skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People in the industry have not been focused on innovatio

What are you talking about? Countries all over the world threw BILLIONS at exactly this, and what came out in the end is...hilarious. If we'd have thrown the same kind of money on battery tech, we'd already have surpassed lithium-ion.

This is what it's about: you can spend every dollar only once, and there is no sane reason to throw a single dollar at nuclear when there is renewable energy, batteries, recycling, etc..
> I was immediately asking myself: what about the CMB? Surely that would have a stonking big anisotropy if the speed of light wasn't close to the same in all directions?

No, you can always cancel it out by making the whole rest of physics suitably anisotropic too. Which would, of course, be ridiculous.
Issues I ran into on Linux:

MalwareBytes keeps a small structure in memory for every file it found during a scan. Sadly my computer had files on it and ran out of RAM.

SentinelOne's filtering scaled like linear search so as the ignore list got longer everything got slower.
It's a cool idea, but where do you draw the line? Where do you place something like microcode? Depending on how you design a computer, you can have software almost all the way down.
> LOL, that was when they _removed_ all encryption in their last, final update

That's was the time the other Truecrypt contributors learned that Paul le Roux was in federal custody[1]. Most likely they nukes encryption & gave dire warnings as a scorched earth play to avoid the possibility of an FBI-authored binary release of TrueCrypt, since Paul controlled the website and the infrastructure, IIRC.

1. Warning: linked story is a 3-part longform story that can cause 30-60m to vanish from your day. https://magazine.atavist.com/he-always-had-a-dark-side/
I had no idea, that explains a lot. Thanks.
Playable Quotes for Gameboy Games [video]
OK, so presumably if the neurosurgeon stimulates those spots, I feel pleasure?

How do the spots work?
7 Days with the Man Who Confirmed Aliens Exist (Under Oath) [video]
I know two guys who owned Volts for years and they both found them to be reliable and useful vehicles.

Whose anecdotes win here?
Based on the conclusions in this comment thread, any energy source more exotic than a wood campfire is unacceptably damaging.
Yes. About 4 times poorer. (Scoping to the domain of “buying a house” which is a huge driving factor in having children)

> Median home prices increased 121% nationwide since 1960, but median household income only increased 29%.[0]

[0] https://listwithclever.com/research/home-price-v-income-hist...
(That’s from where I quoted, but there’s plenty of sources. More available upon request)
Just use Bitlocker . Despite being proprietary, it has withstood court challenges, indicating no backdoor and much easier and reliable than having to deal with utfi, firmware, compatibility, and secure boot settings and other issues that may arise with VeraCrypt when trying to encrypt the entire drive. Microsoft makes it idiot proof to encrypt the drive. This is one of the few instances in which the closed source option is better than open source.
It’s almost always a senior citizen. Older seniors are essentially mentally disabled by varying degrees given their genetics, lifestyle, and age which is why they are so vulnerable to these scams.

In low trust societies (both developed & developing) this is largely mitigated with family clans, where multiple generations of a family are living under the same roof. The problem in many developed high trust societies is that families have weaker links and adult children rarely live with their elderly parents. Maybe this will change in high trust societies if real estate continues to be unaffordable for most Millennials?
I'll speculate this is phase-controlled microwave cooking.

Microwave power transistors are now cheap at high power levels. If you have an array of such emitters, you can synthesize beams that can deposit energy in small, local volumes. This has been done in actively-scanned military radar for several decades. No moving parts, and beam steering in microseconds.

As a bonus, you could also run a pre-cooking process where you scan the food and map its microwave reflection/absorption properties. This would let you calculate the cooking algorithm based on the particular food item..
Transflective LCDs, a.k.a. RLCDs, are currently being sold.

There are two iterations of Sun Vision Display's 32 inch monitor, and Eyemoo recently released an Android tablet with an RLCD sceen.

