skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>so you can focus more on the person sitting next to you than on drinking the drink

I never felt this was a big effort. Is this like people driving automatic transmission that assume it's dangerous to drive stick because it's "distracting"? It's not distracting once you get used to it.

Most of these things if you do them often enough will not require any mental energy.
I disagree: Frankenstein's monster is new life bereft of history or precedent, as opposed to a regular man converted into strangeness and exiled by acquired differences.

Most of those cyborg stories (Edgerunners, the newer Deus Ex's games, Ghost In The Shell) are more like... Hmm, perhaps Phantom of the Opera.
Because it sounds intentional, as the affected electronics are off-the-shelf and not something subject to firmware updates and because apple specifically have a habit of intentionally interfering with parts not installed by Apple.

Third party manufacturers are perfectly able to make an entirely equivalent and compatible display unit, as the originals are sourced by Apple from such manufacturers in the exact same way.
> It often amazes me how software that traditionally would take millions of dollars to build is just available for free.

Maybe this is just an in hindsight observation. Most of those millions of dollars were never spent developing FOSS projects created in free time as a labor of love. The money aspect only becomes apparent when the result can be monetized with 0 marginal cost, because copying bits has no marginal cost.

It feels unfair when you consider someone earning millions doing the bit copying, while nothing is passed down to the source of those bits, where the effort was done. But that effort can be framed as if it's "already paid for" (with love, scratching an itch, hoping to receive attention for doing the lord's work). I'm not saying the amount payed was "fair", but apparently it was "sufficient", because otherwise the project never would have gotten where it evidently is.
Just make a tungsten shell to transport it in.

Very expensive,but you can reuse the shell for many launches.
I used to demand no ice, and it worked ok in sit-down+waitress restaurants, but on GrubHub they will ignore that every time.

So what I do now is not even worry about the order, but when the drinks arrive I strain out all the ice, to stop the melting and dilution process. Unfortunately I still see an appalling amount of ice displacing the volume of beverage.

Also, I have a beard, and so a straw is the best thing to prevent milk or soda or whatever soaking into my facial hair.

Currently I have a vast stockpile of plastic straws, because I usually order two drinks but use one straw. Mostly, the only sustainable, crap straws are the ones I've purchased separately.
Ask HN: Books about building with lithium batteries
I often find myself thinking about attaching a battery to one thing or the other - or replacing a broken battery. But when I think about charging them it gets a bit scary, especially when replacing a battery.

Can you recommend any good books/websites about safe use of different types of batteries?

I have fundamental knowledge about electrics but when battery chemistry comes in, I'm down to nothing.
In my experience, yes, that's the main perk of a salaried job. When I was freelancing, it definitely was on our own money. But most companies have a self-training budget, a training budget, and they allocate time off projects to send you to training. It's more common than dental insurance at least.
There’s definitely a bit of a learning curve if you’ve never written in a language where everything is immutable. Certain problems have to be approached in a fundamentally different way if you can’t mutate state.

Fortunately there’s Agent/OTP, but again, pretty different than other (or popular with beginners - js/python/java) languages.
Radical feminists are the counterculture here. They're fighting against both the prevailing male-dominated liberal and conservative cultures, on so many fronts, including this. Particularly this, right now, as a matter of urgency, before women are erased and replaced in law and policy.

Their messaging is grassroots - stickering, small-scale protests bringing together a network of like-minded women. They exist on the fringes of the internet, corralled off into their own online spaces after being forcibly removed from the mainstream.
> Of the 37 drugs approved by the FDA in 2022, 24 (about 65%) were approved based on a single study.

