skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about the details. IMHO a contributing factor is that they're a company historically centered around manufacturing nearly indestructible appliances (even the newer mokas, however flimsier, don't break easily); once the market was saturated with the flagship product, there's only so much profit they could squeeze out of selling accessories and the like.
I think it’s fairly clear from my post I’m using “elective abortions” to refer to abortions performed for reasons other than medical reasons (health of mother, fetal abnormality). As you note, Denmark does allow abortions for both of those conditions after 12 weeks, but generally prohibits abortions after 12 weeks for other reasons. It has a second+ trimester abortion rate of 4%. By contrast, Canada allows abortions after 12 weeks for non-health reasons. It has a second+ trimester abortion rate of 17%. Since both countries allow second trimester abortions for health reasons, it stands to reason that a large fraction of later abortions in Canada are for other reasons that don’t justify an abortion in Denmark.

Guttmacher acknowledges that “data suggest that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.“ (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1363/4521013). That is consistent with the Denmark-Canada statistics above.

I haven’t mentioned any specific US abortion laws, so I’m not sure how you can say I’m “defending” them. I’m talking about the moral principle that’s accepted in Denmark and Germany and France that a second trimester fetus is sufficiently developed that it cannot be killed simply because the woman does not wish to be pregnant. That’s a principle that (1) American liberals aren’t willing to accept; and (2) which does not depend on the frequency of that outcome.
In around 10th grade a friend and I got the leak just as it came out and then used it to make the characters lips sync to our voices for a chemistry class project. The engine worked, the lips matching word tech was awesome, and people couldn’t believe what we pulled off.

Imagine that intro scene in HL2 where you walk through a trap door Pepsi vending machine and behind it there’s a lab - and instead of talking about HL2 stuff, Alyx and company talk about sampling and testing local natural water sources.
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By using many of the same accounting gimmicks that GE used. IBM was in near continuous decline from the late-1980s. It's pretty much a shell of what it use to be.
> I wonder if this is a sign of things to come - rather than needing to find explicit deterministic solutions to many problems that might actually have one, because ML is getting much more powerful and accessible instead we'll just use ML models and get 99.9% accurate solutions, but say, well that's good enough.

You're not alone: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

For a more echo chess specific answer, see my answer above to @bazzargh
Even then, there could have been many breeding pairs of humans that were alive and operating and their descendants just did not survive until today. As I wrote in my comment, it doesn't actually say that the population was 1280 individuals, just that some 1280 individual subset of the population passed on their genetic material to us. The descendants of the rest could have died out at any point between now and that time.
I've noticed that I never see this kind of post from people who are using Authorize.Net, WorldPay, Merchant e-Solutions, Elavon, and similar...i.e. the big old school payment processors that have been around for 20+ years.

It always seems to be the fancy newer processors that started as SV startups.

I don't know if this is because the old school payment processors do this sort of thing less often, or if because the kind of organizations that use old school processors are the kind that probably would not post on HN about problems they have.
Sure, calculators made people worse at mental arithmetic, but arithmetic is mechanical. It's helpful sometimes, but it's not intellectually stimulating and it doesn't require much intelligence. Mathematicians don't give a shit about arithmetic. They're busy thinking about much more important things.

Synthesizing an original thesis, like what people are supposed to do in writing essays, is totally different. It's a fundamental life skill people will need in all sorts of contexts, and using an LLM to do it for you takes away your intellectual agency in a way that using a calculator doesn't.
They developed Doom on NeXT with highly portable C code. The reason for that is they were more productive on NeXT workstations (development and map design). Doom has been easily ported to every platform because they designed it to be easily ported. Recommended reading: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom/
Photography has been the only real 'non tech hobby' that Ive stuck with through the years. It encapsulates everything I love into one hobby:

- Fun social activity if you make friends with other photographers/find a club locally

- Instant Visual creation of something (since my brain rejects spending too much time on something like a drawing, only for it to turn out crappy)

- Fun/Neurotic Tech options when it comes to Lenses/Bodies/Gear. Love the rabbithole of researching exactly what I need/want.

- Lots of technical detail involved in learning different aspects of it, and really understanding properties of light

- I love DataHoarding, so organizing photos on my NAS using Lightroom makes my brain happy too.

- Actually gets me active, outside and moving, which has been a problem for me in the past (since I hyperfocus on logical problems, and loathe the gym as a waste of time)

The only downside is that during the winter I find it harder to get out and take pictures, but at least they're getting warmer!.. :(
First for 100% nuclear you need to compare the difference between peak demand across decades + reserve capacity on top of that or you get brownouts when even just one power plant goes offline unexpectedly. The number you want to find is approximately 115% of the maximum demand in a single year, and now you need to build enough nuclear power plants to hit that or you’ll see brownouts. (I’m not looking for the highest demand for the year but in France Monday January 2 high 59GW, last week the low was 30 GW and the high 54 GW.) https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/electricity-consumptio...

