skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair enough. The health system alone is pretty gruesome, and it's easy to get attached to disposable pawns if you treat them like Sims. A few runs of trying to save "everyone" is soul-crushing enough as-is. Horrible possibilities aside, it just takes a mature mindset to process and respond to every threat or disaster that happens to your colony circumstantially.

That said, I think it's a wonderful system of skill expression that also rewards the opposite style of play. Running a prison pretty much requires the same work as a greenhouse or hotel. Stockpiling drinks and decadent meals can be more lucrative than mass-manufacturing coke. Organ harvesting looks crude and unnecessary once... well who am I kidding, organ harvesting is always lucrative unless you don't get raids.

Perhaps RimWorld isn't for kids. But for teens and adults, it's kinda like a smorgasbord of all the best strategy game concepts rolled into one. And all that being said, the game still isn't offensively explicit or depraved. If you have a specific goal in mind (like the Royalty DLC questline), your run can stay pretty focused without resorting to cannibalism or humanleather parkas. I think the war-crimes reputation of RimWorld turns a lot of people away from the more fulfilling and benign gameplay loops. You can play it like the Sims, if you accept that your neighborhood will be raided by offended tribes and locals. And that your Sims can get carcinoma.
Oh man people will argue about anything. You had to change "dropping things out of a window in midtown Manhattan" (fairly high up as we see) to "dropping things" even to argue :)

> the details would affect whether someone [sic] is illegal

Yep, that's how we apply laws.

Who cares? I assume most people here are grey/blackhats (rainbow in this case).
That's still not really a hypothesis that connects to TFA as we're still basically proposing "well, the water just flowed down from higher up!" Put it this way, Snowball Earth is not itself a hypothesis for where'd the snow come from to make the snowball.

Also doomsday preppers live on the scale of a human lifetime -- you do agree that geological events don't really factor in?
No.

The proofs for the security security of most of the methods of public/private key systems are weaker than "you can't reverse this hash function".

They are still robust in the face of computers that may physically exist in foreseeable futures. Elliptic Curve Encryption was adopted for being post-quantum twenty years ago and more work since then I haven't followed.

The person I am arguing with is imagining a future pessimistic beyond what most would consider reasonable.
Thanks! I was one of the 10k and I’ve been a daily HN user for a long time!
Charities can hide their percentages when they self-deal with people on their board. It's highly unethical.

Wreaths Across America is notorious for this. All the money they raise goes to the wreath making company that the board members own. When they put out RFPs, as per legal requirements, Worcester Wreath Company is always sole-source provider.
https://popular.info/p/the-truth-about-wreaths-across-americ...

Worcester Wreath Company lost its contract with LL Bean due to their bad busines practices. Wreaths Across America was created by Morril Worcester as a way to sell more wreaths. It's a grift all the way down.

https://files.mainelaw.maine.edu/library/SuperiorCourt/decis...
>I find your use of language here very confusing.

"Valuable" as in how most people use the word: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/valuable

>2

>a : having desirable or esteemed characteristics or qualities; valuable friendships

>b : of great use or service; valuable advice

Artists do not provide valuable work, but doesn't mean their work has no value. Not providing valuable work simply means their work is of (very) low value.

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>But you don't have to use those particular Internet channels in order to use the Internet.

There has been a substantial centralization and consolidation of the internet to varying degrees and for better or worse, both on the front and backends. The frontend centralization in particular is not being received well in recent times.

>Those effects have been around as long as humans have, ... You can't fix human nature by discarding useful tools because some people misuse them.

I agree.
Not my field, so assumptions and simplifications follow. Animal feed mostly grows from absorbing carbon dioxide, not methane. Cows (and other grazing animals) produce net positive methane because their gut microbiota ferment the animal feed, producing methane. So, to keep methane in balance, something in the local grazing biome needs to absorb methane. Otherwise, cows can increase proportional atmospheric methane.
> and the pre-1985 council didn't have a mayor.

True but it had a council leader.

