skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I can see this being a pretty handy feature for prototyping. Otherwise you'll need to, like, catch errors in your main loop to ensure you don't have some program-halting issue while you're working.
They don’t reflect a lot of light which ordinarily means a material is absorbing all the energy and turning it to heat, but in the case of solar panels you’re turning maybe 20% of it into electricity instead
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045192/share-of-mobile-....
iOS is the dominant mobile platform in the US. Yet, the sky did not fall when thiw was introduced. Why not?
Yeah, if we’re going to compare solar with a hypothetical CCS plant we should compare it using solar on a mostly renewable grid with electric mining equipment.
Both solutions will likely exist in the future, but don’t right now.

My argument for solar then would that we can be pretty sure the investments go toward a sustainable future. We will always need solar.

CCS can never, ever be sustainable. And it will just be yet another debt we pass onto our children.
This feels like a step back in the opposite direction. Surely they've assessed the cost of lobbying the government vs the loss of revenue from banning payments?
That seems rather “One True Scotsman” logic.

“Where are the Elton Johns of today?”

“Here and here and here”

“Ah yes, but those are exceptions that prove the rule”

By that easy logic, I can say Elton John was also an exception.
I created this tool to scratch and itch and experiment a little.

The goal is to allow teams to see, in the very simplest way:

- What goals everyone is working towards

- Whats been done (or not done) to get there

The experiment part was trying to make it so its easy to get started (no login required, share via url), and make it really quick (Lazy updates to server, cloudflare functions).

Im not a fan of client side JS apps / frameworks and have avoided them for years, but for this particular use case it was the only way to go. I ended up using svelte, some hickups along the way but overall positive.

Any feedback welcome!
OP, have any doctors mentioned that it may be epilepsy? Seizures present in many ways and can sometimes be described as dreamlike experiences. Might be worth asking about.
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/987327301875650561

"THREAD: It’s official. Today, I am formally announcing my plan to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. It’s time we allow states, once and for all, to have the power to decide what works best for them."
People say this a lot, but they fail to take into account that you can debug your server live as it continues to handle normal traffic. Even if you don’t deploy changes via the REPL, merely debugging the problem in a REPL without restarting anything is a huge win.
I could see it working if there was also just a pin button on window that made WM remember where it should be after being started again
Not to mention that only a few short decades ago homosexuals had to meticulously hide their sexuality and any of their relationships for fear of getting fired simply because of who they were (and, before that, imprisoned!). And countless other examples. Anyone who believes "cancel culture" is a recent development is breathtakingly ignorant.
Incorrect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions
I took some trips on Greyhound through the West and Midwest in the 1980s. Stations and buses were clean, quiet, and orderly. No homeless or people with obvious issues. It was pretty much like the experience of taking a commuter flight today. I started hearing bad things about traveling Greyhound in the 1990s but I don't know what caused things to change.
What she learned is that America is so rich that only the very poorest people near homelessness travel on a Greyhound bus, and that life for the very poorest people is unpleasant.

Is this supposed to be a surprise? It certainly isn't representative of America as a whole, regardless of whether she geographically traversed America in the process. She chose to travel America in literally the shittiest possible way besides maybe hitchhiking or walking on the side of the road.
What are you talking about? He directly addressed it a couple times and ended his remarks on it:
“Moving onto our product roadmap, I've said on a number of these calls that the two technological waves that we're riding are AI in the near term and the metaverse over the longer term.”
“As our investments in AI continue, we remain fully committed to the metaverse vision as well. We've been working on both of these two major priorities for many years in parallel now, and in many ways the two areas are overlapping and complementary. The next big thing on the Reality Labs side is the launch of our Quest 3…”
Source: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2023/q2...
From the press release you linked: “Finally, for Reality Labs, we expect operating losses to increase meaningfully year-over-year due to our ongoing product development efforts in augmented reality/virtual reality and investments to further scale our ecosystem. “ They’re digging in even deeper, despite the incorrect superficial perception they’re done with it.
They have patents… this is the sensible approach to take with your intellectual property well defended. Between the patents and the published paper establishing his role and thus Nobel eligibility…

At this point assisting anybody who wants to help prove him correct (and I know that I’m making the assumption that he genuinely believes he has made what he claims in the paper with the mechanisms and methodology as outlined) will just help secure get rich faster and make his Nobel prize even more secure.

