skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same issue when I was in an office and we were getting close to a deadline, so everyone was constantly chatting about this and that to unblock themselves. It's understandable when the rhythm of the office gets to that point that people want answers now, but it would get to ridiculous levels where you couldn't focus for 10 minutes before somebody else came by with a question.

I never got to the point of having a USB light as a semaphore or anything like that, but I really wanted to find and hack a toy traffic light that would indicate if it was a good time to interrupt me or not. So yeah, it was a very real problem.
It was much hotter in the past than it is now. Look at any attempt to reconstruct temperatures from proxies. The underlying science is unreliable but everyone agrees the distant past had average temperatures far hotter than today.

It was actually warmer even in the recent past. There's archaeological evidence that it was warmer in the Roman and middle ages than it is now. This was once uncontroversial and if you read archaeology papers you can still sometimes see discussion of this fact. But they don't highlight this because they don't want to pick fights with climatologists.

There's hasn't been any cliff edge rise in temperature. Look at graphs of global temperature but be aware they're heavily manipulated. A graph of 20th C temperatures published in 1999 looks very different to the same graph published today.
There are somewhat standard busses. Though you're correct, many use custom busses for their specific missions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_satellite_buses

For example, the SSL 1300 apparently has hosted 118 satellites so far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_1300

Though maybe the distinction between "satellite" and "spacecraft" bears importance here.
It's the same thing with decades. People often say the "sixties" didn't really start till 1963. And when you think of the start of 1980's culture, a lot of people are really only talking about 1983-1984.

Like, 1960 itself clearly belonged to the 1950's, the same way 1980 still belonged to the 1970's -- culturally, that is.

Obviously, the question of what year a decade "really" started in, allows for endless argument. :)
Because they need power 24/7 and not only when the weather cooperates.

And new AP1000s in the US would cost significantly less, because there are already experienced workers & supply chains from Vogtle and getting a license requires less work too, because you can copy much of Vogtle.

The median build time for nuclear reactors is 7 years. This is archivable if you continue building and not just build 1 or 2 every few decades.
Great parody that isn’t a parody.

When I get a page like that now I’ve learned that there probably isn’t anything worth reading.
Very interesting feature! Can anyone think of a real world use case for this?
Note that "AI video tools" can mean so much more than text-to-video generation. Because video is so rich, it can involve every type of AI image, audio, motion, detection, inpainting, outpainting, etc. tool.
I'm not German, but if I recall correctly:
- "Eins" is for the actual number "one"
- "Ein" is "a" for masculine/neuter genders
- "Ein" is also used for expressing the amount, e.g. "ein Auto, zwei Autos"

That said, high school was a long time ago, so I might be way off :)
But overloads providing slightly different interfaces are a bane to generic programming.

Overloads are already confusing, if they can't be used generically there is really no point in reusing the name.
I want to help people cut the cord on monthly AI SEO writers. I did by building myself my own Mac App that allows me to scale human-AI content on WordPress, Ghost, Shopify, and Wix.

It's ridiculous to pay $30-100/month for "AI SEO Content credits to a SaaS that is charging dollars for pennies of API credits.

I just want essentially an appliance that I can buy once. Like a washing machine/dryer. I don't want to pay the dry cleaners every month forever.

So I released the app I built for myself on the Mac App Store, at a price that is close to 1 month of SaaS subscription — for a lifetime subscription (buy once).

Used this app to get a site into Mediavine. Still using it for other sites now.

Feels like freedom.
Single letter names? hmm...

Didn't they make a song about that?

a, b, c, d... e, f, g...

Something like that?
As long as blood pressure variance is randomized then you’re getting a signal, and that happens when everyone is measured in a similar way (or randomized to different ways). You don’t need perfect precision.

What you don’t want is to make everyone who, say, smokes wear the cuff while standing up while everyone else gets cuffed lying down.
Nuclear fission is the reaction that has had meltdowns. There are fission technologies/strategies that are supposed to be meltdown-proof, but I do not know the science well enough to say whether that is true.
Also add PM (Particulate Matter) and VOC.
That was funny even if I don’t agree with the sentiment.
A lot of it seems just likely for intel reasons. A lot of OSINT/CTI scripts simply are glorified scripts that just sleep for X amount of time and then recheck for any changes and then alert if change is detected.

I think you could really take this script to the next level by changing it to send alerts to Slack channels via their API, to Telegram, to Discord channels, or if it could send an email alert using the Gmail smtp.
> So every mission is bespoke, and has to be done again completely from scratch.

