skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't see it mattering long-term. We bounced back from the dotcom crash to even higher levels. Same with other downturns. The importance of tech hasn't declined any. There are plenty of tech companies to find good jobs at that you can afford to carry a grudge, while companies have plenty of people to hire from still.

If some don't return, they'll relax hiring requirements until they're filled. Hiring requirements from top companies have a lot of room to relax - easier questions, less interview rounds, etc.

Maybe this time is different with higher interest rates?
> the MD can't bill anyone for answering you questions over the phone or even via messaging

My patient portal clearly states that the Corporation can bill for questions sent as messages.

The Corporation by the way is a religiously-affiliated non-profit whose CEO earns tens of millions a year. In the past couple of years they have stopped doing vaccinations and blood draws. We go to the drugstore for those now.

So, why stay with them? The alternatives are even worse.
Why Facebook/Meta is protecting scammers?
During last 2 years I reported so samy scammers that’a hard to count. Every time Facebook wrote back to me that’s every post I reported is nit a scam. Even when I reported reply with scam link. What is going on?
Hospital IT systems failures are are mostly going to cause problems with scheduling, record-keeping, and billing.

By far, the most likely thing to kill you in a hospital is not the IT system but errors by the doctors and nurses. Or that you're too sick to save no matter what they do.
Still, they should've hired in moderation.
What about Axler’s then?
Have you looked at Tauri mobile or it isn't capable yet?
Scientists create most water-resistant surface
There aren’t any unions imposed from the top down by definition. Members of management aren’t eligible to join unions.
As another point of reference, the last Comanche band surrendered and moved onto the reservations in 1875.
All of the terraforming business always seems like just digging around in your belly button.

We can't even fix the problems on our first planet. How (and why) can we even begin to think about another one?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Sagan himself said to be skeptical of those in authority.
"Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bZ0x3cQ0PnU
Also everytime somebody is creating fake instagram account mimicking original and report it I don’t event get the report answered. Why?
Is it a database where the only date/time type is a melting clock, and a join is defined as “the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table”?
It is in the nature of definitions to include some things and exclude others.

If the definition of “science” excluded computer science as a science; would you say the definition is correct?
But for some reason people still want to live there?

Since you'll have to live underground anyway, why not just live in Nevada?
Then they realize you're paying about $150 a year to avoid ads. That fact alone increases the value of your attention. Thus you gotta pay them even more money to avoid ads. Which increases the value of your attention further. At some point the value exceeds what you're willing to pay and it's back to ads. Then they start selling your personal information to the highest bidder which includes the fact you have enough disposable income and a willingness to pay not to be bothered. The only possible outcome is rent seekers pouring out of the woodwork to try and grab a little of your sweet disposable income.

The only way to deal with these people is to reduce their profits to zero, not come up with ways to increase them. We simply decide that ads are unacceptable and that's the end of it. They either adapt or die.
This article is a hodgepodge of Apple praise [1], incorrectly applied business analysis, and a misguided hope that Apple will be considerate enough to build user-serviceable parts. It makes no sense.

[1] yes, the trillion dollar company is better than everyone else
You write, "we shouldn't need the axiom of choice to define the derivative."

The good news is that we don't!

Only model-theoretic approaches, which justify the infinitesimal methods by constructing a hyperreal field, require (a weak form of) the axiom of choice [2].

However, there are axioms for nonstandard analysis which are conservative over the usual choice-free set theory ZF. The three axioms of Hrbacek and Katz presented in the article "Infinitesimal analysis without the Axiom of Choice" [1] are the best recent example: these axioms allow you to do everything that is done in Keisler's book and more (including defining the derivative), and you never need to invoke the axiom of choice to justify them.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04980

[2] Essentially, the set of properties satisfied by a fixed nonstandard hypernatural gives rise to a non-principal ultrafilter over the naturals. The axiom of choice is necessary to prove the existence of non-principal ultrafilters in (choice-free) set theory, but the existence of non-principal ultrafilters is not sufficient to prove the axiom of choice.
And how do creators get paid for the videos shared by P2P?
Parent comment is on the right track. It sounds like you want to fine tune an llm to mimic the conversation style between you and your friend. Then you can use a general embedding model to implement RAG so that the application can "recall" pieces of your conversation.
I used to feel like you - the non-removable battery thing was annoying, the non-modular flash was a deal breaker, etc.

