skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as electric cars have no environmental impact related to emissions until you think about the faraway coal fired power plant that produced the energy to charge the vehicles and the energy that got lost along the way during transmission.
Please explain how attestation by TPM works exactly, and why the device owner cannot break it.
Ask HN: Minoxidil trial results, is it worth it?
Given this study: https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(02)00124-X/fulltext

For a 48 weeks treatment, these are the results I think it reports:

- Starting hair count (average): 151 hairs per cm^2

- Ending hair count (average): 168 hairs per cm^2 (+18 new hairs)

So all it gets you is 18 new hairs per cm^2? Isn't this a ridiculous number?
Plastic keyboard covers are useful for keeping dirt off a keyboard and they can be easily washed. Or get a keyboard that you can take apart and wash the keys.

If you are dusting your keyboard every couple of days, perhaps you need some air filters for your room as thats alot of dust to have build up in a couple of days.
functools.cache is basically `functools.lru_cache(maxsize=None)`. `lru_cache` was added in py3.3, which is widely available.
Yikes, are there any kind of levers available to someone in an environment like that? Or is it just... as grim as it sounds?
That's more than I expected. Isn't the general rule that ten percent or less energy is conserved when moving from plant to animal?
It's true that the need for all of this right-wing adulation didn't really blow up until Grimes left him for a trans person, but he was always this person. Ask Peter Thiel.

Remember, the entire point of this X exercise is revenge on people who wronged him at PayPal (where he demonstrated total incompetence at managing software projects and people). He's going to show them, dammit. He's going to show all of them!
Spams are at all time high.

I don’t see much change of the users. Most groups I am in still stay on twitter, but the experience is going worse slowly. The inertia is big.
When Google created Chrome, some people were very happy! "It's the end of Microsoft's monopoly."

The monopoly has been successfully changed ... to another monopoly!
It would make complete sense even if the total revenue was $1, which of course it wasn’t.

I suspect you know exactly what was meant by those two statements..
Yes, you can use the metadata to mark cells non-editable and non-deletable. Of course, nothing is stopping the operators from editing the metadata. So use this at your own risk.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18162970/read-only-cells...
They will send letters in advance which get lost in the post!
Almost all engagement metrics are self-reported, and companies in the "attention economy" tend to lie about them; I don't expect elon musk to be any better.
I know you're being sarcastic, but it's shocking how many people think he's actually a genius and all his missteps are really galaxy-brain maneuvers we just don't understand yet. Like, there are millions of them.
Paper on sci-hub: https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1067/mjd.2002.124088
The phrase "no revenue" should have been "no profit".
The other reply is correct, I'm referencing the Nazi's brand of rhetoric.

Today's rhetoric has the charming variety of "exactly the same" to "distinctly similar". Blood libel, for example being exactly the same as what Qanon believer espouse, and reactionary rhetoric about drag performers being distinctly similar to "degenerate art". A 1500 person poll had 50% of Republicans believing in a pedophile cult among democrat Elites[1]. 25% identify as believing in Qanon, which is literally blood libel [2].

So no, not using it in a positive sense, at all.

1: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
2: https://www.prri.org/research/the-persistence-of-qanon-in-th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
This is getting out of hand. X: is it "ecs" or "chi" ... and that's only the Latin and Greek alphabets.

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn76041368&docI...

... shows a u/c Latin X with serifs. However the current "status" shows the Mark as: X ie sans-serif.

Is there a difference with respect to a trademark, in the US, between X avec au sans serif? You obviously can't trademark something drawn from the commons - so the letter X itself is probably out of bounds unless you use it in an innovative way.

To become a trademark, you need to innovate in some way ... be distinctive. X ie two short lines crossing at their mid point at an angle between 30 and 45 degrees (can easily be made more formal) defines ... x.

The original filing seems to define X with embellishments (serifs). The current Status implies X without embellishments. Also, the original depiction is pixelated and the L to R stroke is thicker than the R to L stroke.

Its all a bit woolly
Absolutely, but. If Microsoft owns it in the context of social media, that changes everything.

Sure there's a Delta Airlines and a Delta Faucets. If I wanted to start Delta Carpentry of Iowa that wouldn't be an issue. However, if I bought Alaska Airlines, woke up tomorrow and rebranded it Delta - you can be sure they'd fly their lawyers out to Anchorage out on a Gulfstream.

[edit] Meta -> Microsoft, from tfa. My bad.
Yeah totally, agreed.

No-code tools should get you atleast 50% of the way there and by that point you should have a more complete list of any problems you are going to encounter and a more accurate vision of what the application should look like.

Definitely if you can do the no-code app in a way you can extend later that is more ideal than rebuilding it completely.
page is totally blank for me, on firefox if thats relevant
> I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness."

