skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once made a "therapeutic bartender" machine in a rapid prototyping class. It showed different drinks on the screen and used computer vision to estimate your happiness with each option (how big did you smile?). It then pumped and stirred a drink from a cooler full of ingredients.
Dijkstra worked remotely, before it was cool. Haha!
No.

The range of genome sizes for plant genomes is very large. "In animals they range more than 3,300-fold, and in land plants they differ by a factor of about 1,000" and "genome size is not proportional to the number of genes present in the genome", quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_size .

See also the chart "Genome size ranges (in base pairs) of various life forms" from that page, and the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome#Genome_size .

Arabidopsis thaliana has about 135 MB base pairs. Humans have about 3.1 GB base pairs. Paris japonica have about 150 GB base pairs.
Yeah, which is also a monumental problem.
From personal experience, I find that playing dumb and dismissive with online discourse that leaks into real life works the best. Most of these things are incredibly unimportant, and even strongly opinionated people start to falter when they find themselves having to explain their dumb culture war stuff to you. Obviously if it's a serious mainstream issue you shouldn't do this.
I'm sorry I don't get the joke because we definitely do not say crisps
A fence on a ridge. High tensile wire, pickets and some other fancy stuff. All hills and transitions. 1 pedestrian gate and 1 wideish chainlink gate. Wood posts and tposts. Box braces and such.
Dead leaves should be returned to the soil where it belongs and where it is converted to food for the trees. Dont disrupt this cycle in the name of 'green' production.
This little app makes me feel, perhaps more than I ever have before, that CA might be what's under the hood of the whole universe. (Not a Wolfram fanboy, just reporting on a new sense of awe and mystery!)
Awesome that it runs at 3000FPS!
I was at an alternative/private school, and while lots of it sucked, they did value doing things with your hands, so something I made were:

* a bowl made out of copper, with a fitting lid

* a three-legged stool

* a very fine pair of salad servers, plus a wooden letter opener

* my own apron (sewn on a mechanical sewing machine)

* a bowl made out of cherry tree

If you count perishable items, probably my semolina soufflee :-)
This was made (and likely widely shared) in 2015, it would seem the black helicopters have passed over this house.
Guitar straps made with handwoven Peruvian textiles:

https://originalfuzz.com/collections/peruvian-guitar-straps
Thank you so much. My Croatian friend has agreed to help me with it.
The Internet Interprets Censorship As Damage And Routes Around It.

I am so enjoying this.
In California, Car Buyers Are Choosing Electric over Gasoline in Record Numbers
In the case of drugs, it works. The day a patent expires, you have generics that instantly lower the market price. Replicating a drug from a patent is not free but you know that the compound works and can be synthesized. It's much cheaper than doing original research where a drug candidate can fail after you invested a lot into it.
That is insane and would be a major error if true.
I would go even further and say that governments should consider having their own OS. There is no reason why Windows 10 and 11, with their ever increasing number of ads and information sieve, would belong there.
> In terms of strain, do you not feel strain moving your hand to the arrow keys every time you do those operations?

This is an interesting question - I don't consciously think about it, so I just tried typing with that in mind. I kinda treat the arrows as my normal mode, hopping around until I find what I want to edit, then adjust my position to start writing. So in my mind it doesn't feel like more of an interruption than switching modes. Also, when I shift position, I shift at the elbow, so my wrists are always parallel with my forearms and I prevent strain.
I guess to be clear, the local sharifs, swat, and other agencies came. I was told it was ~200-300 police who came heavily armed.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2014/07/01/the-f...

See 1980s bullet point
Rainforests might disagree
"How can I sum this column of numbers?"

"IDK, throw it at the LLM"
A battery-powered sky camera I put together using a raspberry pi pico that connects over wifi to send photos every hour. Ended up going crazy and making a custom PCB for it. Need to do more work on the battery life + camera exposure levels, but overall I'm pretty happy with it, especially how reliable it is given my minimal C skills.
If you're by area 51 the "man" is a little UFO when you drag it. There's a few of these Easter eggs.

