skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once I got a kitchen scale I was astounded at how terrible I was at estimating the actual amounts of things that I was using. While I am sure it is not as simple as calories in versus out, if you take anything away from this article at least let it be that people are very bad about estimating their actual portion sizes. And if you get a chance, grab a kitchen scale (and keep some measuring cups handy too) and try guessing then measuring and see how well you do! I think you'll be very surprised. Especially, as mentioned in the article, pouring liquid, which is very very easy to drastically overpour.
Older and prototype arms are sadly often scrapped past a certain point, there's just limited use for an ancient arm with it's associated ancient control systems (often a bigger issue to keep running than the actual arms as you're dealing with real time operating systems that are tricky to run outside of their original equipment.
Yep, I got a free Raspberry Pi 3 B+ from my employer who was just gonna toss it (it was the internal processing board for a PDI Fuel Commander device) and use it to host my personal website and other random tools and projects. Currently the biggest stress test is using it to scan the web for gas station tank gauges that are open and unprotected.
Do they require the hardware drivers to be upstreamed to the Linux kernel?

If not, then there's no way to patch security issues.

Also, what about the binary blobs, such as the cell and wifi chipset operating systems?
Books are one example on the spectrum of types of content here. They're not enough on their own. A book is a poor source for an in-depth look at pending legislation, for example.

Essays, short stories, deep investigative news stories, etc. also all fall into the "long form" bucket. A lot of those had their natural homes in magazines and newspapers, and those have taken huge hits as people's attention has turned to short, viral, online things instead.
Maybe try pg_repack?
Don’t forget about integrated browsers in apps. Gmail, Facebook, and I’m sure a million other apps do this so even when you leave, you’re still in their app.
Ruby & Javascript
Michael J. D. Powell Memorial (2015)
Probably depends on the locality, yeah. In the LA area, I never end up paying more than 4 or 5 bucks for a small box of immediate release pseudo. The name-brand boxes might be over $6, but I can't imagine paying $10.
First, prove that a credible death threat actually happened. And by credible, a baseline for that should be an actual police report being filed, putting somebody on the hook for possible false police reports if it was fabricated.

All public claims of death threats when somebody is going through a bad PR cycle should be considered somewhat suspect unless some kind of police report or credible evidence is provided.
Except most Unity users don't want to write C++, if they wanted to, they would have chosen another engine in first place.
> I encourage everyone to read about the DNC fraud lawsuit where the DNC argued that they have no obligation to hold a fair primary because they're a corporation and the nomination process isn't constitutionally protected: ...

I mean, they're correct though right? The major political parties used to just decide who the nominee was in whatever shady-ass backroom they felt like. The current system is vastly better than that.

If you want something even better, let's do it, but any real change is going to require constitutional amendments or at least _vast_ changes in many states.
Depends on the consumer I suppose. It seems more vibrant, useful, and interesting than ever before at the moment.
> Unless you disagreed with its politics. In which case you were suspended, or shadowbanned.

I would appreciate an example about what kinds of political posts Twitter banned. Pre-Elon Twitter did suspend Republicans more than Democrats, but that was because Republicans tended to post more misinformation [1].

Tangentially speaking, Twitter also gave rule-breaking posts regarding the January 6th, 2021 insurrection a bit of leeway [2].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/18/fascinating-new-study-su...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/internal-twitter-video-r...
Their example prompt is so bad that I'm split between them being wildly incompetent at understanding how transformers or autoregressiveness works (and general LLM dynamics) or they are deliberately obfuscating the task and prompt representation in bad faith.

If one really wants to know if LLMs "are capable of planning", one should keep an open mind for how planning behavior can manifest in textual form, then actually try to find any manifestations. Imposing one's view of how planning should look like is bad science. All they've proved is that their task format sucks for current generation LLMs.
> Epic pays for temporary exclusivity

In several cases, they sought out games that were already coming out on Steam and even had preorders (or kickstarter backers) there, and then paid those developers to rip it out.

There is a seemingly minor but important distinction with what Epic does: they do not pay for exclusivity nor do most of their actions involve paying for a game to be made that otherwise would not have been. Either of those things are fine, even if begrudgingly.

What Epic actually does is pay to harm Steam specifically; the stipulation is always "don't put it on Steam", not "only put it on our platform". It is purposely targeted and antagonistic towards steam and steam users; "we have deprived you of a thing, now you have to come here if you want to get it" is how that comes across, when they should have aimed for "we are getting this new thing made for our platform, come over here to check it out!"

