skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Until recently, the right to abortion was guaranteed by the right to privacy implicit in the constitution.

tldr; Something created by court opinion can be ended by court opinion

Abortion was guaranteed by a decision of the Supreme Court, which was based on the majority of the court's opinion of what the Constitution says. As the makeup of the court changes, it's opinion of what the Constitution says changes. Without a Federal law or even more powerfuly, an amendment to the Constitution, abortion is left to the states and subject to 50 different constitutions, courts and legislatures. That there has not been law or amendment says that there is not a strong enough majority or super majority of Americans that want that right guaranteed by the Constitution.
Oh, I am very sorry to hear that. My condolences, and also my congratulations on a fine looking OS.
I watched some of the presentations at their recent quantum summit. They have smart people building sophisticated systems, but they struggled to define meaningful use cases for quantum computing.

I've noticed a "tell" for when product launches will likely fail. If the presenter cannot create a strong argument for the product, but instead tells the audience some version of, "we're excited to see what use cases you create for our product," then the product is likely to fail. IBM did this several times at the Quantum summit. It's basically saying, "Here's a thing. Hopefully you can find something useful to do with it, because we can't. But here are our hardware specs."

I'll pay more attention when IBM and other quantum players start to talk about applications more than numbers of qubits.
>"Here, fill it out again and don't mention that."

>I had the exact same experience when applying for a clearance while I was in college

Speaking as someone on the autistic spectrum, this is why the entire clearance process is a joke and has been since I had the misfortune of meeting some of these spooks as a child.

They claim that the one thing that will preclude you is lying, but obviously as posts like these demonstrate, that's not the case.

I still remember going on a date with a woman who was recently divorced... she told me about traveling up and down Baja California for RAND (smoking her brains out along the way).

I've met a ton of these people -- they'd have been precluded from federal employment back in the day just for being divorced... or a woman... or a myriad of other things... but somehow they manage to get these cushy roles and cling to them.

I've since quit doing any job interviews... at all. I got the sense folks were treating them like free consulting sessions, so I'm very purposefully showing up in the comments when something comes up in the news and refusing to "stop posting".

At the end of the day, if you "do a clearance", you're helping perpetuate war crimes, and it's been that way since Iraq, arguably as far back as when the draft ended.

(I got the sense they, the royal they, "the feds" were aggrieved I kept applying to the agencies in my hometown, but hey, I was born here, and I'm not required to ignore antisocial behavior. It's not my fault if it begins to look like you're abusing someone you met as a child -- denying them employment in the private sector then overpolicing their applications in the public service)
I used Borland Turbo Pascal back in the '80s and '90s, and as I recall it had separate keywords and syntax for defining procedures vs. functions.
I've been reading a lot of the Coinfessions account on Twitter. It's where people post crypto horror stories anonymously.

It's weird to think that they "generated" 1.8bn. If I made 1.8bn selling sandwiches, you could probably find evidence of it somewhere, like in product packaging in dumps. But here the only thing left behind is a bunch of guys going "Yeah I left my position open and drained my life savings by accident."

Like, every bit of that money represents money that someone else lost, and basically nothing else. I can't wrap my head around it.
Neat idea–Spotify seems to be proliferating a massive amount of playlists for every conceivable mood, genre, decade, country, etc in an attempt to seemingly capture what this tool can do automatically. I think a lot of the Spotify "official" playlists are actually partially or completely algorithmically driven as well based on your personal listening history.
I’m no expert here at all, but I wonder how much this translates to real world risk. It seems like they’re irradiating unprotected cells with a direct blast of UV. How much of that UV actually penetrates the top layers of skin? They’re also subjecting cells to 20+ minutes of continuous exposure, while during a gel manicure typically involves 60-120 seconds of exposure.
Obviously we’re not seeing individuals walk out of manicure sessions with necrosis of the fingertips. Their values of 20-70% cell death don’t seem meaningfully representative.

I’d love somebody with an informed opinion to weigh in here. Is this bad science? Bad reporting? Or is there genuine danger here that’s been flying under the radar?

My concern is, we see a lot of sensational science reporting that plays up the risks and dangers of potentially routine things, lowering public trust in science.
OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app (2022)
Microsoft Hosted Sting Performance in Davos on Night Before Announcing Layoffs
Some of these are really just older tech advancements that have become more mainstream. E.g., Mars exploration is older than 20 years, 3D printing took off in part when decades old patents expired, rna vaccines date back 30+ years etc. etc.
He's talking about when the court decided Roe.
Thank you for shedding light on this.
This reminds me of the gauss Weinberg scenario where the salesman wanted to buy a another fax machine cuz they burnt out the previous one.

