skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a personal impressionistic opinion, so please take it as such and don’t expect citations or details. It has been empirically clear since the inception of GNN that the message passing structure and forced equivariance would make it hard to optimize GNNs for many practical applications. In a sense if you could solve graph isomorphism with these architectures, you would find a counter example for an NP-complete problem, so few people expected magic, but it was still disheartening to see the old school hashed bags of subgraphs outperform fancy GNNs on practical problems and to see that pretraining didn’t help the GNNs as much, or to see that the internal structures of these models are not quickly building up sensible hierarchies on their own. So then people started the hacking and exploring and by now the practical models are better than the early hacks but the theoretical optimization for how to deal with graphs in subdomains of extreme interest (say drug discovery, biology, or materials design) has not yet finished. By comparison autoregressive language models are super mature and generally applicable, as are transformers. These mixups in the early GNN led people to spend a lot of effort reformulating problems to match established architectures better or complement the GNN parts with hacks.
Drop the work culture and enable porn again and people might actually want some families.
It's viable because customers generally have no recourse and companies don't care as long as the problem is in their favor.
I'm not even sure what I just read. I thought it was going to explain why they don't use any analytics anymore and all I got as a 10,000 foot answer that could be summarized as, "Well, because!"

I don't use analytics on any of my services simply because I don't like analytics and people tracking me, so why would I do it to others?

Does it mean I don't track my business metrics? No. I still measure general conversion rates from sign up to payers. I measure things like sign ups per-month. You don't need analytics to track that. Basic metrics combined with a "CHANGELOG" file with dates/releases/fixes is plenty for my solo business. Want to know what I did in January to spike sign ups or more payers? Look at my change log.
Looking at the population pyramid:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/japan/2022/

There's going to be a lot of funerals when the boomers start passing away.

Germany has a similar median age(less than one year difference), but a very different distribution:

https://www.populationpyramid.net/germany/2022/

Still, they'll experience the same, just later.
It’s plenty informative, but I’m kind of surprised and let down that there are no actual clips / samples shown of the material referred to. No one reading the book out loud even. It would have been better with real examples to show.
What is the developer’s role in software reliability?
Right. So that’s the minefield, no? If you download from Oracle, it’s like Photoshop from Adobe. If you download from Amazon, it’s like gcc. But it’s the same software: near invisible difference.

So that’s why you shouldn’t download from Oracle.
Someone successfully did that! Tons of people that got demonetized on Youtube are doing great on Rumble. Including Russell Brand, as a matter of fact.

He also just got a strong statement of support from the owner of another large monetized video distribution platform (X fka Twitter). So he can always move his show there.
> It seems to me that the scientific community's reaction to the replication crisis has been to ignore it.

They've always known so there hasn't actually been any new information from which to spur action. In the academic circles I've run in there has always been a strong mistrust of reported results and procedures based on past difficulties with internal efforts replicating results. Basically a right of passage for a grad student to be tasked with replicating work from an impossible paper.
Kotlin has multithreading, and it also puts `suspend` in the type system.
> it's a loss of projected income, which in many ways is not real

About as real as money.
>helps them advance their careers

... into the multi-billion dollar companies GP is talking about.
1) I’d expect more than 10% of currently-living Japanese citizens will be dead in 20 years.

2) But the total population probably won’t drop that much in 20 years, because the birth rate, though low, is rather above zero.
This is an interesting, yet bewildering take. Do you work for Unity by chance?

Most stores will gladly have you enter their store at a cost, the hardest and most expensive part of the process is getting you there.
> Tracking sells our personal information to increase advertisement effectiveness

Saying this downplays the invasiveness and threat. That's not the only purpose.
We should have about 1000 representatives by now but I think they just didn’t want to retrofit congressional buildings to do it. Of course that would still be 20 billion per congresscritter.

But GDP is a bit misleading. A lot of it is financial services lately. It’s not real goods or services.
Thanks to the First Amendment.
I don’t know if it’s across the entire UK but most restaurants in London add an automatic 12.5% gratuity. Only way to remove it is to ask the server which is far more awkward than choosing a tip privately.
Microsoft Mistakenly Posts Secret Game Plans to Government Site
Your benefit from building a thing on your land is far larger than the effect of that on your LVT, as much of the value spills onto neighboring land (your mall makes places nearby more valuable). Similarly if your neighbor builds something valuable you have to pay more taxes, encouraging you to put your land to its most valuable use or sell to someone who will.

