skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Little or no mention of the back end of the machine. The front end, where cutting takes place, gets all the attention. The segment placing arm got a mention. But most of the length of the machine does other things.

The usual TBM setup has a two-track narrow gauge railroad behind it. Segment cars bring ring segments forward, and muck cars remove the spoil. Track cars bring more railroad track. Tool cars and worker cars are in the mix occasionally. All this is happening on an unfinished railroad, because the back end of the TBM has to lay the track and move cars from one track to the other. All the stuff for this takes up more length than the cutting part. A tunneling project is an entire construction site compressed into a long, narrow hole. So logistics in the tunnel are a big deal.

Now, this is where The Boring Company was expected to innovate. Something involving driverless Tesla chassis, maybe. But they never did. Others have built such systems.[1]
But not The Boring Company.

[1] https://tunnelingonline.com/mobiletronics-demonstrates-auton...
> only way to really deal with those types is to always escalate and get more eyes on the situation.

Want to echo this, and say that it is in the psychopath’s best interest to make you feel like you are overreacting. Bringing more eyes on the situation is not overreacting, and if someone who has power over you is trying to convince you of that, don’t trust them.
Sure, that said it seems like major AI co's are some of the ones most interested in using clean energy to power their work, so probably not the worst thing in the world.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-g...
This is a great project. Why there is no one replying it?
And that term is still problematic. Just because a straight man has a lousy love life doesn't automatically make him a misogynist or a potential spree killer. If anything, that feeds into those freaks' arguments that men are entitled to sex or affection.

Yes, I'm familiar with the existence of the weirdo subculture that coined the term. But there's a lot of technically "involuntarily celibate" straight men in the world who are just between relationships, haven't met Ms. Right yet and don't want to cat around, or aren't regularly getting laid for any number of other reasons, but who just do what normal people do and deal with it.

Using the term "incel" to describe the weirdo losers who feel entitled to women's attentions and affections without any effort on their part is arguably legitimizing their creepy argument.
That's not a high bar. =)
>The author completely avoids the real question which is how to select what new technology

There is a whole section called "When (and how) to use innovative new tech" talking about this, and another one called "My framework for choosing technologies" describing the author's approach.
Yes because Americans all over are going vigilante and taking justice into their own hands. What world are you living in? The America I live in everyone is too chicken shit to handle things for themselves and when I get to that point I’m not thinking about grappling hooks and going after people with loud exhausts…
Sweet victory: Sensor detects adulteration in honey
Says space junk purveyor s.
Multifault earthquake threat for Seattle region revealed by mass tree mortality
go to the top of the tokyo goverment building in shinjuku great for picture taking or just looking

(they were so nice they had to look in my dslr bag. you are forgiven senpai, you can't control what came before)

https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/english/offices/observat.html
Wow it's awesome that a number on a spreadsheet is so big, now to kick back in Ireland's affordable housing, convenient public transport, generous social safety net, and high quality healthcare system.
Adobe proposes JPEG XL for interop web platform tests
> I would indeed expect them to ensure a good fit in response to my doing so. And my doing research actually saves them time doing so, because I included similar information about me. For someone who didn't, why would the company offer it in response?

Hah. I have done exactly this. Personalized story, breaking down my interest and background (not just rehashing my resume), putting something coherent together.

And, bluntly? I'm an excellent writer. While I may not be cranking out Booker or Hugo award winners, I know how to craft something.

Ninety per cent of the time? Crickets. It's profoundly demoralizing.
I recently watched a movie called the circle with Emma Watson where they want to tie the account with a corporation as a means of Id to register to vote.

Imagine leaving identity to a corporate who simply shrugs off all but legal threats. It's terrifying and I reckon we are in our way there
foundations of geopolitics
Operation Mincemeat is a film on Netflix that’s worth watching.
Just curious what you like on Windows Server
Great take. I feel like the personal brand influencers love seeing ads, they look up to high budget ads as the culture they should be emulating.
Nope, I don't feel comfortable disclosing which one for various reasons but there are enough breadcrumbs for anyone who cares to guess without much effort.
Probably not a good thing that the central bank is speaking up.

>>The most famous exception was former Fed chief Alan Greenspan, who warned of “irrational exuberance” in the stock market in a speech in December 1996. Fueled by the tech bubble of the late 1990s, stocks didn’t top out for more than three years after Greenspan’s remarks, and ever since central bankers have mostly avoided commenting on asset values.<<

why the tech stocks are valued higher than the s&p:
https://schrts.co/rmEqWAFg

200% return over 5 years with Microsoft. 29x valuation.

