skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on who you're targeting and what you want.

But the history of computers security can largely be summed as:

"What? You're just paranoid. Nobody would possibly X!"

Someone gets their asses handed to them by someone Xing.

"What? Why didn't you tell us X was a risk we needed to be concerned about???"

Iterate.
Silicon-perovskite solar cells on the verge of revolutionizing power efficiency
You must keep every promise you make to yourself. No excuses. You must DO IT!

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For example, if you say to yourself, I promise to go to the gym tomorrow, you must go to the gym tomorrow, no excuses. You must keep your promise to yourself 100% of the time.

WHY?

Whenever you do not, whenever you fail to keep your promise to yourself, it chips off your inner psyche, your integrity. Do it more times, and you have chipped off your inner trust in yourself.

You will not trust yourself with anything, and that is the worst. This way is a form of self-discipline. Therefore, be intentional and make fewer promises. But if you tell yourself you will do it, you must do it.
Sorry to hear that. I had an uncle die from lung cancer (smoker, but otherwise healthy) about a decade ago. I know how horrifying the process is. Hope you have been able to process your grief.
The writing app I want
Clarifying, encounter means a visit with a provider.
This!

The iostream bitshift overload was one of the first features of C++ that I learned to despise. I'm very happy that there's an alternative in the new version.
Doesn't help that I had just recently woken up but yes, most definitely.
Modern modeling tools must be able to answer that question now though, correct?
I think Threads appeals to a different set of people than BlueSky - or at least a different side of a person.

The lack of anonymity with Threads makes it a completely different experience for me.

So I wouldn’t really say they’re competitors.
Anarcho-capitalists would argue strongly that all 3 of your examples are no different from any other service provided to customers. I've seen them (or sympathetic sci-fi writers) think up all sorts of imaginative scenarios about how that might work.

Personally I agree with you, I think privatizing any of those things would be madness, because the real world never ends up working like the ideological fantasy, but it's hard to get everyone to agree on what's an objective economic truth.
GDPR dramatically reduced venture investments in europe, compared to the US[1]. Protectionism is not something you can do indirectly. It requires certainty and clarity.

[1]: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/short-run-effects-gdpr-techno...
Is it a variety of diseases, or do the different colonies of organ-specific cells just behave differently once they are unleashed?
I'm not disagreeing on that point. I'm pushing back on your almost mystic use of the term creativity because it's a claim that's not falsifiable. It's like saying "ChatGPT isn't conscious." I'd tend to agree, but the claim is a bad one because we can't even adequately define consciousness in order to test the claim.
The only way, from an efficiency point of view, that it would make sense to burn gas in a home for heating is with a gas-fired heat pump (or home cogeneration driving an electric heat pump, and also using the waste heat). But these have not been installed much, probably because of cost.

The waste heat from the combined cycle plant could also be used for district heating.

Highest efficiency CC plants are like 62% efficient (but that's on a LHV basis, which ignores latent heat of water of combustion.)
Redshift versus ClickHouse
I've done a lot of ClickHouse versus X comparisons for Posthog. This one was particularly hard because Redshift keeps issuing big updates, but I'm pretty happy where it ended up and wanted to share it.

It does amaze me how ClickHouse does hold up against a lot of these databases backed by BIG companies—it really is a drag racer (Robert Hodges' analogy, not mine).
Looks like we'll need to upgrade to 512-bit addresses to be on the safe side.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=log2%2810%5E80%29

https://www.thoughtco.com/number-of-atoms-in-the-universe-60...
How to identify “truthy” tech trends
There are definitely wine snobs and wine anti-snobs out there. But in my experience, most people just set their wine price range based on household income (or the income level they want you to believe they have).

If you go into any half-decent wine shop, you'll get good recommendations if your price range is $10-15 or $100-150 (or more, I suppose). The people that work at these places are definitely not snobs.
> behind the scenes it is all text parsing. There's no "node" structure.

But I feel like this is one of the strongest things about org mode and something that keeps it really apart from similar tools.

Rather than being forced to think in "org" and manipulate its "objects", you just manipulate text, and if you happen to shape that text into something org recognizes, then it knows how to work with it.

This is amazingly inviting because you never feel "stuck" like you converted something to the wrong type of thing and now can't get it back, or whatever. Instead if you make a mistake you just.. change it to what it should be. It feels very fluid and you learn it quickly because you're not presented with trying to fit your thoughts into someone else's abstractions. You just write what you want and progressively learn more and more how to naturally shape your work into something that org can help you with.
Appreciate your work on this.
Thanks! Yes, basically log_64(n) vs. log_32(n) and it would also require to switch to a 64 bit hash function and adjust hash exhaustion and bit fiddling arithmetic accordingly.

