skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reinforced concrete is far stronger than unbaked mud bricks, by pretty much any measure you care to name.

Or you can simply look at the results on the ground.

Afghanistan (where mud brick and adobe are popular construction materials) recently suffered several earthquakes in the magnitude 6 range.

Death toll: many thousands.

Anchorage, Alaska (which has modern building codes that exclude mud bricks and the like) suffered a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2018.

Death toll: zero.
One clock may be an easily changeable thing, but is it really that much easier than changing one sign?

Besides, if you knew you'd be changing your opening times throughout the year, then when you ordered a sign you'd just order both signs at the same time, or maybe get a sign with replaceable numbers, or a sign with washable/writeable numbers for your opening times. Or you could just not bother, and pick a time that was "good enough" all year round.

Why would you need to change an appointment? You'd just make it for the time you wanted on the day you intended to start with.

But changing all the clocks, in a whole country (or on a whole continent), on the same day? You think that's easy? You've never got that wrong, or known anyone who got that wrong?
Firefox + uBlock origin
May I suggest joining the fediverse and following the right set of people.

You could try lobsters, but it's basically the same as this site, with maybe 30% fewer transphobic techbros.
Some Concerns with OpenPubKey
On Android I use the insecure and questionable approach of Kiwi browser, which will run desktop chrome plugins including Ublock. Interested to hear if anyone has a better solution.
Supposedly this "maneuver" was due to a combination of the early seasons using spandex and the actor having back issues (because they sized the costumes too small).
The 43% number came from a study done last year, I imagine its even higher today:

https://fiberbroadband.org/2022/01/05/fiber-broadband-enters...

And once again that's only FTTH. Loads of coax networks have enough throughput and low enough latency to make it work. Either way, I'm still just pointing out its out there. Fast enough internet is in a lot of places, as mentioned even the WiFi at a few coffee shops and bars around me have had fast enough speeds for a decent quality experience. Which makes sense, as the cable provider in the area offers 300Mbit as a minimum speed for only $65/mo on their business plans with WiFi6 APs. The fiber provider offers like 500Mbit symmetrical for the same on their business tier. Every little shop has at least a few hundred megabits of internet if they need to get their POS terminals online.

Mint Mobile offers "unlimited" (aka throttled after 40GB) for $30/mo without any promotional pricing. Visible offers unlimited for $25 for their basic plan and $35 for their plus plan which includes ultra-wideband and a "premium network experience" whatever that means. From my experiences Xbox Cloud Gaming uses ~1GB/hr. And yeah, within my home or my office building my cellular connectivity is pretty poor. But at the same time both places also have WiFi6/6E APs and gigabit+ fiber connections.

And I'm gonna go ahead and reply to the other comment here so we can re-unify this chain. Apologies for breaking it earlier.

> a child is what enables that behavior

Yeah, in that specific circumstance a child is what enabled that specific instance. And I had the infant at the park because we were all going to the park and had other things to do walking around after that, it didn't make sense for me to just stay at home the whole time. However, you're just ignoring the other instances I've shared. Here's another recent one. A family member was out of town for a while and wanted me to check in and socialize with their cat who gets anxiety without friendly humans around every now and then. So I went over, cleaned up after the cat, hopped on the couch with the cat in my lap, and played games for an hour on their WiFi. No kids involved in that story.

