skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an early adopter, the benefit of less maintenance, home "refueling", and the fact that an EV is more fun to drive offsets the hassle. We've done a few road trips in it, and while road trip charging is annoying (we have a VW ID4, so the CCS network) its still worth dealing with because we enjoy the EV.

Personally I think right now EVs are a great second car for almost everyone because you get the benefits of an EV but can fall back to your gasoline car for trips. We're still in the early adopter phase of "primary" car right now, where you need to be aware of the drawbacks.
I'm in my 30s and have eaten many pounds of psilocybe cubensis mushrooms. Over the course of numerous years and not every weekend or all that frequently and it's been many years since I've eaten them by this point. I've also infrequently and over years had pure LSD direct from the chemist. I've never experienced any problems, I've never been unemployed, married 14 years with children in my only marriage, and maintain a 6 figure salary. I won't go on about spiritual life changes and other nonsense but there are plenty of highly functioning folks out there who can responsibly use psychedelics from time to time and continually improve their lives.
> The System V ABI is closer to being a standard than some official standards are.

That brings back some unpleasant memories. What happens when a popular compiler decides that whatever they choose is the ABI, and the published spec be damned? https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38496
They are including suicide, and in a state like Wyoming, 85% of gun violence is gun suicide. Still not great, maybe conservatives are just more depressed, but it’s not the same as violence against others.
But modern reddit isn't really very similar to what they're mocking? Here's the joke mockup: https://sp.reddit.com/reddit2mockup.jpg

Open reddit now and there's no silly unusable tag clouds, no top-of-page ads, no 3rd-party ad serving, no gradients, no overdone logo, no tagline, no allcaps headings, no giant voting arrows...
LibreBoot probably solves it
I’m not a doctor but the tinnitus combined with the visual “snow” long after the drug had been metabolized sounds kinda like a minor or “lucky” (by that I mean not significantly debilitating) stroke.
The woman who sold me my last phone was probably in her early 20s, and she joined AARP for the discounts on her phone plan.

Off topic: the old farts in the picture hold the controller like old farts. The default way for people my age to pick up a Playstation or Xbox controller is to have your trigger fingers nowhere near the R1, L1 buttons....
Good, I appreciate their help with legalizing marijuana.

We have to figure out how to regulate it rather than making it illegal.

For instance, minors should be protected from it*, but medical marijuana must be available to minors with certain medical conditions.

And DUIs must be prevented. That includes employment forms for operating heavy equipment.

Those legalizing and those still fighting the racist drug war share some problems.

* and also protected from harmful law enforcement practices
Presumably changing I to V or removing prefix subtraction characters (e.g., XIX becomes XX).
Related old comment with links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245652
The energy taken by the bees and turned into honey is a cost from the flower’s point of view. I think you are looking at the efficiency of honey as a food, while the previous poster is looking at the efficiency of bees as pollinators?
I'd double my premium subscription fee to remove this feature from the Android app.
Yes, the numbers were per capita, so urban areas have the advantage of dividing their incidents by their huge population numbers. It’s like playing the lottery, the odds might be better for being a victim of crime in rural areas, but there are alot more people in urban areas who will become a victim (just less chance it will be yourself).
>"veritasium" (spelling?),

Close, V E R I S T A B L I U M
Yeah, as if we're obligated to marry these women.
I was looking for one for one of my project but this is above "I could have just 10 years worth of batteries instead of that" level of pricing
I worked on forward error correcting codes for a variety of systems.

A few big issues with Turbo codes:
1. Decoder complexity - often 4x or more the complexity of simpler codes.

2. Encoder delay- you need to have a really long interleaver at the transmitter to get the big dB of improvements.

3. These work best an pure additive white gaussian noise channels - most channels suffer from multipath, fading and other disturbances.

So while they are good far satellite broadcast system they don't always work as well in other applications.
Who cares, given that for a telescope what matters is the fraction of the atmosphere below it and that it is viewing things that are for all practical purposes at infinity it might as well be in space, the images wouldn't be any different unless the angle was very oblique, and even then the difference between being on the ground and being truly in space would be rather smaller for the second.
It's de facto legal for someone to smoke a joint at Venice Beach, but you can still get arrested for possession in a national park, lose your job for smoking over the weekend, and even get your cash civil forfeiture'd by local police for running a dispensary in a way that is compliant with CA but not federal laws.
I hate bug zappers. They should be illegal. All they do is kill moths and beetles. They are entirely ineffective against mosquitoes and other biting flies, and their otherwise indiscriminate killing disrupts pollination and generally throws the local environment completely out of balance.
Even a single bit may be arbitrarily large, depending on the encoding. Encoding may be defined as a language, Turing machine, bb, etc. I can also define a single set bit as 10↑↑100 and beat your busy beaver. It's all arbitrary. A float is also an encoding, and with different mantissa size I may get a larger number.