If only we could convert bullshit to energy, we'd need just a handful of these billionaire luminaries to solve the world's energy needs.
You may be able to file a complaint with ICANN, see

https://www.icann.org/compliance/complaint

Don't expect anything to happen. However, if enough people have the same complaint Godaddy might have their hand informally slapped.

Alternatively, if you have the documentation you say, you could sue them (they are a US-based company after all).
Employer Contribution is one of the inputs in the 401k cash-flow priority form, and you can use the More Options ellipsis to the right of that input to choose from several ways to model it.
All your linked article suggests is that some are turning to social media to find explanations for their behaviors. Nowhere does it suggest that there is a notable increase in fake diagnosis that results in accessing pharmaceuticals, or that anyone takes a fake diagnosis more seriously than the traditional route.

There is zero evidence that there is an increase of people who are diagnosed via short meetings and immediately drugged especially when the drugs are under far heavier restrictions than say Ozempic.

The rest is anecdotal, just as easily as you say you've met so many who have been diagnosed and drugged, I can say I have not met many. Most of them seem very anti-diagnosis even when it's clearly affecting them due to this stigma. Yet you'll discount my position because it's anecdotal.

If you think your worldview holds water, why are there so many studies proving the efficacy of both non-stimulant and stimulant drugs in trials that are double-blind, placebo controlled, and using parallel groups? (eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000197/) Shouldn't it be identical to placebo for reducing ADHD symptoms?

Far more interesting to me is how you've met so many neurodivergent people. Many studies have talked about subconscious biases of those who are neurotypical (eg: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286449/) which goes both ways, as we gravitate to those most similar to us. Unless you're a social worker or creating statistical anomalies in your head of course.

Are there people out there who have been drugged by their parents without having a real problem? Probably. But these are parents who would go through a hundred doctors to find one who can be bought, as now they would have to specifically avoid the plethora of alternative solutions doctors offer due to ADHD stigma (stigma noted in papers like https://sites.ucmerced.edu/files/laura-hamilton/files/metzge...).
The two classes focus on video games, so I think (Twitt)er is fine (though if Twitter launched a Twitch competitor one could see it becoming a problem for them!)
Intel x86 stack engines have done 0-cycle store/load forwarding for years now.
That makes zero sense. If they ever did that they would lose all their market share overnight, and they know that. Google has always been good about letting people have full control over their devices, despite building incredibly locked down UX.

It would be trivial for them to build a Chromebook, or Android phone, or browser that you can't flip into dev mode, but they've never done that, even though many of their competitors in the space regularly lock users out of their devices.
When did it become okay to trademark letters or single words of our language? So tired of capitalism.
Grandparent comment probably meant to say "no profit" instead of "no revenue". But yeah killing half of your revenue when you aren't even making profit yet is probably a bad idea.
Any archive site (archive.org, archive.ph, etc.) can be blocked by sites requiring attestation.

What will happen if such a thing actually happens is that the underground market for "trusted device" farms grows, not too different from what's currently already happening but possibly at a far larger scale. Of course, that means the financially motivated scraping services still keep going while the honest individuals wanting user-agent freedom get screwed, just like with many other forms of DRM...
The devil is in the detail. The linked mark

'consists of a stylized letter "X". The left side of the "X" is white and the right side of the "X" is blue. The shaded square carrier represents background only and is not a part of the mark.'
You'll be very pleased to hear that it is going to happen soon with two antitrust cases against Google, one for search dominance [0] and the other for their ad business [1] with the former going to happen this year in September. So there is a start on that.

So get a front row seat and get ready for what is to come in September this year to witness the beginning of the end of a company once adored by hundreds of techies finally getting broken up to pieces.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/doj-antitrust-lawsuit-agains...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/doj-files-second-antitrust-l...
> ...the goal of an armed citizenry and armed militias was extremely important when we didn't have a standing military. The original goal was much less about actually making sure citizens come uld overthrow their own government, that's a modern view usually held by those who don't realize how terrible a civil war would actually be.

Yes, this is something more 2nd Amendment advocates should learn about. The militia was instituted for the common defence and was characteristic of the "...organic union of society and government..." that Huntington attributes to many of the late medieval institutions which contributed to the decentralised, self-balancing system of public policy which the founders inherited from the English.

https://rentry.co/72dov
Marginal revolution is a pretty huge blog, driveline the most read economics related blog.
Tesla Models S, 3, X and Y together spell S3XY
Counting the days to pass before reaching that dangling carrot is a disease. The reality is, for richer or poorer, we all retire when we die.
It's fascinating how people can't just ignore Elon, especially the people that don't even use/like Twitter.

