skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does help. This is the first sentence of the Introduction (p. 21):

> Social distancing works.

The paper concedes this point, but wants to argue that government mandates are not worth it. The Introduction continues:

> If you keep distance from others, your risk of
being infected with a communicable disease is reduced. However, the fact that social distancing works does not imply that compulsory non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), commonly known as ‘lockdowns’ – policies that restrict internal movement, close schools and businesses, ban international travel and/or other activities – work.

They actually find that many of these activities do work. They just argue that compulsory government intervention saved many fewer lives than the actions were anticipated to save at the time and had other negative effects.
In the long run, if you increase your intensity slowly, giving time for your body to build up increased fitness it tends to be mostly positive.
But the short-term stress can be fatal if you are already on the verge of a myocardial event.
I don't blame them. I hate it when even a collared shirt brushes up against my neck. I tried a turtleneck as a kid, and it felt suffocating.
Only on HN will you get mental delinquents suggesting that Safari is one obscure image codec away from supplanting Chromium.
1. There is not a 3-4 order of magnitude improvement on the table. 1? Maybe.

2. If AI gets more capable/efficient, the demand will increase not decrease.

Did weapons manufactures go out of business when machine guns were invented?
Consider the Lobster is pretty sophomoric from the philosopher's point of view. I'm a big DFW fan otherwise, but he's out of his depth here.
Here's what ChatGPT says

Amino Acid Profile: Proteins are composed of amino acids, and the composition of amino acids can vary between animal and plant sources. Animal proteins tend to be "complete proteins" because they contain all the essential amino acids that the body cannot produce on its own. Plant proteins, on the other hand, may be "incomplete proteins" as they may lack or have lower levels of certain essential amino acids. However, by combining different plant protein sources (e.g., legumes with grains or seeds), vegans and vegetarians can achieve a complete amino acid profile.

Digestibility: Animal proteins are generally more easily digested and absorbed by the body compared to plant proteins. This is primarily because animal proteins have a higher biological value, meaning they contain all the essential amino acids in the proportions needed by the human body. Plant proteins, especially those from whole food sources, may be slightly less digestible, but this can be improved by cooking, soaking, fermenting, or sprouting certain plant foods.

Fat Content: Animal proteins often come with varying amounts of saturated fats and cholesterol, depending on the source. Plant proteins, on the other hand, are typically lower in saturated fats and devoid of cholesterol. Plant-based protein sources, such as legumes, tofu, tempeh, and certain nuts and seeds, can be particularly beneficial for individuals seeking lower fat and cholesterol intake.

Fiber and Phytonutrients: Plant proteins are often accompanied by dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients present in the whole plant foods. These components offer additional health benefits and can help support digestive health, cardiovascular health, and overall well-being. Animal proteins, particularly those from lean sources, tend to have less fiber and fewer plant-based nutrients.

Health Implications: Research suggests that the source of protein, whether from animal or plant sources, can have varying effects on health outcomes. High intake of animal protein, especially from processed or red meats, has been associated with increased risks of certain diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and some cancers. Plant protein, when part of a well-balanced diet, has been linked to lower risks of chronic diseases and overall improved health outcomes.
Fixing Slow Launch on Intel’s Rapid Storage Technology / Virtual Raid
"... it seeks to show that spacetime substantivalism leads to a failure of determinism, meaning that a complete specification of the state of the universe at a given time, alongside the laws of nature of the theory under consideration (e.g., the laws of general relativity, which are Einstein’s field equations), fails to determine uniquely how the universe will evolve to the future ..."

Didn't Quantum Theory already tell us that physical processes are non-deterministic? Then couple that with Chaos Theory which even though deterministic says that we can not truly predict how chaotic systems evolve into the future.

So I don't understand why philosophers can't seem to accept the fact that indeterminism is a law of the Universe.
Can confirm. I watched some of their developer videos for how to design apps, and it showed multiple safari windows side by side (though never more than two, equidistant from each other - no actual indication yet that we can overlap them). And it looks like we can push them farther away - though that will resize the apps, not just make them smaller.

Could actually be exactly what I've been hoping for since the first real VR stuff came out 10 years ago.
At least they don't pretend. On the other hand, they seriously try to define exactly which programs have defined bahavior and to define behavior for those. (I'm really not a fan of C++ but I'll grant them this good effort at least)

As of 2023, anyone whose language claims to guarantee behavior of all programs is either kidding themselves or will never have a user base to speak of for their language.
Internet users love fiber service–too bad you probably can’t get it
Like any new term the (mis)usage broadens the meaning over time until it either it's widely known, it's unfashionable, or most likely; it becomes so broad as to be meaningless and hence it achieves buzzword apotheosis.

