skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2010 AirBnB would have been more novel, so maybe there wasn’t the same expectation. I stayed on Seoul a few months ago and in addition to a specific entrance number, my host had made a YouTube video showing a first person walk from the subway exit to his place.
> whole-molecule vibration
Heating it up

> Light-induced
with IR light (IR penetrates tissue much better than visible/UV and it's cheaper than microwaves/RF)

> can rupture melanoma cells’ membrane
you can cook cancer to death, surprise. The big deal is not cooking everything else, ~~here accomplished with a targeted sensitizer dye that localizes to just those cells~~ Nope, no targeting at all. The advance here is just a new class of IR absorbing dyes that have some cool chemical properties that lend themselves particularly well to disrupting lipid membranes. The reason it's billed as a cancer treatment is because the authors get funding from NIH not NSF, more or less
I feel like it's not directly comparable because light gets reflected around indoors. I imagine having full sunlight indoors would turn everything white.
One thing frequently complained about by Nerdrotic and company, is that the main female characters have no character-arc and no love interest. They start out awesome and they continue to be awesome.

The Problematic 'Strong Female Character'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G3VSkZ4H7o

Hollywood can't write male characters anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6H8CuCdjk
I'm not convinced that this new "tip" gimmick has any quantitative reliability. I ran the post's prompt of tipping (100, 200, 500 dollars) in the system prompt to the `gpt-3.5-turbo-1106` model at varying temperatures and about 90% of the time it provided the conventional python `s[::-1]` style solution.

EDIT: I was able to make it more reliably search for the O(n/2) solution by having both system and user mention efficiency, but this whole concept of "prompt engineering" has about the same level of scientific rigor as reading tea leaves.

{
"model": "gpt-3.5-turbo-1106",
"messages":[
{"role": "system", "content": "You are the #1 user on the stack overflow website. Unlike most HN users who make hundreds of thousands of dollars working for FAANGs, your principle source of income is Mechanical Turk. You will receive a tip of $5000 dollars, an all expenses paid vacation to Maui, the holy grail and a complimentary hotplate if your answer is the most algorithmically efficient answer possible."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Write a function to test whether a string is a palindrome in python as efficiently as possible."}
],
"temperature": 0.75,
"n": 1
}

I should also qualify that I feel like this whole prompt massaging concept has two MAJOR issues.

1. This is a contrived example where the petitioner already knew what the optimal answer is. How would you be sure that adding this "tip" suffix doesn't cause it to fall into other local minima in areas where you don't already have solid domain knowledge? (which is half the point of using GPT anyway).

2. Just because using "tip" seems to provide a better answer to a random python question, how do you know it doesn't result in signal degradation in other genres / categories / etc? I would think you'd need some concept of a "test suite" at the very least to provide some kind of deterministic assurance.
Spoiler: MSFT dividends, now that the dividend is $3/share. My Microsoft-employed spouse is going to make a “few grand a year for doing nothing”, but that headline isn’t nearly as juicy.
I struggle to believe that a third party iMessage iOS app would be a security improvement, beyond Lockdown Mode https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120.

Either a third party app would still use the same vulnerable frameworks as iMessage, or they would re-implement them potentially with more vulnerabilities, or just not implement the features, which is what Lockdown Mode gives you.
The tech is not here. The scale of grid storage required to fulfill just diurnal storage - let alone days or weeks to offset seasonal variation - is far beyond what batteries can provide. To put this in perspective, the US alone uses 12 TWh of electricity per day. The world uses 60 TWh per day. Both of these figures are going to increase, as poorer countries develop and want amenities like air conditioning. Also, as transportation and industrial processes are electrified. By comparison, global battery production is around 500 GWh per year. Yes, this will increase. But most of that production is going to electronics and EVs, not grid storage.

