skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you could draw a line between "someone told you, you listened, and you chose not to internalize that information" and "your brain is too rotted out from lead poisoning to care about the dangers of lead poisoning"?

If you yourself have to take a leave of absence (admitting the cause) and dozens of your employees become sick with the same thing (many of whom die), it's certainly not unknown. Whether it's unappreciated or ignored is different. In this case I don't think we can know for sure.

I would speculate, though, that Midgley knew exactly what he was doing. After the state of NJ shut down his plant, the feds had it reopened. TEL was important for military purposes. Midgley knew that he found himself possessing a key ingredient for internal combustion. It's not often that you can insert yourself as a key component of an existing (fifteen year old!) industry. He knew he could put on a show and downplay the risks, and if he pulled it off he'd be rich like a Rockefeller.
You can't call out a percentage of people you plucked from thin air on not understanding something, then qualify your understanding as your own interpretation.

Are you aware that your whole post just said "Nobody understands the version of this thing in my head?" This us a studied thing. You need sources and conclusions drawn from them, not your own speculation (not that it was horribly off the mark, but come on, man)
Grinding and cutting the meat is already a weird wild mechanical design world of its own; dispensing the paste into uniform small portions is likewise another, separate design discipline that just happens to be stuck on the end of the grinder.

Going the next step and cooking the slice as it falls seems quite rational; and we've probably described a machine that already exists. In big bulk continuous flow form. Them little microwave sausage patties prolly aint cut by hand.
...and nobody will care.
Nah, I don't think so. Every time I've seen something criticized or praised for its "entertainment value" it's been code for less challenging, simpler, easier to watch. It's fine if you like that, but you can't call a tropey, confused toy advertisement better because it has dancing instead of court scenes, come on. I guess it's unfair to expect much artistic sophistication in tech circles. In tech terms it's like dogpiling about Firefox having telemetry on by default and recommending Chrome as a better alternative without any justification.
No, the tab is a wonderful invention and should be celebrated.
Daniel Keyes wrote a book in 2000 about writing the book…Algernon, Charlie and I…

The ending has the author talking to the scientists doing the research described in Flowers for Algernon.

Science wasn’t anymore put off by fiction than the scientists currently resurrecting the woolly mammoth (see novel Jurassic Park)…
why not braces then?
Or at least one of his (allegedly many) sock-puppets.
I disagree: discussion in a ticket or issue tends to be as disorganized as the random series of commits that are frowned upon in “nice commit history” workflows. It’s just sweeping the mess to another place where it can’t easily be found.

But it’s okay, I gave up trying to convince people. So I’ll just disagree and commit (pun intended).
The input energy could be from gravity, could it not?
Until there is a clear successor, I don't think we can bury reddit.
Near zero. I pay $0.01/kwh after 11PM. Costs me $0.80-$1 to “fill up” a totally empty car, which they almost never are at zero.
People seem to unaware of it:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/08/toyot...
A large body of cool water works great at moving heat way from you, obviously - an ‘acre foot’ of water is 1.2 million liters - 300,000 gallons. So a fairly small one acre lake that’s ten feet deep has 12 million kg of water, which can absorb 48GJ of heat before it rises in temperature by a single degree.

The big question though is how long will that lake remain cooler than the air in the face of wet bulb temperatures around body temperature. Thermal equilibrium will win in the end.
Eh, it died in 1975 when he observed that it no longer doubled every year and instead doubled every 2 years.

Either that or it's a Ship of Theseus moment and we can just redefine moore's law to be whatever the current rate becomes.
No comprende.
What means the US companies are above the law.

That's not as pragmatic a statement as people try to make it. So, also, I don't really believe the feeling is completely honest instead of driven by propaganda.
Croissant: A metadata format for ML-ready datasets – Google Research Blog
Military Radar and Sonar
> What I'm not sure about is the freedom to photograph buildings per se.
> AFAIK, "panoramafreiheit" applies here.

Panoramafreiheit just covers the copyright part, in case any part of the building design is considered a copyrighted work of art. Everything else just falls under the fact that German law knows no "right to pictures of your own property" (unlike the "right to pictures of your own image", which is a part of German law).
> It's kinda impossible to answer without knowing:

TBH, I'm kind of amazed at the way people talk about electricity. It seems like about twice a year I see a couple of threads on local Facebook groups about how much electricity has gone up. Once after the coldest month, and again after the hottest month. I like to ask their $/kwh, and I've never once gotten an answer.

But the US is sort of backward in general. I use an energy coop where how much my car costs to charge is directly affected by how much insulation I have in my attic.
EV charging stations shouldn't be making money yet! In my neck of the woods Electrify America prices are around $.64 / kw. I am still on the free plan but if I was paying for that a fill up from 20-80% that would be ~ $30. GAS IS THAT CHEAP for that amount of energy, effectively. How can we get the middle majority off of gas vehicles if, effectively, gas ends up being cheaper and more convenient?

