skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be interesting what was the other five PhD students did.
I kind of guess most of them being successful, not necessarily in the domain of programming language design.
>Moreover, if the goal is for power generation to have zero impact on our biome

I don't know if it is. The impacts could be positive, or at least counteract other negative impacts.

For instance, shading some ocean might counteract the heating of it.
Apple Vision Pro hands-on, redux: Immersive Video, Disney app, floating keyboard
Did anyone's iPhone magically have a Journal app this morning?
Is it just me but I don’t remember installing this app or doing an update and my phone wasn’t plugged in while sleeping… am I crazy? And no I haven’t searched yet bc I’ve been up 5 minutes.
Perhaps you didn't read the part of the parent post that says "relative to the kind of large scale total international wars that preceded [the a-bomb's] invention."

I don't think we young Western men realise how good we've had it since 1945, particularly those of us from countries not involved in Vietnam.
Should rather mean "my new operating system"
you are making a lot of conclusions that don't follow from your premises and many of your premises are false.

"Since Hamas cannot be defeated in this way, it stands to reason"
It can and it doesn't. Of course Hamas can be militarily defeated, its military infrastructure dismantled.

"No, they're not, they're just repeating their "but Hamas" stuff"
Yes, they are

"What? Name one. What Palestinians actors have talked bout how there are no innocent Israelis?"

https://nypost.com/2023/11/01/news/hamas-official-vows-to-re...

"Right now, you're saying Isreali is justified in its actions, which is leading to killing and starvation of civilians en masse"

This is a war, you can't say Israeli actions are leading to killing of civilians, because this war has two sides, two players. At a minimum, the actions of Hamas have effects on civlians. At the very minimum, misfired rockets that they fire at Israel are known to fall on the heads of civilians injuring and killing them. The war could end if Hamas decicded to end it, not just Israel

"IDF soldiers are making their TikToks."

IDF has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, so 5 of them made a tiktok, so what? it's irrelevant.
LOL. I avoided downvoting the OP because it did not mention any countries, and could easily be applied to any of the great powers, including the U.S. So it stands as a neutral argument for proliferation (ignoring the later clarification).
Yeah, that's something of a red herring. The actual ray-sphere intersection happens on line 50:

// sphere_center = (E, F, Z)
E = X - I
F = Y - I
// solving the ray-sphere quadratic eqn...
P = U * E + V * F - W * Z
// discriminant
D = P * P - E * E - F * F - Z * Z + 1
// if solution (ie. intersection) exists
IF D > 0
// intersect_point = ray_orig + T * ray_dir
// this is the closer pt, -P + SQR D is the other
T = -P - SQR D
Nope, the meaning is the exact same.

> I'm not going to try to enumerate Israel's mistakes, but when you decide to invite a coterie of journalists to the hospital you damaged to provide proof of your claims that it was actually a hive center of terrorist activity, and all of them come away basically saying "this evidence isn't good enough," then that should be a sign that it's not PR that's the problem of Israel, it's Israeli actions that are the problem that needs addressing.
Ask yourself why you want something that is made in the US. I have long had the same bias, and I am trying to understand it myself. Is it perceived quality of the final object? Do you feel that the environmental impact of shipping is worth overcoming? Do you want to keep money in local communities? Do you just think Americans make things right? What’s your goal here.

Also read about the too numerous to count HW kickstarter projects that 10x their funding goal and then still never deliver.

Also go read everything [Bunnie Huang](https://www.bunniestudios.com/) has written.
Tell HN: How an elderly couple I know had their computer 'stop working'
Thought I'd share a little story from today:

I was on a Zoom call with a few others, and suddenly the husband of this elderly couple proclaims that their computer 'stopped working'.

There was, however, some evidence to suggest the contrary as they were still in the call with us.

After a while we realize what has gone wrong: The husband accidentally disabled Bluetooth. The keyboard and mouse were both connected via Bluetooth.

Was it a laptop, so he could use the built-in trackpad temporarily to enable Bluetooth? Nope.

Did they have a USB mouse around to use? Also no.

So now they literally have to go into town to get a USB mouse. We had a good laugh about that.

But it did make me wonder: The button to disable Bluetooth is easily accessibly in macOS on this iMac, and honestly this could have happened to anyone including myself.

