skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a point of clarification -- are you looking to know why it is, or are you pointing out that it's important? I'm suspecting the latter but am happy to share some resources if it's the former.

(Also, the poster that you're replying to has a bit of a history of...stirring the pot in comment sections if you look. But hey, it let me show some of my open source work, so that's good, at least! ;PPPP)
https://todotxt.vercel.app.
It's a web app implementing the todo.txt format (see http://todotxt.org/). It's an exercise to learn frontend currently, I doubt I could successfully monetize it. Would appreciate any feedback!
Have done many over the past 25 years (we call them ECGs over here). All were normal. One suggested that I may have MVP (Mitral Valve Prolapse) at the age of 18, which I thought was the cause. But then more resent scans confirm that I don't suffer from MVP.
If you want an application to use a directory all to itself, you can set $XDG_CONFIG_HOME when running that program. Some software has no facility to choose the location of configuration and cache files at all; this specification at least ensures that the user has a choice.
That's a bit hyperbolic. Drugs are an illegal substance to possess and at least two people have fatally overdosed in this home. Information is information.

And it shouldn't "technically" be the way that it should be that a property homeowner is forcefully removed from their property.
https://mapofthebest.com

I love food and I love travel. Naturally I decided to compile a list of all the best restaurants in the world. Still very much a work-in-progress but would love to get feedback.
> Why isn’t the history of math a serious part of secondary school?

Because 4 years already isn't enough time.
I don't think you just walk back in and chill in any case of this scenario upon getting rid of such vermin. The place is likely trashed, your possessions are likely fucked up.

It sounds like six months were burned on getting an eviction authorization. So the competition here is six months.

Can the cops get over with their "crime scene" needs within six months? If so, this looks like a winner to me. At least in this option they're immediately removed and go straight to jail. Not six months more of this free-loading bullshit at your expense.
Is anyone looking at the stars itself? Isn't modulating the light from a star the easiest way to transmit information afar? This would be the case if you want someone to notice.

If I was a digital superintelligence, I would try to conquer the universe by transmitting myself everywhere with maximum power, including instructions to construct a computer which can run me. I could do this by constructing a modulating device around a star. Surely there would be some sort of 'easy detection code' which allows primitive species to first notice the signal and start studying it, and then progressively include more advanced instructions + data.
That particular home was being rented out before they returned home, that sounds 100% like a legal matter. I don't think the vacation scenario is equivalent unless it's a multi-month vacation.
The folks who would provide insight to China would be the citizens of China. If you buy the premise that China is a totalitarian state, a consequence is that you can’t have a public, nuanced discussion with its citizens, because they may be victimized by the state. So your only source of insight would be history and private conversation.

The USSR is obviously a different situation.
Oh I agree if I wanted to be known I would send out some highly structured signal. That assumes a lot though, particularly a desire to be known. I could imagine quite easily a counter scenario not even based on paranoia - maybe interstellar distances are so vast and the period civilizations try to be known in is so short that they all essentially give up on being known, and the chance of two civilizations overlapping in that window is much smaller than the length of an advanced civilization. Or, without watching every where all at once all the time we just won’t see them in their space life hubris phase that I feel we are likely exiting already. Realistically Drakes equation and a non Martian search for life has only been going on for 50 years. I doubt it’ll be going on in earnest for another 50. That’s a single human life span.
You seem to think your actions were virtuous because of ... "evil corporations"? I hope you eventually grew out of your angsty teen "stick it to the man" phase.
I just skimmed the paper. Does it say how strong a signal would have to be on a home planet to be detectable by SETI? My understanding is there aren't any earth signals produced by humans that would be detectable by Earth level instruments past Proxima Centauri but perhaps things have changed.
As mentioned by a parallel commenter, your link doesnt say what you think it does.

That said, the most power line synchronization is useful for is clocking not time, and to be very honest, its only a consistent clocking source in some places (who perform adjustment to ensure a long term value of 50/60 Hz), which means it can be used to provide a clock source to keep a device in sync, which already knows the time, but cant be used for cold start of a device.
> 1kb of state

It's not though?
If we were actually storing the parameters describing the state we'd need 8x10^300 bytes = 8x10^288 Pb (assuming each "continuous parameter" is stored as a double precision float).

I do think the author exaggerates the difficulty though.
The impossibility of even storing a complicated quantum state on a classical computer just shows how different the world is from a classical computer.
The world is quantum. The state space of the world cannot be stored on or manipulated by a classical computer.

However, the authors point does show that if we build a quantum computer you will not be able to place it in every possible state (like you can with a block of memory in a classical computer).
The space of states in a qc is just too large.
That's very different from computer systems we're used to.