Buckingham Palace used to have a little Queen, but that is no longer the case.
Apart from a bunch of high speed wireless communications chips, this:

https://foundrytechnologies.com/relay.php

About 50% of the work on this was software, to be clear.
plants will hybridize, combining the entire genomes of multiple species.
common wheat is an example of this, it has full pairs of chromosomes from three ancestor species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat
Microsoft really needs to split like Google and Alphabet. Having the top leadership rush full on into AI and Low Code / No Code solutions is counter to running a successful cloud business.
We definitely do say crisps, and I’d bet a parmigiana on it.
A engagement ring for my wife. Made it out of a piece of wire coat-hanger that I hammered down and polished, then mounted a small cubic zirconia gem to it. Probably took a couple of days to make.

We're still happily married six years later. :)
How can engineers working on this even look at themselves without being ashamed?

For the record: I'm a graphics driver engineer myself.
Do you have more info? Blog?
Workbench with inbuilt table saw and router, from that I’m building many cool and insanely rewarding things.
The fact that most people don't realize that a huge number of musicians and other celebs popular in the USA are Canadian isn't really a stirring argument in favor of the distinctness of Canada's culture. Our values may be distinct, and our history, but our culture? At least here in the English-speaking part of Canada, the culture is vaguely American with a lacquer of branded fandom for Tim Horton's and the NHL.

Trudeau wasn't wrong. The fact that conservatives pillory him for this rare moment of truth-telling is part of what's turned him into such a breathy-mouthed coward.
Readwise has become essential for me. It's an RSS reader, read later app, and spaced repetition app in one. The idea is that you take in new articles to read, highlight them, and then review the highlights daily via spaced repetition.

It's brought to life for me Richard Feynman's idea that the way to do great work is to keep a dozen questions at the forefront of your mind and wait for inspiration. It's remarkable how often I'll see something in my daily review that helps me reframe my approach to a question.
Interesting link you shared there.

Can you link to a real-world example of using Objective-S to specify an architecture?
https://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/ndvi-the-indispens...
Yes, I worked on it in 1972 for Earth Resiurces Technology Satellite, ERTS, developing an image orocessing library to correct for satellite angles, Sun position and cloud cover. I bellieve that was for NRO/CIA as it was used for grain yields during the Cold War. It read multiple color bands plus IR and we could recognize corn and wheat blight. This allowed it to be used for crop yield predictions, so we knew Russian yields before they did. It was a bunch of linear array processing functions. That satellite is now called IntelSat, likely a KeyHole 10/11.
Two Daft Punk outfits with about 70m of EL wire coupled with arduinos plugged into LED arrays stuck inside bicycle helmets. Turned out pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHrWllxRLgQ

Wrote the step-by-step and uploaded the code onto Instructables, it's still there ~15 years later:

https://www.instructables.com/How-To-Make-Two-Daft-Punk-Outf...

I made them with my girlfriend (now wife/co-founder) for my 30th, was lots of fun.
Being a relatively highly paid "consultant"/"contractor" on an hourly basis grants you the same status - management tries to minimize bs on your way so the company pays for a real work done.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty actually does bar non-weapons state signatories from developing nuclear weapons themselves, and requires them to accept IAEA safeguards to ensure they are not doing so. The issue with North Korea is that they withdrew from the NPT, then re-entered it, then when they tried to withdraw again they did not give the 3 months notice required by the treaty. They claim that their re-entry into the treaty was merely a delay in their withdrawal, and thus they didn't need to give notice again. The rest of the world disagrees, and holds they are in violation of the treaty, and has sanctioned them accordingly. Sanctions are generally the worst punishment that violating a treaty can result in, barring the few exceptions where war would be both justified and practical.
Me exactly. I don't know why they diaplay road names just sparsely. Sometimes I had to scroll far to get the road name.
> your question betrays a level of callousness unworthy of a human being

It's not rhetorical, but your feeble projection onto others tells me a lot about you. Yes, how dare one question a person talking out of their ass, only a monster could do that.

