skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really not following you. If two photons meet at an angle – any angle –, there will be a rest frame in which they're meeting from exactly opposite (180°) directions. They can absolutely produce electron positron pairs if their energy is high enough.

The process γ γ′ → e+ e− is a classic calculation in QED, and although it's never been observed directly for two single/isolated photons[0], there is no good reason to believe QED should be wrong in this particular case and, indeed, all evidence we have is pointing towards this process being perfectly possible[1].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breit%E2%80%93Wheeler_proces...

[1]: https://www.energy.gov/science/np/articles/making-matter-col...
and it has a python interface so you can improve some stuff if needs be
I am left wondering how far down one must go to find row level security.
>Why is it that whenever people suggest any kind of nudge that might be helpful to society, the immediate response is to take it to a totalitarian nightmare.

Perhaps because those nudges are already a totalitarian nightmare. People should control the government, not the other way around, and definitely not their personal lives and habbits.

The prohibition or the "war on drugs" weren't some made up fantasy nightmare, but very real history of a totalitarian nightmare.
Can a trademark holder can really stop anyone from modifying the mark? For instance, can Monsanto have a court stop someone from drawing a mutant-looking or withered version of the plant in their logo? (eg. https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/monsanto_wither...)

I don't see what's so unreasonable about the other points.
Whether or not there are other instances of long term survival, without having access to them, they can't form a basis for our probability calculations, so the point remains that our single survival is insufficient to use as a basis for the probability of events in our past.
Why can't you appreciate a simple, functional website design?
Using a scooter requires you to be more fit than walking. You need better strength, balance and reaction time. Scooters are essentially limited to the young
I did get a dedicated device specifically for banking apps. I installed GrapheneOS with sandboxes Google Play Services.

The banking apps still won't work. They insist on some signal from a SIM card "for my security," and I'm not willing to put a SIM card in a device that won't ever leave my house.
>- tenants have asked for it because they never seem to have the right amount of change

I have a couple old change buckets that probably still have a fair number of quarters buried in them, but I don't get given coins in the US more than a few times a year. If I didn't have old change at home, I'd have to go to a bank.
I would like to see numbers. I can't imagine this is actually any cheaper but it is less flexible.
poor implementation aside, the format has its advantages over numerical coordinates

besides the greater public awareness of w3w amongst certain demographics compared to coordinates, they may be harder to hear, but it's much easier to read out three words correctly than it is 16-18 numbers

the thing with words is that they're easy to hear in context, but take them out of context and they're often indecipherable

perhaps a system that gives each square a coherent-sounding sentence could be tried, although I'm sure that would have its difficulties too
All these responses are missing the point.

Like the Turing test, Winograd is not a very good test and more of a philosophical question than a metric for engineering.

Sure there's nothing wrong with a model that at some point in time passes 100% and is even more consistent than humans, but it's not possible to make an exhaustive list of what humans can disambiguate that these models can't.

It's a moving target. We're just a cultural shift, scientific discovery, or political regime change away from the models needing to be updated all over again. For some applications these lagging inaccuracies are not acceptable. For yet still more applications, it's not possible to allow any amount of time to train the models ahead of seeing novel ambiguity.

There's a lot of work left for AI research and the threat of authoritarian-induced cultural stagnation just to serve the AI gods and the convenience of governance is absolutely terrifying. i.e. You can't speak that way because it confuses the AI, you can't look or act that way because it confuses the AI, etc. AI in its current form totally sucks and is unfit for much beyond low risk tasks.
I’m looking forward to more B&N stores coming back to the Bay Area (https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/barnes-and-noble-s...).

I used to love spending hours at Borders in Stonestown or the B&N in Colma. I had temporary solace with the Amazon brick and mortar in WC, then a B&N opened in Concord. The Emeryville B&N gives off a weird vibe for some reason.

My point is physical brick and mortar stores should be everyone’s source of truth for legit non-AI garbage book buying. Because of limited shelf space one is going to assume the books being sold have sort of vetting of sales and demand behind them. Vs Amazon having unlimited shelf space and letting garbage populate the virtual aisles.
That sounds surprising to me, too, because I can vary the loudness by moving one hand faster or slower towards the other. My intuition says that a sonic boom is a "catastrophic" event, so there should be a threshold. I'm wondering how they measured that.
https://archive.ph/JwZx4
Placing bets successfully needs way more than a general understanding of what might happen (and, of course, capital). Also, you conveniently ignore all the economists that got rich in financial markets over the years.
Generators are not used much in the JS ecosystem for some reason, but they're used a lot in Python.

