skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tire thing you've heard has been started by one article that misleadingly bundled tire and breakpad particles with all other emissions summed up by weight.

This was extremely misleading breakdown, because it discounted all of the ICE gases that are toxic, but weigh almost nothing, and lighter combustion particles that stay in the air, versus tire particles that are typically heavier and stay on the ground.

Of course worn tires aren't environmentally neutral, but that framing was used as a regressive "gotcha" in EVs vs ICE, without daring to mention any real solutions like reversing heavy macho-pickup-truck and SUV fashion created by a workaround for emissions regulation, or moving freight from trucks to rail.
Do you know what severance is?
Sure, but I don't think that is the issue here.
Excellent for sales/mechanic! Now wheel will cost more than chasis $)
Is that true? Do you have any citation? It sounds incredible. Every study?
How is Signal a questionable technology? I do understand whatsapp and telegram though.
I would assume that once law enforcement has established facts were materially altered for the purpose of obtaining funding, the jump to wire fraud would be relatively trivial (given today's heavy reliance on email/internet to do just about anything).
I thought the same thing and was disappointed to see a planetary gear setup to turn an outer ring gear. Shame, we have come so far in EV motor design and yet Hyundai seems stuck on drivetrain power design.
It was just a shorthand. Of course everybody knows it didn't start with Bach, duh. He is a very central figure though, and any work you'll put into an artistic tradition will inevitably be compared to the greats of the tradition.
nor should they, since the public is indeed being lied to.
Kaitai Struct[1] is my preferred tool for parsing binary files. It's open-source (unlike Synalize It! and 010 Editor) and cross-platform (unlike HexFiend). Not sure how it compares to ImHex's pattern language, though—I've been put off by ImHex's UI the few times I've tried it.

My favorite thing about the Kaitai Web IDE is that it instantly updates the parsed tree as you make changes to the format specification, which makes it viable for reversing unknown formats instead of just specifying known ones.

[1] https://ide.kaitai.io/
Decorate Your Terminal for the Holidays
Here is a screenshot of the Christmas tree feature:

https://cdn.zappy.app/38d440063ff0080ca219c5a7cebc20f0.gif
If "toxic word hallucinations" isn't a cyberpunk phrase I don't know what is.

(quote from the video presentation in the link)
It shows an overlap, but it doesn't indicate how one should parse it.
I think what I'd do is just build a light and outlet onto the bottom of a solar panel; cut the proper holes, drop solar panel onto roof, now there is a light bulb and outlet in your ceiling. But I have no idea if this is practical; is there a lot of caulk in the developing world? No idea. But "all in one" seems the most foolproof to me.
[" The FTC should not be allowed to "unilaterally modify the terms" of the 2020 settlement, Meta said.]

i find that interesting, is that called projection ?
How much additional noise will this produce compared to CV joints?
The Bullet Cluster is typically touted as the biggest evidence that dark matter is right and MOND is wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to...

Basically, the center of mass in the cluster, and the center of the matter we can see, are way far apart from one another, in a way that ends up being super clear to observe. We can infer the center of mass by the surveying the gravitational lensing we observe, and we can observe the center of the baryonic matter by looking at the x-ray sources. The offset in distance here ends up being pretty clear evidence that most of the mass exists as stuff we can't see (in any wavelength, only via the lensing.)
Did anyone actually use Chrome Frame? Were there so many users that were so used to the IE interface and were unwilling to accept Chrome itself?
I don't know if I'll even bother this year. Their puzzles start feeling like chores by the 10th problem or so and I drop out. Maybe I'll learn a new language to spice it up this year.
Yes, I agree. I believe accounting for the prevailing attitudes of the times is called "living in a society."

We all do it. Some hills are worth dying on some are not.

I came of age in the technical space in a generation that felt that it didn't matter if you had a secret shrine to Hitler as long as you could code a performant file system. It's refreshing to have seen the pendulum swing away from that extremism. Perhaps because too many of us have borne witness to the monsters taking those performant file systems and using them to coordinate violent attacks on innocent people.

