skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another thing (that might also be true of India) is that the US is a federation of fifty states, each of which have their own laws

India is a federation of states too. So is Canada (Canada's provinces are just states by another name), Mexico, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, etc. Many Americans seem to think the US is somehow unique by having states, but it is far from uncommon. Invoking it to explain America's unusual features only makes sense when you don't know that many other countries have similar systems.

In both India and Canada criminal law is a federal responsibility, so criminal law is the same across all the states. Indian states and Canadian provinces still have the power to make their own laws in other areas. This means the formal abolition of the death penalty in Canada had to be done at the federal level, and any future such abolition in India would have to be at the federal level too. But in both countries, while the letter of criminal law is federal, state/provincial governments handle the majority of implementation of it, so even with death penalty on the books they still had a lot of lee-way in deciding how much it gets used. Although, in the case of contemporary India, India’s Supreme Court has made clear they will only uphold the death penalty in the rarest of cases, which is a big part of why there are so few executions, meaning that right now state differences in policies/attitudes mean less than they did in the past

Whereas Australia, like the US and unlike Canada and India, has separate state and federal criminal laws, which meant (just like the US) some states abolished the death penalty decades before others – Queensland abolished it in 1922, it was abolished federally in 1973, but New South Wales became the last state to abolish it in 1985 (although they'd already abolished it for murder in 1955, so the complete 1985 abolition was only for rare offences such as treason). In 2010, the federal Parliament passed a law which bans any state from reintroducing the death penalty (using the treaty power, since Australia has ratified an international treaty to ban the death penalty)
> familiar with Microsoft, nor with academic or industrial research labs

The idea that Microsoft Research would publish anything remotely damaging to Microsoft is beyond naïve. I mean, one of their core tenets is "Ensure that Microsoft products have a future," but okay.
For output voltages that must be higher or lower than the input, there are other topologies like buck-boost, Ćuk, or SEPIC. In general, DC-DC converters can change their pulse duty cycle to modify the amount of energy transferred per switching cycle, and use a closed-loop control architecture to handle changes in input or output conditions. The control loop has a very fast bandwidth (usually hundreds of kHz) and can quickly respond to input voltage spikes or load transients.
Damn, I stand corrected. Apologies.
What advantages does desk have over direnv?
SSE is cool, but as others have pointed out, this isn't that. I also wouldn't call this Comet: almost unilaterally, Comet referred to using it in concert with JS/Ajax and usually was just a fancy way of saying long-polling (though I admit it's a bit broader than that in truth). What CGI:IRC did was different: it streamed HTML directly. More to the point, it didn't use chunked encoding or any kind of framing in the body. It just kept the connection open and kept sending HTML in realtime. I don't think this ever had a term associated with it, or at least I was never aware of one.
Really? I recently got a forerunner 265 and it definitely didn’t give the impression that was possible.

The battery life is also nowhere near the advertised length (13 days). Most disappointing is that their support people say to expect about 60% of that, which is what I’m getting.

That said, this will likely be the replacement for my Pebble. Battery life over 6 days, buttons to control music playback, and an English-first UI (amazfit falls down here).
Yes, the OP said they want to continue working their remote job with US company which they already have
RAS syndrome is not a bad thing for exactly the reason you've just mentioned! redundancy is common in language, it does actually serve a useful purpose and this particular redundancy confuses no-one.
How anyone would see that as a MVP when you can make a pretty solid API with Postgrest eludes me.
1.6V is definitely not 'low drop'.
How do you get overgrown lawn in sun-scorched Phoenix without using absurd quantities of water in a desert that's running out of water?
Fireside Chat: With Ilya Sutskever and Jensen Huang: AI and Vision of the Future
Alright so the ipcc makes multiple projections, with some being "hot", in the sense that they are worse than their other predictions. I think they made like 6 predictions last report.

This papers is just arguing that the "hot" predictions should be less intense, because they are not very good at reproducing some specific past dataset.

That has nothing to do with a problem with hot models - it's a slight modification to them.