I have the Eyemoo Epaper S1, and an very happy with it, despite a manufacturing flaw that caused a few sparkly dust specs to be between the screen layers. I use it with the built-in frontlight at 10-20% strength which is a good compromise between brightness and comfort.

https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/
https://eyemootech.com/
similarly, Are you hiring prompt is quite annoying.
Yes, sun exposure is bad if you're trying to prevent premature aging. That's why they recommend wearing facial sunscreen on a daily basis.
print it all on paper and design and code on paper.
* First release of jq in 5 years

114 points by drewda 62 days ago | past | 27 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951830

* jq 1.7

434 points by wwader 25 days ago | past | 206 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37412698
It's doubtful if you know even a basic bit of chemistry. Vulcanized rubber is a crosslinked thermoset polymer that is very difficult to break down, regardless of whether it is natural or synthetic in origin. It's going to produce roughly the same amount of microplastic per amount of tire. Lets say natural rubber lasts 2x as long, that's half as much microplastic, not 1/1000th. I get that GP is being hyperbolic, but natural rubber is incrementally better (at best) than synthetic, not revolutionarily better.
Is it more responsible to waste electricity and save water? That sounds like a damned if you do, damned if you don't trade-off between two bad things, not a clear good vs bad choice.

My understanding is that a closed cooling tower uses more energy because evaporation is so much better than radiation at removing heat.
Sorry, plz ignore this comment.
I just changed the source.
I used std::tuple_size to handle everything that has a valid `std::tuple_size` specialization.
and who defines what is boring?
Say "That's not quite right; I loved my trip to X and I'm planning a trip to Y for next year."
The way this works is deep state wants to control the population. First they ask nicely. Apple tried but went back because their user base saw through it. Then deep state funds "attacks" and then poor Apple will have no option but to give in. This has been happening since post WW2.
Update.... I've got it running... and can telnet into the VAX/VMS 7.2 system in my pocket. ;-)
this is tejas
No, recommending bitlocker back then was basically a joke to anyone at that time, an obvious way of telling you something wrong.

The obvious recommendation back then was LUKS. And even if there were no alternatives they're not going to recommend you a proprietary solution with a high chance of being backdoored. They'll just say to use "other software".
It’s not about money. It’s about power.
Spending that lobbying money on programs to support strong communities and neighborhoods might do more to stop child abuse than for a backdoor to everyones data.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231002042814/https://www.nytim...

"Retail investors have a well-established track record of destroying their own wealth. Studies have shown that individual traders somehow have the opposite of skill — they manage to do worse than they would by picking stocks at random."

These finance guys don't understand what's really happening. The retail investors are high stakes gambling on purpose trying to get instantly rich because some guy on whatever telegram, discord or whatever is bragging how he got rich gambling on some ridiculous asteroid mining futures stock. No amounts of 'but look at this data...' will ever change their mind. No amount of telling them that low latency trading outfits like Citadel receive these retail order books in real time and then buy/sell the stock to retail traders making a profit, literally sniping their trades, will make them change their mind either.

Nobody wants to invest anymore in something that returns modestly in 30+ years they want to be rich now then run some YouTube/TikTok channel how you too can become rich like they did gambling.
The Dawn of LMMs: Preliminary Explorations with GPT-4V(ision)
Yes! I tested why I wasn't receiving any emails. Then I updated the link. Sorry for the inconveniences!
Here is the wider context: https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-en...
The problem is peer pressure and the fact that most parents want to have a way to be in contact with their children at all times. You could get your kid a flip phone, but your kid is going to be an outcast if anybody finds out.
>then a lot of stuff is social engineering that we don't generally think of as being in that category?

I mean..yes? Social Engineering is just the malicious manifestation of general social navigation.

I mean think about it. What's the actual difference between a child who waits until his mother is in a good mood to ask for sweets and a rogue agent who gets chatty with the security guard so he can be close by without seeming suspicious. It's not a difference of kind. It's purely intent.

