skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with the steel in cars isn't that it's too heavy, it's that in the vast majority of cars, the most important structural parts rust away into nothing after 10 or so seasons of winter driving. This is hugely wasteful not only economically, but environmentally. The car companies CAN fix this, but actively chose not to, for obvious reasons.
I felt that the prior comments were very focused on Britain (and, as a counterpoint, our European neighbours who drive on the right) and that there is a global aspect to the topic which would be appreciated by the global HN audience. Therefore I thought it would be beneficial to the discussion to bring in that a largish fraction of the world population lives in countries that drive on the left. Since I didn't know what that fraction is and I myself was curious to learn it, I used a popular AI search utility to find the information. When I had gathered the information I thought it was relevant to the topic and informative and that the best way to share it was to copy it into the post text field.

I'm not sure that my answer is that fascinating, but I believe that my motive was well intentioned and that the method was not unreasonable. In hindsight I should have cited my source so that others did not take an "authoritative-sounding" piece of text as gospel and that my role had been selection and a cursory edit.

Funnily enough I have been quite resistant to LLMs, but I am finding that they are a much better way to do research on the web than Google. I also believe that the reason many folks think that LLM is a step towards AGI is that humans are also stochastic parrots. Whereas parrots are not.
You can't withdraw at an ATM or otherwise receive physical cash. Though for all other purposes (wires and transfers) it works just fine.
> but they don’t really do anything

A rollercoaster is an adrenaline production machine.
Also, Area 51 is almost certainly an "authorized use of deadly force" area. Storming that is spectacularly unwise. A dangerous possibility, yes, but not dangerous to society. Not even dangerous to the people in Area 51. But definitely dangerous to anyone who tries storming it...
if only there was a language where code is data so that... hold on a sec! #LISP-languages
sunlight takes about 30,000 years to work its way out from the centre to the surface of the Sun

What? Why?
In my case, and it seems OP's as well, it forced me to stop the test instead of picking one of the two.
Skip this. It's just some guy asking on GitHub in 2023, and 2-3 nobodies speculating. Why this was posted to HN, I have no idea.
Yeah, it shows that the writer is a true rollercoaster afficionado. Basically, the technology of rollercoasters is pretty simple: converting potential energy into kinetic energy and back several times before friction has a chance to eat it up (while taking care to not exceed certain acceleration limits that would hurt the passengers or, in case of wooden coasters with "classic" rails, send the cars flying off the track). All the rest is just in our heads...
> but saying that companies like Microsoft are 'moving towards adopting Rust' is just flat out wrong

Microsoft is making Rust a first-class system at Microsoft and investing 10 million dollars towards it apparently:

https://twiiit.com/dwizzzleMSFT/status/1720134540822520268 (nitter)

https://x.com/dwizzzleMSFT/status/1720134540822520268 (twitter)
If you’re going to talk shit, you’ve gotta throw some links to your work, Mr Shakespeare
Yes if you want something with phenomenological flavor that discusses the impact of technological development on human experience in a progressive manner, I suggest Walter Benjamin, who was Heidegger's classmate and developed his philosophy in opposition to him. Here is a good introductory article for him [0]

[0]https://monoskop.org/images/6/6d/Benjamin_Walter_1936_2008_T...
And it works pretty well, coming from 6+ years of experience. It's not that strange if consider case insensitive filesystems and email addresses. But on the internet you only hear the opinion of the loudest minority.
Scaling Your Phoenix App in Elixir with Flame
Wizardry taught me something very important about game design (from a player's perspective).

Wizardry 6-7 were great from a perspective of becoming overpowered if you wanted to. What you did was get to level 6-8 and then change classes. I forget the exact mechanics of this. But when you changed class you started weak so had to do 1 character at a time from your party of 5. I doubt it was designe dthis way.

Anyway, it was fun. It made you feel like you were beating the game. It made content trivial but I've come to learn that a ton of players like that. It's like seeing a weakness in the system, an unintended consequence and exploiting it.

Wizardry 8 basically removed this and honestly I got bored of it really quickly as a result.

Another way to look at this is that normalizing this made everything feel the same. It robbed me, as a player, of agency. It made my choices basically meaningless. It turned a more open world into a conveyor belt.

I've seen this pattern play out in many games. Like I returned to GTA:SA to have fun shooting down helicopters taking advantages of bugs in police pathing depending on how you stood on a roof or creating massive pile ups and explosion chains on the freeway. GTA5 basically took the "fun" and comerical nature out of this aspect of the game and I basically never touched it again after the campaign.

More generally, you could probably classify this under the banner of emergent game play (not that "god mode" is particularly innovative). But emergent gameplay is both a sign of a well-designed game and what gives it longevity.

