skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably being excessively pedantic but I would suggest sufficient fidelity is a more appropriate phrase than sufficient accuracy.

The exact precision doesn't seem to be the underlying problem being solve, what matters is being able to craft a stronger understanding of relationships of underlying phenomena that can then be leveraged to product new control theories.
Thanks for sharing this. I wasn't aware of this, going to keep on eye on it.
Apple’s privacy stance conflicts with its China operations
The better reason to import oil is to avoid using the strategic reserves. Even if the US us technically energy independent it should still import oil.
They still have the feature, but not the menu.

I bet the maintenance burden of the menu is extremely low.
I think of exercise and weight loss as completely separate.

Almost everyone should exercise. Whether you're skinny, normal weight or overweight. Exercise makes you healthy. It also tends to make skinny people eat more and overweight people eat less, though not always. Form a workout plan with fixed amounts of exercise, like 30-90 minutes per day: any extra exercise isn't bad if you want it, but it doesn't really have any more benefits.

If exercise helps you lose weight? Good. If not? Well it still has benefits. It's generally easier to lose weight through diet. If you really don't like exercise, you don't have to exercise much, and you can do workouts you like.
US Government investigates Tesla cars after reports of unexpected braking
That is certainly a consideration. There's what Biden will do (in the context of his unflattering polling numbers). And then there's what Putin would like to see Biden do. If I were to wager I'd say currently Vlad is more than covering the spread.
Justin Trudeau got elected by being a pretty boy and the son of a popular Canadian prime minister. Anytime he's asked a hardball question, listen to the word salad he spits out. He's a man of zero substance, but unfortunately the Conservatives aren't offering any alternative either.
They should really be impersonating Chrome. If this takes off, Firefox has such a small user share that I could see sites just banning Firefox altogether, like they do with Tor
I’m hoping the transition to electric vehicles will be in full swing by that point. While we use oil for more than passenger cars if the decline in demand could more or less match the reduced supply it would be ideal.
I have recently rolled this out for our users.

We have found it to be very good, cheaper than Grammerly.

Works with most Google Workspace apps, unlike Grammerly.

I didn't realise it was open source until now
I tried running a Pi in my college dorm. First, it was NAT, and when I requested a public IP, IT said they didn't give IPs to students. :/

IPv6 would be cool.
City bus drivers driving a 21 speed?

Sure thing.
Which is laughably ridiculous when you start considering the extremes like Michael Phelps eating 10kcal for breakfast.

The issue is the uptick in energy burn is unintuitive especially in the world energy dense high-processed food

As an ex once put "you have to run 5 miles to earn a cupcake - totally not worth it!"
I'm still confused. Basements go below frost line, sure, but bedrock can be hundreds of feet below the surface. I don't know of any home I've ever seen that has piles driven down to bedrock. Is this just a regional thing? What am I missing here?
Maybe it'd pull some of the crowd away from climbing Everest, which seems to currently be the biggest bragging rights feat for the upwardly mobile.
Yes, that's possible in general. Though fairly unlikely, if the hash was 'random'.

We know the structure of SHA256, so we could actually answer that question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimage_attack says that pre-image attacks on hash function in general only take 2^n time (ie you don't need to look for passwords longer than 256 bits), but I don't see how they conclude that.
That was being used outside of its original design specifications.
Wow.

This period of time really shines a light on us all, doesn't it?
There's so much to do if you live in Calgary!

Granted its been nearly a decade since I've been there, maybe covid broke it.
But 17th ave, Stephen ave mall, kananaskis, banff, breweries, river bike paths, reasonable food scene (for it's size and not being on an ocean), go to Edmonton for the weekend (it's only a 3hr drive, or a short flight), sylvan lake day trip, lots of conventions/shows on the stampede grounds... THE STAMPEDE!

