skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard for me to fathom the idea that this deep and profound shared experience we’re all having was not intentional and designed and it seems like it would take a lot of effort and mental gymnastics to surgically remove the raw wonder and meaning and significance from so many aspects of reality, to strip everything down, and conclude there is no God.

And oddly enough I think a majority of the things people often cite as reasons they can’t or won’t believe in God actually stem from oversimplifying aspects of life that just under the surface would make God quite obvious. The common theme seems to be that of a complaint, some form of “God can’t be real because the nature of things isn’t what I would have done” or “there are aspects of this experience that I don’t prefer”.

In my opinion it takes a lot of mental effort to explain our way out of the obvious, and ironically many consider what I see as “obvious” to be primitive and superstitious, due to the very fact that it took so much work to discard it!

The body of work that is our collective intelligence is celebrated as some kind of breakthrough or progress if it discards the spiritual or metaphysical when it could very well be the opposite, perhaps it took a lot of work because “explaining reality away” is not an easy task?

Not sure how else to describe it, but there has been significant effort in studying things like human psychology, but the idea that by analyzing and categorizing and filtering down human thinking and behavior into neat little packages somehow brings us out of it so we can now stand on the other side saying “look how stupid we once were before we knew about (things we made up)” seems almost like a cheap parlor trick that started with “cover your eyes and hold out your hand”.

It’s like we are somehow too self-important in the ways we try and convince ourselves that we are not important?
> About 85% of American consumers with bank accounts are comfortable making recurring payments using those accounts, said John Anderson. He is head of product at Plaid, a fintech company that links vendors with customers’ bank accounts.

Plaid, who got sued for abusing their access to people’s bank info. Fuck that guy.
Would it be better to have some standardized abbreviation? It could gravitate towards those. That should help consistency between different computers (also helps if you have multiple computers..)
It’s not an answer, I was just letting them know it exists.
I often see articles like this, and they seem to think the message people takeaway from nihilistic meanderings like this is "nothing is forever therefore your toils are folly". The author failing to see the time you spend together with your family will also fade to nothing.

The solution is a balanced life, realizing that only examples of things that resonated beyond their time are the toils, both failed and otherwise, of humans. And there is no meaning of life other than to experience life. So toil away; and spend time enjoying your family & friends.
Actually a neural network is just that: data compressed with losses. A transformer makes multiples queries to a large loss-y and stochastically compressed database to determine the next token to generate. The PAQ archiver is famous for being just that: a neural network to predict the next symbol.
Low fat isn't great necessarily, depends on which fats. Low sugar is uniformly good though.
I have a similar workflow. I’m the only programmer in my office and just use git to make my life easier.
Bring some happy vibes home with fall's “dopamine decor” trend
I hope this comes across as me being merely ignorant of the situation on the ground in India but I do have a question.

I've seen caste based discrimination here in America first hand. It's gross and I have absolutely no patience with those participating in it.

If I were to go to India with this attitude, would I be met with compatriots that also have zero interest in putting up with it? Is there a reason that such a backwards obviously oppressive system persists to this day in 2023? Why don't people just change their names to the caste they want to be

Apologies, I'm a privileged American that can't begin to imagine putting up with even a moment of it personally. I know it's not so simple but it's a simple way to ask.
Why we bet on Clojure?
Researchers discover common origin behind major childhood allergies
It's hard to find when CouchDB and MongoDB got attachments, but I suspect CouchDB had them first, so it may have been an obvious choice for MongoDB.
Knowledge-based, ownership-based and identity-based authentication
An in-depth exploration of modern authentication methods - from knowledge-based to ownership-based and identity-based authentication, and the challenges associated with each. We'll also delve into WebAuthn, a promising new protocol that could be the key to a passwordless future.
As non-US person, what is the motivation of these kind of lawsuits which seem to be ridiculous from a layman perspective? Is it because how the US system is stacked to give a massive payout to a law firm who presents the clients?

As in other countries, people would just stop eating in the place if the food falls short of expectations.
> Thank you for the conversation.

Likewise. It's disappointingly rare to be able to have a civil discussion with someone you have very different opinions from.
perhaps it wasn’t intended but your comment reads as dismissive of the men in question.
> Maybe a more accurate question might be why don't more managers incorporate kanban into their project management processes?

Kanban is too freeform for most management and sales to want to follow or encourage. In contrast to Scrum and most traditional planning approaches you don't make a commitment (whether it should be a commitment or not is another issue) to a particular set of capabilities on a particular date. You promise to get work done, as it comes in, based on the priority and capacity of the team/organization to handle.

