skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Food delivery apps seem to immediately abuse any form of push notifications in order to send spam. Lyft uses the same push stream for both driver ETA and 10% off coupons. They are indeed more reliable than SMS, yet I turn them off almost as fast as apps start to use them.
I think I'd prefer half the battery weight.
Their target audience isn't engineers but decision makers at large organizations. They want ALDC (or whatever acronym they are pushing) to become a standard part of the stack so that everyone will have to buy ALDC Ops Service or ALDC Security service.

And what do you know A16Z has investments in companies that offer those SaaS products.
>> Most of the brightest ones have left the country

I feel like that needs to be qualified? Maybe ages 20-40 and of a certain social-economic class can leave fairly easily, but it’s gotta be much harder to leave if you’re too young, too old, too poor, have too few connections, or have aged parents, young children, etc.
Did I miss something about scientists getting payed the big bucks suddenly?
Ah, now I see your point — and it is a good one. The title should be something like "Ingested Microplastics May Break Down Into Nanoplastics Which Breach Blood-Brain Barrier"
What kind of interaction would you guess the particles would have with the brain after passing the barrier? I know heavy metals have stong interactions, but I wonder how bad plastic is, really - not that it would be good of course.
2/3 of world's population won't have any issue converting currency to yuan if BRICS decide to use it for mutual commerce (though I doubt a WW3 won't happen before this happens).
Not to get all Bayesian on you, but I'd imagine it's just as hard to find a peaceful country that hasn't had the US poking around.
Very interesting reply.

The summaries of all these studies can effectively be summarised as: if you are raising children on a vegan diet, ensure you supplement and have adequate calory intake. Taking datapoints from figures and graphs without understanding the underlying causes and effects is how we spread misinformation. It's great that studies are measuring this so that we understand better how humans can develop successfully.

An example of this is in study 6 where you stated that vegan children were shorter and weighed less. Whilst true the study also stated "The energy intake of the vegan children was consistently lower than the recommended daily amounts". It then concluded that with a sensibly planned diet vegan children should have no intellectual or physical problems in their development.

So whilst I agree that all the studies did find differences, I disagree that they are somehow proving against my points that a vegan diet in children can be healthy if correctly planned. Due to how the animal agriculture industry creates meat (such as supplementing and fortifying the meat) it is extremely easy to get away with not planning meals with an omnivorous diet.
I mean, even desktops can barely do raytracing so I wouldn't hold my breath on phone SoCs being able to do it competently for a while. Also, afaik there is no high-profile game that uses the RT cores on newer Snapdragons.
Well-Maintained Software
> ever was black

1/64th black…
Westwood is the way it is because of students. That's one of the largest concentration of apartments due to the proximity to the school.

Not "everyone" lives in a parcel of suburban land. Of course not, home ownership even in suburbia (LA or not) is not affordable by everyone. So LA like every other suburbia out there in existence has many pockets of areas zoned as multi family apartments.

When I say "everyone" I mean the general way of life for someone who's not transient/starting out and living in popular areas. Obviously there aren't suburbs with zero apartments. LA is still overall suburban cul de sacs. You stay there long enough you will be able to afford a home, just not in Westwood.

Westwood is one of the most expensive areas in LA. There are plenty of areas that are cheaper and much much more affordable. You likely only looked for things west of UCLA due to proximity to your job or desirability of the neighborhoods. That area is extremely expensive and just a small (although popular) part of LA. Go south and go east (skipping past Beverley hills) and you'll see places where things get cheaper and youll get a better view a larger section of LA.