You seem to be arguing in bad faith. Your article even seems to imply that the hot models are fine with predicting present data, just jot the data of the last ice age. Who cares? What has that got to do with anything? No one is only looking at the hot model!
Older versions of macOS run much smoother, even when just idling
Posting here for those folks sticking to older macs and feeling unsatisfied, who are interested in real world numbers.

I tried looking for other practical comparisons between the current versions of macOS (Monterey, Ventura) and Mojave and to my surprise found none on the publicly accessible internet.
While I never programmed Ada myself (there were no compilers I could afford), the people I knew who did complained bitterly that the compiler was always tripping over itself and making their life difficult. Well, even more difficult since they were stuck writing Ada. This was the late 90s though, so the situation hopefully improved over time.
For a couple years now,I have been interested in the way Starship has been developed. SpaceX are borrowing some project management patterns from Agile. I wonder if that will turn out to be a benefit, or an illustration of why you shouldn't try to turn every project into an Agile-like iteration toward a goal.

The main problem with that approach, at this stage of development, is that iterations get longer and more expensive. Blowing up the foundations of the launch mount and dropping debris 6 miles away is a hell of an add to the backlog, and the FAA will want to do a "code review" before you get to deploy.
I really don't understand how any method without regular conversational practice can hope to get a learner to B2-level proficiency. (As measured by a standardised test.)
Just a note, while I was in college some 6-7 years ago, I was told that methane was 19-21x worse than CO2. I don't think the consensus used to be that it was 28x.

The article also clarifies that while it is 28x, it also has a second effect in which it traps heat, so in total it seems to get to 20x.
That was not the games website
Thought this was gonna be an article about how they invented Wordle
Could it be from whoever controls the accounts?
I mean what is engineering though but trying to understand the unknown and come up with rules of thumb that work in practice
If I needed to multiply a pair of seven digit numbers, I would probably approximate them by dropping all but, say, the two most significant digits of each. If that amount of wrongness is a big problem, then I probably should have used a calculator in the first place.
Love the double meaning. That's one of those project titles that's so good that you pretty much have to follow through with the idea.
It looks like Twitter HQ just decided to give the blue check to every account over 1 million followers. But since they only have the one type of check mark + explanatory message, they just applied that.

It looks like pretty weak automation; changing the visible name on the account apparently breaks it and removes the check.
FUD at its very best.

> A careful comparison between a RISC and a CISC would
> seem to us to require a complete design of the hardware and
> microcode for both, construction or simulation of the processors,
> the writing of compilers and possibly an operating system, and
> performance measurement across a variety of applications.
> Without this level of effort, claims of increased
> cost-effectiveness for a RISC are hard to support

Which of course took a while, but June 1987, Acorn Archimedes, £800, 4.5 MIPS (I think that is counting VAX 11/780 as 1.0) vs MICROVAX 3500 (also 1987) 2.7 MIPS, $75k. Or VAXSTATION 2000, 0.9 MIPS, $5k.

Also in 1987, 68020 Apple Mac II and Sun 3/60 were 2-3 MIPS for $8k-$10k, less CISCy than VAX but still crazy CISCy. Much better price/performance than VAX, much worse than ARM.

> Dense code, of course, offers other advantages as well. Cache
> performance and paging performance will be better if there are
> more instructions per cache block and per page.

They are correct about that.

It is interesting that early RISC machines all had 2 instruction lengths and excellent code density: CDC6600, CRAY I, IBM 801, RISC-I. The early commercial RISCs between 1985 and 1992 (ARM, SPARC, MIPS, PA-RISC, Power(PC), Alpha) had just a single instruction length and poor code density.

Since 1995, everyone (re)introduced two instruction lengths in one way or another, culminating in the current ARMv7, RISC-V, and the stillborn nanoMIPS (1 chip produced before MIPS abandoned their own ISA in favour of RISC-V).