>Even this example from Bing is kind of eliciting an emotional reaction, and I don't think the emotional reaction is why this works

It is at the very least a big part of why. Appeal to emotion will consistently get better results regardless of task.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760
I guess it depends what you would define as rich. If you do not come up with some new hot thing and only count your pay. Then the article is quite right. People really rarely get rich from wage.
I've always hated this article and the "boring programmer" shtick.

I've always found the "boring programmer" thing pretentiousness trying to disguise itself as humility.
He doesn't care. Someone else got to him first.
Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 4: E Ink and OLED Screens in a Single Laptop
> 60Hz is not mentioned anywhere on the Kickstarter page.

The article has a video showing smooth scrolling on the screen, which is completely impossible with current e-paper technology, unless there has been a recent revolution that I'm not aware of.
It’s also pretty clearly unconstitutional. However, no one wants their name on the case that goes to the Supreme Court.
But then they don't get what they want..
I tried to work with OnlyOffice for most of spreadsheet, the only drawback is long-loading time whenever you open a file compare to Microsoft Office web based I can get on Koofr cloud storage for free and get the best of both world.

When I need to fill PDF form, Microsoft Edge could work fine.
It doesn't matter if a dev consents if he has used an open source license that gives away his code on his behalf. This is like whiny open-source devs who say "I don't approve of the use of my code for {insert excuse here}." Go read your contracts: you signed away a lot of your rights in exchange for money! Now cash your salary checks and shut the hell up!
It's because red ideologues got the vaccine in far lower numbers.

Vaccine refusal played a part, certainly, in connection with the fact that conservatives are older. In many instances, a lot older. In other instances, not really that much older. The trend is unidirectional but the degree varies by state, as you'll find when you start comparing West Virginia and Florida to Maine and Vermont.

But the truth is inescapable: the older someone was, the more they needed to get vaccinated and boosted... and the less likely they did.
Interesting. Recycling for actual plastic re-use is very difficult due to the different plastics used and additives, colouring etc.

This would really make sense for the plastic that will not be able to be recycled (which is in fact 99% of it).
Or just be honest. One of my best friends is in Bali right now. When I asked to go with her, she straight up told me she doesn't like traveling with other people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh they know what they want to use it for later..
Deaths peaked in 2021 but hospitalizations peaked in 2022. Hospitals were at higher capacity in 2022 but treatment protocols had improved reducing mortality rates. Deaths caught the headlines so people missed the surge.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-hospitalizations
Thickness is another drawback I think.
> Trust and Reputation

> 3 Letter Agencies

Pick one.
I don't know where you're based but if you're out of the US, then by design the clients you're working with want it cheap. But between cheap and ridiculously pricey, there is a world of freelancers that are just reasonably priced but not cheap -- and similarly, clients who have those budgets (even if for short durations).
That is wild. How did he have time to maintain TrueCrypt while doing all of that crime?
A careful reading will reveal that the parent poster merely said they spent 4 years doing PhD research, and during that time, also indirectly looked at things somewhat related to tire research.

I don't know how much time you've spent in academia, but when I wrote my thesis, there were a couple "indirect" things like that that I could sound knowledgeable on but really knew no more about than someone could learn in an hour of internet reading if they really tried.

A source is what it would take to convince me, not an internet commenter claiming to have googled something during their school years.
Nue.js: Rethinking Reactivity
Flop?
They mean that the frame rate/responsiveness of that particular video shot is faked.
Do you really need to code on a vacation? (I assume this is not a job-related trip if the destination is the middle of nowhere.)
Don’t want to distract from your point, but I’d say Sokpop’s Stacklands was a huge hit!
I’m thrilled to share Saiku, an AI project that aims to automate a wide array of tasks with simple commands. Inspired by projects like ChatGPT, Saiku is designed to handle tasks such as:

Summarizing documents (local or remote PDFs)
Evaluating CVs based on specified matrices
Generating content and saving it to file
Sending emails with attachments
Querying databases using natural language
Plotting charts
Executing interactive commands like npx create-next-app@latest
Generating invoices using templates (docx, html) and saving as PDF
We’re grateful for the community and projects like OpenAI, kodyfire, and Open Interpreter that have paved the way and provided inspiration.

