skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turing himself showed that any Turing machine can compute any problem which is computable. So the question comes down to, "Is the universe computable?" It's a good philosophical question!

Religion says, "Yes, by a god who computes it all." Newtonian physics says, "Yes, by physical laws of matter." Quantum physics says, "No. The observed universe is a wave function that includes uncertainties."

I guess the theoretical comp sci question that intrigues me is the idea that all of it, including quantum physics, could be an Assassin's Creed-type simulation being run by something or somebody else.
I'm holding on to my 1st Gen SE from 2016.
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You can put mathematical flesh on this concept by reading up on the statistics behind the "multiarmed bandit". You get suboptimal performance if you never take any risks. Since you can't 100% quantify all "risks" involved in watching a bad movie or the joys, you can't just plug numbers in and crank the crank to determine exactly how often you should explore for optimal results, but you can still get the general gist that if you don't roll the dice every so often you won't get the best outcome.

It isn't even necessarily about watching "bad movies" on purpose. Even in the space of movies, one dice roll I've made is to watch the best movie of some genre I'm not particularly into. Even if it doesn't "convert" me to a fan of the genre this has often paid off for me. Another example is a lot of people get into musical ruts very early in life, often I think not even having a clue what the diversity that is out there is like. It doesn't take much to just make a random leap across the landscape to somewhere you've never been to check a new space out.
Marketing is going back to utilize the same measurement technologies that were prevalent before digital tracking was ubiquitous, via Media/Market Mix Modeling (MMM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_mix_modeling However, now we can process, hold, and model way more data, driving toward way more useful outputs; but, without any of the privacy implications that exist at a user-level.

So, we now use MMM + user-level attribution (Multi-touch Attribution or MTA) as a hybridized modeling effort to provide what is known in the industry as 'Unified Measurement Modeling' in order to provide the most robust look at how marketing is working.
You might try slow release melatonin. I've found melatonin increases the vividness of dreaming, though.
but it's a samsung... all the preinstalled apps that you can't remove, all of the just straight-up dumb samsung apps that are bundled and can't be removed.

pass. everything samsung is doing lately makes them a company that I will no longer buy from.

apple isn't perfect, no one is, but any company that puts ads on top of my content that i paid for with money on my own tv that i paid for with money is getting kicked out of my house hastily and permanently.
Yes, anybody speaking as though this reactor already exists is wrong.
The Practitioner's Guide to the Maximal Update Parameterization
V2G gets all the buzzword points, but...

You don't even need V2G (which requires still-rare bidirectional charging hardware) to benefit from free/negative electricity prices. Simple V1G (AKA grid-interactive smart charging) will do the job, and since there's no extra hardware it's just a software update away for many existing EVs.

1. Charge your EVs for free during excessive generation.

2. There is no step 2.

This avoids adding extra (relatively costly) cycles to your EV battery, since you only do charging you were already going to do anyway. This improves economics for the owner, because the price "spread" no longer needs to cover battery wear-and-tear.

Even if you have onboard V2G hardware, there will be lots of cases where a "Just Do The Right Thing" algorithm would choose to only delay charging (no back-feeding to the grid), since the predicted price spread is less than the battery cycle cost.
"That bug was a real head-scratcher for me. I'm glad I figured it out. The simple fix is to pipe stderr to /dev/null. "

That's kind of a nope. It's a feature, not a bug. FFMPEG will exit with 0 even on an actual error for what you were expecting. In one of TFA examples using -ss 5 -to 10, you're expecting a result of a 5 second clip. If for some reason, there was an issue reading the file at 8 seconds, ffmpeg will exit with 0 and an output that was only 3 seconds long. If you dumped stderr to /dev/null, you'd have no idea why.

