skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call it unreasonable. Police are pretty bad at investigating and actually solving crimes.
Soil roundworms are not necessarily parasites. Free living ones have huge populations in the soils and sea bottoms. In ecology handbooks there is often shown a study that found more kilograms of roundworms than kilograms of deer living in the same places.

They are highly influential in fertile soils.
This is really a cool little interface. How was this made! I want to learn!
Seems like a new form of humble-brag to me.
It's a 0, not an 'o'.
That doesn't make being "not a bank" valuable.
For me the lyrics of songs are mostly irrelevant and it doesn't matter if I understand it or not. I usually don't pay attention to to it anyway.
I wish the article would give us the valuation number rather than the price per share.
NASA's Artemis I launch is a make-or-break moment
I thought the context (parent comment) was enough. Parent is concerned to the point of leaving the phone before going to the doctor. It is well-known that Android (the non-de-Googled version) actively tracks your location [1].

[1]: https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a138190...
Not really, the brain is not like a hard drive. It is a tangled mesh of wired up neurons that constantly actively fire and stimulate each other to stay functional. They do not function in a remotely similar way.

But if you insist on an analogy to putting a magnet next to a hard drive, then you're basically talking about erasing neuronal connections and destroying cells. Mild electric stimulation does not do this.

And again, don't confuse something like transcranial direct-current stimulation for something like electroconvulsive therapy. One uses up to 4 mA, the other 800 mA.

Seriously, this whole discussion feels like my in-laws complaining about the "scary WiFi" radiation because they don't see the difference between that and radioactivity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_st...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
This looks very cool, but am I the only one who has an aversion to any product/library calling itself the X instead of an X?
I'd argue that is a terrible way to write it since it depends on the rollover to terminate. Using i >= 0 is less mental work but also requires that i be signed.
Strictly speaking that's not true. Much of our day is not a series of thought-through decisions, but rather cruise control without much conscious input.
Show HN: An Open Source Alt Text Twitter Bot
I've been maintaining a Twitter bot providing a number of tools around image descriptions AKA alt text for a bit. It has overlapping sets of commands for both tagging and DMs, the list of which are in the pinned tweet.

The bot is primarily used for OCR of posted images to provide a retweetable version with alt text, but other commands such as AI image description and searches of the alt-text.org library are becoming more common.

The code is available on GitHub, and is MIT licensed: https://github.com/alt-text-org/AltTextCrew
You're right in that I'm being lazy and shouldn't have commented without backup data. There's plenty of data out there, but why try to collect if the HN readership's thinking is so mainstream that they'll reject any such attempts out of hand?
This, 1000%! I painted the exterior of my home a BRIGHT blue with a BRIGHT yellow door amongst the sea of beige and grey dreariness (I mean we live in Portland, was the 9 months of grey not enough?!). Two of my neighbors detest it based on their passive aggressive comments, but otherwise I get tons of compliments. Every time I arrive home from somewhere, it puts a huge smile on my face seeing those colors light up our street. This beige and grey trend can't die fast enough.
Yeah, probably. Could also be the answer isn't more complicated than to offer up the ability to control the search a bit more. Especially with forums it's easy to figure out the post time since there's only some half-dozen forum softwares. Maybe just add the option to filter by year or something would go a long way.

I do think offering different filters like that is probably a good option to having the search engine try to mind-read what you want based on spying on your historical queries and machine learning haruspicy.
BlueKai/pixel tracking iirc is a core part, the rest of it is stuff like Bluetooth receivers on top of grocery isles while you have your Bluetooth on, etc.
The BEAM is really cool, and was actually originally intended to be a bare-metal operating system. That's why it has so many features that are useful for operations: they couldn't assume you'd have any other tooling available, and often didn't even have physical access to the machines that were running it.
I bet this site

http://animetorrents.me/

will let you register with a Tutanota email.
Ask HN: How to guide contractor to properly use Git branches and pull requests?
I work on a side project with paid contractors. One in particular is very skilled with our target platform but I am spending lots of time trying to coach him on proper use of Github. He submits PRs that have lots of weird merging issues [1] that are too complicated to unpack and I end up creating new branches to cherry pick his contributions manually.

Has anyone faced this situation with contributors before? Is there a reliable 30 min guide for how to use branches and PRs for someone who is "just not getting it" so far?

https://imgur.com/a/xNu8RLr
There is a difference. With leaded gasoline it was the chemists who study this stuff that knew it was bad trying to convince everyone else. With roundup it is the non-chemists "bloggers" and conspiracy theorists who know it is bad trying to convince everyone else.
Don't really think that's going to happen. Pork is one of the cheapest meats you can raise.

