skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious about the material they use. They say it is a wood-fiber-based material that "smells like cookies". The most commonly available material that fit this description is wood-filled PLA.

Problem is that PLA in a hot car will deform, so that's probably not ideal for a camper van. For car interiors, ABS is usually recommended, so maybe it is wood filled ABS, which is less common than for PLA, but it exists. Problem with ABS is that it is harder to print, especially for large parts, because of thermal expansion. And if you tell me that ABS smells like cookies, then there is something very wrong with your cookies.
there's a whole underground economy. I recall hearing a story of how one guy was busted who used to build an exploit kit and sell it to people for a cut of their earnings.

And then there's crazier shit like
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/blackcat-ransomware-grou...
If I may be flippant, "Killing a 1400-year-old institution," is quite a feather in capitalism's hat.
Building Self-Esteem Using Cognitive Behavioural Based Techniques [pdf]
Yet.

You have no idea what Astral’s other (future) plans include. For example, what if they are working on all this tooling so they can start providing “verified, reproducible Python packages” as a service, to mitigate against supply chain attacks?

Telling people not to use Astral’s products because they are VC-backed is silly, especially since everything they’ve done so far is permissively licensed.
It's nice to see someone who shouldn't be seen as a programmer (Paul Romer is a Nobel-winning macroeconomist) teaching python as a matter of process in his classes.

For a long time economics was dragging behind using matlab or specialized statistics software (ugh). Even using R was considered novel among econometricians for a while.
You need the DAC/amp for the built-in speaker(s) anyway.
Roughly 73% are overweight or obese, a bit more than 50% have a "chronic condition" although that is often something controllable like hypertension or high cholesterol.
There's a podcast with the creator courtesy of corecursive, it's a good story.

"in the final comparison, ZStandard beat ZLib in every way. At the same compression ratio, it compresses three to five times faster .at the same compression speed, it results in files that are 10 to 15% smaller. And besides all this, it can decompress twice as fast regardless of compression speed. The only thing even close to ZStandard is Brotli from Google."

https://corecursive.com/data-compression-yann-collet/#
I'm not sure if it's important, but I expected to press to start and press to end.

I can't see the text in the tags. I get white text over a white background (Chrome on Windows).

When I delete a task, it would be nice to hace a confirmation of an undo option.
That's basically why we need regulation.

Hardcore libertarians say the free market would fix this, but even if you do get sick it's hard to attribute to which exact product you got sickness from. And in any case this is all after the fact that you bought the thing.
Slidge: First Beta of the 0.2 Series
Nice work! I look forward to following your development. As a radio amateur I was looking at a Luneburg lens for a 10GHz point to point link, with luck this will let me play around with that idea. Is there a discord server or forum where folks are discussing applications?
Hey that's great, It's a little aliased looking but being able to see how many tries it took is cool! I like how you have it looking like a countdown timer :)
The only truly, audibly lousy Bluetooth codec is low-bitrate SBC. Anything better than that is going to be transparent to most ears.

The awfulness of cheap/low-power DACs, on the other hand, knows no limit.
No, in taking about the native scoping you get with shadow DOM, which is awesome and not an "inspection nightmare".
If the last 10 bytes are used to store the checksum, then it would make sense to not include them.
Could this be used to make the wifi in my home do right angles and avoid walls? how big would it have to be?
AI-Implanted False Memories
The human right of free speech protects hate, disinformation, and a host of other horrible words one might say. That's because hate and disinformation are ambiguous terms used be tyrants to arrest dissidents. So long as someone isn't making true threats, or inciting imminent lawlessness, humans have a right to their own thoughts and the expression of their ideas. Your definition of hate is bit universal and will only lead to tyranny.
China buys more chip tools than South Korea, Taiwan, U.S. combined
Also thanks for listening and responding so fast, that's awesome
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How much time does the parsing step take when compiling c++, relatively speaking? Is it actually significant compared to everything else that happens?
better make it illegal again…

??? The article is explicitly advocating for descheduling marijuana altogether in order to unblock FDA regulation.
He raises an important point that human learning is continuous and to some extent unavoidable, unlike LLMs (and basically most computing models) which freeze at some point, and as amazing as they can appear, do not update with each interaction (and more or less his point is that even if some system did start updating weights after each interaction, whether that is learning from mistakes or just a model with 1000001 examples instead of 1000000 is debatable.

