skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it was:

BASIC→Z80→6502→6802→6805→68000→8086→Pascal→...

And honestly, 6502 was the odd one out that felt like programming in mud.
As always, engineers on hacker news have like 2-3 year delay of news out of China. The rest of the world has already moved onto other countries.

1.) "just money coming in"

Outflows of foreign direct investment in China have exceeded inflows for the first time as tensions with the U.S. over semiconductor technology and concerns about increased anti-spying activity heighten risks. FDI came to minus $11.8 billion

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Foreign-investment-in-China-...

Moody’s Cuts China Credit Outlook to Negative on Growing Debt Risks

https://www.wsj.com/finance/moodys-cuts-chinas-credit-outloo...

2.) "the metro system has added over one hundred kilometers of track"

China’s Cities Are Buried in Debt, but They Keep Shoveling It On

China has long pursued growth by public spending, even after the payoff has faded. Cities stuck with the bill are still spending — and cutting essential services.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/business/china-local-fina...

China orders local governments to cut exposure to public-private projects as debt risks rise

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-orders-local-gove...

3.) "we are not growing"

Shenzhen reports decrease in population

The southern boomtown of Shenzhen reported a slight population decrease for 2022 — a first since the city's founding in 1979.

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202305/10/WS645b514ba310b605...
>The first was a challenge in pure mathematics known as the cap set problem, which is about finding the largest set of points in space where no three points form a straight line.
FunSearch was able to solve this by churning out programs that generate new large cap sets that go beyond the best that mathematicians have come up with.

>The second puzzle was the bin packing problem about finding the best ways to pack items of different sizes into containers. The problem is typically solved by either packing items into the first bin that has room or into the bin with the least available space where the item will still fit.

>But, according to the researchers’ paper, FunSearch found a better approach by attempting to fill small gaps that were unlikely to ever be filled.
They weren't using tax dollars. The service is paid for by the bills, its simply not for profit, it just treats the fiber lines like roads and side walks, a common public good. You can even choose your own ISP.
Ah, but in my opinion we can't call 10^-25 a lower limit since, if life didn't occur in this collection of planets, we wouldn't be here asking the question in the first place!
Your link says there is 65% increase in pedestrian deaths in last 10 years. This doesn't look static for me.
I'd guess same as across states in the US, registration?
I did something like this yesterday. The only problem is that I spent all night dreaming of SQL statements to implement the solution. YMMV if you have trouble turning your brain off it seems.
Is it actually worth remembering? I don't know, man. It kind of sounds not worth remembering if I'm honest. It's kind of like telling us that there is not one single shred of evidence that artificial flight has ever existed or that exoplanets have ever existed or anything of the sort.

Sure, that's the base case. It's not "worth remembering" at all. It's as much worth remembering as the fact that my clothes are in the dryer right now.
> So they surveyed some people, asked for opinions and based on that wrote an article.

It's CNBC, can't expect much better from them
EPA begins formal review of vinyl chloride
A Toyota Sienna is larger, sure, but it carries as many passengers (8) as the typical obnoxiously-proportioned SUV and gets 35 mpg doing it. Also, if you've ever driven one, it's a really nice ride.
Gross Domestic Wish Production down 42% from their 2011 peak. Many sectors that were ancillary to the wish industry (Make A Wish foundation included) had to move onto manufacturing Hopes, Dreams, and Aspirations, which sadly even as a combined accounting group still don't generate the sort of revenue we saw with the WishEx market during the predepennification era. I think about my grandfather, who worked in wishmithing before it was even regulated, selling scrap copper to throw into ponds to the local community. Maybe we need to return to that, locally sourced wishes would be a smaller industry, but it would open up new opportunities for the next generation to get into the craft.
A guide to technical report writing [pdf]
https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...

DDG and Google were useless and mostly returned pages from dropbox.com, I had to exclude results from there:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dropbox+security+issue+passw...
Indeed, in a time when seemingly many basement Canadians struggle with Venn diagrams and naming a country that starts with the letter 'U'.
Try playing Diplomacy.
I don't think they meant 10-100s of people logging in simultaneously.
From Wikipedia:

"In 2011 the Royal Canadian Mint had minted 1.1 billion pennies, more than doubling the 2010 production number of 486.2 million pennies.

...

The budget announcement eliminating the penny cited the cost of producing it at 1.6 cents."

--

The announcement of the penny's removal may have been timed, but its removal was sensible, long coming, discussed for more than a decade, and needed.

Minting a billion pennies a year, many of them lost, or hoarded, was senseless.