> kurt goedel

Refused to eat food not prepared by his late wife. Obsessive irrational fear is not merely tantamount to "anxiety".

Touch grass and take a break from the internet. You might catch a dose of anxiety.
Well, PiHole stops one particular endpoint for sure. And it's called several thousands times during a 3-hour gaming session. Pretty creepy indeed.
It is software-related, but also physical: pong with the bats moved by exercise bikes: http://lushprojects.com/cyclepong2/

It's been around more than 15 years in various forms now, but people still love playing it. If you're in London it is at https://www.novelty-automation.com/
blocking wasn't the suggestion. It was the identification of the problem. It's a complex and sophisticated topic.

Mass shootings that start with people being radicalized by some kind of online patterns and systems is certainly a problem worth trying to fundamentally tackle somehow.

I've got no fixes so that's why I mentioned it.
(since you asked for a code review)

For timing benchmarks, use Instant or a similar monotonic clock instead of SystemTime.

The original C code makes the same mistake, using clock_realtime instead of clock_monotonic.

This means the benchmarks will be wrong if the program runs while ntp is fixing up the clock. This can happen right after the system gets internet, or periodically when it checks for skew. Some systems might slowly blend in ntp fixes too, which means 1 second of calendar time is not 1 second of monotonic time over a long period of time.

At least it won't be affected by daylight saving. But it's not airtight
The main problem is there is simply too much carbon for us to be physically able to pull enough carbon out of the air to make a dent in our emissions.

Carbon capture might be able to help if we land on some breakthrough, but it cannot save us.

Remember that carbon is *heavy* (carbon dioxide is actually almost twice the weight of the fossil fuels that were burned to make it -- though hopefully you can avoid capturing the oxygen)

We currently emit something like 15 billion tons of carbon each year.

That is more than 3x the amount of cement made each year (4.5 billion tons). More than 3x the amount of food that's made each year (about 4 billion tons). About 8x the amount of steel made each year (2 billion tons). About 30x the amount of plastic made each year (about 0.5 billion tons)

Can we build a logistic system capable of processing, transporting, and storing carbon -- a completely useless material -- in quantities that exceed the global food, cement, steel, and plastic production combined?
let me translate:

I have keybindings which i'm comfortable with. Vim has different ones. It requires work and retraining to change?

What keybindings do you use in VSCode to delete to the next slash? In vim I type d t / "delete to slash" how about changing everything within parens ? c i ( "change in parentheses"

how about copying the entire "paragraph" of text? how about cutting the current line and the next 3 to move them elsewhere?

just because THOSE SPECIFIC things aren't as intuitive or "logical" doesn't mean vim isn't built on a foundation of VERY VERY sensible logical (to english speakers) defaults.

People joke about quitting vim ":wq" w = write q = quit and you can write them out in full. :write followed by :quit Yes you have to know about modes and the colon but if you can't wrap your head around modes, you're not going to wrap your head around loops in programming either and thus you don't need vim.

> but am I crazy for being highly skeptical at this stage?

no, and i mean this in the most literal sense, you're just ignorant. You don't know what you don't know and you assume that the one little thing you tried is representative. It's not.

yes, vim has some weird non-intuitive quirks. hjkl - for example - is based on the location of the arrow keys on a keyboard built into a computer that hasn't existed for like 50+ years. But EVERY complex tool (vscode included) has some weird quirks.
Not nearly as cool as most responses but the other day I re-hung our house's back door as the hinge had snapped. I had to chisel new slots for the bigger hinges in the frame and the door. No way as neat as a proper carpenter would do but very satifying especially when you open and close the door for the first time and it doesn't catch the frame and the lock still lines up.
Create a system or structure that naturally dis-incentivizes greedy activity and promotes pro-social community development
mine is a son. he's tempering my patience all day every day. and I'm absolutely fine with it.
I think a lot about the problem of increasing heat waves causing heat-related illnesses and death. The amount of consecutive days spent above a wet-bulb temperature of 32 degrees C is expected to increase most for countries in the tropical regions of our world (and subtropics).

