skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At normal atmospheric pressure, lead does not boil until over 1700 degrees C.

This argument is fallacious. It is not 100C in my house, but water is evaporating and water vapor is in the air; the air is 40% saturated with water vapor.

The vapor pressure of lead is pretty low at typical soldering temperatures, though.
From the FAQ:

Q: How can I start an Internet Service Provider (ISP)?

A: Starting an Internet service provider - that can be a daunting undertaking.

My personal advice is - don't do it. I say this simply because I think the market is flooded right now. Internet service has become a commodity item. It is very difficult to distinguish yourself from the competition on anything but price. To compete at the $20/mo level now prevailing in the consumer industry, you'll need a user base of several hundred to run in the black, and who knows how long before you can pay off the initial investment in hardware, which could easily run over $10,000 - not to mention payroll, rent, headaches, etc, etc

You need to somehow find several hundred people who want to use the Internet. Daunting!

(The author was presumably right that the dial-up ISP market was saturated already in 1997, but it’s still neat to see how the Internet went from reaching millions to billions.)
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders why the telcos want us to know there's lead in the wires now.

Maybe so they have an excuse to tear the wires down and end services in areas they don't care to service anymore.

Maybe so they can get more subsidies to run fiber that they'll promise to connect people with, but won't ever need to account for.
Books have been available for a long time and they also have quite a high status - so unless there was something else to it, why wouldn't most people be reading books?
Can we start reporting on the fact that literally all small airplanes still fly using leaded gas? Live in SoCal? Cool, there are hundreds of small Cessna and similar planes flying overhead 24/7 just spewing it into the air above you.
I don't remember the details but I don't think I had any trouble with Fedora's installer. But I spent way to much time trying to figure out how to modify the guided partition scheme that OpenSUSE picked.
Still deeper than most people, though. You can't put all of human knowledge in Wikipedia, but it's extremely thorough in the basics.
I'm close to the end of Peter Green's translation of the Iliad, and though hard to plough through at times, the style was not as drab and "old" as I would have expected; the difficulty was mostly due to scenes often being kind of long, essentially bullet point lists and/or with strange content -- i.e. content more than form.

I'd be interested to know what people have to say about that translation, and the one of the Odyssey by Green too.
Sure, but you base the assumption on the ai being deployed on a current design, and not on something developed without that constraint. I'm not sure if such designs are viable, but someone is sure to look into it.
I don't think startup game is more like Poker. It's a lot of experimentation and learning. True, you gotta protect your bank roll, but the type of strategy initiatives to take are something like that of a chess.

PS: I'm an early stage founder, who has finally some traction with my current B2B data infra SaaS. I've had a failed company in the past which had 4 major pivots, where we decided to return most of the funding to learn few things again.
Or rather it's a matter of trade-offs and some things are just "good enough". It's not up to you what's good enough for him or me, especially weighed against the amount of effort I might have to invest to get something that's "optimal" for me.
Which better solutions are you referring to?
I don't think active management of company size works successfully. The enforcement division of any nation would be a significant portion of GDP. And what happens to products like the iPhone? After the ten thousandth iPhone, you're a $10 mm revenue company and someone else sells the next iPhone? I'm not convinced that's better for consumers and non-consumers.
Pretty cool article with few, but quality references. Thanks for sharing!
On technical calls with two or three people where we all know each other we rarely turn the cameras on. For big meetings, the bosses prefer to have cameras on the whole time, but at least require that we start meetings that way, then we can turn them off after the meeting really gets going.
That’s a plus when you need someone to support your site later, not a minus.
If I recall, the FAA recently approved unleaded for that use.
To achieve a reasonable level of encapsulation in C, a header file must be seen as a public-only interface. It should declare only the structs that are relevant for the user of the module. If that's "struct my_module_handle { ... }", declare it and document the corresponding accessor and modifier functions. Everything else must reside in the C source file with internal linkage (static storage class). The whole source file is your implementation.

There is an anti-pattern where header files are used for all the declarations needed internally by the source file. Including (pasting verbatim with the preprocessor) that file from another module would bring in all the unnecessary declarations.
First, hate the title

Second, this approach seems equivalent to using larger tokens, which means the problems with using tokens instead of letters are just exacerbated
> The founding fathers would tell you

Why should we care in the 21st century? The founders weren't omniscient, benevolent gods. They were just wealthy landowners looking out for their own interests — it's crucial to note that they ignored over half the population of the colonies, i.e., women and black people — and they borrowed the majority of their (now long outdated) ideas from 17th century British philosopher John Locke.

