skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You stopped reading because they said something that is widely known by disease ecologists and the result of an actual scientific study?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cats-are-surprisin...

"Researchers led by Fordham University’s Michael Parsons spent five months observing a rat colony housed at a Brooklyn waste management facility [...] Over the course of the 79-day testing period, local cats ambushed just three of the facility’s roughly 150 rat—killing only two.

[...]

A potential explanation for the felines’ unexpectedly low kill rate is the size and ferocity of city rats, Tanya Loos writes for Cosmos. New York’s infamous brown rats generally weigh around 330 grams, or roughly 10 times the weight of the average mouse. Given the choice between attacking a monstrous rat, a 15-gram bird and a 30-gram mouse, cats tend to opt for the less challenging prey.

[...]

But cats and rats are more likely to ignore or avoid each other than engage in outright conflict, University of Florida disease ecologist Gregory Glass, who was not involved in the study, tells Chen.

“Once that rat hits puberty, [it’s] way too big and nasty for the cat to deal with,” he says. “You can watch a lot of cats and rats accommodating one another, easing by one another, eating out of the same trash bag.”
I was thinking that about the movement too -- or you could go for a Miyota/Citizen, the high-beat (28800) movements were around $70-80 on ebay the last time I checked.
>When it was unclear how easily pets could transmit the virus to humans, the UK government considered ‘that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain’.

I know this is probably true but it just sounds so ridiculous.
Went to where but my gods could it be any more obvious that

We need “good jobs” to restore trust and save capitalism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36229357 (1d ago, only my one comment & upvote)

Society is falling apart & it's because There Is No Alternative isn't good enough. Re-localizing, re empowering & making true that you can live as your own capable person, do good person things: that (alongside climate) is the crisis. The resistance to decay.

Small town value have so many great aspects but holy cow, living under Capitalism makes the small-scale entrepreneurian spirit that is so vitalized here so difficult to survive on.
For me the million dollar question is whether he chooses to try to compete directly with it (as in, Quest Pro 2 with increased specs) or if he tries to comfortably settle into the low end and leave the high end to Apple.

I really do hope he chooses to compete. A quick turnaround on a Quest Pro 2 with only the updates they are already shipping in the Quest 3 would put them an vastly better position and still 1/3 the price. It should be possible and it would at least set up something resembling an open-ecosystem standards based choice to balance Apple's closed proprietary approach. If not - Apple essentially has no competition at all here.
He needed to look at hardware platforms of the past. If you can't get people to develop for a system and make good apps, then the hardware is useless.
Yeah I like the idea of payment happening automatically, but that should be optional and implemented via kind of standard payment protocol between the car and the charging station, not via a proprietary app.
The purchaser of work maintains his right as a purchaser to insist working from an office.

The seller of work maintains his right as a seller to insist working from home.

Between equal rights, Force decides.
> The introduction of Apple’s headset marks a major competitive threat.

Considering VR headset sales haven’t really hit their tipping point (if there is to be one), Apple’s entry into the market could actually benefit quest sales in a “rising tide lifts all boats” type of way.
This is not an accurate description in any way of the nuclear regulatory process. Presidential elections, even if they swapped parties every four years, do not result in massive regulatory changes.

The nuclear industry has no one but itself to blame for its failures and bankruptcies.
You can, however, make the site increasingly useless to ordinary users that don't have a team of experts to work around your changes.

For example, Reddit has been quite difficult to search for a couple years now. Their logged out views salt pages with large amounts of hidden text from random unrelated discussions, so when you google for a specific string in some old comment there is good odds that the page you click on won't even have visible (or logged in, have at all) the text you were searching for.

I'd be mystified that that kind of bad conduct hasn't gotten them outright banned from search indexes, but the fact that reddit is one of the few resources that keep search engines useful (even in its sorry state; the above problem mostly hurts comments not posts) might have something to do with it.

