skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If work forces one on you, you can just buy the right adapter*, and install** some*** software**** helpers*****, and move on with your life.

* https://www.sonnetstore.com/products/displaylink-dual-displa...

** https://rectangleapp.com/

*** https://github.com/dado3212/spaces-renamer

**** https://contexts.co/

***** https://github.com/dbalatero/SkyRocket.spoon
Weak science. They ran a battery of 12 tests and looked for one with a statistically significant difference at the 5% level. If there were no actual differences, how many tests would you need to run to find at least one that by chance shows significance? If you run 20, you’d expect 5% to do so, on average, which is 1. Running 12 and finding 1 is not a significant finding.

Then suspiciously, they found one significant result on trial 5 of the verbal learning test but little to no improvement on the other trials. That makes no sense.

Finally the brain changes had a p-value of 0.046, which is barely significant by even the weak 5% threshold, and the changes weren’t correlated with the test result improvements.

Perhaps interesting but only if replicated.
Russia conscription laws change, leaving some fearful of Ukraine war call-up
I think the essay applies mainly to those in upper management positions... it is far from helpful for those involved in the nitty-gritty of daily life who aren't hired into a position where they have basically a team of employees under their jurisdiction.

The one principle that I did pick up is "look at your current use of time, and figure out what activities don't contribute to achieving your goals, and find ways to reduce the amount of time you spend on them."

Unfortunately I'm not sure I'd be able to offload things like earning an income or managing the kids, which are the two things that soak up about 95% of my waking hours!
The centralization to decentralization pendulum swings again
Would "U.S. Drought: Weekly Report for August 1, 2023" be a better title?

The sentence was taken from the third paragraph:

"Warmer- and drier-than-normal weather was associated with the ridge over the contiguous U.S., Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and much of Puerto Rico and Alaska. More than 500 daily high temperature records were set across the contiguous U.S. this week; only the Pacific Northwest and a few spots in the Great Lakes and Southeast were cooler than normal."

> Is 500 unexpected?

Depends on your views on "abnormal dryness and drought".

"Nationally, expansion exceeded contraction, so the nationwide moderate to exceptional drought area increased this week. Abnormal dryness and drought are currently affecting over 136 million people across the United States including Puerto Rico—about 43.9% of the population"
> The time-reversal of this motion ... at some arbitrary time.

The "ball rolling to the top of the sphere" requires infinite time. "Some arbitrary time" is an expression of a finite time.

You cannot simple mix ideas of finite and infinite and have the result make sense, as anyone who has stayed at the Hilbert Hotel knows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand...
>I'm much more worried about more control in the government's hands.

To paraphrase the Office "find the differences" meme, "it's the same picture".

Corporations are all too excited to do the bidding of the government and vice versa. There's just some token resistance for show.
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Considering how many unseeded episodes are floating around out there, good luck.
Yay, we need more of this before OpenAI finishes hypnotizing the global south (lol).
I’m pretty sure this is a failure to understand virtual work and virtual displacement.
Couldn't you run Termux, pick a distro, install it with proot or something, and then host any servers you want?

It seems like unforeseen complexity from that would come from mobile providers allowing the ports needed, and DDNS; if you want it public.

Although I wonder if something wild like hosting a server at a known location (VPS), using a VPN from your phone to that server, and then having DDNS and all that go to that server and be forwarded (proxy?) to the phone? Can maybe even set something up to show site viewers the page isn't available until you connect back to wifi if your phone isn't connected to the VPN or if the server can't proxy the requests to it.
Greg Egan's Incandescence and Diaspora fit the bill.
That appears to be a server local to the phone. That's available on Android too in various flavours. The issue is how to make that generally available to the internet.
Does he do that thing where 1/2 or 3/4 of the way though he resets the story completely leaving you with absolutely no emotional attachment to the resolution of the plot?

*Cough*seveneves, fall or dodge....those are the only ones I could stand more than a few pages. Sorry I just cannot bear to read anymore of his novels. The first few pages of Anathem I can hear him building a house in his own anal cavity. We get it, Niel, you know some big words. We all do.
>The downside is that there are no centralized services available too...

Downside?
People are still desperate to maintain humankind at the top of the intellectual pyramid. It's tiresome and a waste of energy. There are definitely limits to intelligence, nothing will ever be smart enough to predict the future perfectly. But to believe that humans represent the peak of what's possible, is just hubris and nothing else.
I don't think they meant drivers with respect to gaming, but I could of misunderstood. I think it is more in the context of GPGPU.
I haven't bought an Apple product in about a decade; I don't even know what the Apple Vision Pro is.
What troubles me about the issue, and that the current folks working on the issue have mentioned, is the idea that women are somehow broken, something to be fixed.