What is it you're looking for it doesnt have? (or what has change since I've been there?? )
Show HN: A better way to consume news
The news business model is fear = clicks = $$. I built a website to combat that to some degree by giving the user to pick the topics before seeing the headlines and also seeing both sides of every topic's reporting.

The NLP model is still improving and happy to hear feedback.
Inverted Pyramid: Writing for Comprehension
Technical writer (and submitter) here. This is one of the cardinal rules of effective technical writing!
You’re so lucky! I wish exercise made me less hungry. I’ve only felt that when going on very long multi-day hikes… being in severe calorie deficit and having almost nothing sound good to eat. Chocolate was one of the only things that I could stomach. Oh and once I went running about an hour after eating tomato soup, and halfway through starting heaving uncontrollably. But normally, running, gym time, weight lifting and biking all make me hungry. :P

There’s no doubt that appetite and everything around dieting and weight loss has a huge range of variation in behavior and what works. In addition to learning to separate exercise from food, the other thing that took me too long to learn is that weight loss is more mental exercise than physical. Figuring out how to trick myself into calorie tracking and habit forming isn’t easy, and my tricks on myself clearly don’t work for everyone.
I thought Mars was dead cold inside.
> Nobody is stopping anybody.

This thread was started by someone suggesting "we" tax Schmidt the exact 125M he decided to donate and then allocate the money as we see fit. How is that not stopping anybody?
Good blog post. Stuff like this makes me wonder if by 2030 (1) the internet will mostly consist of machine generated content; (2) machines written by normal people in Python won't be authorized to access the machine-generated content anymore due to Protectify; (3) most client traffic will originate from Protectify's network, so people like bloggers won't have any visibility into whether their readers are humans or machines; (4) video compression algorithms will become indistinguishable from deepfakes; and (5) airborne pathogens will make alternatives to the above impractical.
I sold a house with a bunch of smart home stuff last year, but it was all commercial stuff, nothing like a HomeAssistant system. The buyer wanted it and I didn't (and it would have been a hassle to remove), so it was a win/win for me. I just transferred all the accounts and/or changed the emails and passwords, gave them the credentials, and walked away. I do think that this is very situation dependent and there's risk of getting into weird situations where the buyer wants support or something. But I think that as long as the buyer reasonably knows what they're getting into, and you're transparent about what you're leaving, you are under no obligation (either legal or moral) to provide post-sales support...
One of the few things that I like about HN is that when someone responds to your comment you are not necessarily supposed to reply to that, definitely not the only one. I don't think it is by design, but anyhow it has come to be as such. Sometimes you don't even have to respond, or anyone for that matter. Not having a notification system adds in this.

PS. Visible karma system is one of the worst things on HN and among many that I don't like. It has no place to be here. At the very least it ought not to be exposed on profiles and comments.
Given the relative market shares it might make more sense to impersonate Chrome.
No, but it’s supported by all modern compilers. In practice, that’s almost as good as being a part of the language standard.

The level of support varies, but OpenMP 2.0 standard is supported by all 4 of them.
An undiscovered coronavirus? The mystery of the Russian flu
The Mozilla DeepSpeech spin-off Coqui has an STT that is locally installable:

https://coqui.ai/
You could read one of the book reviews: https://researchblog.duke.edu/2021/03/24/duke-researcher-bus...

Still not great as a tl;dr though.

Maybe the book summary on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Research-Really-Calories-Healthy...
its possible to work out enough that compensative eating is not possible, but very few people work out that much, and some people have amazing eating powers, such that even riding a bike 50 miles a day isn’t enough to stop them being fat unless they also count calories.
Grit.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213329-grit
You did not waste that money if it helps you exercise. The body needs to move to stay healthy. Never mind the weight, get your heart going a couple of times a week. When this is a habit, start to push a little. I think you will find that you feel a lot better after.

I find that I eat a lot healther when I'm not stressed out. Exercise helps with that.
Related:

Skip – A programming language to skip the things you have already computed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077612 - Sept 2018 (100 comments)
> Not very likely, since the OP wouldn’t be able to hash it.

