skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biotech Startup Enlists Bryan Johnson to Show Off Follistatin Gene Therapy
So much yes! Perhaps this shift in capital supply will fund fewer copy cat "X for Y" type businesses (Uber for Y), (Tinder for Y), etc. and focus on truly innovative ventures. I think true innovation in the energy and biotech spaces, to name a few, would still find capital. Like the saying goes, "nothing focuses the mind like half the budget."
Those enjoying this might also like https://c64audio.com/ . If only I could find the archives of the KDVS chiptunes show from the mid-90's....
It's better if you think Nostr is superior to ActivityPub.
The gap between the data we store and the data we need
Actually KDE supports middle click actions for titlebars and frames (the settings window is open in front of me). Maybe it's different for X11 and Wayland? I'm on X11.
> "I was homeless, started having kids, needed money"

> "I'm here [in prison] because I got too carried away"

Arrested for getting passcodes through trickery and violence.

That said, this report makes a good point:

* Johnson would quickly replace the passcode and then replace FaceID with his face

* He could then get into PayPal, Venmo, etc via (his) FaceID

* He could make ApplePay transactions at physical stores, again using FaceID

So, device PIN = all you need to get into all finance apps (if FaceID was enabled for them)

> "Johnson made $20,000 per weekend from selling the stolen phones"

> "I wish I had not been so greedy and just got what I got and changed my life"

> "When you get out, will you forget about this trick?"

> "There's gonna be new tricks out"
This is not practical for most people.

Eg, this completely excludes Steam. Laws aren't a good way to deal with the issue because they don't prevent damage. Try and sue some guy living in Russia.
Degoogling is a misnomer imo. It's not about not using anything from Google or Apple at all. They both contribute to Linux, clang/llvm and other core open software tooling after all. It's about not using unaudited closed source code which cannot be proven to be secure or private, as well as getting away from the online services Google/Apple bake into their operating systems that spy on and tell on users as a requirement to boot the device at all. There's also some cool features that are blocked by both. Since AOSP is open source and the API is easy to target by 3rd party app stores, it's perfectly legitimate to use it as a starting point. There may come a day where Google stops releasing it in such a usable way though, and a more complete fork will be necessary to maintain OS sovereignty.
Headline here was for changed from the site's "38% of VCs disappeared from dealmaking in 2023."
I assumed it was to track users and sell that data. Won't most people just endure the poorer experience of using their phone and ignore the half baked GM solution?
No, it can't.

Voltage is pushed, current is not.

A device drawing 5v@5mA from a 5v 1000A supply will continue to draw 5mA if you increase the supply to 100V or 100,000A.

Or at least it will until it's fried from the extra wattage. 5V@5mA is 0.025W, but at 100V, that same 5mA pull is half a watt.

But it's always 5mA
Yes. It's usually a lot faster than waiting for someone else to google it for me.
100kph on a SCOOTER? That sounds absolutely insane. Is it as absolutely insane as it sounds?
A link to Google Sheets for the remaining 4,000 services that were created in 2023 is also available. Plus information about traffic acquisition channels and top 3 regions. I hope this information helps you in finding a new idea for your project.
How many do you need?

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/anti-vaxxers-politi...
This is the part that would piss me off as a PharmD.

They spend a vast sum of time, money and energy to gain a PharmD, then some asshat company puts them in situations where their licenses could be at risk?

Of course they do.
There's been this narrative that stranger danger was oversold to most people as children. Most people are basically good, and we were deprived of something by being so suspicious of everyone.

Which is true, but a lot of people took it to mean "there are no bad people" which is definitely false.

This is a really easy scenario to imagine. This does not require a criminal mastermind. It's become commonplace to sleep on a stranger's couch, get in a stranger's car, etc., but it is worthwhile to occasionally contemplate what could go wrong.
What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home
Farmers seem to disproportionately suffer from things like Parkinson's. I learned this after one of my farmer relatives had Parkinson's. Another had lung problems and died younger. A lot of farm chemicals are toxic with known and unknown effects and farmers can't help but breathe some of it or get it on their skin when they're spraying in large volumes from a tractor.
Show HN: Dashy.io – combine tools, news, and notifications into one dashboard
I built this app to be a hub for different tools, data, and news you might need throughout your day. You can customize it to match your workflow.

