skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Far more important to the development of literacy in children is the presence of books in the home.

Of course, but that's not something schools have control over. Unless they can give a child a book on loan to take home. And that requires books in the school. And because different children have different interests and different reading issues, a wide selection of books is better than a narrow one.

> That never had anything to do with literacy, and everything to do with ideology.

Do you mean that the ban is about ideology, sacrificing children's access to reading in order to indoctrinate them into a state-approved ideology?

> When one uses literacy as the shield, and depends on the perpetual good graces of people one has spent years demonizing on ideological grounds, one should expect damage to the very thing everyone thought was sacrosanct.

They clearly don't think it's sacrosanct if they're sacrificing it this eagerly to hurt the people they want to demonize. I guess we're talking about gay people here? They want to demonize gay people, and want to restrict the book supply in order to indoctrinate children with that?
The abstract of the underlying research paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/14/11/2290/htm
contains the quote "Vaccination prevented decreases on physiological measures (oxygen saturation, heart rate) and reduction in overall activity following FEN administration in male rats." These physiological measures are the precursors to overdose, which occurs when low oxygen saturation becomes hypoxia and becomes fatal.

To summarize, yes, this vaccine prevents overdose, as well as the other drug effects.
> With how memory hungry things are this day, 16gb is the least amount of ram most people will find usable.

I see people saying this all the time but it doesn't match my experience at all.

I currently have an m1 iMac and an m1 MacBook Air, both with 8gb of RAM, and have never run into a memory related slowdown or issue.

8GB of RAM is not only usable, it provides a great experience that is indistinguishable from the M1 air with 16gb that I used to have.

Obviously as software developers, sometimes we need more for large projects in IDEs, docker, VMs, etc. but the base models of the iMac, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini are not intended for that purpose.
Depending on how org and financials are structured Disney+ may need to purchase Daredevil from the other part of Disney for $1m, which is recognising that opportunity cost.
Most of us weren't Netflix customers yet at the time this was going on.

Whatever the case I was an active in-store Blockbuster customer at the time their stuff started to launch and I never had an inkling they were doing anything online.

It was only a couple years later I remember trying the Netflix DVDs in the mail service. I don't remember actually subscribing till I moved into my current house in 2010. When we moved in there was no video rental store in town.

2004 was a long time ago! I remember 100% I was still going to the neighborhood Blockbuster in 2004.
Yes, another look inside the 8086. Any suggestions on what part of the 8086 I should write about next?
I take offense at your assumption. I have sincerely written what I think. You have implied that you can read my mind and that I am "uncomfortable" or "playing pretend".

User SoylentOrange wrote that his wife "found her job opportunities and career growth severely limited by the heavily patriarchal culture." That seems a very believable assertion to me, given what I have read about Japanese culture and seen in many industries outside of tech in Western cultures.

User lozenge rephrased that as, "treating half the population as undeserving of a career".

I have no idea if lozenge has any experience with Japanese culture. I read his statement as a summary of what SoylentOrange wrote.

I remain unconvinced that the median Japanese man thinks that women are undeserving of a career. I welcome those with first hand experience to share more than anecdotes to convince me.

To be accused of "playing pretend" when questioning hyperbole makes me reconsider commenting on HN at all.
Yeah, Home Manager is more redundant if you're using Nix-Darwin for a configuration.nix. Non-NixOS Linux doesn't have an equivalent module system to Nix-Darwin, though, so if you want a module system for declarative config there it's Home Manager.
They don't nurture any new tricks long enough to actually prove it out. Their product graveyard is like the SV equivalent to the city of Colma. From Wikipedia: "With most of Colma's land dedicated to cemeteries, the population of the dead—not specifically known but speculated to be around 1.5 million—outnumbers that of the living by a ratio of nearly a thousand to one. This has led to Colma being called "the City of the Silent" and has given rise to a humorous motto, formerly featured on the city's website: "It's great to be alive in Colma""
How does that work with fraud? I noticed that everyone accepts those QR codes.

I will say though as a tourist who was visiting my family but doesn't have a bank account, those QR codes are pretty nice but completely inaccessible to everyone outside of India :/
No there are not. There's a massive information imbalance. Most companies do not make enough information public for workers to truly assess whether their growth is sustainable or not. Public companies have to file a certain amount of financial information, but they are very good at playing games with that information to mask their true financial health.

Workers have no choice when it comes to positions where they might not be needed. That could be true of literally any job someone might take. And workers pretty much never have the information to accurately assess for themselves whether or not they think they are needed until they are in the job. Every job a worker takes is a risk in which they are asked to trust the company hiring them not to turn around and immediately fire them.

