skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say that Minecraft servers by some qualities are really hard to implement (for example generate world as Java would - using Java's random number generator to generate exactly the same world in Rust) or even impossible. But other usages, like walking through existing world with 1000 of your colleagues might be worth of writing a very fast but not a "drop in replacement" server. Or a massive minigame maybe?
Ubuntu 24.10 Developer Preview Released for Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops
Your mistake is trying to find logic in something Douglas Adams wrote.

It makes no sense for alien spaceships to carry conkers. That's the joke, a small dig at people believing the local stuff they're used to is universal.
Compatible: You start a Pumpkin server, vanilla clients can join and play.

Drop-in: You run a server for some time. You decide to switch the software by replacing the executable. Everything works as before.
> Promoting your product/service, see brand astroturfing in Reddit.

But ... that's the point, is it not? Someone searching for "FOO" will find all those sites who optimised for selling FOO.

That's an improvement over finding the top 10 results all optimised on FOO but delivering ads to make money, not FOO.
> Been like that for a long time.

Since before Uber/Lyft?
Hello everyone, I'm Owen.

We're excited to launch the beta version of Sava OS. Right now it's still in the early days and currently on a waitlist. But we'de love to hear your feedback, ideas, and thoughts.

If you want to learn more about the vision you can also check our letter here: https://savaos.com/about

Feel free to reach out via the comments section. Thanks in advance :)
> the biggest argument for why they might not be ableist is that they are largely bullshit

100% this. Reading times are bullshit. They can be a bit useful if they're accompanied with a report of how much "time" is needed to read past where I've read. Then I can do the math in my head to convert that into a percentage of the document I've been through, and that's actually informative.
I agree, this is one of the reasons I moved off of html to Gemini/Gopher. I just completed the move.

Maintenance and OS agnostic. All I need to do is add an entry to a text file on my local computer then kick of an scp script to copy it to the server.

My WEB hosting used cpanel (they just moved to something similar) and I need to upload it manually. Never mind the conversion if the text to html.
In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Stone
Yes, I believe it is the same as Wolfram's "Computational Irreducability". I'll copy paste the question I emailed him about it:

> In computers, floating point numbers have a limited precision, based on how many bits are used. Does the innate 'error' in floating point numbers have implications on your theory of 'Computational Irreducability'? Are the 'errors' introduced with each floating point operation is fundamentally computationally irreducable? Does this have a domino effect that causes basic classical mechanics to become computationally irreducible? Like the integration of velocity into position, it is a O(1) operation to compute the future position given a velocity and a starting point, but if a computer is rendering each individual frame, it will accumulate error in each frame, and the final frame may end up in a different position. Does this concept relate to the real world through things like the Planck length? Is space perhaps not purely continuous?
I am going out on a limb and speculating that these stable sets of conditions correspond to Julia sets by some mathematical relationship and that the underlying fundamental principle is the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_set
less?

The full self driving was one year away for 15 years now.

Batteryswap charging, beating fuel pump station demo - clearly fake.

Tesla Truck beating rail - few trucks made to carry potato chips/crisps ie 99% air.

Solar roof tiles.

Optimus being used in Tesla factories.

The bus had an inch of clearance. What kind of road that prototype was designed for. Besides the wheels had tires painted over gold to look better. Lookup the pictures.

Do you even remember tesla roadster? Its coming out next year, trust me bro.

Cybertruck... more like clusterfuck. Offroad truck brickable by a carwash.

How do people have trust in any claims by Musk?
On the plus side, this would solve the housing problem too. Without the nuisance of sleep requirements we would move to the offices and live, ahem, produce there 24/7. Much like cattle.

This is the great future the visionary OP envisions for us.
I should probably have said the change in life expectancy is a weighted average, weighted by how far you are from the average. If average life expectancy is 80, removing a data point where somebody died at 40 has 8x the effect of removing a data point where somebody died at 75.
> The Oxford University research found that moderate obesity, which is now common, reduces life expectancy by about 3 years, and that severe obesity, which is still uncommon, can shorten a person's life by 10 years. This 10 year loss is equal to the effects of lifelong smoking.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2009-03-18-moderate-obesity-takes-...

> According to the CDC, 9.4% of adults in the United States were severely obese between August 2021 and August 2023. This is higher for women (12.1%) than men (6.7%). The prevalence of severe obesity varies by age group, with the highest rates in adults aged 40–59 (12.0%)

Only 9.4% of people are severely obese. Moderately obese people have only a ~4% shorter life-span than healthy weight individuals - much of which can probably be attributed to other lifestyle issues besides simply being overweight.

This will move the needle, but I doubt as much as you think.

