skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple never bought Qualcomm’s CPUs, and I don’t think they ever competed with NVidia. I think it’s just smartphone vendors are seeing a decline in sales; leading to a decline for Qualcomm.
I think that's more in the domain of tax attorneys than accountants.
Temperature is the motion of the whole atom. Individual atoms don't really have temperature, temperature is a bulk property, the average of motion of lots of atoms.
> This is just futurism-level techno babble

Is it?
It seems pretty understandable to me. No atmosphere means easier to spot rocks

Less gravity means easier to launch rock deflection mission with more mass.

> Who decides which expert to listen to

Right now? Our democratically elected officials do, by way of appointing a head of NASA, and also each time NASA wants to approve budget items
I with they added dubbing. BG2 was very popular in Poland due to great dubbing.
A typical paper may cite dozens or hundreds of other papers. This does not sound feasible. It honestly seems like it would worsen the existing problem and force scientists to focus even more on their own original research in isolation from others, to avoid the expense of running myriad replication experiments that they likely don't have the funding and personnel to do.
skyscrapers standing empty?

zombie economy based on cheap debt?

good thing the US doesn't have any of that.
> Food, sex & love, shelter & clothing. With only those three things you can live a happy life.

On the surface I think most would agree, but I think you need trust in a relationship.

If your job or parents job moves you around, it becomes harder to lay down roots it gets harder to trust people in anything other than a superficial way.

Friendships become a thing of the past.

People end up becoming divided, but pre-internet this was standard practice employed by the UK govt, in the name of science and law & order.

I'd be happy to spend the end of my life on my own now, ideally I'd even like a sort of drive-thru euthanasia service, where when you decide, not somebody else like doctors, politicians, scientists or religious freaks, where you can bowl up to an incinerating crematorium, pay a fee (because only a capitalist society would charge you to end your life in a painfree manner), optionally leave some beyond the grave messages, inject myself and end my life, body removed from the room, incinerated and the waste disposed of in the bin.

Its the last act of self determination and autonomy any intelligent person could hope to have imo.

Nobody gets their life back that's stolen by people in authority like parents, teachers, employers, politicians, scientists, lawyers and judges or superstitious types.

Todays society, which everyone is in denial over, is the fact they are nothing more than the property of the entities that ultimately control society.

If its any consolation, life can leave you feeling numb enough to make suicide a viable option whilst the criminals that run the world, get fat off the land.

So I can relate to the article.
Ah okay, I read this but I've understood it in another way. I thought they meant using multiple variables could become a problem. But I guess it makes some sense to not parse the python ast tree but to parse with a regex.
The constitution says nothing adverse to regulating entities that are not actively doing harm (though I disagree). Congress can write any standard they want into law if you get the right legislators in a room.

Antitrust is reactive because consolidation is a slow burn and it takes a while for a critical mass of voters to feel the problem. Thats why Obama and Biden have taken completely different approaches, despite being ideologically similar.
> governments want to avoid doing the actual hard thing which is convincing taxpayers that this should be part of what we support through broad based support as societies.

I think it’s a level beyond that, to the point that I’d just call it pure corruption. A government-mandated fee that a company has to pay isn’t any different than a tax. They’re taxing big tech, which is fine, and most people wouldn’t have a problem with that.

But then instead of booking that as revenue and deciding what to do with the money as part of the normal budgetary process, they’re short-circuiting procedure to send that money to news companies. If the government wants to fund news companies, it should be done in the normal way that all the other government funding gets decided upon, not in a special allocation just for news companies that is excluded from the federal budget.
Your average person never gave a shit about good content. That's the proof that's been visible for centuries, where there were newspapers, there were tabloids with giant click-bait headlines to make a quick buck and it always worked, because people don't want to read, they want just a headline to tell them how to feel.

But those average people are the majority of "views" of said paper, that's why all these media outlets are desperate for that ad revenue. They already have subscriber bases that are actual real interest in reading content.

Welcome to the sad reality of our world, crack open a cold one and laugh with the rest of us.
Ccleaner is that any good?
>If the government is going to force people to wear masks, they better have two things in place: 1) proof of necessity and 2) proof of efficacy, both of which there were very valid questions during covid.

Time-travel would make this an effective strategy in a public health context. Until that is developed, a "better safe than sorry" strategy is a perfectly reasonable approach. The entire point of representative government is to outsource difficult decisions to folks who can spend their time going through the details of very challenging trade-offs while the rest of us, you know, go to work.
One. Doing experiments is yet enough difficult and painful.

Two. This drain of resources can't be done for free. Somebody will need to pay twice for half of the research [1], and faster. Peers will need to be hired and paid, maybe by the writer's grants. Researchers cant justify to give their own funds to other teams without a profound change in regulation and even in that case would be harming their own projects.

