skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congress can't change the law that applies to this case, but they can change the law for all future cases. More likely they'll leave it since it limits the amount that ship-owning corporations are liable for and socialize the losses by having the taxpayers pick up the difference.
What conspiracy nutjobs think: SECRET STERILIZATIONS THROUGH VACCINES, ABORTING THE UNDESIRABLE, AND GENOCIDE

What normal people think: family planning, greater economic opportunities that do not require large pools of familial labor to achieve, better healthcare leading to fewer dead babies thus a lower incentive to have large families.
It's very impressive, but the samples sound slightly garbled throughout, as if some heavy noise suppression was applied to the whole clip. I wonder if that's pre-processing for the samples on this site, or if that's a side effect of this model.
> I’m skeptical that these methanol ships are an improvement.

And you should be.

The damning fact about methanol is that it has a very low energy density. Per wikipedia [1], one kilogram of diesel has an energy content of 45.6 MJ (megajoules). One kg of methanol has only 19.7 MJ. So, joule for joule, you need 2.3 tons of methanol for each ton of diesel you replace.

My guess is that these ships will forever remain "methanol capable", but will continue to run on regular diesel fuel. It's probably some scheme to get some green credits, just like the "flex fuel" cars in the US, which can run on ethanol, but most often don't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
>Answer: It slowed down the metabolism of the cell. It was lethal.

>"When the stress is relieved, the tardigrade gels dissolve, and the human cells return to their normal metabolism," says University of Wyoming molecular biologist Thomas Boothby.

Article says different?
AntennaPod hooked to a NewPipe folder = ad-free unlimited content.
A lot in this area comes from an expecience in operations or at least operations mindset.

If you haven't solved certain problems caused by real users and real loads on production systems, you can still develop such mindset.

Build a habit of overloading your app with tons of requests - using load testing tools like wrk, wrk2, k6. Try to check this way all layers of your system, including the database (for this you obviously need to be able to create load-testing requests causing a real conversation with the database). Check how much of i/o, memory, and cpu (in this order) your app, database, cache, messaging etc is using under the said load. Develop a habit of opening inspector in your browser and peek at http conversations, not only for your services, but for a random page you visit. Get acquanted with Brendan Gregg's perf tools and his blog. Know how to use strace (although it's usage on production is discouraged as it slows down the examined process substantially) and understand its output. In general, become interested when your code ends up doing kernel syscalls and when not and, how to limit syscalls by buffering and how to read what's really going on. Make sure you understand how the virtual memory works on a modern system. That's just things from the top of my head
That happened to esr, too, although he derailed right after 9/11, and it's been downhill ever since.
There is a link at the bottom of this article to the presentation by Infinite Dial; here it is: https://www.edisonresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Th...

A huge question for me is a better breakdown of the listening by age. The report has age ranges: 12-34 is a range, 35-54 is a range, 55+ is range. Am I missing something? 12-34 is a crazy range in my opinion that needs to be further broken down.
This is not an appropriate comparison.

> I can't realistically use credit cards. I can't walk in a store and pay using my credit card

That was true at some point and I would agree that as long as it remained true "Why should I carry a credit card that I can't use anywhere?" would be a perfectly reasonable thing to say.

> And if I want to send some money to my friend, I have to walk them through of opening a bank account which they won't do because it's pointless anyway and I can just hand them the $50 dollar bill"

This is completely disconnected from reality. People very commonly use bank accounts and checks. I know they must exist but I cant think of a single person in my life who would need my help dealing with a check.

> It is a real currency, it's used every day for transactions. Just because you don't find use for it in your life does not disqualify it.

You could say the same thing about V Bucks but that doesn't make it a real currency.
sun-moon carry trade is an old theorbitrageur trick, nothing new here.
> Honestly, with software development, I find it disappointing that our social conventions currently conflate "readability" with "comfort and familiarity to Generic Programmer" instead of something more useful like "facilitates domain understanding and insight to the primary developers".

It's sort of a similar effect: most software is written by software people for other software people, just like most math is written by math people for other math people.

I personally have had the experience more than once of a mathematician apologizing for their code style but then handing me code that I find to be more straightforward and readable than usual.

What specific conventions do you think would facilitate domain understanding and insight?
I guess it depends if land marked as a natural park is tax exempt or not (don't know about Romania legislation on this). If not then they need some revenue to cover the taxes.

Not a lot of states are willing to put too much of their land outside of the economy (tax revenue).
What's wrong is it obscures simple math expressions behind tons of dots and parentheses. The thing is that the core of deep learning algorithms is usually very simple math. It's useful to be able to translate that math directly from research papers into straightforward expressions that mirror the structure in the paper like a = b / c + d * e rather than something less similar like a = b.divide(c).add(d.multiply(e)).
> The user in question can't actually access his profile or his repos. He's not shadbowbanned, he is actually banned.

