skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool! If these were implemented at traffic lights in big cities, it sounds like one could drive around indefinitely. Still it remains to be seen if electric cars are the future and not their hydrogen-based counterparts.
im not sure what argument you're making. are you claiming the IRS' statement is just fabricating that this program has anything to do with the congressional bill it's actually proposed and funded within ?
Does that have any documentation? Or am I looking in the wrong places for it?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/er.6232 (“A perspective on the use of ammonia as a clean fuel: Challenges and solutions”)
No-one has thought to just open a burrito joint in NYC?
Harm reduction is not a single tactic. For gun safety harm reduction means requiring guns not to fire by accident, AND having gun owners take training that includes all the information about the risks that go up once you own a gun (especially to others in your household), AND requiring or encouraging gun owners to lock their guns up AND to store ammunition separate from guns AND ideally even to store them somewhere not in the house, AND reduce the number of guns in circulation.
https://www.sawstop.com

This is my favorite one
Nothing apparent about what you say.

Apparently:

- there are several plumes of smoke from previous explosions/bombings in that general direction of the hopsital (about 3 that I can count)

- failed rocket seems to be exploding in the sky (maybe engine? maybe both engine and warhead? that's not apparent)

- there's also another explosion a second before the direct hit

- the video is shot in the direction of that hospital (based on el wafa medical building in lower left)

So, yeah. That much is apparent.

Where you "apparently" see Islamic Jihad in the video is really not clear to me.
> Someone needs to come up with a better name for this. “Quiet quitting” absolutely does not imply the above meaning… that’s simply work and nothing else.

From what I understand, it's the corporate class that invented the term "quiet quitting" as way to shame people that don't go above and beyond.

Of course, nobody wants to go above and beyond anymore because it's not rewarded. Why work extra hours and offer to take on additional responsibilities when it won't lead to promotion or even a raise that keeps up with rent and inflation?
Many years ago, I screwed up my AMT calculations pretty badly, arguably because the instructions for Form 6251 suck. I was off by several thousand dollars, the difference between a big refund and a big amount due.

I didn't have to hire anyone to get the penalties waived; I just submitted a letter explaining my original rationale, along with an amended return fixing the problem and a check for the correct tax. The IRS was completely reasonable about it.

Edit to add: But then again, I do my own plumbing repairs. Heinlein didn't list taxes in one of my favorite quotes from him, but he should have: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
That actually makes a lot of sense to me. ADHD can be phrased as a regulation disorder. Emotions, executive function/ attention. If anything internal (literally any kind of pain) presents itself for my attention, it wins. No contest.

I have nasty seasonal allergies (at least one per season). Whenever it flares up, the is a marked increase in my needs and decrease in my productivity. I'm hoping to start immunotherapy for them soon. I get my ADHD and my allergies from my dad and immunotherapy has done him wonders.
I emailed him once like 20 years ago to tell him he was missing "cyber trance" (with a couple of examples), which is a genre and he rudely replied that it was not a genre.
It’s not slimy if you use fresh tomatoes
Some of us are first-generation immigrants to the US who already speak two languages. You're right, though: it's arrogant to expect another country to adapt to USAmericans. I wish this country took better care of its people.
Firefox (firefox-esr on Debian stable / Bookworm, latest package version) gives me for the first time:

Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to paulgraham.com.

Certificate validity dates looks good (so does my computer's date).

Anybody else got some similar error?
I am the one doing word processing software for my firm. Secretaries and typist like multimate more due to Wang heritage. The frightening scene of nothingness of wordperfect is …

Word is a mac software as Microsoft is mainly an application software firm for mac and basic I suspect. Never evaluated that.

As far as I remember the key combination of wordstar, the slowness of it due to I always found its keyboard mapping hard and with menu not enough space and even slower. Never a fan.

I wonder how vim would work as a writer tool vs wordstar.
People forget that corrupt police departments are tolerated because they help exert racist and class-based preferential enforcement/harassment/suppression.

Porbably why the police unions are so staunchly supported by conservatives, because in the city the police's primary job is to protect affluents and their property values from the "ghetto".

So the likelihood of some DOJ reformation is slim. The dems in power won't rock that boat (the local governments are usually democratic) and the reps won't because of the real purpose of city police as described.
Hope they removed everyone taking amphetamines from this study
Bunch of wankery
I’m glad you appreciated me saying exactly this in the talk
Who is showing porn here? OP or the company they would probably quite like to get shut down due to local censorship laws?
> Does anyone have pointers to streaming electronic music (ideally trance / progressive trance, upbeat synthwave[0], or house) that has absolutely no vocals?

Gai Barone has hundreds of episodes of Patterns, most of it has no vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GPSqPjktuo

Same with John 00 Fleming (there is J00F sessions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ye34nerFw and his monthly show J00F Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15QotV3QZvk , tho most of the episodes are on SoundCloud or any Podcast app). Vocals are pretty uncommon here too.

