skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Edit: forgot to say, thanks for continuing the conversation, it is much appreciated! This comment may come across snippier than I intended, but please know I appreciate your effort here even though my experiences lead me to a different conclusion.) This article is just sensationalization of the standard scientific process. Grants do get awarded by friends and it does appear very much like a cabal. Or things like this:

> A top journal told one that it would not publish her paper because others hadn’t.

Oh the horror, not getting published in a top journal! Turns out that most good science gets published outside the top journals.

This sort of behavior is bad, and has always been part of the process, and may actually be better today than it was a century ago, as the clubs are not nearly so tight as they were back then.

Early in my career I remember reading some of ET Jaynes' (an early Bayesian reasoning guy) discussions of his early career, and how he had to very very carefully choose his topics so that he wouldn't upset the big personalities in physics and thereby have his entire career crushed. It's better these days than it was then!

There will be sour grapes about funding, just as there are when VCs all jump on the hype train for the same idea, but my only scientific exposure to the amyloid hypothesis for the past 20 years has been in terms of it being an unproven hypothesis. Starting down exploratory routes for explanatory hypotheses should have been pursued, and was pursued, and will continue to be pursued, but the question of "how much" is exceptionally difficult to answer.

Perhaps I'm biased from being in Science too long, but I've seen so many sensational Stat News article that never pan out when pushed upon. I wouldn't trust them at all with stuff like this.
Edit: looks like on the laptops the kernel has access to the actual I/V measurements (feed-back), but on imacs marcan'll have to instead rely on feed-forward looking at the audio signal.
Security isn't a property of code, it is a property of a system.
I totally agree with your agreement with me :) I also think the current generation has it "harder" - previous generations had positive peer pressure, where it would be very odd to not have a meaningful job, to not marry, to not have kids. So people did those things and by-and-large grew into those responsibilities (not everyone but it worked well enough!)

In more recent decades, we pivoted this around - since these lifestyles don't work for everyone, we did a good job of denormalizing. You don't need to work, you don't need to be married, you don't need to have kids -- so many people don't, but also in not-doing, they don't have the change to find why it was the right thing for them - as I believe the majority would.
40 minutes from identifying the outage to completely rolling out a fix is impressive, gotta hand it to them. I'd love to get a look into their deploy process.
How does this work with device permissions? Assuming most of these conversations are happening when there is no app in the foreground.
Exxon's models have proved fairly accurate https://m.xkcd.com/2500/
Funny to see this make headlines here, where many people would gladly support using mass surveillance to fund the government. The same ones that support financial privacy restrictions are quick to play victim when the same violations are applied in ways that don’t benefit them.
Please stop taking HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. You've done it repeatedly, unfortunately. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> But he's still there, so the organization may just feel his idiosyncrasies are worth it.

Alternately, he’s solely there because the HR requirements are onerous and take time, and he has dramatically misunderstood his importance and value. Or he used to do good work and thinks he is now irreplaceable because of domain knowledge.

In any case, as a manager, Steve is a needless disruption/drag and there is nearly no situation in which his work outshines his stated personality. The org would be better off without him.
> GM is cancelling warranties

is this even legal? Terrible precedent to sell a car without a transferable warranty.
My stomach just turned...
> Is this legal? YES- it is totally legal for phones and devices to listen to you. That's because consumers usually give consent when accepting terms and conditions of software updates or app downloads.

facepalm
DeskPad: A virtual monitor for screen sharing
I was speaking more in a practical sense, and I think you are responding more in ideal sense. I agree some of those things would be nice.

However, at some point there are too many shots to even show up for, let alone do the more involved tasks you mention, and I think this is the situations some cities using the service found themselves in. At that point, it just becomes a data collection project, with unclear goals.

For what it is worth, I think we have ShotSpotter in my location, but have never seen police physically responding to shots fired. That is not to say it isn't useful in other locations
Ford made me sign a contract similar to this when I bought a Bronco sport. I was annoyed the dealer sprung it on me at the very end when I was getting the keys, but didn’t plan to resell in the first year anyways.
You just described buying a Rolex
This is a great point -- and I do, when I can. I guess it's the culture shock that I find most difficult. I'm only asking for clarification so I can fulfill the request more effectively -- but even this is seen as risky and pushy in many businesses.
~Where is their CCPA request form?~ Nowhere in California is listed under "Markets"
https://web.archive.org/web/20231112210338/https://www.washi...
The model in question is physics laws and values for parameters therein, including evolving parameters. The purpose of running the simulation is to produce a state that matches cosmological observations: e.g. are stars indeed forming galaxies, are those galaxies distributed as we see (like the films in a foam)? The simulation thus (in)validates basic assumptions of the model. The model in turn can generate features that can be clues to what to look for in cosmological observations: are planets for more proliferated than we've seen so far and should we really spend money on the MostBiggestTelescope to observe them? Even better: can we derive the parameters for the telescope that can definitively confirm or rule out their existence? If we found good agreement on parameters, what does the early universe look like in the model? The future universe?