Further, there are multiple kinds of nuclear power plants and different ways of operating them, if you want load following you pay a premium that increases as you need to ramp up and down ever faster, and another premium for increased thermal stress etc.

As to wind and solar, you don’t need to match peak production and demand when the energy is so cheap. The goal is cost optimization, if you “waste” 95% of the output from a solar farm over a year but that saves you a few million over doing something else then you build that farm. Further, the cheapest grid includes lots of hydro which is extremely flexible and some batteries. Wind and Solar alone aren’t that dependable but add even just 10% hydro to the mix and the economics look wildly different.

To be fair the economics also dramatically better for 90% nuclear 10% hydro vs 100% nuclear alone.
Yah, I errored in thinking 3 beams would negate that, but it wouldn't, it would be just below, as you say.

But you have another issue: Even if you are just below the speed of light, most of the mass would become relativistic mass (and relativistic momentum), with almost no rest mass.

But there's a postulate that only rest mass can make a black hole, and relativistic mass doesn't count. (Because otherwise you could travel fast and see inside the black hole.)

So we are left with a contradiction.
Predictive policing feels like something that someone could think would be noble but could be abused though? Like to me, most things that we consider "evil", someone else could conceivably consider noble or useful or at least a net positive.
Yes, this is about aliases. When you see `length` in a language like Haskell you don't know what length exactly it refers to without looking at the type of its argument. But if you see `list_of_foo_length` then you know there can be only one `list_of_foo_length` and where to look for it.

This makes things like source code indexers have to know how to parse the language and how to understand its types even. Compare to the lowly ctags/etags/cscope of C world! Clearly monomorphic APIs are easier to deal with in some ways, though they also clutter things up a bit.
are you saying 420 is reason for not doing well?
I assume to avoid commit spam.
I'm guessing this is a reference to the movement by some people to use that term instead of "whitelist" on the grounds that the latter is racist. There's a division over whether this is silly or not.
I'm super excited for Auracast. It's been shocking to me that products haven't really materialized in the 20 months since announcement. Samsung's next flagship ultra expensive TV and their top of the line earbuds were rumored - just this week - to gain Auracast.

I wish I had a little more hope for it in these entertainment scenarios. It's got a fancy proprietary codec, but pretty mediocre bandwidth. I think right now it's only spec is for stereo. Trying to get custom immersive audio to a bunch of people requires spatial audio & fancier multi-stream sending.
Damn, as an ex-Googler, I have to say... uh... I don't know anything about what might have been going on there :-)
that's all missing the point.

mhtml would somewhat fit part of the bill of what PDF offers: a single downloadable "file" you can archive or forward and you know: the recipient will see exactly what you saw.

however the mhtml doesn't look the same, depending on the device. and looking.exactly the same helps a great deal in convincing a judge that we all talk about the same.thing.

get me right.

I hate PDF with all passion of my heart. epub (similar to mhtml) imho is a much better format for many intents and purposes and it allows to reflow the contents depending on the device.

but the claim was "PDF is useless and.shall go" and that's cutting.it too short.
The status quo is a miserable mess, but consider “assessment and grades” is the best apparent evidence of ultimate-goal-“learning”. Is that not reasonable for people who pay for education to ask for?

If it is reasonable, then the problem is likely the form of evidence and not its requirement se de
Show HN: Teenager releases his first complete game
Release video https://youtu.be/maKARl89Qos?si=VbrHmcdgwVwWFPqT

Github: https://github.com/ThousandthStar/8bit-duels

Devlog: https://thousandthstar.github.io/

This is my game 8bit Duels that I made in one year with Rust and the Bevy game engine. Looking for:

- feedback on code quality if you have the time to check it out
- feedback on the video (apart from saying that I should have used only one mic)
- feedback on the game

I know I should have built it for WASM, but it would require a rewrite of the networking, since I use TCP connections.

Thank you!
Them is the fighting words considering a moka pot is there!
Thorny AI copyright questions have Copyright Office seeking public input
You see a similar thing with the glass chemex. There is a healthy market on eBay for pre-1980 models that were hand blown from great quality glass. My wife got me one for a gift and the difference in feel is remarkable. New ones feel fragile, this feels solid and strong. I’ve broken two of the newer versions and it’s dangerous. The old one is still standing strong in my house, surviving trips in my RV, and generally doing it’s job. I’m sure I sound like a curmudgeon but they don’t make stuff like they used to
Discussed at the time:

Types versus sets (and what about categories?) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30697421 - March 2022 (31 comments)
> USA is also unsafe for nudists in most places. Unsafe for people who smoke pot and unsafe for people who like to let their kids play outside unsupervised.

