skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not speculating here, I am telling you how it works.

Phones ARE banned from school and the kids DO socialize in person there.

But then they all get home and stay in touch. Some have phones, some have tablets, some just their school-issued laptops. But they're constantly talking, 1:1, in various overlapping group chats. They organize getting together in the neighborhood or meeting up elsewhere over the weekend. It's where a lot of the drama happens (which isn't great.)

If you prevent your kid from accessing this communication layer, it will 100% affect their social life.
I didn't check to see if Thai was supported, but it hangs when I try to perform TTS on the text "ฉันพูดภาษาไทย" and then comes back with an error message several minutes later.
> Apple does have the advantage of being able to project their 2D apps if they want, right?

Developers have to manually check a box to enable running the iPad version of their app on visionOS so it’s entirely out of Apple’s hands. Not sure why they took this approach
>For example, what if corporate income tax were tied to the logarithm of the number of employees+contractors?

Unemployment would increase.

>What if the corporate income tax increased with the market share in markets served?

More companies would register in Panama or some other tax haven.

I would be wary of the Law of Unintended Consequences.
Boeing lines up $35B in funds as strike hammers finances
> All "fine" except that this is the third time in the last 12 months that the same line undergoes maintenance forcing you to move to Lubeck first and adding 1 hour to your trip.

And there are even longer interruptions scheduled for the RE1 between Rostock and Hamburg in 2025. As someone who strongly prefers bikes and trains it forces me to commute by car. It's a disaster.
Reading Blood Meridian with Aphantasia
I told my Dad this "Linkin-Park_Numb.exe" from Limewire is a common way to listen to MP3's.

But no, he insisted it bricked the family PC.
Red on black is hard to read, especially whatever vibrant fuchsia color this is.
> There was even a way to pack an MP3 in a .wav file so it could play on Win31 players that didn't have native support for MP3, using Windows' codec instead.

Pack, or re-encode?
Two lads set themselves up in the business of selling conkers one year.

Any accidentally dropped conkers were stamped on by any and all in the vicinity.

A conker that survived to the next year was considered "seasoned", although many's the wizened tippex-covered lump of questionable provenance appeared under this explanation.
No medical advice should be given on the basis of a single blood pressure test.

I've donated blood about a dozen times, my BP has been high on one or two occasions but only if it was a pattern after two or three times did they flag it up, and since it went back down the next time it was no longer a problem.

They did send me letters about the amount of ferritine in the blood though; the first time it was too high (probably due to having a thing for food that turned out to be high in iron for a while around that time) and they advised I see a doctor for it, but it went down on its own after that. And the last time it was too low, but that's a normal thing if you donate blood a few times (it was every two months for a while), they basically don't summon you again for six months.

TL;DR, a single measurement says nothing.
> '80s Amana Radarange

That's a bold choice in product naming. Referencing radiation in any manner just seems like something you'd want to avoid
I'm actually surprised more chat programs don't automatically "internationalize and localize" dates. Seems the same effort they put into spotting a username could look for dates in the user's locale, and then render it in the appropriate one everywhere. We'd need some conventions to indicate it should not change the date, maybe. Most uses would probably be fine with not having that.
Things from my youth, as well as conkers:

- marbles (can you get them anymore?)

- kick the can (where would kids get cans today?)

- British bulldog/chain tig (far too dangerous)

I can't remember the rules of these, but they were very popular in the early 1960s, when I played them.
Thanks for introducing me to these other formats! I hadn't heard of them yet. All three of fst, JDF, and Vortex appear share the goal of high throughput (de)serialization of tabular data and random access to the data. However, it is not clear to me how JDF and fst permit random access on compressed data because both appear to use block compression (respectively Blosc and LZ4 or Zstd). While both Blosc and Zstd are extremely fast, accessing a single value of a single row necessarily requires decompressing a whole block of data. Instead of O(1) random access you get O(N_ROWS_PER_BLOCK) random access.

