skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pure corruption (from a SacBee article [1]):

"When a proposal to roll back the fixed rate plan was discussed in a committee hearing last month, all 14 lawmakers abstained from voting — shelving the controversial measure."

So no vote at all on rolling back fixed rates. We truly have the best democracy money can buy.

[1] https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler..."
Did regulators have to wait for a researcher and journalists to get the ball rolling on Theranos?

Sorry if your comment wasn’t the parent that I replied to saying we need more laws without any evidence to support that conclusion.

And now you bring up Holmes.
People are constantly bombarded with notices, to the point that most of us actually read very few of them. I'm not sure the notice makes a big difference here; what proportion of taxpayers do you think actually know their total tax liability and/or effective tax rate at the federal, state, and/or local levels? We have notice of all of them, but it's so hard to keep track of income, investment, sales, and property taxes, that very few of us actually know this stuff.

I bet that if you put a notice of FISA data collection on someone's pay stub, it's unlikely they would even notice.
The logic is really for things like Telnet sessions. IIRC that was the whole motivation.
There is a lot to unpack. But let's start with your first point. If the acquisition of DeepMind was just a talent acquisition, why continue to let them publish?
Your second point: how did you get the impression that this market is "mature"? And, going back to the first point, which market do you actually mean to have matured?
Regarding value creation/capturing/sharing, academic naivety, this industry is no different to any other, nor has basic economics changed. Deep Learning is an amazingly powerful new technology that has the potential to change the world. But how you make products/services out of it which we all value, pay for and thus provide the basis of employment is the usual risk/reward cycle ANY business has to subject itself to. More believe in the technology = more investors willing to fund businesses that have negative free cash-flow for longer. Yes, the competitive landscape seems stacked against new entrants, but that is no different to when today's teach behemoths started. And yes, as with any industry, monopolies are not great and, according to Kara Swisher, maybe tech at large, today, is an unhealthy monopoly.
Here's one anecdote: I use Elixir professionally, for 8 years now. A few years ago I moved to the suburbs and met a neighbor two houses down who happens to run a software company based on Elixir with about 20 devs. Seems like I wouldn't be running into Elixir people in my daily, non-professional life unless there were a lot of them.

I have a theory about why there's more getting done with Elixir than you perceive. It's very productive, and you can get a lot done alone or with a very small team. You don't need as much devops. You maybe don't need as many frontend devs, because LiveView. And so on. Elixir teams don't need to hire as much, so when you look around, you don't see a ton of Elixir job postings. Fewer jobs discourages people from leaning into it as a career choice, which means fewer devs, strangling the overall growth of the community.

Also, at least in large tech companies, small productive teams are anathema to managers. Headcount is everything, and you have much more political power managing 10 Java devs than 3 Elixir devs. Never mind that the company is spending more on salaries, because that's the company's money, not yours. Anything you can do to have a bigger team is a win.
What's the hassle for normal users?

1. Open Settings -> Community Plugins

2. Search for "Canvas Conversation" and install.

Done!
Related video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40303234
This isn't just Cannabis research.

This is 99% of research in 2024, except the research that was directly sponsored by corporations to get a competitive edge and make more money. Ironic how BigCo is now more trustworthy than navel-gazing academia. Although it's hard to feel sorry for them for this self-inflicted wound.

People just don't understand the concept of cherry picking studies anymore and reasonable in-the-middle discussions have gone extinct.
It should be possible to use vDSO without libc, although probably a lot of work.
To be fair, people are already using wire.
Of course, the existence of some implementation is no reason not to write or share another one.