While they were doing this, their store was in a miserable state compared to its competitors, in terms of features and reliability (especially for the desktop app). So they were seen as prioritizing depriving another platform instead of prioritizing having a good platform and customer experience.

When all of the above is put together, it comes across as petty and malicious, rather than them trying to throw their fortnite dollars at bootstrapping their platform, and at making and having a quality platform for consumers.

If they had simply paid for a bunch of new exclusive games and IP to be made for their platform rather than seeking out existing, already advertised and in-development suitor games, it would have come across way differently. Or if so much more of the effort and money would have gone to making the store better and beyond feature parity with its main competitors (not that it necessarily reached even that), it would have been received quite differently.
The problem is that they own the water rights. The state could eminent domain them, but they would have to pay fair market value (whatever that is). I would bet that most people would not elect politicians who suggested such a thing, unless they were feeling the pain directly.
Not all cities are like that. The one I'm in isn't. There are also laws in many cities where they can't reappraise the tax value of the home without a significant renovation. This is to keep elderly people in their homes who are on a fixed income. It's a lot more complicated than, "tax good," but yes, that's the gist.
> But some have the ability to take advantage of that fraction of a second to perform a much more malicious mission: to send people a distinctive, seemingly innocent, ad that contains advanced spyware

> One of these companies is Insanet, whose existence is being made public here for the first time. As its name suggests, it possesses insane capabilities, according to sources in the industry. Founded by a number of well-known entrepreneurs in the fields of offensive cyber and digital intelligence, the company is owned by former ranking members of the defense establishment, including a past head of the National Security Council, Dani Arditi

> The company’s personnel also succeeded in obtaining authorization from the Defense Ministry to sell their technology globally

> The defense establishment is genuinely worried that these technological abilities will also be sold by foreign firms that are not subject to supervision at al

It's good that Israeli's Defense Ministry makes sure these companies work only with lawful governments and e.g. targeting exile Russian journalists would not happen (:
I'm a data scientist day to day, which is a very different feel from coding up game systems. The latter is a lot more intricate and intertwined. The text coding I do in c++ for unreal is probably more involved.

I can't say what you're saying resonates with me as familiar. I've always been confused at why people ever feel multiple cursors is useful if not just begging for disaster. You can, for example, rename a property in a blueprint class, and that will flow through to all references to that property in other blueprints, if that's closer to what you mean.

When I think about refactoring I think about taking some logic and making it into a more reusable function; or abstracting it into a shared component. I would say the former is what I was saying, and the latter is more of a capability offered by the engine than the tooling. Reparenting classes to compatible alternative parents and moving properties and logic to component classes is relatively comfortable in my opinion.
I eat breakfast at around 8/9ish, lunch, and then dinner before 7, normally at 6. This gives me my rough 12/12 with some give and take. I specify 3 meals because I no longer snack in between them at all. Including no sugary drinks or sugary tea.

Once a week or two I skip a day of meals to make a 36hour fast. This depends on my social calendar whether it’s possible
You're still fundamentally finding success due to your calories in matching your calories out, though? It's just a match over a longer timescale. Did you feel people were telling you that have to match calories over every single 24 hour period, or something?

I don't mean to disagree fundamentally, intermittent fasting seems great and it's awesome that you've found a way to keep your calorie intake controlled without suffering constant hunger, but I don't get why you seem to think it's somehow in opposition to CICO. Of course you can eat 48 hours worth of food one day and 0 the next. That's kind of the beauty of it, as long as the numbers work out on average you can eat however you like - the only tricky part is that it's up to you to find a way to make the numbers work out sustainably. Which you have!
Smart Cities Deep Dive: AI-Powered Urbanization
You do a lot of networking with people you want to work with. Then you talk about working together and figure it out. Lots of small companies or people with smaller budgets will say "oh crap, I wish I could hire you as an employee, but I can only afford a freelancer".
Another ML infra startup focused on developers
Well is it possible that an Alan Sokal kind of trick be pulled off in economics if it is a social science.

Relevant : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
And being the best C# engine.

There are others, but without the console support, VR/AR headset and platform SDKs like Unity.
Comments from when this was posted yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37486822
The death threats probably came from Tim Cook since Unity decided to torpedo developers right before the Vision Pro launch and Unity is the engine Apple has been promoting for Vision Pro app development.
They have literally said they're not going to do this because their install tracking does not give them any personally identifiable information.
This is the kind of thinking that lead to the show biggest loser. Not a single one of those people maintained their weightloss because youre not going to turn a 600lb person into an Olympic distance runner overnight. Its unmaintainable! Not to mention they have to keep eating an insane amount of food to push 50 miles a week which means if they stop running they gain all the weight back because they never fixed their eating habits. This is the wrong way to think about losing weight. You first need to develop a healthy relationship with food and exercise.
I suppose generating death threats is one way to demonstrate product-market fit and a steep moat.
Same combo
Fall for it? It's signalling. If it wasn't a diamond it would be something else.
> I know this force well, and I hate it, but I do not yet know how to fight it.

