skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a lot of them are very English words that are in common use in England. Of course some of those are of French origin, like about a third of all English words. In any case, it’s more like a list of words an American would find fancy and exotic.
Meowth was only available in Pokémon blue. Once you get to the top 4 and can beat them money is infinite, but in red you theoretically can fail at the safari zone.
The usual saying is along the lines that a poison is something that harms when you ingest, while a venom harms when you inject.

The normal application of a venom is to go from the venom gland to the bloodstream pretty directly (possibly via the mouth).

The evolution of venom has thus usually prioritised efficacy, with little need for resilience. So venoms are not resilient to environmental factors (stomach acid, digestive enzymes, they often denature quickly just in air), nor will they be adapted to going through epithelial tissue (skin, gut lining, ...). The odds that they would be able to enter the bloodstream through the digestive system are limited to non-existent.

There's a caveat if you suffer from ulcers or open wounds in your digestive tract (or on your skin for contact), as those are openings into the organism which would allow venom through much more easily, but barring that you can literally drink venom and suffer no significant effects (well the gut flora might be affected which is not great). Though don't go and try it obviously, even if the risk is nigh non-existent, it's also 100% not worth it.

Now it should be noted that some products are both e.g. a few snakes will "spit", and their venom can affect mucous membranes or go through them (so it's poisonous). Also injecting a poison into your bloodstream directly is generally a very bad idea, if something burns / breaks down skin on contact, it's not going to be milder if it starts inside the organism.
This may be technically correct, but all the sunlight falling on the ground (which is about 10,000 times our current power usage) is about a kilogram per second under E=mc^2 — it isn't going to be measurable on the timescale of this planet's future existence before being consumed by the sun or ejected from the system due to orbital instabilities, and only even significant compared to the current planetary mass over time periods significantly longer than when all stars in the universe will finish burning all their fuel.
We'll start calling it minced meat when you rename mincemeat.
That’s great to hear
AMD Counter-Strikes itself, pulls driver after anti-lag feature causes CS2 bans
There’s an evolutionary advantage for those whose children don’t starve if the Tesco has a brief supply disruption
I find it delightful learning new words as I read different authors. I've expanded my vocabulary so much in the last few years reading slightly older books which use words which have fallen slightly out of common use. Words like sinecure, estovers, usufruct. Without learning from reading I don't know how I would come across these useful little tidbits. In fact I think that's how I've learned every word I know.
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Even as a sighted cook, I do rely on the noise a pressure cooker makes when relieving pressure at the red line. There is usually a visual pressure indicator, but on most models it is rather "binary" anyways, either the knob is out or in.
Ah… classic bell curve.

I believe it is necessary to reach the center of the bell first to grasp what simplicity means.
I have a vague memory that someone suggested turning a significant fraction of what is now Czechia into a single huge hydro lake — probably one of the many mad things suggested in the inter-war period — but I can't remember the name now to search for it.
The South African women blazing a trail in robotics
"With dictionaries, I spend a great deal more time looking up words I know than words I have never heard of—at least ninety-nine to one. The dictionary definitions of words you are trying to replace are far more likely to help you out than a scattershot wad from a thesaurus. If you use the dictionary after the thesaurus, the thesaurus will not hurt you."

John McPhee, Draft No. 4

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/draft-no-4
Gabriel Coulet just started selling a wonderful 24-months Roquefort. It's very soft and creamy, strong but not too pungent, and beige to light brown in colour (it really look like it's spoiled, but it isn't :) ). I'm pretty sure it all started with a forgotten wheel of cheese in the caves that they decided to try out anyway :D
Brood war path finding can be rough to adjust to, even if you played SC2.

I wish star craft had a "scatter" button to space out your units like command and conquer has (its been a decade but I think the button is X). Maybe even some formation options to avoid everyone packing in a tight ball where the move command is issued. AOE is so lethal in SC I think it hurts the gameplay.

Its a safety issue as well. Pro terrans often have wrist issues from splitting their units. With the other races it isn't as crucial, but still an issue.
In many real-world apps, convention is far more important to the ability to add or change code than whether you write in some naive or mature style. That convention may be flawed, and even then you'd need a good reason to fight against it. It's also notable that convention almost certainly means structure and abstraction.

Sometimes I look at a codebase and I barely need to look around to feel at home. How do you grok a codebase while barely looking at it? Convention.
> "terrorist-sympathizers"? Is that how Zionists identify Palestinians now?

This is not a Palestinian issue. If it were, Israel would be bombing the West Bank as well.

Gazans voluntarily elected Hamas.[1] Hamas then refused to leave after getting involved in violent conflict with their political opponents, Fatah. Were Gazans ignorant of the ideology of the creature called Hamas when they handed them power?