Polycrystaline materials are kinda finicky so more samples helps eliminate the error bars. So obviously why didn’t they do heaps of samples and have a longer paper? … Money! They got funding for quantum physics based sensor/detector research and this appears to have been a happy accident, so naturally they kept their heads down, got their patents (they have multiple patents each of which costs money) and did a little bit more work to be absolutely sure, then as soon as it was smart, they published their results and are now going to let the entire world excitedly double check their results… because the results if true, are fucking awesome…

Of course the world wants to replicate this, no one wants to be waiting for someone else to confirm a breakthrough this big… I bet there’s even some corporate labs doing a little work on replication too, so some smart managers in various industries can factor room temperature superconducting materials into their designs and future plans sooner, because otherwise their competitors might be! (Obviously there’s not going to be a lot of this since most companies don’t have internal science groups but the Lockheed-Martins of the world, the Daewoos, the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the Ratheons … I’d be surprised if they didn’t already have someone somewhere in the world who is still currently making batches and putting them into furnaces because the material is cheap and you can get a lot more certainty from additional samples if your are prepared to pay for the work. I’d be dammed sure someone at General Dynamics is making some because it would massively help them convince the US Navy to give them more funding to continue work on railguns!
Try explaining that to the literally hundreds of marijuana shops, even in Maryland, and the District of Columbia openly selling..
Does it need to be stated in the article for it to be true?
Then you don't bother with the company and report it straight to the regulators.
Losing that sweet CE sticker will make them move.
Was going to say the same thing "as a common woman" about the SV turbo-capitalist mindplague that's swept across the world!
> If NASA want to spend money on more experimental human spaceflight, the CommercialCrew program was not the place to do it.

SpaceX has been built on launch contracts displacing ULA.

It is clear that the longterm for SpaceX, and their competitors, is going way past mere launch services (as complex as those are) to cis-lunar and interplanetary missions.

Getting a healthy ecosystem with robust competitors is just the start. NASA and peer govt organizations are looking for partners on this, since companies are expected to bring their own funding to bear too.

https://www.space.com/nasa-funding-moon-power-exploration-te...
Where were those conditions "agreed upon"? Who signed that contract?
What is the expected impact for trying to buy a home?
I don't use personal devices on corporate networks. If they want a phone with remote attestation, they can pay for it to sit in a drawer.

Though, at this point I am the founder of my own company. Any software we use will not require attestation. I would be willing to switch vendors over that.

As for web attestation: the software I use regularly needs to run on OpenBSD. It's that simple.
Check out ocicl as an alternative to quicklisp!
once you fixed the problem you of course commit the change to the code on disk. there is nothing in the workflow that prevents you from doing that. you are not going to just fix apps in production without running your tests and what not. at worst you fix an error in a production system, and run the tests afterwards to make sure everything is clean. but mostly this feature is used during development when your code is still incomplete. not having to restart every time there is an error simply speeds up your development loop.
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Look for wonder, joy, strong emotional reactions, or things that pierce your autopilot and draw your attention. Write them down. Read them back over time. Write down reactions. Eventually, start to identify which ones elicit strong reactions. Which ones recur. Which ones connect with one another. Especially look for surprises. This is a sixth sense. Follow your nose.
Fun. Let me try:

cave paintings => petroglyphs => pictograms => writing => printing => telegraph => telephone => wireless radio => television => compuserve => aol => newsgroups => digg => reddit ===> VR=====> neurolink ==========> “quantum ascension”

How’s this? Amazing how things have changed and how little foresight I have to see what comes next.
I strongly agree. For me, it's the libraries.

Not just having libraries, but having One Obvious Choice. I don't want to compare and contrast libraries, realize that one has sixty percent of what I need, the other has eighty, and they overlap for about forty percent of it.

More and more, I think in terms of algorithms and data structures over anything else. Being able to express those fluently is my focus.

So to bring it around to your comment, what I like to imagine is that someone designs a programming language where the focus is on the ability of the language to be translated to other languages. Then, libraries will be built out, everything that is in standard Python and more. Once a translator is built and tweaked, we could have functional (not like the paradigm) libraries for any langue you fancy.

Yes, the translator would need to be more constrained to avoid "hallucination" and I am sure the resultant libraries would be slow, inefficient, and so on, but they would be there. As it stands now, I think there's a lot of rebuilding the wheel in scores of languages. I wouldn't say that the effort is wasted, exactly, but I can imagine talented programmers making better use of their time.
Yes it was the same 30 years ago.
>> It's an inference to the best explanation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/ No empirical evidence conclusively proves its true explanation, but the best available explanation is the most likely correct one.

I don’t think that link implies what you think it does.

It discusses abduction as a way to justify a hypothesis, you still need to test it.
I’m not arguing your hypothesis is wrong, I’m just arguing I think you’re wrong in treating it as a fact (“the reality is yes …”). You could have said “the reality is cassettes could have … “ and that would be true.
For the love of god, just fucking legalize it.

- 59% of Americans believe it should be legal for recreational and medical

- 30% believe should be legal for medical only

- 10% don't want legalization

([0] for source) At the very least decriminalize it and reduce the schedule. Let states handle it if you want. Just do SOMETHING.