We’re in the experimental phase and are looking for community support in the form of sponsors, contributors, and feedback. Check it out on GitHub and let us know your thoughts: https://github.com/nooqta/saiku

We believe the potential for AI to take over mundane tasks and free up time for creative pursuits is immense. We’re excited to contribute to this narrative with Saiku and would love to hear your insights and suggestions.
> if American cities were upzoned to a gentle six-story, mixed-use density

This will not work for as long as we keep building neighborhoods that require the use of cars or make biking/walking unsafe. America also lacks a comprehensive public transportation system.
If there is a war (hot or cold) with China, I doubt consumer tech will be spared as much as I love my Govee and TCL smart devices.
The German tank production capacity was estimated by serial numbers of captured tanks. There are ways to read all kinds of information by observing energy usage. High resolution time and sequence data undoubtedly reveal more than you’d like.
https://archive.ph/uWqWH#selection-988.0-988.14

In the highlighted section here, does anyone have a real source for the estrogen "red pill" claim? Not that estrogen was ever packaged as a red or red-ish pill, that's probably true, but that it was the actual intent at the time. There's quotes, sure, but those have a weird post-hoc, KultureKampf "point-scoring" feel to them. The pills in the Matrix don't even look like pharmaceuticals to me, more like some sort of sci-fi prop, but that might be taking it too literally as the claims generally only go so far to call it a "trans metaphor".
Comparing Lossless Data Compression: Visualized
Like tests that compare an image codec's size to its visual quality, these tests plot time vs. compressed size, allowing you to compare the various compression steps of lossless data compression algorithms relative to the time taken to compress/decompress. It compares ZIP, XZ, 7zip, Brotli, ZPAQ, & Zstandard.
Do viruses float freely in the air, or are they mostly in aerosolized bodily fluids when from an infected persons coughs and sneezes? Cloth masks are great at trapping those and greatly reducing the "muzzle velocity" of droplets that do escape.
I haven't used BitLocker or anything else, so I can't really compare.

Veracrypt has a neat benchmark tool so you know the speed beforehand. I suppose most CPUs have native support for the popular algorithms, so the bottleneck really is the disk, not CPU itself or the software.
Am I the only one instinctively upset by the communication/bandwith/storage overhead of the dashes as well as the version and variant bits of UUIDs?

It might be insignificant, but to me it makes UUID feel tainted, dirty. 11.1% of a UUID are dashes. 15.3% of a UUID are wasted bits if you count version and variant bits.

Anecdote: I worked for a company that used numeric primary ids internally and externally and increased the primary key by TWO to THREE for each new customer to make it appear to the outside world we had twice to three times the rate of customer growth.
> With more than 16x the population of Australia

In 2021, Australia's population was 25.69 million, and the US population was 331.9 million – so US population was 12.9 times Australia's. Australia's population grows faster than the US, mainly due to significantly higher immigration (on a per capita basis), which causes the ratio to shrink over time - the figure you are citing was accurate 50+ years ago. By 2050, the ratio will probably have fallen to 11 or so; by the end of this century, it could easily be under 10.

> With more than 16x the population of Australia and a heirarchy of representation limited by some naturally occuring factor at each level it's expected that the US would have more layers of organisation between a citizen and the highest decision making level.

Well, the US does have 50 states versus only 6 for Australia – so that is the obvious level at which the US deals with being a much more populous country. US states are on average about 50% more populous than Australia's – 13 times the population but only 8 times as many states – but, the average US state has less people than NSW, Victoria's population is close to the US state average.

Given they deal with being more populous by having more states, it isn't clear why they'd have to do that again at the sub-state level, especially given that 74% of US states have fewer people than NSW. And, maybe things in the US would work better if they added another 10 or so states by breaking up some of the larger ones, in which case the average state population gap between Australia and the US would shrink significantly.