In Vortex, we've specifically invested in high throughput compression techniques that admit O(1) random access. These kinds of techniques are also sometimes called "lightweight compression". The DuckDB folks have a good writeup [1] on the common ones.

[1] https://duckdb.org/2022/10/28/lightweight-compression.html
I miss when long rambly silly comments like this were off topic and weird but at least kind charming

AI ones don't have the same juice :c
Buddy a hockey player skates to where the puck of being passed not to where the puck might be in the second half.

I think it’s you who deeply deeply misunderstands the metaphor.

Or to put it another way.

“Timing is everything”
I know. I'm asking what many WordPress employees think of his erratic behavior. Because it can't be helping too much.
Absolutely not. No way we make Net Zero by 2050.

People need to stop reading feel good stories and look at the numbers globally.

Update:

Global CO2 emissions increase almost every year

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissi...

And for some reason, people think we’re only trying to reduce emissions in the grid. It’s a much bigger problem than electricity.
For fun, the ROOT file format used in high energy physics has this kind of feature: https://root.cern.ch/root/SchemaEvolution.pdf

It's also a very old format, so not without its warts :)
The NYT has 150 million monthly readers globally of which 27% are international. I still wouldn't expect it to insert helpful explainers every time it mentions a cultural phenomenon specific to the US.
Curious if you'd be good enough to go with a RAG [1] approach where you search relevant text and pass it to the llm when answering a question. I've been working on a simple tool for that called Formualic thay enables RAG workflows! Found at https://formulaic.app

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generati...
In this case it would not, you can see the commits between tag A and tag B either way. He simply didn't bother checking, either that there was no bug after rebasing or that the commits he'd rebased onto hadn't been released yet.
This is better and more useful than the FlipperOne, I think.
Wind turbine blades is the obvious one. On-shore turbines would be much larger (which btw implies lower rpm, which implies being less annoying) if they were not constrained by land transport.
I'm not into AI, so both read approximately the same to me.
Testable hypotheses are at the core of the scientific method, yes. But that's not just limited to the actual testing of hypotheses. All the work that goes into formulating hypotheses is also explicitly part of the scientific method.

Worth noting, too, that the paper outlines several possible experiments. It also specifically mentions some relative shortcomings of the model, and lists existing observations that they haven't tried to reconcile with it yet.
I think the printers and the old monitors reason are basically the same? Scanlines used to be a "you have now to set this pixel, if you missed it, you get next scan." It is an oddly accurate mental model to think of the screen as printing an image every scan.
> As an aside, video decoding is offloaded onto hardware, so it's not as battery intensive as it used to be.

This is technically but not usefully true with most videos on the web today.

The video decode itself is accelerated, but each frame passes through JavaScript to be composited.

The only time video is fully hardware decoded is when it's a simple video element to a static video file.
I still don't see how nuclear prolonging fossil fuels follows from any of that.

Building nuclear doesn't prevent or slow the rest from transitioning to renewable. If anything, it can get us off of fossil fuels faster because it handles the base load.
This is a bit like saying that an ill-fitting bicycle can cause more harm than good: technically true but missing the point. Sometimes it's valuable to have a cheap bicycle that you can expose to the elements without worrying about messing up the high-end components on your more expensive bike.

These seem to be mainly intended as secondary chairs or for part-time wheelchair users, rather than as primary chairs. My wife has three wheelchairs and I can see a case for buying one of these as her fourth.

Mind you, the situation with electric wheelchairs is very different. Many electric wheelchair users are at elevated risk of pressure sores, may not be able to get in and out or reposition themselves independently, etc. The profit margins on these chairs are still inexcusable, but the amount of custom fitting and memory foam everything is warranted because the user may well be in this chair, in that position all day every day. The cupholder and the umbrella mount are must-have accessories.
This entire theory seems to be based on only current technology.

Tell someone in the 1600s about the concept of cellphones and they would say it’s impossible to ever instantaneously communicate with someone around the world.