> Personally I'd enthusiastically vote for a return to the pre-2000 system as it's not at all clear to me what these people do for us or what we gain from giving them all this money.

A failing on your part. About half of it is TFL.

Budget
https://www.london.gov.uk/media/100391/download?attachment
>Most Americans do not want these big cars.

That's patently false.
I was recently poking around ~/.local/bin/ when I noticed that it had dozens of executables that I don't remember putting there. Mostly pyside things, but some other scripts as well. I really had to open each to jog my memory, especially about which scripts I had written myself and which were by other people.

The idea about starting my own scripts' names with a comma would have made the job go much faster, and I'm sure would have helped to job some memories about why each script was written, before opening it.
> And the average pickup is probably shrinking right now, not growing - for example, there are fewer and fewer models with 8" beds, and 5.5" is the new standard (instead of 6").

For non-Americans: While literally writing truck bed lengths being 8 inches (8") and 5.5 inches (5.5"), the text means 8 feet (8', 2.44m) and 5.5 feet (5.5', 1.68m). Americans don't always remember which of the " and ' is which, so they use these interchangeably (and according to the movie This is Spinal Tap, so do the English).
We have millions of devices in the field older than that on the same D-cell LiSOCl2 battery they shipped with. Some of them even take magnetic measurements with powered excitation!
For any if the problems mentioned in the parent's post, ARM would not be any any better. Failure to enter sleep is a software problem, usually not a hardware one. If anything it would be worst; note how most of these posts tend to look at firmware sleep modes with rosy glasses.
r/forth is a subreddit - so https://<reddit url>/r/forth
Rust has a very pronounced hype/ marketing/PR culture.
> If I cover your eyes and put a teacup on your open palm so you can't see the colour or feel the size, _what are you holding_?

I obviously failed to communicate what I was saying.

If you give me a teacup and tell me to imagine I can see it, I have to know what it looks like before I can form that image.

This is all just a failure of communication because to me, part of the definition of having an image of something in your mind is that you know what it looks like.

Since knowing the colours and shapes are required to form an image, if you don't have those, you don't have an image.

Imagining a teacup is possible without imagining you can see a teacup.
People keep repeating this but isn’t the case. The smallest cars from budget automakers are their cheapest cars and they’ve almost all been discontinued for lack of sales. I know, I drive one. And people look at it as a joke, they’d never buy one, and they think it’s hilarious I do. I’d buy another for my commute vehicle when this one diesbecause I do like it but Honda discontinued it for miserable sales numbers.

Americans by and large want SUVs at a minimum the size of CRV or RAV4, or else a pickup. At any rate with hybrid vehicles getting 40mpg is very attainable. I have a three row SUV that gets this. And I bought it because I really wanted a much more comfortable vehicle I could fit more humans and stuff in.

Other comments addressed this, but it’s also absolutely bananas to claim trucks are as cheap as small cars in the US. Even the F-150 quoted in the comments which is already more than 10k more than the car is quoted as the base model that basically doesn’t exist outside of work fleets. You’d be lucky to find a truck with 100k miles for 15k.
There might be something older buried in there somewhere, but this was the oldest file in ~:

41493 Feb 1 2004 linus-says-linux-english.au

I thought it was funny that it is an audio file of how Linus says Linux 8-)
Can we use Generative AI to build a global hive mind?
You have a good ear, you are hearing the small errors inherent in "twelve-tone equal temperament"[1] which is a compromise between numerical ideals and practical instrument-making.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperament
>We observed that exposure to road traffic noise at school, but not at home, was associated with slower development of working memory, complex working memory, and attention in schoolchildren over 1 year

Pretend I'm dumb, why is this not a bad thing?

>Why not just sound proof class rooms? Seems way easier than entirely reengineering traffic in a dense urban environment.

I see it completely the other way. Reductions in the maximum allowed speed in the direct area around the school to archive the target noise maximum would be far more efficient than sound mitigation for the school.
Thanks for the write-up.

