skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
shrug sure, but people don’t talk about it that way, at least around me. They use thermal to mean a power source where you burn something and get energy out.
The UK system depends on the same even more, though.
Nowadays, I assume that anything with the phrase "it's important to consider" is ChatGPT-generated.
I wonder if it'd be possible to design the body in such a way that the nozzle shape changed as the rocket rose through the atmosphere, so that the nozzle was continuously optimized for ambient air pressure.
feeling massive scope creep in the use of this term 'autistic' of late... It's gone from a personality type we might call 'nerdiness' (and many entailments) to this kind of quasi-medicalised definition.
Author claims that these jokes are "clearly" inappropriate and violate policies but I'm not so sure. The main example is off colour, but does anyone really think it constitutes CASM?
A key point from BBC here is that the post office was doing damage control with a PR team as well as legal threats. Pretty successful it seems.
All I can say is, sleep first. Sleep. Listen to "Why we sleep" on audiobook when you try to go to bed each night. You need sleep.
> I don't even use Amazon, but I definitely sympathize with prime subscribers. It's nearly a requirement for average people in their 30s.

This seems like an exaggeration. You don't need to pay for Prime in order to shop on Amazon. You can even get free shipping without it. I can't think of any reason I'd want it. The only time I've ever had Prime was when Amazon somehow dark-patterned me into accidentally clicking it. I don't think not having Prime makes you eccentric, nor is eccentricity a prerequisite for living your life without a totally optional shopping service.
to see how the language (likely) looks like, try this input into perplexity.ai :

show me the 3 simplest examples of rosettacode implemented in crockford's misty programming language
Don’t make these videos, folks. You are just going to make the next employer afraid to hire you. There is no upside.

Employers don’t owe you any explanations. Just walk away.

If you have a legal argument, hire a lawyer and do it right. Arguing with the people tasked with telling you this news is like yelling at a wall that is falling on you. It’s useless and pathetic.

Meanwhile, I think the HR people did pretty well.
Spillways. I'm not too sure you have any idea about what you are talking about.

Anyway, water at scale is a scary thing. A cubic meter of water is a tonne - 1000 Kg. Look at any river or even a stream and try and mentally construct a cross-section. Say 30m wide and say 3m deep, and assume a 75% section - that's 30x3 = 90x0.75 = 67.5m^2. Let's call it 70m^2.

If the flow in this river is 1 ms-1 then 70 tonnes of water flows per second. That's roughly one and a bit main battle tanks per second!

1 m/s = 2.2 mi/h Let's set walking speed at 3 mph and a river in spate at say 15mph (6.7m/s). Far worse has been seen.

Now you have 70m^2 x 6.7ms-1 = 469 tonnes of water per second. Let's call it 500 tonnes per second.
There's probably somebody out there using it as a line encoding. It would be interesting to know.
Ask HN: Are you an optimist for the next 10 years?
$2000 chair that is "78 table lengths" in size.
He sure did. This was a man so vain he refused to wear glasses even though he needed them.
This made me think of Mural Art in the ancient past. Yes they were commissioned to do that art, but it still stands today in cathedrals and churches. Advertising comes and goes, nobody will notice when its gone.

Thats a problem with art today, IMHO.
then you can go further, ask perplexity.ai to:

use the documentation at https://www.crockford.com/misty/actors.html to show an actor code example
I suspect someone was tasked with using the latest tools to improve a bunch of listings. 50 years ago they were given a typewriter for the same task, today they were given an LLM. It just feels like someone doing their job to me. Different year different tool. We no longer hand-transcribing books anymore, we don't lament that, and we won't lament LLMs one day either.
These replies are very curious. Apologies for angering some folks. I didn't intend for that. The assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about was expected. However the doubling-down that running Windows games on linux is, in fact, "far superior" to running them on Windows is... interesting.