If we really care about climate change, Electric vehicles and infrastructure should be incredible not profitable for 10+ years. We need more incentives and ways so the focus is on expansion of infrastructure, not profitability.
Apropos essay from a recent segment of This American Life:

On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia:

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.111...

Radio segment:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/823/the-question-trap/act-t...
The biggest surprise here for me is snopes is still going.
I can imagine self-replicating structures of plasma.
No blanket ban, the rules for the UK are now just like they are for any other non-EU member: https://food.ec.europa.eu/animals/animal-products-movements/...

"It's in my luggage" isn't allowed any more, and many reporters conflate (in all kinds of ways) what you can do as a private individual with what is possible for export businesses: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/carry/meat-dair...
I just got setup to use LocalSend, but then saw your comment and was having second thoughts.

Comparing the GitHub repos for the two, it seems like LANDrop is pretty stale, while LocalSend is very active.

https://github.com/LANDrop/LANDrop
https://github.com/localsend/localsend

Something to consider, although I'm not sure how much it practically matters.
>"Everyone thinks they are familiar with the Dunning Kruger effect. Probably 95% of people get it wrong."

How sublimely apropos!
> It seems to me that it could be selled to the public sector.

Selling to the public sector is a skill in itself. It isn't usually the best product that wins at this... it's the company that knows the most about selling to the public sector.
The idea of dangerous drivers paying more for insurance is fine. It's probably better than the idea of drivers with bad credit paying more for insurance.

The problem is in how is dangerous driving assessed. Simple to apply rules lack the understanding of conditions. Telematics are going to be low bandwidth data, almost certainly without enough data to form an understanding of conditions.
> documentation tends to be for users.

There is user documentation and there is technical documentation. Both are very different. Unless you have a lib, framework or such, in which case it's more or less the same.

> but if you're going to be tracking changes in git anyway

Yes, it's a technical system for tracking changes, not documenting those changes on the developer-level.

> so people don't have to hop to a different system to get a quick understanding of the commit?

Because for any meaningful complex product you need to do that anyway. commit-messages are just the bare minimum of ways to document. Though, of course, you can make more use of it, including it in some semi-automatic changelog and such. But usually it's not worth the hazzle.
> This looks too easy, the first solution. If there is no logged on user, which User object is fetchUser going to return? Which friends? At the top level, if I were to forget to check if someone is logged in, who knows what would happen here.

It feels like the most likely thing to happen is that the `getUser()` call would throw a Null Pointer Exception?

I think the author is avoiding the pitfall of the NullObject pattern applied incorrectly with solution #1 because they're not masking the 'null-ness' in the code further down, they're just assuming that `null` will never get passed as a value. If it is, code blows up & then gets patched.
Hmm, Guild Of Professional System Administrators.
Yup, that's what I generally advise some of my family members that have asked about switching to an EV. On the flip side, there might be some good deals to get as CCS phases out. But it's just not a great time to buy one (Unless you are thinking of buying a tesla).
Guide to extracting different command line arguments in a Swift/ObjC program using UserDefaults
Just yesterday, my spouse was unpacking and came across a stack of envelopes containing correspondence I had received from authors I'd written to as a kid. I know then it felt really magical to have them write to me, especially since most of them were actually hand-written and discussed what I said meaningfully.

I don't remember it being a result of a teacher prompting me, though I suspect it was. They weren't books I read in school, but perhaps a teacher asked us what books were our favorites and had us send out letters. They're all laminated, too, which makes me think the teacher(s) took them and preserved them for us.
Ask HN: Best laptop by battery (after long usage)?
I've had few 100% new laptops in my life. But with all of them I've the same issue... after 2 or 3 years of usage, the battery losses it's functionality.

I've had Toshiba, Macbooks (Air 2012), HP, Lenovo, MSI...

My usage is a lot of hours every single day, I think that is the root cause.

I use Linux+fluxbox, terminals and the browser, with powertop or TLP tuned. During first year, I even exceed the advertised battery performance, and multiply that of colleagues with the same laptop but heavier systems (gnome...)

But I'm worried I'm missing something, doing something wrong, it's at 2 or 3 years, that the battery reduces drastically the performance, and at 3 or 4 years it starts to shutdown unexpectedly (for example when it says there is a 45% still available, plop!).

One thing that I'm not sure if I do OK, is to try charge once I'm at 10% level... and when I'm on the desk, I always have the charger in.

I try to make full cycle of charge/discharge, full discharge from the BIOS (to avoid the operative system power savings), and different tips from internet... nothing helps, when I reach this state, there is no back. Any magic solution here is welcome.

20 Years back, I remember getting out the battery while working at the desk. But today laptops cannot do that. Also I see laptops announcing 20 hours of duration, battery upgrades, etc, but I suspect, that with same usage I will get the same issue.

