skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "knowledge is verb"

reminded me of Pirsig's hint about "good is a noun" .

maybe the only difference between animals and us, is that we might be able to dig deep and find "how/why it works" (disassemble, reverse engineer, analyze, etc - in order to repair it, or better it, or make/invent another use of it ) - thus propelling ourselves into new fields.

sadly that find-out-how to-the-bottom attitude is slowly disappearing around.
I have both a 950 and a 950 XL in a box here gathering dust. They're not worth enough to try and sell second hand anymore, so I'll definitely be trying this!
True. But on the other hand the best camera is the one you have on you. And this one seems very easy to have on you. Unless you lose it, also easy...
> it boasts the lowest ‘Cd’ (co-efficient of drag) of any car ever built

Solar cars supposedly get a hair below 0.1 (Sunswift 7 is apparently at 0.095, the wiki claims Aurora is also there though it provides no source).

This makes the claim of 0.12 rather hard to believe unless they’re talking about completely different concepts.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people who can't feasibly charge at home, like people who have to park on the street, or who rent their home and don't have access to anything but a 120V 15A outlet, assuming they have access to an outlet at all where they park their car.
> No, it's far less defensible, because people have the internet to look up and verify things as needed.

Actual it is far more defensible, as I already clarified earlier. Propaganda remains effective regardless if there is the ability to verify it or not - and that is assuming everything can and will be checked by every person, which isn't realistic.

> This kind of censorship is just nannying, which I'm generally against.

It's not nannying at all. It's basic national self defense. Pen is mightier than the sword and all that. Brainworms are an insidious contagion.
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Road accidents are plentiful, the vast majority from cars correctly configured driving on the correct side of the road.

The Sacoolas fiasco is famous because she was protected by the US government because she's a CIA asset, while they should have put her arse in jail.
Would you like to show a calculation that shows a an ev 'powered by coal' is worse than petrol.

How are you defining 'powered by coal', because China's energy mix isn't 100% coal either.
The story is hilarious, because FizzBuzz actually worked as the hiring filter it was designed to be!

"Write FizzBuzz" - "OMG, MATH!"

Impostor meets Dunning-Kruger.
They were fined 2.4 billion euros for downranking a shitty SEO spam operation: https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/07/google-shopping-lawsuit/am....

How many of those thousand domains will result in billion dollar fines?
> The opportunity cost is low. You have nothing to lose by doing it, other than a couple bucks spent on floss.

I have ADHD. I hate flossing, and I'd put off flossing to the point where I wrecked my sleep cycle and tended to end up just not brushing my teeth before bed.

Ever since I stopped flossing, I've basically always brushed my teeth and have kept my sleep cycle more successfully.

Yes, I know this is potentially very bad dentally, but frankly I'm sick of having a catastrophically unreliable sleep cycle due to my mental illness and I'm willing to accept half-assing it if it means it doesn't destroy my life.

That said, I have no particular opinion on the evidentiary base of flossing - my dentist has always recommended I floss, and I believe his recommendation. I would floss if I could.
I don't want to sound confrontational. But I am a bit unsure what answers you are expecting.

You're asking people who are still coming here (otherwise they could not answer your question), why you are not coming here anymore. How should we know about your motivations? And if you would want to know from others who stopped coming, shouldn't you ask somewhere where those people are (although I don't know where that would be) ?

Maybe a better question would be to ask why people are still coming (maybe in contrast to why you feel it is not worth it anymore).
This is exactly it. A language is a tool for engineering. I still have a soft sport for Erlang and it would make a lot of sense in many places I work on now, but it has to be seen in totality. Something that includes the entire ecosystem and thus we are not using it at the moment.
> Sounds like some manager had drunk the FOSS/bazaar kool-aid at that point, but wanted to keep the costs down by just taking from FOSS efforts in other languages (as opposing to continue to use more resources to maintain Erlang at the previous degree, and giving to FOSS).

