skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wearing only underwear and socks, I had the opportunity last year to do a guided ice plunge following breathing exercises. One curious piece is we were instructed to keep our hands above the water, supposedly it helps your body something with hypothermia regulation.

It was stressful until I put my head under. The experience became amazing, I felt fantastic, and the entire event became a blast. I told everyone I'd start doing it weekly, which of course never happened. But I recommend more people give it a try.

A fun side fact for those knowing University of Wisconsin Madison -- the established outdoor activities club is called Hoofer's, but my friend named his ice plunge club "Hoffer's", appropriately named after Wim Hof. Hoofer's gave him a laughably hard time over affront, but he hasn't backed down.
That wasn't new in 2012, I can remember it being discussed back in 2006 and that SUV graph continues back in time to around 1985-1990 or so.

Doubt they manage to close the loophole, it is too profitable.
Yes, that's why I said I realized they weren't quite the same situation, while adding another example of a situation where people create hard to follow structures.
Check out BirdNET [1] and BirdWeather as well. BirdNET is from Cornell University and there's a version of it for the Raspberry Pi [2]. BirdWeather [3] combines all the publicly available BirdNET instances into a nifty map view.

[1] https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

[2]
https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi

[3] https://www.birdweather.com/
The payment thing just boggles my mind. I've been paying at card readers at a gas pump for 20 years now and exactly once did it not work. It's the one thing that has been completely solved in industry, and it doesn't work with EVs.
I am not sure the ideal solution here. I do not like data caps in theory or practice, but I can see the CSPs thinking here: get paid for network usage somehow.

It just seems absurd since they are monetizing every part they can (insert capitalism is to drive revenue to shareholders rant here) that is wholly owned by each customer. VMs, IPs, disks, and databases are easy enough to say who owns what. But after that, the networking should be a shared service that is amortized by other product billables.

There is no real incremental cost to sending data in/out of CSPs so this feels like pure profiteering. They need networking for stuff to work, the fiber is already there, and they are billing for network resources. It is getting blood from a stone and reducing ability to flea, errrrm, migrate.

Maybe we return to the old days of mobile service and texting schemes. Free data ingress/egress on nights and weekends (or whenever traffic is less).
if the amount of human and financial capital invested in ridesharing and autonomous vehicles was instead invested in mass transit in the US, nyc wouldn't be the only city in the nation where not owning a car is a (legitimate, long term) option without sacrifices
Self-driving cars by Christmas! General AI by new Years!
There's a pretty famous StackOverflow question/answer about branch prediction failure: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processi...
Anyone work on EV chargers? Other than cable damage or mechanical damage to the plugs, there are no moving parts. So what specifically inside is likely to stop functioning or needs regular repairs/replacement/maintenance?
Sorry I was trying to rewrite for clarity and said encoder instead of controller.

If you naively emulate (as Telsa surely would) a 1:1 fully locking diff in software it will suck to drive. Electronic limited slip diffs already exist, like the Jeep FD/AD systems, which will use tire rotation sensors to determine forward momentum.

Now that I think about it, the Ford is probably already doing this.
To all westerners fearing that the CCP will eat the free world, I say. Be optimistic. The current China is basically 70 years old. It's likely it will break on the first hiccup.
I think you misunderstand. The default in your correspondent's country is for people to be organ donors.
Well google does not allow any access to Android's RCS API, and basically uses a non open source extension for encryption. So yes, if they wanted RCS to not be their own little fiefdom, they would've just done so. Theres absolutely no reason to not allow access to the API except for lock in. I think only Samsung has a deal with them to actually be able to use RCS in their messaging app.
Maybe people only need to hire you when they have problems, and the ones where things went well don't need your help?
You could be right; I'd hope the competition vetted the entries. But 16 isn't really a child. There's a lot of variation, but there are a lot of very talented people that age or even younger.
Sure, this could definitely be a generalization of "public" and "private".
This is the shittiest post I've seen on HN.
AutoCAD does have a command line, though. The most common commands have names one or two characters long, and you can use Space instead of Enter, so it's really comfy, you can dedicate one of your hands entirely to the mouse, and use the keyboard with the other one.

Once activated, these commands start asking for arguments, which you can select with similar short abbreviations, or pick a point with the mouse.

You also have customizable toolbars, which can be placed both horizontally and vertically around the drawing area, and you can pick which buttons you want exposed and which you don't need (often).

The menus are mostly to help you explore the available functionality while you are still a beginner. Also, having a fixed location for a piece of functionality makes it easier to refer to it in a book, for example.

