skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly off topic, but generally related: Project 2025 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025) is enough to not vote for this mad man (or any Republican for that matter). It's legitimately terrifying. Now you can also just add this article to the other 100's of reasons.
What's up Python? Hatch inline deps, an UI to write Pandas, stand alone builds
Go to a country where they do not use metal detectors in concerts
Stopping climate change, and helping homeless would be at the top of my list, and if those are not up your alley space exploration and AGI seem fun.

For bonus points, you could work on not making us poor folk feel bad for having to work a 9-5! ;)
I had a wonderful idea for this. The trick is to put some truly bizarre requirements on the constructions that when done in volume adds up to an extraordinary place to visit.

For example a single floor dwelling that is the socle of a giant statue depicting a person appropriate for that street. Each must come with a plaque describing who they are and a qr code to a website about them that lives up to some high standard. Think what you will, it is considerably more interesting than "buying" a picture on some blockchain.
I am aware of Wizard and I think it is a pretty interesting Wasm runtime. It would be really cool if it was part of Wasmi's benchmark testsuite (https://github.com/wasmi-labs/wasmi-benchmarks). Contributions to add more Wasm runtimes and more test cases are very welcome.

The non-WASI test cases are only for testing translation performance, thus their imports are not necessary to be satisfied. This would have been the case if the benchmarks tested instantiation performance instead. Usually instantiation is pretty fast though for most Wasm runtimes compared to translation time.
My town has one of these and it seems to work great. I don't love it as a cyclist, but the bike path just goes underneath it, so I absolutely never have to go through it.
Video Scene Detection Embedding Models
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Gardening and either a small farm or animal rescue.
HN discussion on the blog post this article is reporting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40384959
For Mexico City in particular I think the real killer is not cost of desalination but cost of transport. Mexico City is hundreds of miles from the coast and at an altitude of 7,000 feet. That’s a long way to move water, which is an expensive operation energy-wise.
If I'm understanding properly, this would be called a "coop" in NYC. I don't think any other cities in the US have them in significant number.
In case this isn't sarcasm:

1. Based on the article, and the parent comment here, it's not about the pedestrians (in this case).

2. Even if it were, it'd be much more difficult. Tunnels and bridges must be 10x - 100x more red tape and cost than surface-only structures.
There is one near here I use about once a week, and they've gone to lengths to address many of those challenges. Every single lane is flagged well in advance with what it leads to (Interstate North, Street North, Street South, Interstate South), and they also have high barriers so you basically can't see any of the traffic the other ways as you're moving through it.

Still was a few incidents at the start, but the results have been dramatic.
I would have a nut tree orchard and nursery. I love gardening and being outside. If I didn't need to work to support my family I would risk starting a nursery.
Based on what the homepage says, it seems you're handling this by allowing the recipient to get the decryption keys right away, and then also your system will handle the 3-day period. Is that correct?

If so, your entire promise about it being inaccessible to law enforcement falls apart. Law enforcement will demand the encrypted data, and then the person who received the message will likely hand over the decryption key, and that's all they need. Something to keep in mind when making these promises to customers.

I think you should also lean way more into the "final farewell" aspect of it — not necessarily a love letter, but a nice "Goodbye, everybody" message, and focus on how a platform like this can be useful to send personal information, like passwords, to recipients who may need them after you're gone. Everybody is going to die, so you have a huge market, here.

In contrast, focusing on "this is great for serial killers" is very grim, and I don't think any serial killer is going to want to hand over their credit card information and associate that to correspondence they send to the victim of the family. It's also a bit tasteless to use an active missing person case (Madeleine McCann) when promoting your project to potential other criminals.
See but you've hit on exactly the problem, and the article mentions it. It is impossible to know when someone is really dead when some systems critical to life are still operational. Sure, there's a difference between a living person and a corpse, but there's not always a bright line that tells you when the change from one to the other happens.

There are several patients who have been declared brain dead--and even scheduled for organ harvesting--who later recovered. [0]

People who believe as a premise that brain death is real death can reply all day that these people were just misdiagnosed and were never actually brain dead--and maybe that's true!--but when I'm considering myself as potentially the person on the table, we're back to my original point, that we're trusting the doctor to decide whether I'm actually dead, and the risks are way too high that the doctor will be wrong for me to roll those dice.

[0] https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/902143
Interesting data, though I'm not convinced of the value of including Markdown, YAML, JSON, SVG, and similar document formats?
I'd guess that many of the unused condos are borderline condemned, and priced way below median. So, it's possible there are ~20,000 condos that need enough work to make repair uneconomical.

