skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question, haven't visited the optometrist since I was a child for casual checking. Just tried and I'm able to read text with light Arial font size 11 in a 15" monitor 1.4m apart, if that provides any clue. Good eyesight at night. Started using computers when about 10yo. Started feeling eye pain (quick needle in the eye kind of pain) since about 30 years ago, and use the technique since then, the pain goes for a few months, and maybe I've had 3 eyestrain crisis in those 30 years, in which I had to apply the method once or twice per day for 1 or 2 weeks then got well for months. I don't know of anyone else using it.
> I maintain that the lives of most people—while measurably better in many ways—are not fundamentally different than they were 100 years ago.

Average hours worked per week was about 25% more than today, with much more of your earnings going to necessity. Your odds of surviving from 18 to retirement age were roughly 50-50. You might not expect to be able to afford to actually retire depending upon your occupation.

> Substitute laptop for radio and that story is still happening today.

A cheap radio in 1923 cost far more than a cheap laptop today. Even more so if we compare to typical wages, and even more so if we compare to disposable income.

> So I reject OP’s premise that the “growth” of the economy is unsustainable or somehow alarming.

Resource intensity per person is far higher than in 1923. See the graph on page 3 of https://pubs.usgs.gov/annrev/ar-23-107/aerdocnew.pdf
App Store rankings most definitely cannot be taken to be a reliable indicator for anything. Max is at No. 3, while Netflix is at No. 29 - this doesn't actually tell you anything, except that Max has more downloads at the moment.

Threads is obviously going to rank high, because the vast majority of Instagram users haven't used it yet - they're going to download it now, and so it's at No. 2. Looking at how badly the platform seems to have tanked from launch, I'm not keeping my hopes up on it being a competitor to X in any meaningful way.
Thanks for flagging, would you mind trying again and letting us know if it's still happening? We just pushed some fixes
Once he fails they’ll say he was too big to fail. Corporate socialism will bail him out one way or another. Us, the taxpaying plebe, will cover the bank’s losses with increased mortgage rates and the government’s losses with increased taxes.
Exactly my point! It's a given that Musk is a Genius and everything he does can only be looked at through the lens of "hmm WHY is he doing this? How CAN we know?". If we assumed something crazy ...like, he's a pathetic man baby leader of the incels with no self control over his insatiable, thin skinned vindictiveness, no matter how embarrassing, well, we have no data at all to know anything like that do we.... No he must be brilliant and we simply must wait until he reveals his genius on this one.
It's quite funny how Gwynne Shotwell is able to steer SpaceX despite Musk while this new Twitter CEO is borderline toothless. There is just no way she would have allowed this to play out, given that advertising and branding is her core competency. So am guessing she was overruled.
Was there ever a "gresql" that "postgresql" was the successor to?
That analogy isn’t at all apt, for the same reason that white-collar criminals are much more likely to get away with it. There is just way more grey area, way more reasonable doubt, in burning Twitter to the ground vs bulldozing your house.

Your honour, I didn’t mean to hold up that liquor store. It was merely incompetence. I was just trying to act on my legal obligation to my shareholders.
Sorry, late reply. I don't care if my bank knows who I am, but I might care if my bank can learn about my online history/preferences via the many analytics platforms and third party cookies. That shit needs to get shut down.
It would be just as generically interesting to people if it were Canada or Australia. Witchcraft is a fundamentally interesting topic because it touches on deep-rooted fears and superstitions that probably evolved in humans tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago.
> I would think that if a third of the population has a tattoo, we'd actually know with almost certainty what the effects are.

I wouldn't count on it. It took us 100 years to find out smoking was extremely bad, even though the majority of the population was doing it.
If you put a productivity metric in place, teams and individuals will optimise to increase the score of the metric. That’s what you want in general, but it is completely incompatible with planning poker. Why?

The same people are responsible for the estimate as the delivery. The obvious maximum solution for a team is to continually inflate all estimates to demonstrate improved velocity. At the individual level, it is to always take the most over-inflated story in order to demonstrate maximum individual contribution.

You get perverse outcomes with all metric based productivity measures (for example in retail sales having friends buy large volumes and return to another store). You can prevent this kind of thing to a degree through various sticks, but with “planning poker” it is the antithesis of the desired goals. Measure in a different way.
Turning chaos into order, for better or worse and if only for a while or just imagined, is what life does.
In MacOS, set Show scroll bar to always. https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/make-scroll-bars-always-vis...
It's not. Rosetta is quite small and is installed separately.

You can install Rosetta yourself from the command-line with softwareupdate --install-rosetta

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/Rosetta.html
> One thing Amazon could do is adapt the Lord of the Rings into a TV show. 60 one hour episodes could be interesting.

