skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found an image on X proclaiming to be the QR code in question:
https://x.com/MTVEnglishNews/status/1838538200471478461/phot...

Contains the URL: 'https://almunked.com'. Did not open. Some zero-day lurking?
Funny most of the world lives just fine without A/C. It really is an American thing.
Tragedy is that something like 50% of people don't complete their apprenticeships

Provision seem to be very mixed - we know some teenagers who've had good ones and others who've had awful ones and these were in practical skills

Best one I know of was a degree apprenticeship for one of the big accountancy firms. Person started work at 18, had a degree in their early twenties while being paid all the way through, and no student debt at the end
There's a mix of solar, hydro, wind, and battery connected by cables. Weather effects tend to be localized. Continental calm, cloudy conditions are not that common and globally not a thing at all. Certainly not for longer periods of time. And weather and seasonal variation is reasonably predictable so that could be an opportunity to fire up some gas plants as a last resort.

On the solution side there are a few more tools that might be deployed in the UK:

- Demand shaping and price incentives. E.g. when to plugin your car or when to start charging it. Octopus is a big energy provider that is very active on this front. They are also the largest energy provider in the UK and they license their solution to others. So, the UK is ready for this. And with millions of connected users, they could shift a few GW in demand simply by fiddling with e.g. car charging schedules, boiler heating schedule, etc.

- Localized pricing. This is a topic that is a bit sensitive in the UK. But effectively prices in Scotland are high when there is demand in the South; even though they are generating lots of wind that cannot be exported south because there is no cable capacity. So you get high prices (because the gas used down south is expensive) for energy combined with overproduction. Localized pricing would stimulate using the power closer to where it is generated. And it would incentivize investing in power generation where it is needed instead of in random places on the map.

- Virtual power plants. Octopus is getting into this as well. This would add many GW of battery to their mix.

The nice thing with these three solutions is that it doesn't require a huge investment in infrastructure and improves utilization of existing infrastructure.
> But a year after the contract was signed — during which time 12,000 metric tons of orange peels were unloaded onto the degraded land — TicoFruit, a rival company, sued, arguing the company had “defiled a national park.” The rival company won the case in front of Costa Rica’s Supreme Court, and the orange-peel-covered land was largely overlooked for the next 15 years.

Sounds like corporate jealousy on the part of the competitor. I wonder if the supreme court decision has set a precedent preventing future projects like this from going ahead. I don't think anyone would describe the land after 15 years as being "defiled" – quite the opposite.
Unfortunately there is no short answer to this. But the main gist is that improving this to take advantage of all the underlying type system and compiler features would require a new API for LINQ, improvements for generic signature inference in C# (and possibly Rust-like associated types support), and introducing a similar new API to replace regular delegates, used by lambdas, anonymous functions, etc. with "value delegates" dispatched by generic argument to methods accepting them, with possibly a lifetime restriction of 'allows ref struct' which is a new feature that clarifies that a T may be a ref struct and is not allowed to be boxed, as it can contain stack references or references to a scope that would be violated by moving to heap.

There have been many projects to improve this like https://github.com/dubiousconst282/DistIL and community libraries that reimplement LINQ with structs and full monomorphization, but the nature of most projects written in C# means their developers usually are not interested or do not need the zero-cost-like abstractions, which limits the adoption, and for C# itself it would need to evolve, and willingly accept a complete copy of existing APIs in LINQ with new semantics, which is considered, and I agree, a bad tradeoff where the simpler cases can be eventually handled through compiler improvements, especially now that escape analysis is back on the menu.

Which is why, in order to "properly" provide Rust-like cost model of abstractions as the first-class citizen, only a new language that targets .NET would be able to do so. Alternatively, F# too has more leeway in what it compiles its inferred types to, but its a small team and as a language F# has different priorities as far as I know.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library (2013)
I’m also in camp The Great Divergence.

Learning and using the tools to become multiples more productive is relatively hard, still.

In programming, most people still struggle with syntax. The few that get past struggle with conciseness. The few that get past end up managing everyone else instead of solving problems. LLMs move maybe a few percent up the ladder, but hardly enough to matter atm.

In other fields, there’d need to be breakthroughs, otherwise it’s literally scale. Ex: manufacturing is labor intensive and/or capital intensive, w/o a breakthrough like… robots.
Well the basic question here is something like "how do we maximise material comfort?". The answer is pretty obvious - machines. Humans haven't changed much in the last million-odd years, all the improvements since around year 0 AD have been improvements in what machines (ie, capital) we build.

We had a long period where the people with highest social status were war-leaders and we chose them without much care (often a hereditary aristocracy). That led to pretty grim outcomes. It turns out if we award highest status to the people who own and deploy capital efficiently we get absurd amounts of capital produced and this frankly ridiculous society where a tiny group of really driven men seem to just build everything.

