skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In London, many neighborhoods have added charging sockets to the existing streetlight posts. I park on the street and can charge overnight easily and cheaply just by parking on the road and plugging in.

I'm not saying this will work perfectly in every location or for all cities. But it is relatively easy in many areas to add charging ports with existing infrastructure.
At -40C, the COP is only going to be 1.4. A natural gas fired cogen plant is 60% efficient so even without transmission losses this ultra complex arrangement is not more efficient at generating heat.

You are conflating the efficiency of generating mechanical energy (where such arguments hold) with generating heat.
Moonlight + sunshine also works great! Give it a shot. I believe sunshine has a Apple silicon build.
I am curious, how many people were admitted to the golden visa program in the last 10 years? Does it really have a big impact?
Neurochat: Native open source GUI for LLMs
Neurochat is a opensource native GUI for OpenAI LLMs, LLama.cpp and the free service neuroengine.ai.

It's basically an opensource version of LLMStudio. Currently it works on Windows and Linux, and I have some experimental builds for MacOS too. Apart from being 100% native (using FreePascal) is that with an API key you can access ChatGPT4 using this GUI without having to do monthly payments, you only pay for whatever you use. This is quite useful for me as I don't use GPT4 enough to justify the monthly payments, but I still want to try it once in a while.

It supports local LLMs out-of-the-box using LLama.cpp dll and you can use GPU acceleration if you provide the corresponding accelerated LLama.cpp build for your system.
Electric buses withdrawn in south London after fire
Did you ever wonder to validate the things you "started hearing"?
https://macoscontainers.org
> don't meet random punitive safety or emissions rules

citation needed, please!
Airports also had to raise a new lounge/gate floor, and buy new ~double height jetbridges to access the upper deck of the A380.
A very important part of this frontier is ability to create genetic copies to see which part of a trait is genetic.

It is crazy that we ban research on cloning, and still don't have many clones of successful scientists.
I agree. I have used HP, Dell and Lenovo laptops and all of them suck in terms of build quality. I use a Macbook for work and even though I hate macOS the build quality of the laptop is exceptional. There is obviously a huge price difference in Windows vs Mac laptops. I am willing to fork additional money to the Windows laptop companies if they can guarantee a well built laptop. But looking at their track record it doesn't seem worth it to pay thousands to get a crappy laptop anyway.
If you guys could become best friends and integrate both projects into one ultimate ebook/audiobook tool, that would be great :)
When learning any complex skill, the key is figuring out what the fundamentals are, and practicing those, in isolation and small combinations (along with throwing everything all together, of course).

For painting, the fundamentals are usually listed as something like values, shapes, edges, and color.

Some might make a more exhaustive list, for example breaking shapes apart into more “drawing” skills like perspective, construction, anatomy, etc. this is useful because it’s even more isolated things to practice beyond just making pleasing shapes. (I think some use just “shapes” as the fundamental because the breakdowns imply you are painting some sort of realism, which doesn’t have to be the case. Abstract art, or even non realism representational, still uses shapes)

It can be hard to tease some of these apart, but what the parent is talking about, and what TFA is doing, is practicing values and shapes (though the article also has color, this isn’t necessary). all edges are hard edges, so that is removed from the equation, and you can just practice creating something that “reads” (ie, looks like the thing you intended).

If you wanted to practice values in isolation, you could freeze the shapes, and just adjust the value of each shape to explore what effects it gives and if it still reads.

I agree that learning things, like painting, is made more complicated that it needs to be. Check out Marco Bucci on YouTube. He’s a great teacher (his free videos are fantastic, but I have all his courses as well).

If you watch an experienced artist they don’t generally take these individual steps, as experience lets them combine the fundamentals, but you better bet they put in hundreds of hours practicing them.
I'm surprised the article didn't take a good-humoured pot shot at the uniquely American phenomenon known to me as The Empire of Pillows.

I left the states around the year 2000, and when I left bedding was usually comprised of sheet + sheet + comforter.

