skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Global Population Growth Is Slowing Down
Did they? And all the databases I use regularly support nested structures, they are extremely expressive.
If we can avoid saying I'm victim blaming, he clearly made mistakes.
If someone is giving you money (front of the line/rush service) in most tax jurisdictions, you are going to owe a tax on that. The website errors of not paying local sales tax well that's just ...dude.... you were seriously playing with fire on that one.

Also, if you have a target on your back you have to make sure your stuff is spotless. It's not fair but it's just the way it is.
Unlike the Apollo LRV (Lunar Roving Vehicle), you don't need a spacesuit to drive a Tesla. Plus, I think a Tesla has more range.

As an interesting aside, the LRV had non-rechargeable batteries (two 36-volt silver-zinc potassium hydroxide non-rechargeable batteries with a capacity of 121 amp-hr, according to Nasa).
I'm curious what happened for people who had existing accounts configured with Google SSO...
Some people don't like Google or Chrome in general, for various reasons (valid or not), and they'll use any opportunity to criticize them.

JPEG XL was made in the JPEG committee and the two main proponents were Google and Cloudinary. So it's insane to say that Google in general would be opposed to JPEG XL. This was not a Google team that was part of the Chrome team though.

The way the Chrome team has handled this was not "the best way possible" in my opinion. They first made a decision, and then a month later they showed the data that lead to it (that was one week ago). This data was created by the AVIF team. They did invite anyone to provide feedback on this data, but they did not wait for this feedback to execute on the decision. I don't think this is the best way possible to handle this. A better way would be to first provide data, then wait for feedback, allow all sides to provide their input, have an open and honest discussion involving all stakeholders and experts, and then make a decision. That would be a better ordering of steps.

I agree though that this is not some conspiracy by Google. It is just a difficult technical decision to make, and they're currently making the wrong decision in my opinion, but this is something that has to be motivated technically, not emotionally or politically.
You're in good shape then! By the time my father quit, the most he could do was shuffle about.

And you're absolutely right—it's hard to give up. I still remember the conversation he had with his pulmonologist. The doctor asked "So what made you choose to quit?"

Dad said "I decided to. It was a conscious choice that I wasn't doing this any more."

The doctor looked at him, smiled, and said "That's exactly right."

I'd guess you went through the same process: It's a choice. False starts to quit are simply an exercise in kicking the can down the road. Actually quitting is a conscious, decisive effort. The only other people on the planet who know what it's like are those who have suffered addiction. The rest of us? We truly don't know what you have to go through when you quit.
> If cash is legal tender, then any amount is, by default, legal.

Cash being "legal tender" means that, if someone sues you and wins a judgment, you're entitled to pay the judgment in cash.

It doesn't mean that anyone willing to exchange a service or item for any random service or item is also compelled to exchange their thing for cash. If they demand a live sheep, you'll give them a live sheep or do without whatever they're offering.
Yes. I get out of my car, plug in with the charge door right next to the driver door, then go inside. Longer trips, I use a fast charger. Went on a trip just before Thanksgiving that required 7 stops round trip.

I don’t need to change oil, or spark plugs or engine air filter. Stuff will need to get changed, but maintenance is much reduced.
Isn't memory safety needed in all cases?
I'd bet that's a part of it to be sure!
The project is originally from 2014 and the presentation seems to be from 2016.
At that point Robots will do all the work.
Again, that's an idea that requires buy in from the outside. You could do all that, but not if the IAEA decides not to like you, and if you can't find buyers for the reactors when they're ready in 10? years what's the point. May as well build a locally focused boondongle.

If the tolerances are good, maybe the central rail makes for a decent linear accelerator site if the rest of the building is vacant.
Maybe it’s worse than that. If eg a long term lack of REM sleep lead to Alzheimer‘s (it seems to create dementia patterns at least), and people with disturbed sleep get virtually none of that, then they might be worse off than someone with just 5h of sleep.
There’s also the challenge that AVIF isn’t cheap to transcode

Getting a cache miss with Cloudinary on large avifs can sometimes result in a multi second delay while they’re generated

Lack of JXL support is going to cost sites that server huge numbers of images e.g. Cloudinary millions of dollars in extra compute power
Is this related to the IDOM project? It seems similar in concept.
https://idom-docs.herokuapp.com/docs/index.html
Right. One way unit tests are useful is that you can take a hard won failure case and turn it into a test that is quick to run and part of the build process.
I mean, the US government pays the salaries of Ukraine's government workers. They fund the Ukrainian GDP (which is basically zero without foreign aid). They supply 100% of new Ukrainian weapons (as domestic production of weapons is basically zero). You have tens of thousands of Polish troops trying to hold the line in Ukraine, and thousands of US, Canadian, Georgian mercenaries fighting there. The US and EU are 100% responsible for funding civil society and Ukraine's military.

