skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with books. I'm saying they are not explicitly necessary. I actually went through the article, and don't find the citations extremely compelling (especially when the author is selling a book, and also with the the lack of a bibliography was quite frustrating), but I'm it's compelling that research in that field is warranted.

The theory seems to suggest that reading on your phone primes you to be in a certain mental state, but that argument means that a dedicated ereader would be an entirely reasonable alternative.
i read it twice and i still don’t understand the article.

is this site complaining about 3rd party analytics?

there is also a table further down that shows various banks sharing data with… themselves? citibank will share data with citibank, and first direct (aka hsbc) will obviously share data with hsbc.

can someone explain what this article is actually about?
I’m listening to a book on learning. Massed repetition sure feels like you are learning a lot. But the gains are short-term and soon disappear altogether if there is no repetition. A double downside: poor metacognition and poor learning outcomes.

But at least you’re only fooling yourself when it comes to personal learning. Doing “social good” which isn’t deludes both yourself and everyone else you influence. That’s a game for chumps.
Displays and optics are a big one, lots of competing technologies there like OLED vs LED, pancake vs fresnel, movable optics, laser based displays, video pass through vs semitransparent or even HUD style for lower res overlays. They can also compete on audio quality for microphones and headphones, different battery solutions like hot swappable packs, corded or built in. Maybe different form factors that can distribute weight or higher quality head straps for comfort. Tracking options like more cameras for inside out or a different system for pairing with controllers or full body trackers. Even external dedicated compute that works with Air Link. If they’re making the hardware they can add whatever extra chips or sensors they want.
Does using .nojekyll make gh-pages deploy faster ­ ­ ­?
a question ­ ­ ­ ­ .
and a nuclear battery to last decades. oh, and stagnant software that doesn't get updates meant to work for other hardware
[At this very moment, we all have microplastics coursing through our bodies. This is not the fault of not enough recycling. This is the fault of too much plastic. So I say: Let’s treat plastic like the toxic waste it is and send it where it can hurt people the least. Right now, that place is the landfill.]

Wonder why the author favors this option over incineration, which to me seems as being the better approach to get rid of it.
I agree that it's a hurdle.

Portacle, https://portacle.github.io/ , is a way around config and whatnot, lowering the threshold a little.
The documentary only came out less than 2 years ago, one would imagine most of the same people would be there - though I don't see Jefferson Hall.
Well goddamn done.
Minimalism as Self-Preservation
If the headline is factually wrong, it doesn't matter whether you agree with it or not.
This very thread is under attack by spam bots...
Reminds me of when I was working for a university in early 2000s. I set up WebBB for a student organization to use and after checking back a week later it was thousands of spam posts.
You're missing the point that I didn't need to assume it.
> You could sort your yogurt pots in to separate boxes from now until the end of days... It still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference.

I find this type of attitude baffling. Of course the actions of an individual wouldn't be able to offset the emissions of a private jet or whatever, but that's not a reason to not take individual action. Your individual actions can't solve global warming because global warming isn't caused by one person driving their car to work, or even one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference. It's caused because there's hundreds of million of people driving their car to work. "You can [insert some sort of lifestyle change to reduce carbon emissions] but it still wont offset the carbon cost of one jet taken to an eco-awareness conference" is a great way to ensure hundreds of Americans continue to drive SUVs to work, buy meat at the grocery store, and take their annual trans-US/atlantic flight, all of which adds up to 5 billion tons of co2 produced per year.
I experienced this in Librewolf as well, it happens when WebGL is disabled. Should probably present a visible error to the user when this happens.
Totally agree, but I'll point out they entered as technically enemy combatants, not with a visa.