AFAIU, nothing to do with FOSS, which wasn't really on the radar for a somewhat conservative telecom company at the time. It was about custom in-house stuff (PLEX, Erlang, etc.) vs. "industry standard" (C++, OO, UML, etc.).

See also my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36570765
Can confirm; I'm just fine with artificial sweeteners but cilantro tastes like soap to me.
LMAO! I didn't even look at them together. Nice catch. :) It's good to know.

There's probably 1 or 2 originating manufacturers in China. Chinese generic products are often semi-open source amongst design/engineer and manufacturing people. The disposable nonsense brands end customers see are invented either by an intermediate wholesale reseller or the seller themselves, sometimes inconsistently.
From what I heard VS Code is a really optimised and well designed piece of code.

Not sure what I’m going with this except I know VS code is touted as some kind of counter example a lot. But I also know such care didn’t go into most Electron codebases.
Making a sustained high intensity effort for 4-5 hours is not easy to do when you're in a full body suit that prevents you from cooling off.

The only types of race in which they use something close to what you're suggesting, where the aerodynamic gain of the suit is higher than the danger to overheat the rider, are time-trials, or velodrome races, which have a lower duration (max 1h).
thank you for the warning! I wasn't planning to set it to pure oxygen, just ~22% (if I can even set them that low), but now I'm scared of the possibility of an accident.
A more appropriate example is the Renault Zoe (starts at 30k euros in France) or the Dacia Spring (starts at 16k euros in France) which are actual cars that seat 4-5 people, and have 200km+ range (more than enough for the vast majority of trips taken).

> EVs aren't inherently expensive, the issue is that the industry tends to advertise and equip EVs as a status symbol and price them as a luxury, rather than focus on simple/cheap designs that would have more impact on emissions.

True, but the main issue here (according to manufacturers, at least in Europe), is supply chain issues making smaller cars unprofitable, thus forcing them to focus on bigger more luxurious models with bigger margins.
Can you share any story on Mac OS 9.x vs Mac OSX transition? How big of a leap was it under the hood? Why?
Sure, but you're missing the point that you yourself just made: "are going to start", as in, they haven't yet. Most people are not going to buy an EV today without a reasonable charging solution, banking on the idea that situation will fix itself at some point in the hopefully-not-to-distant future.
Python can make 3M+ WebSocket keys per second
C++ 85.1%
thank you for the advice!
In the famous words of Calvin Coolidge, "you lose".

https://clintonwhitehouse3.archives.gov/WH/glimpse/president...
Hard for someone else to answer a question about you. I still love Hacker News and check it most days
Wasn't "links:" mostly (ab)used by SEOs while "site:" is really useful for real users?
Those early levels where you fight against humans in a tropical setting were the best part. Every Far Cry game that came after, emulated those first levels, and scrapped not monsters in hallways.
> In europe there's 1-2 orders of less police brutality and issues overall, but the tradeoff is you randomly have military police walking around with rifles

I doubt any relation of these two facts, or cannot see it.
yeah that's a great point, I need to come up with some way to measure it.
H100 PCIe has 114/144 SMs enabled

H100 SXM5 has 132/144 SMs enabled. Also higher clocks, much higher TDP.
Perhaps filming the blinking RGB LEDs inside the PC case? You know, for more FPS?
The first few things you mention are great, but giving away fuel for free (whether it's gasoline or electricity) is an unsustainable marketing stunt, and won't last.
Put "Pieces of me" in quotes and I get reddit discussion. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pieces+of+me%22+is+actual...
Is simula a forgotten language? While it is less used now I thought it was generally acknowledged as a precursor to all OOP today, although Smalltalk is generally more regarded as a pure OOP language defenders still cite.
Perl 5 -> 6 was much more comprehensive than Python 2 -> 3. Perl 6 is almost a completely new language.
Prolog and ML (and also GHC) come from Scotland, while not Nordic, it's close.
Some people (not very many) want to annotate for good reasons. A whole ecosystem of bad actors want to annotate for bad reasons. And not very many site owners want to be annotated; why would you let people scribble on your pages?