The most common application is iteration (lazy producers or transformers), but they're also used for their ability to suspend and resume function execution (interruptible functions) e.g.

- pytest fixtures use generators to setup, allow the test to run (yielding a value or not), and teardown

- contextlib.contextmanager uses generators for similar purposes of entering a context, allowing the wrapped code to run, and then exiting the context

They can also act as cheap state managers, especially with the ability to inject data back into the generator, so they can be used to implement a multi-step function where the user needs multiple points of interaction, without needing a bunch of callbacks, or complicated state management (especially without the benefit of sum types or static state machines)
I liked the movie a lot. It felt like a fresh, original entry in the genre of comedy fantasy, next to beloved entries like The Princess Bride, Ladyhawk, A Knight's Tale, and Shrek. It was well-written and directed, even if some of the action sequences (e.g. the dragon cave) were a bit tropey.

They should have called it something else. There's clearly a market for fantasy, as has been seen with the popularity of Netflix's Witcher series (which treads very similar ground), but the Dungeons and Dragons brand has been thoroughly devalued over the years, and doesn't have the same kind of mass-market appeal.
And yet, walk to them you still can
I feel silly for asking, however, this comment has 'whooshed' right over my head. Can you please elaborate and explain this to me?
"Relatively" is itself a relative term.

You might be fine having apps as closely tied to your real identity as your banking app on a device that's constantly collecting location and other data about you, but privacy is important to some other people.
This seems like a missing UX feature. Give the NATO (or regional) phonetic alphabet for the code, have a synthetic voice saying those characters, and maybe have an audio modem.
The movie is a blast, at least as good as Princess Bride. You could say it does not take fantasy seriously, but this is the point: a world with that much weirdness would also not take itself so seriously. The story is just as I would have imagined as a young DM.
This is such a pointless product anyway. Every smartphone on the market can share its precise location in a machine-readable format with any other smartphone on the market. They even do it automatically when calling an emergency service. Why would you ever want to transmit a location by reading a string to someone?
Fair. Our solution is to make sure a biased load balancer (like in TFA) isn't sending the workload towards a select few machines while others may be not be as over worked, in as simple way as possible.

We run load balancers in a fail open mode. As in, if every backend is excusing itself, then none are excused.

But as you point out, load balancing is a hairy beast unto itself.
There certainly is a gulf.

On the one hand, I rarely use my smartphone at home because I have computers.

On the other hand, I hear stories from parents at work whose kids don't want a computer because "Why would I need one? My phone works fine."
The word itself has no connection with India. Rastafarianism is named after Ras-Tafari, one of the epithets of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie whom Rastafarians revere. Per Wiktionary, the etymology of that epithet is as follows:

> From Amharic ራስ (ras, “Duke”, literally “head”) and ተፈሪ (täfäri, “revered”) from ተፈሪ መኮንን (täfäri mäkonn, “Haile Selassie”, literally “feared (son of) Makonnen”).
Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (2008)
This doesn't go deep enough IMHO, I only really 'grokked' async/await (and how it differs from stack-switching coroutines) once I understood that it's just syntax sugar for a "switch-case state machine" (meaning you can emulate async/await-style in any language, even plain old C running on a heavily restricted VM like WASM).

For instance look at the JS output of async/await Typescript when a really old JS version is used that didn't support async/await yet.

It's switch-case all the way down:

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?target=1#code/FAMwrgdgxg...
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I get both latlng and plus codes when selecting a location on the android games client.

Plus codes are an open standard, osmand at least also supports them.
The point is you can always pick a "part" of some place small enough to make any statement of that sort true. Pick a couple of square meter where someone died: "everyone died in parts of X". Pick the area around a couple of billionaire neighbors in SF: everyone is a billionaire in parts of SF. Etc.
Ok, but wasn't the whole point of this that market-rare housing is becoming unaffordable, hence so many homeless? So how will this project then help reduce the homeless population?
It was 10 years ago they were upset poor people had refrigerators.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-nation/fox-cites-ownership-...
> it didn't do very well at the box office, and it feels rather unfair.

