skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My layperson understanding is that this is a Bad Thing, but not the surprising outcome SVB was. The market, other banks, consumers, etc had a long window to digest this, so it won’t cause new panic the same way.

Considering all of the stops the fed pulled out to prevent future bank liquidity failures, this probably means some gross negligence was revealed by the market state that goes well beyond even blatant risk mismanagement.

Or not, I’m not an expert!
It still your bias making a blanket statement that the data you link doesn't really back up. Sure there is less educated people in rural areas, but it isn't that much less.
It's an interesting question in this case because last month a consortium of banks made a big show of depositing $30B "uninsured" as a show of confidence, and it's not clear whether it's still there.
Software engineering is. The problem is most people think they are software engineers simply because a company makes such title for a job. If that is accepted, then why not call janitors as senior principal custodial enginner.
Even beyond that $13.5B was raised from various sources for a country of 11.45M people and not much came out of it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/01/12/3761388...
Not all. I definitely believe large numbers of liberal arts schools are having problems. But my school (University of Waterloo) has only seen dramatic surges in enrolment over the past 5 years. They're putting up new buildings like crazy just to accommodate all of them! And we're not talking sports centres or rec complexes, we're talking about big lecture halls and buildings full of classrooms and study spaces!
> Now you might ask, why does the webcam have an endpoint with a 0 byte MaxPacketSize on its first interface? Who knows!

This one has a simple answer:

USB is a shared bus and limited in bandwidth.
Isochronous endpoints transmit continously and thus require a fixed part of that bandwidth.

The OS has to allocate the available bus bandwidth to all plugged in devices.

If no more bandwidth is available, it will refuse to configure the device that you just plugged in!

Thus the alternate setting with the isochronous packet size set to 0 serves multiple purposes:

1) It lets the OS configure the device and let the driver discover it even when not enough free bandwith is available on the bus

2) The driver can release the unused bandwith while the device is not in use

3) Not sending iso packets while the device is not actively used also means less power draw
American butter mostly tastes like salt and hardened milkfat … which is pretty ho-hum.

I suspect most Americans use butter for the salinity rather than the flavor.

I further suspect that people butter their grilled cheese not for flavor, but for crisping the bread and building a barrier against the grease released by the melting cheese.
Ocean Warming Study So Distressing, Some Scientists Didn't Want to Talk About It
Yeah it’s clearly headline BS - “pedo also watched fictional child abuse” is less attention grabbing :-/
By that definition so are Reddit and Twitter.
German butter: no salt. Even Kerrygold sold in Germany, no salt.

Irish butter: a little salt.

French butter: more salt

Bretagne butter: crunchy salt crystals.
First, that's an informal statement made in an online discussion forum, rather than a tightly-worded scientific assessment.

However it might be charitably interpreted along the lines of "of the prehuman megafauna extant on the multiple continents, the greatest degree of survival to the present day is found in Africa, where those species co-evolved with humans rather than experiencing humans as a suddenly-appearing invasive species".

Which is what the sources I'm familiar with generally suggest. Though not a primary source, Wikipedia reasonably summarises the situation:

Sub-Saharan Africa is the region of the world with the highest amount of Pleistocene megafauna surviving to the present day. These surviving species include the African bush elephant, African forest elephant, black rhinoceros, white rhinoceros and the hippopotamus. All of these species maintained populations in sub-Saharan Africa even after many of them were extirpated from Eurasia during the early Holocene.[58] This means that all of the largest herbivore genera present in Pleistocene Africa are still present today.

Citing:

Stuart, Anthony John (May 2015). "Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions on the continents: a short review: LATE QUATERNARY MEGAFAUNAL EXTINCTIONS". Geological Journal. 50 (3): 338–363. doi:10.1002/gj.2633. S2CID 128868400

Stuart, Anthony J. (1991). "Mammalian Extinctions in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Eurasia and North America". Biological Reviews. 66 (4): 453–562. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.1991.tb01149.x. ISSN 1469-185X. PMID 1801948. S2CID 41295526

Which would strongly support the original statement by maxerickson above.
My youngest daughter and I set out to do a butter tournament in which we would pick the best tasting butter among all of those available in our local supermarkets. I believe we bought about $60 or $70 worth of butter and tried them on toast, in soup, and then just eating a little pat of it neat.