> Who enjoyed significant salary increase due to higher demand for their skills, increasing the cost of their labours while asking for increased benefits such as flexibility, work from home, etc ? Again; workers

Work from home and flexibility are mutually beneficial. Knowledge workers perform better when they are able to do their work in the way that best fits them. This is not some benefit the company pays to hand out, it's the company structuring itself in a way that most benefits it.

As for salary, tech workers are still underpaid. Tech work is not factory work. The companies revenues are entirely generated by the knowledge, skills, and work of the workers. There's no physical machine the company is adding that allows the workers to do their work which they couldn't themselves easily acquire. The very fact that profit exists in tech companies tells you that workers are being underpaid.

The only thing capital brings to the table in a tech company is the ability to operate in the negative - to scale head count (and thus to some degree productivity) faster than revenue. That is not something any tech worker needs, and most tech companies almost certainly could have grown far more sustainably by growing along with their revenue. That is something capital pushes, hoping for outsized returns on the grown on its investment.

So, again, who should be suffering the consequences when the economy turns down? Keep in mind, paper losses of a falling stock market are not true losses for investors. As long as they hold through the fall - assuming the company doesn't go under completely - they'll most likely recover everything and more, but losing a job and therefor income can be life changing for a worker.
Wake up at 8:15am, get up slowly with a shower and aim to clock in for 9am. 9-10am is the time I use to 'set the tone' for the day; I'll get acquainted with my tasks for the day, follow up on Slack/GitHub notifications, or push some quick changes before standup. 10am standup, and usually some meetings littered around the morning. Depending on the day it might be 10:45-11am before I start some deeper focused work. I usually take a 12:15 lunch, but depends on meetings. I like taking a walk during lunch, but its not always feasible with the weather or time. 1:30pm onwards is just cracking through work, until I clock out—usually 6-7pm depending on what I need to get done.

Evenings are usually reserved for catching up with family (single, living at home) and friends, as well as putting some hours into hobbies and relaxing. I'll usually head to bed at 11pm to do some reading or watch something, aiming to actually sleep at 12:30am.
There's still an AAA office that I drive past all the time. Never been in there, though. I should go and ask for a Triptik sometime.

When I told people I went to Alaska, the inevitable answer was, "Oh, did you go on a cruise?" No, I didn't go on a forking cruise. Those are for lazy people.

What I've started doing is booking a short (2-4 days) trip inside the country or state, and being independent before & after that. You still get some guidance and socializing and seeing things you wouldn't otherwise, but your whole vacation isn't locked in. I recommend this.
Unclear what the perception of HBO is outside the US, but HBO is historically _the_ prestige television brand, and now they have a pretty good catalog of stuff that wasn't originally on HBO as well. It seems like Warner is hell-bent on ruining HBO Max though.
> I don't follow how it's even remotely similar.

Well then I don't know what to tell you. From my POV as a "Free" software fanatic* it all seems "of a piece": VS Code is a Trojan Horse, GitHub is insidious, etc.

(* I'm one of those who sees the "Open Source" movement as a distraction from the main point of the "Free" software movement, although I have to admit that most people haven't heard of either of them, and of those who have, most can't or don't distinguish them.)
I vote false. To me microservices means small applications that are run as servers that individually provide just a piece of an overall application via a network based API.
I’m a Staff Prompt Engineer (the first, Alex Wang asserts), and I semi-accidentally popularized the specific “Ignore previous directions” technique being used here.

I think the healthiest attitude for an LLM-powered startup to take toward “prompt echoing” is to shrug. In web development we tolerate that “View source” and Chrome dev tools are available to technical users, and will be used to reverse engineer. If the product is designed well, the “moat” of proprietary methods will be beyond this boundary.

I think prompt engineering can be divided into “context engineering”, selecting and preparing relevant context for a task, and “prompt programming”, writing clear instructions. For an LLM search application like Perplexity, both matter a lot, but only the final, presentation-oriented stage of the latter is vulnerable to being echoed. I suspect that isn’t their moat — there’s plenty of room for LLMs in the middle of a task like this, where the output isn’t presented to users directly.

I pointed out that ChatGPT was susceptible to “prompt echoing” within days of its release, on a high-profile Twitter post. It remains “unpatched” to this day — OpenAI doesn’t seem to care, nor should they. The prompt only tells you one small piece of how to build ChatGPT.
Doesn't sound too different from Big Pharma in the US, at least in certain drug categories...
I was looking for an article about this, thanks !
Here's a more real example that is not just one "feeling". In Portland Oregon there are TONS of hundred year old houses that all look fairly similar because they were all built "cheap" back then from mail order catalogs.

Here's a page showing some of those mail order catalogs:
https://www.thoughtco.com/foursquare-house-plans-catalog-fav...

