skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we'll see more of this sort of thing. Weather models have been made in a climate somewhat different than the current one and those models are relatively accurate when modeling the past. As more data rolls in about anomalies like this the models will get updated and they'll become more accurate again in specific cases that are outliers right now, but they may end up slightly less accurate overall (due to the increased bandwidth of possible outcomes). This happens in almost every field where modeling is used to predict complex systems. You can't guarantee both great performance on past data and great performance on data that you haven't seen yet, there is always the risk that you've lost generality as you increased accuracy.
He covers that in the post. If you donate your kidney, you can nominate up to 5 people to be first in line if they (or you) ever need a transplant.

Given compatibility concerns, it's probably safer for your family member for you to donate than not.
Speaking of, I think I haven't seen any screenshots of Threads or Bluesky posts anywhere on the Internet
That's a very big IF. Over here in EU many (most?) people live in the apartment buildings of different types, and there are no charging spots on the parkings. Having to rely only on the EV stations is deal breaker when comparing with the similarly priced ICE. I can't see myself buying EV while renting an apartment.

PS: I do want to buy an EV. I'm not one of those ICE-only people.
The CTO of Cloudflare denied that.
Elon acting like a true South African born in the 80's.
Niemand gaan my fokken vertel nie :).
Die Blerrie Commies.

Translation - Nobody is going to tell me how to do things.
Esp Bloody Socialists.
Welcome to europe, would you like sprite or beer?
> What will stop him?

Migrationsverket - who get off on deporting foreign skilled workers at any opportunity.

Seriously they will deport people for minor administrative mistakes made by the employer even if it was years ago and has been remediated.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/freylindsay/2019/02/13/why-swed...
What's the evidence? I've seen people go back and forth about it, but never seen any actual convincing arguments.
Elaine feels strongly about the use of exclamation points in Seinfeld episode "The Sniffing Accountant" [1], leading her to break up a relationship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sniffing_Accountant
Anything that helps Terence Tao find bugs in his papers is hard and reliable in my books.
Just goes to show that every company needs its own TJ Miller
Yes, typically the web engine will handle process isolation. While there are exceptions the API for these typically look more like "open a website for me in this window" and not "please spin up my GPU process for this tab".
Certainly. Forums, IRC and personal websites made the 90s Internet more fun to explore than anything else we have today.

I had a group of 14 year old friends on a public IRC channel, before cat-fishing, bots and nonces became the norm. Met my first (real life) girlfriend there. I learned about the magic world of OSDev browsing webrings. So many personal websites of people talking about their micro OS. Countless forums for all the interests a teenage boy could ever desire.

The internet felt HUGE. No one could possibly see a thousandths of it in their lifetime. And then it started to shrink and shrink...
Your comment would be a nice Twitter meme.

In a post-Trump era it almost makes perfect sense, but the world doesn’t work according to the internal talk inside a MBA’s head ( yet ). In other words, just go to the location and make your theory work, I’ll wait..
I agree with you a 100%
Right. From my point of view, you answered to my comment about energy by saying "it's negligible", but you apparently meant "it's negligible in a metric different than the one of the post I am answering to, but I won't mention it". I think that's why I got confused :-).
A magazine moving to the cloud dissolves in thin air. Reading the articles with a low entry barrier is something for the beach, the cafe and the train. That will not happen eletronically. Also "casual reading", where I read a 2nd or 3rd article, besides the one that drew my attention, won't happen anymore.

Charles Simonyi said in his Bravo Demo about electronic documents "there is no such thing as an original anymore" https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/q_Na1SJXSBg?t=371s

I may execute a special right of termination of my 15-year membership.
Persistence on iOS is really, really hard.
The linear non-threshold model is... Quite contested however.

