skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before you do that, you might want to understand the other side, and how ignorance contributes to an unnecessary arms race.

We in the US have driven most provocation in space. The military budget is more than the next nine countries combined (including China). Whether it be the Strategic Defense Initiative, unilaterally leaving the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Prompt Global Strike, hypersonic missiles, the US is developing escalatory weapons tech then justifying it with delusions that the same exists in other countries, like those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Weaponization of space has always been touted as the ultimate high ground, but we seem to have forgotten the lessons and mistakes of raising the stakes,
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

In an age of nuclear weapons, new "disruptive" strategic technology development can be extremely dangerous and destablizing.. this is not a game humanity can afford to play.
The big backup is diverting certain animal feeds to instead feed people.
Yes, ChatGPT is pretty helpful for that. Give it a job description and it can write it up pretty well. Seems like a subtle disruption no one is talking about.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34210227
From 2020:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23307700
Agreed, I've made an assumption and I explicitly added adjectives to note so, like "likely", "IMHO", etc. It's not a crazy assumption though, OP seems pretty lost career-wise, no previous dev experience, unable to land a job in a world hungry for devs, and I'd argue they don't seem to have enough people-skills to figure these questions without resorting to the internet, all of which suggest to be either a student or pretty early in their career. Could be mistaken of course, just saying assuming it's someone early in their career to base my answer on something tangible doesn't seem crazy.
I went paperless this year as an engi student with dendron, xournal++, a (used) wacom tablet, and some pdf editors. The main benefits were avoiding scanning, instantly being able to reorganize or copy/paste diagrams, and not having to carry notebooks. Pencil or pen and paper still feels the best but in order to keep everything digital, this was reliable and cheaper than an ipad or tablet. https://alternativeto.net/list/34598/paperless-student/
Insulin resistance is another. It keeps your brain alive when you’re starving, but it destroys millions of pancreases in societies with an over-abundance of food.
With Lecanemab only a relatively small positive effect was able to be shown. With Aducanumab by the same companies, which works similar, even that wasn’t possible even though it’s effective against amyloid oligomers. And there are many more failed treatments targeting amyloid beta.

No matter how the causal relationships are, targeting amyloid beta for treatment does not seem to help enough for treatment.

I would be very interested how genetic evidence can rule out confounding effects.
> in-orbit inference engines on satellites, so processing on vast gobs of data can happen without beaming the reams of data down

The article’s point is this will soon be obsolete. Processing at the edge is enormously costly.
He may have thought it was when he made the offer(given it was even genuine to begin with), but not when it closed. Hence the lawsuit trying to back out. Musk has also said publicly that he over paid.
I agree. The Verge used to be a top tier tech publication, but now many of their articles come across as unnecessarily angry to me — especially since their recent redesign.
I'd go 1 level deeper than that. Agriculture isn't a real market at all. It is closer to govt infrastructure contract work, than selling a commodity. There are no wins, juts minimized losses.

Govts decide farming subsidies, allowable environmental damage & even exploitative immigrant labor practices based on the prices their voters would be willing to pay. This means that an order of magnitude improvement in efficiency will likely lead to reduced subsidies rather than increased profits. Also, the value of food is subjective. Increasing lobster or caviar supply will decrease its perceived desirability just as fast. So infinite scaling laws stop applying pretty quickly.

The one agricultural industry that is ripe for disruption is the fake-DOP industry. A lot of European premium processed DOP goods are expensive because they are manual labor intensive. If you can train some minimum-wage laborers in a 3rd world nation to do the manual labor, then you can sell practically-perfect Parmigiano-Reggiano or Jamon-Iberico for a fraction of their price. As of now, all the fake DOP products are vastly inferior (it isn't rocket science) and still incur huge labor costs because they're still produced in 1st world countries.

Premium sausages, Premium cheeses, Premium sliced meats are ripe for disruption. It won't replace these products in top-tier $$$-$$$$ restaurants. But the more numerous $-$$ restaurants would be salivating at the prospect of such a replacement.

I am already seeing some of this. ~~Columbian~~ (Colombian) Burrata is both cheaper and a better product for US customers due to faster supply chains. I'd like to see more of this from developing and underdeveloped countries with the right climate, soil and water table.
yea, thats what I mean, we have the solutions and they would also work for decentralized protocols which is always presented as the biggest obstacle for alternatives ...
I think my favorite of these was a function that called 4 other functions and didn't do anything else, its unit test mocked out all 4 other functions and asserted that each was called.
Yea. The way I understand it is that Amex will most likely eat the cost in that situation. I want be sure that Airbnb loses money.
Because gradually injecting sulfur is the same as massive uncontrolled natural injections, right?
$30 dollars for an adult cataract surgery:

https://lrbt.org.pk/how-you-can-help/sponsor-a-surgery/
Yes.
Because these governments created and still support the apartheid occupation.
I bet a similar effect could happen with the desktop part. Not around price, or we would've already seen it. Actually, I suspect that's really the reason "the year of Linux on the desktop" never materialized: that Microsoft managed to blur the added burden of its licences on the final prices of laptops and desktop computers.
>We estimate the proportion of cataract surgery patients who have bilateral blindness or severe visual impairment at 10-47% (more). We estimate success in converting blindness or severe visual impairment to moderate visual impairment of 80%-95% (more). We estimate the cost of surgery at $50-$100 (more). Hence, we estimate the cost per blindness or severe visual impairment reversed at $112-$1,250.124