The Ukrainian government at this point is unable to produce or fund anything on its own.

So in that case, you can be sure that the NATO is running the show, down to the company level.

Ukrainian generals are there along for the ride, to sit in briefings and be told by NATO what their next plan of action will be.

Between Zelensky's insistence that the information war take precedence over the war on the ground (e.g. he forbade Azov from surrendering in Mariupol until after the Eurovision Song contest, as he didn't want the optics of thousands of soldiers with their colorful historical tattoos interfere with the glory of Ukraine's victory in Eurovision. This resulted in hundreds of unnecessary deaths) -- and NATO micromanaging them -- I would not want to be a member of the Ukrainian general staff at the moment.
I quite like CSVs. I've used them to great effect at maybe every job I've ever had. xsv, sqlite, and Excel/LibreOffice provide useful tooling on top of them.

I see a lot of complaining about "no standard" in this thread, but the way I've used them, it's been fine. I just use Haskell's cassava. If human produce them with Excel/LibreOffice, I never have issues on the ingestion end.
I had a YubiKey fail when I touched it and a static shock wiped its memory. I was able to reinitialize it using their app, but the previously loaded key was lost.
Once I worked in a team that used scrum almost correctly, and it was a great experience.

Then there was a change in management, and the new manager decided to "introduce scrum" to the whole company. We were told to stop doing what we did previously, and instead to do what the new manager called scrum. Unsurprisingly, it was the same parody of scrum that most companies use. The productivity plummeted, and the developers in our team gradually left the company.

I suspect that scrum works well when it is introduced by the developers, and works horribly when it is introduced by the managers.
Sure…

6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856620

16 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33730299

22 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33656637
No it's interconnected. What you do is tied to who you are.

It's visible in language. People often use the term "I am a java programmer" rather then "I am a programmer who uses java".

The topics in this thread don't speak to it because it's implicitly implied.
I don't know about this "root key" setup you describe, but you can certainly program sets of yubikeys with the same OTP secrets at setup time, resulting in cloned/backup keys. The OTP secrets can also be stored (presumably offline) to create new copies of the key in case of recovery.
> a non-directly elected entity

The EU Parliament is composed of 705 members (MEPs). It represents the second-largest democratic electorate in the world (after the Parliament of India), with an electorate of 375 million eligible voters

p.s. even the US president is a non-directly elected entity
I was worried they were talking about doing it manually, and was thinking "surely there's a built-in way to create a hashed index" -- Glad to learn there is!
> How often is this a concern in practice?

No idea really, but if you're using a JSON parsing library then that is going to automatically convert for the data types. Which, provided you trust the data, saves you a job.
> The rain was too heavy to see more than 10 feet or so.

Probably a hurricane. Did you see any cattle flying?
Pay attention to figure 3 in particular

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451
I'm not sure why people are telling you professional stuff. You do you.

I am an ML researcher working on generative modeling. I think you have enough experience that you'll catch up quickly. But the question is most what you're interested in? With that I can give better advice. Don't let anyone stop you from learning just to learn. Not everything has to be a career. A lot of us got here because it's fun.

I do think you'll pick up diffusion models quickly. I like the explicit density side of things more and density estimation. So I like Song's works and similar with Kingma. Also check out Lilian Wang's blogs. They are a wealth of material and sources. Can't go wrong there. You'll find that diffusion and VAEs are kinda similar. The difficulty you'll have in understanding something like stable diffusion is actually the programming (at least this was the hardest part for me).

Good luck and let me know if I can help.
We’re not talking a loss of a hardware authenticator, we’re talking the loss of access to your Google account. Worst case with passkeys is you lose access to the cloud corpus of your keys due to loss of account access while still having them on your device (and/or a passkey manager).
The following titles fit with your remarks:

How a newly discovered body part changes our understanding of the brain (and the immune system) (2016)

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/how-a-newly-discover...

Edit: Ah, yes. I thought it sounded familiar: Previously discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426185

Brain’s lymphatic system, just recently discovered, now linked to aging and Alzheimer’s (2018)

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/brain-s-recently-disc...

Edit: Quote from the above linked piece:

“As you age, the fluid movement in your brain slows, sometimes to a pace that’s half of what it was when you were younger...We discovered that the proteins responsible for Alzheimer’s actually do get drained through these lymphatic vessels in the brain along with other cellular debris, so any decrease in flow is going to affect that protein build-up.”

Lymphatic Vessels Discovered in Central Nervous System (2015)

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lymphat...