FFMPEG definitely does some weird things with stdout/stderr for people that are new to it. However, there are reasons for its behavior that make sense after long enough use of it. Being able to pipe raw video using stdout instead of forcing a dump to a file is full on Matrix level flex that distorts the surrounding environment. So if the actual video is going out stdout, stderr receives all of the other info that normies would expect to see on stdout. This is why so many people use 2>/path/to/log so that at the end of the process with an exit 0 any issues with an output can be ascertained.
Anecdotal evidence go brrrr.

FSD may not be total trash, but it objectively isn’t what was promised it to be in 2020 (?)
Spartacus.app – "Kickstarter" for Collective Action
Cool, so we're re-visiting the 90s with RAD tools, just this time charged with AI.

Everything old is new again
Sure, you are welcome.
Spctl command line tool no longer able to manage Gatekeeper on macOS Sequoia
Adam Smith is probably spinning in his grave.

> His whole invisible hand metaphor is about society advancing as a whole from agents acting in their self interest.

That theory is predicated on the market being composed of buyers and sellers of broadly similar financial power. This is no longer the case in most markets, certainly not in the UK as far as ordinary people or most small companies are concerned.
>You could ask what they thought about the book, which ideas resonated with them or didn’t, instead of making them answer a pop quiz of shame.

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Netflix shared details on the evolution of Pushy, a WebSocket messaging platform that supports push notifications and inter-device communication across many different devices for the company’s products. Netflix’s engineers implemented numerous improvements across the Pushy ecosystem to ensure the platform's scalability and reliability and support new capabilities.
this could be easy or hard depending on what you had to write in assembly on the test. like it wouldn't be that hard to write a subroutine to add up an array of integers or something

addem: xor eax, eax
loop:
test ecx, ecx
jnz ok
ret
ok: add eax, [ebx + ecx * 4]
dec ecx
jmp loop

(i haven't tested this, it'd be hilarious if i got it wrong)
Which means it can give back 4.6GW for approximately an hour and 15 minutes. After that it is empty.
> You are already using “performance will be looked at later” versions of grep

Are you referring to GNU grep? Because if so, this is wildly untrue. GNU grep has been very significantly optimized. There are huge piles of code, including an entire regex engine, in GNU grep specifically for running searches more quickly.

Maybe something like busybox's or BSD's grep would satisfy "performance will be looked at later," but certainly not GNU grep. I can't tell which one you're referring to, but a generic "you are already using" seems to at least include GNU grep.
Brazil had a similar thing a few weeks ago, but it got drowned in the news because if was related to the Twitter/X block.

While the block itself may be legitimate, as the motivation was the refusal from X from deleting a few tweets doxxing a police investigator and his family members, the whole process was done in a few little short of a full blown dictatorship: one of the points of the court order demanded Google and Apple to remove all VPN apps from their stores, and some legal experts interpreted that as also ordering removal from the phones themselves. The justice that sent the order backtracked it later, but it was possible and the order was standing during that time.

The VPN issue got relatively little discussion on the press and too many people were too quick to equate criticism of the overly broad court order with defense of Twitter and Musk, so the well was poisoned from the start.
Try SpinalHDL or Chisel and never look back.
I believe the point isn't to let you rollback at will, but it'll automatically rollback if it fails a boot check, so before anything is written to the filesystem. However, it's worth noting that Fedora Silverblue/IoT let's you rollback at will without problem.
I'm curious how Android isn't that? What's missing that would classify most Android phones as general-purpose computers?
> 5.9GWh

In other words, energy storage to match what the nuke plant will be able to put out 24/7 literally doesn't exist.
I have a 12 Pro Max that I bought after years as an android user. This thing is almost 4 years old, I never used a case or any kind of protection. It has fallen from tables or slipped from my hand into hard tile floor too many times for me to count. Other than some slight chipping and scratches on the metal enclosure, nothing ever broke.

I just assumed by now that waterproofing was caput because of all the falls and acted accordingly keeping it far even from splashes.

Last weekend we had a party here at home, the whole family and friend at pool, barbecue and beer. I am in the pool, and "hey, someone dropped the phone in the pool, folks!".