So yes, capital is important because we declared it to be so, but we declared it to be so because the society with more capital wins wars. Sometimes by driving over the opposition in that capital, gotta respect a good tank charge. More capital is just better, and capitalism is the system that is most effective at encouraging people to build more capital.
I'm looking forward to not needing to use useMemo/useCallback anymore!
It seems pretty likely that there’s communications internal to Automattic or the Wordpress Foundation where they talked about their objectives and plans, assuming the details in the claim are accurate.

That’s what they’re talking about preserving.
> Human labour isn't all that important in a modern economy

Please elaborate? While this might change in the coming decades with autonomous robots, every economy that I'm even vaguely familiar with would grind to a halt in a matter of hours if humans stopped working.
I think this is sometimes true, and certainly after a ton of failure first.
Telegram would be a better choice as you can use multiple devices.
You can retrieve old images/docs
And it has an API for your bot that you can use to post content from anywhere.
It would be if it weren't so common. Overgrazing is a huge problem worldwide.
> By the way Conway proved [0] that any computer program can be rewritten in the form of these collatz like functions. So they are pretty prowerful.

I don't think that article supports that claim, but maybe I'm misunderstanding it.
It was more in reply to "people in the AI community have"... Which some of them have but the Moravec type stuff has been quite accurate.

Technically a few thousand days covers quite a range. 20 thousand is 55 years.

On the Kurzweil graph, extrapolating hardware progress from 1900 through 2000, superintelligence seems to be roughly 2035, depending on how you define things. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Kurzweils-8-71-chart-of-...
Implicit in this law is the absurd assumption that an individual owns a particular arrangement of facial features. How does this law apply if an identical twin or real-life doppelgängers agree to become models for a digital replica? If you throw a quarter in a crowded New York subway, it's likely to bounce off three blond heads that bear a resemblance to Taylor Swift. They shouldn't be denied their own bodily autonomy on the basis of a legal fiction and an ersatz patent system devised for the benefit of a special interest.
IME most new residential fiber deployments in the US are using XGS-PON which provides 10 Gbps in both directions. Typically ISPs don't put the maximum number of clients in a node that the standard allows. I've heard 32 is a common number in practice.

Obviously it'd still be a bad idea to run a high traffic server on a residential connection, but as long as you're not streaming 4K video 24/7 or something you'll probably be OK.
This is a common reply that boils down to "used it in {before the described pain point was addressed}". Surely things can change?

There aren't even any .xml files in the first place, unless you meant to say .csproj. And they, alongside with .sln, are easily edited with dotnet add/remove package, dotnet new sln, dotnet sln add/remove, and similar.
This determination will swing wildly between huge positive and negative depending on what you use the phone for at work or during other "productive" activities, as well as what you define a productive activity (is watching a film on your phone after work productive? Depends on outlook and who you ask).

A field engineer with access to manuals, video calls, a camera, an ERP app and the company expenses and so on: massive help. A guy at a desk with a computer: likely to be a distraction that didn't add anything not already available through the computer.
X mm phone + Y mm case < (X + 1) mm phone + Y mm case
I worked on a GIS project only once in my career, but it was a lot of fun. Learning about different map projections, coordinate systems, WGS84, etc was pretty interesting. Tooling wise we started off with MySQL but migrated to PosrgreSQL with PostGIS for far superior GIS support.
In a monkeys in front of a typewriter world, statistically, you are as likely to have a one off event that matches a specific bit pattern in the underlying format as you would the encrypted format. It would not be reproducible though since most encryption uses nonces
I wonder if this is something generally true for all BB's and if Collatz-like functions represent some kind of of limit of decidability.
Load Test Results Are Only as Reliable as Your Test Environment
Does anyone else think this title is super confusing for the linked content? Seems like it could be relevant for the related release of the software but this specific post doesn't mention WYSIWYG or how it ties into automation routines.
> Conveying frustration (…) sometimes requires profanity

Agreed, but that’s unrelated to what your parent comment says:

> using profanity is a lousy way to explain things

Explaining something and conveying frustration are not the same thing. So you’re not really disagreeing, you talked about something orthogonal. For all we know, the parent commenter agrees with you. It’s not contradictory to think profanity is a good medium to convey frustration but a bad one to explain a concept.

> and if you can't deal with that then grow up

That was uncalled for. Please be mindful of the guidelines. HN aims for civil discourse, not needlessly judging others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You arguing about the when, I'm talking about the if.

That many warrant aren't worth the paper they are written on is a different issue.
The Python ecosystem is not built around types.

For example, you will find functions where the runtime value of parameters will change the return type (e.g. you get a list of things instead of one thing). So unless we want to throw out huge amounts of Python libraries (and the libraries are absolutely the best thing Python has going for it) then we have to accept that it’s not a very good statically type language experience.