But the argument that we should not learn while young because "It's not useful to us then" is a ridiculous premise to argue with. Perhaps I misunderstand it. Then saying that things benefit us far down the road, long after the original moment of learning...

I don't understand this line of thinking at all. Linking this to "educability" as a sort of hidden superpower makes me say "oh, really now?".

Like most scientists, he has to focus his ideas on a track with research directions which expand outwards, excite, and provide new directions and conversationality. He may not be aware of doing this.

Rare is the day when we see a psychologist studying things like how applying a new learning technique to class A effects all the other classes the student takes.

Rare is it we study flow state and motivation of the long term and find meaningful ways at a cohort intra-country level to increase happiness at school or final grades across the board, rather than just one course which the researchers focus on. And when that has been done in Scandinavia, who lead in PISA and happiness as adults and teens, scientists in the US ignore the research by and large. It's sad.

This is what I don't like about education research and theories. They can be worthwhile research directions, but diminished to theorizing, rather than application.
> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-git" title="my blog as a git repo" href="..." />

This is a _great_ idea. Let's make this happen.

Edit: okay this is live now in Scroll and across PLDB, my blog, and other sites. Would love if someone could post this link to HackerNews: https://scroll.pub/blog/gitOverRss.html
With 64 XGS-PON customers per SFP+ module, the only active equipment you need to terminate connections for over 60,000 customers fits into a single rack. Large centralized buildings are largely obsolete unless you want to offer services beyond basic Internet access.
Over the years, I've learned to recognize when I'm stuck on a problem in a way that will be resolved by sleeping on it.

I can go to sleep confident that in the morning I'll probably figure out what I just can't get a handle on right now.
The US banns a lot of stuff too, from porn to sharing songs.

A major problem with online discourse about "free speech" is that is so ameri-centric. American view on what's allowed is the only definition that counts.
> In a cheaper smartphone, you are probably better off with bluetooth/aptx.

If we assume a cheap phone has a garbage DAC, we should assume a cheap phone has garbage Bluetooth. That might mean better audio quality when it works, but also connectivity problems and excessive power consumption.
Hi mNovak!

You are 100% right on that. Im working on deploying a free version to access it online so people can check it out.

Also im working on making a step by step guide so people can install it with docker and looking to other alternative ways to installing it locally
> Why do you believe life-long pain and suffering limited to physical ailments?

Why do you think I believe that?

> Not all depression can be cured or even easily managed. Not all mental illnesses consist of depression.

Okay.

source:25y as caregiver of mentally ill spouse. source:7y PTSD support group asst.
Show HN: Puns from Wikipedia Page Titles
I made a site that creates puns using Wikipedia page tiles as the source of pun phrases
Someone doesn't know how orbits work, how big space is, or how expensive other satellite services used to be pre starlink. Or how bad it can get with latency.

And yes the unreachable people have family in reachable areas that can pay, sometimes the Internet is what keeps them away, since solar and batteries exist

See the Marubo for example
Well, using awk because you are familiar with it could be due to a skill issue with other languages too. Can't use python for parsing? Skill issue I guess, going by your logic.
X blocked in Brazil after Supreme Court panel upholds suspension order
It doesn't seem like the wet bulb model accounts for ratio of surface area and volume.

The instrument they use is the sling psychrometer, a long cylindrical tube [1]. If I had to hazard a guess, the ratio of surface area to volume is much higher for the bulb than it is a human.

Evaporative cooling is a function of surface area--more surface area => more cooling capacity. I'd be curious to see how accurate the model if the surface area to volume ratio were more human-scale.