I retrieve, and it was my phone. Other than the annoying message that it couldn't charge because the charging port was wet until it got dry, no problems, so I think waterproofing is still working.

Maybe I am lucky, but I had flagship Android phones that I paid as much for as I would pay for a flagship IPhone at the time, and none of them have been so durable, either I got a cracked screen, or didn't have updates anymore, or it got progressively slower around the 2 years mark. I think the only smartphone I had in my whole life as durable as this one was my Sony P910 that I got in 2004 only to replace it with a Motorola Cliq some 5 years later.
Surely you blame both? Being consistently evil and living up (or down?) to ones reputation for evil doesn't make one less evil.
I think you’re confusing two things: PyPI has maintainers end administrators, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a curated index. Like RubyGems, NPM, Cargo, etc., PyPI explicitly does not present a curated view of the packaging ecosystem. Doing so would require orders of magnitude more staffing than the index already has.

Python as a community prefers standards over implementations, which is why you could easily stand up your own curated alternative to PyPI if you wanted to. But think you’ll discover that the overwhelming majority of users don’t want their resolutions breaking just because a particular package hasn’t needed an update in the last 6 months.
Some Notes on Adversarial Attacks on LLMs
> I also assume there's a lot of room for cost reduction in wind over the next decade

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/20/giant-windf...

What are the reasons behind believing prices will reduce further?

> I'm guessing Nuclear won't see the same level of changes

Parsons says the second reactor is being built 20% more quickly than the first one.
Parsons says he expects that Sizewell will be built between 20% and 30% faster than the second Hinkley reactor.

In addition I would think reduced financing costs (risk reduction and sharing) will help bring prices down.
Yes. They proactively do this if you try to sideload versions of "official" apps they won't want you to use

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/android-now-allows-a...
Show HN: Wit and Wisdom – Redefining Words with a Smile
We make this AI dictionary to demo the humor side of AI. We need communities' feedback!

Thanks
Oh sure, friend. Not a puppet, not a puppet. He's stubborn for Russian fossil fuels, held up Sweden's entry into NATO, and curried a thousand other favors, but they were all just meetings of the minds. /s

Same goes for Lukashenko, Maduro, and Vučić, or for Farage, Weidel, and all the other nice folk who used to poll sub-5% before Russia's troll army started peddling their sewage. The only thing less likely than you convincing me that he isn't would be me convincing you that he is, considering that you hopped onto this thread for this argument.
I had a culture shock regarding this around a decade ago when my coworker declared (with pride) that his teenage son has his schedule filled up to the brim.

I recall thinking how to respond. Was that a good thing? What was he so proud of? Two extracurriculars were already a lot back in my school days.

To add to the confusion the kids in my neighbourhood don't seem to attend many classes as I see them on the playground. Is this an upper-middle class thing that I'm supposed to participate in now?
Linux should be able to port over files over USB, FTP or local lan using apps already mentioned. I think I've previously used Dolphin over USB and FTP (server on iphone) for backups.
Online documentation is good if you already know what you're looking for. It is shit if you want to discover what is available. I am specifically thinking of the python docs and the time I, as a not-python programmer, wanted to see the various "grouping" types (lists, arrays, sets, dicts, tuples, whatever).
Tumblr, Bluesky Numbers Surge as X Is Shut Down Again in Brazil
http://archive.today/spW6i
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/android-now-allows-a...
> By speed alone, bikes are to pedestrians what cars are to bikes. A pedestrian will walk at 3-5km/h. A bike will be 5-7 times faster than that at 15-35km/h (especially since the advent of e-bikes which ignore assist requirements). Cars will be 1.5-4 times faster at 40-50km/h.

When it comes to collision you should remember the formula "half m v squared". A cyclist with his bike is usually less than 100kg which yields on impact. A collision with a pedestrian can be as bad for the cyclist as it is for pedestrian.