In any case, it's a common pattern: the intended target of your mitigation can absorb it as a cost of doing business, the collaterally damaged users cannot.
I’m sceptical for a very simple reason. When Apple came up with the UI for the iPhone, the functionality of it wasn’t some vague promise, Steve Jobs gloated at length about how intuitive it all was while audiences gasped and applauded over and over. He did this by introducing several new sensors and technologies simultaneously.

Not really seeing that this time around.
Does it? In the readme it says:

> There is NO NEED to use never ending reddit to load as many comments / submissions. This script uses the actual Reddit API endpoints to edit and delete instead of automating clicks on delete and edit buttons. ahem, reddit overwrite

My plan was to run it on June 30th since it claimed to use the API. I guess since it’s in-browser it could still be using the API and masquerading as the website.
Not quite true: there is no public opposition to anything in Russia let's say, and they build their nuclear plants for about that long. Belarusian NPP construction started in March 2011 and first reactor went online in November 2020, 9.5 years. Chernobyl NPP was probably built faster than it should've been given many issues they introduced in the process, and it took 7.5 years from commencement to first reactor going online, May 1970 to December 1977.

10 years down the road, there simply won't be a place for non-renewable power left on the market, apart from natural gas peaker plants for grid balancing. Too late to start any new ones.
Would it be more practical to take a supplement containing all the amino acids used by [human] ribosomes?

Those, as I understand them to be, are:

alanine,
arginine,
asparagine,
aspartic acid,
cysteine,
glutamine,
glutamic acid,
glycine,
histidine,
isoleucine,
leucine,
lysine,
methionine,
phenylalanine,
proline,
serine,
threonine,
tryptophan,
tyrosine,
valine.

And why am I not seeing taurine in this list?

https://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/education/AminoAcid/the_twenty.h...
The Vision Pro is only 7x as expensive as the Facebook headset if you value your privacy at zero.
As weird as I find the cartoony Metaverse and would never ever use it, I think it has a greater likelihood of adoption over that uncanny valley looking FaceTime avatar thing. Campy over creepy.
1 gigawatt solar is not the same as 1 gigawatt nuclear though. Also, building solar in Alaska or in Northern Canada would be a waste of money.

But yes, a solar power plant is cheap and can be implemented almost instantly, it is a huge advantage.
Yeah, I actually agree with you completely. I probably didn't phrase things as well as I should have (maybe because I love me some stylus, haha).

What I meant was that probably someday Apple will be happy to sell us super high tech controllers for spatial computing, but for launch they are taking the same stance as they did with the iPhone, and going all-in on designing the whole experience to just use your hands.

(And, yes, this is probably the correct decision here, just as it was then.)
That applies to consumers as well. Killing off a product that added value for people is going to make them upset. Are we supposed to be praising Reddit in your view?
Sounds dodgy and like a way to avoid peak vs. sustained and benchmarks.
> Don't you think the company is able to forecast demand for a new product launch?

I'm pretty sure "follow the forecast" is exactly what motivated that post.

In other words, the infrastructure is overkill for the initial forecast of customers.

They're not working for Disney.
Adventures in Debian's Qt Land
Thanks! Order placed :)
Guy down the street has a (house) painting business. I am sure he started out as a painter before deciding to own his own company.

He heads out to the sites/jobs he has that day to see that the teams know what to do, then heads to the golf course.

Sometime in the late afternoon he makes the rounds again to see how the jobs have progressed that day. Does some book-keeping in the evening.

I envy him. I would be surprised if he completed college (although I know his kids all have now).
Sure, but I doubt your average tradesman starting a business is targeting billion dollar markets.

Scaling software to the same level of revenue as a trade business is as easy if not easier. For one you don’t need that many employees
In what way? Be specific. I have never heard a single regulation that should change, and the AP1000 reactors at both Summer and Vogtle were approved under a new process pushed for by the nuclear industry.

In truth, basic incompetence from design to EPC has caused these disasters. And it's not just the US NRC, it's happened in Europe with France's EPR, too.