The US Constitution is woefully unprepared for the present and future.
The $1B gamble to ensure AI doesn’t destroy humanity
As far as public ads they're doing exactly that in Sao Paulo Brazil. I love the idea.
Luckily there is a lot more bodies in space than the moon.
.. which will all look and feel exactly the same and the only thing differentiating you from the competition is doing non-LLM and probably very human design.
No actually it's pretty clear that _you_ are ignoring the poster's words and twisting them to try to make your own point. The poster was pointing out how ridiculous it is that people are vacationing in a war zone. I find it ridiculous as well.
Yeah, that actually sounds amazing to me. If we could limit the LLM to somehow only act as a "reasoning" rather than a "knowledge" layer, such that all the non-trivial domain knowledge has to come from the information retrieval layer, in a fully referenced way, that could potentially "solve" the hallucination problem, no?

Even more than that, I wonder if we could then apply something like this to power some sort of "fact provenance" for the web as a whole, e.g. by populating Wikidata with referenced facts (preferably with extensive human QA).
> Of course, my point is only that it's true to say that EDF sold the power too cheaply, otherwise they would have been profitable and debt-free.

They have been profitable for decades.

As for the debt, part of the debt is logical for such a group to have (i.e. amortizing the expense that was or is being made to extend the plants' lifetime).

Part of it is due to being required by the government to make bad decisions (e.g. buying and recapitalizing Areva, giving 8 billions worth of electricity to their competitors this winter, ...). This debt is unrelated to EDF's operations.

> Yankee costs 10 million USD per year still to this day with no end in sight.

That is related to long term storage, not dismantling. There's no reason for that to cost billions in France, where a storage site is on the rails.

> Why doesn't that count as being part of the decommissioning costs?

Decomissioning a plant has two parts: dismantling, which is a one-time cost, and long-term storage, which is an ongoing cost. The specific issue with the US govt. is that, when the plants were being built, it guaranted that a storage solution would be built, but didn't deliver. That's why the government currently pays for storage. There is no technical reason for this to happen.

> This means that every year, at least 10 million USD has to retroactively be added to the actual cost of electricity generated by that plant. [...] To say that nobody knows what it actually costs is quite fair IMO

By that same logic, it's impossible to know the cost of anything. Maybe future politicians will force people to recycle their solar panels at outrageous cost?

The only logical decision is to separate the cost of decomissioning (dismantling, a reasonable duration of dry-cask storage and the cost of a long-term storage site) and the cost of political decisions.
Yup. Lots of people forget that. They see turtle graphics and think LOGO is a toy. I learned Lisp very shortly after learning LOGO and was introduced to recursion in Lisp. It was several years before I got back to LOGO on the TI 99/4A and (of course) tried out recursion related to building adventure games. IIRC, TI Logo only allowed 4 or 5 levels of recursion (I guess it wasn't using tail recursion?).

I keep hearing about m-expressions, and think about how they're similar to the LOGO syntax (though I don't think they're exactly the same.)

Worth reading if you haven't heard about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression

Especially if your biggest critique of Lisp is "all those annoying parentheses."
I've done this before, works quite well actually, but isn't very popular for some reason.

> You can do dummy defines of structs with the same size

Don't forget alignment. The general pattern is: https://godbolt.org/z/6je9Yb3rf.
Ants don't know they lack conceptual thinking. There can be some perspective or perception that we simply don't know that we lack.

For example if there's life that exists across 7 spatial dimensions instead of 3, how would we parse it? I'm not asking as a gotcha question, if you have a legit answer I'm very curious.
Most of my city experience being in NYC made it so my first trip to Tokyo that much more special. Everything was so clean, the public transit always on time, the food always fantastic, felt safe while walking at night.
Not mentioned, if you can afford a flying car (at least at current pre-order prices) you can afford a 2-seater helicopter and regular electric cars at both of your beginning and destination points.
Slight tangent:

I once worked with a programmer who, the vast majority of time, would only input text into a text editor via copy and paste.

Think anti-vim. His fingers were locked on mouse and crtl+c/v. It was incredible to watch and his programming speed was very impressive.
Like I said, it’s adherents can pretend it’s not but no one’s buying it and it definitely is.
I liked the translations by Stanley Lombardo.

I think however that the purpose of reading the Iliad and the Odyssey is at least partially so that you can read the Aeneid...
Check out Qutebrowser. It's almost entirely usable from the keyboard only using vimlike bindings. Lags behind chromium/qt a bit for the actual engine, but these days it's totally usable and has become my daily driver.
Stablecoins: The Next Financial Platform
You can also make a voluntary decision not to buy products from a company that dumps toxic waste into the water supply -- does that mean they should be able to do it?

