skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The obvious solution seems to be dropping straws entirely until manufacturers can get their shit together like they did during the wax-on-paper days.

Reusable bamboo/metal straws are always an option of course (or even a requirement people with for certain disabilities) but for most people throwaway straws are the most ridiculous luxury people get upset about being taken away from them.
Don't fall for it. Apple's modus operandi with respect to R2R has always been malicious compliance. It's happened multiple times before just like now. They are trying to retain control as much as possible in a world where repairability becomes mandatory, not make repairs easier.
Which vaccine did they use? Is it as good as Moderna?
Mmh no seems they went through at least a couple of renamings: https://www.netreveal.ai/resources/blogs/ayasdis-next-chapte...
I am not searching for evidence for you. I don't care about you.

I also never mentioned 5g, nor did the Dark horse podcast guy. His guest did.

I don't think 'horse paste' can help with a virus, but I trust it to be safer than an untested 'vaccine'. The original thought process was because people in malaria regions were having much lower severity of covid symptoms even when infected, which people thought might be related to their uses of certain anti parasite medicines. Yes. Would I have taken it? No, unless I spoke with a doctor I trust and he thought it was a worthwhile risk.

I personally don't even think covid was anything more than a severe flu that hurt obese people and people that don't have enough vitamin D. Even the CDC says that. Seems like if covid came around in 1940 we would have all been fine.

I'm going to go drink a sugar free tonic water so I don't catch covid. Good luck out there. (Ps, that's a joke)
>so more sanitary if eating/drinking out

Wait have you ever gotten an illness that was attributed to a rim of a beverage glass that wasn’t also present in the rest of the beverage?
> repair providers disclose the use on non-genuine or used parts

This has my complete support. I’ve had a phone repaired with a knock off display/touch module. It stopped working with an OTA update. Buying used phones is a total gamble, as is.
It's one thing to "support" it, it's another to make components actually available to make repairs. I remember some people testing out a direct screen swap between two identical iphones, only to find out they didn't work after the swap. So even if you can get a replacement component, do you have the management software to update the eeprom to say "hey, the screen with this serial is good to go".
64k tokens ought to be enough for anybody.
Chandrayaan-3 Success Triggers 'Mass Indigestion' – and How
There was a bill like that where PhDs would be exempted from visa limits and such. But it was discarded because the House considered it would cost the US 1 billion dollars over 10 years.

Don't know who or what kind of analysis they did to pull that 1 billion number. It just shows how inane and stupid the entire US immigration and laws are.

Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/07/14/phd-i...
As impressive as AI is and what it can do. I've felt the same way in my last job. It was almost there; it was almost good enough such that we could almost ship the project but we didn't. GPT3.5 was not good enough, GPT4 seemed like it was good enough in terms of accuracy but it was too slow and we were getting throttled like crazy. I lost my job over it. When I was worried about AI taking my job, I didn't picture it like this.
Ok, then give them citizenship so they’re not foreign anymore. And besides, I thought we were facing a problematic population decline?
real users have more CPU than a literal toaster (or smart air fryer, or IP camera, or many other common botnet devices)
I bought a pack of glass straws and a single thick plastic one that I walk with a couple years ago when they banned them in my country, one of my better "investments", it comes with a small cleaning brush but if you rinse them right after using you should be good for the most part. Especially if I buy a drink in public no way am I putting my lips on a carton or can.
OpenWebAdvocacy – Combating anti-competitiveness (e.g. Apple's platform lockout)
Really proud of the founders of this group, a couple of guys from little old Adelaide!
Best thing we can do to help is sign up to the mailing list, so that when they are approaching regulators and looking for real world stories of issues we face as developers/consumers due to anti-competitive behaviour, people on the mailing list can provide those stories.
What is anti-competitive behaviour? Think Apple locking out all other browsers from their iOS platform, forcing all user's to use Safari (if you didn't know, "Chrome" and "Firefox" on iOS is simply a skinned Safari)
100MW is either a large ship or a fast ship.

100MW is more than the energy consumption of 50,000 homes. To collect 6*10^16 cubic meters/year at an average speed of 100km/h (walking pace in outer space), you'd need a "net" of less than 10km x 10km, which is completely plausible for a ship that large.

If you have a small ship using the reactor for thrust, at 1% of the speed of light the width of the "net" is much smaller.

And tritium is used in existing designs but we're still in the infancy of the technology. Stars fuse deuterium with neutron-free hydrogen (protons), and make the deuterium themselves.
Erm, a lot of grifts don't charge low prices. That's why they're so lucrative!

So far it's not looking good with this line: "All of our Shimmer ADHD Coaches are licensed or certified mental health professionals *OR* have extensive experience with ADHD & undergo our Shimmer Coach Training program" (emphasis mine). That should be a PR disaster with a blog post correcting it already in the works.