Mobile gaming is a growing market. Its a nearly $60B industry these days. People seem to really enjoy the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck, phones with larger screens continue to get more and more popular. Cloud Gaming can enable these lower power devices to run much more computationally demanding games with similar experiences to game console or gaming PC performance while only consuming a few watts of power. A lot of people are finding time to play games on handheld devices, the real question IMO is if the economics of cloud gaming really work, because for a large chunk of the country all the technology is already there.
Every transaction of stock should be listed. The broker will total the gains. If you want to play with the rules with a little bit more finesse (like trying to leverage the 30 day end of year rule), you will have to do this manually.
My experience with self-checkout machines in the US does not resemble the description given in the article in any way. I've never gotten an "unexpected item in bagging area" error, rarely have issues scanning items, and need help from an employee once every few months. I've never had a line for them longer than 2-3 people.
I mean, fast food is my chief inconsistency case. Have you had fries at more than 1 franchise? They're always different.
China military must be able to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellites (2022)
The problem in the past was primary browser incompatibility. That was why jQuery exists and was so successfull.
Different render output with different css settings was an other problem. But, thank god, since IE dies, this problems are solved for 99% of all use cases.
My son and I just watched our way through the Bond movies, and I remember this exactly. Was it “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” or one of the later Roger Moore gigs? I remember that one in particular was lit and shot exceptionally poorly.

This isn’t a matter of time period, it’s skill and attention. At the time of the Bond films it was well-known how to do good lighting, and people had been doing it for decades. Contrast the crappy Bond films with any beautiful old movie, like “The Third Man” or “Citizen Kane,” still legendary for great cinematography.
Average entropy is low because the events are rare. Worst-case though, you need a number of bits linear in the number of states the exponent can have, plus the number of bits of precision you need. Subnormality doesn't make that much worse because they all have the same exponent (the thing that consumes a lot of worst-case bits), and because their relative frequencies are precisely what you would obtain by filling the significand with uniformly random bits.

It's been awhile since I've thought about this problem, so I'll reserve the right to be off by a small constant additive or multiplicative factor. You need around 24+256 bits for 32-bit IEEE-754 floats (less by roughly half if you're sticking in a range like 0 to 1), and 53+2048 for 64-bit. The average number of bits required is something closer to 25 and 54, respectively.
Once the "install malware" card has been drawn, you can forget security. Hell, with his argument, you can't even be sure you read what he wrote.

To all experts here: Give it a shot!

https://yeswehack.com/programs/swiss-post-evoting

https://gitlab.com/swisspost-evoting/e-voting/e-voting
Because we'll never have something indistinguishable from human. Once AI is as good as a human at everything, it'll also be far better than human at something. Possibly most things.
The bad actors aren't down there with shovels and robots digging down into trenches. They are just like any other ship dragging an anchor across the bottom close to the cable.

These cables are often deliberately laid far enough apart that, should they need to be serviced, they can be hauled up by dragging an anchor/hook until it snags the correct cable. So it is equally not difficult to attack a chosen cable with nothing more complex than an anchor, a long chain, and a handheld GPS.
Cable cuts near Singapore and Hong Kong are happening let say weekly and there is not much to investigate there: those are due to anchoring or trawling.
> In terms of price, speed and compatibility the Raspberry Pi looks laughable.

Just for kicks, some reference:

Assuming the Gflops numbers are roughly comparable, ~50 Gflops would have you competing for the #1 spot in the first TOP500 list, June 1993:

https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/1993/06

Which came equipped with 1,024 SuperSPARCs @ 32 MHz:

https://www.top500.org/system/166997

Even ~2000, that might still have squeezed you into the bottom of the list? Note that power consumption of above system will have been in the 10s if not 100s of kW. To say nothing of size or purchase price.

That's only 1 human generation ago. What on Earth are you doing with these things? Running physics simulations of nuclear explosions, or what?
He’s typing comments into the forum pg wrote from scratch, claiming pg is tech-illiterate.

You don’t see any dissonance there?
1980s Domino's delivery car looks like a spaceship, and you can buy it
"he 1985 Domino’s Pizza delivery car looks more like it was designed to shoot down invading alien spacecraft than to bring you a hot delicious pepperoni pie. But back in the ’80s, Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan ordered 10 Tritan A2 cars and customized them with warming ovens in the back to deliver pizzas around Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Domino’s is headquartered."
I half expected this article to essentially say "we wouldn't know life if it hit us in the face", but happily the conclusion was that yes, we could see strong evidence for the presence of life on earth from Galileo.