First of all, I play games daily on my M1 Mac and have gamed on linux and older Intel Macs since around 2007. I'm very familiar with the compatibility layers that go into running Windows games on non-Windows systems. Wine, ESync, MSync, WineD3D, MoltenVK, DXVK, VKD3D, GPTK, Rosetta 2, winetricks, CrossOver, CXPatcher, Whisky, PlayCover, Parallels Desktop; these are all things I have used to let me play ~8/10 of the games I want to play. That is, ~20% of the games I want to play simply don't work at all outside of Windows mostly due to either anti-cheat, or using DX APIs that aren't implemented in the compatibility layers. Most of them perform noticeably worse than Windows, and that's after googling for an hour and applying the random performance hacks/tweaks.

Windows games are designed and built, from the hardware APIs to the shaders, to run on Windows. It is only with a very curious definition of "far superior" that getting a tiny percentage of games to run a few FPS better is a true statement.

Playing Windows games on linux is not "far superior" than running them on Windows.
If you want to know the state of things, I was once told that my ethics section (which is requested by the conference) was unnecessary and overly verbose. This was an image generation paper and the section was only like a 4-5 sentence paragraph. I've shifted to throwing them into my appendix because I find readers look at the appendix but reviewers don't and I care more about communicating to the readers.
I think the lump-sum effect is a bit of a red herring. Of course a $500 lump sum to people who only average $33/mo had a big impact. That’s like someone in the states that makes $3300 a month and giving them $50,000! That’s not the point of a UBI.
Gotcha!

Well….

Before modems, we used to drive to peoples houses and literally swap floppy disks of software and files!

There would be meetups.

I was just a kid, but my Dad used to network with other computer owning parents and friends!

So Sneaker Net essentially.

We’d go to computer shows too!
Does LGPL require that you be able to do so on the same platform it's being distributed on? There's nothing stopping someone from downloading an LGPL binary from the app store and running it in an emulator or something, right?
In one of the sub-comments, there's mention of it being used when "the army of the consul Appius Claudius refused to fight the Volscians."

While it's open rebellion, that's not at all the same as them attacking Rome. To me, it sounds more in line with Muhammad Ali refusing to fight the Vietnam war.
Under the Genocide convention, Israel is obliged to prohibit and prosecute such speech. US senators aren't the standard, just like Hamas is not the standard. Besides one US senators hardly being the equivalent of hundreds of public figures, from the head of state to security and education minister, to army generals and so on. They're crazies alright, but they're not fringe, they're in charge. Those who call it out get viciously attacked, such as Ofer Cassif or Israel Frey ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMKyH4jCnTE )

And the rhetoric matches the actions of the IDF. It's not "just" the bombing, it's also just blowing up whole villages demolition style, before/after making selfies and TikToks making fun of it. Just turning off water, plowing up the asphalts of streets, etc. etc.
AMIE: A research AI system for diagnostic medical reasoning and conversations
Awesome, this is a great project
I see. The case in question is when the user switches between two devices, each of which may be sometimes offline. This can cause older changes hitting the server later than the new ones, in which case, ideally, they should be rejected.

What happens to storage requests made while offline? Are they cached locally and propagated once online, or are they lost?
Thanks for the links and info!
The tank-busting munitions that they typically use are conventional RPG warheads, as seen in the video I've linked. They work great provided that they hit a weakly armored spot, and they're even cheaper than the drone itself.

And no, you don't need Internet connectivity for those things. You need to be within radio range, but this can still mean 1-2 km away easily even on stock equipment, and more with better antennae etc.
Our love of floating signifiers and words with multiple or contradictory definitions.
That's exactly the same for me.

I use my inner voice when I'm reading or trying to construct sentences, but I don't think in sentences. I have to convert my thoughts to words so I'm an extremely slow and clumsy talker. I thought this was normal to be honest, but others have sworn to me that they think in sentences and I wonder if that's why some people are such brilliant speakers since for some thoughts and speech are linked instead of being two separate processes.
Usually such things are called lifters. Wonder how this tool compares to other existing LLVM IR lifters, such as remill[0] and rellume[1].

