skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This quote...

> When I handed the form in to the security officer, he scanned it quickly, looked me over slowly, then said, ``Explain this''--pointing at the FBI question. I described what had happened. He got very agitated, picked up my form, tore it in pieces, and threw it in the waste basket.

Reminds me of this scene from Starship Trooper...

https://youtu.be/Le-uDcNlJO4?t=118
> but that's disinformation because we know the shots were safe and effective

Effective?

Covid vaccines was tested and approved for a single indication, prevention of COVID-19, and they have failed miserably at that.

Everyone I know got Covid regardless of vaccination. This is also clear from national data across countries.

To quote Feynman:

> For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I'm confused, shouldn't a car from 2016 be immobilized? And the ignition switch needs to respond to the ECU with a payload from the RFID chip in the proper ignition key?
Agree, and this is one of the things that infuriates me with macOS. The new "Settings" app can't even be maximized horizontally anymore.
> Before an entire local FBI office spent even a day on this case (let alone 6 weeks), maybe they should have asked some of those professionals to look at the supposed "Japanese code key" page?

That sounds far less exciting than scrambling to find a fifth columnist and potentially being hailed as a hero.
Like many startups it got hyped to make those exiting at the right time rich, but remove the hype and the product folds as cannot deliver (yet?) on such lofty expectations. Even if technology can be made to work eventually, it will struggle to overcome this feeling of a letdown. My 2c.
The parent comment didn't call it out, but this proof relies on the fact that √2 - 1 is less than 1. (This is necessary when we conclude that k(√2 - 1) is less than k.) The same is not true of √4 - 1.

If you look at my more explicit proof sidethread, the problem occurs in line L1, where instead of going from "√2 < 2" to "√2 - 1 < 1", you'd go from "√4 < 4" to "√4 - 1 < 3" and then you'd be stuck. (My proof won't even work for √3, but it seems safe to say that the problem with √3 is correctable and the problem with √4 is not.)
Imo, rich people want poor people to eat this as a punishment too. There is literally no shortage of rich people actively against ecology in any form.
How to stop procrastinating: Life Kit
A configuration management system. Actually I didn't build it, but have used different implementations at every job. Why can't this just be a commodity? It's not exactly doing anything very different in each case.
Worst ui decision of all times. Toggling is never enough so you color it to green for true and gray for false.
Impossible burger is good, idk what ur talking about.
TIL. IIUC, LZ4 doesn't care about the compression ratio (to which you are correct I had been alluding) but does strongly care about guaranteeing a block maximum size. (so still the same kind of concern, just on an absolute and not a relative basis)
The formula is literally in equation 11.
Is this a regional thing?

With the amount of vegan stuff I see advertised I'd assume the meat replacement industry has grown remarkably.

Is this talking about specific VC backed brands, or specific subproducts?

> Impossible has spun up new products such as animal-shaped faux chicken nuggets and blitzed supermarkets, leading to more than 50% retail sales growth in the US in 2022.

The article seems to be mostly talking about Beyond Meat not living up to their "we'll replace the meat industry overnight" pitch. But the wider market seems to be doing fine.
Yes! Seems this would be the next logical steps.
Expecting Tesla to build something as good as Atlas in 1 year is maybe demanding a bit too much? Boston Dynamics have 30 years of experience and 500 people employed currently. I'd guess if you give Tesla 30 years they could probably do something decent. Personally I think there's something like a 90% chance Tesla will give up on the bot after 'almost' getting it to work for the next 10 years. Would love to be proven wrong!

Obviously there's a really good economic incentive to work on labor replacing robots of any kind, so I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of startups in this space in the next 5-10 years.

I am actually a little bit surprised on why we are not seeing more kitchen robots in restaurants. Ten robots flipping burgers and assembling them and one 18 year old to hit the emergency break every now and then to remove the mustard stain on the depth camera of robot #4. (Actually robot restaurants probably wouldn't have humanoid bots, but look more like an industrial food assembly lines that served the food on plates instead of cartons that get deep frozen at the end.)
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PC LOAD A4, you mean.
It should be taught how to "size" your planning / iterating balance.

Few years ago I made a tiny vue app (to learn that lib) and every time I though adding a feature would go one way, it went another, and made me see things I didn't perceive about the app structure.

At first it felt frustrating but if you size features on the smaller side (~agile spirit) and change your spirit it becomes a new kind of pleasurable skill in itself.

It also impacts how you write code, because you anticipate a bit the potential refactorings now. So you tend to become very frugal and efficient in how you code and how you abstract. Which another pleasurable skill.

