skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The researchers estimate that if the system is scaled up to the size of a small suitcase,

Go on then.

Yet another MIT paper on desalination jumping the gun and announcing a breakthrough, that could be scaled up to modestly useful sizes if only they had the time and the meagre budget to do so.

Here’s[1] a previous announcement from Feb 2022 of a device that could produce water for a small family for only $4 of materials, that they didn’t bother building.

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2022/solar-desalination-system-inexpens...
In 1977 or 78 we had a TRS-80 Model 1, which had no explicit audio hardware, and one of the ways to get audio was to just place an AM radio near the machine and run various kinds of loops in your program.
I think the point is that it is very painful and the treatment provides relief, so not much of a scam.

Everyone responding is coming from a place where they were impacted by wisdom teeth, are you instead talking about extracting wisdom teeth as a precautionary practice, before they become a problem? Because otherwise it reads that you are trying to tell people that they are mistaken about a problem they have experienced.

Probably an emotional topic too, given how painful wisdom teeth can be.
> I don't want cameras strapped to my head

Not only is VR/AR hard, a camera is still very aligned with their business model :)
Back when they first announced this months ago they leaked the demo Discord bot ID in some logs they showed on screen, which you could use to invite it to your own server. For a while you could use it through that until they shut it down, though it was incredibly slow and went down a lot
> “Interestingly I felt heard & warm. Never tried therapy before but this is probably it? Try it especially if you usually just use it as a productivity tool.”

If you’ve never tried therapy before, how can you possibly know if AI is replicating it. Maybe try actual therapy before recommending AI therapy to others? I’ve personally had some pretty uncomfortable therapy sessions at times, because I had some pretty uncomfortable life experiences - of which ChatGPT wouldn’t even be allowed to discuss with me because the content of my experiences would breach it’s content policy. So maybe it’s good for therapy if all you need to do is talk about how busy it is to have to work, and also do other adulting things, and you just need someone to indulge your self-pity. I’m super skeptical about this.

> “Peer-to-peer mental health app Koko decided to experiment with an artificial intelligence posing as a counselor for 4,000 of the platform’s users.”

Is that even ethical?

> “On the darker side of things, earlier this year, a Belgian man’s widow said her husband died by suicide after he became engrossed in conversations with an AI that encouraged him to kill himself.”

Sounds like something Replika would do.
This remembers me USSR, when they hit by sanctions, they also try to create some extraordinary solution, centralized way, because of limited total resources, but better concentrated than in free market economy.

Sometimes, centralized way could even get ahead decentralized free market way. Will see.
It's ridiculously energy-intensive to digest some foods.
Very nice! I've thought about something similar. Of course that a challenge is when you marry someone from yet-another nationality. Our plan right now is to try to get key members of the family that want to be together to where we're at even if we help them financially to migrate/move, since we have very good financial situation and the people we're targetting are mostly empty nesters or work in similar field.
Love the example.

Tons of indications how ai will/is able to learn flows and architecture and code etc.
I think the intention was pointing out that reduce implies you consume only the things you need, while refuse means you'll deliberately refuse wasteful things even if you need them.

For example, smarthome lighting. The lightbulbs could be dumb, and all the smarts could live in the lightswitches, that would reduce waste. Conversely, the traditional smarthome lighting approach is very wasteful, every lightbulb is a small computer, and who knows what percent of the discarded lightbulbs gets recycled.
> Betteridge's Law of Headlines, coined by British journalist Ian Betteridge, states that "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'No.'"
I did this, but instead of friends I chose family. Moved away for years for work, career, and a girlfriend. Then realized my depression worsened, and this was exacerbated when my girlfriend and I broke up. The catalyst for me moving back was my uncle dying and realizing I had only seen him three times since I had moved away.

I moved back, and now see my parents and siblings on a weekly basis. Housing is more expensive, but I find it infinitely worth it to be able to spend time barbequeing with my dad or taking my mom to the beach every week. Needless to say, my depression became far more manageable.
I used to feel this way too, but I'm older and have literally moved on - my perspective has changed. SF has walkable neighborhoods without community, and the one doesn't flow from the other.
The whole point of machine learning is deriving an algorithm from data. This is the algorithm they derived. It's open source. You can use it or change it. Having the data that was used to derive it is not relevant.
The risk with the Bowline is that it can work itself loose if it is repeatedly tensioned and loosened. It _definitely_ needs a backup safety knot on the tail.
AI is taking jobs away from Chinese streamers and online retailers
In China, a digital avatar can now be created for less than $1,000 to sell goods on Taobao, Douyin, Kuaishou and other sites around the clock.

