skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Sinosphere food of Chinese origin can be viewed with suspicion due to the known environmental degradation of Chinese farmland, as well as the many food adulteration scandals.

Malaysia makes a lot of sense; there is a lot of cuisine overlap, it is right next door, and Singapore actually started its modern life by getting kicked out of Malaysia. (That whole saga is interesting; as far as I know Singapore may be the rare example of a country unwillingly becoming independent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_in_Malaysia)
SEO: Savior or Saboteur of the Internet's Integrity?
I was referring to Switcher, from 1985, which I believe ran on 128k Mac's. I was referring to Switcher because it set the user experience patterns and expectations for how app switching should work that led to multifinder and OSX per-app switching patterns.

The Mac OS has always been an app-first experience (leading users to tend to talk about the name of the app they are using) where Windows has always been a document-first experience (leading users to talk about the file type of the document they are opening). Apps and Documents are obviously both important, so this is a big of a ying and yang thing where it's clearly two sides of the same coin, and yet they lead to a bias to talking about, for example, keynote, which is an app, and to talking about PowerPoint decks, which are documents (again, a bias, not a totality).
Unrest in Taiwan?
It’s noticeable if you’re used to the instant response of Oyster, but we’re talking about a few hundred extra milliseconds. Not something that bothers you once you’re accustomed to it.

It’s still fast enough that it will read my Apple Watch before the gate starts to close from the passenger in front of me.

One saved trip to an Oyster top-up machine will make up for a lifetime of contactless NFC latency!
Because that would require a completely different way to read tickets than are used for stored value cards. Every ticket machine needs way to print which is less reliable than writing NFC chip. It is likely that printing a ticket costs more than NFC. Every fare reader needs two sensors, one NFC and one optical. The optical ones are going to be slower. People are going to get confused about which reader to use.
There are so many other things for China to care about. This is like asking if we have to worry about nuclear retaliation from liking the wrong post on Twitter.

Taiwan regularly imports arms from other nations, and hosts US diplomats on a yearly basis. They have access to American social media not because they're dissenters, but because China has to forcibly stop them from doing otherwise.
I have had a somewhat dystopian idea (on the surface level) that is actually much more humane than our current systems.

Why don't we work, via CRISPR or aggressive evolution, to get to the point where something like a cow is much closer to a meat worm? Imagine if we could get the brain down to something where it's basically like a mollusk, to remove most of the ethical issues with slaughtering something as sentient as a cow or a pig. Then imagine if we could breed away the legs and such, and get this thing to the point that it's just a long tube of the most tender cuts of meat. Whole worm of ribeye and fillet. And it can just be suspended in a factory, hundreds of meat worms high, with food being pumped in their mouth, and excrement being swept up.

Again, sounds insane, but I want my meatworm future.
There are a lot of highways in American inner cities.
Zero Trust before it became buzzword-ized!
i was reading an interview once & the researcher, if i ain't mistaken, was excited more about the new possibilities of vegetal cultures than animal; do we have any movement towards that already or it's still stuck @ "not enough market"?
I know lots of problems with lab grown meats are that:

1.) they have no immune system and are therefore incredibly finicky when it comes to infection. meat worms can still have an immune system

2.) they don't produce the necessary hormones for growth. meat worms can still produce hormones

3.) hard to get the proteins and fats to grow together. meat worms would absolutely love to be fat
Sounds like a you problem. I've been using it productively for photo editing and web design for two decades+.
These have a sorcerer like quality in my mind. When I was a kid and playing these games, at some point I realized other people where the authors of these games. I tried to make my own but I didn’t know much programming at the time, all I had were the magazines I was typing out from and whatever was coming out was paling in comparsion with commercial games at the time. It was pure sorcery in my mind.
Bro, it's our illogical measurement system and we'll be as illogical as we want with how we notate it. Go compare cubic centimeters to milliliters or whatever.
I have the HD plan, and generally watch upscaled on an ATV 4k. Haven't noticed anything with their encoding at all.

When people say "refreshing their browser" it sounds like they're watching on a PC. That's probably the worst platform to watch on these days, from a market share point of view. Just saying.
Tailscale is fantastic at least for personal use.
That is a flaw of Singapore's system. Other places let people use contactless credit cards without any delay.

London has been using contactless for a while.
The United States accounts for approximately 55 percent of the global consumption of high-fructose corn syrup.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/495946/consumption-share...
No, they are fighting because the government wants it. Ukrainian men have no choice: they can't fly away from the country, they can't safely walk on the streets because the special patrol with take them to the military registration and enlistment office without consent. But some of them are really do.

Stop repeating your propaganda.
If people can manage the existence of both an optical scanner and contactless at the self checkout grocery store, this is way overblown.

