skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Simply using breeding, genetic engineering, and artificial growth to create more efficient and resilient crops isn't a bad thing, it only is if it somehow makes quality worse as a by-product.

Have you met the Red Delicious Apple? It was grown specifically for shelf life and aesthetics and it became so mealy and tasteless that people stopped eating it. [1]

[1] https://thecounter.org/history-economics-red-delicious-apple...
I'm pretty stressed out about the proliferation of standards here. It's indistinct to me why we need so many ways of hearing about a new thing; they seem the same general idea, but everyone has some insular notion, it feels like, and I don't get the value add, don't get why we'd have another.

We already have a streams API that tells us of new things. Adding observables, adding signals, feels like a lot of totally different ideas that do mostly the same thing. What is missing from streams to make it cover these other cases? I suspect not a lot. But these are isolated cultures each possessed of their own idea, their own mentality, and there's not much binding glue forces to pull these disparate worlds together, even though it feels like the overlap is overwhelming. I feel like we are making a huge mistake letting these people chip more shit into the language, that we gain only more modes that don't work with each other. I love these communities, but not like this.
I implemented an enterprise data migration in javascript, running in end-user's browsers. (So no server-side node.js or such.)

It was a project scheduled for 2-3 months, for a large corporation. The customer wanted a button that a user would click in the old system, requesting a record to be copied over to the new system (Dynamics CRM).
Since the systems would be used in parallel for a time, it could be done repeatedly, with later clicks of the button sending updates to the new system.

I designed it to run on an integration server in a dedicated WS, nothing extraordinary. But 3 days before the scheduled end of the project, it became clear that the customer simply will not have the server to run the WS on. They were incapable of provisioning it and configuring the network.

So I came up with a silly solution: hey, the user will already be logged in to both systems, so let's do it in their browser.
The user clicked the button in the old system, which invoked a javascript that prepared the data to migrate into a payload (data -> JSON -> Base64 -> URL escape) and GET-ed it in a URL parameter onto a 'New Record' creation form into the new system. That entire record type was just my shim; when its form loaded, it woke another javascript up, which triggered a Save, which triggered a server-side plugin that decoded and parsed the data, which then processed them, triggering like 30 other plugins that were already there - some of them sending data on into a different system.

I coded this over the weekend and handed it in, with the caveat that since it has to be a GET request, it simply will not work if the data payload exceeds the maximum URL length allowed by the server, ha ha.
You will not be surprised to learn the payload contained large HTMLs from rich text editors, so it did happen a few times.
But it ran successfully for over a year until the old system eventually was fully deprecated.

(Shout out to my boss, who was grateful for the solution and automatically offered to pay for the overtime.)
haven't modern model architectures gotten better at avoiding this kind of overfitting? like obviously data quality is still very important, but my understanding is that dropout mitigates this by randomly cutting out these unwanted feature channels. the models learn to distinguish all differences, rather than just one, or fixed combinations of several.
What do you use now for all the various things? I cut google out for most things but still use their search from time to time (and of course have to use google docs but that's because the people I'm collaborating with are on google)
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll definitely look into it!
How is this merger a "clever financial trick?"
Eric's Ocean Institute has been building drones for years, and they have these massive vessels to map the ocean floor.

I wonder when they find a major site, if it will be a billionaire's boooty bounty - or if the public will ever hear about it?

If one were a billionaire with a big boat, I'd be going after buying up, scanning and gpting the heck out of every historic maritime map, logbook etc and build the most plausible wreckage locations, as overlayed through myth, legend and literature through the ages.

Drop deep sea drone with GPR to scan such routes.

I knew a guy who worked in Schmidt's ocean drone facility in Alameda, and went there once and saw the drones...

Don't know if those had GPR, but I am sure he has plenty that do.

Imagine an analysis of all historic maritime data to build an idea of all last known locations of ships, then knowing their physical makeup such that one might be able to model the debris field size based on a ship sinking in that location - then scanning that region with your GPR drones.

https://schmidtocean.org/schmidt-ocean-institute-launches-ne...
Try Rampant?
Richard M. Stallman has a proposed fix to this through 4 software freedoms.
I think they did this because lots of publishers show paywalls to people but still want their content indexed by Google. In other words, they want their cake and eat it too!
No, this does not make sense. Both sides know the limit not to cross.

Certainly, Russia is in fact rather weak (which the author of the article acknowledges) as we've seen, and knows not to attack Nato.

In addition, point 4 in the article does not make much sense. Why would a Russian victory 'encourage' mainland China to invade Taiwan, for instance? It wouldn't change anything there.