"When I log into my account, it's all there, the code, the issues, everything (read: shadowbanned) so once this is resolved it should be seamless for you."

"It’s important to note I didn’t lose access to my account, all the repositories are there, issues, pull requests, stars but I’m effectively shadow banned, I’m the only one who can see it."
Duxford houses the Imperial War Museum Duxford, the American Air Museum, the Fighter Collection and the Historic Aircraft Collection [0]. Went their once years ago and was very impressed with the size of the collections.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duxford_Aerodrome#IWM,_America...
> Do you think Blizzard is using AI to voice Diablo/Overwatch/Warcraft? Of course not.

Do you think Blizzard won't when the tech gets cheap and good enough?
> Does that mean if you get into a fender bender they need to replace the entire front/rear of your car?

That was one of the reasons why Hertz was moving away from Teslas. The body repair costs where much higher than the other vehicles in their fleet because they needed to replace the entire front/back in case of accidents.
Ask HN: Why did this article on pay inequality get flagged?
Hey HN, I just posted this article that reports on world-wide gender-based pay inequality according to a study by the World Bank:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39862524

I checked back after an hour and it was flagged. Why was it flaggged?

P.S If this gets flagged, I'll make another one, and another, until one of the mods notices.

This is version 10.0. Previous versions below:

v.1.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863377

v.2.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863701#39863721

v.3.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863868

v. 4.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39863989

v. 5.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39864014

v. 6.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39864057

v. 7.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39864513

v. 8.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39864667

v. 9.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39865380
I'm one of the childless adults here and I feel like I get to have things both ways because I can say I agree with you while knowing that there's zero chance of any of this making it into US (I'm pretty sure that's the country we're talking about here) law. So thanks for raising those future tax-payers.
Podcasts have always felt a bit alien to me. I know they exist, and people apparently listen to them, yet I haven't done so nor do I know anyone who has. They only seem to come up occasionally as advertisements.

They also feel like they occupy a weird middle space. They aren't as low-attention as something like television - without the visual component you need to pay attention more to 'get it' and follow along.

But it doesn't feel right to sit there and solely listen to it while doing nothing else. But I'm not sure what else you can do that doesn't eat up enough concentration to follow along. Cooking or cleaning maybe? Things that you can do from muscle memory.
Yes, in fact, because the big bang happened everywhere and not in one central place, pretty much every part of space is moving away from Earth, so movement from earth is a pretty good measurement.

Think of it not as things moving apart, but that space, emptiness, is expanding. Like if you laid the universe out on a sheet of rubber and then pulled at the corners. Everything gets further apart and the expansion is happening everywhere
>According to the US Republican Party

You're losing credibility quickly

>the USA is already suffering from an invasion that is out of control, when climate change has barely gotten started.

Okay,
A. What's happening at the southern border isn't any more of an "invasion" than the J6 riots. If only 1/500 people in your "invasion" even has a firearm, let alone training with it, it ain't much of an invasion.

B. What's happening at the southern border has absolutely NOTHING to do with climate change, it's strictly economic.

>What the US can and will do if and when it faces 100M people trying to get north is an open question. The US military will not be able to use ground force to keep out that sort of mass migration. Will it drop bombs on migrating populations? Is that what you call "backbone"?

What if there were some kind of relatively safe, yet impassable barrier? The kind that doesn't exercise force against anyone, ever. One that's so safe that the only people who get injured by it are those stupid enough to delibarately decide to try to scale it, while being incompetent enough to be incapable of doing so safely. Perhaps one that was tall enough that it couldn't be scaled by 20 or 40 foot ladders? Besides, this is a ridiculous question. Even under the president with the highest amount of illegal immigration in US history, Joe Biden (10,000,000 and counting!), we barely hit a tenth of that figure across 3.5 years.

Sadly, there's just no way we're gonna be able to afford such a barrier. That would have to cost what, $10bn? $50bn? Except that's still less than we've spent securing the border of a country on the other side of the planet that almost no Americans have any real, significant, substantial interests in (besides Hunter Biden, of course, who made millions of dollars per year as a Ukrainian energy executive thanks to his deep expertise and demonstrated thought leadership in the hydrocarbon exploration and extraction business... /s)

>Finally, it seems as if you think that having lots of money somehow exempts you from the same cognitive biases as everybody else, as if the behavior of the rich is an indicator of "the smart move". It never has been, and it never will be.

No, what I'm asserting is that the people screeching about the oceans rising and the sky falling are the same ones buying up all the properties being sold by the people who are afraid of oceans rising. It's a racket.
There's definitely a missing piece he hasn't explained well enough. I've seen the best code in the world because it was clean architecture and I've also seen some truly atrocious code in the style of "clean architecture".