The NRC is a scapegoat for the incompetent, that don't want to look at the true sources of failure.
if they wanted to save money, why wouldn't they just shut down the API access

They are. They're just pretending they aren't. No one is going to pay the amount they're charging.
> I decided to experiment with this setup and the NY Taxi Dataset. The initial goal was to populate ElasticSearch with ~14 million rows, loading data from a compressed parquet file of ~350 MB.

> I tried multiple times, but the operation failed continuously, due to JVM memory constraints

Here's a script https://github.com/db-benchmarks/db-benchmarks/blob/main/tes... which loads 1.7B NYC taxi ride documents into Elasticsearch.
If we were really serious about climate change, we'd build a ton of wind and solar and batteries, plus a ton of new transmission to get electricity from the windy and sunny places to our cities.

That's currently the fastest way to cut our greenhouse gas emissions.
Yeah, I saw a TikTok and this guy was filming a cat that had lost it's tail and an eye. Apparently, it had gone toe-to-toe with the rats of Brooklyn if I remember correctly and lost. NYC rats can get pretty gnarly in size, nothing like the mice or squirrels we think of that cats usually kill.
Modern Android processors are pretty competitive with iPhone's silicon:

S23, 1.4k (Single core), 4.8k (Multi core), 79.3 (3d mark/GPU)

14 pro max, 1.8k (Single core), 5.3k (Multi core), 74 (3d mark/GPU)

Looks like gen2 is already on-par in multi-core and GPU perf.
Single core still is 28% faster in iphone.

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https://www.tomsguide.com/news/galaxy-s23-ultra-vs-iphone-14...
20M people bought Quests. More than x-box in the same period. I find this writing off of their sales achievements as really superficial. Whatever else you want to say, they shifted units and the people buying them wanted something he was selling.
Sorry if this is pedantic but did you grow up in Louisiana or Los Angeles?
3 great articles about nuclear energy:

https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html

https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html

https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html
IPOs are a helluva drug.
Interesting abuse of big O notation there, since O(100M) = O(10) = O(1). Your statements make more sense without the O.
> There is nothing in the paper to support this claim

The paper literally says, "75% of the real bitcoin volume has been linked to exchanges or exchange-like entities"

You may think the source isn't perfect, but at least I'm bringing some objective data to the conversation. If you disagree, please show me some data of your own instead of just repeating your preconceived bias (which I'm aware of already)

I repeat: If you had to calculate that same statistic, what methodology would you use?

> This type of transaction is much more common in the fiat world than it is in the crypto world

Source?

> where speculation and wash trading drive the majority of transactions

Source?

> Currency speculators make up a tiny portion of the real-world economy

Source?

> while they make up the vast majority of the crypto economy.

Source?

Those were some mighty bold claims.
Nothing matters and we're just a speck of dust hurtling through the infinite so who cares what happens about anything right?
My first thought was of the heavy swings used by Camp Century in the 1960s to haul construction materials and supplies to that project.

Except that MMS to AMS is seven times the distance.

And those SPoT tractor trains are averaging less than 3 kph / 2 mph for the round trip.
Nuclear is one of the very most expensive forms of new electricity.

There's basically zero chance that a new reactor of this style will be built, voluntarily. It took a massive amount of government backed insurance and loans to even make these possible, but no utility will be insane enough to try again without someone shouldering the construction cost risk.
Who here played Lemmings by Psygnosis?

How about Bungie’s Myth: TFL
> helico-pter (meaning)

That's not "meaning", that's etymology. If you divide it by "meaning" you get heli-copter, which is evidenced by the way the speakers use those morphemes: helipad, heliskiing, heliport,... and parcelcopter, gyrocopter, quadcopter,...
Not only trying, but largely succeeding. I haven't seen one instance where these decisions have been reversed due to pushback.
The Miyota 90S5 would work, it is cheap and “open heart”.
I agree. It was bad. It still has significant rough edges, yes. But holy shit the team has done such an amazing job & the numbers & stability are sooo much better, but for a card that was already in so many cases competitive with cards that cost sooo much more.