To me this feels like a typical scaremongering piece for the purpose of shoring up support for Ukraine when it is said to be somewhat waning but it fails to make good points.
I'm curious if there are standard rules for post offices.
My MIP was a factor during the background check for my security clearance in my early 20s. Since then nobody has cared.
> Would it be viable to install a ICD even without a history of heart problems

i think the reasonable alternative to this led to all the red Automated External Defibrillator stations around

which is quite a social cyborg thing to do
This article has the best lay-friendly explanation of what P vs NP means that I've seen.
As Timex 2068 owner can confirm the superiority of its BASIC and extensions.

However for games, I needed to use the 48k emulation eprom cartridge, and with 128K ZX was on the edge again.
>I am, however, a believer in the relevance of empirical evidence, and I also agree (with some caveats) that human-driver performance is a valid basis for establishing whether, and to what extent, autonomous vehicles may be permitted on public roads.

This bypasses the entirety of the trust argument originally stated by leveraging the very point (statistics) it cautioned against. (As stated elsewhere: "So all the bleating about statistics may be necessary, but not sufficient, to get wide-scale adoption of AVs on public roadways.")

>none of these three cases

Regardless if you think the decision should be based on statistics alone, my further point is that an n=3 sample size is not adequate to make strong claims. Add to it that Waymo only reports the data they want to[1], there is a reason to be careful about making any claims.

Here's how that scenario plays out when we rely on organizations to self-report safety data in a competitive environment, from my experience. Even though it may start with the best of intentions, cost and schedule pressure builds. Now items that would have otherwise been reported as safety incidents are now classified with vague terms like "test anomalies" and essentially buried. They will still report safety metrics, but now it's, at best, incomplete and misleading. Until some event that's egregious enough forces the company to be more transparent.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/have-selfdriving-cars-stopped-gett...
This proposal makes the same mistake as various stream implementations (including RxJS in the past) of making operators methods on the observable.

This means you can't add custom operators without subclassing or doing weird crap with proxies.

When RxJS stopped using instance methods to implement operators, it opened up the ability to create custom, domain appropriate operators which I found key to writing comprehensible and maintainable code.

We really need a `pipe` operator, at minimum. https://rxjs.dev/guide/operators#creating-custom-operators
There is an 'old' paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538 but I believe there needs to be renewed effort in this direction.
I'd disagree that a relativist argument like Henrich's would hold in this case.

Clans as a societal unit was a thing in the West as well. For example, it was a major reason for the Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland in 1745, the Irish independence movement was organized thanks to the clan system in the 19th and early 20th century, etc.

Clans as a societal unit disappeared in Western Europe when the Nuclear Family became the primary unit around the 19th-20th century
That 'policy' is still actually in effect, I believe, in Google's webmaster guidelines. They just don't enforce it.

Years ago (early 2000s) Google used to mostly crawl using Google-owned IPs, but they'd occasionally use Comcast or some other ISPs (partners) to crawl. If you were IP cloaking, you'd have to look out for those pesky non-Google IPs. I know, as I used to play that IP cloaking game back in the early 2000s, mostly using scripts from a service called "IP Delivery".
emacs org mode + babel =P
Correct.

For the paranoid it should be simple to fork Heynote and disable currencies and auto updates.
Love where you are taking this project.

Any insights on the languages and frameworks supported ?
> Xilinx/AMD doesn't make overt donations any more AFAIK

That’s too bad. I once got a small pile (8?) of max-spec Virtex-5 chips, for free, FedExed from Xilinx. Xilinx apparently valued them so little that they didn’t even bother putting the full address on the envelope. Tracking it down was fun.

The only remotely supportable way to synthesize images for them was to run a primitive CentOS 5 container on a big server — the Windows version of the tools were still 32-bit, and 4G of address space was too little for the synthesis workflow. Even with the magic 64-bit RHEL/CentOS-only build, it would take 45 minutes or so for the tools to notice any errors during synthesis.

Fun times.
Before Fortnite, There Was ZZT: Meet Epic's First Game
Watching the world
Hi Simone. Enjoy your seven fishes! And congratulations on the milestone. I am up to 270.

Spent the entire morning photographing the environs. Mother Nature was good to me. The photos practically composed themselves. Hope you are well and having fun.

Ciao!
I was a 6502 guy back in the 80s, before I went 68k, and never had a machine with the Z80, so have no nostalgia for it. But when I look on paper, the Z80 really does look like it stood the test of time better.

How does the eZ80 extend out into 24 bits without having an awkward banking system like the '816? (EDIT: I see, it actually adds a 24-bit register mode.)

