skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This essay feels overall hopeful, and I really hope Firefox distinguishes itself as the go-to browser for "power users" at least (while all I run anymore is Linux, I don't consider myself a power user so much as a cheapskate with an idealistic/irrational sense of fairness who used to tinker a lot more but who now just likes things to work on decade-old hardware and thus sticks with Linux Mint). The side tabs thing is a real lack, and so far I just use the dropdown on the upper right and either scroll or search. Sometimes I double-click the side arrows on the tab bar to scroll by a window's amount of tabs. None of those options are tree-style tabs, though. I know there are ways and extensions, but this should really be baked in- horizontal text stacks well, especially on these wide screens.
They later note most of this traffic is going to a single postgres instance. Having all the keys go to the same range probably helps throughput because they can do a better job of grouping fsync. But that probably depends on the type of drives they are using (even fast NVMe benefit from locality).
I find that answering tech support scams with "I don't have a computer" tends to make them shut up pretty quickly.
That's a bit of a non sequitur.

Roads and streets existed before cars. Even then, that ignores that the same location can be traveled to through different means. Goods can be delivered to a store by a van even if most customers arrive on foot or by public transportation.

There are streets within north America which ban passenger vehicles but still allow trucks and vans for deliveries.
That makes sense. GPL 3 is basically a non-starter for people that ship hardware, but is fine for people that provide web services.

AGPL would level the playing field between Google and device manufacturers and on-prem software companies (like Apple and Microsoft).

Of course they don’t want their employees to use and indirectly support that ecosystem!

I wish they’d produce a GPL 4 that is closer to the AGPL. v3 backfired and is severely hurting end-users’ freedom in practice.
Logically and linguistically it isn't equivilant at all.

Let's say hypothetically that the US has the best Mexican food - even better than Mexico itself, and that food is sold in Food Truk X that tours about in Dallas Texas.

Taco Bell still exists and (it seems that) you are open to the notion that Taco Bell is terrible terrible "Mexican Food".

Ergo, the US has both the best and the worst Mexican Food.

Outback Steakhouse is the worst "Australian Food".
I might try this. There's no way I'm giving linkedin my phone number.
Ask HN: Do I need psychological help?
I'm in my mid-40s, good health, loving family, earn good enough (FANG), etc. But lately, I don't feel like starting anything new and routine stuff has bored me out. I just sit in front of computer all day, staring, pretending to read but in reality I don't. Almost 4 weeks have passed and I haven't done any work of significance. Last week was not even writing an email. Possibility of layoff doesn't faze me.

Have access to all sort of movie streaming sites. However, by the end of trying to find one to watch, I'm already done. Have a huge library of video games via Steam, browse for sometime to see which one to play, but eventually never begin with any. Wake up early in the morning (used to go for 45min walk), but then stay in bed until time for kids' school. Surf through various physical and e-books that I have access to but literally force myself to start with a new one.

Only solace is when eventually I do start something (rarely), I stick to it like a leech, almost obsessed. But then these things are usually some minor thing like starting with a book or getting some broken thing to work or learning some totally unrelated and insignificant thing (like recently ray-tracing over weekend). I'm not depressed, I think most will still find my company enjoyable. But I feel continuing in this state will eventually lead to depression or some other hell hole. Should I be seeking help?
I am actually curious who is using these types of GPUs (H100 currently). Is it exclusively used for LLM training?

I can’t really see another market where it’d make sense.
you know what they say: any app is a dating app if you are brave enough.
So, now you’re going to find the Asus or Dell that has

- 16 hours battery life

- fanless

- doesn’t scorch my nuts

- performance?

- a decent display

- and doesn’t weigh a ton?

So please tell me how the Mac keeps you from running the software you want.

But you named how great the objectively shitty Dell is.

You’ve already struck out with the Dell, care to try again with Asus? Can you cite a review of an Asus that compares?

Even though the Dell sucks in every dimension, at least you have “freeduhm”
I can't find any statistics in this article. All I can find is a global water consumption figure (1.7 billion gallons worldwide), which is meaningless.

I have found this quote (https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/thirsty-ai-micr...):

> Nonetheless, the quantity of water required, especially during the summer months, remains substantial. In July 2022, just prior to OpenAI’s completion of GPT-4 training, Microsoft pumped approximately 11.5 million gallons of water into its Iowa data centres, constituting about 6 per cent of the district’s total water consumption, which also serves the city’s residents.

but the document itself isn't linked.

6% of a city's consumption sure is a lot, but shutting down the datacenters completely won't make that big a dent in a drought.