Every individual landowner still has a very strong incentive to put their land to good use, and their doing so will push neighbors to do the same. It helps development and funding of public goods (the LVT pays for a decent fraction of government revenues), it doesn’t hurt it. All those vacant lots will be pushed into service, inefficient land uses like parking lots or inefficient businesses or undersized apartment buildings will be pushed into renovations and rebuilds or more valuable uses. Your neighbors may not be pleased about your improvements as it ups their taxes, but we just need to defang them and put an end to all methods NIMBYs use to coerce people and prevent them from doing as they like with their own land.
You said something to the effect of “it’s not enough to have financial libraries, you also need storage (e.g., db) and transfer (e.g., wire formats)” which suggests that you can’t just use a standard library to dump JSON to a file or through an HTTP connection.

But yes, I can see how databases not having a money type with corresponding routines is going to make life harder.
Because the bureaucrats (mostly suits and legal professionals) being afraid of making compliance mistakes in their projects, they will only hire certified people who went through all the German (mostly) BS university education. So the overall system is optimized for hiring rather subservient people and sorts out potentially talented "troublemakers".

In addition, e.g. CCC is one of those groups with well-educated tech talent but they have kind of a history getting criminalized by the German governments (starting from the 80s). As a result, they (to me) seem to be rather anti-government and focus on very valuable tech workshops and tech education for interested civilians.
Lucid Lens surfaces the content beneath the headline
AI non-profit browser extension that replaces clickbait titles with real summaries
"How Electricity Actually Works" (https://youtu.be/oI_X2cMHNe0?si=L3rc2KgDoxbMpzp6) from Veritasium is related and also a fantastic video.
Neuralink’s First-in-Human Clinical Trial Is Open for Recruitment
I don't think the journos were lazy, and I don't think there was an organisational failing. The Guardian, in particular, evidently fell out with Snowden and his collaborators; they turned on him. I assume that was coordinated with Washpo and Spiegel. That is: I think there was a decision made, to stop publishing information from the Snowden trove.

I don't know what the reason for the betrayal was. I'm pretty sure Alan Rusbridger knows though. He resigned as Editor-in-chief shortly after these events.

I don't get why whistleblowers rely on newspaper publishers to unpack their leaks for the public; it's not as if the press are known for either their honesty or their scruples.
go further and do what-hire one more dev?
I think this is incredibly rich. Snowden is undoubtedly on the US' "really, really naughty" list -- would you, personally, sit back and be imprisoned for the rest of your life (and possibly be tortured), or live comparatively freely elsewhere?

> I don't hear him make a peep about kidnapped Ukrainian children, or the civilians that Russia tortures and kills.

Can you really not see why that would be a bad idea? He's kind of tied up here, if he doesn't want to end up dead by somebody's hands.

> opportunistically committed a massive act of espionage a long time ago

How exactly do his past actions go from heroic to a "massive opportunistic act of espionage" because of his actions in the present?
PIs may not be able to raise money for replication studies. Some of this is a consequence of guidelines for federal funds to prevent waste on duplication of effort.
Super-Slippery Flush Toilets Fabricated by Selective Laser Sintering 3D Printing
ESXi on SolidRun V3000
How many studies are faked and how many just have a 'selective outcome'? Almost every nutritional study I read is at some point sponsored by a group that would benefit from a positive (or negative) outcome. I imagine several studies are run and only the one where the conditions led to a desired outcome are actually published. The researchers may know the results are inconsistent and there is an error somewhere, but it's not in their best interest to find the error and correct it.
You're very much correct that there are a lot of details when you start getting into chronic homelessness. It's a complex issue.

The link is mostly about the high level correlation, and is not trying to say "just give everyone housing and presto, problem solved".

SF and NY have been really bad at providing enough housing, and part of fixing the problem is building more.
For cars with the various modern assistance features you could probably do driver impairment detection without any interior sensors. Here are some things that might help detect impairment, especially if the car can identify the driver and so compare their performance on this trip with prior trips.

• Data from the lane assist system about how much the driver is drifting side to side in their lane. An impaired driver will tend to drift more.

• Data from the automatic braking system about how quickly the driver is reacting to obstacles. An impaired driver will tend to come closer to needing the automatic braking system.

• For cars that are aware of traffic lights [1], how quickly the driver starts moving again when a red changed to green. Impaired drivers will tend to take longer.

• How quickly the driver starts moving after a car in front of them that was stopped starts moving. That most likely would happen at traffic lights, so similar to the previous item, but does not require the car to know about traffic lights. It just needs to know that there is something in the way and when it leaves, which the collision avoidance system or automatic braking system can likely sense.

• How much variation there is in speed in areas where the speed limit is not changing. How well the driver adjusts their speed when the speed limit changes. How much the driver is speeding. Impaired people are probably more likely to have large variations in speed, be slow to react to changes in speed limits, and more likely to speed.

If we throw in interior behavior too climate control settings might be useful. Some kinds of impairment change subjective impressions of climate, so if a person is setting the heating or cooling to values that are inconsistent with the current weather and their past history in those conditions it could point to impairment.

