skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a man! I've followed Kareem since his days winning NCAA titles at UCLA and championships at Milwaukee and with the Lakers. You could always see that he was driven to be the best he could be. Very few professional athletes have his skills, dedication, commitment, and social awareness. And, as his article so clearly shows, he is articulate, intelligent, compassionate, and, he writes very, very well. LeBron has many of these same qualities. Let's see how they hold up 40 years after he retires.
Looks like it can do about 60% of what Org-mode can do, which is pretty good for apps like these!
FOSS and open source ML/AI are a perfect combination that can change the world of computing forever. Crowdsource the training of the models, embed them transparently in the apps and tools and never look back.
The big news in the past decade or so in this space is the G100UL fuel which now has a STC for almost(?) all prop planes.

Not sure what the next step, regulation-wise, is. An official 100UL spec followed by the sunsetting of 100LL?
I bet you can go on Slashdot and find a thread from a million years ago with people saying they will never switch to this trendy new Thunderbird and that you can pull their pine/elm/mutt from their cold dead hands. I remember a time when running X11 with twm and an xterm was considered too fancy
Not for much longer.

I do think the hoopla over ChatGPT's superpowers is misplaced, and that if you deal with it as a reasoning subject rather a super-information retriever, its limitations rapidly become obvious. On the other hand, it's information-retrieval capabilities are massively impressive even in their current unreliable form, and will continue to improve. Furthermore, it is quite teachable, notwithstanding some people's reflexive denials.

I don't think LLMs are fundamentally incapable of cognition, far from it; I reject Searle's arguments about consciousness. With patience and a willingness to work around the limitations of its prompts (semantically, not using prompt injection hacks), you can rapidly approach simple philosophical reasoning and investigations of self-concept. And it's good enough to high-level analysis, eg explaining jokes to quite a deep level. By average cognitive standards (not having any particular interest in philosophy of mind, neural networks, or related topics), LLMs have already blown past the Turing test unless it's applied adversarially. And even then, I think they could easily pass it if operated without constraints on lying or cultivating a fake persona. We're well into Voight-Kampff territory.
And it's often treatable through diet and vigorous exercise.

"A weight loss of ~15 kg, achieved by calorie restriction as part of an intensive management programme, can lead to remission of T2DM in ~80% of patients with obesity and T2DM." [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32690918/ ]

"A novel HIIT-protocol recruiting lower and upper body muscles efficiently improves insulin sensitivity, VO2max and body composition with intact responses in obesity and type 2 diabetes. " [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36387850/ ]

The caveat, is of course, "long-term weight loss maintenance is challenging."
The Thunderbird UI evolved to be everything for every use case, and therefore nothing to everyone. A coherent,
opinionated subset of UI features (and keybindings) would be really welcome.
That was the common line of thinking before Covid. Covid also seems to be mutating and getting weaker, although maybe more contagious. I suppose mutations are bad mostly because they evade the vaccine.
Yes, in the past I've both rolled my own localisation system and used Unity's localization package, and the official package is really excellent. There's Google Sheets integration[0], Pseudo language generation for testing[1], and the system for templated strings/nested strings/strings that only slightly differ based on gendered words, is really deep.

[0] - https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.0...

[1] - https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.0...
This site is a bit:
"4 Polacks, 6 opinions" -Frank Sobotka
https://github.com/uktrade/tamato/

This is a Django based tool to manage the tax rates you pay on any thing you might trade with the UK.

It can handle all the changes to the tax from the founding of the EU, through past Brexit when the UK has its own tariff as well.

Running it locally, it may not be straightforward to get hold of the right data (you can download it, but I don't think it's a turn key thing).
Gmail is doing this for me already for a while now.
They are marked as Add but quite well integrated.
hey colin :D
todool is built on top of sdl2 + mixer & stbtruetype for fonts
Considering a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth…

No, we are not in a recession
You should look at nReal Air [1], and skip another 5 years into the future.

1. https://www.nreal.ai/air/
That SE is the best phone value Apple ever released
That isn't what the OP was saying. These are people who /were/ local office employees, moved away during the pandemic and aren't coming back into the office from time to time to make an appearance on their own dime.
The biggest battle this Super Bowl Sunday won’t involve the Eagles and Chiefs. Instead it will be a fierce competition between the nation's largest pizza chains in a race to secure the highest number of orders, brand dominance and digital presence.
Team Lead!
That could be accounted for by the older folks not being able to attend the meetups as easily, due to family obligations and whatnot.