You can add RSS news feeds, store code snippets and bookmarks, resize an image, get stock quotes, view the weather, and more. I currently have about 31 widgets and I'm looking to add more.

I would love to hear all the feedback/suggestions. Thanks!
I feel you. He is having a good point but presenting it in a way that is weak to make himself understood.

As an engineer, I have to say that the people that understands this issue better is the product people and not software people.

I highly recommend this talk from Marty Cagan, he makes a fantastic case talking exactly on the same nature of the issue:

The Nature Of Product by Marty Cagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3VRz18ntjQ
It seems like this is focused on automatic conversion of a PDF paper to HTML. I wonder if there will be the option for uploading HTML directly. It seems like generating two formats from the source will often result in a better result than "chaining" the conversions.
Code is a liability does not imply more lines of code is more liability. You can owe 1000 dollars to one neighbor and 1 dollar each to 100 neighbors. The number of neighbors you owe money to is not the right metric for how much liability you have. But it's still wrong to say that owing 13 cents to your best friend is not a liability
The Nature of Product [video]
Moral of the story buy Android when everybody else has an iPhone.
TBH it's difficult to take serious any campaign running through these crowdfunding platforms. My "scam alert" sirens start to go off any time I see these kind of links.
Fantasy Anime – Noragami
Well more of a product/security matter here. The amount of access that an unlocked device gets you is nuts. I didn't expect to be able to reset an apple id password with a device pin code.
The US system does an OK job of serving well off people who need inexpensive non-life-threatening procedures, I guess? But I’m not sure this tells us much about what the policy should be.
Those UIs are built on some sort of system. Some form of design. Good or bad, there is an intent.

Printer UIs seem to be written by idiots, with their eyes closed.
Across the top of every page: "Internal Deliberative – Confidential --- DRAFT NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION"

It includes plenty of "this needs changes" comments from reviewers.

Looking at their Summary, and reviewer comments there - it looks like a decent one-line summary would be: "If you are not getting well above the WHO's upper limit for fluoride, then there is no evidence of it having ill effects."

Bigger picture: A "too much is bad" conclusion would not make fluoride at all special. If a toddler gets into a bottle of adult iron supplement tablets, he can easily swallow an LD99 dose in <1 minute. Grab the kid and the bottle, and get them to a good emergency room as fast as you can. (IANAMD - depending on circumstances, you may want to immediately induce vomiting, or call the local poison control center, or ...)
Sorry, got Gnome/KDE flipped from the article.
What do you use for assets then, if you don't mind my asking..?
If I have the time to plan ahead, I much prefer to prepare with a full test suite that I fan rely on before considering a rewrite.

Rewrites are difficult to estimate, difficult to pull off, and often demotivating as the work drags on. Having a suite of test coverage that I can reuse for the rewrite both gives me an easy check to make sure functionality isn't lost and a cheap bit of motivation as I see tests slowly turning green.
> How many physicians can you hire or pay better with an additional $4.x TRILLION?

That line forgets the size of the populations. US population is 333 million; France is 65 million.

How many more physicians can you hire with an additional $6000 per capita? That is a relevant question.
Java and LLMs: are we there yet?
Russia already pulled out of the nuclear test ban treaty, they have no leverage over the West getting "a free nuclear test" anymore, and anyway, all that the country doing the launch needs to do is show the trajectory estimation data.

The only countries truly capable of something like this within the next couple of decades would be the US or China anyway. So only their opinion really matters and both of them would likely just complain for appearances but not actually seriously oppose the action.