Now if we count a number of distinct states 64 bits can take, it will still be 18446744073709551615, which I consider the only possible answer.
I think the pseudocode might just be hard to write here

const N = [1,2,3 ... ];

const countableSet = N.map(n => getEnumeratedFraction(n));

e.g. here the lambda function maps the natural numbers to all fractions (cantor showed how to easily implement getEnumeratedFraction).

For all sets of equal cardinality, a pure function exists that transforms N (or another set of the cardinality you wish) when mapping the set members.
And conversely, if such a function exists, the sets are of same size.

Since the pseudocode is JS-like, you could also write it using Set.

The sets are represented in pseudocode as arrays because enumeration is the point here.
All of OpenAI's data collection is done under fair use
Not deception. Suspension of disbelief ;)
It’s not a crime. Residents pay a real market rate for water and if they want to spray it on their lawn, go for it.

What’s a crime is people with water rights for agriculture that pay effectively nothing and flood a field to grow alfalfa.

This behavior is completely unsustainable and uses orders of magnitude more water than the residents who pay for it. If they paid the same rate, these dumb crops would be cut off immediately and the water crisis would be over in a month.

Anything calling attention to residential water use is agriculture propaganda to keep the focus on neighbors chastising each other rather than considering meaningful legislation that would end the gravy train for them.
If something ends with “I“ you can add two more I’s and have it go from 1 to 3.

And so on.

Using that appending technique works to sneak the year forward in most cases - perhaps that was the intended benefit? We can update the copyright from (say) 1950 to 1951 without any obvious tampering.
Finetunes are historically better than the base model, thats the whole idea of a finetune... but I think you are really asking if finetunes of public models will be as good as huge SOTA proprietary models and their paid "finetuning" services.

Thats hard to say.
It’s fair use because training sets are useless except for creating a new thing which transforms the inputs into something new. It’s not merely selling photos that already exist or something. Stable Diffusion has only about enough bits in the weights to represent a single pixel out of each image in the training set.
> 76 minute read

I thought this was a guide for the busy worker.

> Climate change will cause agricultural failure and subsequent collapse of hyperfragile modern civilization, likely within 10–15 years. By 2050 total human population will likely be under 2 billion.

What an insane take. I would ask if I could bet against the author, but I'm sure they wouldn't take the bet since their winnings would be worthless in the hyperinflation of their apocalyptic dystopia.
> fuck moths and bring on […] butterfly populations

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_rapae
Rams: a Neovim theme inspired by the works of Dieter Rams
I hate what Wojcicki did to Youtube but their decision to pay content creators will go down as not only one of the greatest business decisions, but for all things internet related in the past 30 years.
I would probably say if you are going to go to learning a third language than you would probably have been better off studying linguistics instead of that second language which will make all language acquisition easier. But hindsight, how many learn a second language with the intent of learning a third or forth? and once you learn that third you probably are going to have a decent intuitive grasp on linguistics even if you can not maintain a discussion with a linguistics major.
Help My Haskell program consumes more memory the longer it runs
Sort of related: in english Canada, french immersion often ends up being a way to send your kids to a better public school, and for whatever reason the english / french kids (as in enrolled in those programs) tend to split along socioeconomic lines.
"lucky" is a word we came up with to pretty much describe those circumstances.

Since luck has so much opinion wrapped up in it, it's really easy to change your viewpoint and describe the same event as not-lucky.
How about Linux will move your process to another core for no good reason?
There was a HN submission on this a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30151021
> > If you listened to the podcast they talked...

> If people have to listen to a podcast to hear...

birken wasn't saying that this information is only in a podcast, he's talking about a podcast because that's the article we're discussing.
The Rust compiler developers are well aware that it's not possible to write 100% correct code at scale, not least for their dependencies, LLVM provides Rust with ICE (cases where your program crashes the compiler) and with soundness holes where the LLVM behaviour is definitely wrong but it's arguably exactly why and so until LLVM developers decide why it's wrong and fix it, Rust has to either work around that or accept sub-par results.