Tons of basic science, in short.
It adds to the mystic. The Synthesizer is the Beast from Planet 9
[dupe]

More discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38237287

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236701
Zelle finally caves after years of refusing to refund scam victims
I don't think I have seen any comments saying that he should be legally barred from running his own company this way. It's more about people commenting on what a weird toxic environment it sounds like there and speculating that Dalio probably isn't nearly as skilled an investor as he thinks he is.
One of our kids was born in a car on the way to the hospital. But when we got the bill there was a fee for fetal heart monitor. They actually took that line item off when we pointed it out.
A lithium mine for EV batteries is coming to Arkansas, says Exxon
I was a video game software pirate [video]
Even as a native English speaker, I'll occasionally re-read a Pratchett book and realize there was a minor reference or pun that I probably missed the last time.
I think the exact same thing except change "own a Tesla" to "buy a new car"
'Magic Intelligence in the Sky': Altman Has a Cute New Name for the Singularity
Web Components are highly versatile. I built a chat app with GitHub OAuth login, blockchain-based authentication and access control using only 120 lines of HTML in a single .html file with no custom code, no framework, no custom server-side code. It can run anywhere:

https://github.com/Saasufy/chat-app/blob/main/index.html#L23...

You can try the app here (if you have a GitHub account): https://saasufy.github.io/chat-app/

The backend is serverless built using Saasufy.com - The platform/startup I'm working on currently: https://saasufy.com/

An effective approach I've found is to create components which consume slotted <template> elements to produce HTML that can be fully customized and injected with data they loaded from a back end. This allows you to create components which are declaratively bound to specific back end resources.
Honestly impressive if they found a way to passively activate the mic on iPhones without the indicator being on and someone noticing. Because if all they get is some mic data when apps record like Snapchat that's gotta be some low-value data.
I'm a fan of Fedora, but it would crash when my GPU was under high load. Since then I've switched to Arch and it's been pretty good. I've only had very minor issues, like printing support not coming preinstalled (I used the Budgie Desktop preset). If you're willing to deal with just a little bit of troubleshooting occasionally then I'd recommend Arch, it's been rock-solid.

If you've got an Nvidia card, then I have no experience with that on Arch, but here's the docs on Nvidia installation, it's easy: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

Linux Mint could also be a good alternative option. It has easy Nvidia drivers installation as well.
The esp is a cheap microcontroller.

You shouldn't productionize an esp32 dev kit but you should absolutely productionize an esp32 on a board you've designed that has the specif features to do your thing (whatever that is).
Kubernetes' Tim Hockin on a decade of dominance and the future of AI open source
It could, or it could lead to more water being held in the air and this less rainfall.
> I don't know why people think nothing is changing.

It's because people expect a cure the likes of a vaccine, with >95% efficacy.

But it's not entirely their fault, the media all but says "they've cured cancer!" every other day.

When you expect a cure, increasing five year survival rate by 10% falls short.
Yeah I get that hair raising on the back of my neck feeling when I'm trying to focus and there's a constant train of people moving behind me, its really unbearable.
> assuming the attacker bothers to spend five minutes bypassing them with one of a thousand well-known tricks

I didn't realise AWS, Cloudflare etc were so incompetent that their product can be bypassed in 5 minutes. I assume you have an example of this.
Operations at Major Australian Ports Significantly Disrupted by Cyberattack
At $200/MWh, that would be around $3k by ship. The energy cost is almost irrelevant on the current supply/demand equilibrium.
[dupe]

Lots more discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38237287

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236701
This is my first time ever coming across the phrase "quantum blockchain", even if it's a joke.

But I'm suddenly terrified it won't be my last...
Nearly one million people became citizens last year, and that doesn't count unregistered crossings. People are shooting the Darien Gap at a chance to get into the US. I am so tired of hearing about the US housing crisis with no mention of the firehose of new people coming into the country, every single one of whom needs housing, and is far more likely to go to an urban center, where the majority of available jobs are and the housing crunch is worst. This is on top of a rural-urban drain occurring all over the US, where younger people are abandoning rural areas to seek their fortunes in cities. A similar immigration crunch is occurring in the wealthier EU countries, and a similar rural-urban crunch is occurring in South Korea, China, and Japan.

