skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The space is big, but time is vast too. There was a time in the universe when the entire universe averaged a temperature conducive to life and there was oxygen, carbon, and other crucial elements available (although not as plentiful as now). Life could have formed then, and largely died out. In fact life may only pop up rarely in both space and time, so rarely that it’s unlikely two planets have life within a detectable distance at the same time. In fact it’s even possible a highly advanced civilization formed on the earth many millions of years ago, and at those time scales all detectable traces of its existence would be wiped out. The scales of time and space are so vast we fail to comprehend how infinitesimal our scales are and make huge assumptions about what’s plausible based on our scales projected to universal scales. That’s geocentric!

Also, possible doesn’t mean plausible. Objects can teleport to the moon through quantum principles it’s just so unlikely it’s never actually happens in reality. Life may be such a vastly implausible thing that our existence is a miracle so improbable it beggars the imagination.
What's broken about the current way messaging landscape is?
I wonder how the QC these chips. Digital chips can run vectors and show that every bit is exactly a 1 or 0 as expected. With an analog chip, each weight, each multiplication, each summation can produce a range of outputs depending on temperature, voltage, and process. I'm sure they have done everything they can to minimize these issues, but they will always be non-trivial.

Of course, the organic neural networks in our brains have all these issues and more and still do fine. On the other hand, our brains have billions of years of evolution that results in them being fault tolerant in ways that this chip can replicate at all.
>> Pit bulls were bred for a specific purpose, to fight until death.

>I think you need to learn more about pit bulls.

What part of "Pit bulls were bred for a specific purpose, to fight until death." don't you understand?

>As for the kid, I have already pointed out in multiple posts elsewhere in this thread that if these people are worried about their kid, they should find the dog another home.

"We're trying to rehome this sweet widdle pibble that bit our kid in the face after living with her for 3 years" - sure, that's going to go well.

>It's their fault that they brought a kid into their home where the dog had already lived for three years (which, as I have also pointed out elsewhere in this thread, is stressful for any dog, no matter what breed) and didn't manage the situation properly.

You're making up in your head that the parents "didn't manage the situation properly" - there was nothing to suggest that in the story. And again, and again, and again: That kid is lucky to be alive because it was a pitbull. If it were a small breed that wasn't bred to fight until death, the girl wouldn't have been in nearly as much danger. I commend the parents for waking up and realizing the real danger this dog breed is well known for, and doing the right thing.

But you're right that the parents should have gotten rid of that murder-dog before the kid was born, but really they should have picked another breed to begin with. r/banpitbulls
Call me naive but I find that the term ADHD has become far too general and overused. It’s a common scapegoat for what could otherwise be described as bad habits for a lot of people.
I've run into more failures than that at gas pumps, but it is mostly rare like you say. However in almost all cases, they're on the same network as the gas station POS, and I assume hard-wired. The card readers I see at EV spots seem to less durable, similar to the card readers you see on vending machines. I bet they mostly are using cellular to communicate.
For someone who doesn't have an openai account, what can this do?
I paid for this and tried it on one of our main pages.

It did identify one point that is correct and that I have brought up with the team previously, and we are currently fixing it.

So either points like fine print being too small I think we're not correct and it doesn't understand the use of such a section.

Also the screenshot is of the page not loaded correctly.
It's pretty settled precedent that leasing or owning tangible property in a state or county creates a tax nexus. But what form those taxes take—and the tax rate and available credits—does vary.

Expect to pay property taxes (usually annually) on the value of the equipment in all but 11 states[0].

Independent of property tax, most also expect you to either pay sales tax when you buy the equipment in-state, or pay use tax when you bring it into the state (possibly with a credit for sales tax already paid elsewhere). Some states have passed exemptions specifically for data center equipment, e.g. Pennsylvania[1].

If your home state is one of ~23 that's a member of "streamlined sales tax"[2], you don't have to fill out a separate sales tax return for each member state in which you have a nexus. (But thanks to South Dakota v. Wayfair[3], you may be required to collect sales tax in other states anyways, regardless of the nexus created by your data center presence.)

[0]: See Table 1 here for a list: https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/states-moving-a...

[1]: https://www.revenue.pa.gov/IncentivesCreditsPrograms/Compute...

[2]: https://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair%2C_Inc...
That's a bit like saying that the Spanish Armada was "defeated in battle by women" because Elizabeth I was on the throne at the time.
You still don't get it. EU wants interoperable standards. Clear?
There are others that are shittier, eg:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37799898

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36443173
Before or after I buy that new 95" Sony OLED?
Err, NOT what I said.
Still available in the internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20231020194224/https://www.thegu...
> So the phrases are not themselves racist,

They /are/ racist. You can read about any of them on wikipedia, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
They have intercontinental ballistic missiles. If needed, they can be retrofitted with non-nuclear payload.
Yes, but as the commenter pointed out, it would take a significant amount of time.

