skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Furthermore, I also think that one character set will not be suitable for all purposes anyways (and that it is not possible to make it so), so I also have interest to allow additional character sets to be available for use.)

There are a number of libraries in existence for converting between character sets. ICU is one of the most famous but it is Unicode-centric (it supports many character sets but wants to use Unicode as a lowest common denominator.) But older libraries such as iconv or recode lack ICU’s Unicode-centricity, so might be more appealing to you. Have you thought about doing something like contributing TRON support to recode?

https://github.com/rrthomas/recode - I always called it “GNU recode”, but https://www.gnu.org/software/recode/ says it isn’t a GNU package, even though for a long time the GNU website hosted it. (I think maybe it is “ex-GNU”: the GNU project maintainer retired, and the new maintainer who took over wasn’t willing to abide by the GNU project’s policies.)
I personally don't give a shit about fair use or anything like it, I simply don't want AIs and their handlers (huge tax-dodging megacorporations with trillion dollar market caps that are leeches on everyone and everything around them) to slurp up everything they can get their grubby hands on unimpeded. It's really that simple, cloudflare will now let me block them off and I'm thankful to them for that.

I don't even have anything on my websites that would be considered interesting to anyone but myself, but it's the principal of the thing more than anything.
> smoking,[]. are much worse

Sure smoking effects are worse but there's a easy solution: never start smoking.
But you can't stop eating..
The French nuclear power stations are often built near rivers where the water was too hot for cooling or just not enough due to drought. The UK nuclear power stations are all on the coast drawing in much cooler sea water.
>Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Slop begets slop. If you'd like a conversation next time, please approach with curiosity, not with flame bait.
> literally temporary induce gastroparesis (slow stomach emptying)

Can induce. We don't know "the precise prevalence of gastroparesis caused by semaglutide," though we know it's "unusual" [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10874596/
Can you share where?
I guess oil is repelled by water, so when it's poured on top of water it's more like floating on top. So the water pushes up, gravity pulls down and the oil molecules pull on each-other, there is no horizontal friction, allowing the oil to spread out this way. Whereas the oil does slightly stick to your plate, as can be observed when moving the plate around, so it won't spread as thinly?
Strengths of open-weight models:

* Privacy: Can use sensitive data, can be used in companies/industries that have strict regulations

* Static model: Can "pin" the model version. Don't need to worry about underlying model being changed but having the same name
I think there's a pretty big difference between seeing something recorded or reproduced on screen in HD with audio and having that same thing be described in text.

You can explore this yourself by reading something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire and then seeking out video of the event, seeing the bodies and hearing the screams.
Lol okay; have a nice day as well
Wait, can you even run into a null pointer reference error in Go?
I thought this was going to be about generating x-rays by peeling scotch tape (https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/10/23/217918/x-rays-ma...)
> Without concrete answers that succinctly describe this behaviour it feels impossible to see beyond the hype and get to the actual trade-offs being made.

This article seems to be an attempt to succinctly describe the high level goals of io_uring to people who don't know, and in that respect I find it succeeded. The questions you're asking seem more related to how io_uring (or its API) are implemented, which is something else. I would hope anyone deciding whether to build something on io_uring would then do more detailed research on the trade-offs before pushing anything to production.

I appreciated the brevity personally...
I don't have an answer but you can upgrade your existing phone you already bought using that method/service. Otherwise cost of official "upgrade" is $500 and a new iphone
> When prices go down or even negative, a CHP or windmill is shut down in minutes.

Negative prices are a symptom that the (day ahead) market is not the real game being played. CfD, production subsidies and renewable credits are the order of the day.

> The nuclear plant ... will go below cost price
> its fuel is expensive as hell

The fuel is cheap. https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-el... estimates 9.33 USD/MWh (2018 prices) for fuel.

> in France some plants were shut down because rivers dried up too much and they'd be heating up the remaining "trickle" too much with these plants.

https://www.politico.eu/article/when-the-water-runs-dry-why-...

The Bugey plant is also the main reason France must ask the Swiss to let more water through the Seujet Dam. While most of the water is released back into the river, the reactors need a constant, cool flow — and climate change isn’t only making the Rhône’s water scarcer, but also warmer.

> in France some plants were shut down because rivers dried up too much and they'd be heating up the remaining "trickle" too much with these plants

Looking at https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/07/13/frances-nuclear-po... it appears power was reduced due to river temperatures, not river levels. That makes it more a regulatory issue, and probably one solvable with more hardware (extra cooling towers or greater extraction).