I come from a large area east of DT LA which encompasses even larger swaths of suburban sfh that rivals the size of the neighborhoods close to the coast. Starting out people live in apartments. Over time they graduate into buying a sfh and paying a mortgage. Owning and living in a sfh is the typical life path of someone living in LA or suburbia.
I was cuttug up a hot pepper and washed my hands for a pretty long time. But still when I rubbed my eyes I got burned. Made me realize that I've probably ingested all kinds of things by not washing my hands well enough. And that tiny amounts of things enter our body all the time.
Also, It's "making the frogs gay"
( Alex Jones )
Russia isn't known as welcoming to Central Asians either, yet they still (used to?) come there to work. Money talks.
I've been the social media person (community manager) for a few large companies: HTC for a few years, a Google account for a bit, then more recently for Qualcomm. At least for the larger companies in general that I've worked with, "interns" never touched post copy. Outbound "posts" are typically written by a group of people outsourced to an ad agency, approved internally, then approved by the client, then scheduled to be posted. Typically dozens of people are involved for a single tweet.

Companies (at least the ones I've worked with) take their social media handles as "official" messaging from the company that could easily effect stock prices if incorrect messaging is shared. I once had a colleague incorrectly share that a budget smartphone was going to receive the latest version of Android (at the time) and several tech news sites picked up on it.

Direct replies to users is a bit different. Typically a response is drafted in a tool like Sprinklr then approved by a second person.
What are the rules? Who makes them? Do I get a democratic say on what they are?
• Confederacy of Dunces : An indescribable rube-goldberg story about a "neckbeard" and his mother in New Orleans.

• Solaris: A novella that reads as a Lovecraftian space horror.

• The Summer People : A short modern fairy tale by Kelly Link.

• Metamorphosis : Kafka's famous short work about waking up as a giant insect.

• Ubik : Fantastic sci-fi that interleaves a bunch of cool premises.

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow : An emotional book about love and game design.
https://hn.algolia.com/?type=story&query=Faraday
Never Write Your Own Database
A Giant Telescope Grows in Chile
200 seems like a reasonably small divisor for over 8,000,000,000 people living over ~148,940,000 square kilometers.
the same can be said about a lot of communities and it has more to do with crime and violence than about gender opinions, there's tons of people who get off with lying everywhere, i think you're fooling yourself into believing florida is somehow special. there's probably been more florida on your feed lately in order to get people to be anti-desantis, it a real thing
Have to agree with you. We screwed up the environment, then experiment on innocent creatures to prove we've screwed it up.

Not to say there isn't good science being done, but I do question the ethics.
There never was any real high tech industry. Everything good was done in gulags which my Russian schoolbook called "Nauki Gorods" ie science towns. Everything else was substandard garbage.

However under harsh military rule labor camps work well to produce high tech. German V2-rockets and Curta calculators prove that. But there is time limit for that. You will run out of people.
Not the same, but I really dig using vim (neovim) as my terminal multiplexer. Vim has tools for managing windows, splits, all the things, and it felt redundant having two separate tools.

The one thing I needed was a way to attach/detach it, and have it survive across ssh disconnects. I struggled for a while trying to use things like reptyr or others. Eventually I remembered/rediscovered dtach, which is a very thin very simple proxy, as opposed to a full on terminal emulator / multiplexer. https://github.com/crigler/dtach
Some do, but they work in advertising.
People would also want to bring their own wine to every restaurant and some would love to bring their own eggs and ask kitchen to make it for them at a discount - isn't it better to just put few benches as picnic area outside to make everybody happy?

You can't meet all demands of everybody at the same time because what they think they're entitled to is mutually exclusive.

Let's not kid ourselves - Apple won't give full, unrestricted access for sideloaded code ever. It's going to run in some kind of highly isolated enclave at best, with grayed out icons, warning sign overlay, scary long list of permissions given when installing, untrusted code popups when launching, permission re-confirmations when running, without access to ie. background code execution, limited apis etc. - they must be brainstorming any loopholes left by snail speed EU bureaucracy as we speak to make it as user unfriendly and limited as possible.