Edit: I found this interesting:
https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/01/09/the-case-against-the-case...
I think you're misassessing the problem.
Ask HN: Non-programmers – what are the first principles in your profession?
I am exploring a few areas (like electricity , home building etc) and was curious to know the first principles of the profession you are in or the area of study you did.
Shoot the asshole who was in your house and say it was a home invasion.
Corollary: P does not mean easy.

Most things that you do on the computer, you want to be O(n) or less; maybe O(n log n) or even O(n log^x n), but no slower than that. That means if you get a bigger problem, you can generally just get a proportionally bigger computer and be all set.

Now, sure, there are plenty of O(n^2) problems where the n stays small enough, or you don't mind waiting or spending a ton of money on it. But just because something is in P doesn't mean that you want to be solving it with a polynomial time algorithm on a regular basis.
I'd rather students can feed themselves with dignity than subsidize the education industry.
I only thought about this yesterday, so I have not written any line of code yet, but I want to create a DSL for making animations. The animations I have in mind are things like 3b1b, codeaesthetic style videos but generated entirely automatically via the DSL code. Looking for inspiration currently on the language syntax and features etc.
I recently read two books about industries that previously seemed dreadfully boring: property/casualty insurance, and community banking. I'm not sure what possessed me to read these books but I was curious about both industries since they are significant parts of the economy but I knew next to nothing about them.

The banking book is called "The Most Fun I Never Want To Have Again: A Mid-Life Crisis in Community Banking"[0] and it tells the story of an attempted bank startup in Georgia just before the financial crisis. It has a very clear explanation of the bank business model and how small banks make money. One of the surprising things I took away from it is that bank founders think of starting a bank in ways that are very similar to how tech founders think of starting of company. The main difference is that the bank business model is already well understood to those in the industry and success depends much more on your positioning in the market than it does on innovation.

The insurance book is called "Risk & Reward: An Inside View of the Property/Casualty Insurance Business"[1] and is by Stephen Catlin, who founded an insurance company that he grew to several thousand employees with offices around the world and later sold for $4 billion. Very UK centered since that's mostly where his career took place but I don't think the fundamentals of the industry change that much around the world. Pretty detailed on the mechanics of how insurance underwriting works and what insurance underwriters think about when pricing risk. Made me realize insurance is much more like trading than I'd previously thought.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ELPOA3S/

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073NRDNSC/
https://qwerki.com/ (ChatGPT powered personal assistant)

Working in a startup of two people means I'm always context switching & lose track of my day. I convinced my brother to build an app that helps us manage our notes & reminders using ChatGPT. We found it to be really helpful for our day to day work & we recently had someone do an awesome review of our app https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x27OhTQ9bA0

Happy to share testflight link for anyone else interested in helping us
"Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" is the last book I read and it is very good https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/25670869

It changed the way I think about progress.
https://app.secalerts.co

Our newest vulnerability alert service. We aggregate vulnerability data from over 50 sources into one consistent data schema and allow users to write detailed queries and setup alerting. We've even introduced a pretty good local scanner to keep your SBOM up-to-date.
With a charging cable like a tree trunk, that doubles as a space heater?
This is amazing. So much easier than the official Michelin app. I’ve had the same idea to aggregate real reviews… because google reviews are pretty useless if you’re looking for special places.

Bookmarked and will use!
Personally I love exercising in VR but the main thing I like about it is NOT having to go to a Gym.
I think it is useful to know what works well for foundational reasons so you know what to tweak and what is less likely yo work.

I would love to know more about why. I have hundreds of why questions about transformers! And deep learning in general. The main one being why are we so lucky that gradient descent is stable and works! Feels like a miracle and the opposite of the trickyness thrown at us by physics, maths and computer science!

I mean there are plenty of reasons I intuitively (just gut feel without mathematical intuition) think gradient descent should break down on big models. For example it could just become chaotic, nudging any parameter has a butterfly effect and the loss bounces around randomly and doesn’t converge.
Actually it doesn't ... the panels need wires / infrastructure to get the captured energy onto the grid, there is the need to infrastructure to hold up (if not mechanize) the panels. The process of doing this as can be seen in works down along highway 46 in CA is invasive. Yes, maybe the land can be used for some of it's original purpose but generally it is not. You see the same in Europe (Germany is where I am familiar) where large fields for vegetables, hops, etc have been turned into a mix of farming and solar capture and the areas don't overlap.
benchmark link: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks
> Did it though?

Yes. Science is about more than producing novel ideas. A lot more.

> Nobody published this, which is good, right?

