skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> now mostly stuck with services, tourism and tech

> hard to believe for a lot of people on HN

You generalize a lot. The EU does far more than services, tourism and tech and you can't really know what a lot of people on HN find hard to believe, especially if you then throw up a strawman about their professed beliefs.
1) Have you listened to the podcast episodes they've done?

https://www.listennotes.com/search/?q=james%20hong%20hotorno...

2) You might get an intro without having built anything, but it's much more likely you'd get an intro if you had an impressive demo. Or a set of 3-4 questions that show the work you've already done and show why you need to talk to them (and why it couldn't answered by someone else, and why it couldn't be answered through one of their existing interviews)

3) Non nudity but still pretty NSFW: on this topic check out this AI hot or not https://hot-or-not-ai.vercel.app
There is no regulation football pitch in the world that is 45m wide. Where did you get this?

UEFA regulations are tightly controlled. The pitch must be 100-105m long and 64-68m wide.

FIFA have a wider tolerance (100-110m long) but that's probably because FIFA tournaments don't have home and away teams, whereas UEFA do.
Marketing is good for awareness but it’s not good for retention. It has retention because of product market fit.
The Alpaca folks used GPT to generate training data. Yeah you can also use it to find issues. It's not perfect, though. What's interesting is the idea of training an LLM, using it to improve the training data, train a better LLM with that, and repeat.
This is a custom-made fuzzer for H.264, in Rust, that has found many vulnerabilities. It should be released during Usenix Security 2023.
I think you have a very interesting point I never thought about. And after thinking it for a while, I believe that in the case of digital communications and their nature, secrecy ensures privacy.

If there is a line of people, with you at one end and me in the other end, and I need to send a message to you in private, and the only way I have to do it is by communicating this message along the line of people... I would have to come with some encoding method so nobody but you and me can understand this message.
another rice-specific issue is the huge amount of arsenic. curiously, there's more arsenic in highly processed rice products (rice crackers), I have no idea why.
counterpoint: As a new-ish manager - who despite its impact on my pay would like to live in a world without middle managers - it's been my unfortunate experience that a lot of people don't work as well when there's zero pressure. The right kind of incentives would likely provide a sense of motivation without urgency, but those aren't in the power of most managers to create.
I strongly disagree.

(FWIW, I wrote this review.)

I have about a dozen Thinkpads myself, which is why I was interested to review this one and the Arm-based X13s.

I dislike the keyboards, and while they are among the best chiclet keyboards on the market , for me, it is fair and accurate to say that all chiclet keyboards are far worse than all pre-chiclet Thinkpad keyboards.

No Thinkpads since the 220/420/520 have been pleasant to type on. They are all poorer than the older models.
There's many adjacent practices to bull fighting that are legal.

So for consistency sake we will need to look into farming, we will need to look into carnivorous animals, we will need to look into supplying air conditioning to animals in a hot day for the sake of their welfare
I would probably look at listings of new apartments in various parts of the world to get picture what is common and what is not. And this should be matched to similar segments(low, mid and high income) in each location.
Have you ever actually worked on distribution packaging? There is no such thing as a "standard" .deb or .rpm. Unless you're statically linking against distro policy they have dependencies on the particular version of the distribution they are built for.

You can't take a "standard" .rpm from the Fedora repositories and install it on CentOS. You can't take a .deb from Debian 11 and install it on Debian 10.
Yeah, if you don't mind hugely increased start-up times, RAM usage and less curation and more crap, sure no need for package distribution.

I personally do mind very much. Just the differences in startup times between apt and snap applications are huge and I would absolutely despise working with such a sluggish system. I would rather build everything myself from source if forced to.
Recently started working in pharma and this was somewhat of a surprise for me as well having never taken any biology in school - drug approval for bio equivalence has tolerance intervals of like 5-10% - on my first day I worked on some data for an aspirin generic that showed crazy high variance across subjects I think biochemistry might be one of those final frontier sciences we are such a long way from what physics has in the standard model (if the standard model is correct)
Congratulations, you've found fashion.