If consumers could more easily evaluate the extent of testing a drug was exposed to, they could make an informed decision as to whether they want to be the testers. It would incentivise drug makers to test, or at least try to inflate this.
You’re going to switch now? Or adjusting the workflow?
I am confused. I dont find the level of detail impressive at all. Image quality looks just a little bit above consumer grade quality.
I think the Firecracker team has stated that PCIe bypass wasn't something they wanted to do, so I don't see how they'd open up to other accelerators' bypass method. But seems like building a vmm from the rust-vmm toolbox is 'not that hard' and there are some PCIe bypass crates already, so... Have fun?
I agree, but the MBAs will probably not.
> probably a few languages that have an aversion to using glibc.

You don't need an aversion to the whole glibc to consider that "Just eat some archaic data structure" is too expensive for a language that cares about performance.

Rust's Mutex is defined over futex on Linux and some other Unix systems, srw locks on Windows because if you write it in terms of the pthread structure or the equivalent for Windows it's slower and much bigger.
I recently wrote a blog post [1] about the comeback in popularity of these web desktops, especially after seeing a lot of these being posted on HN recently. OS.js was one of the early projects I started tracking years ago, and it's really well designed and documented. The interface always reminded me of those mid 2000's distros with GNOME 2, which is a nice thing since most nostalgic web desktops tend to have Windows 9x themes.

[1] https://system31.simone.computer/blog/desktops-zip
> LLMs won't get intelligent. That's a fact based on their MO. They are sequence completion engines. They can be fine tuned to specific tasks, but at their core, they remain stochastic parrots.

Yet, we are different, right?
A short and intense introduction to Haskell (2019)
the 'knowingly allowed' wording suggests LG literally asked them for permission to launder money on behalf of NK and these guys were like of course sure here you go, we've enabled money laundering for your account. pretty hard to believe by my standards.

it's more likely LG simply used Tornado Cash just like any other user.
> Humans have gone "enough is enough", but not the ones with the power to change things, as they're all wealthy/connected enough that neither they or any of their children will suffer negative effects.

Which "humans" exactly? First they elect politicians for feel-good green promises, but then when time comes to actually pay the price of becoming "greener" they lose their shit like "I meant all _other_ people to make sacrifices for green future, not _me_!!!". For good examples see Gilets jaunes or recent German walkback from fossil fuel heating systems ban that was supposed to start from 2024.
Makes sense, it's too obvious to not have already been studied :)
Do you know what I might search for to find info on it?
>Expensive now… soon to be standard?
With translation, better safe than sorry? It's a very important field and preserves human history so, why not?
None of those are for sending files, they provide remote access to a filesystem. The find-connect-mount-browse workflow is good for many situations, but for when I want to send a photo to a friend sitting across the table from me, it's simply unusable.
Most new vmm projects seem based on rust-vmm and hopefully the big players keep contributing back to the project and its many satellites.
If you know CSS, you can write CSS. Sometimes utilities add indirection that’s harder to follow in the long term—especially with folks that aren’t already using these utilities. In 10 years, will it be easier to follow `mb-5` as medium border 5, middle box-shadow 10, margin block 5rem, min-block-size 10, mix-blend-mode 5, mild black version 5? If the utility has many properties tied to them (e.g. those softer shadows of layered box-shadow) named .stackedShadow--depth3 this sort of utility has earned its value that will be easy to understand why it exists vs. .pt-6 when an explicit value or CSS variable could have sufficed. This doesn’t apply to all cases, or all projects, but I would predict in 5 years the fad of pushing everything into a utility will be dead in favor of moderate usage.
High Crime Forces San Francisco Federal Employees to Work Remotely
Antarctic sea ice has also begun to shrink rapidly, dramatically so. Check out https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice/ (you'll need to click "switch hemisphere")
He's entering the post-Truth era.
comment here is conveying that there is no function color, where a language distinguishes standard synchronous calls from asynchronous calls
This assumes the angle from the vertical is 'small' enough to simplify some trig terms. I'm pretty sure a swing can hit 90 degrees from vertical and have some doubts about that being small in the cancelling out trigonometric terms sense.
The possibility of creating a given security bug depends on a host of things such as network connectivity, system architecture, computer language etc. These decisions were made early so we wouldn’t see anything like the current internet, operating systems, or even hardware etc in such a world. Granted, computer systems would presumably suck in such a world but that’s a different question.

