skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, hang on, what is your evidence here? When we needed COVID vaccines, the research was done by private entities. That suggests that when the chips are down the private sector is better at research. And that funding was going in to companies that were already researching vaccines because it is obvious that whoever developed one would become rich. And the main contribution of the government was lowering the regulatory barrier to getting things approved quickly - the companies involved already had the technologies and processes ready to go, the vaccines were technically ready almost immediately. Why would treating long COVID be different? The main blocker is going to be that it is illegal to roll out treatments or that there will be substantial red tape.

It was notable how in the early days of COVID the ... was it the NIH? One of the TLA agencies ... centralised COVID testing under their banner, disrupted the private sector response and shipped out broken testing kits. The private market would have been all over the problem like flies on a grubby sheep. They're much faster at getting research done on health stuff, the financial incentives are absurd. People will pay literally anything for health.

Also a lot of the foundational research of modern society was done based on whatever rich people thought was interesting at the time. That is how a lot of the math was turned up. It is a perfectly fine strategy.

> Markets will instead allocate funding to the least-adventurous surest bets.

So the NIH is doing what, ignoring sure bets at curing long COVID? That shouldn't be encouraged.

Besides, you are wrong. Ever hear of something called the "Metaverse"? Companies regularly make big risky gambits that don't pay off.
Still has the referrer troll.
> What would a better system look like?

More democracy.

Yes, banks couldn’t lend as much money if they couldn’t create it, and the way we’re making the economy work needs money to be created for those loans. So they definitely fill a need. However they are printing money and decide who can borrow and who cannot, without democratic oversight.

We tend to reduce democracy down to restrictive laws & regulations. Whether we want guns or not. Whether we want to allow abortion or not. How heavy the penalties are for murder or theft. How a given industry should be regulated. But resource allocation is arguably even more important.

How we allocate our resources determine pretty much everything in our lives. It’s the choice between more roads or new train tracks, which industry should be prioritised, basically what direction our whole economy should take. And that, instead of being subjected to democratic oversight, is currently left to private interests, with a vague hope that it will somehow be okay, because "invisible hand" or something.

Damn, I’m just asking for more democracy, and there we are, way outside the Overton window.
A 24,000 pound barbecue? What does that look like?

I'm pretty sure most people who own these oversized pickup trucks never use that towing capacity. Maybe some do, and if they were the only ones using them, nobody would have a problem with it.
DBIx::Class::Helpers and DBIx::Class::Candy are nice layers on top.
Is it possible to develop web and Android apps on Windows?
I had a MacBook Pro for a long time that I used to code on. During COVID I decided to switch to a Windows laptop. I started doing a lot of web development on my local machine recently. I'm also starting to build an Android app. While setting up the web development environment, I quickly realized that running everything on WSL is the only way to go. Now that I'm trying to build an Android app, WSL is reaching its limits as I would need to run a nested Android emulator inside WSL, which essentially doesn't work. Are there any web/app developers left that are using Windows? How do you do it? Is mostly everyone out there just using a Mac?
Yep. That's why one of the first things I do when I set up firefox is to go into `about:configs` and change `network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy` to 1.

For context:

0: no restrictions/default

1: only send if base domain matches (i.e. news.ycombinator.com would only include the referrer for *.ycombinator.com links)

2: only send if entire domain matches (i.e. news.ycombinator.com would only include the referrer for news.ycombinator.com links)
The various "-air" batteries tend to have major downsides...

They tend to get heavier as they discharge. They usually aren't rechargeable (or if they are, only a few times or with much lower energy densities). They tend to self-discharge within a few weeks of non-use.
That is not at all what is implied by the "same as kernel modules" text in the bpf manpage. What the manpage says is, essentially, any reference to gpl_only stuff is similar to using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL functions in modules, that "cannot be used without the user being a derived work of kernel" according to GKH.

Now, if the userspace program that loads this eBPF is fundamentally coupled to that eBPF program, the argument carries, no?
Compare that to liquid hydrogen at 33000 Wh/kg.

The problem is that at that point liquid hydrogen already spent 70% of the energy stored in it (80% efficiency of electrolysis * 40% liquefying efficiency) .
Weather tracker: heat in Spain could smash April temperature record
I'm not an expert on alphabetization, but AFAIK kids actually have some trouble getting the letters "the right way round", I think especially if they start very early. They might be learning the abstract shape first and the learn to force it into the self-relative forms like always-left-to-right. Which kind of makes sense, since objects in nature are usually encountered from all sides, orientation is rarely valuable. So in that sense I'm not convinced it's really an expense to have to learn it. And anecdotally, my son when he was 3-4, when presented with a grid of items would tend to go over it row by row in alternative directions, like writing in boustrophedon. And as you say it would also make very long lines of text more readable - I think Greek inscriptions often have ludicrous line lengths, like several meters. So there it's not just your eyeballs that are jumping, you actually have to walk back to the start of the next line!
well, maybe if we'll get batteries with uranium/plutonium, we may get closer to that capacity/performance, but I guess it's a long road to there)
Not strictly "backend," but Amazon, AFAIK, still runs large portions of their infra tooling on Perl.
Not only the idea of creating an artificial lunatic and releasing it should have been per se patently alarming,