The truth is it's likely a threshold exists, likely under .1 Sv, but its really, really hard to determine becauses at those percentage cancer causes tends to mix up. I think US and German environmental agencies support the non-threshold model as a tool to absolutely reduce radiation contamination in the environment, but I know French doctors (or at least radiologists) think this is bullshit and think the model is both wrong (like all models) and useless in their discipline.

I just checked to be certain I was right, and I am, in fact French doctors rejected the model in 2005, citing a boatload of work on radiation, and also epidemiologic studies (background radiation is more concentrated in areas that have decreased chances of developing cancers apparently, which is weird, but i'm taking a break and do not have time to check out more)
It's understandable that swedish language sources don't know this, but the English word for 'strikebreakers' is 'scabs.'
The last paragraph on page 10 has some interesting information on applying in very dry and hot conditions. Repeated wet/dry cycles each day during application are important for promoting the carbonation to make the final surface durable.
It's also custom that members of the House of Commons cannot resign their seats. To get around this any member wishing to resign is made the Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, by doing this they are an employee of the Crown and hence disqualified from being an MP.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06...
I like the Google News that appear on Android when I swipe left from the main screen.
It shows you articles related to what you searched recently.
Sometimes it came up with things "I didn't know that I wanted to know".
I googled a problem from an angle and few days in the Google News on Android few articles related to that problem appeared.

It's also very nice that you can only scroll through only 2 screens of news than you have to wait.

This to avoid the infinite scroll of the Facebook Newsfeed where you keep scrolling for too long and the news get less and less relevant and then you have the feeling of vomiting like when you eat too many candies at once.
In a way, it is always the companies which benefit(ed) most from state support that are the fiercest enemies of other "socialists inclinations".
Both are fine, and it's clear the majority of the audience wouldn't understand if the title said 'bring in scabs'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikebreaker
You're not wrong and I tried to mellow my initial reaction when commenting. I don't feel like I attacked OP though. Getting some outside perspective is important.
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Comment is based on the rust-std package I'm currently seeing in VoidLinux. It is over 500MB.

3 packages will be downloaded:

3 packages will be installed:

libexecinfo-1.1_3
libexecinfo-devel-1.1_3
rust-std-1.73.0_1

Size to download: 136MB
Size required on disk: 509MB
Space available on disk: never enough!

Cheacking Debian and NetBSD it seems like the Rust standard library is smaller, much less than 500MB.

The simple question is how much space is required for an installation of the Rust compiler. On VoidLinux, it's significantly more space than for a GCC installation. 509MB is just too much for my tastes.
> How come you're so confident about this?

Because Mars was created from the exact same stellar matter accretion as our own planet, and nothing we ever learned in 63 years of mission-capable Mars-Research gave even the slightest hint at any kind of Unobtainium there?

But hey, you know whos really good at figuring out if I'm wrong about that? Robotic probes on Mars. So let's send more of those that can do more science, instead of sending would-be colonists who can do very little science, because they would be very busy with trying-not-to-die-horribly.

> rather then have a discussion and think a bit.

A discussion about what exactly, the point of using SciFi series as arguments?

> Ah, so still no

I am not going to repeat myself.

> That still needs proper funding to achieve good coverage, we still detect asteroids way too late.

I agree. So how about we pump money into that instead?

> Check out Apollo program and what that did for the world.

Please answer my question. I asked specifically how, likely failing, attempts at building a Mars Colony could further asteroid defense research. Because the only impact I can see is a negative one: We waste billions on Mars, failing attempts with human casualties generate more bad press, public opinion shifts, politicians demand stricter budgets, the fallout drags down other space research in its wake.

But since you mentioned Apollo, here is what it did for the world: It gave 2 superpowers the chance to do their "who-got-the-largest-rocket" contest without blowing up humanity in the process. There is a reason why no human foot has touched the moon since the 70s.
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The exclamation point is definitely falling out of fashion. It, like capitalizing "ok", is now a marker that the writer is older. Except in formal contexts, when a young person wants to exclaim they don't use an exclamation point, they use capitals.

