skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don't have any deep foundational knowledge, I do know that:

- the energy required for moving in a fluid grows sub-linear with the vessel's volume

- larger motors tend to be more efficient

- your autonomous swarm will be a gigantic waste of steel and batteries.

Not to mention the problems around the autonomous part, without which you'd also have a huge waste of manpower.

See also https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/38252/why-on... for some points by people I assume know a bit more than me.
Doesn’t just happen on hills you can see this phenomenom on flat intersections too that have seen a lot of nearby construction vehicles (cement trucks, dump trucks, etc are probably the worst).
A deper dive into the SHMIF IPC system
You can watch a short demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aT4gfdFFxA
They've worked really hard at it.

Israel for instance has a special relationship with Germany because of remorse for the 1940s. This incident in the 1970s

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

further gives Germany a reason to crack down on pro-Palestinian protestors. Although supporters of the Palestinians have not staged international attacks for a long time the history of this in the 1970s explains why my Uni suddenly instituted a clear bag policy at sports games a few weeks after the lid blew off in Gaza last year. (When I started doing sports photography at the beginning of the semester I could pack a big camera bag and even take extra lenses)

Also Israel has a high GDP and involvement in international trade, academia, etc. Israel has 50x the GDP per head of Rwanda so they have a large impact in terms of Intel's Haifa office, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Sodastream, etc. My thesis advisor traveled to Tel Aviv a lot to work with collaborators.
> I don't understand how a tiny country like Israel has become so important in global politics.

Here are some of my favorite sources on that! These are all leftist and pro-Palestinian sources, but they are academic and studied. These are about why Israel is important to the "interests of the USA" (ie, what those with power to decide national interests think).

* “Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and American power in the Middle East" by Adam Hanieh https://www.tni.org/en/article/framing-palestine

* The first chapter of "Palestine: A Socialist Introduction", “How Israel Became the Watchdog State: US Imperialism and the Middle East" by Shireen Akram-Boshar. The publisher Haymarket is giving away the ebook for free. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1558-palestine-a-social...

* "No, the US Doesn’t Back Israel Because of AIPAC" by Joseph Massad https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-the-us-doesnt-back-israe...
History of C and C++. Part one: emergence and standardization of C language
There have been several pundits with opinion on the matter, you’ll find quite a few in any news source (personally I recommend al-Jazeera). The gist of it is that this will have implication mostly around travels of Israeli officials to Europe. We might also see a slow and gradual policy shift in Europe as a result of this.
Can you provide a single high quality (randomized) study demonstrating GLP1 therapeutics are 'incredibly detrimental to [your] longevity and quality of life'?

Consider the type of confounding that occurs in studies of people losing a lot of lean mass: cachexia, restriction to bed, famine.

Traditional weight loss methods have not shown the magnitude of survival benefits wrt cardiovascular disease, joint pain, diabetic complications. Exercise is wonderful, but as a public health intervention it is not sufficient.

If anyone looks at the totality of the high quality GLP1 clinical evidence and concludes these drugs are going to cause a net reduction in longevity and quality of life, then they should step back and assess their process for evaluating information.
> Once suspected CSAM is flagged, a human reviewer remains in the loop to ensure oversight.

Obviously necessary...but I can't imagine a less-desirable job, for 99.9% of decent human beings.
Since there has been no proof of his death bar the announcements from Israel, it is sensible to consider him as a wanted man until there is concrete evidence he is dead.
Yeah, that's fair. I just don't have a habit of doing that so for me the GPX thing while good is a change in behaviour that limits me from adopting this app / exploring new trails. Also on further thought, i could see myself wanting to change the route mid-journey and that would be another issue with only having the GPX file.
XBOW found a Scoold authentication bypass
When I'm on multi-day trips, planning on my phone is the only option. I usually plan only a couple days ahead and refresh the route based on that day's detours and activities.
This is common and expected. Even when a serial killer suspected of 20 murder is apprehended, arrest is often made based on one or two confirmed cases, more charges are later added as investigation deepens.

Also, keep in mind foreign journalists are completely banned by Israel from entering Gaza- complicating evidence gathering.
They really send a t-shirt. And if you're really good .. a hoodie [0].

You could look at it the opposite way around - someone's come up with a genius idea to do a bug bounty on a beer budget.

[0] https://english.ncsc.nl/latest/weblog/weblog/2022/i-am-on-th...
They are nicer logos esthetically speaking, but of course it's ridiculous that the emphasis is on the version rather than the actual technology.
That's disputable by a strict reading of the original copyright law, before it was perverted by those who would vacuum up "IP" solely for the control and for potential profit.

