skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anglosphere doesn't build - France builds. FT has an article on nimby tax on Britain and America

https://www.ft.com/content/9aa0fcc0-31fb-44be-b5a0-57ceb7fb7...

In Britain, you can get planning permission and sit on it for 3 years, doing land banking. In France, it expires after 3 years.

In Britain anyone can object to anything - solar panels get noise complains from people that live 2 miles away. In France, there are penalties for bogus complaints and you must be materially and demonstrably affected.

Apartment owners are treated like medieval serfs in UK - after buying one for a million dollars, you must beg landowner for a licence to have a cat, and renew it annually for a fee.

https://www.ft.com/content/dca3f034-bfe8-4f21-bcdc-2b274053f...
One thing I'm curious about translators like these: are they smart enough to convert software polyfill functions to hardware instructions? For example, armv7a doesn't have a divide instruction, so a software polyfill function is used (like __aeabi_idiv). Do translators recognize these common software functions and translate them to native instructions (i.e. sdiv in this example)?
ScannedReality – Volumetric Video Capture
Why do you assume that the commenter was installing Chrome?
It is not a cheap operation, I basically create a new table and then "INSERT INTO SELECT..." Then again, it isn't something you typically need to do a lot.
haha... I knew I wasn't gonna be the only one who tried that.
Something like this for open source models would be great.
Turning brightness too low also reduces contrast (e.g. for text). There’s a middle ground with adequate ambient lighting and moderate brightness setting.
Agree but Google is currently trying to argue against that in court and hiding evidence from the public in the process.
It's probably challenging to get good data on actual search engine market share in China. A bit surprising that this is not properly taken into account for the global stats.
After seeing a few documentaries on them (but never going to jail in the US or EU), I am now of the opinion that European jails seem as fucked up, but have a much more humane veneer. They are much more likely to give prisoners huge quantities of psychoactive drugs, and often essentially force them to go to intense therapy sessions, which could be considered a form of psychological torture. US jails don't do any of that, but have a lot of other issues.
That is pretty cool, thanks. I haven't been able to roleplay in a number of years but, if I can get back into it, I will certainly be making an image of my character :)
Sorry, I don't think they are "lying" about anything to their shareholders and "kid gloves" was an attempt to describe what I think they are doing. I think they are playing a PR game trying to A/B test PR messages depending on the shareholders in question. Some PR messages are about GM is on a very fast track to electrification. Some PR messages are about GM still believes in ICE. Investors that were leaving in droves for Tesla or Rivian stock want to hear the first message. The big investors that are also dealers want to hear the second message for the time being (until they feel more comfortable selling EVs, and/or find ways to better monetize EV-related "services" in the ways they make most of their money selling ICE, and/or GM finally buys those dealers out in one way or the other).

In neither side of the A/B test do they make too many "definite" statements of what their timelines are for full electrification or for selling their last ICE. Reading between the lines of the EV statements (as the type of investor that believes EVs are the present), their electrification speed has been mostly remarkable and leaves the impression that the GM board isn't as stupid as previous decades' boards have been and knows what the German timescales are (and has some idea of the existential threat of the Chinese car manufacturers that are 100% EV already today) and is trying to stay relevant/competitive in modern timescales. That's admittedly a very personal gut reaction of "hearsay" to intentionally wishy washy PR statements.
A 2006 iPod (probably the 5/video?) 80GB retailed for $350, and I bet an (inflation adjusted) $530 today could buy you something with a lot of advantages over it. A lot of the android ones I'm seeing from a quick google seem to have battery life around a day, if nothing else.

Not that I think it would be worth the money given you're already in a good place, just saying the situation isn't as bleak as you portrayed.
To my untrained eye I don't understand why #1 is #1, #2 has more interesting details and demonstrates much more skills. Perhaps I don't understand the evaluation parameters though, #1 is probably a bigger technical achievement.
My cheap Benq monitor has a ambient light sensor, and I disabled it because it sucks. It never manages to set the exact brightness I would consider right for me in every scenario.