Many of the countries in these regions are quite poor. Many have weak electrical grids that may fail in severe heat waves, and many residents are unserved in the first place.

If I could quit my job and work on anything else, I think it would be this problem. I don't know enough to say where efforts should be focused. In some cases, providing AC units and improving the electrical infrastructure may be the answer. Maybe in others, the answer is installing geothermal heat pumps, or some other off-grid solution like solar absorption chillers.
Seed investment round I suppose
I love Vim and use it (and Vim modes in IDEs frequently), but this isn't exclusive to Vim.

Alt-Left in Eclipse and Intellij will move back through recent positions, and Alt-Right moves forwards. Though I think it's different between the two out of the box. (I use Eclipse keybinds in Intellij)
the Bell Inequality is one of the things that really puts a damper in that idea. It's like OK everything is local with a speed limit, but there is a little but of superluminal stuff it's just not actually useful in any way except to wet blanket ideas like this.
Intel wants to provide the best computing experiences. To accomplish this, we would like your permission to collect, use, and combine information to understand:

The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself

Software usage: for example, frequency and duration of application usage such as Intel® Driver & Support Assistant, but not the application content itself such as specific actions or keyboard input.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/idsa-...
The Korean press seems to indicate that's when their mentor professor passed away and asked them to continue research on a theory he had, they've been slogging away on it since.
I think it also depends pretty strongly on what the patent says.

For one thing, there doesn’t seem to be any strong reason to believe that the superconducting material (if any) is what the LK-99 team thinks it is. For another, lead is nasty, and, if there really is a room temperature superconductor, there will be plenty of interest in finding lead-free materials with similar properties, and those might not be covered by a patent.
I’ve seen some papers referencing reddit in particular. You should be able to find them on scholar.google.com
Many ways of getting around patents, and if they can’t companies still need to sell the stuff to profit here. So the world would get room temperature superconductors if it works.

20 years really isn’t that long and more importantly it doesn’t prevent doing research or building assembly lines or customers designing systems to use the stuff. Nobody could start building assembly lines today, so the difference isn’t even close to the full 20 years here.

If LK-99 pains out they might profit from it for a decade or so while still actually manufacturing the stuff. But, the best case is companies perfecting their process and taking orders so they can start shipping on day 1 after it expires.
Plan9 from Bell Labs
Serverless Maps for Fun and Profit
> Oryx is willing to add any losses to any list as long as they aren't already there.

Admittedly I only spent about ten minutes looking, but I was unable to find any documentation of any Ukrainian losses at all on their website.

> I have seen no sources that indicates Oryx is CIA adjacent?.

They're founded by Bellingcat alumni, which in turn is made up of CIA alumni. That's not saying either is a "CIA front" (while the CIA does have fronts, I certainly don't know what they are), but rather that they are definitely part of the extended family of the US "Intelligence Community."
I'd say that positive results are only strongly indicative if they contain some property that absolutely can not be explained any other way (like the full levitation of that badly sourced video that we can't be sure abut the veracity) or if they are numerous enough to rule out rare effects.

Outside of that, positive results only weakly imply LK-99 is real.
The training process probably doesn't care and may do unexpected things at scale. You will most likely not be able to outsmart it. It only works to predict the next token, so fake info may even improve its spam detection skills.
Does a garden count? In a small, urban plot I grow grapes, tomatoes, strawberries, mint, elderberries, and carrots.

A work in progress but I'm building a modular synthesizer. I've built the power supply and have the VCO started on a strip board. Planning on adding some bits to that, making a step sequencer, and some filters.
Thinly sliced fried potato in bags = chips.