This can only be solved by company owners caring more about the usefulness of their product than about profit maximization. Being merely profitable should be fine. Being profitable should be a vehicle for creating and maintaining a good product, and not the other way around.

This also means that metrics like DAU and automated methods like A/B testing are no substitute for having good judgement, listening to users, and doing in-person usability studies.
Check out rule 11 on https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/about/ (they have relaxed the rules a bit because Reddit doesn't provide for a non-abusable block, which is important and useful functionality). But essentially it's disruptive because you can simply block most of the active members of a subreddit and get an unchallenged soapbox, which in a community which wants to correct misinformation is not desired (I think they fixed this particularly stupid idea but for a while you could just block all the moderators and it would be quite difficult for them to even notice you)
It's such a good idea, it needs to be implemented by force!

If it is such a good idea, instead of commandeering the infrastructure of others, why couldn't the gov't just set up its own email service to compete?
Shopping at scummy web stores that accept PayPal.
Lol--that's a great reference.
There's a reason people use the phrase "out of an abundance of caution": it means they don't really think the risk is significant enough to do anything, but they know they'll be blamed if something goes wrong after they didn't cancel.
The difference is changing the rules in the middle of the game.
> Whonix is unanimously considered the best Linux distribution in terms of privacy and security

"Unanimously?" By whom?
Why not segment user interfaces for different demographics by creating several apps (or switchable app modes) -- one for the "marginal" users, another for the less "marginal" "normal" users, and another for "sophisticated" ones who want more options and control and are prepared to pay for it by tolerating increased complexity?
Doesn't do game consoles.
I don't know what parent had in mind, but I was personally disappointed that not one of these conjectures was actually talked about in detail. They had a nice picture of two images of a rotating line and then . . . proceeded to just not tell us what the actual conjecture states. They went on to talk about all the conjectures stacked up but never what any of them say or mean, just that they imply each other.

I wanted some meat, what I got was a photocopy of a magazine picture of some meat.
I was shocked to learn that this is a thing but it does happen. Organized crime groups steal art that they can use to negotiate lighter sentences.

It is believed that the Mafia stole Rembrandt's "Storm in the Sea of Galilee", among other works from the Gardner Museum for this reason.
The documentary series "This Is a Robbery" goes into this heist and is a good watch.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_a_Robbery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Mus...
There's a comparison. If the scale goes from -100 to +100, the conclusion is that if we have 8 billion people in the world with average happiness of +10, it is better to immiserate them in order to have 80 billion with average happiness +1.01.

It's not that the acceptable state of 1.01 is repugnant, it's that the conclusion seems counterintuitive and ethically problematic to many people, as it suggests that we should prefer creating a massive population of people who are barely happy over a smaller population of people who are very happy.
Oh I agree 100%, that wasn't banter, it was a grumpy shutdown.
First device to monitor transplanted organs detects early signs of rejection
why, yes, go defenestrate yourself too.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified RF radiation as a “possible human carcinogen.” (A carcinogen is an agent that causes cancer.) Should people stop using cell phones? At this time we do not have the science to link health problems to cell phone use.
"Blackout" kind of implies "electrical", no?
There's an old story that capital and materials are cheap when nobody is interesting in building things but they go up dramatically when people are.

Back in the 1970s, inflation and high interest rates were a big reason why nuclear power plant costs spiraled out of control. They haven't started building a NuScale yet but the cost of very basic inputs has been increasing dramatically

https://www.cato.org/blog/cost-escalation-delays-small-modul...

Other energy systems need the same inputs as steel, so it's reasonable to expect that cost escalations will affect all sorts of energy systems.
It's missing a lot of context.

> The mouse that eats less but gains weight

> Unexpectedly, this increased adiposity is not caused by increased food intake. Instead, Mc3r-/- mice gain more fat per calorie of food consumed, apparently at the expense of their lean body mass. This so-called increased feed efficiency means that the mutant mice store more fat despite eating less than normal mice do, and they become obese if fed a high-fat diet. The mechanism behind these responses is unclear because the Mc3r-/- mice have normal metabolic rates, body temperatures, and thyroid function

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2330/

Also a lot of counterpoints in this article.

