skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have _any_ internal battery. That USB cord has a short or comes unplugged, you are suddenly wearing a blindfold.
I would be a little surprised if they weren't PMMA or something like it. It's such a useful material for complex applications like this.
IMO at night the white LED lights aren't the problem; the people who insist on driving everywhere with their high beams on all the time are. Maybe it's just me but it seems that more people than ever are driving with their brights on - and those people are by and large driving vehicles with halogen lights.
Just visited there last year. It is really quite cool.
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Not to mention that they literally include this language on the screen when you issue a payment via F&F. "If you're scammed you won't be able to get your money back."

https://imgur.com/a/TRAU35T
I'm not an expert in 5G, but I was under the impression that the antennas and protocol support far more advanced beamforming than is available to other wireless tech.

I remember reading somewhere that it has a lot on common with phased array radar systems.

Here is a Wikipedia link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_antenna

What I can't square away is I also remember learning about beamforming in my Wireless engineering course, and I thought WiFi had some similar too.

But for some reason my brain is telling me 5G can beam really narrow "spotlights" of signal to the client devices.

Sorry for the vagueries but it's all I can recall.
I agree. Sadly, it seems like C/C++ isn't popular for teaching the next generation to program microcontrollers (from my limited perspective, at least).

At high school I was taught Arduino and C++ but younger students have rPi Pico's and CircuitPython (Adafruit version of MicroPython), to use the same language as the CS syllabus. I guess the "easy" features of Python (many traps once programs get complex) make it attractive as a first programming language.

One project I've worked on for 3 years with a C++ codebase is going to be passed on to mostly Python programmers... I'll just have to make sure the hardware documentation is good.
There isn't anything that fundamentally makes a top loader clean better than a front loader per se.

And while I don't doubt your SQ top loader with a full agitator does an absolutely fantastic job when compared to a modern front loader you have a big apples/oranges comparison problem.

And if you live in Austin, I would be willing to have a cloths cleaning video made against my 25 year old kenmore/frigidare front loader. :) And that is simply because (as of a couple years ago when I checked) my front loader uses closer to as much water as a modern top loader. It puts a good 6" of water in the tub and has a much smaller capacity that most of the modern front loaders because it has a very small opening and a fairly deep tub but is also narrower front to back. Given the agitators are about the same as the water depth, the cloths can be fully submerged/agitated out.

I to do a lot of outdoor work/repair (including that stupid washer's bearing), and things get dirty/greasy/etc and that washer has consistently amazed me just how good a job it does, and as a bonus when I got it I was also amazed at how much longer it seemed many of my cloths were lasting. I have 25 year old shirts that still look fairly new. So IMHO that washer has been a bit of a miracle worker, which is why despite being used at much greater duty cycle than your average home washer for the past 15 years (think ~15-20 loads a week, don't ask), every time it starts to need another bearing set, I upset my wife by fixing it. The parts cost like $30, and now that I've done it a few times its a ~2 hour job. Although, last time I sorta re-engineered the bearing set after discovering some new bearing technology better suited to being in a wet/soapy environment like a washer, so its possible I may have significantly extended how long it goes between bearing replacements (aka hopefully I never have to do it again). It also seems to spin significantly faster than many of the modern front loaders, which is seemingly at least part of the problem with the bearing loads.
From the Readme:

> Disclaimer: This is currently a free-time project and not a professional financial software library. Nothing in this library should be taken as financial advice, and I do not recommend you to use it for trading or making financial decisions.

It's a hobby project.
Isn't this the classic Wheel-of-Reincarnation cycle?

The Amiga's dedicated coprocessors let it do things an IBM AT or Mac 512k couldn't do easily.

But the AT evolved into the 386 and 486, and suddenly you no longer needed coprocessors to do the heavy lifting.

So you end up with two issues:

1. Did the Amiga market keep pace CPU-wise? I can see the 3000 and 4000 shipped with better CPUs, but how much was the software ecosystem defined by the 500/600/1200? I wonder if this created a tarpit for developers: the Amiga might have been able to do the same tricks as a faster PC, but the development effort was much higher than just recompiling brute-force x86 code to 68000.

