skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won't have to. Injuries, disease, and cancer are still a thing.
Would this lead to rushed results? Or it's worse to give bad results than no results?
You’re sure it wasn’t just comment on the original thread? Looks like it was submitted by someone else?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13280494
It seems to me that technological developments and empirical scientific breakthroughs come in cycles, technology making it cheaper to experiment, science reducing cost of new technical developments. I would be happy to hear about pointers to any source discussing such a tech/science cycle.

I feel our generation (I am in my mid-forties) lived through enormous technological advancements but not as many scientific breakthroughs as the previous generation. So maybe it is not surprising that we are suddenly more likely to have breakthroughs in basic science.

I hope there is a phase transition to science mode now, so we that have a chance to solve the hard pressing issues.
Python 3.11 Asyncio.TaskGroup
Not just dictatorships.

We already see the advantage age provides when building influence for US politics.
I agree that IQ is not a true measure for intelligence, but it does not need to be one to be a meaningful measure
A fancy new database is written in Zig: https://tigerbeetle.com/
What are the implications of this for global warming? Would we be able to ditch most of fossil fuel usage (eventually)?
By comparison the hottest verified recorded air temperature in the world is 54°C

> if the current record were to be decertified then the holder would be a tie at 54.0 °C (129.2 °F), recorded both at Furnace Creek and in Kuwait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_o...
> Being coerced and pressured into prostitution.

That is not a cost borne by women who are not prostitutes, but by a subset of those who are.

(It is a risk that other women might be exposed to, but being exposed to a risk and bearing a cost are different things, the former of which is often much less palpable than the latter.)

> https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/11907/

That’s a very weird link to attach to your comment, since the story in that article does not refer to anything related to prostitution, coerced or otherwise, on its face. Certain people (Dworkin among them) might describe all prostitution as rape, but inverting that to turn a rape narrative that the victim who is also the only witness relating it does not attribute to prostitution of any kind into an illustration of a claim about forced prostitution is bizarre.
Include GrubHub in the title for clarity c'mon
LangChain katas – practice your LangChain chops
> I'm still waiting for European-style health care in the US. ;-)

Different European countries have wildly different healthcare systems. e.g. the Swiss system is privatized to an even higher degree than the one in US.
For those who have not seen it: it's old but it's one of the best productions on the Evolution of science and technology ever made.
Slightly harder than I remembered:

> Even if muons were absolutely stable, each muon could catalyze, on average, only about 100 d-t fusions before sticking to an alpha particle, which is only about one-fifth the number of muon catalyzed d–t fusions needed for break-even, where as much thermal energy is generated as electrical energy is consumed to produce the muons in the first place, according to Jackson's rough estimate
Please don't take this as dismissive, but I really think ChatGPT does a better job at explaining this than I can do. Here's what I got:

https://chat.openai.com/share/c1c779c7-3b5f-4ea7-a864-38561d...

The response you posted seems to be referring to various concepts from theoretical physics and philosophy, specifically the ideas of the Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics, anthropic reasoning, and the Born rule. Let's break these down:

Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics: Also known as the Many-Worlds interpretation, it suggests that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" or "universe". In layman's terms, it's the idea that there could be countless parallel universes where every possible outcome of an event happens.

Anthropic reasoning: This is a philosophical consideration that observations of the universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it. In other words, our ability to exist and observe influences how we should interpret the universe.

Born rule: In quantum mechanics, the Born rule is a statistical law that connects the mathematical formalism of quantum theory to experimental observations. It provides the probability that a measurement on a quantum system will yield a given result.

The responder seems to suggest that in a universe with many possible futures (as the Everettian interpretation would suggest), we are more likely to observe "black swan" events that lead to more possible futures.

The idea here is that if an event significantly increases the number of possible futures (like a breakthrough that extends human lifespan), then it effectively increases the number of "observer-moments". In other words, more possibilities for observers to exist and make observations. According to anthropic reasoning, this could make these events more likely to occur than pure chance would predict, because we're only able to observe futures in which we exist.

This line of reasoning is highly speculative and philosophical in nature, touching on deep and unresolved questions in physics and philosophy. It's an interesting thought experiment, but it's important to note that this isn't widely accepted or proven in the scientific community as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021.
Transmetropolitan has a great story (Another Cold Morning) about preserved people waking up in the future and basically becoming homeless because they can't comprehend the future.
It is sad that you have to keep the launcher running while playing. I would rather used the storefront apps to update the games only.

And launch the exe directly from Windows desktop or start menu.

There are a few games that allow this, for example Cyberpunk 2077 and Control.

I sometimes refund games if they are obnoxious with letting me launch them from the start menu.
In most countries, that would be rotating between two or three leaders.