A car will be at least 20 times heavier and twice as fast as the cyclist and will not yield on impact. The bonnet and windscreen maybe, but not the chassis after the bumper yields.

> Where I live I feel less safe as a pedestrian sharing the sidewalk with a bike lane than I feel on the bike sharing the street with cars (except car doors randomly opened in my path, that's what terrifies me). Not a day passes without a cyclist almost running me over when I cross on a green light, or because they try to squeeze around on the sidewalk at unsafely high speeds.

Statistically you are in far more danger of getting killed by a motor vehicle on the sidewalk or an intersection than you are by a cyclist riding the sidewalk or jumping a red light. A cyclist will usually inflict a painful bruise on collision. Even needing to be hospitalized is unlikely.

Despite the blatant and often overlooked red light jumping by cyclists on busy city streets, how many fatalities occur from that behaviour, compared with those from motor vehicles?

Another thing to be said. The danger from the cyclist stems primarily from the cyclists riding manners, and has more to do with the social and cultural attitudes. The danger of the motor vehicle comes from the nature of the motor vehicle itself, its mass, steel reinforcement and speed which is compounded by the attitudes of drivers.

The average speed of a cyclist on urban streets is roughly that of a top level marathon runner if not less, and how scared are you by the danger a marathon runner with a metal bar held in front of them poses in a collision?

> Can't tell you how many times I was asked why am I bothering with the helmet,

On the matter of cyclists wearing helmets, how different is a cyclist riding on a narrow road without a sidewalk differ from pedestrian walking the same road? Does the absence of a safe sidewalk to use mean the pedestrian should wear a helmet in case they collide with a car?

Helmets worn by cyclists are no different from those worn by horse-riders or in other high impact sports. They serve to protect the helmets from impacts incurred on their own account, not from collisions with motor vehicles, although they do help in the latter.
I'd also blame it on Mitchell Baker. She was a lawyer whose main contribution to Mozilla was writing it's license. After she was laid off from Netscape, she kept falling upwards in Mozilla until she was CEO. And even flush with dubious corporate money, she gutted engineering teams while more than 10x her salary until it reached 7 million.
Of course is a fine name and that's what i'm defending, my comment was a reply to Brian, he shouldn't change it IMO.
Oh yeah. For example:

I may have a method in my class:

straightenCheese(byDegrees: CGFloat)

The "helpful" autofill might give me:

straightenCheese(by: Double)

If I'm lucky, but it's more likely to give:

strengthenCheese(by: Double)
I have this classic "Bag Check" XKCD cartoon taped to my wall.
The TSA actually did respond to this cartoon.
Some of the comments in that response may be helpful to you.

Phones and Laptops have started fires in peoples homes and on airplanes.
The risks are real. Today we have somewhat better charger designs.
The most often failure is using a replacement battery that has fake certifications.

In my Day Job I have to deal with UL1642 that deals with Lithium Batteries, you should look that up. I've had one China based manufacture try to self-certify their products with this comment: "Battery burst into flames but did not ignite Cheesecloth". Thereby proving I could use their product. Sorry, I can't have any flames.

https://xkcd.com/651/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170630101802/https://www.tsa.g...
> fibre channel protocol

Apart from FC is is explicitly lossless and ordered
If you want to live without computers, you can. You've made your value judgement.
This is known as a "paradoxical" reaction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradoxical_reaction
Please take in to account slow vs fast caffeine metabolizer.

"CYP1A2 Gene: Fast or Slow Caffeine Metabolizer?"

https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/liver-detox-genes-cyp1a2/

This is one of those subjects where people argue past each "I can drink a cup of coffee and sleep like a baby!" vs "One cup of coffee in the morning and my sleep quality is impacted". And neither understands how the other can have a vastly different personal experience.

This extends to any online discussion regarding weight loss/gain, politics, wars, etc.
I am waiting for response :-)
The real question I never see being asked is how a country lets a terrorist org operate to such a degree in their country befrore you can assume they are letting them operate.

