skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It produces about 900 million in interest to run Cornell.
Thanks for the explanation.

The wind _positions_ the ash cloud and then the terrain channels it once it falls. I suppose I'd been thinking of a Mount St Helens style flow where the mountain gave way.
Are these low income people completely naked and bereft of any physical objects? Are they going to eat air? Ignoring the Amazon warehouse, where do you want the food packinghouse to exist? Do these low income people need jobs?
>> Instead of multiplying by 7, you add 8 times the number and subtract the number, ending up with 7 times the number. You might think this requires two steps, but the trick is to multiply by one more in the digit to the left, so you get the factor of 8 without an additional step.

Does this mean there's an "adder" to add 1 to the "next digit" prior to feeding the digits to the main part of the multiplier? That itself seem like it'd be similar to the carry lookahead circuit. Also thinking about when that needs to be done:

7 = 8-1

6 = 8-2

5 = 8-3

4 = 8-4 <- he didn't say they do this, but it would mean the MSB of the 3-bit value could be used to determine if we need to add 1 to the next digit, saving a couple gates.
American zoning prohibiting shops in residential zones but allowing a drone hub just 800ft from residential buildings is a special kind of irony
> is it actually possible to create incorrect lifetime annoatations in Rust without the compiler noticing?

In safe rust, no.

Full inference is one of those things that seems like a no brainer, but there are a number of other more subtle tradeoffs that make it a not great idea. Speed was already mentioned, but it’s really downstream from tractibility, IMHO. That is, lifetime checking is effectively instantaneous today, and that’s because you only need to confirm that the body matches the signature, which is a very small and local problem. Once you allow inference, you end up needing to check not just the body, but also the bodies of every function called in your body, recursively, since you no longer know their signatures up front. We tend to think of compiler passes as “speed” in the sense of it’s nice to have fast compile times, but it also matters in the sense of what can practically be checked in a reasonable time. The cheaper a check, the more checks we can do. Furthermore, remember that Rust supports separate compilation, which is a major hindrance to full program analysis, which is what you need to truly infer lifetimes.

Beyond complexity arguments, there’s also more practical ones: error messages would get way worse. More valid programs would be rejected if the inference can’t figure out an answer. Semver is harder to maintain, because a change in the body now changes the signature, and you may break your callers in ways you don’t realize at first.
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You are forgetting about the fact that the truck, and the industry behind it, already exist.

How many new factories, mining operations, flights and ships will be required to start providing Amazon with the millions of new drones per year it will need to achieve this?

This is not just a quick and easy way to replace a 10 minute detour. It is a new multi billion dollar industry which uses countless tons of materials and more energy to create millions more new plastic 'things' which will cost lots in energy and materials whilst simultaneously causing lots more waste on the planet.
Yeah! This is a great tool and it's been around for a while. Nice little puzzles and good to have some kind of visual representation. But Devlands can do so much more than visualize the commit graph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF7FnK1Gml8
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Just to reiterate: in old-skool HS electricity terms, a transistor is going to need enough electrons. That number is pretty large, and is tied pretty strongly to materials and geometry. Those two things (materials & geometry) change far slower than Moore's law. What changes quickly is gate density and design cleverness.
Speed of opening a factory is one of many conditions required for business. There are many factors and different businesses have different needs, so anyone who claims one is most important is wrong. For a lot of them speed of opening a factory is important, for others it doesn't matter.
Questionable decision on my part! :D
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How does the toothpaste get to that store for you to buy?
Thank you for the comment. I would not have understood "can be navigated using mouse" to mean "dragging".

Also I hate that I can't select text on this. Probably because "dragging".
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Aside: There seems to be an uptick in sheep rearing in my area (southern Ontario, near Hamilton) all the sudden. In the last year, I've seen 3 farms local to me put up fencing to start grazing them. Which is interesting because it's actually very difficult to find Ontario lamb in the butcher shop, and it's not a very popular meat overall, so I'm wondering where the source of the demand is. The majority of the lamb in the local grocery stores is either frozen prepacked from New Zealand, or from Sun Gold foods in Alberta. But I find local lamb from this area tastes much better (less gamey), must be something about the grass vs whatever forage they're giving them in Alberta.