Anyone else doing the complaining is just looking for any excuse to pull out of the test ban treaty and should just be threatened with heavy sanctions if they do (as they would, even without a dangerous asteroid bearing down on Earth).
I'm still waiting to hear what the problem with this is.

Personally, I enjoy a Double-WOPR with cheese, once in awhile. ;)
OK I'd be a "physician" within 5 years (if I didn't fail). A "doctor" would be after a couple of more years, but those years are done working, with a salary, and the rest of the staff still calls you 'doctor'. Just like there are no unpaid internships for attractive jobs in law or finance, there also aren't any unpaid or extremely underpaid healthcare jobs.

On the other hand: a US resident dr makes what, $60k? That's comparable to European doctors. I wouldn't make $100k for quite a few years. The first "residency" period here would proabably be more like $50k or even less. But with zero debt that doesn't sound horrible.
OK, this is interesting. Please help me correct my terminology.

On my part of the exchange, might I suggest that what you see as government involvement could also be called "regulatory capture"? [0]

What I mean is that the monied interests now have major influence on the government which regulates them, so they create "regulation," with the goal of perpetuating their own profit centers.

How can I do better from your point of view? If not libertarianism, what should we call the ideology or ideals that led to this healthcare system with an ever increasing chain of profit centers?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Software is the asset, not code. A pile of bricks metal plastic and wood is not the asset, the house someone can live in is
It seems like a well-drafted company policy posted and pointed to by the local store staff would be the right way to back up their customers and staff.

“Here’s the phone number to corporate who is, by this policy, the only ones equipped and permitted to satisfy your request.” This also makes it so you don’t even send a car out anymore, but can handle the request electronically from the station.
I used to use HG for my personal projects but these days I use fossil and keep the database in dropbox, works shockingly well.
NaNs also cause problems here, since it is not equal to itself.
Groq Chat
I think 3.1 is certified, and 3.3 is working, but without paperwork.
Normally this sort of explicitly political post would be out of scope here, but I would argue that staring down the barrel of fascism the way we are warrants discussion everywhere. I found it especially interesting that the creator of Goodwin's law appears to agree.
> We ran all of our experiments on a single NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB GPU hosted on Amazon Web Services and used the Code Carbon package to measure both the energy consumed and the carbon emitted during inference.

> [on] (AWS’s us-west-2), which is based in Oregon and has an average carbon intensity of 297.6 grams of 2eq per kWh3.

The A100 can consume 700W
Vertical Integration is Economics not Engineering
Oh, OK. No worries. :)
fwiw, it is unedited.
We spend so much time, energy and resource trying to deal with a tiny percentage of people who are absolutely terrible if not downright evil. They are a minority, and a tiny one at that, but they cause so much damage that it's unfathomable. So we design systems that attempt to catch them, prevent their actions or treat their underlying issue in the hope that they might finally provide value or at the very least not subtract any more.

I have no solution, other than trying to spot them at childhood, and then maybe be able to turn them around, or take them out behind the barn.
It costs time to write the code, yes, but the liability of that code existing will cost an additional, unknown amount at some indeterminate time in the future.
>adjusting growth projections on the basis of current macroeconomic performance is preferable.

Really? The economy is cyclical. It means you will always be behind the curve; predicting high growth when low growth is around the corner, and vice versa. We can see this in reality; how much garbage did they invest in 2020-2022? You're probably better off never changing strategy, kinda like buying a broad based ETF.

Being adaptable is, probably, equally as valuable for strategy. But that's not really "projecting".

>if they have a magic ball for, they can use to make a lot more money than in VC

Forecasting isn't about having a magic 8 ball, it's about assigning probabilities to potential future outcomes.

