skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And maybe always has been, internationally-speaking?

If I had to guess, it was even less. Now at least there can be media backlash.

> Even a "this is an acceptable ratio of civilian collateral deaths, above which constitutes a war crime" would be helpful for curtailing nation's baser urges.

Having some kind of metric would be nice. However, there are problems with it being too simple (your enemy has a say in how exposed their civilians are; and we'd hate to leave countries with less precision in their militaries without the ability to defend themselves).
20 years, holy cow, didn't realize it's been that long.

But what does this have to do with "suburban" America? Very weird title.
I don’t have any issue with easy loans just make them dischargable so banks have skin in the game
One major reason is the college rankings which are based on how much the college price gouges and how many prospective students it rejects after stealing an application fee from them.

Another one is the federal student loan program which makes it possible for students to borrow whatever the college wants to charge even if it is obvious they'll never be able to afford to repay it.
Well that's the part that sorta confuses me. There were a lot of high-quality emulators that were native to iOS, and sideloading them was the only way to use it. There was also the same bog-standard port of Retroarch et. al., but developers really did put effort into making high quality, even Open Source, iOS-native emulation software.

The sinister side of me wants to say that stopping emulation forces more users down the IAP/microtransaction feedback loop in order to entertain themselves. The rational side of me wants to say that Yoshi's Cookie isn't the Fortnite killer, but the whole thing feels icky to me nevertheless.
Good shit, this is the kind of answer I hoped for posting on HN. I don't know too much about earthquake seismology, but I am curious and know where to pull random data.

So I thought, if the ground is moving the aquifer levels might change (no clue whether they would go up or down). I just pulled the ground water levels for Readington Township's well (in which whitehouse station is a place). Sure enough can clearly see when the earthquake hit: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/4035170744525...

So is this expected? Is this a thing that normally happens with earthquakes?

EDIT: Japan paper was cool https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art... apparently they measure increased seismicity at times of high inflow. Also just had a big aftershock approx 22:00UTC. sounded like a bomb (I am in whitehouse station now)
This can be explained by the popularity of Tesla, and it's not like Crybertrucks are especially bad. Ford and GM cars also break, but owners are less inclined to post about it online, nor is the media as inclined to pay attention. Any sort of bad news from big tech companies like Uber, Amazon, Meta, or Tesla is swarmed with media attention.
Executives control their employees (to whatever degree they can). Your Hertz example would be about controlling customers (which every executive fantasizes about but can’t actually do).
It's typically the opposite of what you say - the true expenses/student that a private university pays is much higher than even the richest kid pays (difference made up for by the endowment's income)

So the better question is why they don't raise prices such that the rich kids have to pay the true full price & have more money for aid for the less-rich.
The citation [100] here is Jimmy Carter's book, which not only does not support the wiki summary (Camp David was based on a proposal from Clinton--not Barak, and Barak had "twenty pages of reservations" about the proposal himself), Carter also concludes:

[1]

> There was no possibility that any Palestinian leader could accept such terms and survive, but official statements from Washington and Jerusalem were succesful in placing the entire onus for the failure on Yasir Arafat. Violence in the Holy Land continued.

In regards to the following talks at Taba, which perhaps the wiki is conflating with Camp David, Carter continues:

[2]

> A new round of talks was held at Taba in January 2001, during the last few days of the Clinton presidency, between President Arafat and the Israeli foreign minister, and it was later claimed that the Palestinians rejected a "generous offer" put forward by Prime Minister Barak with Israel keeping only 5 percent of the West Bank. The fact is that no such offers were ever made.

[1]/[2] Jimmy Carter - Peace Not Apartheid (it's on Libgen, go look for yourself like I just did)
it's good when you watch things from outside your home network. you can transcode things to watch on the train/subway or somewhere you don't have stable internet access.
I'm not opposed to any attempt to remove the need for these full college degrees as a hiring requirement, but this also ignores that the point of many colleges is the network. You are paying to be part of a club.
I see in your bio that you live in or are from Prague. Since you and I see it differently, I would sincerely like to read more up on this event and the history leading up to the 30 years war. If you have anything that you usually recommend, I would gladly take that recommendation.
Asking "I'm an IT guy for a school district and I'm looking for guidance on WiFi" is very different from "I want to put Wifi in the schools."

Even if the op is indeed doing it from a place of good intent, I really, really struggle to read this ask as being from someone inside the schools already. They didn't say "my schools" or "our schools". They said "login at any school in the city", not something like "any of the schools I manage" or "any schools in the district". Even for someone who doesn't speak English as their first language, the word choice consistently suggests OP is an external third party.