To me the difference was in recognizing that the architecture advice is implicit - its not actually written down in the code, rather the code exemplifies it - and the business domain is explicitly modeled. When developers name everything "use case" and "interactor" and go crazy with packages and folder structures with architectural names it's a recipe for terribleness.
Theoretically yes. Though it makes 0 sense and difference in practice. The conversion between electrical and optical isn't straightforward and it isn't cheap to implement now. Let's say we've resolved this. We are still limited by the same latency of the channel, i.e. speed of light is roughly the same in fibre-optics and metal interconnects we use on chip now for electrical signals. Meaning, electrical signals we use are as fast as light. So, no delay advantage.

The biggest advantage of optical is less loss, which makes a huge difference for a long channel. By this I mean really long, like meters. Till that point it has literally no advantage while it is so much more complicated.
Help, I’m trapped in an echo factory factory
You get a link to the RM website, pay on line. If you don't pay, you don't get to receive the letter/packet involved.
I love this but where is the art? Show it with art!
There is often a lot of work that has to be done before and after PyTorch gets involved. For example the code I'm working on right now involves reading and parsing a bunch of files, filtering and extracting a bunch of data based on various criteria, formatting that data, passing it to a PyTorch model and then taking the results from PyTorch, validating it, reformatting it and then writing it to disk. The PyTorch part is probably as fast as it can get, but most of the overall runtime is spent doing all that other stuff and if you can speed that up then that is a clear win in many cases.
It’s clear to me that we need laws restricting what’s allowed. We now have evidence that the apps are addictive. We have precedence restricting addictions (alcohol/gambling). It should then be possible to restrict companies from creating algorithms intended to addict. Of course it’s easy to say that at a high level. The written law will be much more challenging to draft.
Ross Anderson has passed away
A highly cited and influential security researcher. RIP.
A more interesting question might be how (or whether it’s even possible) to improve any aspect of one’s intelligence, or one’s intelligence in general.

Inb4 “we should do drugs about it”
>Center for Medical Progress

Wait a minute.

That group was pushing their own agenda / opposed to Planned Parenthood and put out deceptive videos to push a false narrative.

That's not 'journalism', that's their own form of activism and lying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Medical_Progress
The price of persistent storage and memory was the same for Mongo as it was for Postgres back when the NoSQL movement happened. Mongo wasn't made of magic scaling fairies and still needed resources. As soon as you cranked up the safety of Mongo to a nearly acceptable level it's performance fell through the floor. The only reason people though it performed amazingly was because of Mongo's rather deceptive marketing.

I use the term "nearly acceptable" because for a long time Mongo's data consistency was absolutely crap (https://jepsen.io/analyses)

Personally I think people used Mongo because it was new, shiny and exciting and it promised performance (though it didn't really deliver for most people).
Looking at Google trends[0], it seems "podcast" was pretty stagnant between 2007-2017 in the US (and worldwide).

The growth in 2018 and 2019 is interesting tho. I would've thought that covid lockdowns are what brought it to the masses.

[0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
Who needs adjusted body panels? That's so 20th century. Don't stand in the way of progress and innovation with your useless perfectionism.
I'm not aware of any firmly documented such cases of OOBE gained knowledge. Can you point me to five such cases?

OOBE is a common side effect of dissociation. You can cause it through NMDA-antagonism, meditative practices and so on. If it was anything but a projection of perspective within the experiential system in the brain intelligence services and military would use it, and the lack of people in vegetative states around embassies tells us they don't.
Mac Studio or macbook pro if you want to run the larger models. Otherwise just a gaming pc with an rtx 4090 or a used rtx 3090 if you want something cheaper. A used dual 3090 can also be a good deal, but that is more in the build it yourself category than off the shelf.
Interesting thought. Perhaps the cat-and-mouse game of megacorps defending/expanding their turf through software/hardware boundaries isn't the best mechanism to achieve consumer protection.

If only there was something like consumer protection law. But you know, did consumer protection instead of waging proxy wars for megacorps to defend/expand their turf.
yeah I'll definitely try out ecode when auto save is implemented!
Stable/1.0 is always tough to call, and you can't predict the future of course, but it does seem obvious that enterprise value 1.0 software. It's more likely that we 1.0 different pieces of the stack (core, rsx!, html) so the ecosystem can build on top of stable primitives. We probably couldn't 1.0 the renderers themselves for a while.

It's probably another year of iteration until I feel like we're 100% stable, but my penchant for another rewrite is at an all time low.
Yup cooking and cleaning are great ones.

Also good on walks or commutes.
But why? Isn't a bunch of companies who depend on a piece of software internally and make money using it having a vested interest in its improvement and it remaining free basically the ideal case for OSS?

OSS falls down when you want to make money on the software itself, or in Redis's case when you want to make money on hosting but you're bad at hosting.
Mathias Lechner
The slowing of cell metabolism is lethal. The fact you can restore individual cells to something close to "normal" at a later time, doesn't help. Your patient is dead and the cells eventually die anyway.