Not necessarily. OP might have found the answer with a mathematical short-cut.

To give a really silly example: suppose my hash function just returns the length of the input string. (That's what PHP used to do for hashing at some point.)

I could tell you what my hash of a really big number is, without needing to be able to write that number down. And no shorter number would have the same hash.

SHA256 might have a similar exploit. (Though as you say finding such a shortcut in SHA256 would be much more awesome than Passwordle.)
Calling out to c "because you want performance" is only only one dimension of the issue, and assumes that your main application code is written in python or julia. In many cases (e.g., robotics), application code is written in c++ or c, and python bindings serve as simulation harnesses and visualization tools. Pybind11 is absolutely brilliant for this. The last time I looked, similar tooling for Julia was substantially less mature and definitely didn't look like something I'd want integrated into a production workflow.
I agree, but even more generally avoid abbreviations. A reader has to spend time thinking about what you are talking about. It’s detracting.
I think a big part of the issue is that popular fitness and weight loss advice has perpetuated the wrong way to exercise to loose weight. When most people think about exercise for weight loss, they imagine long exhausting sessions on the treadmill, dripping with sweat, and a high calorie burn number. While the short term results may seem great based on the immediate calories burned, it's actually a terrible strategy for several reasons.

1) You become more efficient at repeated exercise, so the calories burned number on the machine is not accurate.

2) Your hunger will increase to compensate for the calories burned and you'll subconsciously eat more if not carefully tracking.

3) Excessive cardio and reduced calories can increase daytime cortisol levels and reduce resting metabolic rate.

4) Excessive cardio and reduced calories can cause muscle wasting and further reduce metabolic rate.

A better long term strategy is a strength training program with short cardio sessions. You'll build muscle which will increase the resting metabolism and avoid the over exertion stress that can lead to decreased metabolic rate.

Of course, at the end of the day it really is calories in calories out (despite the naysayers). But, the devil is in the details, because measuring calories out is extremely difficult unless you're willing to live in a sealed room that monitors your exhaled CO2 24/7. Diet (not how much but what you eat), sleep, and stress can have a large impact on the metabolic rate, and thus drastically change the CICO calculation.
Startup time for Teams is hilariously bad. If I start trying to join a Teams meeting when it starts I have to warn people I’m going to be a few minutes late. My computer is not especially slow. I’m sure everyone at Microsoft has it running all the time and doesn’t have to wait for it to start but I don’t because it’s not my only or even my main meeting software.
I haven't used it, but Coqui might be good:

https://coqui.ai/
the war was mostly over, but Germany didn't surrender until May 8th. Last bombs fell mid-April. I don't think it was at all sadistic.

Both of these cases show the impossibility of humanity decency when confronted with such extremely powerful and totalitarian militaristic dictatorships. Even the opposing forces, in many ways, are forced to resort to the tactics and morality of their enemy. So you loose your moral high ground real fast if you fight dirty. Or you fight fair and loose the war. Either way the worst is inevitable.
What incentives do mainstream brokerages have to building public APIs? It seems to me data asymmetry is the name of the game in Wall Street and it’s no different for retail brokers.
The point is don’t try to change everything at once. I am not questioning health benefits of sports. But change of diet is a big change - not only biologically, but also mentally, logistically, practically, financially, etc. Change of exercise is equally massive change. It’s kinda logical that trying to juggle too many things at once is more likely to fail.
I just happened to do some reading and listening recently on a topic in exercise science that may be helpful for diabetics.

Tl;Dr: The body has two basic metabolic systems, glucose oxidation and fat oxidation. Fat oxidation can be trained to be more powerful (as in wattage of output) through high volume, low intensity exercise. Clinicians have observed higher insulin sensitivity in patients who undergo this training, as their bodies simply use their blood glucose system less and thus use insulin less day to day.