Still, it doesn't sound like that'd make much of a dent in Vancouver's housing supply. (Razing them and building higher density buildings might, though.)
There's one of those north of Las Vegas which is probably the most poorly designed intersection I've ever seen. One direction has a stop sign for the crossover while the other way doesn't and if you aren't familiar with the concept it's kind of hard to figure out exactly what you're supposed to do.

All the other ones I've encountered are OK, lot better than roundabouts IMHO.
The most dangerous writing of all
A quick Google search says t mobile has about half the customers of att. But 75% of the revenue.
Perhaps this is obvious, but embedded systems.
C/C++ are still really the only languages where you can basically take for granted that you'll have functional tooling and something resembling a standard library regardless of what processor you're targeting.
And many embedded projects still reach for C over C++ because a lot of the functionality the C++ adds isn't really ideal for embedded environments anyway, so for team ergonomics it ends up being better to reach for the simpler language that's easier to teach to new devs, etc.
I’d build race cars.
People sometimes can't even make backing tracks for improvisation that are in tune.
50x faster conda environment solving with "sharded" repodata
I would not touch another computer for a very long time.
I'm so tired of this same experiment over and over.
If they used bridges instead of intersections where the roads cross over each other there would be no need for traffic lights and it would further reduce the chance of someone driving into oncoming traffic. The bridges could run on top of each other and further reduce the area needed for the interchange.

I'm sure bridges are more expensive than roads but it seems the obvious choice versus stopping four lanes of traffic at a light.
Can we buy one?

I could see a venue renting these to people for the night. They could outfit them with a kill switch remotely if people abuse it.

Or have them tethered in the VIP areas.
Actually, California population (for example) has fallen by >400k over the last several years. The first falling year was 2019, 2020 saw a small rise (<50k), 2021 saw a fall of >300k, 2022 a fall of ~150k, and 2023 a fall of ~50k.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/states/california...

That includes both births/deaths and in/out migration. Population growth rate has been generally falling since 1990 (except for a peak in 2000) and significantly so since the GFC in 2009. However, prices have skyrocketed.

China has overbuilt their population by 10-100million (yes, and there are even more outrageous numbers) homes over the last 10-15 years, and yet prices in Shanghai/ Beijing/ Shenzhen still exceed NYC or SF by 50%. They have a falling population.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_price_rankings?it...
Hi! OP here. Thank you for pointing this out! Indeed, I do tend to "think out loud" and give a lot of context. Your comment makes me think how I can communicate more directly and to the point, I mean it.

On a side note I see you being downvoted, so I wanted to let you know that I actually appreciate the candor.
Where the Ocean Exhales
Erm, $400 not $300. I guess I typoed that.
The problem is the overloading of the word "safety", not really the approach. If there was some mortal danger stemming from this yeah, maybe more objective oversite is needed. But it's a stunt anyway and there is no danger involved, so whatever.
Four crossing points (two with traffic lights, in this case), whereas for a "normal" interchange, you'd get...also four crossing points.

diverging diamond: https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm...

cloverleaf: https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm...
"What's a computer?"

That said, no, not unless your only computing is consuming streamed media content and social media. If you actually need to type things, make things, etc, it will not work.
Yes, Donald Trump says a lot of things, including that "American service members are 'suckers' and 'losers'", that it's "totally unfair" that the prosecution gets to "argue last" in a criminal trial, and that "injecting" "bleach" will totally cure COVID.

Better question is why this guy is still polling ~50% in the upcoming US presidential election?
The German Wikipedia has a list of such DDIs in various countries (primarily France since they apparently invented them in the 1970s):

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschlussstelle_(Autobahn)#D...
Do you think "big" is a noun? Can you show me a big? Two bigs?
Yeah. Maybe they sent the photographer out to take pictures but didn't really explain the story to them?
American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 is a potential solution.

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/4/committee-chairs-cant...

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/3F5EEA76-5B18...
Some people get a lot of meaning out of helping others; probably worth a try
Your comment is really valuable!

Im really thankfull and I agree with all that u have said.

The title is just to eye catch, Madeleine is the most common case so my title will not influence the media, right?

Thanks one more time!
In an ideal world I obviously wouldn’t have a job.
A depressing reality to this question is to just look at the current crop of billionaires. None of them need money, yet many of them spend their time pursuing more.