Something no moonshot side project ever taught me.
Apps is commonly used to describe desktop software nowadays. From Windows (https://apps.microsoft.com/store/apps, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-...) to Linux (https://apps.gnome.org/, https://apps.kde.org/, https://flatpak.org/).
From that article:

> He also remarked that they had asked him if he knew me socially and that he had answered "Yes, we just celebrated Guy Fawkes Day together". When the investigator wanted to know "What is Guy Fawkes Day?" he started to explain the gunpowder plot but thought better of it. He settled for the explanation that "It's a British holiday".
Even if fake meat tasted better and cost less, people would still eat meat too. I like chicken more than potatoes, yet I still eat potatoes.

Fake meat's best outcome would be for it to be enjoyed as much as meat, but it couldn't replace it. It would just be another thing to experience.
No cameras 20-30 years ago.
Some actually do.

If folks are escalating to the neteng crews it usually means something is broken via normal channels and it could use attention.

That's social network is exercised for a variety of things:

Abuse, ddos, IP spoofing, botnet C2s being hosted somewhere, malware hosting, complex customer investigations, route leaks, route hijacks, routing loops, congestion, executives home internet issues and more.
Not really sure, depends on who had a partnership with BurgerKing Germany.
I happily confirmed that the settings app in GNOME Shell 42 implements sliding correctly, it works fine.. so I tried slide, slide, slide and a little bit more and the gnome-shell process crashed :)
This is clever and thoughtful, but it encodes a 32-bit timestamp in seven base32 characters. It would have been simpler and just one more character to use eight hex digits. Alternatively, maybe go to 4 second resolution and use 30 bit timestamps, so they fit in six base32 chars instead of seven.
https://archive.is/j5C1Z
You can convert the robots movement, including balancing with arms, to a language and make a LLM for that too :)
Guide for active learning in computer vision
The "back in the day" hand-written features are still the to go method in safety critical applications and aerospace (autonomous landing etc), excluding of course self driving cars.

Sometimes you just cannot replace a provable method with a black box neural net, even if the latter is in fashion.
Could you elaborate what you consider "properly dealing with it" in this context? They are definitely not ignoring it, as they take extra steps to make it not produce it.

As they try to stop it from producing it, I assumed that critizing this filtering means someone wants the AI to produce those things.
I thought the color/highlight was the only hint, it wasn't clear to me if left or right is on.
It's tech community, but also a "best of the web" aggregator for nerds - the beauty of this site is that is both tech and hackish, but you can also find interesting and surprising stories about politics, science and humanities. It is paid by big venture capital money (ycombinator); they use this site to create buzz about their own startups. They pay full time moderators (or at least 1) to keep the environment clean from spam and flames.

edit: another reason behind its success I think it's due to its functional interface (html and just a bit of styling: how the web should be), that make it pleasant to use.
I don't know. Something must be wrong with the way I think.

In your eCommerce example, what is the product/service? The payment system? Is the payment system A? Or payment is B? All these answers are wrong. The product/service is "make the eCommerce for Europe". That service should have value, how is that "bringing to Europe" value a software engineer's responsibility? In order to materialize the "eCommerce Europe" we need a payment system. Now comes the role of the software engineer: design, propose payments systems. A payment system has nothing to do with the value of the product.

My responsibility is to provide a correct, within the specs, payment system. In your example, the first solution is not acceptable (I don't even consider it a solution).

Now suppose you shipped the "eCommerce Europe" with correct payment system. But the product/service "eCommerce Europe" didn't take off as in US. Didn't the Software Engineer produce value? It doesn't make sense to me. The Software Engineer produced the value: designed, developed, tested and shipped the payment system. Thats the value of a software engineer.
> mostly because scrolling is fundamentally incompatible with columns

How so? You just scroll horizontally rather than vertically. Even actual scrolls come in both vertical and horizontal (column-based) formats.
My wife is vegan, so we eat a lot of vegan food at home. One of the treats of being in the UK is the huge variety of vegan products at the supermarket. Fake bacon, fake chicken, fake cheese, UK supermarkets seem to have an endless variety. None of these items are made by Beyond or Impossible, though.
Welcome! We find you equally anomalous. Any tips on avoiding HackerNews for 10 years?
Seitan* you can actually make it at home easily, same for tempeh, reducing the amount of unknown things you eat even more since you control every step of the process
Pandoc is a great piece of software. As a university teacher and researcher, I use it in three ways:

1. I write markdown for my website and for the websites for my research projects and simply generate standalone html out of it. Done.

2. When we create electronic exams, the exam platform takes questions using a html-backed rich text editor. We write down our exam questions using markdown, create html document fragments, that we simply paste into the exam platform.

3. When students do electronic exams, we receive xml files from our exam platform. We use python to pass on submissions to different submission checkers (akin to autograders or static analysis) and create yaml files with the student submission and grading suggestions and static analysis annotations. We manually review and grade and comment within the yaml file (that works incredibly well), collect all the data using python and generate markdown reports for each student, including their submission, our comments and scoring. We pass this markdown through pandoc, creating well layouted pdfs which we either print and hand out or send out electronically.