> I'm not joking. If I plugged in the cable I carry in the back of my car, it would have taken 8-12 hours to charge up to the full 18 miles I get on my car.
I'm gonna disagree with you - accepting your definitions, Factorio has both a meta and a metagame. Because co-op can have a metagame, except instead of needing to know what your opponent will do in order to best hinder them, you need to know what your friend will do in order to best help them.

Point in case: try joining a deathworld server (with experienced players), and then spamming burner miners. Once you're immediately kicked, please ponder your statement that "there's no real 'metagame'".
Wow, that was cool. Felt like the intro to a game I'd want to play.
Yeah. Definitely in that vein - Ian's work draws on a whole lot of sci-fi/cyberpunk forebears.

He's got a pretty fantastic series of short, hilarious, and extremely useful and practical tutorials for Blender on his channel, and his Dynamo Dream project is hugely impressive - just the credit sequence of the latest episode is interesting enough that I wish it was a whole miniseries itself.

https://www.youtube.com/@IanHubert2
IMHO the state of the charging network is a major disincentive against buying any CCS equipped EV in the US. Fortunately over the next couple of years every company is switching to NACS and will in theory be able to use Tesla's charging network. This is not great news for the cars bought this year or next though, it would be like buying Betamax.
> most regular people don’t need 16GB. They don’t have a million tabs and applications open all at once

First, I don't know a lot of regular people who DON'T have 20-30 tabs open minimum. And the #1 consumer of RAM for "regular people" is browser tabs. Just a "normal" page with tons of ads is eating a tremendous amout of RAM, and most people would like to keep dozens open. Not to mention running a half dozen Electron apps at once like Slack, Teams, etc. It's been a decade plus of ever-growing OS and software bloat and Apple's base model 8GB hasn't changed in all this time. So, if 8GB was just enough then, it can't possibly be enough for those same consumers now.
Yup. But places that need proof of age (for example) will still ask for "your driver's license".
A lot of Microsoft hardware is best-in-class, strangely enough.
I was hoping for an actual giant sandworm. Shai Hulud.
Slack is not some backwater cottage industry. It's a big company with thousands of employees and millions of users - many of whom are paying good money for their software.

...and therein lies the root cause underlying the majority of these useless changes: Too many people for the amount of required work.

In much the same way that "design by committee" often leads to horribly complex abominations, I've noticed that the bigger the development team (and perhaps the company behind the product), the worse the software turns out to be; and usability is no exception.

At the other extreme, products of a single developer very rarely make hostile UI changes, because they mostly can't afford to. Then sometimes they get bought out by a bigger company, and the useless changes start showing up shortly afterwards.
> Wasm will never take off.

Already has taken off.

> having to use rust

You don't have to use Rust. There are wasm compilers for dozens of languages. C, C++, D, Java, C#, F#, Python, Go, Lua, PHP, etc.
There's a fact in the article discussing this exact point around relative rates of antimicrobial use by country:

> Australia ranks seventh-highest in the developed world for antimicrobial community prescribing rates. Australia’s hospital antimicrobial use is estimated to be nearly three times that of the European country with the lowest use, the Netherlands.

So we are top 10 but not the single worse offender, at least by this metric.
Does Fortran have decent auto diff tools? You now got me wondering if I should switch from using Python for my numerical work to Fortran for my own enjoyment
I chose a non-Tesla specifically (even canceling a Model 3 order I had), but the network is definitely better for them. Fortunately, many manufacturers are moving to the Tesla standard in the coming years (and Tesla has a limited number of chargers that have CCS plugs)
The british really fucked up so many places around the world. Including Israel Palestine. Now they act all funny and clownish and the leader serves tea to reporters and so on but they really need to pay for their sins. They are slowly being bled and soon nothing akin to England will remain apart from the shell. It is being eaten from within and maybe that's their atonement.
I was referring to this:

> I have the unlock code set to all-zero but they haven't figured that one out yet!
How Big Is the Average Social Security Check of a Retiree Living in Poverty?
I noticed this too but I think it was really smart to post robots in those movement roles because it makes these motion limitations “robotic” and mechanical like you said. It felt really attributable to the robot itself being programmed to operate that way.
Not to excuse it but most gas pumps I've been too are in covered areas where as EV chargers are not normally.

Card readers surely should be weather resistant but EV chargers could use more cover.
So many, many rants could come from this and my blood is boiling in fervent agreement. But two thoughts: as hard as it is to use the contrast-less, contextless obscure icons and "is it checked or toggled or active", try working with someone and having to explain "click that thing, I don't know what it is, no, the other one, to the left, arghghhg."