It’s so energy intensive with our current technology, which isn’t really an answer to fermi.
I don't think it's worth trying to write a rendering engine for HTML. You will never finish - HTML is a spec fully owned by Google and Apple at this point and it's just too complex to implement from scratch.

The interesting space is really post-HTML UI/document tech. There's another thread running about Typst which is a sort of better LaTeX. Markdown was highly impactful. There's a lot of scope for people to do interesting things in this space that are "HTML but better". It doesn't even have to be a markup format - Typst and React HTML both blur the lines between code and data. Jetpack Compose shows how to use Kotlin's DSL features to make something that looks a bit like a UI description but which is actually code.

Of course it means you have to then either distribute a 'browser' for your format, or find a way to display it in the browser. But compiling down to some JS/HTML/WASM thing is certainly possible. You can also use portable GUI toolkits like JavaFX; that also gives you accessibility. Or do both!

Once you define your own UI language there's a lot of scope to try things that HTML doesn't do well. An obvious one is separation of content and style. HTML tried and never really got there. XSL:T tried harder but was a weird pure functional language with XML as its syntax. React does quite well with going JSON->boxes but the underlying protocols are always ad-hoc and tacked on, so you can't really write useful tooling on top of that.

Another idea would be a format that's natively immune to XSS.
Warhol wrote that in 1975 when the US was a lot different.
This is a pretty great reference repo in general for optimized mobile rendering, and most of it other than compositor services, can be generalized to other headsets in terms of approach (not API).

Thanks for putting this up!
Let me know if there are any questions or suggestions!

Feel free to open issue on github, and contributions are welcome also
Thank you. I don’t know how right or wrong your calculations are but thanks for putting the numbers together. It would be greatly reassuring to see that something similar or a proper environmental impact study has been done for a massive project like starship and shared with the public. It will also be cool to see if more efficient way of propulsion fuel could be discovered for these launches. Progress can be mindful and sustainable.
You're making it sound as if registering in Panama is some "gotcha" that can't also be easily closed via legislation.
If there are GPIOs let the market do it.
I made the BBS Documentary (www.bbsdocumentary.com).

My goal had been to do a documentary on the BBS Experience, working from interviews with flexible friends and nearby folks, and then work up to the "Big Ones", the names who had been in my teenage mind when I ran a BBS, like Ward Christensen, Chuck Forsberg, Randy Suess, and others. But then I had someone from Chicago checking in to make sure I wasn't going to skip over the important parts the midwest had told in the story. So it was that a month into production, barely nailing down how I would fly post 9/11 with a studio worth of equipment, that I found myself at CACHE (Chicago Area Computer Hobbyist Exchange) and meeting Ward himself.

They say "Never meet your heroes." I think it's more accurate to say "Have the best heroes" or "Be the kind of person a hero would want to meet." Ward was warm, friendly, humble, and very, VERY accomodating to a first-time filmmaker. I appreciated, fundamentally, the boost that he gave me and my work, knowing I was sitting on hours of footage from The Guy.

There were many other The Guy and The Lady and The Groups for BBS: The Documentary, but Ward's humble-ness about his creation and what it did to the world was what made sure I never overhyped or added layers of drama on the work. Ward was amazing and I'll miss him.
The phone doesn't become a transceiver, it becomes a(n) HMI to the transceiver.
As my old business mentor often said: if nobody else is doing a thing, there's very likely a reason why. Learn what that reason is before you start doing it.
Dark matter is not a theory, per se. There are many, many theories that attempt to explain dark matter. Some of them have yet to produce testable hypotheses, others have already been tested.
not, h2 feasibility in the context of power generation depends on many more factors, including how frequent the plant is used when day hours will be mostly tapped by solar generation and how you'll do price compensation. And in the context of h2 for renewables as a peaker, it'll need to be much more than 2%. And again, the emission problem for h2 generation isn't solved yet beyond fuel cells
The ballast is for cargo, which needs to be picked up and dropped off. Fuel is just a potential solution.
That's one problem. I typically need a taxi when I'm in a remote city a long way form home. Uber gives me a common app that works from Sydney to San Francisco. I'm not going to land in Chicago and work out which of the myriad of apps I need to get.