Or, in other words, we don't have any XY problems, what we have are people not properly educated. This is a long-standing problem and we do not have to make up a newfangled name for it
Probabilistic Graphical Models by Koller & Friedman. In anything statistics and ML related, being able to deal with complicated probabilitistic things that are all related is really useful. This book gives you that toolkit. It's a "strong foundations" kind of book, rather than a bunch of methods you'll use directly.
How legit is this site? There is this blub in their About which is not very reassuring (I never heard of them):

> World News Era is the world leader in online news and information and seeks to inform, engage and empower the common men and all age groups. World News Era has millions of daily readers.

https://worldnewsera.com/about-us/
Better than Google ! Impressed with the results so far.
It's also really annoying when people cannot recognize that they have asked an X-Y question :)
With Valve's take on being one of the few companies to stay in Russia, with details on how to get around sanctions stickied in their forums by official forum mods for quite a while after the sanctions were put in place (and with no response from steam when I submitted complaints that they were allowing sanctions evasion thinly veiled as simply (official steam moderators) posting this information) I don't see Valve as being some sort of virtuitious savior.
Yep, for me it just tastes weird.
Dungeons and Dragons' New OGL Will Be an 'Irrevocable' Creative Commons License
I find it deeply depressing that people kill babies and that other people defend it. Different values.
A budget from the executive branch is just a recommendation. Congress might use use it as a starting point, if they bother to pass a budget at all, which they are not in the habit of doing lately unfortunately.

As far as Cheney is concerned, Trump had been out of office for months by the time she lost her leadership position. Anything he did was from the sidelines by that point.
Firearms people get pissed over the tracking. Before it was more broadly legal weed people used to be pissed over that. I presume the kind people who book prostitutes online don't like the data trail either.

The reason you're hearing about of this is because HN cares a lot about abortion whereas all those other topics are of much less importance around here.
This ear infection thing seems to be a common thread in ADHD land. There’s evidence of it being causative (due to damage to things around the ear and how sensory data is compromised and then causes dysfunction in the brain — apparently leads to hyperactivity in animal models), but other evidence of it being a symptom of ADHD in the first place. Interesting stuff.

I hope this year is better for you. I find I have to have an explicit plan, otherwise I rarely act on things in a meaningful way. Maybe that would help you too. I set very basic goals and try to arrange my living space and even digital spaces around the goal. If it isn’t in front of me all the time, I’ll quickly forget it. I underestimated how much I need to shape my life around goals and plans for a very long time. It drives my family crazy, they think I’m obsessive. In reality it’s like the world vanishes from existence if it isn’t pushed into my face constantly; if I try to hide anything from them, I’m hiding it from myself too.
Ask HN: Is the future of forums not 'topics', but 'prompts'?
I'm imagining a world where users will submit a 'prompt' to a 'forum' that will then deliver responses from various agents such as AI's[], API's[] and humans[]. This would require various asynchronous data panes. How do you see the core human need of online forums evolving now that 'prompts' are a thing?
Are there any widely available, published threat models for secret management of this sort? It seems to me that if you want to frame the discussion in a useful way, you'd start there. Then you can point out where current practice works, where it doesn't, and how your solution works better.
If you're interested in feats of low-size games, I offer you kkrieger, a 3D FPS that fits in 96KB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fZBUsn5RYg
OP HERE! Solved the hugging to death issue. Reached the Spotify 11k playlist limit. Deleting old playlists and the site should be working as intended now.

THANK YOU whoever posted this!

Currently working on:
Fixing the recommendation scoring function. Right now it's giving hit or miss responses. I think the problem is with my cross encoder "reranker" is not doing its job the right way. I'll fix the passages it looks at when re ranking based on the query.

Also getting rid of the input box animation, lol. I've gotten flack for that on Reddit too. You should have seen the old site. It still renders that HTML on mobile.

Taking any and all questions!
This seems to be a marketing page, are docs or tech details available anywhere? I couldn't find how it actually works without creating an account.
Show HN: Fully LLM powered code repair – fix and explain your code in seconds
You can be a criminal without being convicted.
HelloFresh is pressuring employees to leave the company
The Art and Craft of Problem Solving https://archive.org/details/the-art-and-craft-of-problem-sol...

This is only math book I've ever read that teaches the mindset needed to work mathematics problems, rather than mathematical concepts or techniques.
Hydrogen leaks through metals because it can diffuse through the lattice, and attaching it to carbon stops it from doing that.
Hacker news discussion on it 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19817584
New Years Resolution Stats
ZeroSSL: XSS to session hijacking, stealing a private key (and password hash)
This is a good question indeed. Using a LED lamp, it takes 30 seconds to dry one hand.

The one I own has 4 settings: 10, 30, 60 and 100 seconds.

They last for 2 to 3 weeks.

I wonder how much damage happens from exposing your fingers for 30 seconds every 2-3 weeks.