Copyright is ultimately intended "to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries". Limited times. "75 years past the author's death" is not in any practical way limited, when none of the people who were alive during or in the years postceding the author may access what should be, at that point, their rightfully publicly owned work. Current copyright terms hinder the progress of human knowledge and creativity. It incentivizes people who get lucky and create the next huge hit, to rest on their laurels for the rest of their life, getting paid repeatedly for the same work, with no incentive to create anything new. At the same time, those who would make a transformative use of a work (that isn't otherwise a fair use) are rebuked.

14+14 is all we need. Anything else is rent-seeking.

Don't even get me started on those in the world who would support perpetual copyright (not that you espoused that opinion, but many do). Fortunately, that one would require a constitutional amendment in the US to be legal.

The dirtiest tactic used in the copyright push was the Berne Convention. It allows countries to throw their hands up and say "sorry, we can't do anything, we have to harmonize the copyright terms", thus making a treaty that effectively supercedes various national constitutions.
If patents are done away with then we go back to trade secrets. Nobody will share their advancements. Then there is potential for advancements being lost.
This isn't a claim you can drop without some very convincing source.
Nobody does it like King. Despite not being considered in the canon of literary fiction, I feel like he's going to endure as one of the most imaginative, thrilling, and flat out brilliant writers of genre fiction, alongside Christie, Tolkien, and Philip K Dick.
Just from a foreigner in Amsterdam.

Car owners are considered selfish, it is not considered a sustainable or equitable form of transport.

Air Conditioning, not a traditional things but getting more popular, not considered sustainable.

Travel, airplanes produce a lot of emissions and aren't considered sustainable. Not uncommon for people say why aren't your traveling somewhere closer and/or taking the train across Europe.

Meat, bad for the environment, bad for the animals. Non meat options are extremely popular here.

Dairy, if you ask for milk in a cafe they might play dumb and then ask you "do you mean cow milk". Most of the above I agree with, but I love my milk. Damn passive aggressive baristas!
But yeah, the dairy industry is pretty abhorrent so they have that going for them.

All in all though, I'm probably the type of person the OP is probably trying to get away from. But honestly, Europe has plenty of problems but this stuff is literally why I love Europe
Explain XKCD to the rescue: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1242:_Scary_Names
I really wish this tired cliché would disappear, and I say this as someone who has emigrated from a country renowned for its cuisine.

Dutch supermarkets offer an impressive variety of products, and there’s no shortage of specialty or “ethnic” shops where you can find virtually any ingredient for any type of cooking. Major cities are brimming with restaurants serving world cuisines, and people with diverse dietary restrictions are well catered to, with a plethora of options available. Plus, Indonesian and Surinamese food can be considered "local" by this point (if you ignore the historical complexity of the topic) and are simply delicious.

While it’s true that the availability of cheap street food might not be as prominent, to say the food here is “bland” couldn’t be further from the truth.
Why don’t we have reliable sources?
Ask HN: Did your iPhone alarm ring today?
I have two different models and both did not ring the alarm. Both have alarms set to ring at specific time every weekday. I recall this might have happened in the past also.

Did it ever happen to you?
Klein-Jordan equation does have both problems, negative probabilities and energies. Dirac equation solved negative probabilities and now predicts positive probabilities for both positive and negative energy states. But the negative energies problem still exists and Dirac used different interpenetration to explain them and did not get rid of them (which we knew later that this was the correct things to do). So he came with the famous negative energy solutions interpreted as antiparticles.
AI trained on the data of humans will show the biases of humans. Names should play no role yet they do.
Memory Subsystem Optimizations – The Remaining Topics – Johnny's Software Lab
Banning free plastic bags led to customers buying more plastic bags
Yes, vibrant with hate speech and now Musk is deleting accounts of people he doesn't like. Free speech my ass.
I like virtual coffees (2024)
Hi HN!

I have had a few people around me say that it is really hard to connect in remote companies. It was not my experience at my last job, and I think a lot of it came from consistently engaging in virtual coffee breaks.

I know they are a divisive topic, so I wrote a bit about my experience with them, and I hope this shines some positive light over them - they should not be "mandated corporate fun".

Hope you enjoy the read, and hopefully engage more fully in them!
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So the symmetric answer would be for the West to hand over ICBMs to Ukraine now? Of course only after deployment of South Korean solders to the front line.
Alternate explanation: the ICC isn't making up the charges and Israel did commit war crimes and conceal them.
You're not surprised that the prime minister is accused of war crimes, but surprised the minister of defense is?
Also important to note that Khan, who filed the warrant requests, was one of Israel’s preferred appointees to the ICC as chief prosecutor.
this argument against common sense bike infrastructure is one of the most common, most wrong, and most dumb

bicyclists, pedestrians and transit users in fact subsidize motorists, in all countries, everywhere. this isn't up for debate. so under your own logic, motorists should have no right to the roads, because they're "freeloading" and "not paying their fair share". sigh.

ironically, even the most ardent bike infra advocates don't actually think that. they just think the money they're paying shouldn't be expropriated exclusively for motorists, while they themselves get close to nothing, especially when bika infra is so comparatively cheap and efficient (it actually SAVES the government and the public money)

the benefits of bike infra are obvious and self evident. less pollution, less noise, more mobility for children and the disabled. it benefits motorists too, because it takes traffic off the roads, and saves parents time and money having to ferry their kids around all the time etc etc.

tbh people like you seem just like hateful selfish misanthropes.
I'm the author of what you've just described as clickbait.

