skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone (and certainly anyone with any power) actually having to be reminded of conservation of energy?
Chips from logging Canadian old growth forests, if you're Drax.
I just want to inject the observation somewhere in this thread that the human brain is estimated to have a similar order of magnitude number of Neurons as the Milky Way has stars. (The lower bound of stars is the accepted ballpark for neurons)
It's funny - in a sense I pretty much agree with you; I had to be cajoled into school and everything as well and found it fundamentally miserable. Certainly I understand that without an education the future is quite grim (especially for me as I have some physical disability). But after that treatment, I decided it was not something I could ever put a child through, so in that sense I have some sympathy for these parents. Though to me the solution is obvious; simply don't have children.
Well after the first time you just ignore the post cards wouldn't you? Easy way to handle returns too for sellers who can't cancel an order.
Interesting, could a physical system exploit differences in the rate of expansion?

What happens to an object as it moves from a high rate-of-expansion region to a low rate-of-expansion region?
Especially considering the average distance between two addresses is several times longer.
So it means it isn’t expanding like a sphere but like an irregular explosion?
If you want a fast DB for web log analysis, you shouldn't look at MySQL or PostgreSQL anyway. ClickHouse will run circles around both of them for the use case of web log analysis.
Have you seen how big studios treat vfx artists? They absolutely will replace voice actors with AI.

Also:

> This technology is incredibly powerful and useful

At what, exactly? The only "useful" case you presented is "actually, replacing voice actors with AI isn't so bad".
Every number’s sacred
Every number’s great
When a number’s wasted …
Nope, won’t eventuate
> Most of us are run-of-the-mill humans

Exactly. I, for one, am objectively below average in many areas and this is ok.
I didn't find this out until I had already graduated, but my school district had a self-paced high school where you could take classes at your own pace. It was meant for disadvantaged kids who could not, for various reason, be in-class for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

However, another reason you could go is if you wanted to graduate early. My wife finished her high school degree just a few months after her 17th birthday; 2 years of "school" were completed in 3 months. Had I gone a similar route, I could have been done with a doctorate degree by 23 instead of just finishing undergrad.
> Court mandated deadlines don’t care about a runny nose.

No, but whatever industry you work in and whoever your employer is, they should have enough staff to cover minor illnesses and absenses. If you are off sick and your company misses a court deadline thats on your companies poor staff management, not on you for being ill and staying home to avoid infecting coworkers.
After having used Azure for a year, I believe every single post on this thread.
> leaving the dry bones for me to pick over and savour.

How would you understand the relevance the equations have to the overarching finding of the paper? Narrative is just as important in tying together apriori reasoning as it is in other contexts in all but the most trivial findings, and much of computer science is not, in fact, apriori, requiring argumentation to justify the abductive reasoning within.
In some ways the design is a throwback to the Altair where the "computer" was just a bus that you had to slot in whatever functionality you wanted. Sure the form factor is a bit nicer (no screws!) but fundamentally built the same way.

He is right that if you're serious about running different half a dozen different OSes the driver situation would have been a nightmare.
I think though, that the percentage of USPS first class mail delivered in 1 day (including Saturday) is probably pretty close to 93% since a significant fraction of mail will be within narrow regions (I would guess that the DC–Boston area itself accounts for at least half of first-class mail).

Back in the Netflix DVDs by mail days, it was rare that it took more than a day for the DVD to get to or from the Netflix warehouse (when they started shuttering warehouses in the last few years of service, that went up to two days each way for a DVD from Chicago to Columbus, Ohio).

I’d also point out that mailbox pickup in the U.S. varies by the mailbox, but many of the ones near me have late afternoon (3–4p) pickups and if I go to the mailbox by the local post office it’s 5.30p. I can even take it to the downtown Chicago post office for a 9p pickup.
Which European country has a city with nearly 10M people on 300km2?

America is exceptional - in the literal sense, it's an exception compared to organically grown cities that existed for hundreds of years. It doesn't mean it's better, it's just very different and so naturally the solutions are going to be very different too.
I have heard this from so many people, all over the country. I've heard many parents saying they're getting repeatedly sick as their kids bring diseases home.

Has anyone seen any actual research into why this is? It seems pretty serious.
Two different ways in two different times in the lifetime of the universe.

expansion rate in the early universe << expansion expansion rate.

-> accelerated expansion .
Apple plans to update new iPhones without opening them
> part of a wider societal problem that needs discussion

You mean this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300863
Or, when it gets fast enough, someone could have their own personal dub of video games (BlazBlue Central Fiction) or TV shows and such.
Using cash to buy them is not hard and the odds of anyone going through the CCTV is low unless you are going to post anthrax to the PM or something. I imagine the main reason to do it was to make it harder to use fake stamps, although there may be some tracking going on.
Perl is cool!
OpenAI shows off Sora AI video generator to Hollywood execs
You probably still have a better perspective than me; at least having worked on these specifically.