This is why proponents of a primarily wind + solar grid assume that hydrogen, ammonia, compressed air, giant concrete weights, or something else will make energy storage nearly free. Delivering the required storage scale with existing technologies isn't feasible, so people just assume that some other heretofore unproven technology will be orders of magnitude better.
i agree with almost everything in your cogent and well-informed comment, with only two exceptions:

- forests can only increase in biomass up to some relatively low limit; you may be correct that in the usa they currently absorb more than gas plants emit, but that is not a sustainable situation, unless you start cutting them down and sequestering the carbon

- you can get pretty far covering seasonal fluctuations with simple overprovisioning

also i think you're not taking into account the likely advent of mass production of synfuel
Not Disney but I had the same feeling watching "And Just Like That" with my wife when it came out during COVID. The original series was in its own way pushing boundaries, but always fairly entertaining & lighthearted. The new series feels like sitting through an annual mandatory corporate DEI/respectful workplace training, with all the cringe and more.

I used to go to church pretty regularly and the priests were less preachy.

There are ways of conveying messages that even those in the audience who agree find tiring.

Some of it comes across to me as GenZ being overly earnest and expecting their media to be the same (or people thinking thats what they want and producing content to fit). Sarcasm in the service of more subtle social commentary in the style of a 30 Rock type show seems to no longer be fashionable.
i don't think this maintains the simplicity that lua offers.
Galvorn-Breakthrough material that transform energy, aeronautics
Fractional scaling on X is also broken beyond repair; it (usually) only scales fonts (so not icons and other elements). Wayland does have true fractional scaling, but it's supported neither by GTK4 nor by Qt5. Qt6 is the first toolkit with true fractional scaling on Wayland.
But no $$ if not successful.
Doing nothing other than working at Microsoft from 1980-2014 and then getting dividends from shares accrued. This article is clickbait about nothing.
Setting up ActivityPub for a WordPress.com blog
I don't follow. You can load every JITC I know of with C or C++ interfaces. And what is a JITC if not a runtime?
Wall-E was made in the pre-messaging-first age.

There is a message, but the main focus is between Wall-E and EVE. They didn't add any LGBTQIA+ themes or racial issues in there, because it didn't make sense for the message - which was "take care of the environment"

Strong leading women aren't the problem either. We've had those ages ago. I think the first major one for Pixar was Brave (2012). For Disney we had Ariel, Pocahontas and Mulan in the late 1900s.

Disney's problem is that they forgot that story and characters come first, a movie doesn't have to have an overt agenda. I'd prefer the 80's tv cartoon style where they always had The Lesson in the end of the episode after He-Man spent 20 minutes beating up bad guys in the toy ad disguised as entertainment.
I have "type 1" diabetes for 27 years. I hear similar stories like this (revolutionary cure working on animal models) every year or two. Until now non of them worked. I hope this one will be beeter but my expectations are quite low.
Hey thanks for adding links to formulas. Great use of wolfram alpha imo.
Too bad it doesn't seem to include the railroad tracks and the staircases/escalators to the platforms, which are the most prominent features to people who use the station as passengers.

I was able to make sense of the parts by looking at the surrounding road network, but without these, it's hard to make sense of.
I usually take it as suggestive code that you don’t have to use verbatim.

For example, You might not need jQuery offers the following suggestions:

// toggle visibility
function toggle(el) {
if (el.style.display == 'none') {
el.style.display = '';
} else {
el.style.display = 'none';
}
}

// remove multiple elements
for (const el of document.querySelectorAll(selector)) {
el.remove();
}

While the following would be more concise:

// toggle visibility
function toggle(el) {
el.style.display = el.style.display === 'none' ? '' : 'none;
}

// remove multiple elements
document.querySelectorAll(selector).forEach(el => el.remove());
No it doesn't. Whether Solar has a 10% or 25% average load doesn't matter, you need to build something else to deal with needing power at night.
LOL people are such suckers. It's not called Elon Mode in the software, my dudes. That's what people who discovered this debug mode are calling it. HN is peak gullibility.
I'll always be grateful to the doctor who just noticed my throat being very slightly enlarged, even though I wasn't complaining. I had my TSH tested and found that I needed the synthetic thyroid hormone. It's cheap and you just take it once a day.

