skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've considered trying berberine just for the heck of it, but it seems like it reduces the diversity of the gut bacteria which makes me concerned that if it didn't work out well for me it wouldn't be a simple as stopping taking it.
Yeah I don't know. Sitting on a rolling couch and keeping focused on what's in front of me is also tiring when I have to do it for 10+ hours.

As for the specific car you mention… Umm… Yeah I guess taste is subjective.
this is demonstrably false, if you ever bothered to look at the actual LCA filings from DOL.

btw these indian body shops are already abusing O-1 and L-1 visas en masse as well, so your latter statement is also not 100% true
> some have even lost their PRs because of some newer policy requiring that they spend half their time in Canada.

Not a new policy. Gotta put in your time as a PR to qualify for a citizenship (that mostly can’t be taken away from you ever).

It anything, the physical presence requirements have been diluted because politicians realize they’re more likely to get your vote if they have you citizenship.
It’s not just tech workers, it’s also tech projects.

Compare how minio has advertised itself through the years:

2023: High Performance Object Storage for AI [0]

2022: High Performance, Kubernetes Native Object Storage [1]

2020: MinIO is a high performance object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 APIs [2]

I get that buzzwords and marketing are important, but it rubs me the wrong way

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230628165639/https://github.co...
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220204012915/https://github.co...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200528195457/https://github.co...
An example of a game I think should have been a success but wasn't is
Counter Spy released for the PS4. It's a really fun game and just stumbled on it in the PS Now catalog.
One thing I've completely missed in all this drama: WHY a carbon fiber hull? Carbon fiber is not known for being easy to work with, or cheap, or strong in compression, or good for water, so WHY would you use it on a submersible as "new" technology?

I must have missed some discussion.
Perhaps it's a backroom agreement with hardware manufacturers to drive sales of devices that feel more futureproof in the face of uncertainty, like, say, Windows going full remote.

Seems like every Windows iteration involves more and more emulation (for ex. W11 adds 64-bit app emulation)- so, maybe they are laying the groundwork for it.

But 11 also teaches us, if they pulled the switch today, it would be a mess.
Why would the chain be a problem? The Romans could make metal rods, rivets, and some of their finer metalwork is crafted with more precision than any bicycle chain.

The real difference is that it would take an army of ancient craftsmen to make one bike.

The real distinguishing factor with modernity is mass manufacturing and precision at scale.

Even moreso income inequality and competition with slavery.

Any roman who could afford a bicycle would rightly think it was rubbish compared to a horse. All this expense just to propel myself around?!

The same goes for most modern conveniences. Even the best modern dishwasher is less efficient than a human slave doing the same task, if you're indifferent to the suffering of the slave, as the Romans were.
sooo.. your thoughts on my position?
I suspect that the problem could have been solved with baffles (which are the typical solution to sloshing), but that it was impossible to add them to the tank post-manufacture.
This is precisely why I've always been most fond of the explanation that "the UFO thing" is a training ground for US psychological warfare officers. We're target practice for US disinfo campaigns.
Ignoring the inherent racism in your repeated use of "they", the second generation absolutely joins the "melting pot". Say what you will about Texas, I'm not sure I've ever encountered more mixed race/mixed culture couples than I did during a week spent in Houston. And I've lived in at least four different major US metros in my lifetime.
I'm also super interested in this! I've had many amusing moments of instinctively typing either `pbcopy` or `pbpaste` on remote boxes followed by a brief moment of confusion when my local clipboard isn't updated :)
They added that last year, but I agree.

This proposal is around adding a query for other properties on a container.
> The Last of Us Part II cost $220 million with around 200 employees:

That just seems like crazy high figure. One of the things that is kind annoying me with games these days is how long it takes them to build the next one. Edler Scrolls is about 5-6 years away and that probably means Fallout is 10 years away. Sure we'll have Starfield but decades between games in a series is just bonkers.
- Main hull of the craft is a tank filled with gasoline: lighter than water and only a little compressible. It is not a high pressure enclosure. A membrane keeps these two fluids apart mostly, but some maneuvers dump gasoline into the ocean.

- Ballast is held in place with magnets. You actually want to drop ballast as you descend, to make up for the added seawater.

- Sphere on the bottom holds observer and instruments. This is a high pressure part.

- There’s no real propulsion or navigation. You land more or less where you land.
Interesting to note all the discussion of how aviation balloon materials aren't suitable; I presume this is because Picard was most experienced with building balloons for high altitude exploration and applied similar techniques to the Trieste.
It's pretty clear when you look at both how these devices are used, and how they are marketed, that there is a difference between the products' purpose.