These are all activities you have a choice about participating in. Being LGBQIA+ is not a choice, and some of the laws are impacting women who haven't changed their gender (aka cis-gendered, but some folks tend to take umbrage with that term).
> Not really, I'm just questioning whether the `Maybe` type should implement `length`.

In this case no effort is made to make `Maybe` implement `length` specifically other than making it implement `Foldable`.

ghci> :i Maybe
...
instance Foldable Maybe -- Defined in ‘Data.Foldable’
...

and `length` is a method of the `Foldable` typeclass.

ghci> :i Foldable
...
length :: t a -> Int
...

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.18.0.0/docs/Prelu...

length implementation for `Maybe`

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.18.0.0/docs/src/D...

edit - accidentally submitted while part way through editing.
Ask HN: How do I find a new career?
I was laid off from a SaaS company a year ago. Since then, I’ve been unable to find employment. Prior to that, I worked for a variety of non tech companies mostly doing enterprise crapware for internal business processes: a lot of legacy stuff, and low effort, low priority, poorly organized projects. I’ve learned and played with a lot of things outside that, and certain things gave piqued my interest before, but I can never take it far enough to be useful. I have no education, suck at CS, no deep business domain knowledge, and have zero math intuition. I’m decent at figuring things out ad-hoc, but that counts for nothing.

I hate programming. I thought I liked it as a kid, but even then I knew that if tried to turn it into a career it would ruin it for me. I only ended up taking it up as a job because my immediate post high school plans feel through and I didn’t know what else to do, but at this point it seems the only reason I was able to pull that off was because of the ridiculous market conditions of the time.

Now no one will hire me, not even the sort of companies just described I used to work for. I’ve even been rejected from shitty fast food jobs for a variety of reasons at this point. I just feel lost. I don’t know what I want to do or what I can do anymore. The risks and time costs of going back to school are too expensive, no do I believe I have the cognitive ability for any “useful degrees”, and I’m not particularly in the shape to do hard labor.

What are some options I might be overlooking for finding a new career?
I wish you all the best kind friend.
Ahh, yes. Good point. Neanderthals wasn't a good example. The ones that didn't survive from that point would have been called something else.
But that's all dependent on the implementation details: is the lock remotely activated or is it locally activated after local verification that those conditions are present. Because otherwise some joker could remote lock your bike, even when in motion. The outward appearance would be identical!
Top 100 movies per year for the past 100 years isn't that much storage. Maybe 50-200 TB? Doable by a dedicated storage enthusiast with a modest budget.

Every movie and and TV show in English is going to be several orders of magnitude larger.
Is it a bold claim?

On that account, do you lean more towards flat earth theory?
I always had trouble when using Syncthing for .git folders: they usually end up corrupted / messed up if I push on both the local and remote .git folders.
I think you conflate economic contribution and good job too much. They often don’t overlap much.
> HDR is a pretty new thing. It’s still a child everywhere but TVs and consoles.

I'm not sure where does the author draw this conclusion from, but HDR has been around since at least 15 years ago and it's pretty much everywhere at this point: TVs, console, phones, portable gaming devices, laptops, tablet, you name it. On Windows and Mac, iOS, Android, the several OSes for TVs...
I've got this great idea involving three small floating boxes.
A large part comes from coal and natural gas
I wish more people would hack and steal code from big video game studios. It's thanks to kids like him that Source Engine games are so well-understood and easily moddable nowadays.
Nothing you wrote addresses a “factual” disagreement between you and me. The distinction is a moral one: is a fetus that’s more than 12-14 weeks old sufficiently developed that it cannot be killed unless it has a developmental abnormality, or the pregnancy jeopardizes the health of the mother?

If you accept as true the premise that a healthy > 12 week fetus with a healthy mother is a human life that must be protected, it’s very difficult to say we should be able to kill it because the mother couldn’t afford the abortion earlier or couldn’t recognize the pregnancy earlier.
That's such a nicely put defense and of course I agree! but the problem is that such subtleties don't survive the statistics of a large forum. Even if 95% of readers get it, the 5% who don't are enough to derail the thread. Even if 95% of that 5% are willing to move on, that leaves 0.25% of readers triggered—more than enough to turn any thread into a flamewar.

It's similar to this dynamic that comes up fairly often:

User: $group is so $pejorative
Mod: Please don't post slurs to HN
User: But I'm one of $group

It's fine conversation in a cohesive context (e.g. friends over drinks), but that's precisely what a large forum like HN is not. That's why we have to moderate comments by effect, not intent [1], and that's why the burden is on commenters to disambiguate their intent [2]. The cost is a certain blandness [3], but the alternative is the end of HN as an interesting place.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The author is advocating for outlets that you have to bring your own charger for. If you do this and have a way to meter it, you've literally designed what existing ChargePoint or other J1772 chargers do today, just without the convenience of having the charging cord built into the appliance.