In fact, it's good for the ecosystem to have different people/teams exploring the problem space and it's good for individual developers to hone their craft on delicate technical problems even when they're ostensibly already covered.
Ardeeg Lowers the Cost of Brain-Computer Interfaces
Same in M&E / vfx
Iyo One
TCP_QUICKACK does fix the worst version of the problem, but doesn't fix the entire problem. Nagles algorithm will still wait for up to one round-trip time before sending data (at least as specified in the RFC), which is extra latency with nearly no added value.
The issue with normalization is that you lose a degree of freedom - which when you're visualizing, effectively means losing a dimension. Normalized 2d vectors are really just 1d vectors; if you want to show a 2d relationship, now you have to use 3d vectors (so that you have 2 degrees of freedom again).
Google Wave was the first thing that came to mind for me as well. RIP

That being said, this looks like a nice spiritual successor to it!
Wow, never would have thought of that.
This is a geospatial analysis or geographic information systems (GIS) problem. Applications like ESRI ArcGIS on the commercial side, QGIS or GRASS on the open source side, PostGIS with something like pgRouting on the DB side.
Is it really "basing your opinion off a public caricature" to wonder what a popular figure would think of their business after their departure? The man is dead, it's not like you have to defend Jobs' likeness in case he Tweets how he feels about it tomorrow.
> ... the list of building blocks is scrollable!

Ugh. Just submitted two, and had no idea the list could be scrolled. Can't be bothered going back and looking now though. :(
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304601
Actually yes, I did the math a few months ago and if you have a gas generator such as [1], you can produce electricity from PG&E's gas for cheaper than PG&E's own electrical rates.

Details:

The generator linked below can produce 17 kWh of electricity by burning 307 cubic feet of natural gas. That translates to 3.07 therms of gas, and looking at my bill PG&E charges around $2.3 / therm, so the generator would produce electricity at a marginal cost of $0.41/kWh, cheaper than what I pay.

Of course this ignores maintenance costs and the upfront cost of the generator itself ($6,000), not to mention environmental costs.

[1] https://www.generac.com/generaccorporate/media/library/conte...
This is not eliminating use-based billing. It's adding an income based fee on top of rate decreases. You'll still pay for the electricity at some of the highest rates in the world.
I like this idea. Today I just talked the nearest cafe into trying a steamed nitro cold brew. The owner said it was a slightly weird idea, but liked it and agreed to make it whenever I ask.
I'd be fine if this was a true fixed fee, that gets increased when infrastructure is gets improved, similar how water is billed.

But I know it won't because ya know corruption and waste.
Why would we be "unlearning" anything now? It doesn't make sense. What changed? Are academicians not monetarily awarded for attention-grabbing and breakthrough-sounding research anymore?
It seems like you didn't read the whole post. If anyone ever sells those assets, they are counted as income.

The vast majority of wealth isn't empty houses, ever rented, and never sold.
Working from the office solves this /sarc. Utterly gone off sell lately which is a shame because I like their hardware but knowing how management treat staff now. I’ll look elsewhere.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10683946/

> The reported GHG emissions range from 39–196-kgCO2eq/kWh battery due to differences in many factors including battery specifications and technologies, geographical locations, and life cycle inventory data; and material, energy, and processes emission factors; making direct comparison of results very difficult

Assuming a 80kW-hr battery pack, I'm seeing anywhere from 2.7-tons to 15-tons of CO2, which is a bit more variance than you initially pointed out.

More specifically, we can breakdown per country and get better estimates.

> Several of these studies focus on individual countries. For instance, Kim et al. (17) focused on South Korea and found an emission intensity of 141-kgCO2eq/kWh battery. Sun et al. studied China and reported an emission intensity of 124.5 kgCO2eq/kWh (20), while Dai et al. examined the United States and found an emission intensity of 72.9-kgCO2eq/kWh battery (6)

Assuming 75 kg-CO2 / kWh for USA and 80kW-hr gives me ~6-tons of CO2 per battery pack assuming relatively clean US Production.

Its approximately 20lbs of CO2 per gallon of gasoline. So 6-tons of CO2 is equivalent to 600 gallons of Gasoline, or ~24,000 miles in a typical Corolla Hybrid.