Maybe it's a very American concern of mine, but I simply do not trust anyone who is proactively trying to do something like this as a benevolent third party. And you probably shouldn't either! Would you sleep well at night knowing that some random guy external to your kid's school (with ~no governance or accountability) has unfettered access to their WiFi?
Need realtime seismographs, my friend's dad has one he built as a hobby up in quebec city that picked it up: https://alainmichaud.ca/
You just seem to severely underestimate the damage you're doing to your own cause every time you insinuate someone is racist when they are not.
Some places like Google and many state governments are publicly removing all requirements for college degrees. Whether they still choose degree holders anyways is an open question, but some are very openly proclaiming that it's not a requirement.
Any alternative that doesn't take away the ability to pay child support would be strictly better. Whether it is "good" is irrelevant.
Hey, you should check out https://www.ayedo.de - german company, own datacenters, but also able to provide managed services on top of HETZNER.
I don't understand this. When Harvard or CalTech says that anyone admitted will not be turned away due to financial hardship, it's because the loans are issued with a qualification based on their admission. 100k or any other price, the current financing structure remains the same.
I'm Canadian, and I haven't forgot PRISM. It's not a caricature to call China an authoritarian government. PRISM doesn't change the later.

Every time someone brings up the CCP doing something bad, I need to suffer some whataboutism re: the USA that is supposed to justify it. Backdoors are bad wherever they appear. Because China is an authoritarian regime, it can backdoor openly without consequence.
And Sony has certainly had rough patches too. And that's for a company coming from an electronics manufacturer angle.

Kodak could have spun off a consumer electronics or semiconductor manufacturing company. But it's not clear why that is actually a better model than someone else just spinning up similar entities.

I don't need all the chemical engineers and a lot of other people connected with the old business anyway. And I'm sure not turning them into semiconductor experts.

So you're one of the 10% of employees in HR who snuck through to the other side. Is that really a big deal?
This is a much more interesting criticism, thank you for sharing it.

This is out of my wheelhouse but I would be very surprised if virions were destroyed in a recently deceased and frozen body. There's not a whole lot of water in a virion, so it shouldn't be torn apart by ice. Virions decay fairly quickly since they don't have machinery to maintain themselves, but the reactions which break them down should be arrested by the cold. I've started algae cultures from frozen samples before, I can't imagine that even tough, small, spherical cyanobacteria are as resistant to frost as viruses.

The headline to me is an indication that this is a hypothesis under investigation. For better or worse, a lot of science news is about ongoing research that may not pan out. I think that asks more of the reader, in terms of holding ideas lightly and checking in as the story develops, but I don't think it's a flaw per day.
> The US thanks to the Federal Reserve, they were pretty disciplined about it up until 1971.

They were quite disciplined in the early 1930s as well, which greatly helped the Great Depression to arrive:

* http://www.nber.org/chapters/c11482

And it's not like the gold standard helps with financial/currency stability either:

* https://archive.today/FWKcL / https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

Further, 1971 isn't some magic year, as inflation was already rising in the mid-1960s:

* https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/great-inflation

And if you're trying to make a link to inflation, the spikes that the US (and others) saw in the 1970s had little to do with monetary/fiscal discipline, but with commodity prices:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-push_inflation
Apparently everything I work on because our customer success team always seems to come back immediately after something goes into production with “customers can’t use this!”.
Envoy proxy uses wasm filters, thus Istio uses wasm filters. Everyone who uses Istio in non-ambient-mesh uses them. They can write their own in a language of their choice.
Link to it’s steam page:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1179890/Pull_Stay/

It’s a trip to watch, definitely not what I was expecting.
To quote GPT-4, "AI's 'creativity' is more about remixing and reinterpreting the information it has been fed".

I think the degree to which a person perceives human-like creativity from AI/LLMs is inversely proportional to their understanding of how they work. Here's a great video that can help demystify GPTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M
https://www.aceee.org/greener-cars

#1 on the Greener Cars list.

Running the math, its clear that ACEEE assumes you're 100% Electric. According to brief Reddit searches, it seems like Prius Prime 2024 is closer to 75% electric / 25% gasoline in practice. (You could *theoretically* stay in 100% electric mode since its just one button click... but 11-second 0-to-60 time is pretty bad, so many people prefer to be in Hybrid mode instead)

That's still quite good though. And if you've got a lot of city driving (ex: 0-to-30 times), then 100% EV mode button is probably pleasurable. But if you have a highway or two as your commute, you'll want the ICE engine part of Prius Prime to get you up to speed.

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Still, Prius Prime is incredibly efficient. In 100% gas mode, it still scores 64 Green Score due to its lack of rare-earth metals in its EV motors, its smaller 13.6kW-hr battery pack (less Lithium/Cobalt being mines), and far lighter weight than most EVs. And at 130+ MPGe, its going to use less electricity than most EVs (even highly efficient ones like Leaf).