Givewell agrees with the $50 figure.
I'm not so sure it would bring housing prices down as the owners can just rent them out for more than their mortgage as rent demand is also high. Rents have accelerated upwards along with the price of homes. Additionally I see most current owners just staying where they are as the cost to move is too great with increased borrowing costs.

Anecdotal but I have 150k of equity in my house that I bought ~3 years ago and a 4.15% interest rate. Not a great rate but if I was to refinance I am looking at 6%. Even if I was to sell, and get 150k out, any house I want to buy afterwards has appreciated at the same rate as my current one, so it is more expensive as is the loan.

I think the only fix is building more housing but now the loans builders need to take out to build are more expensive as well as are building materials so even new construction is very expensive. In addition, the rate at which new houses are built in so low that they don't appreciably affect existing supply in a hard enough way to even approach demand so prices stay high. The only real fix would be a government financed program that dropped hundreds of billions in near 0 % financing to builders to build hundreds of thousands of homes. That isn't happening.
https://hashbang.sh

Not much on the website. You will find us at the end of the rabbit hole.
I’m baffled that I never saw the name Alan Kay.

Given, I did not read everything. Expected it to be in bright lights, based on the story I was told ;)

(That’s my malformed question)
Given that "ethics" is being actively deployed to neuter or destroy the open source movement, I don't blame them.

Right now, AI art, and it's open source repos that make it possible, are under a sustained attack with the "ethical" banner which seeks to have this technology removed or at least closed sourced so that only Disney can use it.

If that's ethical, than sign me up to be unethical.
Shopify is infamous for asking the question 1. It is a part of what they call "life story" interview.
Microgreens and winter tomatoes aren't going to stave off famine.
It’s a dual-use technology, and while my job is to focus the commercial half of the equation, I’m not ashamed to support the US military and intelligence communities, either.
Android is Linux only in kernel. Also it's not a desktop environment.
A local cop ended up searching a car during a routine traffic stop locally. During inspection of the vehicle, a small container was found containing a small dose of TikTok.

The officer took one sniff of the contents of the container and fell into a coma. We need to get this TikTok stuff off our streets!

/s

TikTok obviously bad, but it's pretty difficult to respect "TikTok is digital fentanyl" when a position someone supports isn't getting enough attention/clicks/emotional weight.
And how soon would their building be turned into yet another polarizing issue, or their building farmed out to contracting companies who would make most of the money disappear?
HotSpot VM is only using a stack for storing local variables when executing byte code. As soon as it needs to optimize a hot path it turns the byte code into register-based cpu-specific assembly.
> The biggest reason personal blogs need to make a comeback is a simple one: we should all be in control of our own platforms.

By "personal" they probably mean that you control the platform. That would imply a self-hosted blog. To be honest, it's not really clear what they mean when they say personal (they use it in a few different ways in the article, but never give a definition) so that could be wrong. But, if the above is true, then that rules out Substack.
Exaggerated? Do you want me to post the video of him saying his objective is the installation of socialism in Brazil? The one they said was fake news? Are you going to claim the decades old video is fabricated?

I really encourage you not to reply to me again.
My $150 Costco special 14" 1080P Chromebook gets as much use as my M1 MacBook Pro because it's also 90% of the DX of a system 10x its cost.

I was initially interested by the Framework, but if I'm spending $1000 or more, I really don't want something that generic in every regard. After moving to OLED, HDR, and/or HFR this year, "here's a laptop that might cost you less if it fails from a repairable issue outside of our 1-year limited warranty, otherwise it's another $1000 for a new mainboard" didn't seem like that awesome a feature in the face of AppleCare+, upcycled ThinkPads, etc.
The Coursera one? That's the exact course I was thinking of.
I believe she was living van Life by choice. Her story was she was on disability from the military. Everything was in good repair, and there were no rooms available in the national Park where we stayed (they're usually booked up two years in advance)
My perception (though I was not alive for this first part) is that there was a shift from giving a shit about your employees and wanting them to have good lives to not giving a fuck about employees if it meant saving a buck. And it took a long time for the culture to catch up.
a private key signed cert as an identity or a part of an identity construct can certainly be important in many domains, but isn't that independent of 'web3'? or are you referring to specific 'web3' projects?
What kind of user/admin are you? To setup a LAN, to setup servers, other? If it's a LAN, what kind of router do you have?

