skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a statement of reality, not economic system.

Yes, that's my point. The worry about "economically feasible" in the ancestor comment is a question of what plans are realistic with unlimited motivation. It's not about economic systems holding us back.
> Are you being serious or trolling?

I'm serious. I support changing sentnecing guidelines so that we execute anyone who is convicted of a felony after having previously spent at least 10 years in prison.

If you think this is a bad idea, hire someone who spent at least 10 years in prison and learn for yourself. Even if you just hire them to mow your law, hire them. See for yourself.
What have you found to be most valuable / meaningful years later?
Ok, we've changed to that from https://datascience.stanford.edu/programs/stanford-data-scie... above. Thanks!
> The regulations are written how they are, it's not a matter of opinion.

“pro-consumer” is, inherently, a matter of opinion, not fact.
Well, that is about the question which is the most uninteresting number. And the paradox that - whichever number it is - this attribute makes it interesting.

But since we are not looking for the most uninteresting number, but the most interesting one, we do not have to fight with issues of that calibre.
> What does this even mean?

It means you should click through to look at the pictures in the original article.
The same emergency from 2 days ago?

More discussion and good resources in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225019
This seems emblematic of the general direction of technology. It's an approach to managing system complexity that works by adding additional complexity and handling that combination well as long as you use their tools. Nix isn't special in this -- all (non-derivative) Linux distros do exactly that, though that's probably little more than an extension of having written a package manager. I dislike higher level tools like this because they discourage understanding of anything below them. The filesystem is no longer organized in a human-readable fashion, it is an implementation detail.

I'd love to see more concerted efforts going the other direction -- managing complexity by working to make the system simpler and compartmentalizing additional functionality. System snaps, now packaging lxd and cups, are probably the closest mainstream example today.
The VA is such a piece of work. One of the largest sinkholes of taxpayer dollars and they consistently break down with such unforced errors.

I hope we all remember that the VA is concurrently in the middle of a forced pause in the rollout of their new electronic health record because they let Oracle do literally nothing for years and then when they said "Oracle you're out of time." Oracle said "yeah flip it on, we'll see what happens."

Once the clinics stopped working the head of the VA goes to Congress and says "We're holding Oracle responsible, by making them fix it." So now, congrats you're paying Oracle twice for the same software.
Few years ago, I was following a person who did a work van conversion on a nissan nv200, very nice detail and work. Noticed it was missing and unavailable. Looks like he passed away, and they removed his channel. Notice many van/rv rebuild videos are missing. I'd hate to see how many videos get removed on future history, culture, politics and tech.
I know it's a joke, but I still feel like it would be more meaningful if it wasn't so generic that it could kind of apply to anything. Like, there's nothing specific to numbers about the idea that the least-"interesting" item in some set is itself interesting for possessing that property.
I’m sorry but what? This is terrible advice. I have never understood the desire to keep the web “inclusive”. Is the web not already inclusive? Can someone not already build a website with simple html/css?

The web has evolved and taken the place of desktop apps by and large. That is what SaaS has done. These websites are built to be fully functioning pieces of complex software. Using some tiny tools to markup html is never going to work for these types of applications.

I find this hand wringing over the complexity of the web so strange. Can we all just move on? The web has changed. I have been programming for over 15 years professionally. Yeah its changed. yeah frontend frameworks are a pain in the ass a lot of the time. So lets make it better, not fall backwards to a “simpler” time.
Not an original source, but the Wikipedia page [0] gives a good introduction. A contact manifold is then just a manifold equipped with a contact structure.

A more in-depth discussion can be found in many differential topology texts, e.g. page 581 of [1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_geometry

[1] Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds https://math.berkeley.edu/~jchaidez/materials/reu/lee_smooth...
What's the reason to use a framework like HTMX instead of React?
Or don't. It is so liberating not to have to periodically migrate data from one medium and file format to another, and worry about corruption. What are you getting out of it? What are you going to do with your preserved data once you die; burden the next generation with it along with the rest of your junk? Cull data every with every migration.
It had to be the topologists :)
That 'everyone online is a predator' act has been going on for a while hasn't it?

