skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone can figure out how to scale up deboning Asian Carp and turning them into fish sticks [1], then there are many infested waterways that would feed many, and the ground up remains make great plant fertilizer and animal feed. They're easy to catch at volume in the infested areas.

Hopefully, AI advances will help make it economically easy to kill in the wild invasive Burmese pythons at scale with robots, though unfortunately, they contain excessive mercury and lead [2] and are more unsuitable for eating than tuna. I have no idea what could be done with their carcasses. Still boggles my mind to this day that we polluted our planet with coal smoke to the extent that it is dangerous to eat some fish too frequently, a science fiction/fantasy notion to our ancestors a mere 1-2 generations ago, and we still outstrip by 2X volcanic eruptions and undersea vents pumping out mercury into the atmosphere.

Colorado has controlled its feral pig population, but the infestation is out of control in the southern US and could do with someone figuring out an economical way to scale up killing them in the wild. Frozen to -10 degrees F at the innermost parts for five minutes, kills the parasites that infest them, and many people are accustomed to eating pork can handle the gamier feral version.

Lionfish in the Caribbean are invasive, but also difficult to economically kill at scale in the wild. Tastes like buttery grouper.

There are lots of invasive species in the wild that need to be harvested, but the cost per kg is way higher than current conventional sources of protein, and hunter/fisher-sourced channels, while appreciated for the gesture, still lack the scale we seek to foundationally address the income precarity that pervades our civilization.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaZHPToxb3Y

[2] https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2024/08/16/florida-pyt...
Then again it might just be a misunderstanding. And the so-called experts, in aggregate, turn out to be right more often than not.

Say I show up to a physics conference and proclaim that I hope my computational effort will disprove some major physical law. Well, you better have a good delivery, or the joke might not land well!

Sometimes people take things a little too literally after attending hours of very dry talks at serious seminars. I wouldn't read too much into it.
Exactly. That's what I think it is, government secrecy as their standard operating procedure. When unsure, don't say anything. After all, disclosing the public includes adversaries also knowing.

It seems to me what's happening is a "Streisand Effect" where the whole attitude of "go away, nothing to see here" is in fact maximizing attention and defeating the purpose of hiding this away.

If it were me I'd put a band-aid on a drone, fly it to a person, and say, "we are testing military capabilities to render first aid to our soldiers" or something similar. It's not a lie, it's good optics, adversaries can worry about it... then put whatever it is on ice for a while until the heat dies down
Mostly unrelated, but glass in the kitchen:

I was in a restaurant the other day and a friend pointed out a small chip on a pint glass. They mentioned that many people take their glass cups and scoop ice out of an ice drawer which can result in small glass shards to be ejected into the ice drawer (and thus ice) which would be very, very bad to ingest.

It might be obvious, but probably best to avoid ice scooping with glass cups!
Nevermind all that we learned from teaching chess to a computer. Ya a total waste.
Baker's little book of number theory made me work to get through every page...
Had you linked to the only .md in that gist it would have set expectations what the otherwise meaningless URL was attempting to say https://gist.github.com/nckroy/dd2d4dfc86f7d13045ad715377b6a...

> (Scraped from the Internet Wayback Machine. Original content by Eran Hammer / hueniverse.com July 26, 2012)

> OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell
Puria, the author of PQSpread, also published an accompanying article, which is quite entertaining on top of being interesting! https://news.dyne.org/building-pqspread-quantum-safe-encrypt...
PEP 750 started its life in part as a result of learnings from pyxl [0], which used some clever hacks to add a JSX-like syntax to Python.

In the end, my instinct is that t-strings are the better more generic feature to add to the language itself today.

That said, I'd love to see the Python ecosystem get to the point where it's relatively easy to implement transpilers and get new grammars integrated with key tools (colorizers, formatters, linters, type checkers, etc). After that: let a thousand JSX-likes bloom.