I suspect that at least some ships/designs are done right ‘right’.

(1) the engine controllers are internal safety limits and have very controlled input ranges. Cummins engines as an example.

(2) the network has a ‘Battlestar’ mode where you can just cut the wire. People would still need to connect laptops or jumpers locally to control devices in anything beyond a ‘max’ vs ‘idle’ vs ‘off’ mode… but 100%, ready, and off should be enough in an emergency.
We don’t really know - you are right to ask this question. There are two methods and they disagree with each other. JWST is precise enough to rule out a simple reason like instrument imprecision.

So remaining possibilities are new physics, a deep flaw in our assumptions/methods, or a universe which is not uniform (but in a peculiar way).
Wouldn't the lesson learned be to invest in the cool ideas and companies that are generated, and avoid the mistakes of the past?
The local hospitals in my community have been full of hospitalized kids with different respiratory issues this winter. My doctor commented that this is a post-pandemic effect.
> what are the non-questionable, or at least non-evil, uses of this technology?

iPhone Personal Voice [1] is one. It helps people who are physically losing their voice and the ones around them to still have their voice in a different way. Apple takes long voice samples of various texts for this though.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra9I0HScTDw
Well first that ruling was sunsetted three years for all the reasons I cited and was never a “law” binding new companies.

So now you want unelected judges to decide what can and can’t be streamed on the internet.

This is also not the 1930s. In 2024, movie distribution is not limited to physical meets theaters.

Your citation gets trotted out all of the time in these arguments like anyone in 2024 can’t put a video on a website and distribute it anywhere in the world. When the ruling was in effect, home video media didn’t even exist and even television was in its infancy.

And you still haven’t answered the question, do you also stop foreign companies from distributing thier own content ?

And there is always judge shopping, liberal judges would love to stop Fox News from distributing their own content on the internet as would conservative judges love to stop media owned by “woke” corporations
I'm not saying that this should be forbidden or something. I just wonder what is the motivation for the people pitching and actually developing this. I'm all for basic, non-profit-driven, research, but at some point you gotta ask yourself "what am I helping create here?"
They were doing that back in 2010. I went to a few conferences where they promoted MongoDB as an all-purpose database that was the "next thing" compared to SQL.

Once everyone realized its shortcomings as a general-purpose database, there was a gradual "oh shit this isn't working" migration back to SQL-based databases.

I think the big problem is that the MongoDB programming model and APIs are very nice; we really need a database that is still relational "under the hood" but has an API that's more like MongoDB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
You want a world where only the rich can create beautiful experiences. You're either rich or short sighted.

Edit: If you've got a cadre of volunteer voice actors that don't suck hidden somewhere, you need to share buddy. That's the only way your comments make sense.
Carbon capture from combustion rather than from the air seems more practical, hence the suggestion to do that on the ship. Allam cycle systems have an overall efficiency similar to combined cycle systems (around 60% LHV) and deliver the CO2 of combustion in separated, compressed, liquefied form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allam_power_cycle
How is the mental health of these chronically absent kids?

Surely nonstop COVID reinfections aren't doing their brains any favors.

https://whn.global/scientific/spectrum-of-covid-19-from-asym...
Python, Java and C++ do attempt to support all styles to varying degree's. Some of those languages have had varying success. :P
People have friends who want to support them
I posted this just so I could follow up and say: the security implications of this are horrific. If this comes to pass, you will no longer be able to trust a factory-sealed device.
Year-ahead works in high school where you're in various different classes anyway, but it can be harmful to the students in other ways, especially earlier.

Just because you're smart enough to perform at a 10th grade level doesn't mean you're mature enough or will fit in.
> Do you not realize that SAT might just be O(2^n) at best?

Yes, but that's the worst case on all possible instances. Even with this worst case performance, there might be an algorithm that works on par with other algorithms that specialize only on certain instances. E.g. there can be an O(2^n) algorithm for general SAT which performs in O(n^(3/2)) on XORSAT. We simply don't understand the problem well enough to tell.