I agree many howtos tend to get into the little obscure differences and weird rabbit holes (ex: tunnelling).
Yea, this is weird. Bootcamps can be useful or useless (depending on a course, instructors and a person), but surely they don't do any harm?

Not everyone goes there to get technical skills, there are people going there for soft skills (practicing working on assignments, especially group assignments, etc.) and networking (at least some bootcamps advertise they have some relationship with recruiting agencies).
It may not be related to nature. I remember reading research on how sunlight and focusing on distant objects is really important for developing proper eyesight. The current issues with eyesight could be a side-effect of spending more time in doors and only staring at things within 20 to 30 ft.

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/the_benefit_of_daylight_for_ou...
Apparent Complexity Can Be Deceptive
Have you tried SwiftUI? It’s not replacing RN any time soon
Brave search is okay and gets me through 95% of what I want.

If I'm looking for something old or obscure, or extremely specific I'll try DDG or startpage.

Brave seems to have a much smaller index, and their parsing of quotes and other switches seems to work about as well as Google (which is to say, not at all). They also mix in Google results when their index fails, which mostly just means your search is contaminated with Google's low quality results.
> Would 100 megapixels make a big difference in availability

No. Everyone talks a big game about SAR and resolution because it’s easier than latency. People don’t pay for resolution, they pay for immediacy. (The folks who do pay for resolution typically have their own birds. There simply aren’t many use cases for occasionally needing hyper-resolution photos of what something looked like a few days or even hours ago.)
I have absolutely no interest in seeing Marc Andreessen swimming naked. Thank you.
Finally! I've had good experience following similar process with Postgres (start with obvious key fields and a json "data" then promote components of "data" to columns; maybe use expression indexes to experiment with optimizations). Good to know this is now possible in sqlite without ugly function calls.
The problem with this is the energy required and then the heat you have to dump. I haven't penciled out the numbers but feels like at least a decade or two of model & gpu improvements to get anywhere close.
I don’t see a problem.
2. Hits home for me as I’ve begun to realize the same thing. Not seeing any person of color in an activity makes it’s so I don’t want to be the first.
You really need to review your maths here. 50% here would mean 112 million people, which is nowhere near the few thousands of old-folks protesting in front of army sites.
I came in to make the same point. You can reserve a small part of your crop for the experiment.

This is exactly akin to how social media companies do growth hacking. Try something new out on x% of the users/crops, measure the results. You don't have to risk your whole farm on it, unless there is a huge capital expense on equipment.
Ask HN: Cissp, OSCP or Certificates from GIAC, Crest
Would any certifications like these be worth acquiring
with a view to employment by someone who's vaguely knowledgeable about programming and computer science but has no experience in security? Which kind is the most respected?
A global response on the scale of Covid to build vertical farms would reduce the severity of the famine dramatically.

It would be expensive, but the alternative would be burning cities and food riots. I can hardly imagine the USA avoiding a civil war considering how divisive and hostile things already have gotten

You can get hydroponics going fairly quickly, the bottleneck would be the supplies and supply chain — materials to build the with
Yeah, I was also thinking about Temporary Vendor Contractors at large companies - and some percentage of them work for an LC - that is just themselves.

But saying that they "work for a small business" seems strange.

This seems true for most contractors, tbh.
Smalltalk is a programming language (+runtime, GUI, development environment) that originated at the Xerox PARC research center in the early 1970s on the Alto computer. Smalltalk was one of the first object-oriented systems (along with the Norwegian Simula system), it differs from Simula/C++-style OO due to using dynamic dispatch (late binding), i.e., selecting which implementation of a polymorphic operation (method or function) to call at run time instead of at compile time.

It had significant influence on the development of the personal computer. Projects at Apple (Lisa/Mac) and Microsoft (Windows) were influenced by the Smalltalk GUI and Smalltalk was also the basis for Objective C, the language behind the NeXT/MacOS/iOS UI frameworks - now on the way to be supplanted by Swift.

More details, as usual, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
I'd say it far too hard to bring up a personal site. Why are there no free tier zero config markdown web hosts including a custom domain for $20/yr? Why doesn't the domain registration entitle you to a single static 100kB page, and/or a redirect to some shared my-site.on.domain.com? Instead there is brittle configuration and/or having to contract a third party.

Come to think of it, what has ICANN been doing with their monopoly? Where is all that (10 figure?) money going to? I don't mind a tax, in fact open source infrastructure would benefit greatly from (tax-financed) bounties, but I see nothing being offered in return. Who's drinking from this neverending firehose?
I do. It’s fine.
citation needed.