Life is a lot easier if you just think "I don't care about" this and scroll past. Yet here we are, as I understanding the trademark to X will somehow matter in our personal lives or make us happy
Hmmm getting NXDOMAIN for that at the moment. But I do see results for it on google. Someone give the intern access to DNS settings?
What is this about reddit being zombified? Dont they have huge traffic?
Not at all.

I suggest ways to measure it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855881 but the TL;DR is to choose a metric and compare the reduction in performance for quantized versions of the LM compared to the same LM without the modified Softmax.
Much of the land in Texas is privately owned so you don't have many of the same issues in other states where there are arguments over where to build. It's a very easy decision for land owners in Texas because they get paid monthly per tower in operation. If you drive around Abilene and a little out southwest of there you'll see red lights at night everywhere and you can just count the cash-flow.

Oil is Texas "T", but money is always the real motivator.
How many guys are now thinking "Will my wife let me build one in the house?"?
cool will try this thx
It’s a common European direct translation. In Greece they’re called υπεραγορά. Which translates directly to hypermarket.

And I’m pretty sure that ultra > hyper > super in the general case. I’ve yet to see an ultramarket though.
Plenty. But I'd take those trivial issues over a blob of microservices any day of the week.

In any case, the answer continues to be "it depends". But people will continue to look for "one weird trick" solutions to every problem.
When people asked for the government to regulate intellectual property. But I guess crying about capitalism is easier
Ford owns several single letter trademarks for the purpose of selling cars. This doesn't prevent people from using the letters for other purposes.
Ok, changed now. Submitted title was "Sam Altman demands regulation in effort to limit competition".

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this is pretty obvious when you look at the simple caloric in/out of creating veg vs. meat.

What isn't obvious *but should be* is that this isn't the way to save the environment; I'm all for encouraging behavior shifts, don't get me wrong – but food is as much a part of human culture as language or family is. You can't change that – and those who have tried are typically villains.
Haven't heard of it before either, but their own homepage (which I assume is dogfooding) has unnatural feeling (vertical) scroll-jacking, and small amount of horizontal scroll due to incorrect width. (Mobile, Firefox, Android)
It may not matter. I'd sooner give up heat, air conditioning, or having children than beef, and that's barely hyperbole. Pretty sure there's a large minority that feels similarly passionate about brisket and sausage.
But is Meta actually using it? I haven't seen it. Good luck to them trying to defend the mark id they aren't actively using it (or even worse, never did).
See I thought about this.

Google's issue if the leverage they have by having Chome used. If it is just a derivative then that lessens their leverage because the vendors of those derivative browsers do have the option of modifying Google's choices.

But if you disagree, then yes, sure: use Firefox.
Expiring Money
Nit: tree-sitter has first party Rust bindings (and its WASM bindings use Rust wasm-bindgen), but the core functionality is written in C.
At least Meta made a unique mark. "𝕏" is a mathematical symbol, known as a doublestruck, or blackboard bold, letter X.

You can't get trademark on a mathematical symbol, generally.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold

Such a letter 𝕏 is sometimes used to represent arbitrary or generic metric space:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_space

There is already another Hacker News thread that is dealing with this specific symbol:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846076
The link, under Goods and Services says:

> Providing on-line chat rooms for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games; providing on-line electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games

Under the prosecution history, it shows activity every few years.

Maybe you're right, maybe if this goes to trial or something, it won't meet the burden? I wouldn't want to be on the other end of Satya's legal team though.
Appreciate the candor, kudos.
> If any one of the errors had gone right, nothing bad would have happened.

IIRC, a cascade of human errors is also what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Are you referring to Google Maps automobiles connecting to open WiFi networks? Because to be fair, those networks were wide open, and they were being advertised.

I don't see how advertising an open WiFi network is much different from advertising an open house. In both cases you should expect visitors.
Israeli democracy is fighting for its life – Yuval Harari
Currently 33% of my power is coming from renewables, another 15% from nuclear. There's 0% coming in from coal.
IANYL.

Just because we haven't seen them doesn't mean there is a market (e.g., b2b) where they may be using them. Also, in this particular instance, since these are registered we can look at what they have provided the USPTO as evidence of use in order to renew the registrations. Microsoft (I think the X involved might actually be the X on the globe logo): https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn76041368&docI.... For Microsoft's use before assigning to Meta: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn87980831&docI.... For that second one, looks like MS sold some assets to Meta after is shut down its Mixer service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixer_(service)

Apple does use X a lot in product names, but (i) the use is never on its own, so the comparison of the marks is, e.g., X vs Mac OS X, and (ii) Apple generally uses X to denote "10" so that portion of the mark is arguably descriptive or generic as a version number (see https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TMEP/print?version=current&href=...).
Why Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to ‘X’ is good
Worth re-posting Theo's 2007 note about CPU security bugs again:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2

My hunch is that as they suspected these types of issues is what guided them away from things like AVX and other optimizations.
"Safety is better than performance anyway"

... unless you need performance. What a vacuous statement!
Says Microsoft, not Meta. Not a standard character claim either, so it only applies to the specific logo, not the letter X.
Transportation and packaging overhead is fixed, maybe more due to less caloric density.
judging the headline: comparing two extremes of the spectrum is hardly useful for the average person. Or surprising.