Additionally, I miss the days where there were more turn-based games. They were just more chill. The only turn-based strategy game left is Civilization. Games like Elden Ring are great but just not my cup of tea. I miss the days of Bard's Tale, Master of Magic, Heroes of Might and Magic (2 and 3), the old D&D RPG games and so on.

Anyway, RIP.
As has been noted in other threads, for a low enough definition of reason, yes, certainly. But even an amoeba appears to reason better than an LLM, which only regurgitates by nature. There is no independent cognition whatsoever, no logical constructs and decisions, no abstractions.

Reducing reasoning beings to the level of AI is an affront to—and demonstrates a genuine lack of understanding of—the nature of organisms and reason itself, and the nature of AI and its capabilites.
use computer vision to automatically extract player and ball position, plot it on pitch radar, and calculate advanced metrics
This is like when you're at the optometrist and they keep flipping the lenses saying "better or worse?" and I'm like "better... no, worse. Hmm... well..."
E.g. DSGE models are still rather popular with academics and practitioners. And the classical economics is largely how economists popularize their field and justify policy.
Every vendor has their quirks. I have a pair of ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T/BCM boards, but my M.2 NVME boot drive is no longer detected if I update the BIOS past v3.50. Unfortunately, that means no support for resizable BAR in my configuration.

I have a pair of Supermicro H12SSL-NT boards to use for my next couple builds. I might be trading one set of issues for another, but I'm optimistic they'll work well for my purposes.
The idea that markets approach efficiency is a hypothesis. Markets could also approach maximum exploitation. That is another hypothesis. Which one is better at explaining any given economic system is a matter of interpreting the data and trying not to lie to yourself.

The problem with most of economic science is that latter part. Where most other sciences try to decouple themselves from their subject or at least aknowledge the limitations of their field, many economists seem to have a much more loose relationship with their field. E.g. if a hypothesis failed to explain so many real world phenomena as many popular economic ideas, any natural scientist would throw their hands in the air and admit they had no idea what was actually going on. Yet my feeling isn't that economists are like: "We have that part here figured out and that part over there is work in progress" but more of an airquotes-science, like Lacanism or Freudianism, where what you say depends on whose school of thought you subscribe to.

Granted if one imagined how a truly serious about describing-what-is-economic-science would have to work like, that would be a gargantuan endeavour as it not only encompasses mathematics and complex systems, but also fields like psychology, sociology and geography. So I am the last to blame any serious economist for not being able to explaining everything. What I can however blame them for is when they defend a hypothesis that has been falsified by reality countless times by moving the goal posts by saying the conditions have to be just right for their hypothesis to make sense. Yeah sure.
<< Who among us would call that time wasted?

I will admit that the longer I live, the more I realize this is one of the few things that actually matter.

<< Why not dust off Project Foo on a Saturday afternoon, and just tinker with the fun parts?

I think it is a good way to avoid burnout. I don't know if it is the same for everyone, but if something like that is planned for me, I get kinda bored fast and 9/10 abandon the project. When I am really into it, the plan doesn't matter, because it mostly just flows. I am trying to trick myself into the state of flow, but maybe I am simply trying too hard.
Obviously the fillo was generated by an LLM bot, but is it possible that the entire article was? I've skimmed it twice and it really seems largely content-free to me. It's all generalities and nothing but.
Chase, one of the biggest banks, still does not support anything beyond SMS/phone for 2fa.
I was about to post the same question. I'm guessing the author meant something not-obviously-wrong here, but I can't guess what.

But he also writes this:

> Since the Sun’s light was made at the height of the last Ice Age, for all we know its nuclear fires could have gone out 29,000 years ago.

Which makes me even more confused.
Collaborative text editing with Eg-Walker [video]
Asking myself the same question, but IME Linux support for sleep states is (was?) generally horrible due to absolute lack of standard enforcement, and that's with laptops where it's a priority. I've only had one laptop (my most recent one) work 100% with sleep states, and only after replacing the NVMe that froze roughly 33% of the wake ups due to some obscure bug (but worked fine otherwise)
Robert Shiller, who had long been one of the most vocal critics of the efficient market hypothesis and the idea of efficient markets, shared the Nobel Prize in economics alongside Eugene Fama in 2013. Shiller is also well known for the Case-Shiller Home Price Index.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2013/sum...
Literally every link you posted is correlation, not causation, which I already pointed out is fallacious before you sent those links:

>> Correlation isn't causal, by the way - if you show me a study that merely demonstrates correlation without causality (and sole causality, as opposed to multiple factors), then it's invalid.

So, you still have provided exactly zero evidence for your claims.

> Let me know when you’ll be dropping your links from reputable institutions that say that wealth inequality is totally cool and awesome.

This is a strawman fallacy - I never claimed that wealth inequality was "totally cool and awesome". My point is that it's a correlation without a causation, and that wealth inequality is not the causing factor. It's still up to you to provide evidence for your claims.