So now we're centless.
Wow this is pretty similar to how I used to store hierarchical data back in my qbasic days to solve minimax problems. Didn't know it was called steven or whatever.
Probably the only thing stopping them are privacy concerns. On the other hand, for frequent flyers it could be a great thrill to be told that they had lost weight since their last flight.
This is what I was going to say. Nothing more frustrating than trying to find an option that has been moved somewhere else (why is android documentation the worst about this). At least with a screenshot you know it is either where they say it is or that you need to find a different tutorial.
Yes, but also no. There's nothing inherently wrong with describe the types of keys that are stealable. Especially if it leads to mitigations.

To your point, complaining about reporting on golden tickets is like complaining when a locksmith talks about his new lockpicking methods. Of course if a locksmith ever gets to the lock it's already over, so why let them even speak?
I wasn't suggesting that the net result was false, just that the model suggested in the comment I was replying to wasn't accurate, because landlords do sell the same model of apartment to different people at different prices based on when their lease started.
In pure capitalism, the people that own capital would, and the people who didn't, wouldn't, where labor was unnecessary for production.
You can use HTTP for authentication.
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I wouldn't consider moving to Paris without all the plans they have:

- Central Paris will have ZERO diesel cars after 2024.

- 1, 2, 3, 4 and north parts of 5, 6, 7 arr. will have limited non-diesel traffic.

- Neuilly is also adopting the same limitation, because everyone there already have Teslas. (Electric is not the solution, the bike is the solution)

Respiratory diseases are not only caused by viruses they are also increased by diluting gasoline and diesel with other oils (historically mostly palm-derived, but now any cooking oil is used) to increase supply.

I'm betting fracking also puts a lot of bad things into these fuels that then end up in the air you breathe.
Besides all good references you see here, try to understand human beings as selfish creatures. Cooperation comes into being when you need to play with the same person/team many more times, that is, iterative games. If other party, say, X just works with you for one time, X can use you and dump you, while being nice at the same time. However, if you and X are forced to work together many more times: X and you have to cooperate.

It is easier to backstab than being openly inimical. Being openly inimical has both emotional and political costs; backstabbing is easy.
The other part of the open question is how easily life is able to spread across worlds. This is why it's so vital to go look at Mars without contaminating the search. If life spreads easily (whether within the solar system or more widely), then we'll likely find traces of life there that look a lot like our own. If life arises easily, but doesn't spread easily, we may find traces of very un-earthlike biochemistry. And if life is rare, we'd expect to find nothing.

Any of the three results would have huge implications. And then rinse and repeat on Enceladus, Ganymede, Europa, and so on. And find a way to look at exoplanet atmospheres and chase stuff that comes in from outside the solar system. Even negative results will add enormously to our understanding.
Yup. We had to replace our extended cab pickup with a crew cab so we could fit two car seats (which is just criminally bad misdesign; the old cab certainly had enough volume to accommodate everyone).

To add insult to injury, the crew cab weighs more, reducing usable towing and bed capacity, so now, about a quarter of the time I need a truck, I end up borrowing or renting a smaller, but higher capacity one.
Did I miss in the article where that was suggested?
Everyone uses phones. One phone manufacturer shouldn't be able to ostracize customers of every other phone manufacturer, punish them, and deliberately cripple the experience for its users.

> Android users whine about being not let in an use all sorts of logical fallacies to make their case

Name 5.
My family has a Toyota sienna. Nice minivan. Our previous '08 Sienna died for good a few miles over 300,000. Plus it only got oil changes (not the cheapest oil though) every 10,000 miles or so.
If New Chapter makes what you’re looking for, they’re one of the more reputable brands.
I suspect it's because nobody wants to admit that a penny has become worthless, and probably a nickel too. Also, there may be people who are worried that they will start getting ripped off by the rounding process.

I read a book about units of measure, and there was often strong local resistance to adopting regional or national standards because folks thought it would be a chance for merchants to surreptitiously raise prices. They were probably right.
The one Vite has is pretty damn good
Tomatoes are very easy to grow in a garden and besides are more like a herb because they have basically no nutritional value at 15 calories a piece.
Many houses in London suffer from damp, one cause of which is "raised ground level" - where higher soil bridges the damp course (if present) and prevents evaporation from the wall base. Why did the ground level get raised? Because inhabitants were collecting horse manure to fertilise their gardens, for several decades after the houses were built.

(The cure is to replace it with gravel next to the wall)
What's the difference between a job loss and a productivity gain?
It seems reasonable to me that to occupy two seats costs the fare of two seats.

If I want to eat two pizzas, I have to pay for two pizzas, regardless of medical condition… If I want two gallons of gas instead of one… If I want two months of Netflix instead of one…

It’s unclear why people expect that some should consume two seats and pay for only one…
Xperia 5 is a bit bigger but still managable IMO.

