skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually found non MSM more likely to link to the original source. That is why I prefer new media over old.

As for the issue of news sites not citing their sources, I wonder why some form of copyright can't be used. I know some dictionaries add made up words to see if another dictionary copies them. I wonder if news sites could add some small false minor details to see who copies from them without citing them. Then they could sue for copyright infringement.
The history behind the quest to define the kg is fascinating. When you consider how far science (and industry) has progressed where we can define with such ludicrous precision enabling experiments like LIGO and JWST, it leaves me thankful to be at this point in humanity's journey. Though, I still wonder what I'll be missing out on in another 100 years :D
Apple hiring former Oracle employees now?
Arguably, that's better than aiming for a perpetuity. By economizing on starting capital, you can set up substantially more of these, and you avoid the pathologies of perpetuities (eg. the Hershey trust): if after 30 years a charter house actually does completely run out of money and it can't fix its finances, then maybe its time has come and it's a good thing it can't simply be a trust fund baby rentier.

Given how many communes or nonprofits go bad, it's good to have some sort of accountability to outsiders in the form of 'needing money'. (The recurrent debates over the Wikimedia Foundation's ever expanding budget being a good case in point. Are you impressed by what they have done with the many millions of dollars they've gotten in the past half-decade or so? No? Then it doesn't seem likely they're going to impress you very much more if they become so wealthy that they can operate forever off interest and have to care even less what any donators think...)
You've checked this? Perhaps you're correct in a general sense, but in this specific case, neither "number" nor "numeric" datatypes show this issue.

> sqlite3 --interactive ./floats.db
SQLite version 3.37.2 2022-01-06 13:25:41
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
sqlite> create table floats(colA number);
sqlite> insert into floats(colA) values (0.1);
sqlite> insert into floats(colA) values (0.2);
sqlite> select sum(colA) from floats;
0.3
sqlite> create table floats2(colA numeric);
sqlite> insert into floats2(colA) values (0.1);
sqlite> insert into floats2(colA) values (0.2);
sqlite> select sum(colA) from floats2;
0.3
sqlite>
Ask HN: We should urge law makers to unlock the bootloaders
I have so many old android and iPhone devices that turn on and work OK-ish. I don't think I will use them as my main drivers but could be used for something else. (I am an electronics hobbyist). But unfortunately most phone and tablets have boot-loader locked made it impossible to mess with the original OS, insecure to use because they haven't been patched in a while. Security is one reason but the main reason is manufacturer control why they are locked in the first place. There are billions of old devices in e-waste now can be repurposed as usable systems if those devices support loading alternate operating systems or used for learning purpose. If we can get it into law, forcing manufacturer to open those bootloaders may be after a period, I am sure i can donate those devices to someone who could use for something.
Sounds like a way to fund ongoing support without budget headaches. And a cheap way at that.
bought several of these at yard sales, re-aligned them and made them work again.

I'd never keep one long, people would see one running and offer irresistible trades for it. They were so loud i expect they went back into closets before long.
no mention of Eizo or NEC -- too premium?
It is actually cheaper because of existing infrastructure that exists for fertilisers manufacturing.

But the main concern is that ammonia burns slowly. It might work in power plants but not in EVs
Maybe it just blocks talking in an overly convoluted way? ChatGTP winds up with that by default, but anyone talking in a very officious or even just extremely thought out careful manner could come off like that as well. I can see some merit to blocking that out, it’s not something that everyone wants to read, and in fact, lots of people’s own BS detectors are tuned the same way.
>These guys just seem to want to talk. I find this beyond useless.

I'm not sure this is how George Monbiot defines himself, but for me he's an intelectual. There's a place and a value in what intelectuals do. They think, they talk, they discuss. Historically, good intelectuals have helped societies identify problems by asking questions and challenging common assumptions (something very difficult to do well).

And, of course, we need engineers and people with the right technical skills to develop solutions that improve life in practical ways.
re-using memory is old trick in Common Lisp application code.

This is more "create a separate arena where we can allocate a ton of stuff and then drop it without actually going through collector".

In fact, this is very similar to features provided in at least Symbolics Genera, which provided developer-created arenas as well.
How else will DocuSign have a moat??
Elixir is hard to write (well) and hard to hire for because it lacks the network effect.

The ruby community it aimed at initially already moved to go and JavaScript by the time phoenix became production ready.

Erlang is an arcane, hard to understand language which many of the base packages of the elixir ecosystem uses.

I think that’s why it’s not as popular as it should be.

It’s great though. My go to stack is phoenix nowadays.
A very large majority of Americans cannot use bicycles period. Don't act like it's some kind of personal shortcoming. The entire idea is simply not realistic for most people, and I don't understand why that's so hard for some people to understand
Right, there are lots of things it could do, but the point is that these capabilities, or rather this potential, is merely necessary but not sufficient for actually following through with those nice things.