Brain cleaning system uses lymphatic vessels (2017)

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/brain-c...
Depends; is someone promoting it to make money? Because signal isn't trying to make facebook better, they're trying to convince people to use signal instead of messenger using some ethically dubious tactics
> The soviets also had the problem that they were an autocracy who had little regard for the conditions of their people.

This is just false.

In the USSR life expectancy went from 30 years in 1925 to 69 years in 1990[0]. On the other hand, in the US it started declining in 2015 without having recovered yet[1].

In the USSR, "In 1926, the literacy rate was 56.6 percent of the population. By 1937, according to census data, the literacy rate was 86% for men and 65% for women, making a total literacy rate of 75%"[2].

The USSR was also the first country in the world to legalize abortion, and it championed gender equality. In the meantime the US is going in the direction of banning abortion once again.

I have yo ask you, what you do mean by "conditions of the people"?

- [0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041395/life-expectancy-...

- [1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040079/life-expectancy-...

- [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Soviet_Union
Could this be used to allow a bigger and faster embedded system share its big screen with smaller boards with no video output through WiFi, or Ethernet where available, so that each one of them receives a portion of the screen, sorta like a quad multiplexer used in CCTV?
There’s also the politics of them not supporting img=*.mp4 too

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=791658
What you are suggesting would not be guaranteed employment, it would be UBI wrapped in a lie. Ignoring problems with the system (i.e., fraud) would not address any of the reasons why there is not already UBI in the United States. Your idea is crazy beyond the Overton window.
You wouldn't know if it was under the table or if it was non-monetary favours such as promotions for friends/family working at Meta or the implied promise of a nice high-paying position once they're out of the DPA role.

It could also be corruption at a higher level - the only reason Big Tech likes Ireland is because it's somewhat of a tax haven and accommodates unlawful practices like this one - if they stop being accommodating the companies will leave, so there's an incentive to not piss them off too much.
Aside from the privacy improvement, what a beautifully functional site.
Science and Nature are prestigious molecular biology journals but when it comes to physics they are like The National Inquirer. That is, anything they publish in physics has to be outrageous.
On the Prevalence of Hate Speech on Twitter
You do what every company that has to follow GAAP on top of other accounting rules does, two books, properly audited and bridged. Maybe that stuff isn't straight forward for everyone, it is for pros in the field. It serves to have those pros do these jobs for you. Like, you know, a professional company.

And yes, using the correct software suits and processes, intra EU VAT is straight forward and done by litteraly thousands of small businesses every single day. And then there is the less straight forward aspect around optimizing taxes and VAT. But that last bit seems not to be the problem here, is it?
When someone won't even help digitally preserve their rare physical game for some reasonable fee for time/disruption I can't bring myself to call them a collector, they're either speculating or as you say just want to feel superior.
There are many many many startups focused on this. If we engage in the amount of carbon capture that is predicted to be necessary in the second half of the century, we will be moving the same order of mass of air-extracted carbon to its fins resting place each year that we are currently moving for fueling. So a massive massive economy is expected to be built around this.

Nuclear power is unlikely to make financial sense as a source of electricity for this process. Many of the early pioneers were big supporters of nuclear for it last decade, but solar photovoltaic has made nuclear obsolete in comparison. I think the name of that startup was Carbon Engineering, bawd out of Canada... the founder was completely shocked at the advancement in solar, and at the time (a few years ago) thought that, by 2030, it would be possible to make liquid hydrocarbon fuels out of air+solar for roughly the same cost or lower as fossil fuels.
Darn! I was hoping their excess and vanity was rich enough to warrant them buying Aeron chairs. Who wants a Generation by Knoll?

I guess I'll just buy my own.
And? How’s that relevant?
I think I'm much much more likely to lose a hardware authenticator than my Google account
This is as far as the facts go, and only lore is left. Here, however, is how the story goes. When, in 1974, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority sought to extend the Red Line beyond Harvard Square, the state began plans to dig underneath Harvard Yard. They got so far as to build a platform approximately underneath Wigglesworth Hall. In fact, you may see the ghost station when you ride the T, on the right side of the train as it slows down and nears the platform at Harvard station. However, Harvard would not tolerate the thought of a tunnel below its sacred grounds, disturbing the scholarly peace and quiet of the Yard. Allegedly, Harvard hired a team of lawyers who took the MBTA to court. According to lore, they presented before the judge a glass encased letter granting Harvard exemption from eminent domain signed by General George Washington.