Re the impact of the recursion, that's actually zero for the search code since clang does a tail call optimization; it's a fair point for the removal code.
My understanding is that other people in this field, such as Amy Cuddy, who popularized "Power Poses", have also been revealed to be frauds.
Thankfully conspiring to not board a flight isn't a crime
You’re cherry picking a single line and deflecting with whataboutism. This is not benefitting HN.
Meta laid off staff on teams responsible for election safety – report
This write up reminds me of the origin story of GIS. Canada wrote some law or other and someone invented GIS to be able to actually comply with it.

I wish them well. Health care in the US has problems, opaque pricing being only one of them.
You haven’t done anything but prove the GP’s point.

Their margins are necessarily low, so they should want total medical costs to increase in order for their gross profit to increase. And in fact, just checking one of them from your links, it has:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HUM/humana/gross-m...
Yes it is similar, but simpler! We do chat with a few companies using blockchain, looking at TigerBeetle for better throughput.

> if the low-level storage optimisations in certain implementations of blockchain account history would be more broadly applicable to the financial applications targeted by TigerBeetle.

Maybe! Any examples you're thinking of?
The NUC was a great idea delivered by a company that was totally opposed to it by design. You had big fat inefficient Intel cores crammed into low TDP applications and to make matters worse they wanted massive margins. Could’ve been a fantastic product delivered by ARM or some smartphone manufacturer.
Who would I be arguing with exactly? I think you may be reading tone where none was given.

Are you under the impression people are buying land (land being rural land, not an acre in central London) in the UK for the sake of it? It's not priced in the same league as the USA, it's expensive, if it's not earning a return then it's not happening. So unless you're starting a some sort of windfarm or solar farm, it's generally going to be for farming.

Also, do you realise the opposition party in the UK, Labour e.g. the Guardian, are seriously contemplating pushing a LVT. So they aren't pushing these stories to punish their own. They're pushing these stories to justify what they'll do. And that adds to why would anyone buy any real chunk of land in the UK right now.

As an FYI - a quango is a nonsense lobbying group, it's not independent, anything they come out with can be considered nonsense. Doesn't matter who they work for, it's always doctored stats and the taxpayer getting rinsed.
The point of using setAccessible with reflection was to access private fields and methods, and the module features in Java 9 made that impossible without passing a gigantic list of command-line flags to every invocation of Java.
Agree. I was trying to mostly mimick the libavl API, hence the design decision.
If I understand correctly, the issue is when you track the effect as a rolling value and stop the test as soon as it dips above the significance level.

So for instance, let's say your test is to roll a dice 6 times. You say "if I get 6 100% of the time, then I'll consider that significant". You do the first roll and get a 6. Well that's 100% of the time, so you end the test and claim you had a significant result.
How does this compare to Strassen's algorithm? Could you please provide a reference implementation?
I’m having trouble tracking down the source, but one study found that furry communities are abnormally resilient to financial stress (especially during the pandemic) compared to other communities with similar cohesion and structures.

The authors postulated that this was because furries and otherkin are more likely to enter into financial transactions with each other, giving and getting in exchange for commissions, ref sheets, profile pics, and other art requests. As a cultural expectation, members of furry communities are also more willing to lean on others in times of need, and are also more likely to help others with their own struggles as resources allow.
Operator overloading is like spicy peppers. A little bit can make the program better, but it's very easy to use too much.
They ultimately do come from MS. It's easier to navigate, in my experience, and you usually get a more recent build than the MS tools start with.
This will sound stupid... but as we find out that the universe is bigger and bigger and there are more clusters, galaxies, stars, and planets then we have imagined before (Laniakea have 100,000–150,000 galaxies and the Milky Way _alone_ have 100–400 billion stars)

so does that increase or lower the chance that there is _any_ kind of life outside there? Maybe not carbon-based life but any kind. Next question would be I guess that what is "life"

Fascinating stuff nonetheless
Dukaan lays off 90% of support staff after introducing AI chatbot
japan is roughly 1.5% of the world population. where do they stack up in your video feed (maybe even leave out half the world's population, so call it 3%)?
Health insurance company executives are though, aren't they? Their compensation is the "administrative overhead."

And a lot of the administrative overhead is proportional to expenses. Commissions are commonly a fixed percentage. How much it's worthwhile to spend on fraud prevention is in proportion to the size and amount of claims. So when premiums and claims costs go up, actual administrative costs go up, but shareholders and executives still prefer that to making less profit and compensation once you take lowering claims costs off the table as a way to make more money.
I Am Happy Right Now
I wrote a blog to remind my future self that although I am working hard now, I'm not sacrificing important things that I know won't be here forever.
That is correct.
Obviously, there's little value in distinguishing between the first and second occurrences of duck bites. Rather, the suffix describes which treatment it is.

