skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree with you. I was generalising quite a bit for the sake of conciseness (& being a little cheeky)

Its not uncommon to see people in these roles because of nepotism, they write the checks or they are good at short term games (machiavellian, gift of the gab, office politics).

That said, such exceptions tend to not last long because of the unstable nature of these situations.

In other words, those who match the description I made earlier tend to eat these peoples lunch given enough time.
They should also measure the CO2 emissions of all the humans who wrote all the words that the AI was trained on.
Number of publications and citations are the current incentives researchers respond to.

If published studies that have been replicated were the highest incentive instead, maybe it would reduce the risk of faked studies.
There is literally a whole transit system called Bus Rapid Tranist 'BRT' that is exactly that sort of thing. And in the real world it isn't better or cheaper.
Please note that most pistons and cylinder bores are also not circles ;-)
Hmm, I remember reading about it leaching chemicals too, but guess that’s not in the wiki so maybe wasn’t sourced /shrug
Very simple - in Java, almost any IO operation in blocking. Exceptions are the stuff in the NIO package, thread interruption and signalling, and maybe process termination.
> simply adding more nodes improves accuracy exponentially

According to another comment, it actually improves at O(n^6).
The unknowable presents, secretly encoded
I worked at a (big) company when they changed their policy to include this vagueness. It was all over this guy spreading mass disinformation and conspiracy theories that were actively harmful. There was a lot of discussion about “yeah, I agree this is bad… but, this is a slippery slope,” and “how can you think we should let him use OUR platform to do this,” type arguments. We were a privately held company at the time, and this is what the owner wanted to do.

So we changed the terms. I felt like the T&S team (trust and safety) sighed a huge sigh of relief because they were having to deal with advertisers and bereft families complaining.

Anyway, it became a very heavy hammer that was very rarely used except in extreme circumstances.

I imagine not every company uses it as sparingly but it’s a much needed clause to deplatform certain kinds of charismatic people who are harmful to humanity. I don’t know anything about this particular case, nor do I want to know even a TL;DR. I’m just here for the comments and your comment chain struck a nerve.
I have a cervical spinal cord injury that results in quadriplegia: i'm the specified target of study for this kind of trial.

I hope this trial finds people braver than I am.

The thought of losing more ability (and as a volunteer this time) , compounded with the fact that this study will essentially invalidate participation in any future BCI study (they all have the "No prior brain implantation or pacemaker." clause) makes it a very hard proposition for me.

Godspeed to our willing participants that want to help spur innovation. I hope that regardless of the outcome of this particular study that it helps them to find purpose and reason, and that their sacrifice w.r.t the pain and suffering associated with medical treatment helps move everybody towards the common goal of commoditization of BCI both for the benefit of those unable as well as healthy and willing participants.

I'm a big believer in the worlds that such devices may unlock for humanity, as scary or awe-inspiring as the premise of a connected-brain may be.
This is why contract law exists. You can cancel me, sure, go ahead, but you will pay up. With youtube, the contract is written, in the TOS, to 100% favor youtube.
or, massive profit!
Sounds like the word this person should have used is "subjective". Writing is subjectively superior to speaking, from inside their head. For a lot of people it is not superior, or is only superior in certain situation, inferior in others.
>We've known (or have assumed to know) for years that CPUs produced by AMD, Intel, and Apple have backdoors.

What's the evidence for this?

>Obviously we have to assume that these are all backdoored as well, but that shouldn't matter as my activities don't likely won't make me a target of the PRC.

Elsewhere in this thread it was claimed that the NSA has hacked Huawei. The NSA could have stolen the backdoors then, or it could've analyzed e.g. Huawei's hardware independently.
The article mentions that women are afraid to take prophylactic treatments, because their husbands/boyfriends will take umbrage. It's not uncommon for men to have multiple sexual partners, and transmission is often accomplished that way.

There's also a fairly pervasive problem with sexual violence. Women tend to bear a lot of the pain.
Show HN: Staying up to date with the overwhelming amount of AI research
Hey HN!

There’s been an explosion of AI research papers being published (see arxiv growth https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-papers-publish...). As AI/ML founders it was difficult to find papers that actually aligned with our goals and often skimmed through many unrelated papers. It would be nice to have a way to sift through the noise.

This last week, we built https://firebender.ai/. It takes in a description of what you’re trying to accomplish, and on a weekly basis, delivers TLDRs of recent AI papers you'd most likely want to dive into. Here’s a sample description and curated list (https://firebender.ai/sample). It works by indexing new Arxiv papers (LDA, elasticsearch), then GPT-4 generates queries, summarizes results, and does the final round of filtering.