I suggest using https://www.kimovil.com/ to compare smartphones. Using it I was able to find smaller phones with long battery life which were my two main requirements.

I wouldn't use an iPhone again. My last iPhone was an iPhone 4S. Not missing anything.
For those in the know:
- Is the adoption of wind and solar accelerating, or is it linear?
- When do you expect 90%+ electricity generation from renewable sources (hydro, wind, solar)?
- Will it be cheaper than nuclear? Will we still need nuclear?

Thanks!
Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000, no jail
Sometimes I truly believe that my cat — his name is Randall — can be a really good life coach. That's why I decided to take some notes about the lessons I learned from Randall. And share it with you.
> Pedestrian fatalities are up big time in the U.S., and it’s largely thought that the reason is bigger cars with more lethal designs

Almost all of the difference since 2009 in likely attributable to smartphones [1]. (Almost all of the increase in deaths occur around sunset.)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nightt...
I think the title is pushing it a bit. When I see "life-sparking energy source", I think of an inextricable property. Get that and you can spark life. But we have and we couldn't. They're merely ingredients, building blocks, fuel to sustain life as we understand it on Earth, as the article more sensibly admits. The "life-sparking" source itself remains a mystery.
Shipping is already taxed by weight throughout the US. It is enforced by a nationwide network of state run weight stations that are actively enforced by police.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/hvut/mod1/whatish....
> He says he is “not bad” at maths – by which he means he came top in the state of New South Wales in his year 12 maths exams

As an Australian that has worked with American companies for a while, this is a behaviour I’ve had to overcome. If you tell an Australian you’re “not bad” at something then they’ll take that to mean that you’re actually quite good, whereas many Americans will understand it to mean that you’re not good.
>might even reduce latency because the frame rate is higher

Higher FPS doesn't automatically mean lower latency.

You can have high FPS but higher latency too.
That’s all fine and good but I have not found any data supporting this good news for net 0 efforts. We’ve been transitioning away from coal power for a while but while the headline implies solar & wind are the beneficiaries, natural gas has benefited much more. While natural gas emits less CO2 than coal, it emits more methane which if I recall correctly means that they’re roughly comparable (natural gas is better for local air quality).
idlewords was specifically mentioning that we have (found life elsewhere).

It was pretty clear to people that there would be no life 750 metres inside the earth crust below another 700m of ocean: too hot, no light, pressure, bla, bla. - And plenty was found. Of course it's an easy counter "Still Earth, haha! Doesn't count". So yes, it's back to the point that whenever we have developped tech to go look, we have found "whatever the tech could find". Except - for now - TV serials radio waves. That's true. And bacteria on Mars. Yes it's a glib way to put it but it's not an unfair answer to that criticism.
I loved my Sienna. It was cavernous. The SUV that's even bigger, has much less cargo space. I wish we'd gotten another van.
But they point into your RAM, which means you can't store them on disk or pass them over the network.
Not if they wanted to complete the work in time
Good! These behemoths don't belong in the modern city landscape.
Take the metro, it's quite good in Paris.
It also excludes the Toyota Prius and a few other hybrid because they weight more than 1.6t, despite not being an SUV.

FYI, a Zoe weights 1.5t
That’s saying the same thing.
Opera's gamer browser now has a 'panic button'
Instead of hiding behind your downvotes, you could come and argue logically, on the planetary impact of 300 or 400 less SUVs on downtown London or Paris...
The rules being followed are rather mundane and logical extensions of the legalese you rely on to pass your stuff to your dependents. I dont really understand the, uh, viciousness towards these laws that you will rely on for your children. Like geez, Im sorry you dont have Spiderman or LOTR to pass down.
Apparently you are correct!

https://www.catholic.com/qa/whats-the-catholic-position-on-t...
Not in general, just on this particular point. Because, in my opinion, we as a scientific community are currently flush with the (very cool) unexpected discovery of so many exoplanets and it is somewhat distorting our collective thinking about life and its origins.
Direct air capture: expensive, dangerous distraction from real climate solutions
Our truck seats five adults, but only two kids plus two adults. Our old truck seated 5 adults, but no more than two adults and one car seat.

Instead of just requiring latch anchors, they should mandate that using all the latch anchors doesn’t reduce the max number of passengers.

Also, I wonder if they could eliminate booster seat requirements by mandating seatbelts that can be adjusted for short people.

As it is, we can’t take public transit, since the last few miles of most trips involves an illegal ride for the kiddos in an uber (so we have the kids walk those miles instead, which gets old fast).
> do heavier people not use more resources then skinnier humans?

