skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
// I spent fifteen minutes in a 112 deg F shower...I spent fifteen minutes in a 112 deg F shower //

Did you measure your body temperature? Were you able to cool yourself by sweating, or was your body temperature monotonically rising?

Recall, it is recommended that you go to a doctor if you have a fever of over 103 degrees, and over 108 degrees you risk brain damage.

Soaking some nice heat into your sore muscles in a 20-minute shower is one thing; but 24/7 your body is absolutely, positively not able to cool itself down is quite another.

// They don't control for so many things, let alone acclimation. //

Hey man, I gave you a source as requested. Whether or not evaporating water can cool down a body of a certain volume and surface when that body is internally generating heat--that isn't a matter of acclimation, its a matter of thermodynamics.

// after which I'll probably be dead // And why think about extinction after I'm dead, eh? :-) But far before 60 years passes, you'll find yourself in the age demographic for which death from hot weather is a risk. The body's ability to thermoregulate degrades as we get older, alas...

// worried about a lack of cheap energy //
Wind farms are already cheaper to build than coal-fired plants. And if you factor in all the externalities, fossils fuels don't even come close to being a cheap source of energy.

// we're teaching Gen Z and Gen Alpha to just give up... this hysteria is ridiculous //
Worrying about how the media affects "kids these days" is a normal, expected part of the aging process :-) ....maybe, perhaps, the thought that Gen-Z and Gen-X are just giving up is a bit, well, I won't say hysterical, but perhaps a bit hyperbolic? And inasmuch as they are going to be here longer than we are, they do have a bit more of a stake in the future than we do.
Yeah. Something like https://a.co/d/a7wV4U7 instead of wearing it on your wrist.
There is no DNA for galaxies, so how could you know what the properties of a particular galaxy "should be"?

The focus on "per-galaxy parameters" is like expecting to be able to predict how tall Tom Cruise should be after reading a textbook on the theory of evolution.
> Because bamboo is really bad at many things we do with wood.

This is simply not true for use as a material for buildings, which is why it's used as a replacement for wood all across east asia.
If multiple seller/landlord parties all agree to have a single algorithm set prices I understand the FTC’s point. If however they all reference an algorithmic data point and freely choose to set prices I don’t see how that’s collusion.

You've hit the nail on the head. It's the former, which is why it's collusion.
Depends on your particular flavor of 'real' dev. https://vscode.dev/ and an SSH app and a web browser.
Yeah, agree. Wikipedia's rules are being used as a club and it's too bad.

We get it that people will abuse Wikipedia and it must suck to cull all of the ephemera people submit (not the best word for it but the only one that comes to my mind).

But I think rules should allow for nuance.

Perhaps Wikipedia should have allowed a kind of sub-Wikipedia: a sort of parallel wikipedia that deals in topics more akin to Urban Dictionary entries. Sort it's entries to the bottom of the search results, serve up a light yellow background for sub-pedia pages to make it clear these are not conforming articles. But it seems to me like a generally bad idea to be a ruthless gatekeeper for the enthusiastic and motivated contributors out there.
That's precisely what I was talking about - his links all talk about emissions. Emissions can't be measured, they can only be guessed and estimated. Every outlet now talks about how emissions are decreasing, draw fancy graphs pointing downward and so on. There is a slight problem - we can and do measure results of said emissions, the actual gasses in the atmosphere.

Imagine a pool with a water with two underground pipes, one ingress, another egress. There is no way to measure flow in either of the pipes. But there are partially available documents mapping pipes and their diameters across whole neighborhood. And there is access to some of the water plants in the area and some of the big consumers (not all). So you can hire a whole university of scientists to estimate how the whole water pipe network works at different times, estimate all inaccessible plants and consumers too, account for rusting and leakage and so on and so forth, and estimate the flow of water in and out of the pool this way.

Or you can put a measuring stick in a water directly and measure with a clock the actual amount of water and dynamics of its level.

And if thousand scientists say that their models say that a net inflow of water is decreasing, but the measuring stick shows stable increase year over year... Well, it's time to change something in the official papers.
Confronting Imposter Syndrome
Upvoted for the pun, with the sad caveat that also it feels like a human tragedy unfolding. :-/
>> Most companies have very low IQ

Go get rich then.
I hear this argument occasionally and it’s very contextual. While it’s certainly possible to rewrite any given shell script in Python, Rust, or whatever language you prefer there are some things which are just clearer in Bash.

