skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's played these games, it's disheartening to see the layoffs at Wizards of the Coast. Their contributions to the gaming world are immense, and the potential brain drain to competitors is concerning. These games hold a special place in many hearts, and the recent controversies have cast a shadow. Hoping for a brighter future for the gaming community.
You're coupling anecdotes ("where I live"), hypotheticals ("perhaps the solution"), and confounding variables (improved overall vehicle safety isn't just due to vehicle size).

The evidence is clear. Increased pedestrian deaths are largely due to vehicle size.

Perhaps the underlying thought is there must be a way to make cars safer for passengers and pedestrians. One demonstrable way to achieve this is better infrastructure [1][2] rather than just building bigger cars.

[1] https://www.vox.com/23784549/pedestrian-deaths-traffic-safet...
[2] https://www.strongtowns.org/
I switched to the British practice (punctuation outside quotes) years ago, and no one has ever complained. I have vague hopes that in another couple of hundred years we'll have solved that problem.

Imperial vs metric, however, will never go away.
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What on earth is going on in your mother's home that cast iron is rotting away? I've been in homes well over 100 years old where everything else has been ripped out and replaced apart from the original cast iron that just keeps on doing its job.
There are craters on the moon that are billions of years old. Also, we could probably bury tablets and artifacts.
so, could she have possibly seen the battle of midway? and maybe thought "how stupid these weird creatures are"?
The secret sauce for Taiwan's chip superstardom
Chemistry? I barely studied that at all.
As to step 2, agreed - obviously we’re currently living in a world where stuff that seemed well within government’s remit since the ‘30s or so is now randomly determined to be extra constitutional. Who knew! But yes, that needs to be part of the system design.

That said, I still think this is fairly “easy” politically (weird court decisions notwithstanding) because there’s already an existing ID regime in place, and no one is saying that’s not a valid government function (yet). If a state wants to say that anyone can rely on a valid digital ID as proof of identity, that’s fundamentally permissive - if a private entity wants to hold itself to a higher standard, and require that every customer submit fingerprints and a birth certificate, it certainly can - good luck with that. But give everyone else the ability to reasonably rely on a standards-compliant identity app, and I think there will be a lot of voluntary uptake there.

Sounds like we’re probably in violent agreement - a system that makes sense for its users is probably going to be well received. States can lead the way by taking the pretty short step from physical IDs to digital IDs that are really not inferior in any way to the existing regime and potentially quite a bit more secure and convenient.
Must not have worked with any Minnesotans then!
I spell it out like a savage “f s c k”… its like calling fstab “f-stab.”
Zapier already took the Pipes idea into a startup.
The Missing iPhone 9
It's also a trade in (often) one-off pieces. It's their job and skill. The gallery is in business because the staff has a feel for how much money they can get from whom for these pieces. They do have a network of potential buyers (who are or are not currently interested in your one or two pieces). They also know the people at other galleries, who have still more contacts. These contacts are not just collectors - they are all the consultants and curators who work for them.

Some pieces are bought by the gallery because it "specializes" in that artist or genre. They know what they paid and got for other pieces. Perhaps nobody else does.

And then a piece is sometimes sold not just "because it's the price" but because it has sat long enough and it's time to go.
Also in base 6 all prime numbers > 2 have a last digit of either 1 or 5.
The older I get, the more I prefer hex. Using hexadecimal, I don't turn 40 until The Beatles start singing about me.
The book You Have the Right to Remain Innocent talks about this for a good portion of it. There are nuances to simply shutting up, invoking the right to remain silent (implied by the 5th) and not speaking, invoking the 5th to not answer a question, and invoking the *6th* which is the right to a lawyer. The book agrees that invoking a lawyer is now the correct move since it puts some onus on law enforcement.
Room temperature is 21°C and every degree Celsius is worth about 2°F; that’s about all it takes.
It's a shame that these aren't parallel. Why couldn't it be "insular gigantism" or "island dwarfism"? (But not both!)
> Noone wants to get an annual 2 to 5 percent paycut...