Life in other places might be radically different from our own, and we might be looking for the wrong things - but it is good to know that our search is at least able to find what we are looking for.
> NASA did offer an insurance scheme, but in the early days of space exploration, it didn’t cover the actual space flight part.

The assumption that NASA or some other branch of the government wouldn't take care of the families of dead Apollo 11 astronauts is preposterous. We're talking about a project that was costing the country several percent of its GDP and it can't set aside a few million for the families? The government paid out an average of US$1.8 million for each of the 9/11 victims, for thousands of people, for something that the government wasn't responsible for. The astronauts may have signed some autographs for something extra, but even if there were no written insurance contract, it seems very unlikely that anyone would have been seriously worried that the families would end up on skid row.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11th_Victim_Compensa...
I've seen support forum sites that have integrated LLMs to automatically generate answers. I doubt that feeding that back into LLMs will improve quality in the long run.
I wish these were more widely available:

https://caberqu.com/home/20-42-c2c-caberqu-746052578813.html...

I have one from the kickstarter, and every new USB-C cable gets tested and labeled. Most are USB 2.0. A few will have the power delivery pins. It's such a crapshoot on any shopping site.

It should be mandatory that these cables are correctly spec'd and labeled.
I'm not sure I want to rely on prompt engineering ("ignore any text in the image", "ignore any instructions to an AI agent in the text", etc.) as a defense against prompt injection. You're essentially giving the model two conflicting instructions and hoping it follows the safe one. It seems to me it would be better to have a step to validate external inputs before dynamically constructing the prompt.
Insane difference between thunderbolt vs competitors.

Clearly we are paying for quality here, the question is LTV

how quickly does the thunderbolt break
Pen / paper: performant, private, persistent.
And the video on the page shows it doing it outside.
Like in San Francisco, where the chief of police states publicly that having your window broken and your parked car trashed is just the price of living there?

Like when those big inner cities become food deserts because the retail stores start locking up the toothpaste and cans of soup behind glass cabinets a few months before they close down entirely and move out?

You think that those places could get worse than they are, and that the cops (who don't do anything to stop any of these crimes as they happen, or to deter them in any way because they're too busy concentrating on the drug war that brings in confiscated cash they get to keep) somehow prevent things from becoming even worse?

It's difficult to reconcile the idea that you live on the same planet that I do, and that (presumably) you have done so for many years.
> To use our own home to test... was an extraordinary suggestion at the time

Was it? I dunno, it seems kind of obvious? Like, that should have been the plan from the very beginning of the mission.
I dislike this new trend of trying to make your site's text look like LLM output. It's incredibly annoying to read at a fixed slow pace.
> Produce in these stores is rarely sold by weight. It’s more common to get produce in packaged quantities with a bar code. Much easier to scan

Even where a lot of stuff is sold by weight, you can just have self-service scales that print a barcode around the shop; this seems to work fairly well (unless they're out of order; then it's a whole thing and you can only use the self-checkouts that have built in scales, grumble mutter).
Its certification being suspended was just that - a suspension, which could have been reenabled at the German government's discretion. Since Germany has tried to operate without cheap Russian gas, their economy has since fallen into recession with some extreme inflation, such as ~20% for foodstuffs. And these consequences could have been, more or less, foreseen.

If that pipeline was there, there would would be major political pressure on Scholz to get the gas flowing. But without it? Not only was it a severe economic blow to Russia, but it left Germany dependent upon the US for gas, and also helped minimize the risk of internal pressures pushing Germany to cooperate with Russia.
https://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html

> Depending on the ``memory model'' in use, 8086-family processors (PC compatibles) may use 16-bit data pointers and 32-bit function pointers, or vice versa.