One might also ask whether it is worth EDF investing to get the extra few percent total output across the year; the solar peaks during hot weather will tend to reduce the price of electricity, so why not just schedule maintenance at that time of year. Thus PV creates a problem that it partially solves.
So the solution to kids having a lack of knowledge is to not allow them to access knowledge? I feel like this is just teaching them there's something wrong with learning about gay people, when there's nothing wrong with learning about gay people. What would that do to a gay child? What exactly is wrong with someone being attracted to someone of the same gender?
Correction, LinkedIn SAYS the're not using the data of European users to train their AI.

Who will ever know if they do or not...
> Otherwise, how would the kernel know you'd done it?

Well, you can make a design where a submission queue spans N+1 pages, and to notify the kernel you write something in the last page which is actually write-protected, so it triggers the kernel trap. I believe VirtIO has a similar scheme?

> What thread is actually performing that work?

None? You don't need really need a user-space thread to execute code in the kernel: otherwise, starting process 1 would have to be the very first thing the kernel does when booting while in reality, that's about the last thing it does in the booting process.

With multi-core systems we have today, arguably having a whole core dedicated exclusively for some core OS functionality could be more performant than having this core "constantly" switch contexts?
I signed up when I had a Pixel and now I'm back to iPhone so I'm subbed to iCloud now, also because it includes HomeKit cameras recording functionality.

I used Google Photos on the iPhone for a while though, it worked fine you just have to open their app so it syncs.
They can also learn about it freely from their classmates and the internet, it doesn't mean that's the best environment to learn.
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Just watched this video [1] and had my mind blown, thought I would share. Been 9 years since a submission and no real discussion.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=hAvLIw4Raio&pp=ygUbR3JlYXRlc3QgY...
Imported power is interesting as when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine for us, it’s the same for other countries bordering the North Sea. So if they’ve gone green we’re all looking for electricity on those days and it’s expensive. And the reverse. On the days when we have too much wind and too much electricity prices drop to zero because we can’t export it for the same reason.
Cool article. They somehow got the formula wrong though, the formula on the screenshot has an additional factor of 0.9 that accounts for the fact that 1l of oil is not 1 kg. Perhaps it's intentional, but for something so simple I don't think it needs to be dumbed down even further.
That's a good argument against a full accounting education but not against education itself, it's okay to drop legacy things like calligraphy class from curriculum.

We are never going to automate ALL the work humanity does, that's as meaningless as both parties outsourcing their marriage to someone else. We still need to be well-rounded individuals to audit and direct machines (and ourselves) to make breakthroughs where we see fit.
I guess it kind of depends?

As a data point, for two 1U servers co-located in Australia I'm paying about AU$500 per month.

If these two servers were low spec, then that would be more expensive than just renting dedicated servers.

But I can put whatever spec servers fit in those two rack units, including things with quite a lot of ram, quite a few ssds, 10GbE+ network links, etc.

Doing the same thing as that with dedicated servers would be quite a bit more than the AU$500/mo I'm currently spending.

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As a data point for anyone interested, those two servers are running Proxmox and host a bunch of (Linux) VMs that provide online services. Live migration (etc) between them works fine, etc. :)
About 20 years ago I kitted out our office with furniture and supplies from a business liquidation auction. Several tape dispensers of that general shape came along with the lot. I guess I had better bring my geiger counter to the office. Probably the wrong vintage, but who knows?
Well I did pretty good, because I never owned any of these brands of cars.

But I was talking more about models, not "all teslas are banned". If they can improve on these issues in next year's model, then that's something to be encouraged, not dropped altogether over one fixable issue.

>The odd tribalism is what I find most interesting about the Cybertruck.

I don't particularly care about any car enough to attack/defend it. But A bad pedal is a bad pedal, and I'm lucky if I get more than one time to learn that lesson in person. Of course I'm going to be wary if a recall this serious occurs.
Just because you find something flame bait doesn't always mean it is. My point still stands: There's noting stopping Americans and rich westerners (lest of all money and access to healthy food) from exercising and eating right, except their own laziness, and your answer did nothing to answer this when many other countries who are not Japan don't have such massive obesity rates proportional to rich western countries.
> Why aren't people in India, China, Japan, Vietnam, Africa, SE-Asia fat?

They are.

"Obesity in India has reached epidemic proportions in the 21st century, with morbid obesity affecting 5% of the country's population" [1]. (It's about 7% in America [2].) Meanwhile in China, "the incidence of overweight and obesity among school-age children...was 15.5% in 2010, rising to 24.2% in 2019 and soaring to 29.4% in 2022" [2]. Same story in Vietnam: "The prevalence of overweight among children aged under 5 years increased from 5.6% in 2010 to 7.4% in 2019. For overweight and obesity among children aged 5 to 19 years, prevalence rose from 8.5% and 2.5% in 2010 to 19% and 8.1% in 2020, respectively" [3].

