skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right? Like a firefighter trying to put out a burning car should have to get into some "your call is important to us" phone queue just to get the robot car off the firehose.
In my hood they might look at your door before marking you as not home requiring a trip out to a holding facility.
It’s not an actual crime, but If it’s an online multiplayer game it is a violation of the terms of service. Add to that it tends to ruin other people’s enjoyment of the service, thus negating the main purpose of the service. I think people who cheat in online games are pretty sad, pathetic, and selfish.
Since ASML builds/integrates the machine, is there any reason why they couldn’t just pull out the EUV laser from the machine, but keep the trumpf lasers, zeiss mirrors and everything else. Then China could just copy the “shooting tin droplets with a laser at 50khz” part.
AI helper with the latest ChatGPT models inside any text-area
How does it compare to an 'external' trackpad, eg an apple magic trackpad?
Hey hn, my little ai helper tool that helps me generate fast replies on social media.
I understood, it was a "consumers are too dumb to pick correctly so the experts must choose for them" argument.

I reject that mentality, it is a path to lots of unintended consequences not to mention government over reach when the "experts" we are forced to follow also have the power of government authority
I remember having one user account for my personal stuff and another user account for work on a personal machine (startup life) and needing to chown brew's install folders whenever I switched users. Extremely annoying.
>12% body fat isn't a BMI, what are you trying to say?

it seems likely parent is talking about his* required body fat to be considered in the "healthy" BMI range (under 25 for males).
For those curious about how this can work in production, Puppeteer's setRequestInterception and page.on('response') are incredibly powerful. Platforms like Browserless can make this easy to orchestrate as well. Also, many full-stack JS frameworks will preload JSON payloads into the initial HTML for hydration. There are tons of possibilities beyond DOM scraping.

That said, it's surprising how many high-traffic sites still use "send an HTML snippet over an AJAX endpoint" - or worse yet, ASP.NET forms with stateful servers where you have to dance with __VIEWSTATE across multiple network hops. Part of the art of scraping is knowing when it's worthwhile to go down these rabbit holes, and when it's not!
Sleek, Silent Aircraft Are Electrifying Aviation; It Will Never Be the Same
id imagine repl, junpyter notebooks are pretty useful and not doable in rust atm
A Faster Blurhash Alternative to flutter_blurhash and blurhash_dart
A History of Databases, Part 1: The Relational Database
I've been having problems with them since yesterday.

I had a little luck with archive.org/web, but it's not quite as stream-lined.
I feel like we're in the dark ages with nutritional testing.

Someday this will be cross referenced with genetics.

E.g. If you read about coffee, most report that it's a net positive. Drink more coffee. But if you're a slow metabolizer like myself, the caffeine stays in your system 4X the normal person and actually significantly increases your chance for a cardiac event.

So if you just read the pop-sci articles, kept drinking coffee, but you're the 1/3 of the population that's a slow metabolizer, you've been doing yourself a disservice your entire life. Worse sleep. More anxiety.

https://www.mygenefood.com/blog/why-coffee-is-bad-for-me-but...
That doesn't seem to address my question.

How much work does it take to train and maintain a property trained AI, given the three problems mentioned in the essay?
There is a middle ground of basic social interaction between failing to acknowledge a party in a transaction and being forced to do an impromptu dance for them.

In the case of Cold Stone Creamery though I agree, those kids should not have to sing for tips.
A New Wizard for Platformatic DB
This reminds me I still have to learn Pikchr, the diagramming language used to render SQLite syntax diagrams.

https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md
Not everyone does it. I don't, because doing that is not only pretty worthless, but can be hazardous.
The Java code is impressively written, using newer features like MemorySegment.

Looked at the author and realized it's Alfonso from the Graal team -- makes sense.

I wonder whether the "matmul" code could be further optimized with the Vector API and SIMD.
Brett is very clear that he’s evaluating Game of Thrones based on Martin’s explicit claims of historical accuracy, nothing more.

