skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reducing the birth rate below 2.2 kids per family on average results in negative population growth. We’re already seeing it in many places world wide as a result of equality and education. Simply creating awareness of the global benefits is enough. We are already facing a catastrophic global population decline mid century which is going to shock the hell out of our forever-growth economic systems. The only question is whether we’ll see a decline soon enough. Humans as livestock? Killing people? Relax dude.
Just stumbled on this wonderful Easter Egg:

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Click the bouncing ball to get started.
> I don’t anyone claiming it was not possible to diagnose

I read many times that it was impossible to diagnose it as runaway stabilizer trim.

> training for things was bad

Stabilizer trim runaway is trained for. Pulling back the throttles for overspeed warning is trained for.

> that the crews that experienced crashes had fewer safety features than typical western crews

How would you explain not being able to handle runaway stabilizer trim, and ignoring overspeed warnings? How do you explain the Emergency Airworthiness Directive sent to all MAX pilots after the first crash, that reiterated what I'm writing here, yet the EA pilots either never received it, never read it, or forgot about it?

> Clack clacking sounds are not sufficient

737 captains tell me it is. The wheels are also painted black & white so their movement is easily seen, as it's right there next to the pilot. How much more obvious do you require it to be?

> Assuming that pilots would just turn off the system is not sufficient.

Turning off misbehaving systems is the bulk of emergency procedure training.

> seems zany to me

It would seem zany to anyone who knows only about the popular media narrative.

I've also gotten emails from pilots who told me I had it exactly right.

As for myself, I worked on the 757 stabilizer trim gearbox design. At one point, I knew about everything there was to know about it. The 757 system is not identical to the 737 one, but the method of dealing with runaway trim is the same - turn the mofo off. It's why there's a switch prominently placed right there on the center console. Do you want to believe that pilots don't know what the switches on the center console are for? Do you want to fly with a captain who doesn't know what they're for? There's no excuse for a captain to not know what all the controls are for.

P.S. Why would a 737 captain open up and tell me the truth? I let them know who I am, and back it up with details of how it works that an investigative journalist would never know. Then they're happy to chat with me.
That doesn't really contradict the post. The equivalent in the swimming world would be the A lane swimmers who are secretly doping, and would have close to no chance of making it otherwise, at best a B or C lane swimmer without.

They can still be superficially very friendly and cheerful people, almost exactly like the genuine, bonafide, A lane swimmers.

Of course if you closely examined their every thought and action for hours on end you might end up with a different conclusion, but how many of those types of situations will the average HN reader ever encounter in their lives?

For the vast majority of folks the vast majority of the time, nearly all genuine and false 'A's are indistinguishable.
> Arguably it's a good description because it automatically filters out audiences who don't know what it means; if you're building a distributed system and looking at different consensus algorithms then it's a simple and clear explanation, but if you aren't then it's not a relevant algorithm for you anyway!

Somewhat discourteous to the 99% of people who don't fall into the target audience - you're leaving it to them to thrash around until they work out for themselves they're at the wrong bar.
What's the story for safe disposal/recycling of used batteries?
As @patdennis famously tweeted:

> Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

https://twitter.com/patdennis/status/1518637225789042688
For anyone interested in WW2 history, the "World War Two" channel is a must watch. I actually look forward to a new release each week. They do a fantastic job of covering the war in a detailed way and do a very good job of digging into the historical record to cover it accurately.

If I were an educator covering WW2, it would be an amazing free resource.
> [...] unlike modern counterparts [...]

What makes you think so? You can still buy calculators that last a long time, and 'solar' powered calculators that work in pretty dim light inside of a class room.
About five years ago on a trip to Tokyo I spent a lot of time in the metro. I noticed 90 percent of young people were staring at their phones. No one got their laptops out. I did see a few people with two phones out at the same time. They used one phone as a reference while they were typing into the other phone. They were the first Zweifoner I have ever seen.
“X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases – and Big Fees
Obligatory reference to The Floppotron:

https://youtu.be/kCCXRerqaJI
It'll probably just allow us to get away with even more technical debt.
More great food science from the folks that brought you aspartame, hydrogenated vegetable oils, red-40, and canola oil as the healthy alternative to eggs, dairy, fruits, vegetables and meat
There are some design patterns which look good on paper but hard to find actual applications and currying is one of them... Maybe it would ring more bells for people who use functional programming on daily basis.

Sounds good.. doesn't work
Blizzard made the same empty promises about AI voice chat moderation of Overwatch 2.

