skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that puzzles me about erectile disfunction drugs, it's why did it take such drugs so long to be invented/discovered. For many common conditions, traditional medicine in various cultures managed to find effective treatments hundreds or even thousands of years before modern pharmacology (think chinchona tree bark for malaria, or willow tree bark for pain, that in due time would originate quinino and aspirin). But for erectile disfunction, it seems every traditional treatment before Viagra was completely bogus (think quail eggs or rhino horn powder). Why?
All of the supposed ethical issues seemed like nonissues to me. Like higher rates of STDs among the elderly doesn't sound like an ethical dilemma for Pfizer, but rather on the elderly to practice their new ability safely.
Binary blobs you say? How about how our entire lives are ruined by having to use garbage apps like Teams every day or any other multitude of garbage websites on a daily baiss ?

Did you actually work in the embedded industry, or are you just venting on some bad experiences you had with some boards/phones?

You know, embedded is more than r-pi clones and android devices, right? It's auomotive, aerospace, industrial automation, healthcare, etc.

I cannot overestimate how mistaken you are but you seem to be already set in your ways, and have a bone to pick so I'll leave the conversation here to save my sanity as you can't be reasoned with nor is anyone's time worth it to convince you otherwise.
Have you been to an AA meeting?
Try watching the demo using that technique called the "Apple II 64k Cycle-counting Megademo" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McKAcKVTIQs . There are not any artifacts with the changes between text and graphics mode in the middle of lines.
That’s what I got wrong. You outgrow a WeWork at about 8-10 people which is where customers are most stable. I assumed they could adapt but the economics aren’t there.
Why would the FBI use such database?

Why they omit CIA from the equation?

Law only apply to the FBI? or we pretend laws exist to prevent agents from abusing it?

Either way, this is another evidence of the massive global spying capabilities of the US and how easily accessible they are for their agents
"The law would also cover transactions above €1000 from so-called self-hosted wallets (a crypto-asset wallet address of a private user) when they interact with hosted wallets managed by crypto-assets service providers. The rules do not apply to person-to-person transfers conducted without a provider or among providers acting on their own behalf."
Came here just to say your professor's attitude is infuriatingly toxic, sorry you had to go through that.

I'm curious if your experience of crashing/losing progress is still the norm. Do we have better CAD programs and PCB simulators now?

My partner is an EE but I just learned how electricity works (beyond a middle school level) a few years ago.
Addiction is defined by the negative impact on the addict, not the behavior itself.

It is a semantics game. Drive, Focus, and motivation are just that unless they are maladaptive and detrimental to the individual.

These behaviors only become addiction when they run counter to the goals and desires of the individual.
nice. if you want to something similar but you don't know coding, try out: chabotix.com
UPI has no dispute resolution (as of now). So if you pay with UPI to someone and have a dispute, good luck. You have to approach the Indian courts to get your money back, which, given the Indian justice system, is… difficult.

By contrast, dispute resolution with cards is much easier. Also, I don’t recognise this 3% figure — not in all geographies.

Eg Europe under PSD2 has 0.3% for credit cards, and 0.2% for debit cards. In Canada, Visa and MC recently agreed to a 1% cap.

That said, I’d be very interested in seeing where the conversations around dispute resolution in UPI leads. Context: Indian banks have already begun to complain about UPI being free, and the Indian authorities had to quickly walk back a consultation around potential merchant-side charges to UPI.

I guess this tension between business, customers, and digital intermediaries is what makes payments an interesting space.
I'm still not sure why someone would need to do this? What kind of information are you obtaining from books that you later find yourself wanting to search for?

These kind of productivity tips always confuse me when they lack context of what the person writing is trying to do.

Like: Anki flashcards and spaced repetition. I see a lot of people advocating for them. I have never understood why because, in my personal experience, retaining lots of disconnected facts has never really been something I've needed to solve for. I do sort of see how it could work for rapid language learning (though I still think immersion, reading and writing are better than randomized vocabulary memorization, if you can take the time to do it that way), and I think I understand it in the context of fields like medicine where there's just a lot of facts you need to acquire, but people will advocate it for everything, and I just don't get it.

When I read a book, the process of reading it adds to the sum of my knowledge; I absorb the ideas, combine them with my own, and come to a new understanding of a topic. At that point, the book has accomplished its goal, for me.

But I acknowledge that's just how I read. I'm not an academic who might be later on finding myself needing to recall where I read something so I can cite it (although I find in general I can remember where I read certain things)... is that the use case here? What's the goal with building up an externalized knowledgeable?
If his goal was to amass personal wealth at the expensive of others. But again, it depends on the person. A cab driver that barely makes ends meet can be successful while a multimillionaire isn't. If you wake up and do what you want to do, you are successful.
From the video in the article, the warp and pattern are preset on the loom by each team and they use the shorn wool for the weft.
My dad is Professor J.J.N. Palmer, and I worked with him on the Domesday Book data used and cited in this work.