0: https://github.com/lifting-bits/remill

1: https://github.com/aengelke/rellume
They’re baffled? Look around. We are swimming in artificially synthesized chemicals. What so hard to understand?
My wife and I watched Mr Bates vs the Post Office, recently, it was one of those watches where you spend a lot of time yelling "How the fuck?! What the fuck?!" at the screen because the malice and dishonesty was so deliberate, so persistently maintained, lest the "brand" be sullied.

I've been following this story for years, I know BBC's Panorama covered it in 2015, and was really surprised there wasn't more of an outcry in the UK about such blatant unfairness, guess technical cases like this are really helped by a TV drama with quality actors making it easily accessible to the general population, as soon as ITV aired the miniseries, the petition to have Vennall's CBE stripped jumped from 7K signatures to 700K+, and she said she would return it. (not the golden handshakes and "performance" bonuses though lol)

I just can't believe that no-one has been held criminally accountable (yet) for the sheer (to quote the judges in the civil case) affront to justice that this represented - whether it was Post Office Limited (POL) misleading (well, lying to) the courts, or Fujitsu employees lying in prosecutions, or POL deliberately withholding evidence in their role as a prosecutor (wild that this power to prosecute as transferred from Royal Mail to the spun off entity), and some of the cynically legalistic games they played (like asking the judge to recuse himself for being biased against them, to further delay the outcome of the civil suit).

And the crap they pulled with the Second Sight independent analysis that they commissioned themselves...

I was just reading the Clarke Advice(s), and god-damn, I can't see how any former POL executives can claim "we honestly believed all that stuff we said in court, honest", after their own goddamn independent legal advice told them "stop these prosecutions, like now, your expert witness is full of shit" The 2nd Clarke Advice is a great read too, basically "STOP TRYING TO HIDE EVIDENCE, JESUS CHRIST".

Oh, and some of the code that turned up from Horizon in an internal Fujitsus report is egregiously bad (how do I turn x into -x or -x into x? What's -(-x)? nevermind, I got this), from what I've read, the team that wrote Fujitsus was considered low skilled and mocked by other groups within Fujitsu as basically a group of clowns merely lacking a circus.

Clarke Advice 1: https://www.postofficescandal.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/...

Clarke Advice 2: https://www.postofficescandal.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/...

Fujitsu report: https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/sites/default/fi...

Discussion of recusal application by Court of Appeal: https://taxpolicy.org.uk/assets/recusal_judgment.pdf
The constant "By the way..." from Alexa drove me nuts.

If you say "Alexa, stop by the way", it'll get the device to stop responding with follow-ups for ~24h. I ended up creating a routine that runs every night at 4am to lower the volume to zero, automatically say "stop by the way" to the device, and then raise the volume a minute later, and Alexa has stopped with the follow ups
No, there’s not. Any of the examples I gave could be conducted by university researchers subject to the IRB, or by corporate/government researchers not subject to an IRB and informed consent requirements. When I worked in my university’s statistical consulting center in graduate school I could have consulted on the same experiment either subject to IRB or not depending on who the client was.
So what? Grow up. It doesn’t matter if they were “copping out.” Although I didn’t hear them doing that.

It just doesn’t matter. Arguing with HR gets you nowhere. It’s self-destructive drama for likes.
The biggest issue with OpenTelemetry is how aggressively it's being pushed, despite not being mature enough. The AWS X-Ray team frequently suggests switching to OTel on bug reports and feature requests, but the performance and resource overhead of OTel collector for Lambda is just awful right now. It doesn't make sense for any performance sensitive workload.

Beyond that, it gives off an "over-engineered" vibe. It's probably not, and the complexity of being a unified standard that can work across so many different variations is inherently going to need a lot of abstractions, but it feels so much more difficult to go through OpenTelemetry compared to an opinionated observability SaaS.
It is important to change my way of writing English then.
They were late delivering an NVidia GPU I ordered before Xmas and when I complained to the agent he was like "You know what, keep the GPU when it arrives. And I'm refunding the purchase price. And I'm sending you a $5 gift card now too."

