skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly difficult to enumerate all the things we humans actually do.

There's a lot of stuff we consider to be "common sense", sometimes those things are used to criticise AI and sometimes they're used to criticise other humans for not knowing them, but that is a category that we don't even think about until we notice the absence.

For the things not considered common sense, like playing chess (beats all humans) or speaking/reading foreign languages (more than I can name to a higher standard than my second language), to creating art (even if it regularly makes the common sense mistake of getting the number of fingers and limbs wrong it's still better and not just faster than most humans), to arithmetic (a Raspberry Pi Zero can do it faster than all humans combined), to symbolic maths, to flying planes…

A dev conference I was at recently had someone demonstrate how they hooked up their whatsapp voice calls to speech recognition, speech synthesis trained on their own voice, and an LLM, and the criticism of the people who got the AI replies was not "you're using an AI" (he had to actively demonstrate his use of AI to conversation partners who didn't believe him) but "you can't have listed to my message, you replied too quickly to have even played it all back."
What’s not comical is that you think the virus is doing less damage to your body than the vaccine. What a darkly absurd idea.
Sometimes its more the issue that not owning your tools causes:

A) forced changes which can eat your “savings”

B) rent seeking (or: non-optional price increases like I’ve experienced with gitlab)

C) The company pivots and leaves your tool behind to languish
Reversed electrolyzer would be called a fuel cell then? What are their typical efficiencies?
Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft
I'm not sure about the specific power modes of Rasp Pi except I hear they're barebones and kinda bad.

But in any case, servers cannot sleep. Only clients can. Maybe the software architecture of this SolarPi should be rethought.

Or maybe perpetual power needs to be more carefully figured out here so that the Pi can truly function as a server.
Whats wrong with just paying for software you find useful / you want to support? Custom emoji are fun to me, so you just aren't the target audience lol
That's already what I am somehow doing. I always think twice before opening a link.

Reddit mastodon lemmy etc already sanitize websites I read, and often I just read the comments, not the article.

Often people quote important parts of the article in the comments.

Ad blockers is like an antibiotic, I use them but I also try to not expose myself to germs.
> Caste is not a British construct
It comes from a Portuguese word 'casta'.

But that's beside the point. You are mistaking the discriminatory nature of 'caste' with just the different nature of 'varna's. There was fluidity among varnas long before the British arrived and also inter-varna and inter-jati marriages.

> Tamil Brahmins have completely different gene line from say Chitpavanas and yet both are seen as Brahmins and they will quickly form a good relationship compared to say a Chitpavana and Koli (fisherman)

Where are you getting such information from? As a person who has lived in India for several decades, I can tell you this is not true. Nobody asks which varna or jati you are from, or no one even mentions these words at least in urban parts.

> Even if it was a British construct it is still the failure of Indian society to continue with it...

We never had a discriminatory system in the first place, and the only thing that remains today is the damage done by our various colonizers. India's Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi is himself part of an OBC (other backward classes) community (Modh Ganchi) and has enormous support from Indians from all backgrounds, India's President Smt. Draupadi Murmu is from a ST (Schedule Tribe) community called Santhali. The chief of the drafting committee of India's constitution is a Dalit, as you may know, Dr. Ambedkar, who was in strong opposition of the Brahmanical patriarchy himself. Yet he was given such an important role, in a country where ~80% of the people are Hindus.

Chatrapati Shivaji's father was a Jagirdaar serving under the Nizam, so their family was pretty well off. You are right that he was from a family of land-tillers which is considered to be of a Shudhra varna. However, he employed people of all varnas in his operations.

> Once a person or tribe builds social capital they automatically transition into upper-caste. Those who do not, remain at the bottom.

Now that's just... head cannon. President Draupadi Murmu being from a ST does not make any effort to hide the fact. Getting to the post of President has not changed that. Similarly, Dr. Ambedkar's achievements got him far, but he still was a Dalit. Same with Narendra Modi.
They demonstrate 100 hours. That's plenty for commercial viability - replacing the catalyst every 4 days is very doable. And it's likely that the catalyst lasts far longer but the experiment only went on 4 days.
> why don't we block ads at the operating system level instead at the browser level?

sure, we do that, too: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Before the username change, to keep my discriminator. Now the main reason is better stream quality — I stream games to my friends often.

Also, in general, I think it’s good to support companies whose (otherwise free) software I use. Maybe if I give them money it will make them less likely to seek “alternative” revenue streams. $8 a month ($3 for Basic) is a fairly affordable way to support a service that I use daily. E.g. I also pay for Strava Premium, Lichess, Godbolt, etc despite almost never actually using their paid features (or they have no paid features).