These days we are used to having all kinds of data at our fingertips, but at the time it was a lot of work to take medieval Latin and turn it into computer readable data. We had to invent our own markup language, parsers and search engines.
Regarding your second point... I think it's still important because recommendation algorithms work better when users can find content they enjoy outside of the recommended content. If they can't then the recommendations will become stale.
You have all these issues with cash added along with additional inconvenience of handling change, counting and making sure to keep enough of it. Most Cash on delivery options also let you pay via card or UPI on spot.

Almost every small shop vendor I know accepts UPI today without complaint.
>> 99% of the army is responsible for implementing the design in as repeatable & standardized a fashion as physically possible so that there is even the remotest chance of yield+profit.

That sounds like a mature and competitive field. I am suspicious of companies and fields where people aren't working like this. Look at the car industry, or energy, or farming, or shipping, or even aerospace. Only one of every thousand engineers at Boeing will ever decide the shape of an aircraft wing. The other 99% are there to implement and optimize its construction. Any company not spending 99% of its energies on optimization does not operate in a competitive environment and is therefore very likely on borrowed time. Eventually a competitor will appear or an IP monopoly expire and the easy times will be over.
F everything about this.

I think it’s a shame that we have billions of cameras because we have conditioned society to be fearful, thus compliant to surveillance tools like this, and so many others.

I think employers should have to disclose every method manner and technology used to surveil their employees.

I’m coming to add value to your company, not blindly give up ALL of my rights.
Ask HN: Good miniature agnostic tabletop games and resources?
My buddies and I are looking to get into tabletop games, but specifically miniature agnostic ones. Anyone have suggestions for games and resources?
It was then, and now that we know how easily it is to abuse anyone following that lead must tacitly accept that it will be abused similarly unless explicitly implemented not to - which isn’t the case here.

It’s just another extension of “we have to do this cause everyone else is and if we don’t we’ll be more vulnerable” which is from what I can tell the root of all evil.
Well said. And, in other words, while ChatGPT can summarize it for you, it cannot understand it for you.
On your deathbed, is “I made so much money and earned so much power” really going to be satisfying? As opposed to family/charity/invention/politics/etc. Not a rhetorical question, honestly curious what you think
I’d appreciate it if you didn’t dismiss everybody’s opinions on the matter for lack of direct experience. You’re setting things up to avoid debate.
Virtually every word has edge cases and gray areas, so there can be no 1:1 correlation between language and the world. Think of something as basic as "chair." Is a love seat a couch or a chair, or both? What about a bench? A stool? An ottoman? A small table? A tree stump? Reasonable people will give different answers, and some answers will be nonbinary ("it's very chairlike but not strictly a chair").

Once thought is encoded in language, it's in a lossy symbolic domain. It's in a messy shared vector space. And every human decoder unpacks the embeddings differently.
Because the US has an aversion to even think about the systematic reasons that cause crime, and prefers to pretend it's only about personal failings. People who do crime are to be caught, punished, and punished some more (unless they are high-class, good looking or part of a government agency, etc). Yet at the same time the US seems to almost maliciously engineer society to push people into hopeless situations where crime looks like a good way to get by.
Unfortunately the industry I am in (multimedia) is slowly getting invaded by all the awful embedded development practices, binary blobs, custom forks, hacks galore. It's ruining an area where there was clean code, no blobs.

Also Linus' ARM rant for good measure: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/15/133

And imagine the stuff they didn't upstream...I'm sure that's part of some magic SDK that only works on one version of glibc and kernel.
They have to be tested on public roads at some point, don’t they?

Tesla’s approach seem many tiers more reckless than Cruise/Waymo to me.
Apple Store at Tyson's Corner – A New Chapter
The trick is to find some multi-millimeter bacteria.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/june/worlds-largest....
Ah. That sentence you quoted:

"Throughout the exercise, ESA had access to the satellite's systems to retain control and ensure a return to normal operation."

My reading of this: ESA let the teams attempt their hacks on the real satellite under supervision.

I guess I don't understand your implicit distrust here - it's just a 2 million EUR, 7 kg satellite explicitly launched for communications experiments.
Any possibility for some regional/local/state payment system in the US that's not a 3% tax on every purchase?
I wonder if some of those traditional treatments benefited from the placebo effect for ED caused by non-physical maladies.
Not that I particularly agree with the GP, but storing data isn't the hard part.
UPI is the best! It is like Mastercard, stripe, bank transfers, Venmo and goolf ol cash combined, only that it is available as a free public utility.

If they only introduce a way to do chargebacks (or a fair dispute mechanism), the remaining few cash transactions will go away too.
Wework never had that value. It was all smoke and mirrors destined for a fall. The value was obviously irrational from the start.

