skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the article. I'm thinking about society a lot, and I think I figured out some factors in promoting narcissism.
"The modern internet seems designed to play to our own narcissistic tendencies."
First - the IT sector.
I would even add to the definition “comprising a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), a constant need for admiration, and a lack of empathy” -> a constant need for information and validation.
The internet has become a main source for information, either direct information or validation of information,
and this causes in return the lack of empathy, because someone is constantly busy with their thoughts. It also causes the feeling of entitlement because through validation one gains a sense of truth. And it also creates a feeling of admiration because you constantly feel like you're doing the right thing and something important.

I believe that we are a new type of narcissists who, embedded in an information society, define themselves through information and seek all the solutions in life in it and in the process become lonely, physically atrophy and have fears of each other. We invest so much in our beliefs that we become vulnerable to any challenge. Our commitment forces us to make it happen.

edit: just to add the otehr points I forgot to mention:
media, journalism, marketing, administration - Probably any kind of service jobs that consist primarily of information processing.
Right, the government can be expected to remain totally neutral, theyll never abuse their power, who would ever do such a thing?
There are statistical frameworks that allow for demographic parameters to be estimated from mark recapture data, and in those frameworks you can allow for different priors on tag loss, but generally I don't think it is used for calculating maximum lifespan. Typically that is just done from direct age estimation with limited inference. In the case of Wisdom, she was banded first as a mature adult in 1956, and the age of maturation is known for the species.
https://archive.is/MFT0d#selection-2241.124-2241.252
There are over a billion Idevices out there. Malware on just 1% of them can make and control 10 million spam accounts on every site using device attestation, and they're indistinguishable from real users.
As long as you can send PS, PCL or PDF to the printer via some "standard" network protocol (IPP, LPD, LPR, JetDirect), the "driver" will just be a PDL file and won't need any special privileges.
Is it that we don’t understand fluid physics, or that we don’t understand centrifuges?

Given that both the article and the video seem to assume that there is a real centrifugal force, maybe the latter?

Still really cool to finally see inside one of the damned things.
> How is offering a lesser punishment "manipulation"?

It's part of a larger manipulative pattern.

Since you can increase the penalties for jury convictions to absurd levels, like the USA has done, even a "lesser" plea bargain punishment can still be more punitive than most nations' jury conviction punishments.

Plus, as the length of a jury conviction punishment increases, the threshold at which one's willing to risk a jury trial has to go up, thus pressuring people into taking plea bargains they might not under another country's judicial system.
Only that so far back, we know Earth was not really inhabitable.
Plus NASA has become more risk averse, which makes project progress slower and likely ultimately more expensive, at least compared to private space companies. However, NASA is still far ahead of the other space agencies.
https://archive.is/PwTo5
"Dad, what is that symbol on the moon?"

"Our historians say it is the genitalia of a species who lived in ancient times."

;)
Nuclear is even worse than that: The only nuclear plants in Europe that have been built in 10 years or less in recent times are Russian ones, the singular EPR took 18 years. It's not a timescale that is well suited for addressing the immediate climate catastrophe.

(But we need to keep battling on the longer timescale as well of course, so nuclear is still good to build)
Windows easily manages to feel slow, especially 11 did in the early days. I wonder how they do it...
There's no such thing as "own blocks".

There's a single world-wide winner of the mining competition per 10 minutes. So if you want to have free transactions 50% of the time, the way to get there is to take the current world-wide mining capacity, and replicate it.

That's obviously not a viable tactic.
As a westerner myself, i think you have a misguided view of the West that's biased by a higher socio-economic status.

Safety regulations are often not followed in the West. See for example "Greenfell tower", "rue d'Aubagne Marseille" or "East palestine train derailment".
Google's Motto was "Don't be evil"
Now it's "Do the right thing"

The irony.
https://www.wayfair.com/decor-pillows/sb1/roll-wallpaper-c18...