My old job title had "edge" in it, and I still don't know what it's supposed to mean, although "not cloud" is a good approximation.
Obviously they come from a multiverse where there is no gravity.
I've worked on a lot of Python as a hobbyist and student, much of it in real world use - probably at least 100kloc - and I've never encountered this. Where is this information? I'm worried that I'm missing some other "obvious" things. I've of course run into python's shallow vs deep copies, but I don't remember default values being shared between invocations.
I've learned that a lot of what we think of as art or mastery is just the end result of trying shit and then remembering what works.
If a dog takes a beating, it will remember that, will be affected by it, will suffer for it, long after the physical event has passed. Just like us. The question is whether a crab would remember getting a beating. That is the difference between pseudo-mechanical stimulus-response and learned behavior, and a being that is ‘sentient’.
Just because suits are going out of fashion, doesn't mean there isn't a dress code anymore. A programmer at a typical startup has a dress code that's just as strict as a suit and tie ever was - except that now it's unspoken.

In other words, try showing up to your job as a programmer at your typical west coast startup wearing a fine suit and tie, just because you like the look. (Like I do!) I think you'll quickly find that the de facto dress code is, in fact, old jeans plus graphic t-shirt/hoodie, or flat-front chinos plus gingham shirt, and that your coworkers are going to sneer at you for your choice to buck this unspoken dress code.

Wearing a suit and tie for pleasure to your basic programming job might even limit your career, because it might signal to your coworkers and bosses that you're not a team player. So much for no more dress codes!

Fashions don't deserve to last forever - suits and ties are inevitably fading away even as we might hand-wring about the continuing destruction of fine dress in American society. But to suggest that dress codes are disappearing is not correct. Dress codes are as alive as they ever were, now they're just unspoken.
I'm part owner of a company (Halterix) that used pose detection (alternately via smartwatch accelerometer) and machine learning to quantify how well exercises are performed.

We built a demo app for use in physiotherapy to improve outcomes and ran a few clinical studies. The detection accuracy was excellent and patient reception was warm.

There are a number of competitors, some with multi-sensor systems targetted to pros, some with vision systems, etc.

We met with all the big fitness app makers and found generally while they weree somewhat interested in pose detection/accuracy assessment and feedback, it's not at the top of their list of priorities to implement (even to incorporate our 3rd party service).
Developing Nix Libraries with Subflakes
Animals likely don’t know they are making the other animal that they are eating suffer.

Humans absolutely know. There is no excuse for that kind of cruelty.
> Welcome to Counterexamples in Type Systems, a compendium of horrible programs that crash, segfault or otherwise explode.

Many interesting quirks in type systems, surprising interference between separately innocuous type system features, but don't expect too many explosions.

Indeed, many of the tricks are years old (e.g., 2006) and are fixed in current versions of the language (or even are research paper involving experimental systems that were never released, e.g. Privacy violation in C# doesn't even use a syntax that released C# compilers use).

Mutable matching in Ocaml can be reproduced with ocaml 4.13, still, and cause a segfault.
Because that's what studies into this suggest.

https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-reveals-how-brain-tracks-obj...
Unfortunately, GP is more correct than incorrect in their opening position. And that's partally to blame for the fall of what was a once great community, so it's relevant to point that out.
Yeah I wondered what "stunning" meant. Apparently there is just some specific tool that knocks the shit out of them first.

Hey, I guess if I was going to be boiled alive, I'd rather be knocked unconscious first too.
As to your first point: fair. It shouldn't modify it in a semantically material way.

> that's precisely what happens

No, it really isn't. Numerous compilers do static analysis to identify code that could be UB and then mangle it to mean something entirely different or eliminate it entirely. And if the compiler really did already do this, you wouldn't need to resort to...

> the compiler can do what it want[s]

Under current standards, yes, but that's a circular and nonsensical argument. You can't base your argument on what the standard permits when the very content of what the standard should be is the topic of discussion.

> please let me know what should be mandated

I already responded. The ANSI C standard is clear, and the modification to that language in subsequent ISO standards is, in my opinion, ill-advised.
Tbh, probably not. I'll give you a few thoughts for consideration.

Matter is a device-to-device protocol within a local Thread network. It's solid for getting one device to tell another device on the same Thread network to perform an action, retrieve data...etc. Since Matter is pretty consumer-centric, those devices are generally all contained within a home.