Kerrygold took the gold. I keep one of the doublewide bars in this [1] butter dish on the counter. Every now and then I’ll grab a cracker and scoop off a bit. It’s so good.

1 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WNV847W
The assumption that these cells cannot be hardy assumes a great deal about this process. It’s lab grown meat not just lab grown beef.

From the perspective of human health we can use non mammalian cells for meat such as fish, reptile, or even invertebrates. That greatly changed the risks from things like viral or bacterial infection.

There’s a massive tradeoff in terms of the need for an immune system vs antibiotics vs near perfect sterilization. Avoiding contamination is extremely difficult but if possible solves many problems.
We are more in the case of adding a turnaround on footpaths to block motorbikes and other 2-wheel scooters.
captcha also exists in the real world.
Honestly, if I was that guy, I'd put a description of that commute on my resume/CV.
The stories in this page are bad. Good decision. I write stuff using LLMs all the time, back from 2020 when i used the paid service of OpenAI till today. I have so much fun writing my stories, it is freaking amazing. If no one reads my stories, i wouldn't care less, because i am enjoying them tremendously.

A recent thread on HN was about 75% percent of Hollywood movies that got lost forever. A story i am writing for almost a week, alongside with GPT of course, introduces the holy trinity of the computer internet, which solves this problem. This will get published in a day or two.

The problem of the Holy Trinity of the Computer Internet, cannot be solved by the machine, and it is not solved by humans either. I had to use a powerful statistical engine, like GPT, to really tackle this problem effectively, to put the words in a perfect sequence. GPT enables a sentence to be written, in a perfect average way, so perfect average it seems like super-average.
I'm working on a crawler and CloudFlare is the cause of 99% of all the headaches and random bugs I encounter doing simple HTTP requests.

I literally have implemented custom logic to deal with sites returning the "Server: Cloudflare" header.
> only humans have some innate fundamental notion of creativity is foolish

Humans are the ones who created the very AI that you're talking about. The AI is not an act of nature but something made real by human creativity.
Figure out how to keep sites hosted off the platform available without advertising, say by a monetary agreement with either them or their ad platform, and I'll be the first in line.
I was browsing the most popular pip packages recently and was also downright shocked how much AI stuff is up at the top. I will be very curious if much of these things are still popular or relevant in a year.
At which point, I'll probably stop reading new things and my favorite authors will be historical ones.
Kerrygold quality seems to have went down drastically recently, maybe a year or two ago. Tastes rancid compared to Plugra, but it is still better than the other butters at $megamart.
There is an active political element in the U.S. that believes that “defunding” police is the answer. While they may have some valid arguments, they don’t see things from your perspective at all.

We had city-burning protests for months for a career criminal high on illegal drugs committing crime. In a few days after, there were worldwide protests and political statements (GF portraits on the Berlin Wall?!?). Those that support this obvious push towards more chaos and police oversight have deep pockets and international reach.

Real change in the US comes from tragedy and money.
The most important rule that they do not cover in this very nice article:

The cooking butter goes in the fridge, the eating butter stays out of the fridge.
If you take the investment that is the infrastructure for gas lines (all underground) and do similar for most electricity then storms don't take out electricity and people don't die.

Best of all, the total investment and maintenance actually decreases.
I have looked into lab grown meat and have come away very skeptical that we will ever get there. It isn't impossible but there is a LONG way to go. Until we can reproduce an immune system in a vat, it is always going to be to cost prohibitive to do.