How does this fit into the broader NFC ecosystem? What do other big metro systems like Omny, Clipper, Smartrip etc use? Apple and Google seem to implement some NFC protocols in their devices but in a much more programmable way, how does that work? Is the protocol used in credit cards related at all? And how do these relate to Felica, the system used everywhere in Japan (which was in the news for a while because the factory where they made the chips burned down and they had a chip shortage - giving Apple an opening to move into the market with iPhone NFC)?
Is there a video that demonstrates the difference?
This feels like a study with many confounding factors.
Then what of the others, like Kingett, who commented:

"I think we are all well aware of the issues caused by big tech but I never seen such irony as The open source community. Well, if your system isn’t working, you could use the system that you can’t use to contribute code on the system that you can’t use."

What of the people who, because of Microsoft's increasingly user-hostile system, decide to check out some Linux-based OS only to find it doesn't have a screen reader, preventing them from that transition? (That's Prater's point.) Only a fraction of them will be skilled enough to fix the screen reader - assuming they are not blocked by the lack of a broken screen reader.

Is this statement from 2006 still true?: "Red Hat retains legal liability for the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is not a separate legal entity or organization. The Fedora Project receives a tremendous amount of resources (people, money, infrastructure, etc.) from Red Hat."

If you are paid to work on a project, you are not a volunteer.

Guess there's no profit for IBM to fix things either? In any case, why should profit be the primary motive to support accessibility on a FOSS system?
The corn syrup thing is a US-only thing, isn't it?

The rest of the world seems to use sugar from beets/sugar cane/coconuts?

Correct me if I'm wrong, I base the above statements on a rant by an American coworker about how the corn lobby managed to somehow force American food producers to exclusively use relatively high calory corn syrup as a sweetener as opposed to much lower calory sweeteners.
Gum with sugar is bad for your teeth. Gum without sugar has xylitol in it, which is good for your teeth, but may increase your risk of heart attacks and strokes due to it promoting blood clotting[1].

1: https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2024/06/06/cleveland-cl...
I was under impression that only a few prop trading and HFT firms in London pay around the 300k mark, with FANG-type companies offering roughly half. Start-ups slightly below that but with generous stock options, if that’s your bag. Maybe I’m miscalibrated?
Maybe inside of a regular electric car, but the worst noise pollution in cities comes from cars and motorcycles with modified exhaust and incessant honking. Cars are loud and that's a problem by itself, but a car with a bad driver is exponentially worse than one with a normal driver.
DIY PCB Method?
TIL. The burger icon (LF) was invented in 1968
The author is complaining about the 2K of the minisforum being on the lower end. Most lenovo tablets/convertibles still ship with 1080p or worse screen except for the >3k$ variants.

Lenovo is, for some reason, a friggin joke when it comes to screen resolution and quality. Their consumer laptops tend to have better resolutions on-paper than their pro lines. Good luck finding anything better than 1080p on 12 inches...

I am perfectly aware of the non-Apple tablet market and I also think Surface is literally the best there is, as crappy MS is. Because no one else is even trying. The screen, aspect ratio, writing feel, builtin kickstand, ...
> Python > Lua > PHP > Ruby > JavaScript > Perl > Bash

Those are different languages, with different characteristics. Perhaps the only two that can be directly compared as a 100% replacement to another are Ruby and Python.
> The snowcapped peak of Mount Rainier, which towers 4.3 kilometers (2.7 miles) above sea level in Washington state, has not produced a significant volcanic eruption in the past 1,000 years.

Is it possible that other nearby eruptions (St Helens) are releasing the pressure that would otherwise cause an eruption at Rainier?
Electric cars start and accelerate noiselessly - both very common activities in the inner city driving.
I saw an NFC chip that has 512 bytes of eeprom. Talks to a micro via I2C and has an interrupt that can be used to wake it up.

I think it's a M24LR04E.

Costs like $0.50.

I think these could be useful for devices where you have a limited amount of data you want to read or transfer. Like why have bluetooth and all the crap that entails when all you want to do is configure a device once.

