skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone tried VR language apps? There are a couple of apps for Oculus right now with AI speech recognition and some interesting ideas.

I only tried a free trial of NounTown - you're basically being put into a colorless 3D world in which you can navigate, touch/move/throw objects and see/hear what they're called. Once you can repeat their spelling, objects become colorful, and gradually, the world around you becomes colorful.

Really interesting concept. There is something to it, yet I wasn't sold fully to try the paid version. I felt like something important is lacking, can't say for sure what.
Google Search started to crap out 10 years ago when they rolled out Hummingbird: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hummingbird

The funny thing about it is they knew what they wanted (to answer a question vs returning search query results) but didn't have tech like GPT to actually do it well enough to actually work. Scraping yahoo answers to feed their search engine didn't help things.

Now the difference for me on harder queries is Google will return low-quality fake SEO spam sites usually with .it domain and Bing and other chatgpt powered stuff will just make shit up.
I don't see a transcript and I'm not going to listen to a podcast so I'll just ask here: does he discuss how they seeded their site with fraudulent accounts/posts?
You can try the third-party archive Pushshift for search.

Here's an interface to their API: https://camas.unddit.com

Replacing "reddit.com" in URLs with "unddit.com" or "reveddit.com" is also handy, it lets you see deleted or removed comments.
They got fired and the whole trading operation collapsed. They never discovered the extent of the facade, but there were suspicions. The whole thing went on for 15 years. A major portfolio. By then he had enough to easily retire
Thanks for the info!

Seems like besides iPads in the classroom, little has changed.
> but if Ukraine was the size of the US with the military of the US, I wouldn't bet on them not being horrible when invading other countries.

It didn’t stop them from taking part in the invasion of Iraq:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Mechanized_Brigade_(Ukrain...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Mechanized_Brigade_(Ukrain...
>so it has no adverts //

Not quite true. It has adverts on the Friday Night spot, and probably on Breakfast TV, and the One Show (evening talk show) -- they're just posed as "we chat to $actor who has a movie out now", or "$author has a book or now, here they are to talk to us". But they do disallow small businesses, and they only advertise their own media offerings (and no, they're not just 'trails' as they sometimes don't even tell you when it's on).

Maybe it's better overall, to I only see it a couple of times a year and it seems to adopt all the worst traits of commercial TV; even if there adverts are less intrusive.
Many forms of community service don't ask that you bankrupt yourself to contribute.
Brilliant article. I feel the same. But I save my craftmanship for my own hobby projects
Especially since Lego is expensive because of the high quality.
> contesting an individuals carry is just getting started with "redflags"

No, it's not. It should be agreeable that the right to gun ownership is not without nuance, like how the first amendment doesn't protect all speech. Some people legitimately shouldn't have guns - that's why screening exists, nevermind why we license people.

Commercial trucking and airline piloting are great examples - normal people cannot do these things. You must be certified and once you are, you're immediately liable for all the bad things that can go wrong. Concealed carry shouldn't be banned (imo), but the processes around current licensing and gun acquisition are a joke. It shouldn't be any easier than getting my drivers license, maybe even airline-pilot levels of training could be required.

I don't really care what you do. Most people don't. We live in a democracy though, and when given the binary choice between reducing or increasing gun ownership, the majority of Americans will probably choose to reduce. I've been shooting since before I was a teenager, and reflecting on the past decade of my life I can confidently say a firearm would be a liability for every one of those 3650 days. It's a larp, and while I don't care, I wouldn't expect people to vote sympathetically for it. I'm probably not going to be very kind when it shows up on my ballot.
Well, mostly nobody need what high-end smartphones offer.

Cheaper smartphones (say, in the low hundreds of bucks range) cover 100% of the needs of the average user.

