skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of Campbell's soup began its dramatic rise after Warhol's record-breaking sale of Campbell's Soup Cans in 1970. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans)

Although back then you could buy Campbell's Soup Cans (the painting) for just $60,000. In 2022, a famous Warhol painting went for ~$195,000,000.
https://github.com/johnwcowan/r7rs-work/blob/master/R7RSHome...

I still have no idea what exactly R7RS is
This seems to be specifically for distributed systems written in Rust. Though it's not entirely clear from the post so not sure?
What about: “Ken Liiii, a dibba dibba dow doogh”?
They did consider using nukes as a fracking device to aid in geothermal power plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare#Proposed_nuc... (near the bottom of the list)
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/Gree-Recalls-1-56-Million-...

> Gree has received reports of at least 23 fires, 688 incidents of overheating, and $168,000 in property damage with the recalled dehumidifiers. Sold At:
Home Depot, Lowe's, Menards, Sam's Club, Sears, Walmart and other stores nationwide, starting in 2011 through 2014 for between $110 and $400.

It kinda looks to me like every dehumidifier sold in the USA+ for the last decade, then?
The diseases of the aging cost a fortune. Alzheimer’s alone is about $300 billion annually in the United States. Keeping older people healthier would save a fortune.

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/issue-....
> Or are dehumidifiers intrinsically a fire risk for some reason?

A dehumidifier has the same guts as an air conditioner, because an air conditioner was an invented by directing air over a dehumidifier [1]. So, it's not related to the "dehumidifierness" of it.

It's almost certainly the same factory, in China, sourcing the same faulty components.

[1] https://www.sunsethc.com/press-releases/the-astonishing-hist...
Good question!

~2016 I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad E465 sporting an AMD Carrizo APU specifically to take advantage of HSA. It seemed like the feature, or at least the toolchain to take advantage of it, never really materialized. I'm glad at least someone else remembers it.
> It does make you wonder whether life as we know it was a preceding civilization that launched life into the wider universe for the continued existence of life.

There's data out there about the First Ancestral Race but AFAIK they've never released the unredacted version of the Secret Dead Sea Scrolls, so it's hard for the public to say.
> Probably from different people

Definitely from different people.
Sure, I can go with that.

But wouldn't it be nice if we could defer death and have another couple decades living in health?
> The class of problems solvable in a finite amount of memory is just the class of regular languages. The “finite memory” is the finite state machine used to solve them.

I think they meant to say "constant memory" since every halting Turing Machine uses finite memory.
Even if they have years of experience in the industry? I understand for people without experience, but it seems crazy to not hire someone who has been doing the work for 20 years just because they don’t have a degree.
Vegetarians are really enthusiastic to use climate change as an excuse to talk about their thing.

People without kids like me are really enthusiastic to tell you we have done our bit by not having babies.

Westerners are really enthusiastic to tell you how they exported all heavy industry to the east so it isn't their fault.

The developing work insists it's inherited guilt of white Europeans (and North Americans).

But everyone agrees: we look forward to someone else solving this issue, at no cost to us.
FIDE bans transgender women from competing in women’s chess events
Kafka KIP-966 – Fixing the Last Replica Standing Issue
I wish, but every totalitarian government in history has had plenty of citizens supporting it, many supporting it simply wanted their fellow citizens to feel the same pain they are forced to feel. "If I had to live this way, so do you". Human instinct.

In our society, a divide is forming between the "knowledge" and the "labor". Why should a laborer need unfiltered knowledge? And why does you and your family deserve to be in the "knowledge" group anyways?
The point here is that someone on a window seat would have to wait until most of the passengers have left, even if they have paid extra.
Agree. I think the 'effort' reduction is the real difference that makes AI products different from human products.

Though this seems different issue from copywrite .

Like, we see that this can impact society, so we need some new laws to guard this.
Not at all - although it was the first time I heard of the practice.

So many things in that show are taken from real life. So much so, I know a guy who used to work in the valley area for tech startups, and he said the show triggered his PTSD.
Slack's not down, you've been fired.
Pete Rose didn't have the same good fortune...
This is not about death though. It’s about avoiding things like Alzheimer’s. My Dad has Parkinson’s, and if there was anything that could make that “fixed”, I’ll take that, “oh, but that’s natural” be damned.
The comment I replied to dismissed another users comment as politically motivated with a call to "do better"; I made the essentially the same argument and at least presented data to back up my argument.

If an opposition to gun control and voicing that opposition is ideological warfare inappropriate for this site, I would expect to see this entire submission flagged.

That said, to bring it into context, HN is a tech focused website; the nature of this regulation is rooted in the fact that there is no practical way to regulate how a 3d-printer might be used, since they are trivial to build using off-the-shelf components and software, in many cases, for a skilled engineer, just using components salvaged from common household electronics and appliances.

