skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Strength" is used to refer to things like wind hitting the wall, not a car. That is, the wall toppling, not breaking. So the wavy wall with its wide base is quite strong.
I wonder how much this article will be suppressed on x.
Maybe. Or maybe a focus can get something working sooner and then they can expand back. Transport is a larger market, but it may be harder (obvious: transport implies backing the truck/trailer up to the loading dock, rideshare can avoid that - though the above is just a guess)
Lean Meets Wicked Problems
>I don't think the actual proposed superconductivity mechanism is the relevant part of this paper. It is much easier to prove that this is superconducting than to prove why.

As another commenter has pointed out, the proposal of a new mechanism seems to be extraordinary and novel, and could lead to an explosion of new research, so it does indeed seem to be "relevant" on its merits.

I also don't see this as a case of the "why" being left unexplained. In the history of superconducting it has indeed been the case that new cocktails have led to superconductivity without the underlying why being understood. But the commenter that you're responding to quotes part of the paper that shows an awfully specific mechanism.

I understand the sense in which there can be a "why" that remains to be explained in certain circumstances, even when you have a mechanism. Who do monarch butterflies have the black and orange pattern on their wings? There's a cause and effect answer but there's also a "why" answer. But with superconductivity, the mechanism is the why, unless I'm misunderstanding here. If other forms of superconductivity rely on other mechanisms, there isn't going to be a general why connecting this case to the other cases, but nor is there anything left unexplained just by explaining the "why" of this case by explaining it's extraordinary mechanism.
You can create a custom multi-person field and call it whatever you want.
No reason it has to show the EPA range. My family’s Subaru has “learned” that it lives in the mountains and the range estimates reflect that. And I’m pretty sure it’s a simply looking at what kind of gas mileage it got recently. When we have kayaks on top of the car, it readjusts the mileage estimates down pretty quickly.

All these comments about ICE vehicles being the same ignore that when ICE vehicles have estimates to empty, they take basic steps to try to get the estimate correct.
Where do you draw the line? Murdering a women is okay because she had a chemical she was going to use personally. Would removing body parts like cutting off an arm for stealing be acceptable? Or rape for adultery?

Judging life by western standards seems like a sensible thing to do if you come from the west.
The ease of your deployment is not the point.

The point is that if we allow very large businesses with a dominant market position to destroy smaller competitors in another market by bundling, then we all suffer.

We get reduced choice, reduced competition, worse software and higher prices.
AWS HealthScribe – automatically generate clinical notes
> "There is no evidence that the death penalty has a unique deterrent effect or that it has any impact on the use and availability of drugs," said Amnesty International's Chiara Sangiorgio in a statement.

Arguing about whether the death penalty acts or not as a deterrent can distract from the primary point. If one believes the death penalty is wrong in principle, then that should be the central argument. Debating its effectiveness opens the door to counterarguments and can weaken the stance. I believe that the focus should be on the moral and ethical reasons against it.
Egg 'signatures' allow drongos to identify cuckoo 'forgeries' almost every time
If only it were that simple...

The federal agency is NHTSA. The lawyer there who signed the letter about it being a federal crime is Kerry E. Kolodziej.

Kolodziej also works at Mayer Brown, the same law firm that fought in court against the Massachusetts law on behalf of Alliance for Automotive Innovation.

It is believed the NHTSA letter to automakers was a veiled attempt to circumvent the court battle. It fits squarely into the BS category, subcategory Monumental. Tagged with Regulatory Capture.
Neither your link or the one you replied to contain any JSX. Not sure what you're referring to.
Also the number of people who have been executed who are recidivists is zero. Compared to ~20% in Singapore. So it assuredly reduces some crime.
Type up a nice PR release (with lots of pictures) and start emailing to the griftier end of the youtube influencers.
Only if it's 100% pure heroin. If it's typical street-level purity, it's more like 300 doses. Either way, these seem categorically like personal use quantities to me.
Read this as if I'm smiling and shaking my head. I'm not upset, I call it a quixotic quest because there's little chance of correcting it given how far it diffused, how few people understand the nuts and bolts, and by far the biggest factor IMHO: confirmation bias.

You cited geohot as an expert on OpenAI[1], and to indicate skepticism Altman denied it, you fixated on the # of parameters, cited a Verge link to a chart in a random tweet about 100 trillion parameters, that it didn't show Sam Altman, and it didn't ask Altman about 100 trillion parameters specifically. And if it did, what does that have to do with mixture of experts?

I flipped to 3 to -2 within 30 minutes of you posting this.

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Churchill

[1] never worked at OpenAI, no notable domain expertise, and a Twitter intern in 2022.
And sometimes I wish they could also bundle Outlook in Teams... The horror that would be, but it is clearly missing an email client and it would have everything.
Well, tbf the article doesn’t even try to explain how wavy walls are stronger than straight ones, or how fewer bricks are needed.
"Popularized in England" - maybe popularized, but such walls are by no means popular or common.