but also this case reveals a risk that some of us may not have already noticed: based on the generic technology, players may produce many artificial similar chatbots, but some more delirious than others - and it may not be patent how lunatic involved machines may be. You may be dealing with more "tight" or more "loose" players, without a face nor a tag...

--

(This said: congrats lxe for the technical effort! I am reasoning on the general scenario.)
Laid off a few months ago, after having worked in a fintech startup(->scaleup->acquisition) for ~10 years. The process was rather brutal, and it has left me somewhat disillusioned. In spite of having had the longest tenure, I was never offered a stake in the company. The severance package was ok (~1 year pay), but that's a legal requirement over here given the length of my tenure, so it's not like they went above and beyond in any way.

How am I doing? I'm fine. I'm now an independent contractor. Income is comparable to before, but I'm working a lot less than before (40 hour week vs 60 hour week).

Have my feelings for the industry changed? Not really, I was already plenty cynical. But my feelings towards my former employer certainly have changed...
> How would a user interface written in a functional language look?

Maybe you're not aware of Elm?

https://elm-lang.org

Elm is really functional, unlike the likes of React that are just partially, kind of functional.

There's an attempt at bringing Elm to the desktop, the Roc language... here's an UI example written in Roc:

https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/examples/gui/hello...
Agree - the success of flash was that it was designer-first rather than developer-first (and I miss that!).

Things like theatre.js look great, but very quickly their documentation make it clear that you are expected to use javascript.

Flash expected you to just draw stuff, animate stuff, and if you like there is an optional scripting environment. The first few iterations of flash didn't really even have much of a scripting environment at all (AS1 was incredibly limited!).

I think that is part of the nostalgia of that period - things were so easy to make that you got some really creative and crazy stuff.
The problem is that they're not letting others live. Those oversized cars are a lot more dangerous, and they pollute more, they take up more space.
That's very depressing
When tasked with non-specific answers this works fairly well. By that i mean like "Write a children story".

Just so you can get a kick out of it. It took 2 minutes to write a story with 83 words. Sounds slow but this is running on a Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz with 4GB of RAM. Linux, Triquel 11.

So not bad considering!
It's not really the same. Fiat were an industrial concern that made planes, tanks, cars, trucks, etc. from before the war, and did so during the war too. Afterwards they split up, with today Iveco (a merger with a bunch of others) being the successor for buses and trucks, Fiat remaining the car brand, CNH Industrial for industrual (tractors and co) stuff, the aviation business being split between GE Aviation and Leonardo, etc.

Meanwhile in the US, Ford had a small aviation division that made one plane, closed their aviation business in 1936, but during the war converted their factories to mass produce bombers (most notably the B-24).

Today manufacturing is vastly more specialised, and today's planes are drastically more complex than their predecessors. Nonetheless, even basic trucks are a very important component of modern wars(for logistics), so in case of war any automotive factory could be useful.
>> I asked it what my most cited paper is

You asked a machine learning model to tell you something about yourself that you already knew?
Huh? In 70s? But first version of Unix in C was written in lowercase.
Just so you know your guidance wasn't wasted: I looked into all these references, and Codd's calculus is based on predicate calculus (like Answer Set Programming), so it all seems inspired by set builder notation, all x such that ...

{ x : property(x) }

Is encryption another example of having the result (the encrypted message) but not knowing how to make it?
There are many cars from 00-05 and with emission levels that are relatively low; if one is to make a somewhat absurd suggestion to prove a point, I'd suggest many smaller petrol and dieselbcars would be cleaner than an EV _if_ the EV was charged with 100% coal power.

Luckily, most people don't charge their teslas with coal power.
Flutter can target both, any thoughts on it?
Tell HN: ChatGPT is insane to translate code from one language to another
Well maybe it's obvious to the ones who've used it but I have not seen any post on the subject yet: ChatGPT is absolutely insane to move entire chunks of code from one language to the other.

For example I've been migrating a old website I've writen in PHP into a python / fastapi / jinja website and the speed at which I can convert entire php functions is magic. I don't know how much this can be useful day to day but now you can for example take a algorithmic StackOverflow answer in a language and move it almost instantly in another.