Somewhere between 20 and 40 million people have entered the US since 2000 with the intention to stay. The idea that this somehow hasn't exacerbated the housing shortage is absurd. I haven't heard a left-leaning person mention this source of new demand for housing a single time, and I read a lot of housing crisis news.
Let's say a container vessel carries 8k TEU, at a shipping rate of 3k USD per container. That makes 24 million USD shipping cost alone, let's say around 20 million USD. That is without considerimg the cargo value, so allnthings be told, if on the other side there is a schdeule be kept, 4 million is acceptable.

In case of tankers, even more so. The spot market prices, and corresponding delivery contracts, make 4 million peanuts basically.
If Apple was just a little more petty, they could just show this page in an ad to kill off another share of the remaining Android market
To software engineers who worked on stuff like this: how do you sleep at night? To PMs/leaders who push to include these listening SDKs in your apps: do you ever worry about vigilante justice?
The broken English and slight technobabble feel makes me suspect this is some sort of scam, or at best an overly optimistic marketing page for something that doesn't do most of the things on offer.
What matters is not whether you—or any other confused commenter stuck in the second panel of the glowing brain meme—contradicts what I'm saying, but whether the facts do. They don't.

You have missed the point, and not just once. Not even twice.

> I feel like you are so selectively blind to { isNaN(defaultValue) ? NaN : defaultValue; } being a wart of dynamic typing

You seem selectively blind to the fact that (1) the code you are referring to is statically typed, not dynamic; and (2) that I have already addressed this—not even as part of some back-and-forth with you, but before you even waded in to this conversation with your condescending attempt to explain "the point of typing". (Gee, thanks.)
Very few lakes on the planted don't drain to the sea. They are usually salty, smelly water bodies that nobody wants to be around.
I'm guessing this wasn't intended for public consumption, can't believe they even left this online!
Nowadays, all the major browser engines are open-source. Hopefully that will also become the case with AI.
> Unless I'm simply not seeing it, no meaningful number of such apartments are being built around LA.

FWIW many new developments in CA come with Inclusionary Zoning incentives or requirements which require a percentage of units to be at different affordability levels. But these requirements need to be carefully designed to not make the projects DOA and still aren't generating enough units to really make a difference yet.
First trial of base editing in humans lowers cholesterol, raises safety concerns
That's what I was wondering, as well.

Also, it's interesting to me that there's nothing on the site about the team.

Domain Name: SAASPARTNER.TECH

Creation Date: 2023-10-23T12:59:34.0Z
This is a strange answer when having celebrities on your home page and a demo of famous people.
I chased a reliability problem with an RPi3 for a while before figuring out it was a poor quality USB cable that I was using for power.

Not saying that’s your issue obviously, but I spent a couple more hours than I really should have swapping USB power bricks but not the cable (because it was threaded through the printer enclosure and laziness prevailed).
Fast Reed-Solomon coding for network communications [video]
I wish SFPD used drones more often. Instead they say nothing can be done because they're prohibited from high speed chases where it endangers the public.
How much of this is due to better detection of cancer? If we discover cancers earlier but still don’t have effective treatment I’d expect the 5-year survival rate to go up even though the actual death day never changed.
I clicked through to my "market". There was a bunch of boilerplate text and said something like "Contact us to find new customers in <not my market>".

While it might be an honest mistake, I smell an angle / fake site.
Despite what others will say here, it actually is Next.js. People don't agree with parts of the stack (just as C#/Java people didn't agree with what Rails was doing in 2005), or point out projects with the equivalent mindshare of Sinatra/Flask like Nuxt and Svelte, but when you look at what company-level projects are majority building with in 2023, it's Next.js.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=next.js%2Cnes...
The Panama canal saves about 8000 miles, which about 2 weeks time at 20 knots, plus fuel and crew, insurance, etc. That comes to $285k per day. Depending on the wait time (I've seen 20 days wait time in the past), that might be a rational decision even without considering late penalties.
My favorite is that affect and effect are also sometimes a noun and verb, respectively.

Knowing how to use all 4 (affect noun, affect verb, effect noun, effect verb) correctly feels like a superpower.
no, the ESP32 is a SoC, a bunch of chips in a package on a PCB. not a bare microcontroller chip. It is already a product with several resellers: ip, fab, packaging, exporter, distributor, retailer and a very high profit overhead of at least 2.7 times the costprice
This works via an SDK included in many spammy freemium games you see advertised on instagram. They refuse to work without internet and permissions to do this.
I was too, but I'm not an expert and at the end of the day I need to get work done. It's up to Wayland devs to care about covering the 1001 edge cases (and thus have a process for user reports) or not.
You may have convinced me. I was going to respond, "What's to keep the price from rising until I am indifferent between having it and not having it?" But now I realize that would be fine -- I'm not made any worse off.

That's a very weird idea but maybe it would work.
It probably isn’t the cargo so much as needing the ship at location X on date Y for the next run.