There's typically no human connection between you and unskilled sharing economy labor. "Experience with ADHD"? Please! Most entry-level workers have experience with something but it's still entry-level. Higher paying jobs are based on supply and demand. See the difference between DoorDash and jobs requiring a Commercial Drivers License. It isn't the number of miles driven, it's licensing and certification, which that *OR* sneakily gets you out of. It's like The Santa Clause, it's a cartoonishly misleading sentence.
Take it up with the US Copyright Office. Per GPT4:

In the "monkey selfie" case, a photographer named David Slater set up a camera in the Indonesian jungle, and a macaque monkey took a photograph of itself with it. When the photo was uploaded and shared, various parties began to argue over who held the copyright. Slater claimed it was his because it was his camera and he set up the situation. Others believed that if the monkey pressed the shutter, then the monkey, or no one, held the copyright.

The U.S. Copyright Office clarified its stance on the matter in the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition. It stated:

"The U.S. Copyright Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants. Likewise, the Office cannot register a work purportedly created by divine or supernatural beings, although the Office may register a work where the application or the deposit copy state that the work was inspired by a divine spirit."
There are actually 2 equivalent problems, (voting) consensus and total order broadcast and solving one directly leading to solve the other.

It's quite difficult to do (voting) consensus like traditional Paxos correctly and quickly in the face of failures. Therefore, most systems (Raft, Zab, Multi-Paxos) aim to do total order broadcast instead, using a leader to sequence all operations and only fall back to (voting) consensus when total order broadcast is not feasible, like during leader election.
If you think like an ML engineer, the genome is a feature vector 3B bases (or 6B binary bits) long that is highly redundant (many sections contain repeats and other regions that are correlated to other regions), and the mapping between that feature vector and an individual's specific properties (their "phenotype", which could be their height at full maturity, or their eye color, or hair properties, or propensity to diseases, etc) is highly nonlinear.

If you had a list of all the genomes of all the people in the world, and all their phenotypes (height, eye color, hair type, etc), you could take all their genomes as input variables and treat all their phenotypes as output variables, and make embeddings or other models that mapped from genomes to phenotypes. The result would be a predictive model that could take a human genome, and spit out a prediction of what that person looks like and other details around them (up to the limits of heritability).

A good example is height. If you take a very large diverse sample of people, and sequence them, you will find that about 50% of the variance in height can be traced to the genomic sequence of that individual (other things, such as socioeconomic status, access to health care, pollution, etc, which are non-genomic, contribute as well). originally many geneticists believed that a small number of genes- tiny parts of the feature vector- would be the important features in the genome that explained height.

But it didn't turn out that way. Instead, height is a nonlinear function of thousands of different locations (either individual bases, entire genes, or other structures that vary between individuals) in the genome. This was less surprising to folks who are molecular biologists (mainly based on the mental models geneticists and MBers use to think about the mapping of genotype to phenotype), and we still don't have great mechanistic explanations of how each individual difference works in concert with all the others to lead to specific heights.

When I started out studying this some 35 years ago the problem sounded fairly simple, I assumed it would be easy to find the place in my genome that led to my funny shaped (inherited) nose, but the more I learn about genomics and phenotypes, the more I appreciate that the problem is unbelievably complex, and really well suited to large datasets and machine learning. All the pharma have petabytes of genome sequences in the cloud that they try hard to analyze but the results are mixed.

I spent my entire thesis working on ATGCAAAT, by the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octamer_transcription_factor is a family of proteins that are incredibly important during growth and development. Your genome is sprinkled with locations that contain that sequence- or ones like it- that are used to regulate the expression of proteins to carry out the development plan.
The first sentence pretty much sums it up: "Cloud Run’s new execution environment provides increased CPU and network performance and lets you mount network file systems." It's not a secret that performance is slower under gvisor and there are compatibility issues: https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/performance/

Disclaimer: I work on this product but wasn't involved in this decision.
> The reason for the remaining C-Section was that she "needed" a C-Section before.

Yeah she probably had a vertical incision c-section, which clinically indicates a c-section for the next birth. You can read about it, the fibers heal better from a transverse incision.
Proportionally they also take in 10x as many permanent residents each year. They also don't have per country limits.
Sorry for slow reply! I don't know exactly how it works but I believe I'm receiving a feed of articles that reach the front page. I use it so I can consume new stuff without having to manually re-review the actual website myself.
Yeah, I believe that the absurd “virgin” obsession in some cultures is an archaic holdover to try to avoid STDs.
It always comes back to: pay more
Yeah and that can happen by paying everybody more.

Salaries have largely stayed the same while prices have risen and that excess has gone to profits. If workers demand more pay and they force the issue, the economy eventually will reach equilibrium.