Sign up at https://firebender.ai/ and look out for an email on Friday! Any and all feedback is appreciated.
Absolutely. And if that information means you don't know, then you don't know.
How to Generate a GeoJSON File from a PostGIS Table?
Code examples with ZX + Bun.
I've posted about this phenomenon before. It's worth bearing in mind that these are not just one-off disruptions, and the cost of evacuation, search, digital forensics, and so on probably costs at least $10,000 per incident, if not much more.

I'm not a computer security person but I think it's worth looking at the pattern of attacks like these and thinking in terms of attack surface, vulnerability, and so on. It's not fundamentally different to DDOS attack.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

120% debt to GDP ratio is "the problem"
> centralized authority just to turn on a lamp

Do you generate your own electricity, too?

[I too use mechanical switches and am wary of most smart tech. And I buy my electricity from the power company.]
Stratospheric standards?
I don't know what you were trying to imply and I have no dog in this fight. But there are definitely fundamental differences between additive vs subtractive technologies, 2-axis vs 3-axis or multi-axis machining, and more niche machine-controlled manufacturing technologies, as well as very real differences behind the driving algorithms of most 3d printers/CNC machines vs most commercial laser cutters. (3d printers and other CNC tools have a pedigree stretching back to the original g-code developed in the 50s whereas laser cutters/engravers descend from more modern laser and inkjet printing technologies developed in the late 70s and 80s.)
> marginal benefit

While Youtube may be discounting direct revenue from this specific and limited set of content, Alphabet recognises the value of ostensibly being the quasi-exclusive repository & catalogue of video content.

Denying to their "users"/viewers the availability of some subset of content hurts their reputation more than "losing" a negligeable fraction of direct monetisation.

Leaving aside the morality of repudiating monetisation while allowing access, this is a sound strategy for maintaining the Youtube platform's monopoly and raison d'être. Which is after all the core of their ability to maximise shareholder value, and what else matters to a corporation?
YouTube, World police.

YouTube will still share his videos, but keep the ad revenue.

Thanks so much for protecting us, YouTube.

I guess I'd rather it this way because I hate it when videos are removed, but it just seems inconsistent.
Open core split should be based on features, not on code base
A novel, simple, and low-cost method to manufacture acetone
After all the fiasco about Facebook, kind of shocking how and why people are still using it.. the worst kind of social media.
Of course you're allowed - there's no parent enforcing things and you aren't a child, and shouldn't be thinking that way.

But this is a strange response: "It's not illegal for me to say this!" Would you accept that as a response from a flat earther if you challenged something they stated as fact?
There are types of communication that are best done by writing, and others that are best done by speaking.

When someone tries to communicate in writing something which is better handled by speaking, it's tedious and slow.

When someone tries to communicate by speaking something which is better handled by writing, it's tedious and slow.

A lot of Youtube videos and podcasts fall into the latter category, so like the author, I find myself getting annoyed about it a lot these days. Rather than spend 10 minutes watching the video, I prefer to spend 30 seconds reading the closed caption transcript.

However, this doesn't mean the former category doesn't exist.
> Going to war is first and foremost a political act even if it is followed by a military response.

Yeah I think we can safely assume that the German general staff were familiar with Clausewitz.
I thought NATS didn't actually store messages, am I mistaken?

Looking at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATS_Messaging) I see that I'm technically right, it's JetStream that does the storage layer - but it's part of the NATS server.

From memory, I really liked the philosophy of NATS but found the nomenclature confusing.
The sample paper descriptions could be more concise. Maybe Chain of density (COD) can help here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.04269.pdf ?
Greek, yes (owning to their paganism, which had trouble dealing with existence; it is not possible to conceptualize existence), but we see very deep insights in the medieval period, most notably in Thomas Aquinas. In the 20th century, we saw a particular brand of Thomism called existential Thomism that emphasized and expounded on Thomas' understanding of existence to help better appreciate it.

But I am not certain that is your criticism, or that this applies here? Platonism posits a third realm of ideas, one which Aristotle denies and attacks (and which Plato acknowledged), instead locating universals in things and in the intellect that grasps them. However, you can restore a kind of realm of ideas by interpreting it as (the mind of) God. So, universals exist in all three cases, though the manner in which they exist varies (e.g., in things as concrete instantiations, vs. in the human intellect as concepts abstracted from the concrete).
All of those preceding empires thought they would be eternal. "The Empire on which the Sun never sets." was only a decade or two away from collapse.

Most people aren't aware that Japan started the war in the Pacific with 3 or 4 times as many aircraft carriers as the US had. The deciding factor was that the US could replace the carriers that were sunk in 1942 whereas the Japanese didn't have the manufacturing capacity to do likewise. The US was able to build about 150 (smaller) aircraft carriers in four years, the Japanese had no hope of doing that.

In today's world, the powerful US of 1942 no longer exists. The country which has the manufacturing capacity today is China.