The biggest problem I found with the 816 was that having no registers larger than 16-bits meant, well, there's no way to store a pointer in a register, or work with data larger than 64k. Well, that and the awful 8/16 mode switching. Oh, and the fact that the stack and direct page are stuck in the first 64k bank. Damn, I really wish Mensch had designed and built a 65xx with a proper 16bit (or higher) architecture instead of the meh that is the 816.
If you just want to be lean you can achieve that with diet alone. But if you want a lot of muscle mass, then you need to exercise. If you gave an entirely sedentary person anabolic steroids, they’d probably end up with slightly more muscle mass then they otherwise would have had, but you’re not getting a gorilla physique without a lot of exercise.
https://webcamaze.engineering.zhaw.ch/watchingtheworld/
Nonsense. No sales will convert from 0 eyeballs
Also concussions according to the article, which is news to this retired former neurosurgical anesthesiologist.(38 years in practice; stopped 2015 at age 67 because I believed [still do]) it's better to retire [from my profession, at least] too early than too late.
I've had various different issues with Safari as a developer for the last few years (also frequently paired with SVGs for some reason). In the absence of IE, Safari has the perfect combination of decent market share and bugs that for my company we get a lot more Safari specific reported issues than any other browser.

It's usually smaller things like SVGs not working with CSS animations, or SVG filters causing weird edge case issues, but I'd really expect any major browser to fully support something like SVG and it's a little disappointing to find that the browser is the issue.
It is not like VB.NET with Windows Forms is that different from VB 6.

Unless you care too much about the AOT compiler or the easiness to create and use COM libraries.
As a child, I was disappointed when I got a BBC B instead of a Megadrive. But I definitely learned more, and some of my leisure time was programming in BBC Basic.
Maximum power dissipation 0.79 Watt
I'm desperate for another player to outdo them so I can take my money elsewhere. It feels like I'm being treated like an infant using this absurd Discord UI.
You can read the plaque in this link

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/ohio-historical-mark...
No, what I disagree with is his inconsistency, and also his manipulatability by the Russians, who allegedly told him a nuclear war would erupt if he didn't do what they said.

What's to stop someone else from otherwise manipulating him to not stop the asteroid, using similar threats or similar reasoning? Perhaps he finds a way to survive for a time off planet (or sufficiently deep underground), for example. He's the kind of unstable that might result in him not therefore caring how the rest of us fare.
Ask HN: What's your favourite podcast/newsletter for the industry you work in?
I’m assuming “virtual assets” is some soup of crypto assets.
Am I reading this wrong? They only had validation sets with no final test set which makes the results kinda worthless because we don't know how overfit they were to these validation sets (which can easily happen with any sort of parameter tuning). There is a reason why a proper study needs three splits train/validation (and possible multiple of these if you use k-fold) and a final to be used as sparingly as possible 'test' set.

See the paper, "On estimating model accuracy with repeated cross-validation"

Even the sklearn docs for cross validation show this split:
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/_images/grid_search_cross_va...
and how were your high school grades?
Looks like typo, from chart it seems to be around 20x10^9 for weight subcloning (doesn't look like 16x10^9 <<which would be 4x>> either).
I wonder if autism is a 100% binary diagnosis, versus a partial measurement. It will be interesting to see how many adults might get diagnosed - especially women since they have a lower rate of autism.

Autism is 4 times more common in boys than girls, and women are diagnosed with autism later in life and less frequently than men
> I don't understand why he's singling out military veterans with military convictions not to receive this pardon.

There's a fairly consistent throughline in the theory of the law (that gets to the reason there even is a UCMJ in the first place) that military discipline is categorically distinct from civilian criminal law, and under that theory possession of marijuana contrary to military regulations is meaningfully distinct from simple possession in the civilian context.

Its also, to be fair, pretty clear that, clear and crisp as the theory may be, in practice that's more of a statistical difference in significance than a categorical one. But even a statistical difference can, arguably, justify the normal case-by-case approach to clemency rather than a blanket approach.
For CG-NAT you don't actually get any inbound ports, so dynamic DNS won't help you.

That being said, I know some ISPs over here that will block standard ports inbound beyond SMTP when you're not behind CG-NAT. I can imagine that leading to some who are just starting giving up when they've followed all the instructions to get HTTP on port 80 working and it still doesn't work without explanation.
I think there was something about an ANN detecting skin melanoma, assigning a high likelihood if there is a clinic/doctors office in the background.
100%. And considering the OP mistyped "car" as "cat", I'm really, really hoping
aleph_minus_one was making a different kind of attempt at humor, but around here you never know.
I don't think that includes all of the Space Shuttle's R&D costs - those are more like $50 billion in 2023 money. The actual paper says "Total cost per launch".

Besides, Nasa doesn't uses SpaceX because they are secretly a bunch of Musk fanboi's... I suspect they are actually cheaper!
For a really deep dive into these sorts of tuning systems: https://en.xen.wiki

For examples of people playing them, search for Lumatone on YouTube, or “microtonal”, or “xenharmonic”.
They still have that rule. Just not always easy to spot spammers getting around it.
I've been running TrueNAS for years on commodity hardware that's been upcycled from my personal workstation after major upgrades.