So, Amazon bought my good will back again with that. They shouldn't have had to do it, though.
I'd be a bit hard pressed to agree with this. While I think it is technically correct I do not think it is meaningful. Because anyone working in the academic system is specifically considered an academic. But a researcher is not the same thing as an admin. The truth is that a dean is not the same thing as a researcher even if they previously were.

I'd specify that the metrics were setup by the bureaucrats, which does include overlap between administrators and researchers. I'd also add that just because the metrics were made up by these groups doesn't mean they can't decide to move past them. In fact, it even makes the case of internally solving the problem stronger because we did it before so we can do it again.
Digital Marketers Can Make Extra Money from Building a GPT
There’s an amazing effort by a nonprofit to sponsor the first Kayak descent of this river by children from indigenous peoples of the region. This is a seriously intense adventure with anticipated class VI rapids.

https://www.riostorivers.org/
I think it is, if you look at the user’s comment history it seems to alternate between GPT style and a more natural human HN style.
> USB power adapter I can buy

Until your house burn downs or it destroys your phone. Minimum enforced standards are a good thing because the vast majority of consumers are not capable of evaluating the safety and compatibility of devices.

You can't just trust the seller or people you know about a power supply (in this example) being safe.
This is awesome!! I use something similar on MacOS but it's a native app with offline support. The offline support is a neat feature but honestly these days if the internet is down I just don't do any development work...

- https://kapeli.com/dash
We dont know this. It's all speculation. All of it. And it's speculation of a winner. So it's not surprising that it conveniently frames the willing destruction of 100,000 people as the lesser of two evils.
Also, many people talk about the bombs. But dont forget: the firebombings killed many more people and were aimed at civilians.
General LeMay, who ordered the attack that resulted in the murder of 100,000 innocent people in one single night. Said the following when asked about his motives: “There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.”

If you are willing to see the narrative from another perspective here are some links:

Firebombings of Tokyo: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/asia/japan-tokyo-fire-raids-o...

Court ruling about Hiroshima and Nagasaki (deemed unlawful acts of war = war crime)
https://www.internationalcrimesdatabase.org/Case/53/Shimoda-...
My estimate was a bit off because it was a market price for an export unit. But according to US procurement documentation, a single Javelin costs American taxpayers $197,884 to send, so it's the same order of magnitude.
That was not terribly informative. It failed to usefully address at least two obvious questions:

1. How dangerous is rapid decompression at 40k ft? Would it kill or incapacitate people?

2. Is there any mechanism in the plane to automatically descend to a safe altitude in the event that cabin pressure is lost and the crew is incapacitated? (What is a safe altitude, anyway? 10k feet is breathable, but mountains taller than that are not especially unusual.)
I’m not dodging the issue. You asked if finance played a useful role in society, and I gave concrete examples where it did.

Those services are more profitable because they are more valuable, because they are now better at transferring risk. Sure, you can say that you don’t understand the value that a derivatives product provides, and some people are buying them when they shouldn’t, but that hardly describes the entirety of an industry. Just because you can’t imagine why someone would want borrow money in a complex way doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense to them.

Let me give you another example where financial innovation has made people’s lives (slightly) better. Many people of my parents generation bought strange investment products with very high management fees from people like Fidelity and Morningstar. Today they’re more likely to buy a low fee index fund like Vanguard. Or a target retirement fund that reduces their risk as they get older.

I argue that the financial products still existed 40 years ago, but they were more obtuse and a worse deal.
All you need is an importance to note
Neat, but I don't understand how this would work if actually contained the fuel tanks.
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve disabled notifications on my Alexa settings. And yet there it is…another yellow ring.
It's basically the HN equivalent of "Well, when I first created the Earth in 7 days I didn't really imagine..."
True but does not seem to make it not worth doing.

