skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. It looks like there are studies that indicate that dopamine is also increased by nicotine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946180/

Edit: er, sorry, you were probably talking about Buspar, not nicotine in regards to dopamine. Buspar does increase seratonin and dopamine, both of which are tickled to varying degrees by nicotine.
This reads like a hit piece making fun of someone's hobbies/lifestyle (herbal medicine, spirituality, dislike of corporate social media like Linkedin or X), tinged with masked vitriol.
Show HN: Sink – Voice-Enabled Lifelogger for Effortless Data Tracking
Hello HN,

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>Since we’re talking about defunding, not abolishing, what’s your point?

Is there a difference? If you defund the police completely, isn't that basically the same as abolishing?

If protesters just wanted to reduce police funding, their slogan should have been "reduce police funding" instead of "defund the police". "Reduce police funding" is much less ambiguous.

This ties into my point about how energy wasn't being directed strategically. "Defund the police" is great as an edgy slogan, but that's about it.

>And that fraction depends on the municipality - it varies from program to program.

What's the rough average?
Yes, there is definitely a human-in-the-loop element here.

It would be great if you could share an example of the inconsistent output problem -- we also faced it. GPT-4 was much better than GPT-3.5 in output quality.
>Nearly 14 years in, where exactly is this “ton of real world utility”?

People usually qualify this with "moral" or "legal" uses -- crypto currencies are absolutely useful for tax evasion and moving money across borders illegally -- it's why many people use them. It's these exact qualities that draw in the 'scammers' and 'get rich guys' as well. So it absolutely has real world uses just ones you don't like. The next question naturally then is why don't we shut them down? Now you can see how powerful they actually are because they're aren't fragile either and very persistent.
Validate it by running it through another LLM trained to detect shenanigans?
Not nearly to the same level, and a lot of that is proprietary info. Facebook collects lots of data but doesn't like to share it.
It destroys the monopoly Valve has over item ownership and gives power to the people. Valve hasn't switched because having a monopoly is good financially.
Did they also release new drivers for linux that carry these features?

I'm going to really not be happy if you have to use Winblows for these...
what a weird fluff piece

"Apple is taking a different approach—making apps social right out of the box"

Yeah, right, because Meta tends to forget about making their SOCIAL network a bit more social right out of the box?

"The most basic form of ‘social’ [..] watching a movie [..] listening to music"

Why would I wear a VR headset for that? I totally get why Meta decided that they don't need a VR app tailor-made for listening to music while looking at awkward avatars.

But let me just point out the elephant in the room because those puritans won't mention it: Most of their desired target demographic - those hip high-schoolers and students with lots of free time and lots of disposable income - will go to parties because it gives them a chance to meet other humans in the flesh and get laid. And that's why they will keep ignoring both Meta's and Apple's attempts at digitally recreating the experience of watching movies and listening to music with friends and acquaintances. Hearing the music was never the core goal of their users.
You also irretrievably lose access to your funds if an attacker steals your credential. Not a problem as long as you have flawless security. /s
Is the 3D industry a good one to get into ? Or is it too full of crunch and low pays ?
I don't think you realize that we WANT RiscV to succeed. Stop being so defensive. It really doesn't have a solid ecosystem yet and the ISA is still in its infancy. Debug is awful and security is still in rev0.x stage. If you want it to be real, stop playing the internet "i win the argument" game, understand where RISCV is deficient, and use your energy to actually help.
The fake browser update scam gets a makeover
Real-Estate Commissions Could Be the Next Fee on the Chopping Block
> Nearly 14 years in, where exactly is this “ton of real world utility”?

I don't think cryptocurrency has much value, but I think block chain has lots of potential for trading things that have unique ids and are owned by many people. I paid $1500 for research on a title claim and my lawyer came back with "It's looks solid, but I'd get the title insurance just in case". If property deeds were on the block chain then it'd be trivial.

Car deeds, property deeds, stocks, concert tickets, air line tickets, hotel reservations, all these would benefit from being frictionlessly traded on a block chain. That said, to be useful the entities have to be tangible and the owners don't really benefit (though hotels would benefit from the speculation since it'd even out their cash flow) or the owner is the government.
DEFUSE proposed insertion of human-specific cleavage sites not serial passage.
There was speculation in earlier thread about the case that suspect was active hn user https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34670385
I’m just curious, why didn’t you choose to make this a web app instead of a desktop app? Were there technical limitations?
How would you stream the output of something like this, if you wanted to? So that people could continue to change the viewpoints.