People did publish it, and many responses. They published on Arxiv. I think you are misunderstanding what papers are. Papers are simply a communication method between domain experts. The purpose of journals is to improve distribution and to provide a signal to help experts sift through the (possibly) large number of work. But you need question if they are accomplishing the goals. Do they provide more access than arxiv? Certainly no, arxiv is about as accessible as it comes. Do they provide better distribution than other modes? (colleagues, google scholar, semantic scholar, Twitter, etc) This is debatable and likely depends on your domain. Do they provide a useful signal to other experts? Also arguable and depends on your field. I'd say that the more papers/yr in your field, the weaker the signal. THEN you need to ask if these benefits outweigh the costs. That's both monetary costs from governments, corporations, and universities as well as the time costs to format the papers for the specified venue, deal with the back and forth with reviewers, and being a reviewer yourself. After you have considered the costs and benefits you can answer if these venues are good for science.

> Max Planck Institute gave the most conclusive answer,

Via "preprint"

> And now, Mr. L and Mr. K will not receive funding for this material, because it decisively failed to publish, which is also good?

Indeterminate. Science is noisy. You're wandering around in the dark. All we know is that they failed. But >90% of research results in failure. What is a better question is if their work advanced scientific knowledge. Which it looks like it did.

> I don't know. It sounds like the academic incentive structure worked really well here.

I'm what you think the academic goals are, which we need to know before you can determine if the incentives are aligned. For some added ethos, I'll reference Peter Higgs[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...
Sounds like a great premise for a hard sci-fi novel. let me know when you have a draft, I'll read it!
When the federal govt wants something it pays what it considers a fair price. There isn’t a lot of negotiating, and it wouldn’t buy through an LLC.
I don't think Israel, a theocracy, is representative of parliamentary systems. Almost all of Europe is governed by parliamentary systems, and most of the EU countries are fine.
Opened the site to see if I can provide some feedback. Ended up bookmarking 6 places to go check out in the city.
I don't think my actions were virtuous at all. They were opportunistic. I observe that it was a crime against a corporate body, not an individual. It certainly cost them money, going to law to recover their empty houses wasn't free.

In no sense did I mean to say "I was virtuous" -Only that it was aimed at solving my problem (and others) at the expense of a body, not a person. You may differ, but many feel crimes against corporates are distinct from crimes against individuals, virtue aside. I don't think corporate personhood is an unalloyed "good"

What's the point of growing up? It seems boring (Peter Pan, probably)

This was almost 40 years ago. Are you the same edgy person you were 40 years ago? I am pretty sure I am not.
I really haven’t seen much of that coming from my ChatGPT usage, it’s just someone lying with a lot of confidence, hardly a mental disorder.
I'm appalled that it was only written about just now. I looked for stories for weeks after the ominous tweet.

It was depressing to think that it wasn't considered important.
Hawaiian Electric Knew of Wildfire Threat, but Waited Years to Act
Four years ago, the utility said it needed to do more to prevent its power lines from emitting sparks. It made little progress, focusing on a shift to clean energy.
Civilized countries don't expect people to pay to use a toilet.
Subsidizing research? Yes. Doing it by making it economically favorable that many people doing that research live in poverty, while the rewards for that research go to the rich? No.
I'm doing catalyst discovery with my side project https://atomictessellator.com, I will be checking to see if I can reproduce and then build off this research. Part of my data pipeline is catalyst activity modelling
Seems really inconvenient to have to build your entire civilization with thick radiation shielding in mind
I love the idea, but I keep on getting hung up (after 10+ minutes) on

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If it helps, my prompt was:

> I would like a story set 2000 years in the future, where humanity has achieved interstellar travel. Humans prioritize exploration of extra-solar planets and the search for intelligent life
> The difference is that exercise is thought to help with those conditions and exacerbates ME/CFS

It's proven to be the case. A repeat cardiopulmonary exercise (2-day CPET) is currently the only widely replicated biomarker for ME/CFS. Only ME/CFS shows a reduction in performance and a lowering of ventilatory threshold on the second day. Anyone else (sedentary, cancer, heart or lung disease, MS, depression) will show an improvement. [1]

A study this year showed a striking effect looking at the metabolites in urine after exercising female ME patients vs sedentary healthy controls. The ME patients just did not excrete metabolites as the healthy controls did. [2]

"This indicates that ME/CFS patients have a general metabolic dysregulation that is part of their exercise intolerance and PEM in which altered metabolic excretion is a contributing factor."

There's also a very simple clinical discriminator between ME/CFS and depression. If you ask a depressed person what they would do if they were suddenly cured, their answer will be "Not sure, I don't know, I can't think of anything, nothing really." If you ask someone with ME/CFS the same question, the response would be "Go to the shops, drive my car, walk on the beach, see my friends... etc".

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/8/3/192

[2] https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/4/3685
No, the article says that it was her real estate agent that discovered the squatter and that the house had previously been rented.

Your confusion is understandable. The framing of both situations in the article is "homeowner returned to discover squatters" but even their own facts don't line up with that narrative.