[1] as the valuable experts are now stuck validating things instead doing their own job

Would open also a door for foul play. Blocking competitors teams in molasses just trowing them secondary silly problems that they know that are a dead end, while the other team work in the real deal, and take the advantage to win the patent.
Yeah copying a pyproject.toml seems like a valid case. But I'd guess that the toml will be parsed to something like a dict anyway after reading the file/string.
This will be useful, and definitely handy when sharing random scripts with a defined structure for its requirements. I've struggled to give scripts to non-developers to run recently and between getting them to configure a virtualenv and install dependencies by hand to using `pipx` it's been a pain so hopefully this will alleviate some if it in the future.

Not sure, however, that I buy the argument that it's going to be simpler for non-programmers to use TOML embedded inside a multiline string versus using something along the lines of requirements.txt - there's going to be absolutely zero syntax highlighting so things like missing quotes or bracket's will need to be carefully identified.

There's also going to be inevitable differences between `__pyproject__` and `pyproject.toml` which could lead to more confusion, such as the `readme` key - that's likely to be useful to include some help information alongside your script so it's self documenting, but in `pyproject.toml` it must refer to another file and in `__pyproject__` I'd assume it can itself be a multiline string..?
They are essential if you dont want the people attempting to hang members of the govt from the nearest tree
They outsourced "home".
If there is anything I can help you to get to your communist dream country let me know. Coz now it sounds like anti-vaccer with 3 vaccines.
No way! A political index that doesn't actually reflect the reality, has that ever happened?
Browsed around. This one is my favorite so far: https://oimo.io/works/cloth/

Dope projects
That's a good question. it depends how long you wait and how strongly coupled they are.

For electrons and nuclear motion they are often strongly coupled enough that they quickly reach equilibrium and thus are at the same temperature (e.g. in liquids or solids). But on short timescales they can absolutely be at distinct temperatures. In dilute gases they can also become somewhat decoupled (there can be a well defined electronic temperature and nuclear temperature).

One case whether this can take a much longer period of time is when dealing with nuclear spin -- this is much more weakly coupled to the electrons and so can take much longer to equilibriate.
What if the AI is designed to flag them as potential bad actors.
This is not universally true, but I don’t know where your family works or in what capacity. There are a lot of issues with epic but unfortunately it is the best out of all the garbage out there. Out of all the EMR’s I have used, Epic is the easiest to share information both within different hospitals using epic and sharing from epic to other emrs like Cerner. Source: Am physician who has worked in many different hospitals, and use Cerner currently, grabbing info from Epic most days.
I think if I was trying to build something to stand up tornadoes and quakes I'd look at superadobe [1] and hyperadobe[2], which are a bit like a very large coil pot, with something like barbed wire between the layers to protect against shearing forces. The exterior would need some coating or a skin of waterproof material too. But the "inflate a balloon as the form for concrete, then cut openings later" in the article is very fast, if not as cheap.

1: https://www.calearth.org/

2: https://www.earthbagbuilding.com/articles/hyperadobe.htm
Would be interesting to see when false matches are double checked by police and when police simply proceed to the arrest.
I understand that is an option, but the way you say he's profiting off free content made it sound like it should be someone's choice other than the developers to dictate how he should or shouldn't monetize. But given your response now I'm thinking you mean you just wouldn't pick it.

The fact many people would, that Lemmy isn't affected one way or another, etc, makes it seem more like preference than morals or something. Just getting a lay of the land of the hate Sync is getting (on Lemmy, too).

It comes across as "we don't profit [like that/at all] so you shouldn't either". But as someone that doesn't see it as unethical, I just see user choice, and in this one case a paid plan subsidized by users that don't mind the ads.
Yeah, that’s terrifying. It’s the same reasoning as, “Of course more Black people are convicted of crimes — we arrest more of them!”
As far back as 1985 Brian Winston wrote[1], "It is one such expression – color film that more readily photographs Caucasians than other human types – that is our concern in this piece." Richard Dyer wrote in 1997, "The aesthetic technology of photography, as it has been invented, refined, and elaborated, and the dominant uses of that technology, as they have become fixed and naturalised, assume and privilege the white subject."[2].

Key findings in the bias of facial recognition come from a 2018 paper in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research which found, "We evaluate 3 commercial gender classification systems using our dataset and show that darker-skinned females are the most misclassified group (with error rates of up to 34.7%). The maximum error rate for lighter-skinned males is 0.8%. The substantial disparities in the accuracy of classifying darker females, lighter females, darker males, and lighter males in gender classification systems require urgent attention if commercial companies are to build genuinely fair, transparent and accountable facial analysis algorithms."

1 "A Whole Technology of Dyeing: A Note on Ideology and the Apparatus of the Chromatic Moving Image" <https://www.jstor.org/stable/20025012>

2 Dyer, Richard. 1997. White : Essays on Race and Culture. London: Routledge.

3 "Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification" <https://proceedings.mlr.press/v81/buolamwini18a.html>
Many of the strongest opponents of sex work are women.

