skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Investing the same money in something that has a known and positive primary effect will produce the same amount of secondary benefits.

Except in reality you don't just get to take something like military money and just invest wherever you want. Military is something that can be funded politically for large sums. So the more likely choice is you get to fund military, with all the associated research and benefits, or you don't get those tax dollars to do anything with, or maybe just spend them on not science.

If it were possible to simply pour money into science/invention politically, then the budgets of NIH, NASA, etc., would not be as small as they are.
Is this the first time (at-least this decade) that apple is shipping Linux binaries?
The first Artemis astronauts to land on the Moon will wear commercial spacesuits
Title is misleading.

It should read "e-bike riders switching from private motorized vehicle and public transport get more exercise", which is less of a surprise. And real bikers switching to e-bikes still lose physical activity, though not as much as if switching to no activity. Which is still not much of a surprise.

Quote from study page:

"Therefore, this data suggests that e-bike use leads to substantial increases in physical activity in e-bikers switching from private motorized vehicle and public transport, while net losses in physical activity in e-bikers switching from cycling were much less due to increases in overall travel distance."

Link to study : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019821...
80% of work time at 100% pay doesn’t really add up when you’re paying £53k for a office-based role in London. For a mid level role, £66k at 0.8FTE would just be the same.

Sure, some benefits sound decent but also deceiving… pension match is nice but 6 weeks of holiday (+BH) is actually 24 days and getting £60 for each holiday day taken is £1440 a year that won’t rise with pay rises.
My signatures never look the same. Signatures aren't a good judge of authenticity.

My point is that a bad actor would have to show up in person and lie to a federal entity. It's not that they won't get away with it- it's that they cannot hide on the other side of the globe.
That isn't the apartment though ? I'm just demonstrating the difference for every day folks.
Man murdered after girlfriend used AirTag to investigate cheating
What's the play with Dark Sky and their API?

Apple just launched the Weather API, and it's just Dark Sky rebranded, and slightly cheaper pricing. But why?

I had expected either:

- No location permissions needed to get basic weather data, to reduce location permission use by apps when it's only for weather.

- Free weather API to lock in developers on Apple platforms.
I like the Archive pattern better. Unread keeps it semantic value as showing you something new arrived, but you're not done with it before you have archived the mail/conversation and it's out of your view.

I think they called it Inbox Zero back in the days when it was all the hype.
What makes these domains more suitable for scams than other domains? The fact that they're free?

The scams i am getting use low quality domain names hidden behind the domain they are faking.
I'm a bit confused here: the majority of the uses for guns seem to not be to 'hurl a chunk of metal through the air at high speed' but the intended outcome: to wound or kill someone. Sure, there is hunting but since the advent of the farm hunters have seen less and less employ, to the point that some societies have no hunters at all.

Guns are universally classed as 'weapons' not as 'metal object throwers'.
Company performance is so separated from employee input, and value add is so difficult to measure for most positions that I don't trust this model as a useful guide. It's like an oversimplified model from an outdated econ textbook that has nothing to do with how things work in the real world.
That's why in my next start-up, we're making sure that each employee works 168 hours a week. We believe that maximising inputs is the only way to get results.
Mark Cuban is tackling out-of-control drug prices
> It has a processor, ram, storage, video output, Bluetooth and network connectivity

So does my watch, my fridge and my car.
No. It would cost far, far more to extract useful energy from fusion than using well-understood renewables.

And, we control plenty of energy. The project is to concentrate it in one spot.
Scam is strong?

They tell people they will spend 20% less time to work-related activities which as I said is a lie.

Not only will they spend just as much time for work, it will be more unpleasant and more costly than working from home.
It makes sense that they'd offer a basic weather app that's suitable for 80% of the market, and then let third-party devs fill in the niches for the rest.
Ask HN: What executable format is objectively the best?
I'm no great software engineer, but I'm curious if there are any strong opinions on which executable format is the best. Formats like PE or ELF or (a.out?) or others?

Typically if you run a particular operating system you're not going to see several types of executable formats. The question wouldn't come up.

There have to be others with odd advantages, like an executable format that lends itself toward streaming-in the parts of the binary you're executing (exec as you torrent, lol). Or perhaps 1 that stores different parts of itself in a SQL database (read-only, strings, debugging info, etc). Someone has to have created an executable format out of sqlite databases. I remember "Universal" binaries on Mac archived several architectures' binaries together.

