skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Career thieves wouldn't scour a park for wallets, no, but many people are opportunistic thieves. If they happen upon money with no one in sight, they'll just take it, without thinking it's a big deal.

The case in the article matches the second model, not the first. Hundreds of people realised they were in a library with no staff. Two-hundred books were taken out, presumably without anyone having to log their names. That would have made it extremely easy for them to just keep the books. But they were returned.

Having few opportunistic thieves is, one would think, a good sign of societal trust and well-being.

I'll just mention that security at UK university libraries is fairly tight, I know people who have accidently taken out books without logging them, and just kept them, and there have been cases at Cambridge where quite high-value books have gone missing.
There's the sigma fp which is the smallest I believe.
EXACTLY! I said the same thing above. The very idea of this is nonsense. An AI can't tell me what I don't understand.
Hollywood Actors Reach Agreement with Studios, Streamers to End Strike
"How is unconstrained growth at all costs not part of this?"

It may be a part, but it may also be a lazy ideological distraction.

For example, here north of the Alps, a significant factor in the total CO2 budget is heating of homes, which cannot be offshored and cannot be simply banned; previous generations had this problem, too, and they cut down most of the primeval forests for the same purpose. (Europe is now significantly more forested than in the 16th century.)

Looking back at my childhood in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, our heating was notoriously dirty, burning low-quality coal directly in houses, streets full of stinking smoke. Our centrally planned economy stagnated (degrowth!), so replacing old dirty coal-based equipment with something more modern was economically challenging.
Try for yourself! It might be very instructive, even if you can't reproduce this exact same issue. Install an RTL locale and keyboard setting (Arabic is more funky with the cursive script where letters change form after you input the _next_ letter, Hebrew is not, so it might be easier to recognize some issues). Either way, you don't need to know the language, just bang on the keyboard to produce some text. Or copy from somewhere.

Now try to: enter numbers in the text (they are LTR at least in those two RTL locales). Try to select a passage with both text and numbers. Try to copy and paste words from, say, Arabic Wikipedia in the middle of English text, and vice versa. Enter parenthesis, especially near newlines. I don't know about you, but my intuition about where text will get inserted is sometimes quite wrong.

Don't be alarmed if things work differently in different applications. Or perhaps, be. I still haven't figured out how to input RTL and LTR text properly in Slack using Firefox (I don't know which party to blame, even: me, browser, or Slack).
A similar "trick" was used on some 8-bit home computers for passing (optionally variable-length) data to operating system calls.

For instance on the KC85/2..4 operating system (CAOS) the equivalent of "puts()" expects the "syscall index" and zero-terminated text to print after the call instruction, e.g.:

CALL 0F003H ; call into generic "syscall" entry
DEFB 23H ; "syscall" identifier
DEFM 'HELLO WORLD!'
DEFW 0D0AH ; newline
DEFB 00 ; end of text
NOP ; execution continues here

The syscall dispatcher would pop the return address from the stack and that way discover the data. Before the syscall returns, a modified return address which points to the first byte after the data is pushed back on the stack.

Only downside of this approach was that disassemblers would get terribly confused, unless they had specific knowledge about this CAOS peculiarity.
Happy to hear this!
> “Now that we know what structural and electronic properties are needed...there is good likelihood that we will find earth-abundant alternatives to this rhenium-based material.”

Unfortunately the rarest of rare materials, but the above quote does point out that it shows us what’s possible even if it isn’t viable yet.
We can barely detect exoplanets, much less rings on them. Even Saturn's rings were only recently better understood.
Where does Google Maps get its trail information? Near me, I saw a several mile long trail on national park land that I couldn't find on any other trails site including the national park website. I explored the trail; it exists, has signs, and even a name but good luck finding any information about it other than that squiggle on Google Maps.
The public internet has always been garbage dude. Ever since eternal september in 93. The trick is a good filter. It seems like you lucked into some good filters in the past, but forgot to rotate them when they stopped working
I remember when Facebook did research to show causation between newsfeed items and mental health. Everyone reviled them for “running dangerous manipulative experiments on human beings”.

After that, I bet they definitely want to avoid the same bad PR. It would be worse if they ran it on children, and someone died during the course of their experiment.
It can...
I think vim is unintentionally a great “embodiment” for chatgpt. There’s nothing that can’t be done with a stream of text, and the internet is full of vimscript already

I started a similar experiment if anyone else is thinking along the same lines :)

https://github.com/LachlanGray/vim-agent
Show HN: Cookie Clicker AI clone, using GPTs custom bots
For fun I made an AI version of the viral game Cookie clicker.

I spent no more than about 20 minutes on it, using the recent openAI GPTs custom bot feature.

I think it would be cool to show off, as an example of something that is possible with only a small amount of work, and zero coding.