The US thinking of going to war against China is as smart as the Wehrmacht thinking of going to war against the Soviets. And we all know how that one ended up.
Do kids draw in a private room, with no other kids around, and are blindfolded from birth until one day, they're given crayons and paper? Do they also not see pictures in books read to them by adults? They may not have taken an art history class and ingested an Internet's worth of Artstation and Greg Rutkowski, but they have plenty of outside influence.

Of course, their limited motor skills get in the way, but they're working on it.
A "modern" addition I'd make to this list is the Grug Brained Developer [0]

0: https://grugbrain.dev/
That’s a good point.

Of course it happens the other way around also - things are thought not to be possible and later realized through some unexpected result or insight.

But I wouldn’t guess that’s as common or as systemic.
I went looking on their because for some reason I thought that an `@Async` annotation would already exist. But no such luck.

If you want to use something like this today, then you could take a look at Spring 's Async support. It also lets you supply the Executor.
I’m not sure what they mean by list comprehensions, either, but for completeness’s sake, I must point out that this is solvable by adding `n` as a keyword argument defaulting to `n`:

add_n = [lambda x, n=n: x + n for n in range(10)]
add_n[9](10) # 19
add_n[0](10) # 10
"Think of the children", except the population increasingly doesn't have any. It's nice then to imagine that approach would stop working at some point in the future, but probably not.
It's not part of the optics (since you can't move the lightwells) but I think it's still part of the analog system, so it's different from working on pixel or Bayer values.
I don't think it's a load of BS.

Youtube is a free platform to host video content, they themselves need to pay the bills. At a particular point that your videos become "valuable" they offer to provide you with a cut.

The grey area is potentially how they determine the value
Study sheds light on the neural underpinning of subjective odor perceptions
That’s great! That was a quote from the docs at hydra.so if you can update them.
The old men persuade the would-be suicide bomber that educating women will liberate and liberalize them, and that this is counter to the interests of those who prefer the traditional order of society. Are they even lying?
Yes, I was pointing out that many of their products have explicit limits.

But more importantly, the second link I posted shows how that despite being "unlimited" - it's not uncommon for hetzner to throttle / close your account if you go over unstated traffic limits.
Ask HN: How do you compete with an established company like Twitter or Meta?
Let’s say you create a Twitter competitor with the same functionality but some improvements in areas they either don’t currently address or haven't yet recognized as problematic.

How do you compete with them as a small startup when they can simply incorporate any improvements your app or service offers? Since they already possess an established brand, they can render your startup's differentiating aspect irrelevant.

People often mention the MySpace vs. Facebook battle from two decades ago, highlighting how Facebook succeeded as the underdog. However, in today's landscape, most startups are highly sensitive to any threats and tend to appropriate anything that could make a competitor relevant in the marketplace.

MySpace could have easily crushed Facebook by implementing everything the young Facebook was doing at that time, strengthening their brand while making their upcoming competitor irrelevant.

So, how can your startup compete when larger companies can easily adopt your differentiating features?

Sometimes, I contemplate starting a niche-market startup to assist certain people. However, upon further consideration, I realize that as soon as it gains popularity, these corporate giants will swoop in, incorporating my features (without compensation, of course) into their already popular apps.

I recall the individual who created the flashlight app for the early iPhone days. When Apple recognized the value of this functionality, they simply integrated it into the operating system, essentially bankrupting the developer behind the flashlight app.

So, what are your thoughts on this?
> The few times I visited a hospital I met people there with complications from previous drugs.

Well… yeah? All medications have a list of possible side effects in the leaflet. It’s just that the disease tends to be worse.
it's a fascinating topic, but how can one person's stupidity and weakness cause millions and millions to go die far away from their homes in dirt? I could never understand that. surely there must have been some massive underlying reasons why a self-respecting burgher would suddenly leave his cozy family to die a terrible miserable ugly death in a faraway foreign land?
Is that really python’s fault? It seems like it’s the distro making a design decision.
Even when size is a full 64-bit value (…in that it might actually overflow the address space)?
Changes like this go nowhere, then happen rapidly.

Price is too high, features too few, distinct advantages under compelling, and ergonomics too nomic ... until they aren't.

In other words, its a big change of form and function, not to mention the physics tradeoffs of these products, so it makes sense that the right combo is taking a while to fall into place.

If Apple customers, who have the shiny shells to shell out, fall in love with their devices, that will mean a lot.
>My point still stands that this is premature optimization.

Given that the author knows they will make hundreds of raycasts a second, and that the perf suggested that they can at most make 700 for an entire 16hz frame, I can't agree in this case. This is the exact kind of "we'll fix it later" kind of unoptimization that makes gamers wonder why games still hit 30fps on modern hardware (I've worked on such a tile, in UE4. the engine doesn't save bad practices and useage).

