skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, cars are dangerous, but they enable a social structure that is far safer than what we had(hospitals, specialized surgeons, first responders, advanced pharmaceuticals, etc) to say nothing of productivity.

The next time I go to the Amsterdam, I'll be sure to see how many less hospitals they have.
For what it's worth, most if not all "anti-virus" software that corps buy are borderline malware themselves and doesn't worth shit. The reason they even exist is that corps get to tick "security" on some bullshit bureaucracy check list. One reason I prefer Macs on company laptops is that corp doesn't get to modify it all that much.
Seems like every generation has to learn the hard way.
I see now! Interesting idea. Thanks for clarifying :)
I don't think that this is a true comparison. JavaScript was limited mostly by its sandboxing, not what you could write in it. You can't really compare that to what HCL is and does.
Nintendo really is their own worst enemy here. Fans love their stuff and want to continue to enjoying with it long after Nintendo has abandoned their hardware and their customers, but Nintendo would rather bite the hand that feeds it than tolerate the enthusiasm. A better company would embrace it and release some of their own tools and software for fans to play with instead of threatening lawsuits.

I can't imagine putting a bunch of time and work into a project that will likely be DMCA'd to death.
Simple Fix Could Help Anxious Kids
It's a neat thought experiment, but the underlying assumption:

The world's energy consumption was about 5.67x1020 Joules in 2013.[18] This number has increased by more than 2% per year on average in the last 50 years. The average world economic growth rate in the last 50 years is about 3%, which requires a corresponding increase in the energy supply. So, the 2% growth rate for world energy consumption should be a conservative assumption.

... is a bit naive. If we're consuming (does some math) `1.02^1000 = 398264651` ...

Four billion times as much energy as we do today. I don't think there's much risk of us growing our population to that degree, nor of us being that power hungry if our population stabilizes. We'll be either extinct or back to a sustainable agrarian population far before we reach that upper limit. Honestly, if we produced that much power, I suspect we'd have long since boiled the oceans, making the whole argument moot.

TL;DR: Don't extrapolate FAR into the future based on a small (relatively) set of data points.
After Trump, Vivek is winning is most betting pools.
Ruby has multiple implementations: https://github.com/planetruby/awesome-rubies

The main implementations are:

- MRI (aka CRuby, the reference implementation)
- mruby (lightweight embedded engine)
- JRuby (on top of the JVM)
- IronRuby (on top of the .Net stack)
From what I read, it is rather "witches" that get hammered down, quite literally, instead of dpimg the hammering of poor entrepreneurs.
Issues with exponential growth set aside, does wind power suffer from the same problem? If I understand correctly, wind mostly caused by the coriolis force, which is a consequence of the earth's rotation. Would building too many wind turbines slow down earth's rotation?
Latch Bio: “We work six days a week”
As someone who loves Factorio but now no longer have the time to sink hours into it, I wish they came up with an easy and quick mode.
That and somehow improve the early game slog that can be pretty dreadful.
The Great Disruption has begun
Fairfield, just to the west of Travis AFB and the property in question, is my hometown, so I'm familiar with the area.

Summers there are hot, and the wind is strong and constant, which is why it's a fine location for airports and wind turbines. How people there are going to tolerate the heat and wind, plus the constant air traffic from the base, is a good question. I expect that if this plan succeeds, there will eventually be pressure to close Travis entirely.
To what degree are dogs important in policing?
There seems to be a dearth of evidence about the effectiveness of dogs in tracking suspects and in police work in general, and I'm putting this on hn to push for better studies.

Nowhere in the article is the well-being of dogs mentioned, so that's another aspect I'm curious about. I grew up with dogs, I have trained dogs for "good citizenship", and I appreciate how much working dogs in particular have done for us. Dogs as companions feels like we're treating the symptoms rather than addressing the roots of our loneliness and other reasons for wanting a dog to care for.
In that link:

> The Earth's rotational kinetic energy is about 10²9 J, and the world uses something like 10²² J/year, so you could power the entire world for millions of years before you'd run out of rotational energy.