There are no, or few, big meetings. There's no ritual. There are no conferences to attend and certifications to append to your email signature. What's the fun in that for a manager who wants to promote themselves or travel on the company dime? It also requires them to trust their staff which is hard for a person who isn't trustworthy themselves because they're too self-interested and assume everyone else is the same.
IMO, pretty much nothing because redditors had 0 power in that situation and they were kidding themselves if they thought they did.

I personally spend a lot less time on reddit now. I was doing that before the whole API thing happened, lol.
My son is T1D since age 7. He is now on the OmniPod pump and the Dexcom G6 sensor. It’s been a very effective combination that’s covered by insurance. The challenge with the open source projects is limited equipment that can be hacked.
The nukes are still there and a war with Russia is still in progress.
These devices are also used among home theater enthusiasts as a hack to enable LLDV (Low Latency Dolby Vision) which causes the source device to perform tone mapping.

http://videoprocessor.org/lldv

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/alternative-devices-for-ena...

https://blog.semtech.com/demystifying-dolby-vision-for-pro-a...
My friend in Eastern Europe ran a bot farm in WoW. He ran bots on his computers that farmed resources, then sold resources for gold and then sold the gold to Chinese for end-user resale. The only labor involved was hiring some college students and paying them for each top-level character they progress that can be used for farming. He even bought my character for $50 when I stopped playing.
Ah that is a lot more reasonable. But what is the nature of these fees? Can they change over time or based on use? Does Comcast know at signup what the fee will be when billed?
Tech-Driven Marketplace Raises $1M (CAD) to Build a Better HARO
I'm Chris Thurston, one of the co-founders of SearchEye. We raised USD$800K from investors, and we have a marketplace model connecting brands and publishers.

Why?
1) Tech companies are addicted to FB ads and Google ADs. The CPA is growing rapidly.
2) Brands and publishers should be connected via a network marketplace model, not agencies and gatekeepers.
3) "Publishers" are fragmenting from a handful of big ones (MSM) to a long tail. Everyone consumers their own mix.
4) Search is also fragmenting across video, audio, social, etc.
5) So technology is the perfect way to connect these nodes. We're doing that.

We're focusing on authentic signals that work even if you don't care for search traffic. Ironically, these are the signals search engines most pay attention to. So either way, the path is to focus on authentic and meaningful connections.

Would love thoughts, comments, notes, questions, etc.
GPT4 gets stuff wrong in the same way, you just have to pay $20 a month for the privilege.
My Dream C++ Additions
Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links
If I ended up on a team that was mostly canadian I would assume that the team was originally built in an office in canada.
Glad to hear it! You can disable the arrow key binding if you want, and/or make it only use part of the screen :D

Fixed it - thanks for the catch!
I was ready to roll my eyes but its actually pretty nice! As long as it only stays for practice purposes... lol
How feasible is to change one's last name. Or are there other characteristics others can detect like accents, facial features, etc?
This case was filed in the US District Court of Florida back in 2022 and has only recently resurfaced.

In a somewhat rare turn, the Daily Mail coverage [1] of this article, is actually quite superior, as it features several direct images from the court documents, including references of "Current Advertisement" vs "Actual Product."

Its not difficult to see why they're mad. From most of the imagery, it looks like BK has an aversion to spending even a few cents on lettuce. The situation's bad enough that most comments amount to "of course it does not look like the ads, they never do." Most are "bad", yet the Spicy Whopper Melt is almost laughable.

My personal view is this might be huge, if the plaintiff's win, as it then sets a strong precedent about the "amount" of truth in advertising, and when is a crushed lump of bread and meat too far from the picture. How much $ do you have to spend making sure what arrives on your plastic tray, or in your take out bag, is kind of close to the picture? At least in the $300+ billion dollar US fast food industry.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684749/Class-acti...
Many people are politically disinterested even to the point of not bothering to vote. And like you said, even those that are engaged are still not qualified to comment on the more complicated issues, of which there is a growing amount.

It's an odd contrast with the perception that everything has become hyper-political, intersectional and everyone is an activist now.

Obama once had an insightful remark about it. Sending a mean tweet is not activism. Political activism means reading legislation, learning how the political system works, learning law, and doing a huge amount of work on the ground. It's a lot of work, often unrewarding.

