skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pedagogically, this is an argument against teaching physics using the historical development model. You end up with post hoc arguments and simplified narratives, and I think it it just makes life harder for undergraduate students. Maybe 'history of science' should be its own subject?

Some textbooks (e.g. Molecular Quantum Mechanics, Atkins & Friedman) take a more nuanced view. They present failures of classical calculations of the heat capacity of solids near absolute zero side by side with blackbody radiation:

> "Einstein recognized the similarity between this problem and black-body radiation, for if each atomic oscillator required a certain minimum energy before it would actively oscillate, then at low temperatures some would be inactive and the heat capacity would be smaller than expected."

Debye improved the theory by allowing atoms to oscillate with different frequencies. So looking back, one can say matter appears to be quantized, and this shows up at low temperatures, and radiation appears to be quantized, and this shows up at high frequencies - which is a nice symmetric argument, visible in hindsight, that probably helps students grasp the concept of the quantized harmonic oscillator (and why they need to learn about it).

One major development was Bose deriving Planck's radiation law using quantum statisical arguments (and no classical physics), with further development by Einstein c. 1924 - but this might be a difficult place to start from, teaching-wise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_statisti...
My Physical Chemistry textbook also refers to it as the UltraViolet Catastrophe.
Well, it can. The value is in the eye of the beholder. If there is demand for it, it has value.

But don't expect countries/societies to go back to anything resembling the Gold Standard (as leaning on bitcoin would be), as it was clearly a worse deal than issuing their own fiat currency.
You're all over this thread trying to miscategorize wage theft as "paying a bill late".

It's not. It's systematically _not ever_ paying monies owed, on an ongoing basis. And given the number of interactions you've had on this where this has been explained, it seems to be deliberately obtuse on your part by now.

This in between you trying to describe it as a small, almost non-existent problem, and when it does happen, it's non-profitable small businesses just struggling to keep the lights on.

Very hard to assume good faith here.
They don't need to do that over there either, unless they're doing something with cookies they don't need to be doing in the first place.
No paywall: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tesla-sold-only-one-car-in-korea...
No, it doesn't cover trans men who will give birth to become the baby's father.
Here's a quick overview.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Time-Shared_BASIC#String_ha...

The key detail is that HP BASIC dimensions the individual strings, where MS does not. Since the HP strings have dimensions, they're constrained. Given a typical max length of 255, you can see a string expression being done with a 255 byte work buffer and, when complete, moved into the dimensioned space. So, in the end, there's just a work buffer and the string.

With MS, strings are just pointers to places in memory (for examples the static strings in the code). So it's a whole "malloc/free" thing with the strings, but if the work space fills up, you can compact the heap and move the variable string pointers. Different mechanic. Simple garbage collection, but it is garbage collection.
Agreed, here's the quoted copy/paste for those scrolling by:

> Former Multician here. Andre was super-smart, but it is perhaps also relevant that even the most junior developers (as I was then) had quiet private space to work with large desks. All design was done offline. Multics terminals were like type-writers (although video did show up near the end), hence no stream of popups. The environment both allowed for and demanded focus and concentration. This is no longer so.
Biden has forgiven $136B in student debt. More relief is on the way
Pay to meet specific decision-makers or monetize your own network by getting paid to introduce someone else.

*I'm still validating the traction for this*
There was a discussion on this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39333081
https://www.tesla.com/en_US/findus/list/superchargers/South%...

Yes, they have but the coverage is not as great as the US outside the capital metro.
I think this is the main problem, rather than companies owning patents they do not implement, and suing the ones that do without a licence.

There are so many bogus patents being granted. Prior art search done by patent clerks, from what I have read, can just be searching existing patents. So if something was invented long ago but never patented, then that might not even be caught in a search, even if there are many web pages or academic papers that describe that prior art. And like you said, they may not be able to realise that the invention is actually obvious, because they are not subject matter experts.

There is another problem where the patent is valid but the defendant's product does not violate it. It is often too expensive for the victim to litigate it in court. Depending on the jurisdiction, the plaintiff may not even have to tell you exactly which patents they are alleging that you have violated, until they sue you. So you cannot even check whether their claim is reasonable.

It needs to be easier and cheaper to challenge bad patents and false claims of infringement.
It seems to me that what you are getting is people who are both decently clever and fairly dishonest.

Which is an awful combination to select for, imo
I've had good luck with OneModel[0], which is specifically designed for software architecture diagrams. The developer is super responsive, too. And they have a free plan.