The reason why things were more varied in previous generations is the speed of communications. it took much longer for fashions to permeate through society, this mean that more local variations happened.

Now, fashions are almost always global, but they still change at the same rate. The difference being is that they change much more in unison across the globe.
It's not, proving a medical effect and having a medical effect are orthogonal concepts. The world doesn't wait on medical science to keep turning.

A lot of medical recommendations are based on expert opinion, which means there is no proof of their effectiveness but there is a logical basis based on our current understanding of the human body.

New studies come out every day proving the effect of certain herbs, extracts or therapies for certain pathologies, yet these therapies were known to work long before the studies came out.

Even some synthetic drugs are approved without having been demonstrated to be effective at what they claim, for example osteoporosis drugs still haven't been proven to reduce fractures yet get prescribed every day for that very use.
Not my experience in my Zoe. You get nearly all of it back on the long climb and then descent which I often used to do before I moved.
Sensationalist garbage. The vast majority of the article is about stagnating yields and global over-reliance on rice, with two small, uncited, unsupported blurbs in support of the title:

> No mere victim of global warming, rice cultivation is also a major cause of it, because paddy fields emit a lot of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

No data to support, no link to relevant studies, not even a real measurement of emitted methane.

EDIT: Okay, there is one additional blurb on the subject, completely detached from the above. Not a lot of cohesion in this piece.

> Consequently, rice production is responsible for 12% of total methane emissions—and 1.5% of total greenhouse-gas emissions, comparable to the aviation sector. Vietnam’s paddy fields produce much more carbon equivalent than the country’s transportation.

This seems bad faith to me. Like they needed a data point to support their title and found the most fantastical-sounding one they could think of. But yeah, feeding the majority of the global population is going to leave a footprint. This only makes sense to evaluate in comparison to alternatives, and I think you'd be absolutely hard-pressed to come up with an alternative with fewer ecological consequences.

> Rice’s nutritional quality is another growing concern. The grain is high in glucose, which contributes to diabetes and obesity, and low in iron and zinc, two important micronutrients. In South Asia the prevalence of diabetes and malnutrition can be traced to over-reliance on rice.

Absolutely no support for the latter statement.

The title here is pure clickbait and does not belong here.
Planted fish tanks. They look amazingly cool. Before that bees!
Digital:

"How long until this meeting is over?"

"Well, it's 4:37, the meeting is done at 5:00. So 5:00 - 4:37 is 63, no wait, 23 minutes."

Analog:

"How long until this meeting is over?"

"Oh, about a 1/3 of an hour, maybe a bit more."
Related: Vemödalen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ftDjebw8aA
Wow, I was really surprised by rice's GI, thanks, I erroneously thought it was lower than white pasta.
It was expected, they're doing a semi walled garden with this snaps stuff it seems. I jumped ship back to regular Debian after the snapd stuff was foisted on users. Not looked back since.
Synthetic fuel is too expensive, the horrible efficiency of heat engines makes the cost ~5x compared to pure EVs. For long distance air travel and cross ocean shipping, which uses the energy density of organic fuels, it has some applications.

https://simpleflying.com/saf-cost-competitive-jet-fuel/
> Say that you want fractional reserve banking to be outlawed. I'll agree with you.

Irrelevant what you and I think, forcing a system which will charge people rather than pay interest is unlikely to be popular with either customers or voters. As is causing random mom-and-pop depositors to lose money.
Half the population of industrial nations may fly in a given year, and it works out to about 11% of the world population flying. However the "1%" may account for up to half of aviation's emissions, mostly on private jets.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/one-percent-worlds-...
Many individuals remain skeptical about the concept of evolutionary nutritional adaptation, arguing that our bodies have not adequately adapted to a variety of modern foods and additives. Indeed, there is mounting evidence suggesting that ultra-processed foods can have negative impacts on our health.