The JS community on the other hand had adopted TypeScript very widely. JS libraries are often designed with typing in mind, so despite being weakly typed, the static type experience is actually very good.
Interesting, I’ve never seen this before. How does it compare to regular gooey or liquid flux? Also how does it work? Just bringing a chunk of rosin next to a soldering iron would just vaporize the flux as seen on the video?
If you're referring to your journal entries to Today Has Been, Export functionality will be available soon.
Let's say I want to setup some blog, portfolio or fun experimental site but my internet connection is not perfect. I'm not alone on this kind of problems: we should be able to pool our resources and have those websites be delivered by whoever has a working connection to the computer requiring access.

I think it could be done with k8s but maybe not. And websites are the easy model as they don't require a permanent connection between "server" and client, with things like IRC it should start being fun.
Just use the system packages! Fedora, Debian, AUR, brew/macports on macOS, etc are all a thing, use them.
I'm not sure size matters that much. Population density does indeed.
There's a weakness in the way the National Grid works which means we don't fully utilise the battery capacity that's available

But in California batteries supply 20% of the power in the evening https://archive.is/IruIQ
Probably just like the 1988 case where Ford hired a Bette Midler impersonator for a commercial. Ford lost. If you impersonate someone without their consent for commercial gain, you're going to have a bad time. None of this is new.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co
Yes, a tangent however...

McDonalds used to be about fast. But now I go in, and watch people running around and prepping food for Uner Eats or whatever.

Meanwhile the person who actually came there, me, waits 5+ minutes for a cashier to even come to the front, and 15 minutes for food.

McDonalds has had delivery automated at least. And it's the reason I stopped going there.

I can sit down at an independent cafe or restaurant, order, get better food faster, hand made, with nicer surroundings, for the same price as McDonalds.

They're the biggest rip off ever, and this didn't used to be the case.
so wouldn't small black holes since the dawn of the universe be very fast by now? 13 billion years of bouncing past particles must add up.
Curious what you consider 'lasts longer' as all of my garden support frames and nets are held up by conduit for about 10 years and I'm not seeing any signs of significant rust..
> If we want to reduce crime, we have to reduce the desperation.

I believe this, especially in explaining why European crime rates are generally low. You don't need much punishment to prevent a hungry person from stealing an apple when people in need can access food at a foodbank.

> Many people make the mistake that presumes criminals think rationally and therefore consider the consequences.

Obscenely violent punishments can take advantage of this irrationality in the opposite direction. I suspect this plays a factor in crimes of insatiable desire like sex, drugs and politics.

Drugs are rare in Singapore, western movies are rare in North Korea and adultery is rare in Saudi Arabia.

There's also something special about the death penalty in preventing reoffending.
Oh, it's entirely possible in principle (I don't know about the details of T1 in this specific case).

Many years ago, there used to be a vulnerability with a lot of modems where you could send a ping packet to a machine connected via dialup, and the machine would send back a response that its modem would interpret as telling it to hang up the call: https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1998/Sep/192

The OSI model is an abstraction that can be broken by implementation bugs or design flaws, not an immutable law of the universe.

EDIT: I see that some of the Twitter replies beat me to mentioning this.
Yes, will definitely consider adding support for Telegram as well.
Doesn't work like that.

Firstly, you can't eat junk when you're on this stuff, it makes you feel really sick. So you're spectacularly wrong about that.

Having taken it myself, what it actually did was fix my fuel gauge. It stopped me craving high-carb food when I was already full. I felt what other people had described as feeling full for the first time in over a decade.

On the other hand, the side effects can be horrid. Be careful taking this stuff. It is easy to get dehydrated, drink plenty of fluids.

So stop your high-horsing and I say this emphatically, go away. Never, ever, say that again.

And I'm being deliberately harsh here because people like you are part of the problem.

You are not helping. We've tried guilt shaming people for decades now and IT DOES NOT WORK.

It is actually some sort of problem with the body. Commonly known as a disease.

I now KNOW that I'm not weak or without willpower. I KNOW you are wrong.

Whatever crap a scientist came up with and put in high carb food, that now infests all our food, destroys the body's ability to feel full on a portion of the population.

Before this I have tried, and stuck to for long periods, low carb, calorie counting, lots of exercise. Didn't work.

Wegovy was a true eye opener that something's wrong with my "sated" and "full" body fuel indicators.

I couldn't stay on it as it was making me feel too ill, but even being on it for 6 months seems to have help change my 'baseline'.

It doesn't work for everyone, it can make some people really ill, and I did it a bit too casually and it is in reality strong stuff so I would definitely recommend talking to a doctor first.
How we threw 10 quantum bit designs in the trash
Need 2022 in the title, a bit confused when first saw the post.
there's no need to be a jerk
Doesn't brew compile from source every time on the user's machine?
There's Bernard Madoff.
Apple has always made even the insides of their hardware clean and neatly laid out, dating back to the Original mac hardware. In the video, one of the inside brackets had a laser engraved apple logo!
Netflix's Pushy: WebSocket Platform That Handles 100Ms Concurrent Connections
One of the reasons Python is so popular as a scripting language in science and ML is that it has a very good story for installing Frankenstein code bases made of assembly, C and Pascal sprinkled with SIMD.