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Hey, I had very similar thoughts many years ago! The trick is yes, many filters boil down to alpha/beta, and the kalman filter is (edit: can be) really a way to generate those constants given a (linear) model (set of equations describing the dynamics, ie the future states) and good knowledge of the noise (variance) in the measurements. So if the measurements always have the same noise it will just reduce the constants over time, and it is only really useful when the measurement accuracy can be determined well and also changes a lot.
Is it any worse than having the model home in a development furnished with 3/4 scale furniture? Just seems like the digitization of an old practice.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Having ridden in all four I agree, the finish on the Kia and Hyundai cars are miles ahead (hehe) of the Teslas. And they’re likely built in South Korea instead of China, which is great for their industry and frankly national security.
Is this something that could be fought? I wonder if this is even legal. What if they made it even more strict?
> With that in mind, it seems it's not really customers that want ever thinner, ever more sealed and port-free phones.

I definitely do, to some extent. More sealed is good, I don't want water and dust inside my phone. The thinner the phone the thicker and more protective the case you can apply before it gets too thick. Or you could stick a battery in the case, or a USB hub, SD reader, etc. What stops this case from existing right now?
I don't know, there are reports (e.g., 0/) of people being quoted obscene amounts (60k CAD?) for Ioniq 5 battery replacements not under warranty. I've seen costs ranging from 15-20k for Tesla battery replacements. There are definitely mixed reviews of Tesla support, but I'd be pretty concerned (if not more so) with support from both Kia and Hyundai as well.

0/ https://www.ioniqforum.com/threads/60k-to-replace-main-batte...
Yep. This is very similar to the "catch-22" that IBM wound up in with OS/2 and the Windows API. On the one hand, by supporting Windows software on OS/2, they gave OS/2 customers access to a ready base of available, popular software. But in doing so, they also reduced the incentive for ISV's to produce OS/2 native software that could take advantage of unique features of OS/2.

It's a classic "between a rock and a hard place" scenario. Quite a conundrum.
The company using cow dung to fuel Japan's space ambitions
I have yet to see a CEO choose to go back down the food chain, even though that is something they have the power to do.
You're using microphones in DIY rain gauges? Interesting, what does it add?
> Kinda. We were open to believing in God. But the start of our journey was just realizing the secular world had nothing to offer us.

I'm curious how you interprete "secular"? Cause it seems you're setting it up to mean anti-religion which is certainly not what the usual definition is.

> Here’s the thing: if you’re not a militant atheist and you start spending a lot of time around sincerely religious people who you like, you’ll end up believing sincerely yourself.

I won't question your own experience, but you're being way too broad here. I know many people who are not "militant atheists" but still don't believe in organized religion. I also have a lot of friends whose families are extremely religious - meaning they're around them all the time - none of them has been pushed or convinced to join. They just don't observe prayer etc compared to their friends.

> Since you’re secular, I’ll explain it like this: we’re evolved to cohere around a shared system of belief and the appropriate mental machinery will kick in as part of becoming embedded in a religious community. And that’s what I used to believe. But now I know those were just the breadcrumbs I needed to find my way.

This sounds more like a self-justification than something actually supported by science. Please note I'm not trying to "religion shame you". Just curious. :)
> This is not a real issue on Android

What!? Yes it is. I've seen it first hand on numerous kids phones, that "have a bad battery" or "stopped working".

Turns out downloading unlimited arbitrary binaries from in-app/in-youtube advertisements leads to a functionally bricked phone. I assume adults are too embarrassed, don't want to hand their phone over to someone and just buy a new one.
I know this thread is mostly about a lack of cousins, rather than being distant from your cousins, but I feel like I have to ask:

How many people have cousins, or other relatives, that they want to interact with?

My extended family is a complete disaster. On my mother's side there's two brothers who are borderline abusive to their wives and children. On father's side I had a total of 10 cousins, the oldest of whom would be in their 40s, the youngest in their late 20s. Only 6 of them are still alive. One of them is in prison. These are all people that I want nothing to do with.

My siblings are not bad per say, but not people I consider myself close to. We're all too different in age from each other, and never had much more in common that living in the same house. Now we are scattered across North America. If I had had children, they likely would have never met any of their cousins more than a dozen times before adulthood.
I call them adults.
Show HN: Dunker a Dribbble Client
I've created my first client, It's for Dribbble, only for android ( for a while ).
Anatomy of a serverless usage based billing system
> I consider them men with female reproductive organs.

I'm not asking about other labels (man, woman, mother etc). I'm asking if a trans-man can correctly be described as "female".

Saying they have "female reproductive organs" i.e. those of a female, implies they are not female, yet the definition of a female is basically "has (female) reproductive organs", so it feels like redundant semantics / wordplay.

It's like being asked "is this a red bucket" and saying "No, its a bucket thats colour is red". If you aren't being deliberately obtuse then there some conflicting root of understanding you aren't just stating outright.

