skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nyxt is designed to be engine agnostic, which means it had a defined api you could plug any engine into, even one you theoretically write yourself. Obviously this is impractical, but I’ve seen criticisms that emacs doesn’t have that exact ability — see the project mage docs for a detailed explanation of one of those criticisms.
Statistically, if a person is so obese for so long they get T2D, they are not going to go into remission just from googling weight loss or following whatever they find on the internet (doubly so if they fall into some crank Liver King style nonsense). That's just the facts. It's been studied over and over again for many years at this point.
The parent comment was making a joke, based on Sol (our sun), and Sun Microsystems.
What is Lighthouse in this context?
Modernity... LOL
The boundary gets fuzzy sometimes. E.g. instagram
Not sure a larger fairing would be compatible with the current tower. Though they could use landing legs, then it doesn't have to be caught mid flight.
A policy mistake in one graph
please don't post obvious bait on HN.

The recent wave of legislation being passed is obviously nothing related to crime.

https://apnews.com/article/desantis-florida-dont-say-gay-ban...
I use AirDrop all the time. It's great.

I rarely run into issues as well. I actually can't even remember the last time I had an AirDrop issue.
Simpson's paradox is well known - aggregate often has different statistical properties than individual parts.
I sympathize with how hard it is to lose weight, but at some point personal responsibility kicks in right?
You mean states like Texas where schools and malls definitely aren’t being shot up?
I would love to see these offices turned into housing as much as anyone, but I also recommend reading this amazing NYT article on why it's not quite so simple as just rezoning or a simple interior remodel - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office...
The problem is the recent slate of "don't say gay" bills and abortion bans are state-wide affairs
The thing is that, it is not hard rather, I believe it is unproductive. Learning programming in my opinion is having an understanding of a problem, an abstract idea of a solution and then zigzagging and tumbling across that solution with code.

The end goal is providing a programmatic solution to a problem. The issue is that coding and googling provides the experience of journey across a solution. Hence the zigzag. You try this, you fail, you google why you failed, you learn something new and you try again. This kind of efficient feedback loop helps you learn.

The problem is that without google you have to waste trying to find a solution. The impact is not immediate. There are no progressive bumps of learning. Moreover, without googling you end up doing very hacky programming. Because you only have access to what you know. You can't explore things readily because there is a friction.

For a mature programmer, you can make that suggestion, because they are confident about their knowledge and way around documentation. But for new learners I don't recommend this at all. I have tried this, and this creates a very fatiguing experience.
Thought that was great too - check out the questionnaire https://www.trippingly.net/lsd-studies/2018/5/22/the-mystica...
In North Carolina, before Uber and stuff like that, there was this driver a few of us knew and would call to taxi us around. He was a skinny fellow but through the years we knew him, he'd tell us about how he keeps telling his brothers not to eat as much because they're going to get in trouble and how he was a fat dude but managed to lose weight.

No happy ending. One of the brothers died just before I moved away, of an obesity and diabetes related illness.

Interesting tale. Mostly a question of junk food and portion sizes.
Lord Almighty, take a guess whether a space agency designing a chip for use in space might consider these things.
Renovating commercial office space for residential use would be very expensive. Just re-plumbing alone would not be cheep. Probably cheaper than building a brand new building, but I don't know the numbers on that.
Funny you say that, because not only do 'red' states have higher crime rates than 'blue' states[0], but 'red' cities within those red states, like Jacksonville or Oklahoma City, also have higher crime rates.[1]

[0]https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-two-decade-red-state-mur...

[1]https://www.newsweek.com/these-republican-cities-have-higher...
I'm hopeful that with a lot of these realizations, we change our habitats to be more in tune with our nature. Something like walking meetings or setting time aside to move.

Humans are incredibly intelligent, however intelligence doesn't mean we should forget our ancestral roots. We are meant to move; sitting in offices and eating junk food while getting information blasted into our brains from glowing rectangles is a recipe for disaster.

