skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For mutually-exclusive buttons with the labels inside the buttons, there exists such a convention: Group the buttons together with no space between them. Sometimes, the corners of the buttons at the far edges are rounded but the lines between them are not.
You will often see these in word processors, for aligning text ( left | centred | or right ).

A related issue with radio buttons and check boxes is that in some GUIs, clicking the label next to the box/button also clicks the widget, but there was no visual indication that that is the case. Sometimes the clickable area even extends the whole width of the window. This carries the risk of users making a selection when all they wanted to do was to click the window in a seemingly inactive area to make it come to front.

I think we could solve that issue and visually connect radio buttons by placing them onto a background rectangle with rounded corners — thus adapting a visual cue from the button group widget.
Then highlight the background portion that is clickable when the mouse hovers over it, and when the button/area gets clicked.
Further, you could choose to make the colours consistent with those you'd use for selecting items in lists.
Proof that having a lucrative job where one doesn't need to do any work at all is the key to longevity!
This is closer to paranoia than really concerns about the guy you answer. Million of years or billions don't matter much in the context of what he is saying, nor does it really serve his point. I see the mistake but not the malice. And I don't understand why you want to flag/ban.
From a physics perspective, the initial analogy doesn't hold at all though.

The antenna array is actually distorting the electromagnetic field and whatever is plugged to it is actively draining power from the power line. If there's no antenna the power line lose no energy through the field[1], it's not as if you were collecting lost power.

[1] in fact, you can even say that the energy is not carried in the cables themselves but in the air surrounding the cables!
The first time I opened the link, I kept watching until both balls ended up in a point where they blocked each other between opposite side’s tiles. The was no way to go and they kept bouncing off each other in a tiny space. I wouldn’t call it an end but there was no progress anymore either.
Did they pinky promise not to access the data or are there some actual barriers in place?
I already said upthread that pollution deaths are a drop in the bucket. Modern gasoline engines are pretty clean, if you ignore the enormous future effects of CO2.
I think the main reason the electricity companies discourage this is the hazard it presents. The 'collector' is basically a current transformer, which means:

1. If the outputs of the 'collector' go open circuit (because the rectifier/capacitor/whatever dies) the voltage at those terminals is going to rise theoretically towards infinity - insulation breakdown and discharge will occur which is likely to result in a fire.

2. The current generated by the 'collector' is going to be proportional to the transmission line current; if a ground fault occurs on the line the current in the collector winding is going to spike up to some silly level; that will probably result destruction of whatever is connected to the collector outputs and subsequently a fire.
> are you not saying that it may be better that 10 poor people are not born, than for rich people to do minor changes to their lifestyle?

I definitely would say that and would argue it needs to be way more than 10.

If you want to solve manmade climate change you need to solve the demand for goods that cause it. You lower demand by increasing the the supply (can't do that because that increases the emissions you try bringing down) or you increase its price making only the very rich able to afford it and delaying the problem for a decade till population catches up. We already see it with migrant crisis all over the west - both Europe and US.

You do this decade after decade, again and again each time creating more and more privileged cast that can afford it (current policy) and in essence pushing the rest of the civilisation further and further into poverty as they will never catch up and if they do - new legislation will bring them down again to mask the issue once more.

An example of that would be farmers in Europe protesting removal of diesel subsidies or just in general people being able to afford smaller and smaller cars due to taxation in Europe every year.

The problem with these "minor changes to their lifestyle" is that they need to accommodate exponentially growing population that already is a magnitude or more higher than persons who need to adjust.

We are talking about 90%+ reduction in what you call "minor changes" to achieve emission equilibrium to begin with and add that with exponentially growing population and its simply not feasible not due to lack of compassion from top percentile but because changes like these would completely anihilate the modern human civilisation and bringing it back hundreds of years.

As an example theres a very informative video on what happens to country and infrastructure when 4 million people join the power grid in a decade [1] Imagine that scaled to 4 billion and the extreme worldwide devastation.

Population control is the only way to solve climate change and it needs to be reduced everywhere but especially in the undeveloped nations as they have the most potential of bringing everything down.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiny1GrfhYM
The hoverboard. Finally!
Not any work? You are probably required to join at least 4 mandatory meeting per year! It’s a lot of work to get on shore from your yacht and into a board room. And that 4 times a year.
Network frequency changes and fluctuates around 50hz. This change is random and unique. It is also captured on video/audio recording as background hum.

This data is quite valuable. You can reconstruct exact time (and region) when any video was taken.
Had to Google this one: Richard M. Stallman.
I look forward to seeing their EU opt-out solution..
I've taken Feynman's rule as the guiding star of all communication: if you can not explain your point of view understandably, you do not understand it well enough yourself. (Implication: shut the f##k up until you do, and can.) I've added the requirement from Saint-Exupéry: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but nothing left to take away." Then I've taken that to combination to its logical extreme:

Make your point in seven words.

