skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5W is much easier to read than 5kWh/1000h.
No. Maybe functions aren't the result of simply returning different results. It's doing or not doing something, abstracted into a function.

Parsing is determining whether you should do it or not- it's about setting up a boundary from which you never attempt something that would be a maybe.
It's not that easy.

https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/smartphone-scores

> The battery is stubbornly glued down, and the soldered charge port can’t be easily replaced.

You have to take a heat gun to your phone to soften the glue to get the old battery out. Too little heat, the battery won't budge. Too much heat, you damage your screen or worse, ignite your battery. Good luck.
There's also a great Star Trek episode, the Nth Degree, where Barclay becomes the smartest man alive. The cast is typically annoyed with him so it's great to see the looks of admiration in their faces as he's suddenly able to solve engineering problems faster than Data, brings Beverly to tears in an acting scene they perform together and is confident enough to "make a pass" at Troi.
Well, maybe. But in this case I think the MTE work is in AOSP and they just turned it on.
I'm surprised to still see such uninformed claims. Many drivers have no practical way to charge at home due to lack of an available garage or even a dedicated parking space where a charger can be installed. The available of chargers in places like apartment complex parking lots and street spaces will gradually improve over time but this will take decades until "nearly everyone can charge at home."

The availability of reliable high speed chargers in other places will be crucial for EV adoption. Last time I had an EV rental car, multiple chargers that I tried to use simply didn't work at all.
What an excellent puzzle game! First of all, it's very beautiful and simple. The style makes it look like a child's game but it gets hard.

The first time I played I lost patience and gave up on the game because I couldn't figure out what the box on the top was for. I don't know why I reopened it but I'm glad I did. Instructions for what the game is about would be very helpful. I don't have a clue what a sokoban is.

The mechanics can be understood in context, they're simple enough. Kudos on being able to explain so much with simple square symbols.

About difficulty, I was ready to give up on level 9, but came back to it a few times and it worked. The undo button helps a lot. For less patient players, you could add a HINT button to find the first move.

Since the demo is only 20 levels, we're skipping very fast to the next mechanic therefore the game doesn't go by increasing difficulty. For example, level 16 is much harder (it took soooo much time to complete, the symmetry helped) than level 17, 18 and 19. I imagine the future game would focus on a mechanic and make it progressively harder.

Played on mobile and I wish there was a way to mute the game.

I found a bug. Sometimes, the game stops responding to swipe input on Safari iOS 17.3.1 so I need to reload it in a new tab.

Anyway, I had a blast! It's a very addictive game that requires a lot of patience. It'll be hard to wait for the full release. Is there any timeline set for it?

Also I'm curious, how did you guys create the puzzles together? Is someone the puzzle maker and someone the puzzle solver? It reminds me of "engine" John Carmack and "surgeon" John Romero who built the Wolfenstein/Doom/Quake games.
The Durov's may be benevolent owners, but Telegram also has a bunch of VC firms as owners. They are shareholders with seats on the board who want a payout, even if they don't IPO.
Are you seriously arguing that cattle ranching is what's keeping our lands healthy right now? I'm pretty sure just leaving them fallow would be infinitely better for the health of the soil and ecosystems within a few years.
Modding a console is so much different from piracy.

Modchips often enable piracy, but in essence they're just freeing your device. It's like removing the SIM lock from a phone.
Physical teaching like 1:1 practices of martial arts/dances/etc.

There are whole host of companies offering various apps where you film yourself doing a sport or activity and an AI will give you advice on what you are doing wrong and how to improve. They might not be great now, but in a few years they will probably be as good as most average coaches/trainers.
These phone cases with an integrated battery pack goes a long way towards replaceable batteries if you keep a stack of them. They probable put less strain and wear on the built-in battery too.
Siemensstadt seemed pretty nice.
As a former user: 1. Installation is easy, assuming your phone is supported, you can even install it via Chrome-based browser with regular USB cable. 2. Great for daily use, no crashes. Bank app might or might not work, depends on the bank.
Time is a dimension of space. We are falling through time just like the other 3. The only way to know you are falling is to see something that isn't. The tick of a clock draws a boundary in time just like a pen draws a line on a page.
Oh my god.

I'll see myself out.
From the little bit of reading-between-the-lines in these, I assume that the author has been critical of Brexit with regard to UK national food issues; this aligns with the explicit "stupid" label made in this post.
1. No, it was very easy. I used a normal USB cable and adb on the Linux command line, but the recommended method involves using Web USB in Chromium which is meant to be easier for non-technical people but I couldn't get it to work.

2. No, it is very convenient. It has a sandbox for Google Play Services, which IMO is the best of both worlds as it means you can install all the proprietary crapware apps that make modern life tolerable, but Google Play doesn't have unfettered access to everything on your phone. If you want even more isolation you can set up a separate user and run all the Google Play stuff in a separate user account, which I did briefly try but personally I can't be bothered switching user all the time.