In the interest of a discussion I haven't seen: What is the best executable format and why? What are some creative ones?
Why did they used an "F1" V6 when it only outputs 566hp(in this application) and needs to have a major servicing every so often I understand?
I don't see the point of this car besides just a showcase for Mercedes.
If I were buying I would look to the Valkyrie or the T. 50 by Gordon Murray even.
Current levels of inflation seem to suggest otherwise.
The "who should decide" question i find the most interesting.

It's one of the rare setups where i lack thé arrogance to think my opinion would be relevant. (That said, if the goal was to burn the funds with minimal progress I couldn't imagine a better tool than the LHC BWANDO corporation.)

If the tax payer is to fund the effort perhaps their opinion should have some non-zero influence on the choice?

Im not entirely against theoretical efforts (which is like my opinion) but to alienate clearly productive effort under some "let industries do it" banner seems several bridges to far.
Maybe the other way around: let industries decide. would be less sensless.

useful things like wind solar wave tidal energy, clean water, agriculture etc all directly compete for the funds.

Wait, i know. Lets spend an insane amount of money to research what we should be funding. Im sure we can figure out howmany apples an orange is worth.
So this lets me run windows steam games on apple silicon, with a low performance penalty?

x86/Win game -> Steam for Windows(?) -> Linux VM Guest OS -> MacOS 13 VM Host OS -> Mac HW
It was published by the official channels. What are you implying?
It's solid state electronics, if not subject to any external factor (which should not be common to both) it will just keep working on any timescale that matters here.

I've carried one in my pocket for ~10 years without a problem, now I want to replace it because it's too old to support ed25519. That's likely a fraction of its useful hardware life.
No, you’ve entirely missed the point. There is a large, up front research cost to drugs (and video games). If you have no whales, you might not expect the game to ever achieve enough gross revenue (revenue minus variable costs, sort of) to offset the research costs.

Given you already have the drug, sure, it makes sense to keep selling it. But if you try to research more drugs and make more games with no whales, you will quickly go out of business. The video game analogy is apt. These kinds of video games are only possible because of whales. If whales could not exist due to regulations similar to drugs, they would not be developed / researched
Pretty neat for a piece of software that's been around for 37 years.
I can give you examples of startups with 7 day work weeks, but 4 day work weeks seem to be very rare in startups.
My understanding is that this basically the same asymmetric public/private key encryption.

WebAuthN is the standards for defining how this works on the web.

Fido is the alliance (+standards?) for multi-platform interoperability. How do I get my private keys from my iPhone into Chrome on my PC?
Good thing nobody is suggesting we *checks notes* jail silica miners for building the Deepfake Offensive Toolkit.
Because the entire game code is encoded in the hash fragment on the URL. So it will depend on whether your browser respects such a long URL.

https://sliderland.blinry.org/#%7B%0A%20%20%2F%2F%20controls...

[Edited to correct: not GET data, but the hash fragment.]
For some values of "low" anyway.
It's not really specified in the article but is it still 40 hours per week?
Take the counter direction. Imagine there was a push to extend the current normal to a schedule of 6 days of 8 hours each. Would you expect the typical office worker’s weekly production to soar by 20%? I would not.
You dropped the "UNLESS" there. Also lots of work is actually not useful. Constraints can be very good and quite often lead to qualitative outputs. There are lots of other factors at play as well e.g. more people finding employment / at higher pay to fill the gaps -> being able to spend more etc. The model is probably way more complex than that, it's not a simple function IMHO.
I agree, I also think the original point doesn't take into account burnout and employee retention. Even if the premise that people were doing 80% of the work were true, how does that stack up against how long they're willing to do the job for/how much it costs to replace them. I've seen companies refuse raises, only to go on to spend multiple times what the raise would have cost recruiting and training a new employee
EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
Yeah, it's a problem. I suppose badly implemented paywalls that tech savvy people can get around but others can't is almost worse...

I think we should keep searching for solutions.

I'm not a huge fan of advertising, but I also don't think they have to be a privacy nightmare. I don't think there's actually strong evidence that intimately targeted advertising works significantly better than simple context-based advertising (put an advert for bicycles in an article about bicycles). I think that's a myth that's been propagated by the tech giants who depend on it (Google & Facebook, obviously). So maybe non-invasive advertising could work quite well?

At the end of the day, I accept we're going to have a mix of models. A bit like tackling climate change - we need a mix. Some ads sponsored, some donation-based, some with affiliate links, some with billionaire patrons, some state-sponsored.

But to my mind, models that literally block those who can't pay, or are disadvantaged in some other way (not tech-savvy enough) are the worst models of all.
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Officer = legal responsibility

Director = high level manager (of other managers)
I'm interested mainly in the moral aspects.