Its current snake head is the UK's online safety bill.
Those things aren’t mutually exclusive. Also firstly, I suspect there’s more “low hanging fruit” in making more software make use of more cores. We’re increasingly getting better languages, tooling and libs for multi threading stuff, and it’s far more in the realm of your average developer than writing SIMD compatible code and making sure your code can pipeline properly.
^ This is an important "detail".
Markdown to HTML Parser for PHP
Hello World!
I created a new tool to convert markdowns to html using PHP.

> Why is this tool different from PHP ParseDown or any other markdown libraries?

Well, I created this tool as a wrapper of parseDown initially to fully support version php 8.x, since the parseDown library was originally built for PHP 5 and the library codebase hasn't been updated yet till now.

> So, what is so special about this tool?

I added more functionalities like converting markdown files to HTML files directly and also converting markdown contents to HTML files?

<?php

use FastVolt\Helper\Markdown;

$markdown = Markdown::new();

print $markdown
-> setContent( "## Hello World" )
-> toHtml(); // <h2>Hello World</h2>

?>

So Easy and Expressive!!

> GITHUB REPO: https://github.com/fastvolt/markdown (Please star and contribute to improve the project :) )
In US/UK prices like $5.98 are annoyingly common. Paying in cash you are getting pennies of change and to pay with them one have to collect a lot of coins which inconvenient to carry and takes time to count. When prices are reasonably rounded using cash is more convenient.
Exactly equidistant, in fact. 5×2 = 10 ∴ log(5) + log(2) = log(10) ∴ 0.5log(10) − log(2) = log(5) − 0.5log(10).
Then let's see who manages to write the least interesting comment in this thread.
It may not play well with them ootb considering the lack of an fhs filesystem, but I think nix has shown itself to be adept at handling these cases well. Steam in particular is a great example, and I've even packaged user-hostile blobs like crowdstrike falcon with a flake (so I could run nixos for work).
Welp Firefox it is then.
Inflation isn’t simply driven up by supply but also greed.

It is highly important to remember economics is snake oil for the lost part. As short a time as a few years ago, the Nobel Prize was awarded for work proving wage increases did it limit jobs, as was claimed for generations. One would think this had been proven long ago, but that’s not the case. It’s propaganda.

Indeed, a great deal of the economic orthodoxy is little more than propaganda. All economic notions should be considered such until proven beyond a doubt.

And it probably would be a good thing to track how wrong is the nonsense of people like Kudrow and Summers, yet they are trotted out as gospel constantly. Jamie Dimon too.
"Escape from earth: A secret history of the space rocket" by F Macdonald. Well written but focussed mostly on the people and politics of American rocketry after WWII (including the mad occult antics of Jack Parsons). I would have prefered something that focussed more on the tech.
One reason is that registers don't have a spot for $2. It sounds like they have slots for $1, $5, $10, $20. The result is that people never get $2 as change. Which means that they never circulate. Any $2 that are spent are sent to the bank.
Yes, this is greatly increased on older CPUs that aren't that rich in cores, thus the current heavy multi-processing takes an heavy toll on them, basically why threads used to be favoured back when they were modern.
A curated list of GPT agents for cybersecurity
Hard to tell from appearance only but my initial impression is that's an inductor, not a capacitor. The circuit looks like a switching power regulator. The capacitors would be beige with silver ends, this one looks like an over molded inductor, similar to [1], and is used as the main power inductor in a buck regulator.