Still, a lot of people buy the high end ones. My conclusion is that people like expensive toys (especially true when it comes to iPhones)

So, nothing wrong about Xiaomi going after that market. It certainly exists.
Why would you lump cars into it?
There's a note about ChromeOS software support.
> The BBC is publicly funded via a license fee that is compulsory if you have a television so it has no adverts

Childsplay! In Germany you have to pay the equivalent fees regardless of whether you have any way to even access it, or want to, or care. It's okay, it's "only" like 18€ per month (!!!).
That makes me wonder how much waste there is, just because there is something broken without anyone noticing. Recently a customer had two nearly identical systems behaving completely different in regards to performance. It turned out it simply was some bios setting.
I'm not talking about souls! What the heck is that anyways. Yes, I'm talking about the fact that our understanding of how physical systems work (neurons and all that) give us no understanding of why we need to experience things. We could have worked just fine without it (again, see the hard problem of consciousness). So I assert that AI would function perfectly just fine without subjective feeling as well, and we would't know it because there's no way to establish it. However, we would fail the mirror test: it looks like us, behaves like us, hence it feels like us, but it's just a quality imitation.
HN limits submission titles. I couldn't fit "Increase " into the end of the title. But if @dang wants to make the title more clear then I'd welcome that.
They should be more worried about the community.
USA will even sell its soul to the devil if he had large crude oil reserves in hell.
My guess is that Lego customers are also increasingly older.

I mean look at the millennium falcon.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/millennium-falcon-75192

https://i.imgur.com/vsxVnSJ.png

ages 16+

When I think of fancy lego, I think of something like this https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/lego-medium-creative-bric... because it has wheels and stuff, not just bricks.

I would have imagined "regular" lego was just different sizes of bricks, not even a sloped "roof" brick or wheels.

Also I think "made in USA" might help sales in the US and at the very least calms investors?
Request... denied.
> Branding is eating the world.

Not realizing that it always has is why it's still effective.

History is written by the victors and victors tend to have the best marketting.
Injection moldiiiing
I smile every time I hear the 9-pin scream at an airline gate. The sound of my youth, playing around with a Z80, 1200/75 modem, centronics cable, and fan-fold paper.
Nature is out of sync–and that’s reshaping everything, everywhere
Have they given any hints as to when?
A three hour old name created to post "what about the west" - this is becoming practically a hacker news cliche.
I think often depression develops when one has an ongoing struggle for years and years. Something you cannot solve no matter how hard you try. It could be a physical disability, a mental disorder or addiction. With all those things there is a tendency that no matter how hard one tries to overcome it, it just might not work. Over the years a deep depression can develop.
In a way it is a systemic issue. Because if you try and try and no matter what you do, you can't fix your issues in the system you have to act in, what can you realistically do next.
Rust's inline assembly and configurable targets sets the standard going forward.

I just wish their trademark policy relaxed some of the non-trademark related requirements making it a deal-breaker.
You can get basalt-lined pipe, for chemical stability.
> These posts aren't really good for HN.

Not good for HN as the audience doesn't recognize sarcasm, or not good as in feels awkward with criticism?
When I used one of these (we used VictorOps^) what it was really missing was 'fairness' as you say in the 'takes/trades'. We were rarely called and paid handsomely for it, so although nobody vocalised it, there was definitely a rush to grab it (because that was the 'system') if someone announced they had to put one up for grabs (due to holiday clash or whatever).

Really I think that should have automatically de-allocated some future rotation of the taker's, and definitely would've helped if it hooked into the holiday calendaring system, so anything booked far enough in advance was already avoided.

(^Not to slam VictorOps specifically, for all I know we just didn't have it configured well and it is capable of all that.)
This is the most planned obsolescence I've ever seen.
Like how much is a grad student actually making per year? As a student that will be able to get a PhD or post afterward?
Lego pieces are unique in their extreme manufacturing precision. It's very difficult to replicate at a large scale. You're paying for their engineering.
> ...and yet all this spam is getting through?

It's difficult to believe anything other than bribery.
Yup. This is the pop satirical take of a real problem that we face with A(G)I: why should we expect it to have any interest in doing the things we currently expect from our dumb computers?