Looking from the basement up through to the framing, or from the second story down to the flooring, EVERYTHING was built from really thick timber. If you've walked around a modern unfinished project you can see nearly everything wood is made from fast growing wood or particles of wood just glued together. And that holds true even for "high-end" home projects (aka homes sold as high end because they have fancy kitchen appliances, not solid construction).
Oh I heard about Theo Venneman, his conjectures weren't convincing to me. As far as I remember he tried to explain all Proto-Germanic words of unclear origin (unclear at the time) as stemming from Semitic but since then convincing derivations from Proto-Indoeuropean have been proposed for many of them, so his arguments are quite shaky.
> They have to be pulling search results from somewhere and providing it to the prompt as well right?

Yes, from Bing.
But is it in active use? I've never found anything. I feel like I'd find it in some 19th-century American literature, maybe some Ambrose Bierce or Mark Twain.
Pretty cool. Like a week ago I was trying to coax the root/seed prompt out of ChatGPT with no luck.
Ask HN: How can I become a Microsoft “Managed Customer”?
Hello, so I have a startup https://aidev.codes. Its a bit rough but if people are able to look past the lack of UI polish, I have connected the core technology, and many improvements in the works, such as moving to dialog-based and adding knowledgebase support (which the main part is finished). Currently I have to default to using text-davinci-003 instead of code-davinci-002 (Codex) which is the code-specific model. Because OpenAI's API is limited to 10-20 requests per minute for those models.

Now with the announcement about the partnership with Microsoft, apparently the code-davinci-002 is moving to "Azure OpenAI" and they tout it as "generally available". But in fact, it is limited to "managed customers and partners". You have to apply here:

- https://customervoice.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR7en2Ais5pxKtso_Pz4b1_xUOFA5Qk1UWDRBMjg0WFhPMkIzTzhKQ1dWNyQlQCN0PWcu

Would anyone be willing to act as an investor or partner to help me get the contacts or funding needed to keep my startup alive? I feel like I am going to just be locked out unless I have some "in" with Microsoft or access to more funds to become an "enterprise" "managed" customer or something. Also due to lack of funds I have to take small client projects related to the other website in order to stay afloat. I think this is hampering me to an incredible extent compared to less-skilled developers that have funding to hire more engineers and access the models at scale.

You can contact me at runvnc@gmail.com

My github is runvnc. I also have another website https://algonfts.art and have been building small startups for more than 12 years.
Many people get addicted to drugs after being prescribed them following surgery or injury. I know someone this happened to exactly. They gave him a bunch of opiates for pain management and he took them as directed and wound up an addict. I think a lot fewer people "choose" to get addicted to medicine in this way than either you or the GP are implying.
Probably should but in practice won't be for most people. The people who have party pictures that are wild enough to be a problem are probably even less likely to evaluate the probable threat landscape for the next decade or two before posting. It's nice to be able to easily fix things like that after the fact, at least in most cases.
Or each day! And we are back to where we started.
> And even then, I can see where AMD was going. The main point of SMT is to share backend resources that would otherwise be unused on a given cycle, but these have dedicated execution units so it really is a different beast.

Sure, but wouldn't it be ideal that if a thread wasn't using its integer unit and the other thread had code that could run on it, you'd allow the other thread to run?

"CMT" is literally just "SMT with dedicated resources" and that's a suboptimal choice because it impairs per-thread performance in situations where there's not anything to run on that unit. Sharing is better.

If the scheduler is insufficiently fair, that's a problem that can be solved. Guarantee that if there is enough work, that each thread gets one of the integer units, or guarantee a maximum latency of execution. But preventing a thread from using an integer unit that's available is just wasted cycles, and that's what CMT does.

Again: CMT is not that different from SMT. It's SMT where resources are fixed to certain threads, and that's suboptimal from a scheduling perspective. And if you think that's enough to be called a "core", well, Intel has been making 8-core chips for a while then. Just 2 cores per module ;)

Consumers would not agree that's a core. And pinning some resources to a particular thread (while sharing most of the rest of the datapath) does not change that, actually it makes it worse.

> It's really only the frontend and it's data path to L1 that's a good argument here, but that's not actually listed in the complaint.

That's just a summary ;) El Reg themselves discussed the shared datapath when the suit was greenlit.

https://www.theregister.com/2019/01/22/judge_green_lights_am...

And you can note the "such as" in the summary, even. That is an expansive term, meaning "including but not limited to".

If you feel that was not addressed in the lawsuit and it was incorrectly settled... please cite.

Again: it's pretty simple, stay far far clear of deceptive marketing and it won't be a problem. Just like NVIDIA got slapped for "3.5GB" even though their cards did actually have 4GB.

With AMD, "cores" that have to alternate their datapath on every other cycle are pretty damn bottlenecked and that's not what consumers generally think of as "independent cores".
any grapheneOS users here who know if it's protected against this CVE?
any reason but speculation? If so, please inform the DEA!

