skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Success, but at what cost is more important, for those who are evaluating success.

A coal power plant may be enormously successful. But its costs to climate are equally important.

We often fail to talk about the other side of the coin.
It is a nano sim
> I don't know of an antidote to this

Display comments in random order. Then it becomes possible to add a top level comment and have it not disappear forever into the bottom of the page, forever unseen.

Alternatively, comment as quickly as possible. Ideally, be the first person to comment. Just comment your general thoughts and then fill in everything you wanted to say over a series of edits while simultaneously improving the comment's logic, grammar and spelling. This one goes all the way back to stackoverflow. It's a habit I have never been able to shake to this day because of how active I used to be on that site. Probably contributed to my account getting rate limited here.
I remember thinking about something similar to this at university - I was uncomfortable with the use of biases to assign non-zero probabilities to events that fail to occur after some number of trials.

If I flip a coin n times and it comes up heads everytime, what's my best estimate of the likelihood of tails?

It came out as 1/2^(1/(n + 1)); and the chance of heads = (1 - that).

The calculus for results in between seemed intractable to me - or at least well beyond my abilities...

So I threw it into a newton-raphson solver and was happy to see that it came out pretty much linear (the most asymmetrical result will be the one for three trials, and since that was basically linear all results for greater n will be as well).

But I never went quite this far - for that you'd also need to calculate the standard deviation of the probability estimate (I don't think that it would've been much harder than what I did, but it was outside of my requirements at the time, so it was something I never implemented).
I would say it depends a lot on environment the children are raised in, I grew up in the 90's my family had one television set in the house (in our families living room) and it was only turned on if someone was watching a program. There was a tv guide which you would consult, if there was nothing you were interested in then tv would never get turned on. My Dad in particular would get annoyed at what he saw as "needlessly flicking between channels".

I can remember visiting friends houses where there would be multiple television sets (including tv sets in bedrooms) and television would always be turned on, even if no one was watching it. It was like a constant low level background noise. I found it strange but it was normal to them, they were used to eating dinner or playing with legos etc with tv constantly on in the background.
> The CLHS sez "Recursive expansion of the type specifier returned as the expansion must terminate, including the expansion of type specifiers which are nested within the expansion." though. As expected, here on SBCL, your typep blows the stack.

Weird, I tried it in CLISP and ECL and it worked fine. It looks like this issue was considered during the standard: https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Issues/iss...
If you ask me that's a misfeature and not the Right Thing, but I was able to work around it by using a helper function and the type I wrote earlier, although it does lose more in comparison:

(defun list-of-p (list type)
(and (consp list)
(typep (car list) type)
(or (null (cdr list))
(list-of-p (cdr list) type))))

(deftype list-of (type)
`(satisfiesp (lambda (x) (list-of-p x ',type))))

I will admit one of the double-edged swords of Common Lisp is that some of these rough edges are ultimately left up to the implementation, so there are a lot of very powerful features that are only `de-facto' standard or come with a lot of portability glue. However, many programs are also not designed with portability in mind. It would be nice if SBCL in particular could be made to adopt this use of types.

> I was (obviously, I hope) talking about static, not runtime typing.

The only difference between static and runtime typing would be the stage at which the types are evaluated, and being the same as macros they might be more interesting in that regard since they might have to consider what it means to run at both stages of evaluation.
I am intrigued by this Cops Daughter video. Do you have a link?
Yeah, it's a demand thing for sure. Most of the competition is even more expensive.
No you're not alone but I didn't realize it until you said it. And I am not dyslexic.
>> Power: 160 kW

That doesn't seem correct.
Easy there, they're trying to make your tri-star symbol into the https://symbol.fediverse.info/, maybe a case for future trademark/identity law /s
And some animals are worse. Dogs, for example, are most likely to die from cancer. They also get cataracts decades earlier than humans do.
Are there any scrolling WMs you can recommend? I have always been interested but never found one that I could get working (on Linux).
I wouldn't call a situation where somebody backs into you "rear-ending".
> You can pick almost any major company and find some way they exploit someone else.

Correction, you can pick any extremely large corporation.

Very large (i.e. successful) exploit people by design. Businesses not willing to exploit people are at a disadvantage and can never be as successful as those that are willing to exploit others.
Does anybody else at this point want to mostly stop posting on async text-based services anyways?

Honestly, I'd rather just hang out on Google Meet all day and chill with a handful of besties. We can still all share our thoughts and other things we find interesting on the web, but if we're gonna all be terminally online, we might as well at least bring as much of the human experience back into it as we can.
I just picked up 900 lbs of tile and the place would refuse to put anymore in my Subaru Forester. It's a pretty substantial load with big safety ramifications if not stored well.
Anthropic has been caught labeling some of their paying users as "offenders" and sneakily halving their outputs. Upon being caught red-handed, the evidence was quickly obfuscated within hours, and the limits removed shortly after. No official comment was released. So much for transparency.
Basically treats his own employees like his subscribers. "Stay tuned for the $1000 giveaway!". Have you never watched any of Mr Beast's videos?