If this is an inductor, my gut reaction is it has an insufficient current rating for the application and it is overheating. Inductors have a bunch of loss mechanisms that contribute to heating. Depending on the type of metal used to build the core, it can 'hard saturate' and effectively walk itself off a cliff once the current draw gets too high. At some point, it gets hot enough to desolder itself from the circuit board. It's possible they did not see this in validation because the power draw of SSDs depend heavily on the work load and process variations in the chips; erase current can have a fairly wide variation.

fwiw, voiding of solder joints is a problem. The solder is applied as a paste - fine particles of metal solder suspended in solder flux. During reflow the flux evaporates and leaves the metal behind, but if the process isn't tuned right bubbles of gas can be trapped in the joint. This can lead to reliability problems. It can also increase the effective thermal resistance to the circuit board, which for tiny components like this can often be the primary path for heat removal during normal operation.

[1] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/pulse-electronics...
How do you determine if some clothing is expensive or not?

Clothes that don't look expensive are often surprisingly expensive. Dont just price based on what it looks like.
Yeah, the colour choices were pretty random, I need to clean it up.

X11 visuals are severely annoying. I get they made sense in the 80's and 90's - I spent time in computer labs where the machines ranged from monochrome to SGI Indy's, with 8-bit palette, and 15 and 16 bit direct color displays in between, but I'm all for just assuming 32-bit bgra is available these days.

Any server supporting XRender needs to support it anyway as it's one of the standard formats for XRender. (I don't know if you've looked at the XRender library code, though, but one of the things that made me facepalm was that even though it requires a handful of standard visuals, the new Xrender call that returns the visuals for Xrender does not just return a list of the handful of standard formats as part of the response - you need to filter the full list of visuals and match them to depths and bit masks... Not that it's a lot of code, but it just so aggravatingly pointless)

> what do you think an idiomatic ruby binding for yeso would look like?

I think a bit of a mix between the Python and Lua would get you pretty close. Don't look at "my" X11 client for idiomatic Ruby :) It was "inherited" from an older client, and it's very closely following the protocol more so than idiomatic Ruby, and I'll eventually try to massage it into something nicer.

To take your examples, we'd probably want to use blocks. E.g. I could see the munching squares example looking something like this in
Ruby:

def munch(t, fb)
fb.each_row do |y|
fb.each_col do |x|
fb[x,y] = ...
end
end
end

You could also use the approach you use more directly, and I'm sure nobody would think that was weird either:

def much (t,fb)
fb.each_row do |y, p|
fb.each_col do |x|
p[x] = ...
end
end
end

For the main bit, "new" will always directly return the window,
but it's not unreasonable to then either `yield self if block_given?` in the constructor to allow similar code to your Python version:

Yeso::Window.new(...) do |w| .. and so on; end

or wrap that in a class method:

Yeso::Window.create(...) do |w|
(0..).each {|t| w.frame {|fb| much(t,fb) } }
end

(Endless infinite range is "new" since 2.6)

The class method vs. constructor only really buys you that you can make it slightly harder to accidentally keep the object around since you can prevent it from being directly returned. I think overall that's probably the most common approach even when the constructor
supports taking a block directly.
Were they really getting 16000 texture-mapped polys on a DX2?
Somehow, I think any (anti-)correlation between the two will be due to a common dependence on a third variable, rather than one causing the other.
The Horatio Alger school do economics. All BS, all the time, but orthodoxy nonetheless and the basis of conservative and libertarian economic thinking.
I would have probably opened it if it weren't for the title bait.
If I open a forum and see it is Discourse, I immediately close it. What was wrong with distinct boards and clear categories?

And you can leave your endless scrolling on facesbook where it belongs.
Do you know that Gucci has on-line store, also available 24/7 from your living room?
2000kg is also much more than the annual per capita co2 budget if we’re to have any hope of maintaining a world with a reliable food supply (even in wealthy countries), let alone the other problems that are coming (infrastructure destruction via extreme weather, etc).
Grocery stores used to be the king of cash.

It was not uncommon for someone to show up with their paycheck to do their weekly shopping, handing it over to the cashier and taking the rest in change. The amount of cash that worked through a busy grocery store must have been pretty amazing.
"I'm skeptical that losing one capacitor in the array would cause the failure mode you're describing."