You couldn't possibly stream the full list of voxels generated by capturing the entire image with all of the cameras, right? That would probably exceed PCI bandwidth capabilities.

You'd need the server-side to generate models, send those models, and then stream the vectors?
> I suspect there was a contract signed early on in their dealings that the author of this blog post is not being forthcoming with.

I also think there's more to this.

In the event of no contract, winning this is basically one court visit, plus a cost order against the broker.

In the event of a contract that specifies no payment until the deal is closed with the broker's buyer, that's also going to be one court visit with a cost order against the broker.

The only reason to pay him is if the contract said "in the event of a sale" with no further qualifiers. I'm pretty certain it said something along those lines.
403s for me.
>that doesn't necessarily reflect positively on the rest of the bill

so what? Biden's bill made a good thing happen, so much that HN readers gave it 859 upmods (which is a lot). I point this out mostly so that I can be amused at how infuriating it is to Hacker News readers who can't help but be hypocrites that they love certain policies but continue to rail against the kind of government that brings about such policies.
Get Gradshteyn and Ryzhik and follow the references ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradshteyn_and_Ryzhik
Yes, I do. I'm originally from a bad country (Russia) but right now live in a good country (Poland). I still do some work in the bad country and USDT is basically the only inexpensive, easy, and fast way to transfer money from the bad country to the good country.
At this rate, SMIC with its ex-TSMC employees and stolen IP is going to surpass them pretty quickly. That's unfortunate, as we could really use a leading-edge fab that is separate from the volatile political relations in East Asia.
I'm well aware that cryptos like Bitcoin and Etherium are open ledger books that show everything. The privacy comment was more targeted at systems such as Monero.
ITT: A lot of people who think they are using "outdated" technology because they are not using something near the technical edge for a given use-case
And I’m sure it won’t remain $1, either.
> “A strong case can be made that the signals are generated by an intelligent form of life on Earth,” Sagan’s team wrote, rather cheekily.

Go dolphins!
COBOL! Was delighted to get to this word because I'd started wondering if verbosity mattered, and couldn't say what the value of more or less verbose would be. Any insight on that?
Yes, thank you, it was making me twitchy.

A tennis court sized wall made of bricks is just a large meta-brick.

Whew! Cheers! That was gonna bug me all day (but I don't like to quip on HN, y'know?)
I don't think this is the main problem here. We could ask Gnome the same questions if they hired a Catholic bishop for example. Or someone who claims that for the last 8 years their main job was to raise pigeons. It might be perfectly fine but we're curious to know - why them?

EDIT: Well, it might be the case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920624
Besides the suggestions below, it is instructive to go to the math stackexchange and look at the highest voted Q&As tagged 'integrals' or 'definite-integrals'. Legends like Cleo lurk there demonstrating mind-boggling feats of integration. The corresponding mathoverflow tags are also interesting, but likely to involve more advanced concepts.
I think it makes a lot of sense tbh if one demographic lies more often. But if I know more about them than demographic, I use that info too. For example,

There was a study on this by okcupid where they found 80% of white women who claimed they were bisexual only matched with one sex. The percentage was lower for other races.

It's astrology (the white woman "science") all over again, except this time for mental illnesses.
Don't forget you have to do it for chips at both ends.
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It’s mainly because they use shitty cream. Try adding xanthan gum and/or a carageenan to stabilize the whipped cream and keep the peaks stiffer longer. Will also extend shelf life a bit and make it taste a bit creamier.

The other thing you can do with these is reduce the fat content a bit as they will make it taste creamier with less fat thus giving you a similar tasting product for less calories. However, this could also explain why your home made product is superior as side by side full fat will generally still taste better. I still think most major producers cheap out on their cream supply though and use low quality cream that tastes mediocre regardless of fat content though.
And the government also has yet to pay out for victims of Radiation poisoning at Rocky Flatts, a facility that was part of the Manhattan project.

For every case where the government did right by these kinds of folks, there is another where they didn't.

Rocky Flatts has some very interesting history. It's the only time when one us federal agency (FBI) raided a facility of another (DOE).
Standardizing next-generation narrow precision data formats for AI
Earlier this year, AMD, Arm, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. formed the Microscaling Formats (MX) Alliance with the goal of creating and standardizing next-generation 6- and 4-bit data types for AI training and inferencing. The key enabling technology that enables sub 8-bit formats to work, referred to as microscaling, builds on a foundation of years of design space exploration and research. MX enhances the robustness and ease-of-use of existing 8-bit formats such as FP8 and INT8, thus lowering the barrier for broader adoption of single digit bit training and inference.

