skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who may not know, Tom and Ray are mechanics who were the hosts of the Car Talk radio show that aired on NPR from 1987 to 2012 (edited past episodes are still aired online weekly I think). The radio show would take listener calls about their car problems, and Tom and Ray would help them solve these issues. However, that is a very reductive description that does not capture the unique explosive humor, rapport, and varied conversations and observations about the minutiae of everyday life and the human condition.

The HN crowd may enjoy the weekly puzzlers that are presented every week ranging from car puzzles, logic / mathematics puzzles, and historic folkloric puzzles.
Ironically the several cottages in the picture which have now been converted into a single country house would have been very humble dwellings when they were built.
There are probably very significant quantitative differences. But I don't think there is reason to assume that there is a qualitative difference.

That being said, a sufficiently big quantitative difference is in practice indistinguishable from a qualitative one.
Reminds me of the “Good Times” music video of Edie Brickell (famously featured on Windows 95 :) )
Even if there were no way to control the output on a pixel level, you could easily be left with minecraft-like blocks -- there is not much else your high-DPI monitor can do with a client that simply don't output higher resolutions. E.g. if they are using a bitmap icon, that will still be ugly. (sure, they should use vector icons, but what about an image viewer showing bitmaps?)
This thing will probably run in a bunch of VMs/containers behind a load balancer, so it's actually better that it doesn't try to obtain any certificates by default.

Even a small number of apps trying to get their own certificates at the same time can exhaust the Let's Encrypt quota for your domain, with serious consequences to your other online properties.
YAWS - yet another web server
A clear sign that FSD will happen any day now.
It may be a difference in quantity rather than a categorical difference. If humans are 10x better at X than animals, it doesn't mean that X is unique to humans. But the things that humans can achieve by using X will obviously very different from what animals can achieve.
Is it a decent video? The title indicates to me that it’s hot garbage. But I’ve been proven wrong before.

Edit: As it turns out it is in fact a highly informative video. Shame they felt the need to use a title like that. Probably works to a degree I guess.
Given that the recent downtime of the U.K. air traffic control system, implemented in ADA Spark by the way ... was triggered by a straightforward flight plan with two duplicate exit points...Maybe the competence of individuals, teams, and quality control measures has a more pronounced influence.

Also...GNAT Pro for Rust: https://www.adacore.com/press/adacore-announces-gnat-pro-for...?
This would be an ideal question for/r/askhistorians … the sub is heavily moderated and answers are well sourced.
Read the sanctions on Crimea
> Irrespectively of the number of participants, there will only be a maximum of 1 terminators available for the BNC network.

Haha, so true! It reminds me of a LAN party we had at a friend's house. We had a bag of spare parts but, of course, the guy bringing the bag was late. This was around 1992 or so, thus before mobile phones and nobody knew anything. Our host (the pr0n guy, but instead of watching porn he liked to put short porn mpgs into Windows autostart of unattended PCs) in desperation soldered a make-shift terminator from parts of his dad's model railroad. I know he used a t-junction, but I don't know how he did it. Took him half an hour and it worked good enough to set up the network (Personal Netware at the time) before the guy with the bag of parts showed up. Quite a feat, and good thing we weren't so much into drinking at this point of time. Later we established the rule that to participate you have to bring one terminator and one t-junction, that fixed that.
I think its psycohological - users don't have a lot of power and want to feel they are doing something.

In the phabricator bug tracker there is a feature i like called tokens where users can award tokens to a bug (i guess its the same as github reacting to the bug, but i like how phab did the ui better). Lets users note that it is affecting them without derailing the conversation.

And it is useful to have a rough count of how many users are affected by a bug. Especially for the harder to reproduce ones where it is unclear if investigating is worth it.
Didn't it ruin your sleep?
I've been hearing a lot about the "Magnificent Seven" (Apple , Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla, Meta Platforms, Alphabet and Amazon). Between now, and when we were talking about FAANG, I did hear some talk about FANMAG to throw Microsoft into the mix.

Of course it'll keep changing with time. We haven't talked much about the Nifty Fifty in awhile, except as a modern day tale of Icarus.
Code for fine-tuning davinci (GPT-3): https://github.com/rchikhi/GPT-is-you
Migrating from Cygwin to Msys2 as Daily Driver When Using Windows
40% improvement versus what? A docker container for nginx and another one for PHP?
The best theory Ive read is the theory of constructed emotion by Lisa Feldman Barrett. It directly contradicts this theory. Emotions are basically very fast predictions by the brain. The whole idea of emotions being completely independent from cognition just seems pretty dated today.
Polaroids really make an event memorable, but for that they don’t need to be super configurable like this camera. Cool toy though!
Fond memories of working on the Georgia Coffee account when I was in Japan at the start of my career - insanely profitable drink for Coke as there’s very little distribution cost, simply strike a deal with the bottlers and boom you have 200m units in front of people.

