skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can apply for a permit - you usually only will get one for a specific area if you are an archaeologist associated with a university or a museum or something apparently.

The law is intended specifically to prevent random people digging up stuff and causing damage to historic sites.
As an Android user, I often wonder if Apple users realize how stupid their replies look to non-Apple users. I wonder if I should tell them or just move on.
> And if you’re a non-English parent but speak English consider talking to your child in English from the very beginning.

If you are living in a place where people don't speak your mother tongue but English is spoken everywhere and is the main medium of education, don't do this. The kids will pick-up English anyway because they will be exposed to it for 8 hours daily at school but if you don't speak with them in your mother tongue, they will never pick it up. The older they get, the harder it is. First hand experience.
I am planning to use Math Academy after my Master's degree. I did a beta and it was awesome, just wish I had taken more notes.
In areas where water is not in particularly short supply, you can cool by evaporating water into the exhaust pre-heat-exchanger of an MVHR system. This then vents the warmer humid air into the outside and cools incoming air. The enthalpy diagram suggest it's quite helpful and there's a product on the market that uses exactly this approach.

It's basically half of a closed cycle heat pump, in which the hot side is an externality.
Which data did you use? Since the leagues were from the Quarterfinals and onwards, was it data from the group stages, euro qualifiers? Averaging the last 5 games would introduce a lot of variance, especially in tournament football.
It's been deprecated since 2012, so it probably shouldn't be called from APIs introduced 3 years ago anyway.
Netherlands commemorates 10th anniversary of MH17 airline disaster
Internally, it was always referred to as D&I. The industry tends to use the DEI term, but like so many things at Microsoft, somehow slightly different terms came into common usage.
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Using the term "lingua franca" for English demonstrates, twice, that this is only a temporary phenomenon.
> Passive cooling measures (e.g., window shutters) should not be overlooked as they cost nothing to run.

Technology Connections just did a video on awnings. I'm not quite as puppy eyed about them as TC, but they are pretty darn effective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbDfi7Ee7k
They already did that. It was called WebSQL. It was removed I think in favor of IndexedDB.
At Microsoft they are still "All hands" meetings.
Good, hopefully this'll drive down solar panel costs.
Unfortunately it's also a world where having a problem with your aircon means your fridge stops working and replacing a fridge means calling in a technician for the plumbing.
Regarding the `rm` problem, `alias rm="rm -I"` makes things a little safer, although no idea if this flag was already a thing 20 years ago.
Satya mentions expectations and accountability. Does anyone happen to know what metrics are used to evaluate DEI efforts to demonstrate impact?
Could that increase the humidity in the surrounding street environment?
I'm pretty sure I'll get motion sick if I'd play this but it does look really cool!
There are some nonstimulant medications available, generally less effective. There's a good overview from a medical article published in a seemingly legit journal by seemingly legit authors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000197/.
This is done as standard practice in many countries outside the English-speaking world - complex "word problems" are used to gradually introduce algebraic-style reasoning (often involving multiple "steps" as a matter of course) in the earliest grades as part of the study of both arithmetic and what English-speaking schools call "pre-algebra". Teaching proper algebra after that once the students have the proper level of mathematical maturity becomes almost seamless.
What led the court to create this judgment?
Evolution.

The human species has only existed as such for ~100,000 years. Almost all human societies have failed.

We should spread knowledge far and wide for the same reason adaptive mutations spread through a population: shit happens.

Rocks fall out of the sky.

The Earth is jelly with a thin "crust" of congealed goo on top. So-called "solid ground" is thinner relatively than the paint on a globe. It shakes.

(As a kid I lived through Loma Prieta[1], I've seen the earth roll like Santa's belly. We are small!)

We should go through life like "an old man crossing a river in winter", and things both precious and free, like knowledge, should be the treasure of every person, no matter how poor or weak, for tomorrow they may be all that's left.

That's why Wendy, that's why.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake
Since Eve ate that apple pretty much everything is a "temporary phenomenon".
Sorry, I don't understand the point you're making here. Are you saying that karma farming on HN leads to successful IPOs? Or are you saying that karma farming in general can be profitable? Because both of those are what I was trying to speak to when I said that I feel like there are much softer targets than HN: it seems much easier to me to profit from karma farming on other platforms than it would be here. Maybe I'm just not engaged enough and/or naive, but I don't think of even high-karma users on HN as being Influencers. Like, I don't see myself spending money on something specifically because tptacek endorsed it.

On Instagram, it makes sense to me:

1. I farm for likes and karma

2. I start endorsing low value crap from whatever fad is trending this hour

3. Profit

On HN, I have no idea what step 2 is: what is the middle step between farming and profit that doesn't involve, like, founding a startup? What's the specific tactic on this platform?
Epic fail, right? Or are we getting gaslighted [1]?