Spec: https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-microscaling-forma...

Whitepaper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10537

Code: https://github.com/microsoft/microxcaling
Correct. NFT's are the adult equivalent of the gold stickers we got on assignments in grade school.
Announcing impossible travel detection for all customers
I think that allowing people to protect themselves from authoritarian governments is often a good thing. I also think it is important to understand that if this is the killer app then we need to be honest about what it is and how that affects people in states that are more just. The benefits to those suffering in Venezuela cannot be separated from the harms done to people in non-authoritarian states.
> True, but from my point of view OP won because he was able to see through the aholes true plans causing the ahole to only get the crumbs of a much larger piece of the pie at the end.

I didn't get that from the article - I read it as the broker got his full commission.

In fact, it reads as if the broker got even more than he expected, because the final sale price was 25% more.
AI development subscription flat fee
Launching the designjoy for Data Science & AI development after 4 years bootstrapping Menhir, working for biggest european banks and global companies. Think it makes sense?
Flat fee AI development
Seeing some "this is good for crypto, actually" comments here.

Keep holding that bag.
> 99.99% of the time I got a response.

Good lord, how many people did you message?!
There's a dead comment from n4r9 asking about mobile support and I'm not sure why it was voted down because it seems like a reasonable question, but in case n4r9 is reading this, my impression is that the graphhopper engine itself has no support for Android and the app mentioned in these release notes is just a client that uses a remote instance of graphhopper to do online routing.
are they really hand-soldered? They look so small!
Isn't there a machine that is cheaper for high volume soldering of those small connections?
> Please understand that every environment, company, and project is different.

No doubt, but my point is there is a unifying metric that we can use to evaluate the effectiveness of these environments, Percentage of time spent on the environment itself versus on user needs. I think that number is too high for any system that is overly-decomposed.
It may be useful for transferring money, but not because the technology is inherently better for that.

In technical terms, it costs more for a bank to send an email in between branches than to transfer money in between branches. If, using current tech, some U.S. bank would offer transfers anywhere in the world for $0.20 a transfer, they would still make money, and you would feel much more confident that the money will be available for withdrawal.

Now, I realize that due to various factors, it is not legal to transfer money to all nations, and there are some nations that dont have the infrastructure to reliably get you cash - but those are not advantages of the tech, they are advantages of the lack of laws.

You could build a equivalent, illegal, "bank" with headquarters in, I dunno, Russia? Transfer money worldwide for $5/transfer, and figure out how to avoid the feds. No blockchain, and you have acheived the same.
I'm more curious to know what you do with your phone? Games?
I'm not sure if the average person has noticed any performance improvements besides screen refresh rate and maybe photo/video quality.
Bricklaying is backbreaking skilled, and often dangerous work -- and we're in a skilled labor shortage. This doesn't solve every construction problem but this seems much more useful than the 3D wall-printers since block buildings are going up constantly and there's no new tech in the building that would require certification, just in the placement/setting of blocks.
How would you say you compare to Column's credit products? Do you plug into FedNow for instant funding of borrower deposit accounts (if their FI/bank is on those rails)?

https://column.com/

(congrats on the launch!)
A Cybertruck-Inspired E-Scooter: The Infinite Machine P1
The communication cut off would have happened AFTER the astronauts said their goodbyes.
Does fix the regression that was causing poor stable diffusion inference ?
> what utility it provides that fiat currencies do not

Forex (for travelers) perhaps? Technically, fiat itself does not provide exchange. you always need a broker or a counterparty. crypto provides liquidity that can replace a paid service (yes I know crypto also has fees).

I have never owned crypto but I think it's a great idea as a currency that should have been able to compete with paypal/credit cards, but somehow didn't. I think that's its greatest failure: the fact that 12 years later I can't buy a sandwich with it.
> There's really only 4 framerworks (React, Vue, Angular & Svelte, in this order), they pretty much do the same thing

For me it looks there are only 4 frameworks in that category. htmx in my eyes feels like a welcomed step back from those. Closer to what we used to do before (server-side html generation and such), but with a small twist. I have not really used it, but React etc. never felt good fit for me, personally.
What compells seasoned developers to keep using python if these flaws are so obvious, though?
You don’t become a good software engineer because you have strong opinions.