> Britiany Peel & Stick Floral Roll by Canora Grey

> From$1.20/sq. ft.

https://www.ehd.org/science_technology_largenumbers.php

> The area covered by 100 one dollar bills measures 11.13 square feet.

comes out to about $9/sq. ft., about 9 times as expensive.

But 1USD=90RUB today, and the lowest denominated note is 5RUB, coming out to 1USD=18notes. Each note is 137 mm × 61 mm, coming out to about 0.09 sq. ft. (if I'm not mistaken). Then 1USD=1.62 RUB sq. ft., so it costs

$0.62/sq. ft.

to have a green wall of ~~current~~ obsolete Russian currency.

What's surprising is that you can afford it even if you live in Russia. According to Obi and this roll of wallpaper:

https://oboi-store.ru/catalog/bumazhnye

> JB80201 Обои KT Exclusive Jelly Beans

> 10.05х0.53м

> 10 500 руб/рул.

the price per area isn't that different, coming out to about $2/sq. ft., meaning that if you have a clever way to paste all the single notes easily and know how not to get in any potential trouble with the law, it makes economical sense to get your wallpaper at the bank.

EDIT: according to Wikipedia, the note has been replaced by coins, and the next one is almost but not quite 10x as expensive by area.
Is repetition necessary for memorization? Why are some memories maintained without repetition?
Oh what a perfect find. I have on my todolist to add POW to some of my api endpoints
I’d estimate around $2k for set up and around $2k yearly — if you’re willing to outsource absolutely everything (registration, legal, accounting, audit) and never visit or do anything personally.

Likely could go cheaper in exchange for more personal time spent.
Yes it does? Especially in a dense city vs small village (which is more comparable to the internet at large) - go for a walk, see some advertisement billboards, buy a newspaper (esp. with cash), read the news, who knows who I am?
Most is practice. You cannot learn doing something without actually doing it, failing, observing what works etc.

The advice part helps with two things though: (1) it speeds up the learning process because you don’t have to find out everything yourself and (2) helps you reflect on your practice which boosts the feedback loop.
What would be so sad about it?
> It ended up being abandoned when XMLHttpRequest was made the standard by WHATWG I think.

"It" was using the Document object to load a URL. WHATWG was not responsible for standardizing XMLHTTPRequest.
Yeah, except for that obviously nobody cares for it:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin%20cash-transact...

BCH has plenty spare capacity, but the actual usage shows it's not taking off. The idea of buying coffee with crypto is dead.
It is evolutionary in the sense that the various reactions slowly changes the make up of the environment until the conditions necessary for life emerges.
Sure, but there they can't get electricity in the summer when it gets to hot because they don't have enough water to cool the plants.
Well, the question is, how much does a nuclear powered grid cost vs. a renewable powered one. Price isn't irrelevant. Newest numbers for Hinkeley Point C don't look good. Also, while the weather isn't directly limiting the power output, the plands do require cooling which can be limited by the weather. France already had to limit nuclear production quite severely due to this.

The life time of a wind generator isn't limited to 20 years - it is more practical reasons it isn't prolonged further. While with nuclear plants there is a lot of pressure to keep it working, even if the safety isn't quite up to modern standards.

Interestingly, while breeding reactors can be built, none is operating in the west. France had two of them and stopped using them. It certainly is a delicate technology. Would be interesting to do a more detailled analysis why no one is operating any more. Perhaps it is just the typical stance of ignoring the problem of nuclear waste as long as possible. As it has been done so far.
I didn't want to imply that its brand new or beta. Just that it is still being actively developed. For example the compacted topic support did get into GA in May 2023.
Beer distributors aren't needed any more than car dealerships. It's a racket and serves no purpose.
Yeah couldn't find his exct model manual but the checklist I've seen all end with "land as soon as possible" for these kind of high stakes procedures specifically to avoid human factors in the decision making, it's a weird blog entry this one, like I wouldn't like to fly with people second guessing checklists.
The hoops people jump through in order to avoid using an operating system that just works in that setting never ceases to surprise me. It was something that started when Macs were popularized among developers and never really stopped.
We use MongoDB in conjunction with RealmDB to build an offline first mobile app. For this specifically it works very well. You basically define which parts of your document collection should be synced to which device, for example based on a query that contains the user id.
MongoDB takes care of syncing the right data to the right device when internet connection is available. On the device, the data is stored locally in RealmDB, which represents the other side of the sync.