Is there room here for making things more reusable? For example, instead of creating one big satellite with tens of instruments, how about they create 10 satellites with one instrument each? or would that still be too bespoke to lower the cost per item?
I don't like how symmetrical the type theoretical colon denotation is, compared to the regular "element" notation. (They are more or less the same.) If instead of

F : A -> B

we wrote

F ∈ A -> B

(or any other not symmetrical character) then we could flip it, and use

A -> B ϶ F, and
B <- A ϶ F too.
The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed..
Yes, only generators where CMake actually controls the command line itself support compilation databases (basically, non-IDE generators).

FD: CMake developer
The global namespace in typst is limited to "states", a rather specific feature similar to the global TeX counters for headings and equations. So it's possible for two packages to increment the same counter. Everything else is local. All functions and variable definitions are local, and every function is pure: a function call cannot have any side effect. In particular, a package cannot redefine a function.

(You may wonder how functions can be pure if they can increment counters.... The way it works is that you call the function and put the return value in the stream of content of the document. And this value can be something that says "increase counter X by Y". And when you read the counter, typst applies all such "counter instructions" that are in the document so far, and gives you the result.)

The special knobs that typst provides are the "set" and "show" rules. With "set" rules you can change the default values of elements created later in the same scope. For example "#set text(fill: red)" will make it so that all text created later in the same block of code without a specified color will be red. With "show" rules you can define transformations that will be applied to elements created later in the same scope. For example "#show math.equation: it => figure(it, caption: "An equation")" will wrap every equation in a figure with the given caption.

I think the main reason LaTeX is a pile of cards is because TeX is terrible as a general purpose programming language. Just an example: the fact that a macro called with particular arguments will behave differently depending on the current state of catcodes is a craziness that's hard to imagine when you think in terms of "normal" programming. And the whole ecosystem of amazing packages that make LaTeX so useful, they need to do the kind of things you'd normally do in a normal programming language, so these packages end up working around the oddities of TeX in ways that make the whole thing a pile of cards.

With its design based on pure functions, I'd say typst is at the other end of the spectrum in terms of how easy it is to write code that works reliably without interference from other people's code.
Official post: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/goog...
> techie-flavored consumerism

I didn't dare comment because it would be against the HN guidelines, but I fully agree. Once the novelty wears off it will turn into electronic waste.
Automated BP cuffs painfully over-inflate; my BP is 20+/15+ higher when they're used.

I ask nurses to take my BP manually.
A lot of people knock h2 as a fuel, but 1/2 the time these complaints seem to not be of a technical merit, but some blather about how it will all come from Ng.

Nonsense.

Such things can be regulated, but my point is that solar and wind are perfect for h2 generation. The sun shines? Produce. The wind blows? Produce.

The variability is irrelevant, and the result is the creation of a fuel source that can be stored.

Even better, we already have an immense network of Ng pipes, and there have been many tests and studies on injecting h2 into Ng lines, and pulling it out at the other end with molecular filters. There is no molecular reaction either.

The means low cost, massively deployed infra already exists.

And this massive network of Ng lines, with h2 injected, can in effect be an immense storage tank of h2.

We don't need some unified "batteries only" group think, but instead having multiple clean sources of energy is a boon. Just the cost of adding 3x the power transmission capacity, distribution is daunting, h2 can let a faster rollout of clean transport occur.

We should embrace all paths which the market can endure amd which can be green.

The Germans ended up focused on one only.

My point? H2 is perfect for solar.
This is always a fun discussion, as the reality is the local time makes enough sense for people to just use it. Having to deal with times across the globe is the anomaly, not the norm. Such that it is unsurprising that it is difficult to do.

Even more amusing, the time being fixed length days is definitionally not the norm. Is why the Pacific Northwest is miserable right now. Sun is barely up by 8, and largely down by 5 in the evening. Moving the agreed offset for when we should be awake, as we will do in a couple of weeks, does little to help.

And I want to double down on how I worded that. I often see it proposed that we should all move to UTC or some such, but just change when working hours are. But, largely, that is exactly what daylight saving's time is. Yes, it is couched in silly phrasing of "saving daylight," but it is functionally the same as everyone agreeing to move school hours by an hour.

I will also double down on my silliest of hot takes. With computers in control of most clocks, I think the problem with DST is that it moves everything by an hour. We could, with today's technology, move to something where the clock moves +10 minutes for 6 months and then -10 minutes for 6 months every year and nobody would even really notice.
Gosub is kind of an acronym. I don't really like it, but yeah Gosub and go would be more similar than to Rust
I'm also wondering about the potential for hyper-localized heating. Like, could I have a family picture printed 8"x10" and place one on my desk? Could I then stay comfortable in a much colder office?

I'm only ever in one place at a time, and both my house and workspace are compact, so I'd be up for moving one around with me if it meant saving on propane for the "real" heater.