> I think you need to get over yourself and stop debating people by attacking their logic and reasoning abilities just because they disagree with you.

You need to learn how to actually use logic and reasoning. Almost every single thing that you've said in this entire thread has been emotionally manipulative and fallacious. You're not merely "disagreeing" with me, you're making invalid points to justify something morally dubious - it's entirely reasonable for me to point out those fallacies and that emotional manipulation.

Also, literally the definition of a "debate" is to use logical arguments to argue for a point. You cannot have a "debate" with out logic.

It's also extremely ironic that your last statement is yet another emotional plea, because you can't justify your positions with logic or evidence.

I honestly suggest spending some time to think about why you're unable to justify your positions and beliefs with logic. Usually, that means that they're either purely driven by emotion, or logically inconsistent with each other - neither of which are good for either you, the people around you, or society as a whole.
Show HN: StarHog – See who starred your open source project
Over the weekend, I built a small project to help open-source projects better understand who starred their projects.

It helps you see the number of stars per day, week, month etc so you can monitor the health and the general trend as well.

Lastly, it lets you fetch their public contact info, if you wish to do so.

I initally built it as a Python script but after a few friends said they had the same problem, I decided to make it into a website. Would love to hear what you think!
> As an example, watch the price of a family-sized lodge miraculously double from one week to the next, thanks to school holidays.

This is just market mechanics. School holidays is when families with school aged kids are looking to get a place so the demand is higher. This happens to everything. It’s not some dark conspiracy to gouge out people. If some folks are willing to pay TWICE what you want to pay, just to get the same place then they are allowed to do so and you can’t complain that you don’t get it for half the cost, you could just book your stay outside the school holidays if you want it cheaper.
Old money is really old.

I’m sure there are modern day rich people who can trace their way back to the Greek rulers of Egypt who intermarried with the Egyptians of antiquity.

You can trace power. Aristocracy used marriage as a political tool, but I doubt there are commercial entities that persisted - business was seen as dirty in those days in Western culture. Anywhere the Catholic Church was, lots of enterprises were laundered through them.
Fun fact - I had to localize this kind of logic to my language (Polish). I realized quickly it's fucked up.

This is roughly the logic:

function strFromNumOfObjects(n) {
if (n === 1) {
return "obiekt";
}
let last_digit = (n%10);
let penultimate_digit = Math.trunc((n%100)/10);
if ((penultimate_digit == 0 || penultimate_digit >= 2) && last_digit > 1 && last_digit <= 4) {
return "obiekty";
}
return "obiektów";
}

Basically pluralizing words in Polish is a fizz-buzz problem :) In other Slavic languages it should be similar BTW
I’m not 100% clear on what you are asking, but integer addition is associative, right? (With quibbles about over/underflow of course). If you have some limited range of decimal numbers that you care about, you can always just use integers and account for the shifted decimal places as needed.

Floats are mostly for when you need that dynamic range.
I would argue it's more catalyst for the biological machine that produces adrenaline
Center Parcs is a place you take a family. It wouldn't even occur to me to go there with an all-adult group.

Also, you can tell it's aimed at children, because the price doubles in the school holidays!
If I went into a shop and every machine was running Linux, I'd assume they have knowledgeable staff.

Idk why you'd think they're poor, as people say: "Linux is only free if you don't value your time"
Rigidity is usually applied to common markets which everyone agrees are pretty inefficient.

Efficient markets hypothesis was written specifically with stock markets and exchanges in mind, and it's what the linked article mostly discussed.
The universe is all about various spectrum and waves like sin. It's donuts and toroids all the way up and down, left and right.
Is LinkedIn Listening In?
Are you using the LinkedIn app?

Maybe you should check what permissions it has.

I did and saw that it had access to my microphone. Why?

Full list of permissions
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.linkedin.android/latest/
Diffusion is slow, the sun is large.
> ...the X710 which spent a year+ with broken drivers causing silent network failures/downright crashes...

Did the X710 actually become stable? I got burned with them pretty early in their life have ended up staying away from them ever since.
Sir Tech was pretty formative in my professional development. Back then game development wasn't quite as professionalized/industrialized as it is now.

My first job in the industry, back in high school in the mid 1990s, was as a part-time developer at Sir Tech Canada, working on Wizardry. They had a 20-ish person studio in Ottawa working on Jagged Alliance and Wizardry about 15 minute drive from where I was.

How I got in: In high school I saw an ad posted in the local newspaper. Even though I was 17 I applied and got the job as a 3D graphics developer. I had used my work in the demo scene as my resume. I then dropped half of my courses so I could work half days at Sir Tech on Wizardry while finishing high school.

We were using Windows NT 4 machines with Voodoo 3DFX graphics cards as our development machines. The beta of 3DS Max for Windows as the content creation package, although there was an SGI machine with Softimage on it as well. I personally was using Visual Studio with Direct3D 3 doing various experiments on how to render the 3D realistically while being fast.