2. Where were the custom coprocessors going? The original Amiga chipset was good, and I'm sure the ECS/AGA stuff was even better, but it seems like it was close to "at par" to a PC with a SoundBlaster and a basic Super-VGA chipset by the early 1990s. What could they use to create a new defensible territory? I could imagine a 3-D coprocessor, but designing something that both impressed today and didn't immediately obsolesce is hard-- see the corpses of a dozen early accelerator vendors.
I think if you’re looking for a logical answer from first principles, you won’t find one. It’s more that the legal system runs on precedent, and a book fits far more squarely in the fact patterns of previous First Amendment cases. Likely the source code case would end up with the same outcome, but it doesn’t hurt to make it more obvious.
Pretty scarce on the tech details but interesting. We'll see what actually comes out.
Mathematicians solved Feynman's "reverse sprinkler" problem
Absolutely, I've fallen in love with F# using Ionide (vscode extension(s)) on Linux. MS have really come a long way (I would say I would take a good long hard look at .net 8 before picking up my go-to tooling (java/spring dev speaking here)
Everything floods here. I’m, depending on exactly what direction draw the line in, about 25-100miles inland, and my whole town is only about 10ft above sea level. If I travel farther inland it’ll rise a bit, but not that much, and the soil is full of clay and doesn’t drain well.

It’s a wet and muddy state.
Ahh yes, the "legal if rich" clause. classic.
Today I "conducted an experiment". Which means that I went to a grocery store, did laundry, and took a walk in a park. Between all that, I checked once in a while that things were proceeding as expected. The outcome of that experiment is probably never going to be reported, except maybe if something unexpected happens.

Real science is full of messy exploratory work. It's sometimes done remotely, and often in short stretches regardless of what time and day it is. And you usually don't know in advance if it's going to be relevant.

At some point, you may start believing that you have discovered something other people may care about. Then you start thinking about the normative experiments that are supposed to demonstrate the result and perhaps even validate it. But at that point, most of the work is often already done. The discovery has already been made (or at least you believe so) and you are just trying to replicate it. Maybe you could record those experiments if you are really into it. But the recordings would likely be meaningless without the actual written report.
No, just get high.

Honestly, the episode where bubbles gets a mountain lion is to my favorite episode of any television show. High or not.
I read articles like these, where the treatment is at least somewhat successful, and I wonder how many instances there are where they tried an experimental treatment but the patient died anyway.
I think that depends on your definition of high profile. The site has a showcase link in the header and the big names that popped out to me were JetBrains and GitHub.

> JetBrains Rider

> JetBrains uses Avalonia UI to enable DotMemory and DotTrace to run within Rider, their cross-platform IDE.

> Git Credential Manager

> Developed by GitHub, Git Credential Manager is a universal solution for Git authentication.

https://www.avaloniaui.net/Showcase
I’m in the same age bracket and hole-digging enthusiasm bracket as you but recently became aware of the dangers of this whimsical pastime! [1]

That’s not to dissuade you or anyone else from doing it (I have continued!), but I think everyone should be aware of the very real danger. As they say, knowing is half the battle!

1 - https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1100068725/beach-holes-sand-c...
The Mesen multi-console-system emulator (https://mesen.ca)

Not affiliated; just a satisfied user.
An environmentalist movement sprang up, calling for the shutdown of the Metsamor reactors. The authorities backed down, and the two reactors were turned off on February 25 and March 18, 1989.

Environmentalists defeated the Soviet Union? You would think that would have made the newspapers.

Areg Danagoulian is an associate professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT
yeah no docker for us.
Are you just constantly kicking your walls or something? I don't get why it's such a big issue. I've only accidentally made a hole in a wall once and it was about an hour fix.

Drywall walls have never been a problem for me, in fact they're pretty nice. It's really easy to modify the walls. Need to do a new Ethernet run? Want another power run? Feel like moving a lightswitch? Install new access points on the ceiling or change up light fixtures? Easy to drop down the void and cut a new box. Want to redesign the layout of a room? Often not a problem, easy to change.

Meanwhile a concrete wall is a massive pain to modify. You get the runs you get. Good luck redoing a layout. Say goodbye to having good wireless coverage.
The Zeis Lens inserts support cylinder prescriptions just fine (and I can verify this as I tried them in store), so idk what the author was talking about.
I'm not sure how nuclear engines would help?

A nuclear reactor is a bit like an ion drive: great for long distance space travel, but not great for getting off a planet.

Unless you mean the kind of nuclear engine that consists of detonating atomic bombs behind you? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Poor people is just one segment. Honestly, I’d say on average poor people are often not very frugal at all.
This is an epically cool blog post! - submit it to HN on its own merits.

This was of particular interest to me:

>>>"...1986 Reagan tipped off the Libyans that the US could decrypt their communications by talking about information he could only get through Libya decrypts on TV15. In 1991 the Iranians learned that the NSA could break their diplomatic communications when transcripts of Iranian diplomatic communications ended up in a French court case..."

Because, in 1986 - thats effectively when a lot of the phreaking and social engineering was at a peak - Cyberpunk was moving from imagination --> zeitgeist --> reality.

Social engineering and line-printer litter recovery were yielding the backdoors into the Telecom Switching system. BBS's were raging [0].

So when you get a gaph-guffaw look into infosec in a slipup like these ones, it reinforces in mind that the 80s were some really wild times all around as technology tsunami'd from people's minds business and reality.