>My initial comment was more a general expression of frustration with the prevailing attitude on various forums.

don't generalize your rants when you see a good example of criticism. That just lumps in the good with the bad and makes you look like you're lashing out at any criticism.

>Enjoy your c# crusade.

Enjoy prowling r/godot, I suppose. If that's the conclusion you gleam out of my comments, you fit right into Reddit. Making unrelated rants and being confused on the disagreement and seeing everyone as out to make your life specifically, miserable. Glad I left that behind months before it became fashionable to leave.
> Installing the extension changes the default table type to be columnar.

that is not the case, hydra as a service sets the default table type. the columnar extension does not make any changes like that, it simply ("simply") adds columnar as an option.

I'm just an engineer, so I'll leave the other comments for others :)
The reality is, people want walk-able neighborhoods. In fact, the places where they exists, they are so horrendously expensive that people can't afford to live there. There are so few of those places that the demand/supply is just crazy. So even if there was a good walk-able neighborhood most people couldn't afford it.

The Texas DoT isn't about transportation, its basically about highway building (and often right threw neighborhoods). 60 years of infrastructure investment in on thing lead to more of that thing.

There are about 160 car accidents a day in Houston alone. The amount of cost society gets from that is huge.
The nice thing of energy conservation is that the details doesn't mater. So the energy of the radiative heating is less than the original energy of the meteorite that I estimated in 9.5E22 J. I guess it's much less, but it's a good upper bound.

The surface of the Earth is 5.1E14 m2, so it's 1.8E8 J/m2. I don't expect the fireworks to be synchronized so let's assume that they fall in an hour. That gets 50,000 W/m^2 For comparison, sunlight is 1,300 W/m^2 so it's almost like 40x sunlight. This bad, very bad.

I don't expect a 100% conversion of meteorite energy to fallout energy, but it's more dangerous that my initial calculation.

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I'm confused because the weight of the atmosphere is like the weight of 10m of water. So heating all the atmosphere is like heating a 10m layer of water. But actually water has a much bigger heat capacity, so the final temperature would be smaller. And dirt has an intermediate value. Also the radiation would not heat 10m of water or dirt, perhaps only the first meter.

So I expected that if my first calculation got a not dangerous temperature increase, I'd get in this second calculation a not dangerous result. So I guess I made a mistake in at least one of the calculations or my hand waving has a mistake.
Telling AI model to “take a deep breath” causes math scores to soar in study
Why would they kill off a complementary product? Nintendo could be the kids/mobile brand and Xbox would be the adult living room brand. Microsoft could profit from both. It's Playstation that would become redundant in an acquisition.
I would suggest more respect for Plato, frankly.

But I don't think that is right. He argued that matter existed in a relation of participation in the forms, that making such things like shadows or approximations of ideas. Aristotle deployed the third man argument to attack this notion. Plato conceded his view was problematic.
> Apache Kafka is not an implementation of a message broker. Instead, it is a distributed streaming platform. Unlike RabbitMQ, which is based on queues and exchanges, Kafka’s storage layer is implemented using a partitioned transaction log. Kafka also...

This seems like an important passage, drawing the crucial and long-awaited distinction between RabbitMQ and Kafka, and yet without having defined a "partitioned transaction log" the author strands the reader without any help in absorbing the distinction.
It doesn't say what books. Shouldn't matter to some extent, but odds are it's a deliberate provocation as opposed to a book that the library is "organically" including in it's collection. "If your enemy has a choleric temper, antagonize him" works very well. But don't pretend it's not a tactic. I don't think this is the same as the "sensitivity readers" censoring Dr. Seuss or Ian Fleming or Agatha Christie or stuff that's been on long standing publication. Provoke, and then talk up your opponents bad reaction.
I put in a PR as soon as I saw your note. I dunno if it auto updates from there.
> I'm just glad I'm not one of those Facebook employees.

Nor a facebook user.
Listening requires so much focus from me that if I try to multitask I’ll just realize, after a span of seconds to minutes, that I’ve not heard a single word that was said. It’ll happen again as soon as I pick the multitasking back up.

May as well read or watch a video. Same focus required either way.

Though I do think I’m unusual. Basically can’t enjoy podcasts the way most people do, which is a bummer.

In hindsight, the high school calculus teacher who forced us to take notes while they lectured, and got upset if you stopped, was not setting me up for success. I’d get to the end with a bunch of notes but having understood nothing I heard, because I was too busy transcribing to actually listen. I knew she was messing me up at the time and what I needed to be able to do to succeed, but it took me years to realize it’s a general problem I have. Can’t take information in unless my attention is undivided.
Potentially dumb question, but why does “who viewed my profile” (the feature mentioned in the post as the original use case at LinkedIn) require a realtime OLAP datastore anyway?
Show HN: Discover salsa music to dance to by guessing the year