A Prius Prime is around 70% electric and 30% gasoline at 50mpg. That makes the crossover point at nearly 100,000 miles for the Prius Prime. (30,000 Mi gasoline, 70,000 Mi electric), assuming the electricity used was zero greenhouse gasses (unlikely: most electricity these days are Natural Gas in the USA).

Needless to say, the Hybrid equation is strong even in a hypothetical 100% green electric grid. Move to ~60% fossil fuel electric grid (like what we have right now in the USA) and the math goes screwy, but clearly in favor of ICE/Hybrid/PHEV.

Change the math to South Korean's dirtier 141-kgCO2/kWh and we're looking at nearly 50,000 miles before the EV (on 100% green / zero-emissions) beats a Corolla Hybrid (40mpg), and nearly 200,000 miles before the EV beats a Prius Prime.
i can see reds and greens, but very similar shades next to each other, i can't tell. i also can't see either color very well when it's a really small sample size (for example, the green under my power switch on my wireless mouse to show that it's on).

the way i think about it is that people who aren't colorblind have a maximum green value that is much higher than mine. the enchroma glasses, which i've tried, effectively make greens more green. i feel like it makes things inaccurately colored, but exaggerates colors enough to be able to better differentiate. i still can't see past my "maximum green" value though, which is why those marketing videos of people crying are total bullshit. it just looks like a very saturated instagram filter. it doesn't make me see colors i haven't seen before.

i didn't try a color blindness test with them but i should have. the best memory i have of using it is that it was fall time and the leaves on a bush in my yard were turning red, but i had no idea until i put the glasses on, and i could distinctly tell which leaves were turning and which weren't.

i liked them and wanted to keep them, but i couldnt justify the $220 price or whatever it was, so i returned them. i want to get another pair some day
It's not a language specific feature, but you can do the bookkeeping yourself. In the simplest form you can write:

f(1,...)*f(2,...)

Then when you do pattern matching with wildcards x_ and y_ you can do

f(x_,...)*f(y_,..)

with the requirement that x_ < y_. This way you will know you match them in the expected order and not the other way around.
Me too.

We installed additional solar two years ago, and it's taken our net grid draw to zero, with our house providing excess power to the grid every month. We only pay the $10/month grid connect fee.

Too bad. I'd hoped never to have to pay more than that grid connect fee as a result of investing in my own power generation.
Here's a link to the about page for a history/explanation for the site:

https://www.historyofinformation.com/story.php?t=About

I originally thought this was only going to be a history of the use/development of information and media, but it seems the timeline on the page is basically a history of humans in general. I guess it is a great history of information and media, just not what I was expecting.
There are some cool articles linked in some of entries.

The author also has a website for medicine and biology history and has written books on internet/cyberspace history.
> Many older languages simply had no way to do this kind of stuff.

Mainly due to not cribbing from other older languages like Lisp and Algol 68.
Megaconstellations are not a problem for kids looking through telescopes. If anything it’s additional things to wonder at in amazement.
Actually providing electricity consists of two parts. There is the fixed infrastructure of all the transmission lines, transformers, maintenance, and similar, plus the preparedness of generators to provide electricity on demand even when it isn't financially worthwhile. (The latter robustness was behind Texas' problems a few years ago.) Then there is the electricity you actually consume. They were all combined into one per kwh price that was adjusted every year or so by the regulator so the utilities got to cover the costs and get a 5% return on their "investments".

This is now an attempt to bill separately for those fixed costs versus the actual kwh costs. As an example someone with solar and battery completely covering their needs would have been paying $0 (there is more & fine print), despite all that fixed infrastructure being in place to provide all their needs without notice. Similarly homes with solar panels are pumping electricity back into the grid at times now when it is least needed. Commercial solar providers get curtailed and cannot do that. (See "duck curves" for more information.)

People using the least amount of electricity weren't paying much. People using the most electricity were getting solar, and weren't paying much towards that fixed infrastructure. Those in the middle were paying the most. This will in theory move more of the burden onto either side of the middle. Make your own mind up if that is fair.

