skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my city they built an underground train station and forgot that diesel locomotives are still in service: the venting system was designed for electric trains only!
This sort of recycling will never be competitive or viable compared with the economies of scale present in the mining industry. It’s just amazing what they will do to completely destroy other competitors (other mines). They aren’t concerned about recyclers and laugh about them because of how small and boutique they are in terms of volumes but I’ve seen companies do things like run a mine at a loss for years to snuff out competitors, or buy up broke recyclers and shut them down or fold them into their current operations (read: defund their budgets and run a skeleton operation) so they can get certain government benefits, comply with regulations all the while protecting the volumes from their mining operations.

Investing in recycling means competing directly with the mines which are highly consolidated and incredibly powerful. They do not care about recycling by the nature and culture of their businesses. It’s a fool’s errand and I’ve seen so many investors loose their entire investment over and over again.

If you like loosing money, by all means, invest in recycling. At the end of the day these recycling businesses are undesirable —- they are capital intensive, high risk, low yield with a weak consumer market. They are most definitely not carbon neutral in their end to end operations. They don’t even typically provide good paying jobs for the communities they serve because the unit economics are so poor. The only 10+ year surviving companies exist almost entirely on government subsidies and aren’t real businesses. Communities don’t want them either so that’s why they are always in the middle of nowhere.

All the private activities are all the same — typically some VC or rich investor will pair up with a charismatic founders and try to do it because hey environment I feel good doing good. But then just wait a few years when they get tired of shoveling money in by the truckload.

The joke goes for every $1 of material recycled, $10 of cash is burned.
What are "Public USB Ports" ?
Exactly, adding to that: they are NOT repackaging/rebranding chrome/chromium, they are actually building a browser.
Tabby infers on the gpu and is slow, I can only imagine how slow truepilot is on the cpu.

If people want auto complete, it needs to be super fast. For slow inference, a better application would be a chatbot that reads your code and answers questions, like cody from sourcegraph.
Others have already mentioned performance is one of the hard part.

Another aspect is that for any complex, large-scale project like browser, lots of, if not most of, effort is actually in the long tail: to make 90% or even 99% websites work probably is as hard as making the rest 1%.

So while the team probably could cruise through when working on current gen spec and popular sites like Discord/Twitter, it's what left is going to be a nightmare to manage at the end.

But again, nothing is impossible, and I really look forward to having a new browser engine in the wild.
The main ladle parts and corresponding ladle refractories
The site is still up for me in the UK at 07:30 UTC.

I thought I read something on HN that Amazon had agreed to keep the existing content available?
Are planes now more expensive than in 1960?? At least in Europe, flights were very expensive until roughly the end of XX century.

Regarding doctor time, it's a wrong metric - it doesn't matter how much time your doctor spends with you, what matters is if they get you better. And there's been a massive improvement in care and results over the past 6 decades. Just the progress in imaging techniques is incredible. Back in 1960 we pretty much only had X-rays, which are good for bones and not much else (I don't think even the ultra-sonogram was used back then). Whereas nowadays, we have these multi-million sci-fi machines, which allow the doctors to see the soft tissues inside the body in fine detail.
I’m sorry I think you misunderstood me. When I talked about visible / invisible and the iceberg of homelessness I referred to this exactly. However the issue in the discussion here is visible homelessness - the stuff that frightens people away from the downtowns of the west coast. Indeed the vast majority of homelessness happens away from your view and is no less tragic.
The interesting part is the partial conclusion:

> The steepest slopes occurred for ages 18–22 and lower levels of education.

So they're blaming faulty education for people being bad at the test. Now I want to see the RCT to prove this hypothesis. (With controls for experimenter effect.)
It would likely not be very useful even ignoring the speed aspect.

A lot of work goes into making a search engine understand how a term relates to a website, and to rank the results accordingly.

You might get lucky and search for something that's in the goldie locks zone between underspecified and overspecified, and actually get good results, but in most cases you'd either get nothing or just noise.

Unix grep works well because you're typically grepping in hundreds or thousands of documents, not hundreds of millions or billions.
plead/pled (driving out pleaded)
Big loss and very sad news for the photo industry. Here in France there's only one website dedicated to photography remaining : phototrend.fr. Other ones are either dead, general tech mags not caring that much for photography, or paper mag lacking online presence.
This makes sense. Any innovation in hardware you do in research will be pissing in the wind against hardware drivers like mobile devices, gaming, cryptocurrency, “mainstream machine learning” etc. that push billions maybe trillions to those innovations. I can see why researchers want to play it safe. There are some companies looking into optics for neural nets. I guess they are betting on a small chance to be a unicorn. Sounds familiar :-). Maybe VCs can make those hardware bets for a winner takes all.
Happy to admit it's a crazy idea, and it's not something that I would want to see as a usual way to built sites. But for small areas of web apps where compatibility is difficult it does make sense.