> I'm not interested in the dictionary.. reality is more complicated

word are convention of meaning. other than researching common usage, that's all they are. There is no a priori "true meaning" of a word beyond their definition, whether found in a dictionary, or elsewhere.

Does rejecting the "dictionary" mean you disagree with the definition I supplied; that you have your own alternative definition; or you don't care much about what word means (but do, nonetheless, care how it's used)?

> Some women are born without ovaries

Some women have ovaries removed, others don't yet never become pregnant. Conventionally they are still referred to as female.

The word "can" in the definition implies "capability", which allows a certain level of ambiguity in definition. They belong to a biologically class capable of, and distinguished by, reproduction. Perhaps there is a grey-area in how this definition is applied, but that aside: how does that affect a conversation of whether "pregnant people" are female? We bypass the issue of "who doesn't meet the condition(s)" entirely by presenting a group that absolutely meet the condition(s), without ambiguity.

> What sex would you assign to them?

This begs the question that all individuals have a unambiguous sex.
A great positive example would be Andrej Karpathy.
These conversations have been live on campus for some time (80s) and continue. Though we're isolated, most conversations happening elsewhere also happen here, but, because everyone's so weird, the conversations get turned on their head or don't present in the same way in other places. Mostly it just makes the environment less reactionary.

That can be frustrating for some who want change now, but, at the end of the day, the students and community have the power to change most aspects of the program, and year to year different students or community members take on different projects in response to community needs. That agency helps diffuse many convolutions via compromise and practical action. Of course, convolutions still happen. Basically, this isn't a place that avoids conflict or disagreement, it's a container where students (and staff, ha!) learn how to disagree, conflict, resolve/forget, and get shit done.
I get an ASMR-like response from taking tests/quizzes, even these sorta pop-psych nonsense ones.

Apparently I'm a "mentor" at FedEx. It resonates. :)

My current client had me sit one of these after 2 years on the job. That one labeled me "Debater". I argued with them out of principle. I think that if their HR people used it to screen me before I started, I would not have gotten the gig at all. :D
Welp - messed up the line breaks - hope that made sense.
> Man, those are wide age bands. Big difference from more 19 year olds living at home versus 34 year olds.

But it's a consistent measurement. You're the one that said that further up.
Babies on Mars? Dutch firm conducts space sex research [video]
> Presumably that extinction would take place several generations from now? One great way to avoid or slow extinction would be to procreate.

... is that necessarily true? If our current population is well above the long-term carrying capacity, in terms of maximizing 'time there are humans on the planet', could the best course involve letting the population decrease for an extended period, and then aiming for a steady population only after we're near that carrying capacity.

A yeast cell in a wine bottle can reproduce while sugar is plentiful, but the increased population leads to more rapid sugar consumption and eventually fermentation stops.
It has a 39-foot wingspan and moves in a figure 8 pattern on a seabed tether. There's going to be at least some implication for local wildlife, but is it worse than the impacts of fossil fuels? I have no idea. It's definitely an interesting concept. I'm sure it will get more efficient and require a smaller footprint over time, assuming we invest in it.
If their sales are very low, it would make no financial sense for Tesla to build out a supercharger network, at least not all over the country, and people would have trouble getting service for what would be an obscure foreign car in the local market. So I'm sure that Korean customers would prefer to buy a KIA or Hyundai, even without considering factors like loyalty to domestic producers.
Anywhere Tesla's are imported via container ship have months with ~0 sales because no ship arrived that month and thousands on other months when they do.
It's more the classic glass half empty vs half full response. Although given the small size of the notch, it's more like 10% empty vs 90% full.
There's no supply constraints for Tesla right now.

The article doesn't say anything about supply being the issue.
It's the majority opinion, infact Apple also believes that the notch is a compromise. Apple has been trying to develop the under-screen webcam tech. They just don't have the technical capability to eliminate it. When Apple and others finally eliminate the notch it will be heralded as the best thing ever.

Few will realize how Apple milked you twice - once to accept the horrible design (that they created), and again to accept how wonderful they are for eliminating the problem.
x86_64's win was helped by Intel's Itanium misstep. AMD can't bank on Nvidia making a mistake, and Nvidia seems content with incremental changes to CUDA, contrasted with Intel's 32-bit to 64-bit transition. It is highly unlikely that AMD can find and exploit a similar chink in the amor against CUDA.
Really depends on what regulations remain. If you drop too many regulations,you could end up with recumbent bikes with aero fairings.
If that's the model, it sounds like the path would be to burn money to stay right behind NVIDIA and wait for them to become complacent and stumble technically, creating the opportunity to leapfrog them. Keeping up could be very expensive if they don't force something like the mutual licensing requirements around x86.
It's very interesting how this thread treats the decision to have children as a purely rational, logistical one. I would argue it is not entirely rational/logical.
> Some patents are fantastically valuable to patent trolls. Some are not. A $500/year fee

Part of the problem is having a huge number of BS patents driving up the cost of going through all of them to figure out what's what.