ARMv8 (Aarch64) is a weirdo, introduced in 2012 with a single instruction length and poor code density, ignoring the lessons of the fantastic success of ARMv7. To its credit, it is by far the most dense fixed-length 4-byte instruction ISA, easily beating A32, PowerPC, MIPS, SPARC etc. It also pretty much matches the highly variable length Amd64 which suffers a lot from pasting REX prefixes onto the i686 ISA.

But Aarch64 has poor code density compared to RISC-V (or 32 bit ARM) and I think this will ultimately be a large part of its undoing once modern µarch RISC-V SoCs get into mass production (including the various companies who have already announced or are working on 8-wide RISC-V cores).

> Here is an example from the VAX-11/780: in one time-sharing
> benchmark the instruction MOVC3 (a character-move instruction)
> accounts for less than 0.4% of the instruction executions, but
> for 13% of the time; it is 60th in the frequency ranking, ist in
> the time ranking.

Not mentioned by them: on the VAX-11/780, a decent memcpy() using normal instructions is faster than MOVC3.
The idea of a massive field of blue-green Poa pratensis Kentucky blue grass lawn is passe and absurd. It was a leftover of the French demonstrating how rich they were replacing farmland with manicured meadows. In the era of climate change and megadroughts, having a lawn has jumped the shark.
Ask HN: Roadmap and Feature request with voting software
Hello! I recently launched cyte.io and have been inundated with people asking for windows version and suggesting features. I am looking for something to use to show roadmap as well as allow people to suggest features as well as vote on them. Canny looks good and I think the free version would work but would love recommendations. Thank you! - Sarah
And I've not seen a single good argument from skeptics. Just looking at the hockey stick graph is enough for me to understand the severity of the issue, and I've not seen a good answer to it, let alone most other arguments.
How are you modeling the notes cozodb? I'd interested in parsing my Obsidian nodes into cozoDB as a way to setup alternate views on them. Curious how you thought about storing the bullets and relations between them.
This will be an unpopular opinion, but are you being scammed?

Is she asking you for money?
Since solar farms on average make the land they're on darker, therefore making them hotter, I've wondered if megascale PV installations would eventually include a few acres of PDRC panels (engineered materials that reflect visible light but radiate infrared light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_cool... ) to balance out their albedo contribution on net.

They would look pretty funny from altitude. With alternating black solar panels and white radiator panels would they average out to gray? Tweak the pigment mix slightly so they end up a tan-ish resembling the dirt they cover?
Do you think foreign CEOs aren’t paid like this?
This comment could have been about legalese
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
“JSON over HTTP? Yep, we’ve got REST!”
Having an HOA is an open invitation for the most sociopathic neighbors or for-profit management company to tell you what you can and can't do with your property, even more so than city and county code enforcement.

"John Oliver on homeowners associations: ‘Glorified debt collectors with the power to upend your life’"
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/10/john-ol...
Blackflies will take little bites, its the deer/horse flies that take chunks. One time while camping far away from modern civilization,
on a lake engulfed in the absolute silence of nothingness nearby, I swear I could hear the teeny tiny crunch of one taking a bite out of my thigh, cellulite and all.
I don’t know of a good term, no. “Differential rotation” is the broader concept but almost all of the information there is about bodies of fluids, with not much treatment of discrete objects. Even a single discrete object inside a body of fluid is hard to find information on; “object A inside shell B, all in a fluid C” is probably asking too much. Hopefully someone does, though! This is probably one of those cases where if you know the right term you can access a whole hidden field of literature on the topic.
Getting a set of airpod pro was easily the best money I’ve spent for doing yard stuff. I use the Noise Cancellation for mowing/trimming and the Transparency mode for other stuff. With transparency mode I dont at all feel isolated from anything.

I just put on a few hours of podcasts/music and it makes the work so much more enjoyable.

I’ve bought a ton of gadgets and tools for vegetable gardening over the past couple years but the airpods have been the best investment yet.

