skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s funny is, you’re both wrong and very right at the same time.

I’m sorry to tell you, only crazy outliers commute 100+ miles roundtrip to work (feel free to prove me wrong with real data) so current gen EVs are just fine in range for mainstream[1]. Just as some people NEED a snowplow attachment on their car because they live on a 5 mile driveway in the mountains, or NEED a v12 engine to pull a 20 ton RV, you will always have special needs with that commute.

But!! As far as Americans tending to absolutely obsess about range you’re right. Even dozens of non-outliers I’ve heard worrying themselves sick about “what if they do that road-trip they’ve been meaning to do.” And in a country where suburbanites buy $90,000 pickups and never even get the bed dirty with any kind of cargo, people will be buying vehicles with odd priorities in mind like the once-yearly road-trip.

[1] they’re not fine in infrastructure though since owning one without at least some home garage charger is certainly worse, and tens of millions of Americans live in apartments with garages and carports not even remotely equipped for even a handful of residents to electrify, and others just have to find a spot on the street. This is the thing really capping adoption today.
Vue and similar don't have this issue. When used in the most basic way it's just HTML with templating commands. What you see in the inspect window is what you typed, maybe duplicated with a for, or removed with an if.
In spoken word, sarcasm in even the cleanest context always has the benefit of delivery paving the way for virtually guaranteed reception. A written indication does look silly when reception succeeds without its help, but guaranteed parity with speech seems like the winning maneuver.
There are epigenetic markers which can identify the season or perhaps even month you were born. If you might think there is a link between personality and birth order and that perhaps metaphor is useful in storytelling or group dynamics … then one could loosely link these concepts together and consider it more than something like a party trick.
> If you dont want the Republicans to advance an agenda of smaller government and lower taxes

There are aspects of this I would be fine with. Neither party right now seems particularly interested in leaner, more efficient government, that achieves approximately the same goals with less bureaucracy or money.
That is incorrect. Social services are “free”, adhering to the legal and traditional definitions in that the entity offering the service is indeed not charging for the service. That is well understood.

It is also understood that the source of funding for institutions which offer free services is taxes, fees, and levies from the general population. Regardless of what MMT proponents imagine, costs will eventually be repaid by resources, labor, or war.

I find it intellectually dishonest to advocate for “free” services without acknowledging how those services are funded. It does seem more of the population is interested in immediate gratification regardless of long term costs (see deficit spending, consumer debt, etc.), but that doesn’t make the cost disappear because it is ignored. It’s no different than suggesting because birds fly, they must not be affected by gravity.
Can desalination and electrolysis be combined so we have two useful bi-products?

Clean drinking water.
Hydrogen for for fuel.
> Because the calculation requires iteration (i.e., the answer cannot be found simply by plugging in the known quantities), I had thought this was impractical.

Since you know, computers are famously bad at iterating. (Hint: they are not)
I located https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

Especially Figure 2 on that page, a map showing the change in Sea Surface Temperature, was interesting.

Do you have more information on what changed around 1945? (I mean, I could probably guess. I was wondering if you're looking at different sources than I am.)
What part is institutionalised?
can you elaborate, i have found yoga practitioners to have much more strength as compared to people using weights. For example take a look at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayurasana . It is incredibly hard to do and i have seen so many muscular people failing at it.
I think the idea is that even in a vacuum there are inherent fluctuations in electromagnetic field. They're adding fluctuations that are comparable to the background but slightly different; to maintain conservation of energy the vacuum fluctuations have to shift in response (I think? I'm not an expert in this area).

I guess one way of thinking about it is that at the quantum level there's no true vacuum in a classical sense.
It was added specifically for c/ffi, so this is cool.
Ask HN: Will the A/B testing framework for AI prompts be useful for you?
I'm considering starting an open-source project for AI prompt A/B testing. It'll help you manage prompts and few-shot examples, run A/B tests, get user feedback, and see results.

But before I go too far, I would like to know if others need this tool too. Does this sound useful to you?
We've recently built an adapter for NATS KV so you can easily expose it through an HTTP-based GraphQL API. (https://docs.wundergraph.com/docs/databases/kv) We're also looking at supporting streams in the future.

What's great is that NATS is written in go and we can easily embed it for testing and dev purposes. Furthermore, Synadia makes it super easy to run NATS across multiple regions.
I'm getting an overwhelming amount of people asking for Kagi support, so I am gonna start working on that :)
At least have the integrity to write your self promotion by hand.
A survey paper from 2019 on CSP Desalination techniques. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kuDYo__EdM2-ew0SJ0RuZ_MdhOZ...