"OK, look, I almost died!" <- Boomer

"Ok, look, I ALMOST DIED <- Zoomer
> that give one a good excuse to study history, economics, art, metallurgy

Not sharing this as a serious alternative, just sharing this as something nerdy and cool. It's a little more involved than coin collecting lol... but this guy making his own Carnyx (Celtic war horn) ticks many of those boxes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTFIDAbDtY

A Carnyx being played:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRIQp4qZrrE

Engaging with history in very practical ways like this is very cool. I'd love to make my own Round House one day.
Coincidentally, that’s also the most "Amex in Europe" experience ever
Seems like a bit of an oversight when even the Bouvet Island gets a ccTLD, and all it has is a bunch of penguins.
> the go runtime starts up some of it’s worker threads before calling your main

Of course! I think the chance of that happening must be about 100%. When else would it start such threads?

It would be an interesting bug if somebody managed to get a garbage collector thread to read files or to make network requests fo them…
We're drowning in data in the present. But I predict that five hundred years from now these will be known as 'the lost years of history' because there wasn't enough long term durable storage dedicated to preserving events that we do not think worth preserving today.

But you'll have a million AI generated recipes for Apple Pie from spam websites of the era to console you.
For me a large part of that is writing software and then libraries for that software, and so on. I've been trying (with partial success) to have one large project and inbetween do small tools etc that can be finished in a weekend. Also helps to have a todo list for even the smallest stuff in the main project so that it's easy to start picking up where I left off even if it's been a while.
I love how who is and isn’t considered a “patent troll” depends almost entirely on what tech nerd consumers have to gain from that classification.
Not the OP. But for one, last time I checked there was a Canonical lock-in with snaps. And it was not completely open source (at least the servers were not?).
Interpolation works on neighboring pixels though? Not sure what you mean there. Looking at neighboring pixels of the input pixmap is trivial as well.

The fractional pixel mappings do get you - but I think I recall an integer mode somewhere in GLSL 3.2.

Your example steps outside the shader boundary, though. If you try to use triangles to draw pixmap, of course you'll have trouble. That's why pixel shaders are the right tool for the job.

The only disadvantage they have is that the pixmaps are immutable within a single pass, so you can't (easily) draw the border together with the inner rectangle in one pass. But if you're used to functional programming, you won't even notice this.

I agree that shaders are not the right thing when you need mutability, as you seem to, but working with 2D graphics doesn't necessarily require mutability.
Seems like the cars all need to talk to each other then these interactions can be auto negotiated ahead of time
We all know USB-C cables are spotty. Seeing why in scans of different cables at different price points is interesting. Especially the cable where they didn't bother to connect half of it, so you can only plug it in one way.
Placing the responsibility with families results in compelled donations (“you love your Dad, don’t you?”). Our medical system is (imperfectly) built around consent; that consent needs to be in evidence.
Threads isn't launched in EU possibly because it's spyware and not compliant with GDPR.

Coming from Meta, and given Facebook, their main product, why would you think it can develop a better culture?

On Twitter/X, the reality is that people get the kind of posts they tend to interact with. The "For You" page can be curated, however. My X/Twitter feed right now has no mentions of war, or politics. It's all tech. Whenever I engage with tweets, I end up seeing similar tweets on the "For You" page, that I am then careful about curating.

The automated feed is now a feature of all social media, except for the Fediverse/Mastodon. I don't like it, because the algorithm is meant to maximize engagement whatever the cost. But have you seen Facebook's feed lately? It's much, much worse than Twitter, because on Facebook, whatever you do, you can't stop it from suggesting bullshit, drama and yellow journalism.

BTW, Mastodon is nice. But even without the algorithmic feed, people tend to gravitate toward drama and shallow subjects, such as politics and religion. Some people like complaining about shallow subjects into the void, or to pick a fight with strangers.