Also the set of worst-case instances can be vanishingly small in practice.
NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law
An animal’s consciousness is not exactly human-like, but close enough. Envision something on completely foreign time & space scales and it might be indistinguishable from, say, a weather system.
It'd be shocking if it was. PyTorch isn't particularly slow.
It funny... I find a radical division between programmers on this one. I was always a Perl-hater. I got into Unix/Linux in the 90s when Perl was big and I never learned it because I took one look at the syntax and some Perl code and my brain instantly recoiled in abject horror. I know lots of other devs who loved it. Still not sure what the division is, though I think it might be also related to the fact that I generally hate complexity and my reaction to it is "how can we get rid of this?"
I can't speak to the latter, but the former was not sarcastic and there's nothing to defend. Muddying the independence of arms of government is page one of the autocrat's handbook which you seem smart enough to know. No making laws all by yourself legislators, you will first check with the Ministry of Enforcement! It's an entirely valid form of governance, as Big Men of History will attest, and you're entitled to your opinion on the matter.
In addition, the constant blaring reminder that adults all around you will not protect you physically if it comes to that.

The fact that "school shooter hero" even has to be a term is absurd and embarassing for us as a country.

Even when I was in high school over a decade ago, the fact that we could have a school shooter was constantly present and I was always running exit plans. I do have anxiety issues but I can't imagine what it is like for children now.
I don't want to discourage question-asking but you're now asking someone to give you a background on a physics phenomena without them knowing your starting level. It's awesome that the poster you're replying to introduced a new concept to us (not something I was thinking about, either) and literally taking the thing you quoted: "time does not flow the same everywhere" into Google will give you a starting point for your quest - you'll see even from the blurbs on the search result page that per relativity, time changes depending on where and how fast you're traveling. You can then dive into what that means you want to as well.

I good followup could be something like "I read about relativity and I still don't understand the connection you're making to this current article or something like that - but it doesn't seem fair to skip a basic Google search before asking for elaboration.
Oil industry chemists have decided somehow that methanol from LNG is the next step to delivering their own production materials. Related to this are long-range plans to build the infrastructure of ports, manufacturing and processing facilities to implement it. IMHO they do not intend to ask anyone for permission, they will simply do this with military, and let the politicians deal with fallout.
I also find that attitude wild. Missing school by choice was something to be done only in extraordinary circumstances. Word of kids being gone for long vacations and such would get that look (“oh, they’re those sorts”) and a disappointed head shake from my parents.

(My parents’ background was dirt poor, rural, and white, to set the scene—but skipping by choice was something not to be taken lightly, you go to school, that’s how it is)
Government schools are like government housing: you only use it if you lack the means for literally any other option.
Perhaps they can absorb the last remnants of HP Labs too.
Computer Weekly, 11 May 2009,
Bankruptcy, prosecution and disrupted livelihoods - Postmasters tell their story

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240089230/Bankruptcy-pr...

>A seventh postmaster, Alan Bates, refused to sign his weekly accounts, saying it would have made him liable for any losses. He has called for a public inquiry.
No. This confirms that the "hubble tension" is real. In other words, two methods for measuring the expansion of the universe disagree, but we can't figure out why and have new and really strong evidence that the "cosmic ladder" method is correct. (The other method is based on the cosmic microwave background radiation and our best theories of physics, so we're caught between a rock and a hard place here: strong experimental evidence one way, and throwing out a ton of what we think we know about the universe with no obvious replacement the other way.)
Again, I will stick to saying that if you use technology you have no experience with, the problems resulting from it are on you.

Testing out technology on important projects is reckless and is a risk a lot of people take but push away any responsibility for.

As a professional, before I suggest to use a technology at a project, at first at the very minimum I spend some time with it to learn the ins and outs. Every technology has cons. Just because you don't know them does not absolve you from responsibility for them.

The reality is that most applications are boringly similar once you define the problem in simple words. There is very rarely a need to use new technology. It is my experience that it is usually better to use technology that is not necessarily cutting edge but one that you know well and that you can easily hire people who know it well.

Because no technology is perfect, but it is much better to know the cons ahead of time and know you will have people who will know the problems and who can find reasonable solutions for.

I am personally sick and tired of people who first advocate for new technology to be added to the project, touting its supposed benefits, not knowing the cons, then don't want to take responsibility once we actually find the dead bodies.
Wouldn't the instance state here be "was constructed"? That is: you should always be able to call `Read` because the constructor opened the file, and you shouldn't have to call `Close` anyway because the destructor did.
I think people should have kids, society and humanity cannot survive without children and children can be a gift. However, if you're going to be a bad parent and don't see their lives as your responsibility, not just for their own sake but for the sake of society... don't have kids. But if you do, and you -allow- your kid to be truant or become a criminal, etc., you should be punished and held personally liable.
Cosmology feels a lot like quackery these days.

Does it even bother to rely on physics? Physical experiments show explosions do not propel all matter at the same rate.