He isn’t reviewing Game of Thrones for its artistic qualities and I don’t know why lots of people need to jump to GoT’s defense every time his blog posts come up. Everything you just mentioned is irrelevant to whether or not GoT is historically accurate like GRR claims.
Not too sure why this is being posted now? The actual meat is in a different ticket anyway:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180513

Looks like it was submitted by an Apple intern and hasn't been touched since 2017. I can't say I've heard too many people crying out for a Web API for the touch bar but maybe I'm not listening to the right people.
I think most of us only can reply to the first paragraph or so, and the first plot, because of the paywall. So most of the conversation is about the headline.
One of the redundancies, and not a very high end one
Ah yes, another classic apocalypse prediction! Goes something like this:

- Identify a problematic trend

- Extrapolate into infinity

- Assume nothing will be done to correct it

- Apocalypse!

It’s very popular among journalists and experts, despite the fact that this literally never happens, because it turns out people don’t just stand still and drown if they see a wave coming for them.
Is that a city that TSMC is already throwing under the bus and saying the American workers there are lazy and not cut out for their harder Taiwanese business/work ethic? https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/29/tsmc-arizona-chip-plant-delay...

I don't think any of this onshoring, if it ever actually happens, is going to be a net positive for the areas that host the fabs. TSMC is already sending hundreds of their own workers over to America to work on stuff because they aren't happy with the local workforce, I don't see any reason why this will change any time soon. The US is just going to be a place they send their workers to fab chips in plants that got sweet cost/tax breaks, and that they don't care at all about polluting the local environment.
They were beta testing a new SNS feature.
> Life's too short to waste time on the "change my mind" crowd.

I held this view for a long time, but anecdotally, people who disagree with me in person are generally willing to have a good faith conversation about it. I rarely encounter the "change my mind" (with no intention of doing so) type of individual outside of popular social media platforms, and don't think the attitude is as prevalent as Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/etc would lead us to believe. Over time I've come to believe that there are really two versions of this crowd:

- People who generally mean well but are aligned with groups that propagate questionable or bad ideas. These people will change their mind, or at least expand their understanding of other views, but are often discarded as hopeless due to their association with that crowd.

- People who do not mean well, do not engage in good faith, and intentionally foment discord. I believe this is a small percentage who have been enabled by the megaphone that is the Internet, and their bad behavior locks the first group into a dangerous situation.

I generally won't engage with this latter group, but I do think there's value/importance in leaving behind well-reasoned arguments for people from group 1 who find discussion threads later. I generally don't believe I'll change the mind of the person writing the comment in that moment, but think the comment is still important for the reasonable-but-unsure people who encounter it later, for the future training of LLMs, etc. In the marketplace of ideas, I think continuing to spread good ones is important.

I may be too idealistic/optimistic, but I tend to think "life's too short" will turn into "the world is no longer livable" if taken to the extreme. I'm not preaching that others should do the same, and I don't really know what the right answer is or if taking this stance is helping. I still think quitting social media is probably the best solution, but I don't think it's a solution many people are willing to consider.

Thanks for sharing the additional info about the book. This does sound interesting/useful.
Your computer should say what you tell it to say
Barbara Ehrenreich (RIP) wrote several excellent books about that.
That's fascinating and I'll have to read it.

The thing that stood out to me in my most recent reread of LOTR is the complete and utter lack of farms. Outside of Farmer Maggot in the shire, the main characters almost never encounter random, normal people living outside of the main city centers. It feels like an empty world waiting to be explored, not one that has been heavily populated for thousands of years.
So if I find 10 people that claim, each with a 10% likelihood of being true, that the dark side of the moon has a scar that looks like Pikachu, then it’s 100% true?

That doesn’t make sense either. Seems like someone is falling prey to an intuitive fallacy of probability.