In 2021 when people where buying monkey jpegs for millions of dollars and stonks were all the rage, would a reasonable person think the future growth prospects were higher or lower in the short term?
one wonders when code will be thought of as ... code.
This specifically is:

TheBloke
/
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-GGUF
/
mistral-7b-instruct-v0.2.Q8_0.gguf

and I'm running it in LMStudio with the config:

{
"name": "Exported from LM Studio on 21.12.2023, 14:57:43",
"load_params": {
"n_ctx": 32768,
"n_batch": 512,
"rope_freq_base": 1000000,
"rope_freq_scale": 1,
"n_gpu_layers": 100,
"use_mlock": true,
"main_gpu": 0,
"tensor_split": [
0
],
"seed": -1,
"f16_kv": true,
"use_mmap": true
},
"inference_params": {
"n_threads": 4,
"n_predict": -1,
"top_k": 40,
"top_p": 0.95,
"temp": 0.2,
"repeat_penalty": 1.1,
"input_prefix": "
",
"input_suffix": "
",
"antiprompt": [
"
"
],
"pre_prompt": "Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.",
"pre_prompt_suffix": "",
"pre_prompt_prefix": "",
"seed": -1,
"tfs_z": 1,
"typical_p": 1,
"repeat_last_n": 64,
"frequency_penalty": 0,
"presence_penalty": 0,
"n_keep": 0,
"logit_bias": {},
"mirostat": 0,
"mirostat_tau": 5,
"mirostat_eta": 0.1,
"memory_f16": true,
"multiline_input": false,
"penalize_nl": true
}
}
Just to illustrate the level of the nudges involved.
The most dangerous currently known asteroid is Bennu, with 24 September 2182 as the most likely date of hitting Earth.
To do so, Bennu must pass through a gravitational "keyhole" on 25 September 2135.
That keyhole is about 5 km wide. (To compare, the asteroid itself is about 0.5 km wide).
It's like deflecting a projectile that shoots at a 5 km target from the distance of a couple hundred million km.
Paid relays look like they cost on average 5000 lightning, which is estimated at $65 USD currently, and that's a one time fee (until they get recurring payments set up, I'm guessing most relays will convert to that).. but flare in their FAQ recommends getting 8-10 relays.
Agree. But further than fines. They should fix their certification program to include sampling. Not just testing a purpose made testing vehicle.
I had similar dilemmas, I wanted something that is easily portable and that will work in 20 years. Ultimately I wrote a very simply system myself and I write most of my blogs in HTML with a little bit of custom templating that I implemented myself in few dozens of code. The maintenance is close to zero and I can be sure that the blogs will work for the foreseeable future.

[1] www.opensamizdat.com It's mostly about LLMs
High cholesterol can be genetic. The US cannot change its genetic profile, which includes a lot of big boned individuals.
Fantasy Map Brushes
I loved playing this game with friends. We never used this website though.

Instead, one of us would press random to get the "target" article, and then all of us would press random on our own for a starting point.

Whoever got to the "target" first wins!
The problem is in the mis-characterization that lines of code somehow equal better. Lines of Code(tm) is nothing but a measurement of how much effort it was to do, not how complex or how valuable. Just throwing that out there for the Erlang folks who produce very little lines of code but tremendous business value.
Russia is actually a supporter of Hamas, providing weapons, training and intelligence, and is very much benefiting from the unstable middle east and the attention and budget being pulled from West to support Israel.
AV1 also has "tiles". This is basically slicing each frame into N separate frames and encoding each mostly separately. You lose a little efficiency (as you can't exploit cross-tile redundancy very well or at all) but unlock a lot of parallelism on both encode and decode.
I am talking about a passive load (like a resistor). Increasing the voltage will push more current through it.
They recalled 8 million vehicles. There was a number of ways the throttle would fail to disengage, mechanical and electronic fails
Thanks for the feedback and the pun! :D I can see the resemblance you're mentioning. It wasn't intentional, but I suppose great minds in design think alike! The focus for Sunnybox's logo was to convey simplicity and efficiency, much like our service. In the inside the sun and around it the box. Appreciate your thoughts!
It's both!

I like the garden analogy. We want a garden to be pleasant and nice, but we'd also like it to be easy to maintain. A successful garden is about finding that balance between plants that mostly take care of themselves and a few unique things that might take a bit more care but make the garden special. Daffodils require no maintenance at all but they only appear briefly and everyone has them. A garden full of daffodils isn't special.