The issue currently is that those workers can't really do that because the US government has shown time and again that they don't really care that much if a company violates organised labor laws or labor laws in general (you get a fine and a slap on the wrist) but they will bring down god's wrath if workers/a union has an "illegal strike" after the employer ignores their demands.

There is a reason why ever since Reagan took a hardline anti-union stance and disbanded the PATCO union for having the audacity to strike in the 1980s that the number of major strikes per year has steadily declined.

https://www.bls.gov/web/wkstp/annual-listing.htm
The issue isn't justice, it's thread quality.
You're right - and due to panmixia and the strong capacity for beehives to spread and intermingle their genetics, a site treated with 'standard' practices with many hives acts as a genetic bomb, damaging the whole species in the region, while the owner likely complains about natural beekeepers being at fault for distributing varroa.

Of course, they'll never get rid of varroa without also getting rid of all natural, feral (or wild) hives. That would be an immense natural loss, and it's the direction that commercial beekeepers (and those influenced by commercial practices) are taking things.

Fortunately, there are some sharp people with a solid understanding of bees and bee genetics that are fighting this tendency, breeding bees with new behaviors, and tracking down isolated wild/feral hives that are surviving well because they have adapted characteristics that help them fight varroa. The wild/feral hives have to be pretty far from commercial facilities, because of the massive capacity of these facilities to pump out poor genetics.

So far, there are brood-killing behaviors (checking on the developing bees, sniffing for varroa, and killing the immature bee of it's infected), and mite-biting behaviors (grooming other bees to remove or harm the mites directly).

The sad thing is, that the bees can largely adapt to Varroa. It's the beekeepers that can't let them do it, because it means taking losses.
The settings are all unchecked, but I receive promotional emails anyway. :(
Also, non-genuine display modules can utterly suck. The most obvious failure is linearly polarized light output. Bonus points for horizontally or vertically polarized light — diagonal is at least somewhat tolerable.
I'd interject here that America has no official national language, and I think it's prudent to keep it that way.

In other words, language requirements are not something we should copy from Canadian immigration policy.
Maybe I use a straw once a year? It seemed reasonable to teach my daughter how to use a straw as part of her occupational therapy. Other than that and the rare (especially these past few years because of covid) restaurant outing, I don't use straws. There are some people for whom straws are the easiest way to drink, though, and there are many people who like using straws, so it makes sense to care about the health effects (from raw materials to disposal) of straws.
That's really interesting. Did using genetic algorithms enabled GPT4 to be truly creative ?
There is this whole "Ok, then, why not SDLang?" section
What if it is apparent that there are other groups pushing the narrative that the media is untrustworthy so that they themselves can own the narrative?

Any given group of humans will have a mixture of deceptive and trustworthy participants. Singling one group out for constant castigation, held against an impossible standard, makes it easier for dishonest members of other groups to avoid the spotlight.
It's stupider than that. For some reasons they couldn't just add a processing fee to offset the cost.
> First is "to enable the repairs performed by authorised repair channels", which indicates they don't really want to make parts available to the average joe

Except they already do that. There were plenty of discussions on HN about their repair toolkits users could get to replaced parts of their phones.
I don't dispute those at all; I think we're headed for disaster. But Earth's ecosystems and biospheres are huge and complex. We've probably kicked off a cascade that inevitably leads to a major collapse already, but it be a long process, like watching a log decay. There will be spasms as this or that or the other species has a big spike and looks like it is "rebounding"--like swarms of locusts, e.g.--but really it's the system unraveling. The biosphere's natural way of adaptation is to dip into a reservoir of biodiversity via (sometimes local) extinction. It'll keep trying to settle into new configurations of stability, but they won't work, and they'll be temporary plateaus on our slide down this long slope.

It could take many decades or even centuries for most of the damage to be done. We're trying our hardest to speed it up, but yeah, there's a big reservoir to burn through and most of the time it will look like things are standing still.

Saying that everything is going to unravel in 10 years and collapse is going to turn out to not be true, even if the underlying dynamic is inexorably pointing in a bad direction and headed that way.
Maybe through in some grammar too
How do you ensure that murder doesn't take place?
An autoimmune skin condition damn near ruined my life, so I agree with your conclusions.

I was somewhat fortunate that it didn't hit me until my mid-20s after a viral infection. Never gets better and will never go away. Treatments? Nothing but a cat and mouse game, and generally a waste of time, unless I want to subjugate my body and future to some truly heinous treatments.

Still, I have a lot to be thankful for e.g., it could be worse, a different disease, etc..

I think the hardest part for me to overcome is the envy I feel when I see other people. I sometimes actually feel like I am a lesser person because of the disease. Despite it being a skin disease, the mental toll has been far worse than the physical toll.
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It's both rotten and awesome though. I'm sure we could collectively still pull this off somehow.