Disclaimer: I do work for Discord right now (summer intern), but I had been paying for Nitro for ~two years before I joined.
> tmpfs is more likely to shoot yourself in the foot with excess memory pressure

It defaults to 50% of physical RAM, but you can set the size option to whatever you want: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/tmpfs.htm...

(So yes, something to consider, but totally possible to mitigate)
Are you sure they were 1/2-year-olds? Even learning to read at 3 is remarkably early, although some kids do.
Snap and flatpak run a daemon to integrate into your system. Appimage has an optional daemon to give you the same integration https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage

Handles making it executable, automatic upgrades, no need to move it to your $PATH, and adds the application to your app list.

Only other thing you might want to do is symlink a friendly name for cli
Coincidentally, the audible book I was just listening to, mentioned how the VC firms in the mid-70s passed on investment opportunities with the mindset that start-ups cannot take on IBM.
Isn't "consensus" just another word for "(eventual) consistency"? I don't see how you could build a distributed database without tackling the consensus problem.
Well, most of the time it's not like you have to sit beside your (desktop) computer and wait until it has finished shutting down, so I guess that's less of an issue than the startup time...
That CEO and Mark Shuttleworth must be trading notes.

It is okay to bring up something like flunking out of school 20 years ago but why drill someone on it?
Parking where you want can be a problem. You won't have issues if you use a parking garage or park in the outskirts and then use public transportation.
Yep. Fuel cell efficiency varies widely, but the efficiency of the reverse process is a good guide - typically efficiency is fairly symmetrical.
WinCo is a bulk foods paradise.
Regarding the example hardwareconfiguration.nix file: why would anyone want to mount a filesystem on a user's home directory as world writable?
Maybe it shows my age, I know that most people don't run multi-user systems anymore (I do though).
Even so, I would still be quite worried about some runaway process, perhaps running as user nobody for a reason, messing with my stuff.
Nix, NixOS. It has firefox LTS and nightly, and the other two packaged as well. You can in fact freely go back and install any combination of versions/configurations for each of these, even multiple times.

Flatpak mixes up packaging and sandboxing, these two imo should not be that close coupled. Especially that it doesn’t even solve the former properly (not sure about the latter).
> I don't think it's defeatism at all, by my estimation it will do very little or nothing at all, while creating a hassle for everyone. I guess I could be wrong about that, but that's what I'd expect.

We have a longstanding counterexample: Trademarks. You can't register a trademark without using it and you can't sell it.

And the latter is practically in name only -- you can sell the "goodwill" associated with the trademark and transfer the trademark with it.

Yet with as little as that, we don't have companies squatting on millions of trademarks or shaking down small businesses who just want to use a name nobody is already using.
Wonder how many servers somewhere are up just to run this :)
You need it to be symmetric if you want strength as such instead of left-strength and right-strength, but otherwise yes, it makes sense to talk about strength relative to any monoidal product.
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Could you expalin it more for the easy understandibilty of the members.
> it's liable to cause your alternative suggestion to get ignored and proliferate bad practices.

I just don't think that is the case. On the rare occasion that somebody has answered like this to me I've just read their answer and thought "oh right that makes more sense I'll do that".
>but never have I seen alternatives.

You've never been outside the US, have you?

>Is it really reasonable to ask me to start using public transportation and completely revolve my life around a their schedule?

Tens of millions of people in my city do it every day. "Their schedule" means a train comes every 3 minutes.
Glad to hear that that very-well known problem has been solved by now, thank you for making me learn after you had listened.
Language apps: a reminder that millions aspire to be multilingual
"We all die" yes, yes, but you can die gracefully or pitifully.

Lifting weights won't help you with your eyes or ears, but being in better physical health translates to better mental health, which translates to better ability to cope with all limitations.

People who just sit still as they age deteriorate incredibly fast in more ways than one.

I guess this article can be eye opening for anyone who has lived in a bubble without them, their relatives, or friends suffering from any issues, but that has to be exceedingly rare.

You can prepare for injuries. You can strengthen your body and joints to prevent physical injuries, you can keep active mind to prevent mental issues, you can wear PPE to protect from most sudden sight and hearing losses. You should wear gloves while handling raw meats, it is more hygienic and makes cleaning a lot faster and more pleasant.
A minor thing, but the article says that the Terraform AWS provider uses AWS CLI to manage resources. That's not the case, it uses aws-go-sdk to directly talk to the AWS APIs.
Actually a decent use of AI
Perhaps some people are so conditioned to paying for optional premium stuff that they feel better doing so and see themselves as above those who don't drop a single penny. You know, it's like showing-off wealth IRL by wearing top brand clothes and shiny jewelry etc. Just a guess.
AI know what you did last summer
I'd be shocked if six-month-olds even recognize objects on a screen as anything more than abstract shapes/sounds tbh. A baby that age can recognize their mom, but would they recognize a picture or video of their mom?
Yii framework – An easy to learn PHP MVC framework
It's like learning to drive the car whilst sticking to the rules of the road and staying under the speed limit. It's not supposed to be fun.