That said, the stuff we have today, personally, is already good enough. Yeah I get the whole emotional attachment to meat but it also isn't as sticky a drive as some may think.
The genome-wide mutational consequences of DNA hypomethylation
> even today you don't really know if an author has used a ghost writer to help them.

True, but the odds are overwhelming that the ghost writer was human.
IPv6 addresses are effectively the same as shared IPv4 addresses in anti-abuse systems. All anti abuse systems treat a /48 or /56 level the same as a single IPv4 address. It's the only way to actually detect one system doing abuse.
what's a surd?
thats like summing the value of all written insurance policies, meaningless number

the figure is way lower netted out
Domains can be lost - this idea would exacerbate that problem.

In fact, it would give yet another reason to hijack a domain.
Try some Belgian butter if you can get your hands on it. It's less widely available French, but its excellent and doesn't carry a Francophile premium …

Also, ghee! Also cultured butter!

So many great butter and butter-adjacent products out there …
Python 3.12 also does not exist, because it has not been finished and released yet. So there's time.
Happy to see Plugra and Organic Valley mentioned as “good” American butters. I use Plugra for most everything. There are some French butters I prefer but the import cost is high. KerryGold is fine.
I don't disagree your second paragraph, I'm just curious - can you elaborate more on why is that?
Wild to suggest that the US's issue is not incarcerating enough people considering we are near the top of the global leaderboards on that front. Specifically in comparison to Germany, the incarceration rate is almost 8x higher in the US.

You are also ignoring how the unprofessional nature of police contribute to the problem. Their behavior creates an adversarial relationship with the public. This has all sorts of negative repercussions. It helps escalate crime because cops are now more dangerous and less predictable, so people will go to greater lengths to avoid arrest or interaction with police. It also makes the cops' jobs more difficult as the community becomes less likely to cooperate in stopping or preventing crime. Hiring more cops can make matters worse because it can necessitate lowering the bar to find enough people to hire leading to even less professional behavior. It also creates more interactions between police and the community which as I mentioned, is often an adversarial interaction due to this unprofessional behavior.

Simply hiring more cops and throwing more people in jail isn't going to fix things. That should be obvious because that is all we ever seem to attempt in the US and the situation isn't getting better.
Has anyone figured out how to get ChatGPT to write something like this?
How much more useful would the USPS be if:

- Taxpayer support for the service were increased.

- Junk mail delivery were reduced.

?
I agree that it will lead us to a bad place.

But here's the problem. This saying: "Humans are not special" is completely true. To deny this idea is to deny the truth.

Ultimately to save ourselves, our culture must engage in self deception. We must trick ourselves into believing that AI content is inferior and thereby maintain economic demand for content not created by AI. I can see it happening as a mass hysteria similar to how the public was resistant against "new coke" (https://www.damninteresting.com/the-american-gustation-crisi...)

You will see that many people, including people on HN, are already doing this. There's a large cohort of people generating huge adamant denial on the potential of AI.

The OP is sort of being a bit too honest with himself, most people who flat out refuse to acknowledge AI will do so with the idea that AI is inferior and will always be that way.
Great, now it will just be a non-written requirement.
The reason it is inefficient is because it provides services that a private company would not, or would charge a ton of money for. The USPS has to deliver mail to everyone with a postal address -- they do a whole lot of 'last mile' deliveries for FedEx and UPS, etc. Getting rid of the USPS means that a lot of people would either not get mail or pay out the nose for it.

Some things just aren't profitable, and frankly shouldn't be. Let's not forget that.
Looks like the observations is that "science is less disruptive than ever", and the proposed solution is to fund more random/weird research projects. But the former happens because all the low-hanging high-impact/low-cost research has been done already. You can't make a major discovery anymore using just your pulse and a couple of balls. So the historical analogies do not apply. The proposals to "ignore the worst", "don't gatekeep" will not work because the set of all possible research proposals is infinite, but money is not.
When the Irish Ran New York
You have that thumb drive backed up? Because thumb drives can, occasionally, spontaneously fail, for no apparent reason whatsoever, and the fire-proof box isn't going to help (hell, it may make matters worse if futzing with it generates ESDs).