[0] BBS Docu - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460402/

[1] phreaking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking

[2] history of phreaking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PmkUPBhL4U
1080p feed (2m pixels) compared to each eye (23m pixels).

So you need 10x the network bandwidth at the same power levels.
in addition to the latency of serializing things over the cable, that would essentially be a Mac mini. They surely could make the size work, but it would need active cooling to keep the temperature in a usable range and that wouldn't work inside a pocket.
Scientists say new glowing plants could replace artificial yard lighting
Eh. When I saw the Macintosh II demoed in 1987 compared to my Amiga 2000 which was released at basically the same time, I already knew the Amiga was screwed.
SIM Swapper Sentenced to 8 Years for Fraud and Deception, Hacking Accounts
Hmm, thanks for the interesting article. Probably knew that at one time but forgot lol.

Still, it shows my point, that research that reaches too far from the company’s core biz is difficult to recognize as a success. The laser printer, was a better printer and it was an improvement to Xerox existing scan+print business.

Bell Labs also had a lot of commercial success.
Even Progressive last year said they were basically uninterested in new business.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246664
Why not? Hydrogen inside a hydrogen atmosphere is perfectly safe.

It's hydrogen inside an oxygen atmosphere that's the problem.

(So on Jupiter, you wouldn't want to ride in an oxygen balloon, ie you wouldn't want to ride in a hot air balloon there.)
https://lib.rs/crates/picoserve

This should make you happy :)
If you're going down a long incline, trucks should use jake brakes. It sucks being behind truckers who only use brakes and the thing overheats so much you can smell it --they're the truckers who end up on the runaway ramps.
The paper talks about how they can get it to work in a narrow 1MHz band (though at full 1MBbit/sec speeds I am skeptical of course), but even then I'm struggling to imagine fitting the number of people on that beach into channels that isn't a disaster. Strange to not address it...

Maybe if they formed a mesh network that prioritized signals of a certain power level and had dynamic power levels to avoid losing touch with the mesh while avoiding blocking close + strong signals.
> Orbital space (around modern Earth) is ex-territorial, [...]

That's a historical accident of arrangements on earth (so less useful in the Fermi-paradox / filter debate), and could easily have gone differently. Ie air space could also have been seen as ex-territorial.
I was sitting at a stoplight and looked over at the car next door and saw there was some video playing on the dashboard in front of the instrument cluster. I thought it was one of those completely digital dashboards that was doing some kind of animation, but the dude just propped his cell phone in front of it and was watching some kind of content.

At least he was stopped. I've seen people watching Netflix on their phones on a mount or something while driving. Unbelievable.
Because academics care more about which journal a paper is published in, rather than the content of the paper.
So another way to do deforestation! Can't there be something made by recycling or leafs?
True this, and a far lower ding, closer to say, $0.01 than $10, could still be quite effective.

Keep in mind that egregious robocall providers have been making billions of calls annually (55 billion in 2023: <https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/16/americans-received-55-mi...>), whilst a typical instance was unable to pay a $10 million fine (<https://therecord.media/ftc-settles-with-company-that-facili...>). At that rate, a per-call ding of only $0.0002 (2 hundredths of a cent) might prove sufficient. A penny-per-call penalty should actually be relatively effective against the lowest of the bottom-feeders, though a higher rate would afford additional protections.
That is an uncritical review, not a study.
The Amiga was dead a few years before Win95. The VGA chipset and the soundblaster killed the Amiga.

In the late 1980s I wanted an Amiga so badly. But by the early 90s I had a 486 with VGA and a sb16 and it was all over. The Amiga had a mere fraction of the PC's power by then.
At this point, return to office mandates by large corporations are an early signal of layoffs. Management looks at how many leave on their own, then drop the axe on the rest three months later.
Doctors prescribe stimulant medication for ADHD because it is remarkably effective, well-understood, and reasonably safe, if doses are controlled and potential addiction is managed. Why would a doctor mess around with a less effective (arguably, not effective), poorly tested supplement?

If the traditional medications don't work or have intolerable side effects, maybe that's the time to explore uncommon approaches, but that generally is not the case for the stimulant meds.
Why would that be? When I was growing up it was not uncommon for kids to drink coffee. I used to brew my own (bad and sweet) coffee before I was old enough for school.
The Amiga stagnated for years. The custom chips barely changed from 1985 until late 1992. ECS barely added anything over OCS (it had a couple new video modes nobody used.) As I mentioned in another thread, AGA was too little, too late. By the time AGA was out, 386 systems with SVGA and SoundBlasters were cheap and plentiful.
Wouldn’t it be fascinating if there were an advanced civilization on a planet with gravity that was much higher than earth that couldn’t build chemical rockets and was therefore forced to build nuclear rockets?