I'm optimistic that we will transition to a more human-centric way of living/working.
Depends on the definition of reasonable. D3 is fat soluble and if you take too much for years it can accumulate too much in your body.

I'd say 2,500 IU is max to take daily without infrequent blood tests to calibrate the optimum.
We replicated Linux “fork” to instantly clone microVMs
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32542260
Any effort to evangelize chopsticks to the west is a welcome one. "chopstick shaming" should be avoided. There are so many useful applications including cooking, preparing, serving food. Chopsticks are effectively sanitary fingers (when used politely).

Years ago i used chopsticks to eat snacks at work, in order to keep my keyboard clean. People ridiculed me in a friendly way. They've since come around.

Since covid people have become more conscious of sanitation and to a lesser degree table etiquette and i'm glad to see chopsticks supporting both of those trends.
> "Devil is in the details" and the tails may come apart[0]

A better ref is https://openai.com/research/scaling-laws-for-reward-model-ov...
Thanks for that - unfortunate that it is returning 404 right now, for whatever reason, and thanks to those who provided the various internet archive and github links!

For those that may not have seen this, before, one of my favorite pages on UNIX history is:

https://multicians.org/unix.html

The name origin is, perfection.

Recently, there was a job posting with a typo that was posted to reddit - a request for a "full sack developer". This provided an extremely rare opportunity to make certain ... Multics / UNIX jokes ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/11mi8wc/in...

(e.g., "u/AFreshTramontana" - "And I thought Multics1 was dead...

Let us have Caladonia do her highly erotic temple dance in praise of Eros..."

... rare opportunity, pretty good capitalization IMO)
Move you a?? and so some exercise.
I personally prefer reading PDF on an iPad so I can mark it up.
Managing infrastructure on Hetzner Cloud using Pulumi
Frontline did an episode a while back were dentists were performing unnecessary major dental work on poor people when the government had a program to pay the dentists for such work. Frontline was outraged at the dentists, but did not seem to recognize that this is the inevitable result of incentives the government set up.
Is the median person there dumber than the median person in the rest of the world?

Or are they eating shit, because eating shit is the path of least resistance, and median person travels down the path of least resistance, and if you set up your society such that the path of least resistance results in horrible outcomes, you're going to get horrible outcomes?
Not saying they could but think of how many people have more than one citizenship and how many have none. Without a state you are shutoff from everything from the internet to basic rights or a legal place to live. Existing is most likely violating someone's law
My foreign exchange student (Japanese, FWIW) told me I held chopsticks wrong, ha ha.

I can't quite find the exact way I hold chopsticks on the chart — maybe Finger Pistol but my middle & ring have a good grip on the lower stick.

I am pretty sure I learned by looking at the little pictures on the chopsticks wrapper when we ordered Chinese food. (There was some confusion in the text — something about "Tuck under thurnb...")
T2D doesn't arise from a moment of bad luck or inattention. T2D arises from a long stream of sub-optimal choices and ignored warning signs. I am not here to argue for or against socialized medicine. I am here to tell people that they should fix the actual problem instead of opting for the quick fix. I encountered this problem a couple years ago. If I trusted those damn doctors, I'd be stuck, sticking myself several times a day, and keeping an eye on my insulin supply, but I didn't, so I'm not.
These were my thoughts exactly. On one hand, this can enable alignment research to catch up faster. On the other hand, if we are worried about homicidal AI, then putting it in charge of policing itself (and training it to find exploits in a way) is probably not ideal.
At some point early-on, I decided that the "correct" (don't really even remember which finger at this point--probably middle finger) top knuckle position someone taught me just didn't work for me for whatever reason. So I essentially use two fingertips.

>Plenty of times in my family we would just stab stuff because that was the easiest thing to do and no one thinks twice.

And, yeah, there are some things like dumplings that conventional chopstick usage just don't really work all that well for with many people.