Besides, I don't know what backwards IDE you used. I've been doing python for 15 years and have never had to manually indent squat, ever.

It sounds more like you didn't actually try python but read about the whitespace indentation somewhere and decided to chime in. Either that or you tried it in notepad.
Effects of natural and artificial light on man and other living things (1973)
I don't think this is common or acceptable; I think it is just a bad user contribution
Doing quick napkin math it looks like to process a ton of CO2 it will require 1.6kW of energy, burning that amount of propane generates at 50% power plan efficiency you get ~3kW of energy generation...

8CO2+24H2O+24e→3C3H8+16O2.

Moles of CO2=1000×1000/44.01≈22726moles.

Total moles of electrons= 24/8×22726≈68178moles.

Total charge=68178×96485≈6.58×10^9C.

E=Q×V=6.58×10^9×0.8≈5.27×10^9J.

E_actual=5.27×10^9/0.91≈5.79×10^9J.

E_actual=5.79×10^9/3.6×10^6≈1608kWh.

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Moles of propane= 3/8×22726≈8522moles.

Mass of propane=8522×44.1≈375,670g≈376kg.

Total energy content=376×50.35≈18,932MJ.

Usable energy= 10,791/3.6≈2,997kWh.
Well, however it does it, it works pretty well.

This post suggests it has at least some fairly tight integration with the kernel (and that it does work quite reliably):

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1pbctv/e...
Every time I consider trying to take up coding, I remember that I have tried to write the most basic AHK scripts possible and cannot even get going with the tutorials. I find it completely impenetrable.
ASME estimated closer to US$500b:

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/memagazineselect/arti...

JCER estimated from US$470b to US$660b

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/clearing-the-radi...

The official govt estimates have risen from $50b to $100b to $200b and are probably too low.
C3H8 + 5O2 => 3CO2 + 4H20

reminder that propane burns into CO2 - this process doesn't actually unlock any new energy source, it merely just reverses a reaction that has already taken place (presumably with electricity or some other form of energy)

this isn't some kind of miracle infinite energy source to solve climate change woes, more like an interesting way to convert one usable form of energy (electricity) into another (a petrochemical)
I mean, I've read people arguing for 'Swiss democracy' and 'American ballots' (because you also vote on a restricted set of laws when electing state representatives) when they talk about going 'beyond electoralism', which to me id super fair. Can you explain what do you think it means?
In what way does ad blocking improve your security? It significantly improves your user experience and slightly improves privacy, but it doesn't have anything to do with security, unless you click on random "download" links, which I assume people on HN don't do
Nice, simple, RAG explanation - https://cat-gpt-alpha.vercel.app/about
Thanks, the Janko layout was another one I was trying to remember; I was thrown because the images on the Janko wikipedia page are of the original Janko, and I had seen the Janko layout on the Japanese keyboards (e.g. the Chromatone and the Wholetone) which use hexagonal keys so look quite different.
"I feel like this anti car sentiment comes from people who already don't have access to a car and have already molded their lives around public transportation and of course then it is easy to say we should get rid of cars"

Or people who have choosen to not own a car and discovered that it is possible in the cities (at least in europe).

And every person not driving a car in a city, is making that city nicer and every person insisting he must drive - makes it worse. Air pollution, noise and safety.

I now own a car, but only since I live rural. In the city I was always faster by bike. So yes, the idea is to have eventually at least the cities mostly car free.
I've found that vague reasons like "it's best practice", "that's the way it should be done" & "that's not scrum" are usually thrown about by people who don't actually know why they're doing that, they just learned it and now feel strongly about it but can't actually back it up.
Don't forget also that re-encoding often happens with wireless streaming technologies such as Bluetooth. The effects of this are much less well studied. Bluetooth has more chance of sounding fine with a lossless source like FLAC.
>You've never been outside the US, have you?

You are right. Having lived all of my life in Finland, I have never been outside of US... oh wait... Again what is the alternative for me? To walk to the train station. Wait for the train that goes once per hour to spend 10 minutes on a train, so I can then walk to the bus station and wait for the bus that goes every 30 minutes, so I can take the bus for 15 minutes, so I can get - sort of close to work - and then walk for 5-10 minutes to work. In blistering snow storm.

or I can just hope in my car and drive 15 minutes and be within 30 meters from my office door.

Do you see how getting rid of cars doesn't seem to have alternative?

>Tens of millions of people in my city do it every day.