[1] I remember Audi once announced a system that would watch traffic lights to figure out a good speed to try to hit all the greens, but I don't know if that caught on, or if any other car makers found reasons to include traffic light sensors.
> Visiting sites consume resources.

Less if you block their ads and JS.
After the whole lightning to USB-C plug fiasco for the iPhone, I wonder if the EU will ever throw their weight to force certain smaller countries to adopt more popular socket standards. It might even be done in the name of "reducing e-waste".

Just looking over the list above, it seems like Type-J (Swiss & Liechtenstein only) and Type-K (Denmark & Greenland only) are prime candidates. I'm only looking at sockets within the EU border btw.
My free range chickens are protected by free range fox predators that are communal with them. Sometimes they will eat a chicken or two, but mostly they let the chickens be because they keep the free range parasites in check.
How is that a scam?

You propose that if I don't do something, you will pay me because it benefits you in some way.

I agree to not do that thing and happily walk away with the cash. Everybody gets what they want. Why does it matter whether or not I was planning to do the thing?
> Type N [...] 100 – 240 V

I was surprised to learn this. My Brazilian friend said you just had to know what outlets in the house where 110 and which were 220. If you got it wrong then the magic smoke came out.

Nothing wrong with the socket itself but the use for different voltages is terrifying.
> If you get the binaries from Oracle, you're subject to the JDK license and binary distribution license.

No, if you download binaries from Oracle you're subject to the one license that accompanies your chosen binary. The main terms of the non-open-source licensed distribution are the very first thing you see on the download page of that distribution:

JDK 21 binaries are free to use in production and free to redistribute, at no cost, under the Oracle No-Fee Terms and Conditions (NFTC). JDK 21 will receive updates under the NFTC, until September 2026, a year after the release of the next LTS. Subsequent JDK 21 updates will be licensed under the Java SE OTN License (OTN) and production use beyond the limited free grants of the OTN license will require a fee.

There is nothing underhanded here. You can use the open-source license, or you can use this one, but updates for this distribution will be offered to paid support subscribers only after September 2026.

But in any event, if it makes you feel better to download our software from another website, by all means do that!

> You cannot, in good faith, argue that downloading from Oracle "supports" Java development, while also arguing that downloading it from Oracle is always free. The only reason it supports Java development is when people screw up and get billed.

I didn't say that downloading from Oracle supports anything (it doesn't because it's free under both licenses we offer). You pay Oracle for a support subscription and that's how OpenJDK (and the Java SE specification) is funded. Luckily, many of those who choose to buy support prefer buying it from the developers of the software, and that's how we've been able to increase the investment in OpenJDK over the past few years.
I can't wait for it to get to the next level of meta.

"How many medical studies of medical studies are faked or flawed? A meta report on meta studies."

https://xkcd.com/2755/
And to attempt to throw the driver in a fatal collision under the bus, holding a press conference to let the public know the vehicle was warning him about being inattentive, but not mentioning that it had warned him once, and that that was nearly eighteen minutes before the collision.
Or other elements of an SoC. Biased RNG would be a good bet.
A friend of mine uses https://kajabi.com/ and seems to like it.
https://archive.ph/nUGKa
for #2 I bet some of them are big contracts who had something along the lines of "HP will have replacements available for x years" when they purchased years ago.
> This dismissal of honest performance benchmarks…

No, I was criticizing premature optimization. I explicitly stated “there are definitely opportunities to improve Godot”. I took offense to devs joining the community and nearly immediately proclaiming ‘this is all wrong and you have to do it my way.’ Well, if it’s not right for you then move on, thanks for visiting.

If we’re to be so focused on performance then why not ditch c# also and only use c++ or rust exclusively? Better memory utilization, better processor performance[1], and no more garbage collection stutters. Oh right, it’s not your preferred language.

I’d rather we all just make games instead of fighting language wars, but seeing so many of these posts in the last week makes the community feel hostile.

[1] https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/rust-vs-c...
Unless your carpet implements car.
This animated projection of their population pyramid shows the future quite neatly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_pyramid_of_Jap...

Used on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan
*Update: I removed the pagination and scrolling effects. The entire post can be read on a single page now.

(And I didn't need analytics to understand something wasn't working lol.)
How do you discern between a study that is flawed and one that is faked? For instance, you could use some methodology that you know to be flawed, and allow that flawed methodology to bias your result in a pre-determined direction. If you're ever caught, you just claim it was an honest error, but it functions exactly the same as if you generated the data wholesale.
I can’t help but think this is another case where the solution is clearly known, but the solution is not culturally acceptable.