Changing the launch narrative is harder than sending people to the moon. People will cling to this initial knkwledge, I to the original message, for my heavens long.
I’m much more interested in the Quest 3 than the Vision Pro. At least Zuck’s vision includes BeatSaber.
As he’s Canadian, does US state law apply?
They would only do the deal on the spot if that was their only option. But they have the option of spending $0 and having the majority of the users moving to the official app.
> The reason for the long and expensive construction has a lot to do with the people opposing the construction!

Citation needed.
Cool! I loved Dave Winer's MORE outlining application [1] back in the day and it would be fun to try it again. I'm sure I have my MORE data on a floppy somewhere, and Symantec gave Dave permission to distribute the old software.

[1] http://outliners.scripting.com/default.html
You're not going to play VR games with a vanilla console controller. And if you're thinking of emulating non-VR PC games on the headset, that seems like it would not be all that compelling. What's the draw?
Show HN: BerriAI – Monitor Hallucinations in LLMs (Sentry for LLM Apps)
Hi HN -
Ishaan and Krrish here from BerriAI. We’ve built a hallucination monitoring tool for LLM Apps in production, that can instantly identify language mistranslations (responding to a user in the incorrect language) and inventing new information errors (answering from information not in the prompt). Live demo here: https://logs.berri.ai/

We served over 1m+ chatGPT queries with our initial ‘chat with your data’ app. However, we had no ability to tell how any of the technical changes we made (e.g. moving from llama index to our own retrieval/qa system) impacted our users in production.

Berri is super easy to integrate into your system - we added it to our previous product with just 2 lines of code!

It’s super early days and we’re looking for others like us - people in production - pushing changes but unsure if/how they’re actually solving issues / improving their system over time.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, we’re really happy to be posting here :)

Krrish and Ishaan
> having to watch multiple non-skippable ads

UBlock Origin blocks ads completely. :)
You seem knowledgeable about sucralose ("Splenda" in US commercial branding). Thank you to share. On Wiki, it says that sucralose is "genotoxic", but provides no further information. I read the genotoxic Wiki page -- sounds terrible. What am I missing? To be clear: This is not a scare post, rather "explain it to me like I am a 5 year old"!

When I Google <<sucralose genotoxic>>, most of the results are untrustworthy, click-bait news sources.
Also the whole blowing up and contaminating square miles of planet surface, every so often thing.
They're using it for games, but not Horizon Worlds which is arguably the vision.
WinCE? Windows phone? TabletPC? Their non-vertical integrated devices sucked.

Microsoft lost an entire platform, and yes, that was a problem (they’ve since recovered with other bets).
Have you tried PopOS? Very much felt like it was "ubuntu but good" last time I tried it.
They don't actually need a quick turnaround on the Quest Pro 2, as the Apple headset is launching next year. Apple has given them plenty of warning, they have runway to comprehensively respond. Such a premature announcement is reminiscent of the Osborne effect. I think it'll negatively impact sales, and it'll make the ultimate value proposition of their first product difficult. Apple are really cashing in that brand value here...
As long as we're being ridiculous and unserious I suppose you support TNR for humans to?
The right comparison is roughly 4GW of solar plus 6-12GWh of storage for 1GW of nuclear, but even then nuclear is about 2x as expensive.
> Zuck mentioned that activity and "doing things" are Meta advantages, but people don't want to exercise while gaming or consuming entertainment.

A lot of people actually do. There is a whole community built around it.
Then Russians will blow up a dam, so the reactor will run out of water for cooling and then run away into a Red Forest.

OR climate change will make a water pond dry, so you cannot even start the reactor.

OR terrorists will capture a reactor and mine it.

OR massive change in water weight due to climate change will create a massive earthquake.
I mean, in 60-s and 70-s, France and US were stamping out nuclear reactors like hotdogs, building them literally by dozens. And they were moderately cheap. I don't know what happened afterwards, but now building a nuke plant has become a nightmare.
Debian Testing doesn’t get security updates quickly, unlike Stable and Unstable. Hence why the Debian wiki does not recommend Testing for ordinary users.
Aren't they talking about the "ease" of competing with a lower-end, non-vertically-integrated device?