All that wasted energy could be channeled into something that actually is good for people, gives them freedom while preserving Apple's deserved profit participation in the market they've created themselves out of thin air.
Do you disagree that relatively few Android users sideload?
I think the real power of AI isn’t (yet) in one general intelligence, but in the architecture and collaboration of individual intelligent agents acting autonomously. Very cool!
I remember reading something similar some time ago for RFID/NFC blocking wallets testing. Couldn’t find it with the HN search.
How much did total vehicle production increase in China last year?
> use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI

It can be argued that if you build a model using their outputs such that you can then stop using their API, your model is effectively competing with their’s.

Let’s just say that if you’re a startup or SMB, you do not want to be the one dragged to court to iron out whether this holds or not.
Creating a Mastodon Bot with Python
>defending smaller, but freedom loving, countries

You mean America was doing the defending? That's hilarious.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

And then there's the horror show of American intervention in South East Asia, and then there's the meddle, I mean Middle East.
The military is a large organization. While there are some important and famous instances of people not following orders, most people in the service, follow orders most of the time.

Do you really think in the history of militaries, they tend not to follow orders well?
I had a script email me if my website’s Alexa rank would increase vis-a-vis previous day and log every day rankings with a nice graph in the sheet.
Lots of fun stuff can be done with Google sheets/scripts.
Century-old Sydney weather record broken
I started cutting bacca when I was about 6or7 in southern Maryland my pops and I would do it,my last day cutting was 1994 Waldorf md last field was in right behind the ol John deer shop. Miss those days I'm 45 now if I could go back I would just to have time with my father... taught me a lot in my young age.
It can be argued that if you build a model using their outputs such that you can then stop using their API, your model is effectively competing with their’s.
Let’s just say that if you’re a startup or SMB, you do not want to be the one dragged to court to iron out whether this holds or not.
I think the model is almost ready for real-world learning, for example in programming - sure you can have a knowledge base built on documentation, public code, etc.

But at some point you can just give the model access to tools, tell it to solve some problems, build plans, generate logs of each approach and train on those outputs. Programming is ripe for this - all the tools are easily accessible to a digital actor, everything is suited to text based model, there's plenty of tooling to provide feedback and explanations for errors geared towards humans.

No need to fumble with robotics and physical world - you can create a superhuman programmer. Then make it build out the infrastructure for physical world learning. AGI apocalypse here we come !
It's only mentioned briefly but a large percentage of emigres ended up in the same place, Cyprus. My wife's Russian dev team all slipped away to Cyprus. Cyprus was once very cozy with Russia and pitched itself as a vacation spot for Russian tourists. It cost them a lot to sign on to sanctions but they found a silver lining by acquiring a whole tech sector almost for free.
I was in high school in the late nineties and I was looking forward to some nostalgia but this is hard to watch. I had kinda blocked from my memory that most people felt they needed a computer but didn’t know why. The internet was so new, it wasn’t essential yet. We still used the phone book as a primary source. Most people’s internet was through America Online and you stayed in their walled garden. They still bought computers out of fear of getting left behind. I did a lot of free IT work for friend’s parents in those days.
Yeah, 98% sounds suspiciously like a delivery rate to me, not an open.
Didn't receive it until I put my phone into and out of airplane mode. It's annoyingly loud which means that people will dismiss it before reading it.
But maybe you get a few more seconds, one more swing, and take out your opponent. Your tribe kills the lion or wins the war. If the initial mutation wasn't detrimental so wasn't tested right away on an individual basis, but allowed to reproduced to form a population, it would be the group test that gets passed. Just a thought.
Or similarly I'd love a "Only necessary cookies" button on the dialog box. It always feels like a scammy dark pattern for "accept cookies" to be one obvious click when rejecting advertising cookies is buried in a menu.
The reddit discussion is severely out of date.
Our modern omni-directional digital broadcasts probably don't go far.

But what about our focused beams from airport and weather radars?
This is just the fascist mindset.