I am not convinced that the "normal" metabolism of the cell, afterward, is anything other than metabolic collapse.
This is a really underhanded way to get disabled people who have trouble working in an office to leave en mass. The same for new parents, people struggling to care for elderly family members, and aging workers.

Does anyone know of an organization making the quiet part of this conversation louder?
Garbage article, clickbait tile; they're talking about the Hubble tension, not any kind of anisotropy in the Hubble constant. The latter would be actual news.
So, replacing voice actors with unpaid clones of their voices, effectively stealing their identity.

The range of use goes from totally harmless fun to downright evil.
> Well everyone pays an extra ~3%

You do realize crypto currencies have transaction fees, right?

Yes, I'm willing to pay for goods and services.
Wonder if they have considered albania. From what I have seen it has an amazing landscape and imo better t
I’ve noticed that too! So many videos. “We watched a movie today” - what?

Is there some catalog of how many videos and things are watched during school hours, because I never remember that as a kid. Yes it would have been a VCR rolled out and all that, but if I wanted them to just watch a movie I could do that from home. So weird.
Excuse me, I am a European and Czechia consistently has clean public bathrooms and baby changing rooms!

And we have human rights, and so does India

Why do you need to come up with wild excuses?

western-est west has decided they can’t be bothered to deal with some issues, like hygene, or, in case of UK, human waste in rivers
I have a raft of podcasts that are specifically for those times when I want to be able to lose the thread;

- Hey Riddle Riddle: Morning talk-radio vibes, but goofier.

- The Past Times: Comedians reading old newspapers to each other. Subset of The Dollop but with much shorter-form stories.

- Houston we have a Podcast: Interviews and exposition from NASA staff about everything space and space engineering. I find you can miss chunks of this one and still keep up, sometimes.

For me, whether I can keep up sort of depends on the context. Longer-form stuff (including audiobooks) I can do when driving or deep-cleaning the house, these ones are for going through the morning routine and other times when my attention is going to be kinda scattered.

edit: formatting
Especially with all of the crypto scams using Elon’s voice
I didn't interpret OC as calling Julia lispy, as much as saying that Julia is matched to SBCL's interactive machine code generation and inspection. I don't have a dog in that particular fight; I've barely touched either language.

Except, macros. I have never seen macro wizardry come anywhere near SBCL without homoiconicity.

edit: pre-coffee reading comprehension, apparently. The word lispy is _right there_ in OC.
i did consult an adhd specialist who said that i am unlikely to have it. and i don't have hyperfocus either, which seems to be common in adhd. even though i have tried to trick myself into getting interested in scientific and technical areas, my mind just shuts down or refuses to learn :(
The Zone of Death isn't quite a classic "HN tries to compile the law" topic, lawyers have tried to have the boundaries rewritten after all.

But what would happen if/when a felony is committed in the Zone of Death is fairly clear. A local judge would rule that "State and district" needs to be interpreted in the intention of the legislature, and can only be "State or district" when those differ, since "neither State nor district" isn't going to lead to a "fair and speedy trial".

But this opens a wedge for appeal on procedural grounds, which any defense lawyer would be duty-bound to take, and the whole thing would end up in front of the Supreme Court. Which is a waste of everyone's time, SCOTUS should be creating meaningful precedent with its limited time, not futzing around with the one spot on the map where the Sixth Amendment is ambiguous.

What wouldn't happen is the perpetrator going scot-free. That's not how it works.

It's a cool name though. Very in keeping with the West in general.
>But I'm not sure what else you can do that doesn't eat up enough concentration to follow along. Cooking or cleaning maybe? Things that you can do from muscle memory.

Chores, driving, walking, even playing video games is when I listen to podcasts. There is very little going on if you are doing that, so why not listen to something semi interesting.

I also listen to audiobooks, but they need far more investment and/or concentration.
Have you ever heard of a "back-of-the-napkin" estimate?

Why so much reluctance to even try to make a reasoned guess?
Google Stadia

Stadia's shutdown was a great loss in the gaming world.

Its social elements were ahead of their time, allowing for unprecedented levels of interaction and connectivity.

Other platforms are still catching up to how easy it was to jump into a game with friends, share game states, or even stream your gameplay with the press of a button; no queuing.

Unfortunately, much of Stadia's potential was undercut by Google's marketing strategy :(
Yea, but at least you get to pay thru the nose for it. </sarc>
But what is it expanding into? If the universe is expanding like a balloon then there's some sort of "edge". What is that edge expanding into? Imagine we had a craft that could take us to the edge and you could stand on it, the way you place your finger on the outside of a balloon. If you could stand on the outside/edge of the expanding universe, what would you see, that we're expanding into?

It can't be nothing. Something can't expand into nothing.