157% return google. 21x

57% return S&P 500. 18x

814% Nvidia return. 31x

89% RSPT return (s&p tech ETF).
Evidence that albatrosses use infrasound to navigate long journeys
> batteries are better for storage of energy in most cases

That's not true. There are two main storage cases: from day to night and from summer to winter. Because there are 365 days and nights in a year and only one summer and one winter, a battery for seasonal storage needs to be 365 times cheaper than one for daily storage to break even after the same number of years. Of course, there are no batteries that are 365 times cheaper than lithium-ion batteries. Nothing comes close.

People are thinking that chemical energy storage could work for the case of seasonal storage. It doesn't quite work right now, but it's not off by 2 orders of magnitude, it's off by maybe a factor of 5. It is much more likely that we'll succeed in making green hydrogen production, transportation and storage economical than that we could make batteries cheaper by a factor of 100.

Separately, there is a fairly good chance that we'll be able to extract hydrogen from underground deposits (google "white hydrogen", e.g. [1]).

Third, hydrogen storage economics enjoys the square-cube law: larger pressurized tanks can hold a lot of hydrogen for not a much larger cost than smaller tanks. So hydrogen could make sense for applications where very large tanks are needed, and one such application is railways. A typical train oil car has a volume of about 130 m3. At 700 bar (typical storage tank pressure), one m3 of hydrogen weighs about 42 kg, so this is about 5.5 tons. Hydrogen has about 3 times the energy density of diesel, so that would be the equivalent of about 16 tons of diesel. Train have an efficiency of at least 400 ton-miles per gallon, which is more than 125 ton-miles per kg, or 2 million ton-miles for 16 tons. In other words, such a tanker car could be enough to propel a ten thousand ton freight train for 200 miles. It would be much easier to convert diesel locomotives to burn hydrogen than to electrify thousands of miles of railways, so there's a fairly good chance that rail could be hydrogen's killer app.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/12/prospect...
Is this even a concern? I occasionally see headlines like this but with all the energy resources available to us (clean and fossil), I don't know why it even matters to discuss how much energy a new tech consumes.

My argument is that the servers that run AI or crypto algos will still exist and operate even if AI or crypto went away.
What you described is EDR: where non HDR content is artificially limited to allow HDR content to contrast better. In sunlight the screen will stay in SDR and use HDR brightness levels without any tweaks, which doesn't result in washing anything out

> That's liking shining a flashlight into your eyes so the sun doesn't seem as bright...

... that's exactly the point of e-Ink: with minimal power you get brightness that rivals the sunlight you're holding the device in.

With infinitely efficient OLEDs, we'd just crank the brightness on the lit pixels high enough to match the brightness of a white piece of paper in sunlight and have a better e-ink: unfortunately in the real world that'd generate more heat and take more power than mobile devices can afford right now.

At the end of the day we have both matte and glossy displays with reflective characteristics that rival old school matte displays because of improvements made across the stack... but nostalgia makes us assume things were very different than they were.
> The thing that helped me most was to try to put in as much effort as the sender did - if they just used an autofilled-ChatGPT letter? Send them a one-line no thanks.

This alone puts you in the ninetieth percentile. Most employers won't even bother with that.
Sure it does. Just paste the defs into the repl.

You can also use `from importlib import reload` and then have an expression like reload(foo).bar() to constantly reload your foo library.
One's lies and misinformation is another's facts. And vice versa.

You may want to think you have a crystal ball to truth, but the undisputed historical fact is that most authority figures in the past have been dead wrong about many things they thought were absolutely true and yet they would have thought whoever questioned them were idiots or liars.

It's really hard to determine whether something is true. Philosophers have known this for a long time (starting with doubting whether this "reality" is real in the first place or just an illusion/simulation). Most of what we call "facts" are mere social conventions.

There may be social/political reasons to dictate one common perspective as "truth" and the others as "disinformation", but once you understand what I was trying to point out, then the question goes back to the point about "power is too easily misused to be conferred upon anybody".
Can, if the auth provider allows it. In my limited experience of 4 accounts with passkey, only one does.. kinda.

The multiple passkey option kicks out my other session when i use the other passkey.
I think this is a misunderstanding. The EU bans if there is a possible hazard; the US bans based on calculated risk. While it’s possible (but unlikely) there could be cases in which the EU rules are safer, the EU rules also result in harmful, expensive absurdities such as banning GMOs.
I don’t see how this is relevant. The PC gaming market was niche and immature at this point in time and developers were trying to gain traction. Today the market is massive and virtually all of the users and money is in the PC platform. There is no reason at all that Valve would waste money and developer time on supporting a platform that virtually nobody is going to use now or at any point in the near future. Valve is already doing great work with Proton and Steam Deck to get Linux gaming on par with Windows.
I built dozens of web sites using JScript server-side...
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer.

I'm actually not clear what your specific questions are here.