This means that you can have insane variety - 20/30 different types of this canned coffee are not uncommon at all and the Japanese consumers are absolutely hooked on it.
> There’s the worse comment, “I’m not seeing that behavior.” Those are especially helpful.

On the contrary those are helpful. It means the steps to reproduce are unclear or incomplete.
Gamma is prone to causing confusion, because Gamma is one of the metrics used to measure options (basically, it's the rate of acceleration of change in a price of an option relative to the change in price in the underlying security).
That can be tied to once aspect of vipassana meditation: observe the bodily sensations, as they are tightly linked to your mind state.
My freezer and oven weren’t on the way back between the pub and my house :)

We always keep a couple in the freezer for especially lazy days, but this was a one-off drunken “ooh, shiny? Also melted cheese...” moment.
> consciousness is an emergent phenomenon
That's a theory that has yet to be tested, not a certainty.

<digression>

> Every atom in your brain behaves according to the laws of particle physics...

These are assumptions. They're very plausible and useful ones. They may turn out to be absolutely correct, but it's still worth noting that they are theories.

"Every atom behaves..." so far, so good, yes it does.

"...according to the laws of particle physics"-- presumably yes, with this caveat: The existence of a complete set of inviolable "laws" that explain _all_ physical behavior is an article of faith. It's a plausible potential outcome of the extremely practical process of collective scientific inquiry that so far seems to hold up, but still-- the concept of a set of laws as programs and constraints for absolutely all physical phenomena is fundamentally a philosophy. It has proven to be extremely useful, but it's not a proven or even probable fact. It's a powerful axiom.

</digression>

> ...and somehow consciousness emerges out of that.

Back to the assumption that consciousness is a phenomenon that emerges from the physical activity of a brain:

Is a (functional) brain both necessary and sufficient for consciousness to "emerge"? I don't know, I'm just a person interested in this stuff, but I think it's an important question without a definite answer.

We tend to assume that having a brain is a necessary requirement for consciousness, but testing for consciousness (not to be confused with mere rationality) is difficult, as far as I know. I can't prove that a stone, plant, or region of spacetime has no consciousness.

Even if we came up with a test for "consciousness", and that this test _did_ prove that a brain (or a similarly complex network) is necessary for consciousness to appear, there is still the issue of whether the brain is sufficient. How would we know?

Whatever it is that we call consciousness may emerge from the complex physical phenomena of brain activity, as you said. Or the brain may be a catalyst for the phenomena we label consciousness. Or a brain (or human body) may only be a prerequisite for us, with our current capacities, to be able to observe the experience we have come to label "consciousness".

"Light" used to mean only the visible spectrum, until we understood there was more to it: Light went beyond the limits of what we had up til then used to recognize its existence, and indeed it occurred even in what we had called "darkness", and blue things didn't contain blueness in and of themselves, nor were blue things producing blue light.

I'm not advocating for any particular alternate theory, or proposing that consciousness operates outside of known physical constraints, I'm just a stickler for reminding ourselves what concepts are articles of faith, even in science itself
Slaughterbots: Stop Autonomous Weapons [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15731913

Slaughterbots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24825928
The Sumerian city-states were past the prehistorical period. History started with the invention of writing, and they did invent record keeping and writing.

Now it always possible to argue against the applicability of any rule, there are exceptions to rules. However here you would also need to give some argument, as to why this kind of reasoning could not be applied to this case.

I could understand a community getting behind the construction of a water pipe, a place of worship (or even an operating system for personal computers). However a city wall is a slightly different kind of entity - this one is defining the boundaries of authority, it's a kind of us versus them entity.
> The sad reality with carbon capture is that it's an excuse to put more carbon into the atmosphere than is actually being captured.

Surely there is a simm type game that can illustrate this super clearly?
Ah XxX_420_Slayer69_420_XxX from Xbox Live out in the wild before moving online.
Looks like this is more focused on ease of use rather than bringing new features in.
What were you using earlier?
> what was the reason for inventing Rust?

There will always be new programming languages. In case of Rust the innovation was compile-time dynamic memory management, which then was not available in Ada; but Ada is catching up, see e.g. https://blog.adacore.com/using-pointers-in-spark.

> Why does our industry get so enthused with shiny new things

Innovations can give better opportunities to those who use them smartly. Often, the hype around a technology is so great that the industry is forced to show at least a minimal commitment to appease staff and investors and to not appear old-fashioned (whether justified or not).
Great idea and implementation. Is this a competitor to rewind?
Pro tip - Use a cloth for insulation while handling them
Doesn't seem like a good faith question because you've already made your conclusion with the second part.
In fairness, the Empire State Building is mostly empty space. If what you have is elemental carbon, the same mass is a cube with 6m sides.

