skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That means charging will be pretty fast, even at the high end, pulling in 190 kw at 50% and ~90 kw at 90%. That’ll be some fast charging!

Here's a video going into it - https://youtu.be/RVmk-N7yqqo
Yes, all of my data is sensitive to me. I don't want Google knowing anything about me, including when I use their software.
The absolute worst part is that some of these guys, especially the younger (e.g. fresh grad through ~30) ones, do this in person! I was out drinking with some colleagues a few months ago and I said something offhand in a normal human conversation about wanting to learn more about X, and one guy pulls out his phone and just starts reading me the Wikipedia article about X.
> My wife felt dismissed and was really mad about it, but the reality is that some sets of symptoms are psychosomatic, and psychiatry can help,

Depression is a comorbidity of chronic illness. It's hard not to become depressed when dealing with an unexplained illness.

Psychiatric treatment can reduce the contribution of the comorbid depression, which can create a net improvement for these patients.

Too many patients with chronic illness will refuse any psychiatric treatment because they are resistant to the idea, but they end up suffering more than necessary.

When doctors can't identify or treat the core illness, they can at least address comorbidities and work on increasing quality of life. Psychiatric care is at the top of the list for helping people's quality of life in these situations.
Really depends on how much you weigh CO2 emissions, different air pollutants, noise pollution, etc. Environmentally friendly isn't a single dimension.

Furthermore it's not like he's going to dispose his older car, it's going to go to somebody else who might have an ever older, more pollutant car.
Storing the text version of the QR code is the easiest, and its how bitwarden stores the 2FA anyway....
I tried to get a paper that I own retracted
Where I live, irrigation and municipal supply are two completely different systems managed by completely different entities. But the municipal provider can still say, "We don't have any more water than we are currently providing. If you want us to provide you with water, you have to sign over your water rights. Then we can use those rights to provide you with water."
Not of the previous administration though. That was two administrations ago.
Not for long — more and more of our returns are going to a small number of retailers and they are all talking to each other anyway (via third party return companies). Some folks are already banned from returning from one big box store (and as a result, other big box stores). Expect this to expand to smaller shops soon!
Why Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon Are Working Together to Disrupt Google Maps
The game is very much a deckbuilder like dominion or slay the spire, and the slot machine is just fluff, except maybe adding a two dimensional aspect to it.

The main appeal is: You accumulate symbols into your deck, and the slotmachine arranges a random selection of your symbols up to 20ish (don't recall 100%) onto a 4x5 grid. Afterwards, symbols interact with symbols, combos happen and it just becomes funny to make a couple hundred thousand gold in a single spin. This is very similar to the fun of having an engine go off in dominion.

And then that appeal changes as you realize that there is very little luck necessary in the game. If you try hard, you can get win streaks at highest ascension levels. If you learn the different combos beyond the obvious ones, the weird interactions you can have with items and essences and so on.

It takes some 3-4 runs to appreciate the depth the game actually has. And then the fun begins.
I and many other people can create new music in my head by imagining it. I wonder if this could allow me to turn my brain music into an album without needing a 104 part score written out, a full orchestra, and the philharmonic to play and record it live first?
That’s still pretty true. Good condition used items on eBay often seem to go for near MSRP - even if it’s easy to get a new one below MSRP from regular retailers!

It’s interesting what eBay has done to the used market in general. Before the internet, it was a rule of thumb that something second hand (from e.g. local classified ads) would be no more than 50% of the retail price.

I think that eBay drove prices up by opening the market nationally (and internationally), so that people who _really_ wanted anything could find it - and the large discount previously necessary to guarantee sale in a small, local, pool was no longer necessary.

I wonder if there have been studies down on this.
Read the rest of the essay, not just the one paragraph. He means "our" in the sense of "us as a group", which may not translate into good for each individual in the group. (He also talks about using the term "liquidating" instead of "killing" as being a bad sign. "Liquidating" people may be good for the group, but it obviously isn't good for the individual.)
Yeah, me too. But the best analogue to that behavior I can think of is bullying, which is another popular manic juvenile behavior.
people are the worst
I know a guy who installed TT's magnetic active shocks to a Golf and got terrific results.

However, I'd rather have a boring car which I don't need to constantly maintain instead of an exciting one which needs a tune-up every weekend but that's just me.

It's not that I can't. It's rather I won't.
I don't think this article raises an actual issue (if it even exists).

If we take up the author's call to action in the title and introduction to "stop growing alfalfa" (presumably by outlawing it), then the corporations that grew alfalfa would obviously just find some other crop/product through which to effectively export water, albeit less efficiently, in which case the preexisting problems still exist but are even worse.

The real question is why these farmers/corporations are using their water to grow crops in the first place, when they could presumably be selling their water to consumers at much higher retail rates.