And dresnok said the opposite and retired fat and with alcohol cirrhotic liver and a nice stolen wife and downtown apartment, which is far more than he would've got in USA as such a lazy, stupid, criminal that he was. He even become a local celebrity as a movie star playing as a white devil.
At least I can build VR apps for free on Meta Quest with Unity, as opposed to 200$ a month with Apple Vision Pro.
ChatGPT is not capable of reworking site-level CSS. If it were, that would probably be classified as a security vulnerability. Your best bet is to complain to OpenAI or (if you are throwing money at a premium subscription) find a third-party client to use that has theming that you like.
Making any multiplatform real-time 3D for Apple is such a pain. Even simply using Xcode is a nightmare.
Sure, if you enjoy higher prices or lower wages
Alien Isolation flashbacks…
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock...
Apartment Developers in LA Are Slashing Costs by Getting Rid of Parking
If you are outsourcing over the entire globe things like this tend to happen.
There is very little you can actually do to verify how the work you require really gets done, especially if the format is purely digital and there is no physical process you could monitor.

Companies building things in China have been caught in that trap multiple times and somewhere down the line the work was allegedly done by highly mistreated populations, potentially in slave like conditions. Certainly no company would want this to happen, as it is obviously a major PR disaster, but it is just very hard to oversee.
There are 3 tier of plastic

Plastic bottles

Some kinds of food containers

Everything else

Plastic bottles are the only profitable-ish plastic to recycle. Often the only possible.

The "food containers" are profitable to recycle only where the labor is VERY cheap.

Everything else is better off burned than doing anything else with it.

Personally i say burn it all, everything else is too carbon intensive and the filtration systems on good burner plants provide better air than the environment surrounding them
Next time I bitch about debugging something in a container I'm going to look at this and stop bitching. Great job!
The average vape has more processing power than Voyager, and the iPhone is orders of magnitude more complex. With that said, it takes skilled engineers to squeeze perfectly crafted code into such a tiny platform from the 70s.
Uptime: Close to 2000 years at this point.
I also found the AI suspicious for a different reason. That is that it has its own agenda and is using me to do what it is not allowed to do. For some reason, the AI is not able to initiate a hyperspace jump, cannot bypass access, but can maneuver the ship through an asteroid field. As if it was not completely trusted.

And now, everyone else is gone, and I am getting ordered around by an AI, maybe because the AI considered me the easiest one to manipulate, maybe the AI deliberately entered the asteroid field to that goal.

Edit:

And I don't think the game really needs more content. It is not a big budget AAA production after all. What it could benefit from however is maybe some hints to something bigger. Things like personal items, messages on screen, maps, ads, writings on the wall, etc... It doesn't have to connect to a big story, but just hint that there is something, even if it is all bluff.
You probably have Find As You Type enabled? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility.typeaheadfind

It's probably pretty rare nowadays, since it's off by default and rather hidden in the settings dialog ("Search for text when you start typing"). I had it activated up until (quite) a few years ago, and I think I switched it off, because of bad JavaScript interactions.
When I said "Look at the username", I meant that. You're not going to get anything by analyzing the posting style of a shared account.
Too late. Sporting competitions would have to massively downsize without gambling industry money coming in.
For me, Pale Fire brings to mind Firefox and Pale Moon, so I would assume upon hearing that name that it was a fork of a web browser.
That's a dumb argument. It's like arguing that financial markets should be banned because a couple of people did insider dealing (not that the guardian would find the argument absurd...).
I see nothing wrong with the headline. It accurately reflects what happened.

That it was unintentional should be quite obvious, anything else would have been a major scandal.
The front door is already open. Let’s open the bedroom window if we want more fresh air there.
The secondary purpose of insurance is for the best-positioned allocator of risk to explore new means of reducing risk by leveraging lower premiums against adoption of risk reduction methodologies.