"The county of Suffolk seems to be home to countless examples of these crinkle crankle walls. On freston.net you can find 100 wavy walls that have been documented and photographed."

Although it's not explicitly said, let's suppose that every one of those wavy walls is in Suffolk. The population of the county is 761 350 - let's assume there are 100 000 homes (although there is the city of Ipswitch, it's otherwise largely a rural county where single-family homes will be common). So only roughly one-in-one-thousand homes in Suffolk has such a 'wavy wall'. Elsewhere in the country probably even less - e.g. I've never seem one.

Any for everyone complaining about mowing - do you actually have grass all the way up to your boundary wall? In my experience it's pretty common to have a flower bed running all the length of the boundary, so mowing would not be a problem.
Nah...Apple Watch batteries last 2-3 days nowadays with the proper settings. There are cellular Apple Watches available that do not require the paired phone to be close to make calls, texts, etc.
In Minnesota I would say it’s de facto decriminalized. I bought a house from a guy who had more than 3 grams of fentanyl and half an ounce of meth when he got busted. His fourth strike with this level felony and overall at least his 10th time in jail. He got a sentence of 14 months in prison. Not exactly hard time for someone who is literally out there killing people. And yes I’m still looking for money buried in the yard
Er? Perhaps the car could make use of sensors that every ice and ev vehicle has had installed for decades, along with previous driving habits?
The death penalty specifically doesn't have a deterrent effect, but as part of a society so strict that wants to use it for almost everything (obviously an exaggeration, but still...) you have plenty of people living in fear and unlikely to try anything. At a great cost even if proponents won't admit it.
Not sure I get the last point. Spawning a shell in a container, persisting the changes made and distributing such edited container is trivial. Of course once you want to rebuild it reproducibly from scratch you need to edit the Dockerfile, but then it's exactly the same in Vagrant, isn't it?

Perhaps the difference is that storing your changes is an explicit operation that needs to happen consciously, and that data is usually persisted outside of the container.
Maybe via an extension?

https://saturncloud.io/blog/how-to-hide-code-in-jupyter-note...
In what state other than possibly Oregon could you say opioids are "completely decriminalized"?! The Virginia general assembly[0] just classified illegally produced fentanyl as a weapon of terrorism, and the attorneys general of Florida and Connecticut are pressuring Biden to label it a weapon of mass destruction.

[0]: https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP038...
No? Accelerating and decelerating are both lossy, and for the brief intervals when you're going faster you're also taking additional wind friction loss.

Most EVs (including Tesla) do have regenerative braking, so some of your energy is converted back into electricity when you brake, but nowhere close to all of it, so people who have a smoother, less aggressive profile will get more range.

Also if you brake really aggressively, you're dissipating more energy than can be successfully harvested and the rest is converted to heat, losing the energy you paid for and also increasing maintenance costs.
Is there such thing as book kerning? My impression is that it's an artistic decision.
It's a matter of stability more so than "strength", no? Having never attempted to push over a brick wall, I'd guess that it'd be easier to do so for a straight double wythe than a wavy single... but yeah, baseless intuition here!

The base of a double wythe wall is still only like 7", which if you're stacking say 84" of brick on top of that... seems pretty unstable to me.
Yeah i think they are including personal vehicles. Presumably the tech could be licensed to car manufacturers, I can see a lot of potential there. Not so sure about "we are going to turn all car owners into ride hailers."
Why is Typescript unsuitable for the product?
Now Twitter^WX will literally become a dark corner of the internet.
> There is no particular reason why public creativity is linked to good engineers.

He never claimed it means you're a good engineer. It's advice for standing out among other applicants when you're looking for a job.
So I think what they are going for is making client-side and server-side html generation feel much more similar. If they are doing this without the huge inefficiency, of say, React server-side rendering, it seems like a good idea.

Pretty sure what they mean by "no Javascript" is no client-side Javascript.

The idea of component-based rendering for server-side is actually nice.
In 15+ years of running this service, this is one of two (2) postmortems he's ever published, and the first in eleven (yes, 11) years.
I picture modularity as a joined-but-not-mixed approach to the development of software components. Metaphorically, it is about balancing individuality with cooperation.
It’s not about being careless, it’s about not being overly worried and limited on what you can do with it.
I have a few acres of land and annoying neighbours. Stuff like this is relevant (though in the end I just went with hedging, which is cheaper and good enough for privacy)
Apple managed to switch to ARM without too much fuss.
The 'space wasted' on an estate of many hundreds, if not, thousands of acres is minimal. Given that often the bricks used were made and fired on site, it definitely saved on resources and labour.