Google Docs used to be contenteditable based, but moved to a custom rendering engine. They are a large enough company to be able to invest in that. Small businesses aren't, and have to rely on content editable.

Ladybird as a contenteditable polyfill would help smaller teams, or single developers, achieve the same, while also building on the existing tooling and APIs for contenteditable.
Very Julian Jaynes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality

> Jaynes uses "bicameral" (two chambers) to describe a mental state in which the experiences and memories of the right hemisphere of the brain are transmitted to the left hemisphere via auditory hallucinations.

[snip]

> According to Jaynes, ancient people in the bicameral state of mind experienced the world in a manner that has some similarities to that of a person with schizophrenia. Rather than making conscious evaluations in novel or unexpected situations, the person hallucinated a voice or "god" giving admonitory advice or commands and obey without question: One was not at all conscious of one's own thought processes per se. Jaynes's hypothesis is offered as a possible explanation of "command hallucinations" that often direct the behavior of those with first rank symptoms of schizophrenia, as well as other voice hearers.
There was an argument made that this is a misunderstanding:

https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/6/15/sun-tzus-...

TL;DR Sun Tzu doesn't mean "Try to win without having a fight", but "Try to win without having a formal 1-on-1 engagement".

"Battle" shouldn't be understood as generic violent conflict, but a specific formal affair in which two armies gather up and clash with each other.

So for rather than reading this as "Try to solve things non-violently", this post suggests the meaning is more like "Try not to be forced into an engagement on even terms. If you can just poison them all, or starve them, that'd be much better".
Infection by American pop culture is a global scourge.

I don’t even necessarily only say that because of the corrosive and low quality nature of Americas pop culture that is like a drug that feels really good at first, but causes damage over time (see false beliefs about reality people hold solely due to TV/movies). What is even more pernicious and pervasive is that Americas pop culture is like a cultural virus that is eradicating diversity of culture just like immigration and this fake general “diversity” is actually eradicating the thing it claims to itself be.

Everyone, everywhere, at all times all consuming the same things and muddled into an indistinguishable mass is quite literally the opposite of diversity. American pop culture is really the nexus of that process, the killing, destruction, and eradication of local and native cultures. In many ways we don’t even have the language for what is happening, and considering the ongoing stupefaction of society, I suspect it will never be developed. It is a kind of mass extinction event of human culture and diversity, going on right now, under the fraudulent and false guise of “diversity”.
It's better to disrupt your 90% revenue rather than to let someone else do that. In the first case you have situation under control, partially at least
And then you find out that the first component is height x age. :)

PCA/CCA almost never tells you what the components are. ICA is a bit better at that but still not great.
"2. A Primer on R Vectors, Arrays, and Matrices"

This should be referenced in every R Tutorial.
The best I can do is an ID3v2 mention.
More specifically, Chrome used Safari's rendering engine, and Safari used Konqueror's rendering engine, because even in 2001, starting a browser engine from scratch seemed like too much work.
If you are someone that tells other people what he does for a living and talk about work when meeting new people, stop doing that and reflect on why it's so hard to come up with something alternative[1]. No, it's not because a good chunk of your time is devoted to work or something about values reflected in the work you do(there is not enough "space" for that at work).

Only insufferable humans cares about your title or the company you work for.

[1] I tried, it's hard.
Isn't that the real problem here? Nobody cares if your browser fails to render that page, because you strictly adhere to the standard while Chrome just happily deals with broken documents (or worse: Chrome requiring documents to be slightly broken).

Chrome is the sole benchmark. If it works in Chrome, it's fine, if it doesn't the site is broken. Standards never enter the discussion.
Types in R make absolutely no sense to me, and the whole apply/lapply/sapply/tapply/vapply madness gives a feeling of hacks taped together just enough so that the thing does not fall apart.

> What a programmer might think of as a primitive value is often actually a vector containing precisely one element.

Say what?!
I thought unsafe language were a no-go in the context of extremely vulnerable pieces of software like the web?
It reminds me of a meme template of internet arguments, like galaxy brain template or mcmahon template. Also the language translations are so mysterious like why was it randomly translated into Haitian Creole and why does the Thai translation have two greens but not separate orange and yellow. There are so many questions!

Also I think the rainbow triangle must already mean some symbol but I'm not up to date to know what it would be. I think it could also be funny to integrate the iceberg meme template where below the triangle are so many more iceberg layers corresponding to ones where they either don't acknowledge or have even seen your argument. Like some underwater 'responds only with a non-sequitur' and 'replied to wrong post' layers.
I just read the feminist technoscience article and I found it very interesting and can imagine it being very relevant to some people.