Here’s a link to the paper [pdf]: https://sci.bban.top/pdf/10.1007/s40279-017-0751-x.pdf

And here’s a link to a (several hour) podcast between the author and a clinician talking about the results. It also has time stamps to sections about diabetics. https://peterattiamd.com/inigosanmillan/

I’m not affiliated with the paper, author, or podcast in any way. I just came across this research and my dad’s diabetic so I was motivated to learn more.
Gradients Without Backpropagation
On the $500k Y Combinator standard deal
Ask HN: Breaking into SWE
I have had a lot of trouble breaking into software engineering with just a Github portfolio and an unrelated degree. Basically, my applications get no response from companies.

I discussed my plans to join a bootcamp-style program with a friend who is a Google engineer. My friend told me that bootcamps are a waste of my time and money, and that he believes that anyone can break into SWE with just a few weeks of trying.

His suggestion was to join and do well on programming competitions (he suggested Google Kickstart), which he describes as a direct funnel to SWE jobs. I have not heard of this option before. I have never tried competitive programming, so I do not know how much effort it takes to win at them. My Google friend says that the effort is minimal and that these competitions have a low bar to score well.

Have you found code competitions useful in your job search? Is competitive programming a good time investment if I'm trying to break into SWE roles?
Question. What is the value of slack at that point? It seems, as someone with no experience with this setup, that it’s just notifications? Couldn’t your threaded system just poll more?
Yeh lol like WTF its so stupid to think about but unfortunately its how stupid and desensitiesed to giving away information on the internet people are.

I saw in a lawtech startup, when i arrived they were transfering data unencrypted over the internet. this data was everything todo with a matter, including documents. Suffice to say they were lucky i had experience building software on Secret networks and patches those holes quick smart (ie. re-wrote there entire stack which was built by 3rd-world-outsourced-devs who have zero care for your busisness continuity.

No wonder scamming is outpacing the drug buisness these days. People are dumb and the internet exposes dumbness to desperateness who are more then willing to take up the slack.
it's because this type of situation is interesting, and is often not talked about much publicly.

The cost of information leak is borne by the poster, but the value of the information is gained by those readers. Thus, there's asymmetric benefit.
Imagine having to drive for three hours after a one hour flight halfway around the world and complaining that you had to drive three hours to save 16 hours of flying in a jet.

That said, I don't see passenger rockets being a thing for quite some time.
Well, THANK YOU, and by all means start up a topic on the forums. Because you're wrong about the tritone :)

Oh, and P.S. : on discourse.ardour.org we ban the use of western classical terminology when discussing tuning :)))
I’d say it’s more about Google search being the front door of the internet to most people, so while internet usage is high so is Googles revenue.
How big technology systems are slowing innovation
It’s a double whammy because every ounce of shit is one more ounce to drag across the finish line.
For #2 I assume a PR to remove the site could be sent and merged

For #1 it seems to mostly be a list of SEO gaming sites that I've personally found to be supremely irritating and deserve to be in the list. They basically just mirror stack overflow and GitHub issues and provide obscured links back to the original source to make sure people stay on their site. You can peruse the list in the code yourself. It's just a text file
I still use GraphicsMagick. In the past it was a ton faster, apparently ImageMagick changed how they do things and you can’t do a direct comparison any more.
> I am a little drunk and that makes my inner socialist pop out, but is there any particular reason why we don't tax Schmidt and then use the 125M to invest in AI, plus other things, with the outcomes being released openly?

There are two reasons:

1) Mr. Schmidt already pays taxes and the US is not an authoritarian socialist regime that creates arbitrary, retroactive new taxes to confiscate the money of its citizens as soon as they decide to make a donation.

I think that sort of system has been repeatedly shown to be a failure but if it's what you prefer, try N. Korea. Light versions can also be found in other ethno-states founded in the 20th century that put the words like socialist and people's in the names of their institutions.