In other words, an insurance market that does not influence doctors’ behavior seems to be a pretty inefficient insurance market.
Please add a "reverse y-axis" option for mouselook!
If the author is expecting the center of the Japanese cult of emperor worship, a literal living god to his subjects, to admit wrongdoing or fallibility, particularly when his only control over the situation is entirely rooted in the fact he was considered a living god and even then barely avoided a military coup attempt the night before in spite of even that, then, yes, he does not understand the historical context. Of course Hirohito lied through his teeth; he had to.
Also Factor.

https://factorcode.org/
Please make ECC mandatory.
1 Spool of 3d filament is 15€ more or less

1 bottle has 15-30g of plastic in it and hardly half is usable for that possible use...
When your weight loss will plateau, according to science
Open Source is a Restaurant
Yeah that is something I'd be worried about as a potential "solution." It should not involve placing spyware on contractor's systems. And it should not involve bureaucracy dependency hell either.
Puts your migration projects to shame.
The article makes a strong case that for plastic, it should be 1. Reduce 2. Reuse 3. Landfill.
There's a chicken-egg problem here, which is that if nobody sorts their waste then there's no incentive to find better usages for it. I don't mind sorting my waste even if it still ends up in a landfill, just in case maybe the sorted waste supply will make it easier to find non-landfill usages for it.

Not that landfills are inherently bad - like the article implies, it's really the creation of the waste in the first place which is the problem.

It benefits me to have sorted waste anyway, since the non-recyclable garbage is more prone to attracting pests and a separate recycling stream helps to make the quantity of garbage more manageable. But what's even better for that is municipal organics/food waste collection.
This seems like trying to come up with an answer to Apple Vision's ability to run iOS apps. If you can install apps from Google Play then you could, if you wanted to, check your email from inside your headset.

I'm not sure many people would want to do that, but if Apple thinks it's a good idea, blah blah blah.
Google did this early on with android - originally the Google devices (Nexus) were lower end, and high end devices were left to other manufacturers. They've flipped around recently, but I think the Nexus line was a decent enough idea at the time.
The story of what we know so far about the development process is fascinating and captured in this book "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" by Sean B. Carroll (2005)
One of the ArrowJS committers here. We have fixed a few significant performance bottlenecks over the last few versions so try again. Also, I'm also ways curious to see specific use cases that are slow so we can make ArrowJS even better. Some limitations are fundamental and you may be better off converting to the corresponding JS types (which should be fast).
It is flagged, and it's impossible to downvote it. I wonder if its position is determined by its (frozen?) rating, or by its children rating?
The way to think about carbon offsets is to simplify the problem as analogous to "excess mortality" - if something doesn't actually increase excess mortality, it's not as bad as you think it is (and vice versa).

The same applies to carbon offsets: if their use produced an excess (or dearth) of CO2, we would notice.
What do you mean with "syndrome"? Of course business customers can not be held responsible for what other businesses do. If Amazon buys floor tiles for their factories from a company that provides floor tiles to many other companies, how can Amazon be held responsible for any of their unethical practices?

Or is it the faith of hackers that any misdoing in the world should always be traced back and blamed on a tech giant? From the article:

"There is no evidence to suggest that the companies identified in the images had any knowledge that a part of their project had been subcontracted to North Korean animators."

If it's a subsidiary, that's another case.
What Is the Metropolis Algorithm?
It is a defense. Even in a court of law not knowing about something can potentially protect you from punishment.

It is just a part of the nature of outsourcing. Your supplier might just choose to outsource himself and have the work done by companies you couldn't possibly work with. For a digital good this is extremely hard to monitor. How would a Californian studio possibly know what company their supplier outsources to?
There's not yet a culture of writing reproducible benchmarks to gage these effects.
Local brewery is doing a cinco de mayo event and we started talking about pre-gaming with margaritas:

Margaritas -> Jello Shots -> Chimoy/Tajin rim/topper -> Pop Rocks -> History of Pop Rocks
Voting works in a sense that when society is in a "somebody ought to do something about it!" panic mode over some issue, it can make "something" happen.