So all in all, Prius Prime is likely the most environmentally friendly vehicle you can buy in practice (even after correcting ACEEE's mistake of 100% EV assumption on this vehicle).

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The only real downside is that most drivers don't plan to use the PHEV part, and instead focus on the Hybrid part. At which point, the Corolla Hybrid or Crown Hybrids are better vehicles.
Projection. If your shadow is further away than your object then the dimensions of the shadow will be exaggerated and so will it's motion. The light itself travels at light speed (duh?), but the image moves faster. Think how your monitor makes moving images without moving pixels.

Here's a Vsauce video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTvcpdfGUtQ
Minecraft now will require Java 21 and a 64bit OS as of latest snapshot
"these EDA firms hire scientists and mathematicians, but no one who really knows about UI design, unlike CAD companies" is going to sit with me for a while.
One of the weirdest psychological insights, which many people including myself have discovered recently, is that a fake job that doesn't actually require any work can be more stressful and unpleasant than a real job.
the internet already made college irrelevant. The second wave of AI is just cleaning it up.

While I was attending college in the 2010s. They were always pushing “new buildings”, “new rock wall climbing”, “renovations to college housing”, “lazy river!”. Apparently funded through higher tuition and fees.

At some point, a college degree will no longer be required which will be the death knell.
Not the Same Security Debate
Who cares? If they don’t want their power drawn they need to be burying their powerlines anyway.
There are several projects that implement the MTG engine and are in active use. Forge and Xmage are the main ones. You could ask their developers how they avoid getting C&D'ed. It's definitely doable and your work doesn't have to be in vain.
So what other defenestrations are there? The ones in Prague are the ones I have heard about. I remember some movie scenes also, Axel Foley being defenestrated comes to mind. But was the word invented to describe the Prague events ?
I suppose it's karma for all the companies that refuse to publish the salary being offered for jobs upfront.
What happened to the CFO?
The schools are not free of blame. These are non-profit institutions, supposedly they have 0 incentive to be raising prices like this.
When something I work on gets cancelled or not released, I try to feel better about it by thinking of the learning involved. Sometimes when I've been on projects that are going nowhere I will try and find ways to learn new things. A very minor, but useful example was a project early in my career where we were told to stop work while the management re-evaluates the project. I learnt to touch-type that month, a useful skill for my whole career. That was my first year contracting, they gave us a months notice on that project and I started the next contract the next Monday, so I billed 13 months that year.

I feel for architects that see their own buildings torn down in their lifetimes and replaced. I'd find that hard to deal with.
I'm a bit skeptical that this article tells the complete story. Who is printing these counterfeits? What are their incentives? Why not just keep printing more and inflate the currency into oblivion?
I do agree about the value of tv/native apps but for now I have a tiny user base, we are only 20 on the discord. I think it's still too early to have any kind of financial support on the project.
2018? I missed that wave. I seem to remember they were cool in the late 2000s or so? Perhaps that was just me…
From the context, it seems you mean repointing, not tuckpointing. (As described in the Wikipedia article you link, which admittedly does make an allowance for some regions using the terms interchangeably.)

But, the true meaning of tuckpointing (two-toned bands of grout to give the appearance of finer grout lines) is something I did not know about and found pretty interesting. Thank you for the comment.
> And why would you?

To punish them. For all the talk about rehabilitation and compensation, our "justice" system is fundamentally still about making some people happy by letting them watch other people get hurt.
I wrote a simulator for testing different strategies to "cheese" Egyptian ratscrew (aka slaps) in Ruby. https://github.com/benngarcia/egyptian-ratscrew-ruby

I really suck at the game and my buddy had ideas for different strategies that would beat someone skilled at the game. So I made a CLI tool to simulate these strategies. I haven't played the game since learning that yes, there are strategies that beat skill given a sufficiently low burn rate.
Do what every other VC firm does, do it and don’t care. When the C&D comes, comply. Let users cause an uproar for you.
Due process? Who do you think the people were?
I suppose the tool would still be useful for EU -> not EU roamers? Interestingly Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway are not part of the EU but I know my German SIM card works there with its home tariff, but Switzerland is still the holdout. EDIT: Wikipedia says Monaco, Andorra and San Marino also don't have free roaming...

Also, did this EU directive come as a surprise? AFAIK they move at glacial pace and carriers should've seen it coming...
Built a beautiful experience focused on serving a completely underserved community.

Won a patent for UX that solved a dicey problem which hadn't been addressed until that point and would impact any user under 18.

Won an accessibility award for design heuristics that hewed to the cutting edge of accessibility not just 'this website works for colorblind users'

The site was destroyed by internal politics. Assigned a URL that made it unmarketable (think... domain.com/projects/projectnamemarketplace) and flailed for 2 years before being sunsetted with nearly no users.
I love this!