Groups of humans have a frustrating habit of choosing extinction over change.
I'm nice so your point doesn't stand. Or does it ? I'm not illegal at least.
So one government agency - the USPTO - grants temporary monopolies to inventors as patents. Then another government agency - the FDA - restricts the drugs people can take to those specifically prescribed by a doctor, and then restricts pharmacies to making a very limited set of substitutions as "generics".

Now since that system is messed up, we're involving yet a third agency, the FTC, to complain about companies using the letter of the law to avoid advertising the existence of competitor's products. Instead why dont we jist fix the broken USPTO and FDA systems? Shorten drug patents from 20 years to 10 or so? Stop allowing patents for trivial changes. Allow pharmacies to suggest generic substitutions. Etc. Pulling in a third government agency into the mix to fix the failures of the first two seems like the wrong approach.
Ask HN: Good ways to spend learning budget?
Hi all,

my current employer offers a generous learning budget for all employees (2k per person per year), but employees are not very eager to take advantage of it. Which courses / resources / trainings would you recommend for people in this situation?

Edit: just to clarify, I'm asking for technical IC roles such as data scientists and software engineers.

Thanks!
There are serious statistical issues with Teslas claimed rates, but even so autopilot != FSD and Tesla FSD is, imo, currently benefiting from the left hand side of this chart:

http://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-road-testing-se...

Their disengagement rate is so high that as it stands it keeps drivers vigilant, but as the system improves driver vigilance WILL fade and without robust mitigations FSD will become less safe than a human for a considerable amount of it's development.
AI Agent Code Execution
No, the idea is that you manually make some allocations downward from the top and some allocations upward from the bottom. The bumping code is as simple as in the unidirectional case.

The tricky part is choosing in a way that puts you noticeably ahead of the unidirectional allocator re: what problems you can solve, without putting excessive mental load on yourself. I've found a pattern of "long-lived allocations on one end, short-lived allocations on the other" to work well here (which, yes, doesn't always coincide with the numerous vs. infrequent axis mentioned in my previous comment).
Which, ironically, will make traffic worse by increasing the maximum amount of it a person can endure.
Hardware and software backdoors does scale.

Data exfiltration through audio / fan speed / LEDs blinking / power draw / etc. simply doesn't.

I think that a discussion about metric shitloads of networking gear being compromised is not the place to make fun of the few that didn't compromise on security.

There's a place for offline/airgapped devices and private keys (PGP keys, seeds, whatever) being generated by throwing dice.

If anything all these backdoors do show that math/cryptography do work. The NSA's budget may be 100% of the US GDP, they still wouldn't be changing Sun's gravity or the math behind cryptography.

The joke today is on those who kept making fun of those who didn't trade security for convenience.
What about https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/type-layout.html#the-ali...
Thanks!

> Legal experience overlaps your work, so it's a bit confusing , quick line on what exactly is it would probably help.

Can you elaborate a little on this? Like, you understood "ok he did a startup from x date to y date" and then you got down to the legal experience and were kind of like "wait, I thought he was doing the startup during that time?"
Phew, good thing horizontal swipes aren't used for other functionality on mobile. Otherwise it would be an unusable mess of a design that is hard to read.
I get what you mean, but given answers here (and other places in this thread) it seems like the licensing is not clear at all.

At least it's not clear to me, I'm still on "Oracle is evil, go as far as you possibly can from them". I would genuinely be happy to be able to confidently say that "this particular project of Oracle is safe for me to use", though.
Agreed that VR gaming is bigger than most people realize, but VR for productivity (to replace PCs & laptops) is still an untapped market. VR pixel density is now within one doubling of "human eye resolution", so it seems like now's the time for VR to be useful for this use case.

Apple's headset is really cool, but is being built over iOS for 2D apps, so isn't realistically going to replace someone's laptop as their primary computing device.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326677
"in court" may have been a bit too strong, but police do generally have carte blanche to the entirety of someone's private life. For most people the police show up, confiscate anything that might possibly be evidence, damaging it or at least denying its use for several years. Never mind what happens to people, who often get arrested first and then sorted out later.

Due to the severe corruption of our institutions, the investigators in this case are the public. A time period of a decade is more than enough time to recall all the HUMINT assets that might be harmed by such disclosure.
Isn’t it. It went from somewhere around 10th on my planting list to, “when I get really bored”.
Project Volterra - it seems they will do two systems and do a shootout - they will probably decide based on costs - they will sell a whole lot more consoles to Joe Everybody and kill PS6 if they can bring costs down to an impulse buy of $299.
> In Java, 99% of all library dependencies are pure JARs

Yes, this is the difference...Python community has in practice chosen more native dependencies, Java has not. But Java JNI code (if you ever do have it) is just as painful.

> with Postgres being particularly painful

You want to a pure Python package, and those have gotten much better.

asyncpg is really, really good if you want async.

Otherwise, pg8000.