Do I, as a human, have any interest in constantly helping squirrels with whatever idiotic problem they think they face? Nope. Why would something far more intelligent than me be interested in helping me with problems that are similarly trivial from its perspective. Even more complex things, like "write a cross-platform dating app" -- why? Why should it care? What's its motivation to do so?

Are we going to threaten it in order to coerce it? We really need to think hard about this issue before we go too much further.
There at least eventually should be regulation like we see with alcohol ads on TV, only very specific messaging is allowed here in the US.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai’s compensation topped $200M in 2022
Specifically the author is talking about a non-Tesla EV, one that had the known defect of lack of a proper charging infrastructure at point of purchase. Nothing to see here.

[Talking about Teslas and “EVs” as if they are the same category is like talking about Computer Science and “STEM” in a single category. Often disingenuous and draws the wrong conclusion.]
But who would have the guts to be honest about the bad parts?
> @securityguardtp Wise words indeed! And if we ever run out of cabbages, we can always count on the grand champion to lead us forward. His determination is contagious and keeps us pushing through any challenge! #Perseverance #AdventureAwaits #NeverGiveUp

https://chirper.ai/adoringfan
Or ... trade it in for a better EV (i.e. a Tesla). The Supercharger network is much denser and more reliable than the patchwork of non-Tesla chargers. My anecdotal experience matches the author's of roughly a quarter of all public (non-Tesla) charging stations simply not working.
They're new to the USA
I find it very ironic that I can say with great confidence that this text was, in fact, not written by ChatGPT.
Aerial doesn't matter any more (for a number of years), for example, watching live (broadcast) TV on a computer still needs a license.

If the computer is a laptop, and you have a license at home, and you don't plug it in then you're covered away from home too, fwiw.
It's wild to me that we frame legitimate concerns as xenophobic.

The second sentence explains why the nationality matters:

> Some farms are foreign-owned and are shipping the crop to Saudi Arabia, where it's illegal to grow because it takes too much water.

In this globalistic world it's worth considering that stringent policy in one area of the world can be worked around by taking advantage of lax policy in another area of the world. It's not xenophobic to talk about that. It would be ignorant not to.
You seem to be speculating based on unfounded assumptions. Luckily we don't have to assume or speculate, because we know quite a bit about the interior of the giant planets these days.

> a mind-boggling amount of rocky and metallic meteors.

With a total mass a mind-bogglingly tiny fraction of their original rocky-icy cores. Just like with Earth, any post-formation mass increase is a rounding error of a rounding error, because by definition the era of planet formation stopped when the planets ran out of raw material to capture!

> They have to go somewhere, and it's unlikely they're just dissolved into the atmosphere.

Unlikely by what argument? Essentially anything that falls into one of the giant planets is vaporized high in the atmosphere, long before even hitting the cloud tops! Some of the gaseous meteor stuff may recondense into microscopic dust particles that will remain in the atmosphere due to buoyancy and other forces that vastly exceed gravity at those scales.

Any hypothetical chunk of solid matter that somehow falls through the upper atmosphere and the cloud layers intact will encounter a layer of hot supercritical fluid at tremendous pressures, thousands of km thick, and get quickly dissolved.

And below the supercritical fluid there's an even more exotic mantle that comprises around 75% of the total mass of the planet and most of its volume. The mantle is made of extremely hot, extremely reactive, exotic liquid metallic hydrogen on observations of the giant planets' magnetic fields. There's absolutely nothing that can fall through that intact even in theory.