People should stop equating jihadis with civilians. Keep doing this and the suspicion about Muslim civilians having jihadi tendencies gains wider acceptance.

This is Hamas vs Israel, not Palestine vs Israel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance_of_the_Gaza_Strip
> web.telegram.com redirects to www.usatoday.com

... why?

> The point on blocking still remains

That would be a cool feature - they take feature requests at https://bugs.telegram.org/ - I'm not aware of any competing apps that have it so it's possible noone has requested this before. Seems novel.
Many places in the world er visits don’t cost anything.
Thanks for the links to examples.

These voting and real estate securitisation projects look to be quite small-scale, but they also seem to be real-world and not prototypes, so they are what I asked for :)
Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges and Dr. Shir Hever on Israel and Palestine [video]
It becomes difficult to work with as it grows. Like it tends to almost implode at a certain point.

I think it's a repeating pattern. A lot of people with experience writing code but inexperience with software architecture (which is arguably most professional developers) tend to create quite a mess if you task them with designing an application.

Architecture experience is a lot harder to gain as you really only get a few shots to practice the craft, and there's a lot of beginner experts giving some seriously questionable advice if you go online looking for a second opinion.
Russia didn't usurp anything; they are legally USSR ancestor state.

They also got all of USSR's debts.
I imagine the author is American.

"Ground meat, called mince or minced meat outside North America..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_meat
Honest question : what's the difference between the two?

I assume assert also checks conditions at runtime?
A single 2-stroke leaf blower generates more pollution than several hundred SUVs. Now imagine the impact of a single 2-cycle outboard or motorcycle.

https://www.google.com/search?q=2-cycle+engine++pollution
Do you think doxxing, privacy, and free speech is not of interest to HN readers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852784

I see that the post is not flagged anymore, but it was for a couple of days after it was submitted and the damage is already done as far as visibility goes.
At least we could have some mean naval battles. Our landlocked history is severely lacking those.
Renew and Refill Bob Cassettes for 98% Cost Saving
Words don't fall out of use by accident, I'd say most words get the level of usage that they rightfully deserve. Every word on that list has a more widely understood alternative that people commonly use instead. The primary purpose of language is facilitate communication, and using words that most people don't understand works against that goal. Alternatively you're free to use language in service of your own curiosity of obscure words, or perhaps just to showcase your own superior vocabulary to other people. But don't be surprised if that makes you a less effective communicator.
Does anyone know if there’s a reason why we’ve not agreed on a standard way of analysing data for any given type of study or type of outcome?

Maybe it’s naive but my intuition would be that if someone were conducting a randomised control trial with a hypothesis that A > B then there should be a known best practice for analysing that data to check the hypothesis. A way that is reproducible, otherwise surely it’ll become a shitfest of people trying multiple methods of analysis and then publishing whichever produced the ‘best’ result.
Harvard students' anti-Israel letter: Israeli billionaire Ofer, his wife resign
EOR #$FF: 6502 Ponderables and Befuddlements
That Starcraft ghost seemed like a cool concept.

Also I wonder why "World of starcraft" never happened. Terran would play like kinda like Planetside, zerg could play like the alien team in Natural Selection, protoss like the predator in the AVP games.
> At what scale? Can you even build enough batteries to supply, say, entire Europe for 1 hour?

Personally? No.

As a species? Sure, why not.

Looks like China makes most of them, but looking at this graph, the world total battery production last year was 5-EU-hours:

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/lithium-ion-b...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2%2C753%2C320GWh%2F1yea...

With significant production increases forecast. Those things will probably last in the order of ten years before needing replacement/refurbishment/recycling, which would mean around 50-EU-hours steady-state capacity today

Worldwide is more interesting than just the EU. Current production is global production per year of storage sufficient for storing 30m of global electricity demand, with the same 10-year assumption that's a steady-state level of 5 hours; assuming the forecast growth is correct, the annual production in 2030 rises to 6.79 TWh/year, which is storage for 2.33 hours of global electricity demand made in that year or 23.3 hours with the same 10-year-steady-state assumption.
https://archive.li/HSqft
Gormenghast was enjoyable to read on the kindle, where you simply tap a word to see its definition
A lot of people discuss it when purchasing tvs, tvs often have game mode as you say, the entire 30/60 fps debate and how many gamers refuse to accept 30fps as acceptable, ping times in games and how variable they can get. Personally I can notice the difference pretty easily.

Lots of people do discuss this and do care, not to mention to even get to the point of it only being “the lowest possible physics allows” you need great home networking equipment plus a fast/well connected isp and a cloud service provider that isn’t adding any processing delay. That excludes a ton of people.