Just the spore costs to produce a lb of mushrooms can rival the total cost to raise a lb of pork (commercial pork can be as cheap as $64/CWT carcass weight - so $0.64/lb. Mushroom spore can be as high as $1.00 in spore costs to generate 1lb of mushroom). Processing the meat will raise costs, but it's hardly like mushrooms have low care/processing costs (If you don't know, they often require clean room levels of care to ensure proper spores without contamination).

There's a reason white mushrooms (unsliced) goes for $4.49/lb at my local Kroger, and the boneless pork goes for $1.99/lb.

I don't see this ever being cheaper.
For in-office work to come back, employers need to stop tracking time.

Most office workers work 2-3 hours a day max. The 8 hour workday is is a relic from factory work.

If I was to go back to the office, this is what my day would look like:

* Show up at the office at 10:30, just in time for the meeting

* Put in a couple hours of solid work, finishing whatever story I planned to complete today

* Go home at 1:30 to smoke weed and play videogames

That's what I do now, except I don't have to commute. What's going to change to make office work more appealing?
i would say the past has far greater bearing than the future on your actions...

you might want to be confident and outgoing, but your ability to vote for or express that action, is constrained by your life experiences and even biological things.
When I was younger I spent some time in East Germany visiting relatives. From the inside most large corporations look like communist states with an planned economy. Tons of propaganda, a lot of phrases that mean exactly the opposite when used ("rightsizing" vs "layoffs"), refusal to name issues directly, appearances more important than facts, useless metrics, an emphasis on supervision instead of improving things and a leadership that pretends to talk for the underlings but is totally out of touch.
"... The tl;dr of this book is a set of strategies to get 1% “better” each day..."
So after 10 years you will be 1.01^3650 = 5929448572069177.9 times better than you are today.. Good luck.
$370 if you return the old one for my MBA.
What about the data being collected has relevance to "product/service diversity" "on demand personalization" and lower prices?

Especially "lower prices"?

This data doesn't help lower prices, and prices haven't lowered. Corporate profits are through the roof while wages for all but the top 10-20% have flatlined or gone down when adjusted for inflation/cost of living. Savings and home ownership rates are the lowest in half a century. Etc etc.
> There's a real tendency to stock the neutral white, silver, black, grey colors rather than brighter colors which I assume are more polarizing.

i think it's further up the chain than the dealership. when i've taken a look, most of the manufacturer colors were fairly neutral. there might be blues and reds, but they're muted. the dealership couldn't buy something bright unless they're selling kawasaki motorcycles.
I'd say you should still work toward whatever your own interest with the tool is. If it seems like too much work, make a list of all the functionality you want, figure out the easiest way to implement each, and work on the least-effort/highest-reward things first. And do whatever feels fun!
Ending the enforcement of Net Neutrality was not about censoring content or subjects.
Do you think it is more likely that China will invade Taiwan (unprovoked) or US will invade China (unprovoked)? This is a bold post to assume the latter (#2). You seem to imply that US is waiting for a good opportunity to invade Mainland China. (Are you serious, or do I misunderstand? China is a recognised nuclear power. Invasion is almost literally impossible for these countries.)
I don't claim that people are demanding advertising

I am claiming the people demand free/cheap products that fit their exact demands to be immediately delivered to them

The way that companies are solving "free or cheap" is by having someone else pay for the service on your behalf. There are only a few mechanisms for this that are "win-win" theoretically and advertising is the one that is the most popular.

In order for advertising to be useful it needs to be targeted and attributable and it has to be fungible across advertisers. Therefore if you want to be able to create an ad-market to keep your product free/cheap then you need to offer the highest granularity predictions for your advertising dollar - hence why we have extremely granular ad systems.
A related anecdote: some months ago I had a memory leak inside a (greatly duplicated) genserver while repeatedly calling a lib[0] function inside it, that would result in the server basically crashing after a while.

I never understood what in that lib was causing the leak but I fixed it (or more accurately mitigated it) by wrapping the call in a Task.async/1

Maybe that will help someone else one day.

[0] https://hexdocs.pm/shoutcast/Shoutcast.html#read_meta/1
I'm curious how you would determine the "actual value of their work" without considering peer review or award grants? I'm not saying that shoddy work with good marketing deserves to be successful, but doing brilliant research that no one knows about seems like it's not particularly valuable either.

I've also worked with engineers who completely discounted the importance of the social aspect of their work. Frequently even their strongest work had minimal impact on the organization.
Did you use a particular library for the drag and drop graph building UI? Woukd like to know as I could use something like that for different project
I'm not sure I'd want to bother with a book written by authors who are convinced that something is impossible. It's a very tenuous intellectual foothold, which is usually intended for a gullible audience.

Here is a different thing which is wrong. There is a tacit premise that intelligence equal to or in excess of human intelligence is required in order to subdue humanity ("Rule the World"). But that doesn't appear to be necessarily so, because less intelligent humans rule over more intelligent humans.