However you are right, it is hard to make an unambiguous distinction, so I am with you - consoles should also be forcibly opened up. I do strongly hold the philosophical view that if you own any computing device you, as the owner should have absolute control of what that device trusts as far as any cryptographic 'locks' are concerned. The place where this seems to have both a) the largest negative impact on the market and b) the best chance of people caring and doing something about it, seems to be with mobile computing, so that is where the voice are the loudest, but personally at least, I hold the same view about any device.

Our society has long held that reverse engineering is perfectly acceptable when it comes to interoperability / competition, even if the OEM doesn't appreciate it. Now, we have progressed technologically to the point that an OEM can literally prevent any reasonable manner of that, if they want to. I just don't think our laws / society have really caught up with that fact yet, but for me it follows directly from the reasoning behind allowing reverse engineering that we shouldn't allow this.

So I don't know why you keep bringing this up as if it is a counterpoint. Yes, it's a similar situation, and yes anything we do about Apple should apply to Sony as well.
Show HN: Simulate YC/PG style office hours
In Startup School 2013, I saw Paul Graham and Sam Altman do a live demo of ycombinator's famous office hours on stage with a few startup founders. It was an absolute treat to watch how they clarified the startup's goal and product, strengths and risks, and offered solid recommendations, with a few simple and sharp questions!

Now, with GPT, you can simulate a YC / Paul Graham-style office hour to clarify, validate, and strengthen your product or feature idea.
Our first version of the site was PFAS.wtf but that didn't test well
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If you can rebrand yourself as an "expert" in some shiny new thing by spending a few weeks at a boot camp, there probably isn't much there and you will be competing for the same jobs against countless others who did the same.

I managed to completely ignore the cool new thing for the last 20 years and instead slowly built up knowledge in those problem domains that actually interest me, and it's worked out alright.
This really explains why I get totally destroyed at Call Of Duty since I spent about an hour a year playing it.
Why would yields be influenced by that?
I don't think there's any 4D chess going on, they are just being stupid. Again. For complicated reasons that we cannot fathom, obviously.
There was a period of time when airlines stopped pressurizing cabins with bleed air while the planes were at the gate and the engines were running.

That's exactly the circumstance where the vents upstream of the jet engines are able to pull in the jet exhaust.

Every flight I've been on post-pandemic has pulled exhaust fumes into the cabin while waiting at the gate.
Something like this: https://fly.io/docs/reference/dynamic-request-routing/#the-f...?

You probably would have to handle a lot of the logic by yourself for privacy and security reason, but I think this is a nice primitive to start from.
Interesting that they’re reporting in USD but the United States is not even on the list.
I don’t see a compelling reason to use BtrFS or ZFS or XFS over EXT4. Is there one? Performance there doesn’t seem to be a clear/consistent winner, features like snapshots are overblown in my opinion (there’s no replacing regular backups or redundancy), and ZFS I’m uncertain about data integrity in systems not using ECC memory.
> per spec, its supposed to be random bit data

> It can have extra monotonicity data instead

Well, which is it? These are incompatible requirements.

If I give you a standard UUIDv7 sample, it is impossible for you to interpret the last 62 bits. You cannot determine how they were generated. If I give you two samples with the same timestamp, you cannot say which was generated first. These bits are de facto uninterpretable, unlike e.g. the 48 MSB, which have clearly defined semantics.
So in other words, “the best employees” are the ones to turn the other cheek when they get mistreated because they are committed to “the product.” That’s certainly a convenient take for the managerial types in the room.
Yeah it's definitely an A-tier part of the US. I would've settled for pretty much anywhere outside the Bay Area, but SD is even better than the nice parts of LA I used to live in.
Republicans Don’t Think They Can Fire Gensler
I mean an ergo keyboard for the office. I'd never carry a keyboard daily.
Seems like a gimmick.

Forgejo if you want something like this without the "Blockchain".
Would love to see these concepts revived in a modern native note-taking app! Anyone know of anything similar?
Most of my old phones still boot but have cracked screen & either are unreadable and/or more frequently non-working touchscreens.

Thankfully with Android I can just plug in a mouse! On my Samsung phones I can plug in a full display + mouse. It's a bit of a risk leaving thr gate open like this, but occasionally I've also setup dying phones to auto switch to ADB, so when they do go, I can still access them.

The main barrier I have is that some phones have bad usb micro ports. With that, I'm hosed. Thankfully haven't seen a single usb-c device with a bad port; loving it.

Ideally we should be able to trust on-disk encryption on our phones. Alas with pin codes, there's not enough entropy to do a for real job of encrypting, but it'll ward off casual snooping. I'm honestly not sure when the changeover was where users ought to be able to expect this fundamental builtin protection.
I’ve got coworkers who went back and forth. Their thoughts were (in 2019) that Facebook had cooler things going on, but less mature. Nicer to use, but less stable in some cases.

