skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting, i didn't realize that the redefinition meant that avogadro's constant was no longer the ratio between daltons and grams. unsurprisingly this is controversial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...

i think it's good to be specific about what you mean by 'very accurately' though; maybe i misunderstand but i think the uncertainty of measurement is about 10⁻¹⁰ in all three cases

if we were designing the metric system today instead of in 01795 we would probably define the unit of mass as something like 10²⁴ atoms of silicon-28 (about 47 grams)
The article also notes that other mathematicians very quickly advanced his work from 10% to 38% and wondered why he hadn't just done it himself, since it was relatively simple. He explained that his skills were rusty after being out of mathematics for six years.
If you use this on a massive scale there won't be much moisture left for our plants.
I think defining art wholly and solely by the intentions (and humanity) of the artist is clear cut at least, but not very illuminating, because for the person experiencing the art these properties are in general unknowable.

100 years hence you find a beautiful image. Is it art? Who knows — we don’t know whether the artist intended it to be, nor whether they were even human.
You train on a subset and verify on another subset, validating your model.
Man arrested after car plunges off California cliff
I like black and python 3 - but that’s pretty funny! In fairness black is opinionated on purpose - even if it understood u”” it’d remove it if it’s targeting 3 probably because it tries to reformat to one style. Amazing how long the ripples last though
Can you show me how "basic photoshop tools" can do this in 20 seconds?: https://ahrm.github.io/images/2023-01-02-three-eyes/inpainti...
To summarize part 1:

- Journalists investigate 2016-2020 leak of phone numbers targeted by NSO advanced spyware

- reveals that it was not primarily remotable exploits, but rather involved social engineering in many cases

- uncover victims near Khashoggi, but only after the killing

- uncover possibly corrupt use by the Mexican government, as well as a brief narrative on operator-side

- uncover use in Azerbaijan against journalists
It's a silly rule. As someone mentioned in an answer there, what happens if someone copy-pastes an answer from a site he found on the Internet, and that site happens to have its content generated by AI?
Nobody really wanted to integrate RISC-V support anywhere while the ISA and ABI was unstable. That only really got finalized last year, so I am not surprised that it took this long.
Heh, ditto. I don't think I got any new info that I didn't get in high school calculus, but it is a well done review of things I hadn't seen in a couple of decades
Ask HN: Why is computer programming addiction not taken seriously by society?
Shouldn't there be computer programming addiction programs just like those for other addictions?
Inertia maybe? A web page peppered with video controls and blocks seems busy and distracting to me. It feels like heaviness, bloat and overhead (even if technically it isn't). A couple of GIF animations showing simple actions works for me. So it may be more subjective than objective?
The article you wrote on this is worth reading for anyone who missed it:

https://danielbmarkham.com/the-overlords-finally-showed-up/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34126450
Yup, more high quality content from the likes of TikTok.
They’ve sparked plenty of open source, do your research if you care. Regardless, OpenAI owes nothing to anyone.
This is a common misconception. Helium and hydrogen leaking into ultra-high vacuum systems is a problem since even trace amounts spoil the vacuum. The leakage out of a storage vessel is completely negligible.
The politics of your average blue collar worker, union or not, is very far from what comes out of the mouth of your average white collar left leaning type on pretty much every issue except possibly union stuff (and abortion stuff which varies wildly depending on where you propose on drawing the policy line and is a pretty low priority to your average blue collar worker in general) if the particular blue collar worker swings that way on that issue.

So yeah, the left having to cater to blue collar people is bad for the people who care about the stuff the left is currently prioritizing.
Unfortunately some countries don't allow you to change your name :-/ But in the US, yeah, it's fairly easy.
It’s been known for a long time, but sort of vanished off the radar for much of this century. I can only imagine it’s because it has applications as “mixture separators” as this webpage shows https://www.lanl.gov/org/ddste/aldps/materials-physics-appli... and so it could be used to enrich uranium (in the form of uranium hexaflouride gas), in a more robust way than the stupid legacy centrifuge technology. Thus all the interesting research on it must have been classified.
and to an extend how do you keep track of which unique part is active in which site if e.g a website gets hacked and resets your current password, because in case of a password manager i just create a new one and be done, on top of my mind i would have the question for you: would you recreate all websites with a new unique part or just create a system for outliers?
not to offend, just had several of these incidents in my years and for me a password manager is much more piece of mind
The NHS isn't built to handle the modern British man/woman's health.

According to the ONS, 64% of adults are overweight and obese. To add to that, we have a more aged population than when the NHS was founded. Binge drinking and social drinking are the absolute norm, and smoking/vaping is on the increase (smoking increased during Covid because people were "bored", people take up vaping who never smoked).

People abandon the last bastions of basic daily exercise in walking and cycling, in preference of e-scooters.