Moving all data centers to the coast to make cooling have less of an environmental impact would benefit the water ecosystem, at the cost of slower internet connections for land-locked states, of course, but Microsoft didn't exactly cause this drought.

Looking online, all I can see is the same bits of information published over and over again by news sources quoting each other. I'm not entirely sure why this specific story and its exact wording are being used over and over again, but there seems to have been very little journalistic effort put into it since AP first published the story.
No, because the ordering is purely byte level which will work perfectly fine here.
Slovenia’s beautiful beehives turn apiaries into art
Shitty analytics software for cpg companies.
Not nope :)

By definition recorded history - as recorded in this art work, which are artifacts of history - is being pushed back.

The big deal is we over-estimated what we thought we knew about the past and that over-confidence is being humbled. And because of that the definition of pre-history needs to be updated.
This product looks like a pro RTO managers wet dream. Fucking gross. As per comments here - just take a regular nap in your own bed/couch. Last time i napped in a common room at work - one of my idiotic co-workers who's never heard of boundaries took pictures of me un-aware.

Big no thanks to nap rooms/or napping at work. It's either a signal your workplace overworks people, or difficult to do as an employee without worrying about judgement. Perhaps seeing your CEO/CTO do it makes it easier. But that's a lot of ifs.
You can configure "squash&merge" to use the PR title and description for the commit message now, which makes it reviewable!
You would think that, but you’d be wrong. Old inactive accounts get purchased and sold to bot networks all the time.
What evidence do they have?
You'd just have a self reporting system which is then periodically corrected by vehicle inspections. If you underreport you'll end up paying it all back in the future at a likely higher rate than the present rate.
Which, if true, means it probably covers very little.
Hobbes Was Wrong
Drunk driving is not the right example. A vehicle is basically a weapon and society regulates whether you can use it or not. A computer and some software for personal consumption is much more private. Unless society decides that computer usage must be regulated and needs a license, comparing these 2 is wrong.

Understanding that people deal with some dysfunction or the other is the cost of living in a free society. Everyone struggles with some inner demons. Some much more than others. But we largely trust that they can keep these impulses in control. I don't advocate at all that we must empathise with those having this sort of disorder but we must allow people to deal with these issues privately.

Better, more vigilant policing is the answer. The impulse to stop crime from happening at the point it takes root in someone's mind is just the road to the worst kind of tyranny.
https://archive.is/Q1rhI
Talking to other parents. We don't bite.
I'm not defending humane but I think the main idea is that there's a camera always pointing where you're pointing that's feeding more context into the device. The projection is just one of the ways it can communicate back (with voice likely being the primary interface).
Finally, an MOS 7600/7601 Video Game Array data sheet
If the end result is a lot of freshwater lost, it's still very bad.
If you don’t believe them, you’re free to ignore the advisory.
Supercomputers also use them, like the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 9th largest ones.
There's some people who are still manage to be newly wrong even today.

For example, asserting that the government was enforcing strict lockdown measures in October 2020, if ever. This is despite obvious evidence that people preferred staying home, such as the still historically low rate of people working from offices.

I wasn't wrong once, from the first videos from China in January 2020. it's been amusing to watch people overthink and moralize and become very rabid over side alley of side alleys of 3 simple facts a high schooler knows: "very contagious respiratory disease bad, vaxx's don't prevent infection or transmission, people like working from home"
Truly, the mullet of unique identifiers.
Sunlight and nature - the two things most often cited as being good for the mind and body alike.

It makes me wonder if innately this is why retired people suddenly have the urge to spend months on a cruise ship, and why Florida is home to Canada's "snow birds."
lol, this inspired me to try to opt-out of LN and I got this beautiful and intimidating warning.

https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/img/State_Use_of_Indivi...
Surely you see how evidence is necessary for something to be believed right
Did you have a good grasp of what it was going to be like before having children? None of the parents I have met feel that way.
The hospital ship was never intended to take covid patients. The idea was the ship would take non-covid cases leaving ICU capacity in hospitals. It turns out that military hospital ships aren’t great for the general population given bulkheads and the general layout of ships.
According to the original article, the water usage during particular hot months (when the water was needed most), Microsoft used 6% of the available water. According to their own spec sheet (which may just be greenwashing, it's Microsoft after all) they're using a cooling technique that only requires additional water when the air is over a certain temperature (just above 29℃).