A better headline might be “irrational exuberance surrounding wework finally fades and the cold light of reality shines on their stock price”
I spent decades of my life trying to pursue moderation. It doesn't work (for me). The Sinclair Method worked. I tried AA but the white knuckle approach wasn't right for me. I know people who have absolutely gotten sober using AA, others who use both, and others still who use different medications.

In my experience, moderation was the worst possible solution. It was like perpetually kicking the problem down the road to be dealt with on another day. Relapse was frequent and always right around the corner, and with relapse came shame, guilt, and other feelings of failure.
It's not rewarded by the performance review system (except at Apple).

You can apply craftsmanship, it's just you won't get credit for it, your manager won't get credit for it, your VP won't get credit for it, and so on. That makes it a hard sell. A good manager's not going to penalize you for going above and beyond and fixing issues that you see, but it's hard to make a case for it when there's lots of other stuff to do and nobody important is going to notice the bugfix you just made. (And chances are, new bugs are just going to be introduced by some other team chasing the hot new feature.)
The practice is great too. Almost all studies and surveys done to date suggest that homeschoolers do better across pretty much every measured metric, and that this gap is widening over time to favor homeschooling even more. If you've ever heard about Bloom's 2-sigma problem, this should be unsurprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

There are of course problems with survey data, but it's a huge mistake to think that homeschooling = the worst anecdotes you can find on TV.

> By and large (with exceptions, obviously), you are motivated by religious separatism.

This is not true. In the National Household Education Survey (2016), only 16% of homeschoolers said religious motivation was their primary reason, and only 5% moral education was their primary reason. Dissatisfaction with school academic quality and concern about environment at school were the two primary drivers.
It is hard for me to compare two black boxes. I agree that ChatGPT looks leaps and bounds better than Bard, but it’s hard for me to tell the power of the core transformer model ends and the heuristics and secondary models begin.

Knowing what those little components look like, for me, would help me evaluate which model is actually better. Right now it feels to me that the difference between the two comes down to more copyrighted materials in ChatGPT’s training set… and more sophisticated ways to hide that,
but that’s just my hunch.

“That fundamental formula has not really changed much for years,” says Jakub Pachocki, one of GPT-4’s developers. “But it’s still like building a spaceship, where you need to get all these little components right and make sure none of it breaks.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/14/1069823/gpt-4-is...
Most of what I said was not opinion, and your point here refutes none of mine. Appeal to authority fallacy, with maybe a bit of appeal to tradition mixed in.
I would really love for something like this to be integrated into Logseq
I don't even know where to start. The interweaved layers of hypocrisy are too tough to bust.

An attempt though

Greece's recovery? Really? For who? The living quality of the working people is degrading exponentialy. Classic capitalsim, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in an accelerated fashion.

Mykonos is a source of prosperity? Really? For who? The ridiculous astronomical prices for the ultra rich turists is driving the living costs to the moon. Teachers and doctors cant find a place to live, workers spend insane amounts on rent while buisness owners gain millions.

This episode is just a manifestation of competing buisness interests who want their fair share of profits out of the atrocities that are currently taking place in mykonos. Noone really cares about illegal buildings, they just dont want their competitors to have unfair advantages
They are doing a better job than Anthropic (etc); at least it is possible for the general public to use their product…
Based on the failure of the semantic web as of so far, I think the statement 'not a given' is a given in itself. Humans are horrible at giving systems correct information.
That chart counts nginx and openresty as separate categories. If you combine them (which I think makes more sense, since a lot of openresty's adoption must come from ingress-nginx), nginx/openresty would be at 34%.
So basically they were thinking of EMPing incoming missiles. Not a bad idea I think but EMPs can be shielded against. Though perhaps the sensors themselves could be blinded as they need to be exposed of course.
> Those are centralized services, the idea is to allow the creation of decentralized alternatives that can still be used through familiar tools like the web browser.

And if I can't access those services on Freenet then it's not a drop in replacement.

It may very well be a replacement. My issue is it being called a drop in replacement if it's not.
Apache’s ab and make sure you give a heads up to your hosting provider
And every non-citizen visitor to the US gets fingerprinted and photographed.

How's that for "land of the free", eh?

And while we're at it: every phone call in the US gets recorded and stored. That's what that big datacenter in Utah is for.
You need to read the fine print on the website you linked as well as independent studies on beach. Start with the MSR field guide with their chlorinator and their whitepapers, which unlike the CDC, actually publishes their scientific results. The cover the use of bleach for other methods of producing free chlorine.

Bleach works just fine in those those parasites, which are your main threats everywhere. I’ve followed the field guides on the and drank water from sources known to be contaminated, and despite the CDC, I’m alive, miraculously.

