skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they also got into fear and panic mode thinking that their investments in oil will be at risk.

Many of them have existing oil infrastructure that they want to put value on. If they are to become obsolete, their net worth and buying power will be threatened. And so they go into fear/panic. The koch brothers.
Fox News argued in court that they are not news and that it's unreasonable for anyone to construe them as a news outlet. So much for your "clear separation" of hard news and opinion - Fox News argued, in a court of law, that it's all opinion.
Indeed; there are a wealth of better ways to find signals.

One is look at any available public work (GitHub repos, OSS contributions), public writing (blog, Medium, etc.), past projects for fun or profit.

I have hired candidates that ended up failing almost all of my technical assessment that turned out to be great engineers to work with because I could see in their responses a self-awareness and a curiosity about the question. These were engineers that were easy to train and bring up to speed.

I saw a post on LinkedIn recently that really summarizes this sort of "intangible" in a more concrete way: https://imgur.com/a/l9Wql7A

My take is that low ego, curiosity, tenacity, humbleness, focus -- these tend to be better predictors of success in most cases. (But I can certainly appreciate that there are cases where you really want deep expertise in a very technically challenging aspect of a system).

Conversely, I've seen many average and below average engineers end up in FAANG by dedicating time to studying leetcode challenges. The system is perversely broken when selection biases towards those that actively seek to game the system.
Agreed, people can sometimes get too much into minor things like laptop brands.

Yes, I am a mathematician and have a few colleagues who are happily using their surfaces for notes and online teaching. I have seen some "rivalry" with people using iPads instead, but luckily no hate thus far.
Ten years of Overcast: A new foundation
UK motorway service stations seem to have chargers, and to be expanding them in response to demand. Last time I was in one I saw the two occupied chargers next to a whole row of a dozen under-construction chargers. I'm not sure what the cost of those is, though.
> But given that I didn't use that definition, that doesn't make it the slam dunk you imagine.

You might have a better argument if there were more than one relevant definition of a normal number. As you should have read in the other responses to your comment, the definition given on wikipedia does not differ from the one given on Wolfram Alpha.

> And you can argue that the definition you used does indeed imply B.

Given that the implication of "B" is stated directly within the definition ("For example, ..."), this seemed unnecessary.

> but my point is, the definition that I had (from wikipedia) doesn't imply B. So for you to say, "if it doesn't have B, then it's not A" is just circular.

Look at it this way:

1. You provided a completely spurious definition, which you obviously did not get from wikipedia.

2. You provided a number satisfying your spurious definition, which - not being normal - didn't have the properties of a normal number.

3. I responded that you weren't using the definition of a normal number.

4. And I also responded that it's easy to see that the number you provided is not normal, because it doesn't have the properties that a normal number must have.

Try to identify the circular part of the argument.

And, consider whether it's cause for concern that you believe you got a definition of "normal number" from wikipedia when that definition of "normal number" is not available on wikipedia.
NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing
FreeShow: An open-source ProPresenter alternative
What do you mean? The UK and Germany have very similar EV adoption (~24% of car sales in 2023).
I routinely attend conferences where way more than thirty people take several hours out of their days to listen to the new problems and their solutions. In a single field of math. In my little corner of the world. With people who managed to free themselves that week and find travel money.
"The market" needs to be checked in so many ways. You'd think that by now we could learn to take what works and modify the rest but apparently everything has to be black and white and even a concept like "the market" ends up bound by dogma.
> without a home charger, we couldn’t get more than a 25% charge overnight.

Seems like a nasty issue with that polestar or with whatever you were using to charge overnight. With an actual charger you'd get to 100% overnight.

With tesla you'd also have car adding detours for you towards fast chargers when needed, so much less to worry.
Thank you! This link is very helpful.
Problem-Solver's Paradox
Stop H5N1 influenza in US cattle now
At least that way you're unambiguously a criminal.
There is an implicit assumption baked into both of these quotes. Equality and equity are interchangeable because human beings are essentially fungible and will experience the same outcomes given the same opportunities. Inequality of outcomes necessarily means there was inequality of opportunity, because there's no other explanation for the disparity.
It's clear that an EV has a harder time with long distance travel than a gas vehicle.

Gas: get in car, drive until light turns on, pull into next gas station and get gas, keep driving.

EV(tesla): get in car, enter destination, car will route you to superchargers as needed

EV(!tesla): get in car, consult web sites like a better route planner, verify car's charge, verify that you have the app for each of the fast charging destination payment methods, drive to the first location and it's broken in some tedious way and now you have to hope you've got range to get to your b site.
Wouldn't taking a lunch break at a faster charger elsewhere achieve the same thing?
The guy claiming the Tuskegee experiments weren't racist is also now claiming the moral high ground.