There's nothing stopping people from having a pay-at-the-pump style chargers. I'd advocate for it. I'm just saying that we basically already have this, except it requires apps at the current time for some of them. That has nothing to do with smart vs not.
I think Microsoft was even better, at least on the number of users that recognized the blue W for making documents the e icon to get online, etc. That's how my mom did it, but she would have no idea what Ps, Il, Ae, would mean
They started making garbage quality products and their brand recognition plummeted? Look at the mukka express for example. [0]

They did one thing well and succeeded for decades and then tried to expand their business and failed miserably.

I have seen crap quality bialetti everything. They make pots and pans now too.

[0] https://www.amazon.ca/Bialetti-Express-Cow-Print-Stovetop-Ca...
I’ve heard google has an alpha version of this for internal use only.

From time to time they let it run loose to clean up their products.
I totally agree. This is one of the reasons we made FlakeHub, to make a better update mechanism that was flexible and supported things that aren't just github as sources. I think that'll happen, it'll just take a bit of time, and likely experimenting outside of nix before patches land upstream.
Another company that made an indestructible product!
Remember that Black Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey? 1280 Individuals is in the realm of what some alien mission could do in terms of genetically a bunch of apes to become smarter
You can do it but part of the issue is that the market effectively silences you to begin with. Its like you are at a thermodynamic disadvantage when you are a coop bootstrapping the company with your own owned means of production, versus one that is able to sell itself off to speculative investors for capital to "growth hack" as they say. The experiment of seeing if it catches on would therefore always fail even if the idea was actually better for most people. I'm not imposing on anything, I'm just highlighting how logically it makes a lot of sense to spread wealth around, and yet the very nature of capitalism perpetuates it to the exclusivity of all else, collectively shared vs individually held benefits be damned. I can see why Marx thought the only path forward from capitalism to a collectivism would take a revolution. Greed is sadly more competitive in a free market business environment where natural wealth is divvied up into private ownership.
A handful if times, I was able to track down the guy distributing (not authoring) the malware via social media, youtube,discord, github and more (even opened a github issue respectfully asking them to stop distributing malware) and I was able to find the country they live in as well as their name (even a home address and cellphone in one case). I mention this because even with all that info there isn't much I can do that would be worth doing to take action against them. I have filed IC3 FBI complaints for far worse and they don't even so much as reply. I can get an "industry contact" to get me to relay that to an actual special agent but it would have to be something highly impactful like a ransomware, I can't do that for every small time crimeware I find.

Jurisdictions like Russia have a policy of looking the other way as well so long as you look the other way and in some countries, just having actual cybercrime laws and then the diplomatic relation strong enough to cooperate with their cops can be rare to find.

But focusing on the cost alone is a mistake, threat actor cost-benefit analysis is key here. In the 80s and early 90s for example, big cities were a crime horror show because cops couldn't catchup enough and the reward, relative to potential reward of law abiding life was dismal compared to today (well, that and lead babies!). I don't believe stop-and-frisk or "broken windows" policing made a difference nowhere near as much as better opportunities, entertainment, education and economy as well as "the internet" and tech making it harder to get away with crime did.
Yes, it would not be perfect. I think it would help in her case because it does identify her as an adult in most of her videos.

However, if you consistently get flagged as a minor, the algorithm will need to take into account more data than just your physical appearance. For example, if it could recognize your appearance and connect it to your profile (including your verified age), then it could just ignore you and only guess at the ages of people in your video who don't have a profile with a verified age.

Admittedly, this does get into creepy privacy territory, but if it were an opt-in system, I think YouTubers who are having this issue would really appreciate it.
Imagine this: watch two years of the life of every human alive today. You'll need more time than the age of the universe (as far as we know).
So one of those chemicals that's not really considered all that safe by modern standards, but still not an that bad. Interesting!
There is very little reason not to use VOIP - a friend of mine, a former telephone engineer and entrepreneur, even has his calls set up to be automatically routed to his mobile phone when he is out.
Somewhere past the present orbit of Mars might be nice. People could still visit it after the sun goes red giant.
PPV is pretty old concept, but it just gets wrecked by ad supported free content. Which is basically what you described but with unlimited access and higher upside no?

The content has to be genuinely very unique to be worth ppv, i.e a boxing match. I'd be very annoyed to ppv a listicle.
Male mice are utterly terrified of bananas
Mutagen is great for syncing. It’s very fast and painless to setup.
I never bought into the aquatic ape theory. besides the fact that its not backed up at all by fossil record, we are built runners, not swimmers. Furthermore, we are built to be vertically oriented, which is horrible for swimming. its one of the reasons why humans don't make natural swimmers.
They will be because they save/extend the lives tens of millions of people.