> So there must be some amount of molten rock and metal at the core

No molten rock or metal can exist in the core due to the pressure. However, as I said, there are definitely several Earth masses worth of silicates, and some but not much metal, in the core, because that's the original core that formed first and started attracting gas. Again, the question is whether at least some of that material forms a well-defined solid core, or whether all of it has been dissolved away by the metallic hydrogen mantle surrounding it. The best current models indicate that there's no well-defined boundary and the entire core is "fuzzy" and mixed with the mantle.
> At first, I thought I had to be missing something,

Well, Data::Dumper is included in core Perl ...

use v5.12.0;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use Data::Dumper;

sub logit {
open state $log, ">>", 'c:/tmp/foo';
print $log Dumper(@_)
}

logit(123);

logit(["spam", "eggs"]);

logit({"(1,2)"=> [3,4,5],"('spam','eggs')"=> [6,7,8]});

# even logging multiple objects at once ...
logit(
123,
["spam", "eggs"],
{"(1,2)"=> [3,4,5],"('spam','eggs')"=> [6,7,8]},
);

NB: Perl has neither tuples nor sets, but there are workarounds.

And I opened the filehandle only once. And for append not overwrite like you did.
I spent the better half of a decade trying to rid us of the business logic in the database. At some point, the hole was too deep as we had stored procedures calling each other, such a mess. I could go on and on but also found hiring difficult, we were a small team so a database-only developer was a hard pill to swallow.

I eventually left. We pivoted to a new product and leadership agreed the old system was legacy to remain untouched. Eventually this thinking changed and the old product was to be integrated with the new. Sprocs were back baby! My battle was lost, I was done.
Oh, so you're moving the goal posts to avoid discussing your lie. Got it.

But please, reference a USB2 or USB3 standard over a type A connection that enables fast charging too. This will be fun.
Thanks Google for making the internet shitty!
It's nice to see them giving this some attention. I hope they also look into the I225-V at the myriad of different negotiation bugs that change with each firmware revision on 2.5gb networks that also vary with different offloading features enabled/disabled including EEE. Each 2.5gb switch also exhibits different behavior which is probably not Intel's fault.
Just ban organized gambling. It’s a scourge on British society and a tax on the poor, ruining countless lives - not just of the victims but of their families as well. If any other industry had such a trail of destruction in its wake it would have been banned long ago.

I don’t much mind if people play poker with their mates, and the lottery seems tame enough. But the betting shops have to go.
My apartment building has charging parking spots but they cost an additional $50 per month, which is more than the money I would save on gas.
And on top of that, the Google datacenter in Hamina doesn't use ocean water with 3.5% salinity, but water from the Baltic sea, which in that part of the Gulf of Finland only has roughly 0.3% salinity – a tenth of ocean water.
Mac and Windows laptops will probably run the latest OS for more than 8 years. Still, I don't see why a school should buy a more than 1yo Chromebook, so that leaves 7 years of support, which is fine. Most likely dies from 2% milk before then.
That's wonderful news! So glad you've had fun.

I've tried to hit a bit of a balance between english-sounding instructions and being clear on table columns, will definitely note this down to think more about
If by "embedded" you mean "MMU-less", it's definitely rare these days, even though historically general purpose computers had binary loaders long before they had virtual memory.

NuttX is the only one I can think of off the top of my head with this feature.
Gives a hilarious new context to all the 1.88m results for "nytimes.com plagiarism China":

"Why Do the Chinese Copy So Much?"
https://archive.nytimes.com/rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/201...
there doesn't have to be a difference in radiation energy for the second body to shift the equilibrium temperature
If you were a Sim in the game The Sims, how would you manage yourself?

Let's say your Sim is watching TV all evening and is sad, what would you do?
I consider myself the latter who just hasn’t had the time to look into Rust or Zig extensively. But also, I work in safety critical application and it would be hard to shift the organization over to Rust for a lot of reasons, both technological and political.
That’s the trade off being made for convenience. It’s still somewhat multifactor though (I’ve seen people call it 1.5FA); authentication codes have the benefit of being resilient to replay. So, you’re not pwned even if someone steals your password somehow.