You’re arguing as if charging heavy people more to fly isn’t a thing. It is. And I don’t think that’s abhorrent nor even unfair.
But electric cars lack all tailpipe emissions. 2 tons is just slightly heavier than a Tesla Model Y, a compact SUV barely large enough for a family of 4 (you don't want to be the person sitting between the child seats in the back, trust me). This is about social signaling, not air pollution.
I think this has more to do with replacing coal with gas than about the growth of renewables: coal production has been dropping father than renewables have come online.

Still, good news anyway.
Well, there is a justifiable reason. Red Queen.

As this HN user put it[0](eloquently, I thought):

> Yield to gross tonnage.

I think it's a great slogan. I was thinking of getting a bumper sticker like that but forgot about it. Everyone driving small cars must understand: cemeteries are full of people with the right of way, yield to gross tonnage.

Specifically, my gross tonnage.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268232
No matter how nice you make it, a company town is a company town and is dangerous for the workers.

After the last few years, tech workers should see that great pay, benefits and working conditions last only as long as the market makes companies provide them. Even if a company town is great today, by accepting that world more power is handed over to business which will use it to squeeze workers hard when times eventually change.

I don't want to see any benevolence from companies. I want to see workers and democratic state institutions making companies behave.
The individual McDonald’s are run by franchisees. I’m talking about how corporate has really dropped the ball.
All dimensions are a factor. Life could exist on different time-scales (e.g. it moves so slow we thought it was inanimate). It could exist on different physical-scales (be so large we don't realize we are a part of it). Or, it could exist on an entirely different plane of existence (on a desolate planet in a shard of silicon that is turing complete and quietly simulating its own recursive universe).
A minivan has a higher hood than an SUV? I've never actually measured but it sure feels like a Chevy Suburban (classic SUV) is quite a bit higher than a Toyota Sienna (our family's family vehicle).

Just checking Google for clearance heights - looks like Siennas are about 6 inches shorter than a Suburban.
I don't get this logic. When you have empowering technology, you get market expansion, demand induction, and usually have even more work to do. AI creates opportunities, there's going to be competition and this will create jobs.

I see it like Linux and OSS, of course it killed some paid software products, but it created a platform for companies to build even more and better than before. Devs still have jobs.

AI is a platform, it's even more accessible than OSS, easier to use in any domain and has lower entry barrier. It will support a lot of jobs, and will be the best method to quickly retrain people for their new positions.

What we're basically judging here is if automation and AI will progress faster than our greed. Will we ever say we have enough opportunities and we can stop our efforts now? I don't think so. People will work just like before because we can want more than we can get.
It’s same general principle and same security model just different way of going about it. It supports CAs and extensions just like x509
Life almost certainly exists elsewhere in the universe (particularly if you consider that which is beyond what we define as ”observable”). As others have commented, it’s too large for it not to exist.

However, it does seem extremely rare and could be so rare that it doesn't exist in the observable universe (it's almost certainly not in our Local Bubble).

It is interesting to also think about the likelihood of "intelligent" life. Because while basic, simple organisms are bound to appear somewhere else considering the universe's vastness, the idea that they could develop this intelligence and self-awareness is another big leap that doesn't seem like it necessarily needs to happen wherever life is happening.
It is easy to exclude vehicles used for mass transit. Let's say every vehicle which required a driver license D is exempt of such tax.

I generally agree, personal vehicles should be taxed based on weight and power. Small taxes for small cars(fiat 500) and extra high taxes for ridiculously heavy and/or powerful vehicles like 911 or cybertuck.
I think it meant that even if life started itself accidentally by some unbelievably slim chance, this could happen somewhere else as well simply because the dice are rolled that often.

That might be true, but we have no basis the probability of how rare life is so we can't say it is. We may assume the probability is high enough that it happens often in trillions of chances, but if the probability is one in a quintillion then we're simply wrong.

Humans are incredibly bad at thinking about both probability and thinking about large numbers, so when we combine the two we're likely to be quite wrong.
This is because coal is dropping to 15%.

Here’s a direct link to the EIA document:

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/pdf/steo_full.pdf

It says renewables already passed coal. Maybe I’m looking at the wrong page?
It's worth reading the original article; the link is a poor summary.

The first of two problems is a generalization to any dimension of finding a maximal non-set in the game of Set. That's lines over Z/3Z. Over R, for n > 1 the same question is obviously unbounded; any finite set of points in general position works. The writer just said "space" and didn't stop to think.

Both problems involve having the computer find interesting examples, not machine-checked proofs, in search spaces too large for brute force. Having AI guide such a search is a worthy endeavor, but it's not the same as a machine spewing out better Lean 4 proofs than people can produce. Soon, we'll be getting such help, but this isn't that. Misleading headline.