In the ongoing debate surrounding breast milk and baby formula, the majority continues to favor breast milk as the optimal choice for infant nutrition.
I'm not saying this ban is right or not, but if you're gonna ban something, doesn't it make sense to do it as early as possible, in order to minimize the negative effects from the ban itself?

If alcohol was to be banned today, we'll probably see protests and black markets appearing very quickly. But if alcohol was just invented yesterday and today a ban is implemented, the reaction would be much smaller.

In that view, it makes sense to ban as early as possible, when the ban as the least amount of effect and used as prevention, rather than to hammer down something that is already large.

But again, I think the whole ban is stupid, just trying to understand why it'd be implemented so early.
Italy was the lab for modern populism in politics for 20-30 years. The nation is suffering from corrupt politicians like Berlusconi having tight bonds with the mafia.

Don't put this on "the people" who can barely do much if the whole system is undermined by their leadership for decades.
Perl is interesting, because you can effectively say "it".

That is, when I'm talking to a human, I say "read in a line of text. If it ends in a newline, remove it". A human understands that. But a programming language says, "Read the line in from where? Read the into what variable? And, if what ends in a newline?"

But Perl has a default place to read input from, so if that works, you can just say "read in a line" without specifying from where. And it has a default variable, which is where the line will be stored if you don't specify somewhere else. That variable plays the role of "it" - it's what we're talking about if we don't specify something else. So "if it ends in a newline" means "if the default variable ends in a newline" without having to actually specify that I mean that variable.

It's very handy. And, like "it" in English, it can also cause confusion.

But I (a non-linguist) think it's linguistically interesting.
I came across an article a year ago, but I can't find it now. It shows the difference between ancient archtictures and modern ones. Like churches, masjids, temples, and houses. Then shows how modern buildings looks like a lego in the middle of nature. Does this description reminds anyone here with a similar article?
Or as King of the Hill (TV Show) says of Phoenix: "This city should not exist. It is a monument to man's arrogance."
> Can you admit that Bush and the US were pressing for Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO at a time when solid majorities of their actual people were against it?

This is a lie, no matter how many times you repeat it. For example, you quoted a Reuters headline:

> “Bush VOWS to PRESS for Ukraine, Georgia in NATO”

Yet if you read past the headline, GWB was pressuring other NATO allies (mainly France and Germany) to allow Ukraine start membership negotiations, not pressuring Ukraine to join as you represented it.

Your sources do not support what you are claiming.

Your conspiracy theory hinges on the obvious lie of countries being forced into NATO. Remove this lie, and the narrative of "big scary America preying upon poor little Russia" falls apart, because suddenly NATO membership becomes the initiative of Eastern European governments, and if you ask why, then you'll get a long list of crimes against humanity committed by Russia in those countries in the 20th century (and now 21st century too) highlighting the need for defense cooperation in Eastern Europe to prevent it from happening again.
No one's suggesting they 'stay silent'. Not endorsing a specific candidate when it appears to actually undermine trust/interest in their research and in science as a whole isn't staying silent. Ignoring their own research while asking others to 'listen to the science' seems an odd position for a journal to take.
can't read the article, but does rice include brown rice? that would be surprising
I mean, it's not happening in the near future - but couldn't commercial airlines be powered by SMNR or Fusion?

The 787 has over 200,000 pounds of fuel.

IIUC, SMNR currently can produce ~300MW weighing 1.4M pounds. Naively, it seems reasonable in 30 years or so we could produce one that weighs 140,000 pounds and produces ~30MW (not even a gain, just a smaller reactor) - which could power a current 787. Naively, I imagine they'd have more efficient plane designs in 30 years, too.

And Fusion actually does seem less than 30 years away now. But who knows.
Flatpak does this. It stores it in `~/.var/app/`
Wow they're still pushing snaps, the project with some the worst engineering I've ever seen.