Pandoc fits our yaml+markdown-based processes very well. Only for the actual research papers we still write LaTeX and build pdfs without pandoc.
Not sure, to answer your question, and I've been here daily for years. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
How about reproducing plants out of meat? Can there be an industry trying to make meat-based carrots? ;P

https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb8wmx/arbys-has-invented-a-...
If you remember Slashdot (they're still a thing, by the way), Hacker News is a more modern spin on that. An aggregation site around which thrives geeks, nerds, and neckbeards.
The fewer people you have to answer to or debate with, the better. If it's just you and an artist making a game, your job is just to convince the artist why you need to change that level boss. It's a lot easier for a few creative people to make a good decision that they're comfortable committing time to than it is for them to have that decision rammed down their throat by a corporate hierarchy that doesn't actually touch any art or code.
Funny thing is that hacker news was and still is pretty much a clone of the first version of reddit, before reddit had subreddits, and was created to preserve the original reddit experience, before it got popular.
Nobody knows, exciting isn‘t it?
I found it to me more along the lines of 'thou dost protest too much', because otherwise it makes little sense. Why can we not be irritated by people who treat service workers poorly, for example? I used to be one, and I know what it is like. I am also a person so I know what that is like, and I don't like people who treat others poorly. That isn't because I am projecting, it is because I am empathetic.

However, if I think that everyone is out to cheat me, or that other people always value money over loyalty, and I express that to you and it seems kind of out of proportion to things that have actually happened to me, then you should look at me suspiciously because most likely those are traits I have.
I think that’s the issue isn’t it, the sales aren’t living up the hype.

We’ll, no shit, it was sold as the answer to everything and it turns out that it’s just another addition to the food market with some appeal to some people.

I hope that it doesn’t disappear, basically because it make my life easier. But the takeaway from this should probably be along the lines of being skeptic all of the hype, always.
It never occurred to me to mix real and fake meat. Now I'm curious. Maybe I'll have to try a 50/50 ground beef mix, just out of curiosity, haha.

My comparison method so far was the Whopper.
I know I'm old but I still see light switches all around me. Doesn't anyone flip them anymore?

It's cultural but this has nothing to do with Windows, Linux, and iOS. You flip a switch, the light comes on immediately. This is about the immediacy of switches, not iOS devices.
I don't want any ads, ever, but if I have to pick, then absolutely I want ads that are completely useless to me. My issue with ads is that they are trying to manipulate me and I think that is morally wrong. This is less likely to succeed if they show me things that I would never buy.
$15 says you work in sales (very fun comment to read)
You're right about mediocre researchers and their career satisfaction, and
you're right to say that there's too many people pursuing research careers who
shouldn't, but on the one hand you 're saying that some people are talented
and special and on the other hand you're saying that the people who do well in
life are those whose circumstances other than their talent (e.g. caring for a
disabled child) enable them to make a valuable contribution to science.

So, someone who is talented and special, can nevertheless fail to make a
valuable contribution because of their other circumstances. That's not life
being unfair in handing out talent to everyone, that's the organisation of
society being dysfunctional. Who knows what groundbreaking discoveries we are
missing because the next Einstein or the next Darwin is a single mother of two
living on benefits, in some inner city ghetto? If talent is not cultivated, it
never yields fruit.

There's unfairness, and then there's the incompetence and pretentiousness of
people who hold the keys to the treasury. I think the concern is mainly with
the incompetence, and when people complain about unfairness, often it's the
incompetence that really bothers them. After all, you can't do anything about
unfairness, we really can't all be Albert fucking Einstein. But we should
really be able to do a lot more about the incompetence that keeps most people
from reaching their true potential.

Btw, I so disagree with you about what school results tell you about kids'
talents, but that's another discussion I guess.
Thank you for putting this into words! It gets worse when it is for handling destructive actions. And it is not clear which way it is or it isn't destroying things. Actual nightmare material.
Rare egg fossils reveal dinosaurs weren't doting parents – CNN
"Abundant" != "ubiquitous," but I see your point. There are always exceptions, but in aggregate (no pun intended...) the world's agricultural soils have no shortage of minerals.

Ultimately, this might be a simple story of "better soil outcompetes lower quality soil." Stop the presses! :) But I don't see how one exceptional case invalidates the use of soil biology to break down in-situ minerals.

I haven't evaluated their property, but they may benefit from relatively inexpensive glacial rock dust amendment. Sounds like their system could be rate-limited in the rock weathering step, not the biological activity.
I've been vegetarian (99% vegan food intake) for five years, and the main reason I regularly buy so few of these products is that most of them are absurdly expensive, and most of the ones that aren't are not very nice to eat.