Same tactic won't work against Apple because they make the key chips, make the hardware, the software, etc. They can have you look at your MacBook, and the headset brings up your laptop's workspace ready to go.
What clicks is that the OS seems to go against entropy, getting more stable the longer you use it and update your config, as opposed to other distros, which get cruftier over time, after which you have to reinstall every couple years, not remembering half the things you did to set it up. As others have said, it's immutable and completely built from config, and you can basically configure anything, so you can effectively redeploy a machine form config in minutes. Furthermore, it creates a snapshot every time you deploy, so you can always roll back if you break something.

Nix is basically the future of operating systems. The one problem that still needs solving, which is blocking wider adoption, is ease of use. People are working on making the command line tools easier, but what will really do it is something that abstracts away config generation with a UI installer and tools, but opens up the config if you go into "advanced mode" or something like that.
Is beatsaber a meta exclusive? I appreciate lack of motion controllers announced, but that doesn't mean there wont be any, and maybe hand controls are enough for beatsaber?
Google Image Search: “Lorenz Attractor” + “Black Hole”
250k is just the cost of refund of subscriptions. There is further costs related to new business model and all the risk associated with a continued work relationship with a partner that just done you dirty. He can pay the refund, he understands it as not worth it and decided to not delay the inevitable and close shop. The thought is that it will not be profitable and any service offered after 30 days will only benefit reddit at his expense. It's the right call.
> people don't want to exercise while gaming

Quite a few do. I use Beatsaber, Pistol Whip, and Superhot (more yoga-y than exercise) for this. Boredom during exercise is my primary issue with sustaining it; VR has removed that obstacle.
That's a pretty facile analysis.
There's definitely truth to this and not. It's rather complicated. I don't want to get into arguments which will happen no matter what I say, so I'm just going to link three things and let the data speak for itself.

[0] is the cost of energy by year. We notice that nuclear is the only one to increase and coal is stable while everything else decreases. As time goes by, things usually get cheaper, so we have to ask what's unique to nuclear.

[1] Shows a graph of the decarbonization process of countries' energy sectors. I suggest including: US, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and China.

[2] is a near real time map of energy production and tells you where the energy portfolio, its carbon intensity per source, and if the region imports/exports that electricity. All these matter.

So we should all keep these things in mind when discussing energy because carbon is a critical part. This is HN, people are familiar with how to read data, right? Let's not fight, and let's try to start any discussion with some facts that are inarguable. This is just data.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/decarbonizing-energy-progress

[2] https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
>A distro like Manjaro that delays package updates for a few weeks seems preferable for me.

It is actually worse, especially if you are using AUR packages.

But to be honest Arch has been extremely stable for me.
"Return to office, what's left of it"
That should be taken as a hint that people don't want VR video conferencing which is the target use for Apple's headset. TBH i don't want an avatar face, real faces in a simple Zoom call are more expressive.
You're welcome to that opinion, but I disagree. In my experience, Conway's Law applies directly to code, not just to networks and systems.

It is also my opinion that at all levels, motives and intent are driving dynamic forces in life. Ignoring them is a great way to waste your time, money and efforts. I can understand that not everyone feels this way, but I do. So perhaps that's where our interpretations differ.
It is cheaper, and more and more solar, wind, batteries, and hvdc lines are built everyday.
If murder was almost unmonitored, you could definitely improve the situation with some laws and some enforcement of those laws.

I don't understand your mockery here.
Why did you plagiarize https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/06/08/229235/man-sues-open... instead of submitting a link to it?
Random thought: "A picture is worth a thousand words..."
"spatial computing" is such a silly marketing phrase. All we saw was 2D windows placed in a fake 3D world. It's all just an aesthetic upgrade, a minor QOL improvement that has its own downsides, nothing more.
I would say that default dairy and meat quality is roughly the same in France and Ireland. France has an edge on bread and pastries, while fruit and veg depends on the season but because so much more has to be shipped into Ireland, France gets the edge there too.