Edit: after reading the article I know exactly as much as before. there are some superficial talking point without any hint of how this study was conducted or which nuances have been considered. There is nothing of substance and smells like a pure opinion piece.
The need actually comes up a lot to transpose a list of lists. That zip can do it is not hard to visualize and it's an idiom worth learning. If it still seems unclear, you can name things to help:

columns = zip(*rows)

or

def transpose(list_of_lists): return zip(*list_of_lists)

But anyway, yeah, tastes differ, it's fine if we disagree. I do agree that Python has gotten uncomfortably complex. But this is a very old feature from simpler times and does not add any syntax or metaprogramming features, it's just an already needed function.
part II: https://blogs.worldbank.org/allaboutfinance/expiring-money-p...
No, the kind that fills up the entire universe with filaments.

Literally the universal Indra's net:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland_current
They did not trademark the letter. They trademark the styled blue/white >< logo.
My understanding as a Minoxidil user is that it's mostly a preventative measure to prevent further hair loss. It certainly can regrow some hair, there's plenty of evidence of that, but it's definitely a limited amount. It certainly won't give a bald man a full head of hair.

You can't just compare the before hair count to after, because presumably if you didn't use it you would have lost even more hair in that time. Unfortunately you can't know how much that would have been - but just say you would otherwise have been down to 140 h/cm^2 in that time, then the effect is 28 h/cm^2 instead of 18.

Even if the amount of hair stayed the same, if it prevented more balding it would be helping. Whether it's worth it or not is up to you.
I don't think the major barrier to the idea would be consumer awareness. For the near-term the major barrier will be cost. Just as one example, together.ai offers fine-tuning service at an advertised cost of $0.001 per 1k tokens used [1]. That will get pricey for even small datasets. No doubt this will come down, but I don't see consumers paying $1000 for a customized AI model that they then have to pay inference costs to run. Maybe once we get consumer devices that have sufficiently capable AI accelerators (e.g. Apple Neural Engine) to run sufficiently capable llm models, then customers would be willing to customize and run local.

The second point is, we don't know if fine-tuned models, vector search or more-massive general purpose llm models is the right way to go.

But for business-to-business, I think this might be a viable business. If you had a whole bunch of ready-to-go open-source fine-tune datasets for commercial applications you might find a market of businesses that want to run their own models for a variety of reasons.

1. https://together.ai/pricing
To paraphrase hitchhikers guide, it may be the clear minded take is Elon needs to get off the internet and you’re fine.
Except pedophile brothels were actually rife in Weimar Germany and its elites were the ones consuming them.
Small solar and wind is the best, in the end though there's somewhat of a game theory problem tied to grid formation between many small inverters on solar installs. At some point the inverters become grid forming rather than grid following, and inverters don't have mass to keep them at the desired 60Hz.

There's a company that managed to make it work I believe on Guam but otherwise... its tricky. The power company wants to maintain a stable power network, keep linemen safe, and generally know whats going on everywhere with controls all the time.

Ad-hoc solar installs start with enough density on a branch can overwhelm the grid signal on the power line as I understand it. This is problematic.
Who else has done more for furthering the use of electrical power?

Tesla solar. Tesla powerwall. The single biggest infrastructure for EV charging in the world, without which EV’s would have never taken off.
He should have just opened the window--oh wait.

He is the second high-profile businessman to have died in the space of 48 hours, with Igor Kudryakov, 63, a billionaire oligarch, having been found dead in his Moscow apartment on Friday.

Dozens of top industry tycoons have died under mysterious circumstances since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, among them aviation experts, a top executive from Russia’s largest private oil company, and other businessmen and oligarchs living in both Russia and abroad.
No it won't, because you can't trademark usage of a letter generally.
Why did Google select someone unknown to announce this?* It's also the second time I've noticed Google had someone the UK introduce an unpopular proposal to Chrome. The other one was removing the URL from the address bar (accusing the author of You Don't Know JS of being "Trump-like" for how he disagreed with him in the process). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-wB1VY3Nrc https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1272777814891266049 https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1275030931577896962 Is there a corporate special ops team?

Of the FAAMGs my favorite is Google, but this makes me reconsider my position.

* I won't even say relatively unknown, he has 8 followers on GitHub. Simply unknown to the dev community.