French fries = hot chips if you need to disambiguate, but usually (eg on a restaurant menu) just chips.
No, I am saying that by diverting drivers to regional roads without taking into account local population, this is directly Google fault. Why? Before Google started messing with information about congestion, there was no issue. Regional roads swallowed without any problem those few adventurous tourists that decided to use them. Now you find an average Joe everywhere.

Wanna se another interesting example (use google translate), here are statistics of our volunteer based and taxes paid (for everyone in need, even tourists, including helicopter transport) mountain rescue service: https://www.grzs.si/resevanje/statistika-nesrec/

Check number of accidents since 2006 (google maps came out 2005) and constant rise to 2023 (more than twice the number of interventions). Freaking maps are showing the steepest mountain roads (Alps are not a joke), to parts without phone signal. Google gets you just far enough to get you into troubles, potentially fatal troubles.
g; and gv are the two that keep me from using helix more.
>Sure a large org is receiving some ancillary benefit

The large org is receiving the greatest benefit.
I find it interesting that you chose to address one by his last name but the other by his first name.
Think about how pleased shareholders are though. /s

Many of them on HN too.
The key difference is that HN is essentially plain text.
>with null pointer exceptions being the simplest from of unhandled error.

I don't know of any practical language that forces you to handle the Nothing condition of a Maybe. Haskell has fromJust (as you note), Rust has unwrap. I suppose Idris could become practical one day, but it's not there yet. More fundamentally, without something like linear types, nothing in the type system can force you to check that a value of a particular sum type instantiates a particular variant. You're always free to ignore values, which means that you're free to ignore error conditions.

> Haskell's broken old IO APIs are hardly a model example of anything

I don't quite see what you're getting at here. My example function isn't part of Haskell's IO API. It's an example of what Haskell's IO API might look like if it used sum types for error handling rather than throwing exceptions. I fail to see how there can be anything inherently 'broken' about a hypothetical function that opens a file and returns either a file handle or an error.

>Your Haskell code will at least give a compiler warning for ignoring the output. I would configure the compiler to turn this into an error.

So you're saying that you'd configure the compiler to do exactly the same checks that Go error linters do...none of which have anything to do with sum types.
> but a lot of practices in there that are not exactly considered "best" today

You mean fashionable?

> Perhaps we have sunk too deep into the SPA/API rabbit hole that we can no longer appreciate simplicity

I’m certain of it.
Not Using Zoom
In non-software domains:

0.De-acidification of ocean water and rapid fossil fuels phaseout in all industries, preferably before
the marine foodchain collapse and de-oxygenation of oceans.

1.Methods for clearing microplastic, PFAS and heavy metals(both of which accumulate in microplastic).

2.developing a sustainable plastic/rubber alternatives without fossil fuels.

3.Development of better supercapacitors and decentralized/distributed
electricity storage(as alternative to fossil fuels).

4.Development of non-chemical space launch methods, space factories and asteroid mining.

5.Development of cheap/effective desalinization methods.

6.Development of environmentally friendly re-usable building materials
and replaceable building components/parts.

In software: Open-source decentralized alternatives for proprietary AI APIs/tools would
have biggest long-term impact. Its probably the most important field
in software engineering right now,
having this power locked in proprietary corporate walled gardens
like "Open"AI would also force mainstream AI use to depend on
whims of centralized API providers.
RFID Blocking Wallets!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka4eg9Kl6hI&t=104s
>The worst part is that the Apple & Google duopoly in maps supported by Android Auto and Apple Carplay means there's no way for a superior alternative to succeed in the market.

What does Android Auto and Apple Carplay have to do with it? Aren't both of them available for third party apps to use?
Interesting add-on thought: if you combine "cloud painting" with something like Squid, you could have a single (non-cookied) page 'rendered once', and displayed 'for everyone'
Nice. I did a lenticular thing too. A couple years ago. A 4x6 inch 6 frame art thing. The printer was in Los Angeles and shortly thereafter he stopped doing business. Funny how hard it is to find a printer of such.
The more you omit the less protection you receive. There’s many approaches to getting around patents and they generally work really well if you’re vague.