Which, yes, you then need 30,000 of so it doesn't make the whole thing that much easier.
Reading Rules Changed My Life
I think this is trying to be a discriminated union type[1] in json. One way to do it is to have a ‘tag’ field that says “ok” or “err” or whatever and then other fields for the rest of the data (or an array with the tag in the first slot). Another is to have one field whose name is the tag and whose value is everything else (which is what happened here).

[1] eg one where the possible values are either Err(<some error>) or Ok(<some result>), and the data inside could be more complex types instead of just strings
So it would be like using our solar potential to capture and then turn atmospheric carbon into fuel again. Probably battery storage will be cheaper, right?

Clear to see how cynical it is if you keep pumping carbon out of the ground at the same time as trying to reclaim some bit of it from the atmosphere.
Some problems don't just "seem" hard, they are hard, and there simply is no quick solution, and no amount of wishing for it and pretending there is, nor even ingenuity and venture capital, can make a feasible solution manifest.
Compared to nginx and PHP-FPM installed on a host machine. All running opcache, JIT etc. Was pleasantly surprised. Note this is up to 40%, not all apps we’ve run have seen same improvement.
Does anyone know how much time is allocated to this curriculum (asking as I do something equivalent for onboarding new developers)?
Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned over Taser-Armed Drones
I'd assume from the above that you'd pretty much need a different processing plant for each site that you're buying from.
this is a nice alternative for the apache php module (mod_php) if you don't want to or can't use php-fpm.
> implemented in ADA Spark by the way

The corresponding subsystem by Frequentis AG is implemented in Java. And apparently halting the system in case of wrong/unexpected flightplan data was a "feature"; according to the investigation report this has been changed now (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864). Even with Rust there is still the problem of misconceptions in analysis or specifications, or of wrong design decisions.
While this is true, we eventually need to go net negative. There is no other option.

Energy curtailment (overproduction) will likely be a common reality in some seasons by 2030 and definitely in the following decade.

Building plants that are the most efficient at using that otherwise wasted energy to 'fix' our past mistakes (plus desalination and other uses) are better than just wasting the energy completely.
Nope, it's entirely electrically powered, so can be run without generating carbon emissions.
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Ada job postings usually come with a "Security clearance required", less so with Rust.
40B tonnes -> 8B people -> 5 tonnes per person per year -> 13.6kg a day per person

is 40B including the offset from photosynthesis?
Technically, first-world countries are those that allied with the US against the SU, and Taiwan and South Korea have been part of their ranks since the beginning.

You probably mean high-income countries, but even then, Taiwan has been in this group since the World Bank started classifying countries by national income in 1987. That was also the year President Chiang Ching-kuo ended martial law. But the first parliamentary elections afterwards didn't happen until 1991. The first direct election of the President had to wait until 1996.

South Korea did democratize (in 1987, coincidentally) before becoming a high-income economy (in 1995) but it's not like they had hit a ceiling that could only be overcome with democracy, economic growth simply continued along the previous trend. (And in any case, President Roh Tae-woo was the handpicked successor of the previous dictator and got elected with 36.6% of the vote due to a split opposition, so his democratic credentials are rather weak.)

Maybe if authoritarian governments did work by having a single person making all decisions in the economy and you can only do what they think is good, there would be greater economic benefits to democracy. But the typical authoritarian isn't quite that omnipotent or that stupid, so decision making is still decentralized across different companies and if you have an idea that the government doesn't consider good but also not actively harmful, you may not be eligible for subsidies, but you can still try your luck raising capital from investors.

So I don't think China is ever going to encounter a ceiling where innovation becomes impossible due to lack of individual freedom. But they might democratize nonetheless if there's a power struggle between factions of similar strength (e.g. after Xi dies without a successor) who don't trust a strong government controlled by one faction not to eliminate the others, and thus agree to reforms weakening state power.
It’s a benefit in the same sense that someone walking up to me on the street and trying to sell me on something is benefiting me. I’m walking down the street to get to point B (or browsing a site to read an article), not be hawked goods unsolicited. Relevance of the good to my interests is at best irrelevant.
ESM has dual syntax for static and dynamic imports too.

What I am saying is that

import Foo from "foo"

could be sematically equivalent to

const Foo = require("foo")

and

const Foo = await import("foo")

could be semantically equivalent to

const Foo = await Promise.resolve(() => require("foo"))

if tc39 designed ESM import spec with CJS compat in mind.

It is fully possible to introduce additional syntax while not breaking the ecosystem.
Higher Risk, Lower Returns: What Hedge Fund Investors Earn (2010)
What is the difference between Nginx and Nginx Unit? Benefits?
I'm Australian, have travelled the world (incidentally since 1988), and have noted across the globe the eucalyptus spread before me .. it has been both a welcome and a tragic sight along the way.