The phone has never crashed. My bank apps work.

I have a Pixel 6a.
> most definitions of life require that it be made of cells

Is there a deeper reason for that?
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Show HN: Ambient ScotRail beats, Scottish train announcements and lofi hip-hop
ScotRail, Scotland's national rail operator, released all of their station tannoy recordings a few years ago, and I built this project that combines them with the soothing sounds of lofi beats. It's better than it sounds.
I can only report what I see, which is that in many parts of the world including where I live, it's always in the 30s, humidity levels are high, a lot of people can't afford air con, and there are no mass heat deaths.

If they don't have access to AC they run fans all the time, and they stay indoors or in the shade.

In fact in the cold months where it dips under 30 the local news always runs a story or two about the (small) wave of cold deaths. (I think usually in parts of the country where it gets down to 15-20 at night)

Today it was 35 in the afternoon and about 70% humidity. I went outside for a swim. There were probably over a million people in my city who were sitting outside all day because their jobs required it. It was a somewhat hot but otherwise completely ordinary day. If you said they're on the brink of heat death they'd say you're crazy.

It may be that people who sit in air conditioned offices in cold countries are translating that one study into some hysteria. It may be they will have the "opportunity" to learn to live in a hot climate like the rest of us, rather than die by the millions.
I see what you mean and how that ties into Barbie, although this worldview is definitely rooted in neomarxist revisionism. But I don't have the time and energy to derail this any further so I'll leave it at that.
The newbie poster here openly admits to liking to troll people via ragebait. And is also somehow 72 years young.

That post is itself ragebait. They are just trolling.
Extra bit of context:

- The user bought a license key from an authorized reseller listed on Downie's website. He filled 1@1.com when registering the software, for he found that the verification is done using an activation code, and it has nothing to do with what email is entered.

- He recalled that he might have wanted to download an English podcast on Apple podcast. He found that the shared link could not be resolved. He thought it would be more convenient if the software had this feature, so he politely explained the situation in the feedback within the software. The email left was either a privacy-forwarded iCloud email or an alias for his Outlook email, both of which were in a normal, functional state for receiving emails.

- The author feels that he has used pirated software and at the same time his software has been deactivated. When he opens it, only this popup appears. Clicking "OK" will take him to the purchase page, but there is no option for activation.
And then realize it has existed for almost 15 years and it's called libgen.rs
At a high level it is the right answer to the data center electricity demand problem. Which is that we need to make AI hardware more efficient.

Pragmatically, it doesn't make much sense given that it would take years for this approach to have any real work use cases in a best case scenario. It seems way more likey that efficiency gains in digital chips will happen first making these chips less economically valuable.
If Britain wants higher standards, they can address their own standards. This is like Americans complaining that their meat is not labelled according to Japanese regulations. It's just irrelevant.
it is very simple fraud, but someone still has to come-up with how to make it work. carbon credits(figure out how to buy them) -> VAT fraud(figure out how/where/to whom to sell them) -> Profit(Hide profit/launder/invest).
It is not much different from the cigarette fraud in the US. Buy cheaper in Maryland -> sell for more in New York,where taxes on cigarette are higher. Distance between NYC & Maryland is about 3-4h.
The film Poor Things recently reminded me to Flowers to Algernon a lot
https://archive.is/RpWSI
As an experienced software engineer, I do both back-end and front-end. Have a Computer Science background/degree from graduating a T10 CS university, during which I did ML research.

Location: San Francisco || Bay Area || CA || US

Remote: Yes, can be remote or hybrid or onsite

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript, Python, Go, Bash, Zsh, RedwoodJS, TypeScript, NodeJS, React, React-Native, Svelte, Django, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Amazon MT

Also open to: Rust, Zig

Other: Object Detection, Segmentation

Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/473gmOS

Email: Can be found at the top of the resume
As long as the hardware is supported (so, a pixel phone), installing is a breeze and it is not any different from a normal android to use as a daily driver. I never had any trouble whatsoever and my banking apps work fine. AMA :)
But... root can load kernel modules, and kernel modules can write to arbitrary kernel memory, no?
Yet I still can’t go a day without being sent a Twitter link or seeing comments on HN.

Twitter will be dead when people stop talking about it dying.
NVidia is about to pass Apple to become the world’s 2nd biggest company.
No, it'll be DIY made from scratch at home first. The ultra processed crap in a blue box with the letters KRAFT on it don't have enough resources to be able to do this
Nice to find eth.limo being used in the wild
Do any decent single-board computers implement Arm MTE, e.g. the latest Raspberry Pi?
> Or just be completely unaware of what is going on but not necessarily in poor health?