This legislation is highly relevant to HN since it exemplifies how such an "unregulatable" technology might be regulated by imposing specific requirements on the outputs of that technology, and explicitly criminalizes the use of that technology to manufacture specific devices. A good example of how this contrasts with other technical regulations and laws, and their impacts on technology, consider modern printers - they are easily capable of scanning and printing at sufficient quality and low cost, paper currency that would pass at least casual inspection by observers, provided you can get the appropriate print medium for the currency in question (for some currencies). In response to this, there are several varieties of regulation that extend deeply into print and scan technologies as part of counterfeit deterrence.

This outcome for the manufacture of firearms is actually more desirable than more intrusive legislation that would mandate that 3d-printer firmware or other fabrication technologies attempt to discern what could be a firearm or munitions component, and refuse to print it. Strictly from a technologist perspective, without ideology, I would support this legislation on that front. In other words, as long as you don't use this tech to do crimes, you are ok. More restrictions on the proliferation of firearms is just a bonus :)
> This is by design. The ones where you have to identify a bus, crosswalk etc are all used to train ML models. Your results are checked against other for the captcha, but sometimes you are the first person to see the image and there’s no way to check your answer so you’ll always get served another.

Do you have a reference for this? I wouldn't have thought a process like that would be needed now-a-days for training ML models.
Yes, but the common slang it is used for isn't the meaning we are using for l00tcode questions.
I write a lot of C and gave up on reading K&R as it is just too outdated.
A new generation of SV designers is racing to build AI's next big thing
I think it's important to work this out. Because then we can all argue over it. And as long as we are arguing we don't have to do anything. Which is what we want.

Everyone knows when your house is on fire you stand in the fire and decide who is most at fault for the fire...
If there is sensitive data or tools at TikToks disposal, they should be dealt with by changing the laws. Rule by Law sets the US apart from China.

We should not break our ideals in the name of politics and security theater.
Mass Survellience in Russia Expands Rapidly Since Ukraine Invasion
It's important to distinguish negative rights (the state cannot do X to you) from positive rights (the state is required to have X happen for you).

There is a school of thought that says the latter is not really valid, since it may (or eventually will) be that some negative rights be violated to make it happen.
It's currently used as a back-end for the Idris language. (Which is primarily a research language, admittedly.) It's a fairly popular target for languages to compile to, for similar reasons that C is -- small, well-defined, minimal, many implementations, runs just about everywhere. Very nice compilation target for functional languages in particular, as call/cc can, with reasonable efficiency, implement just about any kind of control flow/evaluation/threading model that you can think of.

Also, used as a scripting language in the GIMP.
I merely explained why it didn't work, for any passerby. I don't think the rules are hard to understand once described. There's basically only one of consequence—if writing outside the current scope there neeeds to be a clarifying statement first to avoid ambiguity. Unfortunately that prevents usage in a lambda.

However, I don't think complex functionality belongs in them either, so not a big loss. See the Beyonce rule mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
I'm building a few things, the two I'd love feedback on are:

- https://mousetrack.co.uk - a Disney World price tracker that tracks how the hotel/ticket prices are changing over time and which also gives some great tips on how to save money on holidays

- https://chirper.picheta.me - A Chrome browser extension which puts the Mastodon timeline into twitter.com
There is no neutral source ofninformation. Legacy tv is often controlled by governments and corporations. Social media are also controlled, by corporations, and by some degree by governments. There is also bias, censorship and moderation.

People were Hunters before. Were searching for food. We do not need now to hunt. We had to hunt for information, we do not need now.

We rely more and more on services and corporations. We choose the jest one, which becomes monopoly after some time. After some longer period of time monopolystic corporation becomes monster.

Circle of life.

We may not want to use chatgpt or other bots, but eventually we will. Common people use the easiest route. They will decide, what is popular, and what will be used.
Be sure to let everyone know via Teams.
I'm curious how you think the word "Doctor" is protected.

Do you mean that History PhDs can't call themselves Doctors?

Or chiropractors can't pass themselves off as doctors?

Or you mean Doctor J was licensed to perform basketball bypass surgeries?

Or perhaps podiatrists can't deliver babies?
I mostly agree, except for TV remotes. My experience is that the cheap off brand batteries that came with the remote will likely last for the entire lifetime of the device, a decade or more. Replacing them with rechargeables is a waste and a hassle since even Eneloops have a self discharge curve that means you have to pop the batteries out and top them off every few years.
> Well, there's option of not pricing per scan, when scan doesn't generate ongoing cost for library developer.

Which, again, is offered!

(the actual issue here isn't per scan pricing, it's that the web makes it very difficult to stop someone grabbing a library from site X to use it on site Y. One of few methods to do so is to use a license key which has to be validated)
Another interesting take: P != NP could be true, while changing MANY things in reality.

