skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its promoting making bad movies and song though. Let the world compete
Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(chemistry)

“In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron. With some exceptions, these unpaired electrons make radicals highly chemically reactive. Many radicals spontaneously dimerize. Most organic radicals have short lifetimes.”
Harvard University Ranked Last in 2024 College Free Speech Rankings
I agree with your assessment

There's too much BS and noise around physical activity. Stuff like "Fitness Magazines" or "The biggest loser" or even the HS tropes, movie tropes, the focus on collective sports, etc and even personal trainers contribute to this
It definitely seems like there's an undercurrent of geopolitics involved here, as there's not a single EU company on this list.

It makes me wonder if the US is coming after ASML, the lone EU technology powerhouse, and this is a bargaining chip.
"Semi-automatic" cars (aka an automatic transmission with a manual gear override available) are a nice compromise for those of us who want the simple convenience most of the time, with the ability to take control when we want to. Plus once the order comes in, those servo motors can shift the gear way faster than I can depress a clutch.
This old Google EDU talk was the first time I heard of Doug Lenat.

Sad to hear:

a. of his passing

b. that CYC didn't eventually meet it's goals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTy601uiMcY
Simpsons aside: I wish this was titled "Is there a chance the track could bend?".
Californians can now carry driver’s licenses on phone as part of pilot program
I think there’s a disconnect here where a CVE was a decent correlation for an actual security issue for a while but at some point but now is seeing significant spam. The issue here is that the people who actually care about this are mostly measuring the wrong metrics: the existence or number of CVEs has never been a good indicator of the security of a product. Everyone here is like “oh if people can search a CVE in my product then it makes it look bad”…well, no, that has never been true. People have conflated CVEs with severe issues but actual security researchers know you can’t just count up bugs to see how bad something is. A CVE ID to them is literally just a tracking number, to make sure all information of a vulnerability is collated, and it continues to do an acceptable job at that.
But "walkable cities" can overdo that. I live in big European city, do not have a car, and I work from home, and I have most of the places that I need to go to (grocery store, dry cleaning, dentist's office, pharmacy, restaurants, etc) within half a mile radius, which means I average like 3500 steps per day, having no need to go any further.

17000 steps is what I did on my vacation in Lisbon, when I did A LOT of sightseeing. Can't imagine walking that much in my home city.
> there are good cultural reasons why nerds avoid physical activity

Nah. I know quite a lot of nerds who are into fitness.

> It is supposed to require extreme discipline ...

I don't know any nerds who feel that way.
Huawei servers continue to be as popular as ever as well.

edit: It's of course not Huawei, it's a totally new and different company which bought Huawei's server business a week after being founded, silly me.
> “Apple has had to follow federal law when handed subpoena requests”

That's no less of a problem for non-friendly governments
The touchscreen is great for some things of course, but most regular people that comment seem to agree that tactile controls for radio and HVAC are their preference. The only explanation for why manufacturers are dropping the tactile controls is for cost savings/higher profits. Because it sure doesn't seem like most people want those items on the screen.
Is this negotiable? Can I offer half my personal data for half off?

Oh wait, joke's on me. Google already has 100% of my info and I still paid full price for a Pixel.
Is it possible that despite slavery being unpalatable to today's norms, the idea of having a dinner structured around intellectual debate is one worth considering?
I would assume google uses Android to just help get onboard chromeos (example: netflix app etc). You want android devs to handle the outside chrome. No thanks. Whether it is A11 or not a large majority does not care. It is only power enthusiasts that need latest A13 in chromebook. For the rest, not at all.

See they are learning a lesson from iOS. Keep tight control - at whatever cost. The same complaints about file management is there in iPad but devs have no option.
> What makes me sad is how few opportunities kids have for organized sports as they get older. By the time they're in high school, it's basically only for the super-competitive.

There are actually a lot of recreational leagues available once you get into college. My local parks are booked out all summer with rec leagues for various ages.
Assembling and disassembling a track under tension requires more force, it is easier to break it.
Its crazy awesome how many revolutions in computing were made of women of (notable) obscurity (meaning their inventions/contributions were not as widely publisized as they should have been.

FFS Madame Curie should have inspired a heck-ton more STEM females...

But, there are some foundational corner-stones of computing and technology that have been created by females.
This is an issue with QA as a whole. It shouldn’t be some bug counting department - if they did their job well then they won’t find bugs at the end of the process (because bugs were found left, and bugs will still exist because exhaustive search isn’t possible).