As a public policy and budget analyst and wonk, I have found over 25+ years that the notion of brokenness is all too common. This applies to women, people of color, immigrants, you name it.

A similar way of thinking exists in drug testing, medical research, etc. where then the issue is that the standard is (and will always be) white men.
If you did that you could be charged with any number of charges, let's go with trespassing for starters, we can move to assault later.

If the purse was open and you looked no problem.

If someone frontdoor is open you can look in from a public spot but cannot walk-in.
I don't mind the streaming so much as I mind the bitrates and lack of lossless audio. There is still a very clear quality difference between UHD BluRay and 4k streaming services.

There are also large differences between the different streaming services. For example: prime Video is quite bad, while Apple TV+ is quite good.

Then there is also the absolute ridiculousness of Sky Showtime, a brand new streaming services that launched in 2022 without 4k or Atmos support.
Audio quality is another big factor with streaming media. Streaming media likes to heavily compress surround sound effects. While discs aren't perfect, they usually have a more immersive audio experience because of less compression
In the US federal taxes look like this:

The top 1 percent’s share of federal income taxes paid rose from 38.8 percent to 42.3 percent in 2023.

The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97.7 percent of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 2.3 percent.

I do believe that is taxing the rich
If you walk in Scottsdale (yes, I'm one of the few) early in the morning or late at night and you pass one of those hated golfing courses you feel the cold.
What’s the consequence of creating concave or at least non convex areas in streets?

It is evident that convex spaces create heat pockets; so what if we augmented our architecture for reflection or at least in a similar manner as anechoic chambers and made it difficult for heat to bounce off?

I understand that this will likely cause higher floors to accumulate more heat, but the surface area getting heated will be larger and thus not concentrated on the road / street level. This is likely a problem for American buildings as they usually have thinner walls.

One such way to construct such surfaces would be planting trees vertically which give shade and absorb heat; though this is likely a maintenance problem.

Streets unfortunately have little space for trees unless of course dependence on cars is reduced and public transportation, bikes and walking become the main methods of commuting as in eg Copenhagen where > 65% commute on foot or by bike or public transport to go to work.
Really it comes down to allocation of (affordle) resourcing and the bidding process construction companies have to do for the cities.

Typically the teams you see are being split between several projects and one construction project mnanager is managing several projects.

Then throw in city permitting and inspections which take an awful amount of time and expense.

Is there a reason it's slow? Yes, they're trying to keep budgets low. However there isn't a reason it needs to be slow.

When there's a political will and cultural to do it fast and safely, it gets done. That bridge collapse in Philly on i95 took like 10 days to repair. It also probably cost a lot to repair as well but there was a political will to do it because of how critical that infrastructure is.

Same goes for bridges and highways on California destroyed by earthquakes or landslides. Those get rebuilt quickly but the cost to do so is very high.
Let's hope they will at least stop whining about their "losses" due to "blu-ray piracy" once there are no blu-rays left that anyone could pirate ...
>but other browsers could ignore it as long as they don’t have a presence in France

As long as the idea it "out there", and a country like France does a test drive, it wont be just in France.
I've read everything. I probably read the Foundation series before you were born (assuming you're 20-something). In fact, Asimov certainly knew that FTL was fraught - but he was writing for a living, and FTL was in vogue and he used the hyperspace version of it. It's unfortunate - I would have liked to see more grounded SF from him
You're just reframing the article as though it's obvious and then claiming that it is obvious. The problem is - the article already does just that.

Further, you have changed your stance from one of "of course it moves from some noise in the environment" to one more closely resembling the article's main points.

You basically aren't making sense. Your initial abuse of "platonic ideals" is the sort of thing that gives philosophical arguments a bad reputation.
FDA approves first postpartum depression pill in the US
What Can You Do When A.I. Lies About You?
Like I mention not enough science has been done on this. However I felt better almost immediately after I stopped taking it.
New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
They can be impressive and there's nothing wrong with being a founder or a CEO (I'm one, too!).

Putting it into one's bio is what makes it... cringe, as the kids say.
Unfortunately, and not to burst your bubble, the Golden Record isn't playing, it's just enclosed in a time capsule.
Terribly sad news. Thank you, Bram, for the finest software tool I've ever wielded.
I worked with Bram at Google. He was an incredibly nice guy. He went out of his way to meet with me on a few different occasions. I wasn’t important at the time—I just made a few UI widgets for Google Calendar, which was his team at Google. Very swell guy who made the world a better place.
Colossus Whale May Have Been Heaviest Animal Ever
Meta’s Threads will soon have search and web functions, Zuckerberg says
Funny to me that mazdas dont sell well. I've loved my CX-5 and the mazda3 before it.
The harder Sony screams, the better things are going in general. This effort was pathetic and ineffective, just like every attempt Sony has made to combat piracy. If only they spent all that effort and money improving the user experience when accessing their products instead of something doomed to failure.
That varies greatly depending on where you are in the world. In most of southern europe "a coffee" is an espresso, and outside of urban and/or tourist centers the normal price is less than 1€.