(my phone somehow has a ² but not a ^9; the first number is supposed to be 1e29)
This is a great answer.

I think I would do something similar (or pay for help with a side hustle to work on alongside investing in myself through course/deliberate practice). I am not sure which areas I would focus on though.

If I ever get my hands on $200k, I will hit you up!
No it hasn’t. ChatGPT from the get go used a bounding box. There is no way you could query all planes on Earth in one query on a free API
I mean, I'm running on incredible amounts of highly complex physics and maths, but that doesn't mean I can give you the correct answer to all questions on those.
So, can we agree that "terrorist"/"extremist" designation is purely political and has little to do with actually causing terror/death?

That is, you can act like a terrorist, but as long as your victims are passably "enemies", you are in the clear.
Winter 2023/2024 Snowfall Predictions
You are misrepresenting the science here.
This wasn't "just a PhD thesis" in particular.

Also, your take of this to be "sensationalism" is very odd. The danger of imminent tipping points turning "climate change" into "climate catastrophe" is absolutely real.

> The researchers today report their findings in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study united the RAINFOR and PPBio research networks, with dozens of short-term grants enabling more than 100 scientists to measure forests for decades across 123 experimental plots.
The plots span Amazon and Atlantic forests as well as drier forests in tropical South America.

> These direct, tree-by-tree records showed that most forests had acted as a carbon sink for most of the last 30 years, with tree growth exceeding mortality. When the 2015–2016 El Niño hit, the sink shut down. This was because tree death increased with the heat and drought.
Even more likely is that, as we're already seeing in rich countries, demand does not continue to grow exponentially and economic growth mostly happens in non-energy-intensive sectors.
Eh, gendered nouns are kinda helpful in spoken language. It's an extra bit of redundancy which can help distinguish similar-sounding words in noisy environs. Same deal with verb conjugations and adjective declensions.

Granted they don't have much of a point in written word, at least not today when writing is easy to preserve digitally without accumulating errors over time. (No smudges making it hard to make out a word)

I really do wonder though how English seemingly uniquely in I-E languages ended up dropping those features, for the most part.
I think most commercial chips should not encounter latch-up issues even if you bias a GPIO input to mid-rail.
I actually know where I learned these odd words: Heinlein uses them both. I picked them because they sound more respectful than the alternatives and I'm in awe of Martin.
All this doom and gloom, I say let's go for it though, most of us would benefit from a few extra hours in the day right? We can switch off the tidal power once it gets to 26 hours or so ;-)
> UK a consultant earns £100k pretax and pays approximately 30% net tax rate and 60% marginal rate.

According to https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/tax-calculator/ , someone in the UK who earns £100k takes home £67,049:

>Earn £100,000 in 2023/24 and you'll take home £67,049. This means £5,587 in your pocket a month. Over the year you'll pay £27,432 income tax and £5,519 in national insurance.
Paying off the debts first is a great move many would overlook!

I like the focus on health/sleep too - thanks for the response
Chinese fishing fleet. The final stage before the last fish is caught. The "correction" will be very steep.
That does not seem to be the case for coQ10[1]. With coQ10, it's only effective at a therapeutic level which entails higher doses[2].

Vitamin E as α-tocopherol has been associated with increased prostate cancer[3]. Natural tocopherols rich in γ-T, γ-TmT, or similar tocopherol mixtures show more promise for cancer applications[4].

1. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/coenzym...

2. https://youtu.be/9Z7X9WPWv4Y?si=avOV0u4ruy_zNslr&t=746

3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21990298/

4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899293/
Because a serious enough malware running rampant on their platform would cause actual monetary loss for them, potentially losing their image as a safe OS?
The injustices being, primarily, that they were no longer allowed to engage in chattel slavery.
The remote extension on jetbrains is not even remotely comparable to even just the base remote ssh vscode. Much less the remote container, dev container and tunnels (plus stuff like one click integration to Azure)
I don't have time to read everything everyone wrote everywhere. And I think it's probably bad for me anyway - becoming terminally online is not a goal to aspire to.