Defeatist or dystopian mindsets won't get us anywhere. In a way the current trend of "let's keep everything as it was, at all costs" is its own form of utopian ideology for example.

Why can't we create other more productive and smart utopian stories instead? Something to aspire to? I'm always reminded of (old) Star Trek.

As the delivery channel for those stories, my hope lies in computer games and maybe even VR computer games. I'm probably out of the loop though, could be that watching TV / movies really is that important again / still. Whatever the channel then, actually new stories are what we need.
Based on this article, I don't think oversupply is the problem here.

Also, the US economy is already overly dependent on foreign labor. From offshoring jobs to manufacturing to onshore labor, every sector of the economy is filled with foreign labor. How many things you own were made outside of the US? How many of your coworkers are immigrants? How many foreigners do you interact with when working on a large project at work?
> That is if we transfer the DNA to an advanced alien civilization - would they be able to make a human.

You'd need a cell to start the process, with the various nucleic acids distributed correctly and proteins/energy with which to create further proteins using the information encoded by the DNA. Thus the civilization would need information about cells and a set of building blocks before being able to use the DNA.
well, when face to face socializing is breaking down, you gotta do what you can to cope. I can learn how to cook healthier food, I can't force people to want to go out for lunch or whatnot.
Personal electric cars is a horrible solution for transportation. We have had electric trains, trolleys, underground for decades. It does not look like Californians are actually going to build anything new like that. India and China most likely will improve their transportation system significantly.
Started going really deep into SQLite.

Couple hiccups like making sure when creating tables to use strict mode and enabling foreign keys that every one needs to read about.

I exported about 8million rows from my Apple health records (about eight years for something’s like steps from before watch) and into a SQLite database from the xml dump using python (twice as fast a rust for some reason) in about 110 seconds. Dates are stored as Unix time stamps. Had ChatGPT generate some queries that showed my percent change in things like resting heart rate for each year using LAG and AVG return in less than a second.

My job at work https://unsupervised.com/ does a lot of KPI work so I’ve been interesting in learning how to to correlate data to show improvements to KPIs (in my case resting heart rate or lean body mass)

Nextjs server components and https://github.com/kysely-org/kysely also make working with SQLite a breeze.
Looks like you were specifically a console game dev? PC games have not aimed for 30fps either ever or at least for the last 2 decades. Consoles are hilariously far behind PC in this aspect.

The whole "science says the human eye cannot see beyond 30fps :)" is actually a very old meme at this point. You are correct that high FPS/Hz is about decreasing latency, but you underestimate the importance of it. 144hz is a very clear improvement over 60hz and the PC ecosystem is going to move over to it as a new standard relatively soon. You don't need to be playing a hyper-competitive FPS to notice it either, any game with significant movement will do.

> Because games are triple-buffering and sometimes monitors are too, and there’s another frame of latency for controller inputs to be recognized, you might still have 10ms or more of latency between controller input and changes on-screen, even if your game is rendering at 500hz. This means you could get away with 100fps if you had zero latency. When your fps is 60hz and there’s 5 frames of latency, you don’t see responses to your controller until almost 100ms later(!).

You're assuming VSync or something. There's no guarantee that the input will line up with the next frame, so an input latency of 10ms while running at 100 fps equals a worst-case latency of roughly 20ms, not 10ms. That's why the higher fps & hz numbers really matter.
Same story here. Why should I spend years toiling away in a clean-room for shit pay when I can 3x or 4x my pay doing a much easier job?
What's the etymology for “resilvering” as used in computer file systems?
I think AWS ui would be better served using this. It would make sense.
> AFAIK TypeScript's type system can do everything in OCaml -- it's extremely expressive

Extremely expressive and unsound. And not just in a trivial "escape hatches exist but you should never use them" way - until you've been burned enough it's not at all obvious which operations are unsafe, and there are a lot of them.
Note to the time traveler posting about an archaic version of python: it is currently 2023 as far as this site is concerned so there is no need to label the title with the year of the linked post.
I spend half my day (or what feels like it) telling people what they did "wrong", i.e. what they did that led to whatever they experienced that they didn't like. The trouble is that these explanations are expensive: it takes time and energy to track the specifics, deliver the information in a clear enough form that, proof it against possible misunderstanding or unintended offensiveness, and then go back-and-forth with the user when the information isn't clear enough or lands the wrong way. It's impossible to do a satisfactory job of this in every case, even though one wants to—the only option is to approximate.

Since you've mentioned twice that you didn't get an explanation, I'd be curious to see the case that you didn't get an explanation about. Is there a link? Usually when people remain upset about something long after the fact, it's for good reason.
Their vaccine sucks.