Instead I much prefer to control it manually via the mouse scroll wheel and DDCI, that way I can adjusted exactly to my liking every moment of the day.

On phones this feature makes sense because as you walk and move around the ambient brightness shining on the screen changes rapidly but on a indoor PC monitor in a room/office, the ambient light is relatively stable because you can control it via light switches or window blinds, so manual control is fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

Though I don't think it necessarily applies to peer reviewed literature.
I'm in Europe and here it would be "98 recommended, 95 allowed with possible degradation in performance", as it's the case for my 2006 car. More modern small volume turbocharged engines should be even more sensitive to octane number due to higher compression ratios than common American engines of twice the volume for the same horsepower. The engine ECU will reduce boost pressure and fuel charge based on feedback from the knock sensor.
I’m very interested in this too! I went to Japan and a leg of my trip was to visit the Snow monkeys. I have never been as charmed by a place as I was Nagano. It’s probably because it reminds me so much of where I grew up in the California foothills, but I have an exceptionally vivid memory of walking along the Chikuma river and just being in awe of how peaceful it was.

For reference, I went during the peak of the cherry blosom season, and even though it’s a ‘tourist spot’, it seems like it’s out of the way enough that it wasn’t very busy, we only saw a handful of people. The train ride in was beautiful—no Shinkansen tho. The monkeys (which you take a bus to a hike to get too) were cute too! Highly recommended if you don’t find something better.
No effort was spent calculating "damages" from competing currencies or stores of wealth.
> the only difference between cocoa powder and cacao powder is the heat

and this is why it’s important to know your cocoa from cacao

Grape vine - grape fruit - wine

Cacao tree - cacao bean - cocoa
Visualizing quaternions (2018)
the point you think everyone else is making that i am missing is actually the point that i have been trying to make

you say

> the presence of calories alone doesn’t drive appetite

while, although you think i'm the one in this conversation that disagrees with you, the comment that i've written all this verbiage to rebut says exactly the opposite

> I think the primary cause of the obesity epidemic is the widespread availability of cheap calorie dense food and a few hundred million years of evolution devoted to making biological machines designed to consume as much calorie dense food as they could find

i agree with you that the obesity pandemic is almost certainly due to modern processed food, which is new, and unlike what historical humans generally experienced and evolved around

your hypothesis is that palatability (of calorie-dense food) is the relevant difference; i think that's a plausible hypothesis. but i'm not sure that modern industrial food is more palatable than the calorie-dense elements of traditional diets (elsethread i mentioned halvah, but we could also mention longaniza, pizza, ham, bacon, cheese, funnel cakes, pepperoni, buttered pancakes with syrup, onigiri with katsuobushi and so on), and even if it is a difference, that doesn't prove that it's the relevant difference

there are a lot of other differences, and i think we should investigate them, because your hypothesis is far from the only plausible hypothesis
Worse if they keep buying paints and models but never even open them.
We don't currently compress data but we might at some point. We found that the most significant speed increase is by splitting the data into multiple files. Otherwise it becomes very slow at 10-20GB range.

Yes and your 400$ plan is a good idea. But we did the math at 100$ (Port Swigger financial records are public) and it is not easy to make them work as a full time gig. And it's not really possible to get funded just for that market, it would need to 10x to be VC viable.

If you ever want to talk further, do shot me an email (emile [@] caido.io).
> entirely intangible such as "the character of the neighborhood" or "the environment"

There is nothing intangible about the character of the neighborhood (or the environment).

Have you ever chosen a place to live? Nearly all the research effort in that decision is about the character of the neighborhood, not the house itself.