Advantage of a separate IC is you can use it with whatever microcontroller development stack you have working.
The Battle of Algiers
I have found the same thing with my wife. I'm a technical person, but I'm extremely bad with tools and such, including the ticket thing. If no one shows me how to use it I'll probably figure out a way to insert it somewhere. My wife won't have any problem with this and other small tools.

The same thing with IKEA: I always rely on the manual and just blindly follow the instructions, and gets very frustrated if the instructions miss one step.
This article definitely flipped my "let's assume this is bullshit until proven otherwise" bit. That bit really ought to be on by default, come to think of it.

I think about this quote when reading articles like this (to say nothing of the research it draws on):

> The best way to identify sketchy scientific claims is by their level of abstraction.... if a new paper claims that attractive people are more (or less) generous than ugly people, I would be highly suspicious. “Generosity” is a very abstract and nebulous quality, and I would want to know how it was measured...The profound abstractions of everyday life—happiness, relationships, sleep, nutrition, motivation, pain, belonging—are the concepts most vulnerable to scientific abuse. (https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-trust-undermines-scienc...)

The phrase "hurts children's brains" seems almost ludicrously abstract to me, so it's a little suspicious from the get go.

Then I get to their examples. The example of a train track literally running next to a classroom is one thing—I can see that being a problem—but it's a bit different than being next to a city street, which is where the article immediately pivots. Is the average classroom so loud that people physically cannot concentrate? Quoting studies that say that loud classrooms affect student performance doesn't demonstrate that most classrooms are too loud to concentrate, and that anything needs to be done about it. And even if classrooms in Barcelona are all too loud to concentrate, that says nothing about classrooms anywhere else—not even anywhere else in Spain, let alone the entire world. Blegh.
My point is this: if I tell you to close your eyes and form the image of a teacup in your mind, images certainly have colour and shape, so either your image does too, or you don't have an image. It's really just down to a differing definition of image.

If you ask me to imagine seeing a maze with hundreds of turns, rather than saying I have a nonspecific image, I'll say I'm having trouble forming a concrete image.

If you ask people to imagine a teacup, some will imagine seeing one, others will imagine holding one, others will have no images or feelings in their mind.

I'm pretty sure, like others are, a lot of this is just down to ambiguous or poorly specifies language.
No: The problem is directors who love mumbling, audio people who have no idea how to record and balance audio properly, and media players that can't or aren't configured to properly downmix audio tracks as appropriate.

It is absolutely possible and honestly standard fare to have properly balanced audio playing on the $1 tin cans found in TVs and laptops.
1/2: Grass turns CO2 and water into sugar and oxygen, cow eats grass and turns sugar and oxygen in to methane and CO2 and more cow.

(Via intermediary step of some of their stomachs being bioreactors filled with bacteria, oh the irony).

3: Sure, but demand is still going up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beef_production_1961_2021...

4: I'm not sure I follow the question, but methane has an atmospheric lifetime of about 12 years, so it would probably fall, but I'm not sure how much by

5: Some mixture of CO2, methane, and carbon sequestration; at this scale it's worth considering which crops are grown and how they are used precisely to minimise that kind of impact
Does Apple have exclusive deals, investments or IP licensing with tablet display vendors? Apple is also the only vendor with 4:3 aspect ratio tablet displays.
Nothing to come on about, OP said lack of AC makes you more efficient. I still don't understand how.
Because of this quality issue, I always wondered how people who rip Netflix content handle this, since they often offer 2160p Dolby Atmos versions of movies or even TV show episodes for download.

How do they maintain the quality long enough to rip the content? When I used Netflix years ago, I could barely keep a constant 1080p stream at times.
There are many different types of RNA with different purposes. They all act in concert to produce proteins. mRNA encodes proteins, tRNA brings the proteins into transcription, rRNA actually acts as a protein itself to help drive this machine.