Cloud gaming isn’t going to be “the default” anytime soon, and for many people it will never be an option.

Heck physical copies are still super popular with a large group of console gamers to this day despite digital delivery being so well tested and ubiquitous
Thank you for the guide! It's very helpful. This comment [1] describes my background with math.

Something related: I often feel like I'm doing math when I work with information, especially when drawing out concepts and their relationships. Like 3D Tetris, but with recursion. There are also patterns in categorization. One of my purposes in learning math is to be able to quantify relationships between concepts, and create models, etc. What would I need to know about in this case?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37857050
That’s a fantastic reference, thank you.
edit: I'm not sure what jdkwkbdbs means (dead-banned) by "LLMs don't. ML works pretty well." (well, I do); LLMs solve certain tasks -- and really interesting ones, at that, too -- at certain average cross-entropy loss levels, and typically form the Pareto front of the models of all sizes in terms of parameter count, at least once you start looking at the biggest that we have, e.g. start above a certain parameter count; and they typically increase in accuracy with respect to parameter count in a statistically significant fashion.

In essence, they represent the state of the art with respect to those specific tasks, as measured at the current time. Though you may desire for there to be a better (cross entropy loss, accuracy percentage so 100% acc) tuple at any given instant (e.g. (optimal expected ce-loss, an actual proof of correctness)), for the current time, it seems like not only do they do the best as a class of models for these sets of tasks, but also improve the fastest in terms of accuracy as a class of models as of late. They're quite noteworthy in that regard, fundamentally, imo. Just my 2c.
I may be wrong here but I always thought that 1080p at 24" is about the same dpi as 1440p at 27"
Actual title has a "How" at the front but HN strips that.

Title is hyperbolic but analysis is grounded, and many prescient possible scenarios are described, including the election of a "right wing patriot leader who promises economic revitalisation".

American friends, I hope you heed the warning of the article: All of these scenarios extrapolate existing trends into the future on the assumption that Americans, blinded by the arrogance of decades of historically unparalleled power, cannot or will not take steps to manage the unchecked erosion of their global position.
Astrophysicist Hubert Reeves passed away
Yeah, some of the devs and mods scared people away, say "Tobin", it got better but there's still a few left.
Haskell compilation time is impressive
Learning Unsupervised World Models for Autonomous Driving via Discrete Diffusion
The salt itself crystallizes as cubes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halite
Thanks for the colorful description! I'm always amazed by the variety of backgrounds of people commenting on HN
Really nice explanation here.
The science of road ecology, or how roadways affect plants and animal life
I find sensors are dangerous, for two reasons. Sensors react not only to your finger but also to the wet cloth while cleaning, so cleaning can change settings or switch on the heat. There is usually a "cloth-detection", but that often doesn't work. And on the hob, if you spill something, liquid might get on the buttons and change the settings. I've had a spill turning into a disaster of burned milk and even more spillage that way.
First off, thanks for the reply. It has since been pointed out to me elsewhere that there are now responses showing his central claim of a maths error to be false, which means all of this is now moot - KYBER is as secure as claimed.

It has also been pointed out to me that djb has been quietly ignoring another metric in which KYBER beats NTRU: implementation complexity.

Even accepting all other arguments about the tradeoffs between NTRU and KYBER (and I do take your point about size of keys being more important than CPU cycles), even then, KYBER is judged to have lower implementation complexity.

Having read about all the crypto libraries who produced broken output because they made a mistake in the implementation, that's something I immediately understand as a big benefit.

Again, thanks for the conversation and helping me understand!
They're fine. At least for the other Alchemist cards, A380, A750, A770, you need kernel 6.2+ for them to work correctly out of the box. Hopefully the same is true of A580. There is some issues, there's no sparse residency support yet so DX12 games don't run under Proton but otherwise they work.
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> I don’t think I’ve met any people from Madrid that study Catalan or Basque just to speak with the minority of people there who speak those languages.

Can confirm. I'm currently living in Catalonia. I don't speak Catalan, only English and Spanish.

My employer is based in Catalonia. They pay for English classes for any employees that want to take them. But also, they have zero interest in paying for Catalan classes for the few of us that don't speak it, and I have zero interest in learning it during my free time when I could be using that free time to learn a more useful language instead.

But the higher ups travel a lot between continents just "to meet people in person", so there's that.
One time my wife made an offhand remark about how she used to perambulate her old neighborhood or something like that.

I kissed her and told her "One of the things I love about you is your casual ability to use words like 'perambulate' in sentences."

She's a peripatetic with speech tending toward the sesquipedalian.
I use https://github.com/gabe565/CastSponsorSkip that is the same and its great, it also mutes the ads while waiting to be skipped.
> They can renege and save a lot of money long term.