It's not either-or, it's both. It takes time to reach the point where you're "unaware". Before that, you're fully aware of what's happening and that there's no escape. After that point, it will probably get "better" for you, the patient.

But it also gets way, way worse for everyone around you. With cancer, you're still yourself - you die as the person you were. With dementia (or Alzheimer's at least), you die twice, and people around you are left to tend to your corpse, which happens to move and eat (even if you forget to chew and swallow) for years after you're gone.
Apple Vision Pro unlocks new opportunities for health app developers
Musk has also made what I consider bizarre and impulsive decisions with SpaceX and Tesla. The gullwing doors of the model X almost bankrupted the company, for instance. Or take the blast pad incident during a recent starship launch. Experts warned him this would happen.

Musk making unforced errors isn't new. His businesses do incredibly well regardless.
I am thinking more and more it would be a pretty good idea to keep the place habitable where we are now. Besides other things, it is quite beautiful here.
"... offering a taste-neutral solution ..."

None of the salts that include potassium have tasted the same as regular salts (even regular salts can have taste differences). Sure, potassium inclusive salts are probably closer to taste than no salt at all. It still leaves something to adjust to in my experience.

"Despite its benefits and patient compliance, current guidelines rarely endorse these salt substitutes... "

It depends on what the guidelines are for. When dealing with things like kidney issues, potassium salts are also potential problems. Most potassium suppliments are strictly regulated, like 100mg in a multivitamin, etc due to potential issues. If it's just high blood pressure it's already pretty commonly suggested.
thanks! i've been hoping for this functionality for years but none of the airtable replacements so far has provided it.
If you do ML, that’s a pretty tough ask
> because Neptune moves around the sun much slower than the Earth does

I think of the "1AU either way" thing as being simply that sometimes the Earth is on the other side of the Sun from Neptune, so the Earth<->Neptune distance is 1AU greater; and sometimes it's on the same side, so 1AU closer.

I didn't mean to suggest that 18,000 layers was silly; for encryption it would take seconds or less. And for decryption, having multiple layers is vital, because that's what creates the delay.

It's awkward that you have to start decrypting immediately. The ideal would be a self-contained object like a USB key, that does just one thing: after n ticks, it exposes its secret. In principle, it could be based on a mechanical clock, but it's hard to envisage a tamper-proof mechanical clock.
> For example, they could make it not possible to accelerate faster than one needs to.

I was in a rental car that had this once. Was on the highway, needed to get around another driver who was being unsafe. Was unable to do so because of the limiter. It was easily the most unsafe vehicle I've ever driven as a result. These mechanisms lack situational awareness and nuance, and thus are a direct threat to my personal safety. They very much need to be banned as a matter of course until such a time as humans aren't allowed to drive at all.
Ehh I disagree. If plugins that create snarky tinder responses can do $100ks, I don't see why practicing social skills and dating with your actual voice is off limits. If anything I think this has the potential to help people in all aspects of their spoken word skillset
How is distributing a model containing copyright material any different to distributing a .zip file containing copyright material? Both contain an encoded, transformed copy of the work. And both can be used to reproduce the original work. The reproduction doesn't even need to be verbatim; just similar enough to convince a court that it is plagiarism.

Fair use generally only applies for parts of a work, and not using the entire thing. AI companies are claiming fair use, claiming that the processing is transformative. This needs to be determined in court. I think the court cases currently underway will show it is not transformative, because the original work can be recovered. Fair use is also determined on a case by case basis, so I think courts won't have the power to grant blanket permission. New laws would need to be passed for that.
I am in a different boat, but also somewhat similar. I don't have a garage, and live in a cold climate.

To get a home charging setup, I assume I would want it parked in a semi-heated space, or at least out of the snow and sleet.

Rough back of the napkin math puts getting a home charger at around $20k... The payoff isn't even close yet.
And on top of that, zoning in the US makes it basically impossible to reach densities where public transit works well. The last 50 years of construction were entire designed around everyone owning an automobile
Keep in mind that especially in the US every state has different regulatory requirements for electricity and some states are better than others at forcing transparency in their utility's processes.
> Of course the company can say, "If you don't like our product, don't buy it."

Honestly I'm pretty tired of that "our way or the high way" nonsense. Society needs to make it so they actually can't say that. Make respecting us a precondition for their continued existence. As in they literally get liquidated if they say that even once.

That's how we deal with sociopaths leveraging these non-negotiable "terms" against us. They have zero empathy, they view us like cattle to be marked and monitored and turned into cash flow. So there is no reason to empathize with their nonsense viewpoints either. Just make whatever they're doing illegal. Doesn't matter how much money they lose.
I've been using LANDrop between 2 iOS devices, an Android device, 2 Windows devices and an Ubuntu device since I first saw it posted on HN and have never had an issue with it personally.
I wonder if it will last? https://companiesmarketcap.com/
How we built our 41kb SaaS Website (with open-source template)
Most mobile bank websites have 100% functionality already, including depositing checks. The bank app isn't needed.
This is more an education/propaganda problem.