Do you know any laptop model, or model+OS combination, that after 3 or 4 years of +12 hours of daily usage, still can be considered a portable computer and doesn't need the charger to work at least 4 hours? What is the best one after such a intense life?
Well, I'm not sure what kind of commit messages would be possible other than "update" and "new version" etc. if you're committing everything each time.
Its worth noting that FedNow was only rolled out in July of 2023[1] making it a poor measuring stick for total transactions, since most banks have not yet adopted the standard yet.

[1]https://www.investopedia.com/what-is-fednow-7963716
These funds run out of things to pump and get cut out off? Just because they offer instrument, does not mean they aren't there only to make money on their cut.
+1 for KeePassDX, works great with my KeePassXC database.
A 1000-year-old promise of peace
Data Quality Within Lakehouses
It is still beyond me why a common tool as a word processor needs to be an always online web-app.

It doesn't, and Word works fine entirely offline.

If you want live collaboration on a document, or integration with AI, or if you want your employees not to have Word installed because that requires an IT department to manage at scale instead of running the app in a browser, then you need a network connection.
Good point. However that is a substantial portion of the American audience.
The Secret Life of XY Monitors (2001)
The problem though is that inevitably they will eventually automatically label anyone who does not "consent" to total surveillance as risky or dangerous.
Best Practices for Building LLMs
Plenty of men are also nurturing by nature. I am not, unfortunately. It is a trait I am working to cultivate in myself in order to perform my leadership roles more effectively.
LazyGit (and gitui), don't use use the `EDITOR` environment variable to delegate to the editor (e.g., Vim). So the Magit-like workflow (where you freely jump to hunks to edit them and then return to the status view) isn't possible in them.

Tig is the only well-known git TUI that does this, making it the only git TUI that works smoothly with Vim.
If you're on Android, I reccomend checking out KeePassDX

https://www.keepassdx.com/
> It means that scalability would become an issue if and when Binary Duel is used by more than a few thousands of people an hour.
In this fortunate case, I will be very happy to host the infrastructure on a K8 cluster with autoscaling, self-healing, a distributed database, a Redis server and so on.
> Anyone know what magic is involved?

White magic.
Most folks are taking it as understood, these days, that fossil fuel refineries are something we should be having fewer of. That argument's mostly settled save for the echoes of the shouting.

The externalities of data centers should be effectively measured, captured, and accounted for, same as anything else. I don't think, as things humans do, they're particularly drastic consumers; that doesn't mean they shouldn't be explored and understood, and there are probably worthwhile conversations to have about how to economically incentivize positive uses of large-scale compute and, similarly, how to disincentivize negative ones we as societies don't want to see grow.
There's a certain familiarity factor to using roundabouts and add to that the need for a certain level of trust that other people aren't going to do something stupid. As I wrote elsewhere, there's a clear difference at a busy roundabout I'm familiar with when school gets back in and there are presumably a lot of parents driving it who aren't familiar with it given that big roundabouts in particular aren't common around where I live.
My first reading of Sapiens was like reading a story. I got pulled into the story telling. On a more detailed reading, I felt Harari is a western apologist. He credits the western civilization and the colonization for all the "good things" as if they never existed in places colonized by the european powers.

Here are a few choice quotes - "European imperialism was entirely unlike all other imperial projects in history. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world. The Arabs, to name one example, did not conquer Egypt, Spain or India in order to discover something they did not know. The Romans, Mongols and Aztecs voraciously conquered new lands in search of power and wealth - not of knowledge. In contrast, European imperialists set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining new knowledge along with new territories."

Really??? Conquest for knowledge and everyone else just did it for money?

"During the twentieth century, local groups that had adopted Western values claimed equality with their European conquerors in the name of these very values. Many anti-colonial struggles were waged under the banners of self-determination, socialism and human rights, all of which are Western legacies. Just as Egyptians, Iranians and Turks adopted and adapted the imperial culture that they inherited from the original Arab conquerors, so today's Indians, Africans and Chinese have accepted much of the imperial culture of their former Western overlords, while seeking to mould it in accordance with their needs and traditions."

self-determination, socialism and human rights, all of which are Western legacies - Really?? The rest of world was just hunter-gatherers before western civilizations?

There are many, many more - but this idea that western civilization is manifest destiny bothers me a lot.
The question is how they managed to make such a commodity operation so dang expensive to run.
The title is the de-jargonized version. It's a set of instructions to build an open-source ebook search engine. (Admittedly there is still some jargon in that description, but not to the level of naming specific libraries.)

The bulk of the article is implementation details, helpfully hyperlinked.
SoC 2 compliance for startups and first-timers (part 1)
You're not entirely wrong.