I missed it was pointing to specific comment and not the link to article. And his previous statements on Rust gave me impression he's forever done with it. Mea culpa.
I once read that whale's songs could be used to transmit a 3d image from one whale to another which doesn't sound so crazy considering that echolocation can activate the visual cortex.

I don't remember the article and anyway there wasn't much more detail but I always found this idea quite interesting. Could be that looking for words, sentences or grammar in a whale's song is a misguided and anthropocentric approach to the problem. They may instead have a visual language that just so happen to be transmitted by sound.

Like, do you see what I mean? But, literally.
Can’t tell which of you have less there: science or good faith.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdhsPQEX0AALM9H?format=jpg&name=...
Not exactly sure what you’re getting at. Use your words.
Can we talk to any animals using LLM translation?
Spectrolite – Mac app to make colorful risograph prints and zines more easily
I can hear the companies complaining now … no one wants to be an inmate anymore.
It's a bit amusing how people treat chinchilla scaling laws as a law of nature, when it's just about a certain architecture and dataset.
> Validating on load is a form of runtime type checking. It’s not relying on a type assertion, which would allow the compiler to omit the type-check and the programmer to omit the error-handling when the check fails.

You can totally do that if you want and you fully trust that the thing that generated the data used the right types.

Similar to what you do every time you use a dynamic library.
What Ever Happened to IBM's Watson? (2021)
I don’t know about JetBrains but I have tried to replicate my VSCode + Remote Containers extension workflow in vim and Nova (which I absolutely love) and not got anywhere near.
> The quality of studies in systematic inputs is low and even Cochrane's reviews have been critiqued for missing things.

Criticism is good, expecting perfection is not.

Quality issues are a problem of the underlying research rather than the review process. High quality reviews, like Cochrane, assess risk of bias which can limit the strength of conclusion they make where the underlying studies are poor quality.

> There are newer forms of synthesis like realist reviews, meta-modeling, and model-driven meta-analyses (those are just a few examples).

All of these answer different questions/have different use cases than a SR and are much harder to do while maintaining comparable quality and risk of bias.

What's your gripe with high quality SRs following standards like PRISMA, STARD and QUADAS-2?
Card-present fraud is low enough that I can accept payments (in the UK) for 1.69%. The reader cost £39, but in the last few months they've started allowing me to accept NFC payments using my phone without a separate reader. No monthly fees.

I'm not running "classic" retail, just stalls at school events. The cost of cash is the cost of my time and that of other volunteers making sure we know how much cash we brought in, and getting to the bank. It's absolutely worth 1.69% to avoid having to deal with cash. And that's even before worrying about having a float to make change with.
I first had that thought when carpooling with a coworker that listened to Rush Limbaugh. One time we're in stop and go traffic and he's ranting about how liberals are coming for your car because they hate freedom. I thought I don't feel very free right now.

Before the damn'demic had the thought that the reason people commute long distance is partly because company VIP's all like to live a) close to work. b) next to each other. Which due to suburbanization forces everyone else to commute. This seems like an incredible waste of societies resources whose costs are born by poor and middle class people. I think the whole work from home thing is a rebellion against that basic unfairness.
The most plausible explanation I've seen (other than the carmack 'sudden grokking' beyond the cutoff idea) is that they're planning to release llama3 sooner than later with some arcitecture changes for even better performance, so it makes sense to dedicate resources there instead.
Apple bends to EU rules on chargers
Yahoo did, but then lost it all.
Vscode is super easy to configure yourself. I'd argue probably easier to customize fully than emacs for the average user. That's the whole point of using it versus a fully fledged opinionated IDE.
It is, I totally agree.