A ticket needs to be printed anyways, the single use ticket with chip does not come from thin air.
For what it's worth, you've convinced me that my beloved box plots need to be explained if I want to use them again.

The SVG you've provided clearly shows that the box plot splits the data in 4. The interquartile range (IQR) is clearly marked and it even has a comparison for what the standard deviation (variance) measure would be.

Secondly, if the data truly came from a normal distribution, there are no outliers. Outliers are data points which cannot be explained by the model and need to be removed. Unless you have a good reason to exclude the data points they should be included. This is why I like the IQR and the median, they are not swayed by a few wide valued data points. The 1.5*IQR rejection filter I think is lazy and unjustified. Happy to discuss this point further as it is a bug bear of mine.
How to do the jhanas
Those are frequently Highways in name only. If people are doing 2-3 mph in stop and go traffic it might as well have stop lights. Thus the frequent use of bypasses so people on long trips can actually get someplace quickly even if the distance increases.
News at 11!
I haven't used the .NET Core version but the old one 100% had a view to see the generated sql.
I agree in that they are much more convenient for tourists and occasional users, but when living in a city and taking public transit every day, I actually prefer stored-value cards, as there are still some advantages that arguably make them a better fit for the transit use case:

- Full offline support (i.e. both the reader and payment device don't need network connectivity), making the system more resilient

- Symmetric cryptography and highly optimized transaction flow, making reads more reliable and allowing faster customer flows through transit gates

- Upfront transparency about charges, monthly passes, capping etc. – you immediately see your balance left after tapping.

- No "transaction spam". This is more on my specific transit provider (NYC MTA), but I'm really not a fan of getting an individual credit card charge for every. single. tap. It can't be cheap in terms of fees for the operator either! At least other systems, like TfL in London, aggregate taps over a day, but it's still not great.

Singapore's public transit agency recently attempted to switch from a stored value based model to an exclusively account based one, but had to backpedal quickly due to public outrage about the move.

Ideally, a system supports both payment methods: Open-loop payment cards for infrequent users, and stored-value cards (both physical and in digital wallets) for heavy users and anybody else that prefers them. But realistically, maintaining both is too much of a burden for many transit agencies.
Marijuana tax revenue is a big one as well. They pulled the same bait and switch in the state of Nevada
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700343
I’ve never seen them skip a step.

Basically all other flat pack furniture I’ve ever bought has, but none of the dozen or so ikea items I’ve assembled. It’s part of why I only buy flat pack if it’s ikea, now.
An author at Ars Technica has been trying to push the term "confabulation" for this
So beyond "make the schools themselves" quieter, some analysis of "traffic noise where the kids live" vs "non-traffic noise" would be useful here.

There is a lot in the article about negative effects of all sorts of unwanted noise.

But it seems like it would be just as easy to go to "this is why we need well-built schools and well-insulated cars and big parking lots and sprawling low-density housing so the kids can have quiet at home too" as to "get rid of cars" from this.
> if we have to worry about nuclear retaliation from liking the wrong post on Twitter

Fair enough.-

(Not TwitterX perhaps ...

... but - maybe someday liking the wrong Truth Social post ...
No problem. And you’re right it’s never simple.

If cats weren’t there, native animals would be doing the predation. We enable cats to out-compete other animals. Islands make it easier to measure the impact but obviously this plays out similarly in all places. We like cats, help them where we can, have devoted much of our internet bandwidth to them, and there’s no way that is a positive for other animals in the ecosystem. The level of impact is debatable but it’s not anywhere near positive.

I lived in South Africa. Tons of cats in cities and very few species of birds. Go to a reserve with “proper” wildlife and there are tons of bird species and no cats. They’re utterly out-competed when the playing field is level.

Going back to the article, if we feed pigeons they’ll increase in number until we get a new equilibrium. So our current state isn’t an act of god, and by doing more of the same we’ll just exacerbate the problem. Humane management is surely a better idea, like the fake eggs approach described by another commenter. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40771093)
Not inherently. Just unexplained (and many think, with good reasons, unexplainable) by current physics.
Do they still issue single use tickets for transfers between the Heathrow Terminals?
The technology has great potential to blow some people's minds... up.
Not a big issue with evs, most use regenerative breaking.
They are way ahead of you: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-guided_missile
What privacy implication? You already buy the NFC with a credit or debit card so if they want to track the card use they can.
Is it not possible to top up a digital Oyster card on an iPhone or Apple Watch via an app or Apple Wallet?