Can you clarify what you mean by "504 outdated dependency"? Is that just an example of "this project has a lot of deps that are out of date"?

I don't think I understand what the specific issue is with deps versions, vs whether something does or does not work with Vite, vs whether something does or does not with React 18.

Like, `redux-first-router` depending on React Router and the `history` API doesn't have anything at all to do with Vite or React 18. For that matter, libraries don't normally have any relation to the build tools specifically. For example, you can use Redux in a project no matter whether it's built with CRA, Vite, Next, Parcel, or something else. So, the phrase "migrating these projects to Vite" doesn't seem clear to me.

Can you give specific examples of what deps you're having issues with, and what specifically you're trying to fix?
it's better than a password because good passwords pretty much require to be generated by password managers in this day and age. Which means you can't actually remember them anyway, yet a password is still hackable or guessable Theoretically of course but not really, I've had some fairly long passwords of mine hacked somehow. I assume because a service stored them in plaintext and then got hacked. Make it 40 or 50 characters long, it doesn't matter: It's still just text and it can be stolen from you by remote, digital thievery somehow.
The promise of passkeys is that this cannot happen anymore, they'd have to steal your physical device AND your way of unlocking that device. Sure you still need a master password to unlock your password manager but like I mentioned above: You now need this any way because you need a password manager no matter what.
Or you could leave.
I personally use Bitwarden, the self-hosted version. My phone, computer, laptop all essentially have the passwords and OTP synced from my server running it. Gopass seems to be quite a bit less user friendly so Bitwarden may be a better solution for a lot of people I think.
VBScript was how I got into programming well over a decade ago, was reading a book on vista where there was a short chapter on automating some file operations etc. I still remember the excitement of typing the commands into notepad and seeing a modal popup saying Hello World!. I made a monstrous text adventure game by just copy pasting and modifying hundreds of if statements where you could "branch" off an have entire new adventures and if you didn't like it you could come back to the original, little to no idea how it all worked but it kept working until it didn't.
I live on a street of single family homes in Palo Alto and my next door neighbor smokes weed every day starting around 10am and it's totally legal for that stench to drift into my backyard shed and harass me where I'm trying to work.
> we're one thought away for being thrown into jail for shower thoughts that go slightly the wrong side of "publicly acceptable".

Not really. That’s like being laughed at for being naked at a nudist camp. If nobody has privacy, all of those little thoughts become public and the perception of what’s acceptable shifts

In a weird way privacy is a double edged sword and necessitates its own existence

I think, in general, we’d be a lot more sane as a society if we held back less from one another
The deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes
A friend left when Iger left. I wonder if she'll go back, now that Iger is back on board.
Skillful Data Eng Team from Tokyo meets business English-speaking countries
For $2,200, you could run a 35W 43” $160 TV for 29 years, if your power is $0.3/kWh. In reality, much more, with a dim display at night.

I understand being eco friendly, but that’s an absurd, entirely negligible, justification.

I would claim the reflective display is the killer feature.
> I just don't think auto-updating to a broken build is some vast betrayal of confidence or anti-consumer row

I think you showed why I'm having trouble taking you seriously fairly succinctly.
Make sure people know why Chesterton's fence was put up.

Letting people know why is two fold. Not only does it keep them from relearning the 1000 edge cases you discovered in the school of hard knocks, sometimes technology changes and something that was a hard limit no longer is.
The cost of AI services are obviously going to reflect the energy inputs.

Unlike blockchain, AI actually has some utility in the non-criminal economy. I don't think we need to worry too much about the energy expenditure at this point.
Absolutely. I like when the video shows it "staggering" off when they pull the rug/curtain away slowly.

Now, if it could vaccuum a floor, I'd buy one!
Even if he was legally allowed to have said firearm they would have got him for something else I’m sure. I wonder though, as a civilian how do I tell the difference between a law enforcement drone and the drone of Joe citizen?
That’s not bad considering they use way more on crypto in which the usefulness is bordering on nil so far
Similar to you, for polling you only see new data not the deletion events so I can't delete embeddings unless I keep track of state and do a diff. To properly support that you/I would need effectively CDC, which gets more complex for arbitrary / self-serve databases.
GreptimeDB v0.4 Launched: Save TimeSeries Data in Cloud
i met that guy in a bar once he was amused i had no idea who he is and said his book was too complicated so i read lolita instead.

won't say where other than there was a social event he does -- apparently people low key stalk the poor bastard. it was weird to me, the koi no yukan style japanophile

then the other folks got pissed i started doing poetry at them centered around the fact they read nothing but pornography catering to their fetishes

("lolita loving white feminist, name me any other nabokov" is a fun way to have someone with a juris doctorate chuck a glass at your head)
Anyone else immediately search for Subselene, the nuclear-powered thermal tunnel boring idea proposed in 1986?