Instagram, being based on posts of images only, seemed to be different. Well, not anymore, right?
“In Paris, you can buy a beer in McDonalds” ~ Vincent Vega

https://youtu.be/6Pkq_eBHXJ4
Carrying a backpack will make your back stronger, you don't "save" it by using a wheeled suitcase unless you already have a health condition. Ideally the backpack will have a strap to go along your chest for stability.

Pretty much every hotel in Japan has a laundry machine, although I don't know of any suites that include one, unless you're going for a managed apartment.
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Except that it is how fortunes are built, it's just a few percent point (possibly, at most) lower than it could potentially be.
This is mostly hypotheticals. I can't argue against hypothetical problems, so all I'm going to say is I'm not convinced this is a danger.

I also don't agree that helping humans make scientific progress is a danger. We already have the tools to wipe ourselves out, adding more of them doesn't really change much. It might well help us discover ways to improve things, and whatever we discover it's up to us how we use it.

We don't know what the future holds. GPT-4 may be close to the limit of current possibility. It is not given that we will discover significant improvements. Even if we do discover significant theoretical improvements it is not given that it will be feasible with current nor near-future hardware.

I can agree that there exists hypothetical potential for danger, but to put that hypothetical risk higher than real threats is in my view exaggeration.
And the government is making it even harder for immigrants who work there to stay:

> Even though the salary is in line with the collective agreement, she earns too little when the regulations for being allowed to stay in Sweden are tightened next month.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=sv&tl=en&text=https%3A%2F%2...
Metric becomes target.
Plus all your shirts would need to be tailored.
Yes, they are.

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/gg.html
Alternatively, let's just pay people a living wage and offer them safe working conditions.

Unions are not the problem here, it's the working conditions. Unions form as a reaction to working conditions / terms. If there wasn't a problem, there wouldn't be a union.
> Is the answer "absolutely everywhere", or is the answer "nowhere, never, none"?

What about the 2.3 billion Instagram users who get reminded about it every so often?
How are Swedish Tesla employees unsafe? Does Sweden not have safety regulations? Are Swedish authorities failing to enforce them?
Ask HN: Could Microsoft Buy Google?
Ignoring for a second the unimpressive portmanteau possibilities available for a merger name — Is it conceivable? is it legal? Doesn’t have to be today, but within three years?
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They would quickly end up in violation of "Lagen om anställningsskydd". All terminations must adhere to the minimum notice, be objectively justified, and can be appealed in case of unfair dismissal. The employer may be forced to pay up to 36 months of full severance pay.

Firings for reasons not related to individual misbehavior must also be Last-In, First-Out, disallowing replacing employees with those hired after them.
I'd add https://brutalist.report/ - this one covers whole world and various topics while one you linked focuses on the US
The real question is why didn't evolution give us two hearts and two brains?
I don’t think information technology can be ITARed. It’s too easy to move around. See how successful countries have been containing encryption or how well the US’s drive to keep China from fabricating at the smallest process nodes is going.
The use of quotes around "Useless" becomes clear in

> decoupling the generation of types and expressions significantly biases
generation towards functions that do not use their arguments.

> Such “use-less” function arguments lead to wasted computation, both in terms of generation time (as the code that generates such arguments is essentially dead) and in terms of compilation time (as the test runner now needs to compile a larger program).
He's a great mathematician all right, but that is a very silly way to put it.
> What will stop him?