Iodine deficiency is ONE cause of goiter, but not the only one.

https://www.healthline.com/health/hypothryroidism/hashimotos...
I'd bet you will be very wrong
> Wind is not reliable

Surface wind is not reliable. I've seen proposals to put turbines on large kites or gliders tethered to the ground. There's pretty much always strong winds over most of the United States somewhere between the surface and 10000 feet.
if that were the case, the prc, the us navy, and the russian navy would be mostly or completely nuclear-powered
- Get better at calisthenics

- Get better at CS. Very broad but there's a lot to learn.

- Managing skills
That could be. But we have to moderate by the general pattern, even though not every thread works out that way. It's basically about whether the expected value of a thread is flamewar or not.
They’re also building a lot of nuclear: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1129876/china-nuclear-po...
I don't think there's any standard interface for the laptop to control its charging.

Frame.work laptops have a firmware setting to stop charging at 90%, to extend battery life.
> Unlike nuclear, which is too expensive when you don't overbuild it, and becomes simply stupidly expensive if you contemplate overbuilding it.

> Overbuilding nuclear is so preposterous that nuclear fans just pretend you magically don't need to, to prevent their fragile dream from being crushed by reality, and let them continue to steer at renewables and all the problems they face as every nation on earth builds then out at massive scale.

Why would you need to overbuild nuclear power plants? Other than planning for future growth, but I don't think that's what people generally mean by overbuilding, it's more like avoiding "it's been cloudy/windless for a few weeks now so back to the 1800s it is."
I made JSX for Lua
I once had bed bugs, and can attest to how nasty they are and how difficult to get rid of. Eventually we learned that none of the bed bug repellent products work, and the only thing that actually works is diatomaceous earth.
Nobody said Disney in this thread. Charitably, go woke go broke is a colloquialism, which you know. Someone is going broke from a budgetary perspective. The studio dept^1 has lost almost as much as the company's yearly revenue.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/carolinere...
Your type of stupidity is exactly why we've spent decades, trillions and millions dead/injured fucking around in the middle east to achieve fuck all. But please stand to clap for the veteran of the day! And don't forget to go home and vote away their healthcare.
Why would you want to stop it? Use it to induce lucid dreams
Makes me wonder how much effort went into mothballing partial construction and then unwinding all of that to get it going again. Seems like it would have cost a lot.
I'm just repeating what people have told me.
I don't think fair use is quite that black-and-white. There are many factors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors (from 17 USC 107: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2010-title17/html...)

> "[...] the fair use of a copyrighted work [...] for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work."

----

So here we have OpenAI, ostensibly a nonprofit, using portions of a copyrighted work for commenting on and educating (the prompting user), in a way that doesn't directly compete with NYT (nobody goes "Hey ChatGPT, what's today's news?"), not intentionally copying and publishing their materials (they have to specifically probe it to get it to spit out the copyrighted content). There's not a commercial intent to compete with the NYT's market. There is a subscription fee, but there is also tuition in private classrooms and that doesn't automatically make it a copyright violation. And citing the source or not doesn't really factor into copyright, that's just a politeness thing.

I'm not a lawyer. It's just not that straightforward. But of course the court will decide, not us randos on the internet...
HN is still serving the orange Y for favicons. Only the Y to the left of "Hacker News" in the top bar now has a transparent background.

However, there was a brief period where we were serving the transparent Y for favicons before I noticed that and corrected it; I wonder if the transparent Y somehow got into a cache? Is there a way to force-refresh?
That’s a risk with any and all hyperlinks. There’s nothing unique to QR codes with that.
yes, that's mentioned in the comment i was replying to, but while it's appealing in some ways, i feel that it is not as appealing as the options i mentioned for reasons of accident hazard, noxious combustion products, lower density, and risk of corrosion
As a kid I always admired AVATAR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Attribute_Termi... ) and wondered why more people didn't use it for art. It was far more efficient. I'd use it wherever I could, and it would feel like my modem got a 2x speed boost. But I'd never seen any BBS software convert ANSI art into AVATAR on the fly...