Basically all modern asymmetric cryptography in common use rely on the difficulty of either integer factoring or discrete logarithms (including discrete logarithms of elliptic curves). The problem is, none of those problems are proven to be NP-complete! Even if we proved P != NP, there could still be polynomial time algorithms for integer factoring and/or discrete logarithms.
This entirely ignores the problem of intermittency. The wind does not blow all the time and the sun does not shine all the time. To solve this, you will need grid energy storage.

The problem is that adds significant energy losses for a hypothetical car powered purely by renewable energy. In fact, it could be even greater than what it takes to power a hydrogen car. That is immediately obvious when you realize that the energy storage system is hydrogen in the first place.

Ultimately, people are just demonizing the inefficiencies of the hydrogen process while totally ignoring real-world losses for battery cars.
There is or was an old-school website called something like "Byzantine failures" that had case studies of bizarre failures from many engineering fields. It was entertaining but I am unable to find it now. Does anyone know it?
Close to half people agree with censorship. Of course, it's a product of propaganda. If people are afraid that foreign apps collect data about their citizens, they could do like in Europe and regulate with laws what is allowed to be collected and stored. Oh, if this is done, it also would prevent the American companies and their government to do the same...
> It seems fairly straightforward to just ask verbal questions?

This is basically my interviewing POV. If you've done the work, you can talk about the work intelligently if I ask some questions about it. If I ask you how you would think about solving problem XYZ, you can probably verbally think through how you would solve the problem, what a solution might take.
I'm sure his publicists do. Is he going to spend the next 120 years buying media coverage of his metabolic age?
Do tech companies still do old-school interviews where you just sit down with the hiring manager and talk about tech? I just did a few interview rounds, at some relatively obscure SAAS companies, after a very, very long break and they were all leetcode-type challenges. Is this the new norm?
This is just "cowboy coding".
I think the biggest issue with any lisp is that it's just too damn powerful of a language. This makes it super easy for developers to create their own little ecosystem of macros and functions that nobody else can understand. This can be absolutely disastrous for large teams and companies looking to hire.

Languages that force you to be more verbose and don't let you build your own ultra-powerful abstractions seem to work better for large teams where you can force everyone to adopt a standard style. This makes onboarding much easier too.
I have a GE one that looks almost exactly like the but wasn’t in the recall. It seems they overheat. During the summer when it’s humid, the thing is running pretty much 24/7 and while it reduces humidity, it blasts out heat.

But, every 8 hours or so it shuts down for ~20 minutes. Never understood why. I now suspect it’s because it needs to cool down. I’d guess that the component that triggers the cool down is faulty in these listed units.
The entire submission is flagged, exactly because threads like this result in ideological warfare comments.

Please stop.
> China's government could use TikTok to control software on millions of devices and drive narratives to divide Americans

Obviously other countries should ban US services as US government could (huh, “could”) use them to control software on millions of devices and drive narratives to divide %nation placeholder%? :-)

Jeez the level of hypocrisy.
IMHO it's worth banning all algorithmic social media in the name of public health.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the...
I’ve been working on a tool called Phases! (bit.ly/phases-demo). It’s basically a way to expose localhost to the web with a neat UI that let’s others edit your underlying webpage via AI (currently works with React).

Currently working on building a simpler version first that lets you expose multiple ports (like for your frontend and backend), generates a public URL, and connects the ports by rewriting requests in the browser to the public URLs.

Basically ngrok + more powerful deploy previews. Curious what y’all think!
I don't have much more context than you, but one bit I did catch is that this resignation is for "R7RS-large" and not "R7RS-small" (which might even be complete already).

Traditionally, Scheme is as minimalist as possible by design. Therefore, the very idea of "R7RS-large" is likely controversial to some parties involved.

Apparently it has been an on-going argument for years on just what to include in R7RS-large, as we can see a Reddit thread from 2 years ago asking when it will be ready[0] and John Cowan (the person who is resigning from the committee) saying parts one and two are done and part three should "follow quiuckly thereafter".

> That depends entirely on how much time people can devote to it. The first two parts, Red and Tangerine, are already in place; Orange needs a few things pulled together before it can be voted on, and Amber should follow quickly thereafter.

I'm guessing getting that last 90+% of agreement stretched ever further and further on and as John said in the resignation letter, it was surely exhausting.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/scheme/comments/nohfwe/when_will_r7...
With renewable energy, you will have to deal with intermittency too. That requires energy storage and more transmission losses.
Find the adults who think otherwise; They'll embrace you.
Not super related to this article, but I am curious how much hyperthreading has contributed to the various side channel / timing attacks.