Its not the only problem with patents, but i think a "property tax" solution would solve some of the issues. I'd like it to be incrementing each year - like first year $0/year, and increasing each year so the longer you keep things out of the public domain the more you need to be able to self-jystify its value.
I feel like a lot of the comments in here could be answered by this post: https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AeoVF2zhNHj6LrNXto

To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”

* Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start

* Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change

* But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun

* In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains)

* We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this

I’ve been signalling the probable demise of queer.af to my followers for the past year. We knew the end was coming; we just anticipated it to take a little longer
no it's just a fact. before the notch, the parts of the screen either side of it were not screen, but now they are. the complaints about the notch literally boil down to "it's not enough extra screen".
OK. I'm the customer here, and I'm looking at it with my own POV. I think it's neat that I have extra pixels to hold the menu bar so that the rest of the screen can be dedicated to the apps I'm running.
Seems odd to make that a VC-backed entity. That said I think the most important aspect is knowing the service will be around when you die. Updating wills, plans is expensive, and if someone has dementia etc and this goes bust because 90% of “startups” do, then that’s a real problem.
That's strange, I sometimes (once every few months) use teams with Firefox on Linux and it seems to work fine.
I live two blocks from that store (the ballard one which was shut down). It was the worst targeted store i've ever seen. It was about 1/3 'groceries' while sitting within a block of two larger and cheaper grocery stores. All the stock that people would actually be interested in, home goods and the like (because the neighborhood lacks a store for that), were extremely thin on the shelves. Either because they didn't stock items are they were always sold out because they were meeting a neighborhood demand.

Was there theft at that store.. I don't doubt it but never saw it in all the times i was in there searching, often without success, for some home item that would suit my place.

It was just a bad target variant store that was plopped into the middle of a neighborhood that ended up being specialized in the wrong thing, if any target mucky muck had ever walked the neighborhood before putting the store in it could have been very successful (because we could really use a store where I can buy various home goods without jumping in my car and driving 10-15m).
It's a defensive patent portfolio. They use it to counter sue if a competitor sues them.
The original cross licensing was government imposed because a second source was needed for the military.
It seems to work for me on FF / linux out of the box, without any user agent change.
Many math books nowadays come with Python code eg jupyter notebooks.
Yes, but sometimes, just sometimes, I. Want. To. Support. The. Freaking. Browser.

I realize that there's some creative bookkeeping and bureaucratic barriers set up so that the only entity that can meaningfully support Firefox financially is Google in the end, but I hate the fact.

I'll probably donate to Andreas instead.
The supply constraint is shipping, not production.
Senior exec positions (at large companies) pay really well for the most part--but I couldn't imagine doing that sort of thing for more than a few years with the mindset that I'm doing my time in purgatory so that I can retire early and have a sane life. (Some CEOs seem to have a better ability to carve off some me-time but it's still a job a lot of people wouldn't want for the long term.)
I once took an IQ test(?), I think it was called Wonderlic or something. I was desperate and it was my first engineering (unpaid) internship. Somehow I was a “genius” and they kept my test record as an example for the next couple years after my internship. I would probably walk out of an interview if someone handed me one today.
“Screen half black vs half lit up”
Most Debian packages I can think of ask something like: "existing
config found: use, overwrite, manually merge?"
No cost whatsoever: The Mana World is part of a 501(c)(3) public charity and have its hosting costs sponsored by Microsoft and domain costs sponsored by Gandi. You can find that information somewhere in the donation and donors pages of the wiki.

The online count is misleading as TMW Classic allows the same user to connect multiple accounts and even home made shop bots, so I wouldn't trust it. Right now there are 15 players online — 5 involved in the project, 5 players, and 5 bots or alts.

So a 1:1 rate in overall.
And you're welcome to make your own bot for fun and connect it to the game server, but staff will get upset if it participates in combat or otherwise tries to give advantages to others.

PS. Only TMW Classic allows multiple accounts per player, but it's been this way since forever. Considering the average player profile, not much surprising that half of players had involvement with the game.
There is very little “poverty” in San Francisco. There’s a lot of addiction and mental illness, though.
It should have a label saying "recording" or something to that effect. I don't know microphone terminology, maybe it's "picking up".

With a label, a light indicator is unambiguous.
Properly designed, the tapping/clicking the text should also trigger the checkbox.
Citi warns its bankers to control their drinking at client events
Customer Sues USDA over Policy Preventing Truthfully Labeling Food (2023)