But since then on my yearly trips home, more and more pillows were appearing on the beds. Now when I visit, part of the nightly ritual before going to bed is finding a place to store the dozen or so decorative throw pillows to make room for humans in the bed.

Maybe this is an opportunity? Would anyone be interested in a pillow-bed? You know. A bed. For pillows. They do their duty all day making a bed look.. inviting? But at night they deserve a rest too. Chucking them on the floor is just wrong. And stacking them jenga-style on the side chair is fraught with danger. But a pillow-bed would solve that! I feel a start-up comin on...
How else would you correctly reproduce something that came from a $40,000 studio, whose equipment is chock full of $0.10 op-amps, and whose output is stamped onto a $0.05 worth of plastic?
As a newly diagnosed Type 2, but not overweight, I take metformin and have a carefully altered my diet to slow down my digestion and have few easily digestible carbs (i.e. such as the whites, flour, sugar, potatoes and rice). But it takes 3 months to see if my A1C goes down (a measure of the past 3 months of blood sugar), so I won't know for a couple more months. Going keto to me seems like using a shotgun to kill a fly on your foot, it is too hard to keep up with, and causes other issues, while simply understanding how carbs affect your blood sugar is much easier to do.

Part of the problem is that all the tables of carbs assume you are only eating the one thing (which is how they make the tables), but the actual affect on blood sugar spikes is the sum of what you ate. For example, eating a boiled potato by itself will spike a Type 2 steeply, but eating it with lots of butter will not.

I prefer to understand my health issues by reading a wide variety of information from people who specialize in them, not just read one guy's opinion.
This is surprising to me https://getreuer.info/posts/keyboards/non-english/index.html...

I wonder why a better solution hasn't been implemented in QMK. Is it a technical limitation?
One additional piece of advice: learn to drive an automatic, most of the vehicles you’ll ever drive will be automatic. But, when you’re comfortable with driving, take the time and make the effort to drive a stick (manual). While you’re unlikely to encounter them often in the US, I’ve frequently gotten stuck with them as rental cars in Europe and Asia. Plus it’s a handy skill if you’re ever on some whacky adventure race.
not the same since it's not for compression but there are lots of examples of encoding text or data into the low bits of an image. For example pico-8 does this. The "cartridges" it saves are a PNG file that is a screenshot of the game with the data encoded in the low bits of the image
I know that “just put it on a freight train” doesn’t solve every logistics problem but it does kind of address this one. Maybe their solution should be focused on improving transloading between truck and train and using autonomous trucking to solve the “last mile(s)” problem for trains.
Yes, Mantle is older. But after Mantle came out, my impression is that the OpenGL committee intended to deliver a new version of OpenGL, rather than rewrite it.

I think of the timeline like this: Mantle comes out and it shows that you can deliver performance improvements with a new API that more closely reflects the hardware. Microsoft goes off and starts working on DirectX 12, to bring those benefits to DirectX. OpenGL starts working on a new version of OpenGL, to bring those benefits to OpenGL, but the progress is somewhat slower. Apple works on Metal internally, so it doesn’t have to wait for a new OpenGL and doesn’t have to deal with committees. Khronos sees that they’re being left behind, and kicks off OpenGL Next.

Rough timeline:

2013: AMD makes Mantle (no GA).

2014: OpenGL AZDO talks. Apple delivers Metal 1.0. Khronos kicks off the Vulkan project, then named OpenGL Next.

2015: OpenGL Next renamed as Vulkan. Microsoft delivers DirectX 12.