(Per article I was probably taught something like standard rule but use something closer to finger pistol.)
Hey guys, builder here. Finally, a month later, I launched Echosnap.io. After the failure of my last SaaS, I returned to my role as a freelance designer. No reason, just to earn some savings so I can work on my next SaaS idea.

But the problem arose when I tried to get some video testimonials from clients for my portfolio site. They all agreed, but I didn't get a single testimonial.

Am I a bad designer? No, I'm too damn good.

Why？ They're just too shy. Obviously, the zoom meetings during the pandemic didn't cure people's camera shyness.

So, my next SaaS idea came up - I want to build a tool for collecting customer audio testimonials.

Text testimonials? Who knows if they're real? Are you really Greg the happy client or ChatGPT?
Video testimonials? You don't want to tidy up your room, you don't want to fix your hair, and you don't want to record yourself repeatedly in front of a camera. There are just too many friction points.

Therefore, I think, just maybe, audio testimonials are a sweet spot that combines the advantages of text and video testimonials. They have a higher level of credibility and easy to record. So, who would embed audio snippets on their website for visitors to listen to?

No, I spent about two weeks building an "algorithm." The API transcribes the recorded audio into text, and then the "algorithm" turns the text into an animation. You can check out this link.

https://twitter.com/Gyozai/status/1640682259534712833?s=20

Then Echo Snap can turn your collected audio testimonials into an iframe that can be embedded on your website, providing visually appealing and playable audio testimonials. A example: https://echosnap.io/#Testimonials

I only spent a month building this SaaS, and it's currently quite basic. But go ahead and roast it like a sadist, any feedback is welcome. No names listed on my suicide notes. I promise. Also feel free to dm me on Twitter, My handle is @gyozai

Thanks guys!
If all companies stopped paying dividends (for example if they were somehow banned) I wonder what effect this would have on state and federal tax revenue. Would taxes have to be raised to cover the lost revenue?

As a shareholder in most cases I would much prefer that companies uses the profits for acquisitions or share buybacks instead of paying dividends.
Well, it's unlikely to be Google. They've sold them off once already.
> Oh please, research means nothing…

Absolute nonsense. It completely matters in this context.

Surely you do realize without Google’s research into transformer models, ChatGPT, GPT-3, GPT-2 would not even exist in the first place.

Meta has already shipped AI and computer vision enhancements in Oculus, Instagram, etc already and even their own AI tools are already used by many other AI companies. PyTorch is exactly that.
Dylan’s closing to his 1965 song, It’s alright Ma…, suddenly feels a bit too real:

“And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only”

That song, btw, was somewhat prescient of today’s Intrusive Advertising Industrial Complex:

“Advertising signs they con
You into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you”
There is definitely a right way.

But no one would be offended if you didn’t hold it the right way
Interesting - I get far more Google Docs links than O365, although that's just anecdata.

MS is still around, and huge, but in a less obviously pervasive and all dominant way.

LinkedIn isn't branded as MS, and I don't remember even seeing it mentioned anywhere. Same with Github.

Contrasting with me original post about the MS of the 90s where there were few to no alternatives, and everything they produced was part of the one monolithic Wintel PC, now they're distributed and far more open. I know there's a worry about linux getting popular on Azure and then somehow screwed up by MS, I think that their quiet distribution is a sign they're less all powerful.

Github users could move to Gitlab, Bitbucket (sort of), or self-host much easier than moving off MS used to be.

LinkedIn is far less of "the way you use a PC" than any old MS product, and has a pretty specific niche market. It's huge, but it's not the invincibly moated. Socials come and go all the time. There are lots of LinkedInU alternatives too.

I don't mean to say MS aren't huge or pervasive - they are. We're just so far on from their absolute dominance of all tech that people coming up on adulthood have no idea the world used to be MS or nothing. (For a given value of nothing, as a 90's Mac user).
I missed the /s tag. Of course any sane musician would want to hear the sounds they are creating.