I'm out.
Not sure about that - I still get intermittent SMS failovers, and some Android users don’t have RCS enabled (old phones maybe?). Its just not very reliable.
Same here, I think it's a sign...
True, but you might have a secure OOB channel for a limited time. In that case, you can transfer an arbitrarily large OTP over the secure channel, to be used later, in small pieces, when you do not have a secure channel available.
First ever App, how do we find good users?
A friend and I have spent the last 3 months hacking together a language learning app. And feel like we should now launch. The space is heavily saturated, and we don't want to just be spamming the link to it everywhere we go.
For sure you need at least an outdoor socket, so you can charge over night.

Google tells me the Polestar 2 has 330 miles of range, so you could do the 5h30m drive from Swansea to Norwich on a single charge - if you leave home with a full charge.

But if you can't leave home with a full charge? If you've got a complicated schedule, like using a charger at work but only working 1 day a week? I can see how that would be a lot more hassle. And public fast chargers cost 4-5x as much as charging at home too.
I'm somewhat tempted to pick up one of the dev kits for it. But last time I ordered directly from Microchip they sent me an empty tape reel.

maybe I'll wait until it shows up at other distributors.
> This is unrelated

It's not. Tracking leads to better targeting which leads to higher conversion ratios and overall higher "Cost Per 1000 Impressions" (CPM).

If you simply do "contextual" targeting, so targeting based on the page content, your CPM will go down and and the publisher will lose money.

> Also, you should note how greedy these companies are that they show you the paywall after you have consented to the cookies in order to read the article

Depends on the company. News media publishers use the same system but are usually barely profitable if at all.

> Also, you should note how greedy these companies are that they show you the paywall after you have consented to the cookies in order to read the article. No hint on that accepting the cookies is only useful if you also have a subscription. When you can't read the article, they don't revert the setting of the cookies, but just pretend that they gave you access to the article and keep the cookies around for days or years.

The EU Court of Law decided that offering a subscription or mandate for cookies to be enabled is not legal as an offer. So the transactional nature you propose is currently not allowed. What is allowed is a grey area which has yet to be explored.
Tesla colocated Superchargers at grocery stores. You have to eat, right? First world problem is the car is done charging before I'm done shopping!

To your point, put chargers at existing locations humans dwell at, the only other use case is highway travel chargers. There are ~110k gas stations left in the US, and I'll argue many of those will not be needed going forward as mobility electrifies [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://www.axios.com/2022/07/15/gas-stations-prices-closing

[2] https://enpowered.com/the-death-of-gas-stations-will-be-far-...

[3] https://www.urbanismnext.org/resources/americas-gas-stations...
YMMV, but Austral-lang (https://austral-lang.org/) comes quite close to what I want out of a smaller, simpler, safer Rust.

Its syntax is inspired by Ada, and as far as I know the designer has no PhD in type theory, so it matches the requirements put forth by the other commenters too.
Boiling point of water dropped below 100C during Storm Ciarán, study finds
I came here with that exact quote copied, but expected to find it posted already

It's easy to forget that the 80s took us from Apple II, TRS-80, PET, via C64, Amiga, Atari ST and Macintosh to SuperVGA and 486 when we entered the 90s.
Dowsing rods are an excuse to trust common sense; that dip in the land where plants are greener is probably a good place for a well. But digging wells is expensive so people want something more than a guess, but also something cheap.

When I was a kid, a new house was being built downhill from my parents and they dowsed out a "good" place for a well. They were all set to drill before my dad went out and told them they were directly downhill from our septic tank.
Downvoted for providing you the evidence you asked for. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
In the US, on a 120v / 12a circuit, it'll add 3 miles of range per hour.
Based on how human written text often describes AI, yeah. I don't think LLM training actually lends itself to objectivity that much.
It was a goal, though lower priority than other goals. You can see this in the way Rust is largely “curly braces and semicolons” but at times when there’s good reasons it diverged from that, like the ML style let syntax.
Do you need fast charging at home? We just charge our electric car overnight from a normal UK 240V 13A socket in our garage.
The "cheap and foolproof" way to do it is to cut a hole in your wall using a drywall cutter, and then feel with your hand. When you're done, you put the drywall back and patch it.

A drywall cutter is like a cast cutter; it works by vibrating and won't cut through wires, pipes, skin, ect.

If you don't want to use a stud finder, look for electrical boxes and remove the plate. That will tell you where a studs is. The rest of the studs are typically (US) 16" apart, but vary near corners and windows. You can often make an educated guess by knocking on the wall, the sound changes depending on if you knock on the stud.
That does rather depend where you live in the UK though and also where you regularly travel to...
>And yet people will over and over again insist that that would never work.

Because it won't. And there is mountains of data to back it up. People will not pay if they don't have to.

Some people will, for sure, but to get those some people to carry the weight of "all the people" is totally untenable.