There's a lot more smokers than there are severely obese people.
The AI chip wars could see the U.S. cap Nvidia and AMD exports
I think insurance would rather pay for X-rays than pay for fillings and such. Probably easier for some offices to max out insurance if there wasn’t X-rays to back it up.
This is like concluding that Japanese food is terrible because the idea of eating raw fish grosses you out. (Also, it's "steak and kidney pie" as a unit, not a steak accompanied by a "kidney pie".)
I wouldn't read too much into the Google & Microsoft nuclear commitment. They're can't lose deals. If it succeeds, Google & Microsoft get clean power at a reasonable price. If it fails they're not out any money or anything but they still have benefitted from the publicity.

What would be significant would be a true investment, an equity stake for money where they lose money if the project fails or goes significantly over budget.
This has now been written:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/ward_christensen_obit...
1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity over Quality (2019) [video]
It's actually called pedigree collapse, but it doesn't really change anything - the fact that the same ancestor may appear in multiple places in your family tree makes it harder to trace a gene back along any given line, not easier. You undoubtedly share an enormous amount of genetic similarity with Abraham, it's how you got it that is forever scrambled.
Might be quick nice-to-have features too (not only bugs)
Great way to promote yourself. Well done!
For private dental insurance yes. It almost never makes sense to get private dental insurance and it’s almost always better to pay out of pocket.

I mean think about it from the insurer’s point of view. The only reason you’d ever get “the platinum” dental plan is if you were planning to use it. And it isn’t like you have that many “dental emergencies” if you have healthy teeth. If you don’t have healthy teeth you’d already know it when you pick out the insurance plan, so of course you’d get the upper tier.

The only scenario where it makes sense is if your employer picks up a healthy portion of the premium, in which case you are basically getting dental care subsidized by your employer. In that case you’ll likely come out ahead because you knew in advance pretty much how much dental care you’d need.

The same goes for vision care, really. You know in advance how many contacts, glasses and eye exams you’ll need. It isn’t really an insurable thing. If your employer pays for most of the premium, it’s employer subsidized eyewear & contacts for you!

…of course the math does change a bit when you have to pick the same type of plan for a family. In that case it’s time to bust out a spreadsheet and do the math to see the optimal course.
Sounds like a good excuse for a drunken karaoke night!

FWIW I think they're getting back together and releasing a new album in November. Minus Chester, of course. RIP.
The general issue with people that don't care is, well, they don't care. The problem with being a reasonable person (or at least being the reasonable person in a certain situation) is that reason stops if the other party is not playing. It rarely helps to keep throwing subtle hints at somebody who just isn't going to cooperate or respect boundaries. It's the juggernaut in human relationships, especially when there's a power imbalance or differing incentives.
> Are you saying people who learned C as their first programming language are better programmers or worse?

That's both a false dichotomy and irrelevant as well.

My message is "There are multiple excellent (even legendary) developers in the short history of our field that learned programming in C. There are many more who primarily used C".

This refutes your point completely.
Decent Walkies are FRS blister pack radios now.
It takes many generations, really.

Having money doesn’t easily buy you a hereditary lordship. You might be able to buy a load of land but probably not a prestigious ancient estate because the families that own them would usually rather let them fall into disrepair than sell them.

Money will buy your kids a place in prestigious public (read: private) school so they can rub shoulders with upper class kids and have connections when they grow up. But those upper class friends will always know that you and your kids are really just jumped up middle class since your great great great great grandfather wasn’t the Duke of Norfolk or some such.

For reference Kate Middleton’s family are wealthy multi-millionaires, and have been wealthy going back to the 19th century. When she married Prince William the press still waxed lyrical about the fact that the Prince of Wales was marrying a “commoner”.

Really the only rock solid way to wash away the middle class stink from your kids is to marry into the real top level of the upper class.
I remember reading this article (or a very similar one) as well. It sent me down a path of looking for evidence based dentists, which are quite hard to find. I couldn't end up finding one that seemed to fit that bill in my local area. I talked to a recent dental school graduate friend who described some evidence that school debt is highly correlated to over-treating.

I ended up going the direction of looking for dentists unlikely to have debt and found a former army dentist and have been thrilled with how much less "well, let's do it all just in case" she is than my previous dentist (who had a TVs on the ceiling of every room and a new piece of major equipment every time I went).
AI has dreamt up a Blizzard of new proteins. Do any of them work?
Aren’t you sort of proving the opposite?

You say that they saw books get printed faster, so they could conceive communication getting so fast it’s instant, despite their knowledge being limited to physical material.

By the same logic, couldn’t I say we have theorized wormholes and have already seen objects (like black holes) warp time and space? Therefore maybe we can warp space to travel, rather than literally needing to go faster than light?

I think it’s easier for us now to conceive the idea that one day we could make a wormhole than it is for people with no concept of radio waves to conceive the idea of a cellphone.
> He also hired an investigator to try and find any dirt on the rescue worker. Now he says this is just his way of having fun.