The key is to reduce the biological load in the water first. That’s why I had additional information about filtering, which is not listed on the CDCs guide. The CDC is putting protocols out there for the lowest common denominator. If you add bleach to a gallon of muddy water of course it’s not going to do anything.
Please do remember that the 500 and 1000 rupee notes were promptly replaced with a new 500 and 2000 rupee note series.

Moreover, it was not made illegal, rather it was no longer considered legal tender. A far cry from making it illegal.

There are on the other hand limits on the size of cash only transactions without a PAN Card (tax documentation)

Recently, the reserve bank has announced that it is going to withdraw the 2000 rupee note. That means that it will no longer print or issue via banks 2000 rupee notes.

They will still remain legal tender.
Likely because none have the required proficiency. I certainly don't. "So? It's open source. Stop complaining and fix it." is never a good response to a bug report. I know this quirky behavior has been brought up a few times by other users than me on the openbsd-bugs@ mailing list during the 10 or so years since I first observed it.
> This "homeschooling results in poor social skills" trope is absurd and needs to stop. There are a number of other problems with homeschooling, among a number of upsides as well. But barring Branch-Davidian type social isolation, social skills are just not an issue.

I never understood that to be honest. Most of the people homeschooling their children that I know also participate in homeschooling groups where there is a lot of social interaction, as well as church/religious events etc. It maybe rather ideologically siloed, which can be a bit shocking when the child starts emerging from the silo, but that is different thing than having “poor social skills”.
> Anything you designed was called worthless because there's already a library

This attitude (also in software) indicates to me someone who isn't very interested in a subject academically. There is so much to learn from prior solved problems and reinventing the wheel yourself.
It can be, and is often, both. Not sure why you have an -or- separating them as if they're always exclusive to each other.
Running multiple Playwright tests has worked well if you want to simulate actual web clients. Alternatively, if your focus is more on the API Artillery.io is great too.
Why at orbital velocity? It's much more efficient to not reach orbital velocity if you just want to explode something at 100km. And an explosion is a momentary thing so there's no need to be in orbit.
You can go take a Cruise ride in SF right now with no human being in the front seats at all.

Depends on your definition of “currently available to consumers” but no, Autopilot is not ahead of everyone else.
> UPI has no dispute resolution (as of now)

Not true. [1]

[1]: https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/upi/dispute-redressal-mec...
this sounds like “don’t ever listen to anyone because they might be wrong”
> the catastrophe is the rapid decline in inflated prices

Using the word "catastrophe" to describe a financial process not going in one's favor doesn't actually turn it into a natural disaster that physically destroys objects.
I’ve also always wanted more advanced search - kind of like a SQL over all the AST
There are basically only two firms which produce chip CAD software, and they get to be a conservative duopoly of "enterprise grade" (i.e. user hostile) software.
OK but that was about the trackpad on MacBook Pros...
It’s amazing how normalized this practice has become. And how far down the slope we’ve slid.

> Civil liberties advocates say the FBI uses Section 702 as a backdoor for warrantless searches to get around the courts.

I don’t think they argued this originally. Originally we argued that THE SEARCH HAPPENS BEFORE THE QUERY. That moving data into the database constitutes a search.

To oversimplify a bit, it’s similar to the government coming into your home every day, taking photos of everything, and inventorying every item. Creating a huge manifest of everything in your home, filing it away with every other manifest they’ve collected on your neighbors, and then claiming they haven’t searched your home because they will only look at the manifest if they think it’s relevant to a qualifying investigation.

Every entry in this database _should_ constitute a search.

> “Say I want to collect information on Vladimir Putin,” explained Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney, “and I see on his Gmail, it turns out he’s been talking to an American. So I’m collecting on Putin, but it might capture communications with a U.S. person, and so now in that database, I have every email he’s ever sent, and I can go in and query for that U.S. person.”

This isn’t exactly accurate either. Last I heard, it was based on “hops.” Not just 1 degree of separation of Vladimir Putin, but N degrees of separation from anyone considered to be a potential “national security threat.”

So if your landscaper is sending money back home to their family who is in contact with someone who is involved in a cartel, maybe your entire digital footprint (metadata? more?) is fair game for this database.

If you text the owner of your gym and their babysitter’s brother is suspected of being associated with a foreign group, maybe your entire digital life is fair game for this database.

The scope of this data dragnet is staggering.

> (Though the evidence suggests the FBI was searching for Black Lives Matter protesters as much as Jan. 6 suspects.) The federal court that reviewed how the FBI uses the database threatened to put major limitations on the agency’s ability to use it if the FBI did not change its procedures.

I don’t understand how these searches that were illegally conducted aren’t required to be handed over to the defense team for every trial this was used in, along with the records that were returned for their client. Everything downstream of these searches is tainted evidence, no?