This was twenty years ago, though. I remember there was a push to make it more Windows-looking with every new release (It's Unix native, IIRC). Maybe, by now, it's a joke. I don't know.
>And my favorite fun fact: The "fish" object in Factorio is a useless joke item, but because it isn't used by anything, it's sometimes used as a null value, a flag for when a belt has completed a full loop, or a debugging tool. https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=544302#p544302

1. Fish is a crafting item for spidertron, it's not completely useless.
2. In multiplayer, the standard null-value item is the deconstruction planner (which is a big red square). I guess some people might use fish, but I've never seen it. It helps that deconstruction planners are free, nowadays, if you click the red button at the bottom-screen UI.
3. Fish is incredibly useful for fighting in early-game - if a nest won't stop bugging you, just go to the nearest pond, grab a few dozen fish, and you're basically invincible for a few minutes as long as you spam fish whenever you reach low health. Make sure to bring extra pistol ammo though, otherwise killing the nests will take ages (you can melee them to death but it deals even less damage than pistols).
> Sorry, shut down because of costs $$$. Prerecorded queries can be run as fallback.

you flew too close to the sun, clearly :)
It's incredible work especially from a young animator. But I find some "mechanic motion" part of the animation specially unrealistic. For example, when the hammer goes down to hit something, it should keep accelerating to a sudden stop; but in the video it's like a simple harmonic motion; similarly, I don't feel any resistance when the machine is dealing with the dough. I don't know if it's just me, but unrealistic details like this always gives me a "nail on chalkboard" unpleasant vibe.
Wow, that's terrible. That would be nearly impossible for me to produce, because GPs around me are sometimes booked out a week in advance.
>I hate to be the one to say it, but us starry-eyed Silicon Valley nerds aren't going to put the genie back into the bottle.

Webshit was just the beginning. Why not mastery of superintelligent agents capable of planetary-scale solutions—on the first try? We can do this.
There wasn't so much as a screen shot, nor was the system explored or restored.

This post is way below any reasonable standards for a site like this and should have been buried, not promoted to the front page.
> > The vast majority of these companies are shitty, fly-by-night companies that can't scale up to maintain their network.

> They really aren’t, it just turns out it’s a hard problem. Electrify America was founded by vw as part of the diesel gate settlement.

Except your sentence there exactly explains why Electrify America is probably the network people love to hate on the most (myself included given the number of times I've visited non-functioning EA chargers), while the Supercharger network is leaps and bounds more reliable.

Electrify America was essentially forced into existence as punishment to VW because of dieselgate. Which means it's not surprising that the folks in charge of EA had very little motivation to provide a stellar experience. Contrast this with Tesla, who sees the Supercharger network as an integral part of their business of selling cars.

As the owner of a non-Tesla EV who loves my car but is very wary of 3rd party charging networks, you really have to hand it to Tesla for their work in building out the Supercharger network. They had the foresight to realize how critically important a good charging network would be, so much so that they are now able to dictate the "North America Charging Standard" (which given the history of how that name came about takes a ton of chutzpah, but that's a discussion for another post...) for the rest of the automakers - basically all the other EV makers have announced transitions to NACS.

So, yes, it may be debatable to call the other charging networks "fly-by-night" companies, but I'll definitely agree with the "shitty" aspect. There are just tons and tons and tons of non-functioning chargers, and the comparison with the reliability of Superchargers is extremely stark.
Just a guess -- probably the ones mentioned such as dropping webpacker, typescript
This is definitely a common thing these days. I'll mention that as someone diagnosed (within the last year) the same is true about me. But what's also distinguishing is that there's hyper-observant behavior. For example I might be out with friends and having a hard time maintaining a conversation because I'm queued into the conversations at the table to my left and to my right. Not because I want to, but because I can't turn it off. I've been like that since a kid too. Even back in 2005 I'd have the TV on, my laptop out, and be doing homework while clicking through Stumble Upon. So I definitely think there are aspects of our modern society that are creating an attention deficit disorder at a larger level but I think there are still things that distinguish ADHD from attention/novelty addiction. But don't be afraid to get tested if you think you have ADHD, it'll be covered by your insurance and can help you learn to better handle your issues.

But I definitely think we do need a discussion, especially as the people developing these addictive technologies, as to the consequences of what we build. Maybe you shouldn't take that job at TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, or Facebook, maybe you should. Just consider more than the money because if you can get one of those jobs you can probably get another high paying job. Or maybe question certain features and/or metrics and ask if they actually align with your real goals and if those goals are actually beneficial or harmful (it's frequently not obvious a priori). Move fast and break things is a useful strategy but not in every situation. Not everything can be repaired as easily as they can be broken.
Definitely, that's a pattern in many programming languages (including, increasingly, in Python). And in dependently-typed languages, you actually can obtain a proof of validity that gets erased at runtime, leaving nothing but basic unboxed data to be executed.

