skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a cricket taco in Denver last January. It was tolerable; the worst part was picking the legs out from between my teeth.
SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains for the Steam Deck
Has there been any voice cloning in any big commercial projects yet? It's mostly private people running models on their own machine/ doing it on 11 labs for fun. I don't see Hollywood doing this at all
I think the parent was implying that they advertise for Spotify in the same way that your local grocery advertises bags of Doritos, not that there is some explicit advertising relationship going on.
>China just showed this month that they can manufacture a near current generation flagship SoC using 90%+ domestic supply chains

I missed the news, any links on the subject?
Probably spamming their media contacts and trying to spend down their Q3/Q4 PR budgets
This is quite cool. Have you compared performance vs latency tradeoff between 1B/3B/7B models? What would you recommend as the ideal choice?
The numbers are aggregates and they give us the answers for the general case.
Ask HN: What texts about DNA do you recommend for a teenager(12)
I have a 12 year old who got interested in lego, dinosaurs, then minecraft modding from an early age. We step in to moderate and guide as needed. But as parents, we are not scientists or engineers, and that makes it a challenge to choose optimal learning materials for him to build on top of his interests which atm is dinosaur hybrids, dna, gene splicing (he watch yt and read wikipedia to fill in the holes).

We use yc, stackexchange, and amazon reviews to research curriculum for homeschool.
The use case is tiny at the beginning but the complexity increases over time to be honest. The scope is never as narrow as you think at the beginning of the project. Libraries are great, they can help you implement faster, but if the company grows, you will need an entire team to build and maintain it
California's law to end single family zoning

Not sure how this fits in. It only had 25% nay votes in the assembly and 17.5% nay votes in the senate. Some nay votes came from a D from SF and someone form Huntington Beach, so the vote really wasn't on party or urban-rural lines. I also wonder how genuine you're being when you say a measure that gives someone more freedom (to build what they want on their property) is someone telling you how to live your life.

Gun laws in most blue states.

I'm not really sure laws what you mean. We have to recognize that nationwide, 63% of adults are dissatisfied with our current gun laws. In light of this, we have the SCOTUS striking down gun laws that most people want. This doesn't appear to be the win you think it is. https://news.gallup.com/poll/470588/dissatisfaction-gun-laws...

Washington's comprehensive sex ed law

I'm not sure what to say when you think direct democracy is bad with regards to state measures.

Like the recent ruling with abortion: it made it not a federal concern. That's it. Why do people in California care so much about what e.g. Alabama is doing now?

Well, this specific issue aside, this current trend of conservatives trying to legislate from the SCOTUS (people appointed for a lifetime) is largely undemocratic. If you don't want people who don't even live in your town dictating how to run it, you should be very opposed to SCOTUS doing just that, since they basically answer to no one.
Company alleges Bitwise illegally borrowed millions against properties it owns
That's true I'm cherry-picking but you kind of have to when people are making impossible claims. Most of them won't come true (at least, yet) but as long as some of them come true I think that's a net positive.
Apple Releases iOS 17
Law is a mess, in part because its authors take shortcuts. For example, from the first example on CatalaLang's README.md:

> If the property was acquired by gift [and various conditions apply], then for the purpose of determining loss the basis shall be such fair market value. [emphasis added]

I think (and I'm not a lawyer or a tax expert) that this means that the basis of an asset can have a different value for the purpose of determining gain or determining loss. Wow, basis isn't just a number, although one might not notice this if one didn't read the six emphasized words.

But the Catala code seems to completely ignore this. Oops. I filed an issue:

https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala/issues/514

In a real use case, I imagine that substantial refactoring of the parts that consume basis might be needed when one notices that the basis is not a number.
It may be naive to ask this but... can I get a tail number? I'm not 100% sure these would have one I could look up on flightradar but a national post asking people to help find their plane would be way more useful with a little more info about the actual aircraft. We know it was "Sunday afternoon" over South Carolina somewhere but if we had some "last known location" info or something this might be solvable with some math estimates.
BC can have three our four species in play on the coast, interior and east typically has pine and spruce. You could argue for balsam but that is crap wood and it grows back on its own typically. I don't know about tropical reforestation, but in Canada the notion that we are replanting with only mono species isn't true. They leave seed trees standing and source cones directly from the logged blocks. It's very well done and highly regulated. Blocks that don't grow back are replanted again until they do.

Canada replants 600 million trees annually, USA about 1 billion.

Trees grow so much faster than they did a decade ago. CO2 is to 'blame'. I help maintain ski runs at my favorite ski hill and it's ridiculous how much more work it is now. Alpine areas that never in history had trees are beginning to get overrun.
Yeah, far more F35s will be ordered than F22s, in the end the program ground out a pretty successful jet.