The house structure in isolation has very little value. That's why you can buy a perfectly functional house for like $10K, when it is located in a place that nobody wants to live in. Nearly all the value comes from the neighborhood it's in and its character. That's what people buy into, much more than the drywalls and roof.
Yeah this isn't something to get outraged over. The arguably "entry level" leica is over $6k. They're expensive but well made cameras that are hand built in Germany. If you're buying one you probably know what you're getting or you have more money than you know what to do with. If you think they're expensive, there's awesome options from fujifilm, Canon, nikon, and Sony that cost less.
You’d be sad to learn that Apple built iPhone prototypes around the iPod and it wasn’t very good.
I wrote to our favoured UK brand (Willie's Cacao) and got a strong statement about their testing regime and the reliably good results. I guess I have to trust what they say but it's good to have some reassurance.
An older version that doesn't support the feature will probably just ignore the addition to the connection string.
Standalone MP3 players are increasingly useful, now that:

1) Most smartphones lack a headphone jack

2) Most smartphones lack an SD card slot

3) Your phone is probably the most important thing you have on your person, and conserving the battery life is more important than listening to music

I unfortunately ditched my Sansa Fuse mp3 player after I got my first smartphone, because the Galaxy S2 felt like a straight upgrade to a standalone mp3 player at the time, whereas the modern smartphone is, shall we say...no longer fit for purpose?

There's definitely a market for such things, but having looked in the past, the middle-class seems to have fallen out. You either have the dirt-cheap $20 things you see sometimes at Wal-Mart, or you see the $1000+ specialty audiophile players. I kinda wish I had something with my old Sansa Fuse's form-factor, but had bluetooth support and USB-C charging (the proprietary charger being pretty much the only reason why I haven't bought an old Sansa Fuze on ebay).
I agree. I have about:profiles on my bookmark bar as a workaround. But it's not anywhere near as smooth as what Chrome has.

I use multiple profiles everyday but this isn't enough to make me switch away from Firefox.
The above translation is common, but I always thought it was not ideal. The much more common use in french for "perdre" is not "to waste", but "to lose", as in "The time you lost ...".

I think this captures the spirit even better, since the time sure is lost, but not wasted.
Is this an intellectual leap aiming to make the field more cohesive, like the quest for unifying theories in physics?
this is great! cool technology!
FLOSS software for cellular modems.
Similar to Apple. Apple seems to understand whatever this sort of structure is really well, and have followed it for a long time. Facebook thought they were different but now they seem to need the same. Less openness externally, but a lot of collaboration internally. Google recognized this more quickly than Facebook, but less quickly than Apple.
That wouldn’t solve their revenue issue in that case
Urban Outfitters feels kinda vintage at this point.
Wouldn't old school AA guns be perfect for that sort of thing?
The rumor is once the new office buildings complete; they will also do a RTO
> A 10 kWh battery adds several thousand dollars to the cost of the car. If manufacturers are not eager to make these widely available in all states it suggests they don't find it profitable.

A plug in hybrid is basically an EV with a much smaller battery though, and what must be a cheap generator. It seems at least as economical as a pure EV to me, unless the generator "taints" them and they cannot be sold with higher margins.
Same shows up in Postgres Query* struct for SQL. Copying memory between parser, planner, execution would be too expensive in large queries - so instead you have an arena allocated representation.
Feat: Made it clear that we stand with Ukraine
> Also great on airplanes, with the card conversion it has many hours of battery life.

How many?

> Amazing how every comparable device made today is so much worse.

Music devices are like cameras, the best one is always the one you actually have with you.

That said, nothing will compare to the tinny sound of a Rio PMP processing 128kbps mp3s that have been recompressed to 32kbps. Sounded like angels in your ears were playing the instruments.
I have a 1G 5GB iPod in excellent condition, but the battery is completely toast, and I no longer own a Mac with firewire, which is unfortunate.
Sorry about that. Which OS? It works for me on Windows.