2016: Vulkan 1.0.
> for renters or more normal folks who have to park on the street

I think categorizing people into "with garages" and "normal" might be a little contentious. A quick search indicates 63% percent of all housing units have a garage or carport[1]. Housing Unit includes apartments and condos. I'm sure it's very geographic, and in large cities the number will be much lower - but many many Americans live in suburbs, where 80% will have garages - this doesn't make them abnormal or particularly wealthy.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-958-january-2-2017...
But an autonomous truck can just go slower, no? It never gets tired, so unless there is a logistic pressure, it would be reasonable to trade speed for safety.
I can think of several possible reasons:

- They store a lot so they get discounts

- They use Infrequent Access, much cheaper than standard

- Some users may cost a lot less than their subscription fees helping to offset some of the costs? (not storing a lot of photos or whatever)

- They might use Glacier which is a lot cheaper than both IA and standard

And so on
A really nice approach to this I've seen recently is Google's research on [Dex](https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang).
> Science requires experiment.

Sure, but for the vast majority of physical theories before electrodynamics, our senses plus a few ancient instruments (meter sticks, hourglass, scales) were plenty enough. Galileo's relativity principle and his observation that all objects fall at the same rate in a vacuum were based on thought experiments and physical intuition, not actual experiment (apparently, he did try later to actually perform the experiment, but I think it didn't really work).

> The whole point of this thread is that science often advances in parallel with no communication between scientists. Once the raw data has been collected - which is an economic issue - or conditions arise where a new problem needs to be solved - also economics - then it is a relatively short matter of time until someone comes up with a compelling theory.

Sure, people can discover things in isolation. But science only advances when others learn of those things and can build upon them. Neither Newton nor Galileo nor the person in the article invented all of their theories from first principles - they were building on lots of thought and ideas that they had learned from other scientists.

> People rediscover calculus to this day, every so often we all get a laugh because some very bright doctor figures out he can sum rectangles under a curve.

Actually, calculating surface areas in this way is very very old - according to this Science article [0], it was already in use around 50 BCE. So it's not actually surprising that it has been rediscovered independently. I don't think much of Newton's work has been, apart from Leibniz (though that might also be because it's been so widely disseminated afterwards).

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aad8085
> Some people wish for non hallucinogenic 5-HT2A activation and that seems like a bizzarely detached from reality pipe dream.

This is actually an area of active research with promising developments, FWIW:

https://psychedelichealth.co.uk/2023/06/13/non-hallucinogeni...
I like the short forumlation to explain it: "Dynamic Programming is approximately recursion + memoization + guessing"
This was still possible back in the Flash days to be fair, at least the marketing page side of things.
> We ignore their "we noticed you may benefit from Enterprise, call us today!" spam

Of course if you ignore their offers to talk with the sales team, you won't talk to them. Bigger companies than yours will be interested in their enterprise package and/or will want to negotiate volume discounts.
In addition to the suggested problems others posted, perhaps it was a scheduling problem? Like, for example, scheduling N overlapping events in time, like course schedules or processes for a CPU. Generally this would be done to optimize something like throughput - I believe that when you start adding special requirements, like "These 2 courses must be taken together", then things get much more complicated and intractable compared to plain-old dynamic programming.
Most people who try these things briefly entertain these ideas. They are really interesting and have the potential to trigger positive breakthroughs in a person’s thinking. They also have high potential in therapy for things like PTSD and depression.

But all you have to do is spend a little time around drug users or pay attention to the discourse in psychedelic friendly circles (Joe Rogan and Russell Brand anyone?) to see that drugs are not some kind of magic enlightenment in a pill. If they were there’d be more enlightened drug users.
The fact that they pulled the plug on disclosure confirms they have something to hide. I'd be awfully surprised if it had anything to do with extraterrestrials of course. Most likely just run of the mill shady government behavior that they don't want exposed.
the brand is Arzopa and they make a bunch of different models, my guess is based on different panels and their prices.
Scripting languages are called 'dynamic' sometimes pejoratively. Dynamic microphones are also inferior in studio recording situations. I could see a poor DP implementation wasting memory being described negatively.
The paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05654
Sure, it can feel that way if you believe that the war on drugs was started to keep people safe. However, if it was started as a means to persecute "undesireables" or political opponents the current trend seems less questionable.
DALL-E prompt produced a road with a semi on the wrong side of a no-pass divider line. Love it.

Anyway, the speed doesn't have to be 50mph. Do 40mph on late night trips. More EV range/gas efficient anyway.