There's a stately home close to me that has a very short run of one of these walls, and the remains of the old brick kiln up on the hill side. If you know what you're looking for, you can also still see the hollows in the ground where the clay was dug, now fill of trees and bushes.
I upgraded all my old microusb and non-conforming usb-c devices to working usb-c. I think in every case of a non-conforming usb-c device, the connector itself only had V, ground, d+ and d- (and sometimes not even the last two). So it's kind of understandable how a junior engineer, when asked to update a design from microusb to usb-c finds a connector without CC pins and puts it in the design without thinking twice.

This also means the easiest DIY fix is the same as upgrading a device from microusb. Buy a connector with a small breakout board that has the correct resistors like this one[1]. Desolder the old connector, and solder the new one onto any convenient ground pads. Using the linked connector, it needs to be soldered upside-down but you can find a few different styles on aliexpress depending on what will fit in your device. You may need to insulate or scrape away some traces to avoid short circuits. Then solder small wires in place for V, ground, d+ and d-. There's always a nearby capacitor to solder to V, and nearby resistors to solder to d+ and d-.

[1]https://www.tindie.com/products/casualcoders/c-usb-type-c-br...
I see, thanks for explaining!
Would you expect manufacturers to publish maintenance schedules assuming everyone drives like your relative, or based on maybe the 25th percentile of how people actually drive?

IMO product designers should not assume that the typical customer is a hyper-optimizer.
Right. The mechanism itself seems extraordinary. And it seems like that mechanism is exactly the "why", the commenter is claiming is more important.

Moreover, you can have more than one thing about a paper be the "relevant" thing.
'Western' has nothing to do with it. There's right and wrong, and this is clearly wrong. It's not in any sense Justice.
> but the stuff that most people are familiar with is dreck compared to what most people were familiar with fifty years ago

Maybe you have just forgotten about all the dreck that was popular 50 years ago and only remember the classics?
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/19/crinkle-crankle-ca...
Why don't Slack find some partner that would them allow bundle a office suite for one price for their offering? Be actually competitive.

Microsoft offers good product for good price. Why not compete fairly and get things together with some other companies to combat them at this same price?
Applies to flat walls not wavy, but espalier,[1] a way to cultivate trees in tight spaces, is one of my favorite things ever.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espalier
Until too much water makes it into the landfill, creates an acid with other mixed materials (like cardboard glues, household cleaners) and then leaches the acids and plastic and heavy metal into the aquifer.

Most landfills near me with liners made in the last 30 years have acid problems and liner breaches
Duolingo overcame historic monetisation proportion challenges in Q4 2022, but almost immediately after that safe harbour, AI came along.

Now Duolingo are close to OpenAI and have collaborated with them, but with the likes of YC funding AI language learning competitors, I am not surprised they have deployed this and other experiments.

That said, Duolingo have a tendency to run A/B tests and regional AB tests. What country are you in OP? This may sound strange but they may have done this test in a country where it is definitely legal in order to measure what in theory would happen doing this organically as a feature in other areas etc.
Ask HN: What was your path to become a Staff Software Engineer?
For the same function, wavy walls use fewer bricks
Braking doesn't increase range. Rather the natural foot off pedal regen braking increases range. If you physically slam on brakes, I'm sure that doesn't help range.
semi-related - I left every group that thought joining the blackout was somehow intelligent

whether or not I agreed with said blackout (which as easily (probably more so) could have been done as a "day without Reddit", or like how some Facebook groups will close for new comments/posts periodically to take a break), such acts on the part of mods demonstrated they hadn't considered anyone but themselves when they did it
This will perform worse in many cases, better in some cases. There is a lot of knowledge that can be transferred between datasets.

For example, "describe to me if this Amazon product is likely to have stronger tensile strength and if its materials are more safe?" requires knowledge not only from a database of Amazon products and their descriptions, but in this case leaving out knowledge from physics textbooks could be detrimental.
Ultimately, these are the types of problems we want these systems to excel at as well, so it's important to access all of the training data. MoE is still a decent idea (can help transfer some of the knowledge between models with a model on top of others), but in order to not get wildly conflicting and/or unrelated stories from each model, some overlap is needed to provide a clearer story to the top model.
Most of them just don't care. I saw a large thread on the WoW forums about how Reddit was going to be force un-privating subreddits and removing moderators. Almost all the comments in there were praising Reddit for that saying that the power tripping mods needed to go. The API changes were part of the discussion, but purely framed as something that affected moderator tools.
That’s not similar at all, actually.
Ask HN: What's going on with posts getting hundreds of upvotes in minutes?
For the last few days some posts have appeared gathering hundreds of upvotes in a few minutes. In particular [0] and [1]. What's going on with these posts? Even if they're flagged they keep appearing in `\best`. I'm afraid that this can become a common practice and pollute HN.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36860953
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36860065
Ask HN: Any way to resolve Google Takeout errors?
I know this is sort of a weird question to post to HN, but I am getting absolutely nowhere with Google support and the issue is extremely urgent.