Besides, Chrome is "free".
The biggest thing people who have lost someone close to them have to say is that they start to forget what the person looked like and sounded like. I am doing it - I think if you keep it casual, like "hey, I was just thinking about you and the day you graduate high school, and I'll bet....." kind of thing, you're making it less morbid.
Dell offers laptops with a version of Linux preinstalled and supports them. System76, Lenovo, Purism as well to name a few. Apple also sells laptops without Windows on them. There are actually quite a few options that do this. If you don't want Windows, we have options now. Yes, historically, it was Windows or Apple's OS, but that's no longer true and not recognizing that just makes you look like you're pushing a false narrative on the situation for what purpose only you know.
American gas (petrol) prices being pretty low makes it a questionable calculation for most people.

Including the car’s depreciation, an EV does not always pencil out versus a gas hybrid unless you do a lot of driving.

Plus a lot of states charge a much higher annual tax for EVs compared to gas hybrids.
You really aren't making an argument you think you are. If you are truly interested about macroeconomics there are plenty of good books out there from many different ideological viewpoints. Most of them explain what you are trying so vehemently disapprove with weird analogies.

>> Decreasing them all the way to negative ten thousand percent would increase investments a lot.

A physicist would say you have just invented perpetuum mobile.

>> Is that a good thing?

Does it matter if what you suggest is impossible?
Maybe, although I think your understating the complexity that filtering through data at Google scale can involve. When you have enough users in a system many many 'normal' people will look and behave like bots/fraud, things that should be obvious are often not.

I wonder if Stumbleupon could have achieved something similar to what you're proposing if they had tried to build a search engine.
If there's one thing that history has taught us, regardless of which field, it's that anything we manage to answer raises at least half a dozen other questions. Saying that math, of all fields, is running out of problems is one of the most absurd statements in this day and age. I was blown away by the capabilities of dumb SVMs in university and today SVMs look like a child's play - just over a decade later.

For as long as humanity has existed, whenever we feel like we've reached our peak, something happens and completely shatters our understanding. Say we have prime numbers and their occurrence is completely unpredictable - the same way Aristotle was convinced that objects come to a rest because they get tired. It's not a specific branch of knowledge, it's an outrageous claim like many have already pointed out. Could it be that math is running out of problems? Yes - in the same way that the universe might vanish tomorrow. Both of those claims are equally absurd.
There's an election in a few months. Now is the time to write to the candidates and tell them to do something about it.
That seems likely. I know that firmware is one of the big differences between System76 laptops and the version that Clevo subsequently offers with Windows. I think the chips can vary sometimes too.

Just from an ACPI perspective, I'd expect the Linux variant to (at a minimum) be built with the Intel compiler and the Windows one with Microsoft's. It is likely that there are far more differences, though.
They moved fast and broke things.
I'd argue most users don't need fast charging at home. 8 hours of level 1 charging gets you 30-50 miles of range, which is pretty much exactly the average daily commute. You can double that range by charging at work (which can be level 1 too).

For rare longer trips, public fast charging infrastructure is quite convenient.
> Our hope is that if we develop a good attribution solution, it will offer a real alternative to more objectionable practices like tracking.

There is no negotiating with the advertising industry. No system will stop them from acting unethically to gain an edge.

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My idea for such a system: random GUID added to each ad. Browser plugin collects GUIDs. Client protects itself with random GUIDs removed and new random GUIDs added. Client sends GUIDs to a Collector they choose. Collectors run client GUIDs against Advertisers lists (bloom filters). Advertisers pay Collectors, and Collectors give to orgs.

Edit: replace GUIDs with 6 random bytes, so the existence of an id is not proof of it's being viewed. it needs to be plausible that the client added an id randomly, and that's not the case with a GUID.
Years ago I had a "Download Firefox" button on my Web-site. I have removed it because of similar incidents in the past. And I stopped recommending Firefox to friends and relatives, because I can no longer do it wholeheartedly. I am not even sure myself, whether it makes a big difference which browser you use nowadays. More out of tradition I am still using Firefox myself, but I know other technologically competent people who shifted away from it. I can only assume that this was for similar reasons: It is felt that Firefox gives no less cause for annoyance than other browsers. When Firefox gradually loses more and more dedicated supporters who become indifferent, I see a rather bleak future for it.
You recoup the home charging infra expense over the life of the vehicle through lower fuel costs (electricity vs petrol), and that cost is high. I just had a Tesla high power wall charger installed in a condo building for someone, and for a 100A conduit run and conductors (~70 ft including punching through brick exterior wall and mounting conduit to a finished underground parking facility ceiling) to a sub panel from the meter pan, charger install in front of the parking spot, and 20A branch circuit for other loads off the sub panel, total cost was $6k (US Midwest). Utility and local gov incentives covered half of that, bringing the final bill to ~$3k.
Semi off-topic, but this site has auto-translate on. And reading an automatic translation of something without knowing, I will quite easily get the impression that the site authors are careless morons.