An immediately obvious answer would be that the costs of transporting/distributing this water from the source to the consumer is greater than the profit margin, in which case there isn't even a problem to begin with.

If the issue is regulation restricting corporations from selling/distributing their water to consumers, then it should be an obvious win for the politicians to fix: their corporate lobbyists get more money selling water at higher rates, while their voters get to buy water at cheaper rates. Either way, the article doesn't even mention any regulations at issue.
Not exactly. Cold fusion was contradicted by our knowledge of Physics at the time. Room-temperature superconductors are a field of active study, because even though we don’t know one, we think they might exist and the industrial applications could be world-changing. The response was not “room-temperature superconductors cannot exist”, as with cold fusion, but more “this sounds implausible and your preprint is dodgy; nevertheless we’ll try to replicate it”.
Nolan Lawson demonstrated using a web worker to perform virtual DOM updates in 2015. Sad it hasn't caught on in any of the major frameworks. https://pocketjavascript.com/blog/2015/11/23/introducing-pok...
Yes yes yes. Drop them if they don't click with you. Life's too short.

I've even dropped a book by one of my favorite authors once. I just couldn't stand it [Makes note to check what Neal Stephenson wrote after Seveneves].
Mine is Obama got elected and it led to a massive backlash by those who previously kept their opinions to themselves, believing they were the silent majority. They realized they weren't the majority and so no longer stayed quiet.

It's always darkest before the dawn though
Printed version here: https://web.archive.org/web/20151229025053/http://ianmurdock...

> Yes, that’s an actual scanned printout of the Debian announcement. I received such an overwhelming number of responses I had to print them out to avoid filling my 500 kilobyte (!) disk quota on the student Sequent Symmetry.
Well they did put tariffs on imported solar panels, which was intended to (and to some degree did in fact) encourage local production, but there was a lot of opposition.

There's a saying: "Only Nixon could go to China", from the fact that only a president renowned for vehement anti-communism could open relations with communist China. The Democrats, at least since Bill Clinton's administration, have been very pro-free trade, after 2016 the Republicans were ready to do this sort of thing, but the Democrats were still pro-globalization. It's because the Democrats were the second party to swing against the idea that all trade is good no matter what the country or industry, that they were able to get stuff passed better.

It should also be said that covid closing of borders, post-covid supply chain problems, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine all swayed opinions as well.
Fry's Electronics was the absolute worst about this. They would sometimes mark items on the shelf down if they were obviously returns, but more often than not they'd re-shrink wrap it and sell it as new. And more often than not whatever it was would be missing relevant important pieces so as to be useless. (This on top of the "we're going to search your bag on the way out of the store", which I would just glare my way out of.) I loved the idea of Fry's having what I wanted, but the actual experience was wretched.
There are public users and owner users. Specifically, you don't trust input from public users. You absolutely should trust input from owner users, or if you won't by default for some reason, you absolutely should give them the option to do so. Primarily, you should be giving them the choice as to what their system will do when it cannot reliably determine the actual time.

The alternative is to pretend that you can somehow divine a 'projected secure time.' Just, the gall to even write a sentence like that.
yeah there is a good in-depth piece on it via the same site: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-manufactur...
Do those auctions shoot up in price shortly before the end of the auction? They currently give the impression of a surprisingly good deal, and that’s already what I was expecting.
"By 1965, DuPont had indication that PFAS increased the liver and kidney weight of rats.

In the late ’70s and early ’80s, the companies were seeing alarming signals in their animal studies — in one study, monkeys exposed to extreme levels of PFAS died — and among their employees. In 1979, DuPont observed that workers who had contact with the chemicals appeared to have higher rates of abnormal liver function."

So, in other words we've known since BEFORE we landed on the moon and, still, nobody cares.

Scientists will study this while nothing changes and then perhaps some treatments will be released at exorbitant cost (of course, sighting the research and development costs of the treatment as the reason without any acknowledgement of costs to the people for unwittingly being exposed to this garbage in the first place).

Are we even making forward progress as a civilization anymore?
42mm is huge though
Yup, my state is the only one with an alien.
Amen. When someone does the math and adds up the winners and losers in all this, one clear winner will be this video from Asianometry, entitled The History of Superconductors (Before LK-99)[1]. It only lightly touched on LK-99 itself, but did an excellent job going through the actual science-based history of superconductors, covering in particular detail previous hype waves. A major point is that the YBCO superconductors, while an amazing scientific discovery, haven't had revolutionary applications, and have only lightly displaced lower temperature (niobium-titanium metal alloy) superconductors in applications requiring generating strong magnetic fields, including MRI machines. For the curious, [2] goes into considerable detail on potential applications and challenges for HTSC in MRI.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUczYHyOhLM

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472374/
Another way to think about it is as having a personality constructed for you by logging miles on the hedonic treadmill. It's possible to be ignorant by knowing too much of the wrong thing. In this case, people are trading actual integrated culture for a kind of consumer product. Hence Epcot Center. It's not about the cleanliness (who could object to things not being filthy?) It's about an ersatz existence pursuing the next thing to enjoy.
Isn't this a little like saying "what is Irish culture without the potato farming and horse thievery"? Is the assertion here really that there is not genuine Jewish culture outside of orthodox Judaism? Because that's obviously not true, right?
Depends on how deep the boil is.
Germany unveils bill to legalize cannabis
This type of story is fueled by techno-optimists who want to believe that humans can always "figure out" the universe and take advantage of the laws of physics to master their environment.

I don't understand where this belief comes from, but to think that research + time = innovation is really ignorant of how technology works. It seems it's really rooted in prophetic or religious way to look at technology.

Cornucopianism is a really better word for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopianism
SK has a lot of restrictions on gaming in general and it might be for non-gambling simulation reasons
I like thinking about systems, and how they interact, how their parts merge into a whole, and yeah, factors like Musk and his real-estate twin, Trump, are absolutely making society worse in tangible, measurable ways.

And I was quite clear how, and I notice you didn't address anything I said about how Musk makes the world worse. Would you like if your boss was like Elon Musk? Get ready to implement surprise rebranding at 2AM on a Sunday, I guess. Don't like a competitor or a journalist? A critic? Ban them. Then praise yourself for being a free speech absolutist. Banana republic methodology in 21st century Silicon Valley. Hurray.

A lot of this behavior, can be excused if his ideas were brilliant. But no. He's just an idiot. And 2/3 of the value of the company he bought are lost now. More to come.
I wonder what was actually asked. I’d say ‘no’ to the question as written in the article too, because it implies that I can’t return it if it is defective or breaks.
How to Build a Fuzzing Corpus
Careful there, sarcasm is hard to detect in text format.
The click-through is already cumbersome and hidden by default. I wouldn't be surprised if it was soon deprecated altogether.
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also stated in the GNU "coding" standards

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Conditional-Com...
Sure. Basically everything in https://github.com/tysam-code/hlb-CIFAR10 was directly founded on concepts shared in the above paper, down to the coding, commenting, and layout styles (hence why I advocate so strongly for it as a requirement for ML. The empirical benefits are clear to me).

Before I sat down and wrote my first line, I spent a very long time thinking about how to optimize the repo. Not just in terms of information flow during training, but how the code was laid out (minimize the expected value of deltas for changes from a superset of possible code changes), to even the explanatory comments (ratio of space vs mental effort to decode the repo for experienced vs inexperienced developers). I really want it to be a good exemplary model of a different, more scalable, and more efficient way of conducting small-scale (and potentially resource-constrained) research. To do that, you have to maximize information efficiency at every stage of the pipeline, including temporally (!!!!).

It's not perfect, but I've used info theory as a strong guiding light for that repo. There's more to say here, but it's a long conversation about the expected utility of doing research a few different kinds of ways.
Well, a lot of cynicism in the comments here!

I will say that, though I hadn't heard of this site, it seems like they were trying to do something decent and not profit-driven (free file sharing without advertising, badgering you to make an account, etc) and I'm metaphorically pouring one out for another nice service that the world had to go and mess up.

For anyone wanting to know what the site used to look like, here's a random Wayback Machine snapshot from 2021:

http://web.archive.org/web/20210309013336/https://anonfiles....
> Another problem is that there are hundreds of built-in library functions that need to be compiled from Python from C

An approach I've advocated as one of the main authors of py2many is that all of the python builtin functions be written in a subset of python[1] and then compiled into native code. This has the benefit of avoiding GIL, problems with C-API among other things.

Do checkout the examples here[2] which work out of the box for many of the 8-9 supported backends.

[1] https://github.com/py2many/py2many/blob/main/doc/langspec.md

[2] https://github.com/py2many/py2many/tree/main/tests/cases
Scroll down to where? It's a 4 line comment.
Ancient marble gravestone for a dog named Parthenope
I think that at least once in a while one should read/watch something that is not recommended based on stuff they've read/watched before. Helps keeping the brain fresh.
While this may appear to be an altruistic consortium of security-minded companies trying to help startups do the right thing, my skeptical take is that it's primarily a way to drum up business, which explains why the contributors list largely consists of vendors that help you check these items off your list.

Google (one of the main sponsors) and other cloud-hosting vendors can essentially say, "Sure, you can cobble all of this together yourself -- or you can buy our services with much of this already baked in."
"The word transpiler is often used by people when they want to say that built a tool that transforms programs between languages of roughly the same level of abstraction."