Also: where do you keep the encryption key for that thumb drive?
> Is there any valid reason for crippling a game by making it on a web browser

That's what it said, you can see it yourself if you enable "showdead" in settings.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hot_gril
The Network is the Computer!
I write software for natural gas utility management and maintenance. Between this and coding AIs, I’m glad I’m approaching retirement age.

Of course, new government regulations (not outright bans) are a lot of what drives the need for our software.
Yuval Noah Harari: “Regulate AI before it regulates us”
Warren Buffet on derivatives: "financial weapons of mass destruction."
Natural selection is a metaheuristic maximizing on the landscape of fitness topology, available energy resources, etc. It relies upon biological constraints, such as existing genes, organs, and biological functions available. It cannot make fantastic leaps quickly that would require significant backtracking.

I'm not suggesting putting biological organisms anywhere. I'm suggesting that at some point in the future an AI will be able to rapidly modify its own substrate independent of biology, metabolic inputs, and genetic inheritance. That it won't be subject to information loss due to death or other physical constraints. That it will much more quickly be able to build support systems for itself to harness energy and raw materials wherever it goes.

Unless we kill ourselves in the near future, these systems will likely emerge and will likely proliferate faster than us. They're not going to be stuck on earth with us. There are abundant energy resources and building materials in the solar system and greater galaxy beyond.
The USPS states that any mail may be refused. Note that it only lists some but not all available methods:

<https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted-mail-and-remo...>

From the old Junkbusters site, there is a Form 1500 which can be filed against any sender:

<https://web.archive.org/web/19970713104642/http://www.junkbu...>

Form 1500, "Application for Listing and/or Prohibitory Order":

<https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1500.pdf>

Though specified as against "sexually-oriented" material, that has been deemed by courts to be at the sole judgement of the mail recipient.

You can also directly contact bulk senders through the DMA mail preference service, Valpack, RedPlum, and others. See one listing of these here:

<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-stop-junk-mail_n_5b27b...>

The Form 1500 is the take-off-and-nuke-it-from-orbit option, however.
I doggedly still run my 20+ year email platform for self-use. I ran into the same problems with Google/Gmail. I am ashamed to say that the solution I settled on was to just give up and pay them for smarthosting. I still host my own servers, but my exit pipe is through gmail. My life got easier.

The rule is pretty much every interaction you have in the Googleverse is easier if you just pay them something. It's pay to play internet, and yeah, it's a problem.
I wish the Selenium (and Appium) projects would get mentioned in these kinds of conversations more. When starting these projects, I was very intentional that we set things up to not screw over users down the road and that we set things up so that multiple commercial vendors running SaaS services (not just my own: Sauce Labs and Tapster) could succeed, too. And, yet, the success of the Selenium ecosystem to thrive for 19(!?) years is basically invisible in most discussions about open source funding and incentives.
I spent some time in northern Sweden, have seen and tried this. It seems pretty common for people who take coffee to work, on hikes, camping etc. I’ve never seen it in a cafe.

To me it’s just an much easier to transport milk alternative.
I don't know Waterloo's situation but I know that money for new buildings is largely decoupled from need for capacity and is mainly tied to government make-work projects. I remember during the 2008 "economic action plan" universities got all kinds of buildings. It was entirely because the government was giving free money away to stimulate growth.
I’d say it more likely ENABLES spamming 2.0. Lifelike customized messages are coming to an inbox near you.
Good old OpenWRT with it’s banners on shell login: https://gist.github.com/JiapengLi/b15313f2c5e97c1fc58b

Fondly remember White Russian on the WRT54GL
A empty desert can be boring or exciting. A bustling urban center can be boring or exciting.

Suburbs, as are all things, are only boring if the appraiser is boring.

My "boring" suburb hosts a list of activities that puts most cities to shame.