I tend to think they pretty heavily underbid how much heat input it would have taken? The design review for a 3m diameter tunnel going 30/m a day was 56 MW. I am not an expert, but a couple horsepower of thermal energy seems low to melt through the moon.

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5262838
> planning permission for his projects

Worthwhile noting that back then the country was significantly less full of people to mount objections. e.g. Paddington was built where it is because that was the edge of the city at the time. Similarly Bristol Temple Meads was built in a meadow area outside the city. The were no major roads unless built by Romans.
Looks neat! CTA's 'submit' button doesn't work. Raising a typeerror
Feel free to evaluate the face value of the comment, but in general it feels a odd that one nation's central bank is commenting on valuation of a particular stock sector of another nation. Did our central bank impugn the value of the
British financial markets due to Brexit?
"You're holding it wrong."

You're asking GPT to do maths in its head, the AI equivalent of a person standing in the middle of the room with no tools and getting grilled in a oral examination of their knowledge.

Instead, collaborate with it, while giving it the appropriate tools to help you.

I asked it to write a Monte Carlo simulation of the problem in Wolfram Mathematica script. It did this about 10-100x faster than I would have been able to. It made a few small mistakes with the final visualisation, but I managed to get it to output a volumetric plot showing the 3D scatter plot of the histogram of possible outcomes.

I even got it to save a video of the plot rotating: https://streamable.com/2aphbz
>In what way is DBus better than something like Cap'n Proto?

In this specific context it is less about being better and more about being the standard for apps that are part of the Linux desktop except for Wayland which has its own. There are benefits in developers all being familiar with dbus, not having to use different clients for each program you want to talk to, it is easier to secure, etc.
Renewable or clean power does mean unlimited power.

If the demand for power is outpaces the supply, the cost goes up. And not only does this incentivize continued use of worse sources, it makes other uses of power more expensive.

An AI boom may be an even larger and more lasting strain on power markets than crypto was during its biggest spikes. Given that we don’t really know where this tech will get us, that could be bad. It’s worth tracking and thinking about.
Enshittification is such a cruel thing. Arstechnica was a quality site at one point… not to say it has completely lost its value, but it’s sad to see the its decline, nonetheless.
Gaza borders Egypt and the Mediterranean.
In the same way that illusions of anything else differ from the real thing. A wax apple is different from a real apple, even if it's hard to tell them apart sometimes. You may require further investigation to differentiate them (e.g., cutting open the apple or asking the AI to solve tricky reasoning questions), but if you can find a difference, there is a difference.
oh he's a hedge fund guy?

weird.

i assumed he was CS since they aren't well ranked at that -- zuck famously was failing out and thus gonna switch to psych.

i'm kind of surprised by this.

(conversely, really tired of people paying attention to rankings only when they suit them)
I would have thought other states would have banned 4 potentially harmful chemicals in food before, but this is a positive move. I see this as the first steps towards eventually banning 5 and more potentially harmful chemicals in food.
I agree, and I think Apple is best positioned to take that space. It’ll likely be through the slow rollout of health related sensors in wearables, and safety features like the crash detection and fall alerts, combined with on-device AI. Once it reaches a certain point and data backs it, they’ll probably tout that “Apple Watch is THE watch to own if you don’t want to die 3 years early”.
Hopefully Altman and Microsoft backend Helion can solve this problem. Excited to see the future of that company as well.
Is there any support for profiling js applications? I see node.js but seems like browser js isn’t supported?
Lots of comments here mention bitcoin. Here's something funny: the author of the paper mentioned in the article owns a website called Digiconomist[0], which seems to have been exclusively focusing on "environmental impact of cryptocurrency". Their latest article is about AI. Looks like a pivot to me.

0: https://digiconomist.net/
This is beautifully written, thank you. As a creator, my money ambitions fit between “does this thing provide enough value to pay for itself” and “could this provide enough value to pay for my needs”.

The drive to create the thing comes from sincere enthusiasm + excitement that simply don’t leave me alone.

Shifting the thing’s purpose from the original one that filled me with enthusiasm to the purpose of simply extracting money, corrupts its original purpose.

I call this corruption.

it is my observation that one kind of people create, and another kind of people corrupt.

Unfortunately the economic system we have accepted as normal, leans toward corruption and extraction.
you might be better off asking this via email dude
> 2010 (aroind the time of Infinity Blade) to 2013 was the golden age of premium games. By 2015 almost every game pulled out or went the f2p route.

I remember this too.

We had a period with plenty of premium pay in advance games, then a period of games with ads that you could pay to remove, then the companies decided that the most reliable monetization strategy in the face of widespread theft was microtransactions.