the future Google of lab grown meats comes in the game you'll get even more centralisation, less small/medium exploitations, and most likely 0 local production given the barrier to entry
A stock, yes. But futures? Derivatives? There are tons of speculative financial products that don't grant a right to vote and a slice of future profits.

"Expressing optimism or pessimism" also doesn't sound very scientific or rational.
are you in eastern europe? for most western europe, europe means western europe unfortunately
I wish all software could provide portable binaries. However, compiling portable binaries is hard. Not many developers have the skill.
ColossalChat: An Open-Source Solution for Cloning ChatGPT with RLHF Pipeline
Grains are grasses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae

The difference is we are feeding them grass seeds vs grass leaves.
It's not my field of expertise but would AFL help here, or fuzzing in general (or in before anyone says Rust)
SCSS wins for maintainability.

You could import your favourite design framework (say, bootstrap) as SCSS, change its variables to suit your design, and create any custom components using @extend:

.custom-component {
@extend .some-bootstrap-class
}

Also nothing prevents you from creating mixins, functions, etc.

Just keep it first-order, as SCSS functions cannot return new functions.
Tailwind is just as usable in those :)
That can be the people with Asian roots bringing their eating traditions with them immigrating in the US. Like mostly cooking by themselves instead of eating out. Or frequency of snacking. Or having a different palate/diet than Anglos and other ethnicities.
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In theory if you’d eat carbs all day long since you wake up till you fall asleep and keep the high level of glucose non stop you could develop insulin resistance in the cells which would lead to diabetes type 2

So this title is kinda of a joke…
This seems somewhat cherry picked, and lacking real insight.

Sure we can agree on the obvious conclusions that mass production is going to try for mass appeal and thus “saminess”.

But my house certainly isn’t white with wood tones. That’s because I’ve been putting in the work to select and restore beautiful furniture from decades past and gradually building towards a more unique aesthetic.

Let me tell you it is expensive in both time and money.

- Just selecting a non-neutral wall color is very difficult and pretty much locks you into certain furniture.

- If you want to commission the perfect dining room table it will cost you $5-20k easily depending on your tastes. Or it will cost weeks of labor to DIY (assuming you’ve already devolved the prereq skills). Mass produced pieces will be your only option.

- For architecture, you don’t really get a choice. Custom building a home is hugely expensive and you’ll need a huge amount of skill/stress capacity to GC it yourself or pay $$$ for someone with a reputation.

I guess I don’t get the point of articles like this. I don’t think they’re entirely wrong, but I’m also pretty sure it’s always been like this. You don’t just get beautiful and unique things for free. It’s just when we look back on history we’re usually blinded by survivorship bias of the beauty that has stood the test of time.

Look up some of Brent Hull’s content about historical architecture. You’ll see that even though he rags on modern buildings, he’ll describe how the different architectural forms were massively influenced by the industrial capabilities of the time.
Time spent on 'work' is 8-10 hours most days. I try to mostly keep to a 9/80 schedule and take every other Friday off. But it depends, if something is particularly troubling me, then I won't stop and will go longer and I will do a shorter day another day to make up for it.

AI (Copilot) hasn't particularly saved me time for actual work yet, but was working on a side project and it saved me hours of tedious repetitive stuff. It wasn't that complex but it was a lot of similar functions, and the first one it didn't help much with. The second it was able to get more of, and from then on it was hitting tab ~3 times to write the entire function, then go back and fix a word or two that needed tweaking. Probably would have been a lot of copy pasting, but it was able to change the naming and even some structure for me so it was still beneficial.
Oh man, this is not correct. As a dad who just went back to Disney after not having gone since I was 11 years old... We made fun of, "the brand" the entire time. All our friends would look down on us for handing over our hard earned money to a pretty gross fascist organization like Disney. We posted pictures, but only of our experiences.

For myself (a sample size of 1) it is all about the magical experiences and memories my child gets from experiencing a fantasy world of fun rides and adventure.
> Snap, FlatPak, and Docker are all variations on the same basic conclusion that many developers reached long ago: "fuck it, just distribute software in the form of tarballs of entire Linux installs."

..wait a minute

> (2) We use a UPnP library called miniupnp in the current version. We have to statically link it because of issues like (1) and also because some distros were for a time stuck on a version that had security bugs that they would not upgrade because it would break other packages.

Wouldn't this solve the same problem without adding snap/etc?
I am going to sorta disagree. I see your point and I am sure there is some of that. But hands down Disney parks are some of the best parks I have been to. With universal being a very close second. I am also probably never going back (price ratio is wrong and getting worse).