I wouldn’t want to write an entire application in Bash, but equally I wouldn’t want to write a script which does relatively simple file operations in Python. Bash is a language which has been honed over many decades for precisely that sort of thing, and so can communicate what’s happening far clearer than Python does in my view.
“Tell me comrade, how doez a tokamak reactor explode?”
Also like AI, we have natural examples as existence proofs it is possible, followed by narrow non-generalised artificial examples, yet actually getting it working properly is very hard.
Doesn't rent control just reward people lucky enough to rent before prices increased? Wouldn't increasing supply be a better way to reduce prices?
How people define "new" varies a lot in this context. I've spent a lot of time talking with ChatGPT exploring interdisciplinary ideas and while I think it frequently says things that qualify as new, I've only run into one situation where I was trying to find some way of doing something technical and it just invented something non-trivially original to handle it: https://x.com/Westoncb/status/1763733064478335326?s=20
First Stanford Industrial Park and then Sunnyvale AFB which was renamed Onizuka AFB in 1986, well after the Corona Program ended in 1972.
I wonder if they actually have that much margin to give discounts... Or are the prices already at or near lowest possible level... After all outgoings must be lower than incoming in on sufficiently long term. Has something pushed the pay outs too high, compared to what is being paid.
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Late 90s argument against linux sounded like “we need to run Office”. Today i don’t need spreadsheets that are not shared in real time with my colleagues. So you use web version of excel/googlesheets and it doesn’t matter what OS is running your webkit-based browser.

Also all the “free software” is in someone else’s server.
To be clear I don't think anthropogenic climate change will cause human extinction. But a terrible series of volcanos could absolutely turn Earth into a colder Venus for, say, a couple hundred years - pelagic vertebrates and certain microbes would be ok, but I am not sure humanity would survive more than a few generations, even in underground sci-fi bunkers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_ev...
It goes both ways all the time, things from the Greater Internet Hive Mind get posted on HN or HN posts get regurgitated by the Greater Internet Hive Mind. Occasionally, the cud goes back and forth multiple times (as cuds do), for instance there've been cases of HN->social media->media coverage->HN posts about the media coverage. The order and the participants can also vary, of course.
The fact, that I am sitting here slacking off, reading something some dude wrote on the other side of the world just because he had nothing better to do and wanted to enjoy and share his own thoughts, takes away the fear of imminent extinction of my species.
I'm an old R user forced to mostly use python because that's what the team uses.

R is so much better than python in many areas concerning data pipelines: connecting with external database systems through an unified API, superior data munging utilities, as well as plotting, a more comprehensive (obviously) statistical analysis toolset.

I even find rmarkdown vastly superior to jupyter.

But IMO the best reason to use R rather tha python is that its tools will make you approach the problem as a statistician rather than a programmer.
Insurance is based on the cars you may hit that are not your own. Prices have been going up. So not surprised.
The article mentioned Android Auto. I assume it must have Bluetooth.
Remains to be seen.

Helion would have to ship something that gives positive net energy first.

Sure, they have prototypes, but we don't know how well they are currently performing
Aren't most insurance rates / rate ranges set by the states? And any further variance is down to the actuarial tables?

If that's true, I certainly couldn't find a table on allowable rate ranges when I did some basic research on pricing and what factors influence it. Certainly open to being schooled on how auto insurance works.
I was excited about Julia too but it now seems to be a relatively niche HPC language. It's about saving CPU time more than user time.

My sniff test for a successor language to R is whether it can replicate the tidyverse API with 100% fidelity. The API is already optimal for tabular data analysis, especially the dplyr core. It can be thought of as a specification for other languages to implement.

There is a great deal about how R works that is negotiable. But if the language can't implement dplyr to spec, or somehow doesn't "want to", it's not the language for the audience served by the tidyverse.
12 months or more to increase rent seems counter-productive. As it would mean that what makes most sense for landlord is to just increase by maximum each and every time as they cannot forecast changes over such long period.

Still, capping increases to something like inflation+2%, and making leases continuous with long termination periods would be entirely sensible fixes.
Matrix Analysis by Horn and Johnson is another great book, though it is a bit pricier than a Dover book.
> They know what it says, Masnick is being disingenuous.

> Section 230(c)(1) says that platforms aren't liable "as the publisher or speaker" for third party speech even if they moderate. The platforms are arguing that moderation is first party speech, implying that doesn't apply.

You are mixing up two kinds of speech. In the article, Mike Masnick is arguing that the user's post is third-party speech, no matter how much the platform boosts or downranks the post. The platform's decision to boost, downrank, or remove the post is first-party speech. The platform's terms of service are first-party speech.

The Florida and Texas laws unnecessarily restrict the platforms' moderation decisions, which are first-party speech protected by the First Amendment, on the basis of the contents of third-party speech i.e. holding the platforms liable as the publisher for third-party speech i.e. violating Section 230.