My two border collies would love it if I raised sheep. But my quasi-vegetarian wife could never tolerate raising them for meat.. and dairy and wool make no $$ sense.
While I don't disagree with your point, I think VR's issue is that most people don't want to strap things to their face.

More physically engaging video games definitely seemed to have some interest, though, starting with the Wii.
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I think you mean saving a PSD in Photoshop, opening it in ImageReady, slicing it, and then optimizing the slices for web.
This seems like primarily an indictment of zoning in Texas, which famously, doesn't exist and allows storage depots to be right next to residential areas.

They are getting what they voted for in other words.
Right, but if you're doing a SPA, your SPA makes the login call and stores a copy of the session token in local storage, which unlike a cookie isn't automatically sent on any request, never mind cross-origin ones. Doesn't prevent against XSS of course, but then that's what CSP is for.
How exactly does one get a prescription for that without any apparent need for it?
Now it can remind you iOS 18’s iMessage. I just upgrade and got that 2000s feeling with the new emoji and text effects…
Here's a Turing machine that uses finite space but infinite time: https://samwho.dev/christopher/?code=H4sIAAAAAAAAE8tNzMxTqFH... (from Sam Rose's wonderful article on Turing machines [1])

Your last point is correct, though: if you can detect a "cycle" (like the one the Turing machine I linked to goes through) then you can conclude that the machine won't halt.

[1] https://samwho.dev/turing-machines/
If only someone had seen this coming: https://youtu.be/B8ofWFx525s

It’s because humans latch onto language as if their map is reality

Even here there’s a pretentious filtering to conform to the memory of the group in charge; this syntactic structure is of course the proper and correct format!

It’s our biology choosing self which socially is to conserve our own perception

Online everyone is being normalized the conserve the perception of mods/platform owners (aka just more normal vain humans, no need to deify them) rather than out in the world normalizing to a more unique creole of sorts

The abstracts of STEM are a terrible philosophy for building social life. Created a bored and repetitive culture that depends on taking a knee before some webmaster rando for comments to avoid shadow bans
Almost every week there's a discussion on hacker news that leads to a great idea for a sci-fi story and this is one of them.
What's more likely:

The US becoming a Russo/Sino-inspired dictatorship?

Or that most of the people in this thread a) spend a little too much time consuming partisan political narratives-as-entertainment, b) lack a capacity for non-emotional thinking, and c) unquestionably consume the current zeitgeist of their tribe?

I'll place my bet on the latter. Let's revisit in 10 years and see who was right.
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Batteries don’t have to be huge to be useful. You’d have to run the calculation for each location, but avoiding peak rates can make a big difference to power bills.
The ROI might be longer than the battery’s life if it isn’t combined with panels, but in a location with high peak pricing, it may be viable.
Apologies, but I fail to see how your post has anything to so with Amazon warehouses using drones to deliver stuff.

> Many women died in childbirth. Many people starved to death in a drought year. Specific to this article, many of those who survived lost their teeth because they didn't have toothpaste.

Personally I would say that advances in science and healthcare has helped these things, not capitalist corporations with big warehouses unnecesarily shipping consumer products around the world.
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I used to feel that way in my 20s. Things changed a lot when I hit 40.
Woah now Mr. Europe. That sounds dangerously close to favoring human dignity over maximizing shareholder value.

We don't do that here in these parts.
It can basically do all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF7FnK1Gml8
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The #1 problem in US politics that is barely being talked about is that the social security trust fund will run out of money around 2035 and then benefits will get cut to 83% of what they are supposed to be:

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

Similar shortfalls were expected during the Reagan years and Reagan worked with Congress to fix the plan in 1983, the same should be happening now. Primarily we need an increase in the payroll tax, it doesn't have to be huge, but we need more money coming in to balance what goes out. A few politicians are talking about it

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/blog/saving-social-security-...

but you hardly ever hear about this problem in the media, the sooner we do something about it, the less drastic changes will be necessary. It bothers me because I'm expecting to retire in 2039 or so. Might be a better thing to write your congressman about than the outrage of the day.
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Kind suggestions are okay. Demands and complaints are not. This doesn't strike me as the latter two.
Oh, we don't have the space for all the tangential issues this touches on. Here's food for thought, what about the capacity and expertise developed by tackling the issues you mentioned?