So why doesn't macOS warn the user before you disconnect all your peripherals?
All of you would love the "obscure cities" series of comics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cit%C3%A9s_obscures), as well as some works by J. Abeille (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Abeille#Les_Jardins_st...)
>Another thing I really hate is that I've seen locked exit barriers that open when scanning the receipt. In sweden there is a real disregard for workplace safety :(

Here in Sweden you can just push those out of the way (it sets of an alarm but if you push it back to closed position the alarm stops). FYI Sweden has strict workplace safety rules, not sure why you think there is a real disregard for this.
Agile might be fine in SW. It is when you combine it with HW that it backfires. (Power management not yet implemented, test failed)
https://www.nrk.no/video/humor/danskene-forstaar-hverandre-i...
> You think there's a serious risk of a Russian tank column making it to Frankfurt? Lol. Lmao even.

Tank column? I don't know. But Russia may very well attack the Suwalki gap and hit German cities with long-range missiles to terrorize Germans into dropping support for Poland and Lithuania, while threatening that any German response will unleash nuclear armageddon, as they are currently trying to break the morale in Ukraine. The distance from Suwalki gap to Frankfurt is roughly the same as the distance between active frontline in Ukraine and Lviv (~1000 km), the city that had to enter 2024 under Russian missile attacks. As someone put it succinctly, Russia is shooting missiles at cities 10 Belgiums away from the frontline - with no intention of stopping anytime soon.

> If no-one takes it seriously that's because no-one expects western countries to be principled any more.

The human rights situation in Russia has deteriorated so much in the past few years that their complaints towards the EU can only be taken as a joke. Russian diplomats risk getting laughed out of the room (like Lavrov already experienced) if they raise the issue. Russia has left the European Convention on Human Rights, not to mention "lesser" things like decriminalizing wifebeating, destroying the last remnants of freedom of speech and free expression, turning blind eye to anti-gay pogroms taking place in southern part of the country, systematically persecuting Russian human rights activists, and carrying out ethnic cleansing by conscripting and sending ethnic minorities to die as cannon fodder in pointless "meat attacks" in Ukraine.

Russia is approaching North Korea at a fast pace. Ironically, in the entire world, Russia is one of the worst places to be in as a Russian - which is why all the top dogs in Russia have their children, wives and mistresses living in safety of the "degenerate" west.
I never change my dialect when I travel in Norway, for any reason, as long as the one I'm speaking to is native. But some people are extremely sensitive to how others speak, and may unconsciously (and some consciously) try to mimic the one they're speaking with.
In the past though there was some discrimination going on. In Oslo you could find advertisements for apartments, for example, with the text "no northeners please". That's only sixty-seventy years back. People moving to Oslo from elsewhere would then try to change their dialect. Despicable times. Before my time though. There's nothing of that anymore, or, if there are any individuals around who actually thinks one dialect has more prestige than another.. the vast majority will ignore them, just as they ignore other morons (for lack of a better word)
Because you don't stand in the queue to the cashier and don't have to wait minutes till the buyer in the front finds all the spare change they need.
Enjoy your homogenous, high trust society. We are all jealous.
It's 100% that. One of the grocery stores near me has no weight checks or baggage area rules. I can easily bag my groceries into my backpack directly, at other stores my backpack is too heavy to be considered my bag and so if I want to do that the attendent has to override it so I never bother. Then since there's no weight check you never run into the "unexpected item in bagging area" or "please place item in bagging area" issues ever where the scale/item weight isn't acting as expected.
I disagree. I think men and women should approach much more. We're scared of strangers, we shouldn't be. We also shouldn't accept them with open arms, but the "stranger danger" thing that we have in our society is too simplistic and toxic IMO.

I also approach men, I approach dogs, I approach the world. When people don't like it, I back off. When people like it, I explore the interaction with them.

In terms of dating: many women that reject me tell me that they like my approach. I ask for feedback in many cases. I am respectful too. I hold my distance because I respect people. People say that nice guys finish last. I guess they've never thought about nice guys that have a wild side to them and are more hardcore than most bad boys will ever be. There are ways to be incredibly nice and respectful and still have that edge to you. That edge shines through. I don't even tease women as part of my attraction strategy :')

On being nice:

I think teasing/banter is a bit dysfunctional in many cases and not nice. I know I'm a bit extreme in this and many people think it's okay. I am a bit allergic to it. I'd rather just be playful. Instead of being "dominant" I'd rather be enthusiastic and curious. Instead of being "higher status" I'd rather just be immersed and enthralled by the magic of life and show people that magic that I experience as I want to experience theirs. Experiencing life feels artsy, I like people who enjoy that and that's enough for attraction. Having zest for life means having zest for adventure. It means to have zest for the unknown that people are scared of. Suddenly some women realize that I have much more courage than most people (true or not, that is how it comes across) and are attracted to it.

That's how you can be nice to everyone yet still get the attractive traits of a "bad boy". Be adventurous, be passionate, be imaginative and be playful. The only part I had to cultivate here was the adventurous part. I was already curious but scared. Curiosity + courage = adventure!