Now if it was instead a website, sure, much easier. No need to create accounts etc, just visit "chicagotaxi.com", perhaps shown on a sign at the airport/station/etc, then book and pay with applepay/googlepay.

But installing some application, signing up, having my data stolen, all to be told "no taxis available", is the reality of a local app.
yep, namely noscript/basic (x)html.
> LLMs were never designed for this. […] AI researchers have known this from the start and won't be surprised by this because it was never intended to be able to do this.

Sure, but it doesn’t help when well-respected researchers, like Ilya Sutskever, go around talking about how OpenAI’s LLMs have intelligence. There have been plenty of commenters on HN who, without a hint of irony, talk about how “well maybe self-attention is the mechanism of consciousness”. And all the scaling papers suggest (suggest in the sense that they seem to want to draw that inference, not that I am endorsing it) that LLMs have no limit to scaling with more parameters and training tokens. Still other (serious, and well-cited) papers run benchmarks that include math and logic tests… why would anyone do that if they genuinely believed that LLMs are just stochastic next-token predictors?

So this is a little more than “you’re holding it wrong”. The entire AI/ML industry is telling you to hold it that way, then acting shocked when they discovered gambling in the establishment.
Maybe, but I took a guess based on how high horse chestnut trees can get. I’m almost sure I am underestimating. The best ones I used to climb were those that lined the entry to a country estate and they were clearly very old and were absolutely huge.

A horse chestnut tree can reach heights of approximately 30 to 40 meters (about 98 to 131 feet) [1].

I used to go pretty damn far up, one time really shitting myself up as the thinner weaker branches started breaking away as I was climbing higher.

It genuinely felt like, even if probably not entirely true, that I was sticking my head out of the top of the tree before it started giving way. It’s a memory that will stick with me forever!

Of course I can’t prove this, but it’s not entirely implausible that a very old horse chestnut tree could be over 100 feet high and it’s not entirely implausible that it’s possible to climb up a tree of that size. So I guess either take my word for it or not, your call ;)

[1] https://directree.org/horse-chestnut-aesculus-hippocastanum/
Falling Sand Games in Shaders via Cellular Automata and Margolous Neighborhoods
>his house is still there

It's not really his house, but a reconstruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus_House
If the information proves to be true, what does it matter?
Guesswork is part of forming a hypothesis, as it is with any science. The thing about astrophysics is that it's very hard (or impossible) to conduct an experiment to prove a hypothesis, and with very few exceptions it's impossible to see something happening in real time.

What you do have is a vast amount of data in the obseravable universe. So for a theory to be valid, it needs to not contradict all that out there which we can see. Or if it does contradict it, it needs to explain why that is and not contradict other things.

Often, as with particle physics, we're limited by what we can see, so we need new technologies (such as the JWST) to give us greater insights. Just as with modern particle physics, in a lot of cases this helps to reduce the size of error bars in observations or hypotheses, which then helps to reduce the problem space and weed out theories that then fall out of these error bars.

This is why you can have several competing theories at once (for example, various alternatives to dark matter). Some may be more popular than others, or may be more likely than others, but they stay on the table until actually disproven[1].

(Have an astrophysics degree, not a professional astrophysicist)

[1] Although as far as I was aware, Tired Light was actually considered off the table.
What do you mean?

They didn't say it existed.