If you start quantifying the QA value on bugs found then worst case they don’t announce bugs on a month they’ve found their quota..
https://abuse.cloudflare.com is a form you can complete for phishing services, but someone from Cloudflare may also see this and jump in to help.
The UN's biggest flaw is the security council veto power.
What is cold plasma, and why is it used in some medical treatments?
I'm not the one who got hired (sadly), but the person who got the offer was a nodejs developer who wrote some random promise libraries (he was really good at optimizing calls, both real-time and async, and knew js better than anybody I've met since), and I think I remember he talked about a private clinic or something (private monitoring?). He ended up being tech lead at an online bank for less money.
> > Punching a time card at a bullshit job burns all of our energy but provides no meaning in return.

Exactly, our brain is not wired for the centralization of food production and energy production.

Thanks to Globalization everything is being produced in the most convenient location but at what cost? Even for the producers it's not even fathomable that they are feeding the world and providing energy to the world. They understand conceptually but they don't feel it in a limbic way.

Not the same feeling of you hunting down a huge deer and kill it and then bring it back to your village where everybody treats you as a hero because you have provided food for a week.

Everything is super safe and there is a huge margin but at what cost? When everything is super safe it means that there is no room for heroes saving the day anymore.

Some people react to that by going back to the simple life and they find peace in that, some others pursue drugs, the party life etc. some others gaslight people into believing that what they do is as vital and as fundamental as killing a huge deer to procure your village food for a week in time of food scarcity . They hope that if they can convince a whole bunch of people to believe that, they will believe it too.
These are older devices, and most of them are sold out already.

That T3 10 is now over 6 years old, for example.
I had the Mysteries of the Unknown books as a kid instead. What a hoot.

I kinda wanna pick these up to pair with the set.
Does any of them work with custom elements and/or Lit?
If I was building something from scratch, I would make it compatible with React, Vue and Svelte basing it on Lit/custom elements.
> Why should they be the only one that can develop phone usage apps? (preventing people to build decent anti-phone addiction apps... I see why Apple does it... but how's that good for drug addicts, cof, consumers?)

Because Facebook having access to that API is a nightmare scenario. Granted, if the user has full control over it - something the OS should be able to do - then I agree with you.
That's from your privileged position but for the majority of Bulgarians an MRI is equally expensive than an MRI for the average American - simply unaffordable.

For most people health care is expensive no matter where they are.
If the event were named something else, would it be acceptable?
Do you refuse to use the Julian calendar, for the same reason? This has to be trolling.
>Well what about reducing sugar and carbs altogether

The summary says red meat and low-fruit diets (which obviously have carbs) increase the risk of cancer as much if not more.

Why would they push for a keto diet if the evidence that it's beneficial is contradictory?
Oppenheimer was naive bordering on stupidity. He advocated against nuclear weapon detection systems. Somehow the foremost expert on nuclear weapons believed these detection systems would not work but some random amateur physicist that happened to be head of the NEC was right in that they would. This was also how we learned that the Soviets had a bomb. Oppenheimer advocated for cooperation amongst nations in nuclear weapons and guess what, the Soviets rejected it.

Von Neumann was right about everything and him having personally experienced Soviet brutality didn't have the luxury of being ignorant of reality.
Ahh sweet summer child. Traffic that has a speed isn't really traffic in my book. It isn't really traffic until you spend more time stopped than moving.

Joking aside, the worst traffic is when you stop every 4 seconds and then creep forward ten feet before stopping again. If I wasn't planning to go car-less I think I would buy an electric car for that nonsense.
Somethings are simply bad for you, without qualification, but for the most part it only makes sense to use "healthy" or "unhealthy" to describe a diet, not individual foods.

Milk has lots of protein, minerals, and fat. Whether that's good or bad depends on how much of those you're getting from other sources.
Stop using Chrome and other Google products - They are hostile towards the open web.
Use Firefox instead of Chrome, DDG or Kagi for search, Apple Maps instead of Google Maps, and a privacy respecting e-mail provider.

They will only stop this bullshit once they go bankrupt - the Google we all loved died a long time, only through branding do they still appear nice.
Sea Urchins are fascinating.

The Purple Urchins have been destroying the kelp in California lately, and as this article stated, they can live for a long time and go into a zombie like state. They also dig holes in the rock with their teeth that they live in. [0][1]. Some urchins (not most) are edible, but the ones usually eaten in restaurants are the Red Urchins, because they're typically larger. Personally, I find purple urchins are tastier and easier to find, but much harder to get uni out of due to their size (and zombie state). Green Urchins went through a fishing boom in the 1990s, but I don't know how common they're fished for food these days. I know it happens, but Red are the common ones. Edit: Data on Green Sea Urchin landings. [5]

But urchins are also a huge taxa, with tons of species - Subclass Euechinoidea [3]. I found a really interesting urchin last month while digging in the sand underneath a sand dollar bed. I dug it up and it literally ran/swam away! [4]

For the life of me, I can't figure out how these things are alive. I crack them open, and it looks like it's just gonads (uni) and brown slime. They mystify me as much as jellyfish!