Strict scrutiny requires that laws which serve some state interest use a method which is least restrictive of constitutional rights in achieving that state interest [1]. Allowing social media sites to be held liable for user posts violates strict scrutiny. There already is an available remedy for users' third-party speech which does not restrict platforms' first-party right to moderate: putting liability only on the users who authored the speech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny#Applicability
Use a service like Google voice to multiplex across phone numbers. Configure it so hitting the Google voice number hits both of your devices, so it rings whichever you have with you at the time.
"EFF and co-counsel filed this lawsuit in 2016" The slow and steady pace of justice
My completely anecdotal and unscientific impression is that rust is on the upwards trends, mandate or not.

Does anyone in 2024 still want to make a greenfield C++ project? I don't. Nothing really to do with memory safety, it's mainly just tooling.
Liability insurance is based on other people’s cars. Comprehensive and collision is based on your own car.
It's not worth charging/fining the reporter solely because of the distrust it will instill in all other confidential sources regardless of the facts surrounding this particular case.

Nobody wants to consult a lawyer before talking to a reporter to see if that reporter might be held in contempt. So they simply won't talk to the reporter.

The judge might win this one, but society on the whole will lose.
The website had even more red flags than this.
Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)
> The distinction between warning, stop etc seems odd. The option to stop on warnings isn't useful because older packages seem to abuse warnings as messages.

Use suppressWarnings() to silence misbehaving functions or withCallingHandlers() to stop or handle specific conditions.

> Passing variable names as strings to dynamically generate things seems clunky compared with python.

Can you give me an elegant example in Python? Because I don't understand what you want to generate dynamically.

That said, I dislike the tidyverse solution as well. Too much abstraction for not enough benefit over a base solution with substitute()
As a thought experiment, this is interesting. I was sorta expecting there to be a point where this is expanded to more useful topics but this post seems to actually be about butchers and the most vegan choice you can make.

If it isn't obvious, personally I didn't find that part convincing, but perhaps I am too carnivorous.

Nonetheless, I think that the thought process could be useful either almost directly (what car should I buy if i hate cars, or generally if i need x but hate x industry what should i get) or perhaps in a broader sense I am not quite invested enough to find.
This is what I do.

I have a agm m8 flip that I have at all times for calls and text. And I have a pixel running grapheneos that I use more like a laptop / when needed.

Living without a smartphone isn't possible. But not using one for two or three days is.

Most banking apps require a smartphone.

If I'm out an about I will generally not have a smart phone unless I'm making an unfamiliar journey or something like that.

I've got through quite a few dumbphones, including the nokie 8110 (banana phone, but rooted with app store removed), Nokia 2660, cat s22 flip, agm m6 But all were sub par in some way. The m8 is the first that has ticked all the boxes for me. I love it.
The CHSR project never stopped. It never spent a dollar exploring Hyperloop as an alternative. The people who sabotaged CHSR are the consultants who have extracted billions of dollars with little to show for it. The sabotage was entirely financial. Blaming Musk for the failures of CHSR because he’s on the sidelines casually offering an opinion is absurd on its face. It’s the kind of unhinged ranting nonsense you’d expect from the likes of YouTube popularity whores like Thunderfoot.
It's an excellent distribution mechanism for apps that you don't want listed on the app store, or ones that won't be approved, or can't be distributed eg. Company/Internal apps (that are installed on employee's personal devices)
I love that War and Peace is still the canonical “lots and lots of text” sample for testing these sorts of things
The "here's what people have been saying about ctypes" section is hilarious!
It would have to be worse than the previous volcanic extinction events, which were massive. It's not clear the Earth can even do that anymore.
Linux 23 years and counting. UNIX for the 10 years before that.

I looked at Windows around 1993. Couldn't believe how primitive it was for a GUI.
I suggest taking a look at https://palm.com/pages/product.
As another anecdote, I get very different quotes for auto insurance from different companies.
Lol, holy shit what did I just read?

Amazing, installing now. I want to be part of the problem.
I use gitlab as well and really like their groups feature.

My point stands though as it’s really impossible to try to standardize an organization as massive as a government into a single code management system, much less a single org, even if it has fantastic hierarchical management.

The government can host their own GitHub instance if they want to. I think the point is that there are probably thousands of “servers” with government repos. And consolidating to one “server” is a horrible idea.

A catalog is good though.
The law doesn't work on hard and fast rules like that. It's more like "If the effect is that you are working together to set prices, that's illegal", regardless of whether you use algorithm A or B, regardless of whether you share prices in advance or watch how other companies set prices, regardless of any details of the mechanism.