The issue is we have anti-ev articles, blogs, newscasts, magazines that take every opportunity to try and find a "gotcha" for why EVs are actually the worst thing ever.

DCFC will (probably) never be as fast or as convenient as gas. However, gas will never be less time consuming or as cheap as idle charging.
I think if a person in 2000 woke up one day and 20 years had past, the world would still be pretty recognizable to them, even if some of the objects in it were novel. I'm not sure the same thing could be said about 1900 and 100 years.
Well it uses exceptions in the case your generator is at the end, not usually at the end of a for loop because a for loop by definition iterates over a list until the list is finished.

The exception actually occurs when you call next() on a generator which cannot return any more values, or is finished, in which case `StopIteration` is usually raised.
In a lot of countries many of the hosts are violating zoning laws and evading tax to.

A lot of people are getting very tired of being subjected to weekend after weekend of stags and hen parties because the neighboring apartment was turned into a hotel room.

Not to mention the extra pressure it's put on property and rents.
Good point. Where is the line bw pr and journalistic though? Is it ever ethical to alter a photo that will be seen by millions, affecting their opinions, even if for PR?
> Android has ported a lot of the Bluetooth code to Rust. This is a demonstration of why they need to put more resources into porting the rest of the code into Rust.

I like how they snuck that in there :-D

As someone who spent years writing C and C++, but no experience with Rust, with this porting from C to Rust, how much refactoring is required? That might should be two different questions:

1. How closely does C translate directly over to Rust? Does Rust require some reorganization/refactoring?

2. How is Google approaching this? Are they trying to closely "translate" it as much as possible, or is this an opportunity for major rewrite/refactor?

Also very curious if anyone knows, will the Android Bluetooth stack ever be usable on a standard Linux distro desktop system?
Abandoning Objectives: Evolution with the Search for Novelty Alone (2011) [pdf]
Lehman & Stanley concerning how explicit objectives encourage effort on exploit rather than explore.

AI is progressing using objective functions that can be expressed in a concise form (energy minimization, gradient descent, etc.). A similar mechanism has been at work in industry since Ford and Winslow, from time-and-motion to jit-supply-chain, all under the short-term profit incentive. These are narrow known objectives with a desire to get relatively quick results.

But perhaps the big leaps are not achieved by climbing local hills. The observation harks back to Thomas Kuhn, who described the activities of normal science and great leaps - scientific recolutions. Obviously there are further philosophical implications, but also economic and administrative cliffs - financialization of the economy, bloat in university admin, group-think in academic tracks, (US) healthcare administration - all lead to temporary money extraction, with cautious risk-averse investments in bits. But there is not so much free-riding backing of mavericks, long-shot bets on contrarian ideas, and speculative gambling on profound, but expensive and difficult, inventions from atoms (see Peter Thiel - "courage is in far shorter supply than genius" ).

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned is Stanley's latest book (2015).

Here are some excellent long-form podcast interviews with Stanley on MLST:

Is getting a pay rise a step to becoming a billionaire?

#38 Prof. KENNETH STANLEY - Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhYGXYeMq_E

To achieve your highest goals
you have to be willing to abandon them

#72 Prof. KEN STANLEY 2.0 - On Art and Subjectivity (2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxBZORM9F-8

What Sam Altman said to me before leaving OpenAI (2024)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWIrXN-yy8g

P.S. Title word changed to fit the HN limit.
I can feel the NVDA stock slipping as we speak…

It has been amazing watching the groupthink at work on that stock when we just saw the same group do it on TSLA to disastrous effect. A similar no moat situation where they simply can’t imagine competitors ever existing.
https://www.dolthub.com/

So I get what you're saying, but at the same time that means your business data can't ever include formulas.

I've worked in areas where the formulas were business data (i.e. modeling). You could hard-code all your models/correlations/aggregation functions. But then it becomes much harder to make UIs that do things like "find all formulas that involve this thermometer reading" or allow a technician to make temporary edits without risking them screwing up your entire application.
yeah I've talked to those cell phone shop guys that sell them, just for fun to see how it works, and they definitely dont explain what it actually is to you
For reference, I live in an apartment and charge largely at work on a 3 KW charger.

(For those who are unfamiliar a “fast” charger is over 50 KW and often rated for up to 150 or 350 KW speeds)
Daily Steps and Health Risks: Impact of Sedentary Time
I wonder what the mechanism of action is that's preventing those deaths, or is it just increased weight loss?
RME realizes sub Firewire latencies over USB 2 with them in their audio interfaces, plus the ability to enable new functionalities via updates.