10 years ago, I started an ML & NLP consulting firm. Back then nobody was doing NLP in production (SpaCy hadn't come out yet, efficient vector embeddings were not around, the only comprehensive library to do NLP was NLTK, which was academic and hard to run in prod).

I recently revisited some of our projects from back then (like this super fun one where we put 1 Million words into the dictionary [1]) and realized how much faster we could have done many of those tasks with LLMs.

Except we couldn't — the whole "in production" part would have made LLMs for the most minute tasks prohibitively expensive, and that is not going to change for a while, sadly. So, if you want to work something in prod that is not specifically an LLM application, this book is still super valuable.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/technology/scouring-the-w...
Looking at some charts overlaying Nasdaq with Bitcoin I would not be so sure about uncorrelated. High liquidity might also be doubtful at least when large positions are liquidated...
For the US you can see a state-by-state breakdown here: https://energyinnovation.org/2023/07/27/ev-fill-up-savings/.
There must be a disconnect here.

We are talking about the privacy policy. Nothing else.

The policy says that they don't collect, store, or process any personal data. That is great!

What is not great is that the policy does not discuss whether or what type of other non-personal data is collected/stored/processed. That makes it a bad privacy policy. That is what I commented on.
It’s not ; ) (or are you mixing it up with brutalism?). IMHO it’s the best looking architectural style from the 20th century (not that there is a lot of competition besides maybe art deco)

> degenerate

The was another group of people in the 1930s Germany who had similar thoughts and mostly killed it.
Technically feasible, if you deploy Teable under the same domain with your own app, the user sessions can be shared then you can use an iframe to embed the table into your application, and backend services can access table data within Teable through SQL or API.
>> From the article: “Deep learning, which is fundamentally a technique for recognizing patterns, is at its best when all we need are rough-ready results, where stakes are low and perfect results optional“

> It is somewhat embarrassing how many tasks, from customer service to sportswriting to language translation to article summarizing to concept art for films, can be handled by deep learning at its current level of competence.

No, it's embarrassing how eagerly leaders will compromise quality to chase automation cost savings. The things you list, especially customer service and sports-writing, cannot "be handled by deep learning at its current level of competence." That doesn't stop people from forcing the results down our throats, though.
Cool! Could be used for torrent searching?
Like running web torrent with video streaming and a decentralized search engine.
https://archive.vn/7H92j
How many square feet (or meters) are air conditioned? And you mentioned average daily purchases from the grid, but do you know what the maximum is?

In the US, I think the "pinch point" for off-grid systems is usually in the winter for an all-electric home. Shorter days and more likely to have multiple fully cloudy days in a row, at least for a lot of the US.
I can understand why even Bernie Sanders type voters start "victim blaming".. all humans are selfish creatures, and we sure don't want to give up our comforts more than we'd like. Recycling, switching to EVs and LEDs, well, most people are comfortable with that. Never fly to Rome or Thailand again? "But I need to..!", some will say. And sooner or later we'll start justifying their selfishness by saying it's not our fault that Indians are dying in heatwaves (then again, technically it's not my singular fault, maybe the fault of the system that's given me a comfortable life plus luxuries like trips to Rome and Thailand...)
How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka
1. Readable (reader mode)

2. Translated

Choose one :(
They're great for low traffic neighborhoods where the intersections don't warrant something as heavy weight as stoplights or 4-way stops. I'd love to replace every ridiculous 4-way stop in my neighborhood with a roundabout, it would probably double the life of my brake pads and have no effect on safety. Except Americans are baffled by them and they'd probably get shouted down at the next city council meeting for being weird and confusing.
OpenLibrary does provide search access to full texts. For example: https://openlibrary.org/search/inside?q=%22institutional+thi...

It is open source and they're always looking for contributors. I think they'd especially welcome help improving search!

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/
True. I'm impressed with the share audacity of it.

But I would hope that we hold public companies to a better standard.

Putting in place a 10 year options scheme before IPO so future public shareholders can't vote it down just smells.
When I moved to Boston I was supersized that people would talk in fear of all the newfangled "rotaries" as they are called here. Roundabouts in general are awesome but Boston has some unique challenges.

Roundabouts work well when there is similar amounts of traffic coming from all directions. In Boston they built some roundabouts where arterial roads meet suburban streets (or country lanes) at odd angles and it causes congestion. There really isn't a great solution for those intersections though - lights would reduce traffic flow.
> I am a Hayekian and I believe that regulation will not help with people that know the ins & outs of the regulation, also it's doesn't stop them.

I work in the automotive industry. It is very heavily regulated. The majority of people have never heard of ISO 26262 but it's keeping billions of people safe every day. Data privacy can work in the same way.
Hasn't this been debunked over and over again?
Someone once said Javascript is a "Scheme-like language with C-like syntax".

Always loved that and ashamed I can't remember the original author of the quote.

Not Crockford... Maybe Michael Fogus?
That's a big "if" in rural areas of third world countries, though.