The weird model is just wrong in the first place. The commenter we’re discussing conflates the probability of two people saying something with the probability that what they say is true. So yes, you have to model the situation correctly in the first place.
> My approach involves learning what's necessary to solve immediate issues and then moving on.

When you move on do you crystallize your learnings like in a document or a chat with other people? Does it give you an idea of where to go next?
Ah yes I didn't explain this part, it's just an habit.
It allows to modify the chained scripts without loosing the Git history, see this best practice guide https://github.com/projectatomic/container-best-practices/bl...
Nice! I’m looking at an AI website designer product this morning!

Any competitor AI service stuck in waitlist is vaporware, things that are live are refreshing
> I've been wondering what might move data scientists to Rust.

I think dynamic typing is the missing piece.

Rust's safety guarantees are great and I like the language, but the type system is a barrier for learners, especially people who aren't full-time devs. Ease of experimentation and flexibility are key for this use case.
First, you absolutely know more than you think. Human beings branch out in adulthood and it is impossible to compare your knowledge to others. In contrast to being in middle school and measuring your knowledge in universal scores in all "subjects" taken by everyone. You are not confident enough because there is no universal score like in middle school. When you have to work, or meet with someone with the same area as yours, you will feel confident. I am sure that happens.

Second, it's an unfair world. Some people have more time to put into stuff to think deeply and do work that don't directly, instantly lead to real-world impact. (There is one gentleman per neighborhood who "knows deeply" about French Revolution or Civil War, or so they think) I am sure Jeff Dean doesn't have a manager breathing down his neck. Have you tried going deep into something, and writing about it? Like Julia Evans' blogs on DNS? Why don't you try something like that? You mention Jeff, do you work in ML? Have you tried publishing research? It doesn't have to be NeurIPS or ICLR. Why not a small, independent paper in arXiv?

And, also, highly recommend a group of similarly motivated people for a study group. Because "deep knowledge" doesn't directly turn into product-being-admired-by-many-people, you might get bored while reading a 500 pager. A group helps the most.
I struggle to see why NI numbers were required on the electoral register

I don't, they were introduced shortly after the plans for an ID card died out. It's simply a proxy ID register.
It's much easier to be polite when you're well-paid and not overworked.
Interestingly, you can insert text to some stickers.
TSMC Establishes Joint Venture to Build 12nm/16nm Fab in Europe
> I feel like such strong statements should directly reference strong evidence.

They did link the strong evidence upthread:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110

> To conclude, we have observed a semiconductor-like, non-superconducting electric property in our LK-99-like synthetic samples, along with diamagnetic and soft-ferromagnetic properties arising from supposedly different phases of the mixed product. Our results suggest that one needs to be cautious when interpreting half-levitation observations as evidence for net levitating forces (and, further, as evidence for the Meissner effect). The presence of ferromagnetism in a Pb-Cu-P-O system is somewhat unexpected, as we are not aware of previous reports of materials with related properties. The presence of a flat-bandlike electronic structure in Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O, as revealed in a recent calculation [14, 18], might be able to give rise to such spontaneous ferromagnetism, which warrants further investigation.

So, they replicated the "half levitation" effect and found it had nothing to do with superconductivity. Little chunks of it have ferromagnetic and diamagnetic properties along with it being a semiconductor. Weird, but no evidence at all of superconductivity.

Doesn't explain the videos of fully levitating samples, but those are easily faked and none of them have been very plausible and could just be attention seeking or attempts to manipulate stock markets.

Still should get replicated and those questions that the arxiv preprint raise should really get investigated and answered, but it pretty strongly looks like we're investigating a novel semiconductor now, not a superconductor.
> obvious disadvantages compared to Europe or Asia

> Employers are responsible for employee health coverage, inflating employee costs by a significant degree

> for example in Germany, there's free state-supplied health care (paid for by higher taxes on individual and corporate profits).