Somewhat better than a lifetime ruler, but this is far from what Democracy are on the textbook.
The goal for step three is to last long enough that a future society where your endowment could pay for it could bring you back with future tech. Ie a hail-mary.
So refrigerators are immoral? Are we going to create a better future, including surviving climate change AND prospering, for humanity without modern food preservation?
Great to see the growing effort to explore all the fields left uncultivated by the breathless SPA/angular/react/vue bandwagons of the past decade. It feels like a ratonal reallocation of tasks to where they can be executed best.

Something that is nagging me though is the (still) rather incomplete take on client-side reactivity. Alpine.js is by-and-large addressing this in a pleasantly minimalistic way, but for this new take to become a defacto standard of lean and mean modern web development I feel there should be uniform semantics and integration that spans the different server-side stacks. This way code and knowledge would be reusable and not tied to a specific language/web platform.
I’m not sure what would work for you but for me it was boxing class. I also want to try fishing.

I think the most important thing is to put away the phone and take a crack at something where you don’t have to think as much and just follow some kind of routine.
I think the deal with a lot of these firms is you sign across a life insurance policy for that much.
While I like GOG, I must say that they don't support linux, they merely sometimes make it possible to download binaries which may work on linux if you do everything yourself.
It's easier to run some older games in a console emulator than run their native windows versions these days.
This is subjective and in part marketing but given that it is installed with

pip install django-unicorn

and used with

from django_unicorn.components import UnicornView

like any other python module used in a Django app, I'd say that it brings the full stack inside Django, much like its counterparts for Laravel, Phoenix and Rails. What was only backend plus server side generated pages is also Javascript now, written inside the backend without even having to know Javascript.
Thanks, we really needed burger units here
That's just a list of good inventions.

GPS, disposable razor, many of these are not impactful enough to be "black swan but good".

And things like clocks and batteries were slowly refined over many, many years, so they don't fit either.
Somebody fixed the title from 0.11.0 to Zig 0.11, so it's ok now.
And also hiding your app in search results behind a list of junk unless you pay Apple extra. Which is pretty much extortion.

That and their curation and vetting process turned into complete garbage over the last few years.
There is the example of the required lipids in parental nutrition not being approved causing baby deaths that could easily have been prevented. Eliezer Yudkowski writes about it extensively in Inadequate Equilibria, but some of it is also in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/x5ASTMPKPowLKpLpZ/moloch-s-t.... It offers an explanation for why some issues that are easy to fix don't get fixed anyway.
> excuse my ignorance, but are there any major developer tools that don't support Windows? I can only imagine some internal enterprise tooling doing this.

At all, or well? Because git works on Windows, but it's meaningfully slow as a result of NT and unix having very different ideas about how filesystems should work.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26381377
Occasionally a leap second is added or removed, to account for various sources of drifts. This leap second is taken to be the last second of the day where it is inserted, so the time technically either goes 23:59:59→23:59:60→00:00:00 or 23:59:58→00:00:00, depending on if a leap second is being added or removed.

That being said, many OSes handle this in such a way that 23:59:60 doesn't appear, either by repeating 23:59:59 (so it last two seconds), or "smearing" the extra second over the course of the day (so each second on the system clock that day is just over a second long).

Edit: I'm pretty sure I read recently that they are no longer going to be adding/removing leap seconds, although I'm not 100% sure that was a definitive decision.
Well, as the animation is built with CSS, animating HTML elements, all of these, can be "clicked".

Because HTML elements can have ":active" states, which are stylable with CSS, it is possible to bring the "artwork" in different "states".

Because CSS can target elements, based on "some logic", such as "target the element that follows maybe this element, when it has the attribute <attr> and...", it is possible to bring the animation to update it self.

And as the original links points out, there are ways to "encode" the visual information, in ways that you might have to be in an altered state of consciousness, to be able to decode the message, from the visual data.

This CSS animation, is an attempt at playing with all the aspects, transforming an HTML page into a "small interactive visual artwork/game", which "reward" is to unlock a "state of the animation" that has a visual message.
Infinit battery is utopia:)

Even when superconductor is built in, it's still the chemistry that defines the speed. Don't confuse it with supercapacitor.

Also, the wires.. at first it needs to be known if the superconductor is wire-able. If it can't be formed to a wire. Then no use as a wire.