They have their own issues and they require quite a bit of real estate. Not something that was easily obtained in Sunnyvale but I'm sure that there are places where they would work.
> virtualbox guest editions (which is not free for commercial use)

This is false. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ says:

> the VirtualBox Guest Additions are licensed under the GPLv2.

You might have been thinking of the VirtualBox Extension Pack, which is an entirely different thing.
tbh, the official prediction of effectiveness of the covid vaccines put many astrologers to shame.
> And studies have shown that video evidence overwhelmingly exonerates police more often than it implicates them

Which studies?
Your account has been using HN primarily or even exclusively for political/nationalist battle. This isn't allowed on HN, regardless of which politics or nations you're battling for or against—it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. I've therefore banned the account.

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I had an argument with a girl the other day who was adamant she wanted to know my star sign. I said "you tell me" and after 10 guesses I finally told her. She then went on to tell me what I must like etc - most of which was complete bollocks obviously. I told her her beliefs were akin to racism. Just because of when I was born she thought it was acceptable not to bother to treat me as an individual but as automatically likely to have certain traits. Insulting to say the least, and hypocritical. This same girl had just been arguing with someone else about not making assumptions about people, but she couldn't see the issue.
It could happen given a sufficiently powerful type system…a type system no one would probably want to use (given that you would write more type-finessing code than real code, you might as well be programming with a theorem prover).
and you believe in pfizer and moderna? :)
You can't break HN's rules like this, and you've unfortunately been posting lots of flamewar comments lately. That's not cool, and we've had to warn you more than once in the past:

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This doesn't really make any logical sense if you think about it. The reason jobs exist is not because the person hiring can't do them, but because they have other things they'd rather focus their time and energy on. You don't hire a janitor because you can't clean the floors, toilets, and other areas - but because you have different priorities for your own time.

To consider this more intuitively, take a field you probably less skilled in - art. There are some really quite amazing "AI" based generative systems for art, far more domain competent than e.g. ChatGPT is at coding. Now imagine you're setting out to make a video game. Do you suddenly feel like taking on the entire art load would be a good way to spend your time and energy, let alone if we compare that to what an artist using the same tools would accomplish in the same time? If anything "AI" will probably just be a skill multiplier.
AFAIK there aren't any comercially deployed wave generators, probably because they would have too many moving parts.
Of the atheist STEM postgrad degree people I know that love to talk about astrology/tarot, they usually retreat to this type to defence: it's a useful tool for introspection. Sure.

But then if I ask them to admit that believing in it is unscientific, the response is something along the lines of "well it could be true". They know there's no evidence for it, but they're probably afraid of offending close friends that actually believe.
Came here to say exactly this. Tests are more code that has to be maintained, and more code that can be wrong. I'm sure we've all encountered a test that didn't actually test what it was supposed to test, or wouldn't actually fail in the cases it was supposed to.

Obviously a compiler can't prove your code is correct in every possible way, but any time the compiler can prove something correct without me needing to write a test for it, that's a win. Stronger type systems and static type checking is a great way to do that.
Not only in the water.

Tetraethyl lead, PFAS, phthalates, formeldehyde, pyrethroids, PM2.5, etc.
To move to each side of the energy states you need to overcome a hump between. Think electron tunneling. The separated side is the lower energy state. It's just that we don't know a good way to 'tunnel' to that state from the higher energy state in this particular case.

The separated state has an easy way to receive energy to overcome that hump. It just needs agitation. There should be a way to reverse it and gain energy but we haven't found a good way yet.
A new exoskeleton to support workers in railways maintenance, renewal operations
Jetstream has real time replay[1], and you can easily pick a starting time, and continue to stream new events as well.

But yes, to be able to replay without side effects you’ll want to make sure you’re setting up the consumers correctly. That may need some custom logic, but isn’t that necessary with any message queue?

[1]: https://docs.nats.io/using-nats/developer/develop_jetstream
Mental health therapy carries significant social stigma and is not affordable to many people who need or want it. Having regular conversations with an astrologer is a cheaper, more accessible, and more socially acceptable alternative, even if it isn't as effective (or at all effective). The same principle applies to most forms of "alternative medicine"; people cope with what they have.
Evaporation cannot create pressure needed to run turbine, while boiling will, but boiling will create highly corrosive steam with salt.
This looks pretty neat! I'm going to link[1] the transcript we used for our homeschool just as another data point / option for those needing this. If we saw this sooner (our kids just graduated in June) though might have used this as the excel spreadsheet we used wasn't the easiest to work with at times. That said it was accepted by a four year state college so it does work at least!