The fact that you made it to his company is enough incentive for you to go through the onboarding document.
A friend of mine did exactly that. Entered U of Waterloo on math scholarship. Lost the scholarship in the first year because of bad grades. Second year transferred from Honirs Math t9 General Math. Third year transferred from Math to film studies. Fourth year transferred from film studies to Independent studies. Fifth year a lot of drinking and soccer - Independent studies did not require any classes just some sort of progress towards some type of essay. I think in sixth year Ontario government cut his student loans. He was on the hook for something like 50,000 CAD. Left to teach English in Seoul. Been there since 2000
Well said. Nobody is willing to take risks and change things up when things are going well.

I've found myself warning the people I work with that we need to do things to stabilize the core of our software and infrastructure.

When things are going well it's hard to get buy-in and the time to do any necessary, and sometimes radical changes.

And you probably may say at this point: "well if things are going well why would you do anything radical?" but I generally mean well as in not falling apart, but not ideal, as in every week we keep seeing the same issues reported in our day-to-day. Cause eventually, it only takes something else to go wrong to expose major issues and vulnerabilities with the operation.

Nevertheless, when shit goes sideways, as it usually tends to happen especially when you don't slow down and maintain enough, people then just want you to fix the problem, and do whatever it takes, including those aforementioned risky things you were proposing to avoid the shitty times to begin with.
Hear the Evolution of the London Accent over 660 Years
Thanks. I’ve read about those so was thinking on asking about that in my next visit.
Questionable as his techniques and friends may be, hard to argue with the results
Ack, yes, I meant 1935. I'm on mobile and typoed that in a way the spell checker couldn't catch...

Even now in the US I have yet to see Disney selling rice under the Mickey Mouse brand in a way that could be at all confused with the Mickey rice in Paraguay that I grew up with.
Please do share some good ones, I am very interested in these sorts of stories.
not just higher cancer rates, but higher rates of all kinds of aging-related deaths

the advantage of being warm-blooded is that your metabolism is more precise and much faster, but, as james dean quoted willard motley saying, 'live fast, die young'

most of the causes of aging are unwanted chemical reactions; https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674%2813%2900... is a highly-cited paper reviewing what we knew about the causes of aging 11 years ago. chemical reactions of all kinds follow the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrhenius_equation which makes them happen about 2–3 times faster per 10° temperature rise

(being old is a more important risk factor for cancer than anything else i can think of, even smoking and radioactive fallout)

small sharks around greenland, to take an extreme example, are at essentially the temperature of the seawater, about -1.8°. larger sharks could conceivably raise their internal body temperature, but greenland sharks swim very slowly to avoid this even when they are large. so their metabolism is about 16× slower than yours is—both healing and aging processes happen slower. their gestational period is about 8–18 years
What if I tend to import STLs from thing verse and modify them?

IIRC STLs are triangular meshes. Would bRep programs like build123d able to "convert" them to "true geometric objects"?

I would presume the answer is no.
There is ledger-mode and beancount-mode which are both nice (depending on which program you use). I would say the majority of what I do in practice Python scripts to convert statements to ledger; the amount of stuff I do by hand is minimal enough that it would be easy to live without the emacs mode.
Reading this post at the same time as a blind post where someone is asking what people do for the resto of the week once they finish their 2 hours of sprint work.

The dichotomy sometimes
Take a look at SimpleFin for exporting bank data in JSON.
Younger me would've said that WYSIWYG editors were a mistake and that researchers should've used LaTeX.

Now I think these errors are a small price to pay for convenience. One could waste a lifetime fighting small things like this and still lose. It's just the world we live in.
Why do the arrows point backwards? (I get it points to the parent, but I'd rather point forward chronologically, any commit history viewers that allow this?)
I still think of the freebsd server with just under 13 years of uptime when I killed it. No one can explain the rush of happiness that comes with issuing a shutdown command.

I tried powering it back online afterwards. It did not power back on.
Discussion (556 points, 6 hours ago, 355 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549649
ACE 4. I generally feel like adult life is very difficult for me, but I'm a fully functional adult. I'm in my 40s, married with young children. I suffer from depression, but I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be living with it forever. I'm totally functional otherwise. I have a career in software, a mortgage and I'm in good physical shape. I've spent a bit of time lately thinking about how childhood trauma may have affected my adult life in negative ways. I get bored and disillusioned easily in jobs, and find myself changing jobs every 18 months on average out of sheer frustration with how unfulfilling they are. I find myself annoyed at bureaucracy, and get impatient with less competent people. I never express my frustrations with them, but I feel a lot of negative emotions about my coworkers. One day I'd like to make some effort to address my frame of mind.
Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
The alleged video in question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWIO_Ea6z4o
Even outside of this deal, the educational discount on Macs in this era was insane. Somewhere in the range of 40-50% off.
No problem! Contributing to open source projects is a great way to build your skills and prepare you for professional software development.