Incomplete? OK but how incomplete really? I have never written anything myself that relied on generating and then executing machine code at run time. Sure it exists, but so what if one app out of everything I ever use turns out to do it? Or even say ten?

Complete but only by dint of including a jit? OK but does that imply there might as well just be the jit alone? I don't think so. The general concept of caching has been well proven to be overwhelmingly worth it in pretty much any context it's possible.
What kind of question is?

I’m optimistic we won’t have nuclear annihilation.

I’m not optimistic about many other things.
Shut up, toaster!
D&D is an extensive and beloved cultural tradition, and WotC is trying to engineer changes to it. What if the publishers of The Lord of the Rings started selling a version that had been revised for political correctness. Tolkien fans would be upset. If that reaction would be confusing to you, I don't think any explanation could bridge the difference in perspective.
You are limiting your definition of society to one that can be described by defended political borders. It's circular and tautological.

I would argue that the internet is a society that's broader than these political borders, obviously exists, and does so entirely outside of government control.

I would suggest you both missed this definition of society.
Another brexit bonus?
How difficult would it be to repurpose the kinds of models you are working on to, instead, say, perform early detection and selection of problem people for internment/liquidation?
The best way of thinking about it I have come across is that your plan for doing X in the future is allowed to be "We change the code to extend it to do X in the future". Flexibility doesn't need to mean you build something now to make it so you can add X by only writing new code in a neat little module, it can also be that you can just change how the code works across the system to accomodate X. In fact, if you focus on making the latter kind of changes easier, you'll do better in general, and that generally means keeping things simple.
This looks nice and the payment model is more convenient (on demand). Haven't heard of this before. From the first use, it looks like a search aggregator as it takes results from many engines. Each source engine costs differently.
I don't see the problem. What's the issue? What is cult like about this?
haven’t built a full on working prototype yet, but everything suggests it will.
Very cool. I was initially confused since I expected the questions to be multiple choice, but then I realized you're evaluating whether the answer is correct or not using AI (so I can type "Obama" or "Barack Obama" and both are correct). Haven't seen that approach before!
> Women in Saudi Arabia only got the right to vote as of 2015

Saudi Arabia is 0.018% of Facebook audience. Factoring in language differences and content geofencing and it'll be about a handful Saudis likely to see an ad for the game - all of them probably visiting the US.

So bring it home for us. How do 6 Saudis (of unknown opinion on voting)

transform a longstanding reality - that women vote

into an issue so sensitive that banning game ads is a reasonable response?
Right. Because an evil company would abide by their terms/principles. Once they removed that pesky, "don't be evil" barrier it was open-season on being super evil.

They removed it because it's stupid and meaningless.
Apologize to California hackers, but I kinda want to see this bill pass. The unintended but obvious consequences and all the associated second and third order effects will get it repealed before too long, but maybe it will bring an end to this bright idea once and for all so we can focus on solutions that will actually work.
Cockpit crew have rapidly deployable oxygen masks in their headrests (edit: or otherwise near), and train to don them very quickly.

Good vid of how quickly they can access and wear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgLSTimJ868

The plane won't descend on its own unless it's part of the regular flightplan and it's on autopilot.
I wasn't there; I was in college at that time, but I remember the attitude from military magazines, radio, etc. Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait were seen as universally guilty of "raping" Kuwait, and any who died deserved his punishment.
Dogs and horses changed the world with much more primitive communication skills.
“Modern operating systems such as Windows 11 or macOS use additional RAM very efficiently”

Hahahhahahhahhukaufkauf! (Excuse me while I clear my throat) Uh… my 7Mhz 512KB Amiga generally had a better UX.
I wouldnt trust my life with doctors, they are no better than religious academics.

The drug companies know more than them!
It connects to the hub but you have bluetooth repeaters to extend it.

True, devices don't directly connect to each other, so I guess not mesh.

But for all intents and purposes the bluetooth instead of wifi is all I care about, not how it's implemented, as long as it's reliable.