I'd also happily place one under my sink or wherever to keep my pipes warm without having to heat the rest of the room when I'm not in it.
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> with something they do not like to do or want to do

That's not a great distinction. The real issue is when it affects things you like and want to do. We know which areas of the brain change over time with ADHD and that it's inheritable. We know multiple biomarkers correlating with the symptoms. The "not a real disorder" takes at this point are BS.
Scientists performing miracles is caring for the planet in the same way doctors providing saline is caring for blood loss. It's important, it helps, and I'm glad we're doing it, but sometimes you gotta address the bleeding first.
Will definitely use this !
This is too real. Even to the point where it barely works at all with ad blockers on. Without ad blockers it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard, just like the web is.

At this point I have so many different content-blocking extensions running, trying to trim this crap off my screen, that they sometimes conflict and break things. And still crap gets through.
Nothing nonchalant about it. There was a stringent qualification process.

The time between boosters first being reused in Falcons and this mission is the same as the time between JFK's 'we choose to go to the moon' speech and the actual moon landings.
It's even worse than that, first Google will bug you to use Chrome, then bug you to login, then after your search the browser will pop up "Google would like to use your current location". And then the first half-page of results are ads. And half of the actual results are AI slop and a helpful AI summary of the slop. And that's before you even get to the page.
This way your spreadsheet could interpret the data it loads from a CVS differently depending on on the locale of the machine it is running on.

Of course nobody would design an application like that.
Who cares if open source dies?

We'll still have free software...
> how can the US tell people that they shouldn't get nuclear power plants?

Who is doing this? Last I checked, America has been trying to sell its AP1000 reactor.

> sell you products and services that utilize AI and you are not allowed to get it yourself

Every economy that can is developing AI.

> the US was behind many of the nuclear scare movements such as the green party in Germany

Source? German greens have a veritable track record of being idiots all on their own.
Timezones are just so, so, so nasty.
Why couldn't we just somehow make out shit function on UTC or something?
> You must login to your Instagram account in order to properly scrape someone else's Instagram account.

Sounds like a great way to speedrun getting your own account permabanned
The famous 4chan quote springs to mind.

"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best is now."
Whut? Do you have any source to back this up?

The US was exporting reactors all around the world. Most of those reactors are light water reactors using low enriched uranium fuel, its not that big of a nuclear weapons proliferation concern.
Right, advising itself on the surface doesn't seem to be inherently tied to homoiconicity, here's the concrete example in Elisp, this would print how long it took to evaluate a form.

(defun add-timing-advice (orig-fun &rest args)
(let ((start-time (current-time)))
(prog1 (apply orig-fun args)
(message "Evaluation took %f seconds"
(float-time (time-subtract (current-time) start-time))))))

(advice-add 'eval-print-last-sexp :around #'add-timing-advice)

While advising isn't inherently tied to homoiconicity, it is significantly easier to implement and more powerful in a homoiconic language.

Here's a different (not related to advising) example of redefining core macro, introducing code that "writes code":

(defmacro lambda (args &rest body)
`(function (lambda ,args
(print "Lambda called!")
,@body)))

Now every lambda expression will print a message when called.

To implement something like that in Python, you'd have to modify the parser and complier, alter the runtime, reimplement core language constructs, but most importantly, you will have to change Python's syntax to make all code easily representable as data structures. Which then will become not Python but entirely different language.
Wow. Whatsapp struggles on my iphone 13; how's performance on your Nokia?!
Getting to the final page was a good reminder of the new "Hide Distracting Items" in the latest macOS Safari.

The feature lets you select offending blocks which are deleted from the page. The feature remembers the items you deleted on re-visit, too.
I don't think this is right. If you're worried about units you can calculate the (generalized) surface area to volume ratio, which turns out to be exactly D/r. In other words, as D increases, the ratio goes to infinity.

I think this fact can fairly be interpreted to mean that a high-dimensional unit sphere encloses almost no volume. The 2D cartoon drawing of a hypersphere also helps capture this: you can imagine the "spikes" stretching out and squeezing the interior portion, until it's all outside and no inside.

EDIT: another argument I've seen involves calculating the ratio of the volume of a thin shell surrounding the n-sphere's surface to its total volume. You can prove that the limit of the ratio as the dimension goes to infinity is 1. In other words, in high dimensions almost all of the volume of the sphere is concentrated near its surface.
Meta also threatened app makers to start a lawsuit. Whatsapp Plus, Whatsup and Mitakuuluu people stopped on that threat. I don't see a reason why Meta would change their stance on this.

There is now a law from the EU, I think it is the DMA, which could change things for people living in the EU regarding interoperability. I haven't read anything about practical follow-ups yet.

By the way, only releasing source code as a blueprint might be fine, that happened before. I might remember it wrong, but it might be lame, the mp3 encoder.
I haven’t read Endurance (it’s on the list!) but was deeply impressed by this quote from a fellow explorer:

“For scientific discovery, give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen; but when you are in a hopeless situation, when you are seeing no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.”

