skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying google doesn’t need breaking up. But if justice department cues for anti-trust are words in marketing and pricing documents it’s a rather bad practice.

I don’t think there is anything illegal not using the words if you know the justice department is going to come after you.
Myself i saw it once in a one semester fluid class for two lectures. A class on the Buckingham pi theorem and another on using units to hack simple physical models.

To be fair, fluid engineers and the like see this a lot though (because of All their dim-less numbers). But ECE, physics, CS, chemistry etc majors? Almost nada.
Post-IPO, Arm to push purpose-built almost-processors
My point is that liability for consequences determines who (and if) does due diligence. If there are no remedies then customers are on their own, and either they do due diligence themselves or there is no due diligence at all; but as soon as the seller has to bear financial consequences for selling noncompliant product, suddenly they will become very capable of effective due diligence.

It's all about the incentives and motivation; companies which are permitted to offload risks to consumers will do so and ignore even trivial measures they can take to reduce these risks.
Why not use the original title of the paper?
If it can't warm water how could it cause damage in a body? I'm not afraid of a candle, and that's emitting way more energy. Am I crazy?! Or stupid?
High paying tech job turned into the loneliest time of my life
I didn’t say everyone follows step 1
it's def not as bad as alcohol... considering alcohol causes drunk driving, liver issues, obesity, stomach cancer, domestic violence
Population momentum means the total human population will top out at 9-10 billion people before rapidly declining after 2100.
Marxist insults: those should work /s
I think Git is conceptually simple... each commit is just conceptually a diff from a previous commit -- possibly from two commits. Branches and tags are just pointers to a commit.

A merge is when you join two commits and thus may result in one merge conflict, while a rebase is resetting your branch to some other target commit and then /re-applying/ _each_ of your commits on top, which may generate more than 1 merge conflict (due to each _one_ of your commits effectively being re-committed all over again) but hides the fact that you applying old changes to a newer base.

But the tooling around Git is not great. I think showing merge conflicts properly so you don't mess them up is also tooling issue more than anything.

I'm going to plug this app called SmartGit which I have no relationship with that I don't think a lot of people have tried but it's awesome. Doesn't obscure anything about Git and shows merge conflicts well IMO. Costs $ though.
You can trivialize a lot past grad school with this.
I'm using News Explorer for macOS and iOS. It syncs feeds, articles and read/unread status via iCloud. And for other URLs I use AnyBox which can download them for offline reading (or archiving).
Google won’t repair cracked Pixel Watch screens
For every 5 “type” People you mention there’s 1 common person who really does spend the time doing their research and likely knows more about the drug than the doctor in some ways (typically they just lack the context of interactions and side effects). A good doctor will listen to what the patient says and then discuss with them what they think with an open mind. Good doctors are rare. Especially nowadays with all this arrogance that they know everything as you say.
What we talk about when we talk about imposter syndrome
The stakes are lower and I think that's why these companies get away with it with consumers. Many consumers will never know as long as it doesn't hit them with a paywall. But when serving other businesses, they know and will NOT forget (because they will literally be hit with a paywall).
I’m familiar with the proposal. What does it have to do with TypeScript being phased out?
If you can live with radio-style streaming, music has mechanical licensing, so any streaming service in the US can pay the statuatory royalties to get access to everything.

If you want to play specific songs on demand, or pay less than the statuatory rates, then the label has to be ok with it.
I just quit weed after getting addicted for almost 2 years.

There is a large community of people who are trying to quit: /r/leaves

The article is nothing new to me. Read a few posts from the subreddit and you'd see a pattern.

Three weeks ago, I was pro-weed recreation legalization. Today, I'm strongly anti recreation use.

Edit: I'm not against decriminalization of weed. I'm highly against pro-recreational use. I'm against high THC %, easy access, advertisements, sponsorships, etc. I believe weed should be classified as a highly addictive drug - especially to youth. We should not have weed stores. It should be sold behind the counter. It should have a very high tax so that it's not cheap. It should have huge, bold warning labels on packaging. It should not be legalized at the federal level.
Yeah but there are 8 visible fingers, not 18.
WordPress blogs can now be followed in the Fediverse, including Mastodon
What is the health justification for banning caffeine?
I posted this a few weeks ago, there’s already a project for tracking the TOS of many companies. This came up when people realized Zoom had done some funny business with their TOS as well. I see Unity isn’t there though, maybe someone should submit a PR.

https://github.com/OpenTermsArchive/contrib-versions
It might take zero effort to make an EV but it must take some more effort than zero to make a good reliable EV. I agree that it seems like Toyota is definitely putting in zero effort into their EV offerings. The bz4x rollout has been a mess. Its such a shame as my previous ICE car is really on its last legs and i'm bummed at the current offerings.