> Similarly I referred to the US as ossified and deified not so much in the sense of actual real constitutional changes (it was interesting what you wrote and that you were across the details) but more in the sense of what the common US citizen on forums appears to believe about their own country.

I think you are on to something in that Americans are politically conservative – even Americans who identify as "liberal" or "progressive" are fundamentally conservative, if we put aside economics and hot-button social issues, and just focus on the core meaning of conservatism as "resistance to change". America's politics – even at the state level – are so ossified because US culture is (in that sense) much more conservative than that of the UK or Australia, among other countries. The extreme slowness in the adoption of the metric system is arguably another example of that.
For a retrocomputing project, you can likely do analog as a separate board. And it's trivial to route power and ground lines by hand (excluding them from the autorouter with a rule). You don't even need power planes at the low speeds used by old computers! But, the hard part is optimally routing 100+ signal lines between chips. You can do it by hand, but it's just drudge work.
Author here. After releasing Nue JS here just two weeks ago[1], the most common questions were: “How does reactivity work”? and “How is this different from Svelte”? This article attempts to answer those.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507419
Shouting, not mumbling.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/military-ai-vanquishes...
How? The more steps adding to it, highly likely the more energy consumption and thus more emission. Hopefully there was an exception.
Of course not, but until now, everybody use public data for AI training and just say it's fair use.
The very questionable counting of deaths seems to have been going on in the other more-populated non-Ontario provinces, too.

Alberta was using a dubious death-counting approach, as described in this April 2021 article:

"According to Dr. Deena Hinshaw, any death that has been flagged where COVID-19 is a possible cause is included in the initial count, even if the official cause of death remains unknown."

https://globalnews.ca/news/7814731/alberta-determine-covid-1...

BC was using a dubious counting approach as of April 2022:

"Fewer than half of COVID-19 deaths reported since B.C. changed counting methods were caused by the disease"

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/fewer-than-half-of-covid-19-deaths-rep...

Quebec's counting of deaths as of May 2022 (and apparently before that) was also dubious:

"Quebec’s interim public health director, Dr. Luc Boileau, has acknowledged that the province has seen a “huge” number of deaths linked to COVID-19. Quebec’s high death toll, he said last Thursday, is explained by the fact the province counts a COVID-19 death as any death involving someone who has the disease.

He said a government study from January indicated that around 30 per cent of the official COVID-19 deaths in the province’s hospitals involved people who tested positive for COVID-19 but whose principle cause of death was not the disease. He said about 40 per cent to 50 per cent of official COVID-19 deaths in the province involve people who had the disease but who died of other causes."

https://globalnews.ca/news/8801205/quebec-still-reporting-do...
Because in SPAs if a user creates new entities it can be easier to generate the UUIDs client side.

So then just a simple validation server side to ensure the data isn't malicious.
I was going to say, that "video" of the e-ink screen looks a LOT quicker to refresh than anything I've previously seen.
It Depends(tm).

If you're using a system which is built for distribution, random is great.

When you're leaning on a Postgres database which has powered your startup through scaling but expects right-leaning btree indexes, it's a bad time.

Rearchitecting to use a new data store is ideal, but often impractical as an immediate step. UUIDv7 is a great increment walking that road via sharding etc.
I mean I would love writing Ada and Common Lisp at work but my hipster CTO wants me to use Go and TypeScript.
Pulsar Launch Manual: Hacking the Core (2022)
It is interesting that you lot always call for Ukraine to stop fighting. Why are you not calling for russians to stop fighting or fuck off from Ukraine?
As someone who spends a lot of time closely with dogs, and recently raised a little of 6 spaniels - dogs "talk" via their facial expressions and can make sounds beyond just barks.

My pet theory is that women bonded with dogs first through an ability to have a mutual understanding with non-verbal communication, and we most likely observed them and could "talk" to them in their own ways - something that has been lost as we turned dogs from inter-species partners to enslaved commodities.

We're slowly starting to rediscover it.