I see no reason that chemical molecules and their reactions cannot be transformed into music. Mathematics, programming, physics could turn into songs and registered to memory better than any other way. A.I. could help with that as an assistant.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/harvard-chatbot-teacher-c...
If this is a thing (never saw it in 20 years of active and reserve Navy service), it must be limited not just to the Marine Corps, but the ground side of the Corps, not the air side.

Sure, there's norms around how you talk on the radio, standing watch on the bridge, on chat channels for command and control, etc. But the rest of the time, the rest of the military talks to each other more or less like normal people with the addition of acknowledging relative rank.
there are lots of different groups of 7 college kids operating at different levels all over the world.
For once the video shows a real prototype. At the moment it can't be steered but the whole thing works by virtue of rotors made out of solar cells and extreme light weight. Worth a watch.
In much of the world, AC power demand peaks later in the day when solar power supply is minimal or zero. So pairing as you suggest would require a huge amount of storage capacity. Or in some places they could also use high voltage transmission lines to areas further to the west that are still receiving significant sunlight at that time.

Energy is only free at times when we don't actually need it.
Yeah, sure, you don't regard "evolutionism" as a flaw, dear me no, that's why you said it ought to be called scientology "to caricaturise the belief", because that's what people always do with things they don't regard as flaws. And, sure, claiming that a group of people assume axiomatically that something's true that you think is false, that definitely isn't imputing any sort of flaw to them. Riiiight.

In any case, I specifically didn't say that you regard evolutionism as a flaw. What I actually said differs from that in two ways.

1. I said I was making a conjecture about what you might be doing rather than a claim about what you are doing. "I fear you're engaging in ..." were my actual words.

2. The "flaws" I'm suggesting you may think you've identified are not evolutionism itself (at least, not as pretty much everyone uses the word) but other ideas: believing that science is always right, "axiomatic belief in the time invariance of physical laws", etc.
The employers you want to work for are the ones that pay you a salary so you can eat and pay your mortgage.
Never mind what?

Companies like British Petroleum have used marketing to frame climate change as “consumers doing bad things” with their “carbon footprint”. So if that’s what your mind goes to first, that’s no coincidence.

It’s all about the money. Money buys media which buys narrative and mindshare.
If you don't want big city life but don't want to be really rural, Santa Cruz is certainly one place that seems really attractive.

CROSS at UCSC is also very involved with open source in the UC system generally.
> not disclosing the risks to the environment

It's more than that, it was the willful misrepresentation of the truth. The oil companies didn't accidentally end up in this situation. They knew back in the 80s the effects that oil consumption would have on the ecosystem and they covered it up and actively pushed lies that prevented any kind of meaningful change.
I usually shorten it to simply "I concur", if no comment follows, it is a given. Maybe if you are using a lossy message format where a potential comment might get left out it would be necessary to make that part clear, but for most things it is a given.
Could be huge for the home schooling market for the same reasons.
> three large things that don't particularly matter to normal people.

According to google searches, chatGPT has something 100-200 million people using it monthly. IDK how accurate that is, but even if it's off by a magnitude, that is something that is clearly useful to normal people
Seems like this could be one of the mechanisms to encourage that transition.

One persons stunt is another's advocacy.
Great job with this! Just gave Waywise a download and love the user interface – especially the localised language prompts. The different UK dialects are spot on and very funny. I'm heading to Spain soon so will give this a whirl, with the restaurant recommendations / translations.

Out of interest, have you had any problems with the AI hallucinating when generating new city guides?
Oh Shiva, he's practically a punchline in Massachusetts.
And I thought my opinion of those two couldn't fall any lower.
Thank you for the summary! (Note: indenting text with two spaces makes it render with a monospaced font on Hacker News, see https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc )
> There's a bit more to it - which is where poles and zeroes appear - but not much.

As someone who has bad memories of spending hours calculating Root Locus plots by hand, I'm going to have to take offense at that statement :-)
This is a form of dating I would much more likely choose, if I had to. Worst case is that you don't like each other but you still can have a nice holiday, perhaps then with people you meet locally. It is a bit crazy, but nobody can say you lack the effort. I had people move in my shared apartment without ever meeting me, so I believe the risk isn't too real. You have to take a risk or two in life and the chance of meeting a serial killer is pretty low.

To be honest, the people in my life with successful relationships often have in common that they never once dated in their lives. At least not to get to know a potential partner, they all have met through other means.

Of course not everybody is that lucky, but the people that do dating as a leisure activity and those that do not might simply not fit together and many only use online dating because they cannot find connections elsewhere. Perhaps I am lost in translation here, but none of those couples I know would ever say or have said "I am dating someone". They would do things together and maybe end up in a relationship. There is a difference and I think this approach might offer something better.
And where are those?

Installed cost, I mean. Assume, like in most houses, none of the supporting electrical work has been done for solar already.