The AI tech's proficiency at identifying and banning slurs and what not was greatly exaggerated (ie, it did not work at all), but now every previously private conversation you have with your friends gets recorded and stored and can be accessed not just by Blizzard, or whomever eventually hacks Blizzard, but also by the police.
Perfect example of the whiplash one can get paying too much attention to these kinds of studies. Last month it was that any alcohol is bad, this month it's good for my gut biome.

Personally, my sleep is too dramatically impacted from beer to make it a regular part of my week. Kefir, yogurt and veg seems equally as impactful and they don't make me feel suboptimal the next morning.
Imagine actually stating this as a business strategy: "and when customers use our product this way, we send scammers to them to shake them down"

It's like something out of Monty Python
> the pretend notion that cars equal freedom

I don't see how it's pretend. Sure its not true freedom in the sense there's no cost or rules, but cars allow for spontaneity and a way to easily go off the beaten track.

Cars are liberating in the same way a horse would have been hundreds of years ago. A car allows me to go where I want, when I want and that's worth any cost.

They make the average person's life better and I wouldn't want to live in a world where I couldn't drive.
This is already the norm. Even with “on video”, I sometimes catch people cheating. I’ve seen fiddling then pasting the first answer from google, and reading from a second monitor as someone types the answers for them. I’ve heard stories of people showing up in person, after a hire, with completely different voices and personalities.
there's just no way this works out in terms of physics:

- the weight a semi-truck is expected to carry vs the surface area available to absorb photons vs motor efficiency. the energy obtainable via the sun exposed surface area available is multiple orders of magnitude lower than the amount of energy required by motors of current or near future efficiency to propel such a vehicle, with typical weight, to the even 1/2 the speed of normal traffic.

- the only way this works is if for some reason the truck is unmoving for long periods of time and has a massive battery system installed that can be charged up while the vehicle is immobile, which drives the cost up a lot, because any truck that's not moving is a capital asset that's losing money.
Thanks Jonathan, that’s a great reference.

https://retrocmp.de/ is also a great reference for particular drives. And if you need floppies, email Tom at https://www.floppydisk.com/ - he’s a top bloke and the disks I’ve got from him have all been in great working order.
Add “Dynamic Island” to Your MacBook
I think it’s harmless to call them the “Hasanlu Lovers” because sure, the scene lends itself to that name. But to assume that that is the case seems odd to me, because these were two people who were dying together. If you discover two people who are entwined in a loving embrace under normal circumstances, assuming an intimate relationship seems defensible. But when people are dying, I think different assumptions have to be considered.

I can imagine that even two total strangers might seek to comfort one another if they were trapped in a burning building together, as some of the archaeologists surmise. “I don’t want to die! Can you hold me?”

That said, it’s so stupid that we have these arguments when really what we see here is something so sad and touching and human. Whether they were lovers or not the important takeaway is that these two seemingly found comfort in each other in their dying moments.
A dog bringing death? Perhaps John W. Campbell Jr. (Who Goes There? / The Thing) was riffing off this.
Exactly. TSMC has no intention to build anything in the US because it would be too expensive and counter to Taiwan interests. But of course they need to play the role. They already started to delay the construction date.
But the issues with driven cars are talked about a lot. This is a situation where we have to evaluate if self driving cars should be allowed to test in the public commons. All other discussions aren't relevant to this discussion (but are still important to have)
I knew when I moved from AZ to NC I was going to miss Fry's (RIP), I should have checked to see if there were any micro centers within a 50 mile radius when trying to figure out where to move.
When interviewing with [commercial serverless platform], I was offered to not turn the camera on and use voice chat only. And well, I know a lot of shy/depressed folks who would’ve appreciated this offering (including myself circa four years ago).

It might sound silly, but for some the hardest thing about video interviews are not the technical questions, but the interaction via webcam. :D
You say the currency was tightly controlled? So, presumably, the fact that it was hard to obtain foreign exchange or pay for things abroad was a deliberate choice by your government, and not a technical problem?

The use case of crypto is the circumvention of regulation. Your story seems to confirm it.
Current AVs look like consumer vehicles because they are. All of the operating fleets are the remnants from testing platforms built out of retrofitted consumer vehicles. The next generation, vehicles like the cruise origin and zoox L5, don't follow that design at all.
You might be interested in my comment above.
Pad kaphrao contest seeks true taste of Thai dish
Can totally relate.

Good, clear explanation.
But that's the point, anyone who bothered to pay close attention wouldn't have believed in the purity myth in the first place.

Of course those folks who don't care enough to pay attention might believe in such a myth, but why try to convince folks that don't care?
> The US is very motivated to bring some chip manufacturing back within its borders.

And Taiwan is very motivated not to let this happen. They only agreed because of political pressure, but I wonder if they will ever build this factory.
Certainly as a matter of law you cannot slander or libel the dead and I definitely consider them fair game for a forthright discussion.