TANSTAAFL, just choose your favorite accounting structure. A company with a younger contract workforce (and likely lower spending/risk profile) might find the funding model advantageous.
High profit margins on gasoline are costing drivers more
Why is there so little information coming from the LK-99 guys? Everyone talks about them as if they're dead.

Like, why aren't they consulting with the best lab to make some rocks that are great and prove their theory?

I haven't seen any interviews, or much of anything, from the original authors. Everyone is just trying to reverse engineer from scratch
> The trustees (bots/humans/orgs mixed) would probably need to sacrifice much more of their privacy.

I'll just ignore the internet instead. The internet cannot be trusted when it comes to privacy, so I'm not going to give up any in the first place.
Got a lot of use out of his site over the years. What's nice about it is that he's so friendly. I get mixed vibes from various bike communities though.

I always enjoy the folks in bike shops in the cities I live in. I'm definitely not in their 'scene,' but they're super passionate about bikes and cycling as a primary mode of transportation and really want to get as many people on board as possible. I've heard people accuse them of being elitist or whatever, but even in the most notoriously hipster spots, I've always found them just as happy to fix up some kid's beat up used Walmart Schwinn as they are troubleshooting some alignment problem on someone's custom fixie.

That's feels very different to me than the parts of the more "serious" long-distance/touring/sports cyclist crowd I've been exposed to. The folks I've known in person that don lycra and speed down pretty country roads didn't seem unusual, but in groups, they seem like one of the most gatekeep-y, Mean Girls crowds I've encountered. Better have the 'approved' goals, gear, practices and perspectives if you want to sit with them at lunch. Practical transportation cyclists should keep walking, unless they're doing it in full racing gear with clips, wrap-around shades and a helmet that looks like a heavier duty version of what they wore in tron. If you're not cycling hard enough to need a shower once you get to work, you're not really cycling.

Maybe it's a tiny vocal minority? Maybe they're people that are "online only" enthusiasts trying to be cool? I dunno... but it just seems very punitively conformist.
Even if a lot of work on safety has been going on in C++ for quite a while, the NSA recommendation on safe languages ( or the need to avoid unsafe one) seems to have really put some fire in the mix.

TL;DR of the video, C++ can be safe , just use the correct tools for the correct job.

i liked how Bjarne contrast safety by subsetting (like in rust) vs safety by providing alternative safe tooling and construct in the language.
I don't care about phone users not being able to type - I'm not searching from a phone.

In a way, that's exactly what I'm talking about - while search might be generally getting better for the average person, it's getting worse for me.

And sure that might be an economic inevitability - though I do wonder about the long tail of search.

We have 3 trends adding together:

* dumbing down the UI - removal of advances ways to tweak the search.

* vectorisation misinterpreting my search.

* ever improving SEO manipulation.

All these mean I see a significant drop in relevance when I'm searching for non-standard stuff - typically of a science/technical nature.

> The more you use it, the smarter it gets.

So if I'm looking for something new, it sends me the same old stuff? Great.

Not saying the companies aren't doing stuff that makes sense for them - it's just not working for me.
> > Sources [...] indicated that lights could be shined towards businesses that don't pay up, in order to dazzle anyone trying to sneak a peek for free.

If this is legal, then wouldn’t it be legal for the businesses to also shine their own spotlights onto the track to dazzle the drivers that might be looking up at their business.
Thanks!

Do you get many apps that complain about not having Google Play Services installed? Just had one (not Magic Earth). Seems to work fine after I hit "OK" to dismiss its message. I'm assuming it only requires it for auto installing updates.
A couple of points of clarification are needed:

It's not "my take", it's ACOUP's (though, to be fair, I'm convinced by it): https://acoup.blog/2019/06/04/new-acquisitions-how-it-wasnt-...