(How big is the demand to read annotations? What sort of annotations?)
> In 1865, (toxic) synthetic indigo dyes were created using petrochemicals by German Adolf von Baeyer, and this made cultivating indigo less profitable, so the industry declined significantly.

According to Wikipedia, synthetic indigo is the same as natural indigo, so not especially toxic. The products used in its synthesis (which include formaldehyde and cyanide) are toxic however.
Why would I carry a camera when I have my phone. If I cam going to consciously carry a camera then why would I choose something worse than my phone.
Great, this shows that they are unlikely to restrict as they already have a working business model for it with seemingly reasonable pricing (free for non-commercial, free monthly dumps, etc).
Similar situation here.
I liked reading your points so thanks for sharing
Yes. It's the "servers should be cattle not pets" philosophy; then you realize that having one server necessarily makes it a "pet" that demands periodic care and feeding with occasional emergencies that cost money or wake you up at night.

Also: people use big services for discovery. If you write a blog, nobody's going to read it unless you get out there on the social media and promote it.
Ericsson is currently using Erlang where appropriate.

Open sourcing Erlang and it finding some success outside, meant it's no longer an in-house only language.
The first time when I have used a GUI was with Windows 3.0, but it did not impress me much, because at that time it was just a useless toy.

On the same computer I was using many MS-DOS programs which not only were much more useful than anything that existed for Windows at that time (1990), but they also had much more clever user interfaces, some of which have never been completely matched by the later GUI programs, e.g. Lotus 1-2-3, AutoCAD, XTree, the Brief text editor and many others.

While it is said that in GUI programs it should be easier for the user to discover the available commands and their behavior, that was not really a problem for the good MS-DOS programs, because they all came with huge well-written user manuals, where the user could find everything that was needed to know about the user interface, so even when the UI consisted of obscure keyboard shortcuts, learning it was not difficult.

The only thing that I really liked in the Windows 3.0 GUI were the included fonts (Times, Helvetica and Courier), which were much nicer than the SuperVGA bitmap fonts that were used by the MS-DOS programs.

Later, Windows 3.1 and 3.11 for Workgroups were still not competitive with MS-DOS or DR-DOS. Only IBM OS/2 2.0 looked like a real improvement over the operating systems with a text-based UI, but it lacked useful applications.

Everything changed with the launch of Windows 95, together with the availability of cheap 486 CPU clones, which finally enabled a decent speed for GUIs, which previously had been annoyingly slow for any professional use.

Only with Windows 95, both myself and everybody I knew have switched to using GUIs.
Ask HN: A Book on the History of Money?
I read & loved Cryptonomicon. The parts abut creating a currency were really interesting.

I am now reading The Baroque Cycle and I'm finding the little tidbits about the history of money/currency/stock exchange even more interesting.

I tried to sift through a couple of interviews and AMA by Stephenson, but I couldn't find a source (or sources) from which he derives these info.

Do you have any recommendations? I am looking for something really broad, like from ancient times to modern day, and possibly written for someone who doesn't know a lot about economics.
So you're saying that you don't expect UI developers to ever implement a test?
What do you do when you need it? Banking or CC app for mandatory 2FA? gvmt Covid mandatory app to travel anywhere? QR code for restaurants? Places that require an app in general?

This is ofc locale-dependent, but if before the pandemic you could barely live without a smartphone, today is just impossible (at least in the 2 countries I visit often).
Dunno, seems like a pretty big restriction to me.
Honest question: What projects are potentially disagreeable?

Are you suggesting that: "free knowledge, open source and open data, transparency, privacy, and collaboration" are ideas that "a lot of folks might not necessarily agree with?"