[0] https://github.com/gvanrossum/pyxl3
Honestly, this looks like a some kind of a training exercise, probably a contractor working with the DOD or another acronym agency. From the videos, they're definitely quadcopter drones, definitely larger than most hobby drones (and def above the size you need to file a flight plan with the FAA). What's puzzling to me is that they run with all lights on, at night -- as if being seen was a goal.

I imagine part of a training exercise could be to learn how local authorities respond to such aircraft activity. If you see what the Ukrainians have been able to accomplish using this type of tech (with a lot of cottage-industry DIY-type contributions) in an active theatre of war, it should give you pause.
This is the worst excuse ever. "We're hosting, routing, and otherwise supporting spam/scam calls because of our open source ethos."
Stainless steel doesn't have any pores, and they certainly don't "close" with a 200 degree difference (how even? It's steel).

The video just shows a nice hot pan with oil in it, no matter the pan's made of, under those conditions of course stuff isn't gonna stick.
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I’m find it troublesome to fry without oil or butter on any pan and I only had Teflon ones.
Well, yeah. Everyone knows you aren’t pulling in millions in grant money or making millions off of patentable discoveries, you aren’t a real scientist.
lol at the gearing on the front wheel and the whole frame being backwards. Also no pedals or crank arms, the artwork is quite nice though
Speaking as a current researcher in pure math -- you're right, but I don't think this is easily resolved.

Math research papers are written for other specialists in the field. Sometimes too few details are provided; indeed I commonly gripe about this when asked to do peer review; but to truly provide all the details would make papers far, far longer.

Here is an elementary example, which could be worked out by anyone with a good background in high school math. Prove the following statement: there exist constants C, X > 0 such that for every real number x > X, we have

log(x^2 + 1) + sqrt(x) + x/exp(sqrt(4x + 3)) < Cx.

i.e. the left-side is big-O of the right.

This flavor of statement comes up all the time in analytic number theory (my subject), would be regarded as obvious to any specialist, and in a paper would be invariably stated without proof.

To come up with a complete, rigorous proof would be long, and not interesting. No professional would want to read one.

I agree this attitude comes with some tradeoffs, but they do seem manageable.
I would love some analysis of perf/watts.

The intel arc cards are NOT power efficient based on other reviews. Very similar total power draw for the B580 to the 4070 based on other reviews. The perf/watts should be damning but this review doesn’t state that.
I'd argue you might be missing the point. There was always something, airpods are just the current 'thing'. When I moved from Australia to Canada in 08 it took a solid 24 months to meet the people that are today still my friends. It was much harder than I expected...and more than once I almost gave up.
This is great, and it gives me an idea for an alternative:

A tool that uses a visual representation of your physical keyboard to move the mouse around the screen. So pressing Esc would move the mouse to the top left of the screen, and pressing H would move it closer to the center. Then repeatedly highlight smaller and smaller rectangles around the mouse cursor, repeating the process of tapping a letter, until you are satisfied with the cursor position.
I'll take smart people playing chess any day over those people choosing to go into the tech industry where they spend all their time building addictive products that drive ad impressions.

I'd love it if they put their talents to work by going into medical research, chemistry / materials science, or even political science and try to take meaningful steps towards making the world a better place. That route seems to be a lot less popular these days and obviously compensation has a lot to do with it.
Kid's getting way too much hate for what seems to be quite a cool project! Oh he "just" put a UI in front of Trellis? Yes. He did. You didn't.

Keep up the good work, gd3kr :)
https://www.xkcd.com/1629/
I own a BluRay player with UHD, DV, Atmos, etc and have a collection of about 100 UHD discs.

A huge issue is that discs are way too expensive outside of the US. For years I bought discs on sale at Amazon US for like $10-15 but now these don't ship to my country and local prices are $30-50.