DNA is environmentally sensitive and it can be altered. Your entire genome is not being produced all the time. Different proteins are copied based upon the conformal structure of DNA which changes based upon the cellular environment. The entire structure is copied often and no one particular set of DNA in your body is "the original."

It has aspects of long term storage but then it's utilized in a way that long term storage almost never is. And all cells get their own copy which may be unique in several ways. So RAM seems like a better metaphor to me.
That’s one part, but the other massive part is noise from freeways and the baseline white noise from faster roads, where most of the noise comes from tires. EVs are not better (and typically worse since they’re heavier) — the only way to fix it is 1. No freeways in city centers. 2. Fewer cars. 3. Noise barriers. 4. Asphalt that reduces tire noise (uncommon in North American cities, where concrete is used to improve the lifespan).

I can’t use my balcony in a downtown city center because the baseline tire noise from the highway is so loud, and that’s without the obnoxious exhaust
Some Rust cargo files modified 1970, 1973 and some Chrome extensions modified 1980. Suspicious. Actual old stuff I recognise and copied down the years:

* 1980 STOMP.MOD music file[1]

* 1987 - hitchhik.exe the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure game.

* 1988 - QuickBasic 4.5

* 1990 - a bunch of Screamtracker S3M/Mod/XM music files.

* 1991 - Moneky Island original SCUMM game.

The oldest which I created is some QuickBasic code which says 1999 but I think it was a couple of years older. A drawing and some Python and C# from 2002. Looks like my code from the mid 1990s and any school essays of the 1990s are long gone. About the oldest emails I have are 2002 as well.

[1] "stomp da diko-tek #hoffman / mono formerly known as.. dreamfish! / mono this is true minimal techno. this track started with a sample from retro dna - mix 2. i took a 2 beat loop, contured, distored & filtered it to create a clanky hard-edged sound (sample 3). the rest you'll have to work out yer self. surf the mono website www.scene.org/mono". That dates back before I was born.
Tesla's are becoming the new junked refrigerators:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_death

I did just read an article where the trapped person, on calling tesla support from inside the locked car, was told there is a "secret" mechanical release under the arm rest. I guess they only want those in teh know to be able to escape 8-/

Personally, I just bought a used Nissan Leaf, with the mechanical door handles, and other mechanical buttons and controls as one of the primary reasons. Putting everything in a touchscreen in a car should be illegal. Just like electric door handles.
Ok, I’ve spent the last 18 years working in hospitals, and the stats in my post are accepted in nursing research. Very open to hear where I’m wrong.
Are these the same bike lanes that start and stop randomly and are often just the shoulder of a 45-mi/h road with a bike, and implied middle finger, painted on?
Given how Qualcomm is responsible for ARM MS Surfaces being "not really compliant" with even what Microsoft mandated...

... I won't hold my breath for Qualcomm to be bringer of SystemReady. I might end up too blue.
Making Small Talk: Phatic Communication
When traffic is really slow, lane splitting is really useful. A splitting motorcycle can easily be moving 2x to 3x the speed of cars sitting in a jam.

However, I agree that lane splitting gets more and more dangerous as traffic starts flowing faster.
I wish I could get back the five minutes it took to read that stupid article. The argument for the second half is “his report seemed really technical to us and nobody has ever cited it in the four years since it was published so it’s a massive conspiracy by every scientist ever because everything he said was so right.”

Either every single company is wholesale lying about key parts of their processes and outputs…or this is just another hitpiece by Big Ag with exaggerated claims.
But decoders for e.g. ARM are not free either, right? Or am I misunderstanding something?
The short version is it's because of steep subsidies on corn as a crop. We have tons of the shit, and artificially cheap at that. It goes into foods as itself, foods as corn syrup, corn flour, and a substantial amount is converted to ethanol for fuel.
> ARM MS Surfaces being "not really compliant" with even what Microsoft mandated...

2024 Microsoft Surface?
I switched to Vim – and it took me only 6 years to learn it
I dont think users care about sofwtare design.

At most they might care about non funcional requirements (e.g. security and performance)