I'm thinking there could be some risks for technicians who spend their days next to the devices, but devices usually don't leak any light.
> In one branch I could work on something that has some database migrations, and then I can still switch to other branches without having to roll back the migrations.

I would love to have this workflow locally.
Story I was told once was

Feds: Do you use drugs?
Guy: Yes.
Feds: Do you plan to stop?
Guy: No.

The feds went away and conferred briefly and then came back and told the guy that they needed him to at least say he planned to stop, so he said that, and got the clearance.
> Founders Fund sold out of the vast majority of its entire cryptocurrency portfolio by the end of March 2022

In Feb 2022, when I saw crypto ads during the Super Bowl, it seemed like a warning sign that something was about to go bad and the existing players were looking for suckers.
This is blogspam. FT is the original "source" for this rumor.
I would not put much weight on this article. The fund is entirely private, it does not need to disclose its holdings in public government submitted documents. This article does not cite any sources.

It is always a good idea to use a heavy doze of skepticism when confronted with statements about someone's brilliance at market timing. Especially when those statements are not backed by any evidence. Peter Thiel previously had to disclose more of his trading and, other than his decision to put half a million in a tiny startup called facebook made a long time ago, he has not shown any brilliant market timing.
Windmill looks pretty nice! Are there any ongoing internationalization efforts for Windmill? I live in Brazil and its pretty rare in my industry for internal (backoffice) teams to be fluent at English. I could contribute this, if I can get some directions :)
The thing is, you can't blame the industry. Industry simply adjusts to market needs.

It's not the industry that has wrong expectations from you, it's you who had wrong expectations about the industry.
Consider that the Jeopardy stunt was basically a sales pitch saying: "If it can do that for Jeopardy, then just imagine what it can do for you!"

There is definitely an argument to be made that this was an empty promise. Not necessarily enough to call it a "scam", but vaporware...
Hi there, Sean from the Retool Mobile team. This is the link to the docs https://docs.retool.com/docs/retool-mobile
This is BS. ML targeted ads were the first application to make money and that happened a long long time ago (maybe 15 years at this point?). Nowadays there are a lot of products where ML is an essential feature.
There's a few 5:1 dedicated macro lenses. Around 2:1 and above though, handholding becomes near impossible and you almost always need focus stacking due to the very shallow depth of field. Not to mention powerful lights.

So even this "conventional" option that you can readily buy is quite the niche.

For a 0.2mm subject, 5:1 is not enough. Luckily, one can use a microscope objective on a camera, like this:

https://c7.staticflickr.com/1/411/31944206126_fee397795a_b.j...

It doesn't have to be a bellow, they can also be a fixed tube, but the idea here is that the camera's sensor is at a specific distance to the back opening of the microscope objective. It would be the same distance where normally the eye piece of the microscope goes.

This way, you can do 10:1, 20:1, 50:1, 100:1. You'll have ever greater problems though the more you magnify (vibration, light, composition).

The device in the bottom is an automated focus rail, a WeMacro in this case. You set a start point and end point, and it takes all photos in between. It can move by as little as 1 micron and is quite cheap.
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FF1ROYkhiRcU6zJSkBnBU is exactly what you're looking for
The beauty industry is one of the most reckless and and capriciously hazardous consumer-facing industries there is. Online retailers are filled with insanely dangerous beauty products, like high power lasers that don't even come with safety googles. Many of their chemical products are unproven at best, often outright hazardous to use at all without a fume hood. Parasites and synthetic stimulants sold as weight loss products, the list goes on and on.
I tend to prefer this way of working when I am doing a demo for my team or write the beginning of an open-source hack.
I'm getting to the point where I think plastic recycling was always a scam to make people use more plastics without any guilt. That said, putting plastics into landfill not such a bad thing; we've taken oil from the ground, made it into plastics, then putting it back in the ground. Better than burning it. There is a lot of space for landfill, and not very much oil. The problem is when it doesn't end up in landfill, but ends up in the sea. Which by virtue of there being more and more plastics (since they're guilt-free now) there is more and more of.
WOTC's statement: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-starting-the-ogl-playte...

6(f) seems abuseable. And the VTT policy is absurd.
If you haven't read Masters of Doom before, I highly recommend it! Your comment reminded me of it.
Can you elaborate? My understanding is that nicotine raises blood pressure, which is a big part of what's harmful about cigarettes.
"False!" - Dwight Schrute

>FTFA: a majority of personal computer users interacted with their machines via command-line interfaces...in which users had to type arcane commands to control their computers.