Other comments in this thread saying that a specific concern is inappropriate because something something target demographic are snobbish.
Yeah, though I have some doubts as to how certain it is that it would really produce results that impressive. Maybe this is quite speculative. There could be tiny inaccuracies which reduce the image quality substantially.
Isn't what the author describes simply a mental model to amplify an egocentric worldview?

Most people are about average and those 'alright, not weird' decisions are on average the best decision not just for the individual but also for society. That's why they're not weird.
Lol, do you talk to people in real life like that?

Personally I think the other person is spot on, 99% of content is shit. Another Marvel movie anyone?
Have you used them in production and would you recommend it?
This isnt exactly building an understanding of LLMs from first principles... IMO we should broadly be following the (imperfect) example set forth by neuroscientists attempting to explain fMRI scans and assigning functionality to various subregions in the brain. It is circular and "unsafe" from an alignment perspective to use a complex model to understand the internals of a simpler model; in order to understand GPT4 then we need GPT5? These approaches are interesting, but we should primarily focus on building our understanding of these models from building blocks that we already understand.
She named the person that made the comment in the replies. Dragging a specific coworker through the mud publicly on Twitter is probably not the best move.
You know that both of these are called "Vitamins" because they are essential to human health? You will have increased risk of many health problems with deficiencies.
At a minimum, it costs time. Many people don't have time. The less money you're able to spend on it, the more time it will probably cost you.
Apple will allow that when they have the means and inclination to lock you into coding only what they want you to code, and nothing more. At the moment this is not possible - developing an iOS app requires knowing about files and filesystems and utilities etc etc, which means you cannot stay in your little sandbox. Once they figure out how to build tools that do away with all of that and still work, then you'll be able to do it.
If the Gödel incompleteness theorem applies here, then the explanations are likely … incomplete or self-referential.
There is a regulatory body for CPAs, which include things like ethics. There are "generally accepted accounting practices" (GAAP) which are adopted by regulatory bodies like the SEC and IRS. There are laws that are related to all of the above.

Point is, my dealings with my accountant(s) is highly regulated, and there is expectations of confidentiality, trust, and privacy -- with rules and laws to back that up.

Not the case with some random app handling your corporate data. Plus Outlook and other calendars integrate with many other systems, and there are a lot of nasty hacks if you can get someone's email. Lotta risk for negligible gain.
> Some readers may ask: what is dynamic SQL? Dynamic SQL is when you write SQL code into a string variable and then execute the contents of that variable. This can be done in client code or in a stored procedure. With a strict definition, static SQL can only occur in stored procedures and SQL scripts, since SQL in client code is always embedded into string literals in the client-side language.

I still don't get it
When you're that obese you're well beyond personal responsibility. Personal responsibility is enjoying a big thanksgiving dinner and then eating light for the next week or so, or eating some salads for a bit to have a hot girl summer. Obesity is increasingly looking more like a hormone disorder (the latest "miracle" weight loss drugs are all hormone-regulating) or an eating disorder of some sort and should be addressed as such.
Researchers craft a fully edible battery
Unfortunately, this is becoming less and less true as GOP-run states strip autonomy from cities and steadily increase state control over them. Take Texas as an example,[0] where they've banned cities from

-enacting paid sick leave

-enacting mandatory heat and water breaks for manual labor jobs

-modifying their police budgets

-restricting fracking within city limits

-restricting greenhouse gas-intense products

Among other things.

[0]https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2023/04/18/texas-house-appro...
>Just think what space telescopes will be like if the Starship reduces cost/kg to orbit to 1/10th or less of Falcon 9's already low cost.