When I drag and drop this to the Chrome bookmark bar, it will create a new bookmarklet with the name "awesome"

javascript:/* name: /awesome# */alert(2+2)

It doesn't seem to work on Chromium on Ubuntu. I don't have a Mac to try it on, perhaps someone else can try it.
Great idea, spend your money to earn the privilege of spending your money later.
The more common expression is "cookie cutter" implying that anyone can follow a simple process to achieve a good result. Cake is hard in general so even having the cake recipe is fairly useless for execution.
If it was possible to discourage him from revealing his thought process in public wouldn't that have happened already? He's not been exactly shy about controversial takes on various topics.
You are speaking my language! Love it. If local LLMs are coming soon(ish) you’ve just got yourself a customer and one that loves promoting the tools they use.

It’ll be great when it’s on the App Store too of course for a little more security assurance.
This really betrays Hofstadter's age and the fact that he's being left behind by technology and by the modern world.

It's really sad to see something like this happen to him.

Instead of seeing it as everyone having an amazing language coach in their pocket. Or finding ways to radically accelerate language learning. Or of bringing everyone together but still having those few core languages you know (you will always be ignorant of most languages). Or of saving languages that might otherwise die. He focuses on a hypothetical negative.

Age is the ultimate disease.
>More people are going to notice they’re using a different browser vs. using a different search engine.

Chromium Edge and Chrome have pretty much identical UI/UX. If you switch between Google and Bing, you will immediately notice the difference.

>most people that have phones and not computers probably don’t realize or know how they can change the default.

"80.12% of iOS users, used Safari as their default browser as of 2020." Source: https://zipdo.co/statistics/apple-safari/

About 20% of users changing the default browser is a big deal, especially when all browsers are identical (WebKit) under the hood.
> That's literally the whole point of markets

A home is not a share of stock. The purpose of a home is not to be an equity to trade in the markets. The purpose is to live in it, enjoy the neighborhood, raise kids, etc.

So trying to think of it as just a trade in a market misses the point why people care about their homes.
That's the wrong graph to look at.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/us/pedestrian-deaths-2022...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/upshot/road-deaths-pedest...

Now compare with the Netherlands: https://youtu.be/5aNtsWvNYKE?t=36
then go live in it. there is plenty of it. stop making everyone else have to live that way.
It's a ridiculous analogy because nobody is buying residential property, or property anywhere close to residences, to build industrial processing plants.
New Mexico is a blue state [1], and Arizona is a purple state [2], so I wouldn't be so certain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Ne...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Ar...
This is interesting. Chrome is the new i.e. as i.e. was in 2002, namely, most people regarded it as “the only browser any normal person would ever use.”

Safari is the new i.e. in the sense that i.e. was in the late 2000s/early 2010s, meaning it’s the browser that we would like to ignore due to how weird it is compared to the browser we normally target. And how stubborn the vendor is in neither acting like the majority browser, nor giving up and adopting a different engine (or in the case of iOS, even allowing a different engine to run).
That's not true. For instance: https://www.weather.gov/ffc/pop#:~:text=What%20does%20this%2....
Shirakawa-go is amazing in winter and summer. The local homestay reservations had to be made very early. https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e5956.html

Also, any onsen city is worth going in the winter.
I am less concerned by the diaspora as such than about the ideas that precipitated the diaspora somehow metastesizing across the rest of the country.
PHEVs are like the worst of both worlds. You have a heavy battery, and a combustion engine on the side. Just go one way or the other already.

Toyota already makes a lot on selling hybrids, and I believe at least one Prius model is a PHEV.
This is where you get accused of whataboutism for asking why we're not comparing and contrasting one morally dubious choice with the alternative choice that happens to be the default.
IMO, phones have been doing this horribly for 15+ years, with no signal that it will ever be good enough.