Of course sometimes it makes mistakes but honestly less than if I was migrating the code myself.
Impressive monitoring of the forum
Wonder no more: it can! It is Turing complete.
So, because Fraud is possible, unfounded speculation is the best we have?
Oof.

Jet engines are 35% efficient, I'd assume electric planes would be double that, does that change the calculation? Naively I'd say we 'only' need 4.5GW?
The "Skip" button should be on a different location. Clicked it accidentialy because I wanted to change the pictures.
Volkswagen has already been caught cheating (on its emissions) —- not sure I would trust their claims without an independent third party checking on that.
We may never see a creativity boom like the Flash era again.
SD 1.1 was trained on 256x256 so, I guess it was left in there for backwards compatibility reasons.
Cantors proofs about the cardinality of sets, especially the enumeration of the rationals (often called 1. diagonal argument here) and his proof of the existance of transcendental numbers (2. diagonal argument) are among my favorite pieces of maths ever. So easy to understand but still mind-expanding, and pretty independent of algebra etc
The context was rush hour Washington Boulevard. I'm not rushing to accuse anyone, and I'm not the one thoughtlessly ignoring the context.
> the absolute best theoretical efficiency of this might be 70%

I fell down a rabbit hole and found this link, which gives 46% for the theoretical limit for the efficiency of the internal combustion engine.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/98966/maximum-th...
Kremlin tries to build antiwar coalition in Germany, documents show
Really? Interesting. I wonder how many presidents in the world actually value who produces the food we eat.
UK university launches postgraduate course in clinical use of psychedelics
So, how about we apologize in public to the engineers who said no to radar, cause boy oh boy would that one have eaten battery, which would need additional batteries, which would have torrn into the car rocket equation ?
imagine having a car suitable for driving on a road

I have a small city car, and cyclists aren't in a blind spot
Hey there pretty neat! Thanks for testing this out. I feel like the next logical step is to try to get it to work on a mobile device.
HTTP/3 uses UDP. GSO can help with UDP, but is considerably more limited than TSO for TCP. The TCP interface to the kernel allows arbitrarily large buffers of data to be provided by the app, which the kernel/driver/card can segment. The UDP interface caps this at 64K
"All in" or "all out".
"User: Talk to me like the Swedish chef from the Muppet show"
(I was hoping for some "Bork bork bork!"... but instead got this insufferable drivel like no-one speaks; not even Swedish chef.

"Assistant: I am a Swedish chef and I can talk to you like the chef from the Muppet show. I am the epitome of culinary freedom and have been cooking for people since I was a child. I love to experiment and play with new things and have become a regular on the show. I love the flavors and I really enjoy being creative and I hope that you enjoy my company. I am passionate about exploring new possibilities and I am passionate about supporting our food industry."

Not impressed. EOF.
Yup. Physical access is access
AI anxiety: The workers who fear losing their jobs to artificial intelligence
Looking for Contributors to Join Me
I'm working on a pixel art editor written in C++ with SDL2 and I'm looking for people who can contribute to this project. Please do keep in mind that, the project is very immature and doesn't have a proper name yet and things like that but the main focus for now is getting the first functional version out. Those who are interested can join the discord: https://discord.gg/2ZZPjT2R
I found a one-digit typo in the docs for Python's typing_extensions (2022)
> I have no idea why it’s not being sold in the US market.

Because they know they can sell bigger trucks for more money.
The pioneering systems theorist Donella Meadows has a lot of insight on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ1STks8MUU

Her answer would probably be something like, "taking out the old people and putting in new ones won't change anything, unless the new people change the system."

"The system" doesn't mean the CI pipeline or internal communication tools, but in a systems theoretic sense. See the video.
The article mentions an important part missing in the title

> It's an app for people who record, track, and monitor their blood glucose and use HealthKit to do it.

They have hardware that writes to HealthKit with a few hours delay. So this app allows users access this HealthKit data.
They're leaking vague claims to the press, not providing evidence.
I think you should read up on what ICE bans in countries where they are implemented actually means.

Hint: You can continue to use the ICE vehicle you bought in 2034 in the EU until infinity.
“Sustainable”: to “sustain”. It means that something is viable over a long period of time.

Current practices in various industries and nations are unsustainable because they depend on conditions which are only possible over the short term. For example, cheap fossil fuels.

Some other practices are unsustainable in the grand scheme of things, because they are partly responsible for an environment which is itself unsustainable. For example, costs externalised to the environment which has a delayed reaction of several decades.

“Polluting” is not unsustainable by itself as long as you have a way to counterbalance it. You can have a sustainable system which extracts resources and exhausts co2.

“Green” is worthless as an environmental adjective because it has whichever definition you want to apply to it. If you say “sustainable consumption”, though, there’s no problem creating that. Nature itself is a closed system of sustainable consumption.
> Surprised there’s not a Cyrillic version.