I know all of us have these quaint answers about all the noble or fulfilling things we would do, but the data doesn't seem to support that.
Apple Hearing Study rings the alarm on tinnitus
Colleagues & I have always distinguished them as authC and authZ ... less confusing than authN :)
In December there was an expectation that the FED would do 7 interest rate reductions this year. Now we are down to 1 - maybe.

I think a lot of people in the market are still holding on with a strong expectation that the interest rates will go down.

Personally, I think high interest rate environments are better for most people - it compresses asset prices and adds more value to a salary. But it will take some years for that compressions to kick in again.
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>They take you off of life support equipment keeping you alive first.

They absolutely do not do this. You're kept on life support until the very end because it's important to keep the organs oxygenated. You're also not given any anesthetic because it's presumed you're completely brain dead and unable to feel anything. Given our primitive understanding and testing for brain death, I'm not comfortable with that.

Edit: Accounts like this one do not comfort me:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880062/
Brain death presents differently than locked-in syndrome. It’s diagnosed by weaning a patient off drugs that could impair breathing and then seeing if the patient breathes on their own. If they don’t breathe on their own, the assumption is that the brainstem is no longer functioning and that’s what’s meant by “brain death.”
Yep. That's the poison pill. Oh, you don't want to be tracked? Oh well, you have to let us track you so we can treat you "different".

The change we should be pushing for is tracking must be opt-in by default. The way God intended.

Thou shalt ask for consent before doing shit with another's boxen.
I’m sure this will annoy some people, but two hurdles for me in adopting ipV6 is, #1-it’s difficult/impossible to memorize the long v6 addresses versus the easy to remember ipv4 addresses (both public and private addresses I’m referring to).
#2-lack of knowledge/understanding of how V6 addresses route versus a fairly deep knowledge of V4 addresses route/subnets.
I've always meant to hack up a Rete implement but never found the time. Your example here makes it look like a reactive program though, which I have done. In functional reactive programming, you topologically sort the update graph to ensure that nodes are updated in a correct order so no glitches occur, and the reactive graph only updates subgraphs that are affected by any change. Is that basically what Rete is doing?
Posted a few hours ago: Wasmi 0.32 performs a register-based translation which gets great benchmark results. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40499130
Glass half full, or glass half empty? Look at the ones who are doing noble/fulfilling things.
https://alternativeto.net/software/firefox-relay/
The government should start by rolling out IPv6 for its own stuff before telling others what to do. I say this because they need to learn how to do it too/first.
Huh? What are you saying is an exponential function?

x^3 is not an exponential function, in the sense relevant here.
If your camera app has a manual setting, set a 5 second timer and a 30 seconds exposure, then put it on the floor, face down and camera up.

If you want to angle it in a specific direction, a small plastic bag with sand, earth or rice in it will provide a polyvalent, portable and stable support.
Given that countries like the UK use roundabouts incredibly extensively, and they have never been shown to be a cause of increased accident rates, I suspect that your suspicion about this is probably wrong.
At first I saw that this was downvoted and assumed maybe it was a different Chris Ferrie, but from the looks of the blog it's the same person.[0]

Maybe other people thought this didn't add much to the discussion, but I found it interesting.

[0] I am Chris Ferrie, father of four and happy husband. My day job is academic research where I follow my curiosity through the world of quantum physics. My passion for communicating science has led from the most esoteric topics of mathematical physics to more recently writing children’s books.[1]

[1] https://www.csferrie.com/about
I wish them success ... but with a website that looks like this I doubt their engineering efforts. https://mobifree.org (screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/TITC9bN )
I wouldn't work. I would play with my kids, travel and have fun.
> passed regulations forcing big tech companies

More Euro governance, bleh.
I can't figure out what "it" actually is. This blog post reads like something AI generated - what exactly are they talking about?
Hey that's awesome to hear, thanks for trying it out!

This is exactly what I hoped for when building this app. Making a dead simple tool for people who want their records to sound better, but may not have the equipment or knowledge necessary to adjust it.
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There is one in Ohio which I encountered when visiting family. At first, it is confusing and weird, but I imagine you get used to it if you drive through it regularly.

Seemed logical as it was a bridge over an interstate, so to make it easier for entrance/exit ramps. Still wonder how many accidents happened there the first month it was open.
Telecom mergers are handled by the FCC and DOJ, not the FTC, and the FTC has been bringing plenty of other industries than tech.
Got you. I guess it comes from `gleam/otp/task` in the link you posted, the API matches. But it does seem to be missing from eg the language walkthrough.