Clearly our representatives are not aligned with our values. The only age group that doesn't support it is 75+ (18% rep, 30% ind, 51% dem). House's median age: 58, Senate's: 65 [1]

I don't care what side of the isle you sit on, there is an abundance of issues that the people are in agreement upon, and have been for years, and our politicians still fight against and claim it is the other side preventing them from resolving. The party isn't the issue, it's who's hosting.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/22/americans...

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/01/30/house-get...
Growing up, we always had a plastic bag full of plastic bags. They had many uses—garbage bags, lunch bags, carrying dirty soccer cleats, etc. Sometimes they got reused once, other times they got reused a lot. They were surprisingly sturdy.

Cloth might be better, but it depends how much energy is required to make the cloth bags.

One particular benefit of cloth bags is they result in less litter.
Names of Parts on Electric Pole
McCarthyism, the Red Scare, and the Hollywood Blacklist of the 1950s.

Untold Black American artists, authors, and creatives who fled to Europe: Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Augusta Savage, Romare Bearden, Jessie Fauset, and Richard Wright just off the top of my head.
Seriously… elemental phosphorus is controlled by the DEA? The ATF I could maybe understand but the DEA… that’s just whacky.
Long distance power transmission suffers losses from resistance. Superconductors don't suffer losses. With superconductors you could stick a giant wind farm in the ocean and cover the Sahara in solar panels. Run distribution lines from there to everywhere else and pretty much call it a day on the planet's power needs. (lots of things glossed over, not the least of which are social and geopolitical but you get the idea)
Okay, but that's Amazon, so they can just commingle inventory with a fake. Hence

> I've gotten burned by Amazon too many times to trust.
Visa should immediately make a statement that they will not discriminate against purchases made at legal merchants allowed to operate in states. This is a great opportunity for Visa to gain favor amongst the many people that do not appreciate payment processor restricting legal purchases. Anyone that says the Feds will take them to task for it are bringing up a red herring. The Feds have effectively done nothing yet about legal cannabis shops. Why the sudden move by Mastercard?
Yes, CL is extremely pragmatic. And Scheme was invented specifically as a pedagogical tool, so everything is much cleaner. At least until you install scm-utils, and find that it added an entire computer algebra system and physics simulation system and so on. :)
theyre running the risk of getting into serious legal trouble with the feds. which mastercard apparently doesnt want to do
> By that logic, people should really value my review of the Bible where I excoriate it for encouraging a belief in invisible beings.

Many celebrated works of philosophy has been written critiquing religion. Take Nietzsche, for example, or Camus. Your review would be unoriginal, but hardly wrong-headed.

> The work has succeeded when it gives you an argument to engage with.

No, being incorrect is a failure worth criticizing. I wouldn't celebrate (e.g.) a creationist text for being internally consistent and well-argued. No matter how good the writing is, it's still wrong. In fact, well-argued but incorrect arguments are the most important to critique, because (unlike incompetent arguments) they can deceive readers.
Missing a [2015] in the title.
My heartburn with the CDK is that it wants to run any such generated CFN, whereas I want it to render any such CFN, the way that troposphere works. Because the quick-create URL that one can give to any potential consumer of the CFN template does not accept CDK code, and "ok, just open a terminal and ..." is the mind-killer for getting other people to deploy something. That's the way GCP thinks about the world and is indescribably painful

If terraform or CDK or tf-cdk work for projects, more power to them, but they are for sure not replacements for each other
I expect they'll aim for a system where people looking to control others will use it as a bludgeon to force their self-righteous moralizing on everyone else.

They could as easily just require phone manufacturers to lock the phones of minors so parents have to approve what sites they can go to and what apps they can use. There already exists software to control PCs.

Instead, they wish to punish everyone online because irresponsible parents can't be arsed to control where their children roam.
All through the night about a dozen people were watching movies or playing games on their phone with the sound on

This was surprising and irritating to me, when I first came to the U.S. I have had the pleasure of experiencing this everywhere - elevators (what kind of person thinks it is a good idea to play loud music in a tiny space like an elevator?), subway cars, Cafes (they play music on top of the music the coffee shop plays) and even in planes.
Also that policemen are armed.
It supports modifying code in the middle of an error and continuing on? I hadn’t found that in a Scheme before!
Talking truth to power is virtually always a swipe. But a richly deserved one.

I understand HN's viewpoint on this. I disagree with it in the extreme.
Yup, that's exactly what I meant. Those are worth analysing and talking about. I'd be glad if there were even fewer barriers to reporting those. But it also proves the barriers are not that big and a bit of an excuse.
Get some audiobooks. Epic fantasy / sci-fi or whatever. See how you are doing tasks when a good portion of your mind is preoccupied.