I already get annual pay cuts thanks to inflation.
I never programmed 6502.

I did. I'm not cherry picking things I found on Google to try and be right.
I'm not a metallurgist, but it has been my observation that it deteriorates over time with hot / cold cycles. When I walk into a house built in the 1950s with aluminum pipe, I generally advise homeowners to expect to need to replace it within their time per ownership as my plumber friends have advised it has around a 75 year life at best.
You are assuming that very small and spesific objecta would be found undergroud, intact

The next civilisation doesnt get like a perfect 3d scan of the entire planet, kilometers deep. They get sporadic evidence that they happen to find
If you want to be extra cursed, you can also place a bunch of 1x1 `<rect>`s next to each other and color them individually.
For extra points, you can combine consecutive pixel of the same color into a say 2x1 or 1x5 rects. Or make use of `<use>` tags to implement a color pallete.
this is nice, sometimes, the comments under a topic is too long to read...
assuming this summary is generated with AI based on the comments ?

how often it regenerate to incorporate new comments ? guess, it is not on-the-fly...
Augmenting long-term memory (2018)
I really hope they can all decide on a better number which everyone agrees on soon. It's ridiculous having to look up each time if Intel 10nm is the same as which one from TSMC again and all of that. There have been some contenders, but the lure of saying "hey, I have the smallest number, so my process is best!" is just too strong it seems.
Beeper or Apple?
This made a pretty good case for finger counting using base 6.
and yet, atmospheric particles that have a mean free path that doesn’t intersect with other atmospheric particles, or when they do the average velocity delta and direction reach escape velocity, escape and are lost.

You might want to rethink that. It’s a useful model in bulk in the lower atmosphere, but it’s far from true in the upper atmosphere.
I strongly disagree with your premise.

Current situation: 125 people are killed every single day

Future autonomous situation: 100 people are killed every single day

I don't care who they are, what they were doing or why they were killed.

The details of their deaths are no important. Saving 25 lives per day is clearly the right thing to do.

Hint: Imagine all of these people are your family and friends. Do you want to keep having 125 of them die every day, or only 100? Does it matter if they're being run over as pedestrians or slammed into by drunk drivers or simply sliding off the road on ice? Of course it doesn't, saving 25 of them every day is the only thing that matters.
You might want to re-read that graph. And conservation of momentum means the particles leaving the sun don’t stop rotating when they leave the sun - the sun is rotating.
I got to visit Midway Atoll and see Wisdom about 15 years ago. Albatrosses everywhere, like you have to be careful not to step on them. It’s an amazing place and one of the most memorable experiences of my life. It’s become harder to get there, but if you have the opportunity, especially if you love nature and wildlife, go!
So that graph showing no interactions is lying?
It would be too painful for people to have the currency lose all that value at once, but we certainly need to do something. Fiat currency has proven to be a horrible mistake.
Freight Trains: Last Week Tonight
With all the compute and energy available at that stage, perhaps there are more possibilities than we can currently see or imagine?

I sometimes like to think that we ourselves are actually the memories of a distant descendant. Maybe it reversed the light cone and was able to replay everything with exacting precision. Maybe it's studying and musing over its humble beginnings. (It might get a laugh that we're communicating this to one another.)
> Spoofs masquerade using confirmed serial numbers.

Most Hackintosh users use a plausible, but non-legitimate serial number. The community has found it immoral to potentially cause issues to random people by using their device’s serial number and that is why they stay away from it and tutorials typically instruct against it.

Doesn’t mean it doesn’t actually happen, but I’ve seen only a handful of people who openly admit to it.

> So Apple can maintain this database but they still have the problem of proving that a serial number attestation, sending all the right information, is from that actual hardware and not a spoof of the hardware.

It’s actually quite easy for them to infer due to the simple premise that a physical device can’t be in two places at once, coupled with other behaviors and it’s pretty easy to nail down which device attributes are being exploited for this purpose.