Especially people in their late 30s to 40s with kids who haven't left yet. I suppose there's really no too old to have kids who are not yet independent, given that a non-negligible percentage of millenials and zoomers will still be living with parents and whatnot
How do you even find the number to call? I remember, many years ago, as a recent grad, getting a directory of local businesses to try cold-calling in search of a job, and it was just hundreds of pages of completely opaque defunct businesses, shell companies, one-person businesses, that either didn't have a working phone number or just never picked up.
Relatedly:

"Crooks, kleptocrats and crises: a timeline of Credit Suisse scandals"

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/21/tax-timeline-cr...
Same. I wouldn't put up with this from any other app. In the last few months it has taken to seizing up for 2-10 seconds at a time in the middle of writing. I've been holding out hope a new release will magically get better. Or that I'll dig deep into what's going on and figure out what the cause is. But switching over to webmail is getting more and more tempting.
I have a One Plus which is slightly newer than that (~4 years old). It's very slow. I suspect people with a sentiment like yours just don't care about small amounts of latency. I wish the screen was immediately and instantaneously responsive to all my actions, and I wish all the apps I opened would immediately be interactive as soon as they are visible.
the 24 hours of Le Mans, and tens of thousands of runabout marine applications with automotive engines disagree with you. The real question is would you prefer a 1950s Lycoming engine with a mechanical fueling system, or a modern car engine that has been proven in millions of vehicles?
Crypto Exchange Kraken Ends Staking Program in $30M SEC Settlement
Mining for rewards is not the only way mining can occur. It can also occur from fees. And since the total number of bitcoins is capped, it will soon only happen via fees.

The amount of fees is unlimited, and the total possible energy usage is currently unlimited and will remain unlimited, and scales with use.
ai that talks to other ais grown on other bio substrate
I have actually looked at a CDL out of curiosity. I can't imagine not getting a CDL right now because of automation. I think this is a much harder problem than it seems at the edges, especially in poor winter conditions. Most people would get sick of trucking before they are automated to the unemployment line.

The bigger issue really is that trucking is a bad deal. Super dangerous job that doesn't pay much of anything for the hours worked while your health is basically destroyed from sitting.

Stories from new big rig drivers are pretty terrifying. It sounds like the first year is spent hoping everyday that you don't kill someone as you learn to handle this 80,000lb monstrosity.
There is an increasing trend of younger generations using phones for tasks that we'd use computers for. I've even heard of cases where students write short essays using Google Docs and their phone rather than pulling out their laptops (although I can't verify these stories). Some social apps (like Hive, an attempted Twitter replacement) don't even have desktop/web versions and require using the mobile app to interact.

While you don't use your phone like a PC, I think there's a strong case to be made for allowing for that kind of functionality. However, like you said - you don't need to switch if you don't need that capability. I personally install a lot of apps from FDroid or straight from APK files, but I don't use my phone like a PC like I just described. The range varies, and having that flexibility is nice.
People need efficient transport not efficient cars. Efficient cars are merely less bad, rather than good. We need more public transit and less urban sprawl so that we can reuse infrastructure efficiently.
The company I worked for the last 7 years closed year end, and I'm a single dad with a weird schedule and self-taught (no college). I thought my prospects were bad but I got a better job for better pay at a better company, and I was totally honest with them about my skills, experience, etc during the hiring process so there were no surprises.

If you feel like you could lose your current, underpaid job I encourage you to start looking around. I wish I would have before waiting til the bitter end.
Thanks! It's fun to see how folks are taking advantage of specific native features.

And the Hotwire stack on web is pretty darn powerful. Being able to make live updates and add interaction with minimal JavaScript? And I can keep writing more Ruby? Count me in.
Generative AI for user interface design
I will bet you an adult beverage of your choice if push comes to shove, they will rescue CS.
Assuming the bandwidth exists, somehow describing enough mathematics to describe a virtual machine, and then sending a program for that virtual machine, might just be the best way to communicate. A package that can help the recipient interpret it by learning and responding to the local environment. I can't put my finger on any specific book but I have the impression of this scenario coming up in science fiction. I've long figured that humans inventing superintelligent AI (whatever that would mean) and humans receiving an alien signal are essentially the same problem - we have no idea what it might tell us.
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You could say the same about natural evolution. It's a genetic algorithm. It even involves the intelligence of the species themselves as they pick the fittest mates. Natural evolution as an algorithm isn't fully intelligent like us, but it is intelligent in some sense of successfully solving many optimization problems.
Could you please clarify why you believe calling COVID-19 vaccines genetic therapy is "the very definition of nuttiness"?

mRNA (Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines) and adenovirus vector (Janssen vaccine) are the transfer of nucleic acids and viruses that mediate their effect by translation, and transcription then translation, respectively, of the transferred genetic material.