I’m probably 20x faster since it stops the day dreaming.
To save people a click, Schumer posted this on 4/20 of 2018...
Because nearly all Chinese people use WeChat, but not all Chinese people use iPhones.

For Chinese people, you could say that WeChat serves as an OS with a greater coverage. It could even be said that WeChat represents half of China's mobile Internet.

Only after acquiring a substantial user base did WeChat launch its "Mini Programs". This feature has further boosted the usage of WeChat. For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic, certain types of apps forced people in remote areas to start using WeChat. However, the fundamental reason is that the usage rate of WeChat was already high.

This explains why, outside of China, WeChat's "Mini Programs" aren't particularly striking: in those regions, there simply aren't enough WeChat users.
The problem never was that you’re rubbing shoulders with the “poors”. The problem is mentally unstable people and drug addicts. Formerly there were far fewer hard drug addicts and the insane got shipped off to asylums (which we don’t have anymore).
That's a good idea. Honestly, I find it pretty amazing that modern CPUs don't just instantly turn into a puddle of molten metal as soon as you turn them on.

The critical temperature is 127 C, as the other commenter mentioned. That seems like it's high enough to be useful in a computer CPU.

I suppose there might also be applications for power distribution in a data center. You might use a few large, high-efficiency low voltage DC power supplies to supply the whole site instead of hundreds or thousands of individual power supplies if electrical resistance in cables was less of an issue. (I think this sort of thing is done now, but more at the rack level, since long cable runs cause losses.) You might even use 1V power instead of 5V or 12V.

(Granted, superconducting materials don't have unlimited current capacity, and bad things happen if you exceed the limit.)
IMO the only reason those companies are not literal divisions of the government is plausible deniability so they can sell things to other countries. I would guess 95% of their revenue is from the government, and they have very strict government regulations. If we just nationalized Lockheed and friends, I would be we could get improved efficiency.
I don't really get the point of states regulating a substance. That sounds like a recipe for crossed incentives, smuggling, and bad faith.

It's bad enough for alcohol, and we do have a whole federal department to manage it. Why not just let the 21st century be the 21st century, with planes and roads that make state lines practically meaningless.
No, but random speculation about it is certainly not necessarily true either.
I agree, it was a calculated risk. Without getting into the deets I was confident it wouldn’t introduce any major issues. In fact NOT upgrading had resulted in problems that affected production a few weeks prior. Would I recommend a junior engineer yolo it? Of course not. But I’d also warn junior engineers to always keep a healthy skepticism when they are told “No, this cannot be done.”

> There’s always a way to get housekeeping items approved…

Yes, at a functional software shop, upgrades and maintenance are not considered stretch items. I did my best to make the case from a technical (bug fixes and features), business (vendor X won’t support us on this version), and customer (customer wouldn’t be happy if they knew we were running version X) standpoint. However, at a dysfunctional software shop, none of those factors matter (or they don’t matter as much).
Another secret of the nuclear navy: giving someone a GCE is the polite way of saying “you’re a dumbass and a danger to those around you.” This applies to journalists looking for clickbait titles without regard for the truth as well.
The last point is a problem (on both sides) but it seems to have a simple fix - a small area where you can buy tickets, and a larger area where you need a ticket to access. You can trespass homeless out of the smaller public area if you need to (you very likely don't) and if you have a ticket you belong in the ticketed area whether you're homeless or not.
This is a perfect explanation of apple’s relationship with NVIDIA and the CUDA platform too.

Bumpgate affected AMD products too, this was the era of baking your 7850 to try and reflow the solder bumps, and apple was just trying to get the supplier to pay for the problems with the RoHS solders that apple specified in the product designs. Apple has always been a clientzilla that ruthlessly leans on its partners and suppliers (most recently Goldman Sachs is feeling the pain from the Apple Card) and believes that it’s a privilege to hold their business. And nvidia isn’t a company that got rich by bending over for that kind of treatment either (see also their relation with Microsoft).

Apple really wanted to terminate their relationship with nvidia anyway and this was just them demanding a big check on the way out the door. Nothing like making your ex pay for the cost of you moving out during the breakup.
Not trying to put on a tinfoil hat here, but there's a clause in the laws about Real ID that says you can only have one form of it. I think they put that in there so they have the option of revoking it and preventing people from traveling inside the US by driving (since it's tied to your license), taking the Greyhound, Amtrak, plane, etc. Interstate travel is supposed to be a constitutional right, but I suppose the argument would be that you're free to hire a chauffer or walk if you need to get to Nebraska.
I haven't played since 2002 or so, but I've been thinking of trying again!
It is used in Japan but very few info in English https://www.tokyokankyo.jp/tokyoprogram/en/recycling-technol... https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BA%B6%E8%9E%8D%E3%82%B9%E3...