It doesn't matter what it can do when there is a truly scary amount of power and interest directed towards, e.g., making sure job loss (or unemployment in general) doesn't change too much. They'll make these things illegal before they'd let it get even close to messing something like that up!

There are already so many innovations and pieces of technology that could be helping instead of hurting. It should seem clear that the sheer capability of something could never be enough to change the state of affairs alone.

Sure the printing press was critical, but there was also a whole lot of blood shed and tumultuous times before the enlightened subject of the printing press could enjoy their new class and literacy.
That's because politics in the US isn't pluralistic but a static duopoly that's treated like a team sport by a lot of voters. In Germany the opposing player to the far right is the Greens for example because the two parties are both benefiting from the cosmopolitism vs communitarism cleavage that drives a lot of political debate. Voters will hardly switch between these two parties specifically. But if you are in a de-facto two party system where the opposing party is at the opposite end of each cleavage then you'll barely have any voter movement. It's entrenched this way for decades

Most democracies are pluralistic with more parties which is why the Germany anecdote makes more sense than the US one
Not directly, but various things I google show that in the US food system, only 10-20% of the energy used is on the farm. Much more is in handling (which includes cooking and refrigeration), transportation, and processing.
If you can start/stop the process easily, it could be a great sink for excess solar capacity.
How do you double the value of a Trabant?
You fill the tank up.
Indeed. I wondered how the definition would be affected by gravitational/relativistic time dilation. I learned that the calibrated clock would have been calibrated in the same local frame as the ceasium atom. It's already baked into the definition! Science is cool.
Possibly the "Limits to Growth" report (1972) by Meadows, et al. They used a simple model of resources, population, economy, pollution, etc. Some would say an over-simplified model. The report sparked a lot of controversy. I am not aware of significant changes to their World3 model that might be useful trying to integrate climate change models with economic-resource and population models.
Reminds me of “FedEx is all you need” from ICML https://x.com/quantumaephraim/status/1685358421359341568?s=4...

Full disclosure: I have an AI side project that also uses “is all you need” in the title.
Or, you know, they live 20 miles away and it's 20 degrees outside...
Kudos to you for that.

I spent most of my adulthood time in Europe talking to non-Roman speaking languages like German, French, Bosnian, Magyar.

First thing to realize about non-Roman languages is that non-Roman doesn't equal Latin. It helps but eventually you're gonna need to learn Russian, Magyar, German.
You heavily implied it by discussing a negative experience, its consequences, and speculating that the communal aspect was the root cause. I am a little bit surprised that you are denying that core point.
Unfortunately a lot of the comprehensive archives are not readily accessible. Even with National Geographic, there are a lot of complaints about the current complete set having really janky software. An older set I have would require me messing around with VMs and an old version of Windows. (I got it at a library book sale and never got it working.)

There are a number of magazines I would pay for the archives and they may well exist but I can't access them anywhere.
As a physics noob i cant really comment on his work too much but as a person: even though he may come across as a bit eccentric... who knows if his ideas may form part of the bigger picture in a hundred years? it seems like he's backing up his ideas with computational examples. (plus i owe him for wolfram alpha when i was learning maths at uni)
Autonomous Haulage Solutions – Modular Mining
Congrats. Building something others use and deciding that isn’t sustainable are both great milestones.

I created a more modest finance app (forecasting [1] and budgeting [2]). The Plaid integration alone was one I quickly realized I didn’t want to support a lot of users on. I also don’t want to have a large team working on it - if it requires more than a couple people then it’s not for me.

I do hope that you are able to build an active community around it.

Even if not, be proud of your accomplishments.

[1] https://fiers.co/features

[2] https://fiers.co/features/spend
Except I'm not promoting any content. GP is implicitly boasting about making more money than people in the article, while suggesting that being an entertainer isn't a valid career choice.

I personally don't enjoy Tiktok, but I don't see the need to sneer at people who are making a living out of it.
I'm guessing this is something they're finding useful at Google? Since Dougk is at Google.
I am very aware of what the Club of Rome is/was. I don't understand what the sentence means.
There are in fact at least two different companies offering tourists Trabants-for-hire in Berlin. Be careful though, as one company has an excellent reputation and another has a terrible reputation, apparently!
On the same topic, these lecture notes are pretty approachable: https://cs.au.dk/~amoeller/spa

There is also this course, partially based on Cousot & Cousot, i.e. the OP: https://janmidtgaard.dk/aiws15
Skodas regularly won their class in rallying.
https://help.instagram.com/728869160569983
None of that listed makes them somehow "useless" and many are useful upgrades
Not if the energy efficiency were poor, compared to electrolytic hydrogen into a conventional Haber-Bosch process. And remember hydrogen is very storable, so that process could buffer renewable intermittency and keep the H-B plant running continuously. Electrolyzers are getting cheap.
There is one state agency in USA that requires wet black ink for contracts. I forgot which state it is, this happened two years ago. They said no expectations, it have to be wet black signature, period. They will inspect the PDF to check the signature that it is not e-signed.