Also turned off by gimmicks clearly not aimed at me, such as 'beetroot blood', and other nonsense.

I don't know whether the economy-of-scale issues are what make these products so expensive, or whether the manufacturers were rubbing their hands together at a possible inroad into a wealthy 'hipster' market, and priced their wares accordingly.

I do know that the prices have to come down before I will even start experimenting with some of these offerings. Right now I have zero motivation to 'treat myself' by trying an overpriced vegan burger that is too expensive to become a regular purchase.
> LiteFS isn't the only way to replicate a SQLite database.

What are other ways to replicate that you're aware of?

Another approach I like is to use a replicated block storage like GCP Regional Persistent Disks. This is making failover trivial. But then I'm not sure the replica can be used as a read-only copy.
Imo theres also a problem with solving "tedious labor" in that you will start displacing workers with automation at a rate the employment market cannot compensate for.
Ask HN: Will we be able to replace corporate middle management with AI?
I'm only half joking. If we look at some of the tasks of middle management pulled from a google search...

- Developing their team by conducting reviews, delivering constructive feedback and coaching, creating and executing development plans, scheduling one-on-one meetings, co-creating objectives and professional goal-setting

- Ensuring frontline implementation of policies, procedures, and new change initiatives

- Defining objective and goal setting for their department, region, location, or division

- Implementing process and continuous improvements to reduce costs and increase profitability or contribution for the group they oversee

- Establishing and tracking budget, spend and revenue, as well as quarterly and annual goals and targets

- Driving a positive customer experience, independent of whether the customer is external or internal

- Keeping the pulse on competitors, new entrants, and possible disruptors

This all looks doable with current technology.

Also AI would have certain advantages such as honesty, fairness and integrity.
It's not the taste i have a problem with but the nutritional value. Most meat replacement products taste decent to me but they're high in fat (seed oils) and lower in protein than meat (and lower quality protein).
This article seems a little self contradictory and also goes against my own anecdotal experience.

In the UK I am seeing more faux-meat products than ever. And at least half of the adverts I've seen in the last few months for meat products (fast food burgers, frozen foods, etc.) have been for "fake meat". It seems as popular as ever.

I know people that will now buy mostly a fake meat based meal, where as before they would have eaten the vegetarian option (for example the vegetable patties that were available before the fake meat choices).
Make me think does living things' evolution make of pure functional utility purpose?
The patties themselves are packed with fat and heme iron (which is an unhealthier form of iron).
Welcome to the hivemind.
Nvidia Broadcast 1.4 Adds Eye Contact and Vignette Effects
For me the solution is Cookie AutoDelete extension. It allows cookies but silently deletes them (and optionally other storage) after specified amount of time (5 hours for me). So the sites don't break and I don't have to close browser to clear cookies.
You are correct. Different type of “persona,” in my case. These were fake user accounts, crafted to be as “real” as possible.

However, we used to use “personas,” in the OP sense, in my previous job, when designing UX.

Like I said. Pictures were both good and bad. They helped to make the personas “real,” but they could also give us bias towards/against certain personas.
it's completely normal to take part in gossip. in fact, it's a social skill. if you are afraid of what people say about you, then you are probably the problem here. i'm not going to go into why gossip isn't the worst thing in the world, but there are different levels of bad mouthing.

being late is also very normal. again, maybe it is you who are not being clear about your expectations or, more likely, are reading too much into it.
"by collectively working much much less. "

Or we can change our definition of what work is. There is work and there are (money paying) jobs.

The world is full of problems and full of work. Problems on the planet, problems on the mind, problems on the hearts.

And the universe is big and waiting, so I am really not afraid, that robots will steal me a purpose in life.
HN was created in 2007 by Paul Graham originally as a "news aggregator" with a comment facility, as part of his YCombinator venture capital startup incubator thing. I think the idea was to source links to news of interest to the tech/startup world.

Somehow it still thrives under his benevolent though remote stewardship (he rarely post himself, realising you can't be a "player character" in the forum that you are in charge of). I think mainly it works because it has remained consistently usable and well moderated and nobody has messed around with it.
I never really thought about it, but a succinct way of putting it would be: its a discussion board for nerds (some start up entrepreneurs). Ycombinator is a start-up incubator, too. Don't know that much about the history of the place.

As to why I return (not been 15 years in my case probably?) is that I usually get to find out about interest new tech, what people are building and read interesting opinions from intelligent people. Not to stroke HNs ego or anything, but I think the community here probably has a higher degree of critical thinking than what you find on other platforms (especially social media).

Edit: Also, welcome back!
Edit 2: some wordsmithing