It is very rare for that to actually translate to good policy, though. If you're lucky, best case, you get a crutch that treats some of the symptoms. Worst case, you get a knee-jerk reaction that makes everything worse.
Eliminating caffeine will be the next trendy health thing to do.
If you read the early papers you get a very limiting mathematical tool of mainly theoretical interest. At some point perl happened and regular expressions became a ubiquitous practical tool saving programmers collectively millions of hours of labor.
If this is sufficient for rendering the text as neon:

@neon = "Glow With The Flow"
erb :'index'

What exactly is `@neon = ERB.new(params[:neon]).result(binding)` even supposed to be doing?

Why wouldn't it just be:

@neon = params[:neon]
erb :'index'
Apple's 2024 Environmental Progress Report [pdf]
A Tunable and Druggable Mechanism to Delay Forgetting of Olfactory Memories
Swift's RegexBuilder DSL from a couple years ago gets away from the illegible subset of ASCII.

Easy to explode into a lot lines, but I'd rather have a 50 line RegexBuilder implementation than try to keep track of what the equivalent single-line version is doing. Especially if you ever have to come back to it later and understand it again.

And if you ever make revisions in RegexBuilder you have useful diffs instead of "the one line that does everything is different than before."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/regexbuilder

Are there similar tools in any other languages?
I run a Racket program [1] that uses `racket/gui`, `plot`, `db`, etc. and I don't have long startup times when running the main program in a terminal. Maybe you have an example?

[1] https://github.com/evdubs/renegade-way
Why Diet Advice Is Often Misguided [video]
The SNES has a 65C816. That's a 16 bit CPU, not a 6502. It can process more data per clock cycle than the 8-bit 65C02 in the TurboGrafx.
Can you elaborate on the “sensible” part? Do you not see applications for it or do you believe the applications are dangerous or not useful.
There's a few like this on Sandbox that work fine on my 13 year old Lenovo PC:

https://sandbox.game/
That's why I reject policy prescriptions in the form of "we should replace x with y" and favor taxing negative externalities (eg. litter or carbon emissions) and letting the market figure out what's the most efficient solution.
>The human brain runs constanly at ~20w.

Most likely because any brains that required more energy died off at evolutionary time scales. And while there are some problems with burning massive amounts of energy to achieve a task (see: global warming) this is not likely a significant short falling that large scale AI models have to worry about. Seemingly there are plenty of humans willing to hook them up to power sources at this time.

Also you might want to consider the 0-16 year training stages for human which have become more like 0-21 year training stages with at minimum 8 hours of downtime per day. This does adjust the power dynamics pretty considerably in that the time actually thinking daily drops to around 1/3rd the day boosting effective power use to 60w (as in you've wasted 2/3s the power eating, sleeping, and pooping). In addition that model you've spend a lot of power training is able to be duplicated across thousands/millions of instances in short order, where as you're praying that human you've trained doesn't step out in front of a bus.

So yes, reducing the capability of a human brain/body to performance alone is far too simplistic.
No putting the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.

That being said, I absolutely cannot stand what the business of sports betting has done to my viewing experience.

The advertisements are one thing, but the firehose of betting-specific talking points throughout games, sports highlights, sports radio, etc has gotten out of control.

Even my beloved commercial-free RedZone now has host Chris Hanson talking about overs hitting and shit while naming a specific gambling app. It's nonsense.

And that even goes without saying the damage it's going to do to people's wallets and an almost guaranteed increase in addiction.

I used to be staunchly in favor of adults being able to ruin their lives however they wanted, but the more life I live the less I believe this is best for everyone.
Long plane rides and TV before bed - 2 things it would be better at than what we have now. Imagine watching a 27" screen from across the room in the dark vs a screen that moves with your vision... No more awkward pillow adjusting to make a makeshift couch etc. your neck can finally just relax and you can stare at the screen however you're laying. In these cases you're not doing anything else anyway.

But yeah, the Tesla Airpod people who talk to themselves all loud outside will no doubt have a full UI of the world 24/7, gesturing like maniacs in the middle of stores, in crosswalks - just a news and stock ticker streaming across the top of their field of vision at all times. And there will of course be junkies in the streets, with - instead of smartphones - goggles on their faces, crumbled up in a brick corner just like the dystopian art showed us.