I'd start there and when you find a track you like, go to the tracklisting to find the music label, then check out more of their releases.
Exactly.

That refutation stuck with me all these years. I remember being very much inspired by the Primer and poking around with that idea. But the more I explore things like, Consciousness, awareness, or ideas like regenerative education, unschooled, or John Gatto Taylor's book ... that refutation gets louder and louder for me.

It's easy to say, this is a work of fiction, that Stephenson did not have sufficient vision or technical prowess to pull it off. That somehow, LLMs will overcome the problems, and that we can truly have autonomous education ... that it seems unlikely that somehow, someone who was fully engaged with the nurturing of a child through reading lines given to her was somehow able to do what the AI alone could not.

Still -- being present makes a huge difference.
What's up with Toyota? They had a head start on everybody for a long time with their hybrids and now it's one weird scheme after another. It reminds me of Sony and the VCR wars (or the minidisc, for that matter). I really don't get it, they seem to be completely willing to cede the market, every other brand can't seem to retool fast enough to get to zero emissions line-ups as soon as they can design them and here is Toyota going against the flow with not just one but two exotic designs for which there is at present absolutely no infrastructure and no viable pathway to get there based on a single manufacturer's blessing, as well as the requirement to now keep five lines of motive power in play (gasoline, hybrid, electric, hydrogen and now ammonia). The only reason Tesla got to where it is today is because we already had a power grid. Absent a distribution network and a viable means of large scale production this just isn't going to happen. Besides the safety issues. If you think hydrogen is bad wait until you see what your average ammonia leak looks like. HazMat suits won't be optional.
Key thing I learned too late in life: don’t be too hard on yourself when you have those less productive days. It’s just part of the cycle.
Less annoying source:

https://www.motortrend.com/news/china-gac-ammonia-powered-in...
> Snow Crash - No memory, I might have blocked it out?

The Snow Crash ending is IMO fine. Nothing amazing, but it wraps things up okay. It's just kind of typical action story beat-the-clock type thing, so it's not as memorable as really anything else in that book, though it is exciting.

> Stephenson just sucks at endings I guess.

Yeah, pretty much. He does beginnings and middles _so_ very well though that I never mind.

p.s. read Zodiac sometime if you haven't, it's one of his few books I noticed you didn't mention and it's a fun read.
It absolutely had a bot problem before! What Twitter were you using?
Appreciate the candid feedback. I'll definitely consider this perspective. Thank you!
He also really likes oldschool trance ("before the dutch got their hands on it"), acid, and italo disco
How did you discover the infection
That's why the tax is in proportion to the unimproved value of the land. Marginal land has almost zero value; therefore it will have almost zero tax. The landowner gets to keep rent due from any improvements (like structures) on the land.
Good thing this was covered in the talk
The only way to make C "safe" without modifying the language is to run it in a VM, and even that doesn't fully encompass what people mean by safety.

It's an old language. Some of the fundamental mistakes were just things that were common at the time and only look so bad in hindsight (e.g. strings, locales, nullable pointers, half the k&r standard library). That doesn't mean we can't and shouldn't do better where we can though.
I was a fan for the idea to pay small amount of money for social network than annoying ads. I no longer fan of a service formerly called Twitter.
The coin counting makes an unusual and wrong assumption that coins are all in the same base. For example, in Canada we have $1 and $2 coins to go along with our 5c, 10c and 25c coins. With the logic it described, a nickel and a looney would total 6 instead of 1.05.

And that's provided they're even from the same country. How would it fare if it was some amount of dollars and cents, and some amount of euro?
Need urgent help and advice against fiancée's abusive boss
My fiancée works for the state department and her boss keeps her from sharing her phone number with me (really.) Recently she has been physically and mentally abused.

Where can I report this immediately? (State Department.)
This is will get you very generic music. You'll need curators (DJs) to do the work to dig deeper for you.
I've felt that techno-doomerism has been the hegemonic narrative for a while now. We see it our science fiction. Optimistic sci-fi like Star Trek TNG tends to be campy, and the quickest way to make something un-campy is to make it gritty.

I do worry we have target fixation for bad technological outcomes. When learning to ride a motorcycle, one of the first bits of advice is to look where you want to go, and you'll go there. If you stare intently at the deadly thing, there's a good chance you'll freeze up and run straight into it.

I was excited when I saw the Andreessen Horowitz posting yesterday, and expected to nod along in agreement. Instead, I saw in it something that looked like it escaped Twitter / X.

This too feels like it's wide of the mark, more of a rebuttal to yesterday's posting than a manifesto that inspires and stands on its own.
thanks! I feel I understand better now the challenges. Using devices’ wifi would make more sense in this case.
> Full solar lifecycle emissions are around an order of magnitude lower than fossil fuels.