A population with an apathetic view towards keeping fit and healthy. The NHS will only get better if a good proportion of the population decide to handle their own health. That seems unlikely to happen.

Go to any gym and see what the very few people who exercise constitute as a workout. Walking on a treadmill for 15 minutes or sat on machines reading their phones. However everybody seems to walk around in athletics / yoga clothing.

Go out for a run and see how many people you see running. Most people you meet do zero exercise beyond walking around.

All the while, every apartment block in our cities sees 20 Deliveroo/Just Eat takeaway deliveries per hour. Restaurant dining is a multiple-time-per-week activity. Salty and oily food dominates in fast food, takeaways, ready meals and restaurants.

This makes people angry because it's the truth.

If you want to see why the NHS will collapse, take a 5 minute walk around any built up area in the UK and look at people's (substantial) guts.
As a blogger I don't really have incentives providing content if no one will read it. Sure, places like HN can still promote those, but that's no comparison to Google.

Even without monetization, the size of the audience is a big incentive for many to create content. And monetization isn't bad, it allows some content creators to spend more time and resources on their content.
Wishful thinking at best. As long some sucker is willing to fund this it will continue. Worst case scenario, it fails spectacularly and society pays for it.
They’re making slime out of household cleaning products so yup!
Ask HN: Are Generated Passphrases Safe?
I'm currently migrating from LastPass to Bitwarden. As part of the process, I'm updating a bunch of passwords. Bitwarden's generator can create random passphrases like the following:

spiny approval avalanche uncouth tattoo

Are these generated passphrases suitable for use on more sensitive accounts? I'm currently using generated passwords with numbers and symbols (20+ characters) but this can be a bit of a pain when I need to input a password using my TV remote or dictate it to my partner. I don't have a great sense for what's easily crackable so it would be great to get some opinions from those more familiar with the cryptography space.
Why the doubt? For example based on the latest studies, Psilocybin for PTSD should held reduce “crazy people on the streets.”

I don’t think drugs will “save America” either, but I think they can help some Americans suffer less.
I took their comment to mean that the definition of art lies in the fact that a human created it as a response to their experiences as a human. Beautiful things can be made from suffering. Maybe therein lies the undoing or redemption of suffering. At least sometimes or to some degree, even if minuscule.
> An atom-for-atom copy of the Mona Lisa wouldn't be great art

So no photo of the Mona Lisa is art, just the original painting is? I'm not sure if I understand your reasoning here correctly.
It's not a perfect fix, but adding a sail to control the direction of the castors can often help a bit.
Utilities and governments tend to have close relationships.

Governments want utilities to continue working at reasonable prices, so they regulate utilities heavily. In exchange, utilities get protection against competition. This is true in many countries.

Specifically around solar, there's a concept called "utility death spiral" where more and more people opt out of the grid, causing the grid to be unmaintainably expensive. This the dream that solar conpanies tell their investors.

Power companies would of course want protection from the utility death spiral, and can often get it.

Disconnection isn't always illegal. Another form this can take is "all houses have to pay a grid fee, whether or not they are connected".
The Carbon Footprint of ChatGPT
Do the experiment: Take one of those novels for which you think you don't care who wrote it.

Now imagine you found out that novel was actually generated by a computer program. It's the same text, but you now know that there is no human behind it, just an algorithm.

Would that make a difference for how you view the story? It certainly would to me. If it makes even a tiny difference to you as well, it demonstrates that you do care about the artist, even in cases where you don't notice it under normal circumstances.
Maybe so, but can you show any data that it's a significant or meaningful problem and not a visible scapegoat? The data I found (above) makes clear that deleting the short-term rental market would not even dent the housing shortage problem in the United States.

I could believe (and maybe someone in this thread has data!) that in some extremely over-constrained markets that units are disproportionately used for short-term rentals. But I haven't seen any numbers. And in those cases, you still should be building homes to solve the root cause problem.

Americans persistently seem to want to find any reason at all to absolve themselves of responsibility for the housing crisis. It's investors! It's short-term rentals! It's corporate landlords! But it's never the locals who oppose construction.
Research talk: Storing data for millennia
Most Play apps have no NDK code so they work fine.
The credit agency is reporting what has been reported to them. If credit agency Foo correctly reports that “Bank A has reported to us that mhb is delinquent on their loan”, that’s not libel if the bank did report that and the agency has no reason to believe the underlying fact is untrue. (Once you start the dispute process, they stop saying that for a while until it’s resolved. My mental model is a lot of the dispute process is based on avoiding libel.)
It's not really about the level of the fees.

RISC-V is "permissionless". Grab a core from github, grab the freely available specs, and start working. No up front agreement, no fees down the road. For Arm you have to enter a legal agreement before you can start, and then negotiate licensing for your product.