- Extremely slow at doing anything, even the most basic commands.

- Ridiculous auto-update mechanism (you can't even disable it wtf).

- Random, nonsense limitations (why can't I open dot files and dot directories???).

So terrible that for most apps that I installed with snaps I end up installing the deb version later on.

What an abomination, it is a devil that's hurting the Linux desktop everyday.
It could also present the only realistic way we avoid the many other human-ending threats we've introduced ourselves.

This isn't a one sided coin flip.

You have nuclear war, emerging bioweapon capabilities, global warming, pollution, and a number of other existential concerns. And yes, AI is one on that list.

But how many solutions to those other items do we realistically have right now? Because it keeps seeming to be that nothing is getting done outside people pointing out the sky is falling.

Quite possibly the ONLY real, well funded, viable solution to these issues would be a straight up deus ex machina being pulled out of our rear ends.

So yeah, it's a scary coin flip that could add to the massive list of other things inevitably going to kill us all, or maybe end up being the coin flip to negate the rest of that list.

So a letter that only points out a possible threat model isn't genuinely pursuing discussion over the ethical considerations - it's just fear mongering. And looking at signatures much further down the list of "concerned parent" or "fearful citizen" it's having the intended (and very sketch) effect.
> ridiculous laws proposed in some US states recently that would ban EV sales to protect the oil and gas industries.
There are 12 year old kids driving "golf carts" all over my neighborhood streets.
> I mean, it sucks for Binance, but they are kinda shady and the world might be better off without them.

For countries like Venezuela and Argentina, Binance has a messianic reputation in the sense that P2P currency exchanges are what keeps the economy functioning for the lower-rank citizens. Top-tier citizens just use Zelle, but as you might not know, not everyone can afford/is allowed to go the U.S. and open a bank account (e.g. I, for instance, was denied a tourist visa last time, though I am more than able to afford vacations there).

If Binance were to fail, other P2P exchanges (like Reserve, Airtm and the now-dead Localbitcoins) wouldn't be able to take up with the current volume of P2P transactions of both countries.

I'm not saying these countries would grind to a halt as "direct" P2P currency exchange would still exist, but people that rely on Binance P2P for their day-to-day operations would downgrade their lifestyle, big time.
Cities like Paris, Constantinople, Rome, Jerusalem, New Delhi look nothing like each other.
Here's an interesting article about the word: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180402-mamihlapinatapai...
Power plants are more efficient than engines crammed within the trunk of a car. They have no limitations in space and weight and so you can do fancy things like heat recovery (you use the exhaust to pre-heat your fuel mix or reuse said heat for nearby industries), always have the combustion chamber at the best temperature for efficiency, ... . Plus, you can install much better filtration systems for combustion byproducts.

All in all, if everyone would transition to an EV you would see a noticeable drop in oil consumption thanks to the mentioned benefits.

EDIT: From a quick Google search I saw that:

- The lower end efficiency for oil and coal power plants is 37%. Gas power plants achieve 56% on the lower end according to [1].

- Car engines vary between 20% (gasoline) and 40% (diesel) efficiency according to [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_station#:~:t....

[2] https://rentar.com/efficient-engines-thermodynamics-combusti...
But then again services represents 73% of European jobs according to Wikipedia

HN crowd is by large pro tech and "progress" with little to no concern about ethics, culture and other issues, reading this thread is a prime example of it actually
That's not what the link says. It says:

- traders would be forbidden from making or accepting anonymous crypto transfers over 1,000 euros unless the identity of the other party can be verified

- Businesses would be forbidden from accepting over 7000 Euros in cash

- transfers between private individuals would be allowed even if they are large

- They are seeking to ban anonymous accounts

- Mixers, tumblers and privacy coins should be taken into account as risk factors when assessing money-laundering risk
Just wait for better cameras? Big pixels solve the noice level problems and multiple cameras solve the problem of dynamic range. People also can not measure distance to static things if seing capability is limited to only one eye (riding bicycle is possible with one eye but driving a car is not).
> this is why liberal societies are not only much wealthier but also have much higher life expectancy than authoritarian societies

Worth noting this is referring to classic liberalism where individual rights and freedoms are a top property, not modern liberalism where universal rights are protected by larger governments and laws that limit individual freedoms in the name of the greater good
Another option https://appimage.org/
How is that better than enclosing CSS in a component file with a class as first selector?