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/sling-psych...
Now that you mention it, it reminds me that the 3.5mm headphone cable plug almost always had problems after a few months of use (or more - if carried in a pocket or in a bag). The wires inside the jack were getting damaged. This is something that wireless headphones "fixed" completely.
Rick Hickey made a great talk about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
I believe there are a number of plausible explanations. Of course if you're intent on denying it ...
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I do something similar. I ask "does this feel like there is a solution space, is this probably solvable?" If there is I pursue it or ruminate on it (mainly incubate it). If not, I ask why not or reframe it or move it to "wish list" (my step below "roadmap").

Creativity benefits from incubation, setting it aside to see what reframings and new ideas pop up.
So are they paying their fines or not? Disagreeing with censorship doesn’t mean you get to not adhere to the law.
Enhancing Autism Spectrum Disorder Early Detection with xLSTM
(I was not on the healthcare.gov rescue mission.)
I used to scoff at the 10mg edibles. When I left the US for several months, I had no access to my former daily habit and my tolerance returned to normal. Now I’m back in the US and a 10mg iced tea or gummy is exactly as much as I want. Those prerolls give me anxiety now, and I no longer laugh at recordings of people who have ingested too much and call 911 thinking they’re dying. A bad mj trip is a bad trip indeed.
"In 1844, Oregon, which had banned slavery, banned African Americans from the territory altogether. Those who failed to leave could expect to receive lashings under a law known as the "Peter Burnett Lash Law", named for Provisional Supreme Judge Peter Burnett. No persons were ever lashed under the law; it was quickly amended to replace lashing with forced labor..."

And the circle is completed.
Ise Jingu in Japan is perhaps the marquee exception, ritually torn down and rebuilt every 20 years in a tradition at least 1300 years old. I think it stands to reason that if ritual reconstruction and maintenance of temple facilities is part of the religious tradition, then temple builders will see regular work.

We shouldn't assume that all of the world's faiths follow the tradition of building temples as permanent monuments of stone and gold.
Right, but you should be able to tell after the first half that smoking the 2nd half is a bad idea. The "skill issue" isn't not being able to handle a whole joint, it's not knowing when to stop, which is something you should know regardless of potency.
I honestly think it's because people don't give a damn about people around them.
As mentioned below, Nicotine and caffeine are useful to plants, and to humans. Potatoes, eggplants, tomatoes, tobacco all have nicotine. Humans just happen to have receptors for the chemicals in our brains/nervous system.[0]

interestingly, i was going to look for plants that hit our cannibinoid receptors and found this:

> Myrcene is found in extremely high concentrations in hop oil, making up to about 75% of the extracted volume in some varieties, and is also found in high levels in mangoes, lemongrass, thyme and verbena.

Myrcene is a terpene which is a "cannabimimetic" compound;

> B-caryophyllene is found in black pepper, cloves, rosemary, hops, caraway, oregano, basil, lavender, cinnamon, and many more plant species. In most of these species, β-caryophyllene is a major constituent of the essential oil.

Flax (linseed) contains, possibly, straight cannibinoids (in fact, CBD! 2012 discovery). Also, curiously, at least to me, all grasses humans consume are partially (marginally?) converted to compounds that interact with humans' opioid receptors. It's one of the reasons [some?] humans get withdrawal symptoms if they go on a diet that reduces sugarcane sugar, wheat, etc.

I'm repeatedly reminded that everything on earth is connected, even if only by heritage and geographic proximity to our own evolution.

[0] Ketchup has niconoid and opioid compounds in it and that's probably why i go through about a half gallon a month ;-) and combined with french fries it's a potent nicotine lunch with a side of opioids.

Also i'm a layman. My facts are true, but i sometimes use the wrong words because i haven't drilled the exact terms forever, because people's eyes glaze over if you start saying "nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist."
Stuff should be legal, but advertisement of all drugs (inc. alcohol, nicotine) should be completely banned, everywhere.
I learned that Portland had a post-transcontinental-railway camp of out-of-work laborers, all immigrants. They burned it and put all the inhabitants on a train going east. Affected the makeup of Portland to this day.
A good peripheral nerve specialist will direct the diagnostic nerve blocks, and he prefers you use his pain management guy who he trusts is doing the nerve blocks properly - so you're getting an actual proper diagnostic response from patient.