Figuring out what core resources to allocate is a growingly complex challenge. RISC-V in particular went with SVE, scalable Vector Extensions, which are arbitrary sized chunks as opposed to having dedicated instructions for 128, 256, 512+ bit operations. Figuring out how to schedule multiple arbitrary sized SIMD instructions across available vector units is hard!
Power status is not dependent on long you live but your social status or inherited position.

Social systems have a way of changing underneath you until it collapses.
I wonder if there is a static issue if they make the space too dry?
I think the comment above yours is referring to 'natural' rights which are generally negative (i.e., no one can take them away from you). If anything can become a right simply via declaration or popular vote, can 60% of a country's population vote themselves the right to the property of the 40%? By that logic, the Nazis had a right to exterminate the Jews because the Nazis were democratically elected.

I understand wanting to protect Hawaii's heritage, etc. but landowners should be free to sell the property to whosoever they deem fit, at whatever price.
I'm not drinking 4 Nalgene bottles of water a day. That's not going to happen.
Adyen ... I have only bad stories about them. I guess they totally deserve this.
> We are heading for extinction as a species, and under such circumstances [...]

We absolutely are not headed towards extinction as a species. We are like cockroaches and the human species will survive. Using "oh no, the human race is dying out altogether and we must preserve it all costs" is a ridiculous argument.

> [..] it makes sense to cause local ecosystem damage in the form of flooding.

It isn't just the (risk of) flooding. It's hubris to believe we can actually foresee all the second-order ramifications from such large-scale terraforming projects. (Hydroelectric) dams have devastated the local wildlife, transformed the surrounding permaculture for the worse, and set off horrible chain reactions with devastating consequences for the local flora and fauna which have global ramifications down the line, as we are discovering today. Nothing happens in a bubble.

This same argument was once made of fossil fuel emissions (when we thought that smog in the biggest industrial cities was our biggest problem and outsourcing them to developing nations was a great win-win /s). That obviously wasn't true. Why would you wish to repeat the same mistake?
Their status message says 100% uptime so this inability to read or send messages is all our imagination!

Eventually if enough people notice they'll put an ! on their status page (as they've done for "Android users can't log in"), and then remove it from the browseable history in a few weeks.
I can't say, but I have been following Wu for a year or more and we interacted maybe once a month. Looking back through the timeline the last tweet of hers that I remember seeing was from late June. I rarely follow new people but don't easily notice when someone falls out of my feed, and Wu would tweet only once or twice a week normally.
We use Gerbil/Gambit scheme in production. The new actor system makes it a very compelling.
I was ahead of my time 30 years ago when I achieved the exact same result by simply buying the right newspaper.

And if I wanted to find more in depth material to support my firmly held beliefs I just had to go to the right bookstore.
The common criticism of LH2 economics is the energy required for liquification. Are you assuming that this is taken care of by overbuilding solar/wind and creating LH2 opportunistically?
Instructions unclear; created billionaire mice.
I like to think about this in terms of "ensembles", or a distribution on the problem instances you're drawing from. NP-Hard talks about worst case in this set or distribution, even if the "average" or "normal" case is creating an instance that is "easy" to solve.

This is part of the problem of using technical terms in a lay context. "Hard" here talks about "worst case hard" or "provably hard" (via a reduction to 3-SAT). Whether a given instance of an NP-Complete problem that is drawn from an ensemble or distribution is "intractable" is a more subtle question.
Examining an app going from React Native → Native
Yeah, that's my point. Cyclists are frequently going to something located on the road they are biking on.
lol Korea achieved government censorship by blocking certain websites by sni headers without any announcement. I wish we had those dumb politicians like France does. It is actually a good thing that old dudes who are clueless about tech are high up.

This kind of meager understanding of tech in especially in Europe make me wonder how the life of those old politicians would be like. They are still living in pre tech-boom era, where rich people paid someone else to do the chores for them. They don't even need to know the latest tech advancements because they have so much "old-money" to live like in 90s, which means they were born rich european and will remain rich european for rest of their lives.
>Unlike costmetic surgery, your gain depends on someone else's loss.

How? The 'loss' from donating blood is fairly minimal. If properly compensated everyone could be coming out better off.
In a very large sequence, you would be using numpy. I assumed the purpose of their example was some sort of clarity, over `sum(age > 17 for age in ages)`, rather than performance.
It's funny that its satirical, but I could make an argument why every point is actually a good thing.
Getting people to board in a certain order isn't particularly difficult. Southwest does it already, even if they only use it to... make sitting in a grounded plane a perk of checking in early? I'm actually not sure why they do it.
I would disagree. The problem here is the same problem that plagues contractors working in multiple global time-zones. Lack of clear communication and guidelines creates a mess. If there is the right structures and algorithms, I do think the current tech could create some very large outputs.

That said, there would need to be a host of manager/reviewers who knew how to wrangle the right "answers" at various steps.