I think it also emphasizes the complexity and capability of software that underlies the systems most people think about. I think it is a common misconception that your OS is the "lowest level" of the software stack, but in actuality, there is this firmware-ish code that truly owns your system. Sometimes it does a job and goes away, other times stays running the whole time your system is up, transparent even to the OS.

Sometimes, the attitude people have about this is along the lines of... "who cares, its just low level code to get my devices running, nothing serious can happen down there".

But knowing that you can get a whole IRC client down there doesn't make it too hard to imagine all the other nefarious things that could go on.
I think cause and effect is a litigious system -> demand for lawyers -> lots of them, well paid.

Some of the system being like that probably comes partly from the founding idea of "a government of laws and not of men" and the US constitution.
> They want to use Apple's tools and technologies, distribute on the App Store , and benefit from the trust we've built with users - and pay Apple nothing for it

This quote smells like a "self-induced problem" since they literally require developers to buy or rent their hardware to build an app and also (at least, previously) required developers to publish on the App Store. If I could build an iPhone app on my Windows machine and publish an app from my website, then their argument wouldn't make any sense.
Scientists major finding with nanodevices seemingly produce energy out of air
I got frustrated with ChatGPT for hallucinating sometimes, and my friend said "could be worse, could hallucinate all the time." And I thought it'd be fun to make that, and then we came up with a few more, and now we have this: https://cap-gpt.onrender.com/
This is wild - even Tesla is giving up.

FSD robotaxis are pie in the sky; it is not going to happen anytime soon, not going to justify Teslas valuation, and it is not at all guaranteed that it will be Tesla that succeeds with it first or capture the majority of the market.
Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8
Sure of course, in a totally apparent way.

In one sense, each of us individually participates in creating the future and occasionally some special person changes the world significantly or advances the state of the art all on their own, a brilliant scientist or artist and so on.

But most of the work creating the future is a team effort, not a solidarity one. You need many, many people all pulling in the same direction. And for all those people to coordinate, you need leaders to sell the vision, raise the money and pay the team. Sure there are other kinds of human organizing, but companies create a large share of innovation vs. governments and academia. Execs are the people most responsible for choosing what companies spend their resources on.

And for practical example, Mark Zuckerberg was for whatever reason, interested in VR existing as an everyday consumer experience. He scooped up a promising team working on a prototype, then directed untold billions at pulling VR out of the research lab and into millions of homes. It’s not obvious that VR was worth the investment and still isn’t. Minus the decisions of Mark Zuckerberg, would any VR headsets from any company exist for consumers? Unknown, but I believe no technology is inevitable. Our choices matter and the choices of very rich and powerful people matter all the more.
That's not even that far back either, GBA4iOS has builds going back to 2014. 2018 was the year you could emulate Nintendo games... on the Switch: https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/switch/
That rings a bell for me too, FWIW.
It's actually incredible how many engineers and designers I have met personally who believe that college was a waste of time, in comparison to the knowledge that can be gained just through internships, mentorship and forms of apprenticeship. Do you think someone with 4 years of interning around major tech companies is better equipped to work for those companies compared to a person who came directly out of college?

The rise of bootcamps and micro-certifications teach people 80% of the stuff in 20% (or less) of the time, and at fractions of the cost as well. Are university educations really that much better?

To me, the value of the university system seems to be the connections and networking that form rather than skills and acuity.
Cloudflare workers use them for portability/v8 isolate compatibility/speed/isolation, Figma uses for the main editor, a bunch of Web3 stuff uses them for ???
Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Robotaxi on Aug. 8; Shares Jump
Very excited about this! But I’ve also been impatient and started using Eclipse for all of my Gameboy emulation over the last year.. it a PWA and uses local storage for game saves. https://eclipseemu.me/
In the UK that’s the case through high school and college (UK definition, 16-18) but at university the exams and coursework are graded by the lecturer/professor. So that’s likely what happened here.
As other people have mentioned, this is just a variation on a theme of other successful drugs. It may well be that the odds are greater than 50% the way they selected the patients.

There's also publication and hacker News front page bias to consider in the odds making as well...
App store review isn't that fast
Intelligence community gets a chief AI officer
Awful and sad

> There’s a technical meaning devised by a guy named Claude Shannon that involves, basically, how quickly a listener can reduce their uncertainty about the message they’re getting. This involves calculations of the number of possible syllables in a language, the relative popularity of each of those syllables, and the probability that a certain syllable will follow another. All the Shannon stuff is kind of abstract and involves a lot of math that, frankly, made my head hurt.
Whenever people talk about replacing engineers with AI, I think about situations like this.

When the first fully machine automated software consultancies post their first cash flow statements, there will still be humans building features that will never be used somewhere else in the same industry.
Interesting; do you know / did they document why it was disabled?
Me? No. The government did… with your taxes.
Yep, adding to a non-web app is definitely harder!