The software refinement and supporting industry would be indispensable for any war-involved nation wishing to deploy a drone battalion -- as a conscientious objector I wouldn't personally want to work on drones to that end, but I have to acknowledge the potential there.
I think the core issue with political parties, even concepts like left and right, and most humans is they don't have principles that they stop and consider and test or would abide by if they didn't like the result ... they have sentiment.
People go on walks or bike in their neighborhood all the time. A suburban neighborhood could absolutely support a corner store with a handful of parking spots. We just don't allow for the experiment to even happen due to zoning regulations.
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> You're describing a caricature, not an actual group of people.

It's a term used to describe people who find everything a "real nuisance". There are NIMBYs in my town who spent months protesting sidewalks being built in a new residential subdivision.

It's kind of inherently a caricature.
I’m a little late to this thread; but is PubMed really one of the most reliable services in the history of the internet?

I worked on the underlying infrastructure that powers PubMed in the 2010’s at the National Library of Medicine.

I was all up in that thing converting legacy pneumatic Johnson Control systems to Siemens PXC’s, and didn’t actually realize its historical importance online. That’s pretty cool to see this comment.

We had full access to the Datacenter at the National Library of Medicine, and as a young apprentice I really had no idea what PubMed was at the time lol.

I only realized how important of a system it might be when we saw the realtime traffic analytics on the screens outside of the data hall.
Maybe soda and other junk food should require an adult to purchase
OK but how about they fix broken CSS variables first before this?
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Fwiw I don’t think your parent is lying but I also don’t feel it’s really accurate. If you read https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html for example, there’s some references that imply this, but it’s not really that “less symbols” was a goal so much as it is a secondary effect of other choices. Graydon wanted a simpler language and that implies simpler syntax, not the other way around. Even the grammar bit isn't really about "symbol soup."

Early Rust had other sorts of things that a lot of folks would consider readability problems unrelated to symbols too: no keyword was allowed to be over five characters, so return was ret, continue was cont, etc.
I quite like Chrome but I have both open on the laptop so I guess it's not a huge deal.
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But this is just more "speculator" money... if I'm being pessimistic, this is an outright scam play to make the early speculators filthy rich by defrauding the US public out of their tax dollars.

The whole freaking problem is that crypto turns out to suck absolute cock as a real method of paying for things (Said as someone who has actually paid for items with bitcoin, incl on the OG silk road...)

How many of these folks investing in bitcoin have EVER bought a physical item at a physical store with it? Hell, even online stores... how many of these people are actually using these things as currency, instead of as pure speculation plays?

The answer is a resounding "Almost no one".

They're a complete crap way to pay for anything that's not literally illegal to buy.

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And there is no utility to the coins unless you're either buying things with them, or speculating that you can exchange them for more of a usable currency at a later time. Period.
Or make 10,000,000 Google searches through my browser and get my IP and account banned. Or process a request containing CSAM that has me reported to the government. Or using my residential internet connection to operate a proxy service, causing my IP's reputation to drop and now I'm stuck solving CAPTCHAs all day. Or, you make requests to lots of sites and see which ones have no responses: surprise! Now you know which websites I have cookies on. Why in the world would I want to let someone else use my device to make requests like that? Use your own device, not mine.

Fundamentally this all boils down to you, the person building the site, being cheap. You don't want to pay the handful of dollars to make your own HTTP requests.
Slashdot died several deaths.

The birth of Digg and Reddit were a big contributor (as was HN later). You may also remember that /. was sold, first to VA Linux, then to another company, along with its sister, Linux.com.