Right-wing anti-immigration / self-protection politics, just like in the US. The weird conundrum between being economically liberal ("bring in cheap foreign workers") while politically conservative ("own people first").
If Edge had some feature that is impossible to miss (I guess like Chrome integration with google stuff)

then everyone here would cry foul that microsoft is using their dominating market position to create a dependency for edge.

the real argument against edge should not be that it would be worse. i would not use it even if it were 10 times better. the argument should be that it is owned by a company that dominates the desktop market.

the only way to justify the existence for edge is to make it an independent product that is not owned by microsoft.

the same goes for chrome
McDonalds doesn’t do beer in Sweden anymore but Burger King will happily sell you a Pripps Blå or an alcohol-free Mikkeller.
The theorem was mostly correct. As stated it was false, but it was true for n >= 8. If you change some not very interesting constants it becomes true for all n. All you need change is the constants for n < 8.
He is the richest man in the world with many excellent companies. Seems to be working well for him.
At the risk of nerd sniping all of HN: please tell us more about this orrery you're building! Can we follow your progress online?
If you are going by taxi/uber, sure. Although you will need to drop off the luggage there before going on with your day, instead of immediately starting your travel-y stuff.

If you're going by train, the train from the airport to the hotel may be cramped and standing the whole way and involve going up and down stairs or pulling the luggage along streets. If it's $13 to ship it to the hotel, that's a pretty good deal.

Note that Haneda and Narita are both ~1 hour away from Tokyo so a taxi can be pretty expensive especially if you're alone.
I have to say I don't understand Elon's (Tesla's) reaction here. Surely he was advised on Swedish and EU laws and how things work over here before he decided to do business in Sweden?
I've also never seen ads for Twitter, Facebook (before the scandals), MySpace, Reddit, etc. I think comparison to movies or Apple products is a false equivalence. Not a marketing expert, but for social media products it may be better to try to grow semi-organically?
Sabotage would be self-sabotage + criminal investigation. Also, "the beatings will continue until morale improves" is a common tongue-in-cheek saying; morale will improve if working conditions do, not by removing people until whoever is left just sucks it up.
Is one of these the hilarious license preventing use by ICE (the US govt agency) that someone unilaterally applied to a large work with multiple copyright holders? Okay the license wasn't that funny but the situation was.
Not everyone who prefers more personal space has psychological problems. Why is it so difficult for you to understand? Nuance matters. I commute by train, I enjoy being around people, but I use car when I want to get around on my own time, even if train is available.
Scabs is quite pejorative though, I had always assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that it's usual usage is to insult.
Disingenous take IMO

> If a user asks for the software to nag people and then the developers make the software start nagging proper then it is the fault of the user for suggesting that behaviour be implemented.

People are not asking for software to nag. They're asking for the software to NOT send telemetry at all unless the user agrees to it. As it stands now, vscode sends out telemetry before the user has a chance to opt out.

What people want is for software to not be hostile to the users in that way. Failing that, at least give the option before the hostile behavior begins. But really.. It's not the users' fault. It's the software maker's fault for integrating that behavior in the first place and ramming it down our throat, whether we like it or not.
Do we know whether this is also a feature of dinosaur lungs ? It might make an interesting sidebar in a Jurassic Park sequel.
As it happens, my coin-collection ranking is very low. Mainly as I have none.

Totally agree that this 'gamification' of collecting is an unpleasant way to monetise something that is otherwise quite a chill pursuit.

From the companies point of view, of course, it means collectors are more likely to try and 'finish' collections. Like how some card collections (I think?) would have books that you would put your cards in, which gives an endpoint to achieve.

edit: I lie, I do technically have a single coin I suppose. A 1918 silver 'threepenny bit' (3p coin) from a Christmas Pudding. King George V's head on it. Forgot it was in my wallet.
If mathematicians have "a good instinct" does that suggest that their brains can somehow apply an informal proof?

I wonder if they are good, or if it's selection/confirmation/other biases that lead is to think say.

Also, aren't surprising results the most interesting!?
Cant you just use it to call a webhook?
They were not immediately adopted by enterprise customers, in fact. It took years for that.
At least in Japan many of the hotels I use will only hold your bags for the same day (check-in or check-out day), not overnight or longer.
The Narita Express has dedicated space for luggage.
The censored swear communicates a big screw up, without taking off the professionalism hat.

The effect of the swear is doubled in a professional environment, when delivered the right way.