Have auto translate switched off if you value those visitors who actually read stuff, even if the metrics give it a 20% advantage.
I liked the first two iterations of the Surface Pro line, but it dropped off the radar for me when they went to NTrig digitizers.

The Samsung Galaxy Book 12 was about the perfect computer for my needs:

- decent-size high-resolution screen

- small enough to fit in a bag for when traveling

- Wacom EMR stylus --- I find this essential for drawing, sketching, annotating, and when I'm not inclined to connect a keyboard, writing

Performance was quite good, but then Fall Creators Update crippled the stylus down to an 11th touch input which scrolled in web browsers and made selecting text quite awkward, as well as making using older applications quite difficult. I rolled back to 1703 twice and stayed there until circumstances forced a replacement --- the best option I could find was a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 --- I have to keep the Settings app open so I can toggle the stylus between acting/not acting like a mouse.

It kills me that we had such great innovation in the tablet space once-upon-a-time (the ThinkPad was so-named because it was originally planned as a stylus computer) and my NCR-3125 (since donated to the Smithsonian) running PenPoint was one of my most-favourite computers and things seemed so promising w/ Windows 8... at least it's easy to write into text fields again.

Hopefully the Lenovo Yogabook 9i will be popular enough that someone will make a dual-screen device using Wacom EMR.
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> "Why aren't we seeing more and more L3 chargers at gas stations?"

There are many chargers at gas ("petrol") stations in the UK. There are even a few stations that have been completely converted, with the pumps removed and replaced with chargers only.

For example, Shell Fulham in London:
https://find.shell.com/gb/fuel/10018937-shell-recharge-waitr...

Installing high-power charging does depend on having a suitable grid connection available, of course. For some gas station locations, getting enough power to the site might be impractical or uneconomic.
I think the biggest problem is that although people do mostly short journeys, a lot of people do some long journeys too.

I mostly drive within a few miles, or at most 15 of so miles of where I live. However, I occasionally go say 200 miles without a convenient chance to recharge (have done so twice in the last month). I know people who drive much further - e.g. one regularly drives from the Midlands to the North of Scotland.

There are also people who do not have a car at all (I never did when I lived in London, nor in Manchester till I had a child) or who drive very little. If you do low mileage the case (financial and environmental) for using an EV is a lot weaker.

A lot of houses have no where to put a charger - lots of on-street parking.

I do not have the data for a proper answer, but I think it has to do with patterns of usage and housing.
Complexity is your Personal Hell
Personally, for a long time I disabled swap and made sure that I had an OOM killer running.

This was always in a setup where I'd have ample RAM for my everyday tasks, and was doing numerics. Running OOM would invariably mean two things:

1. I had a bug in my scripts, which typically meant I'd accidentally materialized a huge sparse matrix or some such, and thus

2. The system wouldn't go "just a little" OOM but rather consume memory an order of magnitude over the actual system's capacity. And it would not recover.

In that scenario, the system would typically start swath-thrashing so hard that I'd just cold reboot. An OOM daemon fixed that and let me iron out my bugs.
"Authorities" are people too, non-AGI AI isn't going to grant them evil superpowers either.
Your comment made me think that as long as weights/network are frozen, AI cannot improve itself. Monitoring them would be critical for safety. Is this correct?
You probably don't need fast charging for charging overnight. I charge my EV off a standard 120V/15A outlet and that's more than enough to keep the battery topped up.

A level 1 charger will add 3-4 miles of range every hour it's plugged in. Assuming you don't have some wildly long commute, that's easily enough to cover most people's daily driving in 8-10 hours of charging overnight.
> ... there's no requirement ...

Is a requirement really necessary? I'm not aware that any requirement exists to keep your petrol station running (well, maybe there is one). And I'm sure it's not necessary to have one, because if your station does not work you go out of business very fast.

So why are these companies still in business if it's profitable to have non-working charging stations?
This won't prevent their major rivals - cloud companies like Google with deep pockets - from competing with them. It only hurts the little startups and SMEs.
Older folks might remember that there were a lot of people willing to make content free, just out of personal enthusiasm, and that this content was actually a lot higher quality than that pumped out by capitalist motivation.

So, actually, users and sites both had what they wanted, just not corporations.
The whole paying for charging thing needs to die a painful and fiery death. I have a universal (money) charging card in my wallet - it was issued by my bank. There should be nothing else required to pay for charging a car up.

Same with parking. Most car parks around here accept only coins (and I stopped carrying coins about 5 years ago) or pay-by-phone, which always charges more than the advertised parking price and is usually conveniently located in a mobile phone dead spot. Parking meters used to accept contactless card payments - what gives?
Swapping to zram is just fine and it will improve experience on many machines.
Stopped reading at the title's mistaking a compiler for a language. Good grief.