And I know i’m repeating myself but the transparency mode really is fantastic… i always avoided earbuds in the past because I despised how they made me feel “isolated from the world” or whatever, but their transparency mode totally solved that.
Out of curiosity, what is your definition of "engineering" and "engineer"?

Genuine question, I am not an engineer nor in any sort of role that could plausibly be considered engineering.
I think it is schadenfreude from a bunch of "smart tech" people who missed out on the early days.
You asked if your French was good, so here you go. I have some experience with French standardized testing. I had to pass a B2 (upper intermediate) exam for Canadian immigration and a C1 (lower advanced) exam for my professional license in Quebec.

I think this actually highlights a lot of the problems that people have with duolingo. You aren't terrible at French, but you are missing exactly the skills people malign Duolingo for not teaching. There are problems with word order, which looks like a lot of word to word translation or bad Google Translate (e.g., "Est-ce que mon francais bon?" is odd and unnatural). Your present-tense is spotty (e.g., it should be "j'apprends" not "je apprendre"), and your ability to use other tenses correctly appears non-existent (e.g., it should be "j'ai changé" not "j'ai changement" which translates as "I have change").

I don't think you'd pass a B1 exam (lower intermediate) given the above. Maaaybe A2 (upper elementary) for comprehension if your comprehension is better than your production. I suspect you'd have a great deal of difficulty communicating with a native speaker without the help of translation software as well.
When I was freelancing, I would have a Master Service Agreement that spelled out the "rules of engagement" and the actual work was in a Statement Of Work that lasted roughly 3 months. Gave each party the ability to pull the rip cord
Drachinifel on YouTube did a piece on the Pueblo

https://youtu.be/ZzuPWz3bakM
I noticed the exact same thing myself. I can't remember any of the words outside of the game. Once I'm in the game though they all come back to me. I've been trying to talk with my wife every time I learn a word now to help me cement it in my mind but it's very frustrating.
Track price drops on any website (be it everyday essentials or wishlist items)
Price drops for your favourite products happen all the time. Wouldn't you like to be the first one to get notified? Now you can - Play fetch with Fetchie and Shop smart!
Ha ha.

On an only slightly more series note, "fairy chess" has a number of alternative chess pieces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_chess

Amazon = queen + knight

Chancellor = rook + knight

Crowned Rook = rook + king

Camel = knight that moves 1,3

Grasshopper = queen, but must jump over a piece and lands immediately past it

Nightrider = knight, but moves unlimited in the same direction

and many, many more
It is pure, unadulterated snake oil. You cannot create a prompt or sequence of prompts such that you can substitute some variable data into it, to generate responses of predictable with the modified prompts. GPT4 isn't promoted as offering that capability. The output of each chat must be evaluated on a case by case basis for its quality and suitability.

If you want repeatable results, you get GPT4 to write you code. Then use that code. If you run into cases it doesn't handle, or have new ones, then you can revise the code, perhaps with the help of the AI once again.

The problem is, that the bullshit artists out there want repeatable results in areas for which it can't write you working code. For instance, a problem like taking a textual product description and producing a glib advertisement.

They want to be able to write a prompt where you can just substitute different product descriptions and have quality ads come out that nobody has to proofread (so they can be immediately served), just by "turning a crank".
Why not a comparison with whisper.cpp?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_rotation
I might be dense, but I really have little idea of what System D _actually_ is in practice after reading this.

Can anyone ELI5 what it is in practice? What are some of the ideas that allows one to débrouiller, etc... ?
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fetchie/id6445870538
A Standup Comedy with Tom Brady Voice AI
Depends on the time of year. For maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the year, most of winter and anywhere near monsoon season, your grass will grow regardless of if you water it or not.
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fetchie
At this point there is project risk from them not wanting to redesign and rebuild the launch mount. If an add-on flame diverter is not enough, they will have just delayed a painful decision that imposes long lead-times.

