skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming across the "10k severe side effects" data point should trigger the critical thinking in one to find out the total amount of vaccines in order to form an opinion. I would say it is still better to learn that fact than not.
That just total nonsense.

If you are clearly not a rocket scientist and seemingly not really interested in the topic how do you know it 'will never work'. Literally based on what are you making this claim.

SpaceX is by far the most advanced rocket company in the world, its not even close. They 100% believe this vehicle can work.

They have presented this to NASA, and NASA selected it and in their evaluation gave it the highest technical readiness level. NASA is involved and is monitoring and nobody from NASA has come out and said that anything they do is impossible.

Also you don't seem to understand how government funding works for this vehicle. These are FIXED PRICE CONTRACTS BASED ON MILESTONES. SpaceX will receive NO MONEY unless they ACTUALLY COMPETE MILESTONES. So the idea that they just do theater to get more government money just doesn't make sense, its not how it works at all.

There is just no to way about it, arguable the two most experienced space organization on the planet believe this can work but somehow you know better?
This is wrong. Yes, Rainforests don't burn as often, by virtue of being extremely hard to burn. Forests in semi-desertic and temperate/dry climates naturally burn frequently.
Things are moving though. My mum spent a day on a machine that filtered out stem cells from her blood, that were donated to her brother to rebuild his immune system. The old treatment was a much more invasive bone marrow transplant, IIRC.
WordPress blogs also have comments sections.

To me, the value of having a social media presence would be to boost your message beyond its core audience. However, Truth Social seems like it has a very selective group of people that would even sign up, so there's less of a chance of your posts being seen by someone who wasn't already interested in them.

I'd imagine it'd be a lot cheaper to host too, and could probably still get around the same amount spent on advertising.
Article doesn’t seem to quite understand what “works for hire” are.
Racism does not only go one way. That’s a recent redefinition to allow rampant discrimination based on race in a guilt free manner.
Benefits of ISO Certification [video]
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Yes it's weird that a 17 year old now isn't allowed to work.

Have they not been to any restaurants lately?

The major problem is the same issue with things like prostitution or drugs. If you ban it, you lose oversight and make it less safe.

I'd rather them allow kids to work, but put proper controls in place.
Show HN: Co-Present – multiple users can control the same Google Slides deck
If you ever pitched to an investor with your co-founder online, you probably had to ask the main presenter (or been asked) to move to the next slide. Unfortunately, this can create distractions and the pitch becomes less smooth.

To solve this problem I’ve created a Chrome Extension that gives additional presenters remote access to the same Google Slides deck.

⬇ If you’d like to try it out in your next pitch you can download the extension for the Chrome Web Store:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/co-present/bbfdjjk...

I’d be forever grateful for any feedback.

Thanks so much!
But if the cows were not there, what they eat would not be cultivated in dire circumstances. Instead that place would sequester carbon. And even if it would not be allowed to sequester it would largely be emitted as co2 and not methane which is a lot less potent greenhouse gas.
This article is surprisingly light on details, the Wikipedia article [0] has a bit more information about the service.

What forms of revenue generation does Truth Social have?

> In January 2023, the New York Times reported that, while Truth Social now carried advertising, it was limited to niche products, without the participation of major brands.

It's not surprising that they're barely making any money if the only people willing to advertise on the platform are hardcore Trump supporters.

There's no clear information on how many active users are on the platform. If Trump really wants to keep this service alive he can probably sell a subscription similar to the Blue Checkmark. Although it's possible that this would cannibalize part of his political donations.

A few months back I found out that discoverability of Truth Social is also very poor. After hearing about some post I tried searching for it on DuckDuckGo and found out that they don't index the site at all. All the results were for news articles talking about the service.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social
This is called the lead time bias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_time_bias
I always love how people who have never built anything 1/1000s as complex want to tell SpaceX, the most advanced aerospace company in the world of how to do their job.
If you want to faithfully capture real-time quantum effects your program’s memory and runtime scales exponentially with the number of particles. A quantum simulation scales polynomially.
Yeah, it sounds like a kind of capitalist min-maxing, but the risk being on the drivers / employees. Same thing happened with Uber, where you drive your own car and pay your own maintenance / damages. Same thing happens everywhere, even local mail delivery where I live - which used to be a respectable, uniformed, full-time job - has turned into more of a gig economy, having become a part-time job where you're expected to use your own bike or van to do the deliveries.