[1] https://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/high-school-beyond/high-sch...
> And studies have shown that video evidence overwhelmingly exonerates police more often than it implicates them.

In a world where police have the ability to disable their cameras is this surprising?
Where exactly would you propose building them? A competitive university is going to require around 2,000 acres of land. Where are you going to find that in today's California? No doubt there is plenty of open space left, but it's not in very desirable areas.
What app did you use to screen record the demo video?
I've had issues with 7.x. Can't boot anything on my Fedora host.
Cheetahs are going to go extinct in the whild. This process has been ongoing for a long time and isn't entirely human caused, their niche is small and shrinking fast.

Cheetahs are going to continue on as pets. There are more cheetahs in Texas than in the wild in all the world combined. This is their new niche, and captivity is the only thing that will keep these animals from going extinct.
I shouldn't have to say it again but this is not the point.
> universities wasting massive amounts of money on things that have nothing to do with academics, such as sports programs, stadiums, etc.

Don't forget administrative bloat.
Ideas for the sake of ideas are an infinite time sink. Someone who wastes decades studying astrology or metaphysics or some other pseudo-scientific thing that doesn't deliver tangible value is a moron by definition

An example: you could spend a couple years studying cooking and become a chef. Or you could spend a couple years studying metaphysics and become a person with a bunch of ideas

And I'll add a caveat: it's one thing to do astrology because the rest of the friend group is doing it, it's another thing to do it for self-knowledge
Don't know about US, but in my country registering as and maintaining unemployment status is true acrobatics with a paltry payback. Unemployment offices are some weird self-serving fortresses.
This is the most sensible idea in this comment chain
If there are such markers, the flaw in astrology is not taking into account the hemisphere. Someone born in July would be born in summer in the northern hemisphere but winter in the south, so they can't possibly have been exposed to the same environmental factors growing up.
Could you please not post in the flamewar style like this? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I highly doubt they'll call it AI. Probably "Siri Upgrade" Or New on device machine learning models that map language.
Can you expose some more on the licensing issues with migration from Oracle Java to OpenJDK? I will admit that nothing jumps at me from the FAQ, but then it's rather... legalistic one.
well put together indeed.
Types make some tests redundant. I've seen unit tests in Python code bases that were simply there to make sure that a function did something sane if a value of the wrong type was passed to it.

I think it's absolutely certain that, to achieve the same level of confidence in your code, you need more unit tests for, say, a Python code base, than for a Java code base.
With that said one easier way to increase road safety is to reduce the width of lanes since people drive fast proportionally to the size of the lane, not the speed limit.
> As the article mentions people go as far as turning down relationships because of "mismatched star signs". That to me is not harmless at all, people make significant decisions based on superstition apparently exercising quite a lot of prejudice.

If we take for granted that most guys are decent and yet many woman keep falling for the wrong guys, then perhaps a method that essentially produces a random result might be an improvement..
Explaining the Entombed Algorithm
I've experienced similar things many times. Maybe in the future I should propose a $10 bet, where they get three guesses.
RISC V is not extension free, and a CPU is meaningless without a, most likely, proprietary board.
Perhaps they're also flocking to alien UFO beliefs?

Bet they're not flocking to beliefs that the Washington Post has been converted into a Jeff Bezos disinformation platform whose central goal is to direct more government contract to Jeff Bezos industies like AWS, right?
Microsoft, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA.

Only one I didn’t see was Apple, hell even Raspberry Pi is there.
The problem with Google Maps is that they only let you download rectangular chunks of the map one by one (that aren't large enough to e.g. just download a whole state), and then those chunks must be kept regularly updated or they eventually "expire" without you having any say in the matter.

Google Maps also doesn't support offline contour lines / hillshading (what Google calls "terrain"), which is a big deal for hiking and other outdoor activities. Whereas with OsmAnd, you can literally have e.g. the entire North America in your pocket, with contour lines, offline navigation, and offline Wikipedia articles for every POI.
I also support this issue. Love the browser, will switch as soon as I can increase font size!

Buttons in the menu are fine. Though some setting for a minimum font size might also be a good solution
I wonder how much PII the app collected and shared with whomever.
I blame English orthography for these troubles.

English orthography also leads to endless stigmatisation of people who mix up the spellings of "their", "there" and "they're" or "you're" and "your" as if they were idiots or can't "think properly". Instead of the reality that they just don't display the class marker of having been drilled in this idiotic aspect of the writing system.
Hallucinogenic plants in Chinese herbals
Why should I have to put up a sign to exercise my rights in my own home?
At least our toilets will be clean when this thread starts producing fresh water.
There is probably a literal ton (if you printed it out on 20# paper stock ;-)) of stuff written about how small modular reactors are a much better answer to deploying nuclear power than big LWRs. In the desal pitch the ability to scale them as needs scaled "quickly" as well as the ability to decomission them when they were done by picking the entire reactor complex up and transporting it off site were the primary selling points.