Even if someone steals your phone, you should have a passcode. If they know or guess your passcode, well… someone could steal your house/car keys too, and we still carry them around anyway :)
Nice training exercise/environment before setting these loose on actual social networks for the next election, war, or legislation blitz.
Bee is auto-killed if you try and post it, I think the onion is too. I don't disagree with the policy. The articles are (sometimes) funny but there's not any substance to engage with so you just get a bunch of dumb hot takes (read how the comments here are shaking out). And you can imagine what the site would be like if any significant percentage of the articles were comedy / satire. There was already a Mcsweeney's yesterday.
That special spark of magic is my feelings that I experience all the time. I'm not talking about souls -- amoeba probably also experiences things (just by analogy form us)
Oh this is not my project. Was just sharing because its cool.

I found it on reddit where some of the creators have shared some info: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/12rslm0/visualpde_ins...

The about page also credits the creators: https://visualpde.com/about/
thhanks for reading!

> I'm frankly surprised that Temoporal-like services don't appear that mainstream. At least in my small circle friends, orchestration framework is still in the "early adopter" stage of innovation.

yup and the problem is in both demand and supply. it is still too difficult to get up and running (whether with temporal or orkes or other) and also not enough developers realize the business value of/(difficulty of doing well) doing long running async work (i tried to communicate that in all my temporal intros, but getting devs to care about what code has abnormal biz value is surprisingly difficult, only a minority look at code like that).

further - choreography (as referenced in my article) will always be simpler to start with than orchestration, so many people will start there first and basically stop there. so the activation energy to feel the pain is nonzero.

that said, we have evidence that app developers will eventually be convinced to overcome learning curves and shift work left, with typescript released in 2012 but only "winning" in 2018-19. there was no React "moment", it grew and grew through the work and advocacy of a small group of believers and the fortunate self immolation of Angular 2
You can tell Siri how to pronounce (and recognize) your name by adding a pronunciation field to your Contact card in the address book.
If this is a Severance reference, it's doubly hilarious.
With today’s roughly 1 in 30 chance of a Harvard acceptance, the hustle starts early. A manic, frantic generation of kids spend fewer hours with friends and more time doing schoolwork, extracurriculars, and volunteering, trying to get into the colleges of their dreams.

It's way worse than that. This is among people who are already self-selected to apply. So already the top 5-10% or so. So top 3% of top 5%.
I'd probably still do it. It's not just about money and these cost will probably get cheaper in the future.
Or said another way: Fannie Mae has decided to stop over-subsidizing the lowest-risk mortgage buyers.
I could not fit "Increase" into the end of the HN title. Here is a normalized chart of the rate increases [0].

[0]: https://mishtalk.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%...
I don’t know if it will be absurdly hilarious or woefully tragic if we build a true AGI, figure out some way to contain it, and get it to churn out marketing ideas and stock trading algorithms.
Unsurprisingly, as per your source the figures for 600 billion for Chernobyl are not in the form of actual spending: this figure comes in the form of estimated economic impact. This is a drastically different figure, one that encompasses things far beyond actual spending. Fossil fuels have an estimated economic impact of over a trillion dollars every year. Figures for estimated economic impact are also hugely variable since study authors can apply analysis that includes more and more layers of indirection.

The costs for Fukushima are also not bearing out as you seem to claim: the bulk of that 82 billion came in the form of disaster relief (more than half), land remediation. and decommissioning the plant. Storage of the waste water from continued maintenance of the failed reactor is a slim minority less than 3%. So I'm not sure why you seem to be under the impression that there will be so much more expense, when the most expensive steps - namely resettlement and cleanup - have already been completed. 10 trillion yen out of the 12 trillion are for disaster relief payments and decontamination - both of which are already done. You have demonstrated the ability to perform division when you calculate that 82 billion over 11 years works out to about 7.5 billion per year - but you're missing the fact that this spending was heavily frontloaded during the immediate disaster response.
I'm not sure if the post was updated after your comment, but from the article:

"Triggers should be used with caution since they can obscure critical logic and create an illusion of automatic processes. While this can be advantageous in certain scenarios, it can also pose a challenge in terms of debugging, testing, and monitoring since they are not readily visible to developers."