A terrorist org having their own ammo depo is probably a hint.

Lets then transplant the example to other ground lets say Poland lets a terrorist group operate within its borders and that terrorists org regularly sends rockets over to Germany.

What do you think Germany is suppose to do? Ask Poland to deal with an org that they openly support, and openly allow to attack Germany?
Or the shoddy work in brick laying. Every stone cutter at their monthly meeting just dropped their head in shame at the haphazardly way it was put together.
Pretty good for a rough estimate!

The best I could find was a document by the National Audit Office from 2017 (using 2016 estimates); page 18, figure 2 - The expected costs of Hinkley Point C.

https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Hinkley-Po...

Back then the construction was estimated at £18.2 billion. Ongoing operation costs (including fuel, staffing, and grid charges) were priced at £29.3 billion and decommissioning (without the uplift) at £7.3 billion. Total project cost was put at £54.8 billion.

Again, it was from 2017 so things have changed.
Having done a lot of accessibility consulting in the past (granted it was a long time ago now), we were instructed to use the aria-label attribute to provide the same text as the label.

Since I do mostly asp.net mvc, I created a bunch of "Accessible" extension methods off the HtmlHelper object.

<%: Html.AccessibleCheckbox("MyCheckbox", label: "My Checkbox") %>

This would output something like:

<label><input type="checkbox" name="MyCheckbox" aria-label="My Checkbox" /> My Checkbox</label>

This is a bad example since the primary reason for not giving IDs is because it is a dynamically created checkbox inside a loop or some other partial view that you might not know if it is a unique ID for the page or not.
I think this is me, interesting.
The article says that 9V batteries have fallen out of favor and links to this explanation that makes no sense to me:

A 9 volt battery uses six smaller 1.5 volt cells connected in series to achieve its 9 volts. But cramming that many cells into a compact enclosure leads to less space, resulting in lower energy density and shorter lifespan.

Why would a 9V battery have less energy density than 6 ordinary AA cells of 1.5V each? If you shrink down AA cells to the size and shape to pack into the rectangular 9V form factor, isn’t it exactly the same energy density as full size AA’s?
+1 - ethercat and profinet are the way.

Random guessing - Ethercat seems more likely to take over for CAN because CoE (canopen over ethercat) is so common.

It's very easy to turn CAN devices into ethercat ones.

Harder to turn them into profinet ones.

Seems like a more incremental path for car makers.

otherwise the main advantage of profinet is that you can treat it like regular ethernet (IE switches, etc), but not sure anyone cares in a car.
I don't like to nitpick word choices on HN comments, but since you used the word three times in this one: I believe you meant "equated" (to imply that two ideas are equal), and not "equivocated" (to show uncertainty, or to waffle).
> You don’t get to tell Walmart they have to give a breakdown of everything that went into a pricing decision.

If Walmart would have a custom price for everyone that walks in based on how much Walmart thinks they can afford, then yes: absolutely there should be more transparency.
Push as much to the API as possible, and then it's only implemented once.

Where that's not possible there is some code written three times, but there may be opportunities for cross platform code sharing as the team grows
It’s minimal, but just FYI; caffeine free coffee still has small amounts of caffeine.
In some domains differential forms are mind-mindbogglingly expressive. E.g. Maxwell's equations boil down to [1]:

dF = 0, d*F = J

You literally could not use fewer letters. But the corresponding visualizations are not particularly easy or illuminating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_descriptions_of_t...
Because it's slow duh
I see, thanks.

No credentials involved here, though.
> the Scandinavian countries seem to have good water.

We certainly do here in Norway. And it's provided by the kommune (the local authority) not a private company. Where I live it is what I dilute my Scotch with. It's easily as good as or better than any bottled water.
Yeah, it's strange to me that's a CVE. That seems like "working as intended" if I, the owner of the machine, want to load other libraries, why shouldn't it respect that?