(I fully admit that I may be missing something from the few minutes of research)

I am interested in this because I believe that the users of social platforms are far better served by non-profits like Wikipedia instead of the enshitification that is fueled by the profit motive.
I don't think replacing one bad idea with another bad idea is a good idea ;) I'm also not sure if Java would be less bad in that case. At least JS has years of research that went into making it start fast, not only run fast after warmup.
Case insensitivity is only seen as "rustic" because C is case insensitive. Somehow, case insensitivity is seen as a modern thing but at the same time everyone recommends not choosing identifiers which are close to each other apart from case in style guidelines.
I was running Frigate this way. Initially I had a 1030 without the USB TPU running fine, and have since added the TPU and another GPU. The guides out there will help you.
> Why does non-urban, non-commercial (retail) Internet access suck so hard in Germany?

To cut a very long story short, what should have happened a long time ago in Germany is to treat internet access at a reasonable speed (however that is determined) like access to electricity or the plain old telephone system: It's the law you get connected like everyone else at the price everyone else pays, even when you are in a very rural setting. Leaving that decision to commercial interests, has lead to very slow or unavailable rural internet infrastructure because either the price would be ridiculously high to become connected or the companies would lose money.

It's political failure, plain and simple.

Looking back in time, the original sin was committed in Germany in the early 80s when the SPD run government understood that fiber optic networks were the future for the telephone system and television distribution. They had a 30 year plan to convert West-Germany's telecom infrastructure to fiber. That was way before the internet, but would that plan have been enacted, Germany would have sat on a high speed fiber infrastructure in the 90s when the Internet exploded onto the scene.

Unfortunately the conservative CDU government under Kohl immediately scrapped that plan when they came into power and went for cable as the distribution medium for TV and the telephone system continued to operate on copper at least on the last mile. So here we are in the 2020s with crappy cable modems and crappy DSL connections. (Where available.)
the ability to embed a shell command in backquotes and get its output easily

Aside from that being a gigantic footgun, you can do this in Ruby, PHP, and in POSIX shells but not in Javascript or Python.
I don't follow. EVs will fare much better in a city or regional evacuation.

EVs should be more efficient when driving at low speed than an ICE car, and the regenerative braking in stop-and-go traffic will help reclaim some wasted energy.

EV's don't expend power running the motor when stopped in traffic. Most ICE cars out there do not auto shut off their engines when idling (it's fairly recent that many newer cars have that feature), and even those that do need to turn the engine back on after a few minutes in order to run the car's electronics.

For the people who can charge at home (admittedly, there are many who cannot), their cars will likely already be fully charged when the evacuation order comes down. And we already know what happens with ICE cars when there's excessive demand for fuel: hours-long waits at the pump, and gas stations that run out entirely.
Yes that's the stuff though for me it was gel in trays, not foam.

I was worried too about swallowing it but it was also the smell of it that made me sick. It was very strong. I really hated it.

And yeah I guess I'm not very prone to them, but it's very clear that the generations before me had much worse teeth than we do.
I tried to skim the whole thing and I still haven't seen whether the article actually answers the question ("why").

Also, what does "destination" mean in the context of the commute? The workplace, or does it mean home in the evening? Is he talking about people living in the city and working outside or the other way around?
so Google should have a list of titles that if found cause them to ban the result, which frankly might affect people with little personal sites who aren't very good at making sites but just want to put up some stuff they really know a lot about, but anyway is there any other items in the list?

I'm pretty sure SEO sites will be able to figure out don't title your page "title (recommended)".
I think it came from his book "Cut it Out". There's some debate about how much of it is original. with some people saying it's similar to an article written in 1999 by someone named Sean Tejaratchi for a magazine called Crap Hound. I've never read the article or the book though, I just found the text online.
You can't even Google for issue titles and find them in public GitHub/Lab/Jira instances.
> Actual it is far more defensible, as I already clarified earlier.

You didn't clarify, you just gave your opinion. One I disagree with.

> Propaganda remains effective regardless if there is the ability to verify it or not

So you claim. Even so, the correct approach is for the government to fight propaganda with corrective disclosures. Censorship is not the answer.