Im looking at some small crossover so far I found tons of used bz4x marked as lemon/deal buybacks, Hyundai kona has a multitude of issues and also has buybacks. Mustang Mach-E seems the best deal and Tesla is hit/miss.

btw are you the hypx from the /r/Realtesla Tesla skeptics subreddit?
This article hits on something I've noticed before that is perhaps obvious to many but always seems unintuitive to me: past a certain point, generic "management" skill is the limiting factor irrespective of domain. Sure, it helps to have domain knowledge, and it's more important in some areas than others. But for a service-oriented business, hiring, organization, and client management (growth + retention) dominate at scale. Helps understand why people good at those things get paid so much despite "knowing nothing" about the business they're managing (in some cases).
AI-Powered Mock Interviews: The Next Evolution or Just Another Gimmick?
Hey HN community,

We're exploring a novel concept and would love your thoughts. Imagine an AI-powered mock interview system. Not just any typical chatbot, but an AI that can converse like a human, ask pertinent and unpredictable questions based on your answers, and even possess a virtual 'face' for more realistic video-call interview scenarios.

Questions for the community:

Would you find value in such a system?
What potential pitfalls or challenges do you foresee?
For those who have undergone intensive interview preparations, how does this compare to your current methods?
Would the 'AI face' enhance the experience or is it superfluous?
I had that happen at a company. Somebody sent an email about an idea that violated an obscured federal law (the person who had the idea had no idea). The legal team basically dictated the reply to the email and actually copy-pasted the law as a response. "We can not implement this idea as it violated federal law ....."
Yes. And discovery in these trials is performed via keyword matching so you have to assume that every email is going to end up on a giant projector screen in front of a jury who might not understand that Bob’s enthusiasm for destroying the competition is Bob’s quirky bombastic communication style rather than a business strategy.
That approach doesn't really work with children.

Removing student access to technology is overly punitive and does not support the intended learning and development outcomes of attending school.

To ostracize a child because they damaged their laptop is psychological abuse.

We can just help them take better care of it and reinforce the reasons why and train them to do so! :-)
Good luck with that, in case the company goes out of business?
If you mean to say they share the same architecture, you're correct. I misunderstood your phrasing
Sonic Color's remaster. But it's not a good example when talking about stability. I feel half of it is on the engine and half on the fact that they were porting a Wii game to modern consoles (despite being gen 7, the Wii had ancient techniques for lighting and textures. Which is where many issues of the port came from).
The Moment lenses and cases are probably the most well-received lenses for mobile devices. They have macro lenses as well: https://www.shopmoment.com/mobile/phone-lenses
When my trash stopped being picked up reliably, I appreciated the option to switch services. How would that work?
I worked as a freelance Japanese-to-English translator for twenty years, until 2005. After a break in academia, I am now semiretired, doing translation part-time and following closely developments in machine translation and in AI in general.

Two advantages of LLM-based translation are that it is promptable and nondeterministic. While Google Translate, DeepL, etc. will translate a text the same way every time, LLMs let you specify the purpose and desired style of the translation, and you can ask for multiple translations of the same text.

Lately, I’ve been translating some speeches from Japanese to English. While I used to translate such texts by myself, now I first run them through LLMs (Claude 2 and GPT-4) to get three or four different English versions. I refer to those MT versions as well as the Japanese original while I prepare my own draft. This has two advantages for me: the multiple translations often give me ideas for English expressions that would not have occurred to me on my own, and I am able to devote more of my energy to polishing the final versions.

Another way I use LLMs is as a thesaurus on overdrive. If I have a Japanese expression that I understand but can’t think of a good way to express in English—this happens a lot; that’s why translation is difficult—I will give the expression to GPT-4, explain the purpose of the text, provide additional context if necessary, and ask for ten English renditions of the expression. There will almost always be one or two versions that I like.

Here is an example of ten English translations by GPT-4 of the same Japanese text:

https://www.gally.net/temp/20230915pmtranslations.html

Several months ago, I made some videos about ChatGPT and translation, if anyone is interested:

https://www.youtube.com/@Tom_Gally_UTokyo
Right, I'm in agreement. I didn't downvote you.
Bit late to close the barn doors.
I feel like you’re being quite morally prescriptive and advocating legislation on that basis. Is your life so grand or so poor that you cannot empathize with those who’d seek a high from something rather benign?
Insider trading and anti-trust violations aren't comparable. It's pretty easy to tell someone not to trade on insider knowledge, and it's pretty easy for an employee with a little experience to tell when they are doing so. How do you tell employees not to engage in monopolistic behavior? Be less competitive? Don't push out products that too many people will like? I would say the basic issue is that anti-trust laws are entirely subjective, enforcement is usually politically motivated. Given this subjectivity, it makes more sense to care about appearances rather than some ill-defined "substance".
I bet their lawyers are pulling their hairs right now on it
That was my internet philosophy for a very long time, but for a multitude of reasons I see predominantly noise instead of signal in comment areas I used to enjoy and few better alternatives. I’m now trying to counteract my habits and focus more on the information.
I like that the "dungeons" are less dark/dreadful. They remind me of mass effect.
>These findings may inform policies regarding the legal status and control of cannabis use.