To remotely control those devices (i.e. what our API customers want to do), you sort of need a Thread border router to serve as an internet gateway. You can think of Google Home or Amazon Alexa as one of those. So in theory, you could get a reasonably standardized API to speak to devices via those smart home platforms, but you'll still have to deal with the fragmentation of various smart home platforms.

More problematic, you're still constrained by whatever APIs Google Home / Alexa...etc decide to make available and whatever device operations the Matter protocol also exposes. You could bypass the first problem by installing your own Matter-compatible device hub, but the goal of many of our API customers is to NOT have to deploy any new hardware.

Lastly, a lot of Seam customers need to integrate devices that are not covered by the Matter standard and probably never will (e.g. Access Control Systems).

context: I sat next to Grant Erickson and the Nest team that initially worked on Weave, which eventually became Thread. I still have close friends working on Matter implementation at Google/Amazon/Apple.
Ask HN: Will the Apple Vision Pro only allow app-store apps?
I couldn’t find anything in the announcements, aside from that there will be an app-store and that you can connect a Mac to it.

So, will it be locked down like the iPhone with everything reviewed by Apple, or more free like the Mac?
I know ; ) I wanted to show there are already alternatives for whose who are interested in experimenting with that data themselves (and at a fraction of the cost)
> A far cry from the snappiness of desktop apps from 25+ years ago

So apps without network latency are faster? Huh.
On Android, you can choose to include the ML model dependency "bundled into your app in compile time" or shipped through Google Play Services. Saves many megabytes. Drawback there: if the device doesn't have Play Services, nothing works. Also, on first download it takes some seconds to work.
Programming culture in the late aughts (2022)
Foreword: I don't wan't to be contrarian or combative, but I see unjustified universal truths laid out in your comment, 2 specifically:

> The state of consciousness is much more than just the processing of external signals.

Complex life evolution is 100% based on best survival interpretation of surrounding environment. I understand how we can try to figure out what is more in the human way of doing it, but I really think that has to hold on something before getting past it.

> It would be absurd to say that you can't have dreams because they aren't perceived by or true for other people.

It is, and yet, if you do the exercise of imagine that dreaming is a social construct that you are the only one to really experience it, discarding that idea is solely based on belief. A belief I share, based on trust in others, and what seems the most probable. If it's absurd, it's only because we can rule it out as highly improbable.
When will Firefox support (not even new) codecs (HEVC/H.265) and containers (mkv). HEVC is supported by every other browser except Opera Mini/Mobile and browsers I've barely heard of.

[0] https://caniuse.com/hevc
"Edge computing" is a pretty vague term, and can encompass anything from a 8MHz ARM core that can barely talk compliant BLE, all the way to a multi-thousand dollar setup on something like a self-checkout machine, which may have more compute available than your average laptop. In that range are home assistants, which normally have some basic ML for wake word detection, and then send the next bit of audio to the cloud with a more advanced model for full speech-to-text (and response)
Is that a serious question? Most predators literally eat their prey ass-end first and keep them alive as long as possible.
It's not a general problem... if 99/100 won't spit in your coffee, that's still gonna cause anxiety.

Not all restaurant workers are rational agents.
I for one got the 10% phrase like you seem to have intended it, and it actually got me to think about how much time I spent in previous employments relative to the entire span of my life, which was an interesting venue to go down, so thank you! (Also for the insights on your work, that sounds like an immensely fascinating experience!)
I actually don't know if suits going out of fashion should be considered infantilization of one specific generation in particular; suits have been simplified progressively for decades before that. At some point the simplest suit fir casual everyday wear will be no suit.
I think this is a custom board (especially given the lithium battery and USB charging), but they copied the design from an industrial using the M6117. I've seen a ton of devices that use the same pair of an M6117 and a CHIPS F65535 VGA chip. You can still find stocks of both on places like Utsource. I do wish they had just gone with the more modern Vortex86 instead, perhaps someone will design an open hardware equivalent to this device that uses one of them instead.
@Marcan shared some technical details around their PCI Express implementation recently here: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110494017883893557

It seems they didn't make any massive changes and instead just put switches on the existing PCI-E Lanes. That probably doesn't bode well for full GPU support :(
Ask HN: Bard vs. Open.ai
What are people finding more valuable? I am using Open.AI a lot but am sometimes frustrated with it's overly "flowerly" responses. Maybe there are better ways to use it with prompts..?
In addition to what the other reply points out (that the LHC and such are not sufficient to produce a black hole),
another calculation I've seen shows that, even if it had produced a black hole with mass given by the energy of these collisions, and even if these black holes had started at rest with respect to the earth, and like, fallen into the earth (and started oscillating around the center), and if they did not evaporate (say, if Hawking radiation wasn't actually a thing), then the amount of time needed for them to swallow any appreciable amount of matter at all, would be very very long, and so would not actually cause any problem for the forseeable future.