Slashdot's model of editor selected stories also meant that the number of stories per day was lower.

The editor selections when CmdrTaco left, along (slowly) with other editors such as Roblimo (RIP) and others changed the site's feel.

It's clear the Slashdot product is kept around but not actively developed. Many sites from that era are in much the same state, or shut down entirely. RIP Freshmeat, kuros5hin, and others.
Without drones I can still get Amazon packages delivered same day. And I don't see how drones would improve delivery speed regardless as they're at best last mile so you have all of the logistics to get to the drone location.

It seems like a gimmick. At best to reduce labour costs of delivery drivers.

>NIMBYs are anti-progress because of impacts to their lives and their neighborhood

Improved lives and neighborhoods is the greatest progress possible. Like...isn't this the goal? Suddenly having endless droning of drones is not "progress" in any way at all. It's a regression. People move away from that sort of nuisance, not towards it.
Perfect pun!

This research project therefore entails spreading some gooey substance on the trees in a forest, playing some known voice recording or songs, letting the gooey substance harden, and then training the AI model to look for that signal.

You know someone's gonna do this someday.
This is interesting, can either the judge or the lawyer for the victims not ask the website and assets to be permanently barred from operation? I think that is where the value is for the victims.

Even if some party comes in and purchases it, what is to prevent the assaulter from buying it back, he is already offering 8 million in cash, wihch means any one buying it for less will be able to make an immediate profit. However, if the judge can ban it from operation entirely that will be valuable as at least one less website peddling blatant lies.
I was expecting this to be a link that redirects to a randomly selected article that wikipedia contributors have deemed to be good. The link for that is :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/Good_...
something similar came out a couple of years ago for growing lemons in the south of italy with solar panels providing shades from an ever increasing temperatures https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230424-how-agrivoltaics...
That's the view Bitcoin took, after they gave up on the kind of scaling they'd need to be a practical payment system. Ethereum is working hard on scaling beyond 100K tx/sec:

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html
It's great for learning the Ham radio test answers (publicly available), Major System, and NATO Phonetic Alphabet. I did not particularly enjoy Anki when I first tried it for Japanese-learning. I also found using it on my phone (AnkiDroid from F-Droid) worked better since I could grind it out anywhere I was. I never used their sync thing, IIRC it's proprietary. I also had success once using it to study for a technical interview (tech support, not programming, mostly shell commands and important paths).

I stopped using it a couple phones ago when the app seemed to break after trying to copy over my data. I've had several incidences since where I regretted not knowing the Major System well anymore, as I ran into a long number it'd be useful to memorize for a bit. I mostly used public decks I downloaded, though I did make my own for the interview study.
love the visual look - what inspired it OP?
I still very childishly examine every frame of those videos looking for something, anything to move. Ha!

Awe inspiring stuff.
did those advances in science and health care happen in a vacuum? In some system outside of capitalism where the doctors and scientists weren't supported by being able to buy consumer products in a store? Did the doctoring not happen with the benefit of, say scaples and medication getting put onto trucks and shipped to a warehouse and then distributed to hospitals and clinics?
When you learn more about the history of zoning - it's allll about keeping neighborhoods wealthy. Not allowing lower classes in. A lot of weird things make sense when you look at them through that lens.
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Federal gov spends about 24% of GDP. Meanwhile HN is constantly reminding us landlords are bleeding us dry at closer to 30% of income.

Pre WW1 peacetime federal spending would be a godsend for working families.
It's items in the collective though. (And I still use batteries although they're certainly nothing like daily necessities.) During the pandemic I really amped up my use of Amazon, etc. for deliveries and I found that I ended up getting orders delivered quicker once or twice a week than I would have ended up getting to even fairly nearby stores for.
While I don’t disagree that there’s a similar desire regarding libraries vs syntax, Rust is also more willing to make things first class language features if there’s a benefit. Enums vs std::variant, for example.
Deadlocks are easy to debug and fix. Data races are not. There are also tools like tracing mutex to catch deadlocks more easily at runtime without necessarily encountering it.