It’s likely the risk/reword would actually be worse in such a world as fewer things would be possible to exploit for meaningful gain.
GitHub is a modern day great example of this
I don't see how this has anything to do with the article, or how it's much more than alarmist anti-science rhetoric. Care to expand a bit?
Both. But the second part definitely only starts and needs more work on the first part.

I guess selling more weapons is a double win then.
> From my experience, modern SWEs are the workers' category least likely to get involved in any kind of collective action. They're too self centered and individualistic for that.

Not to mention way too well paid, comfortable and with lots to lose. Why risk a very comfortable lifestyle for some noble goal that barely concerns you unless you have tons of empathy?
I have experienced similar benefits. Some people even joked that I had a face lift, as I took that shower right before meeting them.

I started taking cold showers when the war between Russia and Ukraine made the bills go up and I could not afford to pay so much anymore. The first three days were awful to say the least. The water is freezing cold even in the summer because I think it comes from deep underground. I dreaded getting into the shower, but I had no choice. I either had to stay clean or in debt. So I went in and groaned like a monkey, cursing in between shallow breaths for a few minutes, but it became less unbearable after a while. I felt a headache, some dizziness and a general malaise afterwards. But once I got out of the shower, I stayed cool for three to four hours, actually feeling better than before.

From the fourth day on, it got easier and easier. At first, I could take a cold shower quietly with mild discomfort but later on, I could just get in right away without minding the temperature. Now I enjoy it so much that it has become an addiction and not a nightmare. It took more or less a week to get to that point.
When you have a vast near infinite canvas, it's just a numbers game.
I've heard this taking point often, but from the perspective of a resident in Japan (rather than an investor) is really not leading to observable negatives for the people... Housing and land prices are lowering, wages are increasing, and investment in working environments and labour savings technology is high... Maybe the worst is yet to come, but at the moment it looks like an overall benefit for the majority.
I recently watched a documentary series about cyberpunk on YouTube by Indigo Gaming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttm8Q9rOdQ

There are currently 3 parts to the series, and it is an interesting overview of the genre.
Cindy Crawford and Terminator 2's poster reminded me of early Stable Diffusion outputs.
> This fixes the BSODs until you install the updates again.

But _you_ don't install updates. The thing autoupdates itself.
Half of these are just good, not 'so bad they're good'. The good ones convey the meaning of the film while being just odd enough to stick in your head. I imagine they'd be great for marketing.
If you don't multi-boot it is generally easier to use efistub. As long as you put your kernel image in the same place you just need to add an UEFI boot entry once and that's it.
Problem is some people make an 'informed decision' and forget to tell that to a buyer when they sell their phones...
1726 novel describing a computer backed by visual depiction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine#/media/File:The_Eng... - that's a chip if I ever saw one.
even assuming the percentages have improved significantly since 2014 when this was written https://www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/if-planes-failed-li... I would expect it is still probably high enough you wouldn't want it carrying nuclear waste.
Shopify integrates with ‘zero-fee’ Solana Pay
Economics theories based on equilibrium, laboratory settings are not all that helpful when more than one thing is changing at a time (which is literally all the time, because we live in The Real World).
I was a user of this. But didn’t find it that useful! So if others had my experience traction would have been super low.

Like a lot of AWS stuff but not this.
Or, you know, people understand that their actions have consequences on others and living in an organized society is far better than the alternative. We're not endlessly settling an untapped frontier that exists solely in our heads.
I certainly wouldn't drink water out of a shallow well most places. It is worth every penny to get someone to drill a 200 foot well and not have to worry about contamination for drinking.
China is a dystopic totalitarian regime with an insane youth unemployment and a collapsing economy.
How has no one copied Prime Video's X-Ray feature? (2022)
As a pet rat owner of over 8 years, medical research on rodents actually rarely results in benefits for pets of that species.