> It's not nannying at all. It's basic national self defense.

It is certainly the former, even if it is the latter also, something I'm skeptical of. The two are not mutually exclusive.

> Brainworms are an insidious contagion.

You fight them with truth, not censorship.
The evidence may be circumstantial, but the conjecture is far from baseless.
For those on Google or DDG, here is my uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

It blocks copycats and hide them from multiple search engines. You may also use the list with uBlacklist.
Because it's not n=1. Most people from my generation have really strong teeth.

It's something that really helped, my dentist joked about being put out of business :P My parents' generation have really bad teeth that started going bad in their teens already.
I like that the history ended up well
Far Cry was an excellent multiplayer game, we use to play it at LAN parties (remember those?)

The huge maps, tropical setting and vehicles meant you could hide in the jungle and snipe at someone on the other side of a bay, or sneak right up behind them.
LOL "me caes bien" is not in the scale of romantic relationships, nuances might be locale-dependent, but it's the bare minimum like "I don't hate you", like usually you'd heard it either as "respect", or as "you are okay, so I'm gonna let you off with a warning" vibes.
”The Ascent of Money” by Niall Ferguson
Same experience. Got interested because I love the simply web, love text only sites, love sites that use no JS and so on and Gemini looked promising and very interesting but after a bit I started wondering what’s the point.

Having a simple site with no ads and no js is just a matter of intention. We can have those on the web if people really wanted to.
Those bastards. Smart sellers default the most expensive option. Although I am bit disappointed it doesn't say "Perfect for spies, parents with lowest bidder childcare, sex criminals, and grandparents wondering who's refilling the vodka bottles with water."
It wasn't applied like varnish though, it was gel in trays that we had to bite on for 5 minutes. Yuck.

It was indeed only for kids, the dentist said the enamel no longer absorbs it when the teeth are fully grown. But perhaps this has been disproven now. I'll ask my current dentist about it.
>teached

Should be "taught". Just FYI.
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Agree on your sentiment.

To be honest, if we're talking about most minimum wage jobs being performed better by AI (I would imagine being armed security, at least in the UK is a lot more than min wage, because of the responsibility and trust of course), I'd worry less about their AI machine gun at airports vs the existential questions around there being a working class (in the original sense).
I'm not OP, but here is my own uBlock filter with hundreds of GitHub/StackOverflow copycats: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
Not really when the "Introduction to Dictionaries", which doesn't belong on an article about how to iterate through them, is 20 paragraphs long.

If you want to write an article on Python dictionaries, sure spend 20 paragraphs on it. But don't title the article "How to iterate through a dictionary"

I'm surprised they didn't spend another twenty describing the origination of term iterate from the original Latin 'iterum'.
In the history of humanity, intellectual property is a relatively recent phenomenon.

A lot of technology and culture was built without such “protection”.

I sometimes wonder how recent history would have played out without copyrights and patents.
Texas is a large state, which makes these statistics weird - the cliched example for large states is that California has more republicans than most red states.

The disconnected grid is to avoid any federal regulation (because a connection across state lines would obviously count as "interstate commerce"), which seems to have real value given the current clusterfuck of a political environment.
> He’s not the one making claims.

Yes. Do you?

> Do you have any idea how this works?

Counter-claims are claims that should be evidenced too.
> but maybe AI mainstream adoption will take longer than we anticipate

It will take longer than some "evangelists" anticipate, but other than a lot of tech hypecycles (like web3), this one is different for 3 reasons:

a) It's firmly in the public mindspace, including mass media
b) It has already proven it's usefulness and applicability to real world problems
c) Politics are taking it very seriously

There are people who don't use it, for various reasons, but it is increasingly hard to never have heard of it.

A large part of that drive is due to the simple accessibility: Making ChatGPT as a convenient and simple webapp that appeals to non-techies was a brilliant move, and Microsoft driving integration into it's product suite will further adoption as well.