This is not easy to do with PostgreSQL, which we use for all other scenarios requiring a DB.
Precisely. Some people will make lots of money, some will make small gains, huge amounts will be screwed.
Kind of a banal observation. Every study is inherently flawed because one can never fully isolate a system, can't go back in time to repeat the experiment under identical circumstances, can't measure precisely what you want to measure because of uncertainty or circumstance, etc, etc, etc.

Knowledge production is very hard, very incremental. It is a messy, human, endeavor, even in the hardest of sciences. It is fine, even virtuous, to point out its limitations, but glib dismissals can sometimes just be a cognitive stop or rhetorical device.
No one's more old-timer than I am! I am the ultimate legacy system. Just ask my grandkids!
There could have been a much larger amount of fossil fuels in the ground that was almost used up by the Silurians and now we believe what they left us with is all there ever was.
IIRC the registration page (only in some cases?) shows a reCAPTCHA.
This is exactly what I was referring to. “Minimal compliance” and unmaintained websites.
Becoming a hacker will take intelligence, practice, dedication, and hard work
In storage, moving away from 2D MLC and TLC NAND towards 3D TLC stacking (and horrendous higher bits) has introduced disturbances that literally shorten the memory life cycle. When a cell is read, the voltage alters the state of adjacent cells, which must be forced to be rewritten to preserve their state, thus shortening the life cycle of the disk just by reading data. they are selling us crap.

From the little I understand about the problem, this would be solved by occupying more surface area to separate the tracks that run through the vertical stacks ? what would be like a 2D design surface area but with bigger complications. Although I have read papers[1] that propose adding latency in an attempt to mitigate (not solve) the problem.

So now, reading this news about processors and stacking, I wonder about what inconveniences the end users are going to suffer with processors built under these techniques. Whether in computational reliability, vulnerabilities and so on.

I wrote vulnerabilities (pure imagination and speculation of my own, I'm imagining a prefetch problem at the transistor level) because if it turns to be real at future I can see the manufacturer introducing a fix for randomly increase latencies or any other thing, and sending the computing power back ten years with an "oh, we didn't expect it such thing were possible when we designed it".

And of course the computational reliability.

is being taken care of to avoid all of this?.. if not, I leave my comment here for courts in the future.

[1] [2021] doi.org/10.1145/3445814.3446733 (use sci-hub)

[2] [2018] doi.org/10.1145/3224432 https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub/3D-NAND-flash-lifetime...
I would not argue that wired is more reliable in terms of connection. It’s just that if you’re working at a laptop then connection reliability competes with wear and tear, ergonomics, and outlier scenarios like “trip on a cable and brick your work machine” (e.g., by spilling coffee or dropping it). In case of a desktop, connection reliability only competes with ergonomics, and to a much lesser extent—I can see myself using a wired keyboard at a desktop, perhaps even a split one (and that’s an additional wire).

Anecdotally, I don’t tend to run into connection issues with wireless keyboards—I do with wireless mice, however.
After the failure of their last demo, I lost any trust I had with google
The reason we stop coal mining isn't that we "need the space" for wind generators, it is, that we don't want to destroy our countryside even more for company profits and of course climate concerns. Of course, both parts of the environmental damages are no concern to the companies profitting.
Confusing name considering ChimeraOS which is also Linux based.
If it's demonstrably untrue then demonstrate that it isn't true
> here are licensing restrictions that make macOS VMs on EC2 require a 24-hour minimum bill.