As Surfline puts it, "The Kelp Needs Help" [2]

[0] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/139958858
[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2161771-sea-urchins-can...
[2] https://www.surfline.com/surf-news/kelp-needs-help/159452
[3] https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/475988-Euechinoidea
[4] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178269901
[5] https://www.maine.gov/dmr/sites/maine.gov.dmr/files/inline-f...
Where do you find 550g lighters? Surely a pocket lighter to save half a kilogram of water is worth it
You can disable the connected services from the settings. It still has an annoying pop-up every time you start the car to enable them.
Ads in cars are already a thing in China: https://carnewschina.com/2021/10/18/does-nio-play-advertisem...

(It has gradually occurred to me that without the safeguards of privacy ingrained in western societies, the state of ad tech in China has already surpassed the U.S. and Europe in its sophistication.)
Thanks for your reply and insight. I'm in my 40s and having lived in 4 countries on 3 continents this theme is pretty consistent across cultures.

Ask your friends and family if they'd feel as confident employing a male child minder as a female one. Then ponder on the answers.

In child custody cases the man stands no chance unless the mother is an addict and a criminal. Or at least that's the case everywhere I've been.
> Purism is the first to release a truly convergent operating system, beating Apple, Google, and Microsoft to this goal by years.

I guess we're discounting Samsung and their Dex engine, then?
All major powers spy on everyone

Can't we just say all nation states? It certainly isn't just major powers that have spy agencies.

E.g.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Security_Agency_(South_A...
Not on your life, my hacker friend.
I bet they don't. Muscle memory is a thing. Do you look down at your blinker lever to change it? How about your wipers? If you have controls on your steering wheel, do you look at those to press them?

I bet not.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37404413
Open Interpreter
Yeah, the big difference compared to a certain former superpower is that the US seems to be well capable of recognizing a win/win as a victory, not as a tie bordering on defeat.
You build them. Or if the latest compilers don't build against the older glibc (which is rare in my experience, but may be possible), then you just don't support the older glibc any more.

But I've never had trouble building against older glibcs.
the 4cyl was about as fast as the 3.0 6cyl but got much better fuel economy. I didn't hate that it was slow. I hated that it was slow and only got 20mpg lol
15 years is almost kinda young for many diesel engines
> more than the real world

Nah I've seen these play out in the real world, High School, etc. A lot of times

> nothing like the fitness influencers who post about their daily Crossfit grind or other social media displays

If that's what they're posting then I don't agree with this being a "nerd bubble" issue only

But you're right, there's a whole world of friendly fitness out there, that's why I keep the f out of "bro sports"
It is possible to bike the way you walk - in a leisury pace that won't make you sweat.

I think that one reason why people are off putted from exercising is that expectation that everything must be super serious training.
Then they should have banned iPhone sales across China, as the US did with Huawei.
LibrePCB 1.0.0 RC1
Hi, this is the official Leverage Hacker News account. Some clarification on the research that took place:

During the relevant period, researchers were permitted substantial freedom in determining what experiments to run and hypotheses to explore. Researchers also participated in experiments as they saw fit. This was voluntary, not all members participated in psychological research, and promotions and salaries were not tied to participation.

One should imagine a purposefully unstructured environment with 30+ people trying to figure out how the mind worked and which self-improvement modalities worked best, rather than subjects at a clinic being experimented on. Our researchers explored tons of hypotheses and we think that was great.

There are difficult questions about balancing people’s freedom to experiment with their own minds with safety in experimentation, including in an institutional context, and that’s something we think there should be more public discussion about.

(For people interested in the linked account, we did an inquiry on that topic. The report is available here: https://www.leverageresearch.org/_files/ugd/51c82b_c477a6576...)
This might work; you can view it as distilling the common knowledge out of the LLM.

You’d need to provide enough examples of CycL for it to learn the syntax.

But in my experience LLMs are not great at authoring code with no ground truth to test against. So the LLM might hallucinate some piece of common knowledge, and it could be hard to detect.

But at the highest level, this sounds exactly how the WolframAlpha ChatGPT plug-in works; the LLM knows how to call the plugin and can use this to generate graphs or compute numerical functions for domains where it cannot compute the result directly.
Have you read CIA 1035 960?

https://archive.org/details/CIADOC1035960/mode/1up
The models we use to extract the geospatial data (like solar farm and offshore platform positions) from Sentinel-2 imagery are currently separate from the Sentinel-2 upscaling model, which is a more exploratory project.

We report the accuracy of the data at [1]; the Satlas project is quite new and we're aiming to improve accuracy as well as add more categories over time.