The only country you're right about is Japan, though overweightness is growing there, too [4]. Same across Africa [5].

There is absolutely a systemic effect causing obesity to rise worldwide. That doesn't remove individual agency from the equation. But it's sort of like the opiate crisis: you can have both flawed individual decisionmaking and a systemic bias that fixes the dice while offering more rolls.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_India

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10357130/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947684/

[4] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/28/japan/science-h...

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3721807/
What an excellent project and idea. Accessibility is always a big gap in these cross-platform, lowest common denominator frameworks, glad to see someone is trying to tackle it.
Thanks for answering :D Yes, Kamal Handbook will get a second edition addressing Kamal 2. I am already going through the changes.
Both have their value, both the process and the results. And given the immensity of scientific knowledge, you can only learn so much of it in a K-12 education, or even in college.

I don't think it's a priori wrong to teach students our current understanding of the world, without going into the details of how we came up with it. I also don't think it's wrong to add those details, but the more details you add, the less of the full picture you'll be able to present. And I definitely don't think it would be a good idea to teach children how we do science, without teaching them what we actually learned from doing it.

I'd also say that the reality of some of the process is extraordinarily boring ("we kept meticulous records of precisely where on the sky various stars were each night, and how their position changed, for a few hundred years, and tried finding a function that matched those numbers; for a few hundred years, we kept adding more and more circles to correct things, until Kepler came up with some ellipses"). And that for many children, learning history is already a huge bore, learning the history of science in addition would make science classes much worse. For others, the opposite is true.
I think diminishing returns, as the author starts to allude to near the end of the post, is a big reason. To take the example of word processing, the biggest improvement to my workflow of the past 10-15 years is probably either being able to collaborate on documents simultaneously or to be able to view them on a phone. I actually edit documents simultaneously quite a lot, but I’m not sure it’s a huge productivity boost or that common.
No it isn't. They are supposed to climb trees at that age and not worry about adult issues.

> Also what are the 72 genders you had in mind specifically?

The first Google result for "number of genders" gives 72!

https://www.medicinenet.com/what_are_the_72_other_genders/ar...
> Repairability of these things sucks and I miss swappable batteries.

They become mandatory in the EU after 2027 so I expect them to make a strong comeback at some point.
Please be aware that this doesn't include electricity and cooling, which is really expensive in Germany. They charge 0.476€/kWh. Running a single 4090 @ 450W 24/7 would add another ~150€/month.
You want to hide the fact that gay and trans people exist from children? Why?

Besides, children will go through puberty, and they will get to experience a whole lot of hormonally driven urges which, it may surprise you, have quite a lot to do with sex.

Want to promote teen pregnancies, STDs, unrealistic views of sex gleaned from porn, and ignorance about sex, consent, and intimacy? Then ban books and any other publicly scrutinized sources of knowledge suitable for them, and just let them figure it out themselves.

We help children learn about society, language, maths, and science, but sexuality is somehow off-limits?
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What I’ve found most effective for reducing screen time is using two separate devices: one with all the addictive apps, and another with only essential apps for communication. I keep the phone with the addictive apps in a less accessible place (like the basement) and only take it out when I consciously decide to spend some downtime. This method has worked wonders for me.
>open source company

A huge misconception. Telegram was never, is not currently, and will never be entirely open source

You're either (entirely) open source, or you're not. Telegram is not
I'm fine with the idea that some books aren't appropriate to be read by younger people, but a lot of those bans seem to be about wanting children to not be intellectually aware of anything not sanctioned by the board of censors (Really? Banning a book about that gay couple of penguins at New York's Zoo?).

Every book removed/withheld should be replaced by a volume explaining why it was withheld, in terms a child can understand. Some of these bans wouldn't have happened because even children could've seen how full of shit some adults are.
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Have you been to library recently? I have. A huge portion of the books are wildly inappropriate for kids, and they’re in the kids section. Books are not as you remember from your childhood.

There’s a glut of material telling very young kids that they’re the wrong gender or gay. No 7 year old is anything other than what their parents tell them. If they had their way, they would be fairy dinosaurs.
> a business has developed a treatment that requires patients to pay the company for the rest of their lives or they revert

I know plenty of people who took semaglutide, hit a target weight and then stopped. The research shows a statistically-significant permanent effect [1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35441470/
No one mentioned K-12. The age reference is "below seventh grade". "below 12" means "below 12 years old".
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> As the tech improves, at current rates

Aha! The "current rates" there does some very heavy lifting. Nobody knows how LLMs will develop. It would be naive to assume that you can just extrapolate linearly from here on out.
Could it be designed for more outdoorsy type activity? For example, to recognize the surroundings, not the player? Distances to nearby walls and the ground?