It might even be a blessing if the launch mount can't be repaired in a cost-effective way and they have to start over. But an iterative, Agile-like approach looks great when perfecting welded joints. But doing too many more iterations to get to orbit, in which boosters and Starhips are expended, could break the project. Agile is appropriate for a lot of software projects (n.b. not Scrum), but maybe not for the biggest rocket ever made.
I recall having to mow fertilized, borderline over-watered (3:30-:45 am every day), Kentucky blue grass 2x/wk in the peak of summer. 2-3 ancient circular tin trash cans full of clippings, perhaps 100 lbs / 44 kg / 7 stone. The water content was high enough that it wouldn't self-ignite like hay, but it sure would get warm, mushy, and consolidate quickly.
If she's been an independent contractor, I don't think she qualifies
I’ve been known to plan a me weekend. Of course this relies on care for the kids, in this case my wife (who gets her own weekends as well…). I try to keep it simple. An Airbnb or even hotel within an hours drive, head out on Friday afternoon and back on Sunday. Do whatever I want during that time. I’d say I manage this perhaps annually.
> but unless the unicorn is literally an exact replica of something from it's training set, it clearly has "knowledge", and it's weird that you'd try to deny that

Speaking of weird, that's a very weird definition of knowledge. Because in that case, then almost any data transformation operation implies knowledge. MS Word thesaurus? Knowledge. Search and replace? Knowledge. Markov chain[1]? Knowledge.

[1] http://www2.hawaii.edu/~chin/661/Projects/AdvAI_Project_Repo...
Ah ! I was using GPT 3.5. Impressive improvements.
If you're using GitHub to host the source code, you can use GitHub Projects with the roadmap view, and you can use GitHub Issues as well, or set up a email address for people to send suggestions.
Remote Schemas yeah, but have you seen json objects with remote links in them with more objects?
Many people would agree that students getting a quality education in literature, art, history, etc lead to many important social benefits.
Once loaded into RAM, the WORM latch is closed and the RAM becomes non-writable, and accessible at a different memory address[0], which is the same address other Amiga have a physical ROM mapped at.

0. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/1140/how-...
I had not looked into that. There actually is a hackerspace however the rates for membership are $60 per month[1]. The discounted rates don't seem to apply to her situation. [2] It is not obvious whether that space even would be trans friendly. I can see if i can reach someone from there to get a vibe or an idea.

> If the have tech skills I would think they could get a basic job easily.

One would think so naively. I am working towards trying to help her find a job. I have not been at it for long. If you have some insight where i might help her find a basic job making use of her embedded/backend C, C++ skills developing cross platform {Linux, Windows} x {ARM, x86_64} emulator writing tools which work as library and as application with integrated LUA interpreters i would be thankful. It doesn't have to be that specific but that might give people an idea what flame she is cooking with.

[1] https://wiki.chattlab.org/joining_steps
[2] https://wiki.chattlab.org/membership
There are conditions where humans just cannot perceive what is going on.

There's a story from (I just looked it up) 1944, before it was widely known the gas giants have no surfaces, about humans who modify themselves to explore Jupiter.

Before the characters undergo the transformation, they see Jupiter as a terrifying wasteland of never-ending storms - and after, nobody comes back.

If I remember correctly, the story is about a man and his dog who go through the process and then, when it is complete, Jupiter appears as a paradise and they realize that the reason people don't come back is because it's a better life once they become Jovians.

“Four men, two by two, had gone into the howling maelstrom that was Jupiter and had not returned. They had walked into the keening gale – or rather, they had loped, bellies low against the ground, wet sides gleaming in the rain.
For they did not go in the shape of men.”

The end is:

"'They would turn me back into a dog,' said Towser.
'And me,' said Fowler, 'back into a man.'"

I hadn't realized how much that story affected me, because my reaction to colonizing Mars, for years, really, has been that it's pointless to try until it's practical to become Martians. Otherwise you might as well live in a cave anywhere. But I didn't link it consciously.
I anticipate a huge market developing for unlocked second hand European iPhones in the US.
Nah that’s a good point. Ideally these things are untreated, but it could be connected you know.

Yet the presence of the articles doesn’t change the fundamental reality of the situation.