Where’s the dirt cheap home solar?
Pretty obvious that whoever Satoshi is went to great lengths to be anonymous… anyone making a big effort to convince people they are Satoshi is definitely not Satoshi.
Apple gave schools steep discounts, with the idea being that young people learning on Apple computers would have parents purchasing computers their kids were familiar with. Later, those kids would become adults purchasing the computers they grew up on.
The ROI on scams based in Indian call centers is already huge.

They recently took my mom for $25k for what was a few hours of “work” over the span of two days. When I reviewed their communications and got the full story from my mom they’re in some ways laughably bad and in other ways very cunning.

Turns out it all started with a comically bad initial e-mail, pop-up, and then remote access. Then follow-up calls and text messages (Bitcoin QR code with her bank logo) and multiple people impersonating banks, various government agencies, etc. The end to end pipeline to replicate this via AI would be very complex and difficult (today).

I imagine the increased scale, additional opportunity, and reduced “payroll” that could be realized utilizing AI (given the initial level of development effort) just isn’t there. Yet.
How Colorado's ham radio operators prepare for disaster
It's wasteful, and that "free" energy could be used for more productive purposes.
> The framing (at least as I understood it) was more on the psychometric side - 24C@65% relatuve humidity _feels_ worse than 27C@45%RH

It's complicated to quantify, but in a sense 24C@65% is warmer than 27C@45%RH. Or rather, maintaining your body temperature is more difficult in the former than in the latter.

The human body produces ~100W of heat, and the primary way to get rid of it in warm weather is evaporative cooling: at below 100% relative humidity water slowly evaporates, this takes energy and thus cools down the surface the water was sitting on. We use that by coating us in sweat and letting it evaporate. This is more efficient the lower the relative humidity is.

The attempt to quantify this in a nice metric is the wet bulb temperature (what would a thermometer with a wet cloth around it show). 24C@65% is a wet bulb temp of 19.3C, 27C@45% is a wet bulb temp of 18.8C
The pictures don't have text in them.
I've been thinking about "dating" services that revolve around structured activities, pretty obviously chatting on OkCupid is for the birds but you'd imagine you could put people through activities that would build intimacy. I am thinking about things like Aron's 36 questions but this camping idea sounds great.

I recently had a "meet cute" with someone on the bus that was out of the blue, the next time we rode it was kindof awkward: after something like that for instance you might not want to sit right next to them because it would be too close.

The day after that she brought along a close friend and we hung out in a group and that's what happens most mornings, it is a no-stress way to hang out that doesn't put any pressure on me to be smart or funny or smooth or not put my foot on my mouth. When we ride back we often end up sitting in adjacent seats and talking just a little if at all but I really relish that because I get to enjoy her presence without the pressure that I need to do or be anything.

I can't imagine that we're not going to go on a "date" someday because clearly the attraction is there and we have shared interests to explore. I do know though by the time it happens we are going to actually know quite a bit about each other and already had quite a bit of closeness so if my heart is pounding it's not going to be out of anxiety.

I don't know if this method is repeatable or scalable but I think it's the right idea. I remember hanging out with friends in college and some couples would break out of the group and it seems we're somewhat deliberately recreating that experience for people who are a bit further along in life.
Happened to my family. Grandfather got a call from a panicky grandchild that sounded like them. The teller at Western Union is the only reason it was stopped. The scary thing is this happened more than 5 years ago so it’s only getting worse.
I guess I'm not moderately well read.
Magnetic Bubble Memory Farewell Tour
Pogies are a huge improvement for bikes. Strongly recommend for anyone riding in the winter. See, there actually is nuance here!
They are arguing that the companies concerned were not, but should be compelled to, price in at least some of the negative externalities of their product.

Not doing so of course makes their product's price not reflect its true cost to produce, and distorts that same supply and demand.
The benefits that Puerto Rico has enjoyed are probably comparable to that of mainland America. While the downsides are presumably worse. Which is I guess whence the lawsuit.
This actually, according to hard economics, is potentially an optimal solution.

Fossil fuels provide a great benefit to one party but produce negative externalities to other parties (people in hurricane zones, people born into hot regions, people who live in the future). If it's worth it economically because the value is so great, then an optimal economic solution is to say "You can have this thing, but you are accountable for the damages it causes to other parties"

Once we start pricing in the costs of the side-effects of fossil-fuels, the tradeoffs will be more clear, and the market will create faster incentives toward the ideal tradeoff.
> But you don't need executives and dedicated teams to do that.

You kinda do, in a big company. Corporate culture relies on hyper-specialization: you do one thing, and you do it really, really well. If it didn't, well, the company would've remained small and had a few jack-of-all-trades wearing many hats, like most startups.