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/11/a-chemical-hunger-p...

E.g.

> consider Poehlman et al. (1986), where researchers fed a group of 12 men 1,000 extra calories a day for 22 days. On average the men gained about 5 lbs (2.2 kg), but some of them actually lost weight instead.

...

> The fact that many of these are twin studies provides even more evidence against CICO. In groups of twins that are all overfed by the same amount, there is substantial variation between the different participants in general. Some people gain a lot of weight, others gain almost none. But each person gains (or loses!) about the same amount of weight as their twin. In some cases these correlations can be substantial, as high as r = 0.90. This strongly suggests that genetics plays a large role in determining how the body responds to overfeeding.
No I don't think so. You can. I do about 80/20 bp, gradually shifting some content to cpp as I need more specific network replication capabilities.

But they're definitely referring to learning by doing stuff in blueprints. I would agree with this. Figuring out how something ought to be done with the engine in blueprint and then re-implementing it in cpp is the more pleasant experience imo.
Who was Powell?

Michael James David Powell FRS [1] was "a British numerical analyst who was among the pioneers of computational mathematics" [2]. He was the inventor/early contributor of quasi-Newton method, trust region method, augmented Lagrangian method, and SQP method. Each of them is a pillar of modern numerical optimization. He also made significant contributions to approximation theory and methods.

Among numerous honors, Powell was one of the first two recipients of the Dantzig Prize [3] from the Mathematical Programming Society (MOS) and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). This is considered the highest award in optimization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._D._Powell

[2] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbm.201...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dantzig_Prize
The reason it works is because they've done the research to make it work. It isn't a coincidence DAUs increase. I think it is important to recognize that it can impact you, and take steps to account for that, even if - or especially if - you don't want it to. You are not immune to propaganda, and all that.
I dunno what op meant but maybe that people around here aren't good at/aren't interested in analysis? I'd buy that - if you're good at analysis you go into a applied math/econ/stats rather than CS.
I've been hearing these "concerns" for 25 years, yet as the link shows this has not stopped a an ongoing explosion in solar investment - presumably a large chunk of that from people who are not complete fucking idiots and are aware of OPs 1990's-era concerns.
I just looked at https://www.parallax.com/ and it seems the BASIC Stamps are being EoL'd, but their remaining stock is on sale. The Propeller (the follow-on to the BASIC Stamp) is kind of interesting and the site implies you can run PBASIC code on the Propeller 2 ( you learn something new every day. ) I used a BASIC Stamp way back when and it wasn't a horrible experience. People dis on BASIC, but if you have a simple app, it's not that bad.
> I think there is a third definition of "science":

> 3. What is actually happening in academia

While we're enumerating, I think there's a fourth definition:

4. "Science" as a belief system rather than as a tool/technology. I think in this respect, there's often an unacknowledged (or denied) blurring between science and science fiction (the more traditional "spaceship books" kind, as well as overconfident speculation). There's also a tendency to claim the prestige and authority of science for one's own personal opinions and preferences.
Sounds like he successfully bargained after this arrest, but didn’t necessarily pre-meditate the theft in order to reduce a future prison sentence.
I'm confused - my browser does exactly that, and so do others' around me.

I've even had an issue on a project recently caused exactly by the rendered view being saved for the back button. I've also had to demonstrate a possible issue with full page loaders on a regular website twice for the same back button reason - because apparently people (or at least several of my colleagues) don't find browsers' native request loading indication enough anymore... Rotten by JS loaders and SPA's, I guess?
Is 200k the new 120k?
I guess time passes faster than I want to admit but it seems like not too long ago 120k base salary was considered good compensation.

I've recently been looking for a software engineering job at early stage startups. It seems like many are willing to pay 180-200k base salary. Is this normal in the bay area now?
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How's the resource in question the dog? The dog's are used for illustrative purposes to convey a technical idea. So not finding a bone, the resource, is appropriate. Also it's such a HN thing to do to dissect humor in such a way.
Well perceived as ancient and crufty. I do not think there is any genuine obstacle to progress. But the thing is not just that some crazy people got together and implemented something we could all use or not, the problem with both systemd and Wayland is that it comes with all the propaganda that this is the future and nothing else, that everything else is "ancient and crufty", "unfixable", and "broken". This is clearly meant to demoralize everybody interested in alternatives. For example, there was no really good reason for Debian to force the systemd decision. That an entire distribution spawned from frustration about this decision clearly shows that there is enough interest and man power to maintain alternatives. Let's hope some people step up for X as well.