This is nonsense. First of all, “fossil fuel” doesn't mean much as depending on the technology involved the CO2 amount per kWh varies a lot (GTCC vs dumb lignite plant, that's more than a 2x ratio). Then, when you're adding a solar panel you can't compare its output to the same amount of energy produced by “fossil fuel”, you must compare it to the energy mix of the country you're deploying it into (to take the most extreme example: if you're adding a solar panel in France, you're basically replacing nuclear with solar, so you're just adding CO2 emissions). Overall, with the very low solar yields we have in most Europe (everywhere but the Mediterranean) and the fact that in many country the electricity mix is multiple time less carbon-heavy than what coal gives you, your “order of magnitude” is gone.

And I'm not even talking about the substitution effect here, where one Euro invested in solar in Europe is one Euro that doesn't get invested in a better decarbonation project (solar being financed elsewhere, wind, geothermal, nuclear), but that's also something to consider when advocating for a technology.
Ammonia fuel pumps will not be a fun place to hang out:
"Anhydrous ammonia is stored as a liquid under pressure. When released to the environment, though, it becomes a toxic gas. Liquid anhydrous ammonia expands 850 times when released to ambient air and can form large vapor clouds. It may aerosolize and behave as a dense gas, even though it is normally lighter than air. Anhydrous ammonia may also cause water vapor to condense in the air forming a visible white cloud. Therefore, when anhydrous ammonia is released to the air, it may travel along the ground in a cloud instead of immediately rising into the air and dispensing." https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/index.cfm/43,320,230,349,html

Imagine a gas station that's perpetually covered in a blanket of toxic fog that drifts to nearby homes and fills in their basements.
I will consider more pricing options in the future. Thank you!
At the same time blogging was on the rise and "making it as a blogger" was a thing, the print media was getting absolutely torched by downsizing, layoffs, forced retirements, and private equity buyouts.

So there was probably some vain hope that independent blogging could be a sustainable revenue stream for the reporter class. Alas, it has not.
It's an Anglican hospital. Here's how it looked today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/17a72w3/a_video_...

Here's the website:

https://afedj.org/institution/ahli-arab-hospital-gaza-city/

Pretty nice place, it seems.
> I don't associate the term "NIMBY" with either scenarios, just housing.

You might not, but the broader population associates NIMBY with any scenario where a neighbourhood pushes back against some kind of change in that neighbourhood (adding a prison, a power plant, a half-way house, a school, a bar, trains, airports, etc.). There are NIMBY responses to pretty much any change, and the magnitude of that response tends to have little bearing on the relative merits of the change.

> It's not like anyone's trying to put a nuclear power plant in the middle of Boston to begin with.

No. For the most part no one is putting nuclear power plants anywhere in the US. However, there are other power plants in Boston (and for good reason). This is a direct byproduct of the NIMBYism I'm talking about.
On productive days do you work too much? Have you tried setting limits on your work on those days?
The strongest online privacy law in the nation may be coming to Maine
The mouse army were extensions of the automations of the Primer. Nell was able to lead and initiate things because she was the only one who really grew up.

I remember someone noting a similar idea in Snow Crash -- that idea of biomass, in which that which lives becomes the extension of the machine, rather than the other way around.
I'm a little sympathetic to the author because I don't consider viewing the image all that damaging, but I'm not a fan of the general principle of hurting innocent bystanders in order to cause second-order pain to a third party.

I think you'd probably agree that, say, overwriting every file on the end user's computer with a text file complaining about how the iframe-wielding website steals content would be an unacceptable thing for the author to do. But the only difference would be the degree of suffering inflicted on the innocent bystander.
Thank you, I appreciate the link.
> I block all HTTP sites, and his HTTPs site has some sort of misconfigured *.store.turbify.com cert on it

I've got the same issue. What's the root cause?
It's always peak comedy when a company goes out of its way to shut down someone laboring to improve their products for free, in the process making their customer's experience worse and likely angering those customers.

Stabbing yourself with a flourish and a bow.

What sort of attitudes are off the leash, causing this, is never hard to imagine.

User arathol on mazda3revolution.com has some interesting tidbits:

> Mazda has been doing this for some time now with all their software, at least since 2017 when they issued new infotainment software to block the AIO tweaks and warnings about modifying their software. I don't think this is entirely from Mazda though. The .502 software was more about Johnson Controls, the developers of the software, having fits about people monkeying around with something that they considered proprietary.

https://www.mazda3revolution.com/threads/mazda-dmca-takedown...

I wonder who the developers of this particular software are.
And you actually believe that (1) this one sided story is the truth and that (2) even if it is that verbal agreement is enough in a case like this? I'd expect the vast majority of the people that you made such an offer to to treat it as a joke and if it wasn't to teach you an object lesson in what is and what isn't a binding offer. To treat this as a study in contract law is weirding me out on multiple levels at once, Feynman's, and those that think this is a normal interaction between people. Revolting, really.
I used to love to go to the bank with my parents or a friend's parents and beg to get to put the tube in.