Total water usage isn't very interesting in this case. Their water usage increases right when drought conditions become the worst, during the weeks or months where temperatures rise and remain high. Worldwide, their water usage is negligible, but water shortages are local problems.
https://archive.ph/jXVm4
Technically not a type alias, just a normal type declaration. But yes, this is my point: you can't assume that an enum type will always be one of a fixed set of values that you've defined. You always have to do at least a little bit of runtime validation of the parameter. It's unavoidable.
It’s nice for front end state. You post the new entity, the front provides the ID, and as long as you get a 200 you can update your state, or update optimistically and roll it back. You don’t need to wait for the API to figure out what your ID is.
You could argue Twitter was a niche market as compared to Facebook!

Twitter was constantly criticised for never living up to its potential; features, growth, revenue.

Now people are complaining that Twitter isn’t like it was.

The world has moved on I guess.

Do people generally have the energy to get engaged in new social media networks.

Dark social is where my activity is. Almost nothing is public these days, for me and my friends anyway.
A poor entropy coding result in Zstandard
Ukraine is using drones to evacuate wounded soldiers
You can freeze or opt-out to protect your privacy.

https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/freeze

https://optout.lexisnexis.com/
There's a distinction between delirium, being in a delusional state, where you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, which is pathological, vs the normal everyday action of replaying a sensory memory in your head, or imagining sensory input in order to explore an idea. Delusional states may or may not involve a sensory component. It's not a spectrum from one to the other.

The term "hallucination" is tricky because the usual connotation is that it is part of a delusion, whereas some people can generate "closed-eye hallucinations" (or whatever you want to call it) as an alternative kind of mental imagery.

For me personally, the distinction between ordinary "mental imagery" vs "closed-eye hallucinations" that I generate under conscious control is that they are subjectively quite different. The former feel like they are in a different "mental domain" than visual input, and I can perceive this imagery with my eyes open. Another commenter in this thread called this a third frame buffer in their head, separate from their eyes. The latter kind of imagery feels like it is coming from my retina, but it's very dim, and I can only see it with my eyes closed, or in a completely dark room. Apparently, visual input from my retina interferes with this second kind of imagery. And it's this kind of imagery that the OP discusses. You can train yourself to experience it. I've managed to improve both kinds of mental imagery by practicing.
Talking about intimacy of discussions happening in a public forum is a weird contradiction of terms.

Like in real life - if you were giving a conference presentation you wouldn't have any expectations of intimacy.

I don't know why people would communicate in public spaces if they don't want to interact with the public. Isn't that the entire point?
>Advisory helps organizations protect against PRC-linked actors hiding in router firmware

The most popular router brand is TP-Link which is a Chinese Brand. Both Eero and Nest from Amazon to Google aren't available worldwide. Netgear and Linksys has poor Firmware update frequency. That is pretty much left with ASUS which I have a decade old unfix bug with my ISP that randomly fails to get new IP.

I only wish Apple would come back with new AirPort Extreme.
It's almost comforting to know that 12,000 years ago humans were essentially sending random people dick-pics. All the passersby got a dirty little airdrop to the eye holes.
Uber eats started doing that and it’s infuriating because you need the realtime notices for the app but then they send you non stop promos and make you jump through hoops to disable the marketing ones.
I'm pretty sure they're the number one customer for water in WDM during the hot summer months. [1]

> Yes, but: They (Microsoft West Des Moines Datacenter) consumed as much as 11.5 million gallons of water a month for cooling, or about 6% of WDM's total usage during peak summer usage during the last two years, according to information from West Des Moines Water Works

[1] https://www.axios.com/local/des-moines/2023/09/18/ai-iowa-ep...
Graham Hancock has entered the chat
There is really nothing you can do immediately that will matter if your kid (whatever age) is in an accident and you aren't there. They aren't going to withold lifesaving care, or anything like that. Sure you want to know, but that's a you problem.

If your kid is lost, tell them to call 911. They'll most likely be able to help more quickly than you will.
> What if you found it in the street? Would that affect whether or not the business you invest it in produces a net positive as a result?

Does finding a large amount of money in the street make someone more deserving that someone who found a smaller amount of money in the street?

> That doesn't seem right. You could have spent it on drugs and sex. Your choices matter.

So you put part of it back into circulation and kept the rest for yourself. You're still not doing any better than morally neutral.

> Suppose the planks are the status quo. You're getting paid $10/hour to make tables. Now you get a raise and get paid $12/hour to make tables, but you still only make exactly the same number of exactly the same tables as you did for $10/hour. The extra $2/hour is zero sum, isn't it?