However that's not always an option in all languages or situations, and it's hard to encode conditions like "must only be called while an event loop is running" that way.

I'm envisioning this partly as kind of a catch-all/fallback mechanism that can either be bolted on a language that doesn't have these kinds of features. But it's not always the case that you can effectively communicate contextual requirements through the types of function parameters, and this would cover that case as well.

If you want to reduce this to anything, it's a workaround for not having monads in your language, with some tradeoffs around composability and dynamic extent.
Unfortunately inflation will never be over. Some economist somewhere came up with the idea that people need to be encouraged to spend our invest their money. And you can do that by slowly making the cost of things go up, reducing the buying power of a dollar. Which forces you to spend it or save it, Rather than stick it under your mattress.
But why? I think most people will want to invest their money. And a few will suck it under their mattress, but enough will want to invest it, to keep it circulating.
We really need to stop forcing inflation
The techniques are the same, just in reverse order.
I think there's a "the world is entirely grey" presumption here that prevents the full analysis. You're not treating "it depends" as the fully-fledged position that it is. If you did you would see that there are now three positions the originals X, Y, and a new one Z that are incompatible. They can't all be right. X and Y have lots of supporters, why do you presume your new position Z to be correct simply because it lies on one of many possible lines to draw between X and Y?

Surely for any real world issue the positions X and Y were the result of someone else's seeing the nuance but landed in a different place than you did.
>On top of the shortage was Hertz's botched EV initiative, so there was only one Chevy Volt available

The Chevy Volt, a plug in hybrid discontinued four years ago, or the Chevy Bolt, an electric vehicle?
I guess I always look at UI as like movies. Sure, we know a good movie when we see it, and "everyone" knows what a good movie is. Yet that's totally wrong as one person's "Dumb and Dumber" is another person's "Titanic" - and you should look at that comment from both perspectives.

People still make bad movies that should be good. And make good movies that should be bad. If it was easy, everyone would make good movies.
The GPTs are good at interpolative and extrapolative generalization, owing to the manifold of the training data. They can't do abstractive, inductive, abductive generalizations. And those are the more common forms of generalizations that humans can do.
> It would be nice to see a push for biodegradable pesticides and herbicides.

most mordern pesicides and herbicides (including glycophosphate) are tecnically biodegradable. the real question is under what conditions?
The nuance where disinformation and lies have convinced you the wrong people blew up a hospital [parking lot]?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio...
The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures
X, YouTube, and Meta all have the same policy?

Jesus fucking Christ. If any of you work at any of these places you are part of the problem.
> The menus are mostly to help you explore the available functionality while you are still a beginner.

Yes, this is one of the most valuable parts of a proper menu system: it’s basically an index of everything a program can do, and it can even be made searchable (like the menus of any app using the native menubar on macOS is).

Menus are also an amazing hook point for accessibility utilities and make things like implementing a HUD UI that works across apps (like Ubuntu’s Unity did) trivial.
Strangely, I find this true with dead people. A real corpse usually looks fake to me. A fake corpse, real.
Actual title: “Physics reveals secret of how nature helped sculpt the Great Sphinx of Giza”
I drove from Houston to San Diego and back a year ago in my EV6, limiting myself to Electrify America chargers (as I had 1000KW credit, and they seemed to be the only option close to the freeway). It was fine, though most locations had around 1/4 of the stalls inoperable.

In the last year, the EA locations here in Houston have been terrible, with many stalls broken or in low-speed maintenance mode. (Thankfully I charge at home most of the time)

I drove from Houston to Dallas and back this weekend, the first time I've done a road trip since last year. All of the EA spots seemed to be in much better shape than in Houston. I'm guessing EA allocates more resources to keep those going, given the criticality for drivers in those locations.
I don't think anyone on here honestly hates or even truly resents good IT doing hard work and trying to keep the systems safe in good faith. Everyone knows it's a thankless job and that some frustrations will exist. I don't expect every single IT person to approve everything I need immediately. Things like cybersecurity are obviously important.