It was odd because I handled federal and state contracts in previous job, they don't have a problem with e-signature.
This is similar to creating an open source nuclear waste management solution.

Why would you want to store nuclear waste? Think about it. Even if you can, is that really what you want? Forever?

There are probably more incentives and less legal liability storing nuclear waste than sensitive documents.

It's not that other companies cannot do it, it's that nobody wants to do it.
Worth noting that this happened a year and a half ago:

https://x.com/jlongster/status/1520063046101700610?s=46
I do find them quite re-readable, or at least some of them; others I can cheerfully never look at again. Banks' output is pretty uneven in quality, and some of his work is very formulaic.

But my point is that not everyone is into franchises or wants to commit to reading all 7 or 8 when they pick up one. Self-contained works are good too.
> to a different machine in the BEAM cluster.

Wow, that's pretty cool
Nice.
Think it was Toyota recently got themselves an ammonia combustion engine prototype running as well.
ChatGPT-4 did answer relatively well but definitely not a search engine.

I attempted to search for "best Mac text editors for writers" on Google, but I received a bunch of results with "writers" crossed out.

Yeah the situation is quite bleak.
>privacy is a myth and big tech companies are using us as data to feed us ADs, viral content to reduce our timespans, and even rig elections

Anti-ChatGPT's author is explicitly opposed to the level of power that big tech companies have in today's society, and explicitly promotes individual privacy. You might completely agree with these opinions, but they are nonetheless political opinions.

Now, what separates a publicly expressed political opinion from "political bias"? I can only think of 2 responses:

1. A publicly expressed political opinion is less biased to the extent that the opposing view is also publicly expressed. (The Anti-ChatGPT README fails this criterion.)

2. There is no objective, meaningful distinction -- that is, there is no way to distinguish "publicly expressed political opinion" from "political bias" in a way that opposing sides could agree on.

Is there a third possibility?
A lot of 1D barcode scanners cannot read phone screens reliably.
Is it a fair test, if once it’s been passed, you change the testing criteria?
I’m genuinely asking because I would have thought that the test was a measure of something (in this case whether AI is capable of thinking like a human being) , so then to change what you’re measuring because something actually passed the test seems to defeat the point of the test somewhat.
Unless you want to redefine the variable being measured rather than the test?
I guess “thinking like a human being” is a latent variable and not easily observable so changing the way you define it is possible, but then you could just forever be redefining what it means to think like a human and constantly ensure that AI never quite makes the cut?

That’s my philosophical pondering over the issue…
Yes, I would have loved QR.Menu but that's taken.

Menu.Miami was available.

It can easily be put on another domain for other markets. For now, I'm enjoying working with Local restaurants only.
ok that was pretty funny
Wikipedia has a whole section dedicated to those jokes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_jokes#Trabant
I thought 'Planned Obsolescence' went out with Detroit.

Seems I'm wrong again.

Seriously, if lots of people find their perfectly useful Microsoft devices aren't usable, the next time they buy something they'll make sure it's not a Microsoft device.

In the car business, they'd call that 'Buying a Lemon'. That reminds me, I must see if I can sell my Pinto.
The 4% figure comes from something called "The Trinity Study" and most definitely considers inflation.

For more information about safe withdrawal rates then you probably want see https://earlyretirementnow.com/safe-withdrawal-rate-series/
This didn’t click until now.

Likewise, any decisions made by a Canadian federal or provincial department are, by law, made by the responsible minister. In (obvious) reality, this is would be a decision made a lower level employee that has delegated signing authority to make it work within the framework of the law.
Farms have been producing their own fertilizer for centuries. ;-)
AFAIK, anything that is intended to be a signature, is a signature. This can be a hand-drawn "X", a signed name, a typed name, a fingerprint, a rubber stamp, clicking "I Agree" checkboxes, etc.
Would you give more explination please? How are you plannin on setting it up?
Kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then
everything will be all right. -- Office Space, 1999.
Well, other FCC users are commercial users of the airwaves. Wouldn’t it make sense that their fees would cover the costs of “ongoing support” of the citizenry’s non-commercial use of radio spectrum? It’s not like they have to build roads or buildings to make this happen - it’s just some rulemaking and a database.

If you’re not aware, hams have for many years received paltry (at best) support from the FCC in terms of any enforcement.
Brazilian Researchers Develop Vaccine to Fight Cocaine Addiction
How do you personally differentiate between “rent seeking” and running a business?
Whoa, same here! I too had a realistic view of the world, but at the same time was super naive. And the entire phase of teenage rebellion did not exist for me, kinda weird when I see it mentioned everywhere all the time. And "boring" was and sometimes still is the way to describe me - too cautious, and not enough spontaneity.