Well where did the value that it corresponds to come from? (I assume you're not just talking about inflation, or labour being scarcer or anything like that - but in that case the raise won't have come from nowhere). If you're making better or more tables through your own skill, you've earned it. If the boss has made production work better or got better machines or something, maybe he's earned it. If it was previously just economic rent that the boss was extracting then yes it's zero sum because it was zero sum to start with.
Anonymity plays a key role here.
Although the body of this article is about Covid policies and vaccine usage, which seems to have set off a whole round of discussion here on that topic, my sense was that the point of this article was more general:

> So my aim is generally to focus on stylized facts that are true and robust. And to keep repeating them. I like simple (or simple-seeming) claims that — and I can’t emphasize this last part enough — I expect will hold up to scrutiny.

As somebody who presents results of analyses and models for a living, I couldn’t agree more. Present the simplest possible finding that gets the point across and move on. Maybe mention “and this holds up when accounting for x, y, z”, or just keep those analyses in the backup slides in case you have a feisty audience member. Nobody cares how complex your model is, just that it works.
They do give back to society - they provide jobs, pay taxes, and mobile has created millions of jobs and put computers in billions of people’s pockets.
The short life of New York City’s first skyscraper
Climate Resilience Projects Face Big Roadblock: A Housing Shortage
https://www.tarlogic.com/blog/france-and-economic-intelligen...

It appears to be more so that they just really suck.
Previous Discussions.

367 Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26211721

84 Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31558887
It's a warning, you don't even have to believe it to take action.

If someone told me a missile was going to hit my apartment I probably wouldn't believe them, but I might go grab coffee
Ridiculous that banking isn't free. I never pay banking fees. But also.. it's the poor that get hit with the NSF fees and high interest rates which is also predatory.
> Has there been any attempt to calculate the cost-benefit of all the various measures and how extreme we should go with them?

In Australia there is huge pushback politically about holding an inquiry to determine what could be done better, a lot of politicians hid behind faceless "health advice" for their actions that wouldn't last a minute when the public servants involved face an inquiry.

Current estimates of the jobkeeper program put it at $110,000 per job saved, in comparison to the median wage of $52,338. Basically all of it went into the pockets of big companies rather than paid directly to people. That was just one of many programs at the time, debt blew out by hundreds of billions which the populace on both sides strangely cheered on.
And they have the cheek to ask you your SSN on your way out. Nice!
The measures that seem like they should have worked, but people claim they didn't are:

- masks: clearly they worked for the medical professionals that were treating patients during the first waves, as they were directly exposed and didn't get sick, why didn't they work for the population at large? Did we not wear them correctly, consistently?

- schools: It seems obvious that schools could be a huge vector of transmission, kids largely were asymptomatic and when they got sick, they would still spread it, both inside the school and to their vulnerable relatives. Were the school shutdowns a mistake? Should they have been done differently?
It's even more staggering to think how much didn't survive due to conquerors, demolitions, fires, and intolerance.
Agree, but the solution is easy peasy with a simple hash function.

(Or just reverse the bits, take the last n, etc)
Sanitizing your hands, that must really haunt you.
For what it's worth, the representation the author chose to go with is almost verbatim identical to how you declare variant object types in Nim.
What is the motivation for HR execs to flood the site with nonexistent positions, and does LinkedIn do anything to stop abuse like that?
Yeah, you get in-bounds access to the allocation so sub-allocation attacks/cross field is in the play. It's kinda a pain in the ass to turn that into a useful exploit primitive though, and anyways UAF is much easier because (at least with classic allocators) you can corrupt any allocation type. Hardened allocators make exploitable overlaps much harder though and so in practice CHERI's spatial safety might be enough to kill tons of bugs.
https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/issues/19#issue...

> @ONLYOFFICE, FYI to add bidi-directional support (LTR, RTL and mixed) in Web interface is as simple to add to element dir=auto.

> If I remember correctly, they are using canvas with custom rendering logic. Hence many native browser capabilities might not be available.

Oh, jeez, why? I want to install this just to point a screen reader at it and watch the havoc. Maybe they got that figured out but good lord...
“8 with some gotchas”. That’s a rousing endorsement of open standards.
I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about. The first time was unprecedented. The people responsible for the second leak were probably really very clever, and it was a different time back when the third leak happened:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-analysis/analysi...

Also, that article from when the third leak happened points out they had three leaks in three years. It doesn’t mention anything after the 2020 leak. It’s definitely fine now.
Might I suggest that once you recover from your cold you redo the audio on your demo video? Or at least edit all the coughs out?

Otherwise, looks great! Been looking for a trustworthy opensource replacement for a while since Postman went to crap and the Insomnia owners revealed they can't be trusted.
Checkout the group size theories about humans’ Dunbar number

Dunbar figured out that within apes, the one factor that correlates to every species brain size, is group size

If you apply the formula to humans (ie. measure brain size and calculate the group size), it gives you a number around 150