Link: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-g0b22bvqB-cookie-clicker
Well yes, as said here, it's more of a linker thing and not so much a language or assembly thing. On Windows you could do the below to have a single, executable, readable and writable section. Not sure whether it still works anno 2023.

It's generally considered a bad idea from a security standpoint

#pragma comment(linker,"/MERGE:.data=.text /MERGE:.rdata=.text /MERGE:.flat=.text /SECTION:.text,EWR ")
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Isn't Black 4.0 supposed to be about as black (absorbs 99.96% of visible light) as Vantablack, even though it's just "a paint"? (I have no idea what it's made of)
solar thermal is dead tho

just like other thermal power plants, it's too expensive to compete with pv and wind
Yeah, in Spain "apartamentos" refers to smaller flats; since most of the population lives in flats there's a much wider array of sizes to choose from. The typical middle class family-sized flat is about 80-120 m2, 900-1300 sqft.
The thing in parenthesis seems to be 100% true.
Yes, 100 times yes. This is one of the big issues with the modern world, that no risk at all is acceptable. And that's bullshit. So many things that are enormous amounts of fun can get shut down because maybe someone gets slightly hurt some time or whatever.

Should we make things safe? yes, of course. But the trade off should not be "if there is any risk at all, then no". It should be made clear that risk exists and it's everyone's own personal responsibility to take that into account when doing something. And if I happen to be the unlucky guy for whom the risk realizes, then well, guess life sucks for me. Let's move on. That shouldn't stop everyone else from having fun.
>Problem solved.

But there is no problem. This is how the macOS file manager have always been working. If you prefer how it worked on Windows, why did you switch to macOS? When you visit a foreign country, do you go around and tell people how they do things all wrong because it's different from your home country? Isn't that entitled a bit?
That was probably the point of the article.
> As phrased, you're just making any features that use network connections illegal.

No, only features that require network connection. Which is exactly the intended outcome.
A repairability index is about as objective as can get: a list a components and their modes of failure along with a checklist of:

* what can be repaired by the owner using spare parts, instructions and common tools

* what can be repaired by an independend third party

* what must be repaired by the manufacturer

* when must something be junked and how much of it can be recycled

These are not "opinions". At some point we need to start calling out the criminal indifference of vested interests (and their shills) to the sustainability question
I have a few 100million RIPE atlas credits I don't need. So if anyone want to test it just drop me a mail with your RIPE account and I'm gladly send you a few millions. My email is in my profile.
Wow - I’ve been coding for a long time and find your assign and test really hard to parse.

In a code review I would definitely reject this.
The next time a Rust fan pokes fun about Java's verbosity, I am copy-pasting that.
Think of your visual UI as progressive enhancement on an accessible core
>We understood why there were no cctvs anywhere: they were not needed

Most likely because CCTV cameras are a legal privacy concern for which you need a license so you're not allowed to install CCTV cameras everywhere you like just because you own the business. It's the same in Germany and Austria.

At my local gym there's a warning at the entrance saying that there's CCTV surveillance on the property and that by entering the premises you accept their surveillance rules and they also post the authorization number for their surveillance license.
Yikes. Grandma, is that you?
I disagree. I mean less consumption of non-essential things like upgrades to smartphones every year, keeping 3G as opposed to 4G, 5G, no AI use, no plastic packaging, slower but functional internet, no imports of cheap things from China, no social media, etc. In other words: the reduction of mostly useless technologies on a voluntary basis.

Less imported food instead of home-grown food, less imported clothes, less new things that replace perfectly good old things...
But why build them in Darlington, when there's a big grid that could make use of new CANDU reactors, for which most of the supply chain is from Canada and its higher energy output makes it more competitive?

BWRX-300 makes more sense in smaller communities.
Planned and sustainable economy is way to go, right now be have almost all the technologies required to create efficient plans
We built an edge-optimized Postgres connector in Rust
How is it any different than credit cards?
It sounds a bit ambiguous, have you in the end triggered the alarm and had to run from the staff or have you made it out with your ill gotten gains?
My favourite game, hands down. This pleases me immensely. Can’t wait to load RTX and these new maps.
> You do see how proposing banning maps with traffic updates tanks the whole concept, right?

You have it on your phone already, the car has no reason to have its own, with its own network connection.
Have you tried musou black?

I have tried many of these and smoothness/blackness vary a great deal.

Although lately I have been making YinMn blue mostly…
I think you are missing the point intentionally.
I have seen you make many cogent points over the years, but this is just low effort failure to engage.

Regular drivers aren't collectively paying for the damages of drunk drivers. Neither is the state because they built the roads.
I agree. The hardest thing I had to learn as a professional programmer: There are multiple styles of good taste. You need to be tolerant. When I look at some GitHub code reviews, I cringe at the number of pure aesthetic (aka low value) issues that people endlessly nitpick about. It is discouraging towards contributors.