The only hard part would be to determine which is the actual device and which is the fake one, if there’s no activity that predates the spoofing.

All in all it’s a safe assumption that a very low number of devices have their attributes abused for spoofing (easily single digit percentage) and at a certain point Apple might find it more desirable to inconvenience the owners of these “donor devices” by locking things down and having them contact support, than to let the spoofing go on.

I think that point might be nearer than we think. Already Apple seems to have no qualms to ban Apple IDs of legitimate customers who entirely legitimately have bought gift cards and loaded them up on their account, on the simple premise that their algorithm flags accounts that top up more than $1k as suspicious.

Both Apple Store geniuses and Apple Care support personnel can easily establish in a minute or so if you have possession of the actual physical device and take actions accordingly.

> Without intensely protected cryptography like the T1/T2 enclaves, there is nothing legitimate hardware can send that can't be mimicked once the protocol is reversed.

True, without a Secure Enclave, device attestation will never be airtight.
But it might be that Apple might drop iMessage support for older devices, or more likely, between older and newer devices, in due time like they did with FaceTime.

iPhone 5s and newer had them so there aren’t many iPhone left behind if they upgrade the protocol.
Same for iPad Air and Apple Watch Series 1.

2016 was the first time MacBooks were introduced with T1, in a few years that’ll be a decade ago. I could see them upgrade the protocol by then and leave older devices behind.
If the intersteller medium is not a vacuum, what is? Last I checked, it was literally billions of times lower density than the hardest vacuum we’ve been able to produce on earth.
> whereas many Americans will understand it to mean that you’re not good

I haven't found that to be true. Tooting your own horn is generally looked upon as impolite in many circles. It's pretty common for someone who is outstanding at something to say "yeah, not bad".

And in a very meta way, it can be seen as a flex. Someone who is undeniably the best at something can say "yeah, I'm not bad" with a smirk to show that yeah, they know they are very good.

Now there are some circles in the US where bragging is common - banking, VC, hell even tech. But that's not America.
Ask HN: What are you using to accept payment for a simple SaaS?
Setting up a new project and looking to add recurring billing for users. What's the fastest/easiest way to set this up?
That change was made in many other cryptocurrencies and they did scale just fine. At the time there were a lot of claims that it couldn't be made to work, but history shows that it did work just fine. The bitcoin developers really monumentally screwed up and made a horrible decision (because they wanted to push their own alternative).
Caveman says he has a much easier way.
The limitations are very real. Dennard scaling has been dead since the mid-2000s (that is, power use per unit area has been increasing, even though energy use per logic operation is very much dropping at leading edge nodes) which means an increasing fraction of all silicon has to be "dark", power-gated and only used for the rare accelerated workload. Additionally, recent nodes have seen very little improvement in SRAM cell size which is used for register files and caches. So perhaps we'll be seeing relatively smaller caches per core in the future, and the addition of eDRAM (either on-die or on a separate chiplet) as a new, slower L4 level to partially cope with that.
Slightly off topic, but this reminds me of why sheet goods like plywood and drywall are 4 ft wide.

4ft = 48" which is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, and 24. This makes math easy and significantly minimizes cutting and waste.
Chimera was developed by the same person that ported Void Linux to PowerPC

https://web.archive.org/web/20230811081600/https://voidlinux...
https://voidlinux.org
I saw someone pointing out they are doing exact same things comic companies did leading to their crash.

The comic companies started to sell a ton of variants, foils, collector editions.

They also started to do attention grabbing but bad quality storylines.

And also they started to try to cut middlemen and sell more directly to the consumer.