The deceleration would likely be helped by an EV drivetrain where regen and braking can contribute to stopping. Likewise the high-torque EV motors can accelerate a semi far more manageably.

Emergency/Fault stops should likely be handled by convergent infrastructure, or only using routes with sufficient shoulders.

How many scene understandings can be done with on-demand manual takeover? Highways generally have some of the best cell/data networks, and again, convergent evolution of infrastructure.

Sensor distance can probably be improved with the concept of a "scout car". Likely automated trucks would drive in formation (to draft to get better efficiency), a lead car can scout and provide additional effective distance. This car doesn't even need to be a full size car, it could be a smaller teardrop-optimized drone. And if the drone crashes or faults, the following train automatically pulls to the side.

Trucking routes can benefit from neural nets tailored to repetitive navigations of the route. No handling general queries, the tractors (or the control system utilized) isn't driving "a general truck". It is driving from Minneapolis to Chicago.

I think I disagree with the article. It assumes too fast for the vehicle, too general of routes.

Oh, my final disagreement may be the total size of the vehicle. Once automated vehicles can drive at distance ... do you need a massive tractor trailer, or can you instead use more capable (and more cheaply mass produced) vans or smaller form factors? The industry is what it is in current state and a trailer ~= a container, so I guess I see why that wouldn't be a go.
If he thinks driving cars in cities is the easiest problem, he does not have experience driving a car in a European city with lots of cyclists and pedestrians.

Driving a car in inner Copenhagen is a stressful situation due to the insane number of cyclist you have to watch out for, see https://youtu.be/FaySp9i2zMA?t=113
It’s a great choice for the JS ecosystem for the same reason it’s a terrible choice for the JS ecosystem: JS dependencies are a lot, and they sometimes want to do strange things at install-time that Nix frowns upon. There’s definitely an upfront cost, and a maintenance burden as well. But the flexibility and the control over what code you’re actually running could still be worth it.
The general problem with forums is that once they get good SEO placement they then become targets of the army of spammers, real and human, trying to use the highly ranking forum for their unscrupulous SEO spam, and now the maintaining team has to do heavy loads of spam management.
Id be curious to see how this pans out globally. Every news article I see points to younger workers getting punched in one manner or the other. It’s unsurprising that workers forced to work 50+ hours a week +commute time don’t have time to build social tethers to a location.
Did he study under Kang at UCLA?
If you could get good enough statistics you could ask every 5 years and make a plot.
Paperclip continued to deliver German scientists, engineers, and technicians to the United States for years past the end of WWII. One of the most important of these was Friedwardt Winterberg, who was brought to America before the ink was dry on his PhD in 1955. Winterberg is important because his doctoral supervisors were the wartime nuclear physicists Werner Heisenberg and Kurt Diebner, the latter of whom was much more important than the former.

Winterberg's career looks respectable if not particularly noteworthy at first glance; he spent his working years at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas as a physics professor. But it is in his writing that you get major clues as to what wartime German nuclear science was really up to. Winterberg's books explore various means of provoking nuclear detonations, often with an emphasis on prompt fusion, or fusion in synergy with fission, rather than fission alone. Most modern nuclear weapons incorporate this concept, broadly speaking, but what I am getting at here is a particular concept known as a "Prandtl - Meyer hydrogen bomb". This bomb design utilizes shock waves as described in earlier investigations of how those behave in water (hydrodynamics). It appears very likely that wartime SS scientists, most of them Austrian, attempted to build a megaton class hydrogen bomb based on Prandtl - Meyer principles rather than the Soviet "sloika" or the later US Teller - Ulam configuration. There is fragmentary but consistent information about this in the most recently discovered archival documents.
I think there are some good points here but IMHO this is overly focused on flawless
100% of the time L5 autonomy. Many autonomous trucking companies can become economically viable without perfection because 1. They aren’t dealing with consumers directly 2. Can control or focus on specific well understood shipping lanes 3. Can provide more human in the loop assistance for tricky situations. In this way trucking is easier than ride sharing because there is a longer on ramp (no pun intended) for companies to improve tech while being viable businesses
Not even that, I suspect -- it'll hold four 66' boats, so maybe six containers in each caisson? The canals it joins are traditional British canals, they're quite restrictive. Scaling it up to cope with neo-panamax-sized ships is left as an exercise to the reader.