More recently I have learned that Cicero had the same rule for his effective communication. Although he had the upper limit at ten words.

The Finnish language has a wonderful capability to express all of that in a single word: "Asiaan!" -- to convey the same message in English you need to waste five words in total, "get to the point already".
GrapheneOS has been great for me.
That makes me think - if you can do that you can also make it emulate hyperbolic space or spherical space which would be interesting.
Back in the day my country still had obligatory military service for the oldest male child of the family. Everyone had to do this. IQ tests were used to sort people coming in.

The military does not only need highly functioning autonomous operators. There were many more menial positions in cleaning, catering, hauling and warm body canon fodder than there were scouts or special forces.

I guess these days many of those auxiliary functions are farmed out in very lucrative deals to select private companies.
> Curiously enough, the name of the Marletto Tower shows a remarkable similarity with 19th-century British fortification named Martello tower (see wikipedia). Whether the name in Heroes of Might and Magic III is just a misspelling or intentional, that remains unknown. [1]

[1] https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Marletto_Tower
I think some people use the recovery flow a lot, instead of using a password manager.
I have seen the term "zero player game" used for this. There is even a short Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-player_game.
It is. Energy drain through induction, depends on conductivity of environment. By putting cables there, you increase energy loss on main line.
Sure, but that's not really the case today. You don't need to buy export controlled supercomputers now, when China can build one with commercial Nvidia GPUs or AMD CPUs.
He used the term ‘toothfeel’ in the podcast, which is analogous to al-dente.

I’ve found that the amount of salt in the water, and how crowded the pot is will play a big part in how well it cooks.
Because these are the same talking points billionaires use to scare people with maybe twenty five dollars in cash accounts and no savings and people who have a couple million dollars into believing misinformation about taxes.
Our taxes (in the US) are pretty low by any standard.
Saying a billion dollars is "a few million" is disingenous.
Nobody is arguing for higher taxes on everyone.
Normally, I would believe someone is just a useful idiot (like I am most of the time) but you seemed too knowledgeable to be ignorant.
> Sure, things are lost, but were they valuable other than to students of history?

I detest this line of thinking because it assigns more worth to things that yield immediate results, or places a low importance on the impact of history.

Were Fermat's theorems valuable only to students of Mathematics, or did they inspire some of the greatest minds to later push the envelope in many unrelated fields?
Once you put your code out there you can’t control who installs it.

If someone gets my app package and puts it up on another App Store I can’t control, I would be getting charged for those installations and have little control over taking it down depending on the government hosting the servers hosting my stolen software.
> is like having a cookie wall where pressing accept all is a single click, instead to do reject all you have to uncheck 50 checkboxes one at a time.

Which is an extremely clear violation of GDPR
While it takes some inspiration from the naming of the C++ standard library, it's done so inconsistently, and the implementation is pretty much nothing like it.

It's just a C framework, and not nearly as high quality as say, Glib.
It's the same for radio and checkox. All combinations of checked/unchecked, enabled/disabled, and focused/unfocused exist.
I think not having egalitarian destribution of resources is real problem rather then overpopulation. Becoz as we see very few have most carbon footprint.
This might just be the same thing as apocalyptic religious predictions, I think? But environmentalism this time?
We should be embarrassed to be at the top of the list in the UK. That being said, change is coming to the law in the UK[1] - I hope it's enough to turn the tide.

[1]: https://changestoukcompanylaw.campaign.gov.uk/
Ok, but are they wrong?
Not only are you correct here but the personality type you are describing is actually a quite common one in that environment.

People who did terribly in the context of a class rooom but thrive in the military in very complicated roles.

This recent interview with the commander of Delta Force comes to mind for me but what you’re describing is not rare. It cuts both ways like any organisation, there’s plenty of people who don’t thrive there as well but I’m not upset about this change at all, I think it’s sensible overall.

https://www.youtube.com/live/d_mI3XxiNec

You can listen to that person for just 5 minutes and see exactly what I’m referring to
I added g to give it a unit.

mgμ = ma
gμ = a
There are various projects posted here and on other platforms which do this kind of thing (DSA stuff in C).

What baffles me is the lack of any tests here. I understand writing tests is boring, and I understand writing tests in C is the least fun writing tests could be, but: I was thinking how neat this is and how I was going to use this for my own projects, until I saw it has no tests.

C is one of the few languages where, unless you're formally verifying it on paper, you need static analysers, dynamic analysers, and unit tests, all at the same time, to make sure your programs pass the bare minimum stability required to be used.
> Asian style living in apartments with public transport.