In the case of these two skeletons, so little is known that they are essentially a natural phenomenon; calling them “lovers” is to me no different from calling a geological structure “the old man of the mountain” or the “tooth of time”. Simply a poetic expression.
My favorite (jungle era) earworm sample, still ever-persistent today and which cannot be unheard is the Loon II "bird" sound from the fairlight loon garden disk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grisBvgeY18

WARNING - once you hear and this you'll forever have pulled-out-of-the-moment experiences.

Edit: here's an article on that very sample - https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/474-anaconda-pacific-state-su...
The underlying point was never discussed enough. We just had too many people on earth and our technology is not good enough to feed all while being sustainable
Pilot dies in gender reveal stunt
Very surprised Vietnamese beat out french in New Orleans. I though it was close to the second language there.
A ~50ft trailer is pretty common, and it should be about 8ft wide and 8ft tall. So 24ft * 50ft is more than 1000sqft and it's approx 10sqft to the sqm.

Of course your best case scenario is only about 400sqft illuminated. Insolation tops out at 100w/sqft and the max efficiency of commercial panels is maybe 22-24%. Doing the math there you get something like 7-10kw which is nowhere near enough to push one of these down the highway.

A normal semi gets maybe 6-8mpg on diesel which means burning 8gal to go 60mi in 1hr. You get about 10hp/gal/hr out of a diesel so that means it takes something like 80hp or 60kw to drive a truck down the road.

It's more then enough to run the climate control, lights, and other cab loads and slow battery drain just a bit. But you'd have to leave the truck to charge for a week in order to drive for a day.
> their job is to sell themselves and as many headcount and hours as they can squeeze into a contract

Which is the complete inverse of what a client needs. It is what it is, but somehow it feels wrong.

The agency should be providing value and to make the customer happy. It should charge what's appropriate without all this headcount business.
Early lab tests suggest new Covid-19 variant BA.2.86 may be less contagious
Burning Man isn't a music festival, it's all about self-reliance and stuff, so it's especially ironic that people are bailing when there is a slight discomfort in the scheme of things.
I don't think I am being generous at all.

That's a common speech pattern and often the intent is basically as I stated.

Cato does, in fact, produce many bad arguments. Now they don't get it all wrong. They have produced good material. That said, I personally do not consider them reputable.
In terms of "All You Need" for Vector Search, ANN Benchmarks (https://ann-benchmarks.com/) is a good site to review when deciding what you need. As with anything complex, there often isn't a universal solution.

txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) can build indexes with Faiss, Hnswlib and Annoy. All 3 libraries have been around at least 4 years and are mature. txtai also supports storing metadata in SQLite, DuckDB and the next release will support any JSON-capable database supported by SQLAlchemy (Postgres, MariaDB/MySQL, etc).
How does WiiLink compare to RiiConnect24?
Massive stretch. There's lots of publications about the progression to homelessness, like https://web.archive.org/web/20150614052612/http://www.thecyr... so no reason to raise extreme theories. Lots of people are just a couple of bad events away from homelessness.
It definitely similar in taste and eating experience. In a Burger King Whopper with all the toppings, it's very difficult to tell if it's cow or an Impossible patty.
Interestingly ta very rare that someone would say the same about some open source project where nobody gets anything. Why are you guys so biased when it’s about music?
"both parties are same" is either an incredibly disingenuous interpretation or ignorance, and I can't tell which. Yes, they both ostensibly support the healthcare system in that the CPC doesn't want to say that they want to get rid of it, but you just have to look at the provincial parties recent actions to disprove the "sameness". I even gave you an example. Things don't need to be stretched at much as in the US for the two parties to employ different strategies towards healthcare.

Also I don't think you know the definition of "third word".
I think it's fair to say in general the tele-comms industry has dropped the ball on ensuring phone calls are actually being used the way they were intended to. 80% of the calls I get I don't even bother picking up any more, and at least 70% of the SMS messages I get are phishing or spam.
I saw your comment on a "What are you working on" thread, maybe you could try the suggestion you made on that thread for this one?
This is 1984
Does Puerto Rico count as US Remote?
99% of supermarket SKUs are luxury items, at least salmon is one the healthiest choices you can make.
I'm tickled by how humorously opinionated and even judgemental many of the names are. Of course I'd be disappointed by the same thing in a context that demands more objectivity. But in-context, it's entertaining. The world is much richer with creatives in it.
If the company doesn’t “operate” in a state you don’t need to register as a foreign corporation.

For example in California, the sec of state’s website says,

Before transacting intrastate business in California, the business
must first qualify/register with the California Secretary of State
online at bizfileOnline.sos.ca.gov. "Transacting intrastate business"
is defined as entering into repeated and successive transactions
of its business in this state, other than interstate or foreign commerce.