If you do try, remember that the Panama canal allows boats with a ~15m draft and just short of 60m height above the waterline, you're probably going to want more of a see-saw than a full wheel.

(Also: correcting my comment above, the wheel only lifts to 24m: there are locks to get the rest of the way up (another 11m), avoiding needing to demolish a section of the antonine wall. So the wheel itself lifts slightly less height than the 26m on the Panama canal)
I think if the page included descriptions of the videos (from YT) it would have been much better.
Breakthrough Listen
I had a similar phase myself. Though I still genuinely believe that every person should have a psychedelic experience at least once in their lifetime, as well as a talk-session with close friends while on MDMA.

These two things radically shifted my life perspective and resolved a lot of inner issues, both after just a single time.

Particularly the psychedelic experience is great for sparking realizations that things like hate, xenophobia, racism, etc. are all so absurd and non-productive.
Why don't schools teach debugging?
I use Oryx by ZSA which is built on top of QMK, but not with all the features. It is great still though.

I use a lot of MO keys on my keyboard. Too many accidental layer-locking with TT and OSL. So I would love it if/when ZSA adds the QMK "layer lock" feature to Oryx. Currently, I use a layer lock intermediate layer. But that is one extra key press and finger travel.
The author is affiliated with the Friends of Attention, a very thoughtful and interesting collective of artists, academics, and others who are dedicated to helping reclaim our attention from its relentless “slicing, dicing, and pricing” by the Internet and media economy.

They have a terrific trove of artifacts and guides on their website:

https://friendsofattention.net/attention_trove
A file cannot be 'Unicode'. Unicode is just a catalog of symbols one might want to express in writing.

An encoding (like ASCII or UTF-8) describes how bytes are mapped to such symbols. ASCII only describes 128 characters whereas UTF-8 can represent any Unicode symbol in bytes.

Notably though, UTF-8 is a strict superset of ASCII. That is, every character ASCII represents is represented by the same bytes in UTF-8. So encoding Romeo and Juliet in ASCII or UTF-8 results in the same exact file.
Good lord, no. Does Calibre do that? My greatest fear is having to build bad things like that for backwards compatibility, because Calibre would require it.

While I haven't tested non-ASCII titles, there is no reason it shouldn't support it. I'm planning on doing some perf testing today and I'll make sure I test global names.
I use a Keychron Q11, a split row staggered keyboard. On the laptop, I use Kmonad on linux with home row mods but I think I will switch to Kanata because it seems more compatible with Windows (work OS). I have been using home row mods for a few days now and I feel that it has greatly alleviated the pain I have on the left pinky finger (remapping caps lock to control and using Emacs keybindings for years did that I think). I am tempted to switch to a columnar staggered keyboard, specifically ZSA's voyager, but I don't know if I will adapt to the layout. Maybe someone with more experience can give advice here...

I tried to change the keyboard layout to a more "ergonomic" layout (optimot), but after months of training, I could never gain the proficiency I have in AZERTY. I think it's not worth it to switch.
My understanding is that unicode is just not part of the hid spec. Keyboards send scancodes that the pc interprets into window events. That translation is not part if the spec, and therefore os dependent.
> Curious about selectivity against 5-HT3 as well as the nausea can be a problem.

That would be a nice feature aiui; some people I know got into the habit of always taking psychedelics with ondansetron to try to avoid the nausea.
One thing I didn't see listed prominently is setting of environment variables which is complicated when your chosen language isn't the shell's language.

Fhe success of Kubernetes could be due to how its declarative specification is superior to shell-gluing (a non-ecosystem) programs with Ansible/Salt.