"INDIA", "GOVERNMENT", "blocked".

These are POWERFUL usages of words.

Please confirm with multiple / official sources before making such claims.
Blockchain – Innovation or Illusion? (Official – Full Documentary)
I think this is a common theme all over the world where there is a steady increase in corruption with time. But really, this should be expected. Political systems across the world are now many decades old. No system can be perfect and with passing time, more and more vulnerabilities are only discovered. Players exploit these to gain power within the system. The one who manages to exploit most vulnerabilities will tend to be at the top, which means in this day and age, you need to be extremely corrupt in order to reach the top of a system. It's impossible otherwise.
A sibling comment to your mentioned Andrew Ng's class, and I actually had the same experience as them with the same class. You can find it by searching for Stanford CS229; the lectures are available on YouTube.
Because the results of this trial is extremely convincing. The result of the Adecanumab trials was fairly unconvincing, and it was quite possible that the positive results were due to a fluke.

The second reason is that Adecanumab did not (as far as I know) differ in approach to many other amyloid beta antibodies which have clearly failed to treat Alzheimer's in trials. Adecanumab binds to and clears amyloid beta tangles or plaques, but there is good evidence that the amyloid beta plaques are not really driving the disease.

Lecanemab is different and specifically targets a form or conformation of amyloid beta. so called protofibrils, which are more much likely to be driving the disease process.
Increasing worldwide living standards of living leading to increased consumption, and increased meat consumption?
The difference is normal media isn't the main conversations space for many people, social media is.
Show HN: Detecting collision between 500k circles below 5ms
Heya.

I created a flexible collision engine for broad detection in C that's also pretty fast. Personally that's my best, so I wanted to show it here. Although... still not as fast as DragonEnergy's one that supposedly handled millions of agents bouncing off each other every frame on an old i3, haha. I hope I get better at this! He set the bar pretty high for me.

I was considering including some small function that tries finding the nearest entity, although I think it might be better to simply use query for that matter. Perhaps in the future I will get a good idea of how to do that more efficiently.

This is not a clickbait. Although generally you also call other functions in a tick, a collision check between 500,000 circles ("circles", not "squares", because distance is checked and forces are applied based on the angle between) is done below 5ms on not really that demanding hardware. I achieve lower times than that on my budget laptop, slightly more on my PC (yeah, weird). The total time spent in a tick is 3-4 times that.
Colombian*
Socialism and communism are not really the same thing, just to clarify, FYI.
The vscode codebase might be interesting.
It's true that commercial landlords are desperate, but even the most desperate landlord isn't making any money if their tenant isn't paying. That is, unless the business model is "rent to Elon Musk, then make a profit on the lawsuit when he inevitably stiffs you".
Users and pumpers are not the same. The most successful web3 project (helium) is a horrible failure. No one using the network, node owners being paid Pennie’s per month, and the whole product/company could have been tested and developed at 1/10 the cost if they built using a normal centralized model instead of creating a token.
Take a good dump.

To facilitate that, lots of water, tea or anything that will make you use the loo sooner. :)
And more to come tomorrow.
It probably won't be feasible due to cost, but my CV was noticed instantly once I enrolled in a Computer Science bachelor's degree program at a local college. I didn't have the degree and was still in my first year but that seemed to help get through the first-pass filter. My knowledge and skills were then apparent during interview.

If you live somewhere with free or cheap public education then this might actually be easy. And even though I never finished the program (due to life reasons, not my intention) that first year really helped fill in some low-level gaps in my knowledge.

So! Not good advice but it could actually help if you've tried everything else.
Don’t rely on credibility stamps (2021)
This is terrifying. I wonder what it'd take for a mini-brain to gain consciousness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_organoid#Ethics
I think it’s because boot camp graduates often have no experience prior to the boot camp, so they’ll often only have 3 months coding experience total. Whereas most other applicants will have much more experience than that even if they have no professional experience.
Not a chance in hell.
It seems that "the recession is now officially here, so you should sell your risk assets" will be a pretty good bottom signal.
From first look on article, seen something wrong, and now seen code and understand what is wrong.

Algorithm I see is very simple, nothing could brake there, but author don't share communication routines, and here is core of problem.

Few years ago I have worked on project, where one thread sends huge amounts of data to other, using standard CriticalSection routines to synchronize threads.

They are simple to use, but even with hardware support are extremely slow - on 3Hgz class cpu give about million transactions per second.

I was too lazy to finish that project, but it's very clear for me, that I just need to rewrite messaging part, to send not one string, but batch of strings, so million transactions per second will be for example, 100 millions strings, or billion strings.

Same thing I see here - accept inter-thread communication is laggy, and rewrite code, so it will send larger packets, so there will be less transactions, and you will get easy performance gain.
It was Andrew Ng's machine learning class on Coursera