1. How would you feel if this toolkit were used to create a embarassing and convincing deepfake videos of you and/or your family members (perhaps your parents)?

2. Why do you think you have to enable people to fake videos very easily?
Not really.
Here is one of the articles that helped me click.
https://swlaschin.gitbooks.io/fsharpforfunandprofit/content/...

After trying to understand it at a more fundamental level I have a suspicion that that piggy wiggies are involved.https://www.google.com/amp/s/bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/...
I work at Axis, which makes surveillance cameras.[0] This comment is my own, and is not on behalf of the company. I'm using a throwaway account because I'd rather not be identified (and because surveillance is quite controversial here).

Axis has developed a way to cryptographically sign video, using TPMs (Trusted Platform Module) built into the cameras and embedding the signature into the h.264 stream.[1] The video can be verified on playback using an open-source video player.[2]

I hope this sort of video signing will be mainstream in all cameras in the future (i.e. cellphones etc), as it will pretty much solve the trust issues deep fakes are causing.

[0] https://www.axis.com/
[1] https://www.axis.com/newsroom/article/trust-signed-video
[2] https://www.axis.com/en-gb/newsroom/press-release/axis-commu...
you can hear Oppenheimer himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac
I really can't wrap my head around this four-day week trend. If the organization is focused on KPI's so why does it matter if people work one day or four-days?

If the organization is focused on time spend no work (either in office or remotely) how can work be done in 80% of the time?

Really don't understand how it works in day-to-day. It resembles the unlimited vacation days policy which was later found out to be unhelpful to employees.
This and, I suspect, the relative levels of medical care. Check out how the indigenous fared in any country that maintains such a categorization. North America certainly deals a poor hand to its origin people.
This is predicated on the idea that new computers are meaningfully better, when they generally aren't for most of us.

I want a new computer, but I go shopping and here's what I see:

They don't have any more RAM than they did... 10 years ago. Maybe it's marginally faster RAM on paper.

They run software that used to run in 0.9ms in 0.72ms and no one cares. It's all instant to me.

The graphics got better, but not hugely so. 2015 GPUs still run... everything, unless you have some particular need for VR or something.

I could buy a new computer tonight, but why? To do the same stuff at the same speed?

I'll buy a new computer when they do something new, or something substantially better. I keep thinking that's a few months away, but it never happens.
Having morals when the other side doesn't is a weakness.

Make the tools available to everyone. As Elon musk says, sun is the best disinfectant.
That’s some bleeding heart liberal commie bs. I make my employees bend the space time continuum to work more than 168 hours per week! <serveral bicep, rocket and fire emojis here>
They also slow down compilation.
I'm not saying it's a good idea to give everyone a gun, but I do like the argument that the disadvantaged have the same opportunity to pull a trigger. I hope humanity learns wisdom as quickly as we innovate. We've made it this far..
Apple deliberately segments prices of each device to maximize margins
Why isn't anyone pointing at an obvious elephant in the room? There is no manned moon lander in the (serious) works. It will be at least 10-15 years before one is created. Only the orbital vehicle and the rocket for it exists yet.
I often think a particular problem is a day's task. Then a week later I'm still working on it. For sure, it might be me being lazy, but I suspect I've also underestimated the complexity of the task. Other factors play in as well, like if I'm tired my ability to solve tricky problems goes waay down.

Perhaps I should always be not tired, but sometimes life has a habit of getting in the way.
> it will pretty much solve the trust issues

I'm not so sure. How will you verify a signature if you see a video on TV or on social media? Do you believe these devices are 100% secure and the keys will never be extracted?
Do you ban all the other free sub-domain services too? There's no reliable or honest statistic proving that eu.org is widely used for bad purposes.

And what about URL-shortener services, such as the one you work with? Should they be banned all together? They seem to be popular with spam and scammers...
Because if the question is "Would I pay $200 more for an Xbox just to be able to install Linux on it", I think you will find the vast majority of consumers would respond with a resounding and an in-unison "hell no".

If the manufacturer is selling at a loss, with the intention of making that money back through software, and that subsidy is removed, the majority of customers will see this as a loss.
Most people can’t afford to purchase a house in or near San Francisco. This makes for problems re teachers, medical staff, firefighters, …
The detectors on the LHC get upgraded regularly, between every run some part gets updated. Computing-wise as well, better computing resources are there.

The fundamental limitations isn't the detectors or computers, it's the energies you can reach with a collider of that size. Yes you can completely retool the LHC, which will probably allow you to do slightly better precision measurements, but won't strongly affect the energies you can probe.