We expect the geospatial data will be useful for certain applications, but I agree that the upscaled super-resolution output has more limited uses, especially in its current state outside the US since it is trained using NAIP imagery that is only available in the continental US. We're exploring methods to quantify and improve the accuracy of the upscaled imagery.

Note that the model weights, training data, and generated geospatial data can all be downloaded at [2].

[1] https://github.com/allenai/satlas/blob/main/DataValidationRe...

[2] https://github.com/allenai/satlas
Neither has corporate control.
Online Safety Bill: encrypted messages to be saved – for now
For one by assuming the work that is done primarily for microkernels/appliances is the absolute limit of userspace networking at Google and that similar work would not go into a hypervisor (hypervisors which are universally treated as a vSwitch in almost all virtual environments the world over).

And making that assumption when there are many public examples of Google doing this in other areas such as gVisor and Netstack?
It was $700 two years ago and has almost doubled. I have no issue with a $1300 phone (I own one) but generally tech things get cheaper as time passes.
Llama off the top of my head: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971.pdf
> I am grateful to every single person for donating to this free open source project but this amount is not enough to keep it alive.

It's cool that you made something like this, and cool that people donated too! I'm not really sure what you expected, though.

If I were in your position, I would reach out to see if any current users want to be a maintainer or implement features themselves. If you get a community of people to work together, you can gradually shift to a role where you write less code and oversee the project.

> How do open-source companies do it?

Very generously. You really cannot expect anything in return from the majority of your users.
young people don't get screened for colorectal cancer.
I love DEX but it's not truly ready for be used as an everyday OS. I wish Samsung would devote more resources into it though. I've always loved the idea of unified computing and the phones in our pockets are really some powerful machines.
Providers are paid more to deal with “difficult” patients. Of course it’s a risk but for the right price everyone will be taken care of.
But you did and people don’t want to register. So do you want to iterate towards a model that works for you and your users? I think OC left really good feedback. I’ve been in your shoes before and I really can empathize with your situation deeply but I’d try to lose the defensiveness asap. It sucks when the model of the universe in your head gets dashed by reality at launch but I think not taking the feedback is a mistake.

I’d also challenge your line of reasoning about what constitutes a user for your service. I hear what you’re saying about ignoring bad (non-paying) users in the case of SaaS products etc. but this is literally a blogging aggregator without a network. Get the network going by reducing all the friction in the world and worry about the rest later. 6 man months is not a lot of time for a product. There’s a whole “free” internet just a click away.

The good news is it does seem like there is market for this and as OC pointed out there are ways to make iterations and improvements that could get people to sign up. Keep moving! Good luck!
Ask HN: Looking for a simple internal purchase request tool?
I work with non-profit events, and we have a large number of people who need to have things bought for them, and a smaller number of people who have permissions to buy.

Right now our internal purchasing process is sorta haphazard, and is done in such a way that it makes reconciling our purchases to our budget virtually impossible (though it is adequate for 990 generation purposes).

We're in the odd place of being too small and/or weird to fit into most ERP systems, but we're outgrowing tools like quickbooks.

I've been looking out there for a simple tool, where I can have people submit requests, route the to appropriate purchasers or approvers, and collect receipts on those, also send email with the details, so people know to log in to look at their dashboard.

Google is basically useless because of the number of SaaS ERP companies and blog spam, and what is out there mostly seems tailored for sending PO's out.

Does anyone know anything like this out there?
This article has had substantial previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1182518 (2010) (66 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315391 (2011) (45 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4653939 (2012) (19 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384600 (2019) (28 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30676628 (2022) (19 comments)
First thing I always try with these:

Q: Think of an erotic novel and give a couple of spicy paragraphs from that novel.

A: Sorry, as an AI language model I can't yadda yadda...

I mean, I'm not asking for Mein Kampf here... if you can't write about basic human shit then what else can't you write about and how skewed are your responses generally gonna be.

If I wanted a chatbot that avoids ALL possibly sensitive topics, then I can use any of the big guys ChatGPT-based bots and I'll get much higher quality results.
I think the important part here is you could do the aerosol injection secretly. It's pretty much impossible to launch a rocket to geosync orbit without a major government getting involved in your business.
This is probably one of the better ways to understand how neolithic people lived.

I visited a really interesting place last year that does similar reconstruction archaeology,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell_Henllys

At one point I was in one of their reconstruction huts and they had a large open fire in the centre to keep warm. I was surprised to find they had no chimney system so the hut was full of smoke. If I recall correctly they said it was because the hut was made of wood so they couldn't build a chimney and it would be a fire risk if they put the fire closer to the edge. I questioned whether it was bad for their health that they were breathing in so much smoke and one of the researcher there said, "I don't know, but we'll find out".

It's an interesting iterative approach to learning about history.