Falcon 9 is around $60 million/launch (though when contracted by NASA or the military, launches tend to be 2x-4x the price). This is pretty much inline with what you get from Arianespace, and Roscosmos. There is no path to reduce price by another order of magnitude. We've pretty much hit the limit on what we can do with chemical rockets.
Review of Google’s Quantum Computing Technology State in 2023
I will buy an SF Condo for under 300 a square foot and bring in battery lights and a portapotty. Please stop this BS that conversion is cost infeasible. Thank you.
Yet we clearly prioritized certain foods and the human body adapted around those foods. Over time tribes converged on what plants were safe to eat (and which had defense chemicals that didn't make them suitable to eat), and prioritized certain animals for hunting.

One thing I find interesting with that is how tightly coupled mongol armies were to an animal based diet, and how they reportedly looked down on farming and agrarian societies.

You'll often find many people not willing to wade into discussing food and exercise anymore because peiple treat it almost religiously. It makes discussion hard in the space because now food is so tightly coupled with society and culture.

We know the ancient greeks and romans exercised. Warriors of successful societies prioritized being fit of body. To have a discussion we'd have to get to common definitions of what exercise is.
> Losing weight doesn't cost money.

I'm pretty sure it does. Unhealthy food is a lot cheaper.
As someone who prefers songs that use more than 7 notes and four chords, this kind of feels like a solution disguised as a problem.

The space Ed Sheeran and most popular music "explores" is small. But that problem is not inherent to making music people like. Even if he were writing in today's environment, Stevie Wonder would never have to worry about an accidental collision.
In terms of density, San Diego is like a stretched out San Francisco. The best places to live are along the coastline and an ocean view is very expensive. My tiny condo, with a view, has a higher cost per sq. foot than $3m victorians in San Francisco.

But you're right, at this point, I'd still rather be in SD than SF.
Stack up on books and tinker-able hardware (if that's you poison). Take time to study the basics of computer science.

Tech changes a lot, but the basics of math and CS don't.

Linear Algebra shows up a lot in graphics and machine learning, study algorithms, even funky weird ones, implement them anew.

Learn discrete math, and numeric methods, differential equations and calculus in general.
Brush up on statistics.

Download papers now, keep a backlog of them on some area you like.

Heck, there's so much to learn that a few lifetimes are not enough, and the beauty of foundational knowledge is that it's technology agnostic.
True, but outsourcing hardware components and outsourcing software aren't the same. Even when the hardware is actually very software-heavy, and designed to super specific requirements from the buyer, in the eyes of the supplier it's still a product. But outsourced software invariably becomes a project, with all the incentive misalignment that's implied by the term "billable hours". Even when that's technically not how the contract is set up.
I’m so interested in this. Any ideas how I can get involved with only a 2014 laptop?
I'm split between what's more impressive:

- The software powering the research paper

- The research itself (holy moly! They're showing the neurons!)
Wmaker and Emacs? You did a custom kernel build right?

For being something to brag against, you used XEmacs, I guess. Or X-compiled Emacs, in order to be a "big" accomplishment. UXTerm+Emacs under the CLI was "big", but
manageable; the X build (even the Athena or Lucid one) wasn't a light thing at all.
Yeah, on second glance I might be confusing some of my sources here. I can’t seem to find what I thought I was remembering.

Regardless, there seems to be a significant distinction between words using a concatenated ur prefix and those using a hyphenated ur-(noun) prefix. In this case, the usage does seem to imply an original language from which all others are derived, and the metaphor seems apt even if it is not historically accurate to say that’s where it came from.
Actually we've imaged many exoplanets, but typically ones that are much larger than Jupiter.

Here's a famous system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799
I agree, and I find them useful for even non-food tasks like fishing small things out of jars, but they aren't really 'sanitary fingers' if you're in the middle of eating with them, are they? They must have at least a little saliva on them, unless you make a point of only dropping things into your open mouth?
Other than the slow rollout, what's wrong with Google Fiber?
Look, I'm not gonna argue with you that NYC has always been better than SF (it obviously has), but post-pandemic now the difference is even more stark. NYC's economy is much more diverse than SF's, and also has much more housing within city limits, to the point that it hasn't suffered nearly as much from the pandemic, and indeed right now is booming whereas SF is withering.