The Japanese transit cards that are supported by Apple Pay have that option, and it's arguably the best of both worlds.
I used up the balance of my Oyster card last time I was in London and just started using my credit card. If there's a difference I didn't notice.
A bit of an aside on this. The last 30 years or so have been amazing for cutting down engine noise levels. In trying to squeeze out ever last drop of efficiency they have also reduced the noise levels.

Nowadays the only times I really notice them is either when idling or something from before the 90's is driving past.
Yeah I wish I could buy the one way tickets there. I dont have an opus card.
I haven’t really grokked this work yet well enough to critique it, but to answer your question:

Yes you could incorporate a semantic equivalence dataset into your training but:

1) when you have a bunch of ‘clear-cut’ functions (“achieve good AUC on semantics”) and you mix them to compensate for the weaknesses of a complicated model with an unknown perceptual objective, things are still kinda weird. You don’t know if you’re mixing them well, to start, and you also don’t know if they introduce unpredictable consequences or hazards or biases in the learning.

2) on a kinda narrowly defined task like: “can you determine semantic equivalence”, you can build a good model with less risk of unknown unknowns (than when there are myriad unpredictable interactions with other goal scoring measures)

3) if you can apply that model in a relatively clear cut way, you also have fewer unknowns unknowns.

Thus, carving a path to a particular reasonable heuristic using two slightly biased estimators can be MUCH safer and more general than mixing that data into a preexisting unholy brew and expecting its contribution to be predictable.
were there .mod tracks before 1987? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_(file_format)
Wilsonic is a microtonal tool by Ervin Wilson, https://wilsonic.co/
The homicide rate in the U.S. is triple that of other G7 countries.[0]

0. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1374211/g7-country-homic...
That’s not true in Montreal if you buy a single ride you get a paper ticket with a magnetic stripe that you feed into a completely different reader.
Many of the systems that account/payment card based ticketing is now replacing used to allow cash top-ups for their stored value cards.
No it doesn't. It can. "I and a group of dads" creates disassociation where there may be more association to the group than their status as dads.
I’ve occasionally gotten to watch transit workers open up and service the magnetic stripe card readers in the BART. Those things are complicated. It may well cost less to outright replace a contactless reader module on a fare gate than to service a magnetic stripe ticket machine once. Even an Adafruit PN532 board is only $40.
With a requisite amount of Tsk-ing I hope.
just let people use their phones to open the gate
Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Jam.dev
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Sorry just caught up with this.. 10 billion cores! That is astounding. I remember when Intel passed the 1 billion processor mark in early 2000's and that took them about 25 years to do.

It will only be a matter of time until the performance starts to catch up. I have seen many argue that "it will never catch up" but I have heard that before for many ISA's over the years.
Not really. My last trip to the UK I ended up--because of a complicated trip--with more of a bag than I should really have had on public transit. I was actually a bit embarrassed but a few folks were super-helpful with tube stations that were, shall we say, not exactly mobility friendly.
That's how medium does it, except they name it claps (or applause or something like that). I always kinda liked that about it
Little odd too, since the keyboard is supported.
That’s exactly how online top-ups, and credits/refunds, work with the Oyster card system.

In the old days you’d nominate a specific station, and the credit would be transferred to the card the next time you tapped in at that station.

But now days I don’t think you need to do that: presumably it maintains the balance primarily on the server side now rather than on card.
Definitely there are some exciting advances in vegetal protein, as well as fungal protein. It’s still difficult, but (in my opinion) the difficulty there is the inertia of consumer tastes, and the food distribution business. They’re not trying to fight things like thermodynamics and cellular biology, which are far more formidable opponents.

Two examples of non-meat protein advances: fungal-derived cheeses, and protein extracted from duckweed.
Yeah, I don't know many people who spend +6hours straight in front of a computer without taking a break. This can't possibly be healthy.
Haha, thanks! This is why I love HN.
The immediate push to rely on an external library every single step of the way is quite boring! So much of it is outdated and redundant, by people who don't even know the standards have changed and that library is quite unnecessary now (except maybe for very niche cases).

There's this allergic reaction to using your own tools, which I find strange. Yes, I get it, don't reinvent the wheel. However, we're not reinventing the wheel! We're using standards that exist and provide what the libraries do.
In case you're interested, there's a fascinating recent book about the effects roads & road development have on their surroundings (and the planet at large): _Crossings_ by Ben Goldfarb [1]

[1] https://www.bengoldfarb.com/crossings
The lie occurs when information which is known to be false or its truthfulness can not be assessed is presented as useful or truthful.
Didn't realize that! That's one snippet I can maybe eliminate now. (As to why I didn't know: the first thing in the RDoc for Kernel#system is still "see the docs for Kernel#spawn for options" — and then Kernel#spawn doesn't actually have that one, because it doesn't block until the process quits, and so returns you a pid, not a Process::Status. I stopped looking at the docs for Kernel#system itself a long time ago, just jumping directly to Kernel#spawn...)