As for the veracity of the story, I have not found substantive proof other than repeated versions of the story told in forums. However, it is true that Harvard inexplicably convinced the MBTA to build around the Yard despite an astronomical increase in the cost of construction.

https://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-snollygoster/article/2...
>You're talking to an HN user with a hobbyhorse about authenticated encryption being, at least sometimes, a bad thing...

This is misleading as stated.

>they reached this opinion after being pressed on the weaknesses of PGP's authenticator.

This is just confusing to me. At any rate, the OpenPGP standard has a robust authenticated encryption construct in the form of the MDC (modification detection code) combined with OpenPGP's improved version of CFB (cipher feed back). Not that that has anything to do with the subject at hand. We are talking about Matrix.
An AI could do that in the future maybe — maybe in the very near future, who knows how fast things will develop? — but it seems beyond the current capabilities of ChatGPT.
The Problems with DeFi and Crypto
In my experience it is politicians who do these things, whether from the left or from the right. Those on the right are generally accused by default of this type of behaviour but those on the left are "supposed to be above such machinations" which makes it all the more egregious to see them behave exactly like all others.
For manipulating CSV from the terminal, check out https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
Having had some very serious sleep issues in the past due to health issues, I would not disagree that sleep quality matters more than how many hours you sleep per se.
It was naive: I agree farmers and their communities are sometimes (in times after both industrialisation and the "green revolution", even often) the losers, but the best solution to that problem of which I am aware is "take some of the benefits of development and use that to compensate losers". I know of no examples of competitive autarkic economies, so unless you have any, that couldn't be a better solution.

And of course, if you have an even better solution than autarky, I'm all ears.

(more background: I'm partial to Jane Jacobs' theory that market agriculture has throughout history been subject to the vagaries of fortunes in nearby trade centres. If you have evidence that this theory is mistaken, I'm also willing to revisit that belief)
what's your solution?

ban hairdressers and car washes?
> If that's the intention you can update your original comment to say the "open" standard, because your definition of standard is not universal. And then I would have instantly agreed because I've experienced this firsthand.

No. A closed standard is not a standard.

> Besides from that technicality though, do you really think that publicly available standards would have changed the situation? I don't think so---Chrome (and to be clear, most other browsers) has supported tons of closed standards anyway.

I think it might have helped, yes.
I sort of disagree with that. Work can provide meaning if its entirely voluntary, but for many people the fact that it's necessary, sustaining and vital is part of what makes work meaningful. An important aspect of the value of work is that if you didn't do your work, there's real consequences to that. Otherwise very quickly you go from work to something that is more like a game or a hobby in nature. And while games and hobbies are great, they don't really fulfill the same need. On the boss part I agree of course, but that's an orthogonal issue.
Oh man, I hadn't seen that! Super disappointed :(

For what it's worth, I use Duolingo (the app itself) as just another way to practice at the moment but feel that most of my real progress comes with a tutor that I found through Preply and eventually started private lessons with. Group lessons were a cheap way to get some more practice in though with other speakers.
ISO standards are not standards. Closed standards are not standards. Implementations are not a standard. This is a bad joke.
I 100% agree. I would also add that most of the arguments are driven by emotion. The truth is that we dont know what intelligence means and we dont know what kinds of system have intelligence. The only tools we have to measure intelligence are those designed for humans. When we test the machines they do better than terribly and they are improving very quickly. There is no possible logical argument you can put forward against their intelligence in the face of this evidence from these human tests - because we cannot define intelligence in any other way than these tests. Claims against intelligent machines always boil down to 'obviously they aren't' and the arguments have have to be this shallow simply because they have no firm footing from which to base their argument.
The long and narrow is a different aesthetic. A dweller will likely dwell in a dwelling with a view of the desert or sea unbroken to the horizon. When you come home you will look out upon a large natural world with a stunning unobstructed sunrise or sunset (choose your side wisely) every day.

You are "in a city", but you are "living on Earth", both are present, separated by your front door..

Culturally, most of the residents will be observing sunrise and sunset prayers which makes the transitions of the sun a little more anchoring. Traditionally morning prayer is twilight until sunrise, the evening is sunset until the red leaves the sky in the west. (So says Wikipedia anyway, then it gets into astronomical math, so I expect everyone just has an app for it now.)
I'm surprised, I've never had problems with org pressure, it was easy for me: either we do agile and you trust our judgement or I quit, because I know that this project will fail and I'm not interested in contributing to projects that are doomed to fail. Do you think I was unemployed for long in the second case?
How many sites are out there with a "Sign In with Google" form that solely exists to harvest peoples' Google credentials?
The part about "Harvard is immune to eminent domain" is definitely apocryphal.

I'm quite positive the United States doesn't give legal credence to "dusty old letters from King George".
Why do you consume a lot of sugar?