Depends on what the capacitor is being used for in the circuit. In many cases, having a cap fail open results in a higher current draw which kills the unit if left in operation for too long. This is the case on some of the off-road lighting I manufacture. If one cap is present and fails open at ground, the circuit overloads. If the cap is connected to ground but not the rest of the circuit, the circuit doesn't operate.

Regardless, one component being off can cause a whole chain of maladies.
A different way to advertise.
I think you’re both expressing the same concept :)

37 is the median factor, it doesn’t mean that 37 is the actual second prime of 50% of numbers. The OP probably missed “median”, I know I did
Reddit users/mod are so toxic >>

I left the platform already :)
If you don't deploy WAFs, you ain't gonna be SOC2 compliant. So, pick your poison.
The latent space podcast is really good. They have some top notch guests and ask insightful questions. They also feel pretty grounded compared to a lot of the hype.
The hottest 12 months so far.
I think what has been lost is that instead of a slave (not my terminology, it's the one in TFA btw)

Actually, it is your terminology! I used the word 'servant' not 'slave'.

It was a deliberate choice. My commentary was more about how our visual presentation now takes centre stage, often at the expense of displaying information clearly or usefully. This is a mindset shift and not really a technical issue. So master/slave didn't fit, as that has more precise technical definitions; database replication, disk arrangements, etc.
Put the overage in the safe.

I’m sure the exact policy adopted, if any, depends on a number of factors such as how often cash is used and typical purchase size.
They suck at privacy, and they are indeed relatively new to hardware game, but I'd say they are better at security than you think, on par or even better than Apple. Like Apple SoC, it has a dedicated security chip. The new Pixel 8 even implements Memory Tagging Extension, which iPhone doesn't yet have. And they do all this while allowing you to install third party rom. It's how projects like GrapheneOS can exist.
Working from uncertain organic memory, but yes, the other screens look much better.

I've actually always been quite fond of the concept of Oberon --- wondering if this implementation might work well for a potential future pet/side project: making a graphical front-end for METAPOST/METAFONT.
I nominate 120 as "most interesting integer". For obvious reasons.
Chrome hasn't required "1 SCT from a google log" since April 15th 2022
HVM looks very interesting. Thx for posting.
Question: Does resetting infotainment systems and head units clear the message history, or is everyone permanently unable to remove the info car systems have grabbed?

I hope that this isn't a situation where you have no control, -as that means most people, who don't know that cars do this- wouldn't be able to do a thing even once informed- and are vulnerable to data breaches, now and in the future as cars storing various data expands.
Most minerals can be re-extracted from our ruins; energy resources are irreplaceable, but mining former cities for steel and copper is likely to be easier than purifying them from ground deposits.
> The PPC ISA is huge, with a vast number of instructions (hundreds), which implies a lot of energy-sucking decoder circuitry -- and data path too.

Not necessarily. It depends on how regular (orthogonal) the instruction formats are. Highly regular (few formats) = easy to decode even if there are many instructions.

But for example x86 has many different instruction formats and -lengths. Decoding all those does come at a cost.

RISC-V is very good in this regard. There's even "embedded" variants that drop half the register set (RV64E, which imho doesn't make much sense, and RV32E which does).

And there's some projects having a go at designing a 16-bit variety (to compete with legacy 8-bit ISAs perhaps?). Remains to be seen if that ever becomes a standard though.
Mathematicians are locked in bitter struggle between the Zeroastrians who believe additive identity blesses 0 as truly the most foundational and therefore interesting integer, while the Unitarians favor multiplicative identity and thus champion 1. Uncountable souls have been lost to the conflict between these two groups.
This prompt has been in Android for years...At least as far back as the Galaxy S1 and the Pixel 1.