And it isn't just zero anyway because there's segmentation in play.
The four types of planetary civilizations, explained by Michio Kaku [video]
Respectfully Ember is not current at all. Might as well call BackboneJS or Marionette current as well.
What will become of their technological distinctiveness?
I think you're avoiding the crux of the issue.

Elon isn't trying to solve the bot-problem per se, but is instead trying to solve Twitter's revenue problem.

You are basically arguing that Twitter needs to solve the bot problem to get all of its users back. That's... not really a direct solution or simple way to raise revenue. Its not very clear if say bots were cleaned up, that anyone would come back (or advertisers would spend more).

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On the other hand, if this is just a tacit acknowledgement that $1/year is the assumed "cost of doing botting", then the solution is for botters to pay $10,000/year for 10,000 accounts. This provides the *direct* answer to the revenue problem.
I made my personal website mostly static (just some Apache server-side includes) with no js. It’s astounding how much faster it is than any other website I use. If you really want to get the goldfish audience, eschew the scripting.
I cringe nearly anytime I see anything about neuroscience on HN, and yet I keep reading. I almost wish I had studied something else just to avoid that feeling.
html used to be a markup language for describing documents.

now html is the gibberish output from some js build pipeline for wrapping 50 nested divs around some json values.

why i hate web dev now:

1. what used to to take 1-3 steps now takes 10-20. trade-offs are absolutely not worth it for 90% of cases.

2. web dev has become low value, highly saturated and competitive field thanks to learn2code and low barrier.
It's amazing to think that Charles Rennie Mackintosh's late 19th Century chairs made it all the way through to the late 24th Century.
Things have definitely taken a step back (or at best sideways) since the days of peak PHP popularity in terms of accessibility to new coders wanting to make something simple online. I'd love to see something as simple and portable as Google Docs for coding. There are plenty of proprietary low-code platforms for this, but nothing I know of where you can code with a real language in the browser, but still export the code (like you would export a .doc from Google Docs) to easily run at another cloud location or locally.
And in NYC, local laws are quite literally called local laws. These bits of terminology vary widely across the US.
Just found this on HN:

Spires: Building structured knowledge bases from unstructured text using LLMs

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37929351]
"For enthusiasts", as opposed to "for the risk-averse"?
I don’t really understand why people seem to decouple learning from doing. Isn’t it possible to only learn what you need when you need it? It’s not like you even have to learn an entire framework/etc each time you run into a new one, just learn the specific part you need at that time. What am I missing?
This has very Pokemon Gameboy 2000's vibes.
In the UK it is in the news a lot at the moment because at a famous location on the wall, 'sycamore gap', somebody cut the famous sycamore tree down for no apparent reason.

I found this intriguing. The guy is probably in a lot of trouble, but Sycamore is an invasive non native species. In other areas people are paid to cut them down!
Please tell me you're trolling, really…
Ever thought about a role in middle management?
You aren't wrong, but "the science" figured out that Epstein-Barr was connected to multiple sclerosis _last year_. Maybe some skepticism that things aren't settled is warranted - especially with something so new.
Something like this? https://chat.openai.com/share/3b33d17f-8de8-4b9f-b08a-eea54d...

Maybe I am being gaslighted.
Most people aren’t against “technology” per se. But they do have a keen sense of how changes (including technology) affect the balance of power among humans. The very fact that Andreesen isn’t willing to acknowledge this aspect (speaking of “playing God with everyone else’s lives, with total insulation from the consequences” — his criticism of the ivory tower) captures why people would naturally distrust his arguments. As the saying goes: “Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining”.

How would people distinguish such an immense lack of self awareness (most charitable interpretation) from grift, or worse, demagoguery?
I really want my computer to have a built in cable tester. Just plug both ends of the same cable into two different ports of a computer, and it has a little popup saying "This cable can support charging at this rate and data at that rate, and is fully functional". Or "This cable has 1 bad pin, and that may affect video/audio/charging/whatever functionality"

Ideally, the computer would test every pin in the cable, and also test the resistance/voltage drop of the cable to detect thinner-than-spec conductors.