2) We actually want research results and 125M in a directed investment goes a lot further than 125M in a federal budget with half a dozen intermediaries and overpaid contractors in the districts of enough legislators to swing the vote. This is part of why SpaceX is able to accomplish so much more, more quickly and more cheaply than NASA can.

The government is absolutely crucial for some things, but preventing people from making any decisions about what they want to donate to or spend their money on is a disaster.

A more reasonable solution to solve for what it sounds like you want would be to decrease the number tax loopholes and exemptions, particularly those only the wealthy can take advantage of.
What is happening here? I've measured for a fact with myself where I eat more and workout more and lose weight.
The economic case for Starship is even better for small payload customers. At the moment if your launching a cubesat from anywhere but the Nanoracks ISS deployment facility attached to the Japanese Kibo module, then one of your launch costs is a PPOD which gets thrown away

These deployers can cost $10000, or even more depending on the specific cubesat size. So when Starship allows small payload aggregators like Spaceflight Inc to recover the PPOD/deployment hardware then it’s going to provide even further cost reductions beyond the simple dollars per unit mass lifted to orbit. The reusable nature of Starship will be a big part of how it changes the economics of space related industries.
I'd give the commenter the benefit of the doubt that they measured over a few days, and not just two isolated data points.
This is really interesting. It must be region-specific, because I'm in the northeast and have never seen or heard of this practice.

Residential power around here is delivered as 240V split phase. Meaning, the service entrance load center has a bus bar for each leg, and the neutral is 120V from either leg. So you can have 240V circuit breaker that spans both legs, or a 120V that uses one in combination with the neutral.

How does the arrangement you're describing work? I tried searching for 120V-only load centers, but wasn't really finding anything. Or, did you mean bridge together the two legs on a traditional load center and use it as a subpanel of the service entrance?
> It's even better when you realize that the prior coder was, in fact, your own damn self.

That's really about the only time you can actually be sure that the prior coder deserves to be trash talked.
As of iOS 15 Apple does do Siri processing on-device. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22522993/apple-siri-on-dev...
>A lot of people know this already, so it’s not busting everyone’s myths

It is still worth mentioning - because it is so easy to overlook.

Some simple math: if I go all out on a row machine for 30 minutes, I'll burn 300 calories.

If I eat 2 extra slices of pizza, it is easiely 300 calories

If I swap a turkey sandwich with healthy options, I can reduce my linch calories by 300 - and I can save even more during dinner (which is typically bigger than lunch)

So a good diet: takes less time than exercise, reduces calories more, and can save money
Missile interceptors are incredibly complicated. Even with perfect code there is a probability range for successful intercept. The probability was much lower in this case as the software had a defect, and the battery was online for 100h.
"Just wait for the private Starships. Hey they should be cheaper than megayachts."

Any space rocket can turn the whitehouse, the Kremlin or 10 Downing street into a crater withing 30 minutes, with minimal chances of air defence to stoping it. If we start handing out starships to random shady conpanies registered in tax heavens, 9/11 will look like a peacefull day in comparison
> I also invite you to read the other threads of this discussion, I'm not going to rehash it for you here.

I'm well aware of the literature on the subject. A non-exhaustive list of various books on the various positions is available in this handy thread:

* https://twitter.com/wc_quinn/status/1458891500344029189
Ask HN: I started a new job and I'm scared
I'm a month and a half into the job as a software engineer II, and I feel lost and scared. I'm scared that they will fire me because they think I'm incompetent. I'm working on a ticket that should take me a day to finish but it has taken me almost a week. I hate that I am always asking people for help, like today I asked for help to rebase my branch since I have never done it before. At my old job I was the guy that got things done, gathering requirements, designing and developing new features, and e.c.t. I didn't have any mentors at the old company and since it was a small company we didn't follow the industry standards, like code review or using git (we used svn). So everything we do here is new, except the development aspect. I guess what I want to know is, did anyone else ever feel this way and if so how did you over come, did anyone get fired because they are incompetent?