Interestingly, the 100m metaphor is extensively discussed in my book, where I explain why it should rather lead to the exact opposite of your conclusion.

The situation with math isn't that there's a bunch of people who run under 10s. It's more like the best people run in 1 nanosecond, while the majority of the population never gets to the finish line.

Highly-heritable polygenic traits like height follow a Gaussian distribution because this is what you get through linear expression of many random variations. There is no genetic pathway to Pareto-like distribution like what we see in math — they're always obtained through iterated stochastic draws where one capitalizes on past successes (Yule process).

When I claim everyone is capable of doing math, I'm not making a naive egalitarian claim.

As a pure mathematician who's been exposed to insane levels of math "genius" , I'm acutely aware of the breadth of the math talent gap. As explained in the interview, I don't think "normal people" can catch up with people like Grothendieck or Thurston, who started in early childhood. But I do think that the extreme talent of these "geniuses" is a testimonial to the gigantic margin of progression that lies in each of us.

In other words: you'll never run in a nanosecond, but you can become 1000x better at math than you thought was your limit.

There are actual techniques that career mathematicians know about. These techniques are hard to teach because they’re hard to communicate: it's all about adopting the right mental attitude, performing the right "unseen actions" in your head.

I know this sounds like clickbait, but it's not. My book is a serious attempt to document the secret "oral tradition" of top mathematicians, what they all know and discuss behind closed doors.

Feel free to dismiss my ideas with a shrug, but just be aware that they are fairly consensual among elite mathematicians.

A good number of Abel prize winners & Fields medallists have read my book and found it important and accurate. It's been blurbed by Steve Strogatz and Terry Tao.

In other words: the people who run the mathematical 100m in under a second don't think it's because of their genes. They may have a hard time putting words to it, but they all have a very clear memory of how they got there.
Can it also do reference frames?

Like if I have a cartesian coordinates in one reference frame, can I use them in a type-safe way? E.g. not add two vectors in two reference frames? Same for polar coordinates?

Etc.
I remember reading somewhere that the folks who worked for the companies that Facebook outsources its moderation work to suffer from serious psychological problems.
Why these kind of stories happen only in US? Makes me feel unsafe to live in US.
Genuine question, how would they go out?
Indeed. That Israel has been allowed to operate outside the bounds of international law and human rights will be studied for generations.
I drive an EV, I don't make fun of Prius drivers.

Unfortunately due to duration / cost of ownership, families over-purchase in terms of vehicle capacity.

Yes, dad maybe does most of his driving to work alone in the car.
But on weekends he needs to be able to lug the kids around in their giant baby seats, strollers, etc.

So most parents I know end up owning 2 vehicles of sufficient size for their overall needs.

I know some families that have an extra car for commuting on top of the 2 family sized cars but this itself is something of a luxury.
> The Chamber also noted that decisions allowing or increasing humanitarian assistance into Gaza were often conditional. They were not made to fulfil Israel’s obligations under international humanitarian law or to ensure that the civilian population in Gaza would be adequately supplied with goods in need. In fact, they were a response to the pressure of the international community or requests by the United States of America. In any event, the increases in humanitarian assistance were not sufficient to improve the population’s access to essential goods.

I don't understand why this would matter. Does it matter the rationale for increasing aid? I would think the only thing that should matter would be weather the aid was sufficient or not. (I appreciate in the end icc pretrial felt it wasn't enough , but i think that is the only thing that should matter)

Like if someone is accused of murder, but doesn't because a friend told them not to, we don't throw them in jail because they decided not to murder for the wrong reasons.
> I don't understand how a tiny country like Israel has become so important in global politics. By population Rwanda is ~30% larger than Israel.

Iran and basically the rest of the Middle East, US needs an ally to keep the region in check.
Do you need one when that ministry reports casualties exactly to single digits within minutes of any incident? Like "567 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza hospital", just look down at your keyboard to see where that number came from.
it can still be an https message, who cares what the path, query string, or headers look like? that is all encrypted
I bought a magnetic keyboard recommended on HN back in 2019. I was underwhelmed by it. Mostly because it was the Keystone and is still listed as "under production" on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lekashman/keystone-the-... . I still hold out on hope that one day, it will magically arrive.
Yes. Nearly all of those problems are at the root cultural and solved by installing rulers that care about Americans and not the .01%. They’re standard corrupt and greedy elites problems. Throwing money at those problems doesn’t really help.