And if I don't want to go to the upcoming summer concert series (free!) in the local park I can just hang out in my backyard with some friends and we can burn half of the walnut tree that fell down last year in a huge bonfire-- because we don't live in a city center.

I've never really understood boredom.

Even in a featureless infinite white void I could find things to do or think about.

I assert that people who find suburbs boring are either antisocial or require external stimulus to an unnatural degree.

How could one ever be bored when a sketchbook and pencil are $10 and a star wheel is $14?
This phenomena doesn’t apply to elite institutions.
> So they were fine with monetization in a scenario when it benefited them, and against when the scenario, AI assisted writing, wasn’t as favourable for them.

Yes. So what? Not every business is identical. Some businesses are more greedy and ruthless than others. Some provide more societal benefits than others.
JavaScript private class fields considered harmful
Would you mind expounding on how it's getting worse? I'm not questioning that it is not, but most of what I hear about Paris reduce car traffic seems to be positive, and I'd like to hear more about your view point. Are commute times going up considerably? Are commutes less enjoyable? Is there more congestion of people (crowds) or bicycles, that has come in since the car reduction? Or is it something else that I never would've guessed? I really would be interested in hearing your point of view.
for that we all must drop the pretense that a centralized government is not for the preservation of status quo, i.e. maintaining existing privilege.

all ministerial positions are about positioning, not effectiveness.

china has this spelled out in some laws and govt practices. e.g. they assume rural resources will be abused by a central group until they can get a stronger state law presence. but accept it and keep dumping resource till then and then work with those corrupt entities to ease the region absorption into proper state mechanics instead of "fighting corruption" or some other grand but disconnected goal

for and older but more comprehensive view on the article points, there's: Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook
Oof that sucks for you. Siri is an absolute joke. My two major gripes:

- After four years it still doesn’t understand my youngest son’s name. I added a phonetic spelling to his Contacts card. I told Siri 200 times: “my son’s name is pronounced XYZ”’ I religiously corrected his name a 1000 times when text to speech misunderstood it. Nothing. Joke.

- Siri is triggered by anything that even vaguely resembles “hey Siri”: “…they seriously…”, “…ok see here…”, “easier”. And once that dumb piece of %$£~ is triggered she HAS to finish her cutesy “listen to me being a helpful and funny assistant” sentence. Again: sad joke.
Show HN: I made a tool to easily credit co-contributors in Git commits
Hi Everyone!

The motivation behind creating this tool is to provide an easy way to give credit to contributors in various situations:

- In open-source projects, when a pull request (PR) is closed without merging but the idea or code is later implemented.
- During pair programming sessions, where two or more developers work together on a single commit.

Existing solutions were either too complicated or didn't work as expected, so Git Add Co-Author was developed as a simple, easy-to-use alternative.
There's a WSJ piece on this topic in today's edition. Experts say it's generally OK to leave butter out on the counter for three weeks.

Who takes three weeks to go through a stick of butter???
I'm not sure a drop in admissions standards to address the enrollment cliff and a surge in admissions are necessarily mutually exclusive.
For which office are you suggesting shorter term limits?
Am I the only one to find butter disgusting? It's just a blob of fat.

Now what really blows my mind is to learn that for some people, more fat is better.

I haven't tasted butter since I was a kid, some 25+ years ago. Maybe now I would find the _flavor_ delicious (doubt it) but so what? There's many things which might be delicious that I don't to put in my body.

EDIT: I'm European living in the USA - seems relevant to this thread.
> They are not against monetization, you have made that leap. They are against AI replacing humans simply because it will be cheaper. Your comparison is flawed.

If they are fine with more expensive AI replacing humans, instead of cheaper AI, then that seems to be an even more objectionable position?

I doubt they have such bizarre views. But it’s possible the writer could have incoherent thoughts.

For me, the most sensible reading is that they’re against any monetization of AI writing period. Not that they’re fine with AI writing if it’s beyond what most people can afford.