I was here before Anaconda popularized the idea of binary packages for Python and inspired wheels to replace eggs, and I don't want to go back to having to compile that nightmare on my machine.

People that have that kind of idea are likely capable of running kubs containers, understand vectorization and can code a monad on the top of their head.

Half of the Python coders are struggling to use their terminal. You have Windows dev that lives in Visual Studio, teachers of high school that barely show a few functions, mathematicians that are replacing R/Matlab, biologists forced to script something to write a paper, frontend dev that just learned JS is not the only language, geographers that are supplicating their GIS system to do something it's not made for, kids messing with their dad laptop, and probably a dog somewhere.

Binary wheels are a gift from the Gods.
I can vouch for this stuff, used some for a railing system for a ebike trailer that handled some abuse.
Honestly the speed isn't usually a factor for me, I order in the app and get the table service if I'm eating there, or get it curbside. That said I still end up spending at or near what I would spend for a Chipotle or a Freddy's/Five Guys, and McDonalds isn't nearly that fucking good. All fast food has gotten more expensive save kind of Taco Bell which still rocks a menu that has consistently good new items being moved in and out, and you can get out of there for under $20 for two people and have a solid amount of food.

But yeah, the value proposition blows.
For me, I can buy a phone that works and will work for 6-8 years with software updates. I'm on my second iPhone, an 11 pro, that I've had for 5 years at this point. I have to use an Android phone for work and we replace them every two years as the security updates stop.
To the extent that Roman numbers have a direction, it is the same as for Arabic numbers. The current year is MMXXIIII (or MMXXIV in the more familiar notation generally taught in modern schools). You can't write this as IIIIXXMM. There is only one exception that I know of: the 22nd Legion wrote their number as IIXX, but this caused confusion at the time.
I agree with his thesis, if not the details. The first thing I do when encountering content is skim it, check out its form and shape, writing style, look at the headings, pull quotes, etc. then if I judge it worth reading, I'll go back and read it "properly". It could say 2 minutes or 20 hours and I'm still going to size it up because otherwise how do you know it doesn't just peter out in some silly way and end up wasting your time anyway?
For the specific chip I used (MSP430FR2355), you could read and execute code at max 8MHz without wait states. Which means it's reading at most 4MHz since each MSP430 instruction that accesses memory requires at least 2 cycles. So latency is at least 1/4MHz=0.25µs
So AI is forbidden to impersonate somebody who impersonates somebody else?
Any phones that aren't a decade old?
Same. I felt that the article generally got his point across, and kept a good balance between "straight to the point" and flavor text.

And while I don't want profanity present in all the articles I want to read, I find this kind of tone way more appealing than the dry, PR-approved blog posts where the only kind of levity found are "2010 internet humor" cat pictures, and "Corporate Memphis" illustrations.
They do have binary packages now I think.
but chronological order of scientific discoveries does not imply conceptual linearity, so i kinda get why colleges and schools do not go for that kind of approach
Huh. I keep my phone in my pants pocket, and I never once thought about lint getting in that socket.
OpenRC just works for me (Alpine) there’s a declarative side that’s more than enough for simple services, but you can override logic for starting, stopping, reloading,… as it’s just a shell script.
Agreed. I'm confused by a lot of the discourse in this thread. The extortion seems like the important thing. I would think (paraphrasing) "I'm going to destroy your business if you don't pay me" is extortion regardless of the merits of the claims used in carrying out the threat.
Unless the title is internationalised somehow (possible, but I doubt it), it's "4.76" in the original article. That's what happens when submitters editorialise ;-)
There are currently 570K+ projects in pypi, 60k+ in debian repos.

It can take several months of work to approve one single package to the official repos, for a single distribution. And each have different rules and setup.

Now explain to me how you think this is going to work.

Also, do you place to force everyone to use chroot or containers to replace their virtual env systems to have variations on deps? Or maybe everybody should use nix?

Do you want to do that also for JS, Ruby and PHP?
If they’re applying for a random acting job they’re fine. If they’re applying for a Taylor Swift impersonator role, they’re likely to run into legal issues. I don’t see why that’s a problem. Why does their bodily autonomy have to include attempting to fool other people into thinking they’re someone they aren’t?

If I attempt to convince the government I’m someone I’m not, there are real criminal penalties - my “body autonomy” doesn’t extend to deception.
He was also incredibly talented in phrasing ideas so that they stick in the reader's mind. I am right now sitting next to a dog Asimov named after him.