Much of the Rust compiler is written in Rust and so has fewer problems.
Recall that Roman numerals are also used for movie sequels. This clearly isn't about concealing the age.
'Was'

They recently included non-free binary blobs. They should probably rename to openboot
Even as a kid, I was able to read Roman numeral representation of the year. Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoons would include the copyright year in their title credits and I was able to determine which year it was even though they were displayed very briefly. For example MCMXXXVIII -> 1938.
> the evidence that a bad trip can potentially cause permanent damage is useful and relevant.

I would argue that this is not true in isolation! I guess it's not technically wrong, in that a new article is not 0 information, but without an attached probability there isn't much to learn. Frankly, some of the symptoms the author experienced are typical of HPPD, and some are not. Correlation isn't causation, and one datapoint absolutely does not show so much as correlation.

You almost certainly partake in activities with a chance to go far more wrong every day! In fact, if the mere possibility of something going wrong is enough to dissuade you, then you shouldn't have needed the article in the first place- there's always a chance things could go horribly wrong!

To be clear, I'm not saying LSD has no risks. The author got very unlucky, but not as unlucky as others who have been documented in the literature. My pitch is not even that those risks are mostly worth it- for many they probably aren't. What I'm saying is that the author's experience is every bit as useless as the people who constantly hype LSD up. The conclusion is "Fuck you, Jobs"- can you say with a straight face that the author wouldn't have concluded the same way even if no one else in the world had ever had a bad experience on LSD?
Yes, but this would reduce performance. The cache makes up for it whilst being able to run at a lower TDP.
...this is exceedingly common for extremist groups. The Governor Whitmer kidnappers also had feds, but they weren't all informants. Same principle applies here.
Vita 49: Analog RF-Digital Interface
Link to the actual publication:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05922-y
I have to wonder what sort of interestingly weird stuff this is going to do to the statistics as this cohort continues to age, since this will likely displace a lot of 'sitting around watching TV' behavior (even if it's just 'sitting around playing video games' instead). It feels like it will be a comparatively huge boost to mental engagement in old age.
Pydantic Started a Company
I guess the idea is just to wait a few years then.
The true will out on the expiry date of shadowy secret
Call me a Luddite, but I think were kind of in the golden age of DVDs. Local public libraries are kind of what Blockbuster used to be, except: no cost to rent.

Watching something without commercial interruptions nowadays is luxury.
Doesn’t make sense to me. The semantics of the Blue Check has changed from “anointed” to “subscriber”. If Boursin and others pointed out were critical, it was of the “anointed” model, simply because of the date of their personal demise.
How is studying linguistics supposed to make language acquisition easier?

Linguistics is the academic study of languages.

My toddler is learning three languages growing up (English, Mandarin, German). She picks them up just fine, because she hears them spoken around her; I don't think she'd benefit from learning linguistics instead.
Throwing lots of data at DuckDB and Athena
I wonder if your concern that your opinions will be downvoted and flagged are misplaced. The rest of the commentariat may prove me wrong. But Hacker News tends to be more open to real discussion than most pubs on the internet.

During the COVID period (which I consider functionally complete Fall 2022 with Omnicron's cycle completed), there was a need for keeping the channel from being flooded. The academic discussion of potential counterfactuals, usually to be found in conferences and certain blog webs, were often misconstrued by content producers, conspiracy mongers, and others driven by less-then-truthful motives to convince the gullible or distracted. As this causes very real harm [0], quelling the contrarian-without-evidence voices was important in the short term. We will see regarding the long term impacts as acts of governance are often seen as tyranny by the same groups that push contrarianism for their personal profit.

[0] https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/09/22/kicked-in-the-ribs-haras...
Defeats the purpose of what? Core isolation and pinning is very common.
I am surprised that someone might think it should. When I consider my extended family, more than half of them use two or even three languages on a daily basis but in terms of “smarts” seem to be normally distributed, with no special correlation in this regard.

So I’m unsurprised by the conclusion of a rigorous and larger study.
> If the tone of Twitter is a twee leftism, parts of YouTube are conducted in the register of the aggrieved alt-right. There is lots of dating advice on there of the me-Tarzan-you-Jane kind. But these flaws — arbitrary power, weirdo politics — afflict lots of platforms.

This quote says more about the author than about YouTube. It seems obvious that YouTube is much more centrist on average than Twitter, where political polarization is stronger than anywhere else.
Lucid beats Tesla on all 3. 520mi range, super efficient, 350kw charging (compared to 250kw on a Tesla).

My point isn’t that Tesla sucks. It’s that they’re not inherently superior anymore.