Right off the bat, that sounds like a word with a commonly understood meaning.
CrossOver update brings EA and DirectX 12 game support to Mac
Although this has been discussed in the Hutter Prize FAQ for many years, when the OpenAI Chief Scientist discusses why lossless compression is the most principled loss function, it may harness the LLM stampede and put some of those billions flying around to good use in answering hard questions about "bias" not only in ML, but in data-driven sciences.
Is there a post somewhere other than Medium? I'm getting a login page which I have zero interest in resolving.
It was not a suggestion, but rather an observation inline with the hacker ethos.

Also, I think ethics arguments fail somewhat when it comes to "harming" one of the largest companies on the planet operating within an exploitive capitalist framework
Not too long ago, a creationist would have sarcastically asked "Does this extend to biology too?", and gone away thinking they had made an actual argument.
My opinion on that question is not relevant, just as the opinion of religious bigots who want to overrule the professional judgement of teachers and librarians is also not relevant.

Those decisions are not to be made within constitutional frameworks, not by committees of religious bigots who promote ignorance. Stop carrying the water of religious bigots — you'll give the impression that you are one; you already give a strong impression of willful ignorance, repeatedly making the arguments of a simpleton.
That's kind of like asking, "Where is the market for eggs in the US West?"
Ok, since is running all private, how can I add my own private data? For example I have a 20+ years of an email archive that I'd like to be ingested.
To me, skepticism is an orientation towards not believing something. Kind of a posture or position. This, to me, is what seems like a bad way to go about life.

Maybe a better way to frame this is that someone should be honest with themselves. Be aware of their fallibility and use that awareness to inform decision making.

There is definitely a dark side to being overly skeptical by default. It can harm or hinder relationships, unnecessarily reinforce existing patterns/beliefs and deepen blind spots, and I think a failure mode involves obsessive compulsive tendencies + anxiety about the quality of one's work.

I've been on the "clinically unhealthy" side of this mindset, and it's ultimately about balance and framing. The same can be said for optimism, which can become just as dysfunctional if not balanced with a healthy dose of reality.
Windows isn't the only thing with issues. Both ntpd and systemd-timesyncd can be very annoying if upstream servers send a bad stratum value, and the maintainence team of upstream is a bunch of morons taking weeks to fix it. You can't say "forcibly use IP w.x.y.z no matter what" to either of them.
The market is littered with clones of minecraft and has been since before it was even done being made. None of them have even been remotely a threat to Minecraft. Turns out you need way more than just a bunch of blocks.
You cannot deny the vast positive competitive influence Apple has had on personal computing over the last 25 years. They take a pass at improving the experience of whatever it is, and everyone significantly ups their game thereafter. You don't have to like them, but it's foolishly disingenuous to suggest their significance is limited to their sales or their marketability.
There is nothing special about 100% or 80%, for all current chemistries in cars, the battery ages faster the higher you charge it. There is a little bit of a step change around ~60% so keeping it below that is good for days when you can.
So soon have we forgotten about 2006-2008 and 2018-2020? The most difficult part about all this is that no one on Capitol Hill was talking about bringing manufacturing back to the US before Trump and he was laughed at by every Democrat in Congress for wanting to do so. Then, suddenly, once they gain power, the Democrats want to bring back manufacturing.
Customer have to spend more money on charging since they are carrying around the dead weight.

I think the bigger issue though is the hypocracy. A large part of Tesla's marketing is based on pretending to care about the environment.
I've had this happen enough I don't use git blame.

Only once have I looked at something and thought, "cool solution, I would never have thought of that", but apparently I did.
this is the kind of thing that, I wish chatgpt could ocr, read and summarize
> The company experienced a 12 percent decline in its user base between June and July, according to SimilarWeb, which translates to a loss of around 200,000 users. However, these statistics only reflect the number of users visiting the ChatGPT website, leaving out APIs.

not to mention azure.

flights of fancy at best, money is on low quality article spam for slow drip ad impressions, feckless attempt at market manipulation at worst.
Trump’s Treasury Secretary was the architect of the CARES Act. Also, Operation Warp Speed. Ending TPP, which was something HN really wanted until Trump was behind it. Raising tariffs. Several border control initiatives that Biden maintained. Signing the deal to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
I have an idea for a filesharing site where the files must be encrypted. The server tries to parse the file using ffmpeg, ghostscript, libreoffice ect. and if it can read it the file is rejected. Similarly if a decryption key can be provided for any md5 then it is deleted. The hash for every file will be public. Known illegal md5s are blocked/reported. Doesn't need to be md5 specifically. This completely solves all moderation issues with the caveat than anyone who can open the file can also delete it. Not sure how that could make money either.
Same reason Firefox Send shut down.
> Why would they need TikTok on work devices

Because it's an information source..? Just about every other media app copied the format, but they won't be able to copy content.