None of them turned out to matter, at all. What does matter is a solid feel and solid construction and the flash and batteries lasting the lifetime of the product. I'd rather have that than replaceable.
Probably water, but of different composition to that of Earth's water.
This is basically what they're doing with the Vision Pro, though out of engineering necessity rather than preference: the headset by itself only has about 5 minutes of battery life, to give you just enough margin to swap out the external battery pack you keep in a pocket.
Valve doesn’t ship
Road networks in cities are probably the most durable creations.
You expect Google to prioritize Youtube Premium support in a country with $2,000 GDP per capita?
Imagine paying to an ad company that profiles, tracks and snoops.
I don't understand the relationship to the Portenta, which I also don't see the point of.

I looked up the Portenta:
"The groundbreaking Portenta X8 is a powerful, industrial-grade System On Module (SOM) with Linux® OS preloaded onboard"

So... essentially an RPi?

So this thing says, "Accepting any Portenta board, but primarily designed for the Portenta X8, this carrier adds Raspberry Pi HAT support."

So you take an Arduino, put the Portenta on top of it, and then you can put an RPi HAT on top of that? This seems ridiculous and antithetical tidy little self-contained computing devices.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

Then why was the Reply button enabled? How many times do we have to ask this?
It's a subtle topic, but I think we're often conflating extrapolating from our current mental model with thinking.

Often when I get into a dead end, I realize, all I had to do was to walk my knowledge slower, and try to poke holes at it, flip it backward, toy with it, do games with the problem at point .. it's more of a poetry seeking game than hard thinking. That's why (IMO) most eureka/new solution feels like a loosening, the hard part was going too hard in the wrong direction.

After failing a few too many times you get the habit of not rushing the bad mode of thinking and rather play with ideas.

my 2 cents
Hello:

"Flood the channels with shit." - Steve Bannon

Goodbye:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
Sure, and the application gets access to all the MP3 files anywhere, if that's what the user tells the OS to let it have. There's no reason that shouldn't be a thing. It's not like we're going to run out at 64k of RAM or something. ;-)

You can hand someone your wallet if you want, or just give them exact change to make it $3.50 We should be able to do simple things like that with our OS.
Let's say that we would need an alternative to Internet by then.
Mathematicians are infinitely better than statisticians, though, because the definition of a statistician is "a person who can have his head in an oven and his feet in a freezer", and say, "on the average, I am feeling quite comfortable".
> Or if you do put all the correct isolation around the code to protect the database, then you have basically created an "app server" (old term) inside a database, and it would happily, run outside of the database since in essence it is already doing so.

You can drastically cut down on end-to-end latency by eliminating the network hop from your app server to your DB, especially in cases where you are forced to make multiple back-to-back DB queries per request.
On Twitter and Reddit, the users most affected were also the people providing most value to the platform (tweets, reddit submissions, discussion, moderation). They're fairly symmetric platforms.

On YT, the people providing the value are the content creators. That is the same content creators who get a revenue share from ads and premium. They're the ones who benefit the most from blocking ad blockers. The people watching videos with ad blockers (and sponsor block)? They're not providing anything in exchange, to the platform or the creators.
Personally I'd like to see some justification for discovering America, there was plenty to be learned in Spain and Portugal at the time.
SnapDrop/PairDrop is famous for going offline sometimes. It happened to me once.
You seem to have restated Sagan's position with more words. What about your comment differs from his assertion? I'm not seeing it?
A lot of people basically don't have strong enough urge to fcuk. Something is skrewed with the chemistry. Social aspects are just noise around it.
Slight OT, but his suing of Apple was such a douchery move, I will never be able to understand how such brilliant and humble human being would want to entangle himself in such radicicolous petty and frankly baseless lawsuit.
It is critical to understand that this article fundamentally misuses the word "homology", which in bioinformatics and molecular evolution is understood to mean "sharing a common ancestor". Similarity searches (typically using programs like BLAST, one of the most cited methods in the biomedical literature) look for homologs.

This article is NOT about "homology" detection (which suffix trees are not particularly good for), it is about "identity" detection (which is a related problem, but fundamentally different). It is unfortunate that in the biomedical literature, the word "homology" is often misused in place of "identity" (as in "micro-homology", which is really "micro-identity"), but serious computational biologists try to avoid this misuse of the word "homology".
Let's not pretend life offshoring is a new phenomena. It's been going on for 30 years now. It's been going on long enough that many of those jobs came back onshore and legions of books have been written as to why somehow the purported savings never materialized.
CERN's Open Source Office, Spotify FOSS Fund, Kernel 6.6, and More – FOSS Weekly
Only planning for the common case is an insane thing to do in healthcare. We don't train doctors for 12 years so that they are faster or more efficient at diagnosing the common cold, we train them so that they have a wide breadth of knowledge, experience, and skills. People already have difficulty getting satisfying diagnoses from MDs with 12 years of training + Epic, imagine how much worse it would be if the person had no clue illnesses other than what Epic spits out even exist.
How do you feasibly regulate AI? It's so easy to write a machine learning algorithm and the fundamentals for learning it are all over the place. YouTube tutorials, Udemy, Coursera, or university courses all teach it. Once you know how to write AI algorithms, all you need is a computer.