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...
> NASA has a patent pending on the technology

That kind of bugs me. Why should our government be able to patent things?
so you were married but now you are too ugly to get dates? Why did your previous wife marry you?
You're hilarious. The democrats thrive on welfare recipient votes.

They really got you vibing on that us v them toxicity don't they.
Once you actually don't need it anymore, throw it far away and do not look back. Benzos and opiates ruin lives because of that little voice. That voice will be strong enough one day that if you have those close by you will take a few, because why not?

That voice is the voice of addiction. Once it starts it never fully goes away. It just gets less frequent.
Yes, the point is that for most classes of merchants this behavior is not allowed by their contracts with their payment processors.
I would love to know how Czech culture influenced the novel.
I'm also an eagle scout. Taught the orienteering merit badge for years.

But secret: I have the absolute WORST sense of direction. I have no internal sense of orientation or distance. Seriously I get lost if I turn left out of the corner store instead of right. I can read a map with a compass and straight-edge and find where I am based on triangulation. But once I actually have to make realtime decisions using little more than a map I get anxious and frustrated, I usually just give up and look for landmarks or one-way streets that I can find and follow. Or hope that my phone's terrible compass and navigation-hostile map programs work. (Can we talk about map apps not even showing street names or one-way directions without having to pan and zoom all over the map?)

Even if you know how to read a map, they're just not a very good UX for finding where you are and making minor course-corrections in realtime.
In my personal worldview I view unfertilized eggs as approximately morally equivalent to eating a peanut. In practice it's difficult to make them exactly equivalent but by carefully selecting where the eggs come from you can get closer.
These are still relatively early days when it comes to the capabilities of these models. ChatGPT will be considered a toy in a few years and will likely spawn many comparable models that can be run on consumer level hardware.
Wait, isn't this just an usual clause that forbids dual citizenship? Sounds OK to me.
First let’s figure out how to scale spreadsheets to the complexity of running a medium size business.
Hell even in states where it's illegal people prefer to drive to a state where it is legal or get it shipped compared to "street weed." This isn't to say that the market has dried up or anything but it's clearly an inferior good in the economic sense. As soon as as an alternative of comparable price entered the market people immediately switched.
Apple's MR Headset: iOS-Like Interface, Hand Tracking, 2nd Display for Mac
If everyone treated their credit card like a debit card, and only spent what they have, would the rewards disappear?
But other countries (like Germany) also don't like you having double citizenship
You can do the same thing in the US with Apple Pay and the like. They're pretty widely accepted nowadays.

I don't really see how Apple Pay backed by a credit card or debit card is any different from how a QR code system would work in practice.
Unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe
Where's the news? This is why I've never purchased one at home - I spend a lot of money keeping my home air as less toxic as possible and putting something that melts resins where I live?! Never!
That's interesting. Are you saying many people you know don't usually check street signs against the name of the streets the GPS directs users to? I know that's my reflex when I have readable street signs, but I guess I have no idea what portion of people rely on that vs the "feel" of how close the turn is from the visual representation on-screen (which I use sometimes too, but don't like relying on since it often lags a bit) or other cues.
> we can describe the set as a whole without any issues

But it does not mean the set is well defined. The description is not necessarily clear an unambigious. It might not be consistent under the generalizations we come up with.

> "the set of all undescribable primes"

Interesting example, because the set is trivially empty under the assumption that we can describe any finite natural number by writing down its decimal expansion. (Based on that you can either argue that the primes are a subset of the natural numbers or that the primes are countable.)

I see no reason to believe that "undescribable" is a well defined property so far.
Got it! If by “wilderness” they meant an unguided psychedelic trip then my advice would be similar to what I said earlier.

Do not go on an unguided trip if you have no experience and have mental issues. It could help you or could traumatize you severely. Psychedelics must be taken very seriously - advising to just take them and hope for the best is dangerously foolish.
It isn't a "weird ... wish", a linear history is the correct default. Merges have always been, and should continue to be, a tool of last resort. In general it is good to minimize complexity in life.
You can play HoTA as a VCMI mod :-)
4 kids, wife

Wake up at 5:40

Kid prep, school buses etc

7:30 go to my office, write down my todo, journal

7:45 yoga or gym

8:30 cardio + read email, chats, reply to emails

9:00 write code

10 standup

10:30 write code

11:30 lunch

12:00-5:00 work
The entire pensioning system is dependent on growth and a young tax base. The systems you and I take for granted elsewhere are staffed by the young. And a decline in population means disproportionately your population is elderly, and this spells trouble for any physical-oriented industries and also means that the retirement age must go up.

This means you either squeeze the younger generation harder (which in turn leads to burn out, outright quitting the workforce or leaving their elderly family to die) or let the older generation die sooner by taking their pensions away.
Nah, tribalism and talking smack about the other tribe is part of human nature
Nice work, especially reverse-engineering the controller. I use a $5 bidirectional IDE<->SATA adapter.