"Everyone is as depraved as me, so I can and should be infinitely depraved preemptively."
In many ways, Russian culture has been preserved better outside of Russia than inside. Russians have had a tendency over last few hundred years to absorb other cultures rapidly, thus changing their own. French, Italian, English, now American. Watching Russian TV now by someone who left in the 1990s is quite strange because almost every other word is taken from English, while a different word was used in Russian 30 years ago.
If you have a bad diet and you remove a significant source of protein and other nutrients from it, how is it a better diet?
> and they can’t be flushed out [2] — right?

This works for other forever chemicals, it may work for micro plastics:

> Regular Blood Donations Can Reduce Toxic Forever Chemicals in the Bloodstream: Study

> https://theswaddle.com/regular-blood-donations-can-reduce-to...
Wow, so now we need to do what we might call "distributed transaction processing", we need some kind of "extended architecture". Wonder if there's a snappy abbreviation for that?
A lot depends on your local educational system. Community colleges in California, for example, have suffered large budget cuts and many teachers have been laid off over the past few years so it's not a very attractive career. A program with few offerings is not attractive to students, either, so budget cuts tend to lead to enrollment drops:

https://www.communitycollegereview.com/blog/california-commu...

A main issue, at least in the USA, is that college is extremely expensive so smart students who don't want massive debt or who can't tap parental wealth can do two years of work at a community college (with smaller classes) before transferring to a four-year school, saving tens of thousands of dollars along the way. Some community colleges have reoriented around this goal to attract students, but the tradeoff is that continuing education for adults and other vocational programs often get cut.

Another problem is that public high schools do such an atrocious job at instruction that community colleges have to pick up the slack, so you have schools teaching basic algebra and simple reading/writing skills (i.e. 9th grade level etc.) to young adults whose primary education was a disaster. It's a pretty sad state of affairs, at least in the USA.

Note that teaching at a CC tends to require at least a Master's degreee in the field, and of course if you have large student loans the pay is to low to make any headway in paying them down. Incidentally, if you are planning to teach, LLMs have huge potential for new teachers to design a course with modern material. Of course grading students is going to be an issue and in-class testing is the only plausible alternative as LLMs can also write code and solve problems for students.
> we have to eat all kinds of pharmaceutical products to compensate the deficiencies of a plant based diet.

Vitamin supplements are regulated by the FDA as food. They're not drugs or "pharmaceutical products."
> That's what causes extra warming of the surface compared to the situation without air.

While this effect may be real, it's not what people are referring to as the "greenhouse effect". This requires the absorption and re-emission as IR. Methane and CO2 are considered greenhouse gases because they absorb thermal IR, not because they absorb reflected light from the surface.

In addition to the Wikipedia article machina_ex_deus linked, this might be a good intro: http://forecast.uchicago.edu/archer.ch4.greenhouse_gases.pdf. I'm not sure if I buy all of machina_ex_deus's conclusions, but I think his description of the effect is much closer to accurate than yours.
She left the college about 10 years ago. At the time all she used was a smart whiteboard - the 2 different colleges she worked at had different brands with different software interfaces on her PC and this was a real pain she said - just as she got used to one she had to change to another one.

Apart from that she just made her lesson plans in Word based on a basic template that the college provided.
There's a conflict of interest in the hog hunting-tourism industry. Companies profit from the existence of the hogs, because they are legal to hunt year-round in Texas, with no permit and no bag limit. People have deliberately captured and transported the hogs to neighboring states with the hopes of propagating the problem and the profits that follow.

Of course, hunting hogs with a rifle makes people feel like they're helping. But shooting at these hogs, even if you bag a few, actually diffuses a herd across wide areas. It breaks up what was previously a single, easily trackable group. The young hogs reproduce like crazy and soon you've got two or three as many hogs.