Pushing tech forward is one of the best things we can do since it often ends up bringing up the bottom end of society. There’s also significant cultural value in accomplishing incredible feats. America is too diverse right now and lacks a coherent culture, so we’re unable to mount any kind of defense against the elites. We need some kind of shared national identity and going to the moon regularly can definitely help with that.
I find it is good to go back to things you struggled with in the past and come at them with a new and broader understanding.
The first thing I did was take 5 seconds for an image search to confirm that the cows in the paintings look like.. actual cows. Then I read the article, and remain perplexed about art and those who write about art.
https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5077358-new-evidence-s...

Hamas sources have also confimed this.
The outcome of this case will be hard to predict, but Netanyahu and Gallant did their best to get convicted.
Okay, failing to stop them is a fair point I haven't considered - thanks.
Hence the solution of needing a bigger bully on your side.
1. Floor operator is `⌊n⌋`.

2. Exponentiation implementation depends on the size of the power. For very small powers normally they are represented as their reciprocal, then operated on within the exponent.

y = b ** (1/x)

for very large x is rewritten as

y = Math.exp(Math.log(b) / x)
They had knives, how about using a taser instead ?

I have been saying for decades, regular cops in the US should not be allowed to carry guns. If they need help, call fully trained people with guns.

Or maybe no guns unless they have a fully unblemished record, without any kind of complaint.
"Currently the app only works for the Euro region but I'm planning to add North America very soon and then rest of the world."
What can it do? The only thing that prevents that is the programmer knowing what kinds of inputs they're dealing with and making sure unsafe input is properly escaped into safe input when the context calls for escaped input. There's no getting around this.
> The only really effective policy is to inform people that that is the simple, honest truth of every single person, and that the quality of food we eat is important in that equation.

It's literally not effective. As in, well-studied, isn't effective.

Again, it's the only guidance one has to go on, personally, so it's fine to hold onto that as an individual navigating the world, but it is emphatically not effective policy.
Brits had Minecraft sheep before Minecraft
Because members of the largest religious faith in the world identify with one party to the conflict and the global hegemon supports the other
> This is a common (and convenient) perspective, especially among engineers, but doesn't reflect reality particularly well. We know large swathes of a person's personality is directly linked to their genetics.

I really am not an expert in any of this. Just my quick thoughts of the idea about genetics and "being born with it".

If we're attempting to create a mental model of how machine neural networks relate to human brains, would it be useful to think of genetics as the basis that determines your neural network's architecture? Maybe there's even some pre-trained weights that are communicated through genetics.

I think it would be oversimplification to say we're all born with the same neural network and pre-trained weights because like you've mentioned: large swathes of a person's personality is directly linked to their genetics.
IANAM but I'd go with "it's implicit in how complex numbers are defined". Complex numbers are a thing made up by humans (as are negative numbers), and we got to define i as "up the y-axis". Once you do that, and note that a rotation is therefore cos angle plus i sin angle, add in that e^something is an eigenfuncion of differentiation, and you're pretty much there.

Fwiw I think it's Maclaurin series for this.

Edit: obviously should be j not i.
That tracks. I’m surprised even 20% of people have an inner monologue. I assumed most people have the agency of a microbe and only respond to physical stimuli. The only “thoughts” that flash through their minds are visuals of cheeseburgers and tits.
MLB will test robot umpires at 13 spring training ballparks hosting 19 teams
Yep, commanders are responsible for the actions undertaken by their troops.

It's called Command responsibility or sometimes the Yamashita principle/doctrine, after a Japanese general who was executed for horrific crimes committed by troops not even under his command, but in his area of responsibility (they were naval troops in the Philippines, he was commander of the Philippines, the navy and the army hated each other; he pulled out of Manilla in order to wage war in favourable terrain, the naval infantry commander refused to follow him and fought a brutal urban battle that destroyed the city, and on purpose killed more than a hundred thousand civilians).
Regardless, total deaths don't matter, only deaths that were the result of crimes matter, in this context.

Some of those deaths are going to be legal targets killed during combat, which is not evidence of a war crime. You have to split things out for the numbers to mean anything.
The initialisation model in c++ is totally and utterly broken and indecipherable. That doesn’t stop me from doing vector<int> foo = {1,2, 3};
He and Adam Zagajewski are really great poets. I've wondered why Milosz and Szymborska were given Nobel Prizes instead of those two. Maybe because of their political stances? I don't know Polish though so I'm no authority.
> it frequently doesn’t get its way

Not for the lack of trying though.

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

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

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