I was more trying to frame it in a way to understand the areas of ability/experience that HN folk think will be lucrative to get good at for the future.

I like the mentor idea! Thanks for the response
The simple answer is that acquiring large tracts of land isn't tractable in established areas. It requires forceful taking of some parcels or extravagant expense. Eminent domain allows the government to accomplish infrastructure projects at a (somewhat) reasonable cost but there's no expectation that private entities can achieve the same thing.
A lot of folks are now angry that Cochrane went slightly against masks. There is a religious war unfortunately.

There is even one comment here along that line.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/03/11/cochrane-sa...
Love all these!
It depends on both issuer, acquirer and the particular merchant. Second step of the EMV transaction (after the terminal verifies that the card was issued by known issuer) involves the card and terminal comparing their authentication and authorization policies, which might very well result in no-op being acceptable to both. The system is not designed to be secure against fraud, but to assign liability for the fraud to particular party in cryptographically verifiable way. So as a merchant (think public transport) you can very well accept cards offline without any kind of CHV step, but the possible fraud is your problem.
Although this is an interesting dive into the PDF format, just opening the PDF in Libreoffice or Inkscape usually works fine to modify its text.
>In other words, before his death in 2010, Salinger became the ghost in the machine of American literature, embodying the battle between preservation attempts of his exterior works, and therefore the maintenance of their immortality, and the need for self-preservation and an undisturbed, peaceful human existence.

Salinger's works are referenced frequently in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - I wonder if the word choice here is a reference to that series.
But it's the integrated approach you're talking about, what is terrible about Angular?
just curious, who made you the boss of what other people "have to" do with their hobby projects? seems like a big responsibility
> No, I do not value “content” and the Internet has brought us Hell, more or less.

That's your opinion. Sounds like it really sucks for you.

I fucking love the internet. Outside of freedom, steak, and whiskey, it's the single best thing on the planet.

It's an unlimited frontier with boundless possibility. I'm sorry you don't see it that way.
FlowingEdge Home Edition auto-discovers the devices in the same group, supports auto-resume of the file transfer, supports sharing from other mobile apps, isolates devices in the same network but belonging to different groups, works natively on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux.

There are free apps (mainly web apps) that can compete on some of the features, but we feel that our app has an edge on usability and practicality. Last but not least we need to pay ourselves :-)
Short videos work best when you want to show something that doesn't really need a lot of explanation, or justify a full length video. For instance, in the gaming world, a random glitch you encountered that sends your character falling through the floor, or an AI bug that causes an enemy or NPC to get stuck/repeat the same actions in a loop, or a really close finish at the end of a race could be great short material. It's amusing to watch out of context, but doesn't provide enough material for a full length production.

Other examples in other genres could be a meme based on a particular funny clip, outtakes/bloopers from a longer stream or video, part of a TV show or film that's somewhat iconic and can be enjoyed out of context, etc. Could be treated like an ad for the longer production, in the same way Nintendo thought their mobile games were a gateway product to their console ones.
It's easy to imagine people getting worse over time. I see it regularly.

People don't do blind taste tests when they cook. They cook something and compare it to their previous memory. Then they slowly diverge and enter some crazy part of the space where no one should be cooking an ingredient that way. There's no notion of something tasting right on its own. You need to compare it against a better version of that dish.

It's easy for two people to cook exactly the same dish, following the same recipe, both of them to think it came out great, and then when they taste each other's to discover that one is dramatically better.
Cooking takes exactly as long as you want it to. While I do sometimes love spending all day in the kitchen when the mood takes me, I can equally turn out a decent in dish in less than 30 minutes on my own, including all prep time.
The Soul of Viktor Tronko by David Quammen (1987) - from the heart of the Cold War. American interrogators try to figure out if a Soviet defector with startling revelations is telling the truth.

Quammen has become well known as a writer on nature and the environment, but he started his career writing spy novels.