Other states have banned the practice of hunting for this reason, instead favoring the capture of the hogs. It seems to me that as long as it's profitable to hunt and spread these hogs, there will be an increasingly large hog problem in the US.
> a 501(c)(4), which allows Brin to exploit a powerful new philanthropic strategy

new?

a cursory reading of the 500 section of the tax code has that listed in plain English, and it wasn't invented or modified at all in any recent tax code. I read the article hoping there was something mentioned about why it was "new". Its just new to that guy, or new to a broader collective conscious with a few high profile entrants.

I think the public put way too much emphasis on 501(c)3's non profits on their own, people just rattle off words they hear without thinking about what they mean. There are c3's c4's, c5's, c6's and more. I don't really think its wrong for people to not have realized that "501 c" was a reference to a section of the tax code, surrounded by other variants, I mostly expect Bloomberg to have mentioned it that way.

For example, When I listen to a lot of the employee sentiment in the for profit world, especially the people that want corporations to "use their platform" for things unrelated to corporate revenue, I always thought those employees would be better off working for a 501(c)4 or 501(c)5 because those are purpose built for using their platform on political and labor matters.

Read the tax code. ChatGPT is aware of it and can get you a more digestible overview long before you point your licensed professionals into that general direction to corroborate what you understand.
I'm pretty sure that "drama" is the whole reason Libreboot exists, instead of just merging into the Coreboot project it's based on.
Sergiy Brin sold his Tesla stock to fund a new nonprofit group.
Tbf, it’s not welcoming for everyone. The issue you pointed out is of little to no importance for educated people. For uneducated - yes, but mostly in “the center”. If you understand russian names, you may see yourself in TFA that most of those interviewed aren’t even of slavic origin, at least by father (neither am I, if that’s important for some reason).
> Within weeks (of the meeting of al-Bashir with Putin), Russian geologists and mineralogists employed by Meroe Gold, a new Sudanese company, began to arrive in Sudan, according to commercial flight records obtained by the Dossier Center, a London-based investigative body, and verified by researchers at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies.

Does anyone know how a non-profit "London-based investigative body" obtains call logs, commercial airline tickets, entry permits, visa applications, and browsing history of people they are investigating [1]?

[1] https://dossier.center/car-en/#p3-3
Plastic from water bottles contains about two orders of magnitude more micro plastics than regular tap water. So yes, personal action can have an effect and the size of that effect is about 100x.

It’s not possible to keep micro plastics out of your body 100%, but like everything it’s a question of how much. Even your tap water contains compounds like cyanide in trace amounts that we can measure, but that just says more about our ability to measure Tony quantities of compounds. You have to look at the relative significance of different amounts.
For detecting at a distance, it’d depend on the quality of your receiving system. The electronics in a radio make noise themselves.

A kilowatt won’t get far - the signal strength decreases over distance. I seem to recall CB radios with an amplifier could easily attain that.

No doubt someone here could calculate the theoretical wattage needed to appear above the background noise on, say, Proxima Centauri.
Isn't that the distinction used by at least some people in US - you're black if you had any black ancestors (at least in traced history)?
Yeah, if 80% of gas stations close, I probably wouldn't even have to change my route to get gas. I pass...I think 7 on the way to the grocery store.
Lots of users (especially in the US) do the things you don't do. They use iCloud, talk on the phone, and use Keychain and iMessage. They use Safari on both platforms and the features that let you send stuff back and forth easily. If they have an iPad some even use Sidecar which lets you use the iPad from your Mac.
Some species actually breed more when under threat from hunters.

Not saying you can't wipe them out, but it's hard, even with expensive optics and firearms.

I like the idea of training military marksmanship hunting pigs, but there is a difference in environmental damage between a rifle, and machine guns.
AFAICT, you don't.

I reached out to the local CC years ago, with a resume of 20+ yoe in industry; a list of educational clients including NASA, IBM; local clients, industry certs; etc.

The response was "Impressive resume! Come back when you have a Master's degree."

So, screw them...
I guess you can tell us the percentage of someone’s blood that has to be black for them to be black. What is the percentage?