I would never buy a TV with that.
The one in std uses unsafe. My main concern with learning rust is that you can spend ages trying to learn “the right way” of doing things in rust, when the right way really is to use unsafe.
the bad PR and people assuming the worse is the price the company pays for choosing to have no human support at all. And the price isn't even high enough to discourage them, it makes no sense to complain about people holding the companies to account.
The YouTuber DankPods has an argument that the last iPod Touch is actually a good device for this use case because has a then-modern A10 which is well faster than what you need to run an MP3 player, you can use it with music streaming services to download your catalog, it has a headphone Jack, and it’s not that expensive to get a high capacity one.
Nothing in life is certain. When they buy, the law says you can't build more densely in that area. Obviously the law can change, but that's about as close to "always" as you can get. Similarly, society could decide to do away with land ownership altogether without compensation, so they take a risk paying for ownership. Naturally, they'll be against changing the law in ways that harm them.

That six figure check might not be so exciting when it means they have to pay transaction costs (~10%) and transfer taxes. Hopefully they don't also have capital gains too (the nominal gain isn't much comfort when they need to find a similarly priced new home; capital gains on housing is mostly a tax on avoiding inflation). Hopefully they aren't also seeing an increase in mortgage rates if they need one. Then they need to find somewhere new to live, probably in an entirely new city (or state) to find somewhere with the zoning they wanted still in place. This destroys social connections and probably requires finding new work, on top of the move itself and the difficulty picking out somewhere to live in an unfamiliar area. If they try to instead stick it out, increased property taxes might bleed them out until they're at a net loss and are forced to move.

So yeah of course people who don't want high development near them and picked somewhere to live with regulations against it will vote to preserve those regulations. Conversely, speculators and developers know when they buy property that is is zoned not to allow what they want, but they take a gamble on their ability to change zoning.
I'm not talking about stealing anything. But if you find VW to be an evil company and you want a Golf, you should absolutely build your own copy a Golf and not give VW a cent.
I really appreciate your recommending me something. Often people might just bristle that I said anything negative about popular music (even if it’s purely a matter of my personal taste) and not even try to help me find something I might like.

That said, in your song, as remarkable as the first verse is (and it’s a great tune), the second verse is too close to pop tropes for me. FWIW, my favourite popular-music lyricist is Scott Walker, who I feel is fully a match for the 20th-century poets I enjoy, e.g. [0] [1]. Would love to find other similar lyricists.

[0] https://genius.com/Scott-walker-sunn-o-herod-2014-lyrics

[1] https://genius.com/Scott-walker-track-five-lyrics
Didnt Sundar ask disappearing messages to be turned on on an internal communcation tool ?
I've been through many a music machine since my first true mp3 player (after a year of fumbling with a half-broken Sony MD player), but if I could shove a 512GB MicroSD card, new battery, and new screen into my old DAH-1500i MobiBLU Cube[1], I'd pick it up again and never let go. Even without playlists, it was perfect: tiny, but with a display (which I didn't even need to use half the time, as I could navigate its menus from my pocket, sight unseen), nicely clicky buttons, simple interface, quick startup.

So, you know, I could listen to music.

There was like a two-year period where these monochrome OLED jewels were offered (Sony's NW-E505/7[2] was another gem, horrible PC software notwithstanding), before ghastly full-color LCDs took over. And they topped out at around 4GB (32, if you include the Sansas that came later, which I don't). Damn shame.

[1]https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dah+1500i&iax=images&ia=images

[2]https://www.crutchfield.com/S-PPVgsomq9x6/p_158NWE505B/Sony-...
Wrong title. An almost complete web engine written in JavaScript.
I have a cheap monitor with this feature and I think it sucks. It never manages to set the exact brightness I would consider right for me.
I do the same, and again when I land. Try to double down on signaling to the black box.
That doesn't seem to be the norm here and we're pretty lax on emissions testing requirements. It was a bigger issue in California when I was in the car scene there than anywhere else i've lived. And their emissions are stricter than most places (if not all) in the US.
"Who knows what lurks in the hearts of [browsers]? The Shadow knows."