But come to think of it, if Kernel#system is just doing a blocking version of Kernel#spawn → Process#wait, then shouldn't Process#wait also take an exception: kwarg now?

And also-also, sadly IO.popen doesn't take this kwarg. (And IO.popen is what I'm actually using most of the time. The system! function above is greatly simplified from the version of the snippet I actually use these days — which involves a DSL for hierarchical serial task execution that logs steps with nesting, and reflects command output from an isolated PTY.)
Are you speedrunning for touristic spots? The average for most cities I know feel way too short!
That would be one of the worst options. Finding a working tape drive in the future will be inconvenient enough that nobody will bother
This is exactly right. I saw enormous batches turn to bacterial sludge on a regular basis, which is exactly what you’d expect even in very clean environments. The fundamental problem is that bacteria are specifically evolved to infiltrate and infect; and, they multiply orders of magnitude faster than vertebrate muscle cells.
Gee, perhaps people enjoying spicy food tend to eat more of it?
Every time I downloaded freedos, I couldn't do anything once I started the box. There was no built-in software or demos. Just about every Linux distribution included one or many demos. The question is what do I use Freedos for? How do I use it well?

Also just needs a package manager
One of the main factors: generating the growth media for the cells is by no means carbon-free, and some of the ingredients are very very carbon intensive to produce.
As someone who bikes regularly, electric cars seem almost noisier than regular driving gas counter parts, I don't know if's because they're heavier or what, but when they're moving at regular traffic speeds, they are not remotely quiet.
The trick is knowing which one to place the thing upon.
On it, but I couldn't have said it better :) To expand on Felica vs. ISO a bit:

Theoretically Felica is a different stack from ISO 14443, but it's close enough that it almost got specified as a variant of ISO 14443 as well (C; MIFARE and most other systems use A). NFC does specify Felica as one possible official tag type (then called NFC-F, as opposed to NFC-A and NFC-B), so practically, most mobile devices can just also read it.

For anybody wanting to experiment a bit, I can highly recommend getting any Android device and installing NFC tag reader by NXP; it'll show you what technology exactly a given card uses, and in some cases can show you other interesting information as well. There's also an app that lets you read the current balance of various transit cards.
Lahar
Stress will poke holes in your memory. (I once thought that taking statins might be affecting my memory - but stress was the more likely cause...)

I've also heard that exercise can boost your memory. (Possibly in part because it improves your sleep, but it also enhances oxygen flow.) Or maybe it just reduces your stress.

You've ruled out "anything pathological" - otherwise I would suggest mentioning it to your doctor. But I've always wondered if "brain plasticity" is what's causing us all to adapt to our new habit of endlessly scrolling Facebook/Hacker News/Reddit/Twitter -- by adjusting our perceptions to handle shorter bursts of attention. There've been articles and books written on the subject, but the fix they often recommend is just: unplugging for a while.
Do you mean energy intensive or carbon intensive?
In politics in the UK, there is a left and right side of the "house". Currently the Conservatives are the right and Labour are the left. Neither party existed when the UK Parliament was initially created.

I wonder whether the old Latin (right == good/left == dodgy) thing has been perpetrated here or it it is coincidental.

I also wonder whether old Latin speakers really had a snag with sinister ie left handers or is that a modern affectation.
do they know mastodon and have they seen those documentaries on what companies do via facebook and the data they collect!? someone should update them on what happened.
saving 20 hours on authentication is wild lol takes like 1 hour
You really do need a magnifying glass for some of those details, as the (asymmetrical) holes that ID which way some part must go become dots at the scale they print some of the manuals. You're absolutely right though: all the info is there, just got to work it out
The person worked at Google for a bit. A tiny bit more info here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27841209
But why are you making it worse and more complicated? Disposable NFC card is better, cheaper, and easier to use.

The NFC doesn't need to be printed. It just needs to be dispensed.

My city went from printed paper tickets, that didn't even need to be scanned, to contactless fare system with paper NFC tickets. It saves money having simpler and less used ticket machines. It helps that most people use contactless credit card or fare card. They really should have more signs that can tap phone or credit card cause I suspect tourists think they need to buy ticket.
Visit St Louis in the summer sometime.
Here’s one: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.21.537778v1....

Decent summary: https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-foot...
> The technical challenges are too many to list here, some of which are not public knowledge

I'd love to know the major ones, or whatever you can share.

I'm much more optimistic about lab grown meat than most people. In fact I would love to invest in some lab grown meat companies. The more I know the better.