They just said the existence of Dark Matter seems to be more likely than non-uniformity of physics throughout the universe.
Should have been written in BASIC.
I had a dental chain say I needed periodontal scaling because I was having terrible pain in my upper gums. It took two years and another dentist to tell me I actually had a cyst and the cyst growing had almost dissolved my nose bone. Another few months and I’d likely have a weird sunken nose if a surgeon hadn’t properly removed it. So they charged me for an expensive procedure but it wasn’t even the correct expensive procedure!
Using GMRS requires a $15 license that has no test and is good for 10 years. But nobody ever gets the license. GMRS is constantly full of chatter everywhere you go. Nobody ever mentions needing to get a license. You see YouTubers constantly using and promoting "Rugged Radios" which are just rebadged Baofengs. They are sold by the thousands.
What would you like to see happen instead?
the Gentoo Wiki is also high on my list, actually first because Gentoo is my preferred choice, equal in terms of useful content, only second in userbase - to Arch.
Gentoo also implemented a policy prohibiting people from contributing LLM output. Theres not a culty rule-following edit-sanitization mod team, and the wiki doesnt require special permission, just the honor system, but so far its enough to make me like contributing to it is a form of charity to help future mankind.
I wonder if there are any solar systems with multiple habitable planets where an intelligence is more likely to colonize and tackle space travel.

Imagine if Mars and Venus were just habitable from the start, with plants, animals, and resources. We would probably have colonies there. Some intelligence somewhere probably had such a predicament.
Upon deeper review, it definitely appears there is something strange with some of the content on the site, so while I'm concerned there might be an integrity issue, the site has been archived so that original sources from the subject's website can be cited or referenced on their Wikipedia page via Wayback (and to prevent link rot if and when the domain or hosting expires). Thanks for calling this out. My apologies for not making the time to dive deeper into the site content when you first mentioned it.

Please treat the Wayback archive as canonical for this resource: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://lillian.com/

(no affiliation with the Internet Archive)
There is a huge difference between the US accounting for 20% of Global GDP and merely being "in first place" at the end of WWI and the USA having half of global GDP (and 80% of the world's hard currency reserves) at the end of WW2. While also say, having a Navy easily more powerful than the rest of the world combined, and being able to to focus on an upcoming surge in consumer consumption as opposed to desperately struggling to stabilize food production and rebuild cities and industries that had been ravaged by war.

Britain, a victor that had never been occupied, wasn't able to lift many significant food rationing schemes until the 1950s. Bread, which wasn't rationed during the war, had to be rationed from '46 to '48.

There is a meaningful distinction between being the leading industrial power and being the overwhelmingly dominant economic power.
This is how theoretical physics has worked for quite some time - someone figures out a hypothesis that works mathematically, and the experimentalists then prove or disprove it.
In my hallucination, my customer base is myself. If I had extra time right now and one of these devices to play with, I'd build something I wish existed, not something I expect the general population to buy.

If it's good enough for me, it's probably already worth my time—though https://xkcd.com/1319/ comes to mind

Then maybe some subset of the population that is closer in interests to me would also find it useful, in which case the app might get more traction. That'd be nice, but not a necessary requirement for my definition of success

The big issue here is justifying spending thousands of dollars on the product. I'd go for it at $500 or so. Definitely not $2k or $5k.
It's not, but it's accepted as it is the theory that best fits the observations. It has holes, but not as much as others. It will continue to be the accepted model until another one is an even better fit to the data or we can prove/disprove the existence of dark matter.
IIRC the default in most/all ACME clients is to reuse the private key and just get a renewed certificate for it.
I am being charitable.

The uncharitable take is that the people who wrote this incredibly uncharitable and obsessive character assassination of an old dying guy are working for Microsoft et. al.
It's interesting how cultural that must be. Here in Germany most mainstream cheap microwaves in the last decades still have electromechanical knobs, one for selecting power, one for time. If forced to draw a microwave out of memory that is my canonical mental image – and I didn’t had a microwave the last 15 years.

Basic Example: https://www.bosch-home.com/de/de/product/kochen-backen/mikro...

Until this article I had no idea what US-Americans were (rightfully) bitching about.

(Edit: Oh, I see, the cheaper Bosch Microwave range has capacitive buttons. Erghs.)