The end result was that readers eventually noticed quality was crap, with comics being poor products as story medium. And collectors noticed that they had a problem of no readers to buy their stuff, and that x-men #1 os worthless since it had millions of copies, unlike for example action comics #1. This led to stores losing losing money and then going belly up, then suddenly the comics companies themselves were losing money.
> You'll still have to go through basically the same excercise

There should be a way to automatize that, using Ventoy as a "database" of the recognized isos which could be fed to glim or anything else
I'm not opposed to that, but the problem is then the $.25 coins will be worthless due to inflation, and then the $.50, and so on. We would just be kicking the can down the road, unless we can stop the government from continuing to debase the currency.
Even investments are bought and sold day to day, otherwise stock brokers would all go bankrupt.
A small correction about ClickHouse Cloud:

1. It uses a cache on local SSDs ("instance store" in AWS terms) + page cache in memory.

2. This is a write-through cache. The data is written into cache and S3.

3. Writes to S3 are synchronous. The write is confirmed only after the data is accepted by S3, and the metadata is accepted by ClickHouse Keeper.

4. The cache is ephemeral (not durable, not redundant, not essential for work).

5. The consistency requirements are fairly strict. Although it is still possible to have a stale read on a replica due to sequentially consistent replication of the metadata, it is not related to S3 or the cache either.

6. It is expected to have low latency on reads, while latency on writes can be tolerated up to around one second.

7. We also tested S3 Express One Zone: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/clickhouse-cloud-amazon...
Yeah I call BS on this. This does nothing to address the main issues with autoregressive transformer models (memory bandwidth).

GPU compute units are mostly sitting idle these days waiting for chip cache to receive data fr VRAM.

This does nothing to solve that.
This is great. I’m on Ventoy, though, and in the process of setting up self-hosted http://netboot.xyz
In addition to the other answers already provided, i would also guess they're installed primarily in states run with less regressive leadership.
I notice target voltages that engineers often pick similarly highly composite integers

3, 9, 12, 24, 48, 56, 72, 96, 480, 600 etc

There are many other factors which result in these as well though
Show HN: Python package for generating accurate SQL via LLMs using RAG
Hello HN! We’ve been working hard on Vanna, our RAG framework for SQL generation and we’ve been updating our documentation. Please have a look — we have a ton of Jupyter notebooks for any combination of desired use cases.

At it’s heart, we have abstractions that help you:

- “train” a RAG “model” i.e. add metadata for the retrieval augmentation system to reference when constructing the LLM prompt (yes, we know that the terms “train” and “model” are somewhat confusing and we’re open to changing those terms if you can suggest better ones)

- “ask” questions, which will generate SQL, run it, produce charts, etc

You can use this in:

- Jupyter notebooks

- Streamlit (open-source code provided)

- Flask (open-source code provided)

- Slack (open-source code provided)

One key thing to note is that in most of the user interfaces, there’s an opportunity for something _akin_ to RLHF. If the user says that a generated query was correct for a question, then it’s stored back in the vector database for future reference, making the “model” more accurate over time.

You can plug it into any LLM or vector database. In the next couple of days we’ll be adding built-in connectors for Mistral, Gemini, and Anthropic.
What about 3?
Only 11% of families in the US have five people or more. Odds you will need a huge car that fits 8 are very slim, but we have not made people buying these large cars pay for the externalities they bring. I can buy a Yukon XL when I have a family of 4 instead of a minivan because I'm making everyone else pay for my subsidized fuel and road usage.

If I were paying the actual price, including externalities, I would not have bought this car nor feel at risk because every other vehicle on the road is made on top of a truck platform.
Amazing set of monster data-rich papers on the awe-inspiring complexity of the mammalian and mouse CNS.

If you have lost faith in the rigors of science then read these papers to gain it back. A true labor of love, collaboration at its best, and cutting-edge technologies, and obsessive quantification.

This is a massive cartographic effort that provides a solid foundation for future functional studies of many diseases in human.

Do not let the metaphor of “a brain atlas” carry you away. All mouse data here are from a single genome of mouse C57BL/6J. To understand variation in behaviors, variation in brain aging, variation in disease risks we will need thousands of these types of data sets. With many data sets from genetically variable mice we can then bridge from genes to brain structural differences, to higher order traits and variable outcomes. That will be precision neuroscience.