Also Arm have been acting aggressively recently which doesn't make other customers feel happy: https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/01/qualcomm_arm_cpu/
This.

Outsourcing the credibility assessment to the link graph was the whole point of PageRank, because most people wouldn't know where to start with whitelisting sources for their query (and if they did, a general web search engine wouldn't be where they started).

If I want pg's opinion on startups, I go to his blog. If I want to find a venue near me, or the web presence for a company somebody has mentioned, or a description of a particular phenomenon I'm not familiar with, or whether a particular error message has been seen by other people, or where to buy something, or some information on a place in a foreign country or what Foo means, I don't want to start off by specifying who I trust to provide this information. And even if I did, I suspect I'd be disappointed by how little information Paul Graham, my favourite YouTubers and the Pope had to offer on any of these subjects.
Parallel streaming in Haskell: Part 1 – Fast, efficient, and fun
This is not an issue at all. Helium is inert and relatively cheap. Filling the device with a couple hundred liters will cost a few Euros.
Great video but there was no need for that clickbaity title.
Valid points! I basically copy over my auth templates and tweaks from one project to the next but it should be a basic working auth out of the box (unstyled templates).
I don't think it'a good thing it all. There are multiple reasons for this

One is for something to have quality you need to support people making it. And the AI doesn't make stuff, it just repackages it. If there was no one on the internet writing about 'x' topic the AI couldn't give you an answer. And by pretending AI does actually write it we are lowering the support for the real creators which makes them less likely to write. They need to eat, and it's great if they can get their bread by writting because they do their job and get their bread. If they no longer can do that, they will put hours into something else which gives us less writing.

Second one is that AI will probably in my eyes be the leading subject of making sure there's more fake news and less scientific literacy. This would be too big to sum up in short text form. But how I see it the important stuff happens because of perspective/context changes. But the web and AI programs have next to no context. If I go on the web I get a small glimpse of someone's view, before it gets mushed together with someoene elses short view, and then an ad, and some completely unrelated paragraph about some event happening on the other side of the globe, and so on and so on. It's like studying something in a circus. There's no context in a circus outside of chaos and I think the same applies to technologies we build and are building. There's lot of data, but very little communication or meaning happening. Now imagine how the world looks if majority of what is written is made by machines we've build to spin around existing (already crazy with no context) written word and produce more of it?
https://archive.is/NeU6q
>They really cannot do that since they need to show great quarterly numbers otherwise stock will plunge

How does a deteriorating product that people are complaining about lead to "great quarterly numbers"? Google does not benefit, in any sense beyond the immediate short-term, by providing lousy search results to customers.

I think part of the problem is that the average person is unable to distinguish good from crap, and the bar for "quality" content is really low.
> The problem with google search is they do not want to eliminate spam. They really cannot do that since they need to show great quarterly numbers otherwise stock will plunge.

Why would shareholders value high amounts of spam in the search index?
Explainable AI specifically Language Models will be a very interesting field to follow then.
Yup, when I saw the initial report I wondered if it was a murder/suicide, or an extremely distracted or inattentive driver.

I've driven that section of Highway One South of Pacifica many times and it's narrow, so it could have been an accident, because lots of folks have gone over the cliff there and died over the years.

I hope the survivors of this family will be able to recover, and if the driver really did attempt to murder them, they should never get out of prison.

And the Hart family murder/suicide happened just about 20 miles North of my current town at my favorite turnout, which I now can't hang out at and enjoy the view anymore, too brutal of a memory.

I walked by the Hart family the day before the tragic event, they had just come out of our local ice cream shop, and couldn't help but notice them due to their mixed race.

As far as I recall, it was determined that it was only the driver who did it, as the rest of them had been heavily dosed with Benadryl.

The body of one child was never found.

Also, several years before that and about 10 miles further South, a mother drove her van off the cliff in a similar murder/suicide at Blues Beach.

I believe they all survived but the baby had permanent brain damage due to being upside down for hours before a local discovered them.

So damn sad... RIP.
Keeping knives sharp seems to be hard if you put them in the dishwasher. Maybe your friend just sharpens them a lot?
How do you recognize that a comment has been written by a bot?
What do you consider a “serious racist”?
Except that's not at all what Doctor means, not even remotely. Doctor has a specific meaning, and it's understood to mean a set of credentials. If you don't have it, but say you do, you're lying. It's absolutely relevant. If someone is claiming to have credentials they don't have, then they're untrustworthy.
People also see nature as art. A photo from a butterfly, a cat doing cute stuff, the sunset, and so on. None of them are man made, no one suffered for them to exist (usually). None of these are valid?
Genuine question - what do you think "public domain" means?
I did similar but with one main difference! I bought a block of Overcast adverts in a relevant category. (https://overcast.fm/ads)

It was still doing hundreds of downloads per month a year after the last episode (podfaded unfortunately, my co-host didn't have any more free time after having a kid). The folks clicking the ad seemed to enjoy the show and from there word of mouth took over.