But perhaps more importantly... He's not just espousing an opinion. A chief officer is speaking as an executive of a company. Always.
> unless you are the sort of person who knocks together a quick C program to do your work, it's not much _use_.

I am such a person. :)

I may even be able to port other compilers to it. Whether I'd be willing to is a different question that depends on the length of my to-do list, though.
This is when I feel the 24G mem limit of the mac book/air
Their video said it was to reduce toxic word hallucinations, which does seem admirable/useful. I'm testing real-time translation in a church setting, and I've witnessed whisper hallucinating profanity, which is quite undesirable.
How are they able to get around the Sunshine law: "The federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires that detailed information about payment and other payments of value worth over ten dollars ($10) from manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, and biologics to physicians and teaching hospitals be made available to the public."
Doesn't sound like the paper's (the one you linked) authors don't necessarily agree with your summary. From the discussion on page 16:

These results seemingly worsen the recently established tension between the inferred value of H0 from early and late
times Universe probes, which has been argued to potentially be the sign of new cosmological physics (see for example
Refs. [78–83]). This might appear to be in contradiction with the possibility, explored for example in Refs. [74, 84–
93], that local gravitational physics could alleviate the Hubble tension. Amongst these, a class of models achieve a
lowering of H0 under the assumption that we live in an underdense region, whose inner expansion rate is on average
larger than the background one. Some results in the literature, see for example refs. [94–96], seem to corroborate
the latter assumption finding evidence of local voids which averaged on spheres of r ≳ 100Mpc have density contrasts
of δ ≤ −0.1, unexpected within the ΛCDM model. Computing the average density contrast of a sphere centered
in Laniakea with radius r ≈ 110 Mpc (i.e. the average distance of the boundary of the ellipsoid from the center)
using the CF4 reconstruction we found δ ∼ −0.06, within the prediction of the concordance model (see for example
Fig. 6 of Ref. [55]). However, this sphere is not centered in the Milky Way, which might explain why the result
differs from the aforementioned ones. Indeed, overdensities such as Laniakea are surrounded by voids (from which
they have collected matter), and therefore any sufficiently spherical average will include these under-dense regions.
On the other hand, Refs. [55, 79, 97] also found no evidence of any large void or overdensity, thus disfavoring a local
resolution of the Hubble tension. Our analysis corroborates these results, suggesting instead that the tension is likely
to be (slightly) worsened by Laniakea’s backreaction. An important caveat, however, is that our analysis does not
exclude the possibility that large voids in the annular region between 110 − 400 Mpc outside Laniakea could balance
and overcome the backreaction from Laniakea, like a rather picturesque Matryoshka doll. Alternative modelling
choices accounting for the impact of these voids are therefore required to fully understand the impact our cosmic
environment’s gravitational backreaction, which will be the focus of forthcoming studies.
Oh god they’re gonna censor the output. Time for musk to make a non-censored version lol…
The Window Manager in Raycast has a gap option: https://manual.raycast.com/window-management

"Customize your workspace - set a gap around the window edge between 0px to 128px."
Here's a snippet of a first attempt, which does not work:

|> Array.map (fun s -> Regex(@"(one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|nine|\d)").Matches(s))
|> Array.map (fun m -> m |> Seq.map (fun g -> g.Value) |> Seq.toList)

And here's the correct code:

|> Array.map (fun s -> Regex(@"(?=(one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|eight|nine|\d))").Matches(s))
|> Array.map (fun m -> m |> Seq.map (fun g -> g.Groups.[1].Value) |> Seq.toList)

There's no "fundamental" difference between the two, rather, one uses a regex with positive lookahead and the other doesn't. The first approach was not operating under the assumption that there would be strings like "oneighth" at the end of a line. That's a detail and it only applies to one part of a functional pipeline!
I recently tried arm64 Factorio on an M1 Mac, and it's smooth as silk. It also loads within a couple of seconds even with dozens of Bob+Angels mods.

The Mac seems to be only slightly warm while playing. I haven't yet played to the point of building enormous 4 lane railway squares, I'm intrigued to see just how much the M1 can handle.