But I don't think I'd change anything even going back. Too many benefits...
Gundam Robot Maker turning sci-fi into reality
It does not meet the composition standard of 100LL, which is why you need to buy an STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) from GAMI to use it legally in an aircraft. (It is a drop in replacement from a performance point of view, but does not meet the original type certificate fuel standard.)
The article is more interesting than the headline, which seems like a shallow attack on the Toyota practices. But those practices led to them being the best car manufacturer in history for reliability, and the headline rubbed me the wrong way.

Yeah, when you want to reduce one type of risk, you sometimes open yourself up to other types of risks. Single supplier and jit processes reduces some forms or risk and increases others. It’s a trade off
My naive interpretation would be "almost 100% of the energy put into the process gets chemically stored in the ammonia".
Doug DeMuro driving Robert's Trabant [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No1-4GsQa-g
Does this mean Firefox extensions can now interact with PDFs? Previously this wasn't possible. Anyone know?
I believe they call it is following this law [1] that requires them to do so, which was passed by the House and Senate in 2018 and signed by President Trump.

Search for "section 8 of the communications" to find the place within the bill text where it requires the FCC to start charging such fees.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1625
Not sure if they are today, but Toyota is putting a lot of effort into ammonia turbines. Also ammonia can be fired with coal or natural gas in existing setups. The main issue is neutralization of NOx exhaust.
https://archive.ph/2023.10.28-222013/https://www.theatlantic...
Not sure if you are aware - you can use Kagi in incognito too. Kagi can generate a link with a token that won't require you to sign in. Their official desktop and mobile extensions handle this case once you generate the access token. I only use private mode in iOS Safari and Kagi works as expected.
One clarification: client and server code are never mixed within the same file. "use server" can only be used in server files and marks code that the client can call back into.
It’s big enough and true enough for entrepreneurs – Nitricity is building shipping container-sized fertilizer factories
Millenia, even.
Rivian's cost $$$ and their maintenance is even worse. There was a post on here where the cost to repair Rivian's bumper was like 42K.
The digitization we've seen over the past couple of decades has mostly greatly improved the experience for regular users over tokens etc. It's also mostly between a pain and terrible for the occasional user like tourists. The systems are all different with often confusing menus of options, they may not even read the default language well, etc. Tapping a CC and javing the right thing happen is so much better.
>> ... would this method result in less CO2 emissions using regular grid
>> electricity, or would it need to be 100% low-carbon electricity? ...

Who cares? This is about electricity to ammonia.

Given: a very efficient way to make ammonia (as an energy store) using electricity, this becomes a storage mechanism. So then, make ammonia and money whenever the grid is in a 'pay to take power' state, and (up to a point) even if you have to pay. End source is irrelevant.

Alternate process: run a solar farm, produce ammonia whenever that's cheaper than paying someone to take the power (or curtail), then sell the stored power when prices are high. Or, sell the ammonia directly.
I’m afraid I don’t believe you.

Here is a link to someone doing what you say should immediately attract ten bots:

https://x.com/xtlufa/status/1710110358088917405?s=46&t=mWO9f...

As you can see, zero bots have replied.

Unfortunately there are a lot of Elon haters who just make stuff up. I’m not saying you are one of those. But I will say that because of this phenomenon, when you make claims of this sort, if you don’t provide evidence you are likely to be asked for evidence.
Not if you want to play games or use Adobe products
Why is the title edited? The “period of” got dropped.
A tweak on your question: Someone did something unthinkable to your family, killing many of them. They have the stated intent of continuing to kill as many others as possible. How many women and children, uninvolved in that, are you willing to kill to get to the original perpetrator?

If you go after the perpetrator, people are going to die. But if you don't, (different) people are going to die.
Does Google use SBCL or lisp in general? News to me. I thought maybe they were just porting the arena paradigm from c++ to sbcl
So, let me see. Office 365 won't run on my perfectly-good machine.

That means that Office 365 will have to get the boot.

As an 'oldie', I can remember when every office computer had to have .doc capability. I haven't seen a .doc file (including .docx) for years. Everybody uses .pdf these days. Why? Simply because there's no bullshit about reading or writing .pdf files.
I ended up just using a pillow speaker with a 3.5mm jack cable. Avoids problems like this I was having with bluetooth.
The last sentence said something about a computationally stable (model/state) of society. I suppose such stability would be helpful in looking for a sustainable economy or society. But I'm not clear either, on what that sentence means.
Fair enough, I've got an Agilent 8753A (3GHz version) that I can do an S11 sweep on. It that counts as a "proper" VNA :-) Drop me an email (contact is in my profile) if you would like me to send you a copy of it. (note it won't be right away as the bench is covered some different equipment at the moment)