A normal bot can simply talk about the product. A more advanced one can even respond to comments. A digital cast is made from a live streamer, and the latter is frightened. After all, smart dipfakes have already begun to take away people's jobs. There are entire farms of streamers in China, selling billions of dollars worth of merchandise. But brands need to train them, give them equipment and pay their salaries. And the live streamers also need to sleep, rest and eat when dipfake is working around the clock.

Now all of this fits into a modest thousand dollars. Selebrities and popular bloggers are not yet replaced, but ordinary people are quite. However, the problem is larger than that. As MIT writes, the issue of digital workers is at the state level in China. Streaming is just the first step, and developers have big plans. Silicon Intelligence alone is going to create 100 million (!) AI jobs by 2025.

Given the already high unemployment among Chinese youth, now even earning money on social networks is under threat. And just yesterday it was one of the few options.
The big difference is that Tao has religious overtones to it, while cowboys of the Old West, doesn’t. I think OP was more concerned about the fact that this is grabbing something out of another culture and potentially misusing it or using it in a way that others might not approve. A perhaps more apropos analogy might be The Ten Commandments of Programming, which would be OK with most people, although the Torah of Programming, which employed Jewish stereotypes in its telling would be more problematic. And having typed that, this is where the potential issue with the article could lie: less in the title and more in the body and whether it employs stereotypes or culturally insensitive appropriations.
I agree! But the modding...that is all legally dubious, it makes sense that Meta can't just release whatever song they want. I wish it could be attached to spotify or something: you get to listen to the song because you have a subscription, and just play custom beat saber levels with it.

Heck, I would be happy if they just were able to do as well as Konami did with DDR. But Meta seems to be taking a slow growth approach on Beat Saber.
Yes, it's the creep factor of Google Glasses without the utility display
I would suggest adding the sheet bend (ABOK #1) to that list: if you ever end up not having enough rope, you will want to be able to join multiple sections together.
"What nature intended" is nothing. Natural selection is a process, not an entity. It doesn't have "intentions", let alone such easily packaged and sold "intentions" like "humans should only eat meat".

The whole premise is flawed and appeals to "nature" are a continual sham to sell people diet fads with at best no effect on health and at worse serious negative effects.
Earthworms contribute to 6.5% of global grain production
Discussion going on in https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/6577. Unlikely to change anything, though. Time to look at alternatives.
As noted previously, the C# Garbage Collector was originally written in LISP and C++ code generated from that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295041
I wish I could somehow evaluate what you're suggesting and understand if the outcome would be worth the effort. It would be SO, SO, SO much effort. I feel good being nearer my family but would that sour if I spent more time than the occasional holiday? Would the support my family might provide be worth the effort of selling our home, changing jobs, changing so how much of our lives work?

Sometimes I long for it but the effort makes it... unjustifiable.
How does this compare to Krav Maga classes?
Tell that to lions? Tigers? Bears? Oh my? Maybe you’re not wrong but I don’t think you can make an evolutionary argument here.
The Aliens Will Not Be Silicon [video]
Sounds inspired by Huxley’s Island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)
If you've ever tried digging tubers out of the ground, or walking around all day trying to forage enough low-calorie berries or mushrooms, you'd know that harvesting wild plants is probably far more energy-intensive per-calorie on the whole.

While one person spending a day hunting a medium-sized or large-sized animal can feed 100 people. (And similarly trapping, using nets to fish, etc.)

Fortunately we can do both.
The point, of course, is that it wouldn't matter whether the firefighter's murder was in pursuit of firefighting-related goals. If the firefighter murdered a coworker who was competing for a promotion, that still tells you very little about the concept firefighting.

It's not some huge gotcha that the union workers who committed assault did it in pursuit of their own goals. Most people do most things in pursuit of their own goals.
For most regular foks "tier" is a budget consideration. And of course usually roots (e.g. being from an area) also plays a big role in their personal "tier" ranking of a city.
> The Capture LED lets others know when you’re capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered, you’ll be notified to clear it.
> Based on a quick reading of a few health websites, there is a difference between drug tolerance, dependence, and addiction.

Just to be clear here, I'm speaking from a position of much more domain knowledge than "a quick reading of a few health websites".

> If addicts crave the effects of the drug and won’t be satisfied otherwise, then tolerance is a problem for them and they will require ever higher doses to stop the cravings.