I personally loved things breaking at times. The monorepo and all the tools were so open that enabled me to follow along and try my own fixes in some cases (sometimes being the one to fix it!).

At that point in my career, that kind of exposure was like a rocket ship for personal growth. Others shared similar sentiments.
I've always wondered, is there no burden of proof on the prosecution to prove it was you, especially with a p2p VPN installed?
A farmer owns a farm business. A farmhand works for a farmer.

While it is not completely unheard of for farmers to also be farmhands, there is difficulty in that the farms will generally share the same busy seasons. Meaning that your employer will want you on the job most especially during the times you will want a vacation to work on your own farm.

For me, it is also questionable how much I want to help out the competition. While farmers are generally good spirited and try to work together for a greater good, there is still only so much resources to go around, and I want to see my business thrive. I'd jump in and help in a pinch, but to make it a career...

But it is also true that tech will pay me more than other farmers will. That certainly seals the deal.
there would be fewer/no startups and fewer jobs with less wages, as H1Bs themselves create jobs via startups and product development at traditional companies.

if you carefully look at silicon valley companies (even large ones) - most of product R&D and IP and innovation comes from immigrants. Native born americans are mostly working in admin jobs like HR, Admin, Sales, Operations, Finance, etc
> “You spend a lot, but you get the best!” sounds a lot better than “You spend a lot, but we still suck!”

This argument doesn't make any sense. The US military is better than the next top three militaries combined. The Ukraine war is showing the superiority of decades old Western tech.
They provided links to the benchmarks so you can try running them yourself. I feel like a prerecorded video would add little value to this announcement.

https://downloads.scirra.com/labs/perf/opacitythrash-webgl/

https://downloads.scirra.com/labs/perf/opacitythrash-webgpu/

https://downloads.scirra.com/labs/perf/colorthrash-webgl/

https://downloads.scirra.com/labs/perf/colorthrash-webgpu/
I know git makes you shove toothpicks under your fingernails in order to let you use the keyboard, but after really, really learning to do this, i've never found it a blocker for my daily work. I understand the desire to simplify things, but i wish they'd contribute back ways of making people more comfortable with the toothpicks rather than just removing them and starting from scratch.

I am not a fan of FB, but they tried - you can find them on the git mailing list where they got told they are doing it wrong for things like "scaling" or "productivity". Which is always ironic since basically nobody in open source generates or uses any real data about productivity, it's all just gut feelings about users.
I think what they are selling is not answers, but more like a non-metaphysical platform to propose answers within, i.e. a decent start at a scientific framework. Frameworks shouldn't be confused with answers, although they might represent some way of getting closer to answers. Besides IIT, is there an alternative scientific/quantified framework that could even try to grapple with your question?

For purposes of comparison, here's another approach that's super interesting ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168033/ ). So both frameworks are looking at system structure/dynamics and then attempting to deduce/quantify some aspect of them that (hopefully) gives us some insight into "Mind" or "Consciousness". But to me, grounding such inquiries directly in neuroscience seems awkward, because brain only runs Mind. Uncovering a bunch of implementation details about that from FMRIs probably won't give us a lot of interesting insight at the right level. To an extent some implementation details are important and might shed light on the architecture/algorithm of Consciousness/Mind, but evolved systems are also going to be cluttered up with total hacks that evolution brute-forced where implementation is kinda arbitrary.

All of which is to say, IIT being "platform agnostic" and proposing stuff like a thermostat is more conscious than a rock, a dog moreso than a thermostat, and a human more than a dog is not just a cool trick. Being able to approach this kind of intuitive problem in a somewhat rigorous way seems like a necessary requirement for a serious scientific theory of mind. I like the Ising and graph theory modeling approach, but the implementation details of {neuron-counting, FMRI, lesions on functional areas, etc} is probably a distraction if you're trying to understand mind rather than medicine.
Maybe they're crashing the crafts on purpose to ease the human race into accepting their presence. Maybe they're gifts. Maybe it's not DoD running psyops, but the aliens themselves...
Interesting workaround!

Do you know if this works across shared drives too? Say one shares a 2tb plan with someone else; would both parties need the addition $10 “premier” plan to utilize 4tb?

On the other hand, I’d worry about this being getting patched and losing access. Seems like unintended behavior tbh
>> In those special cases, the reverse rule is applied: It should be possible for a checking tool to prove statically that the iteration cannot terminate.

This part made me pause for a moment, but then it clicked, and I'm remembering the rare and unusual experience of facing a process that escaped a loop that was supposed to go on indefinitely. A software equivalent of transmission belt slipping off. Most frequently seen in video games, where it's mostly harmless - but imagining a scheduler in an embedded system quitting on me like this fills me with dread to irrational extent.