Just because you are not giving them money or you can choose to personally opt out does not mean they are not doing societal harm, and a democratic government has a mandate to minimize the harm done on society as deemed by its population.

Libertarian justifications are great thought-pieces, but ignoring the social contract is only awesome if you are rich and have no empathy.
From Baidu https://katacontainers.io/collateral/ApplicationOfKataContai...
The EU can freeze Hungary's membership if the polls were not stopping it.
Notwithstanding the vapor pressure, there are other ways non-boiling lead can make it into the air.

Lead-core candlewicks are well studied and put tons of lead into the air as the candle burns at 500C or less
It could be a web app that captures mic input
They've probably reached a point where they're failing at a higher rate and need replacing. Leaking this info would get the government involved and the telcos can probably get the taxpayers to foot the bill replacing all of them.
Ok thanks.

But let's be real...There's a difference between having unsecured packages on your doorstep and sending packages to another address entirely.
Don't let Perfect be the enemy of Good. The quality of encapsulation you can achieve in C++ is miles ahead of that of C, even if it isn't all that could ever be.
Remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl is a life changer in any environment. Seriously, just try it. It makes a useless key actually useful.
Yes but the two projects are run differently. Most of discussions around Kirby happen on the official discord server or on the official forum.

So looking at git activity is not really all that useful.
Double check parent to the comment you responded to. It’s not responding to the one you think it’s responding to.

The comment was:

> I would be so happy if can go back to a world where advertising happens purely based on the content like we've had for ages in TV/radio/magazines. The amount of privacy we've globally lost just for a few advertising dollars is atrocious.

> […]

The one you are talking about meanwhile, is a different comment. A sibling comment which was also in response to the few dollars thing.
There's a certain group think among right wing bloggers that the answer to the housing crisis is to completely liberalise zoning/planning rules, however all these people (as far as I can tell), choose to live in areas with highly regulated planning restrictions.

I am sympathetic to making it easier to build, but we have to be honest about the trade-offs that have been made in some of these hyper dense asian cities. Namely, ugly buildings, and lack of green space.

It's also worth noting that these places rely on significant, long-term, investment in public transport infrastructure of the kind that they don't make in the US. This is something that's often missing from the debate.

Edit, I think people are misunderstanding my comment a bit. Personally, I'm favour of making it easier to build housing - I don't own property because it's too expensive and would love it to be cheaper.

I'm merely saying that I've seen a strand of thought amongst the right/wing VC crowd who believe in very aggressive liberalisation (pretty much build anything anywhere), which I don't think is practical or politically feasible.
How about blocking outgoing mail to these domains? Let's assume there is no important e-mail business going on with Mali
How is it an oversimplification? Affirmative action states that your requirements for getting into college change depending on your race.
OP's suggestion may work better on real life examples of source code (which would be longer and include a lot more different kinds of repeated strings)
Eh, it's fine, it doesn't sound tryhard to me, just a bit hard to read.
I specifically decided to buy a property where there are no small airports. A lot of them run flight training schools, which are super popular because China sends all of its pilots to the western US (Oregon, CA, Arizona). If you're near a metro (or even some of the smaller towns) you're just hearing zipping all day and breathing in the lead.
Maybe, but I also think it's good writing practice to lay a foundation for readers.

My reference point would be "proper" press releases. There's always some very basic blurbs about the company and/or product being announced, in addition to the meat of the announcement. This blog is essentially a press release for nerds, so I think following a similar pattern is in the best interest of the writers for these announcements.
In World-War-One J.H. Rogers demonstrated and patented a method for communication with submarines via special antennas. Anyone have anymore information on these types of systems?:

"James H. ROGERS
Underground & Underwater Radio
( Static-free Reception & Transmission Underwater & Underground )"
http://rexresearch.com/rogers/1rogers.htm
> Skippable tutorials on replay is definitely one of those.

How so? It seems to me that being able to skip tutorials when you're not playing the game for the first time is a thing that would benefit almost all players.

There are several games that I probably will never play again because of unskippable tutorials.

And why is it suddenly OK to force players into doing stuff like this? If a player doesn't want the tutorial -- even when playing for the first time -- they shouldn't be forced to do so. It's their game and their game experience, after all.
Nope, they are way more sexualized than most communities. The existence of Zelda porn doesn’t mean I find it on basically any forum that discusses the topic nor does it show that people get into Zelda just to do weird sex stuff. Neither of these statements apply to the furry fandom because it is a sexual fetish that has tried to become mainstream whole most fandoms evolve sexual communities in the opposite direction.
Making sure something works before shipping is such a nice thing to have these days.
Even better—Tokyo is Paris without the Parisians. And you can get croissants that are just as good as in France.
I'm not a scientist but isn't it suspect that they're both creating a new bot and a new evaluation metric for bots at the same time?