His earlier novel The Zolta Configuration (1983) is set in the atom bomb project during WWII. I recall Oppenheimer and his circle are characters.
Hmm... apologies, but it seems like we're talking past each other. You thought that Svelte used a "completely custom template language that doesn’t even look like HTML", and I replied that no, compared to something like React, it looks very much like ordinary HTML, with a few exceptions around things like loops and hooks for data bindings, and you replied with a chunk of HTML annotated the way I described. :)

Point being that if you take the HTML from a web designer and put it into your svelte app, it looks very similar to the original. For example, our web designers have no trouble continuing to "own" the HTML even after a dev has gone in and made it functional - the overall structure is the same, all of the elements they created are still there (with the exception that if they had e.g. a bunch of dummy rows in a table, those are replaced with one instance of the row and wrapped in a loop construct), the CSS doesn't break because new elements have been added, etc.

Our experience with React was very different: once the devs took it, the result was so far removed from the original that the web designers couldn't effectively own it anymore. Maybe for some companies that's not a big deal, but for us it's hard to express just how much better the Svelte way is.
Oh, I had good lessons as a youth. It's not "ignorance" that the two-handed backhand didn't click with me.
I think this is a great answer. Hiring people to help you with the aspects of creating successful side projects that you don't already know and getting them to teach you how to do it would be great for future earnings
SiFive is now a IP license shop I think? similar to Andes from Taiwan who also sells RISC-V cores. Difference is that SiFive is more on the desktop CPU while Andes is more on the embedded space.

In the Machine Learning startup field, RISC-V is the most popular choice these days.

RISC-V also becomes a national priority for China as far as I can tell, it won't surprise me the best RISC-V designs will be from there.
It's more complicated than that, Windows 95 would also check for programs intercepting INT 21h, sandwich its filesystem access routines in between and possibly call the old interrupt handler even when running from 32-bit programs.

It's more optimized and more polished but it's still Win386 at its heart, and it actually makes sense a lot. The book "Unauthorized Windows 95" talks in detail about how it works.
Ask HN: Are you using a local LLM? If yes, what’s the use case?
Steve Yegge made this same point ~20 years ago:

> The whole nasty "configuration" problem becomes incredibly more convenient in the Lisp world. No more stanza files, apache-config, .properties files, XML configuration files, Makefiles — all those lame, crappy, half-language creatures that you wish were executable, or at least loaded directly into your program without specialized processing. I know, I know — everyone raves about the power of separating your code and your data. That's because they're using languages that simply can't do a good job of representing data as code. But it's what you really want, or all the creepy half-languages wouldn't all evolve towards being Turing-complete, would they?

Via: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/the-emacs-problem
Agreed, I find it much more freeing not to have to drive and deal with the various stresses and expenses involved.

I think mostly people are talking at cross purposes though. I too live in a large European city and getting around by car is incredibly constraining (traffic, parking, other drivers etc) while using the public transport system, while not perfect, is smooth in comparison.

However, for less dense areas, eg going on holiday somewhere in the countryside, it is much more convenient to have a car and I suspect that many people are coming from this angle. In those circumstances, I will rent a car as necessary. It doesn’t happen often so I still save in comparison with the cost of owning a car.

Living in sparse suburbs is probably hell without a car. This is partly because of poor town planning but also, I imagine, because a certain set of people want to have that much space. The trouble is that the externalities of the car travel are generally concentrated elsewhere, so it’s a bit unfair.
It can't be circular reasoning because it's not an attempt at reasoning. It's an incredibly common English phrase that means "The argument is independently bad on it's own merit", not an attempt to show a logical incongruity. Others have already explained why the argument does not hold up, I don't need to repeat their work here.

And if we want to be pedantic, "especially the part where they claim that the source has a history of bad arguments" would make my "argument" an ad-hominem fallacy, or perhaps poisoning the well, but not circular reasoning. But again, as I said, the argument is bad independent of the people who made it.