Sort of like how failures to the ATC system very rapidly expand until the whole system grinds to a halt.
Tell HN: Digital Ocean Removed DNS Pointers to Their Object Storage CDN IPs
I received an email few days ago that DO will implement "new and improved CDN service for existing Spaces CDN customers" that "will be rolled out between November 7 and November 21."

As of today being in the middle of that window, every one of my 9 CDN pointer domains has been removed from DNS, obviously not resolving to my Object Storage elements. This might have something to do with their misconfiguration of Let's Encrypt Certificates. To add an insult to injury, its even harder nowadays to find a way to "submit a ticket", since they prioritize customers with SLAs. Sad day...
Thanks for the benchmark references.

I would be curious what you think of my benchmarks of RH and BLP: https://github.com/senderista/hashtable-benchmarks/wiki/64-b.... BLP performance seems much more stable than RH in general. I haven't directly compared BLP to SIMD designs (since the impl is in Java), but would like to do so at some point. At any rate, I haven't yet found any reason to use RH rather than BLP (note that a BLP impl could store preferred bucket index, truncated hash code, distance from preferred bucket, etc., just like RH).
Executive offices (and the attendant parking spots) that are occupied maybe 15% of the time are a huge peeve for me, a lowly bullpen resident.

Especially if we constantly have little break-off meetings or get togethers in the otherwise unoccupied office for sensitive things that we don't want overheard by the gossip mill. Maybe just give the office to someone who is 1) always here and 2) needs the space?
are they complaining or is it just you thinking there is a problem?
Calling Things 'Problematic' Is Intellectually and Morally Lazy
Wow, how they contacted you?
> yet we're still stuck with the same treatments, mainly chemo, surgery, and radiation, and generally low survival rates for advanced cancers.

I disagree. Growing up in my teens that was certainly true, but my fathers been battling stage 4 prostate cancer for a little over a decade and had few if any side effects from the treatments. There is a whole line of targeted chemotherapies you can take one after another after another when one stops being effective. On the other hand this can be perceived as a slow march to death from the flu eventually. It was stated to him ten years ago that he likely won't die from cancer. He's now on the last medication he will likely take, which addresses pancreatic cancer that is derived from prostate cancer.

What I will argue is archaic is how long his doctor ignored rising PSA levels due to some magical number that the insurance company would not act before. At that time, the only route he had was removal of his entire prostate which causes a lot of quality of life issues. Since then they've developed more targeted treatments but I don't know that they're training family practitioners adequately yet still.
Cool. Yeah it would seem to limit the audience a lot that it's for Django only and also has to be integrated into an existing Django project for it to work. I wanted a very small and simple tool that worked generically for any SQLAlchemy models. The core code of my tool is literally ~90 lines of Python-- the other ~200 lines are all the sample data models I include. That's because all the real heavy lifting is done by graphviz.
I also find the usage annoying (probably because it’s corpspeak), but I made an executive decision to overrule my emotions on the matter because simplifying the common usage of the world’s lingua franca by having verbs do double duty is, in the long run, fine and good and useful. We already do it for “drive” and “run”. More gerunds is a good thing.
> not losing momentum in a nerd snipe like this is CRITICAL

This line got me laughing! My nerd brain has tried so many times to convince me to splurge money with this exact line!
Publisher in this case being the middle-man abusing monopoly power, as is the end game for pretty much any company in under-regulated capitalism.
XRP price swings after fake BlackRock trust filing
At some point an equilibrium will be reached, where ships that don’t want to pay and/or wait just go the long way around Tierra del Fuego. That’s already what the giant ships (like aircraft carriers) that don’t fit do.
Like fusion research, a breakthrough is only 5 years away.

Unfortunately, also like fusion research, it has also been 5 years away for the last 30 years.

This is the principle of "time-invariance"
Yeah Languages with histories of adult learning have been argued to be morphologically simpler, less redundant, and more regular/transparent [2], [7], [28]–[30].

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
If you've ever had to live through some shit, principles are born as a way to stay alive when shit hits the fan. They aren't simple rules of thumb for the people who live them.
Cox sells voip phone service, and cell service, and has cable boxes.

That's probably where all the 'listening' is happening.
I didn’t consider that as highly as the outlet adapter since that’s what pushes the amperage and wattage, but thanks, I’ll definitely be investigating that next!
See the cross section

https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/68621

"Natural bowl higher than sea level" could be called a lake.
Anyone know how this relates to some states' two-party-consent laws?

E.g., suppose person A is carrying a smart phone, and has an apparently private conversation with person B.

Is person A civilly and/or criminally liable for allowing his cell phone to record the conversation?

And, for example, if Cox Media Group made commercial use of that secret recording, could they be liable because they had no good reason to believe all parties consented to the recording?