It allows you to contribute to a product that is used by many people in production and have your code reviewed by talented and experienced developers.

That is definitely something many employers will like to see.

Let me know if there's anything I can help with.
Excellent write up steren. Costs must still come down, but this was great work in getting towards net zero at home.
I believe my Volt peaks around 100 kW. This seems plausible. 160 kW is 215 horse power.
Not sure I'm totally understanding here, but it sounds like LinkedIn turned on (probably AI-based) porn scanning on messages, there was a false positive, and the guy wasn't able to escalate to support. Is there an implication that it was blocked for political reasons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5gdXvfve8A

not exact match, if i see the bac one again i'll share it.

but this is somewhat typical of the drama, only missing element is a generic slop voiceover that interjects every 2 minutes with two sentences:
1. vague statement about what's happened so far that could apply to any video.
2. "...but they weren't prepared for what happened next!" (nothing crazy ever happens) (except on the 'cop gets arrested for DUI' ones where they think they're gonna get a favor like its 1994 still)

EDIT:
this ones a good subtle example of the adult baby video https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jan_KjEZd20
What makes Monad interesting is that it is a trait that you have implemented, so you can work generically any monads. I thereby feel like saying manually calling these methods is "monadic" kind of misses the point of why a monad was interesting in the first place.

Haskell's error handling isn't you sitting around calling monad methods: you implement the Monad trait so you don't have to, and it then all gets hidden behind do notation, with the result that you get the same control flow that you'd get just using exceptions.

It thereby is just constantly strange to me that people talk about any of these languages as if they learned something from Haskell... Haskell clearly wanted things like state and exceptions and such, but wanted to do so on top of a lazy pure functional core language.

The trick they came up with is thereby to define this trait called Monad, which lets you program into the control flow all of these bespoke behaviors you get from the imperative languages: state, exceptions, scopes, asynchronicity, list comprehensions... you name it.

But the end result is not in any way "manual": the end code doesn't involve destructuring an Either every time you make a call, but it also doesn't involve calling methods to deal with the errors. The end result is, as best as they could implement, exception handling!

And like, in the same way that people can make mistakes with manual memory allocation, so we prefer scope allocation, people can also make mistakes with manual error propagation, and so you'd expect we would prefer exception unwinding: the monad enforces consistency.

In that light, the behavior of most languages with respect to many of these behaviors is to just have hardcoded every function to be in a standard set of stacked monads for basic things everyone takes for granted: exceptions are just hardcoded monadic error handling.

But Rust? That isn't monadic error handling: that's just manual error propagation. If we are going to call Rust's manual error management regime "monadic", we should also call C's manual resource management regime "monadic". If you are doing it manually, it isn't monadic.

And sure, calling the methods of the monad kind of makes it look a bit less manual, but that's like moving on from C and now saying that Go's manual-ish resource management (defer) is monadic. If you aren't forced to do it the standard/correct way, it isn't monadic.
Why not? That seems plausible. It's about 214 horsepower, which isn't a lot but compared to most EV conversions it's pretty decent. The battery might be the limiting factor anyways.
So what's the implication here? Is Microsoft/LI unhappy about Ukraine content? Mesh content? Mesh in Ukraine? Or did the TOS bot have a false positive?
Imagine the countless millions of hours people, especially young ones, have wasted on this content.

Sure, the argument may go, its entertainment and those would have gotten the same from alternative sources, but in this particular case, viral ready addictive video content is ultimately a bane for society.

This guy has studied 20000 to 30000 of videos, done data analysis on them, and then finetuned his videos to make them popular and earn a lot of money on it. As a business, this is genius, he is talented, he is profitable, his investors are circling around banks. But society has suffered for it.

My kid watches similar pointless videos, and he is on the verge of addiction (any and all free time he has, he jumps to the videos of colorful activity videos on you tube, from chinese or russian channels. He is 10 years old)

I am weaning him off youtube altogether, and involving him in books and other activities, but it is damn hard.
Hi! I'm the CEO of Bounce Imaging. Now sure exactly how to post here but excited to see ourselves on here after someone sent me the link. Happy to show some sample video as requested: https://youtube.com/shorts/PlmG9HdzltU?feature=share
(I posted this quickly on my own Youtube as I'll need my colleagues at work to put up a better on our official page)

As noted, indeed our near-IR cameras (prior generations - the Recce360 Mini etc) are much easier to interpret in-flight than thermal just because it is hard to get your head around panoramic thermal as easily. If you want to see fully 360 video of that, just download our app (Bounce Viewer) and in the History section scroll down to demo videos and you can pan around as it is thrown in the air or shooting around on the back of a dog. Note that the stabilization is along multiple axes!