What if I don't live in your million people mega city? What if I live in my 30k people small city and commute because I don't want to pay out the ass to live in some shoe box?
Modded discord clients have been around for quite while. But indeed, the threat of being banned deters most people and if just a handful of people use a modded client discord doesnt care probably.
> There isn't enough fossil fuel around anyway if we wanted to keep growing with it

I in all seriousness love this angle and find it super refreshing, the puny amount of oil on this tiny planet isn't enough to satisfy human ambition. We should own the stars.
There is a RFC (2119) that specifies what SHOULD means in RFCs:

> SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119
People don't like to talk a out that first point. Something like 70% of rich people in America weren't born rich. The fact that they're rich in the first place shows a filter they got through, they're good at getting rich which isn't easy. Of course saying "the rich get richer faster than the poor" after acknowledging this becomes nothing more than selection bias.

That second point, the monetization of non money assets due to debasement of our currency and how that creates a pressure imbalance that moves real wealth from dollar holders to asset holders, I'd say most people discussing this topic don't get. I get it, but before reading this I wouldn't have been able to articulate it so clearly. The mental model you have to have about finance and economics in order to even formulate that understanding is almost too big for one person's head.
@dang kindly replied to me as follows:

“[AI-generated summaries are] definitely discouraged. We haven't added it formally to the guidelines (mainly because I think it follows as a corollary, or maybe a lemma, from what's already there) but we want HN threads to be for curious conversation between humans, and have always discouraged autogenerated comments or even human-written summaries.”
But Firefox still didn't have to implement the limit.
>I feel like this anti car sentiment comes from people who already don't have access to a car and have already molded their lives around public transportation and of course then it is easy to say we should get rid of cars.

I live in a place that is barely serviced by public transport but I still don’t like cars and I wish it were feasible to get rid of mine. It’s just an expensive tool to me.
You've missed the forest for the trees. The idea is that with fewer cars we would design our urban areas for walking and cycling. Your apartment block wouldn't have only one grocery store nearby, you would have a thriving ecosystem of local stores and restaurants within walking distance. You would take public transport or cycle to work. This is preferable for many reasons.

Of course, as you point out, this only works if places are designed around local shopping streets and cycle paths, instead of strip malls and freeways smashing through city centres. Obviously we're not there yet, and a car-free life is unattainable for many as a result.

Nobody is saying that this goal is acheivable in the short term. It's an ideal we'd have to work towards gradually, piecing together the required infrastructure and rebuilding the fabric of cities over decades.

FWIW I am lucky enough to live in a high density part of an old city, and it is wonderful. I can walk 8 minutes to a small street of shops with almost everything I need. I can cycle to other parts of the city to enjoy other amenities and meet friends. But I don't kid myself that this is possible for most people, yet.
>Financial services is particularly interesting as a study case as it is almost 100% information processing, hence fully "disruptable".

disruptability is inhibited by the amount of regulation in a sector, the more rules you have to follow the less likely you are able to find a profitable path to exploit that someone has not found before you because regulation limits the amount of paths available.

Many of the disrupters of industries over the past two decades are ones that managed to find a way to sidestep the regulation in the industry. When this occurs and regulation inevitably catches up the disruption turns out to no longer be as able to beat the incumbents as thought.

Sidestepping of regulation is often achieved because regulators don't care too much about regulating your disrupting innovation, the level of care that regulators have regarding innovations in their industry can be measured by how central the industry to the orderly functioning of society and the normal flow of power within it.

As an example - people don't care that much about the regulation of taxis and hotels because they don't really mean shit in the grand scheme of things. People care a lot more about regulating international trade or banking or investment, although from outside the industry, in the views of easily outraged observers, it might not seem like it.

Thus finance is one of the least disruptable fields, appearances to the contrary.

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AI has, in a few short years, gone from hardly being able to string words together, to writing coherent grammatical sentences, to being more proficient than an untrained human in many cases. ChatGPT is way better at writing poems than me, for example. Its style transfer capabilities are out of this world.

Thinking that the progression is going to slow down is just wishful thinking.
"Lead Acid is far cheaper"

By Wh of capacity may be but certainly not by Wh cycled out of the battery, LFP has many thousands of cycle life.

"LFP 12v 100AH batteries for $290": let's say 5000 thousand full cycles, 121005000 = 6000 kWh out of the battery (with still 80% capacity left), that's $290/6000 = $0.048/kWh.
Gas turbines scale much better than fuel cells, and can achieve great power density, are durable, can be produced without too much exotic materials needed, are a proven technology. If you can solve the storage of intermittent renewable production as conversion to propane, you already won!
Sometimes i think one of the biggest hurdles to environmentalism is greens insisting on wishful, return to edan, thinking instead of practical solution.

Convincing everyone in the world to do a massive cultural change involving large standard of living decreases is not happening except at the point of a literal gun. The world can't afford to wait for impractical solutions.
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