Like the Human Genome Project we sometimes have to start with 1. Twenty years later we have pushed the technology forward and have millions. Then we will be in a great position to understand causal cascades snd the key role of environmental and social context in brain variation and variability in behavior.

On the “in the mouse” issue. Sure huge numbers of quantitative difference in brain architecture and cell types, but also impressive conservation. Mice, rats, primates, rabbits, and screws, are all members of the superprimate superorder of mammals. Mice are a great starting point for this kind of work, that even make some sense from an evolutionary context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euarchontoglires
Depending on the water quality, cast iron water supply pipes will slowly rust themselves shut or rust towards failure. Could last 100 years, potentially much shorter. All depends on the water supply chemistry.

For supply, I prefer copper but will tolerate pex. I also prefer soldering copper over compression fittings, but that’s more personal preference (although compression fittings [“Viega ProPress”] are great if you need to move fast, can’t get a hot permit in a commercial setting, and you’re confident in the compression fitting’s rubber seal).
i think you would be more likely to detect a prior advanced human civilization from 100k+ years ago rather than some other species from 100m+. and we don't have any of those either.

a planetary apex species capable of industry would have funerary rituals to prevent anything from learning a taste for their bodies. their dead would be well protected from harm if they weren't already somehow destroyed, and this would probably prevent any form of fossilization to be found later.

even assuming you can't find their biological remains, you might expect to find metals they had used, perhaps within a similar context that we find fossilized remains already. an unnatural combination of metals under some soil.

i've seen one conspiracy-like youtube video of this[1]. i haven't seen any other sources and i doubt this is real. even if it sounds cool conceptually, the video gets a little over the top in craziness, especially for something that has basically zero sources but would be widely known if it were true.

based on my limited understanding of these chemicals, things like gold, platinum, titanium, would likely be left over in a relatively non-degraded state.

and if legitimate traces could be contemplated, for any tests based on organic elements i would expect a kind of signal compression or expansion to happen in the soil over time due to pressure, diffusion, and potentially something like moisture.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5S6xnsyva0
The market is more focused on next quarter's profits than next years - if layoffs help the balance sheet next quarter, they don't care if game quality suffers and there's less profit in the years to come. Well, it's not that the market doesn't care about next year's profit, but they'll expect the company to figure it out by next year.
Ya, those pesky Christians. If only Robespierre wasn't so reluctant to use the guillotine. Too few Vendees I tell you!
Ok, how you will learn polymer capacitors without chemistry? Or for you normal to make broken tech, just because you don't know chemistry specifics?
Your hot take on video games seems unrelated to the topic of WOTC, which makes tabletop games.
Being careful with my data is exactly why I use a strongly typed RDBMS in the first place.
Edit: added the link

What a strange response. You are critical of my comment yet you post links discussing ways to improve infrastructure speaking directly to my point about the best way to avoid fatalities is to mitigate the opportunities for vehicles and pedestrians to come together?

The evidence is clear, overall vehicle fatalities are decreasing. If you want to avoid pedestrian fatalities caused by vehicles literally the best way to accomplish this is to minimize the opportunities for pedestrians and vehicles to come together at speeds in which fatalities are likely to occur.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/2023-Q2-traffic-fatalit...
Yamaha has been selling uncrewed helicopters for several years to do agricultural spraying. These are remote piloted, not autonomous.

https://www.yamahamotorsports.com/Precision-Agriculture.php
See also UEFI drivers that can read a bunch of other file systems (btrfs, ext2/3/4, HFS, ISO, NTFS, UFS/FFS, XFS, ZFS, etc):

* https://efi.akeo.ie

* https://github.com/pbatard/efifs

The UEFI spec specifies (§13.3) that firmware is only required to read FAT32/16/12, which is generally why your /boot/efi is VFAT/FAT32.

* https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/

* https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_1...