Imagine needing to invest tens of thousands in a van just to have a chance of an underpaid and unthankful package delivery job.
EU Parliament Civil Liberties Committee adopts position on CSAR
From the source:

> Chat control - one of the worst EU plans that is also being described as a surveillance monster - must be stopped. And the EU Parliament has just decided to do so! In a historic agreement on the EU Commission's Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR) the European Parliament wants to remove chat control requirements and safeguard secure encryption. The decision came after extensive backlash against the original proposal from technology and security experts, to international scientists and to citizens across Europe. This is a great win for our right to privacy and for upholding our democratic values in Europe, but the fight continues!

What did the EU Parliament decide?

Breyer writes on his website that internet services and apps must be "secure by design and default". The EU Parliament has agreed to:

"safeguard the digital secrecy of correspondence and remove the plans for blanket chat control, which violate fundamental rights and stand no chance in court. The current voluntary chat control of private messages (not social networks) by US internet companies is being phased out. Targeted telecommunication surveillance and searches will only be permitted with a judicial warrant and only limited to persons or groups of persons suspected of being linked to child sexual abuse material."

A huge win for our privacy rights is also that the EU Parliament has decided to "clearly exclude so-called client-side scanning".

In contrast to the original chat control proposal, the version of the EU Parliament wants that a new EU Child Protection Centre proactively searches publicly accessible parts of the internet for child sexual abuse material with automatic crawling, which can also take place in darknet and would be much more efficient than private surveillance measures by providers. Found abuse material must be reported and taken down by the provider.
Fight is not over

While the EU Parliament's decision is a huge win, the fight is not over. It is expected that the EU Commission will continue to push for general surveillance chat control measures. Now is the time for each and everyone of us to join this fight!
I think it’s interesting how similar a lot of this stuff is to what I do, except I’m not very good at Advent of Code and also I decided to hack Python to do this instead of writing my own language. For example:

* I couldn’t really make operators first class functions, but I just autoimported operator which has this but in words

* I wanted partial application and hated lambda syntax, so I hacked it together with some magic. “_0 + 1” is basically equivalent to lambda x: x + 1

* Python really likes to make everything a free function, which messes with the whole left-to-right thing. So I monkey-patched functional methods onto all the collections

Together this means that if I have like a comma separated list of numbers in str and I want to, idk, count how many are above five I’d do something like

str.split(",").map(int).filter(_0 > 5).len

which matches how my brain things about it far better than how Python would like me to write it. It uses some tricks but it’s not actually that bad of a hack IMO: https://github.com/saagarjha/advent-of-code/blob/main/aoc.py
Yeah it doesn't seem too bad, if you're earning 100 - 200 a day as a teenager like they say in the article, probably not paying rent to your parents, do that for a year or two, stash that in a savings account and you've got a house deposit ready for later in life
I took your "punch" literally on purpose ;)

Even though I mostly take a "white X" as a metaphor for a lack of diversity (of opinions and mindsets), I don't think most people do. These people aren't assholes because they are "white X", they are assholes because they are bourgeois stuck in their echo chamber.
A tweet without any context doesn't exactly prove much. No idea who is wrong about what there.

I also never claimed any sources, I'm just giving my impression of him, which is that he's a bullshitter. But I can list a couple of things we do know about him:

At Tesla, despite not being a founder of the company, he contractually established that he was allowed to call himself a founder. And then pushed the actual founders out.

Online, we see him pick stupid internet fights, and post irresponsible tweets that got him slapped for stock manipulation.

At Twitter, we've all seen his bizarre mismanagement, despite his original background in software development.

We've recently heard that the Cybertruck was a bad decision that he personally pushed through at Tesla.

So given all of that, of course it's still possible that his rocket engineering creds at SpaceX are real, but you really can't blame people for having some doubts about that.

I don't expect anyone employed at SpaceX to spill the beans, but there's plenty of anonymous rumours on the internet about his actual role:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/27rnwj/is_elon_pers...

> Elon is indeed very involved in the design. The way they explained it is they give him a list of options to choose from and he picks the one he likes. Usually, it's the one the lead engineer wants, but sometimes it isn't, and Elon gets what he wants.

That's reasonable enough for a CEO in a flat organisation, but it doesn't sound like he's doing the actual engineering, just picking from the options the engineers give him.

I've also seen a (claimed, not verified) SpaceX employee say that SpaceX has people who's job it is to keep Elon happy and feel involved, because a happy Elon gives them the freedom to make the right decisions.

He got this Tony Stark image in the media, and I think he's been leaning a bit too hard into it, and started to believe the image that he could do everything. And the history of Tesla shows that he's not above overstating his own role.

