skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never looked into research on this subject, but I always assumed this was already well established and known - and it was definitely somewhat already either known or at least believed to be the case:

- Every doctor in the UK I've ever seen do a BP test has made sure the patient's arm is in the right position, rested on a table/cushion if needed, in a way that matches the findings in this study (and while I've only needed my own BP tested once or twice, I've sat in on many, many doctors while they tested the BP of family members of mine).

- My home BP device is a Braun wrist cuff (and is at least a few years old), which has a built in feature that uses an accelerometer to guide you to raise your arm until it's at an angle which means your wrist is at the same level as your heart (this one: https://www.cora.health/guide/best-blood-pressure-monitor/#1... )
I can confirm. I didn't know the story and I picked up that book randomly in a book store a couple years ago. I loved it.
while True:
time.sleep(300)
# Check to see if something has changed, log it

The title makes it sound like there's something here specific to Instagram, not a simple repetitive web scraper. Is there a reason why this is notable?
Can you support any media target yt-dlp supports?
Does nuclear fission avoid the issue of meltdowns? Genuinely curious. The only downside I see to nuclear power is geopolitics/war (like we're seeing in Ukraine) so we don't cause even bigger catastrophes due to instability.
But now you need a different API to compute where a number starts and end and that API must use exactly the same definition of number.
In the US long term storage absolutely exists, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant [1]. It only stores nuclear waste of military origin (i.e. from the making of the nuclear bombs). But there is no technical reason this storage can't also accommodate civilian waste. By the way, the amount of military waste exceeds the civilian waste by a factor of 3 or so.

[1] https://www.wipp.energy.gov/
Finally, a phone without camera bump and with an audio jack. Screen is way to large for my pockets, though.
That doesn't contradict what the parent said. "Adolescent life is coordinated online now" -- your 7-year-old is not an adolescent.
Based on the headline I thought that this was an enormous capital commitment for an enormous generating capacity, but the deal is with a company called Kairos that is developing small modular reactors with 75 megawatts of electrical output each [1]. 7 reactors of this type, collectively, would supply 525 megawatts (less than half of a typical new commercial power reactor like the AP1000, HPR1000, EPR, or APR1400).

Kairos is in a pretty early stage. They started building a test reactor this summer, scheduled for completion by 2027:

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/kairos-power-starts-const...

EDIT: Statement from the official Google announcement linked by xnx below [2]:

Today, we’re building on these efforts by signing the world’s first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) to be developed by Kairos Power. The initial phase of work is intended to bring Kairos Power’s first SMR online quickly and safely by 2030, followed by additional reactor deployments through 2035. Overall, this deal will enable up to 500 MW of new 24/7 carbon-free power to U.S. electricity grids and help more communities benefit from clean and affordable nuclear power.

[1] https://kairospower.com/technology/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41841108
Whatever. We’ve done too little, too late in order to tackle the climate threats.

We’ve had the technology to build and deploy nuclear reactors for decades but we’ve been burning coal and fuel like there’s no tomorrow so well…
It’s very pretty; but it’s also a little sad - that there could be demand for a big red flashing IRL “busy” indicator.

If I’m busy and if it happens so often that I can reliably buy a device like this, I would instead prefer to adjust my work environment to not be distracting, and to inform people that they should contact me at some other time.

I guess this may not always be an option.
How is the reader to judge these practices? There are no footnotes, and I neither know who the author's dentist is, nor how evidence-based the author's dentist's advice is.
Decent idea but it will be circumvented with ai powered watermark removers. They already exist and will only get better as ai image generation gets better.
By the time of XVR GPUs Sun was pretty much exiting the workstation market, and unlike Elite3D and Creator3D the competition has widened for "good enough" PC alternatives using Nvidia and similar chips
I agree with this. You can always fork Wordpress, but you can't fork a closed source CMS that goes down an anti-consumer path the moment it gains enough momentum.
> is it really an either-or with solar and wind? We need massive amounts of clean electricity

No. This is a false dichtomy pushed, from what I can tell, by the gas lobby. It's solar and wind + nukes or gas.

Batteries work in theory but not in practice: production doesn't scale fast enough, and that was before LLMs brought a new and growing source of power demand to the table. (I'm ignoring that grid batteries compete with transport electrification. A combination of economies of scale and common bottlenecks in construction of battery plants, irrespective of chemistry, links the pursuits.)
Blood pressure measurements at the doctor are the bane of my (medical) existence. Mix minor white coat syndrome with time blindness and you suddenly have high blood pressure because you barreled up the stairs to the second floor office moments before the nurse took a reading.