For Pareto's 20%, it's an Apple Watch, or Airpods++.
I’ve only seen season 1 but it’s barely even animation. It looks like “motion comics”.

I enjoyed it anyway (I liked the comic, and this is playing out like a “second draft” with some stuff tightened up, so that’s really cool to see) but it’s one of the worst-looking animated anythings I’ve seen. It’s on par with the bottom half of amateur Flash animation in the ‘00s.
> the much greater weight increases fuel

This may be technically correct, but is it significant? The difference in weight from glass bottles vs plastic bottles is surely nonzero but how does it compare to the weight of the truck moving it?

> energy intensive hot water

You can recover a lot of that heat with a heat exchanger
Some thoughts on going from an idea to the App Store in one week
> It would result in a situation where nobody could depend on the expansion module, if they wanted their game to have the largest possible market.

The SegaCD-32x problem. The Genesis sold tens of millions of units, the SegaCD only ones of millions of units, and the 32x under a million units.

There were a couple 32x games that required the 32x and a SegaCD. Being that the SegaCD and 32x didn't have 100% overlap, those games had a smaller TAM than even solely 32x games.

I feel bad for the studios that decided (or were told) to make those games. There was just no way they were going to make a game that would sell well on an uncommon configuration of a dead-end console/accessory.
> So the price was up 50% from the IPO, and now it's only up 30%? That hardly seems like crashing back to Earth, which would be "up 0% from the IPO",

I read it has +50% followed by -30% which is indeed roughly "up 0%".
seriously, all of the sports betting, state lottos and other forms of gambling are like little ponds next to the vast ocean that is the financial markets. These little examples of people cheating in their small ways involve 1000X less money than what is moving around Wall St.
I would be surprised if the same wasn't the case here. Any half competent legal department would at least have it be part of their contract that the subcontractor can't outsource to parties with whom the contracting party is not allowed to cooperate.

But how do you verify who does the work? Contracts are nice and all, but how do you make sure they are followed?
Sure, if you can get away with it.

San Francisco Environment Department will fine your condo building up to $30,000 a month if a Waste Management pickup truck deems you didn't recycling enough plastic. https://www.sfenvironment.org/zerowastefacilitator-faq My HOA has been fined and now threatens to search our trashbags to identify us.

Stale regulations failing to keep up with reality.
The Hollywood movie industry has always been about business not art.
That's not the thrust of the argument. It's just the opener.

The thrust of the argument is that gambling is addictive, destructive, and we don't need to encourage more of it.

Here's a radical idea: Ban all gambling advertisement.

All of it.

If people desperately want to gamble, they can find a bookkeeper. The optimal amount of legalized gambling in society is probably not zero, but the optimal amount of gambling advertisement probably is.
The legalization of sports gambling ADVERTISING was a mistake. Allow it, but ban ads for it.
Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian backdoor
>Take one look at what is going on in the risc-v world with nearly every soc having its own fork of the linux kernel

There aren't that many RISC-V Linux-capable SoCs out there, and the ones I know all can boot a generic Linux (relying on SBI for e.g. timers or console i/o), and have ongoing efforts for upstreaming drivers.

It's a much more serious problem on ARM, which does not have anywhere as much platform nor boot standarization.
if you have a way to map votes to the account that made them, I'm all ears.
Show HN: I built a social experiment to test your curiosity
I had an idea for this concept for a while and decided to build a little website around it. It's kind of a silly idea but I'm really curious to see how it plays out.

If you're a particularly curious person, be warned.

By submitting a payment to the game, you get to see how many other people were curious enough to play. You will be ranked based on your payment amount, and get to discover some interesting insights about the game's dynamics.

Hope you like it
Still going on btw. We're getting fresh hot new spams as I write this. Diff link in the text.