The prompt is relatively new for iPhones though. I've had plenty of rental cars where Apple users' entire phonebooks had been uploaded to the car.
there isn't any carbon or water in earth's core

hydrocarbons are energetically stable on titan because it's oxygen-deficient, a reducing environment. earth's surface is, by contrast, an oxidizing environment

the deep hot biosphere is unrelated

abiogenic petroleum prooduction is still not as well understood as you suggest
I am not sure how that analogy is supposed to work, would you mind if I handed you a knife at 900F when they're forged around 1000F and above?
Why preserve what you wish not to remember.
Well, it's mostly impossible -- i guess that's a certain sort of way it isnt hard.
Eyjafjallajökull sends its regards.
Hopefully, it is time that quality control in the industry reaches parity with other industries.
12

Smallest abundant number
Here’s the BMW “scooter”. Saw one in Paris >20 years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bmw_C1
It's one way that people try to be vague for privacy reasons. But feel free to use a more specific term if you're comfortable releasing that bit of information.
EVs:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lifeti...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...

> Based on a series of assumptions, the data showed that a Tesla Model 3 in the United States, for example, would need to be driven for 13,500 miles (21,725 km) before it does less harm to the environment than a Toyota Corolla.

> The model was developed by the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago and includes thousands of parameters from the type metals in an electric vehicle (EV) battery to the amount of aluminium or plastic in a car.

> Argonne's Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Technologies (GREET) model is now being used with other tools to help shape policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board, the two main regulators of vehicle emissions in the United States.

> Jarod Cory Kelly, principal energy systems analyst at Argonne, said making EVs generates more carbon than combustion engine cars, mainly due to the extraction and processing of minerals in EV batteries and production of the power cells.

TLDR ~1-2 years of driving, more upfront carbon emissions in manufacturing EVs but lower lifetime emissions overall.

PV:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09218... ("Implications of Trends in Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROI) for Transitioning to Renewable Electricity")

> Recent papers argue that the energy return on energy invested (EROI) for renewable electricity technologies and systems may be so low that the transition from fossil fuelled to renewable electricity may displace investment in other important economic sectors. For the case of large-scale electricity supply, we draw upon insights from Net Energy Analysis and renewable energy engineering to examine critically some assumptions, data and arguments in these papers, focussing on regions in which wind and solar can provide the majority of electricity. We show that the above claim is based on outdated data on EROIs, on failing to consider the energy efficiency advantages of transitioning away from fuel combustion and on overestimates of storage requirements. EROIs of wind and solar photovoltaics, which can provide the vast majority of electricity and indeed of all energy in the future, are generally high (≥ 10) and increasing. The impact of storage on EROI depends on the quantities and types of storage adopted and their operational strategies. In the regions considered in this paper, the quantity of storage required to maintain generation reliability is relatively small.
I used to work for Myricom in the 2000s, and used to attend these as an exhibitor/vendor. The exhibits were amazing in terms of seeing new, cutting edge tech from small (and large) companies. I really miss going to these.
What's wrong with the WD ones? I have a bunch of them and never had any problems
Others already posted the resolved links, but out of interest I tried resolving them using ChatGPT which worked surprisingly well:

https://chat.openai.com/share/29c10bb1-9576-43aa-9a19-e672f3...
What's wrong with Computational Notebooks? [pdf]
Superbol-studio-OSS: COBOL LSP, VSCode extension and Emacs mode
Many of us had geek code ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code ) attached to our sig files.

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12 GCS d- s+:+ a++ C++ U? P++ L+ E--- N M++ 5++ e++ h+
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

And it can go on from there to some rather elaborate ones ( https://www.joereiss.net/geek/geek.html ) - depends on how much you're interested in putting in there.
I would think for companies default should be:

- Pay the tax we think you owe, or go directly to jail

- if you can prove later that you overpaid, we will give you a rebate on taxes over the next N years

- if the government is consistently getting your tax estimate wrong (in your view), then perhaps your tax-avoidance games aren't such a good idea after all
For the sake of being precise - the “form_with” is not equivalent to the presented HTML. The form_with helper injects an additional hidden input element that makes sure that the form cannot be submitted “illegally”.