Let me translate it for Musk fans. He repeatedly tried to ruin a life of a hero, because he felt insulted. Its also fun.
> my mother died

> did you expect her to live forever?
Actual study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00702-3#Sec2
Background photo rotation is the over-engineered alternative to shade rotation...
My pet peeve is that a lot of people who have never studied an hour of philosophy think that this is what people who study philosophy do.

"Anyone can sit around thinking about things all day" is like saying "anybody can sit and press keys on a keyboard all day".

I took a semester of philosophy at uni, perhaps the best invested time during my years there and by far more demanding than most of what followed. 100 % recommend it for anyone who wants to hone their critical reasoning skills and intellectual development in general.
Revolution OS should be on the list.
You can already use Mermaid in GitHub markdown:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/wor...
Thanks for checking it out! I have adding text on the roadmap: https://github.com/klimeryk/dealwithit/issues/31 :D Upvote on GitHub to show interest!
The issue is heavy industry in both China and India.

Expanding battery capacity helps, but it's a relative drop in the bucket compared to the needs for heavy industry, which used 5,700tWH/yr in China in 2022, and needs to be continuous.

And given that Coal is US$1-1.50/kg, heavy industry will continue to use that because it is cheap and available.

Battery Grid Storage at heavy industry scale is best case still a decade away in China, which is too late from an ecological perspective.

This is because assuming China was able to mass produce Sanborn sized battery grid storage systems (875MW), that's still 6,500,000 to be built across China just to meet 2022's heavy industry requirements alone.

And India's GDP is expected to grow at 6-9% for the foreseeable future, so there will be a similar expansion in heavy industry in India as well.
You can learn all these things at your local makerspace, and teach whatever your skills are to give back to the community.

If learning some DIY skills isn't your jam, then maybe a DIY ham project isn't for you.
The exact behavior isn't hugely important (although I think off-screen cursors are a useful feature). What matters is consistency between applications. There's no realistic scenario where I do everything in Emacs, so Emacs has to behave in the same way as other applications. If not, I risk data loss or corruption because I might fail to notice the cursor ending up somewhere I didn't expect. This is especially likely to happen with a feature like off-screen cursors that I use only occasionally.
> I can barely understand their paper on the subject

Yannic Kilcher has a new video touching on Mamba in an intuitive way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE9jAZC42NE
> I'm not sure I see the big deal.

Tumblr is loginwalled now, so I can't find the good version of this, but I'll try and rip it:

Philosophical questions like "what is knowledge" are hard precisely because everyone has an easy and obvious explanation that is sufficient to get them trough life.

But, when forced to articulate that explanation, people often find them to be incomparable with other people's versions. Upon probing, the explanations don't hold at all. This is why some ancient Greek thought experiments can be mistaken for zen koans.

Yeah, you can get by in life without finding a rigorous answer. The vast majority of human endeavor beyond subsistence can be filed under the category "I'm not sure I see the big deal."

To say that about the question of knowledge and then vamp for 200 words is not refusing to engage. It's patching up a good-enough answer to suit a novel challenge and moving on. Which is precisely why these questions are hard, and why some people are so drawn to exploring for an answer.
How is the situation with Uber and insurance these days? I remember from years back that Uber drivers didn't have the insurance that taxi drivers need (though that may vary by country). As one who has actually experienced a car crash involving a taxi (I was in the taxi, but fortunately on the left side in the back seat when another car crashed into its right side), I have a keen interest in insurance..
Sounds about right?

EDIT: placeholder for thinking more about this in context of Acemoglu & Restrepo: according to them ai as pointed at science today will not lead to even midterm econ growth

“Why zero-to-one’s cannot be automated”

id=41839542, note that nongoverning glamour-chasing elite Swedes didnt accolade Acemoglu for the institution-agnostic (“weird”er?) parts of his work that we were recently interested in

Edit: on 2nd slightly sleep deprived thought, seems to me that its flipped: sciencing is conerned with the essential and mathsing is the data-to-code..
How is "if you don't floss for a month it hurts when you floss" evidence flossing is good for you?

It's the same phenomenon as something like the calluses guitar players get. If they take a few weeks off, it'll hurt a bit when they play. That doesn't mean the activity improves their health. It means if you poke a part of the body enough it handles being poked better.
https://i.imgur.com/UP1PRyZ.png

I'm so tempted to just leave it at that, but in the interest of not contributing to HN's slow de-evolution into Reddit, I'll add that:

1. Google is arguably not a monopoly, all its products have at least some competition as you yourself already pointed out.

2. Whether Google is "dysfunctional" is a matter of opinion. It's not without problems certainly, but its also a highly successful company with millions (maybe billions) of satisfied customers.

3. A lot of the arguments for Google being a monopoly have less to do with market share and more to do with vertical integration. My point is that vertical integration has a lot of benefits. Trying to use anti-trust law to outlaw it would likely turn out to be very foolish.
Does it do that from the browser? What does it ”track”, keyboard+mouse input?