But really, maybe these aren't our interfaces anymore - the lack of scrollbars on macOS is because of the touch, pinch and swipe touch interfaces, and the people that are now very happily consuming content (and creating, although less so) without having to worry about that extra bit of information. But the rest of us suffer, and the "increase contrast" and "reduce motion" checkboxes don't do nearly enough to reconfigure the UI.

I never really appreciated the Mac modding community[1] (kaleidoscope?) and the powerful frameworks they had to build UIs, 90% of which I'd happily switch to today if I could.

[1] https://botsin.space/@osxthemes/111416576638238992
It would be value destructive for Apple to buy TSMC and not service any other customers
Semantic search using protein large language models
> If I had to redo my education I’d get into electrical engineering just for this.

This is the crazy thing. Such fundamental important technology but salaries generally suck. Much more money in cat memes and influencer channels.
FWIW, I think the card industry itself is having to rethink a lot of stuff for EVs.

Petrol pumps with card readers are their own little universe of rules and compliance standards within the credit card industry (the formal term is 'Automated Fuel Dispenser'). It's far enough afield that you're looking at specialized software and vendors, in part because a lot of them support fleet cards, which range from "95% normal Visa/Mastercard, but restricted to a specific merchant category" to "completely different network with its own messaging model".

There's been a lot of new spec documents floating around to accomodate differences due to the EV fueling concepts. I suspect the ways we described petrol-- gallons and grades-- don't perfectly map to electricity, and fleet card customers are looking for similar trackability.
Cold plunges or cold showers activate that “I accomplished something hard today” side of happiness for me. Hard to start, but once you calm down your brain that’s yelling “no way, we don’t need that” and do it, I come out with an envigorating sense of control over my desires.
This description undersells it. The Tesla chargers work perfectly... and every single Charging America station he tries to visit is broken in some way. It's half an hour of pain and suffering.
Catapult is awesome. It's what got me excited about FPGAs when I was in undergrad
> I would encourage the owners of that car wash - if they happen to see this - to contact MFA Corporate (my employers) at their main phone number. Ya never know - they've expanded stores a lot and they might be interested in the property.

Maybe the owners of the that car wash will contact MFA corporate to inquire why one of their employees was messing around with their equipment.
I’ve heard people argue that the intent is unclear when over 60% of the death toll in Gaza are civilians.

I have obviously never been involved in war so I’m not sure if that’s normal.
Yeah the salaries for EEs are really depressing in most of the industry. It's really hard work. Most EEs end up leaving for software or research (I did!).
Have you managed any kind of conversation with a clock before? Because you can actually have an intelligent conversation with an LLM. I think that's a pretty compelling case that it's not just swimming in the dominant paradigm.
Except Tesla figured out the feed and nobody else has.

It's also a difficult investment for businesses (gas stations) because with ev adoption, everybody with 120v and a <60 mile daily commute is likely to charge at home 75% of the time
I don't own or plan to own a Tesla, but the devotion shouldn't be surprising when they seem to have put the most effort and thought into making an EV that's actually functional. They definitely have issues, but most of their competition even now is either a fair bit worse, or even more expensive, or both.
I have an EV6, and have done a cross-country trip in it. In my limited experience (Texas to California and back, and then across Texas, which is a 200+ mile trip one way) the freeway chargers are pretty dependable, but the ones in the major cities are of lower quality.

That said, it is nerve-racking, and I do find myself stopping more often than necessary, "just in case" the next isn't in good condition. I do look forward to a better network like NACS.
NACS will use the same signalling protocol as CCS, which means existing vehicles will be able to charge from NACS using a passive adapter.

CHAdeMO may be the new Betamax, but CCS is more like VHS-C.
Reminds me a lot of William Landgren's work[1], another young blender animator. Definitely inspired by Ian Hubert's work. Either way amazing work!

1. https://www.youtube.com/@landgrenwilliam
2. https://www.youtube.com/@IanHubert2
I’ve never read that letter before.
The second half is pretty surreal.
Nolan's so traumatized by Tenet streaming on HBO Max. Let it go, man.
I had the same thought - sweep it under the rug? Hide this until it starts to smell?
Breaking bad reference
> Wayland would have the same exact problem as you described if it was implemented by copying a window's surface to the surface you are submitting to the compositor.

Sure, but as far as I can tell, Wayland seems to be the only architecture that would allow you to not do this. Windows does not hand you the original surface. Xorg does not hand you the original surface. But if you are the Wayland display server, you have the original surface because you're the one who created it. So if you start drawing to an HMD, you can place existing windows on it with no extra overhead.

> Did you use Windows Mixed Reality? If you want deep integration with the operating system, you should use the implementation that is part of the operating system.