A - initial encounter (initial treatment)

D - subsequent encounter (continued treatment)

S - sequela (after the treatment plan is completed)
>> I could understand from a treatment perspective the type of animal mattering

Rabies, which is not just animals but also predators (snakes) that eat animals with rabies. There is even a disease called "seal finger" that is linked to seal bites. And bats, all sorts of nasty stuff can come from bats.
Related:

The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36272365 - June 2023 (5 comments)

The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25607809 - Jan 2021 (60 comments)
These kind of tales make me very happy to live in the UK with the NHS.

Not perfect...but surely better than this?
I doubt Amazon's web team are proud of Amazon ads and in-house product placement making their long-scaled product far less usable but they know it pays the bills so they keep turning the crank. The guy 20 years ago with the one click checkout clean flow feature and patent, yeah, he probably had some pride. But the guy injecting ads into your brain to try to break that flow, probably not so much. Pride is no longer a thing for most people. They work to get money to do the things they are or will be proud of in the meaningful parts of their lives. Work is shit for most people and everyone is waking up to that except some of his highly privileged silicon valley workers.
The shitty thing here is that it didn't "have to" die. It simply should not be possible for a single powerful individual to destroy something used by millions because they don't like the way it is used.
And even then, some Python fan will come in and this is what you will end up with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
I learned about Fdroid because of something like this.

Then I learned about Bromium(which is obsolete today, but was a great browser with adblock support)
California Ramps Up Enough Battery Power to Match Five Nukes
Article ignores 4 years ago he was a whistleblower on Hunters connection to china.

The same agents he worked with to whistleblow on Bidens family, are the same ones who called off the investigation into hunters investigations.

He could be guilty, but part of the charges was a false statement he made while he was giving during whistleblower testimony. The arms dealers claim seems strange, and being a chinese spy for a non paid ghost written article also seems like a strange stretch.

Gal Luft gave his side of the story in an 18 minute video.

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1678532987057741825
Realize that if the cosmological constant has the nonzero value that appears to be the case (in the lambda-CDM model), then only about 6% of the galaxies we see are still reachable. The rest will be carried away by accelerating expansion so quickly that a photon emitted from us right now (or any slower than light spaceship) will never reach them.

Of course more stars increases the chance of life out there, but without a good handle on the chance of life arising around a random star, we cannot set any lower bound on the probability that life is out there on the stars we see.
Expanded version of previous recent coverage and discussions:

Intel Exiting the PC Business as It Stops Investment in the Intel NUC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680674 (127 comments)

Intel is quitting on NUC computers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36683756 (3 comments)
If it's a company-issued device and simply wiping the existing OS and installing Linux isn't an option, wiping the existing OS and installing an IoT or Enterprise version of Windows instead, or running a debloater script, is likely also not an option.
Tracking Meta's Threads' Launch
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Once you've fabricated data, then your name should be dirt in academia forever. End of story.
It certainly could be the truth, but I’m not convinced. An outside agent wanting to destroy dissidence by massively overpaying for Twitter and then running it into the ground seems like it would be inviting a replacement. Wouldn’t it be better to buy it and run it efficiently?
It's ironic how org mode is the tool of choice for computer geeks, yet the code quality is so poor
Not to take away from your point but this yet another dimension in which I see a huge parallel with Portugal. You'd see the exact same thing here, and anyone who grew up in the countryside will look to have a little plot somewhere even if they moved to the city 50 years ago.
There are actual figures that don't include admin overhead and are only claims paid out vs premiums collected. It's called medical loss ratio, and just from eyeballing the charts it looks like it's around 85% for insurance companies as a whole.

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2023/mar/...

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2022/mar/...
This is basically the premise to the Fermi paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

And more specifically the Drake equation (a subsection of the wikipedia article).

I personally think anyone's "answer" to the paradox just reveals their personal opinion/ what they want to believe, rather than any meaningful result from data.
The point is: being able to run a brain inside a computer is not the same as understanding that brain. If you wanted to build a new brain, you'd have to reach for the tool all the time in an iterative way and hope for the best. Only tools that aid in understanding matter. We have only very few tools that help DL researchers better understand what they are doing. Hence DL is more akin towards science than towards math/CS or engineering.
I thought I was specifically taught that this is why you do two spaces. It isn't that you need two spaces after a sentence, per se; but the system has an easier time knowing to do inter sentence spacing instead of title if you do that.

That is, Dr. Smith should have less spacing. I'm guessing there are so few things that that applies to, that most systems that care can just hardcode it nowadays?