James Webb telescope recently found galaxies that were “too old”, would have formed right after the Big Bang. The prevailing wisdom was all matter spread out evenly due to the Big Bang, then coalesced into galaxies (I emailed various researchers to confirm I understood this was indeed the consensus).

But again, other physics shows that clusters of matter ejected from explosions are never uniformly distributed.

Just more evidence the well educated (I assume if it’s concensus driven even the best educated agree) are just typical people and their expertise should be challenged constantly rather than sit back and assume things are figured out.

As Asimov illustrated in the Foundation, if you aren’t measuring for yourself you’re serving someone else’s interpretation.

Hyper-normalized social society just leads to normalization of outputs, which helps preserve and propagate poor science.
I saw this part:

> Every Discourse Discussion returns data in JSON if you append .json to the URL.

then this:

> Raw data was gathered into a single JSONL file by automating a browser using Playwright.

Kinda seems to me like having a whole browser instance for this isn't necessary? I would have been surprised if this .json pattern didn't continue for all pages, and it turns out that it does in fact also work for the topic list: https://community.openai.com/latest.json

The other place I've seen this sort of API pattern is reddit. For example, https://www.reddit.com/r/all.json or (randomly chosen) https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1bqn3c0/...
What Sam Bankman-Fried's Long Stretch in Prison Might Look Like
The second one.

This result confirms that the "hubble tension" is real. In other words, two methods for measuring the expansion of the universe disagree, but we can't figure out why and have new and really strong evidence that the "cosmic ladder" method is correct. (The other method is based on the cosmic microwave background radiation and our best theories of physics, so we're caught between a rock and a hard place here: strong experimental evidence one way, and throwing out a ton of what we think we know about the universe with no obvious replacement the other way.)
Google Wave is an interesting case study because they identified a real problem (email sucks), came up with some really cool open technology, but never quite put it together in the right way. The web client was slow and clunky, and they probably weren't focused on the right things.

A few years later, Slack comes along solving the same problem in a different way, and now platforms like that are the overwhelmingly popular choice for group communication.
Traffic, but only if you ignore advertiser-relevant audience demographics.
Non robotic screen readers for blind people
I wouldn't mind Go if their executables didn't take hundreds of megabytes to do something a C/C++ executable could do in less than 2 megabytes.

There are a bunch of executable size issues languishing on their issue tracker and from what I understand it has to do with how some core features of the language are implemented that causes a combinatoric explosion of entries in a table in the executable. They also made an adjustment to stop compressing that table, which makes sense from a startup time perspective but there are also no levers I can pull to compress the table or disable the feature.

.NET executables have the same issue but I can always dynamically link them against a single runtime.
It's not a fine - you are not going to jail for not paying it.
I thought Google Wave was a rad idea. We’re still trying to solve the problem it was about—-collaborating digitally means using a bunch of different tools. That might just be life though.
Ice-ray patterns: A rediscovery of past design for the future
You're right! It's a good point.

I've been using it myself so I know that at least for me it works.

If you want, I'd be happy to give you a free demo and get all of your feedback/ideas about how to improve.

You're the first person to ever ask about sth I built myself and am super grateful for that!

Santy
I dislike Go. It's almost anti-expressive.

It's fine if you want a dull language that your junior devs will find hard to shoot themselves in the foot with. It's like a safer C.
Which kind of supports my thesis. It’s not so much the underlying tech stack that matters, but the attention to platform conventions. I would expect text input on a Mac, for example, to support ctrl-a and ctrl-e shortcuts for beginning and end of the line (Microsoft is a gross offender on this front thanks to their wanting to accommodate Windows users on a Mac who will be used to using ctrl instead of cmd for keyboard shortcuts).
That's kinda what I was thinking on the second paragraph. Still, gotta be a small market.
I guess the error was to take ideas for family activities from the intro of a crime series called Miami Vice.
(2020), and as said in the article, probably fake.
Health insurance in the US is typically provided by the employer and covers the whole family, so there's a general assumption that everyone has it and it will cover some part of the cost. Medical services quote high to get as much as they can from the insurance, knowing (since everyone should have insurance) you won't be paying the whole amount. Obamacare was in part meant to cover the people missed by this.

But they're required to provide emergency services even to people without insurance, and the cost isn't set in stone. It can be reduced (happened to a family member, he called and asked and I think he said they just did it even without proof) or "financial assistance provided" (says this right on a recent one I have).

Haggling isn't really much of a thing here so I'd guess most people don't know those are options, or if they do are embarrassed to let people know they have financial troubles.
I feel like we are right back to why even bother using cryptocurrency for this if the fundamentals of it aren’t stable enough for day to day transactions.

My example was talking about using a layer 2 token. Now you’re telling me that it’s simple just use a completely different currency to buy tokens?