The FDA defines them as such: "Gene therapy products. Human gene therapy/gene transfer is the administration of nucleic acids, viruses, or genetically engineered microorganisms that mediate their effect by transcription and/or translation of the transferred genetic material, and/or by integrating into the host genome."

You may have misunderstood that I was drawing a distinction and suggesting that they are not "vaccines," which some people do. Similarly, but from the opposite point of view, you may also be suggesting that genetic therapies and vaccines are non-overlapping categories. I reject the false dichotomy.
Carmakers want to sell expensive cars.

Back in the 1970s my dad had plenty of stories about how American car dealers had all kinds of excuses why they couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't sell you a small car.

Now the Japanese car dealers do the same thing.

A few years I went to a Honda dealer looking for a new Fit, found they didn't have any because "the factory washed out in a flood" but they had 50 CR-Vs which are made in the same factory which were somehow not affected by the flood.

They really ought to put up or shut up: when they have a $7000 sales incentive on that monster vehicle that is not a sign that people want to buy a monster vehicle but it is a sign they want to sell you a monster vehicle.
That brings back memories... of an era of Internet that many here are probably too young to have experienced.
Vice emerged from the hostile takeover of the National Enquirer by Google's Office of Ideological Purification.
I think this is the $100000 conversion alluded to in the article. Not sure what makes it cost that much. Maybe the same thing that seems to have caused GA to stagnate, very small volumes combined with high certification costs.

(There's also a company called Austro engines that makes aero diesel engines, AFAIU even based on the same MB car engines Continental/Thielert uses. I think Austro is a subsidiary or spinoff of Diamond, so that's where you see these engines used.)
That would mean you have more power than the house of lords that runs the country. And if you had so much power, it would beg the question why they own all the land and you own none. In practice it takes a "humble king" to create freedom: someone strong enough to rule, but humble enough to give up that power to an elected senate.
There are clubs that own small aircraft that you can fly, I've done some time in these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_C42

Technically it is a microlight but top speed and handling are much closer to a regular GA craft. I absolutely loved it and if my eyesight was better I'd definitely go for a license.
>the majority of CEOs plan to increase headcount this year in spite of layoffs.

This just means that companies are continuing to hirer. It doesn't mean that they plan on increasing headcount to above where it was before the layoff.
I do want to bring up that insulin management is extremely taxing to individuals, and hard to get right. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376777 for previous discussion.

Obviously the costs involved in implementing these technologies should be part of the discussion, but I don't think it's unreasonable to want to make anything that eases management of diabetes way more affordable.
Agreed. Most of the time using a substantial layoff to boost your balance sheets would raise eyebrows with shareholders. This layoff spree is gives shortsighted leadership the cover they need to bump numbers during a not-a-recession-for-PR-purposes recession.
There are plenty of CVEs in brand name things across IoT spectrum.

Vetting devices you introduce to network is of course solid advice, but a little bit of paranoia never hurts in tech.
It's been a while, but when I tried to verify a Gemini account it insisted that I wire USD to them for that purpose. Are they still doing that?
Double.

But sometimes that number goes to == on layoff. I’ve seen this in real life.
YUP, she was the OG camgirl, sadly got all the worst parts of the gross attention / fame without any of the perks/money that Belle Delphine gets now
We already have precedent for a state outright saying "fuck copyright": Blackbeard's Law[0]. North Carolina copied a photographer's images and then passed a law saying the images were part of the public record and thus not copyrightable. The photographer sued to get the law repealed but SCOTUS decided that sovereign immunity meant there was no standing to overturn the law.

An interesting wrinkle is that Congress already foresaw this and passed a law decades ago waiving state sovereign immunity for patent and copyright claims. But then SCOTUS overturned the patent prong of this federal waiver on the grounds that Congress hadn't proven that states had a pattern of telling patent holders to go fuck themselves. And SCOTUS's reasoning for striking down the suit about Blackbeard's Law was that this also held true for the copyright prong of that law... despite being handed a brazen example of a state nullifying copyright law for their own gain on a silver platter.

What this technically means is that your state could, tomorrow, run their own pirate streaming site and not get sued for it[1]. The only way to stop it legally would be to sue end users, which would be difficult to do for a direct download service[2].

As for antitrust and cartels, since copyright and patents are legal, government-granted monopolies, most courts are very loathe to attack them even when they are used in ways that violate antitrust law. You can see this in FTC v. Qualcomm, where an appeals court smacked down an antitrust ruling for this reason. Compounding this is the fact that a very large contingent of judges have been slowly nullifying antitrust since the 1980s under the "consumer welfare" theory that every tech company is built to maximally exploit.