But it gets worse. Most electricity in the state is provided via PG&E. You'll note they have been in the news over the last decade for various incidents such as exploding gas mains and neglecting maintenance leading to wildfires. That has been very expensive to address and rectify (many billions of dollars). Guess who is ultimately paying for all that? Hint: not the shareholders.
Really? Mmm i think hn is a place with on avarage above intelligent people. People who understand that their opinion is not the only one. I rarely have issues with people here. Might be also because we are all in the same bubble here.
What is wrong with launching a water-cooled reactor to Mars? Or more likely launching the materials needed to build it. The active components of a reactor are quite tiny -- most of the bulk is in the shielding, which won't be necessary on an already radioactive planet like Mars.
Hospitals Are Refusing to Do Surgeries Unless You Pay in Full First
"missed the mark" == "Not having any understanding of creatives, who are the exact target of this over-produced marketing push".

Big swing and a miss, but good on 'em for at least paying attention to the audience's reactions.
I don't. I hope you're not paying for my use too.

Ideally they keep us siloed, but I've lost confidence. I've paid for Windows, Amazon Prime, YouTube Premium, my phone, food, you name it, but that hasn't kept the sponsorships at bay.
As a person that’s not deaf. It’s great to hear scientific breakthroughs can help people experience life with this important sense.

Although I think there’s a train of thought that think being deaf is not a genetic deficiency.

Would deaf parents raising a child that is not deaf struggle? Would assimilation into the family unit be difficult?

Personally, I think the level of isolation as a child from their parents would have a certain degree of impact on mental health.
The extreme rise in prices is relatively recent, mostly due to the court decision post the Camp fire that said the power companies are liable for the fires. Through the 2010s power was around $0.15-0.30/kWh iirc but after the decision the power companies had to replace all their aging infrastructure all at once and pass the cost on to consumers.

The rise coincided with the large drop in solar and battery prices, so most people just have solar now. Before installing solar and batteries my family in the exurbs did conserve very well and paid under $100/mo. I don't conserve very well and pay $125-200/mo. Worst bill I've ever had a few years ago was $700 but I was running indoor grow lights and had doors open for animals while running AC during a heatwave (it was ridiculously dumb and the cost is why I don't do it anymore).
I can remember the days! I suppose as problems grow in size, it's not too surprising that older methods of coping with what seemed like lots of data are still applicable.
Musk's lawyers succeed in challenge to remove OpenAI case judge
The crisis is air pollution. Ground and water pollution are also issues but less critical than air pollution. I'm OK with putting more focus on reducing air pollution for now.
> In fact, if you have two CPUs handy, maybe you could write some code to have each CPU do half of the elements, and suddenly map is twice as fast.

I remember this came up a lot in late-aughts functional programming discussions. But is there any language where this actually works? Where map is just parallel because of course it is?
The US government has worked hard to make the lives of copyright infringers miserable for years, even driving them to suicide.
Hmm, that searches issues, which isn't the best way to see Ellipsis' work.

Example of PR review: https://github.com/getzep/zep-js/pull/67#discussion_r1594781...

Example of issue-to-PR: https://github.com/getzep/zep/issues/316

Example of bug fix on a PR: https://github.com/jxnl/instructor/pull/546#discussion_r1544...
This is brilliant. I used a logarithmic cosine scale in college physics for the degradation of a Cavindish balence. It won me both a guest lecture and an easy A.

There are even wilder triple hyperbolic scales on three dimensions.
The dark heart of modern chess
Terrible ad absolutely agree. But just don’t buy the iPad. Apple doesn’t ow e you anything and you don’t owe Apple anything. Get over it.
Some minimally verbal autistic people show signs of written-language familiarity
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304547

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310893

Already past this now, they're apologizing now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40312595
Mars isn’t radioactive. A reactor would still need shielding.
Thank you so much. I'll look into that
Chrome won't let you hide some bookmarks from showing up in the address bar
The same idea, executed better by Blackberry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iQ9oepKScE
The future of astronomy is both on the ground and in space.