Presumably Amazon decided on an original prequel series for reasons; perhaps that they didn't see a need for an LOTR series after the Peter Jackson films (and other adaptations), or perhaps there were rights/exclusivity issues.

I found the first season of Rings of Power visually stunning, and some of the characters and environments were appealing as well, but it's hard to beat the original material. On the other hand, I feel like Wheel of Time could turn out great by cherry-picking the best parts of its source material.
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Doesn't want to get sued by the people who put up the majority of the money.
I have seen that pattern before, and for me it's a bit of an antipattern. Usually you wouldn't look for substantial code there, and in most cases it is nicer to organize your code in modules.
You can import from those in the __init.py__ file, this way achieving the same effect as having all code live in __init.py__.
But it's a matter of preference.
> We have penicillin and much better cancer therapy and jet airplanes. Humans have stepped on the moon.

We have domestic electric refrigerators (since 1927). Cold beer on a hot afternoon.

The development of refrigeration has transformed the world’s economy, and is a good example of how technology can multiply economic growth.
If anyone is looking for a book on lambda calculus, I really enjoyed An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus by Greg Michaelson [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Functional-Programming-C...
This, I believe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)
It's like how you can't buy an oscilloscope from HP, the company that defined the test equipment market. Or how you can't buy an IBM pc anymore. Or how Boston chicken changed to Boston market and back and back
Well, what struck me was the upvotes to comment ratio, which hovered at n:0 for the longest time.

There is a similar posting just now (20:21 PST), also from medicalexpress.com. At this moment 71 points and 3 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203761

Seems fishy.
kindernetes is overkill, at that scale you can run a single dayckare just fine without child orchestration
I hear generative AI from Azure and elsewhere is being integrated into realtime threat monitoring, any word on how effective this is and what the impact in on the hiring landscape?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/ai-machine...
the size of the 2nd update is a bit smaller than the first (if you include both uarchs). Maybe a XOR decryption key for the first set? Bootloader, then (Intel+Apple files) XOR version-key or my-key? I am thinking of the secure mode boot attestation, and extensions that want you to disable that and allow custom kexts, etc.

It makes sense that maybe the x86 stuff might be there just in case of rosetta needing to do something. No idea but seems plausible that they want to have the fork there.

there definitely is some kind of per-instance registration of which laptop has which version, iphones similarly have a very visible "requesting update" state. Apple has secure boot on all their shit for a long time, they have hardware attestation and the OS will report when it's been updated, and they can monitor attempts for rollback attacks unless the laptop has been Startup Config > Security policy changed to allow insecure mode and older/non-signed/non-apple OSs or custom extensions etc. Apple legitimately did build a very secure default system, you can unlock it but you do have to go out of your way to go into bios etc, by default they will very aggressively assume that apple signing = on and version go forward.

Which if any of those files are bit-identical when received by different laptop identifier instances (via wireshark or w/e)? Like "it has to be downloaded from apple" is that because it's custom to your hardware instance?

Is there a common file image and then a mask, or is the second thing a giant blob of binaries that's the same for everyone, or what? Or just can't tell because it's encrypted or something?
I'm now remembering a couple hundred slides I saw scattered on the sidewalk and street on Cesar Chavez near Sanchez in early 2020. I picked up a couple to take a look, but I can't recall what they were of anymore...
Shotwell was recruited by Musk in 2002 and became COO in 2008. I feel Shotwell is more comfortable telling Elon to fuck off and has more autonomy in her role because shes almost a cofounder.
I trusted that people could piece together that climate change is the upstream factor behind both the hurricane and drought. Sorry you think I don't have a conscience.
APL wasn't originally a programming language at all. Ken Iverson designed it as a mathematical notation to express and reason about computer algorithms. "Notation as a tool of thought," is how he thought about it. It was implemented as a programming language years after he created the notation in 1960.

An APL-like Haskell DSL could be interesting, but to match APL's expressiveness you'd basically need to reimplement all of APL. For maximum generality, one could just skip both APL and Haskell and just use the lambda calculus. I found that a bit hard to work with, though.

As far as Numpy and all, they are all directly descended from APL. The difference is that it takes 10 lines of Python to match 10 characters of APL. While the array languages' terseness can be excessive, doing it in Python is not very pleasant either.

Anyway, here's somebody who knows more than I do talking about what they like about APL's successor, J: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWYkx6-L04Q
We used to have a printed newspaper that was run off a large press, consuming tons of paper and many gallons of ink, delivered by truck and car to stores and homes, every day, 363 days per year (Thanksgiving and Christmas Day were the exceptions).