Yeah, this is the killer. I don't mind paying $1/h for an M1 mac - our builds take about 10 minutes when cached, so paying $0.16 is fine. Even an hour's minimum would be totally fine - paying $60/mo to license it for 2h/day would be perfect. But, we're not paying $1/h with a 24h minimum every day. At that point, a Mac Mini is cheaper on month 1, so I have a mac mini on my desk.
Recalling almost every Tesla in America won't fix safety issues, experts say
I agree, but do you think pursuing that 10/1% is worth spending time reading books/articles?
I don't know where you live, but in France and surrounding countries expropriations are certainly "go away or else". It's very common for the cops to evict people for industrial projects that have been found illegal by tribunals, and it's not unheard of that the mafia itself beats up small owners until they "give up" their land. It's also common for people to get maimed protesting industrial projects (lose an eye, hand, foot due to military grenades), and not unheard of for them to die killed by the State (Vital Michalon, Rémi Fraisse, etc).

In France, most appeals processes you can have when your eviction has been decided can in fact not delay the eviction. You can be evicted before having your appeals hearing. The Grand Paris has already expropriated so many small owners (from popular districts) for the olympic games madness, and it's so common for farmers to be expropriated away from their lands to build crazy useless projects, such as the NDDL airport where residents had to defend themselves with molotov cocktails against more than 500 riot cops trying to destroy their homes back in 2012.

So, maybe it's better where you live but please don't pretend the West is a marvelous land of human rights. I'm of course not saying China is a dream-like State of human bliss and safety ; they're a tyrannical regime crushing their population. I'm just saying if you scratch the surface, it's not wildly different here (although comparatively better in some regards).
But then you have many cores. With 3d scaling you could make a bigger core and still have high hz.
See also: Jack Henry and associates. We are working with both of these vendors into 2024.

It really is incredible to me the moats that some of these business leaders have been able to construct. At the end of the day, what these companies are selling is regulatory permission to use a very over priced SQL database.
chargebee is good for easy to set up recurring billing.

Fastspring is a bit expensive, but another good one for recurring billing.

(And as others have mentioned: Stripe)
Hm, yeah, laptops are a bit difficult ergonomically. For me, just the hassle of "this is misbehaving again, is it the battery or interference?" is enough to prefer wired everything, but I get your point about wear and tear.

Luckily, in USB-C, the springy bit is in the cable, so that's where the wear and tear is. If it stops working, the cable is generally easy to replace.
How could renting out one's ID to provide access to bots for spamming/manipulation be avoided then?
We can’t program a bot to fail ?
All of these papers miss that captchas have multiple levels of difficultly. People who get an enterprise account or work closely with the captcha providers will find very different results. Many captcha providers now decide what captchas to send out, in hard mode based on what LLMs cannot solve

Captchas are purposely not made too hard as people like pex.com need to be able to bypass them for copyright enforcement. Note I’m biased as I was a founder of hcaptcha
Bleak but an important read. Critique will inevitably be across a political divide because public health is a directed activity amongst us and not a self reliance individual control thing. It demands we accede to the group, inevitably the state, a locus of control.

I'm not totally convinced we have peaked in communicable zoonotic disease control, but it's a strong case. We like travel too much and we're all experts.
> If you think that looking impeccably good and appropriate takes no effort or no intellect, look at a mirror, and try that.

Let's not pretend it isn't 99% genes when talking about models.
RC Submarine 4.0
Because you are assuming there is an objectively optimal processor design for a specific manufacturing process.

If you don't constrain the chip to a specific design then what is going to count as compute? The number of adders or multipliers? That is just a different way of talking about transistor density.
Ask HN: Are you using Google Duet AI for programming?
What's your impression?
> the sentence associated with a plea bargain already is the sentence that is felt to be appropriate for the crime

That's not true. Plea bargains can be incredibly minor punishments versus the crime. Plea bargains are the flip side of the prosecutions options. If the prosecutor thinks it's a slam dunk, they have little incentive to offer a plea bargain at all - if they do, it may be a very severe sentence. If the prosecution thinks their odds of a win are low, they may offer a very lenient sentence, even for very serious crimes.