What if that actually made the exploration of their solar system easier, since once they left the gravity well of their planet getting to other planets with nuclear rockets was comparatively trivial?
The mandatory liability insurance covers any damage done using the vehicle, independently of who is driving it.[0]

If there is no insurance for the car, I would assume that normal laws regarding liability apply. There is also punishment for driving without a license[1] or without insurance[2].

From [1], a man with no license or insurance was jailed for three months and fined 100k DKK (15k USD), but this also includes drug offences. He also cannot legally drive for 5.5 years.

From [2], the vehicle is impounded the third time you drive without a license within three years. The first offence incurs a fine of 7000 DKK (1000 USD) and the subsequent 8500 DKK (1230 USD).

From [3], if you lend your vehicle to a person that drives recklessly, the vehicle can still be impounded and sold. The owner is liable for traffic infractions, but the owner can't lose their license because of what the lender did.

[0]: https://www.if.dk/globalassets/dk/files/privat/ipid/ipid-bil...
[1]: https://viborg-folkeblad.dk/viborg/koersel-i-biler-uden-plad...
[2]: https://sikkertrafik.dk/rad-og-viden/bil/korekort/boder/
[3]: https://fdm.dk/alt-om-biler/bilen-hverdagen/bilforsikring/na...
The thing that confuses me is the wild swings in prices between carriers. You'd think that the underlying underwriting strategies are fairly similar (convergent evolution, regulation, and likely everyone watching everyone else's behaviour).

The market is aggressive enough that there are ways to scrape and analyze your competitors' rates. Hell, Progressive spent years advertising that service explicitly.

So why will the same coverage on the same car for the same person vary by hundreds of dollars per year?

I'll just pull out the standard "hakfoo solves all the problems with civilization" hammer and say this should be a state-run monopoly. The math of insurance is based on having the biggest, most diverse risk pool to sop up any poor bets. Parceling out the population among different carriers works directly against that. Spending millions of dollars a year to remind me of your name and logo works against that. Needing have redundant C-suites and agent staff works against that.
Well, you could send remotely controlled probes. And there might be some volunteers for a one-way trip, too. There are certainly volunteers for one-way trips to Mars right now, and by the time humanity would be an interstellar species, our population size would have gone up by several orders of magnitude; so even if volunteers are rarer as a proportion, they would be much more numerous in absolute terms.
Obviously your post has nothing to do with Twitter being for-profit before the acquisition and Musk prioritizing profit less than his predecessors, but I'll bite.

By complying with government regulations when displaying content in their respective regions to avoid getting the entire network banned there, right. While this hit piece from a notoriously biased outlet would like to equate this with ye olde Twitter's regular practice of of suppressing or deleting content worldwide at the whim of the US government, it's obviously more transparent and fair to comply with censorship locally and provide a reason for the missing content. Reeks of "it's okay when we do it".
Business books are terrible in general for this reason. Even basic statistics is throw out the door in these analyses.

The best book I read is “Halo Effect” which calls all this out.
That’s not technically accurate. While both JIT/ILC and GC are implemented in C++, the former might have as well been written in any other language which would impact the time to JIT/AOT compile the code (startup time) but not the final product. Pretty much all performance-sensitive code is written in C#.
I love Dhall. It's purposefully not Turing complete (which is somewhat difficult to achieve in a language design) and I love that fact.
There is the ubiquitous presence of devices that have the ability to take a recording today.

However, unlike Google Glass, modern smartphones play a "camera shutter" sound to at least give some indication that they are capturing an image to the people around you.

Likewise, Apple is giving people an indication that the person wearing the headset can currently see you.

The lesson from Google Glass is that people didn't like not knowing what was happening.
My previous car was new, but only because we were buying a minivan and there were significant new safety features just introduced. But totally agree that buying used makes sense if there's not a significant difference in functionality.
Total BS!

People are willing to learn anything and everything to land and keep a job. The problem is the HR/Recruiting process using buzzwords/jargons/fads to screen applicants in a all or nothing manner.
As opposed to the movement to put interpreted BASIC into PIC or Intel 8052 microcontrollers?

1980s embedded engineers please stand up.

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But BasicStamp was a thing even decades ago (but after 1980s). There are plenty of advantages to interpreted languages, and they were a bigger deal back when 8052 or whatever we're EPROM and harder to program. I mean, physically harder, with UV to erase the flash.

Having a portion of the code execute out of dataspace thanks to an embedded interpreter was worthwhile, even with all the extra CPU cycles and RAM wasted.

I see Micropython as just an extension of that. Python displaced BASIC a long time ago for good reasons.
Everyone in this thread is talking about curcumin in the bloodstream, but my doctor insists its benefit is in the gut, addressing issues with the microbiome.
I completely forgot about this site. Thanks for the reminder that this exists!