But in that environment, any task that isn't somebody's explicit job doesn't get done. The whole corporate firm is predicated on the idea that people are more productive when they're specialized. If you step outside your specialty, you're stepping on somebody else's toes and sacrificing your own performance review. So people learn not to do anything that isn't in their official job description, and if there isn't an official job description for it, nobody does it.
Where can I find FMA4 in modern AMD CPUs? What about 3dNow? XOP?

Even SSE isn't guaranteed as Intel chips never implemented SSE4a.

AVX-512 is especially weird. Cannon lake implemented VBMI, but not Cooper or Cascade Lake only for it to reappear on Ice, Tiger, and Rocket lake then disappear on Alder Lake and reappear on Sapphire Rapids. BF16 was in Cooper Lake only to disappear for Ice, Tiger, rocket, and Alder lake before reappearing again on Sapphire Rapids.
Some of these lawsuits may be aimed not just at winning in court, but at pushing broader changes in policies or public awareness. Even if these cases are challenging to win, they can influence public opinion and policy, encouraging stricter environmental regulations and corporate practices.

Personally I think lawmakers should focus their effort on making stricter legal frameworks for today's world. Use the full force of the law to make companies behave better. It's the only language they understand.
Looking at their website looks like they are building an integrated AI chatbot service - it's inserted via JS using wordpress / other plugin see: https://www.nomindbhutan.com/guide

As a complete aside I enjoyed their about us section:
https://www.nomindbhutan.com/#aboutus
This seems like the modern equivalent of being made to stand in front of a store, wearing a sandwich board saying “I shoplifted from here”.

Which is great. A good public shaming is probably more of a deterrent than nebulous financial penalties or unlikely jail time. No one wants to be humiliated for their shenanigans.
Advertising nudge from phone makers? "My phone is too slow to browse the web, I need a new one". Especially on a "tech magazine" like Wired, the ultimate purpose is to advertise tech.
What Goes Around Comes Around (SQL Is Forever)
You clearly didn't even take a look. Zamora is not a run of the mill YouTube loony but a published academic. I'll look at the paper you linked, but you should look at Zamora's papers too.
same. Read the features and assumed Github Actions were already Pipelines for GitHub Actions.
Among those who have heard of him, outside, too.
The point of all of this is to communicate to management how long a task is going to take.

I would suggest that a good manager doesn't need this communication.

A good manager will have already done the task, or something similar, to already know how quick it can be done.

If they haven't, they're probably inexperienced in the task. They were appointed because they were a "people person" but this fact has actually introduced more friction to the team (needing the story points yada yada) rather than just assigning a simple deadline from the get-go.

Once a deadline is introduced, Parkinson's Law kicks in and you get more or less efficient work depending on how aggressive the deadline is.

I'm advocating for experienced managers, not deadlines per se, since that is just 1 tool in the toolbox.

I'm also advocating against the countless asinine ways to communicate to lousy managers. Throw the points in the trash and start hiring cracked programmers as your engineering team's standard bearer.

See the company grow and have happier employees.
I understand your skepticism, and I appreciate your honesty. The presale is a way for me to gather early supporters and fund further development. Rest assured, I am committed to delivering a high-quality product and the first users will get their hands on in 2-3 months already. Account was created a while back for sure by me, just wasnt a Y user before.

Regarding the flashlight effect, thanks for the feedback! I'll look into that.
If you have any concerns or need more information, feel free to ask. And thanks for the compliment on the website design!
I was expecting conspiracy theories, but I'm surpzto see it didn't even take more than 2 comments for the first one to show up. Hats off to you!

Personally, I'm still waiting to suddenly fall dead from the 3 doses of poison I was injected with. I'm overdue by a couple of years already...
As a sophomore, I took the "barrier" physics intro for my distribution requirement. Sunday night before our first Monday morning exam, I found my professor in a phone book (1970's) and phoned to ask for an extension, explaining that I hadn't started studying. Denied.

That test was just multivariate calculus I'd already aced, with funny names. I got one of the top scores in the class. So I decided to study an extra hour next time, just to be responsible. Oops! I flunked a test that was differential equations with funny names.

I didn't really learn ODE's till Columbia assigned me to teach them as an assistant professor.
No idea on standing. But as for the amount being asked for: it's possible that the lawyers determined that only so-and-so much of PR's expected climate damages could be clearly attributable to oil and gas companies, even if the total damages are significantly higher.
This is true, but my point is there weren't cost-effective alternatives at that time anyway so blaming climate disasters squarely on the shoulders of oil companies and not acknowledging the fact that demand fueled the value of oil doesn't make logical sense, even from an empirical perspective. Now, lawsuits for local disasters and oil spills do make sense.
Microsoft Designer app is now generally available
So the vast body of working class users become a resource subordinate to the handful of aristocratic "protagonists?" I often think that is the goal envisioned by the tech industry yes.