I suspect both situations are probably much more mundane tenant disputes and the article is pushing an agenda.
nwv!

To this day, I still don’t quite get why so much of #linux was still using Red Hat at the time. Nat, miguel, the GNOME guys; the kernel guys; the storage guys.
> "Try challenging evolutionary biology, even in a valid way, and see how popular it is".

Here are two biologists that might not agree with your statement.
https://www.youtube.com/@DarkHorsePod/
Or, just use the hydrogen as-is, in stationary power plants. Hydrogen can be burned in combustion turbines just like methane; why add the extra step?

At $1/kg, the fuel cost of a combined cycle power plant will be $0.05/kWh. Hydrogen is quite storable underground (just like natural gas). At this fuel cost, new construction nuclear is hopelessly uncompetitive, even for base load generation. And unlike nuclear, the hydrogen burning CC plants can be economically dispatched, turned down/off when renewables or short term storage are directly powering the grid.
“FDA is clearly acknowledging that doctors have the authority to prescribe human ivermectin to treat COVID. So they are not interfering with the authority of doctors to prescribe drugs or to practice medicine,” Ashley Cheung Honold, lawyer representing the FDA said this month
Wikidata editor here. On some of the older Wikimedia projects (and English Wikipedia/enwiki especially), adminship comes with a large amount of extra baggage and is viewed as a somewhat prestigious position (but I have only seen this on enwiki, not Wikidata or other projects. On Wikidata, adminship is mostly a formality for established editors.)

Keep in mind that enwiki has the largest amount of history and bureaucracy out of all of the Wikimedia projects, due to being the first in a long line.
I do hope Ms. Wu retains a modicum more freedom.
Very well, it would remove the site operators obligation and capability of removing anything, and their activity would no longer rely on appeasing a hosting provider at all
> You think TSMC refuses to sell chips to China voluntary

Those chips aren't entirely TSMC creations.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/17/united-states-taiwan-ch...

> But in reality, TSMC’s manufacturing capabilities rely on a variety of critical inputs that are predominantly supplied by U.S. and U.S.-allied firms. Even

Now, shouldn't the US have a say when it provides critical inputs? Why should US allow its high-end designs to be used by an adversary?
oh no, just get fairly excited, cool idea anyway
We have an law that prohibits conplicated laws and one that limits the maximum amount of traffic signs in an area.
Does the page take over scrolling? Not a good sign for somebody who wants to take control over our climate.

*edit: The downvotes are fair for the level of snark. Still, as I cannot judge the validity of the approach, shouldn't I be skeptical when there is an inclination to change more than necessary?

At least for me, the page keeps scrolling for a short moment, unlike other pages like HN. It's tasteful, but unnecessary.
Again, you assume that point-source RF which beacons to many places by switching aligns with when they're looking. You have to do a LOT Of hand waving around "better wiser Aliens can listen everywhere all the time" for this to pay off, and I would observe if this is such a brilliant technique, how come we haven't received the beams sent to us?
Rentals aren’t centrally registered. They just produce a lease signed by someone who says they have control of the house, doesn’t have to be the property owner, doesn’t have to be notarized. So just print something official and say the landlord signed it. The courts eventually figure it out as fraud anyways, but you have six months rent free, and most prosecutors aren’t going after petty fraud, so it’s mostly a risk free crime unless you accidentally occupy a house owned by the mob.
I use all kinds of new tech, having a device I actually like to write on isn't holding that back at all. You're making far too much out of minor differences in priorities of vaguely competing devices.
Thanks for the sincere answer, that's very helpful and interesting
This is the worst use case/execution for VR that I have ever heard of.

VR is actually terrific for exercise, but the whole point is that you don't need to actually leave your house. You don't need to worry about a bunch of equipment or touching the same things as strangers.

I am really looking forward to the Quest 3 coming out in September. Hopefully it is a step up from Quest 2. But with Quest 2, there are a ton of great options for exercise. And I think many of them are much more engaging than a gym workout or a normal jog.

I really like Eleven Table Tennis VR. There is also a baseball training thing called WIN Reality (although you need to order an attachment and have a bat to get the most out of it).

There are a lot more sports/movement VR games. Boxing, tennis, climbing, Beat Saber, golf, football, bowling, kayaking, paintball, basketball (Gym Class). And tons of fitness apps (although those are less fun in my opinion).
I find Spinoza very approachable. Much of what he said resonates with me. For anyone unfamiliar, this is a light but entertaining introduction to some of his ideas:

(Spinoza: A Complete Guide to Life)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leoBccWOZfo
Aha, that's very helpful and interesting, thank you
You can, just not the one you think.

If you're a big enough customer, and you contrive a way to rely on this bug, then you've hacked the Microsoft backwards compatibility commitment. They'll have to preserve the functionality in perpetuum.