The ARPANET thing is actually an interesting example, because the Department of Defense (war) is very obviously masculine-coded. It seems reasonably true to say that a lot of technology and science is masculine coded for all sorts of different reasons. Honestly, it’s trivially true to suggest that engineering is seen as a masculine profession because of particular historical circumstances, some of which probably had to do with explicitly patriarchal societies, so I don’t see what the fuss is. I can totally see why someone who spends a lot of time thinking about gender and ways of making a more egalitarian society would find this interesting and useful. It might be very niche, but so is any sufficiently advanced topic in research.

I also don’t really know who is to say one thing (machine learning) is more useful than another (feminism). You could be right, but that is a value driven claim which, ironically, is something that is going to be parsed out in philosophical debate and prose, not lines of code.

It seems to me that most complaints against the “fuzziness” of studies in the humanities are the politically bent ones, which makes me suspicious that the disdain is for particular political views or conclusions, as if to dismiss these views as spurious and non-academic. It’s certainly not scientific, but that does not mean it is not serious, and science is certainly not the final or only arbiter of what is real or worthy of intellectual consideration.
I agree with this. A lot of law firms are themselves investing heavily in AI precisely to rationalise this "lookup" layer and thus increase the profitability of their core work.

One challenge this throws up is that, currently, those employed in the lookup layer are usually junior lawyers who are gaining experience and confidence before they can go on to perform the more valuable work of drafting complex contracts, constructing novel arguments etc. If law firms automate away the lookup layer, they will actually need to re-think their approach to how they utilise junior lawyers. They'll still need to employ them, as they are the valuable lawyers of tomorrow, but unless they can re-deploy them to other useful tasks during that phase of their careers, the upside to automation is limited.
Bicycle Cars – Human Powered Vehicles [video]
> video clips that car owner intentionally shared with them

Clicking through a we-can-do-whatever-we-want agreement is hardly the same as intentionally sharing something.
I think that depends on the city. In very international cities like London or Brussels you usually start the conversation with "so what brought you hear?" knowing that most of the time is the job. So you try to understand what someone is doing. I find that a very common opener with someone you're just meating.
Thanks for being a gent!
> No it's not, no one cares about your job.

While I agree with the sentiment of this article, I strongly disagree that no one cares. As a curious person, I often have a ton of questions about someone's occupation. For me, it is fun to hear people talk about their job.

I just don't like asking about occupation early-on in the conversation because it sometimes feel like socially categorizing people.
FTA:

> On Twitter, the Denver FBI office (via CNBC) said that public charging stations in hotels, airports, and shopping centers can be a malware attack vector.
Most new compilers build on LLVM/GCC, no?
UI/UX are made for big tech to lock in their user rather on a better/simpler, security/privacy oriented user experience.
Some of the most interesting work in this space is in the “shared” memory models (in most cases today, vector db’s). Agents can theoretically “learn” and share memories with the entire fleet, and develop a collective understanding & memory accessible by the swarm. This can enable rapid, “guided” evolution of agents and emergent behaviors (such as cooperation).

We’re going to see some really, really interesting things unfold - the implications of which many haven’t fully grasped.
Does anyone here run FreeBSD on the desktop? If so, can you explain why you prefer it to Linux?
Pentagon’s Ukraine War Plans Leaked on Minecraft Discord Before Twitter
Hi I’m one of the logflare devs and I work on observability at Supabase.

Great question. To directly address some of the tools you mentioned:

- Logstash is the transport and transformation portion (along with Filbert) in the elastic stack, and it performs the same functions as vector. It is out of scope for Logflare, which focuses on acting as a centralised server to point all your logging pipelines to.

- Kibana is the visualisation layer of the elastic stack. For Supabase, this functionality is taken over by the Supabase Studio, and the reporting capabilities will eventually converge to compete to match APM services like sentry etc.

- Splunk’s core is not open source, and is very much geared to large contract enterprise customers. Their main product is also much more geared towards visualisation as opposed to bare log analysis.

When it comes to a logging server/service, you’d consider the following factors:

- Cost. Logging is quite expensive, and the way that Logflare leverages BQ (and in the future, other OLAP engines) cuts down storage costs greatly

- Reliability. The last thing that you would want is for your application to take high load and go down, but you’re unable to debug it because the high traffic led to high log load and subsequently took down your o11y server. Logflare is built on the BEAM and can handle high loads without breaking a sweat. We’ve handled over 10x average load for ingestion spikes and Logflare just chugs along.

- Querying capabilities. Storing logs isn’t enough, you need to effectively debug and aggregate your logs for insights. This incurs both querying costs and additional complexity in the sense that your storage mechanism must be able to handle such complex queries without breaking the bank. Logflare performs optimisations for these, performing table partitioning and caching to make sure costs are kept low. This allows Supabase to expose all logging data to users and perform joins and filters within the Logs Explorer to their hearts’ content.
What's going to be really interesting is the security of modern USB cables with their own chips that retailers blindly buy from foreign and otherwise unaccountable manufacturers and wholesalers.