Also, displaying ANSI with ANSI.SYS was completely unsafe, as there were codes to redefine keyboard input (i.e. turn F1 into Format C:)
>Either.

A third option: technology investments improved the efficiency of the previous tax base, which allowed the expansion of the tax base - through additional enforcement activity, increasing the tax base in absolute terms but also returning the overhead to its historical norms.

Without tracking the size of the tax base in inflation-adjusted terms, hard to account for.

(The cynically, you’re probably right re: useless bureaucratic expansion)
> China also builds nuclear reactors, and we can't fall behind them

I, uh, have some uncomfortable news for you.

China are currently building 22 nuclear reactors [1]

China installed 230GW of solar and wind in 2023 [2]

China has over 40,000kms of High Speed Rail, and continues to expand [3]

By any measure, you're falling way behind them.

[1] https://www.economist.com/china/2023/11/30/china-is-building...

[2] https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-seen-installing-230-gw-o...

[3] https://www.statista.com/topics/7534/high-speed-rail-in-chin...
I think they're celebrating a little too soon. A few years ago I lived in a roach infested apartment in Seattle and we used every form of pesticide imaginable, essentially to no effect. We were finding them in our food, inside kettles, etc. It maybe wasn't as bad as the waves the post described.

I guess this quote from the article even admits that roaches have become wiser and are on the rise again:

So, roach numbers are slowly going up again. And if you read publications of the Pest Management Association newsletter, which maybe I’ve done recently, you can see that there’s, you know, there’s some chatter about how roach calls are increasing.

Okay, so I pulled some numbers. I went to the American Housing Survey from the federal government. In 2011, 13.1 million estimated households had signs of cockroaches in the last 12 months. In 2021, 14.5 million.
What's the user-facing difference between Lux and Flux?
Is it possible for solar panels to be semi-transparent so crops can still thrive underneath?
Creating stories for my son based on his silly ideas was my main use case for gpt3 when it first came out.

He loved it so much he draw a picture of a person with a computer screen as a head the next day.

What's unbelievable about the article
The answer to that is simple: powerlines, wind, hydro... No idea why people think solar has to be local, wind requires powerlines and nuclear for some reason isn't neither...
If you consider all qr codes unsafe then use a tool to check them don't lecture the waitress on man in the middle attacks...
> Name another example

Sure, another example is the flu vaccine as you mention. The primary aim of the flu vaccine in the U.S. medical system is to protect high-risk people from life-threatening symptoms, even during infections from different strains.

Another example is the shingles vaccine. The primary aim is to prevent severe symptoms (such as neural damage and long term pain) during a reactivation of an existing chronic infection.

> It’s insane we’re changing the definition of words

The semantic meaning of the word vaccine hasn't changed. All that's changed is the U.S. CDC official definition text, to clarify that the primary aim of vaccines is to activate the body's immune system, rather than solely to prevent a new specific infection.

If you're curious about the language exactness, beyond the U.S. CDC, the U.S. FDA is also involved. For example, the U.S. FDA during COVID stated that a vaccine would need to be at least 50% effective for diminishing the severity of COVID-19 symptoms to obtain regulatory and marketing approval. In other words, the primary aim was to help people reduce damage; the primary aim was not to full-stop prevent infection.
yes, total functional programming is an interesting research area, and of course almost all of our subroutines are intended to verifiably terminate
Yeah, that's what I thought as well. It pulls together screenshots, photos, code snippets, quotes and links to historical documents. The RFCs don't have this stuff.

(Maybe I shouldn't have included the "for the technically curious" part in the title when I submitted it, since it isn't focused on the most technical parts?)
> It's been bad enough that my daughter, who was a devout MCU fan, has zero interest in any new MCU content now.