I see that bad developers could make mistakes, but besides that, which is kind of easy to lint, the only advantage I see is the need to maintain only one file instead of two.

What do I get wrong?

edit: syntax
See also: movie trailers and SaaS website design.
Why are they terrible? My car has both, and I never use the analog speedometer.
Elon Musk, Other AI Bigwigs Call for Pause in Technology’s Development
>like when you want to overtake someone heading up a hill. You don't have to wait for your car to find a lower gear when you mash the accelerator.

I believe whilst this has shifted over the years manual shifting is still more common than automatic.

>EVs are typically have cheaper maintenance and fuel costs

Depends on where you live. Much of Europe has seen a spike in electricity prices. Bit more bearable when you have solar panels but those don't help in the evenings/night when most of the charging happens.
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You're looking at one of the later models. The P1 also has a 6-row chiclet keyboard.

Up until the X220, T420 and W520 models, Thinkpads had 7 rows of keys.

From bottom to top:

1. Fn/Ctrl/Alt... cursor keys
2. Shift/\/Z...
3. CapsLk/A/S...
4. Tab/Q/W...
5. |/1/2...
6. F1/F2...
7. Esc/mute/Vol down/Vol up/Mic/Thinkvantage/Power/PrtSc/ScrlLk/Pause/Ins/Del/Home/PgUp
https://archive.is/v0OEI
Do you consider Purism Librem 14 looking nice?
The benefit is that it is an educational method that is cheap to administer, widely available, low risk of danger, and easy to grade if you are trying to train young students to improve their fine motor skills.

Same with cutting shapes, posing toy figures, and applying glue. I have a 12 y/o and a 7 y/o and it's amazing to see their arts and crafts development over time as they develop their fine motor skills and dexterity through a variety of teaching methods.

These fine motor skills are precursors to uplevel skills like touch typing. Why not start with touch typing? I couldn't train my daughter to touch type until her hands were big enough (around first grade, but still too small TBH). A 4 year old has an awful hard time using a mouse because they lack the motor controls to precisely manipulate with accuracy (I observed this first hand as my pre-schooler did virtual school during lockdowns -- we switched her to a touch device).

How do you develop those neuromuscular pathways? Through seemingly useless and repetitive training like correctly holding a pencil or crayon, tracing letters with precision, cutting various shapes out of card stock, coloring within the lines, etc. Kids start with gross motor skills that use their whole limbs and then slowly build fine motor skills that involve complex wrist and finger movements through practice of various techniques.

If you observe children with developmental disabilities, they have a hard time performing seemingly basic tasks like coloring within the lines. In many cases they cannot even "correctly" hold a crayon or pencil in a way that allows precise control. Their movements rely far more on gross motor skills because they cannot develop the neuro pathways required for fine control of their muscles [0].

Fine motor skills were perhaps more important in the days of manufacturing (e.g. sewing, parts assembly, wood working, metal smithing) and maybe why Asia seems to be particularly good at manufacturing and assembly of electronics. But I see such skills as still relevant today: touch typing, surgery, digital arts. Perhaps that's a contributing reason to why we don't seen as much precision manufacturing in the West even when cheap labor is available in Central and South America.

[0] My spouse was a teacher for many years, transitioned into special education first as a learning disabilities teacher consultant and now as a special services supervisor.
That's just the way it is in the US.
I'm completely unaware of the health of Japanese people, but fitness is not only a visual appearance. Plenty of people who are diabetic with terrible cholesterol that are skinny-fat.