In summary, there was a suspected murder on my road and they haven't found the body. Police have asked for all of the footage from my Nest camera over a period of about a week, but the Google Home app doesn't allow any way to export footage unless it corresponds to a specific event.

Every time I try Google Takeout, it fails with the error: "Something went wrong and we couldn’t create a copy of your Google data. You can try to create a new export."

I have been bounced around like 4 different support teams within Google to ultimately be told the Nest team don't know how to support Google Takeout and that Google Takeout doesn't have a support team, and that Nest currently offers no way to export footage unless it's associated with an event.

Clearly choosing a Google product was an enormous mistake that I won't be making again, but does anyone know of any way to get this footage out? Each day I lose is one day closer to when it automatically deletes...
> the solutions so simple and natural.

are they tho
The wavy design is probably just as strong as the double layer (possibly stronger depending on the direction of force).

The issue with a single layer wall isn't really the strength between bricks, or the bricks themselves - it's that a single layer wall has a very narrow base and is subject to tipping over.

The wave in the design makes the base of the wall act is if it were MUCH wider, preventing the tipping action of a single layer.

So the wavy design is only as strong as single layer of bricks, but it has a base 2 to 3 times the width of even the double layer wall designs. It will be much more resistant to tipping forces, but less resistant to impact forces.

The thing about most walls is they aren't really load bearing - they just delineate owned space - so the wavy design is great for large properties. Much less great if it's a tiny space and you're losing a good chunk of sqft to the wave.
It doesn’t use average usage to calculate the remaining range, it uses EPA numbers which are 200 Wh/mi or less. Which, interestingly, is less than the consumption shown on the Monroney sticker. How they can show two contradictory numbers on the same official document is fascinating to me.
AMA on fullstack rust or maintaining a free open source platform like live-ask
Absolutely.

My point is that billions of people make it harder to avoid and some these problems. Mathematically, 10,000 people in one area can be airlifted out of a problem or have supplies brought in. 10,000,000 people are not easily moved or supplied.
That statement alone sounds good to me... If there is no repair action that can fix the range issue on these cars, then it is a waste of everyone's time to go to a service center only to have a service tech poke the battery and realise it's fine. What are you expecting them to do when you arrive? They certainly won't be taking out battery cells and putting them under an electron microscope... And measuring battery voltages and currents is already done automatically by the computer.

There is very little you will diagnose on a modern car that the onboard computer isn't already aware of.

Therefore... the idea of a team of remote diagnosis people to fix most issues without a service appointment makes perfect sense.

As does the idea of having the analysis done automatically beforehand so the human doesn't have to wait.
Most people never leave their city.

For those of us who do, the small number that do road trips can easily get by with one ICE and one EV.

Most people’s EV need to get to the grocery store or to work and back.
Maybe, but PRT is not mass transit and not useful in general. They might be safer then human controlled cars (this remains to be seen), but they have all the other disadvantages. They still need to park someplace (most are only going to be used during rush hours). They still take up road space for only a couple people meaning a lot of traffic and we need to build a lot of roads. They still pollute (and may be worse if they get programed to drive out to free parking in the suburbs).
Python is the wrong example here. Ruby did inherit Lisp-style class reopening. But then Ruby always was explicitly very lispy.
I don't follow this space, so forgive me for the ignorance...

But, wouldn't interstate trucking be one of the easiest self driving applications?

Use a driver to get the truck onto the interstate, pull over to the shoulder, set truck in autonomous mode, get out, truck drives close to destination on interstates only, pulls over to shoulder, human driver gets back in...

Seems like a good stop gap solution...

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Edit: So, maybe not the shoulder, but even a truck stop or an easy to navigate to area. Basically, removing the complexity of surface streets...
People swim in the Muggelsee which is basically a part of the Spree...
Is it possible for web server software developers to oppose this? I mean, if Apache and Nginx join in protest and refuse to suport it, Goolag will lose!
Have you ever been made responsible for managing the technology for an entire business enterprise?
Isn't this statement disproved by places like Japan or other cities where there isn't China-tier surveillance but also littering isn't really bad?
What did you find inspiring about it?
I'm 97% certain one of these days a judge is going to set a precedent that allows this by going "welp, it would cost too much to untangle this mess, so we'll just allow it".
so ... you'd say fiat currency is a real-world version of NFTs?
> I really just reflected on how the fans conduct themselves regularly

Reminds me of that youtube video (by a fan) almost having an accident on autopilot and his first reaction was "we're gonna have to cut that out".
You mean like Salesforce?

The fact that Slack had to be bought out by a larger company rather than be able to compete on their own against Microsoft despite having a much better product is bad for consumers. That is exactly the point of antitrust action like this one. We should have 25 small players, not just 2 big ones.