You become a good software engineer despite having strong opinions.
I feel sorry for the anti Israel tech crowd, when basically all the tech they use probably has israeli licensed tech / ip in it and hence their usage of the tech ends up directly benefiting Israeli tax payers and therefore indirectly the Israeli government.

My sarcastic response to them, you need to become a luddite (or have an amish like rejection of modern technology).
Well, I'm no expert on Georgism, but the idea is that it incentivizes landowners to either sell or develop the land. So, for domain names, the idea would be similar: determine (in some way, to be determined) when a domain isn't being used, and then charge a fee that prevents squatting.
Strongly depends on where you are and where your friends are.
I got a LaserJet P2015dn in 2007, and it has served me faithfully for 16 years, including a stint as our only printer when we started a new company circa 2011. I'd love to get a color laserjet but this one just works so well.
Thankfully it won't be common anywhere else due to Bruen supreme court case that made conceal carry permits shall issue if the person applying qualifies against aa rigid set of criteria.
While it may be hard to see in first world countries, imagine being in a third world country and having a place you can store value that can't be debased by your crackpot dictator. That's huge.
Permitting companies to come up with their own plan means that they can be hit later if the plan is insufficient. A company that implements a government solution exactly has no liability - they’ve complied with the law. A company whose policy is deficient (because it didn’t meet the law’s mandate) or who didn’t follow their own policy may have liability.
Blockchain is a solution in search of a problem. Conventional technologies can do the same thing with far less overhead. The issue is that they're 'conventional' and not 'new/shiny/sexy'.

New doesn't always mean better, and it's often objectively and demonstrably worse than what preceded it.
I believe I have met such a person.
> I hope that Israel can leave this dark period and be more worthy.

It has to! Israel cannot give in to the very aspirations of antisemites, but it also must not become like its persecutors.

As a German, I cannot even begin to say what I feel, but it's a lot. It's a tangent, but I have to think of the Israeli movie "Walk on Water" (which I love, as kitschy as it may be), and which kinda sums up what I'm struggling to express. I sincerely wish Israel to be safe and sound and something to be proud of (or jealous of), and that includes the "heart", not just the territory. Antisemites aren't scared of Israeli atrocities, they're smug about them, they love to be able to point to them. And I wish there was nothing to point to. That wouldn't make antisemitism go away, but it would put Israel on better footing, I genuinely believe that.

There is a Chinese proverb, "he who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount". I think this applies to the jingoists of both sides (and certainly Netanyahu), they have nowhere to go to except to climb even higher. But as you said, most "normal people" dragged into any conflict are really just normal people and don't wish harm on anyone. People need to find a way to talk to each other without their "leaders". Keep your head up, and thanks for speaking out.
Would your service work for this scenario?

We charge $20K-$50K for our services after they are completed. (We do contingent recruiting.) Some customers ask if they can pay over time. We don't want to offer that because we're already billing after all the work is done, so it makes our cash flow even worse than it already is.

What I want is to be able to say, "Sure, use this service and they will allow you to make payments over time." We get our money up front and they make payments to this service provider. They pay extra to the service provider for the convenience of making payments.

I don't want to factor. I want the burden of collection on someone else. Like Affirm for b2b.

Could we use your service to build something like this into our platform? Who is responsible for collecting?
> * You cannot view logs of ongoing jobs. If you navigate to a job view after a task has already started, all you are going to see is a spinner. The job might be stuck in a loop, there might be an error, etc. You won't know until the job ends.

Don't understand this one. I'm checking this all the time, for instance test runners. Unless you meant older logs from before you opened the page - that one is indeed a bit annoying in some cases

I also find it annoying that yaml config is docker-compose like but it's easy to run into random limitations or incompatibilities...
> as a scientist, i am not terribly interested in giving away the ideas that i have worked on for, typically, years. i become quite invested in them

And, at the point that something new grabs your interest, wouldn't you rather let go of that thing you spent years on?

This is why people make businesses to sell - they are looking forward to the next new thing.
this is sort of dying. there are only one or two major prop houses still running. Sony just shut theirs down and they were one of the last studios to have their own prop warehouse. several specialty shops remain, but they seem much more limited in selection.
Not exactly the same, but I love the actor's "lighting" in old German expressionist silent films. Often, instead of using actual lighting, shadows and highlights were applied to actor's faces manually using makeup.

If anyone wants to take a look, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has some great examples.