My doctor was initially befuddled because by all other metrics I am in good health, but it’s amazing how you can go from 90/55 at home to 140/75 at the office. We do the measurement at the end of the appointment now to varying success.
For web scraping at scale you want to get lost in the crowd. This usually means being (or pretending to be) chromium on windows. Unusual browsers are suspicious, detected or have very distinct fingerprint.
Does the heater only project the heat forward? Or is it also projecting heat back into the wall that it's lying up against?
I am not a doctor and this is not advice. This is a standard medical test I have completely given up on any doctor to perform accurately. I do it myself at home once or twice a month. I do it with the same device, in the same chair, at the same desk, the same time of day, after I’ve ate and drank the same thing. Yes, I still let everyone take it because it’s typically a precondition of receiving care but my readings at home are completely different and give me a more accurate data point that actually makes me feel good about the progress I’ve been making on my health.

I’m actively looking for more healthcare I can do this way. I trust my data and it all coming together on the safety of my personal device. We don’t need doctors with extremely limited datasets to do this and try to find obscure correlations for us.
Put a CO2 + temp/humidity sensor in there and it's a no-brainer. The sensors could be nice to hack on too.
Epochal "century" boundaries don't always line up with year % 100. One could argue that the 20th century didn't properly begin until some idiot shot an archduke. It likewise seems like the 20th century likewise overshot Y2K by a decade or two. Now things are accelerating in a different, new, and exciting direction.
Nonlinear perturbations and weak shock waves in isentropic atmospheres
No one has said it’s either-or. In fact the thread you responded specifically mentions how nuclear needs to be there as a “bad weather backup” of other clean energy sources.
Honestly I'm not sure what a single point-in-time reading even accomplishes. I've been hooked up to a continuous blood pressure monitor a few times and it's always fun to see how low I can get it. It seems pretty useless without seeing where it fluctuates over time not in a doctor's office.
We're getting there.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10102024/inside-clean-ene...

https://coal.sierraclub.org/coal-plant-map

https://www.vox.com/climate/372852/solar-power-energy-growth...

https://www.dnv.com/news/eto-energy-related-emissions-will-p...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41602799 (citations)
B.b.b.but... digital! :)
> Kotlin became the language of Android, not because it was new, but because multiple company's studied it and devs were more productive in the language after a relatively short on ramping period, many cases a weekend to get familiar and less than a month to be more productive.

[citation_needed]

> Java was stagnating on Android as well and Kotlin was able to introduce a lot of modern features

Java was stagnating on Android because Google was (and is) lagging with implementing newer features. Android 12 only got support for Java 11 ffs...

Interestingly enough with Project Mainline it will be possible to support newer Java versions in Android…
> The ratio between the bandwidth of the transmitted radio signal and the bandwidth of the audio signal is what is relevant for the noise rejection properties of FM broadcasting.

Yes. FM radio is "narrow band" which gives it additional noise rejection properties; however, it's measured against the total available signal content not merely the audio portion of the content.

So, your pilot wave and RBDS and any additional carriers, if present, reduce this facility.

> FM is not an optimal kind of modulation from the point of view of resistance to noise, phase modulation (QPSK) is better

FM receivers often move and are often in highly reflective environments. FM is far better suited to this than plain PM.
Agree - create a sign up link if it's going to become a product Ruben!
20 year old Excel spreadsheets, often written by long forgotten summer interns, basically run the entire financial sector.
We agree on both points, so I don't get what the bad take was.
Honestly, it looks like a personal RMS hate page written by an autistic (or someone in a manic state) man. I can't say that someone who goes through years of mailing lists looking for evidence of RMS saying controversial things is sane. Besides that, the fact of expressing a controversial opinion is not a crime, and shouldn't (and can't) be punished. What is really important, is that the modern cancel culture (and this page as part of it) is destroying the freedom of speech, and it may really be the end of our society as we know it. Societal norms tend to change, and usually you change them by discussing them. It reminds me of lynching - someone can be cancelled just for saying something wrong (like "God does not exist"), or because of a false accusation (that someone is a witch). Do you want to live in a world, where your life can be destroyed because you said something that isn't now socially acceptable 10 years ago? Anyone can become the next one, and you are no exception, no matter how much do you support modern social movements.
Always neat to see what others use to manager their personal finances. I've been a fan of Ledger for a long time: https://ledger-cli.org/
And Sora is still nowhere to be seen, 8 months since the announcement now.
after meditating regularly for a while, doing a noting practice produced a distinct shift for me on this point. I realized that most of the time, when I hear a sound there is also a momentary "shred" of visual/muscular thought that accompanies it. for example, when I hear a crow, there is a bit of black/feathery/tree-branch/etc. if this is interesting, you can find instructions from Shinzen Young online.

typing this up, I realize I'm not totally sure to what extent this is something that was happening before the practice vs something that developed from it [i.e. less habitual energy spent blocking things out], but either way I recommend it :)
> No one has said it’s either-or

Lots of people say either or. When nuclear comes up, someone will claim we should just go all in on solar, wind and batteries. That's unworkable, so we wind up burning gas.
I've been waiting for a viable linux phone for years. Ever since the M$ destruction of the Nokia offering.