Also remember the local science museum had a pneumatic tube system to play with and we'd sit there with that for some time.
And if I'm anonymous, I can't say _much_ about my life. Every single comment gives away entropy. https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity

I think this has contributed to my life-long mental health problems, as I've purposely separated myself into 2 personas. To paraphrase Agent Smith...

Jelly 1 has a job and a mortgage and a Facebook, is made of matter and occupies space, and is openly lesbian, and isn't shy to talk a little about politics or her old schizophrenia diagnosis.

Jelly 2 exists only on the dark web, never grew out of enjoying hentai, delights in posting political hot takes like "gasoline should cost more, actually", lies about absolutely everything to shake off doxxers, and doesn't even use the same username on any 2 forums.

Both Jellies are miserable most of the time, since they take turns hiding the other one from one social circle or another. Jelly 2 can never hold a job. Jelly 1 isn't convinced that there's enough stuff in the real world to kill off Jelly 2 and live alone.

"One of these lives has a future..."
My Apple II had a Microsoft CP/M card[1] in it just so we could run WordStar. I think I was the only kid in sixth grade turning in papers written on a word processor.

After AppleWorks[2] was released in 1984, I don't think I ever booted into CP/M again.

For some reason, I never used Apple Writer[3] even though it was released in 1979 and apparently a decent word processor. Decent enough for Paul Lutus[4] to retire and sail around the world anyway[5].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleWorks

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp

5. https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html
Maybe geopolitical? I'm not sure if Japan has the resources to produce batteries, and maybe they're hesitant to rely on China.
Not one of the programs they mentioned, but you might find this interesting https://klcjournal.com/mental-health-cahoots/
They may have lived, but they turned into autonomous extensions of the Primer. Nell was the only real person, so of course the Mouse Army responded to her. As the other commenter said -- the mouse army were not actualized individuals.
Back when I was 16, I got a summer job earning exactly minimium wage (yes, Federal Min wage... it was a job grant to employ youth in public service for the summer) at the county library. It was located in an old Carnegie building! They had an electronic catalog- but they still had the card catalog as well. It had not been updated for some time, though. So as part of my job (sometimes there wasn't much for me to do), I took it upon myself to update it. I think I impressed the older ladies that worked at the library- I not only knew what the card catalog was, but how it worked and how to operate the mechanical typewriter to type up new cards for new books that had been added to the collection.

Not long after this, the library moved to a brand new building. The card catalog did not make the move to the new building. I may have been the last person to have updated it.
Sefaria is sort of this but for Hebrew scriptures. https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.1.1?lang=bi&aliyot=0

You can't see the original image though.
She should start with reporting to her HR. Government jobs tend to have large HR teams which handle these complaints.

Now that said, the phone number may be a non point. I’ve worked jobs so limiting I couldn’t share my real name. I know others who aren’t allowed to say where they work. If it’s part of the job description, she may legitimately not be allowed to share her work phone with you.
My guess is Ego. They decided batteries were a dead end a long time ago, and now can’t take the ‘face’ hit so keep doubling down.
> There was, however, no clear increase in the risk of dementia associated with adult ADHD among those who received psychostimulant medication, and evidence of reverse causation was mild.
Plugging my own mix 'cause I think it fits what you're describing pretty well. 3hrs of deep progressive and psychedelic trance. I've been collecting and playing records for a long time, I love old Sasha & Digweed style prog - especially the deeper cuts - and the reasonable (!) end of the psychedelic spectrum with the uncompromising groove.

https://soundcloud.com/mattjarvisdjs/strange-loop
> particularly Meta and TikTok's dismal attempts at capturing Twitter users

This reads oddly because both of those have considerably more users than Twitter - Meta actually has four services which are larger:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-net...
Well, a few hours ago I would have said “stable but sinking,” but now that Musk is moving to a mandatory subscription (for anti-bot reasons) I guess we can downgrade to “unstable and sinking.”
Remember Windows 95? It had a tab bar at the bottom... Or at the top if you moved it there.
God bless. I can’t even get my team to stop using Jenkins for new projects.
Oops, never mind, there exists a simple construction that you can perform to each TM(754) that clearly extends BB(754) a finite amount. Maybe you are corrent that such Turing machine exists. But seems that identifying it isn't possible in ZCF.
Apparently according to the c-faqs link elsethread

execl takes a variable-length, null-pointer-terminated list of character pointer arguments, and is correctly called like this:
execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", "date", (char *)0);

Due to ececl being a variadic function it can not take advantage of a prototype to instruct the compiler that one of its arguments needs to be treated as a pointer context.