In this case a VR exp would have to feel like going to a park. However, there is something that is missing (or many somethings). You hanging with your friends and family. Now they could also all go get headsets and you hang together. But that seems oddly not the same. Buying that overpriced popcorn and basically 'fair food' is also part of it. Disney would have the best shot at making a park into a game. As most of their rides are 'dark rides'. Basically trains going thru experiences. A fixed park is little more than a carnival but in a fixed location and cleaned up nicely with theming. VR strips out the carnival aspects and is only theming. That strips out part of what you are going for.

I have also been to parks all by myself. That is what wearing a VR headset would feel like. It is not a good experience. You could say 'oh all your friends could get headsets too'. True but at that point you are now looking at similar costs as just going to the parks.
Not to be pedantic, but even with a personal VR suite, it's still virtual.

A flight sim, regardless of how sophisticated, is still always going to be of a lesser experience than real flying unless you can actually die in the sim.

I'm not suggesting that an ideal flight sim should kill the player if they crash, but rather suggesting that, as an example, a pilot behind the controls of a real plane that has to make a series of instantaneous decisions when a dangerous situation comes up like engine failure will have been "battle tested" in a very real way where his/her life was literally on the line.

Of course not having to risk your life is also a big advantage of virtual as well.
When I was young and saw digital speedometers I thought those were so cool. And then I drove a car that had one, and realized why they were terrible.
This should answers your questions better I hope : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsuZGHfSa34
Rice is probably the worst junk food in the world, with a GI of 90 and billion of people eating it, its negative impact on health on a global scale is just shockingly bad. I stopped eating that junk food a few years ago, couldn't feel better when I have other low GI high fiber carbs on every meal.

Saw some comments on the east vs west nonsense, this thread is about rice, although it is mainly eaten in the east, it is damage is on a global scale. We are talking about a food that has a GI of 90, one of highest in the world. It doesn't matter whether your skin color is white, yellow, blue or pink, keep eating junk food that has GI of 90 is going to cause you diabetes.
Arch Linux would like to have a word
Instead of a case, I have a couple old laptops which broken screens but everything else is okay. Could I not just detach the screen (hinge and all) and just have the base case with the default laptop keyboard? Then just plug in a hdmi cable in the port and use that as my new screen?

In this case, there would be no need for a universal case because I'm repurposing everything in the laptop "as is" except the screen.
> unnatural

You keep using that word, but you haven't explained what makes it unnatural. There are people who eat insects right now, and I'm willing to bet people have been eating insects as long as there have been people. It seems more "natural" to me than drinking another aninals lactations. I don't want to eat insects, but you've offered no explanation why it is insufficient to list the ingredients (which is already required, making it different from your "organic" example).

Also, "milk" has referred to any thick, white substance for centuries now. Consider "milk of magnesia". It's the cow dairy industry that is trying to appropriate the word.
Apple accused of illegally firing pro-union workers
Seems like conjecture on multiple different fronts
Show HN: I built this App Store review scraper in 60 minutes using GPT-4
I find it hilarious that we are talking about preserving the environment and someone complains that they need would need more electric capacity to charge their vehicle and run their clothes dryer in the desert. As long as US exists, the world stands no chance.
I felt old the other day when I was telling my son that when I was a kid, if it was blue and underlined, you can click it! Now everything is polished and fancy and you never know what you can click on anymore. Something beautiful and utilitarian about the HTML of old.
No, if you want to get your tokens out you're selling them to get something else than BNB (and BUSD) and this would drive the price down.
I have no idea why people on here are so against this.

It just reinforces the fact that we're so different. Politically divided.

I just want meat. Actual meat from normal animals. I have no idea why this is controversial. I don't get any of it. A solution in search of a problem.
> We like to think that we are individuals, but we are much more alike that we wish to admit.

Unusual, eccentric or otherwise interesting opinions aren't going to show up in a market researcher's poll. What were they expecting?
Paywall, so it's possible the article addresses this, but from my understanding, it is rice cultivated in deep water paddies that contributes to excess methane emissions, as it creates the conditions for methane-producing anaerobic bacteria. Cultivating rice in shallow water that results in less methane emission is not only possible, but possibly optimal.
I don't think it is a pissing context between them, they can both happily exist in the same world, it just interesting to see the difference in approach and try and figure out why one seems more successful than the other.

I think you're right that Canonical creates and releases projects and assumes they are in charge of them, but I disagree about Red Hat (honestly not sure what you mean by "rough ideas and code"), I think they tend to see whats already out there and then throw their weight behind that, then only if there isn't do they create their own and even then they are more open about how the project runs. That difference means Red Hat gets more momentum behind its projects, and that is what counts. (of course RH can throw more engineers at stuff as well, and that also helps a lot)

Its not some sort of conspiracy, nothing Canonical has ever done has had the same amount of hate as systemd has, its just a difference in approach.