To get to really high energies you need to build bigger. As a (former) particle physicist, I am also a bit sceptical if going bigger is better; the LHC was a calculated risk, with the goal of finding SUSY, which was a very plausible theory at the time.

The FCC seems to be a shot in the dark.

There is the argument that if we don't build a bigger one now we'll lose a lot of expertise, but that feels like a knee-jerk reaction from the community.
I guess I don’t understand what “like this” means.

While it’s convenient to dismiss any discussion about A and something slightly similar to A as “slippery slope,” an inconvenient fact is that the slope often is slippery. It’s increasingly evident to anyone paying attention that information warfare can yield disastrous effects in a variety of ways: disrupting peaceful transition of power; disrupting critical infrastructure; disrupting command and control of ”traditional” WMD systems, even.

So that’s sort of the spirit of my question: how far does this argument go? What is the definition of “like this?”
And what happens if you want to work longer? Some kind of lockdown?
Sometimes it is easy to forget that there's a huge range of incomes around the world, and iGadgets are distinctively premium. They're targetted at Californian yuppies, and get less popular as you move further from that target demographic. In third-world countries, Android has nearly 100% market share. In some Western countries, Apple is supreme.

At the same time, there have been comments (here also), that because iDevices have such amazing support and hence longevity, they're actually more cost-efficient. Hand-me-downs and resale value make an investment into an iPhone or iPad actually better value for money than replacing an Android device several times over the same time span because Samsung et al like to drop support like it's going out of style. For example, an iPhone I bought 6 years ago is still actively supported and in-use by some elderly relatives. It still gets updates!

Reminds me of this quote from Terry Prattchet's discworld series:

A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”
I’m seeing a lot of good systems thinking recommendations here, and I would add “Thinking in Systems” by Donella H. Meadows.

At the moment, I am particularly interested in finding good books and resources on communication. Especially verbal, critical, collaborative communication, and receptiveness/openness. Team and interpersonal focused stuff. There are so many resources out there, but I’d like to hear about what other HN users have found useful.
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I think its farcical to claim that a 4 day week is a 'scam' because you find it offensive for whatever reason. Its still an improvement on the 5 day week and something atypical. I am not sure what you think a 'scam' is but we have different definitions.

The number of people who are working from home will not be 100% nor will the number of companies working from home exclusively be 100%.

Given we have had limited time to run this experiment, perhaps it would be good if we didn't just jump to conclusions that working from home is the be all and end all. The office has had a pretty good run of productivity over the last century.
So... not "Things that a good engineer should be able to do in a day" then.
I still use a laptop from 2008. I did get a new battery and swapped the HDD for and SSD. It's only real downside is that it's 32 bit and some software (mostly development related) is only releasing 64 but versions.

My desktop is from 2012. I've added more RAM, a video card, and a secondary SSD. Thing still runs great.
It is, really. At one time, it was the only place the shuttle could get to; and the shuttle was the only thing that could get people to it.

Literally the only thing they can do at ISS, not better done with robots, is study how human bodies are affected by exposure to high radiation and long-term weightlessness. Which we care about only because people would be so exposed in ISS-like cans.

Now they are pushing the "lunar gateway", that likewise has exactly one reason to exist: SLS could get there. And, it will be a place for SLS to get to. And, even more useless. A thing in high orbit around the moon is absolutely useless for any other purpose, whether you are heading for the moon or beyond it.
All and every weather data that ANY weather company uses is provided, for free, by the US Government [0]

[0] https://www.weather.gov/
100% focussed 100% of the time is a strawman argument set up to fail, there's no killer tactic because it doesn't exist and no-one is arguing it does.

You literally don't have to cram in the hours, you can just work less, enjoy a healthier work/life balance and still be productive.

To argue otherwise is to suggest that we should all work 6 day weeks.

If you accept that working 5 day weeks has benefits over 6 day weeks then why not accept that 4 day weeks could have benefits too?
This is part of a wider scheme in the UK whereby 60 firms and 3000 employees are piloting 4 day weeks.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/04/thousands-o...

From the article:

Employees from a wide range of businesses and charities are expected to take part in the scheme, which will run initially from June to December, including the Royal Society of Biology, the London-based brewing company Pressure Drop, a Manchester-based medical devices firm, and a fish and chip shop in Norfolk.

It comes as the push for companies to adopt a shorter working week – crucially with no loss of pay while aiming for higher productivity – gains momentum as a way of improving working conditions.
Haha, good question! It is Chess kool, though the whole name is a play on words of cool and school!
Why? Consider the scenario of a domain name owner dying and his relatives not caring/not knowing he/she owned a domain. With the current system the domain will be eventually available again. What alternative to you suggest?