Hence the Tweet. Zero effort. Immediate reward. Nothing changes.
Monetization will figure itself out. What’s important is growing your user base, then you can look at a small fee of $5 a month (more for enterprise options)

What’s exciting is the market is potentially very large, and hitherto uncontacted
> Most mortgage lenders require borrowers to have home insurance, so those skipping a policy often own their homes outright.

rather important detail. skip the policy and you can wind up paying the lender for the policy they selected.
I'll have to check it out, thanks for lmk!
I want a bidding system for the H1B slots, paid not just once, but yearly by the companies which hire the H1Bs. That money should then go for scholarships to educate American citizens for these jobs. It first allows American citizens to compete, as they would be cheaper than the H1B salary (market rate) + fee, and it would provide funding for scholarships in areas which apparently aren’t being supplied by US graduates. In addition, there should be a multiplier on that fee for any company which lays off US citizens with that skill in the past N years.
Seems much easier than when I had to do this manually onto Google Earth.
Correct, the technique is called orthorectification.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0613
> life threatening ailments that the media has claimed

I haven't seen anyone credibly claim this. Perhaps tweak your sources?
There is no chance of Linux winning this over Nvidia. The thing is there is no alternative to Nvidia, while there are many to Linux. The demand is seemingly infinite. Every big corp is rushing to secure as many as they can. For people talking about it being hard to keep their own forked or patched kernel, Nvidia is so big at this point that it can buy RedHat(from IBM), Suse, and almost every Linux vendor on the market and the cost would be mostly not relevant to them. There is zero chance of anyone avoiding Nvidia now due to Linux issues. Sure, 5 years ago this might have worked, but that ship has sailed.
with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard"
It would be cosmic justice for companies that looted the open source community to build proprietary products off the backs of that labor to have to go open source themselves because nobody is willing to pay them for their software.
Presumably they're still on-track for an IPO, although the timeline is unclear. It's hard to tell what the overall impact was, metric-wise. They're probably focused on cutting out the unprofitable users, and their API changes are probably 'mission accomplished' in that sense.
AFAIK it was not.
In the US nearly everyone drives their truck like it's a car. This is very dangerous. Hence the pedestrian death numbers soaring.

I have a 4x2 F-150 as my daily driver that is also my tow rig and work truck. I drive like a grandpa because I dont want people/pedestrians to be threatened by my vehicle. Nor do I want to hit anyone or anything.

You would not believe how popular it is to make the truck even bigger. People are obsessively doing 3" lift kits with aggressive stance rims and 40" tires. It costs yet another fortune to do this and causes otherwise fuel efficient trucks to suck gas like a 1977 Dodge 3/4 ton.

I'm in a truck and I have to dodge these fucks.

Edit: Part of this is due to the tax code. People can form an LLC and write off the truck and any "expenses" (cough... lift kits and superchargers) and still use the thing as their daily driver.
It's not just inconvenient, it's inconvenient enough to almost say you can't do it. I believe there is a firm lockout period of 2 years (so no 'new' cars can be imported). And then if it is not already licensed with various agencies you have to do that yourself, per-car, at a cost of (I heard) $7-15k. Not to mention the shipping, customs, etc.
How many bees does it take to seal an Act of Parliament?
Very cool tech! I remember seeing the SLIDE paper and then being shocked at the lack of high profile follow-up work.

Is there any plan to open source BOLT? This would be extremely valuable to the community and in reducing Nvidia's chokehold.
The blocking of Pinterest domains makes obvious sense (the bane of image search), but the blocking of news domains (foxnews, dailymail, nytimes) less so.

Are news outlets regular polluting search results for people for run-of-the-mill queries?
Interestingly enough, I have a macro keyboard I built myself that I use at home. It never occurred to me to use it professionally until you brought it up. Hmmm. Thank you!
> I heard this excuse before, but aren’t many schools back already?

Today (August 30), yes, most are back.

But, the stats are for July, where (other than summer sessions, which are usually optional or remedial) most schools are between academic years (even “year round” schools often have a somewhat longer break from late June through July compared to other breaks, to accommodate a brief optional/remedial summer session.) Most schools return with a new school year sometime in August or occasionally early September.
the US Copyright Office just took a big step toward new rules for generative AI
> What are the big milestones to expect in your life?

> Your next milestone is 08 Aug 2030 when you’ll be the 5th billionth person to be alive in the world.

I can't work out what they mean by this.
You can purchase some of their boards via Mouser directly who is the one fulfilling orders on STs behalf.
They basically killed almost everything from Xamarin.

The only surviving part is the AOT toolchain that powers Blazor AOT and iOS/Android.
This is trying to solve the wrong problem. Juvenile diabetes is almost always a human problem - not one of optimizing for treatment.

If you have a kid in their teens or 20's who is not entirely ignoring it out of spite, you're way ahead of the game. This problem is much harder to solve than tracking carbs and insulin doses, or changing diet/etc.

The person has to be ready to attack it. And for many young folks (and I assume older as well) this is where the problem lies. It takes a lot to really accept this is going to be your entire life, especially at an age where everyone (seemingly) around you are living these amazing care-free young adult lives, while you have this constant monkey on your back being a buzzkill. Very few individuals have the desire to "do their research" and start hacking on their health the way the HN community would tend to approach things.