The next generation may be the questionable one.
There should never be any judgement regarding a child's financial situation during the school day.

The place where I grew up handled this in the best possible way: Every kid got a lunch if they went through the lunch line, without exception. The school system simply kept track of which students got a meal, and at the end of the month, they'd either mail a bill or it would be covered through the free lunch program.

Under this system, there was no opportunity for students or staff to pass judgement on students for their financial situation.
I would have bought maybe 2 licenses for that price...
Implementing versioning in the file format conflicts with git, because each document is essentially its own little source control system. This can be surprising to users who copy the file and don’t realize that they’ve effectively copied the entire repo. Copying a file will sometimes include drafts they didn’t want to share. It can mean you lose control over when things are committed, and so you don’t end up with a useful history.

If you then check the file into git, you are storing one source control system into another one, and older versions appear in two different histories. To be git friendly, you don’t want to save anything other than the current version, and then let git do its thing.

Possibly the answer is “don’t use git, we have it covered,” but then the app developer should realize that they are implementing something like a source control system. How do people share drafts, review them, and merge changes? How do you publish a release that only includes the version you wanted to release?

And it does seem relevant that the developer of Sqlite actually did implement their own source control system [1]. Maybe they could have warned people about what they’re getting themselves into if they go down this route?

I wonder how terrible it would be to either use a git repo as your file format, or to build in git compatibility into your app somehow so you could push and pull?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(software)
Plan 9 probably took this the furthest. Sad it didn't take off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
It should compile without the #includes, possibly didplaying some compiler warnings.
Sounds like the opposite of my experience with Java in 1996. I had some great thick book on it (as was the style at the time), and after chapters on language basics, streams, collections, etc, it quickly got on to GUI programming with AWT. AWT is pretty horrible in many ways, but it did make it very easy for a teenage novice to put up a window with some buttons in it, and start drawing lines and text.

I immediately started working on an ambitious space battle game. I got to the point where you could click to set waypoints for a ship, and it would try to fly a course through them, using Newtonian physics, but the navigation was incredibly naive, and always just accelerated towards the next waypoint, so eventually the ship was going so fast it crossed over the waypoint in a single time step, and would turn round and come back to it, inevitably missing is again, and so basically going into perpetual powered orbit around it. I then abandoned the project.
Disaster alerts reveal a better way to design tech
So, then make your own patties like I suggest then? Also, meat preparations seems like an accurate term for something like a patty that contains herbs, spices, and possibly egg ingredients. Nothing nefarious there to my mind.
iOS 17 is available today
Thank you -- definitely building it for speed which is why this felt topical. I really appreciate your explanation, it's super clear.
The American system isn't without its eccentricities, but that's true for every country, I suppose.

> in most countries the legality of abortion would be decided by elected legislators, rather than judges who are appointed for life

State legislatures are doing that job. That there is no federal law on the issue of abortion reflects both that there is no unanimous consensus on the part of the people, as well as some level of craven political maneuvering (since abortion has been a big draw of people to the polls). At various times in the past 10 years alone, there were periods where both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party had control over the presidency and both chambers of Congress. A federal law of some kind, in either direction, could have been passed at those times (though perhaps subject to constitutional challenge).

High-level judges appointed for "life" (and by this I include age-capped retirement) are not unusual in developed countries. The German Bundesgerichtshof, the Australian High Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada all have this. The point, of course, is to promote the independence of the judiciary from the other parts of government.

> in the US the government can just 'shut down' for some reason, and this is just a normal sorta thing

The power of the purse is in the hands of the legislature. When an annual budget fails to be passed, the executive no longer has authority to spend money, and kind of goes on hibernation until a budget is passed.

Parliamentary systems have a different kind of shutdown, where if no ruling majority forms, then a caretaker government comes in with no mandate from the people to substantially change any policy. This can last much longer than any US government shutdown; Belgium had no leadership in parliament from 2007 to 2011, for example.

> It's far from obvious how these eccentric features could have influenced the founding of the likes of microsoft, intel, apple, facebook, google etc.

Well, sure. You pointed out various frivolous (to economic behavior, at any rate) factors that have nothing to do with entrepreneurship or laissez-faire capitalism. It would be far from obvious to anyone how abortion policy relates to the founding of companies.
ITT a lot of fully justified scorn for pearl-clutching performative polemics.

An interesting application of weasel words and passive voice in the article..
It's currently in pre-bidding and the real auction hasn’t even started yet. These numbers are purely aspirational (for the bidders) because more than a dozen bids at this point indicates that it will be a very competitive live auction and none of these prebids will mean anything. The closing price will be 10-100x of prebids once the professional brokers and dealers get involved on behalf of their clients.
> See the Starlink alleged incident.