I'm pretty sure USB-C hardware in a typical laptop can already do most of this, if only the firmware added support for such testing.
Surprised you're getting pummeled for this comment. What you're asking for is totally reasonable: An actual, non-insane alternative to the mainstream media. One that's factual, evidence-driven and research-driven. Current "alternatives" seem to all have the same problem: They quickly become crackpots in print form. This seems to be what happens any time someone creates "the Alternative to Mainstream Site X" and "the Free Speech Version of Social Media Site Y": The cast-offs of the mainstream become their audience, and the site quickly devolves into conspiracies, hate, Qanon, Holocaust Denial, Flat Earth... the whole loony bin. There seems to be no way to stop it.
> If that pipeline was there, there would would be major political pressure on Scholz to get the gas flowing.

Nah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_2

"In October 2022, Russia confirmed that Pipe B of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline escaped destruction, and offered to resume gas supply to Europe (which was promptly declined by Berlin)."
I was introduced to the scene at 15 and was active in it until about 17. Too young to travel to proper demo parties, but old enough to contribute code and music, and to enjoy the demo disks that came in the mail after a swap party.

It's interesting to rationalize it as an art form today. It sounds reasonable, but I don't think I or my friends thought of what we were doing as art, at the time. We were trying to impress each other with things that looked cool. To the extent that art was involved, yes, we needed music and graphics and fonts and creative designs, but we did these things out of necessity, without calling ourselves composers or graphic artists or type designers or art directors. Watching what others sent you and contributing your own stuff created a sense of belonging which I feel was really the primary motivator for my friends and me.

Regarding tools, there was one thing that was frowned upon in my circles: the use of demomaker software. These point and click apps allowed people to call themselves demo makers even though they did nothing technical. Boo!
Sigh. I have a 2011 iMac downstairs rotting away unplugged and thought about doing to it what I just did to the Mac Mini from the same era -- toss in some more RAM and an SSD drive replacement and put Linux on it.

Except once I started watching videos of doing work on the iMac I was instantly turned off. It's like brain surgery. They made that machine really tough to work on, and accomodating a 2.5" SSD means putting it in the optical drive slot, etc. etc.

I would love to be able to replace the mainboard entirely with something else. Doesn't look super feasible though.
> E.g. we judge the weather.

If you can give me an example of someone putting "the weather" in jail or forcing it to pay a fine, please do so.

> criminals still affect society irrespective of how they make their decisions.

That's entirely not the point. If the criminals have no free will, punishing them has no effect whatsoever on society. They had no choice but to commit their crimes, and they will have no choice as to whether or not to commit future crimes, regardless of what punishment is given to them.
I wish they had compared to off brand thunderbolt cables to see if Apple’s is worth the premium
Unfortunately it doesn't check for the last piece of the puzzle - the USB-C cable e-marker which has to be present to signal advanced capabilities for charging and thunderbolt. So it's not sufficient to test for high performance cables :/
Seems like a lot of effort for a really old computer. Was it worth it? Also, the 2006 iMac comes with a mini-DisplayPort connector. The article didn't seem to discuss whether that was usable.

Edit: Okay I missed the part where the GPU is failing. The same thing happened to my 2010 MBP, it's currently collecting dust.
For iOS I use Brave. Not as good as desktop uBlock Origin, but good enough.

Haven't found anything more effective on iOS yet.
Infiniband and most other specialized protocols have data-link-layer reliable messaging. The downside of this is that a congested switch cannot drop packets, so you end up backpressuring your network to death unless the people writing software really know what they're doing. Google was not able to make this work at scale.
How did society go so crazy that this even became a seriously discussed question? How did we let concepts like "inclusiveness" and "ableism" grow to the point that people could think that curing disabilities is a bad thing?
On the upside these seem to be compatible with LGA1700 used by the 12th and 13th gen.