Short of commenting on how heartbreaking it is as a parent to watch your kid go through this, I really have no good answers. I guess the topic of this discussion is it - a magic device you can slap on once a week and never think about again. Short of a device like that, I can't see this problem turning to technical vs. human any time soon.
> The subtitle of the paper is "Diversion from climate action" without any explanation.

This trick is pulled off by claiming nuclear diverts investment from solar/wind, counting on the reader to forget that one could just as easily say nuclear diverts investment from coal. That Germany had to increase their reliance on coal after shutting down nuclear, and that unlike wind and solar, coal and nuclear can both serve as reliable base-load power, shows how dishonest the nuclear vs. wind/solar framing is.
This is a very clever idea.

However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over time. E.g. if I ran it every 6 months and last year "db" produced "debug", while this year it produces "database". Because talk about messing up my muscle memory and habits. And the language I write changes very much over time.

So I'd actually be much more interested in a "universal" version of this -- if you ran it across books and e-mails and text messages from thousands of authors covering diverse backgrounds and contexts, then what would most reliably help everyone?

E.g. expanding "t" to "the" seems like a no-brainer, just like "st" to "something". Is there a minimal set of, say, 200-500 of these that could simply be turned into a "standard keyboard" that everyone could learn?
I thought this happened because the claw was pretty heavily damaged during deployment, only a small bit of it was actually able to grip.
I think Airbnb is the worst offender by far though. Instagram, Facebook and Twitter (just using your examples) operate very dynamic applications at a global scale. AirBnB is a crud app with almost no dynamic content other than the booking system. According to the first site I saw online, they process 6 bookings per second, which I could handle on literally anything with an internet connection. Of all of them, its the one I understand the least.
How is it partisan?

“ Tesla lawyers and board members scrutinized the project after employees became concerned about how the company planned to use millions of dollars in specialized glass that it had ordered.”

And

“ SEC rules require public companies to disclose transactions above $120,000 in which a related party, such as an executive officer, has a material interest.”

If it’s really a matter of spending corporate money on a personal benefit project, then it must be declared and agreed upon by board and or shareholders. Otherwise it is misappropriation.

I’m no lawyer, so my terms may be inaccurate; but that’s the gist of why this is probably worthy of investigation.
Whoppers are actually disgusting in the UK. They fall apart, the meat is dry, the tomato is anaemic and the bun is devoid of moisture. I’d take a couple of £1.29 McDonald’s burgers any day over a whopper (they must be £5-7 these days?)

Being the UK, this does not stop people buying them. BK is very popular at service stations for example, despite the high prices. Though I’m sure McDonald’s overall is far more popular
You could have auctions per profession.
I'd really like to use 23andMe to see my genetic heritage/background, but at this time it seems there's no safe or secure way to do this, it's just not worth it.
I also do a lot of GIS stuff and I might actually use this in the future.

I agree it is pretty niche. It might be nice to support non-WGS84 coordinates
Could you elaborate?

I'm aware of CJK input methods, but it's not immediately clear how/why you could repurpose them for English. Not to mention there are several types.
Lets just say you have ~$2 Trillion burning a hole in your pocket and buy google, take it private. At day one you could shut down the normal gmail service for basically everyone who don't pay for it, right? For most business accounts I'm guessing you need to wait for the next billing cycle, but that would be next month in most cases. For special accounts it might be longer but those would be a very small number.

Could anyone win a lawsuit against a serviceprovider for (completely within the terms of the contract) not wanting to provide a service anymore?
The only way to "cure" diabetes is to replace the pancreas or get the cells to go back to behaving the way they were before insulin resistance. The 1st is incredibly risky and wouldn't be pursued for that reason. The 2nd is most likely to lead to a cure, using a morphoceutical approach that reprograms or replaces the misbehaving cells.
We've not seen yet any project at that scale, which approaches terraforming. What makes you think we are capable of such? And is there anything that indicates we can obtain the natural resources to achieve them?
I don't have any expertise in this field, but I expect sailboat training simulations would be much harder than aerial drones because of the underlying physics involved.

I'm sure flight simulations have to deal with some amount of fluid mechanics and turbulence to get an accurate simulation, but I suspect it's fairly simple and you can mostly model it accurately enough using Newtonian physics.

But for sailboats, the entire system relies profoundly on the interaction of two separate fluids with a single body and turbulence and viscosity are deeply interwined in making the boat go. Not to mention that the sail itself is a flexible deformable surface.

Seems like an absolute simulation nightmare.
Don't they need to know your address anyways to check if they can provide service at all?
Factors into it. Im a big fan of Don Reinertsen as well. But in a small team what matters is the big picture.
This is why "code is law" as a crypto meme was a little silly. Law is often intentionally flexible!