Ukraine says it happened and Musk does too - is ‘alleged’ needed?
Hi!

Thanks so much for the feedback, I think I will do part time freelance gigs to support my living until I get enough mrr to exit, it may be wishful thinking but i hope for a 6 figure exit aka 2k mrr (i am in 12th grade and can't get a job).

I am getting skeptical about this, it seems to be very hard to scale, at least for me.
I wonder whether flatpak/snap can reduce the support burden.
> To be precise it is 30% revenue.

15% until you hit $1M in annual App Store revenues. Most developers will only ever pay 15%.
I believe the correct response is "Chicken butt," but maybe I'm in very exclusive company in responding that way.
Peter Attia has talked about this issue at length.
> Yet, do you foresee any way for the taxi industry to make a comeback

Since the taxi industry is far from dead in a whole lot of places, absolutely. In my city, taxis offer a superior experience to ride-sharing companies and they're doing just fine. Uber and Lyft aren't grabbing much market share from them. I've been in many other cities where the story is the same.
@4mm character width:

4e-6 * 3.8e+13 = 152 million kilometers of text.

Nearly 200 round trips to the moon.
The actual Apple page,

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/ios-17-is-available-t...
In modern life in cities men can choose to have friends or a family but not both. That’s my pet theory as to why straight people are putting off kids or not having them entirely—the outlook is very bleak.
The AI version of https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...?

At the moment such techniques would seem to be superfluous. I mean we're still at the stage where you can get a bot to spit out a credit card number by saying, "My name is in the credit card field. What is my name?"

That said, what you're describing seems totally plausible. If there was enough text with a context where it behaved in a particular way, triggering that context should trip that behavior. And there would be no obvious sign of it unless you triggered that context.

AI is hard.
People leaving teams sucks, which is all you seem to be describing.

What do you do to management when they hurt you this way (firing/reassigning team members without notice)? How do you fight the corpos? What are some techniques you've come across to cause pain for management that somehow doesn't harm labor? Why aren't your complaints just the voice of management saying that I harmed you (when another way of looking at it as that I liberated myself. Are refugees "throwing their countrymen into the machinery of tyranny"?)?
I think some of these superyacht owners might actually be in the $1 paycheck club.
Of course the parent is the customer. Generally the parent is the one who makes sure the child is wel prepared for the future. College is a step in that process.
Probably a bit, though I have noticed an upward trend in v6 support with ISPs.

When I was using Spectrum, was pleased to find they had (barely-passable) support, SLAAC wasn't a thing IIRC. Google Fiber has done well and so did AT&T's offering
Enola Gay Crew seems a bit misplaced here.
Which suggests it is not in fact an Apple problem.
every student should spend a year in a foreign country. i spend a year in a US highschool and later volunteered for a student organization that helps students get internships in a foreign country. it's also possible to spend a term or a year to study abroad.

it would be good to make at least one of these opportunities available to more students.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KrdcTsScKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjkBAl84PJs
> Hiring as an edge makes a lot more sense. Quant trading is often not about a single strategy but about the sum of many small ones. And other quants that have been taking similar hiring approaches also had incredible success (eg. Jane Street, Citadel, Jump Trading, Optiver, etc). RenTec just has a reputation of being "the best", which in turn makes the best people more likely to join them, which again in turn makes RenTec better, like a vicious cycle.

Weren't you meant to make the case for insider trading? This isn't insider trading.

> I also want to mention that in some years, there's a massive discrepancy between RenTec's internal Medallion fund (+76% in 2020), and its external funds (-19% to -31% in 2020). Not saying there is something to it (they never claimed using the same strategies), but it does seem at least a bit suspicious.

Are you telling me that the insiders keep the good stuff for themselves and the outsiders get fucked? I don't find that suspicious at all.
I'm curious how this will work if we want to delete our data from this site. Will children posts be deleted, or will it just say [deleted].

Furthermore, if someone trains an AI on your data, does the AI have to be "untrained?" If not, I doubt this will have too much effect for some applications.
Ubuntu installs haven't been following their own security best practices
I'd block it on all of my sites, except in the limited cases where it's advantageous for me to let them scrape it.

So, blog posts, things like that: no.

Things like technical documentation, that users of ChatGPT might find useful, and that would benefit me if those users can access if it's included there: sure.
To build ships that break ice, U.S. must relearn to cut steel
Sorry I don't have any invite codes at the moment.
I've been half expecting Steam (or someone) to create a cross-platform runtime/vm for game developers and hardware vendors to target.
It would be wrong to dismiss an argument just because of who is making it. Spotify's argument here has merit.