(not that any were created. The detectors would have noticed. But even if they had been created, it wouldn't have been a problem, even if we are wrong in thinking that they would immediately evaporate.)

The thing is, if the black hole is made from something of a given mass, then, well, it only has the amount of gravitational attraction associated with that quantity of mass. And, that is a very small amount unless the-thing-to-be-attracted is very very very very close to it, and, a point particle falling through the earth wouldn't be likely to get that close to many atoms.

Ok, found the link I read this on : https://4gravitons.com/2023/01/27/lhc-black-holes-for-the-te...

He says that it would take 10^67 years for the black hole to double in mass.

So....
Not really a problem.
I almost agree. Some subreddits are echo chambers of woke nonsense. Others are echo chambers of different nonsense. Others seem mostly fine.

It's less about the wokeness and more about the ability for a handful of mods to hijack popular topics and create an unecessarily unpleasant/unproductive experience for their communities.

I'll leave ineffective admins, lack of original content, spam, karma, bots, misinformation, automod, and monetization as separate points of discussion :P
$20 million for a 2.3 Trillion dollar company illegally harvesting data on children is like fining someone who earns minimum wage 25 cents for stealing your wallet and letting them both keep the wallet and pay the fine out from the money in the wallet.

What a joke.
what? I have a occulus quest. it definitly does NOT have 4k per eye. I've actually tried to use it for a multi monitor VR and the resolution was too slow and latency too high to be workable.
Dude... an argument can certainly be made that English evolves by consensus; you're right about that. At the same time, that doesn't mean anything goes! It perhaps would be going too far to say that something is "correct" or "incorrect" English. But we can certainly give a proposed fragment of English a score measuring how well it matches the current consensus regarding what is a valid sentence in the language. Now,

> while others' poor experience is a result of their more layman writing style.

would receive a low score: "Layman" is not a noun commonly used as an adjective where common is relative to the overall usage of "layman".

The adjective is "lay".
Enforcement seems like the easy part. Simply suspend or ban accounts. I don't like the changes, but nobody has a constitutional right to stream on Twitch
There's nothing technically stopping us from doing that even 10 years ago.

MTailor [0] is/was a company that, using your phone camera, could measure you for pants/shorts/shirts/etc... it was a YC company 2014 and also on Shark Tank.

I hope the AI hype brings back some of these sort of use cases that might have been ahead of their time.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/in/app/mtailor-custom-clothing/id8160...
Most men don't have to wear suits and ties so I feel like we've already got away from it.

I also feel like outside of formal settings men have a lot more options for dress than people seem to think, they're just a bit more subtle.
Just get your good friend "Geff Jeerling" to post them instead. ;)

I think it boils down to the sad fact that "writing a blog post with information relevant to a community and sharing that" has become somewhat of a minority case for blogs nowadays. They are generally either "self-promotion for selling things" (blatant or not) which you mentioned, or just straight up blogspam (almost always blatant). And when your job is to moderate a large community, you don't really have time to go in and evaluate whether each and every single post is the latter two or an earnest attempt at getting information across.

> If the community thinks it's spammy, then the community can flag it or downvote it.

In theory, yes. If everyone used the voting and reporting system appropriately, and people whose posts were reported took the judgement tactfully and with grace. But I've seen people constantly argue that "what they said wasn't against the rules" just because it wasn't explicitly listed as a rule.

When a moderator's job is already so loaded, they're going to push for making their lives easier. Blanket banning "self-promotion" means it's a simple decision when it does get reported and makes it harder to argue against a removal.

FWIW, I think the model you mentioned works a lot better here, where there's a bit more of a professional bias, and especially when people have linked their real-world professional identities with their accounts. It adds a level of courtesy and assumption of best intent that isn't as prevalent on Reddit.
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It needs to be stronger than that. There ought to be penalties for activities outside the specified scope (preferably criminal in cases that exceed some minimal threshold of severity). Just stopping it at the trial level is inadequate if we want the policy-sketched privacy to be meaningful.