There are so many things that you can only conceivably do from the ground. You can build vastly larger telescopes on the ground, you can install far heavier instruments (like cameras and spectrographs) on them, you can upgrade and repair components much more easily. You can build massive arrays of radio telescopes. You get the point.

There are some things you can only do from space, or that are better in space, but saying that everything will be done in space is like saying we only need laptops and don't need datacenters. You need both.
It's complicated. Not all wealth is public. Only the wealth of the individuals who's wealth is tied to publicly traded companies: Musk, Bezos, Zuck, etc.

But we also have all those royal families from Europe and the Middle East, dictators like Putin, etc. whos' wealth are secret and very well hidden through crown estates, trusts, shell companies, all through Caribbean off-shores and often under different names. The best you have for those people is guestimations and some leaks from the Panam Papers to get an idea.
Yes and a lot of people around here already have propane generators because SDGE kept turning off power once or twice a week during the day for the infrastructure upgrades that took years.
i never understand how people use the internet without adblockers, it's a totall different experience. do they just not value their time and mental bandwidth at all? same thing for people who watch TV with commercials every 8 minutes
Hackerverse: Map of 40 million Hacker News posts
Teaching Decision Making with Baseball Examples [PDF]
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40312595
$71M Bitcoin Thief Sends Ethereum to Victim
“customer and other information of systems purchased from Dell between 2017 and 2024.”

Insider or external partner leak? Odd that the start date is 2017.
Given enough time, you can dig out a house foundation with a spoon, power is not an issue here. The less power you have available the slower you work. If your robots wear out, you send more.

The real problem is finding enough time and money to waste on such a fruitless endeavor. If that can't be managed it nullifies the entire problem of digging a hole on Mars since a Mars base is nothing but a waste of time and money. Wasting time and money is table stakes.
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Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40312595
But how do you measure labour productivity.
So not a director reporting to a senior director and a VP reporting to a SVP?
Guitar players like to describe pickups with words like "buttery" or "fat"... like, the fuck does that even mean?

"Tape warmth" seems like one of those memes. Seems that people that use tape like it and its tooling for the purposes of workflow.
Many. Fantasy, 1920s explorers, egyptian, we've had everything :)
Quite. The problem with a visibility timeout is that there can be delays in handling a message, and if the original winner fails to do it in time then some other process/thread will, yes, but if processing has external side-effects that can't be undone then the at-most-once guarantee will definitely be violated. And if you run out of storage space and messages have to get dropped then you'll definitely violate the at-least-once guarantee.
- "The minimum distance to Mars is 33.9 million miles"

The path we're talking about is not this straight-line distance; it's a much longer trajectory that looks closer to this [0] (probably longer than the one in this particular diagram). Part of the reason is vector velocity addition with Earth's orbital velocity; part of it is that the electric acceleration phase is not instantaneous—rather it's very, very slow.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mars-transfer-trajectory...
was also doing that last year with outfinder.co, but like the others said, it's really hard
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Some previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310893

update now:

Apple Apologizes for iPad Pro Ad That 'Missed the Mark'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40312595
It reduces intake but the proportions of nutrients are still bad. So people lose muscle and skeletal weight more than fat.
There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Not sure if you meant the wood side panels are an intentional reference to the Deluge, but if so you may want to know that wood side panels are a common design touch for desktop synths, hearkening back to some of the first compact consumer synths (like the Roland SH-1000), which also had wood side panels.
pedantically, pediatric means child (paithi) doctor (iatros) -ish... Apologies for the transliteration into latin letters.
Are there really a lot of ground based telescope components larger than Starship's fairing?

I'm just not seeing the argument for there being any telescope function that wouldn't be better done in orbit, at Starship payload prices.
A: yeah we're hurting you but if we didn't, B & C would

B: yeah we're hurting you but if we didn't, A & C would

C: yeah we're hurting you but if we didn't, A & B would

I guess it’s nobody’s fault then