This, along with the entire trichotomy you've presented, is incorrect. It may surprise you to know that this is a topic that has been quite extensively researched, and there are mountains of clinical data on the topic. Maintenance doses aren't "ever-increasing" - they're fixed.
Translate your video with natural voice clone, lip-sync and talking style
It's a huge turn-off for me as well, because I interpret it as the main value it's supposed to deliver (which for me is 0 for the most part). Not talking about this specific project, just generally.
Like on Apple Watch Ultra, when I press the start exercise button, the exercises that it suggests are in an order unique to my baseline activities.
It may be growing in popularity, but I don't view it as a fad. I've been doing it for nearly 15 years.
That’s totally fair.

Unfortunately I don’t think protesting the military industrial complex does anything at all.

Can you get literally every engineer or would-be engineer to agree not to make weapons given an enormous personal upside?

It’s a prisoner’s dilemma.
Someone will always take the paycheck and if _anyone_ does than the entire protest effort would’ve been for not bc the weapons still get made.
No. Wearable AR tech is the future. The trend has been "get this device as out of my way, and integrate it into my life as much as possible." e.g: big iron -> desktops -> laptops -> smart phones enabling greater mobility and flexibility of use.

We're just starting to see the next state of it with wearable tech. Smart watches. Airpods. Many people have these. Many people wear them for extended periods because they're comfortable interfaces to the services they care about. A family member has a hearing aid that's connected to their phone's bluetooth. Comfortable enough to wear all day & discretely listen to phone audio whenever. I think that's the next step (obvious evolution from airpods). Glasses -> AR displays shortly after.
This library looks really cool, love the idea of unifying the api across various envs is great!
Yes that's also true. My core group of friends is no longer in my OG city as well for similar reason as me, as aren't most of my cousins. It's more uncles+grand+parents
Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords
"Hundreds of GitHub repositories have been targeted by a threat actor masked as the GitHub platform’s Dependabot feature to install password-stealing malware."
Sorry to drop an inflammatory remark on you, but you sound like an extreme version of a total snob. I call it “everyday fascist”. Only your way of life, only your values, etc. are superior. No one cares about your weirdness, but also no one likes your holier than thou attitude.
In the short term, discovering I have a dissociative disorder was very difficult, and the discovery rendered me unable to maintain my job. Cue a massive amount of reading into some of the darker parts of humanity to try to explain what happened to me in my childhood. I’m still in the middle of it. I’m thankful for the information and it’s changed my life, but there are some doors you can’t walk back out of.
BIG money. Kendal Jenner? Tom Brady? They wouldn't consent to this for less than 10 figures.
DAWproject: Open exchange format for DAWs
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/27/us-leg...

https://www.wdam.com/2023/07/20/should-not-have-been-hired-m...
XATU: A Fine-Grained Instruction-Based Benchmark for Explainable Text Updates
I was being euphemistic. It was a "doesn't play well with others" issue, but it came to the fore with SMP.
A step towards deshittifying the taskbar. Now let me make the icons smaller and move the taskbar to diffrent sides of the screen.
If for your project, time == money, then you only have two tradeoffs and this bit of wisdom wouldn't apply to you.
The title reminds me to give The Tao of Physics another read.
There's a federal act (CAPTA) that requires states to adopt mandatory reporting rules, but the rules vary from state-to-state. Some states, simply by being in a particular profession you are required to report (even when not on the job); in other states it's specifically when evidence is uncovered while performing your duties; in some states, all people are required to report.

I've never encountered a state in which a medical doctor encountering evidence of abuse while seeing a patient is not required to report it, with the exception of some states exempting mental-health professionals told things in confidence (so a psychiatrist, which is also an MD, might not be required to report it depending on the state).
I'm having a hard time imagining a situation where "printing out the number in a human readable format" is more time consuming than "figuring out what the number is".

I think a competent programmer might also ask themselves "am I prematurely optimizing?" if their first instinct is to pick the method that only works on a computer. I've operated in this space long enough that bit shifting is synonymous with doing the logarithm in my mind, but if I had to explain how my code works, I would use the logarithm explanation. I would be sure to point out that the computer does log (base 2) of a number much much MUCH faster than any other base.

Its probably excessive to say that literally every one is taught logarithms as the ideal solution to this problem, but logarithms are almost universally introduced by explaining that the log (base 10) of a number is always greater than or equal to the number of digits in that base 10 number. So if you completed a high school education in the United States, you have almost certainly heard that much at least.

edit: printing out the number is almost always gonna be faster than figuring out the value of the number, if the speed of the operation matters. My original post implied the opposite. Part of being a competent programmer is recognizing that optimizing is sometimes bikeshedding.
FWIW, it's not a myth that "EV's catch fire", the myth is that they catch fire at a higher rate than ICE powered cars. But OTOH, what also isn't a myth is that when (some)[1] EV's do catch fire, they tend to be harder fires to extinguish (eg, it takes a lot more water and time to cool them sufficiently to avoid spontaneous re-ignition), compared to ICE cars. So there is sort-of a legit "thing" about EV's and fire.