I can't speak for the commenter you're responding to, but the delusional part of that quote for me was the idea that men opposed sex work because women earn a lot of money.

I'm not conservative, but I was raised in that world, and I can assure you they believe sex is only acceptable within marriage. The vast majority of them would absolutely support a successful businesswoman who earned her money through any moral means.
Eh, I am an exception - I played Eye of the Beholder a bit (but never completed it), and I had Bard's Tale (and never completed it), but I never got the Baldur's Gate games (despite being an active computer gamer at the time, and liking TTRPGs).
To be fair, though, that's partly because my experience in not being able to finish the above too games due to the difficulty of the combat put me off CRPGs almost completely (until the more recent era of combatless or near-combatless RPGs with things like Disco Elysium).
Maybe we created enough good-enough phones for every human being and it's just that?

Ie. not recession.
> pyrex + freezer

but a lot of foods taste terrible defrosted. Freezing can really dry up ingredients, or render them soggy.

that said, I buy pre chopped frozen ginger and garlic, I can't really tell the difference between that and cooked fresh. Jury's still out on frozen chopped onion.

> the humble pressure cooker

Pressure Cooking can easily turn the stuff you put into it into bland mush, where all the flavours meld together too much, so it's good for one aspect of your meal (maybe the base soup / mush) but not all.
There is no reason for why a government cannot both advertise in a form of media, and regulate it.

There is also no reason for why a political party cannot both advertise in a form of media, and in their governing role, regulate it.

Engaging in a financial transaction with someone does not permanently ensorcell you into a suicide pact with them.
If you look at a modern card you can see how the ram is designed - randomly around the actual GPU core - to get it as close and consistent as possible.

Some chips are moving towards having the ram on the same die package as the actual GPU as one integrated chip.
The Optics Library
Is there any public documentation on Epic and how one can interact with it?
The History of Superconductors (Before LK-99) [video]
I've never played BG (I did play icewind Dale when I was a kid but it was annoying to read the dialogue without voice acting). I did play all Neverwinter Nights games so I have some background in this genere and DnD rules - but that was always the tedious part for me.

I heard of Divinity but just not into gaming anymore (too much other stuff going on). That said I'll probably find the time to play this on PS5 because it seems like a super polished immersive experience. Just like cyberpunk (although that was a bit disappointing).

My point is there's probably a bunch of "ex" gamers that pick a few games to play occasionally - it's very much down to quality of execution - if this game didn't have the graphics/voice acting/story I've seen from early access and was divinity level I'd just skip this as well.
Renting and “owning” are very different, if you want to modify anything. And, not everyone is in an HOA.

And, when comparing cost, you need to consider rent is 100% loss. Owning rarely is, with the usual being between 0% and gain.

I lost 400k renting in silicon valley. If I put 400k into a house, I would have made 400k.
I agree, version control is absolutely necessary when you are copying documents from other sources and modifying them. You need to know if the document has changed upstream since you cloned it and you need to be able to see the diff of the changes you made.
CCleaner on Android is adware like other junk apps that claim to do the similar. Wouldn't trust it now.
The techno-elites act like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok aren’t at all enjoyable when they have billions of daily active users.

This is the 2020s equivalent of saying that there can’t possibly be legitimate news culture happening with Comedy Central viewers at the peak era of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It’s just out of touch with the common person.

By the way, Meta products are incredibly good at a UX and technical level. Fast loading, simple UI, and ads have a predictable layout where they don’t bloc site elements or interrupt you (much unlike a typical news website).
I could have been clearer. Such UK retail purchases are guaranteed for 6 years. So the point I'm making was that it was beyond 6 years before any of my 20 x 2015 mbp's failed in any aspect. The 4 x M1s had poor battery cycle count, very early on, and subsequently became unreliable when not powered. I use them in the office. I should add there would be a significant investment hurdle in new peripherals to move to the 'new' usb-c standard, hence holding on to the 2015 model. It's been nothing short of the most versatile laptop I've ever worked with. But it's time is almost up.
As a percentage of GDP, the UK has the 6th highest healthcare spending of OECD countries, on par with Switzerland. The UK is not an outlier in terms of spending.

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=SHA
This reads like a reporter asked the mayor about her PR talking points and then listed them. We have maybe one cooling center that operates 24 hours. The "cool pavement" project has been a bit of a mess [0] and actually reflects more heat into its immediate vicinity. Arizona DOT refused to comment on its traction attributes, meaning vehicles (and especially motorcycles) might be at an increased risk.