The hard part is getting data to train your model, and it becomes a natural monopoly because the service that performs better will see more traffic to collect more data.

But I don't understand how you can regulate AI in a way that makes any sense. Ban specific algorithms? Limit data collection? Create some confusing wording around generic "algorithms that improve other algorithms" or something like that?

And even if you passed such a law, it's trivially easy for someone from any other part of the world to set up an API for their ML algo to run.

Regulation on AI sounds like it would be about as successful as the war on drugs.
So if you see 10 ads in a day, say while you're sitting in a doctor's office, you hate each advertiser? What if one of them is from a business you already patronize?
A good PM pushes back on those initiative and fixes them
The article is written in a very ambigious manner.

Lots of 'cure' mentions while admitting the treatment is not a cure. Trials run with ambigious results, and Excision is protecting the data until 2024.

Honestly not sure if I read an article at all. It reads like a 'keep alive' ping from an old space probe reporting back it's still alive status.
I would say your observation has some merit

But my X timeline is full of crap from people I don't follow

I have no clue how to get back to crypto twitter after I accidentally liked a fight video once

about half of derailed timeline posts say “username I followed liked this” or “follows this”, and the other half have no indication at all, and now its all wartime posts I muted and blocked so many profiles but I have no idea anymore

It definitely feels more right-toxic than left-toxic currently. Nothing close to center.

the OnlyFans girls with the top comments on every viral post are hilarious though. There are definitely some X-isms that are entertaining quirks
> I've tried building production apps on top of server frameworks that are constantly innovating, and it's a massive PITA

Oh hi there Sveltekit
Land use for cereal production has been going up [0], so increasing amounts could be ruined while total production is up.

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.CREL.HA?view=cha...
Blind people shouldn't be allowed to ride the bus then?
One way to view metaphysics is as the science of science.

So if the science of science is not science - is that not a contradiction?
Asking challenging questions isn’t the same as making things challenging. I had the same experience as the author. It’s not about asking questions that take up their time or are hard for the hell of it. It’s about asking questions that show you’re not only planning on making the sale, but on doing the work. If you’re selling a product, it’s the questions that show you want to make sure the product is successful for them. They’re challenging in the sense there’s a slight tone of “are you sure you really need this?” in them, and they often don’t have top-of-mind answers.
How else is one supposed to find an escort? People are always saying “just hire an escort” casually like if this was some common knowledge.

Plus maybe you don’t need an escort if you are a match with someone else looking for the same thing as you.
There was when I was in middle school. I'm always unpleasantly surprised when I hear what is no longer taught.
> I would like to add the the old adage holds true - absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Oh but it is - it's not proof of absence but it is evidence. Any piece of evidence must have two sides - if observing A would increase your confidence that B, then observing not A must reduce your confidence that B.
> The population density in North American suburbs is too low to allow for children to comfortably walk or bike to their friend's homes, or to third places. They can't even walk to school, for goodness' sake.

That makes no sense; population densities were even lower 150 years go, yet kids walked to school.

A lot of it is how those suburbs are laid out. To walk to a point that is a 100 meter beeline, you may have to navigate 500 meters of labyrinth, to avoid going through people's backyards.

Could it be that the schools are larger, serving a larger catchment? I.e. schools in suburbia are perhaps modeled too closely after schools in denser urban areas.
Complex numbers are algebraically closed, reals are not. This means, if you write a polynomial with complex coefficients, it will have (only) complex roots. Analogous statement for the reals isn't true.
For what it's worth, I enjoyed that joke. I work in education and the number of redundant acronyms and initialisms (if that's a word) is astounding.

BIT meeting on my calendar. Is it behavioral intervention team or something about the bachelor of information technology or Business Information technology or bachelor of industrial technology or are we talking about income taxes or what?
I get the emotional response, but it's not logical. The only thing the advertiser did wrong was pay Google to advertise their product. Can you imagine what percentage of products or services you regularly buy that have done that?
Certainly debatable copy, but in total fairness that page is a list of actually-Open-Source licensed projects.
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There’s a lot why’s to do that. How is the question.
Because big tech is the only job available...