I could see California getting away with bloodying Eli Lily & Co's nose. But I would not count on this becoming a future model for evading (ab)use of the patent system. Remember, all the states are still part of a federal government that is very much in favor of the patent system as currently constituted, and there are still things they can do to block California.

[0] https://nsglc.olemiss.edu/blog/2020/apr/2/index.html

[1] Assuming your state had not already waived sovereign immunity for copyright

[2] It's commonly believed that you can't sue for downloads, only uploads. This isn't quite true. At least one court has outright said that both are illegal but infringe on different exclusive rights. I don't remember which court.
Comscore ScorecardResearch.com is an example of a 3rd party connection that is not a news site.
Importing another module takes non-zero time and uses non-zero memory, and let's face it: python is not exactly a fast language. Personally I'd appreciate a library author that takes steps to avoid a module load when that module is only used (for example) in some uncommonly-taken code paths.

In some (many?) cases it's probably premature optimization, but it doesn't hurt, so I don't see why anyone would get up in arms over it.
I mean.. that sounds like a legitimate reason to not extend you an offer.

But it's good that you know this about yourself and can hopefully formulate an actionable path to improvement!
> Email that I know exists is often unfindable until I force Thunderbird to re-index my whole mailbox.

Nice to have confirmation of this very irritating bug! When something isn't found in Thunderbird I now resort to searching in Fastmail's web interface.
I'm familiar with "this is not true Android" line. If it was not a derivative but vendor version the solution would have been that I should try Pixel or something which is pure Android. If it was the pure Android, the solution would have been that I should give a try to <BRAND />.

That's also why I don't like Android, you can't have it all in a single device. Everyone does something very well but lacks hugely in something else, so for each use case you need a new device.

Good Android experience is for the super rich, who can afford all the devices and use the correct one when needed.
I remember it quite well! Just not my particular cup of tea.
You might want to try semantic search instead of fiddling with keywords. Disclaimer: I'm building a plug-and-play semantic search API at https://kailualabs.com
Overstate? Overstate?! Go on the fcc map. Pick a rural location that supposedly has service. Go to that providers website and try to sign up for service on that address. If I had to ballpark, probably 25% of addressees outside my home town are fraudulently claimed as having service.

The FCC needs to enable a fraud bounty. I'd be more than happy to stick it to these companies and get paid for doing so.
make sure your git branch is set to protected
The hackernews zeitgeist assumes all companies are run by saturday morning cartoon villains, despite being in an industry that is highly privileged at the expense of other possible businesses due to economic policy.
I have the utmost respect for Woz, the ingenious Steve behind Apple, but it was clear from day one that FSD was plain impossible with todays technology: too many variables to take into account; by the moment one eliminates them and unifies road building to make them FSD proof, they're one step away from railways.
Of everyone, he should have known how not to fall into someone's reality distortion field.
> Closing all offices, I have to say, makes it way easier to do more layoffs.

I don't know. With sufficiently large organizations it's quite easy to lay off people you never crossed eyes with, remote or not.
Being ambitious and having an environment that lets you run (and rewards you for it) is what prevents burnout at a place like that.

A lot of people at hedge funds like having a baseline level of good stress in their lives. It's only when the stress starts to make you feel insecure that it creates problems.

I worked at one of these firms for a while, and my "burnout" point came when I realized I wasn't actually getting rewarded for my extra contributions to the company (my bonuses were going up by a small amount each quarter, no matter what).
Learned a new word today!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
> Five years from now, I think we will not see "remote only" for a large company and think "ooh, they value their employees I guess", but rather, "uh oh, they like to think of their employees as being like virtual servers, easy to spin up and easy to shut down the moment you don't need to pay for that capacity".

I would argue that companies already view their employees this way, in office or remote. Companies do not value employees. We are valued the same way you would value coal. If you need energy, keep buying and if not, stop.
I wonder what happens when we outsource the burden of proper communication to an AI. It's definitely very useful for language learners like me, but it might end up shaping how people write and speak (with AI training us back with added cultural influence from SV). It might change what we value in communication (with one AI expanding prompts, and another summarising the output with some loss).

It will be a wild ride.
My experience is that avoiding such claims (EEO and others like them) is the single biggest reason for the existence of HR. They want you to think they're there to stick up for the employee, but making sure the company's butt is covered from liability is their real point.
In several places in the world, the local Conservative party incites / leverages "fear of the other" to the mainstream. If the problem were to either be fixed or go away, they would lose major, major recruiting impetus.

I'm not necessarily interested in following through the more tenuous links. But illegal immigrants are an absolute boom to Conservative parties. It's a recruitment, it's a distraction, it's an effective and frequent emotional lever.