You're missing much more high-level information than this.
So what do you think the math is going to look like about the starting values of these stable states? I'm speculating that they correspond to Julia sets by some fundamental relationship.
Everyone working for Elisabeth Holmes knew it was all fake is not an excuse that worked for her
Hahaha, roger that! I mean, it would be in line with the whole premise of the tool... I should implement it so that the whole tool/page rotates around the glasses XD
This brings back such memories. Sometimes I really miss that era of the internet, but deep down I know I actually just miss being that age lol.

I would install Kazaa to download the Kazaa Lite installer, then I'd use that to try and cobble together albums I wanted, all with wildly different bitrates and tags, and sometimes completely wrong songs.

Getting all kinds of nasty viruses from cd key sites to play a burned copy of a copy of a copy of Brood War with my friends.

When I discovered slsk it was like uncovering the city of Atlantis to my teenaged brain.

I really miss how the internet felt like pure magic back then.
Right, I am not saying they're right or wrong (not something I would know anything about), but it seems they've been vaguely aware of the issues from the start. Namely, before the SpaceX engineer and starting the company.
Adjusting for inflation, those numbers suggest very minimal growth.

Adjusting for inflation, that's still a two billion dollar increase. I wish I had problems like that.

As for the rest, you're demonstrating my point. GGP talked about Windows being a "distraction and an expense" when it's still generating tens of billions in revenue.

That's not a distraction and expense, that's a cornerstone.
One of the more disturbing things I've observed about lion predation is that they will eat their prey while it is still alive, they don't always bother killing it first. There's videos of predations on other animals youtube, I wouldn't recommend watching them if you are squeamish.
Well.. maybe.. but when that app appeared there weren't yet any Uber drivers in my country. They were considered illegal by the authorities.
And then they don't respond to email or slack. Are they missing it? Ignoring it? No one knows. Meanwhile, time sensitive deadlines come and go.

There's no clear, easy protocol that works for everyone, unfortunately. Some people are always going to operate on the 'better to ask forgiveness than permission' model. And I say this as someone who is often in the 'always busy' camp.
Is the extension of your position that we are born with a theory of the body, irrespective of experience? How does that relate to the psychological literature where babies seem to lack a coherent sense of self? I.e., they can't differentiate what is "body" and what is "not body"?

If it's an ability that later develops independent of experience with the exterior world, it seems untestable. I.e., how can you test the theory without a baby being in the world in the first place?
You absolutely do. Many coworkers will bug you to ask instead of doing their own research, bug you to chitchat, etc.

They can always book time with you, send an email/IM, etc if there's something they can't resolve on their own.

You have your own deliverables and being interrupted every 10 minutes with inane questions that a web search or a look at the internal wiki/KB would have resolved is not a productive use of anyone's time.

Also, forcing them to wait produces better quality, better researched questions as hopefully they should make some attempt to resolve things on their own.
I don't think this is charitable. I've been lucky to have a view into the back office of a veterinary clinic and the fact of the matter is it's just difficult medicine to practice. Every vet I know works hard to save their clients money.

If pet owners are inclined to take the "do anything" route it can open a lot of doors. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Okkk will get back to you on the references, +the below aka SCT, +solardrones

Rolfe was Veblens first wife, (didnt look up the genealogy, alas) — she provisioned him a retirement home on Sand Hill Road

There are a few academic papers on their relationship, so this century old gossip may still be relevant for science & sciencing!
Ok, that makes a lot more sense in light of your argument!
Ask HN: Why haven't we miniaturized the Ethernet RJ45?
Why is the Ethernet jack still a huge monstrosity? I see these small boards appearing and the ridiculous sized Ethernet jack looms over the PCB.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/10/14/wiznet-w55rp20-evb-pico-board-features-w55rp20-sip-with-w5500-ethernet-controller-and-rp2040-mcu/

We have gone from giant USB-A to the slim USB-C and converters are available. We have mini Display Port and converters are available. Why has no one tried to miniaturize RJ45?
I guarantee that's not going to be a viable option. No nation, especially China or the USA, is going to allow an aircraft free access to land unknown cargo at a random warehouse without going through customs. It's going to have to land at some kind of airfield just like a cargo plane would.
It's a ham project, you self-certify. Part 97 allows you to build your own equipment.

Now, in doing so, you're also taking responsibility for your emissions, and you're expected to be diligent about making sure everything is within the rules. But there's no paperwork or anything unless you want there to be. (Taking notes about your spectral purity testing is probably a good idea, you'll probably never need them, but if someone complains it'll be nice to have.)
Or just get a font that draws the i with a line and a dot correctly, and a 1 with the horizontal line at the bottom and the half width line at an angle at the top.

You are using a bad font.