If you're still interested you can start at the DOE site and follow those links, NuScale (https://www.nuscalepower.com/en) has a bunch of stuff to, they will send you white papers). Anyway, I doubt they are going to go anywhere before the first round of the climate apocalypse gives people the "You can either put in a nuclear power plant or you can all die, which do you want to do?" choice.
I find this restrictive behaviour frustrating with web views too.

Particularly when clicking links from social media apps and I’m unable to read content because I’m signed out of news sites.

I wish there was a permission that allowed transfer of cookies and local storage.
Imagine this. I spread a lump of chocolate on your arm. What would you do to be absolutely sure there is no trace of it left on your arm?

Scrub it off with a piece of paper or wash it off with water?
Another thing I'm curious about -- Dean Kamen's "Slingshot". Seems like we'd be well served if his vision was realized: https://www.slingshotdoc.com/the-film
A hundred years ago graduating high school was rare. My grandfather made it all the way to 6th grade before he had to start working. And if you look at what a high school graduate applying to one of the Ivies was expected to know a century ago, it was considerably closer to today's bachelor's degree than today's high school diploma.

Primary and secondary educational standards have dropped precipitously in the USA.
> In any social setting where some amount of context can be assumed, it doesn’t apply.

That amount is larger than is available in most (probably all) HN comment sections.
I am touched by your very thoughtful comment, and I'm sorry about your brother.
Platform teams get stuff done
> When things like this usually go wrong with an automated tool, it's not that it "fails", it's that it succeeds part of the way, leaving things in an inconsistent state, which is then hard to reconstruct in either direction.

I can see that things can go wrong when your are half-way through constructing the new commits. But that's fine: you just leave them as they are, and let git's gc clean them up eventually automatically. As long as you don't touch the user's branches (remember, which are just mutable pointers to immutable commits), the user doesn't need to care that your tool screwed up half-way through.
You don’t want to be a suspect though as now you need to hope they will play fair.
Which approach? I hadn't noticed the comment you're responding to mention any approach.
I mostly agree. While visiting Italy was nice and being walkable is great, the drivers were mostly insane and there aren’t a lot of places where areas that are safe to walk are clearly defined so drivers will happily drive in the middle of the road.
Wow. Thanks for this. I'm usually indifferent to art, but these paintings are something else.
Small government is code of sorts for "rich over poor".

The "size" of govt doesn't really matter. It's a money issue (isn't it always?) The phrase "small govt" is a proxy for a) lower taxes and b) the ability to exploit then environment, workers, immigrants, whatever without interference.

I should be allowed to sell snake oil (no FDA), plunder a forest (no National Park nonsense), polute air and water (no EPA), build substandard housing, unsafe mines, and so on.

Most of all taxes should be low, or preferably non-existent. And if they must be collected they must be used to help me, not just given to my neighbor, or worse, my employees. Small govt means taxes should help the rich not the poor.

This is a perfectly legitimate political position for a party to take. If a majority agrees, thats democracy in action. It has served the majority well for decades, as long as the majority saw themselves as rich, or pre-rich.

Unfortunately now though the majority does not see themselves as rich anymore. Gone are the factories, the solid middle-class jobs, the affordable housing. Now the majority are poor, or pre-poor.

Ironically (on paper) the budget solution is obvious. Gut the military budget. There's $500 billion easy right there. (That can't really be done because the military budget is a back-door welfare program. Lots, and I mean Lots, of people get their salary from that budget.)

I know, I know, the military fights for our freedoms. They keep us safe. But pretty much no US military interventions since 1945, even more since 1990, have actually "protected Americans". Protected Kuwait (1st gulf war) sure. But how did Korea, Vietnam , Loas, Cambodia, Iraq or Afghanistan "protect Americans"?

I'm NOT ragging on the troops here, they go where they're sent . They do their jobs. We rightly respect them for doing a dangerous job. But the military is, at best, bloated and a money pit. Functionally it is a way of funnelling money to the rich, not the troops in harms way.
The point of attending those talks is to get a flavor of the area. To get a sense of the language the practitioners use, and how they reason about things. Perhaps what sort of results they consider important. These are incredibly important things, if you want to work within the social institution of academia.

And of course, sometimes you are presented with a wonderful theorem, that just makes you open the book/paper and start seeing why it is true.