Sir Raymond Priestley

What a leader must Shackleton have been!
AMD's "From vertex shader to mesh shader" [1] helps navigate between the older pipeline to the newer pipeline. Links in the sidebar get into other things like procedural geometry.

"Mesh Shaders and Meshlet Culling in Metal 3" [2] was also a good tutorial to learn about the mesh shading computation model.

I did most of my work in Metal. Apple WWDC's "Transform your geometry with Metal mesh shaders" [3] helped introduce it there. I liked playing with it in Swift -- this was a port of Apple's demos to Swift [4]. The Metal Shading Language manual also helps get your head around it. [5]

[1] https://gpuopen.com/learn/mesh_shaders/mesh_shaders-from_ver...

[2] https://metalbyexample.com/mesh-shaders/

[3] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10162/

[4] https://github.com/jonmhobson/MeshShadersMetalSwift?tab=read...

[5] https://developer.apple.com/metal/Metal-Shading-Language-Spe...
This has been my mental shift as well. I also decide this when someone tells me the site only works in Chrome, so I should switch to Chrome. No, thanks.
Isn't this the whole purpose of "open source"?

That's what makes it different from free software...
The 19 KHz pilot tone is interesting: it's not filtered out and is often reproduced by the speakers if you have good ones. You can verify this by using an audio spectrum analyzer application on your phone.

I've wondered if FM stereo drives pets nuts with its constant high-pitched tone.
Given that they own a big library of images, it's the path they prefer.
Both CR and IF extend lifespan, but CR had the stronger effect. Also, an interesting paradox: weight loss from CR improves health, but retaining body weight may contribute to longer lifespans.
The other thing that keeps me nice and warm is the stationary bike under my standing desk. I never managed the coordination to walk at my desk, but sitting and riding is easy.
I’m pretty skeptical of this because it seems to conflict with common sense and personal experience but I’ll look a bit more. I wonder to what degree they controlled for health effects of short days, less sunlight, more time indoors, increased infectious disease in cold months, poverty, etc.

I doubt they are finding people that do a lot of outdoor winter sports for example have increased health problems vs people that just sit inside.
> using renewables and batteries? and they’d have results in 2 years instead of 2 decades

We have nothing close to the battery fabrication pipeline to make that timeline true, certainly not at scale. If this move works, Google will have cemented its power needs and economics for decades to come.
I apologize for treating you as I like to be treated. I like to learn and, as such, I share what I know to be true. That is what makes me the expert I am. And that is the deepest meaning of the Dunning-Krueger study: only in humility can we grow to reach our potential.

If you ever want to ask a question, I will do my best to answer you honestly, if that means to only to say that I don't know. Seeing as how you already know everything, you aren't asking any questions, so my work is done here. I am quite sure that the non-experts in D-K had no idea that the experts were experts; that is because they did not actually do the steps necessary to actually become an expert, their only development was in their confidence, choosing that instead of doing the humble, difficult work.

There are no unconfident flat-earthers because their overconfidence precludes their seeking the truth. There is a level of knowledge where one knows that one knows a truth. It's intrinsic to the universe and our integral place within it, but that's a different conversation altogether. Suffice it to say that once a person sees Jupiter rotating, it no longer became necessary to hear a flat-earther's arguments. All you have to do is contact the Creator of this marvellous, unfathomable universe, to learn how to get greater access to deeper truths. You are free to deny that you, yourself, have that access, too, but denying that human ability has only robbed you of your access, not mine. It's your choice, my friend.

"The Way goes in." --Rumi
In any case, whether there is such a thing as emergence and downward causation is a really interesting topic. You might enjoy this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373342399_Can_there...

Mutual Information can be decomposed into redundant and synergistic components, where here synergy means there is more information considering two parts together than just summing the information in each part. T
Don't make me tap the sign.
> and that happens when everyone is measured in a similar way (or randomized to different ways)

But that's exactly the issue -- that the similarity or randomness is one way for one study, and another way for another study, because of culturally different sets of nurses and/or patients.

In other words, you're right it's not affecting results within a study, but it makes comparison between studies questionable.

And it makes it equally questionable whether a study's results apply to you, if your signal is 10 units off of a study's signal, and occurs across a cutoff that determines whether you should take a medication or not.
I’ve never seen a discussion how ‘reactive’ one is physiologically either when discussing BP. That is, is one the kind of person who is generally calm throughout the day, or is one who has larger swings based on various stimuli? I’ve had readings as high as 155/95 when stressed rushing to a doctor’s office visit and readings as low as 105/62 when calmer. I suspect blood pressures varies wildly through the day, and this variation depends on a person’s physiology.
Silicon Wadi
Is there a way you can edit HTML directly in browser devtools and have it update in your code repo?