I work on a team now where the three main contributors (including myself) all have _reasonably_ different programming styles (naming, whitespace, structure, const/immutable, algos). Having read enough code from the other two: I am confident they are good programmers, but their style is different from mine. Still, we try very hard to accommodate each other's style. When we make changes, we try to stay with the current style in the class / method. It has been a real learning experience for me.
> Cropping the sensor is a common way to counter rolling shutter with current camera

Not in my experience. For full-frame 35mm digital cameras, the most common way to counter electronic rolling shutter effects is, ironically, a very fast mechanical shutter.

In digital cameras with mechanical shutters, which include all Canon/Nikon/Sony/etc. consumer DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, the electronic shutter programmed to stay open for much longer than the mechanical shutter, which allows there to be a time instant when all pixels are simultaneously electronically open. The mechnical shutter then opens and closes during that time.

The rolling shutter on a Sony a7 is about 26ms. Mechanical shutters can beat that easily, and can be as fast as <0.2ms.

(Electronic shutters can be faster on a per-line basis. But they will still take 26ms to roll through the image for a rolling shutter sensor. So if your electronic shutter is set to 0.01ms you'll still be seeing 0.01ms exposures at each line but it will take 26ms to roll through the image.)
Weird artifacts and rotary motion are for all PRACTICAL purposes gone with fast, stacked shutters as in the Nikon Z9. The global shutter's main benefit is flash sync. Grain has nothing to do with global shutter....
Sony a7C. Very compact...
This is a little like saying that because blood sugar disregulation can come from T1 diabetes that it can't come from T2 diabetes.

Just because a socialist country caused pollution, doesn't mean that capitalism cannot cause pollution for its own reasons.
hmm, i hadn't heard of this before

https://www.csis.org/analysis/addressing-forced-labor-concer...

> (...) there is mounting evidence that the polysilicon produced in Xinjiang, the first step in the supply chain for solar photovoltaics, possibly uses forced labor. (...)

> Another major problem is that there is limited visibility into the actual conditions under which polysilicon is produced. In part, this is because Xinjiang is inaccessible, so it is hard to get verifiable facts on the working conditions inside factories. Much of the incredible research that has brought this topic to the surface has involved inference and triangulation.

this was two years ago; is there more reliable information since then?
Yes, I have. [1]

Have you? Have you considered that the countries at the top of the chart you linked have a lot more people in them, than the countries at the bottom of the chart you linked? Which is why the average # of births per woman, world-wide, is 2.3?

There are exactly 19 countries that had a population decline between 2015 and 2020. 13 of them were former Soviet states. One is a failed state. [2] One isn't even a country, it's a territory of the US, and anyone in it can just buy a plane ticket, and move somewhere better[3]. Three are Western European, and one is Japan. All but two (Italy and Japan) have high numbers of people trying to leave them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline#Contemporar...

[2] Or so I hear on the news.

[3] For some definitions of better, that include 'Having electricity at some point within 11 months of a hurricane making landfall.'
Teenage me loved the edginess. Adult me just finds it boring. More like a phase thing to me.
Based on the goodbye letter, it has happened enough that the admin worked with authories, and it was getting toxic enough frequently enough that the owner was feeling psychological damage from moderating it.

I'm not going to say if the boons are worth the burden, but in Leif's case it was now. And he was calling the shots at the end of the day.
It's specifically FOSTA that has harmed Omegle, killed craigslist personals and affected other sites with social networking features: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/fight-overturn-fosta-u...
An AI can teach you something you don't understand :)
individual responsibility is the way things need to be handled. Make it clear that if you do X, then there exists a risk of Y, and Z. If you still want to do the thing, and for you the risk is realized, then ... well, sucks to be you I guess. But you knew what you were getting into.

And saying, "oh, but people are bad at analyzing risk" or "some people are too stupid to understand". Well, so what?

Building a world where everyone is wrapped in a soft foam and nothing can be done because there is always some element of risk, is a terrible idea.

"You can get killed walking your doggie"
- Heat (1993)
That stuff is already mostly gone with fast stacked shutters as in the Nikon Z9. In fact, even cheaper cameras like the Panasonic G6 don't have noticeable banding.
Yes. C64 GEOS also used this a lot. They used to call it „inline calls“:

https://archive.org/details/The_Official_GEOS_Programmers_Re...
Thoughts on management, from the recent OpenAI announcement
Well, yes. The only block of countries reducing it are the EU (making our life miserable), the USA at most is maintaining it, and China, India, all of Africa and mostly all others, are pumping out more and more of it.