The main advantage we have found so far is that drug studies done on rats can serve as a reference for safe and potentially effective dosages, as there's very little veterinary literature on rodent care otherwise. All meds for rats are typically repurposed cat, dog or human meds and determining the dose needed for treatment is trial and error more often than not – even in the hands of an experienced vet.
My dad also grew up in a rural area, and he tells the story of how all the teenage moped drivers wore helmets for a few years after one of them died
To be fair a toddler's brain isn't "offline" while it's musculature develops, they kick and move their limbs constantly, and then later crawl and and even stand, before they finally take the first walking steps. It's just objectively wrong to say a toddler goes from zero to walking in "several tries".
I guess I'm in the thought camp (a diminishingly small camp, if HN is any measure) that compile times don't matter. If you want short compile times, use interpreted languages. I appreciate the checks, validation, and optimization a compiler gives, and Rust's cuts down on total development time because of the extensive checks it performs.

I remember a time where C++ projects took hours to build that today only take a few minutes. Perhaps that's an assist when 'dealing' with compilation times.

I also don't think tests should be blazing fast. I'd rather correct tests than fast tests, just like I'd rather a thorough compilation over a fast one.

Anecdotally, even with a project that has an upwards of 50 dependencies, many of them *-sys crates, I've never thought that compilation times were that bad.

Speaking of interpreted languages, Javascript projects have historically taken exponentially longer to compile (looking at you, Meteor) and are rarely incremental.

That's not to say "don't optimize things" of course but there are seemingly many people very upset or critical of Rust's compile times that I've never fully understood.
Also on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/23/solana-pay-plug-in-with-sh...
> Most popular OS on planet earth and they can't afford testing their software on popular CPUs

Testing is expensive. That's what users are for.

Just look at the SW made by MS and Google. It looks that they work only based on change requests. If the bugs are not rewritten, they are fixed only when there is a change request.
Unfortunately meddling with humans is not something that is very possible or accepted. This is one of the primary reasons we’ve made almost zero progress recently in understanding ourselves.
1Password Labs – a new way to try experimental features
This is just blogspam with clickbait title of things like:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/02/gh...

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190313-incredible-ghan...

https://twitter.com/ATRightMovies/status/1658839419112022016

https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/african-gaze-hollywood-bo...
What if you read in a reputable forum that some display panel is much cheaper and works great?
Coming from (a lot of) Ruby which is quite close from Python IMO, initially I felt Elixir was harder, but it was just because of my habits, and the huge "comfort vendor lock-in" that both Ruby & Python provide.

Ultimately I am still as fluent with Ruby as before, but I find developing with Elixir is easier than Ruby (it took a few years to get there though).
Why the Kirnberger Kernel Is So Small (2009)
Really complex stuff like moving data from one place to another? That's trivial.
> You are ignoring the fact that a toddler, once their musculature develops, is able to learn to walk after several tries.

It's definitely not several tries. I've actually witnessed that very recently with my daughter. It takes a child literally several thousand attempts and falls (around a hundred falls per day) and 1,000 hours of dedicated practice, before they can make their first step without holding anything [1]. And a lot more until they can walk reliably.

[1] Source: Becoming You, S1E2, from 21:30
In Common Lisp I might want to push elements to an array, and start with zero elements:

CL-USER 9 > (make-array 0 :adjustable t :fill-pointer 0)
#()

CL-USER 10 > (vector-push-extend 'foobar *)
0

CL-USER 11 > **
#(FOOBAR)
It's a pun on "mad,bad and dangerous to know".
What industry? And not everything on Linux is open source. My 3D printer is proprietary stuff.
Dumb question:
what does it mean to sequence "the" X?

I presume our DNA are not identical. So do they sequence a particular person's Y chromosome? Who's?