The cables are pervasive and most people won't consider their charging or data cables to be attack vectors.
Unfortunately, given its market share, they become standards.
> Ancient wisdom never comes with citations

Because writing in the past is really expensive and a heavy-duty work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bamboo_book_-_binding_-_U...
> signature strikes a lasting legacy of his presidency

drone strikes?
I mean I don't see highly advanced / complicated features like webgl used in my day to day browsing, it's tech demos and the like linked from HN at best. A new browser can do without that for a long time.
I had similar with my ‘15 Amarok. Battery would reliably be flat after parking for 24h, and I was either told there was no issue or it was unfixable, or I would need a new ECU, a new engine, a new truck.

After a short and inconclusive session looking for leaks through the fuse box, and then many, many hours of crawling around under the truck with a voltmeter, I discovered a frayed and heavily corroded +12v lead associated with the tow harness rubbing against the chassis. Fixed it. Issue resolved.

Unfortunately, a majority of mechanics simply aren’t competent, and the remainder don’t want to touch jobs which are mysteries, as they’ll just end up with a customer refusing to pay.
But it's gonna burn in one?
Ask HN: Are IDEs Distracting for You?
Just some context:

I primarily use VS Code for all my programming needs. I am very accustomed to all its features at this point. Using things like multiple cursors I can get editing operations done much faster than I was ever able to in Vim. With all its LSP features and fuzzy finding I can navigate around and write or refactor code quickly and painlessly as well. (I'm sure some of the Vim masters could get things done even faster in Vim, this is just with my skill set and experience)

However, whenever I get stuck, I discovered that switching to plain vanilla Vim without any of those fancy features set-up often helps me get some progress done. Writing and navigating around code suddenly takes some effort without all the help from a LSP, and I feel like that forces me to actually focus and think twice before I end up doing anything. I also find myself doing things the simple way rather than trying to invent a bunch of unnecessary abstractions upfront for that same reason. Another nice benefit is that I can write out all my code and fix all the errors after the compiler the compiler informs me of them. I'm not distracted from the main idea by banal errors like me messing up a function call.

I am just curious, does anyone else have a similiar experience?
What makes mathematicians believe unproven mathematical statements? [pdf]
Interesting. I didn't know that.

When using gpt-4 directly through the API we can emulate this behavior
The correct term is 'money invested', not burned. And the payback was huge. This is a catalogue of recognizable individuals and is classical research in aquatic mammals. Used to track migrants all around the world, to calculate how many of an endangered species are still alive, and even to discover several new species of cetaceans in hot spots like California or Australia (new species of bottlenose dolphin). One of the best tools to study cetaceans populations without harassing them, and done routinely since maybe 50 years ago or more. Marine Theriologists had tried to automatize it for decades.

The news here is that has been publicly released. This could mean that the main researcher has quit or retired (maybe to train and pay a human for that job is not needed anymore, maybe the funds dried or the researchers are aging and the team is trying to recruit new volunteers in the so called citizen science or slave's science, dunno).

We should take in mind that many of this photos depict dead dolphins now. I had seen exactly the same fin shapes since 00's if I remember correctly
> Indeed, we started with "this guy's argument is wrong, he's a bad person"

No we didn't. We started with "It's worth looking up whose blog this is before trusting any of its analysis."

And then "Adjust accordingly. I'm not telling you how to adjust, only that you're likely to want to."

And other people cited sources right up top.

Nobody made a fallacy of saying it must be wrong because he said it.
In 2011 a search on Google cost roughly 0.0003 kWh[1] (Although I suspect it is more energy efficient now).

According to [2], a small VM uses around 7.5 Wh for 30 minutes (for a blended load of active/idle if I understand it correctly), or 0.00023 kWh per minute. So in very rough numbers with a lot of assumptions if your process takes less than 1:30 to install and run your program you are probably comparable to a Google search. More than that and you are almost certainly less energy efficient.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/technology/google-details...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mean-Energy-Consumption-...
Now it's all spaghetti
I disagree, #include <stdio.h> implies a system which has a stdout or stdin.
That is not necessarily a case for embedded systems, where maybe at most you can blink an LED as a form of user output.
yes: https://github.com/Logflare/pino-logflare
Wasn't "gzorp" a Mad-ism too ? And no doubt forgetting many others...
US (and Israeli) citizens can actually buy some of this stuff: https://fibrotexusa.com/
Sure, I do too when meeting someone with a non-standard job or a job that could be interesting from some peculiar point of view, but most jobs are definitely not that interesting, most are really just an exchange of time for money.
Thank you for the clarification. I will consider it in a near future.