Also, my dating strategy has been working for the past 10+ years. Here's a timeline.

16 - 21: getting the skill.

21 - 22: relationship 1

2 month period of approaching women

22 - 27: relationship 2

2 month period of approaching women

27 - 33: relationship 3

8 month period of approaching women & Tinder (I got really rusty)

Now I'm on relationship 4.

Also, the relationships get better and better. One can never be sure, but I believe this relationship is for life.

So all in all, I've been out there for a period of 12 months between relationships and in the past for 5 years as a teenager.

No woman has ever been hitting on me, so when I'm in a relationship, there's nothing going on with other women ever - not even flirting. I like it that way.

People have long forgotten me by now.
Unique to my psychology, but I would have prioritized finding my wife a lot more aggressively than I did.

When I was a teenager, I realized that since I was already a pretty smart and hardworking person, I was probably going to do alright in my career once it got going no matter how long it took to get there. The real risk I ran in terms of life satisfaction was ending up as one of those 80 hour a week workaholics who never carved out enough time to meet enough women to finally find the one I wanted to marry.

That was a very depressing thought, so I decided early on that I would only start taking my career seriously after I got married. Until then I'd be happy with keeping a standard 9 to 5, not trying to stand out too much in that arena, and not saving a whole lot of money (which was honestly more of a psychological thing for me than an actual reality, it turns out grabbing coffee with friends 3 times a week isn't actually that expensive).

Again, I eventually got there, but only around age 24, when I had it in me to start doing that like around age 17 or so.
If it's remotely close to freezing for more than a day, Texas loses reason

Power is lost, people dumpster-dive, and the milk/bread sells out
Andy Pavlo – The official ten-year retrospective of NewSQL databases [video]
With Primer, you can drill down into the individual members of your audience to check if they’re being served ads to, which helps you with this final mile of marketing attribution.
Until the apps figure out dns over http. sigh
Your arguments are good, but waste heat rejection is not a problem for space solar power. The PV arrays double as their own radiators. I mean, this is how satellite PV arrays already do it. You do need radiators for the microwave transmitters, but these are spread out as well.

Now, if you wanted to build a nuclear power plant in space and beam its power, then heat dissipation would be a big problem.
The point is cost savings for the supermarket. That's it. Some customer prefer them, but usually that is the effect of deliberately understaffing the remaining cash registers, or the customer being completely unable or unwilling to interact with strangers.

Supermarkets are now grudgingly admitting that self checkout systems cause a significant increase in loss due to theft, but that it is still cheaper than hiring actual staff for the registers.

In the Netherlands the current state of affairs in supermarkets with self checkout registers is that theft is on the up. People justify 'forgetting to scan an item' by the (perceived or actual) greed shown by supermarkets in terms of shrinkflation and the rising cost-of-living. Supermarkets did really well during the Covid-years, but customers didn't benefit from that in the slightest.

An additional problem is that the staff attending the self checkout registers are often young (because it is a position which would waste the skills of the more experienced employees), and they get bullied and berated by customers pissed off for getting selected for random (either actual or directed by the staff watching the cameras) checks.
Hmm, this doesn't feel like the clearest criteria:

> If user u is a member of p1 before time t and is found on platforms p1 and p2 at a later time t′. That user is considered to have temporarily migrated from platform p1 to p2.

Because this could mean two very different things:

1. They plan to use both systems, since they feel one or the other could shut down/take over as market leader/whatever and want to cover their bases.

2. Or they migrated to the new system, realised it didn't work for them, and went back.

I'd classify myself in the first group, since I use Twitter, Mastodon, BlueSky and Threads concurrently. This also seems to include most people who publish their work online as either their career or main hobby, since they don't want to be stuck backing the wrong horse.

Either way, it seems like some of the things the study highlights have quite likely explanations:

- Less people from Mastodon return to Twitter/keep using it, since it's popular with both techies that prefer federated systems and open source software, and folks that disagree with Musk on a fundamental level.

- BlueSky and Threads draw in influencers more than Mastodon, since the latter benefits from its Instagram integration and the former is only really possible to get an invite to if you're at least somewhat popular online/know the right people.

- Mastodon saw less of a decrease in activity than BlueSky or Threads, because the people attracted to that platform weren't particularly focused on getting followers/high metrics. The average Mastodon user would probably be using forums or mailing lists a decade ago, whereas the average Threads user would probably be on something like Myspace.
> the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight!