It wasn't the most successful internship personally, I was pretty green, a bit disconnected from the main development drive and didn't really know how to work in that environment, but it was still fun. The demos I created worked, but my larger system architecture was lacking. Besides meeting the original Sir Tech guys at a Christmas party in the US, I did see Brenda Romero (then Brathwaite) on a regular basis in the office as she was working on the script.

It is a shame we didn't take more pictures back in the 1990s. I don't have any pictures of my time there or with anyone.
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My journey has been deeply rooted in Java, Spring, and "DevOps", where I’ve focused on improving software architecture, testing, and continuous delivery practices. I’m passionate about sharing my knowledge and experiences, on top of writing and designing software. My goal is to help teams and organizations bridge the gap between development and operations, enabling them to adopt modern technologies and practices with greater confidence.

Feel free to ping me at nicolas at frankel dot ch.
For some types of e.g. compute heavy workloads, you could also move jobs to wherever the sun shines. I wonder if anyone is already doing this...
There’s a lot of stuff in the photon’s path “out”. from NASA[0]:

> Once a photon of light is born, it travels at a speed of 300,000 km/sec until it collides with a charged particle and is diverted in another direction. Because the density of the sun decreases by tens of thousands of times from its lead-dense core to its tenuous photosphere, the typical distance a photon can travel between charged particles changes from 0.01 cm at the core to 0.3 cm near the surface.

[0] https://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/locations/ttt_sunlight.php
> What? Why?

News to me too. I found a site. The answer is longish but begins this way:

A photon of light can take 100,000 years from the core of the Sun to get to the surface.

the density of the core is incredibly high — 150 times greater than water. So all the atoms are jammed up against each other.

Let's look at a pair of hydrogen atoms that have fused together to make a helium atom — and released a lot of energy, in the form of gamma rays. The gamma rays can travel only a few millimeters, before they're absorbed by an atom, and then re-radiated.

Over and over again, they are absorbed, and then re-radiated. So, very slowly, the gamma-rays that have been generated by nuclear burning work their way up from the dense core.

After thousands upon thousands of years, they make their way into what's called the 'radiative zone'. The radiative zone is huge — it stretches up from the outer core (that's at the 24 per cent mark) to about 70 per cent of the way to the surface.

It's called the radiative zone, because here, energy travels by radiation. The gamma rays are still being absorbed and re-radiated, but each time they're being re-radiated at longer wavelengths. They gradually get converted from gamma rays down to visible light.

ref: https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/04/24/3483573.h...
> She was not jailed solely for the threats of violence.

As far as I understand, yeah she was. I'm not an expert in the German legal system but while the defamation was also a crime my understanding is she wouldn't have been sent to jail for that.

As far as the rest of your comment goes, I already said in the comment you're replying to that in my opinion the sentence he was given was significantly too light. Thats a specific weird thing about the German legal system, they are (in my opinion) very light on people who are being tried as juveniles.

> You also missed the part about the fact that she got a harsher sentence for her speech than the rapist himself

I literally mentioned that in the comment you're replying too and as I've now said three times, in my opinion his sentence was not harsh enough.

I haven't lied anywhere on this thread.
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You make a great point, but you’ve done it while insulting an entire group of people, which is unnecessary.
Light scatters off the plasma inside the sun before it can make it to the outer layers.
https://archive.is/Bl0Kk
You can change it up slightly, but there is just no way to go from a delta distribution around the same weeks to a uniform distribution around the year. People want to have summer vacation in summer, and they often want it to overlaps with the vacation of relatives and family.

You’ll never get a system where demand for vacation options is independent of period.
Could you elaborate? I don't think I have the background to understand your point.
From the article they seemed to try three things, giving them $2000 cash, giving them $1000 a month, and debt forgiveness.

Consider the scenario where somebody's car is busted (needs replaced) and they have awful credit. They need a new car to get regular income. Any of those three options is unlikely to help them get a new car.
We should probably read the article rather than the other comments. The article does mention that, while the accused's family is unsure of the exact motive, the arrest happened shortly after the "dot" post. Perhaps it was just the most visible form of dissent that they committed just prior to arrest.
I think I'm pretty good for a layperson at statistics + public health stuff, and a lot of the precautions we ended up taking in the pandemic were news to me: for instance, the effect of masks on protecting others, the relationship of infection surges to mass casualty events, and so on.

I figure a lot of people are just not used to following rules (they're office workers who don't wear PPE at work, etc) so when they had to follow rules, they freak out.
But it isn't. Turquoise is turquoise, and since that wasn't an option, I picked one at random.
Reminds me of this book

https://www.amazon.com/Messengers-Deception-UFO-Contacts-Cul...