Studios, distributors, etc need to realize it's better to get someone to pay $10-15 for a BluRay disc than $0 because they ended up streaming or even torrenting that movie.
That Verge article has at least a rendering of some VR/AR/XR headset, original post doesn't show or talk about any hardware.
There is nothing in the design of Odin that prevents a package manager from being created, in fact quite the opposite.

The decision, which is not design per se, is to not have an OFFICIAL package manager, nor even endorse a third party one.
I disagree. There were forced errors in this match, yes. But this final game's endgame wasn't an example of that. Ding collapsed of his own accord.
I love the navigation video example. It's so much better than staring down at a cell phone. At the end of the day, however, it all comes down to style (looking at you, Apple Vision Pro).
Cool, will try this out!
I wonder how big is the risk of having a dishwasher with plastic components? Or a silverware drawer with plastic bins? Or meat and vegetables that come in plastic bags?
Thank you for building something like this. Financial modeling can be daunting, but I think it's the most important tool for entrepreneurs to have in order to understand how best to run their business. Can't wait to spend some time playing with this tool!
That is true.

I have often demonstrated that with a thought experiment where there are two stations, one high quality but boring, the other crappy quality, but compelling.

Which one do most people listen to?

But, there is more to it than that. Higher fidelity opens the door for better AD rates and a broader array of appropriate programs.

A smaller number of stations = more per station, very generally speaking.
Our country has an increasingly worsening loneliness epidemic and this is amplifying it. $1,000 tip?? That's enough to take a lot of dates or take a trip with some friends instead of making OF even more appealing a job option to people who have the potential to have much more fulfilling lives and careers.
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Trying to understand the hype around AI agents. It's clear the AI is not intelligent enough to autonomously complete tasks, thus it needs to be encoded with some kind of decision tree. This seems to defeat the purpose of leveraging AI's intelligence. People also seem to be excited about LLMs automation of using websites, but these application would likely run into the same things that current automation runs into(rate limits, bot detection etc).
Deer are an outlier. Most other game species (like buffalo, elk, bear, beaver, various birds and fish) have seen significantly reduced number and fitness relative to pre-1900 levels. “Game” in my previous comment was referring broadly to any animals hunted for food or other sustenance (e.g. pelts, oil, etc).
> Hello, is this the Krusty Krab?
> Why on earth can two mobile phones still not exchange text messages directly over a couple hundred meters, for example?

You ever try and have a conversation over APRS text messages without even digipeaters in a crowded urban area? Good luck getting through.
I enjoyed Empires of the Word, will have a look at the other book you recommend.
I don't think you understand. It sounds like you think I'm talking about defending youself against a human. I am not.

If a drone is trying to gain access to your home, do you have the right to defend against it using deadly force? Meaning; Force that would be deadly to a human attacker.
> Same reason people who aren’t lawyers shouldn’t be giving legal advice.

I don't get that either. Why lawyers and doctors? Is it ok to give eg fishing advice? What about mental health? Is it ok to suggest someone go see a doctor? In a way that's also medical advice. Why can't we just use judgement both when giving and when receiving advice?

> A layperson isn’t equipped to know if the advice they’re giving is good or harmful.

I think you overestimate professionals. Even professional advice – in all kinds of fields – is often times bad.
No, it says that you can decide what reaction you're looking for across a global population of billions of people and succeed in finding it.

True of any reaction to any object or idea.
This is where you really are supposed to have an isolation transformer of some kind between the A/C line voltage and your project.

Even if the transformer is 1:1 ratio so your project gets the full line voltage, a physically small transformer will physically limit the amount of current available to the project.

May still be enough current to kill you but it should be less than the full amount available directly from the building's circuit breaker.

Then you always want to have fuses with lower amperage ratings than the transformer, just enough for your project or product to run while being protected in case of fault.
> which is currently the only modulation worth using unless you want to listen to a bunch of old guys in Atlanta yelling gibberish sunrise to sunset.

What're they doing that for?
>If you want a girlfriend/boyfriend you start by making friends with people.

Not a good advice if your friends group are the same sex with you, which tends to be the case for a lot of people.