Current iteration is: a skylake era CPU, 16 gb ddr4, 4x 14TB WD Reds, 2x 512 GB SSD, and a m.2 boot drive

Used primarily for shared storage, backups, media serving, and lightweight docker containers (home assistant, git tea, etc) in an Ubuntu VM.

It's been super stable (paired with a UPS) and was surprisingly economical for what it is. I've also learned a lot in the process.

I do wish my CPU had a few more cores though.
It's possible he's not honest about that sort of detail. He's done it in the past.
+1

Google has been borderline useless for productive work. I always attach Wikipedia or Reddit to my search to get anything useful
Tomorrow I'll strike a blow for this. I got my (12 year old) grandson a Pi 5 for Christmas. I plan to spend as much time as he'll allow on-boarding and hopefully he'll learn the fundamentals. At the very least he'll need to learn how to open a terminal and launch the Docker container that runs a Minecraft server. :) There are other things that are included with the full RpiOS install that he can explore as well, like Scratch, Mathematica and Wolfram. And a few games that I tried and are absolutely horrible.

His father, my son, earns a pretty good living writing code (and now managing a group that does this) and should be highly motivated to assist with motivation.
Yes, when I first encountered this argument I was indeed perplexed because it seemed so incoherent I thought I must not be understanding it. Only after reading a some different formal explications was I able to conclude, "Nope, I understood it correctly the first time!"
How much of that is due to the fact that the NY Times, in spite of its nationwide (and worldwide) readership, still tries to be a newspaper for New York specifically, and therefore many local readers of its business section will be on Wall Street or executives in companies headquartered in Manhattan?
I did the course without the book. I haven’t actually looked through the book, but the Coursera class was definitely enough on its own.
Like orbital-decay says: intuitive matters not at all. Convenience is what matters. I don't use a modal editor, but I do have the control keys on my Windows keyboard mapped to cursor control keys: the control-H, -J, -K, -L keys all correspond to the H, J, K and L keys when vi(m) is in the cursor control mode, leaving them for ordinary alphabetic use when I am not pressing the control key. Similarly for a bunch of other cursor control keys. And control-Q toggles between selecting and not selecting. I've been using this since around Windows 3.11. It is very convenient, and my fingers learned what to do decades ago--they now operate without any intuition whatsoever.
Email harvesting
OP is technically incorrect that rescheduling alone would solve the fentanyl problem, but not for the reasons you state.

> For one, it's much cheaper than high quality heroin. Second, heroin used to be the dominant drug when people couldn't afford prescription pills. Peoples tolerances on opioids quickly build and some subset of the population were using so much heroin that they could more cheaply inject or smoke fent. Going up that pipeline can happen in months, going down could take years.

Fentanyl is cheaper than heroin because of supply-side constraints: specifically, fentanyl is produced in larger quantities for pharmaceutical purposes, and the illegal markets are structured in a way that promotes the distribution of fentanyl over the distribution of heroin. However, that does not mean that fentanyl is inherently cheaper in an abstract sense. If legal restrictions were lifted, both fentanyl and heroin would be dramatically cheaper than either one is today.

This is, incidentally, another argument in favor of maintenance programs. Almost all of the indirect harms associated with illicit drug use, and many of the direct ones, are a consequence of the legal status and the expense (both financial and nonfinancial) associated with them.

Clinical trials present overwhelming evidence that, when provided with a low-cost, pharmaceutical grade supply of heroin, users are able to hold down stable jobs, maintain permanenent housing, etc., all things that they previously struggled with due to having to spend so much time, effort, and money in order to address what is fundamentally a medical issue for them.

> The same way prescription pills are a pipeline to fent, meth is the final stop in a similar pipeline of stimulants.

This is more or less the "gateway drug" theory, and it's simply incorrect. There is no "pipeline" of stimulants, and to the extent that one can even be argued to exist, methamphetamine is not the "final stop" in one.
You can actually get a manual action (penalty) from Google if you do IP cloaking/redirects. It's still mentioned prominently in Google's Webmaster Guidelines: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9044175?hl=en#z...
Oh no.

Warner Brothers killed only four days ago the Global Cycling Network (GCN+). A novel streaming service providing global coverage of cycling, self made documentations and news. The paying consumers loved it. Because it was only what the audience wanted - a thing only possible with modern day streaming.

The next victim will be Star Trek?
You can end up on their site, but if they refuse you, you won't see anything there will you?

And the next time, you won't even bother to follow a link to there.
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The whole DSM is dubious. Nothing more than a made up tool to pathologize normality and sell more drugs.

https://youtu.be/6JPgpasgueQ?si=dn3muYeOe-cSSKM2