(And yes, Hyundai and Kia are great. Merc and BMW are also giving them a run for their money, though I don’t like their styling.)
> McInnes is open about his glorification of violence. In a speech, he described a clash with Antifa outside a talk he gave at NYU last year: “My guys are left to fight. And here’s the crucial part: We do. And we beat the crap out of them.” He related what a Proud Boy who got arrested told him afterward: “It was really, really fun.” According to McInnes: “Violence doesn’t feel good. Justified violence feels great. And fighting solves everything.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/gavin-mcinnes-proud-b...
That's interesting, I don't think I've heard a native English speaker say historic with a silent h. Which part of the world are you from?

To be fair, if the h is silent then it actually makes sense.
Kinda depends on whatever is running on it. I can imagine just... putting different workload on cores with spicy cache vs normal ones.

... but overall it would be far easier to just buy 5 faster machines and 10 slower ones instead of having 15 "half fast half slow" and fuck around with scheduling

The aforementioned 7950X3D is a very weird proposition. 7800X3D (8 cores all with spicy cache) have game performance that's near the same in most games so I guess value proposition is "you can just run other workload" (streaming) on other ones but that's not many people's use case...
You say it like it's a bad thing.

This is an awesome way to provide both an extra language when kids don't have much else to do and fit it easy to pick them up, _and_ it saves on costs? What could be better?
This is why you draw a line before, and after amounts on cheques.
I often use the speed of light and nanoseconds as an example of we cant have infinite performance. But that was back to at best 2013. But this goes back to 1998. I just wish I had this quote known earlier.

We are now definitely near the end of the S curve. May be Another 10 years of node advance and small incremental IPC progress. I often wonder, what's next. Or are we... nearly done and its all software?
Yes, it clearly started out at least partly as a prestige thing. Books (and even periodicals) indeed used to often have the publication date in Roman numerals, and the older and more self-consciously presteegious a book is the more likely it is to have them in that format. Clearly the inter-war studios were trying to claim some of that prestige for themselves, just as they added other neo-Classical elements to their branding for similar reasons: think of the Columbia logo and so on.

(BBC TV credits use Roman numerals as well. Apparently they switched from Arabic to Roman as late as 1976: https://www.tvforum.co.uk/tvhome/bbc-colour-end-credits-chan... )
Have you corrected for the obvious confounders in your anecdata?
This is just an observational study. It seems fairly useless for understanding whether a given person will be smarter if they learn a second language.

Looks like the “controlled for” socioeconomic status, but I doubt this fully captures the difference in populations between bilingual and non-bilingual people.

It could be that the population of bilingual people, had they not been bilingual, might have scored lower on these tests, and therefore being bilingual brought them up to par. Impossible to tell.
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And in the old days, the old paper airline tickets were printed on little carbon paper ticket books. As I remember it, the airline would tear out one copy "coupon" from the ticket for each segment that you flew before issuing your boarding pass.

But paper tickets are pretty much unheard of now days, and I don't think airlines are using much carbon paper.

The real reasons they're still around at airports are probably:

1. Compatible with the airline's ancient software and terminals

2. Small size relative to laser printers, can be integrated in to the airline gate/ticket desk "furniture"

3. Highly reliable, and doesn't need expensive consumables. Just need to replace the ink ribbon maybe once a year or so

4. Can print one line at a time if necessary as a sort of ledger/manifest, such as for each passenger who's checked in, and you can tear off whatever's already been printed whenever it's needed
This is mine too and I feel like people's personal biases make them think otherwise. 9 times out of 10, the extra effort and concern put into making a new thing more scalable or generic wasn't needed, that time and effort could have been better spent doing other things. Also, skipping the work and going for the simpler option wouldn't have blown timelines nearly as much. Problem is, you don't feel that wasted time very harshly, but for that 1 in 10 you have to go back, throw out code and re-do it, the pain is very sharp and acute so everyone takes the more burdensome path and pats themselves on the back for being a good architect.
You could make a similar argument about public education. However, your pariah status will no longer rank as mild.
Well, that feels like a different circumstance to me. II, III, IV and so on are significantly more understandable and readable compared to... MMXXIII or what have you.
Virtual Radio Transport Vita-49
Per the image at the head of the article, they’re still not yet a growing force in stock photography. Which seems a reasonable explanation as to why it’s so incredibly difficult to get Midjourney et al to generate realistic images of elderly people playing video games. I spent nearly a month’s worth of credit trying to get it to show older people playing Dance Dance Revolution.

Also, my grandmother who recently passed away at 96, spent hours and hours playing games like Candy Crush. She often passed out in front of her computer at 2am. Not that ‘casual’ imo. My mom does the same, feels like some kind of sick payback for being addicted to NES as a kid.