The study was done in Verona, where I suspect that espresso consumption isn't highly correlated with economic status.
Is it free? They don't mention home energy storage as a potential application. I would have no trouble believing that the extra electrical work and additions to the foundation beyond what's involved in a traditional cement foundation cost a whole lot less than a lithium battery.

I'd also be concerned about problems with the foundation. Foundations crack and suffer water damage. My mom just had her foundation repaired. What risk is there that the electricity can discharge?

Like if it's as simple as running some inexpensive cables through the cement mix and plugging in a little box, awesome. But I suspect this is hardly the case, and I suspect the sheer volume of cement needed to be practical/useful is quite high for residential use.
If posting on HN is triggering allergies, stomach cramps or low blood pressure you should see a doctor and get off of HN.
These prestige book makers will negotiate with the publishers for the rights to do a printing. Almost always this is done for a set fee to publish x number of books within a set period of time (limited edition runs) or with a set fee per book printed (I believe this is the arrangement Folio has for the A Song of Ice and Fire books).

This is the main reason that these shops will always have 'the classics' in rotation but their printings of more recent books are typically one and done.

This is not my area of expertise but my understanding is that publishers are generally happy to have these collectors editions of books made, the limitation is typically with the prestige makers themselves needing to sell 800 to 1,000 copies to make their economics work. Keep in mind they typically commission illustrators to make art for the books in addition to acquiring the rights and the actual production costs.

One thing I will say is that if what you're after is a single personal copy then there is an entire community of amateur bookbinders, similar to woodworkers, some of whom make truly beautiful works of art. If you're willing to pay an illustrator, a designer, and commission one of these bookbinders you can get yourself a bespoke copy that's exceptional.
The UK is astronomical with how it does their permitting, planning, and PM.

Oxford's wolvercote roundabout took like 3 or 4 years to complete for what could have amounted to a year of work for any American crew.

Want to hear a joke? Skanska workers working.
95% of people are astoundingly ignorant of how our tax system actually works. Once you get into a moderately advanced investment/tax strategy and start looking into forming an S Corp, tax advantaged accounts, etc. you realize how the rich really avoid taxes.

"Tax the rich" only gets politicians to move around the income brackets and punish high-earning, honest professionals like doctors, lawyers, and engineers. Numbskulls who have never even filed a 1040 can't comprehend that the mega rich do not derive the majority of their wealth from income.

We should simplify our tax system to eliminate sophisticated tax strategies and level the playing field. Income tax should be reduced overall.
Pretty cool application
What to do if your Wells Fargo deposit is missing
The article explicitly discusses the fact that this is possible specifically because of the shape of the dome, and does not work on a hemisphere, precisely for reason you bring up.
There is a difference between:

- Can't: technically impossible for them

- Won't: choose not to (for now)

Kagi just chooses not to link a search query to a user. (for now)
> They own the information you typed into their website

Not a lawyer, but is this actually the case? I thought the core of section 230 was about exactly that - that a site operator does not constitute a "publisher" for everything that is written on their site, if the site is just a "dumb" software that displays content written by the site's users - and therefore can't be made liable for anything written in user-generated content in the way they would be for editoral content.

That would imply to me that the site operator does not own the user-generated content. Otherwise, you'd have a weird "have your cake and eat it too" situation where a site gets all the rights of ownership but none of the responsibilities.

(... this doesn't even touch on the situation where that content violates intellectual property or contains PII.)
More like entitled to it? In reality, this person entered a contract with a company that no longer exists; the previous company let him keep the handle for 15 years.

I understand, and I think everyone understands, that Musk has every right to snatch the username for himself. But it just shows a complete lack of etiquette and care? I mean, this is a person that has probably been in the platform for longer than Musk to be able to hold the username for 16 years.

I just think that what is being done to these people is very disrespectful. It's not illegal or anything like that, it's just rude. Pardon me, but I believe that simply because you own something that a lot of people have strong feelings towards doesn't mean you get to do whatever you want without any form of respect towards these people.
Yeah it’s individual JPEG2000 images, which is definitely...a way to do it.
NIH researchers say agency seeks to block unionization effort
I have been to these dorpies in the Vrystaat and can see why farmers are attacked.

In the middle of a sea of poverty they live with a homestead with cars,stuff and guns - during the court case they could not prove ONE incident where the criminals were influenced by the song.

But the song has no place today, but the EFF knows their support base (stick it to the white man) but fortunately most South Africans don't support them and their agenda.