(I don't know enough about radars to say whether that would be feasible, or about games to say if there would be enough of a market for such.)
The approximate value of the elementary electric charge had been known since 1874, when it was first computed by George Johnstone Stoney. After Stoney, other experiments had reduced the uncertainty with which the value was known, but it remained relatively high.

The importance of the experiments of Robert Andrews Millikan consists in the fact that the uncertainty of the value of the elementary electric charge obtained by this method was much smaller than by any previous method (he claimed that it was better than one half of one percent, but he used wrong values for the viscosity of air, so his actual result was off by more than that, but still by less than one percent from the correct result).
No one is talking about K-12.
All you wanted to accomplish was to rant about conspiracy theories?
These are public, tax-funded schools we're talking about here. Parents who really want their 10 year old to learn about BDSM practices or breast removal surgeries can still get them those books on their own dime.
SSD layers: Do you mean each cell is storing around 100 different values or are cells layered on top of each other (each addressed separately etc.)?
You don’t own the ip rights of my face unless I sign them over and you pay me royalties.

If it’s not legal to impersonate someone while they’re alive, why would it be okay when they’re dead?

Assumed consent is not okay, I’m pretty sure in some cultures even showing images of the dead is offensive, let alone impersonating them.
> "they don't help us because they are racists"

That is not what i meant when posting the poem.

When someone asks "Why is every western government not warning Pakistan...", he is basically rephrasing Kipling and asking to "Take up the White Man's burden".

This has been attempted before, didn't go so well. That might give a clue, why we are in the current state of affairs.
Where/with whom are you colocated? I’ve been looking around in London and everything is shockingly expensive.
It reminds me of the book "Man of Two Worlds" by Frank Herbert and his son Brian. In it, some crazy inventor guy built his own car, but instead of wheels like any normal car, it had legged robots on each end that carried it. The inventor's son complained that this car was impractical as it couldn't travel as fast as a normal car.
>Can anyone explain current caveats and/or limitations with current licensing?

You can pretty much ignore the FUD posts about Java licensing. There are long winded replies to why it is FUD, but the short answer is it is trivially not a problem. It only applies if you use the Oracle JDK and want a certain type of support. Most of the world doesn't, instead using one of the other free JDKs.

Java is *not* popular in the reddit, HN, etc memesphere. In the real world it remains incredibly popular and a huge number of organisations continue to pick it as their language of choice for back-end development.
After spending a whole year developing my first NPM package (React-Framify), going through a COUNTLESS number of tutorials and articles, AND publishing it successfully, I decided to create a pain-killer, a solution to simplifying how developers ship their npm packages faster in just a few hours or even minutes!
>They are. "Obesity in India has reached epidemic proportions in the 21st century, with morbid obesity affecting 5% of the country's population"

5% of the population is hardly enough to call them fat but fair enough, seems like the entire world is getting fatter as they become more wealthy and industrialized.
Let's try again on 03:14:07 UTC 19 January 2038...
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41562750
Your post doesn't make sense.

A commenter complains that Apple uses a lot of adhesive inside their phones so they are not really a thing of beauty. Someone replies that it's because of water proofing. Another person points out that, no, actually plenty of companies make waterproof phones without using glue so Apple could. You tell them to go buy other another phone.

How is it in any way related to beautiful design, waterproofing and glue use in manufacturing?
We could say the exact same thing about any class of people. Let's ban all books about Asians, or about women. "Children can learn about them when they grow up." right?

The reality is that some children are Asian. Their own parents and siblings may be one of those kinds of people. They will encounter those kinds of people in their daily lives right now. They will probably have questions about them and the differences between those people and others. It's good for curious children to be able to explore and learn about the world around them. Why create arbitrary limits on what kinds of people they can or cannot learn about?

Obviously any kind of material, entertainment/cultural or educational, should be age appropriate and fortunately very few children are interested in literature written for a much older audience. If some 6 year old has the attention span and ability to understand complex works by all means let them read them. It's also the job of teachers and parents to contextualize and discuss with children the complex topics they are interested in exploring, not to hide it from them entirely so that they stay ignorant.
From the article: "The legislation also explicitly bans books depicting sexual acts from K-12 libraries and classrooms"
Examining energy and evolution with Herman Pontzer: podcast and transcript
I've played too much recently, that header image immediately put me in mind of Satisfactory.