Second, GoT seems to fit within the Late Middle Ages / Early Modern period. In fact, ACOUP points up that the armor worn on the TV show at times looks to be Early Modern / Renaissance! If this was Early Middle Ages, there would have to be a lot more chainmail and far less plate mail. The Early Modern period (not the Middle Ages) would make more sense for acts of sacrilege shown in GoT because it also saw the rise of professional armies who didn't act because of deference to neither church nor king, but because of pay. But besides Bronn and the mercenary companies outside Westeros, most of the armies within Westeros proper seem to be motivated by allegiances to noble houses, and so they must defer to tradition and religion.

Third, ACOUP is talking of religion in general. There are some characters in GoT that believe in their religion (possibly some of the Starks and their "Old Gods", Melissandre and her Lord of Light) but most of the world of Westeros is skeptical of any religions at all, not just the mainstream one. But as ACOUP points out:

> "This is the mistake my students make – they don’t believe medieval Catholicism or Roman paganism, and so they weakly assume that no one (or at least, none of the ‘really smart’ people) at the time really did either. Of course this is wrong: People in the past believed their own religion."

The vikings before converting to Christianity had their own gods, and they truly believed in them. In contrast, most of the nobles of Westeros don't believe in any gods, pagan or otherwise. Which a serious historical mistake if one is trying to reflect -- albeit with fantasy divergences -- "real medieval society".

I bet you Charlemagne truly believed there was a god judging him.
Thank you. I obviously did not know that but it makes sense and certainly fits.
Sure, this kind of stuff is often surprising/unpredictable, looking at the auctions on godaddy is not entirely unlike looking at the output of a random number generator.
Businesses have policies that you're supposed to do this for the same reason that businesses have policies that you're not supposed to spit on people; basic human decency needs to be encoded because some minority of people won't go for it otherwise.

Being pleasant to strangers even when you're having a bad day is basic human decency, and of course it's supposed to go both ways. If I'm a customer at a burger shop and I'm having a bad day, I still smile and say thank you when a stranger hands me a burger or holds a door for me in public, not because any boss is forcing me to do it but because this is simply the decent thing to do. Just because I'm having a bad day doesn't mean that I should make that somebody else's problem. Spreading misery around doesn't help me one iota, and only makes things worse for everybody. Having a surly attitude with strangers is basically social vandalism.

This is true outside of commercial contexts, and still true within commercial contexts. You're complaining about the power dynamics of the commercial context, which fine, fair enough, but the basic principle of treating people decently instead of making your problems into their problems applies in all public contexts, including the customer side of those commercial interactions and also when no money is being exchanged at all. And of course some minority of the public won't reciprocate, there are some people who treat service workers like trash and unload their problems on those workers... they're wrong for doing it. Those kind of people existing are the reason businesses have to encode common decency into their rules and policies.

Edit for Stefan's remark: "It's the least the servant class can do - fake joyfulness to avoid saddening their betters, right?"

"Servant class"? What I said is that everybody should be decent to other people. Read my comment again if you didn't catch this the first time. It's supposed to go both ways. It isn't a matter of class at all.
wind-up torch/flashlight, specifically these: https://en.ikea-club.org/item/30190857.html

Newer battery flashlights all seem to have a microcontroller that's in standby when 'off', so the battery runs down, and is inevitably empty when you need it most..

These wind-up ones always have power.
This was an excellent watch. Thank you.
Well, it's incredibly hard to scale fraud only through person-to-person communications. It's not impossible, but think about the scale that online communication would allow.
What is quartz used for beyond oscillators?
> BMI denialism

You've already pointed out that it depends on what you're using it for, and that's it's not especially useful on an individual basis. Why the weird Holocaust association?

BMI isn't a great measure for a lot of reasons.

There's way too much variation in height and muscle mass. There's variation based on race as well, for example CMS has different standards for DPP eligibility if you're asian [1].

BMI was created in 1830, and has always been of limited usefulness. There are much better methods for measuring health in relation to total body fat.

It is completely reasonable to be critical of it [2] when it's used improperly (which is very common).

[1] https://www.medicare.gov/coverage/medicare-diabetes-preventi...

[2] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255712