Like you say not everything needs to make money, but that worked for me(tm) in terms of growing the audience. YMMV ofc, could have just been lucky.

The biggest thing I got out of it (aside from dopamine in the moment of course) was the speaking skills. Just being able to project my voice better, better formulate my thoughts, etc. Well worth doing in hindsight.
You don't see the term spyware much anymore. I suppose that is the result of almost everything being spyware now. Also, how would you even go about creating a spyware scanner given the OS is itself spyware?

Well it turns out that my definition of spyware misses "covert" (according to Google search top results). As if that matters. When I dig deeper, that "covert" qualifier is nowhere to be found. In some definitions you find exactly what you expect, including a definition from a virus scanner domain. There is no specific requirement for spyware to be "covert."

I would increase the qualifiers to include covert, mostly-monopolistic (is there a word for this?), or not immediately apparent to the average IQ.

Because I am far more worried about the non-covert spyware and what it is doing to humanity.
The problem has gone far beyond spam of the "doctors hate this one little trick" variety. Have you looked at Google Shopping results (which are now prominently displayed at the upper right of the search results page if it detected you were looking for a product), recently? A significant number of the results are outright fraud from fake websites. During the pandemic when it was impossible to find a bicycle anywhere, you could search for a popular model name and be presented with dozens of purportedly in stock bikes at or below MSRP. Every single one of the listings would take you to a web retailer, based in Asia, that was completely fraudulent. Most of the sites would have been created within the last couple of day (to avoid negative reviews when you searched the shop name) so there was no way that something like PageRank was organically producing those results (and these were not explicitly labeled ads, these were showing up in the Shopping results section where the Knowledge Graph usually went).
Dang, are there really no other HL:A quality games for VR? I picked a Valve Index and have been playing through Alyx an hour or so at a time and each time I think to myself "I never want this game to end." I've been trying to find some games to play after it but haven't really found any.

I've installed the HL2 VR mod and played that a few times, but without teleporting movement I got sick quiet easily. I saw another commenter saying you have to acclimate yourself to that, so I suppose I will try that in between sessions of Alyx.

Here's to hoping someone makes something as polished and as beautiful as HL:A
i concur, though you seem to have more experience with epoxies than i do

it's easy and cheap to get an electronic strain-gauge balance that measures weights to ±0.05%, though weighing things out that precisely is quite challenging, especially if they are viscous liquids. (note that the rounding error in the densities you give is probably ±½%)

but measuring small amounts of viscous liquids by volume i think you'll probably get errors more like ±10%

powders, like for cooking or for resin fillers, are even less precise to measure by volume
I.e. mathematical history.

I think one power of calculus (and everything else) is that you don't need the history. The same way I don't need the history of the hammer to use a nail. What drives my interest is the examples. At the end, the book author talks about students not paying attention until the teacher starts talking about examples. To me, that suggests you should first contextualize and create a need for the tool, then describe the tool. Not to start introducing names of dead people, no matter how great they were. (At least where I grew up, this will always devolve into the curriculum requiring you to know those names and dates, draining focus from what actually matters.)
Does a mountain have meaning? Does a flower? They don't suffer (probably), yet people find meaning in them and call them beautiful.

The unfeeling geology did not make a mountain "art". It's up to us to see the meaning.

Even if the unfeeling machine learning does not make "art", can't its products still be beautiful?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green_Homes
Does no one work in a business? Does no one work with science instruments purchased more than 5 years ago? Businesses have lots of useful dependencies that have not ported. If you are running a payroll system and it’s working, there is a real aversion to going to a new code base, and the cost benefit is not there for many businesses. You do realize python 2 is downloaded 3 million times per month now? Yes that’s down - but it’s not nothing - probably 300 - 400 thousand plus users easily
*Assuming the ATVI/MSFT merger goes through, which it might not. The title should really say Activision Blizzard's first union is formed in the US.
Lot of great comments here. Couple things I've seen in America talking to Boomers who are (trying) to sell their business.

1) the owner is absolutely integral for day to day ops. These businesses in all practicality are people who are self employed at a high level (if owner isn't there, the place doesn't run).

2) the asking price for some of these businesses can be absurd, mostly due to the Boomer needing it to fund retirement, or a large injection of capital late in their life. They have a mentality that this is America, and it's our god given birth rite to grow indefinitely, etc. they've put their life and soul into it and sometimes don't see economic realities. Also, they cook the hell out of their books. A lot of this passes through the cracks because no accountant or tax person even understands the business or expenses.