This one looks pretty good!

It even has a feature that should make it a great migration away from android:

https://furilabs.com/android-app-containers/
No, I don't think so. There's nothing Indian English about the blog post. It's just overly verbose, fluffy language.
> Nuclear is absolutely necessary to complete the clean energy transition, but is it really an either-or with solar and wind?

For energy we obviously need all the options available.

If a major volcano goes off up and darkens the sky with clouds and high winds make wind farms unsafe to operate, then nuclear is probably our only reliable power source left. It's not like there weren't multiple ice ages and warming events in the history of our planet.

There is a reason sailboats were obsoleted by the steam engine: it could tug forward in windless waters and stll make it fast enough to deliver the mail. The base load power station is the steam engine. The sailboat is the wind turbine or the PV array. Most of them need a gas fired power plant to compensate for windless or cloudy days, like newer sailboats need an engine. We could use a load following SMR in place of the gas fired plant.
The display is a resolution of 72x16, or 1152 px. I counted; there's a couple of frames as the first "busy" mention displays that the splashing animation lights the entire panel.

For comparison, the Ulanzi TC001 mentioned throughout this thread is 32x8, for 256 pixels.

I think if one was wanting to build something like this for themselves that just using a 7" ips display intended for rpi would work as well. With 1024x600 resolution you could draw the chunky pixels if you wanted that aesthetic, and those can be had for like $28.
A Line of Inference: My Love Letter to Language Models
It might ring better for the cypherpunks here that zhovner has verified their HN account ownership with their keybase GPG key, which can only be done by editing an account's profile description to include a specific signature (or by defacing HN / breaching the account). And the same key is also used to prove ownership of their Github account and website.
Yeah I’m not going to lie, that’s quite disappointing. Google funding several AP1000’s would be huge.
I see postings occasionally for FAANG and Microsoft jobs, and very randomly and rarely from small shops.
Perhaps, but still an informative article. Historically, Rob Norris and Klara Systems have contribute a good deal of features and needed bug fixes into OpenZFS.
This was also true for this engine's predecessor, the Merlin 1D. However that engine's rocket (the Falcon 9) can't hover, as the power of a single engine throttled to its lowest setting still overcomes the weight of a nearly-empty booster.

All high performance engines tend to only throttle in a range in the upper half of the engine's performance, the difference making hovering possible in this case is that the Super Heavy has _so many_ engines that it can turn off. This is a sort of secondary throttling, or meta-throttling, and the rocket can use the combination of engine throttling and engine-off to hover comfortably (while near-empty) with three engines going.
The AI space has such a high risk profile. Adobe's choice: bet on AI, and if AI takes off, Adobe is more profitable than ever. Or, bet on AI, and if AI doesn't take off, Adobe damages its own reputation (potentially permanently). AI is leading to so many companies making choices like this.
Odd how different one's impressions can be. My impression of this imbroglio is that Automattic pays about a hundred people for the common good and that financial drain is a competitive problem, and it's bothering Matt, really bothering him.

(FWIW I've been a full-time open source developer, and remember vividly how careless most people outside the team were of our salaries.)
Discussion (19 points, 3 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810563

Including an interesting breakdown by @adrian_b of how the article jumps to conclusions not published in the paper.
Why Gosub if it isn't written in Go? Should have been called Rustsub ;-)
> You didn't limit your general admiration of standards to CRLF, so no, not only that.

So your position, then, is that all standards include "needless complexity?" What argument are you actually trying to make here?

> That's simply false, he isn't

Yea.. that's why the word "like" is present, it implies a near association, not a direct accusation.

> Almost all implementations of these protocols will accept a bare NL as an end-of-line mark, even if it is technically incorrect.

So, right back to my original point, then, standards prevent people from having to debug dumb issues that could have been avoided. This advice is basically "go ahead, create dumb issues, see if I care."

I may have flippantly labeled that as "protocol terrorism" but I don't think it's pure hyperbole either.
> Is the blood pressure really being measured "correctly" in all those studies? Or not?