But who goes to trial comparing their outcome to other trials? A individual is looking at a specific situation - their own trial. They have no idea about the circumstances of other trials - whether defendants were truly innocent, or how much evidence the prosecution had. You may be charged with murder, and another defendant got a plea bargain of only 1 year in prison for manslaughter. But the prosecution has a rock solid case so your plea bargain is life in prison.

It's a singular decision of the defendant, usually with input from their lawyer. They'll need to determine their own likelihood of being found "not guilty" and decide if the risk is worth it versus the reduced sentence being offered.
The default sentence depends on the charges, charges depend on the persecutor, which are motivated to increase those to get the easier deal of a plea bargain, so it is exactly the much higher cost of a trial and a higher risk of a more severe sentence that is the selling point for the accused if you don't look at it backwards
"4. Conclusion

If I do produce something new when I assemble the contents of the box, then the table is something more than just those contents. The table is not only its material parts, but also the formal organization of those parts.

And that is the fundamental claim of hylomorphism: that there is some kind of formal part, component, or aspect to any table, chair, rock, tree, rabbit, planet, or human being, something beyond its matter which accounts for its existence and nature."

Yes, and this is what Kant called 'the conditions of the possibility of knowledge', namely space and time in our reason. The form exists neither on the object nor in a Platonic heaven, but only in our minds because it is 'imposed' on the table by our reason and intellectual categories.
Either you mean a desktop machine, or I envy you. Every one of my laptops had developed issues with physical I/O (be it ports, keyboard, trackpad). The one I especially hate is flaky USB ports that make external HDD spontaneously disconnect while being heavily used, like copying many files over (and it’s not a power issue as it happened both while laptop is powered and with HDDs that have their own dedicated power).
Yeah, the claim of the headline comes from the first sentence in Section 5.5. I think either the title should match the paper's title or that should be pointed out as part of the submission - not sure how HN's title guidelines work.
Blau space
The issue I've always had with this kind of reductionist philosophy is that there is a very clear and obvious continuum between "table" and "not table". At no point can everyone clearly agree what is and isn't a table.

Sure, most people would agree that an assembled IKEA "LISABO" table is a table.

Okay.. what if one of the legs is removed and it is sideways? What if one leg is removed but it is propped up with a pile of boxes?

What if it's intact as designed, but slightly scuffed? Deeply gouged? Horribly worn to the point of having holes through the top but still able to support plates and cutlery? What if all four legs are also broken, but it's still serviceable as a Japanese-style low table? What if atom-by-atom, we erode its form until nobody alive agrees that it is a table? What if someone then changes their mind?

This is the problem: all forms of matter, unless specified down to individual atoms, are just social conventions -- inconsistent ones at that!
An amazing YouTube video about the building and sailing the submarine up a river:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLEH8RJsYgI
38TB Microsoft data leak highlights risks of oversharing
Im having trouble understanding how that's relevant. Nuclear is green, they had nuclear, they decided to shut it down, energy prices go up, now they are taking down a wind farm to get more coal. Is there something you just fundamentally miss here? You think thats just a-ok because at least we are talking about how much we care about the environment? The policies have failed.
It would be much more expensive and a bigger mistake to have the vehicles physically returned. The distinction is very important. There's also a difference whether a safety defect last for 1 hour/1 day/1 week or a year.
E.g. in 2021 Visa, Master, Amex put pressure on OnlyFans to discontinue its video content. Search for 'war on porn'.
Is it similar to https://friendlycaptcha.com/ ?
> If the prosecutor thinks it's a slam dunk, they have little incentive to offer a plea bargain at all - if they do, it may be a very severe sentence.

You have no idea how prosecutors act. Slam dunk cases are pled. Most cases are slam dunks.

With plea bargains determining the sentence in 97% of cases, it isn't possible for those sentences to be felt to be lighter than appropriate. That would cause a political crisis.
Instead of just solving the task, computers will now have to simulate humans using humans' real data. It's not a hard dataset to train on.