Further, I thought any typesetting system would play with the spaces after words to make things pleasant. That is, a space isn't a set width in any typeset thing. That really only became a thing with typewriters.
> looking back, I'm mostly amused that Guido van Rossum (the developer of the Python programming language) wanted web browsers to collapse multiple spaces to a single space after periods. Python, notably among programming languages, treats whitespace as significant.

It does so by collapsing any amount of space into single INDENT and DEDENT tokens, so I'm not sure what the irony is supposed to be. If the last line started with 8 spaces, Python will not distinguish between the next line starting with 10 spaces and the next line starting with 50.
Yea, we need a corollary to Hanlon: Never attribute to malice OR stupidity that which can be explained by greed.
State of Computer Vision 2023; Accelerating Model Training; CNNs Visual Explainer and more...
Social contracts are indeed the prime example. But its not clear how we can use them effectively going forward as everything seems to be working against them. E.g., rapid social evolution, urbanization and migration creates strangers that only adhere to minimal common norms. There is also the ambiguous role of social media. While frequently accused of inducing toxicity and polarization, this may actually promote a new set of norms, except not universally shared...
Some customizing being easier, doesn't mean it's overall more customizable. Both have a different focus in customizing, and different areas where it's easy or hard.
Interesting app idea. Something like https://jacobobryant.com/p/blog-new-take-on-rss/?
It's Intel branding for their SBC efforts - "Single Board Computer", I'd argue. While officially it stood for "Next Unit of Computing", every Intel NUC was effectively an SBC more or less, from designs small enough to fit in an HDMI dongle to Mac Mini style units. The SBC architecture is what permits the form factors.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer
Nobody said "regularly", or "legally" or "wrong candidate" until you, just now. Feels like goalpost moving. But if you think my example was pointless, feel free to ignore it. I answered the question that was asked, and now I'm done.
Many have tried to have a GUI in emacs, but it is always doomed to fail. In Emacs, the tyranny of the text buffer is real. There is just not much you can do to escape it.
the word predates karl marx but he made it popular, and the meaning usually is referring to his use. i think it's great there are a million writers with different ideas and i wish marxists would read more of them instead of more of him and his other cult members. they should try and write a manifesto too. it's easy. write two. then three works of fiction each with a different utopia.
Not sure what you mean, WSL is a simple click and run from the app store now. This isn't WSL1, which did have a confusing process. WSL has changed countless workflows, it's an important addition to Windows. I understand HN is full of Apple fanboys and Microsoft haters (reminds me of the old Slashdot days sometimes), but many need to step outside and realize that Windows has made great strides since Windows 8. People that say it has gotten worse, are just simply incorrect. I don't agree with a lot of Microsoft's decisions with Windows, mostly around the widgets, but I never use them, and I would bet most people don't. Acting like the entire OS is now adware is just complete nonsense.
For sure, and that is where the government should be handing out heavy penalties. There supposedly is an appeals process, but obviously not enough auditing is being done:

https://www.healthcare.gov/appeal-insurance-company-decision...

Although, even with those fraudulent denials, Cigna's profit margins are suffering:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CI/cigna-group/net...

Wonder if they went into too much debt to buy Express Scripts.
I don't think it's a _bad law_* as much as it's an _incomplete law_. I don't know what the complete version looks like, but it would include both customer cost controls and reward innovation-based efficiency gains. Alternatively, some places have taken the approach that these are mutually exclusive and just generally removed profit from the picture entirely by socializing it.

* Health care costs were growing out of control before these laws, which seem to have slowed that trend short-term but not long-term as the industry pivoted.
Oh man, I hope they don't get rid of cloud gaming. It's been amazing, especially with their new partnership with GeForce Now (which IMO is the smarter move... rather than sunsetting xCloud entirely, just partner with Nvidia to make GFN the default since most cross platform Xbox/Windows games support controllers anyway).

Streaming games is an amazing convenience (and value) for those of us who don't want to be limited to an Xbox (poor graphics, limited mouse/keyboard support) but also don't want to shell out $3k for a RTX 4080 rig and all its associated noise and heat.

Where Stadia failed, GeForce Now, Luna, Shadow, and Xbox and PS streaming are still alive and well. And very useful!
This makes me sad, but fortunately there are many other manufacturers in this space. I have an NUC10i7FNB Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10710U CPU @ 1.10GHz, 1608 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s) NUC as my desktop computer.

I love it! I work with IntelliJ for Java multithreaded software development usually with 12 software threads due to the 12 hardware threads, I work with up to 3 Lubuntu LXQT virtual machines simultaneously but usually just 1.

It's 4" by 4" compact and I use a Anker bluetooth speaker with it and it has 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD.
The Saudis already owned Twitter shares, and Musk allowed them to keep their shares through the transaction.

Saudis didn't "buy" shares during the whole event last year. They just kept the shares they already owned.