If I had to guess it'll be because it's a light wrapper around Beam/OTP primitives, and the initial audience for Gleam was probably developers already using the Beam with eg Elixir and familiar with its concurrency already. It definitely looks like it's expanded beyond that though.
Better at extracting monopoly profits from consumers or from the advertisers?
I'd probably just own some kind of cycling adjacent coffee/bicycle shop where I barely do anything but nod towards my workers and talk with everyone who visits.
I think this is more a matter of how numbers are input and lack of specific training, including visual training.

For example, the number 12,345,678 is input to ChatGPT as the three tokens "123" "456" "78", which isn't the best place to start to learn that this is an 8 digit number with specific digit positions!

https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

As a human child you learn about numbers largely visually by pointing to units, tens, hundreds etc, visually aligning them to add, etc. Maybe a multi-modal model, if it was visually trained on chalkboard primary school math, would do better in learning the concept of position based powers of 10, etc.
> You're also not given any anesthetic because it's presumed you're completely brain dead and unable to feel anything.

The linked article is about doing just that. Anesthesia for brain dead organ donors is the standard of care.
Very cool, you are replacing my longest time bookmark bar bookmark of data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
IPv6 is still second-class for a lot of AWS's other services, so unless you treat AWS as just an overpriced VPS/colo it's not going to work all the way through.
China has the confounding issue where it has both poor social security systems and a mistrusted, dysfunctional stock market and financial system, so everyone shoves money into real estate for retirement.

This is not even a new problem. The imperial landed gentry was so named because bureaucrats would shovel their money into land.
>College outsources parts of this, it's one last filter to weed out "the weirdos" - the graduates come prepackaged, indebted and pliable, ready to be slotted in and adsorbed by the system.

As counterintuitive as it may sound, but the entire point of college is to commoditize labor according to a specialization.
I’d build handcrafted furniture, millwork, etc. give it away. Help others in the community / area with projects. Sail, grow more food, spend more time reflecting, staring at clouds, watching the ecosystem in the grass etc.
Not the size, but the temperature. If you have to cool to a microkelvin for a certain number of qbits to retain coherence, how low do you need to go to add one more qbit, and how much energy will that require?

My thermodynamic instinct says that the cooling effort required rises with the resolving power — which is exponential with the number of qbits. But it's just instinct, not grounded very well in science or engineering.
It's ridiculous because a past civilization wouldn't have spread iron-60 all over the planet the way a supernova would have.

But a fairly advanced civilization could have existed in a fairly local part of the planet that we don't much explore (think of the Sahara desert) and so haven't found the remains of, or it could be buried or under quite a bit of water (if it developed during a glacial period).
That’s a great idea. In a way, HN is that for many papers in topics that the HN community resonates with

Are there other communities that also post scientific papers and comment publicly? Even if the community isn’t exclusively about science?
> There are a million EVs already out there yet I’m the only one on my street of 100 houses with one

You have a driveway (I assume) so you can make use of it but would you still buy one if you had a flat?

Still can't overcome the fact that (compared to ice cars and spec being somewhat equal) EV's are way more expensive to buy, more expensive to insure [0], more expensive to repair [0] (especially after a bump/crash), have less resale value than ICE cars, burn forever if set on fire.

ICE cars are not going away any time soon and gov trying to ram it down our throats will just cost billions and will turn people off (I don't want one, for instance). The car industry is pushing back too... reality is setting in.

For me, if I had to pick the primary reason why I think they're dead is price. My car, for example, was an 8 yo Hyundai Santa Fe 2.2 Diesel with 80k on it when I bought it. I paid 11k for it 2 years ago. I own it outright. It's 10 years old now and you wouldn't know it.

I've paid £900 for tyres, tracking and aircon recharge and about £160 a month on fuel since I bought it. It's had 2 MOT's too but didn't have to get anything fixed.

You just can't get equivalent EV's for that kind of money and for many, that kills them stone dead.

[0] - https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/361588/why-electric-car-i...
There’s just so many things that have piled on the smartphone train that sometimes it is necessary. The recent blog about turning an iPhone into a dumb phone is realistically the best bet for a regular person - and if you do the sign in to iTunes / don’t sign in to iCloud, you get access to these (realistically. sometimes mandatory) apps
Leaked OpenAI Docs Show Sam Altman Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees
Math. I'd do math and let my curiosity take me wherever it goes in this vast field
Attributed to Yogi Berra, I just don’t think it fits the situation here very well.