Also the leader the FF+ was a former general of the old regime and the TRC did not have kind words for him and his mates - they are milking this as well.

They have been stuck at 10% of the vote for 10 years now.
Maintenance costs.

At least here in the UK things like maintenance of trees falls to the most local authority (town/parish councils) that are notoriously underfunded and will cut down a tree is it's cheaper than maintaining it. They are allergic to the risk posed by falling branches too.
How much I understand, and how long it takes to get there, depends on a lot on how well-read I already am into a field.

I can read and fully understand an ML paper in an hour or so. But 6 months ago it took me a day to get through a couple of ML papers and I did not fully grok the mechanics of things like attention heads.

I'm more read in material science, chemistry, pharmacology, and cognitive science. Computer science (especially quantum computing, networking, and cryptography), photonics, and pure math are also big areas of interest for me.

Anything outside of that wheelhouse will take longer and I'll initially understand less, depending on how distant it is from my stronger subjects.
You mentioned the corpus prediction being the core of the LLM. Because of this, my prediction is we will see way more data withholding to prevent LLM learning just like we’ve seen with stack overflow, Reddit, X.

I myself have started doing this. For example, I don’t publish code on GitHub anymore to prevent copilot training on my own code. Normally I like to get paid for work, instead of paying for GitHub and doing work for them:) I’d much rather take a page out of an artists playbook and require royalties.

I have also built a coding test harness to test for AGI and let me tell you, that the LLMs are completely unable to reason on the most intermediate and advanced algorithmic problems you present to them the moment they are not in the corpus. This involves a nearly complete lack of the ability to generalize and infer new concepts needed to solve the problem even if the concept is explained in the problem description.

Now the issue is that it is impossible to present the test because once it ends up in the corpus, then someone will put the solution in the corpus as well and claim the ability to reason. You can believe me or not; I won’t be making my test available either way, but it is not too hard to make one of your own to convince yourself.

I wish it was possible to make the tests like that available but alas we will likely end up with a medical-style double blind kind of tests to get rid of AI FUD.
> Unfortunately I'm not sure I'd be able to offload things like earning an income or managing the kids, which are the two things that soak up about 95% of my waking hours!

No excuses. Live in the wilderness. Use children as bait to catch animals to eat. No income needed. No kids to care for. Problem solved.
I'm sorry, but even that is too optimistic. Your website will be banned and they wont tell you why. They will provide an appeal button that says denied when you press it.
Your second to last paragraph is just a more detailed version of what I said.
It's something pretty standard for funded start-ups because the rest of the ecosystem that they operate in expects it. If it is two guys in an attic it's cringe (see my 'you are not the CEO article') but if you have picked up some funding and employ 20 people I totally get why you would do that.
Well the issue remains the same with Bussard ramjets. It's just simpler to make so the whole scenario is more likely (though still very unlikely, ofc).
The issue other than the one of visibility that you pointed out (meaning the study you requested can’t exist) is not just the paper but the potential for continuation of funding.

As you said, corporations have lots of money, and people who find results that support the corporation’s desired outcomes often get relationships and additional funding. Those who don’t, don’t get relationships and additional funding.

This has at least two consequences:

1) There is a strong and ongoing financial incentive to fudge results in these studies.

2) Those who refuse to do so may not get funds that would allow them to continue in their field at all.
> See the word "percentage" which you quoted and would suggest I meant 1 in 40?

Mixing fractions and percentages doesn't change that an order of magnitude more than 1 in 4 (25%) is 10 in 4 (250%).

If you meant 1 in 40, you should have either said “less” instead of “more” or, “the denominator in the fraction of people made redundant is an order of magnitude more than in that benchmark 1 in 4” in place of “the percentage of people made redundant is an order of magnitude more than that benchmark 1 in 4”, and in either case that’s 2.5% , which while not insignificant if intended as a delta on top of normal unemployment, is less than the delta in a most recessions (the Great Recession peaked at about +5% from the pre-recession trough, which wasn't itself a long-term steady baseline), is also not significant enough to warrant the kind of hyperventilating you are doing. Its also very much not the obvious intent of the words you wrote.
Someone needs to pay for the tree and its ongoing maintenance. Thats why many studies note a great temperature and foliage difference between rich and poor areas.
First do it - then do it right - then do it better.
Clearly many places do.

But an ever growing problem is the need for fresh water and infrastructure. And I know this always gets push back, but a lot of desert is great for development principally because before modernity no one could live there. Further, the deserts have been expanding on their own so reclamation is a thing.

Having been to Arcosanti, wish there was as some desire to explore alternatives. I have no love of being completely dependent upon vehicles and their huge footprint and risk exposures.
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at but streets are generally convex to direct water to the edges.