Great for entertainment, absolutely terrible for my productivity!
Why are you not just using the chunkers from unstructured ?
Not a Ruby user, I expect it is because they want as few implementation details as possible to seep into the syntax.

If you’re thinking functional, everything looks like a function. Examples (pseudocode that may be valid Ruby)

x = 3
def x = 3
def x()
return 3
end

all define a parameterless function called that always returns 3.

So why would you use different syntax for them?

There’s only one reason: impure functions. For these 3:

x = rand()
def x = rand()
def x()
return rand()
end

The first would call rand() once, the other two each time they get called.

That, I expect, is why Ruby still has def.

In scala, there’s similar thinking, which also let to them using () not only for specifying function arguments, but also for indexing into arrays or dictionaries. After all, an immutable array

x = [10,20,30]

behaves the same as

def x(i)
switch i
case 0 return 10
case 1 return 20
case 2 return 39
otherwise throw indexOutOfBounds
end

Of course, if you unify notation, you’d also have to make these things perfectly interchangeable everywhere. Not being able or wanting to do that is a good reason for keeping syntax different.

Another one is that you may want to expose the pesky detail that indexing into an array typically is a lot faster than calling a function to the programmers, so that they can get a decent idea about the performance of code they read. That can only work if you keep your execution model simple, though, and if your programmers can reasonably predict what the compiler does, and how that will run on the cpu. That worked fine for C in the 1970s, but not so well anymore today. I think Golang is an attempt to get back there.
Come on now. Maybe that's true with workers who are not very good communicators or proactive yet, but it's not true if they are good at it. I've been involved with plenty of fully ambiguous online open source projects and they've all been incredibly nimble and excellent at resolving complex disagreements and decisions quickly.
Elsewhere in the world, houses on stilts are the norm. This solution seems a little weird to me; evacuating people is a lot easier than evacuating homes.
I’m not defending their current approach, it looks pretty bad, but the approach you suggest also isn’t viable.
The main benefits of conduit are protection from physical damage, and having a raceway to neatly run wires/cabling in after a structure is built. I don't know that either one is particularly important here? Also I would think that electrification would revolve around the community centers rather than individual dwellings.
Aptera is using in-wheel motors for their upcoming autocycle https://www.electrive.com/2022/06/23/aptera-orders-in-wheel-...
Inside an Apple Lab That Makes Custom Chips for iPhone and Mac [video]
If you've been remote for a decade then what are you comparing it against?
Advice from 7 years of doing (and sometimes completing!) the Advent of Code:

1. Look at the example input.

2. Run your code on the example input.

3. Seriously -- make extra super 100% sure your code works on the example input. Write some boilerplate code to make it easy to switch between your input and the example input.

4. Think about possible edge cases in the input -- there will probably be some. Looking at your input in a text editor can help uncover them.

5. If part 1 is simple, it's just there to test your input processing, and part 2 will be the real puzzle.

6. If part 1 is solvable with brute force, part 2 probably won't be. But sometimes it's helpful to brute-force part 1 just to see what the question is.

7. Many problems that involve the word "shortest" or "fastest" are good candidates for a breadth-first search. Make sure you know how to do that.

8. Test your code as you go. Printing the output of intermediate steps to the console is a great way of catching bugs.

9. There's going to be some hideous puzzle, probably involving a maze, which is too hard for a simple BFS and requires heavy pruning of alternatives. If you know how to do this kind of puzzle, please tell me how; they get me every time. :-(

10. Don't even look at the leaderboard times. Those people are nuts.
The article is missing that part - the two are sometimes different.
> how do you shoot down 1,000 drones without losing a ship?

A hangar of 10,000 anti-drone gnats. Barring a breakthrough in high explosives, an anti-drone drone will be lighter and cheaper than an anti-ship drone. We played this game with planes and boats.
The one I still remember: Clearfix
There are two problems with MOND. One is that it exchanges fine arbitrary parameters of dark matter with the arbitrary parameters of MOND. There isn’t a theory the explains MOND or the parameters. It is just as much of bodge as dark matter.