Don't get me wrong: I love much of what he's done at Tesla and SpaceX; EVs wouldn't be where they are now without him, and rocketry in the US might well be dead without SpaceX. But he certainly has his share of character flaws as well.
I'm not sure I understand your question. Cosmological models are used to study cosmology, no more no less. They modelise the physics of the universe as much as we can understand it, and are used with observations.
Mastodon.social is comparable I'd say, and runs on $240k a year. The reported user numbers are about half for Mastodon.social, but it's not clear the numbers for Truth.social are as rigorous, an order of magnitude difference in cost.
We have gone from living to caves to quantum computers and curing several types of cancer, and we are several orders of magnitude away from any kind of hypothetical energy usage limit imposed by the known universe. This could grow to hundreds of orders of magnitude easily as we learn more.

In the everyday life, there are negative-sum, zero-sum and positive-sum situations and events all over the place.

So, I don't get what your comment is supposed to mean and what it is exactly that you are tired of.
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Leaving aside the non primary year figures you dug up;

the US Census Bureau estimated that in 2020, 168.3 million people were registered to vote in 2020 .. that 54 million voting Republican falls well short of cracking half the registered voters, let alone eligible voters.
I still use my 2013 mbp for my daily home computer. Couldn’t be happier with it for my use cases.
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Yeah, I got used to desktops with RAID, powerful GPUs, large nice monitors, etc back in the early 2000s and laptops never feel fast. They can’t be — I don’t care how many benchmark results say otherwise, a machine with a given size square inches worth of silicon at a given nm scale using a 130 watt power adapter isn’t going to break the laws of physics and beat a desktop drawing 800 watts with 2-5x as much same-nm silicon. Especially now that I’ve gotten into video editing and stuff like generative visuals for music, you really notice where they’re saving power on laptops when switching between a desktop and laptop RTX 4090 + 16-core CPU.
Used to live in Pasadena and I second all this.
Even you are doing some one off analysis, having to wait several minutes can be annoying. And the non-quadratic solutions are not harder than the quadratic one.
I appreciate the cynicism but I feel that ultimately this is how a capitalist civilization does most things.
I'm one of the users that is averse to paying even a $10 subscription. The reason is it would be one of the 10-20 subscriptions that are all supposed to be really useful and worth it. For a small startup, this adds up, especially the $10/user one, where now you have to consider all your subscriptions when checking if you have the budget to hire someone new. I with there was a service where I could define a budget, say $500-$1000/month, and pick the services I need from those available on the platform, specify the size of my team, and vendors would bid for this. This service could then provide some form of SSO to these services. You might not get $20/user, but you might get 5%-10% of all the users on this service.
For you. Your anecdote does not represent everyone's experience. This seems to be an issue a lot of people have, "well I haven't seen it myself so I'm sure this isn't actually an issue".

Cynicism is fine, but it's better to pull up the numbers than go by personal experience and anecdotes, because that's n=1.
The search box in the start menu was a huge improvement for me. And AeroSnap to a lesser degree. On MATE, I set Win+arrow keys to do the same thing.
That is something for them to decide, not the state.
With an attitude like that, I think the author would be absolutely justified in not wanting to hire or work with you. This is the sort of attitude you’d expect from a disaffected minimum wage teenager, not from anyone who took pride in their work or cared about the quality of what they delivered. There are certain things that, even if they aren’t explicitly stated as requirements from the outset, should be reasonably assumed. Avoiding quadratic algorithms is one of those. That’s not what “premature optimization” means; optimization is about tweaking something after the fact but choosing an efficient algorithm is a decision you make at the very beginning.

> Want me to make it fast/memory efficient? You have to say it. Forgot to mention it in the first iteration? No problem, cut me a ticket and I will see if I can sneak it into my next sprint.

It’s probably a lot easier to just not hire people who deliver poor quality work in the first place. Then you don’t have to worry about whether or not they can go back and fix it later.
It's a Chinese propaganda platform.
As a disclaimer, I'm not in the UK. I was working mowing lawns, raking leaves, cutting shrubbery and more when I was 8, and mucking out stables when I was 10... Which decidedly is probably not legal here.

However, I was interested by whether this would be legal or not.

https://www.gov.uk/child-employment/restrictions-on-child-em...

So there appears to be limits on when someone who is under 18 works, and what type of work. Additionally, it appears permits are needed for the employer, and the employee.

I picked Kirklees at random for more specific council laws:
https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/employment-information/pdf/...

It appears that things not being done in this scheme:

Sign off by the parent
Sign off properly by the employer (in this case, the person renting the account)
A risk assessment

However, it appears "leaving school age" is 16, even though adulthood is 18? So I'm not sure any of it would apply to a 17 year old.
As someone forced to use an in-house library of html web components at work,I will opine, run. Run at full speed away from the shadow DOM. It's cumbersome to work, poorly supported in testing tools, and web components themselves are a pain to deal with when your use case doesn't perfectly match the original build.