The world is not currently ruled by the most intelligent, though those who rule make use of intelligent people, and intelligent people are sometimes well rewarded for assisting power.
In my experience, there is definitely a correlation at the least. In today's world, unfortunately there are a lot of options available for people with great communication (written and verbal) skills and employers can choose. I am not talking about Accents but if you cannot formulate a coherent, grammatically correct sentence, you will probably do lousy work. I have seen it enough at least in my case to make that assumption. Also, not everyone needs to be a native English Speaker (I am not one myself). So this is not a racist thing either. It is simple facts of life.

Even for hardocre programming roles, you need to be able to ask questions no matter how junior you are.

When I see a Resume with obvious typos and grammar issues, I usually skip unless it seemed like a genuine one off mistake and I have spoken to that candidate already.
> and then what? What do you expect to happen?

When the Government did do shitty things in the past we used to go out in the streets, we last did that 4-5 years ago. It helps that the main Government building is only two tram stations away from where I'm living and from where I'm writing this comment, so that helps. I wouldn't even know where in Bruxelles to protest against this, never mind that I'd have to take a plane to get to said protest.

Granted, laws like this one are mostly a clear pass-through for any party that holds power, mostly because the "liberal" middle-classes (the ones who usually go out to protest against a Government they don't like) basically support laws similar to this (unless instructed otherwise).

There are people though who do protest against this sort of stuff. I remember joining a protest against electronic IDs about 10 years ago (give or take), organised by a local religious organisation (I was and still am an atheist), which protest was of course derided by member of said "liberal" middle-classes with stuff like "look at these religious n.ts! they think they're going to have the number of the devil imprinted on a chip located inside of their brains" (I'm paraphrasing, but not by much).

Also, the only consistent movement (for lack of a better term) against electronic centralisation (including surveillance, of course) of most of our lives comes from the same religious and traditional fringes. If they will go out in the streets to protest against it, and they might, I'll most surely join them, while, I repeat, I wouldn't even know what European-wide movement to join in order to combat this, to say nothing of its effectiveness (by "joining" I mean physical presence, not only just an online petition thing).
It's not entirely wrong, but yeah, we aren't always making highly conscious decisions. There should be no shame in living a low-key yet morally integral existence and not always being intentional with every single action we take.

My contention with that philosophy is similar to that of all the messaging we get on social media about success and how our lives are supposed to be. No, I don't travel and dine out as much as other people, and perhaps I'm not as conventionally successful as most others in my cohort, but I have enough life experience to inform me that I am both content and not really "missing out" on things like others might. To "live like you'll die tomorrow" seems stressful and unsustainable to me. I much prefer the chill feeling of knowing that I'll wake up with a new day and that I don't necessarily need to be hustling or achieving to be a human.
TODO:

- Survive
I don't think my 2019 MBP has ever laster more than 3 hours on battery.

My M1 Max is amazing by comparison.
But aren't you a Metal Liqaz?

More-seriously though, a biological example of an AGI would just be a regular old intelligence. You are (presumably) human and intelligent, and therefore have instantiated the intelligence algorithm on a biological substrate. You might argue that we are not actually general intelligences, especially when not caffeinated. I think this is a bit of a cop-out and we all know what we're talking about here :)

Just as birds proved that heavier-than-air flight was physically possible, humans prove that you can make matter perform as though it is intelligent.
> how would you explain the cost to someone?

For most commercial surveillance, I can't. Provable harm from the Equifax breach remains unquantified. We're only beginning to discuss those data for e.g. Facebook and teenagers. To give analogy, we're in the 1960s on the smoking-regulation timeline [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3894634/
We've been thinking hard about how we all navigate our expanding digital lives, and we at Apple think the greatest breakthroughs can only occur when we really take time to sit, consider and recharge. In 2017 we introduced Screen Time, a revolutionary way to track your digital usage, putting you in control. This year, we're going one step further and we're excited to announce Recharge Time, only for iPhone 15.
Hmmm... pro handle?
joystick? steering
wheel?
Copter blade?

why?
WHYYY????

:D
In the next iteration, toilets will join the open concept
Would you consider lobster or crab, bugs?
Thanks for the feedback. Zorp is use case agnostic. You can build simple forms to really complex supply chain applications. We've taken a modular approach, where you get all the lego blocks and build them according to your specific use case.

Some of our customers use Zorp for really long tail use cases like dog walking, yoga training, KYC document collection, etc.
Ah c'mon, don't do that, we were just starting to enjoy ourselves in here!
I'm a bit surprised that the article doesn't connect the rising popularity of SQL to the central role SQL has in data analytics and to some extent data science, both of which AFAIS are both quickly growing fields, slowly chewing away on the normal business IT systems.
We can recognize some acts as "heroic" such as maintaining our food pipeline through a pandemic without worshipping anyone can we not?