Second is that MOND doesn’t explain all the observations. There are galaxies that have too much or too little gravity. Either MOND varies exactly as we neeed it, or need MOND and dark matter. That isn’t any simpler. It might work if there was theory that explained smaller amount of dark matter and MOND could handle the rest.
Good question. Blind faith is never a good idea. However, one ought to ask, what is the alternative?
Because it is a mechanism for ReDOS, and the standard library should not be introducing vulnerabilities into users. Other libraries can implement it for folks who decide they really need it.
My experience with a planetary gear in a bicycle is that it produces additional noise. I wonder if this would be noticeable for an automobile.
All reservations are forwarded to the hotel; otherwise, how does the hotel know who’s coming?
newer designs are silent, weigh about 2lbs or a little under a kilo, can produce upwards of 100nm torque at 1000w.
I would highly recommend Fooocus to anyone who hasn't tried: https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus

There are a bajillion local SD pipelines, but this one is, by far, the one with the highest quality output out-of-the-box, with short prompts. Its remarkable.

And thats because it integrates a bajillion SDXL augmentations that other UIs do not implement or enable by default. I've been using stable diffusion since 1.5 came out, and even having followed the space extensively, setting up an equivalent pipeline in ComfyUI (much less diffusers) would be a pain. Its like a "greatest hits and best defaults" for SDXL.
One of my least favourite Kotlin features. Breaks the uniformity of method declarations for minuscule gains, making it harder to visually parse a class body quickly.
Honestly? These kinds of stories should enforce the general idea. Trust has to be seen as a long term game, though. And requires well run checks to keep things trustworthy.

So, if you view trust as only a short term, "the answer is always right," then that will fail. But you should not have a sole source here.

And this style of system is no different from authority anywhere else. You should be able to trust your local religious/community leader. But you should also not have one that is absolute authority on their own authority.
Private Microblogging
> So when you go to the issue tracker, it seems plausible to me that you're going to find issues where the devs can't explain what's happening because the user(s) might be doing something crazy.

No, that is not plausible. It's a filesystem. Behaviour in all cases for a filesystem should be predictable. There are zero things a user should be able to do that would make a filesystem non deterministic.
So the invention in question isn't flood-proof (it's mobile) and it's not a home (it's a tent).
And here's the Alien Isolation announcement from two years earlier: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/17/alien-isolation-game-re...

And the Tomb Raider 2 release date announcement from 2 years before that: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/shadow-of-the-tomb-raid...

Every time, Apple pays a big studio to port their AAA title and change things forever. Every time, nothing changes.
Accidental database programming
> Your comment had me wonder if a kickstarter for an rpg game called HP printers would take off.

The thing is, a lot form people are already playing this game, which limits the appeal of the simulation version.
In the latter part of the 19th century manufacturers like SS Stewart and JB Schall began promoting the banjo as an instrument for music hall beyond the minstrel stage. They catered to the women's market with smaller instruments like Stewart's "American Princess" banjo. (Note that women figured out they could play regular-sized banjos and the smaller banjos mostly disappeared from the market.)
What's wrong with leetcode?
Whilst I agree, it was just a development on what I perceive to be their vision. I address this particular point in another comment in this comment thread.
> Tell me what they should stop producing.

The consumer electronics people use to post environmentalist takes with. That'd be a good start.
Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS
An Introduction to AWS Bedrock (LLM Service)
Since this is paywalled, here's the start of the article:

New members of the global super-rich gained more of their assets through inheritance than through wealth creation this year — the first time that this has been recorded by Swiss bank UBS in its nine years of surveying global billionaires.
The buttons look like NeXTStep IMO.
> I always do wonder how realistic these war games actually are?

> They (at least the war games that are public) always assume at least one or both sides are near 100% competent with their systems.

Uhhh... that's not a wargame.

A wargame is when you send actual commanders into the actual field, with their actual troops, and roleplay a scenario.