> As a further searchable term, people can look up "total functions." Total functions must either terminate (loop ends) or be productive (always make forward progress).

That's a new one to me. I'm not deep into more advanced flavors of functional programming, but I thought total functions are defined as terminating in finite time for all inputs. I suppose it depends on whether you consider infinite loop a successful termination in infinity or not, but personally I wouldn't, at least not when it's clear the function is plain running in circles (as opposed to asymptotically approaching a value).
How to Give Great Gifts: What Science Teaches Us
Yes, but that makes the plaintext difficult to parse. I'll stick to Markdown.
The example continues, and says converges after 2 bars in 3/4 time.

4/4 is the default.
It's the cycle and not just in software. Younglings are idealists and try a thousand things, some of which happen to change and improve the ever-turning wheel of software, while elders turn the wheel and ensure the system, practices and knowledge continue and get transferred.
Do you think central banks should be given jurisdiction over fiscal policy? Historically, they have been limited to monetary policy, no?
https://archive.ph/T32tF
I never mentioned bleed air, and trying to distinguish between oil fumes generated from the engines and engine exhaust is pedantic, at best.
> The level of violence here is just so much higher than other countries. Even living in San Francisco where the murder rate is half that of the US it is still double that of Europe and Canada.

The Bay Area is not representative of the rest of the US. Crime is out of control in SF proper and the Bay Area more generally due to reduced enforcement.
It's not really a 100% replacement for all of VS Code's features, but there is a pretty big overlap in functionality that may meet most people's requirements: Notepad++
That's pretty much a given on any VPN service provider though. What's your point?
That's like saying a Apple M2 Max is mundane because you've got a CPU from the 80s. The interesting part isn't the mirror but how they made it. They're obviously not mundane, otherwise NASA would have designed Hubble to use equivalent optics.

Any actually interesting technology would be under a Secrecy Order [1] and the patents wouldn't see the light of day, perhaps ever. The few examples we know of were definitely cutting edge exotic technology at the time they were classified including the Manhattan project and the development of jet engines. Based on what little we know, the Secrecy Orders are very effective - some gaseous centrifuge technology used for enrichment in the 1940s and 1950s is still considered cutting edge and secret.

Antigravity is just fantasy land. All it would take is a factor of two improvement in any number of technologies to make something exotic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
It's like that scene at the end of Dr Strangelove - "why didn't you tell the world, eh?!"

Doing stuff isn't enough - you also need to communicate to the Earth that you have done stuff.
I was talking about your condemnation of sex workers.
Aren’t they just standard 5-pin DIN connectors?
I recommend this museum. It did not give me the same jaw-dropping experience as staring into Starry Night at MOMA. But it is a great museum and it spans over the entire life of Van Gogh, his development and tools. There is also a lot humor and distance in the descriptions which makes the experience less dark considering all the misery in his life.
The burden of proof is on you though. If you think you can do it better then do it. It's ridiculous to post a dismissal without even watching the full video.
To paraphrase you, the fact that you found it useless doesn't mean others found it useless. It's had a significant number of upvotes, so ... shrug

But thanks for the feedback. I'll keep it in mind next time I have the urge to try to be helpful.
they still are
Our mental experiences seem to be subjective, so what prospect is there of making any objective statement about the world if correlations are inadequate for the purpose?
If that is true where you live, you are lucky. All across the US, this is not true - and while there used to be a caliber of restaurant that would not have a sports game on a tv, that has changed significantly.
Huh, i'll have to look into that. I'm not aware of unattended upgrades. Though i still value not risking a messed up config leaking data by way of ssh access, or something.
Field Testing a Home Made WiFi Antenna
PureBasic Non-Regression Suite
The progress on KSP2 is promising enough to maintain my interest, but they definitely went into early access way too soon. It's a really bad look to launch a sequel with ~10% of the content of the original.
Another piece of the puzzle: file formats, database formats, and filesystems are not always optimized for SSD use (random access).
without H1Bs silicon valley would not exist in its current form (it would be more like in 80s-90s)
Couldn't you just move outside of the city where is it significantly more safe? There are plenty of options between living in San Francisco and moving to Europe. I live in Seattle, and while there are _plenty_ of problems, I don't think it would be a bad place to have a family.
Landmark EU redress law finally a reality after 30-year struggle
Earth Is Running Out of Sand Which Is, You Know, Pretty Concerning
> A team with 8 people in-office and 2 people WFH is pretty crappy.

It doesn't have to be crappy; I spent several years as one of the remote participants in a team like that, and it was one of the high points of my career. We made heavy use of instant messaging, and we met up in person for a week every quarter. People kept in touch well enough.
This is what they want. They are being brazen about it to make people unhappy enough to quit and go to those companies. Another easy round of layoffs for our wonderfully forward thinking CEOs.