Now, the paper has closed and we get news online. It's not quite the same as relaxing in a chair with a printed paper and a cup of coffee, but I'm guessing the per-capita resources used every day are a small fraction.
Regarding just color slide film, I think Kodak had stopped all production then resumed with just Ektachrome in 2018.
> It's like how you can't buy an oscilloscope from HP, the company that defined the test equipment market. Or how you can't buy an IBM pc anymore

Or how you can't even buy an express horse-and-buggy package delivery from Wells Fargo.

Moving out of markets (because you lost your competitive edge, because your star players have died/retired/became goat farmers, because the margins have gone to zero, because some other market is much more profitable) is completely different from actively and preventably screwing up a market you're in.
> Maybe not DeSantis, but plenty of GOP candidates do, and Florida is full of Cubans. In many hispanics minds, at least those who immigrated, democrats = socialism = bad.

Except the fraction of Florida’s Hispanic population that fits that profile has been shrinking for decades. Only 30% of Florida Hispanics are Cubans today, and many of those are now second generation. By 2012, Obama had even won the Cuban vote.

Your theory is that the GOP somehow reversed that long term trend by doing the same thing they’d been doing for decades? And then won Puerto Ricans, who never had any negative connotations about socialism to begin with. That makes no sense.

> I would think that's very much a minor concern. It's rather petty to vote against the better party because you don't like their marketing, if you know they are the better party.

The marketing reflects how Democrats conceptualize race, and that, in turn, drives their policies. For example, Democrats’ belief that minorities are the victims of systemic racism drives them to favor educational curricula that emphasize the structural barriers faced by undifferentiated “people of color.”

But what are the effects of such curricula on minority kids? Studies show that successful people have an internal locus of control: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melodywilding/2020/03/02/succes.... I.e. they believe their outcomes are the result of their own efforts, not external factors.

If you’re a Cuban, what do you want your kids to learn? That they’re “people of color” who will be held back by “systemic racism,” or that people from their cultural group went from poverty to prosperity in a single generation? Cultivating healthy and success-oriented attitudes in their kids is far more important to many parents than welfare benefits.

Also, we live in the age of identity politics. If you’re going to invoke the notion of Hispanics being oppressed victims of a white supremacist society as a reason to vote Democrat, then you can’t complain if many Hispanics reject the party because they don’t like that conception of Hispanic identity.
Kodak very stubbornly denied the masd transition to digital photography.

There is still a market for horse-drawn carts, for mechanical typewriters, for 36mm film, etc, but these niches are narrow, you can't be an industry giant if you concentrate on them.
Another medicalxpress.com posting with many points (71) but initially hardly any comments (3 right now)? Saw one before today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37194394
“The Guess Who”
Maybe y'all bootlickers should inform yourself about the basics of this case before running your mouthes?

There's a direct line between her, the court attorney, the owner of the hotel, and Keri Newell.

And I'm willing to bet a small fortune of pick-your-favorite-crypto that she backdated the affidavits that the court openly said didn't exist the day after the raid.

God imagine defending a raid on journalists without bothering to do a modicum of research. Couldn't fucking be me.
Is Debian as compatible as Ubuntu for ML and LLM usage? I see tutorials all over the place for Ubuntu.
Agreed, I studied Materials Engineering - Fluid Dynamics was one of the hardest subjects in my opinion. I liked thermodynamics it made sense to me, solid mechanics was a bit of a slog to get through (endless amounts of beam deflection) but fluid dynamics arrghh.

I chose to take a particle physics course as an elective in my final year - I was planning to specialize in battery and capacitor technologies and wanted to learn more.

The lectures were very different to Engineering much, much more theory focused(almost nothing on applications) it was my introduction to things like Hamiltonians, Wave Functions and Fermi-Dirac statistics. I'm glad I took the course I learnt a heap especially about semi-conductors it gave me a better appreciation and understanding of things we covered in my engineering degree like magnetism and phonons/heat transfer as well. But I will say it did feel like another world compared to Engineering - there was much less in common than I would have thought.
Right. We're talking about the same thing.

Some people want to save money going to the intermediate stops.

If you want to go to X, the flight A->X is $1000, or A->X->B is $700.

People are saying you should be able to go on the second flight and ditch. They are saving $300.
> Nothing else connects these dots in any way that aligns with his other successes, unless there’s some whole other part of this constellation I haven’t seen yet.

A. Luck. As we all know, there's a certain amount of luck involved in building a business. So "he got lucky, repeatedly, and then didn't" kinda works as an explanation.

B. as I understand it, he didn't found SpaceX or Tesla, but bought them and forced everyone to pretend he founded them.

C. Again, as I understand it, the management at the other businesses spend a lot of time managing Elon's ego, and this has been missing at X/Twitter.

I think this story will be discussed at length in future MBA classes. Interesting to see it happen in real time.
You contributing isn't a problem!