But where ever a strong magnetic field is needed, there the superconductor will be found in use
Ask HN: Framework for Evaluating Product Ideas
Like a lot of people, I keep a list of potential product ideas for apps, SaaS businesses etc. However, the part I find challenging is to go through these and evaluate them before committing to building an MVP. What are some good resources or frameworks for this step of the process?
They happily pay SONY and Microsoft, because there's no alternative. Don't like it - build your own console then.
semiconductive* :D
Being Modula-2 like (in safety), with a syntax that is more appealing to C minded folks, with nice compile time execution support.
I really don't know it, because I truly cannot imagine how text could cause trauma to a normal person in the position of a third-party. And I'm assuming normal here, because they decided to do it as a job.
You are correct, but in a process that requires submission of the patent to the FDA, you can also request an FDA "new drug product exclusivity."
drugs & guns are both fine, if people are able to control themselves. In a society where self control and common purpose are valued, the ability to tolerate all views is a strength. Trouble is that the underlying set of ethics has been obliterated, so you're left with rights that don't pertain to the people who have inherited them.
Interestingly, they never talk about AI, and rarely use the term "Machine Learning" to describe their chips. On the other hand, if you look at companies like Alphabet or Microsoft, they seem to emphasize how they integrate AI into everything they do.
Redesigning Chrome Downloads
I don't really know what is different.

I can say that nodejs and TypeScript and pure SQL is so simple and straightforward that I seem to need almost nothing in terms of "framework". I just write endpoints with a query behind them.

On reflection I spent alot of development time hacking around in Django models/forms and the ORM and really almost none of that is needed if you just write straight SQL with Postgres. It's just unnecessary complexity - once you cut all that guff out then things start to become REALLY simple. Request/auth/query/response.

I put auth into a separate web application which gets called by Caddy (or you coudl use Nginx) as an auth subrequest. This makes auth extremely easy, and gives a very powerful decoupling and separation of concerns.

For many years I have thought, finally, that's the last time I need to write a user signup/forgot password/signin flow, but every project still seems to need it written, so I do that myself.

This approach of super simple, just talking to Postgres also would work well with Python but I have come to really like TypeScript more than Python. The latest Python projects I wrote were pretty much Starlette with asynpg talking to Postgres and no ORM or other fluff - that's a pretty nice combination, and asyncpg is the fastest Postgres driver for Python by a country mile which is also nice.

If I wanted RBAC then I would intercept all my SQL queries and wrap them in Postgres RBAC environment variables that implement the Postgres constraints. I've done this before with Django, it worked pretty well, but I think it would be nicer and cleaner in a system without ORM or database abstraction of any form.
Nah, the fact that even emperors die is a good thing. No dynasty lasts forever, because after the first few generations, assets get diluted, someone spends the money, descendants fight, etc. An aristocracy that lives forever would be very hard to remove because those factors would be greatly mitigated.
So...

ATTENTION is all you need?
I won't comment on some moral thing, having 23 partners can be entirely fine, but I think it depends on the intentionality..

Like, having 23 partners because, excuse my french "Elle voulait simplement baiser à tout va" is just fine (tm), they did what they want, and that tells nothing else about them that the fact they did what they enjoyed doing.

On the other hand, if they were looking for the one true love and thought they'd find it in 23 different people, it may reveal something else about them..

That they prefer a type of partner which does not align with their goal.

Or that they are a terrible judge of character.

Or that they are easily manipulated in general.

Those may be red flags in their own right, if those traits are undesirable to you.
Reminds me a lot of https://fresh.deno.dev/
Looks like they've copied Firefox's download design -- which is a significant improvement. Chrome's strangely tall bottom downloads bar always confused me and seemed a waste of space.
Ghostbusters was PG
> I've replaced my battery, monitor, and speakers...

I have many 2015 MacBook Pro's. All tour. All are almost permanently on. I replaced the battery on two machines last year. Speakers fine. Screen fine. Are you implying the relatively young M1 Air is so badly made, the speakers, monitors, AND battery have already needed to be replaced?
400 Wh / kg is the threshold that makes VTOL high altitude (20+ km) electric aircraft feasible according to Elon Musk in one of his interviews (from memory, I might have some of that wrong).

Advantages: no runways needed at airports, can get back some energy on the way down through regenerative braking, more efficient propulsion and less air resistance at higher altitude (electric motors don't need oxygen to function), no pollution from combustion.

Sounds amazing.
I've discovered damaged lead acid batteries in equipment by following the rotten egg smell back to it's source. Twice, both small current 12V DC batteries.
Eternal youth != immortality; given accidental and deliberate injuries and deaths, the "half life" (feels wrong in this context) is about 1000 years.

As for dictators: it's not like guillotines stop working.