They're talking about those that play all the management games and add little if any value. Those that have a title like Senior Developer who can't write basic code. Those that can't understand the basics of their jobs and can't support the systems they're supposed to. Sure they might make the overall company more secure as a result of their behavior, but it's a byproduct and not the intent. It makes being a business SME a living hell as there is always so much friction to just doing anything on your computer. We're probably all venting a bit collectively.
My first thought was, "I wonder whether a car wash is good for laundering money."
Okay let's say you recognize it as a broom. What does "sweep" even mean for this context? Is there a separate dustpan button after? Why not just the trash iconography?
It will only work once you plug it into the Blockchain.
Contrast this with Tesla who built everything in-house and has an exceptional service record with their charging network. Vertical integration has its perks.
If the creator posts original content to reddit then perhaps. However if some random other person posts it then probably not. A screenshot or photograph taken from somewhere else would not be licensed, eg most memes.

If I watch a movie and it shows an artwork in the background of a scene is that licensed (there are been lawsuits along these lines)? If I hear music being played loudly by someone else is that licensed?

What exactly am I licensed to do with a magazine I find by the side of the road? Or a random webpage I just read?

Lots of edge cases. Copyright Law made a lot more sense when they only people creating and publishing content were a few companies. Not the entire population
This is not correct. It is about all dishwashers, but professional ones seem to lack a cleansing cycle after rinse aid is applied, thus the concentration of resulting rinse aid is higher. A consumer dishwasher is also used in their tests, but the concentration was much less than the professional dishwasher - however, they tested with 20g of rinse aid and used assumptions of the number and volume of washing cycles from their test dishwasher. A deviation of 10% difference in since water could increase the concentration significantly, by a factor of ~2 or more depending on the final rinsing stage.

So, in their example, the results in consumer dishwashers fell in the 1:40,000 - 1:80,000 dilution range. But, that does not necessarily apply to a different brand of dishwasher with a different method of rinsing. A 10% savings in the rinse cycle water might move that ratio into the 1:20,000 - 1:40,000 range (which is within the range of having an significant effect). So, I interpret this as not dismissing of consumer dishwashers, but rather indicating more careful study is needed.
Justin Sun Led Poloniex Set to Resume Operations After Recent Hack
In the latest update, Poloniex stated that the platform is now running smoothly.
Poloniex has engaged the services of a top-tier security auditing firm.
Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, owned by Justin Sun, is set to resume operations following a significant hack in November 10th, as per an official announcement on today.

The platform has made substantial progress in restoring services after the breach that resulted in a loss of over $100 million. In the latest update, Poloniex stated that the platform is now running smoothly, with efforts focused on resuming deposit and withdrawal services.
> The fastest (affordable) network solution means using 10 GbE ...

That's one of those "it depends" things. If you only have a small number of computers that need connecting, and you're ok with using 2nd hand gear... then 40GBe Mellanox adapters from Ebay are pretty affordable. eg stuff like this (there's a bunch):

* https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/293393033570

* https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/175163685084

Note - I don't know those sellers at all.
Yes, will do, Im buying Barbie too.
Criticism of GUI design trends like this is always attacked for being out of touch -- "you just want everything to cater to your weird taste", "most of the users aren't experts", "iOS enabled my papa to send emails, he never even worked out how to turn on the Macintosh II SE", and so on -- this comes from a well-intentioned place but doesn't really hold up under scrutiny.

The problems described here are problems for less-experienced/non-technical/casual users, too.
In fact, it seems reasonable to assume that friction arising from the design of the UI will have a greater impact on non-expert users. Highly proficient and experienced users are able to work around problems more easily, recognise the (changed) patterns more easily, etc. They are also more able to articulate what the problems are and are more likely to dedicate time to doing so.

When your non-technical family member faces some inscrutable change to their workflow, they seek your help to get their task done, not to analyse the design or intent behind the UI -- and you know that, so you use your expertise to adapt their workflow to the new design and they thank you for it.

When your professional family member faces some inscrutable change to their workflow, they tell you how shit software is these days and find a solution on their own.

So on one hand you hear "help me get my thing done" and on the other you hear "software used to be better". It's not surprising that people treat the cases differently -- even though both are problems stemming from UI design decisions.

editendum: I guess it's worth pointing out explicitly that usability is not universal. Some software is complicated because it's for doing complicated work.
Do you think you're smarter than the rest of the team combined? You can't make the "correct" decision by yourself. And then everything gets more complicated.
Article mentions canned bread. I just tried one the other day, a surprisingly normal looking grocery store can given to me by a Massachusetts native who grew up often having toasted canned brown bread with butter. It was not quite as bad as I was expecting.
No, they don't. They just cut you out of their social circle. :)
Think of small websites like those cool, hidden gardens you sometimes find in a neighborhood. They're not famous, but when you find one, it's special. They're made with care, not for fame. It's like that with our little websites. We build them for fun, for ourselves, and for the few who might wander in and smile at what they see. That's what makes them awesome, not how many people visit