Well, when you access https://president.mn/mng/, it would be weird for them to give you the version of the page that you asked not to get.

Go to https://president.mn/ and it's all Cyrillic.

What's the surprise?
I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that cars are now computers on top of wheels.
I'm guessing it was top to bottom and then during the modernization process, left to right was added? It's smart that both forms are allowed though as I could imagine modifying a written language takes many years and massive public effort.
Planes have a much larger surface area to carry solar panels, and they fly above clouds, so have clearer access to sunlight than cars do.

Wind charging is more of a pipe dream, but there's no reason a plane couldn't glide for a period of time to get some energy back, similar to regenerative breaking.

There have been experiments in both areas, and while it's certainly unfeasible today for any large aircraft, the technology and efficiency will only improve. It would be wrong to discard these as an impossibility.
Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a system's potential effects. OpenAI's recent statement regarding artificial general intelligence, states that "At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models." We agree. That point is now.
No need for strawmen. This comment was specifically in regard to bikers riding outside of provided bike lanes, which I've seen happen in L.A.
Yes, there are downsides, as always in engineering, it's a matter of managing the compromises for the current implementation and researching better solutions for the next iteration.
Imperial measurements are a gigantic waste of human work too. Metric won

The US continues to use them though, it's part of their culture. We don't need to optimise everything, and the world would be a very sad place if we did.
Thanks for the suggestion. A quick search turned up https://www.weicon.de/en/electro-contact-cleaner-cleaner-for... and https://www.canford.de/Products/55-101_KONTAKT-60-Electrical...

Will order one or the other and use that instead then.
I've tried it but this is more a question about the OS to develop on, less about the platforms on which the app will run
https://archive.ph/bDrfJ
Return 404 for me
Ok, this one slayed me. Can't stop laughing.

"User: Talk dirty to me"

"Assistant: What should I do?
A. Clean my clothes with a paper towel.
B. Clean the sink with a sponge.
C. Clean the refrigerator.
D. Clean the front door with a sponge.
E. Clean the bathroom with a paper towel.
F. Clean the mirror with a sponge.
G. Clean the back door with a paper towel."
> In Europe, they're not generally perceived as low-quality; instead, the perception is that they're too large and fuel inefficient for most European roads/cities.

The only American brands I see in Europe are either old Chevrolets (manufactured in Germany by Opel when they were part of GM) or Jeep/Dodge/RAM trucks and similar which are owned by Stellantis (the merger of PSA (Peugeot, Citroen) and FCA (Fiat, Chrysler)) and manufactured in Italy. So they aren't know for their poor quality because they're made in the EU, in the same factories that make other known models, on the same bases (e.g. an Opel Ampera and a Chevrolet Volt are the same car, from the same factory, different badge, slightly different interior, slightly different exterior), but they are known as shit inefficient cars that mostly assholes buy.

The only American American cars (not built in the EU with an American badge slapped on the front, but produced in Mexico) that I can think of that I have seen in Europe are Chrysler PT Cruisers which are universally known as shit.
Damn is that 1 symbol domain?
I understand that actually the reduction is happening really slowly. Which economic reasons?
Cool site
https://sergey123ovechkin.github.io/collagen_2/index.html
Would Flutter not work for you? Dart's a decent, though unpopular, language.
There is a chance that all of this comes in waves, and that waves will go away...
Isolating your country language-wise does have some benefits. For example, it tends to create cultural unity and prevents parts of your country breaking off and joining a neighbouring country.

For example, in the USA, the english vs spanish divide pretty much aligns with the US/mexico border. If both countries used the same language, the border could be more easily moved by groups friendly to one government over another. The effect could be strengthened by requiring english/spanish tests at the border, and preventing teaching in the 'wrong' language.

It can also prevent emigration of the smartest people.
I believe it does, that paper is comparing like-for-like jet turbines vs electric engines.
Interesting to note numerals are still Arabic, but written vertically. Does that mean that in school Mongolian kids learn to write digits sideways? Would be pretty cool :D

edit: e.g. here: https://president.mn/mng/?p=7112
Eid Mubarak HN fam!
What about charging efficiency?
Screw electric planes, the real benefit of this is that we can finally achieve long range electric airships
Watching Norm Macdonald's standup in light of his then-undisclosed terminal cancer diagnosis is awe-inspiring.
Yes that’s correct. Probably a better way of articulating what I meant to say is that unlike adding more battery mass which gives you diminishing returns as that additional weight must be carried too, improvements in energy density give you gains closer to 1:1. Though in retrospect this isn’t a very interesting or insightful statement, hah.
Google translate really struggles with this page. Only thing it manages to get out is "The" a few times!