Indeed Jonas' setup was pretty cool but this had actually been tried many times before THAT- including cool designs by the Brits, US Navy, and others from decades ago and a cool conceptual design by Franziska Faro (spelling, sorry!). ALL however suffered from the challenge of doing real-time processing with low-latency and automatic stabilization in flight without melting the camera through too much processing. The way we cracked it, first for our visual cameras and now for thermal, is through a stitching method that is 200X-2000X more efficient and noise-insensitive because it is not based on SURF/SIFT feature detection (if you're into the nerdy side of things).
> mostly wasn't fraud, it was truly innovative accounting that with hindsight was the wrong idea

When your "innovative accounting" makes you feel, at some point, that you should be shredding important documents, I think it mostly was actual fraud. You know, criminal behavior.

Let's call it like it is: a bunch of rich, extremely entitled people who decided they should, you know, be more rich by abusing their privilage and positions, and who helped nobody except themselves.

There's nothing admirable there, just another of those lessons that we ignore continually: cockroaches wear suits, and often expensive ones too.
Even if you have all the software handled, building a team of moderators who are willing to sift through all the crap and stop the child porn, cat in a blender videos, war footage, sexual harassment, upskirt crimes, etc. etc. is tough.

It's not the software that's hard. It's the moderation.

Pure text like Hacker News is a safe zone from this kind of crap. But multimedia sites like Twitter, Threads or BlueSky need to deal with the filthiest content and sanitize their servers. Even as their members complain about borderline not-a-child porn just a petite lady who is over 18 (yadda yadda) flame wars. Moderator teams grow tired of that bullshit.

---------

Ex: it's not Twitch that's hard to make. But instead the difficult thing is effectively moderating the hot-tub meta, as streamers like to call it.
Electric is likely cheapest considering duty cycle and fuel usage, and the battery should not need to be replaced for hundreds of thousands of miles, at which point we will have better batteries that last even longer and are cheaper.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409422

https://petapixel.com/2024/08/30/scientists-discovered-a-way...

https://www.cell.com/joule/abstract/S2542-4351(24)00353-2
If you were designing this puzzle, could you do better so that this wasn't necessary? Maybe a two step protocol:

- Send some money to an address, which would temporarily stop accepting money from anywhere else. The fee gives the sender the exclusive right to solve the puzzle for, say, 15 blocks.

- After that transaction is validated, a second transaction (which now cannot be forged by bots) can be sent through.

I am pretty sure you could do something like this on Ethereum but I don't know if the BTC protocol would allow this. I also know very little about the guts of the respective VMs in general.
> One distressing trend I've noticed becoming ubiquitous on HN is that any writing that is confronting to a consensus worldview becomes flooded with highly upvoted comments that are, in essence, excuses for why it's not necessary in this instance to re-examine your priors.

In as far as this is a document that says 'do your best, give 110% 25/8, sacrifice everything for the company', most of what I'm seeing here is the same general approval that latter-day HN gives all impractical advice that a very young person might come up with. ('Just do gooderer, all the time!')

I don't think the change is that people now are now closed-minded, I think it's more that something like Mr Beast's PDF of peppy twenty-something bromides simply wouldn't have made the front page at all in 2014. This would be over on Digg with the other pop-Internet stories.

More broadly, given that the comment section appears around 60-70% positive for Mr Beast, I'm unsure what it is you're actually after. Would you prefer it be 100% positive? Wouldn't that be a huge loss for the intellectual diversity that this site has to offer? Aren't there other, better places for hive takes (e.g. Reddit)?

Respectfully, I think the takes you're taking issue with are precisely the remnants of the old, diverse HN, and the takes you're tacitly encouraging are the monoculture that's taken over the rest of the Internet.
My Pixel can take more than one eSIM. I was not aware that this is not standard by now.

I am still with Google Fi since I was traveling a lot abroad. But now I am back in the US and see that there are much cheaper plans. Is google fi still worth it?
Videos for you to look at closely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJRu8rZxufg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuFgAjy4gjs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCNMBCu8y9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbvX1wsfUM

Contact me if you have success some months/years down the line. Will also take a negative feedback from you. Caveat: you may have to wean off medications.

Source for above links: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXPH44VC
And you're exactly who they are looking to move elsewhere. They are looking for people who want to make youtube videos. No faff about over font and comma placement.
> But, what's the alternative?

Avoiding one sided content altogether. Any and all video content must be rejected.

Learning to do things from books is the only way we can safeguard the next generation from becoming mind fucked zombies who have lost the cognitive ability to think for themselves.