Meanwhile the city continues to hobble its trail system by shutting down drinking fountains during the summer, erecting chain-link fences blocking access crossing highways for anyone not in a car, and closing trailheads in all but the hottest hours of the day. People dying on trails (mostly visitors from out of town) is not uncommon here, but the city does nothing. Bike paths kind of exist, but are generally fenced off so as to not go anywhere, and are otherwise disconnected from one another. It's as if someone is actively trying to prevent people from moving around the city unless they're in a car.

The zoning situation is such that developers continue to build further and further into the desert, which leads the city to continue to pour ever more concrete and asphalt into wider roads that exacerbate the heat island effect. Corner stores are not a thing here. Everything is based around driving from "where people are supposed to live" to "where people are supposed to shop" or "where people are supposed to work." The second that rigid structure breaks down, you find people in crisis. And even when it "works", it creates a patchwork of hellish seas of asphalt checked by vacant lots [1].

Unchecked development is not our problem; shortsighted leadership and policies encouraging or mandating sprawl are.

[0] https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoe...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6402244,-112.0987611,784m/da...
Quibbles aside, it seems undeniable that there has existed a power relationship between men and women that likely had much more impact on people’s day to day lives than the macro-scale power structures you are describing. Nevermind the fact that it is arguable that the gender dynamics were to some degree productive of the colonialism you are describing.

I don’t really get the point of your comment except insofar as the standard HN “well actually” putdown of anything resembling feminist rhetoric.
> Why can't Canadians open their browsers and type in www.news-site.com if they want news?

I can do that and have no problem with it.

Now can you explain why a Canadian shouldn't be able to open their browser and type in www.facebook.com or www.differentnews.com if they want news?
Refuse to carry? Or just not the default?
Yes, but you can write a pyproject toml file also as a python dictionary.

Instead of:

[project]
requires-python = ">=3.11"
dependencies = [
"requests<3",
"rich",
]

You could write:

{ "project": { "requires-python":">=3.11", "dependencies" : [ "requests<3", "rich" ] }
Year should be 1997 based on the disclaimer at the bottom. Cc @dang
Regulations have to happen in a "Necessary and Proper" way (see 8.18). The Congress is delegated with a strong legislative power, but it's not something limitless.
Flag the person who cannot be photographed? What are we flagging again?
Speed isn't the issue, it's latency. Some people don't mind latency. Some people will know just how to fix latency problems with software emulators, their host platforms, and modern hardware and controllers. I'm not in either category.
I stopped using Facebook years ago, and cut out Twitter more recently. Mostly I just try to spend entire days offline. (You'd be surprised what an odd experience it is to read a newspaper, cover to cover, where you have no say over what news stories you read, and there's a conscious mix of different topics.)

I did try Threads, and I liked it. People were consciously trying not to talk about politics for a while, so they were sharing pictures of their cat or talking about movies. It was like a kinder, gentler social media site. When they get a few more features, Threads could really turn into something.
No, they are to protect the rest of us from you. If you are not in control of your car, then you are a danger to us all. And being unbelted is a really excellent way to find yourself out of control when something exciting happens on the road.

If it were really just about containing the mess you make when you are ejected from the car, I'd be in favor of making it personal choice. But it's not.
Very nice! I'm definitely going to use that.
Assistive technology shouldn’t be a mystery box
If you're an engineering-process junkie, then cooking can feel like the most interesting parts of engineering stripped down to their essence. We strive for an ideal of immortality in our reusable, flexible code components, never quite attaining it and always bemoaning the amount of duplication in effort.

But cooking is all process, with the best possible outcome being not durability but an immediate destruction of the results -- I made a dish, and my family ate it all!

And then the real challenge reveals itself: they loved the dish, but can I make it again the exact same way next week?
I had the same exact thing happen to me and my wife. We’ve learned since then that this is a common scam by dental clinics.

Did they try to sign you up for a “care” credit card too?
>> That is, saying that customers /could/ switch is not necessarily relevant

On the contrary, it’s the whole ballgame in a case like this. Google’s claim will be: “we have high market share because our product is good. Look - customers could switch for free if they didn’t like it.” The government cannot make a monopolization claim solely on the basis of high market share in this case. It’s not remotely persuasive. (Indeed: who do you do your searches with??)

>> “there is evidence…”

Totally agree with this sentence. But it’s not going to be decisive for the government. It will not be remotely sufficient. Again - it’s not clear to me personally that this behavior is pro-competitive. But I’ve already told you what google is going to say. If you’re going to argue monopolization you have to define the market (here search) and then show it’s monopolized. Market share isn’t enough.

>> could see it more as collusion…

Not legally. Sorry. Not without some specific evidence of a conspiracy.
> You can access this tool in the Google app by clicking on your Google account photo and selecting “Results about you”, or by visiting goo.gle/resultsaboutyou. This tool is available in the U.S. in English to start, and we're working to bring it to new languages and locations soon.

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