Yes. I do use Windows Mixed Reality. Which does not support opening desktop windows into the virtual space; it only supports mirroring an entire display onto a surface, and not even capturing individual windows. For that purpose I tried XSOverlay and OVR Toolkit running on SteamVR, which have that capturing issue.
Fast Symbolic Computation for Robotics
opencolo.com
It’s a combination Ozark and Breaking Bad reference I think.
But what about gas? Race track, loves, shell. They all offer gasoline discounts if you have their app.
Was it plugged into a standard 220 outlet? Since I bought mine and my wife's EVs last year, I've used a relatively cheap level 2 charger (about $200) and if it broke I'd Amazon a new replacement in a couple of days. (Perhaps that's the case, and I'm not judging anyone's circumstances; just pointing out that many seem to think the chargers are much more expensive, but the cheaper ones seem to work fine)
Geoff Crammond's work is kind of legendary in the industry :-)

Here's a great take on SCR:
https://youtu.be/hcmSBwLKVOY?si=PPecndiH1E6NFfsq

I have very fond memories of playing that with a friend, first on the C64 then on the Amiga - with a serial cable for multiplayer connectivity!

Edit: Adding in this awesome analysis of Revs as well, by same YT author - https://youtu.be/p5s-zbXtDoo?si=3Y3YRn2i0QI7yaBJ . Great watch!
Isn't it easy to have an adapter? Its weird that US is using NACS and Europe CCS, I guess it isn't much different to power socks.
That presupposes there is one canonical correct decision.

Most decisions are far from that. There are multiple different proposals, with different set of trade-offs. Choosing the right trade-offs requires broad input with many different perspectives. Which means a large number of people who have now presented something that's the right answer from their perspective - getting folks to see each others points, and agreeing on what the best outcome is requires a good chunk of consensus building.

> You don't need large teams for that.

You are literally replying to a post that said "the bigger the team is, the more important [...]", left out the first part about team size and then postulate that you don't need large teams?

Yes, consensus building is a much less important thing with a small tightly knit team of a few people. Once you're past a dozen or so people, it's quite important. Add a couple partner teams of the same size, and you'll fail without it. Spectacularly.

And some problems require large teams.
For a long time, I've contemplated building a Qt competitor, a cross-platform library for building GUI's.

I'm still considering it, but if I did do it, it would need to address accessibility and usability first. And this post is a good example of why.

I think I'd take usability guidelines from 20-30 years ago instead of modern ones.
The commenter and your landlord would have got along swimmingly.
> it can mimic human behavior but doesn't have an internal life, feelings, emotions, and isn't conscious

I'm curious how you know this. Certainly an LLM doesn't have human internal life, but to claim it has no internal life exceeds our state of knowledge on these topics. We simply lack a mechanistic model of qualia from which we can draw such conclusions.
The British people who did that are dead now.
Contrary to what many people think, the speed of light isn't like a speed limit. Imagine you're on a ship with near infinite fuel. And there's a button that each time you press will generate enough thrust to gain 1km/s of velocity. It's not like the 300,001st time you press that button (with the speed of light being around 300k km/s), it just won't work anymore somehow, nor will it require any more thrust than the 50th press required. No you'll keep accelerating, to no limit.

What relativity does is change things in a way relative to who's observing. From your perspective distances would begin to physically contract, time everywhere else would begin to accelerate, and things would probably start looking a bit odd. But you could keep hitting that button to your heart's content, and continue going faster and faster.

By contrast for a relatively at rest observer, looking at you, they would see your relativistic mass start to approach infinity as you approached the speed of light. And so they would see you slowing down (as accelerating an infinite mass object would be impossible), and the movement of time for you (relative to them) would begin to slow dramatically, hence why time for them (relative to you) seems to accelerate dramatically.

The calculations for relativistic rockets are quite remarkable [1], because it's an exponential system. For instance, here are some times it'd take you to travel to various points in a typical relativistic rocket that continues to accelerate at 1g (you go half way to a target at 1g, and then half way in reverse):

- Proxima Centauri - 4.3 light years away - 3.6 "real" years of travel

- Vega - 27 light years away - 6.6 "real" years of travel

- Center of our galaxy - 30,000 light years away - 20 "real" years of travel

- Andromeda Galaxy - 2,000,000 light years away - 28 "real" years of travel

With a relativistic rocket, if you wanted to see what the end of the universe looked like in a single human lifetime, you could. It's really really weird. So basically a relativistic rocket is more about creating a rocket that can just keep accelerating for years at a time, rather than reaching any specific speed. They're certainly similar in effect, but framing it in terms of years of acceleration makes it a pretty well defined problem.

[1] - https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/Rocket/...