Many tech workers are paid well but overworked so even if they can't find an equivalent paying job you can still find a less stressful still comfortable to live on wage.
I mean, they don't need to be glued shut now lol.
DIY IP-KVM Based on Raspberry Pi
Without gender misbalance and polyamory you can’t assign a higher “market value” to either, as an older single woman will also have a single male counterpart. What you’re seeing is confirmation bias.
Not everyone is obsessed with scale, but news.ycombinator.com biases that way.
Making tech and gaming more inclusive for women isn’t something that just benefits women — as your comment shows it can benefit men as well.
Given how Europeans have behaved themselves on this continent, that really doesn't qualify as a meaningful counterargument. If anything, it's more to my point than yours.
Perth to Santiago
Male-male mating is super common.

The part you’re missing is that all of those males that mate with males will mate with females as well.

The paper Wikipedia references about rams notes that the only mammals with exclusive homosexual behaviour are sheep and humans. Exclusive homosexual mating is exceptionally rare. There are about 6000 mammal species.

The Wikipedia sentence should read the only other mammal which exhibits exclusively homosexual mating behaviour is sheep.

Also domesticated animals have been under some pretty weird selection pressures so you have to be careful comparing their behaviour to a wild type animal like humans.
> lots of things about the pandemic were pushed by authorities with little justification other than authority.

Whatever people's feelings about how this was handled, please don't include the scientists in the issue. The authorities mandating things were the political folks, not the scientists.
> But indulging in PR puff shouldn't be the reason for outright dismissal of the ammonia engine.

I dismiss Toyota's claims because there's no damn evidence for them. It's vapourware, like Toyota's supposed solid state battery. They say they have working prototypes of these revolutionary products, and perhaps they do. I don't dismiss the possibility that they do. But Toyota need to actually show their work if they want to work past their trashed reputation.
I listen to a veterinarian frequently complain about people trying to skip the exam fee via various methods -- and the owner probably doesn't even know that what they're doing is a problem.

A free diagnosis over the phone is a lost exam fee. A health certificate over the phone -- exam fee. A vaccine appointment that turns into a sick pet and the owner just has some question -- exam fee. Trying to skip an exam before boarding: exam fee.
There's sometimes also program managers who organize relevant projects across the company (for example with GDPR compliance a program manager might coordinate between legal and various products, identify risks and report progress to C-level, and each product will have a project kick off to get it into compliance (depending on the effort, the person overlooking this project and working with program might be a dedicated project manager, engineering manager, some engineer etc).
Wither Hollywood
The unit economics that AI will bring to Hollywood will inevitably cause it to reduce in influence.
Today: Expo for web and native, with a FastAPI backend.

Tomorrow: Who knows.
EmberGen - for those who want to play with fire and smoke physics. Also take a look at some Houdini fire reels, those effects look pretty real to me.
Why would they care? They are not hosted on Vercel.
The short version is: "Wouldn't it be disruptive if Apple went back to replaceable batteries?" but the author stopped short of where that leads.

One of the things that doable "now" that wasn't doable "then" is wireless charging. I love that I can put my phone on a pad next to the bed at night and it charges, pick it up and there is no trailing wire to unplug, put it down and there is no wire to find and plug in. This is a big improvement in my user experience.

Another of the things that have moved us forward is that power efficiency has gone up dramatically, as a result a smaller battery can give the same "run time" as a large battery of old without the bulk associated with the larger energy storage capacity.

Why not combine them?

Why not no battery in the device? Seal it against the elements. Then put in a pocket where a battery that is a wireless "charger" can drop into a slot on the device and provide the power. Current demands on a modern device are low enough that you just go wireless all the time for main power. Now your device takes a sealed "toaster pastry" sized unit that looks innocuous, but slide it into the slot and poof the device powers up, put it on a recharging mat and it starts charging up itself.

Now you have no exposed terminals to "short out", no worries about the battery in your device becoming a "pillow of doom"[1]. And you can carry a couple of extras if you're going to be away from power for a while.

You get all the benefits of replaceable batteries and none of the downsides with the possible exception of a "slot" in your device that looks funny when there isn't a battery in it.

I totally should have patented this :-)

[1] Just Google it :-)
> What happens is that the things a PM does do not get done. Very few engineers want to maintain relationships with customers, interview users to identify potential features, manage leadership, play politics for resource allocation, and so on. So it doesn't get done.

That's not what a PM does. You're missing leaders.

Customer relations is generally under sales.
Resource allocations, politics, that's engineering leadership stuff.

Customer interviews is part of what a PM (or UXer) does. It's never been a critical pain point in any business I've been though. It's part of defining the product, oftentimes companies have a X years backlog of features users asked for and not enough time to build.