ARCANE!?!? you say!?!?!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arcane
arcane:
1. Understood by only a few.

the majority of personal computer users (your words, not mine) did understand them, in fact it was the defining feature of personal computer users

2. (by extension) Obscure, mysterious.
3. Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.

the commands were well documented and did what the documentation said

4. Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.

not old, it was newly invented, current state-of-the-art, and nothing but relevant to the tasks at hand, they were the only way to accomplish the tasks at hand, and nary a byte of the command line lacked morphologic or semantic significance

The serious point I'm trying to make is, young and up-and-coming programmers who are learning textual programming languages (more or less the definition of a computer programmer at present) should not be scared off from learning command lines. They're very powerful, and not that obscure or hard. Unix had/has a feature that can be confusing, which is the command line is first processed according to the rules of the shell, and then it is reprocessed according to the rules of the app you are invoking, making command lines be a subtle mix of several languages at a time (by analogy, a bit like html+javascript+css). You need to learn how this works, despite being confusing it is the innovation necessary for unlocking the power of shells.
> Congress might use use it as a starting point, if they bother to pass a budget at all, which they are not in the habit of doing lately unfortunately.

A budget is a budget even if it is neither comprehensive (i.e., all functions in one bill) nor for a full fiscal year at a time nor uses the word “budget” in its title.
It is worth noting that AcousticBrainz was based on an open-source audio analysis library Essentia [1] that has been gradually improving since the launch of the AcousticBrainz project. It now has better ML models, with higher accuracy and generalization, than those used in AcousticBrainz in the pre-deep learning age of handcrafted signal processing features and SVMs.

See [2] for the list of models currently available. It includes updated ML models for the classifiers used in AcousticBrainz and many new models (e.g., a 400-style music classifier, models for arousal-valence emotion recognition, and feature embeddings that can be used for audio similarity or training new classifiers).

[1] https://essentia.upf.edu/
[2] https://essentia.upf.edu/models.html
I don't think it was an outright scam, but its use in medical analysis turned out to be very poor: https://qz.com/2129025/where-did-ibm-go-wrong-with-watson-he...

Definitely over-hyped technology. Probably not a scam though.
A counterpoint to what?

What's your definition of "underwater (in real terms)"? That investment would have been paying dividends for decades. What happens with those cash flows?
I did simpler mathematics than you, and I count three hamburger menus on one page...
Fundamentals of HTML
This explains the fundamentals of HTML including the HTML document structure.
I usually have a hashtag for every subject I'm interested in, if I should happen to learn something new that day, plus a few others like #dream.

Sometimes I even think about building a new custom notes app, that's purely just a Facebook Messenger window with yourself, with search and a hashtag list, or switching to logseq.

I usually follow up on mistakes by looking for patterns and... generally just avoiding the conditions that led to the mistake entirely.

Like, one of my personal rules is "There is no later". I try not to rely on memory for anything important, I assume the concept of remembering something later is only accessible to computers and sticky notes.
I suspect the training was overfit to certain kinds of music. A bot that's fine tuned with "funk", "70's funk", and other similar music will produce better results.
Make this an Alexa skill
Exactly.

Also, if a business leader, politician, or some other kind of member of the Russian elite was openly friendly to the west there's a good chance Putin knocked them down a peg or six and they will not be in line to succeed him.

Anything is possible however!
Working on weighted averages for each song feature embedding. This might be the fix for that. Thinking about comparing the query embedding to sentences like "This query relates to musical genres" or "This query relates to the key and modality of songs" etc. This could be add importance to the "popularity" feature I have in my dataset for queries that contain words like "obscure" or "very popular".

Just an idea right now, I'll get to it when I can!
I'm curious how this will stack up against Sysdig/Falco - https://sysdig.com/blog/sysdig-and-falco-now-powered-by-ebpf....

eBPF for the win, this is a nice approach with Odigos.
Arcane by today's standards I guess.

Also, many people in those days never consulted the docs and just memorized commands without understanding them so they probably felt arcane.
This concept has been around for hundreds of years. Now it's a "computer simulation" because that is how we see things in 2023, though it feels like such a single purpose would be poorly served by one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_idealism
I like the idea behind Amazon Smile but the execution is a bit underwhelming. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars at Amazon since joining Amazon Prime, but I've only generated $98.66 in donations -- a fraction of a percent. That's worse than just rounding up the price to the nearest dollar. What's the point? I get that Amazon's retail profit margins are terrible, but if they're only going to donate a totally insignificant percentage of their revenue, they shouldn't get any credit for it. Apparently Amazon came to the same conclusion.

If you want to see how much your Amazon Smile account has contributed, there's a web page: https://smile.amazon.com/charity/my-impact
The root cause of the bug isn't the kernel dereferencing a NULL and causing UB. It's the kernel doing error handling and attempting to kill the oopsing task and continue. If the semantics of Rust panics also did a kernel oops, unwrap() would trigger the exact same bug described in the blog post with regards to reference count rollover (if Rust in the kernel doesn't do stack unwinding)