Australians generally, these days, know that eucalyptus are dangerous but Australians didn't generally, as a culture, get recognized by their peers for great management of their unique eco-system during the formative periods of the nation, for good reason - and indeed Australians themselves had to learn a lot about the native flora, having ignored completely the original occupants own vast and valuable knowledge.

It is only relatively, recently rediscovered knowledge, all this talk of ecosystem management being healthy in the southern land, particularly with fire. Australias atrocious recent fires were a result of a complete lack of management even in the home grounds of the eucalyptus and other firey species.

Australia is a land of many eco-management mistakes and lessons, and even still much great ignorance. Australians are waking up to this.

But just so its clear, Aussies don't really do land management great. The assumption that there would be sensibilities about the spread of invasive species is a bit naive. Australia has vast contrasts in this regard, throughout its culture and indeed history. And, alas, industry.

>California

Having lived quite some halcyon years in California, I got very accustomed to the welcome site (and smell) of the eucalyptus among those golden purple hills and valleys .. and alas, it wasn't until the first real fires I saw there, that I understood what a foolish thing it was, indeed, to let landscape gardeners plant things for which they really, really didn't understand. But hey, that's California in a nutshell: the ball-python crammed palm tree I once saw catch fire one night, producing an awesome parade of flaming rat and weed and snake showering down on the brand new Miata of a colleague, was also kind of a wake-up call.

We (particularly, Australians[1]) have inherited the technical debt of poor ecosystem management, and need to refactor. Plant and encourage native species, always - and deter the intruders.

[1] - Although in Australias case, there is much immense knowledge to be rescued, alas, were we actually a bit more cognizant of that value and gave the original gardners their voice back.
> Galactic Federation President: Gentlemen, there's a solution here you are not seeing.

> [Galactic Federation President blows his brains out]
Payless fools influencers with a fake store (2018)
I do not fully get it. So because the support person was able to explain the contents of the monitor manual the angry client was calmed?
> Finding it at a cafe that doesn't also allow smoking was harder.

As a long-time Japan resident, I had the same problem for many years. But smoking indoors in public places was finally banned nationwide in Japan effective April 2020 [1].

I don’t know how effective the new rule is in bars and the like, but all of the cafes I’ve been in in recent years have been either completely nonsmoking or have had a separate, walled-off smoking room.

[1] https://www.gov-online.go.jp/useful/article/201907/2.html
Haha, no.

It didn't have any issues ever.

In fact, I found another one
(same model) 10 years later on the streets and used the two for a ther 2 years, until I bought two 27" displays when I finally got a real job.

Those things were build for eternity.
Nit note: EPIC is too niche, but so is VLIW. VLIW is taught because the entire approach is about the architectural decision to expose processor state that would normally be controlled by the microprogram in charge of interpreting and timing the macrocode. Effectively, VLIW gives low-level control over to, and depends entire on the intelligence of, the compiler toolchain to correctly manage the processor's internal state. Transmeta Crusoe attempted this, but it was a commercial failure. Soft-updatable microcoded RISC-CISC CPUs and GPUs won.
So much JSON... is that the real thing, as in comments are the gateway to hell, or is it actually some practical JSON superset like JSON5?

I almost see myself jury-rigging some bespoke filesystem on-ramp to that REST configuration interface. Likely with at least half a dozen scary security compromises.

Then on the other hand I guess they've never been afraid of getting called opinionated and that's certainly much better than trying to be everything, for everyone, at the same time.
Maybe their electric stuff will be better, but unfortunately my experiences with ZF transmissions have not been great.
> Maybe we can increase trees by a factor of 100 too.

I don't agree: using a bird and an Apollo space mission in speed comparison is a completely invalid support for that proposition: the rocket which launched Apollo 10 had to burn 770 tons of kerosene and 1300 tons of liquid oxygen in 150 seconds to achieve these speeds which are possible to be kept then only once outside of atmosphere and outside of the earth "gravity well". It didn't depend on anything of unknown physics or chemistry: Tsiolkovsky published his rocket equation in 1903.

Contrary to that, your "maybe 100 times" would depend on something different from what we know the physics and chemistry say for the last hundred years.
it's a big win for cars because your phone camera in the window sunlight gets too hot. usb-c routed cameras would be great
FWIW the Classic Mac line ending is \r. \n\r was used by Acorn, apparently.
“I look forward to seeing what LEGO comes up with by 2030, and given our present climate crisis, it can’t come soon enough.”

I was a bit confused when the author threw this bit in at the end because it seems silly to think Lego is a contributor to that in any material way.
> We don't have to reverse the process of creating energy from fuel.

> Firstly, we only need to seperate carbon and oxygen.

Separating carbon and oxygen is literally reversing the process of creating energy from fuel. That's how physics works.

Please stop trying to make arguments when you don't even understand the fundamentals of the subject.