I.e. you can own, but not manage property through the corp.
That still needs some encoding that can be converted to enough information that can reconstruct a glyph.
Weak science.

They ran a battery of 12 tests and looked for one with a statistically significant difference at the 5% level.

If there were no actual differences, how many tests would you need to run to find at least one that by chance shows significance? If you run 20, you’d expect 5% to do so, on average, which is 1. Running 12 and finding 1 is not a significant finding.

Then, suspiciously, the only statistically significant cognitive test improvement they found was on trial 5 of a verbal learning test, which showed little to no improvement on any of the other trials. That makes no sense.

Finally the brain changes had a p-value of 0.046, which is barely significant by even the weak 5% threshold, and the brain changes weren’t correlated with the test result improvements.

Perhaps interesting, but only if replicated.
Man, I wish we could all write a card to Keita, all the kids of the 00’s, and tell him thanks for a good time rolling around.
Marqo lets you use state of the art e5 embeddings (which are significantly more performant in retrieval than the openai embeddings), and will handle the embedding generation and retrieval on lucene indexes: https://www.marqo.ai/

It's also available opensource: https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo
> State oppresses people
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I had also been wondering why he started making YouTube videos, appreciate the insight. His videos are excellent and though I didn't really care for Fruit Ninja, it was definitely part of an era of mobile games that really utilized the new format well and I can appreciate the intuition to make the mechanic.

Chopping things up specifically where the chopping instrument hit an entity was one of those features that felt unlikely until the distant future, especially for 3D. Kind of like full building destruction until games like Red Faction and Battlefield came along. Then when it did show up (Metal Gear Rising was where I first saw it) I really didn't want it, at least not for people. It was too much for me to watch people get diced up specifically where you diced them.

Now for a game like Viewfinder, holy smokes, what a fantastic era of gaming we live in that we can bisect objects in real time so seamlessly.
To clarify, there is no motivation towards RIIR except the fact that Rust’s guarantees are required for Theseus’s very existence.

I do not understand how the emulation layer can defeat validations. As long as the emulator is conformant to validations, it should be okay. I’m probably ignorant of something here.

Regarding performance, in a presentation, the Theseus dev mentioned one study which showed the performance tax of context switching with attack mitigations (Spectre etc.) can be as much as %15-%30 in modern conventional OSes.
I'm in the habit of just stripping off the (to me) extraneous bits of the typical filename (codecs, source, release) and just leaving the title name, year and video quality in the file name. I've never had Jellyfin choke on fetching the correct metadata.
There was a post about it a while back. From what I recall, it’s an efficiency/cost reduction side effect, but it could be made deterministic, if they wanted to eat the cost.
Cool. I only got it to appear when I opened the site in my phone's web browser. Desktop just directs to the app.

Also learned from the website, something called shazamkit exists for official developer use. cool.
I'm sorry to hear, that sucks. Having never been, I'm curious to hear about how the BM ethos of RSR/gift economy are showing up on the playa right now
As an anarchist, I wholeheartedly support the Microsoft Excel tax
You would be surprised to find out when Swiss women got right to vote
No, "degrowth as a model for combating climate change" is indeed fundamentally about poor people. Because there will be about 8 billion of not-westerners in a few decades, and they rapidly get out of poverty, increasing their carbon impact. Look at Chinese emissions; multiply by a few times and you get Africa and South-East Asia getting somewhat closer to the global middle class in 50 years without technological decoupling. On the other hand, if countries can grow out of poverty sustainably, there is no reason for already developed countries to "degrow".

Talking about "degrowth" doesn't just imply that you somehow get a say in allowing countries to grow, but also suggests that people aren't allowed to get out of poverty. This is unconscionable and unrealistic, a distraction from the only real answer — engineering our way out of it.
https://archive.ph/BcKpa
This implies the US is not a failed state. Take a closer look.
New update at 1830 Sunday 3 September: [1]

Exit road still unusable for non-offroad vehicles. Current plans are to reopen it on Monday 4 September. Sanitation trucks are now servicing porta-potties again. Comm, power, and emergency services are up.

The actual "burn" is now scheduled for 2100 Monday 4 September. Maybe.

Reno Airport does not have space for people who escape, but Reno hotels do.

"Participants are not being detained. ... The Burning Man organization’s advice is for participants to delay their departures to avoid getting stuck in the mud, but people are free to leave should they choose to do so."

"The online rumors of transmissible illnesses in Black Rock City are unfounded and untrue."

[1] https://burningman.org/event/wetplaya2023/
I made do with the Katamari Mobile Java Game on symbian