How similar are two Y chromosomes from different persons?
Surprised to see 172 items in training set. Is that sufficient scale for QLoRA? I had kinda assumed one needed 1000s
How to propagate context without cancellation
I hear ya. But people are vocal about those. And thus Rust optimized those.

Others (a game dev acquaintance) complains about debug performance being abysmal.

At the end of the day, what people are vocal and more importantly willing to sink their time/money into will decide what happens.
You’re half way there - the other half is crony capitalism (regulatory capture).

The solution is dealing with those issues at the source, not the tail end.
Expecting them to corrupt the movement. Get their guys to 'help', stall for a while, end up grifting a few billion from the government in 'support'.
it sounds great.
>I don't even understand why the pay in EE is so low. They have healthy profit margins, yet tend to complain about the lack of finding skilled people.

Because:

1) EE profits are not healthy at all. Ignore Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, QUALCOMM, which are the outliers printing money due to their market dominant position bordering on monopoly. Most other HW companies have super thin margins by comparison because they're in a race to the bottom with Asian companies which improved a lot, and R&D costs in HW eat up a lot of the profits, leaving you almost nothing for wages.

I worked at a German company building super cool X-ray machines for the semiconductor industry and the wages were relatively poor because despite those machines costing as much as an apartment, most of that price is eaten up by components, manufacturing, Q&A and R&D that very little is left for high wages.

2) Much more cheap labor competition from abroad due to offshoring because HW is not user facing so it can be offshored without any drops in UX, as the user facing SW is kept in the west.

Since HW offshoring has been going on for much longer than SW and with far more investments in getting it right, meaning companies have a lot more experience with offshore HW dev on the cheap while maintaining high quality.

SW hasn't (yet) seem the same push.
Trump Returns to the Service Formerly Known as Twitter
Labor supply and wages are a weird genre of discourse wherein people come out of the woodwork to explain ways that increasing the available pool of labor, somehow and through some magical means that we may never fully understand, does not have any effect on wages. It’s just absolutely crazy. You do not need some wildly complicated multivariate analysis to understand the effects. This was standard fare economic understanding in this country right up until the 1990s when, I suppose, we all got put back in a laboratory where labor supply and demand do not matter anymore.
So disappointed in the tech community that we couldn't make this bill a little better. Probably because we were stuck in our echo chambers ...
Self-reported, nuff said. That is, as these things become more socially acceptable, they're less likely to be under-reported. It would help if they took random hair samples and tested those as a cross reference.

Along the same lines, marijuana is becoming more available (i.e., decriminalized), which is naturally going to increase availability and usage. Hallucinogens are on a similar path.

Your pee might eventually not show traces but your hair is like an elephant, it never forgets.

All that said, I would think there should be some concern for the fact that more and more individuals need such help just to get by. When are we going to address this? Where is the leadership that has the backbone and vision to do so? "Let them smoke weed" isn't cutting it.
Star Citizen has raised 600M dollars from backers
Importantly, in case it wasn't obvious to readers, hydrocompaction cannot be undone in any meaningful way. Once the compaction happens, water will no longer, and will never again, flow in the compacted area.
Maybe for use as drinking water, but for watering flowers etc. it is perfect.
Same. GPT-4 completely replaced my googling/stackoverflow routine. I generates a customized solution for my specific needs with step by step instructions. I think it works in a smarter (but slower) mode if the question is non-trivial. With pdf plugins it helps me reading and understanding recent papers. It generates an excellent summary and answers all my questions regarding any advanced concepts in the paper. I believe it's already smarter than me. I don't know if it can replace me in the mid-term but it definitely increases my productivity.
Yeah, if you have PKI infra, that’s the way to go.
That paper makes some pretty strong claims in the abstract that are not all really supported by the body of the paper. For example, there isn't much on the law or medicine claims in the paper.
> "your CPU needs to be this high in order to run Windows 11"

We besides the user, even the CPU has to be on drugs to run Windows 11, something is teribly wrong with this world. /s