I think it might be because of the OGL scandal (when WotC tried to use a loophole in the license text to turn an open license into a closed one).

At least that was my personal reason why I decided not to watch that movie, and not to buy anything from WotC anymore.
It’s a bit anthropomorphic to assume that large populations of birds can adapt their behavior to rapid changes in their environment on a short timescale. There’s no central planning to penguin behavior as far as I’m aware of. The fact that some emperor penguins can be made to breed in captivity without ice does not mean that enough penguins in the wild will do so without human intervention.

Evolution is trial and error. Maybe eventually they would change their breeding behaviors to rely less on ice in the wild. Or maybe a rapidly changing environment will cause enough members of this endangered species to go the “error” route, and trigger a population collapse.
Kal looks super cool!
I do this with my Downloads folder using Hazel[1]. I have an “Archive” folder split into subfolder of screenshots, pdfs, videos etc.. After a month in the downloads folder, Hazel moves everything into the Archive subfolder automatically, sorted by year and month.

[1]: https://www.noodlesoft.com/
You can also think of generators as a native implementation of Observables from rx (except you can't replay a generator), especially async generators.

You can implement basic operators like map, filter, take, etc. over generators to create pipelines of operations. Very neat abstraction to work with, but like rx, can quickly get hard to reason about.

Recently I wrote some tooling to read, do some operations, and write hundreds of thousands of files locally. Using generators solved having to think about not loading too much stuff into memory since it only yields files when consumed. Also allows you simply implement stuff like batching, like running X requests to a server at a time, and only starting the next batch once the first one is done.
I watched it a week ago. I was frankly not expecting much from it but I had watched the first one, I love the universe and I actually appreciate Rodriguez's and Pine's acting styles.

The movie ended up being an excellent surprise. It felt enjoyable, fun, beautiful visually and the actors seemed to be enjoying themselves along the ride. I noticed the quality of the costumes and effects, too. Definitely recommended.
truly awesome research! love the portrait of the time the bridge was built, of a vibrant community of families all the same age, about be be split in two by 200 yards of pavement.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=animatedknots.com this has been posted many times now.
There should be a sarcastic website called "Let me duckduckgo that for you".
Name them. Which economists are rich from their theories or is Warren Buffet right about them, because that's who I'm paraphrasing from...

Here's the quote: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/18/warren-buffett-explains-why-...
Or more specifically, private company having monopoly on addressing - with any decoding/encoding between location and mnemonic format - controlled solely by them is not acceptable.

"The algorithm is patented in several countries, preventing anyone from implementing a compatible algorithm or developing anything like it as a competing standard. Notably the patent is not restricted to schemes which use three words, so a hypothetical "what4words" would potentially also violate the patent.

The wordlist necessary for encoding/decoding what3words locations is copyrighted, and is stored in an encrypted form in the what3words mobile apps (so decrypting the wordlist would likely trigger "anti-circumvention" laws such as DMCA §1201)."

(from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words )
Not OP but I have not. As an ignorant, I have a burning question (for real, not being facetious): isn't it bullshit?

Judging by the outcomes of the field and the absurd world we live in today with insane boom/bust cycles every few years, sky-high levels of wealth accumulation, inflation out of control world-wide, one cannot wonder how nobody seems to understand it.

From the outside, it looks like either they are producing incorrect/incomplete theories that simply don't work in the real world, or it's all so theoretical that it never really translates into people's lives.

Or, alternatively, the system is working exactly as intended and the goal was always to maximize for a few individuals and not society in the first place.
The chutzpah! Would be a good name too
My take is that it is not entirely disimilar from some AI research I have seen where applying conditions to simulations that are not real actually trains the model better in some ways in addition to training with real data. I remember they were using a robotic arm simulation with different gravity, friction, and other physical constants.