Dr. Tollestrup in Las Vegas would be my recommendation - I've done 7 surgeries with him so far. To note, every doctor I've encountered isn't perfect - in this case with Tollestrup, he himself hadn't heard of Eagle's syndrome before, arguably because he's a peripheral nerve expert - and the vagus nerves aren't considered peripheral afaik.

An "LVI Global" trained dentist may be able to help you find a proper bite, to create an orthotic that will allow your low jaw to relax/stop guarding. They try to upsell you to full mouth reconstruction, where they actually make money, although the daytime+nighttime orthotics they make for you aren't cheap either. Part of their protocol is also doing a head/neck CBCT scan - which is what incidentally found the Eagle's syndrome for me.
She does say that the long term future is probably BEVs.

There is a good point though, since battery production is still limited it’s good to make hybrids that get a lot of efficiency improvements for a small battery. But it doesn’t make sense at all in the long term, and since hybrids will drive the expansion of EV motor and battery production it’s a technology that will inevitably kill itself.

You can also think of it this way:
1. Hybrids are better than ICE because it’s just plain dumb to waste energy in the breaks.
2. If you’ve already got a battery it’s silly not to make it a bit bigger and be able to charge it overnight and cut your fuel costs for your commute. So you get plug-in hybrids.
3. Now you just gotta make the battery even bigger, and you can cut outs LOT of complexity and drastically reduce operating costs. If you get up to 70kWh or so you will only go through a few charge cycles a year, so then for an average driver the battery will last about as long as the car itself too (probably about 20 years on average).

But we need a LOT more battery factories if every car needs a 50-90kWh battery. Fortunately that’s coming.
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Windows XP on iPhone [video]
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My Coding Experience with LLM
Oh my god that is maybe the most unexpected turn of all time. I almost hesitate to spoil it… suffice to say that the author is not who you think they are!

I was reading through to validate that it’s all pretty basic stuff without citations to any philosophers, which is true, but it’s great for what it is. No disagreements here. They even summarized the Imitation Game correctly, which is quite rare! (Most people frame it as “a computer is conscious when it can fool a human”, which is, somewhat impressively, missing the point in two ways at once)
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> I grew up in broward without air conditioning. You get used to it.

I've been on the gulf coast since 1992. How much longer until I get used to it? Because not wringing out clothes after the nightly walk sounds pretty sweet.
The parents can experience it however they experience it. That doesn't give them the right to compel another adult human to do anything against their will.

Children don't abandon their parents on a whim. That's not how humans work. If it happens, it's a sign of extreme desperation. It means the decision itself is the tip of the iceberg and the relationship has been severely dysfunctional for years.

Ironically, the kind of parent who would try to force their child to love them or keep in contact with them against the child's will is astronomically more likely to have this problem in the first place. While I can't see the future, it's almost impossible for me to imagine this happening with my daughter. We have a very close relationship to begin with, and I plan to love and support her unconditionally no matter what choices she makes in her life.
TypeSpec reminds us why OpenAPI exists in the first place
It’s a remarkably detailed and patient message. Can’t fathom getting such a message from my leadership
It's amusing how this game, by avoiding cubical dice and requiring knowledge of city names and populations to advance, is firmly on the side of "skill: good, luck: bad" for didactic games, while Moksha Patam, the precursor of Snakes & Ladders, was deliberately employed to teach the opposite lesson, "skill: useless, destiny: everything".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_ladders#History
If I were hiring for a position where the candidate needs to be as off putting as possible, yes.

Maybe if I were staffing the cancellations department for Comcast and I need to keep a minimum hang up rate?
I like it! What's the process, are you looking up rhymes, then Wikipedia titles containing those words?
Spoken like someone who has never had to teach non-programmers from complete scratch. Yes it would be ideal to spend hours setting up the conceptual framework for environment management. But now you’re teaching a “Python conceptual frameworks” course instead of whatever you were originally supposed to talk about (usually some specific package or workflow). It’s liable to be frustrating and feel irrelevant for people who are not and will not be career programmers. Better to get going quick and circle back around to that stuff if/when necessary and it’s properly motivated.

This is why R actually really great btw, R/RStudio make it insanely easy to “just get going” with a package installer UI.