^ clearly never visited Asia. LOL
I disagree a bit: companies use it partly because it integrates with SharePoint, so a team can have a SharePoint folder easily. That often breaks down, because who needs access to that folder almost never maps to the team members, but it's enough to sell it to people to get their foot in the door, and after that they accept the hideous pain of changing it.
You are making an assumption that a person dropping out of school at 13 in the ~1960s would have the same education level as someone dropping out of school at 13 today, let alone that the conditions and circumstances one would find themselves in having dropped out are equivalent to the 1960s. Frankly, especially with the crumbling and cracking discipline, order, and hierarchy in the U.S. military now, you are also making an assumption that they would gain the benefits you surely assume based on a historical perception.
Boost.JSON is arguably the better choice these days. It's roughly as usable as nlohmann but faster than RapidJSON

Overview: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_84_0/libs/json/doc/html/jso...

Benchmarks: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_84_0/libs/json/doc/html/jso...

Parsing Options for non-standard JSON: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_84_0/libs/json/doc/html/jso...
It doesn't matter. The user is an idiot. Just make sure that he enters its credit card details correctly. /s
I notice a surprising unwillingness to consider that the situation may be, in fact, terrible, and the arguments are usually "well changing lifestyles is impractical" at though the current status quo is sustainable.
Deleted and overwritten posts were a thing for long before the api change.
camera sensors are pretty easy to damage. a lot of people destroy their cameras by filming solar eclipses without taking any precaution
The "world's ownership class" has on average already set its sights on the wealth to be had in the energy transition. If you believe they are in charge, things will work out fine.
Not process.

Potential is composed of the super-amplitude. Process would be the physical system influencing the resolve (which may vary allowing different technological approaches, i.e. organic or silicon or otherwise.)

QM exclusively allows this super-amplitude. No physical process can compare, yet without some physical medium the amplitudes would be unbound.
That's 4 billion years from now, in the meanwhile we could keep the planet livable and not on a course to venusian climate.
While pretraining a decent-sized LLM from scratch is not financially feasible for the average person, it is very much feasible for the average YC/VC backed startup (ignoring the fact that it's almost always easier to just use something like Mixtral or LLaMa 2 and fine-tune as necessary).

>Introducing MPT-7B, the first entry in our MosaicML Foundation Series. MPT-7B is a transformer trained from scratch on 1T tokens of text and code. It is open source, available for commercial use, and matches the quality of LLaMA-7B. MPT-7B was trained on the MosaicML platform in 9.5 days with zero human intervention at a cost of ~$200k

https://www.databricks.com/blog/mpt-7b
Well for instance, why is the news about UNWRA being censored here? I can find links to posts via google but they've all been removed, for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39160571

Personally I'd rather non-tech world news stay off HN completely but I'm calling it out because as someone who is up on world news I see quite a double standard unraveling here and that seems unfortunate.
Is everybody insane?

I go to Windows, terrible GUI choices.

I go to Linux, GNOME makes terrible GUI choices. (Thank God for KDE)

I hear about Mac, terrible GUI choices.

Did all the people with experience in graphical user interfaces die off or retire?
That's no joke when you're 942 years old.
That is part of it but this article is also covering how different prompts can lead to different results.
I've encountered many toggle switches where you can grab the knob and drag it, but just clicking it will toggle it too.
Sometimes the cursor has changed to a pointing hand.
This is an unsupported shower thought but I suspect societies become more right when times are not as good.

You support immigration if you have a stable job and own a house but you don’t if you are getting laid off and aren’t sure what you next job will be.

And it seems most of Earth has lately been in a rougher place.
> I believe that overpopulation is the root of the sustainability crisis

This has been studied long time ago by scientists such as Alfred Sauvy [1], who concluded that overpopulation is not the cause of sustainability crisis, and that greenhouse gas is the major cause. In particular, limiting the growth of population has few impact on the production of greenhouse gas, whereas changing the means of energy production and consumption is much more impactful.

Moreover the world population is expected to be less than 12 billions in 2100 [2], which is plainly sustainable. This is mostly due to the demographic transition, a pattern observed in most countries, where the fertility rates decrease over time. More specifically I recommend the excellent book of Emmanuel Todd and Youssef Courbage on this subject [3]. The authors argue that in most countries throughout history, when both the majority of men and the majority of women know how to read and write, then the fertility rate decreases, and a revolution becomes imminent.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sauvy

[2]: https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-projected-reach-...

[3]: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/a-convergence-of-civilizations...
Why sniping Penrose? Some scandal for which I am not aware?

His explanations of manifold contours was an epiphany of enlightenment for me.
Tested on iPadOS 17.3 Safari with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39150786 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39135487.

Sidebar appears sometimes. "Reduce Privacy Protections" increases success rate, but it's not 100%.
Is it the phone that is the problem, or more generally impulse control etc? If the former, 'blaming' and fixating on the phone may be avoiding whatever changes are really needed, elsewhere.