What will keep dictators (if eternally young, or their offspring if not) in power forever is competent and obedient AI manning the police and army.
Because (like someone explained very well in another HW notice) you can't measure zero ohms. Any device to measure resistance ALWAYS would have a minimal value that can measure. It's far more easy to detect superconductivity using the weird things that does all superconductors in presence of magnetic fields (ie, levitation).
That Lexus hoverboard is extremely cool. How did I miss this commercial?
I mean, the market it targets makes sense. If you're worried aobut your kids paying hundreds on any app store game (which is pretty much all of them these days), Apple Arcade gives a cheap subscription for decent quality games with not IAP's. But they are still mobile games, so they aren't trying to compete for Game of the Year. The audience doesn't need that anyway.
A game engine https://machengine.org is being written in zig, there's also https://microzig.tech as zig is well suited to embedded development.
yeah I started to notice it in the 80's and once you do its everywhere

heh.. I might set it as a notification sound on my phone :-D that will get my attention!
How to improve Rust compiler's CI in 2023
No. Any device to measuring resistence ALWAYS have a minimal value that can measure. They can never measure exactly zero ohms.
I think the important part is that AFAIK the superconductivity only happens within the crystalline structure.

If that's the case then we are looking at really limited application. The magic of superconductivity pretty much vanishes the moment it has to interface with any non-superconducting medium. If you want to create lets say a superconducting winding for a magnet, the point of superconductivity is you can push a huge current through the winding with no heating. But nanocrystals can't accomplish it because there will inevitably be spaces between crystals and these spaces will have resistance and will generate heat.

Now, this does not mean there won't be some applications. Nanocrystals or not, they still can be used to levitate trains if we can perfect production of this exotic material.

And, the most important, we may learn more about superconductivity that will allow us to find other superconductors that do not have this limitation.
It’s called an Eggcorn, apparently. https://youtu.be/F12LSAbos7A
> I like Django but it pissed me off no end that it's called "batteries included"

The fact that the Django project and you have different preferences and consider different things essential is not a failure on their end. The fact that this "pisses you off" seems to indicate that you could channel your passion into more productive paths.
The State of High Speed Rail, and a Look to Tomorrow
It would be SO MUCH QUIETER than tires on asphalt. No rubber-particulate pollution, either.
Yeah, it's mind blowing. Minor correction, however. It's indeed the weight that counts usually. When we say blue whales are the largest, we mean heaviest. Largest in terms of size would probably be the Argeninosaurs or some other sauropods.
I also highly recommend checking out https://frinklang.org/
See my response to the other comment. I think I got this idea either from David Deutsch or Frank Tipler, I forget exactly which book.
Famously, Waterloo (1970) used 17,000 Soviet Union soldiers and (Cold War-era) cavalry brigade as extras.

They also drilled, slept, and fought like real 1815 infantrymen and cavalrymen, as it was.
Actually CATL announced a 500 wh/kg battery a few months ago. Solid state and aimed at the aviation market. Shipping this year apparently. There are a few other companies targeting that market. For cars, much lower density sodium ion and lfp batteries are what they are producing in volume. Sodium ion especially is becoming popular for the kind of cheap/modestly priced cars Toyota is famous for mass producing.

Those higher density batteries are great when cost doesn't matter (like in the aviation market) but cost is the only variable that matters when it comes to mass producing electrical vehicles. The game is not who can build the most ridiculous car for 100K but who can produce the most useful car for 10K. Toyota is going to have their ass handed to them very soon in that market unless they get their act together.

People that obsess over range are missing a few important points. With fast charge times, range matters less, and if your car is fully charged every morning, the times when you need to charge before you get home reduce to the rare occasions when you actually drive the cars maximum range in a single day. Which for the average driver isn't that often. The point of having a large battery is reducing those occasions to almost zero. If that matters to you, just spend more money and you'll be fine. There's no need for new batteries for this.

The point of a having a smaller battery is that the few times per year that you have to stop to fast charge them isn't worth the price difference in terms of time spent. Especially when that time is basically only around 30-40 minutes. Companies that operate vehicle fleets get this. They get the battery size they need, not the largest one. That's why most electrical vans have batteries that aren't bigger than those in cars. Smaller even sometimes. Smaller battery means more useful load. The reduced range is fine.

Toyota doesn't need a new science fiction battery, it needs battery production infrastructure producing batteries by the twh per year. Nothing else is going to enable them to mass produce cars at the same rate they are producing ICE cars. They are not building those factories yet. I'm not sure what they are waiting for at this point. But they are running out of time. Cheap EVs are going to be on the market pretty soon. They already are on the market in China. The main constraint for that is battery production volume. Some companies are investing in that as fast as they can; Toyota so far isn't.
I've seen this a lot since the first m1 macs came out. While I'm not a hardware engineer my understanding is this:

For regular stuff that's not gpu intensive, it's not really much different to any other system in terms of how it uses ram. What's different is it has a ridiculously fast SSD and can swap without much performance hit.

Relying on your ssd for swap over getting enough memory in the first place seems like false economy to me.