[1]: I'm thinking of Tesla's in particular. And this is not speculation, in the official Tesla emergency response guide they discuss how much water/time is required to fully extinguish a Tesla fire. And as a former firefighter, I can say with no qualms that those numbers are higher than that of a traditional ICE powered car (assuming we're not talking about a large cargo truck, fuel tanker, or some other extraordinary case). Not sure to what extent EV's from other manufacturers share this same characteristic.
> For most organizations, this behavior is incidental to their incentives. For unions, it's a primary motivation.

I don't see much of a distinction. I suspect a significant portion of workplace or work-related crime involves the criminal being motivated by work-related incentives.
There's a lot of copper being recycled, in the midwest at least. Lots of it is stolen, but still.
I have the same experience but with a razer huntsman v2 dampened reds. I modded it (silicone in the bottom, some extra weight (coins in the silicone), extra foam, some rubber, fixed the stabs, lube and force break mod).

I never thought I would abandon my Matias quiet click (which is still the only tactile tactile switch being produced) but here I am typing on a friggin gaming keyboard.

Whenever I move to a house where I can have my computer far away from my family my old 122 key model f will come out though. I spent so much time restoring it that I don't think I could not not use it.
While I certainly don't agree with delaying your treatment....your size/weight vs your mother's is irrelevant - just because she's who brought you in doesn't mean that she's the only person who could have abused you.

For all they know you've got a father or uncle or whoever that's huge and has anger problems who broke it.

One abusive family member and a partner who's covering for/trying to make up for their behavior (and may be being abused themselves) is a pretty common type of abusive situation.
"no salary to speak of" would be the expression.
Assuming the company is in California, the laws are very pro-worker. Find a lawyer to give you advice but I suspect it's completely kosher to pay your employees before anyone else's claims on the cash. It's also the right thing to do.
When I left college I moved a quarter of the way around the globe. Now I'm a mere 2000 miles away.
The headline is pretty bad, but the actual article is a fairly good if not super deep discussion of the difference between what research shows (wide consumption of plants throughout human history, etc) and the question posed by the really terrible headline. Worth a read I think if you're interested in the topic.
> Are there security issues with not zeroing out the previously used memory

Yes, there can be. Security-critical software often does this explicitly, and it's been a bug when compilers have removed the zeroing by reasoning that unreachable memory is unreachable...leading to crypto secrets floating in memory unnecessarily.

For languages like Java and Go where objects are at least zero-initialized before the constructor(s) run, usually the allocator just zeroes the entire TLAB before allocation.
The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it
Some high cost of living areas wouldn't be without all the offices!
Mercedes is free to join the robotaxi race, if L3 is a general indicator of their sophistication rather than a focused sprint down a dead-end use-case.
How come you didn't fix it? I'm sure it would have taken you only 5 minutes to find it and 2 more minutes to write a fix.
if you can do it at lower pressure, boiling and evaporation happen at a lower temperature.
https://www.youtube.com/live/fMeH7wqOwXA?si=7jbkLCm4QalwumNw for a video version of this talk

One funny bit about the talk, which isn’t mentioned in the slides, is that he actually gave the talk at Linaro (the very same company who were called out in the slides as a case study of submitting a particularly bad set of patches)
Does ClickHouse still have some relationship to Yandex?
Also humanity has been functionally removed from natural selection for hundreds of years. That's not to say we can't die of diseases or such things, but how many animals "hunt" or "forage" in a fucking Kroger, and pay for what they find with value credit slips? How many animals have access to firearms? How many other species have constructed vehicles that conquered land, sea, and sky, sometimes multiples of them even? We can't even comprehend the lifestyle, priorities and perspectives of a medieval peasant, let alone our ancestors who lived in caves and drew stick-animals.

The whole appeal to "natural" is so ludicrous. Nothing we do is natural. Our food is either largely engineered or at the very least, bred selectively for maximum harvests. We can arbitrarily decide to travel thousands of miles from our "normal" habitat and be completely confident we will not only survive, but we do this for recreation. Hell, even the meat these weirdos are obsessing over is the result of millennia of selective breeding for the most meat per animal, and even some genetic engineering which is why factory-farmed chickens have tits so big they can't stand up correctly.

"Natural." I challenge anyone to find something in their home that is actually 100% natural.