It's not quite that simple (it never is). That will crash the real estate market, which will affect the value of lots of investments, like, say, the savings of all of the employees of the company (and of course the other investments of the stakeholders of the company).
Thank you for sharing that. Those images have dissuaded my pessimism a bit. They prove at the very least the technique can be used in some non-static scenes.
Would 2d image generation based on gaussian splats be better than stable diffusion?
Would have to be some pretty hard core food poisoning to need hospital.
We need to return to office because CEO, cto, cfo, managers and the like need an audience.

You are not important unless there is an audience.

This is my current theory.
Intermediate fasting is healthy, so it is probably the other way round.
It was unflagged for several hours when fresh, 80 people commented, myself included.

It got the regular amount of visibily and then was hit with meconium accounts doing wall of text dumps about nazis and kill, kill, kill, etc - leading to the flagging.

The topic itself was discussed in multiple threads, so there was no undue lack of coverage given it's all related to a very topical, political, non tech, tangental to HN subject.
And it's psychological, I feel like when you're at the top, cheaters feel like a house break in, that's your job that someone's dragging through the mud.

I think therapy is the only way to deal with this type of mental block.
I really like the syntax around error handling. It is similar to the usual try/catch, but looks a lot cleaner (at least to me, coming from Go).

Was this inspired by another language? I don't recall seeing a language with the same (or very similar) syntax.
Interesting, thank you.

The graph that you linked to is interesting in more than one way. If/when China decides to take Taiwan by force, the democratic world is going to be screwed.

We've already had a massive gas supply shock in Europe when Russia attacked Ukraine. We were able to overcome it, but it required kowtowing to disgusting regimes such as Qatar and Azerbaijan.

Sure, batteries last longer than gas. An immediate rupture in supply wouldn't be catastrophic, unless the Chinese vendors can somehow turn off/disable batteries remotely. But just replacing the ones that fail would probably overwhelm our current manufacturing capability.

We've slept on an eco-bio-financial cushion too long.
If anyone would have taken the trouble of looking into it, it would probably be found pretty quickly but it is the kind of thing that is not a show stopper, so nobody really looked into it. Also, it now sounds trivial because I am giving away what the code is doing. What you actually see in code review is a sea of drawing commands and coordinate manipulation all over the place. You can then either demand that it be refactored into something more readable or you just think 'well, he will have looked at the end result and that will have looked okay' and leave it at that.
I had the Marshall Cavendish Tree of Knowledge - a collectible encyclopedia week by week.

This is one of the few areas where paper really wins. You get concentrated information in one physical object with hard boundaries which arrives on a regular slow schedule. You have plenty of time to read it thoroughly and start thinking and imagining.

The web is a constant hurricane of distractions. Wikipedia has far more information than any paper encyclopedia, and in a superficial sense it's far more accessible. But there's always more, and always something else. You firehose it, forget most it, and don't get the bigger picture or the implied narrative linking everything together.
In some parts of DE the supermarkets close at 20:00 and on Sundays.
You don't have many choices when to go shopping (assuming that you also go to work).
That's a pretty bleak way to see your job. how are you still able to do it? Banks pay a lot and are needed for functioning of society, I guess that could be seen as useful, mindset matters
It does for me, because his criticism (since shown to be wrong) never included the claim that KYBER was broken, just that it wasn't perfect and that he was unfairly treated.

Cranks and assholes occasionally are unfairly treated, but generally are fairly ignored - the effort of dealing with their claims aren't worth it.

As an outsider, "respected cryptographer makes a narrow technical claim and is brushed off by NIST" and "sore loser that no-one talks to complains that people aren't entertaining his latest complaint about the ref" are very different situations, from which I will take very different actions.

This is looking more and more like the latter!
So not only nation states, like US, Russia, China or Israel can successfully claim to be above the law. Now even a company like Google can make that promise. Maybe they should change the name of their governance model also then. Like their own little "cooperatist" enclave
>Words don't fall out of use by accident

Of course they do. Unless you're suggesting that there's some kind of deep state conspiracy to alter the English language one word at a time.

>and using words that most people don't understand works against that goal

Most people don't speak much English at all. Should everyone stop using all but the most common thousand words? Most native speakers aren't experts in any particular field. Should all technical writing spend dozens of words to imprecisely replace each bit of specific jargon? Should no one ever coin a new term simply because it won't already be in wide use?
> and then was hit with meconium accounts doing wall of text dumps about nazis and kill, kill, kill, etc - leading to the flagging.

So, it was okay to flag it because some users were writing unreasonably vile comments? If this tactic works, then it would be a good way to get something flagged.
So basically just mapping each individual neuron and all of their connections is almost useless?