If you use the same algorithm it's not necessarily illegal, but it will be if it results in price fixing. If you take into account competitors prices its not necessarily illegal, but it will be if it results in price fixing.
> Why would treating a social media site's moderation as protected speech automatically make the social media site a common carrier?

First of all, you're asking the question backwards. If corporate moderation is protected speech then why wouldn't it be protected speech for common carriers?

The only plausible answer is that they have a dominant market position, but then so do the large social media platforms, which are the only things these laws apply to.
My "instead" meant instead of putting my info on LinkedIn (open for CV farmers), rather create a personal website/CV that you have more control over who can see it (more private), as you choose to share it only with specific employers.
IRC has the same ephemerality attribute. But people were aware of it and set up additional communication channel, like wiki for documentation and guides, forum for support, tracker for discussions, and blog for announcements. IRC was always a place to hangout. Now people expect Discord to be everything above.
From the casual user's perspective, it does not "open in Firefox", though. It opens in a separate window with very different chrome, and you have to poke around to even determine which browser is actually hosting it.

Furthermore, on macOS specifically, PWAs are fairly well decoupled from browsers. For example, if you install a PWA in Safari, and then click on an external link in said PWA, it will not open that link in Safari, but rather in whatever your default browser is.
Charm makes the coolest stuff and has the funnest marketing. Whoever does their marketing and branding is talented.

I just never seem to use any of their stuff. I want to use their stuff but never seem to have a reason.
These boutique pieces of tech are bound to fail because they don't stand upon the shoulders of giants.

We see it everywhere in the phone world: phones aimed at the elderly have buggy horrible software and become quickly abandoned; modern feature phones are buggy, slow and incomplete because nobody in their right mind assigns their best engineers to the dumb phone division, not Nokia, not LG; plus small companies like Mudita, Punkt, Light and others don't have the know how to produce a complete device.

The only real solution is the true "hacker path"of taking existing perfected and mass produced technology and achieve your goal with a few small modifications. If your goal is to have a basically "dumb" experience, why aren't you getting a bunch of 5yo Xiaomi phones, follow the extremely safe guides and flash LineageOS without Google Services on them? And maybe pair them with a SIM card with no data? This way you get a snappy phone with actually usable offline applications (and you can sideload the ones you truly need).
One intriguing aspect of Bitcoin is its fair price calculation, a concept that sheds light on the intrinsic value of this digital asset.
Hi, it may be an indexing issue. There's a precanned "Information not found" message that we show if document retrieval failed. A couple common causes for this are:

- Not provisioning enough resources and processes are dying (we run NLP models locally so the system isn't totally lightweight)
- Access is not correctly configured, either while pulling in from the source or at the user level during query time.

Assuming nothing is wrong with the setup, it is most likely because of how we prompt the LLM. Questions that require reasoning or are more open ended, generally aren't "safe" for the LLM to answer. So the system is constrained on purpose. For example if someone were to ask: "How can I increase revenue by 30% next quarter". It's not safe for the system to just propose some actions and it's likely better to just search the documents and say there wasn't any answer in the docs (unless of course some doc explicitly states plans for increasing revenue).
Can we? I'm not under the impression that those were ever terraced[1] like open-pit mines. But come to think of it, terracing itself qualifies as a megastructure[2]. Where the Long Now clock is an offbeat art project, rice paddies are crucial for nutrition for a great many people and they've already been around for at least 2 millenia. As times get lean, I can imagine pilfering the Long Now clock for parts; but those rice paddies will only gain importance.

[1] https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-bingham-kenneco...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Terraces_of_the_Philippin...
I doubt Morgan Chu and his team would have gotten involved if they didn't think this had legs.

And I suspect that their group may actually be somewhat familiar with contracts. He has won over $9 billion in payouts, including previously winning some of the most famous IP cases ever against Genentech, Intel, Microsoft and others.

At the very least, the lawsuit is not a joke, and it's poor legal evaluation or journalism to suggest that.
I thought so too. It’s pretty simple: if you’re making a nuclear thermal power plant a lot of the costs are associated with building the containment vessel and the heat exchange mechanism. Fusion is fundamentally lower power density than fission, so you’ll need a bigger vessel for a given power, and both the containment and heat exchange mechanism are far more complex and expensive. Thermal fusion will never be cheaper than fission, which already has a hard time competing with renewables. And renewables are still getting cheaper.

But then there’s Helion. If you can extract electrical power directly rather than through heat exchange and a turbine, it changes the equation drastically. So I think their approach can work from a theoretical point of view.