European are sacrificing themselves for no practical results. All in the name of appearances and what now counts as some perverted political correctness.
Kats – One stop shop for time series analysis in Python
Kats is a toolkit to analyze time series data, a lightweight, easy-to-use, and generalizable framework to perform time series analysis. Time series analysis is an essential component of Data Science and Engineering work at industry, from understanding the key statistics and characteristics, detecting regressions and anomalies, to forecasting future trends. Kats aims to provide the one-stop shop for time series analysis, including detection, forecasting, feature extraction/embedding, multivariate analysis, etc. Kats is released by Facebook's Infrastructure Data Science team. It is available for download on PyPI.

MIT licensed.
Facebook did A/B testing on psychological effects of their products a decade ago and people are still up in arms about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...

Doubt we’ll ever see them do it again.
Ask HN: How to run something like DDEV without admin rights on Windows?
Company IT departments are getting more strict regarding security and rights and Windows 11 too. For Web development WSL2 and docker based tools like Lando or DDEV are pretty good. But all these setups need admin rights and install stuff. Is there a way without admin rights?
You’d be surprised what a well optimized server can do. Moores law hasn’t stopped. 70 million is a pretty low number, when modern $40 servers can easily do 10-100k requests per second.
It was the first question in the thread, and I've been testing queries along these lines on it for a while. Interestingly, it started writing a response initially and then replaced it with that. It used to refuse to answer who Donald Trump is as well, but it seems that one has been fixed.

Another interesting line of inquiry (potentially revealing some biases) is to ask it whether someone is a supervillain. For certain people it will rule it out entirely, and for others it will tend to entertain the possibility by outlining reasons why they might be a supervillain, and adding something like "it is impossible to say definitively whether he is a supervillain" at the end.
I guess Windows was never a real desktop OS either because no developer bothered porting the entire NES library to it.
Consultation: Protecting people from illegal harms online
Next step is to just send it to work to do your job!
The store owner wants to do something nice for people and in your world the best way to handle that is making them jump through months of bureaucracy and probably paying a lot of money to their insurance and for permits and shit?

Yeah, this attitude is why we can't have nice things and building anything costs a billion dollars.
A teammate caught Covid this week, and they're now isolating.

Another teammate's family caught Covid last week.

Me and my wife caught Covid in August.

We're all vaccinated afaik (myself with 5 jabs), and thankfully we only got mild symptoms, but the problem with Covid is how easy it is for it to spread.

Do people in your life do a rapid test when they get sick? The only explanation I see for thinking that Covid has "disappeared", is that barely anyone still tests.
Black 3.0 can absorb up to 99.0% of observable light.

Musou - 99.4%

Vantablack’s S-Vis spray - 99.8%

Black 4.0 - 99.95%.

Vantablack - 99.965%
They should have put labels in front of and after the string bytes, then most assemblers would evaluate "(labelafter - labelbefore)" to a constant integer giving the length as needed. No need for a runtime sub instruction either, then.
You’re going to use company resources to create a test for your position or pull the data to support it (using resources that could be pushing forward on the business) when the CEO hates your position? That’s not generally a wise strategy for corporate executives.

Even if you have the data, this is likely all about the CEO not really wanting to hear the argument or go in this direction and not his officer’s inability to provide supporting data.
> If enough DIYers want this, wouldn’t they vote with their dollars and not buy unrepairable products?

That's not how the market works.

People mostly buy products on perceived value: price vs performance. Traits that only come into play when something goes wrong -- repairability, warranty, customer service, etc. -- are minor factors in the average consumer purchasing decision because people don't expect things to go wrong. If a given piece of, say, electronics only breaks in a reasonable timeframe 5% of the time, most people aren't going to factor in how easy to fix it is when they decide whether to buy it.

The reality is that most people only factor in a few more obvious variables in their purchasing decision. It's hard to get consumer momentum for less prominent aspects of a product to get manufacturers to change their behavior.

It's the same reason we have basic labor regulations or building/health codes, rather than relying on the market for everything. Consumers are good at applying pressure on companies for some things, sure, but not everything.
I hope valve doesn't fumble the bag with source 2, and actually makes it a viable competitor in the engine space.

My limited exposure to it (via s&box) is extremely positive, the hammer mapping tool is absolutely amazing to work with, and from what I've seen way ahead of unity / unreal on this front at-least.
Nice job! The horrors GPT-4 must endure to watch ads, truly inhumane
Sankey Diagram of US Energy Consumption
IMHO the problems usually occur when people don't feel like part of the community and being at a resort in CH should probably create some kind of sense of community as wouldn't be any outsiders since everyone there will be there because they want to be there(unlike places like Airports or roadside coffees where most people will be there because they needed the services in between the places they would like to be at).

Even in the most shitty neighbourhoods, the place can be quite safe for residents if there's no high churn rate.
This is addiction mechanics at play. Like an individual who won't think of changing until hitting rock bottom and even then it's a toss up.

Society won't be serious about climate change until disastrous levels are reached. And even then we'll have plenty of actors willing to burn fossil fuels clandestinely. We're in for a rough ride for the next century or so.