You gotta fish where the fish are.

Like, if you're unemployed and you want a job, you don't first go out making friends, hoping that once you become friends one of them can give you a job. You get a job by looking for a job and applying to jobs. Sure, depending on where you live and who you engage with you, might luck out and meet someone who can have a job for you but that's not the norm and you don't want to leave your survival to that random chance.

Similarly, if you want a romantic relationship you need to engage in dating activities specifically designed to maximize the protentional of meeting a romantic partner, not in friend making activities hoping one of them will be your next romantic partner because you might be wasting a lot of time with no returns.

Actually, I think the opposite is better: Engaging in dating activates can actually net you some friends along the way if the romantic part doesn't click.
Unless the smell or pheromones are mimicked and can be passed virtually, there is no match to actual physical replacement.
https://github.com/pilcrowonpaper/pilcrow/commit/29b105e9c12... "remove aws"
> Seems like a very similar direction to visionOS.

A crucial difference is that Android XR apparently has first-class support for 6DoF controllers (like Horizon OS) in addition to eye and hand tracking (like Vision OS) so it's aiming to compete on both fronts. Google thankfully didn't cargo-cult Apples decision to rely on eye and hand tracking, which is far from ideal for VR games.
within 72 hours..
> So in fact with things like transgender it is things like the hypothalamus-pituitary link that is interfered with to shut down endogenous sex hormone production

If by "interfered with",you mean "corrected to adjust for an otherwise-torturous feedback loop where the brain is hardcoded from birth to interpret the body itself as pain", then yes, this is an accurate statement about dysphoria.

Zhou et al (Nature, 1995) is my favorite study where this fact about trans people has been confirmed via brain scans or postmortem dissection, but I've got about 20 more if anybody's got questions about whether gender dysphoria is actually a thing.

One could also defer to the piles of statements from medical organizations attesting to the scientific fact that trans people exist and are born like that and are merely receiving medical treatment for a bona fide medical condition. For some inane reason, this extremely painful condition is politically-incorrect to discuss in plain terms, because it is literally so bad that people will "turn pain into a contest" when talking about it.

We see this in the statistics.

41% is the lowest suicide attempt rate statistic that you will find in any respectable study on the amount of suffering involved here.

That particular statistic has a tendency to go down if people are allowed to receive medical treatment for their medical condition, but I need people on the internet to understand that gender dysphoria is absolutely worth killing oneself over.

P.S. For the woke kids in the audience who would accuse me of "transmedicalism" because I'm willing to mention that this stuff literally shows up on brain scans, please refer to the opening discussions in "Comprehensive Care of the Transgender Patient" regarding DSDs and the large diversity of known etiologies for gender dysphoria.

Just because your dysphoria doesn't show up in the bNST doesn't mean that it's not there, or not measurable. Nobody is excluding your pain by acknowledging that diagnostics and imaging are literally part of medicine. Cancer patients also get tests, and if their cancer doesn't show up on one particular screening exam, it probably shows up on another.

If your scan hasn't been invented yet, you can in the meantime defer to psychometrics like GIDYQ-AA, UGDS-GS. Those instruments are also options to measure clinically-significant gender dysphoria, and if your clinician is uneducated or unwilling to use established psychometrics, find a doctor who follows AMA recommendations.

Doctors who don't oughta lose their license.
Credit where it is due, if Joe Schwarcz discovered the error “a few days ago” or even within the last week, then he wasn’t the first.

The earliest I know of is Adam Ragusea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58HUM40gDPU
Carbon dioxide rivers? Ancient Mars liquid may not all have been water
I don't think 26. a4 was fighting like a true warrior, it was more giving up half your kingdom in the hope that your opponent will then accept a peace treaty.
>Even if the factor is off by 10, it's already too much chemical exposure.