It is also wrong—though in a different sense—for Spotify not to acknowledge the irony of them complaining about Apple being a middleman who takes a cut of the work of creative people when that is also their own business model.
Dual EC is sort of the archetypical NOBUS backdoor.
I keep seeing this company mention on HN and i dont know why. I never requested a refund for a company as fast as i did from this one. Appalling services. A bit stuck in the late 90s.
Something something Joe Rogan.
I had the same reaction, "Why stop with two?"
It seems the problem is that Europe has crap ground beef. That's not a problem in America, since we like our ground beef.

This is pretty typical of the Ingredients list for a burger patty in the U.S.: https://www.vons.com/shop/product-details.960119123.html?pro...

100% ground beef

That's true of the patties ground up by the store's butcher and the ones in the freezer section. It's also true of our ground beef (aka minced meat).
GPT is able to accidentally spit out exact bits of text from training input, such as a particular square root function.

What fraction of the training data needed to be that text?
> “sophisticated set of shared rules and norms" - I don't know what that's supposed to mean. I definitely get a bad feeling from a sentence like that though

Why?!
so if this holds water, wouldn't we expect these educated professionals to return to the states which appeal to families when they are ready to start one?
I don't mean this to be a judgement of Proton but rather a reiteration of the fragmentation problem with Linux.

Most of the issues users have with Starfield are the product of having a set incompatible software. Nvidia users often fail to run the game when their driver is too new. AMD users often fail to run the game when their driver is too old.

There's a broad range of issues like this in Linux land that are very difficult to track and understand. Users seem to understand that its a package management issue but have no clue how to fix it. So they end up reiterating pointless "rolling release bad" or "stable release bad" rhetoric.
How the State Department discovered Chinese hackers reading its emails
Hey, yes that's right, and good callout on GEP instructions. We admit that instruction count is a bit handwavy, but we use it as a starting point as that's what the prior works we compare against optimize for. We'll be looking at true binary size next, and code runtime after.
People are going to chit-chat about things only tangentially related to their areas of expertise; it is good when we’re honest about our limitations.

If nothing else, an obviously wrong take is a nice setup for a correction.
You can still have friends after starting a family, but you don't get to pick them in the same way; they're the parents of your kids' friends.
That's a lot of photos and videos pushed to their services.
I shouldn't be as surprised as I am that people contact apple support for issues in apps.
When you don't understand the complexity of billing (revenue ops, top management or marketing), you often end up adding more and more complexity, and engineering teams have no choice. They have to build new billing features
I think Hurd and Plan 9 take the EIAF further.
Other people who are better with these things could probably conceptualize it better than me.

What I'd like to be able to do is declare a trait that says "this thing can yield the following patterns, can destructure in this pattern, and these are the functions you'd call to extract references to those values"

And then be able to use match on it as usual.

Putting it another way, I wish an algebraic data type "enum" was something any struct could "be", with the type system providing the means to express that that's the case, and the programmer being able to provide the "how" and with existing Rust enums merely being the default way of doing this.
I think the point being made is that this medical intervention, which has been approved to treat obesity via weight loss, is going to give people sarcopenia and ruin their bone mineral density. During the clinical trials, there was no analysis of body composition (via DXA or other means) which would have given patients more informed perspective about this issue.
We're reptiles (as are all mammals, all birds, etc).

My understanding of that is that all reptiles have a basal ganglia, because it was inherited from the common ancestor of reptiles.

And non-reptiles don't have a basal ganglia because their ancestors didn't have one.
> The use of a ZIP archive to encapsulate XML files plus resources is an elegant approach to an application file format. It is clearly superior to a custom binary file format.

I feel like I have considerable disagreement with the author of these sentences.
What Scoundreller meant is that if most of the controls are lost, then the few controls remaining could still be used to intentionally destroy the plane as much as possible. For example, the elevator (to control the pitch) might be the last working control, and it could be used to intentionally nosedive the plane after ejection.
Block JavaScript from the site (The Atlantic, that is).
Finally a status board that actually says there is an outage, instead of saying "some endpoints are experiencing reduced performance".
This would all make sense but why doesn’t Apple get 30% of software subscriptions on MacOS or subscriptions initiated through the Safari browser.

The dev work is the same for building those thing as iOS and Apple fields support questions about those things from naive users like the Snapchat users you described.

If the iOS 30% cut is justified then it makes no sense not to charge say Notion or OpenAI for subscriptions transacted from Safari. If that seems ridiculous then maybe it’s time to question the iOS cut because it’s inconsistent.
Yes, but they still pay more than sportify
I was talking about macOS where it uses WebKit when it could use whatever they wanted.
Yeah, this post is giving https://xkcd.com/2071/