IANAP...
Always lovely to see a reminder that electromechanical (non-software) systems can also be hacked. This is the sort of stuff "place hackers" use to get into buildings.
We have controls that mimic the actual radio buttons in the form of toggle buttons (buttons that stay depressed after pressing them), but in many APIs the programmer needs to toggle the press state of all other buttons in the group to use them.

Preset radios came in a huge variety and some of them were actually round. Car radios (the radios that have stuck around the longest) need big and bulky buttons so you can operate them without taking your eyes off the road, but some home radios had smaller, circular buttons instead.

The "radio" buttons I used as a kid were small, rectangular sticks poking out of a metal plate that you pushed in. Every brand had their own shapes and designs. Unfortunately, I can't find any pictures of older radios on the internet because every image searching site seems to have been overtaken with badly generated AI art, stock photos, and cheap, plastic "retro vintage" Amazon listings.
Author of the OpenSSL QUIC stack here. Great writeup.

TBQH, I'm actually really pleased with these performance figures - we haven't had time yet to do this kind of profiling or make any optimisations. So what we're seeing here is the performance prior to any kind of concerted measurement or optimisation effort on our part. In that context I'm actually very pleasantly surprised at how close things are to existing, more mature implementations in some of these benchmarks. Of course there's now plenty of tuning and optimisation work to be done to close this gap.
> if this is just the world moving on.

It is just running in circles. It took Microsoft 3 releases to insert a background color selection in Win 10. I think that around Win 12 it will regain the option for foreground color. /s
I believe that these sorts of demos/disclosures are intended to be soft job adverts-- They're cultivating a reputation of being not only an innovative R&D lab, but one that allows researchers to (sometimes) share results without being buried under a pile of NDAs. These are both things that potential new hires will likely care about a great deal.
When I was in a teenager I worked in a bank doing data entry of bank account applications. A couple of years later I spent a LOT of time doing ETL and digging into older databases. So I have enough experience to be able to say this:

This example is clearly a data entry error - 2024 - 942 = 1982. Errors like this are super common, loads of people have the writing ability of toddlers with ADHD so you see a lot of mistakes around especially around these numbers: 0/8/9, 2/7, 4/9 and 1/7

"One listed director — at 942 years old — would have been born in the 11th century."
It's not a secret that propagandists hijack survival instincts for psychological manipulation:

- emotional appeal
- us/them
- simplifications of complex issues
- repetition and consistency
- perceived threads

Don't let your primitive instincts take over
Orchestrated Objective Reduction is a terrible name for it.
I agree. What the world needs, it is more circles. Damn those rectangular monitors. /s
Well, the bulk of them want more meat, washing machines and air conditioning.

The main increase of energy usage has been due to this, not people in urban areas eskewing apartments and public transport to drive cars and live in suburban houses.

https://youtu.be/6sqnptxlCcw?si=FfqAqooG9qg4kejC

Another fun fact: 80% of the world's population has never flown, and only 2-4% fly abroad in a year.
Great insights and valid technical challenges, thank you!
That is true. The fact that something is popular doesn't say much about quality.

I stand by my point though: Euclidian geometry affected our civilisation more than Alexander novels.

ps. I have a hard time putting these authors next to Buffy and Madonna. Maybe I'm wrong, time will tell I guess.
gdb-front end: gdb front end with a browser-based UI
This has been discussed on HN before, but not since about 2 years. i only learned about it today and have found it exceedingly helpful for debugging my C code, with a lovely UI.
the fuck up is that they will sell you a full new vehicle instead of a new battery. The same way that you can't put a newer more efficient ice in an old ICE car. It's a shame that cars are not more modular.
Your parent is talking about their parent's second paragraph, about toggles in settings.
Or we can be smarter and understand that ecology does not work in absolute terms, most of the time all is relative and buffers are very important

The climate change can be expressed a the result of A+(B+C+D...) factors

Lets assume that A is some allegedly --hypothetical-- effect of the wars exploding bombs and releasing heat in the low atmosphere. If we claim that in World War II the value A was higher and nothing happened (So nothing will happen now), we are forgetting that the "everything else" part was much lower in WWII. Just the number of vehicles circulating was abysmally lower. This invalidates our guarantee, because all in ecology is relative to the current updated situation.

Ecosystems create buffers, the expect results are: not changes/very minor changes seen (buffer worked) or catastrophic change happens (buffer fell). Small amounts of energy released in one ecosystem could trigger noticeable effects in how the energy moves around the planet. As "how the energy moves around the planet" is too long, we created a shorter name for this: "Weather"
> What is stoicism
>1/3 of under-40s [Brits] would refuse conscription in the event of a world war