It makes sense to me that if you saw a small version of an animal but never saw a large one you might dream of a big one. Then if you ever saw one your brain would not have to have a brand new thought at something it may have thought impossible. I think dreams make our brains more flexible than is possible with just real data.
Can you clarify what you’re doing for climate change? Always looking for new ideas!
Remind me of Mojo
That’s not a relevant comparison.
The article is about Cruise cars that stop dead in their tracks with nobody able to physically move the car and blocking an exit path (several minutes +} You’re bringing up a comparison of someone who may delay the responders from getting to their destination by seconds.
A human in a car can and will often move within seconds. Autonomous cars are stopping dead in their tracks. A first responder should be able to take control of that vehicle and move it. But they can’t. So they’re stuck.
> Callbacks are used to hook functions into an event loop. The dispatching/scheduling is handled there.

This part never really made it into my understanding of the concept. For practical purposes I've been completely fine with not thinking about it at all. My function is called at some point, that's all what I find really matters. Thinking about the event loop opens up a can of worms I find more confusing than useful.
Still common in Munich area -- can see them on many corners of quiet residential neighborhoods
Why do you talk about the pandemic in past tense? The pandemic is still going on. If QR code menus don’t make sense now, then they never made sense.
IANAL - but (in most countries) you can’t patent a concept or an idea - only specific implementations of an idea (I.e. a physical invention) - software patents and business-process patents notwithstanding.

But that doesn’t stop companies (especially those with a weak technical moat) from abusing the system.
Note that GPS can be often unreliable or not precise enough. For example, it would be pretty useful to specify correct side of river/road/railway. Arriving at wrong side may result in needing to do very long detour.
> Load averages can be very useful, but it's problematic to combine them with something like readiness checks.

We don't use loadavg. The linked article in my parent comment makes the same point as you are (:
Very well written. The author should write textbooks.
Does anyone know if Cahit's Spiral Chains proof (<https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408247>) was found to have issues? It is much more elegant, as it avoids the exhaustive computer case verification...
I find https://hw.leftium.com/ much more readable, but it's read-only (can't vote/comment/submit). And due to caching some recent comments are missing.

So for those rare occasions I use news.ycombinator.com. https://hw.leftium.com/ has links to the original HN item page. Plus I have a bookmarklet that toggles between the two.

Refined Hacker News[1] makes the original HN site a little nicer to use.

[1]: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news#readme
This should help put what’s going on into an evolutionary context:

https://xkcd.com/1732/
This is a constant issue for me when I travel.

I always need another app or another account, and those are often impossible to use without a local phone number and an internet connection.

There were also periods of time where I had no active phone number, or no smartphone. Sometimes it was just for a few hours because I ran out of battery. Sometimes it was for a few days because I dropped my phone in a lake.

In the later case I could no longer make bank transfers, and if I wasn't well-prepared I could not log into many websites.
That is fine and quite humane. But sometimes one has to scroll to find the real start of the article.
I am not advocating for anarchy in any way, somebody has to steer the wheel of any big enough corporation, or company is bust within few very bad moves.

The problem comes when power resides in hands which are incompetent (frequent communism issue, people get power for rectal speology and not proven hard skills).

Or even worse they are competent, but incentives are completely misaligned - ceos having tens of millions as yearly base salary, golden parachutes regardless of fubar they create, then they look for additional means of their own profit, regardless of harm to company.

Those highly functioning sociopaths would grok say government-mandated jail terms for really bad stuff (TM) very quickly if it would be on the table, but its not and everybody up there knows it.
The expected return on both those examples is the same, 5 million.
my local app MANDATES LOCATION access for "security", WTF
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This will always be situational.

I live in Switzerland, pay about CHF6 per commute day for the train, roughly 4 days per week. That's CHF96/mo.

A parking spot for a car is >CHF200/mo, on just one end. So even if I bought an econobox, the expenses would probably be CHF500/mo without even driving it.

Because of these economics, I just rent if I need to. We have an app here, and while it's not cheap (both an hourly and per-km charge), I would have to use it quite a lot to cost more than even a basic car, and that basic car is itself limited (i.e. it's not a van when I need one).

TBF, It's hard to separate the cost of the rental from the perceived value of the activity. Spending CHF30 to go to a further away grocery store seems like a waste, unless you can force yourself to consider the savings from not having a car in the first place. So you tend to talk yourself out of doing things that you would have done if you had the sunk cost of having a car, the same way that a compact car owner might talk themselves out of a long road-trip because of luggage space or comfort.