But not without NNTs. For depression, OR = 1.8, NNT = 12 (assuming 10% lifetime incidence, this is very hard to estimate due to the difficulty in diagnosis). For bipolar disorder, OR = 3, NNT = 25. This is before accounting for any reverse causation: roughly 80% of incidence of BPD is associated with genetic variation.
Outer Wilds is the absolute best one.
Probably you are still right. Seeing a photograph is different from seeing a person in real animated life. I guess there are micro expressions, the way people laugh, and the exact point at which people laugh and such that some people are really good at reading, but it is hard to articulate what exactly the process of interpretation is.
I thought this was going to be about how uncaught null errors kill people.
Capitalism says if people are willing to pay money for a product, then that product can buy retail space and have marketing budgets.
I think an individual device not making it 5 year would be fine.

A big issue with chromebooks in particular: there's many discreet models of different sizes and builds, that all require different parts, and don't get renewed every year.

One school ordering 400 12" HP chromebooks for instance will have no guarantee to be able to order another batch 2 years later, even of an equivalent machine that could be a straight replacement.

Perhaps Dell has a more stable offering given they probably understand these problematics better ?
How is correlation vs causation determined in other studies where a control group cannot be used?
My experience is that funds & staff that do have exposure to opportunities for insider info because they talk to outsiders like (brokers, company execs & IR, research providers, etc) actually get even brighter lines & rigid boxes around them.

For example - all emails to above go through compliance first & include a disclaimer that you are a market participant and do not wish to receive MNPI. Meetings with above have compliance sit in, etc. People are urged to self report if someone does volunteer something stupid to you that they shouldn't have, and then you sit out from trading it for some period, etc.

They make it very clear that the upside/downside risk is asymmetric. Hey maybe you can cheat and make 10% more this year. Or you can go to prison for 10 years, lose your home, have your wife leave you, and never work in the industry again.
Funny, I had the exact opposite impression. It's like Fallout, but without the over-the-top humor to soften the grimdark crapsack universe where most everyone outside a major city wants to kill you on sight.
Absolutely, nothing wrong with that.

It's important to understand the risks so that one can make informed choices. That is probably where there needs to be more research.
This could have been done in a much better fashion to achieve the long term desired outcome (more income) while also ensuring continued trust and transparency with their community.

Simply, they could have not made this retroactive on existing released games. Rather just be clear that going forward, games build using the new Unity versions would have a per-installation fee. And they would slowly discontinue support for the older versions on a specific schedule.

There are new devices coming out like the new Switch, the Apple Vision Pro, and then the new features Unity is adding like AI, just add those to the new versions that have the run-time fee. People will upgrade to it on their own terms!

By making it retroactive and forcing it on everyone, they have basically screwed over their existing customers who shipped games expecting a certain cost structure and now it is higher.

Deleting this GitHub license archive repo where they make it clear that their license changes are likely unenforceable is icing on the cake.

EDIT: To remove the claim that Unreal Engine had a similar per-install fee, it doesn't.
You don't need a new OS for that. You can do that as a Linux distribution just fine.
The one event where this sh*t doesn't matter. Way to go :facepalm:
Agreed.

Edit: I misread your post earlier. Apologies.
That sounds like an awesome setup! Would you be willing to share your script with another bird photography enthusiast?
I suppose the random access nature of the CD also made it easier to only listen to the good songs. Not that you can’t on vinyl or tape, but it’s certainly not as easy.

Anyway, I didn’t do a great job expanding on my previous thought. The 1-2 “good” songs were also the radio singles and enough of a reason for someone to buy an album. I know I’m a “Top-40-play-the-hits” listener. But that was kinda the point wasn’t it—the labels put the 2 good songs on the radio and charged $20 for the album.
They'll get a crappier bulky version.
Don't bother trying to read the full text. They ask for all your information then you still can't read it.
Again, this isn't a comment on the merits of Google's case in particular. I'm not supporting what they're alleged to have done here, nor claiming they've been angels all around. What I'm saying is "they told people to not use risky language" isn't necessarily a sign that they were guilty or doing something illegal, just like it isn't with everyday folks. Because prudent people will care about language either way, because they know it can get them in trouble regardless.

With that said...

> You may not believe it, but no financial firm I've ever worked for gave me training on "don't use insider training language"

These are apples and oranges. You may not believe it either, but I don't think Google tells anyone "don't use insider trading language" either. That's the apples-to-apples comparison.