Some people worked themselves ragged to keep the basic machinery of our society working and at the start with no guarantee of any remunerative reward above ordinary pay (some never received hazard pay). Is that not admirable?
> When Apple made tracking opt-in, pretty much everyone refused. I think that's a clear indicator that the overwhelming majority do want privacy...

Or it could be a clear indicator that people will leave the defaults where they are, which is why there have been figurative wars over getting a particular browser to be the default browser of an operating system.
It needs "view in AR" button
This sort of thing doesn’t have to be a compliance breach, but you will likely need some way of ensuring there’s a second person in the loop, typically that would take the form of having someone in a separate production infrastructure team actually driving a while you talk them through what needs to happen.
Huh? They care enough about your comment to ask “who cares”, but does that imply that they care to know the answer to the questions you posed in your comment? I don’t think it does.
No need: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?utf8=&q=AMD+Ryze...

Also doesn't really obliterate the M2:

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-2022

Seems like multi-core scores are all over the map (probably depending on the cooling of the laptop), but not really impressive when comparing to a passively cooled CPU. Single-core scores are meh compared to the M2.
Gone entirely. Here in Spain it was never served all day. Until 10:30 or so they served only the breakfast menu and after that only the regular one.

So now it's the regular menu all day. Big mac for breakfast? Hmmm. No.

In fact I've never seen all-day breakfast at any McDonald's in Europe and I've traveled a lot for work (so a lot of hit & run breakfasts at airports)
> A protocol will be developed for smaller interest groups to form larger common-interest federations.

How I wish this existed. Something like BBS and online forums, with the ability to create private channels with E2E encryption.

There’s probably no commercial viability, but the idea of a common interface for communities sounds awesome.
Rollover on unsigned ints is well-defined in C.
It seems strange to bother trying this with sit-down toilets first.

This could cheaply be applied to the urinals at a facility of sufficient size, e.g. a baseball stadium. You could install a collection system by the end of the month. If the material is worth collecting then the stadium owner will have an extra revenue stream.

If not, the cost of retrofitting millions of homes and public sit-down toilets certainly won't be worth it.
Having a mechanism to express your thoughts, whether publicly or privately, can be beneficial to the learning process. You try to express your ideas to others and see if you really understand it, sort of like the Feynman technique.

Beyond that, if its cringe to you or not worth your time, just ignore it and move on. Just because it's not worth your time doesn't mean its not worth the time of the author.
> This is unfortunately still the case. H1B lottery is still a thing. I had to lose a team member and the person saw a similar email in their inbox. Sucks!

The lottery is still a thing, but I vaguely recall that a few years ago they slapped down some of the foreign outsourcing companies that were abusing the system. I'm I remembering correctly?
The models are as good as their underlying assumptions. Economics is definitely guilty of pretending fancy (for a layman) mathematical models "prove" things and disregarding the messiness of the real life. You've shown it yourself by saying "the Markov Decision Process which is you".

I've done both financial econ and biology/genomics and I by far prefer the latter as a field. It is not to say that biology research doesn't have flaws but at least everyone understands the mathematical models are only models.
That is the type of application that I am also interested in.
But how does one "train" GPT-3 on your business schema? How does one train it on any custom domain?
>wait two weeks

You wish. The situation is slowly improving but I had to wait 6 weeks for a car earlier this summer that was "in transit" (which I guess was to say it existed in the manufacturer's database someplace). This wasn't even a build to order vehicle. I suspect that would have been months.

I'm not sure where computational power enters into it. It's just that dealers want to mostly have cars on their lot which are acceptable to the greatest number of buyers who want/need a car right now which the model in hot pink isn't going to be for a lot of people.
Our house has been a dark blue with white trim for over a decade. We built an expansion in our back yard, and painted it a fairly saturated purple. It's not visible from the street (except one very narrow angle).

However, we received hate mail from neighbors who complained that the view from their 2nd story window into our back yard was spoiled, and that we should respect that we lived in society not in some hippy commune.

Other neighbors regularly bring their visitors to stand at the one tiny piece of the sidewalk where they can look down our driveway to see the purple, and point and shake their heads and grouse about it.

It's really kind of amazing how much hostility the color has generated. We used to be invited to neighborhood gatherings and cocktail parties and such. Now, because we callously refuse to repaint the extension and main house some sedate dull color, people literally won't speak to us.

This isn't an HOA neighborhood; it's an artsy-boho community known for creative types and public murals.

TL;DR people suck, colors are cool.
He was presumably using a company laptop which would have who knows how much monitoring. I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple tracks every file you airdrop from a company machine.
I’m assuming here that Tutanota is easy to automate programmatically so it’s become a favorite among bad actors.