Like we invented this new thing and this new measurement for evaluating it. It does great on the metric we just made up while we were making it.
Jimmy Wales said that phrase in an interview, but it was never meant to say that Wikipedia itself was the only work that needed to be consulted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective

You seem to have an issue with some person or persons who has been advising others that the only work they need to consult is Wikipedia. Who are they? Specifically.
Unplanned work being arbitrarily scoped into sprint is pain. Doesn't matter the source.

In practice, your approach often turns into "junior engineer abuse" where they have to clean up a bunch of unrelated pre-existing stuff to make the seniors happy as a condition of shipping their feature.
I think there are papers already on this. Did you search for those?
There is some project number that begins with the number 2 and is five digits (refers to a port number) - it is a Python app that uses Chrome debug features to save everything you are doing. I don't know how it would work with Firefox unless the debug functionality there is the same. Memory is hazy on this so I might have some details wrong.
I the old days, I remember the adults all saying "Everyone will know a little programming in the future. It will be like the development of wide-spread literacy from the 17th through the 20th centuries."

Doing some programming on the side as a hobby or as an adjunct to other professional work is "on track" with what the computer science luminaries from the 70s were saying.

Though... I've often said Excel is a programming language, only that you get to program a data-flow virtual machine one cell at a time. So... I think more people are programming than know it.
I think the pull for most of us who use chatgpt is that google lies far, far more often than chatgpt ever will. Or is just otherwise inconclusive / does not give the relevant information you're looking for. The amount of SEO clickbait or quora/stack overflow answers that are either just incorrect or highly opinionated makes google very difficult to use for many things. As someone new to/learning Fedora it gives me the right answer 95% of the time, google gives me the right answer in the top 5 links far less.
On the flip side, I've been using VIM/emacs for over a dozen years, and have gone from extensive user made configs to these starter packs (DOOM Emacs with some custom stuff on top). I mean I'm happy with a well thought out "total conversion" of emacs. I learn the UX on top (that is really nice) and I add my own. If I started from scratch it would probably be sub-optimal ( I mean I could recreate DOOM, but why?)
Metal casting is relatively safer and far more scalable than machining. Not to mention, who's going to be paying for all the worn lathes?
Any lie that you can identity as a lie, an AI can be trained not to tell.
We understand what each part is goingy and how it's doing it.

You cannot look at the data it's processing and understand it, that is true, but that's also true of absolutely any frame from a video game or cartoon.

But hey, keep forcing that exuberance.
More like mediocre; average, perhaps, but unacceptably so.
>> "the sum of all human knowledge," which that shows is a lie by definition.

> By which definition?

That's pretty easy: definition 2 "the whole amount : aggregate" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sum). That it's interpreted that way is shown by the frequency of people saying stuff like "I loaded Wikipedia onto this battery powered Raspberry Pi in a Pelican case, now I'm ready to rebuild civilization if it collapses," and seemingly believing it.

But you do correctly point to another issue: sum has a meaning of "a summary of the chief points or thoughts," which I feel is a less common usage. So the marketing phrase may not be so much a lie, but rather an extremely misleading statement that invites misinterpretation that usually goes unchallenged. IMHO, those are actually even more pernicious than outright lies.
I’m happy to hate on right-wing bloggers, but I’m suspicious that your “as far as I can tell” might be doing a bit too much work. Do you have any reason to believe that sentence is correct?
Luxury-focused carbon taxation improves fairness of climate policy
With the rise of AI, social media platforms face storm of misinformation in 2024
YaCy discussed almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597309
I still use an intel imac a few times a week to play with the CCL’s cocoa IDE. As intel macs become less stable, that software will die with it. Such a shame.
I remember that around 2004, before convnets became popular, there was a paper on image texture style transfer using approximate nearest neighbors based on some neighborhood of each point. This technique seems similar but for text.
I've just wrapped up a 6+ year stint in Tokyo. It is my favorite city in the world, hands down. Maybe similarly to Paris, Tokyo is a great place to _visit_, especially for a few weeks or months, but a difficult place to live long term.

My hope is that, with all the gentrification pain that this recent tourism push [0] is bringing, we will see a much larger and more stable international community settle in Tokyo. Currently, long term Japan life is best enjoyed by introverts (generally).

[0] https://www.nippon.com/en/ncommon/contents/japan-data/222973...

* 6mm~ to 32mm visitor increase in the past 10 years. Gov target is 60mm by 2030.