This is actually a solved problem now with Augmented Reality, whereby you can walk in some field and get an overlay with the additional layers you care about at that moment.
Just pick a seat with no sun
This exists to some extent in the UK with the self scan widgets. Waitrose had it before self checkouts. It works really well.
I had no idea about the family quotient stuff. I'm actually considering moving to France some years down the line, and assuming my partner and I marry and have kids, then based on the current income difference between us, being able to rebalance that (which you may know you can't do in the UK) and the reduction for a child, we'd pay significantly less than we do in the UK..
SE Canada is like France, though. We’re talking Iceland here, which is way north compared
Ok sure, you're saying that clone tech implies the ability to modify the developmental process, or at least enables finer research towards that end.

But it rubs me somewhat wrong when you write as if all clones would have had that done to them. Ok, I suppose it's likely, but it's not the same thing. Maybe we should find a more specific term like "custom clone" or just "custom people".
You can't create information that wasn't in the captured image. CA reduces spatial resolution.
Why are not all FAQ pages already powered by AI assistants?
Having a FAQ page powered by an AI assistant seems very useful to me.

For the user: immediate answers to any questions they have, if present in the documentation, to avoid hallucinations.

For the website owner: providing immediate support and analyzing which questions are asked by the users, to add more documentation and gain interesting insights.

Instead of looking for an answer to a question, I find it a much better user experience to just ask the AI assistant and receive an answer... And we see interesting insights from our own FAQ page https://www.galiai.com/faq-ai-chatbot.

And I think it will become the standard in the future.

Why is it not so common already?
K/simple: a tiny K interpreter for educational purposes by Arthur Whitney
But would kill light dependent life and increase some bacterial and fungi populations that might not be healthy for animals.
My experience with those is again they are ruined by overzealous anti-theft measures. Someone needs to come in and scan random items, which means you can't pack as you go, and it doesn't seem to let up even when it's tied to a loyalty card so they know you've used it before. After the system said the whole shop needed re-scanning, completely obviating the advantages, I've just stopped using it.
It's about the cost of the checkout staff, not speed. Stores were told that if they bought 4 self-checkout kiosks they could eliminate 3 checkout staff (keeping 1 to monitor 4 kiosks).

What the vendors didn't say was that shrinkage would increase.
2: I thought wegfawefgawefg was talking about prenatal genetic alterations to normal children. I don’t think anyone would treat anyone differently based on that, similar to how noone treats IVF children differently - the things happening at that stage seem to only lead to judgemental treatment of parents, not children. And the parenting issue in this case doesn’t exist obviously, since it’s solved like for any other child.
All Lidls in Poland already have self checkout, and it's one of the best implementations I've seen, as expected from Lidl.
Once a bus firm in Türkiye used this method
Thanks for asking :)

I think so.

I do feel very strongly about this. I feel a lot of pain from when I was young. I also feel a lot of love from after I was young and fixed this part in my life.

I can't help but embody both feelings. I normally don't mention it unless this topic is specifically addressed. In general, I feel quite calm. But yea, I can get quite intense.
What a cool idea! Well done! One feature suggestion: it would be cool if it asked you if you prefer the shade or the sun. I’m in Canada, and during winters I love to sit on the sunny side of the bus.
The energy of uranium is ultimately sourced from gravitational potential energy (of collapsing stellar cores or merging neutron stars), not from nuclear energy. Indeed, the process of converting the iron of a pre-collapse stellar core to uranium is highly endothermic from a nuclear perspective, as iron is the lowest energy state of nuclear matter.
Note the step of adding it to your compost, not to your soil directly.

The charcoal acts like a sponge for water soluble nutrients in the soil; if you add it to the soil directly, it will suck them out of the soil first, temporarily depleting it. Long term it acts as a reservoir, but you want it to go into your garden full.
They are useless.
I noticed a child process ai.exe spawned by every Office 365 executable on my work computer. The only difference i saw is that Excel behaves strange lately, always getting in the way (it changes references when you move cells).
How would you identify a shoplifter at M&S based on their socioeconomic dress code?
> The model isn't an "intelligence" because it's not making a choice […]

There’s no evidence any of us are making choices either. I don’t think LLMs are intelligences in the way most people mean the word (I think that would be vastly overestimating their abilities) but appealing to choice when it’s so poorly understood — as poorly understood as intelligence, even — is not useful.
Htmx Is Composable?
hot dog/not hot dog
At my local store there is 1 cashier with one of those conveyor belts machines, and 6 self-checkout machines. The cashier and the conveyor belt machine takes up about room as 3 of the self-checkout machines, and operates at about the same speed as one of the self-checkout machines. Plus obviously it's more expensive as you need to pay the wages of the person standing there just to grab your food and bring it to the infrared scanner one by one.

So my experience is the polar opposite of yours, self-checkout is just superior.
I don't think getting the position of the sun is an edge case, it's a fundamental capability for the product to work at all
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