This is why you do readings three different times a day for several days. And why there’s instructions on how long to dust still before the readings, why you do three repeats with multiple minutes of wait in between, and finally why the averages of those readings aren’t just simple averages. But yes you always have to wonder about every study using self reported home readings if they follow the instructions or not, because it is tedious to do it correctly.
I guess it depends on the study. If it is just comparing between groups, the conclusions probably still hold if they consistently measured blood pressure in the "incorrect" way. If it is something like "85% of Americans have high blood pressure", then probably the conclusions are incorrect because they are comparing the "correct" baseline against an incorrect measurement method. There are also other ways to measure blood pressure, like recent smartwatches - so read the methods section carefully, I guess.
Etymological Map of America
Voice Biometric Authentication in Call Centers
Much faster than OpenAI's real-time mode, wow! Quality seems to be on par if not better as well.
> No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather. If you have battery backup sufficient for time T and the weather doesn't cooperate for time T+1, you're in trouble.

Yes, any finite quantity is less than infinity. The same is true for fuel deliveries.
seeing how 2GW of nuclear cost $34B in Georgia, why would Google waste $120B when they can get the same output for at most half the price (and realistically more like 1/10th) using renewables and batteries? and they’d have results in 2 years instead of 2 decades.

edit: to be clear, 1GW of wind or solar is $1B. Build 3GW for overcapacity and you’re still at just 17% of the cost of 1GW of nuclear, and you technically have 3x more capacity. Now figure out how many megapacks you can buy for the $14B/GW you saved https://www.tesla.com/megapack/design (answer: 16GW/68GWh)
In theory a from_char with an optional output parameter could be useful to validate that the next field is a number and/or discard it without needing to parse it; it might even be worth optimizing for that case.
Adobe is being pretty conservative by AI standards however, by only training their models on material they've licensed. They seem to be banking on a middle path where AI does take off but most of the competition which took the YOLO approach to licensing eventually gets shot down by the courts and goes down in flames. Getty Images is doing something similar.
I think it’s a pretty mixed bag, but yeah no one really has a lot of support for rust, but c++ support is quite common and “good enough” for lots of things where you’d like more complicated but zero-cost abstractions. RAII, getting rid of pointers, maps, vectors, etc
There’s also politics at play. Public space agencies need to keep the absolute number of failures down to keep funding flowing, even if it costs absurd amounts to do it due to rapidly diminishing returns. This is especially important to flagship missions.

When I took Ae105 at Caltech, the NASA MSL project manager explained it like this (I remember the numbers he used clearly): a mission might cost $500 million with an 80% chance of success, or they can spend twice as much to increase the chance of success to 95% by investing a lot more in upfront testing and R&D. Now, the smart thing to do - given a billion dollar budget - is to take that first option because if it fails you can try again and the probability of both attempts failing is only 4%, compared to 5% for the expensive single mission. Then you’ve got an 80% chance of having $500 million left over for a different mission.

The public and decision makers react irrationally to any failure, putting funding for other missions and the entire program in jeopardy. NASA and ESA have to make some extremely suboptimal decisions to make sure that funding doesn’t get catastrophically cut.

The above is the example the instructor used to easily illustrate his point but he said the real numbers are even more stark. Often times the cost savings of just building a second copy of the payload along with the first means it costs $600 million for the first attempt, and only $200 million for the second (the cost of the launch vehicle and keeping people on staff), saving hundreds of millions overall.
I don't know. Are we going to pretend that the dictionary definition of 'segregate' is actually what we're talking about here, and that the historical context of 'segregation' with regards to race and gender is irrelevant?

When someone says something like, "They're being segregated by race and gender," it does not imply people choosing to go to rallies aimed at particular groups of people. Interpreting it that way seems incredibly disingenuous.
Perhaps that verbiage is just confusing. "On-disk" sort of implies "file format" but could be more explicit.

That said, the immediate next line in the README perhaps clarifies a bit?

"Vortex is designed to be to columnar file formats what Apache DataFusion is to query engines (or, analogously, what LLVM + Clang are to compilers): a highly extensible & extremely fast framework for building a modern columnar file format, with a state-of-the-art, "batteries included" reference implementation."
I imagine it wouldn't take a very sensitive inertial measurement unit to pick up a craft physically interacting with it. Most satellites would need more precise instruments for their own maneuvering control. It might not be enough to determine what tampering took place, but it should be clear that tampering did take place.
Genuine question: How will the US put the cat back in the bag?

AI even if stuck to GPT 4~ levels has the potential to be usable in industries and outcompeted non AI users, as such, how can the US tell people that they shouldn't get nuclear power plants?

We'll sell you products and services that utilize AI and you are not allowed to get it yourself, is that the new model? It's no secret (I think?) that the US was behind many of the nuclear scare movements such as the green party in Germany as to avoid nuclear proliferation, for its own interests.

But if nuclear becomes required, and we are decades away from nuclear fusion...? what is the solution here? I'm genuinely curious.
> sad - that there could be demand for a big red flashing IRL “busy”

Busy is the virture most people want to signal most of the time. Next time someone ask how things are tell people you are not busy, its elicits a similar response to telling people your distant uncle died.