Yeah, there's walkie talkies that go back to HQ where the top-level generals are rolling dice saying "That unit, you got shot, pretend you're dead", and such, but war-games are a scenario to test your generals, admirals, and chain of command. And often times, require physical movement of the lowest level troops.

----------

But at a minimum, you're testing the commander's reaction times in these scenarios.
This almost exactly described my life as well (also 37, lived in a major metro). Not to mention the (surreptitiously unpaid) evening calls we'd have with other TZs after spending that 11-hour day, because take-home laptops.
> I'm confident that

So not a fraudster, just a confidence man… a conman.
This is a bit of an indirect answer, but I watched this not too long ago and it made it seem clear that MOND doesn't work so well, if not in general at least in the case discussed, which seems pretty damning regardless: https://youtu.be/HlNSvrYygRc?si=6on0pD9_jsed9Dlm

I've also heard the bullet cluster pointed out as a strong counterpoint to MOND--I'll let you read the wikipedia page rather than attempting to explain this, poorly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster

As a layman who watches tons of astronomy and physics videos, my general sense is that dark matter is more or less simply a placeholder, such that everything else around it is pretty consistent, but it just represents this unknown matter that we can clearly observe interacting _gravitationally_ with galaxies and other objects in the universe, but otherwise doesn't seem to interact. Whereas my impression of MOND is that it's a set of heuristics that requires a lot of tweaking to work, whereas GR is quite simple and very strongly experimentally verified. But, again, layman
This is a dense video, I highly recommend it though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmJkMhmrVI

TLDW: there's a lot of evidence on why the phenomena we watch is mostly favored to be described as 'something' that is conveniently called dark matter as opposed to a revision of gravity.
Your point isn't a bad one, but it's really a separate topic. Assuming we aren't deailing with deliberate obfuscation, most code can be read by people who can be bothered to try, and there are always code formatters if necessary.
I have owned 11 bikes. This is how they were stolen
The sound of crunching chips is annoying. Doritos has made a silencer
In most of the world we don't build where it might flood. It is generally easy to see where it floods and just not build there.

In some places building where it can flood is done for some local reason, but that isn't normal for most places.
I don't disagree, per se, but I think the point is stated too strongly.

Linting rules can help to enforce careful use of this syntax even on team projects. The ambiguity can be avoided or explicitly removed as demonstrated with the parentheses around the expressions. It's just another syntax option for defining a method of appropriate simplicity. Ruby already allows for some heinous things:

class Foo
private
# Not actually private
def self.bar
'bat'
end
end

define_method(:".38 Special, the band?") { name == '.38 Special' }

Be smart about how you use it. A knife manufacturer ships sharp blades despite the possibility that a chef might cut themself with it.
> The tight integration of hardware and software is not only better for the products and consumer experience

Not really. This just means you're overpaying for both the hardware (macs are famously overpriced for what they are) and software (apple price gouges both users & developers left and right).

If you're part of the privileged elite with a fat wallet, then sure. It's great.

> it also means higher margins for the company

Why would you respect that? You enjoy being fucked over by bigcorps?
>You will most certainly not be allowed through security.

Yes you will be.

I did it. Me. Personally.

If you show up at the airport and your wallet is 200 miles away and your flight is in 45 minutes they will, unquestionably, irrefutably, let you onto your flight.

Step 1: Go to the counter and tell them you don't have your ID.

Step 2: They typey-type on their computer and print out some stuff.

Step 3: You take that stuff to TSA and they ask you some questions like "what is your address? what is your date of birth? and things like that"

Step 4: They wave you through and you go to your gate and wait to board.

I was told that it is not uncommon for people to forget or lose their IDs.
He got into Westminster public school via a scholarship but was expelled after a few years.
Reminded me of a fun bit of my own trivia! My Highschool guidance counselor, also an acoustic bass player in the folk idiom, babysat Bela Fleck as a youngster! She was instrumental (ha) in fostering my drive to set my sights on Music School, which I did.

She also helped introduced FIRST robotics to our small rural highs school. She was an awesome woman.