AFAIK being a monopoly is a corporate civil matter, not a (strictly personal?) criminal one like insider trading. Expecting people to treat them the same way and claiming they're guilty if they don't makes no sense.
Indeed. Your reasoning was echoed in this critique from Prof David Curtis, Honorary Professor, UCL Genetics Institute.

> “Around 20% of young people in Denmark use cannabis but in this study fewer than 1% of the sample had been assigned a diagnosis of cannabis use disorder and these may well have been people who had a pre-existing susceptibility to depression and other psychiatric disorders.

> “Other studies have shown that cannabis use itself is not associated with increased risk of depression, so perhaps we are seeing that people with a pre-existing susceptibility to depression are more likely to be diagnosed with cannabis use disorder. This clearly does not mean that we should infer that cannabis somehow causes depression.

> “I don’t think that this study provides us with much information to help decide the extent to which cannabis use is, or is not, harmful.”

[1] https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-...
Old thread, but looks like due to non-FOSS dependencies, it's not likely to happen: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAndroid/issues/104...
edit: apology accepted, glad we're on the same side here I was too lazy to argue my case anyways. the demon weed strikes again
This precisely. Who’s going to utilize weed more? People going through mental anguish. You know what causes major depression anxiety and psychosis? Trauma. Read the ACE study. A cruel traumatizing environment and behaviors are far more to blame than cannabis.
Funny seeing this I've have the identical idea before
they are counting more than $0.25 per install
I'm running XMonad on Linux, and I don't see any clock or system stats, because I don't run that. No bottom (nor top etc) bar for me.

(You can add such bars in XMonad, just like you can remove them from i3.)
well I guess that's my personal issue. my projects weren't going for low poly so that's probably where Unity's asset options just fall off a cliff for me.

Granted, I was off the unity train for over a year for personal reasons, but it still helped get me into industry.
I think we ought to free Canadia before we try liberating Mexico from the Mexicans.

How long would it take Washington DC to collapse without the drugs that come through Mexico? Where would everyone get their easily victimized non-Citizen underclass?

Far better to leave Mexico alone for a bit longer.

Of course neither is far away to really serve the purpose of feeding the defense contractors, so the actual strategy will probably hinge on starting in Argentina and conquering south America in a grand drive to the equator.
I wish I had the same experience as you. The vast majority of time I point at tree leaves in South East Asia it tells me it’s Dicots and it stops there. Only rarely I get the actual full classification; the last time it happened was for a common almond tree.
Defense Tech Shouldn’t Be Sexy
Some would say that defending your country against an occupier is a defensive operation....
It's more or less exactly what I expected at this point. 90% of effort/resources into adding more quests and locations, 10% into brushing up surface-level graphics stuff and jiggling the minigames a bit, 0% into "fundamentals" like core gameplay and artistic polish.

The only thing Bethesda has been ambitious about this past decade is content volume.
Way too much travel today for me to do anything more than lurk. Edited comment, apologies, I actually agree with you and completely missed the word "prohibition."
What is the process to challenge an HOA fine?
Harvard Systems Reading Group
Google have fallen from a company I used to admire, to something grubby and untrustworthy.
Just a reminder for anyone reading this that CBD has been shown to be an effective antipsychotic in its own right [1], and particularly in regards to THC related psychosis [2].

It's probably not a great idea that the industry is moving towards high concentration THC and low to zero CBD product.

The "naturally occurring plant" is getting further and further from what's naturally occurring with the psychosis inducing compound coexisting with the psychosis mitigating compound.

It's quite disappointing to walk into a dispensary and see only a tiny shelf in one corner of the store with 1:1 or greater CBD products and 95% of the product on offer as a race to the bottom in CBD potency.

In the majority of people, this won't necessarily result in a psychotic issue, but it's going to happen commonly enough that we're going to have continuing and expanding social issues if 1:1 products don't become more commonplace.

I'd strongly encourage any future legalization legislation to consider marginally subsidizing product that has higher CBD ratios, as often I see that the consumer push towards THC only is related to cost saving against more expensive mixed products.

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1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7955839/

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7955839/
Yep, that’s how it always goes.

In part because the prestige and “coolness factor” of these companies getting the better of people and in part because owning or using shit made by these companies evokes some weird sense of tribalism.

Also don’t underestimate the proliferation of the predominant American culture of capitalism in which very little is done to curb corporate free-for-alls.

This leads many to a mindset in which almost anything goes, especially when the harm is abstracted away due to complex economical forces.

Don’t worry, you’ll see most people here jump on the next thread complaining about the enshittifcation of services or the next price increase of their favorite product/service despite a lack of value add.
Related:

Texas paid Bitcoin miner Riot $31.7M to shut down in August (cnbc.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418866

Texas just got closer to blackouts than it has since 2021. What happened? (kut.org): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419220