It's awesome that you found a project that speaks to your interests and is fun to contribute to.

In fact, I often recommend folks looking to get into tech to do exactly that, or at least have a few side projects they tinker with to demonstrate proficiency and willingness to learn.

My complaint here was with the authors using your journey (which you weren't doing expecting to be hired, which is important) as an example of what others should do to get a systems eng job.

Honestly, if you already have development experience and want to move into some other subfield, my advice in your general case would be to use your network to get a referral into companies you're interested in or message recruiters offering those jobs indicating your interest.
No. Some of them are simply wrong. For instance:

- action is extremized or at a saddle point, not necessarily minimized

- Action is not quantized in QM (and quantum-mechanical action is not quite the same as classical action). There's another very indirectly related notion of "action" which shows up in historical semiclassical approximations and which is quantized. The author has likely confused the two.

- SU(2) is not the gauge group of the weak interaction, because there is no such thing. A purely weak gauge theory with no EM is not possible, on account of having massive force carriers. The SU(2) and SU(1) in SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) corresponds to weak isospin and weak hypercharge respectively, not weak charge and (EM) charge.

But even if all the errors were corrected there's a huge amount of missing context. (For instance, the actual content of the standard model Lagrangian - the fact that there are 19 free parameters is in no way sufficient to determine it) And even if you had all of that, a full reduction of macrophysics to microphysics is likely computationally intractable, even in principle.
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Could be, or maybe Musk is just not focused on SpaceX but on Twitter?
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And what remotely concrete thing makes you so sure that there will be new levels of mass death between now and 2123?
One of my all time favorites: https://tomstu.art/programming-with-nothing
Yep - beat me to that .. and I wanted to dive in as I once used Ingres before Postgres became a thing!

I came to Postgres just before the GIS range filters were added and chipped in on the backend as a project (very old now) needed a DB with GIS capabilities.
I agree. OP is using the logic of a Chuck Palahniuk's character.
Sutro Baths was just north at the end of Ocean Beach, but half as long:

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

It's a bummer there's nothing like these places there today.
Yes. Normal cells break apart all the time. If you measure total cfDNA amount in a blood sample, you'll find significantly a higher cfDNA concentration after you exercise. It's a normal part of the wear and tear of cells.

So, if you find cfDNA from a tumor, it's not necessarily indicative of metastatic spread... just that the tumor cells have been broken up. It could be from too much growth, or immune attack, or metastasis, or... etc.

cfDNA is great in that you can run a single assay to cover the entire body. cfDNA is difficult because your single assay covers the entire body. You can't localize the source of cfDNA.
Indeed, was wondering whether there is a clever tool like that, i-frames is a simple idea, and then you could potentiality did something smarter like your tracing idea
Anyone using LoRA? What did you learn
I won't repeat fact that this number is low.

But the bigger problem with the article IMO is the fact that this is degrowth. Why is the electricity consumption important? Carbon is the real metric. Big server operators (meta, aws, azure, gcp) already either are 100% zero-carbon powered or on track to be.

Regardless, if grid needs to add capacity for EVs, heat pumps, other electrification goals, why are servers (probably low impact) important?
np.array
>Companies should keep in mind the following:

>When offering digital products, you must ensure that customers understand the material terms and conditions, including whether they’re buying an item or just getting a license to use it. Unilaterally changing those terms or undermining reasonable ownership expectations can get you in trouble, too.

>Selling digital items created via AI tools is obviously not okay if you’re trying to fool people into thinking that the items are the work of particular human creators.

>When offering a platform for creators to develop and display their work, be clear and upfront about their rights to access and take this work with them, as well as how the work will be used and presented. Again, don’t change the terms later.

>When offering a generative AI product, you may need to tell customers whether and the extent to which the training data includes copyrighted or otherwise protected material.
But for how much longer? That's my point.
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I've never really liked that quote. It's just a way of saying that nothing's perfect, and of course nothing is perfect, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to improve them. The quote has always struck me as defensive in a way that stops discussion. It's okay (in fact, more than okay) to say that a complaint is founded on an unsound premise or that a proposed change is a bad idea, but calling other languages useless or unwanted (or implying something to that effect) in response to criticisms of C++ is a bit of deflection, as if saying "well, at least people are productive in it", and I don't think particularly constructive. I think you can start a constructive comment this way, though: "despite its problems, people are still productive in C++ and I think x, y and z are reasons why, so x, y, and z ought to be kept, &c". And in some other context, I think this observation is meaningful: all the languages that are commonly used are complained about, so a complaint about C++ does not necessarily imply that it's worse than any other commonly used language.
Anybody would have to be extremely foolish to pay a premium over the premium price that Musk bought it for though.