I'd like to like them, but, no.
Same here. There's nothing like going out in the city, feel the bustle and let it fill you with energy, and you can meet friends there just as well, or feel lonely in the crowd when so inclined. Because nature by itself doesn't solve our problems, the change of scenery and relaxation do - and that you can actually have anywhere.
Yeah, I don't have an issue with teenagers having a job like that. I think it's a bigger issue that they don't work directly under contract, but instead use someone else's account; all the checks and balances that are in place to stop child labor and ensure their safety etc are out the window then.

On the other hand, minors are often underpaid, minimum wage laws (at least in my country) are different for underage people, which in essence is age discrimination if they do the same job.
Or with uniform function call syntax

result = A().B().C()
Yesterday morning I woke up and it was raining. I could hear that sloshing sound as cars streamed past outside carrying people to work and school. It's a sound I've hated for as long as I can remember because it means a miserable wet and grey morning with everyone seeming slightly depressed.

I didn't have to go outside that day, but I'll never forget how lucky I am and that other people still have to.

But what difference does it make? I can feel sorry for people all day but I can't stop the rain.

On the other hand, nobody listened to people like me who were saying open offices were bad for us and we can't concentrate properly in them. So much for empathy.
Maybe, or you end up with "yeah, the placemark login details are in the shared password vault"
The MIDI modulation new features are pretty impressive to me.
as a high school student, I'm more hesitant to go into CS degree not because of chatgpt but because it is constantly marketed as a high income job and A LOT of people are choosing/learning it. I wonder if it's gonna be the same in 10 years or so. Chatgpt/copilot make stuff easier and there are only so much CRUD apps to be made :/
As someone who has been assaulted by a stranger and called a “cracker” during the assault I’m going to strongly disagree.
So you've never given up on an idea because you didn't have the time for it? I just assumed all programmers discard potential projects all the time. Maybe just my bubble though.
I don’t disagree about the hospital bill being a work of fiction but hospitals are hardly the first business to have high up front capital investments and inventory requirements. Veterinarians, multi-modal shipping, leisure resorts, airlines, etc don’t seem to have a problem getting mostly fair and itemized billing.

The problem with medicine is that the incentives are misaligned all over the place, not that their business model is somehow too hard to do.
I used to love watching James Burke's Connections on tv as a kid.
So much so that when years later I saw his book, Connections in a second hand bookshop I bought it and it sits in arm's length from where I am sitting now, unread. Just checked now and it's copyrighted 1978, this edition published 1979.
> ...14...17...

And what's the minimum age for a kid working on his family's farm?

It's no secret that young people are at high risk for accidents in real-world jobs, and need serious training and tight supervision.

My Reaction: This story is about delivery-app workers because that is one of the few real-world jobs which is still visible from inside the well-gentrified little world-bubbles of the BBC's readers.
The 'abuse' in that scenario being the fact that the parents are ignorant or uninvolved enough to let it happen.
Cuz it adds up to 9
Perl has `length`, not `len` :) Also I can't resist a bit of TIMTOWTDI:

my @found = grep {
local $_ = lc;
length == 10 &&
substr($_,8,1) eq "k" &&
join("",sort [/([abc])/g]->@*) eq "abc"
} @words;
I wouldn't call it obscure, just bog standard command line stuff. How would you have done it?
"Document length" is the length of the text that contains the answer. "Context length" is how much text the model can process to produce the answer, and this number is fixed across their experiments.

When the document length is 2k, it's likely smaller than the context and RAG can just retrieve the entire document to have the model read it. When the document is longer, RAG needs to actually do some work to pick the parts that contain the answer.

The "extended mind" can always query tokens across the entire document, though evidently worse than if they were included in the context.
Describing 'throwing a hashmap' at the problem as 'premature optimisation' is a bit reductionist.

It wouldn't even occur to me to go with the naive O(n^2) solution because it has such obvious drawbacks with large inputs.

And it's an interview question... yes, you're getting a No-Hire if you just leave it there. Although I personally would prompt you if you're not interviewing for a senior position.
The jobs and careers are not going anywhere unless you are doing very low level coding. There will be more opportunities, not less.
> Another post claimed that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “riddled with scandals.”

Not quite the example I would use as Chinese agents spreading “misinformation”.
Run by Americans or run by the intelligence and propaganda arm of a govt that is adversarial to America?
My problem with pie menus is that they imply circular reading. Blows up my brain, not in a good manner.
The section highlighting the use of the Armenian market for R&D operations was particularly compelling. I liked the comprehensiveness of this article,
Why would only the non-bruteforce solution require hiring an engineer to maintain it? Does the brute force solution spontaneously manifest and maintains itself?