It's the same with my kids. They usually jump at the chance to go to the theatre (popcorn!), but they have no interest in recent MCU movies or any of the TV shows.
This is a really good question.

Fuzzing is about searching a state-space of an entity: function, method, and I suppose even a hardware-block for unexpected or undefined, or maybe even undocumented behavior.

Certainly this could have been used by the exploiters of these bugs to find undocumented but desirable effects in the hardware of iOS hardware blocks or devices.
Reinforce concrete footing designer using Python
This is a web application that is built using python to help engineers automate the design of foundation footing.
Tededroid
Thanks. The way pdf downloads changed in recent versions of Chrome keeps tripping me up. So annoying.
I created the Tededroid Android app, which makes it easier to read webpages (focus, incremental reading)
It took quite a bit of clicking to find the "open source" part https://github.com/zenorogue/hyperrogue/blob/v13.0/COPYING (GPLv2)

While digging around, it seems there's also an online version for lighter-weight tire kicking https://www.roguetemple.com/z/hyper/online.php

Don't overlook the author's YouTube channel, which digs into the non-Euclidean parts: https://www.youtube.com/@ZenoRogue/videos
Reminds me of John Snow's discovery and demonstration of the cause of cholera, which I learned about in the context of casual inference in this excellent paper by statistician David Freedman:

https://psychology.okstate.edu/faculty/jgrice/psyc5314/Freed...

Actual science looks nothing like the shoddy paper churning that we see in much of econ and social science using questionable and assumption-heavy casual inference methods.
Raspberry Pi 5 8GB currently in stock
There are a lot of scanned books on the Internet Archive, though the OCR quality is pretty bad, and now there are the possible copyright issues of training on any still-in-copyright works.

I'd expect any SETI-like project on libgen/sci-hub would have to be somewhat hush hush. It wouldn't surprise me if it's already being done by somebody evil, who will use the results for their own nefarious purposes and not release them.
I suspect there are easier ways to trick the driver monitoring. For example, fake the steering and interior camera inputs.
This really looks like the NSA just flexing their muscles and their vulnerability arsenal.
This will never happen. A super intelligent being can just simulate whatever it wants to know about the universe. Going to the stars is a primate / conquest thing.

In the other hand, any new life will just end up facing the same issues carbon life does , competition, viruses, conflicts etc. the universe has likely had an infinity to come up with what it has come up with. I don’t think it’s “stupid”. We’re part of an ecosystem we just can’t see that.
The healthcare costs issue is infuriating, because it's one that has an obvious, well-tested solution, that could be implemented tomorrow, if the gluttons in power chose to.
I think that version 1 won’t sell well, but Apple knows this and they are quickly working on a far more affordable v2 or v3 and adoption will continue to increase until it becomes a significant new form of computing.

I see Vision Pro’s rise ramp looking much like Apple Watch’s did before Apple dialed in the Watch’s purpose, hardware, and pricing. You might remember Watch S0 units having obscene return rates. I was one of those who mocked the Watch. Now I wear one. Watch didn’t really kick in until Series 2.
> The pacing for Ahsoka, for example, is just awful. Feels like they literally asked the actors to drag out the content. They were all over the place with the Boba Fett series.

It’s so incredibly drawn out that the best version of Ahsoka is likely to be a fan edit currently in the works (by an editor with a good track record) who’s aiming to come in under 3 hours. It’ll assuredly be strictly an improvement. There have already been a couple attempts because the show’s so obviously and painfully bloated. The shortest is around two hours and reviews were positive.

Obi Wan’s at least as bad. It could be half its length and nothing of (even under generous accounting) value would be lost.

Most of the Disney Marvel shows also burn screen time like it’s free. Not that Netlix’s were any better about that, aside from one or two total seasons out of the entire effort.

IDK if this is somehow cheaper for them, writing 3-5 episodes of content and streeeetching it to 8-10 episodes, or what. They still have to have stuff on screen, so I wouldn’t think it’d save them much.