What's the basis for this conclusion, aside from taking the original study's author statements at face value? Someone else replied to the study[1] and characterized it as

>Based on a worst-case scenario, you may be getting nanograms (billionths of a gram) of bromine or lead from your spatula, which is lower than the amount that you get from eating fresh fruit

I did a quick skim of the atlantic article[2] and noticed that mentions of exposure thresholds were strangely absent, despite the pains they took to mention how those toxic substances were in the plastics, and how they caused harm.

[1] https://www.threads.net/@gidmkhealthnerd/post/DBxbQERykRx?hl...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/10/black-pla...
Interesting choice of 6 days. Any reason 6 was picked?
The metastory here is actually about Intel, Boeing, and most recently, Chrysler. How they each did it is a little different, but they all turned the dial all the way to "short-term profit."
One heinous example is many implementations of '_FORTIFY_SOURCE', unless you want to resort to using lots of clang '__attribute__((__enable_if__(...)))' statements in your inline functions.
18. The answer is 18.
At our place we work with secondary accounts that have their password expire every 8 hours - instead of primary accounts with MFA (though sometimes MFA is also enforced for the secondary account, but interestingly not for Azure Portal).

Of course, the vault where those accounts are stored is a complete enterprise product with associated usability so what ends up happening is that people copy their passwords to an Excel sheet, or worse to Windows sticky notes, which often get up getting screen-shared in Teams calls.
Actually, it is rude nowadays. You dont call a personal line if that person doesnt know your number. You send a text.
It's not a particle, it is a quasi-particle. Those are field manifestations that happen on solid state, like solitons and holes, so it is cool, but no fundamental change do the standard model or anything like that.
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On the other hand if I take pictures of circuits, boards, electronic components, etc GPT4o is pretty reliably able to explain the me the pinouts, the board layouts, reference material in the data sheets, and provide pretty reasonable advice about how to use it (I.e., where to put resistors and why, what pins to use for the component on an esp32, etc). As a beginner in electronics this is fabulously helpful. Its ability to pass vision tests seems like a pretty dumb utility metric when most people judge utility by how useful things are.
I'm so excited about this, but the fact that Google's behind it has me worried. Android XR will be ditched 1-2 years after release
Google and Samsung going against Meta sounds as much as a cursed alliance than it was with GearVR.

I trust Samsung to execute excellently on the hardware and be ready to iterate, but will Google keep pushing the platform even if Meta also goes after regular android apps and crushes them commercially ?

Now that regulators are on Google's back, Meta getting accesss to the whole Play Store or at least being protected from Google's shenanigans is realistic, and the Meta store could potentially be decently competitive for regular android apps as well if they want to.
I've had shortcat installed for a year or more, but it has never "stuck" with me. What are some of your "Can't live without"s?
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> Also not a number theorist...but I'd bet those so-called experts had invested far, far too many of their man-years in that unproven conjecture. All of which effort and edifice would collapse into the dumpster if some snot-nosed little upstart like you, using crude computation, achieved overnight fame by finding a counter-example.

Are you maybe confusing math academia for psychology or social sciences? There is no replication crisis in math, no house of cards of self-proclaimed experts riding on bullshit. Mathematicians are _actually experts_ at a deep and extremely rigorous technical field -- many of them are even experts at computational approaches to problems! -- and when outsiders and upstarts resolve old conjectures, mathematicians generally react by celebrating them and showering them with fame, job offers and gushing articles in Quanta.
What good will inspecting the factory do? Sounds like a design issue with the pills. They should be questioning some chemist in an office, not observing low caste peasants pouring pill juice into machinery and declaring it all good.
I've always dreamed of communicating with other drivers this way.
Big difference between glass and plastics. Glass is chemical inert while plastics degrades and leaks into everything. See the flavor of a plastic bottle that has been in your car for a while. Some plastics may even resemble stuff that is in your body. It's all processed dinosaur juice after all (actually trees, but whatever).
Hands-On: Samsung Android XR Headset Is a Curious Combo of Quest and Vision Pro