Software is there to be useful, to provide some business value. But it can't all be boring old daffodils. There has to be something your business is doing that is different from any other business, otherwise why are you even writing software? So, yes, there is a liability in the sense that you need to tend to whatever garden you decide to grow, but there is a definite asset in the sense that it is delivering value to the business. It's all about trying to manage the size of the liability given the size of the asset.
It’s pretty self evident as a member of society, but there’s a number of studies as well, e.g. https://ifstudies.org/blog/better-educated-women-still-prefe...
I think people are far more aware of the dangers than they used to be. They just get their information online instead of through parents.

For all of its faults the Internet has been very good at revealing what does happen - sometimes - as opposed to what should happen.
Thank you.

I'm looking up 'Conservation of momentum':
https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/momentum/Lesson-2/Mom...

> For a collision occurring between object 1 and object 2 in an isolated system, the total momentum of the two objects before the collision is equal to the total momentum of the two objects after the collision. That is, the momentum lost by object 1 is equal to the momentum gained by object 2.

but this seems to support what I say - there is no collision occurring in a vacuum. What is the expelled air colliding with?
No, they are going up in the new year.
We have this in Brazil too and it is great.

And it is a law that if you decrease the weight of the product, you need to call that out on the label.

It works great.
With a hands-off approach, you would naturally see more women be the stay-at-home caregiver. If a balance is desired, that's when you would have to force things.

I'm more curious about the motivation behind wanting to force a gender balance.
Ofc we should expect them to stand up. They are breaking the law full stop.
I would not give out information on my users, and would rather go the station. They can't do anything but trying to frighten you.

I expect everyone with access to personal data do the same.
Isn't this how sewage treatment was always worked?

You're drinking the "toilet water" of those upstream from you. Those downstream are drinking yours.

What did people think was happening to the water that gets flushed? It isn't being launched into space. It ends up back in the environment. Nothing really new here.
If cycrutchfield is correct (in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38719752), all the doctors put together get 10% of the spending. Insurance overhead gets twice as much as the doctors? That's insane. That's a huge amount of overhead that could be dramatically reduced with single payer.

Still, that's only 20%. Would single payer reduce the other 80%? If so, how?
Ah, so your argument is that a purposely sabotaged/neutered form of healthcare (that certainly wouldn't be universal) won't reduced costs. Well, yes, that's what the US has now.

Edit: I do love the deliberately obtuse comments from Americans on political topics like education, healthcare, gun control, etc. It's hard to believe intelligent people honest hold these absurd views.
It seems hard to argue with the cops. “You’re 21 and sleep in someone’s house for free? You get drunk in his house and blame the host?”

A lack of common sense is often fatal.
I absolutely agree with you that possession should not be illegal.
The cover-band analogy isn't so great; the issue where a specific solution becomes a proxy for solving some problems that no one bothered to fully understand is real though. Describing problems and doing thorough discovery is hard and silver bullets are attractive. The cargo-cult analogy is quite fitting for a lot of hyped-up topics.

When you go to a car dealer and tell them your problem is getting from A to B, guess what their solution is going to be...
Medical in the US holds all the power.

They literally control our health and well being. Their cartel decides when they want to cut off drugs and services. If we use the last 120 years of data, the medical cartels has won at every cross roads, and seemingly 5% raises every year(with 2% CPI...).

Your entire healtcare records got leaked and now your SSN is on the internet(Beaumont)? OOPSIE but we can't use this data for science because HIPAA. Must keep healthcare data within the cartel for cartel uses only. Imagine if AI had all this data, it could just diagnose for free with offline local models. If anyone disagrees pour on some 'Medical isnt just Science, its ART! You can't just use Science!'

I say this with my monocle because I am a capitalist and I own a healthcare company. The standard billing practices are awful, the demand exceeds my employee supply, and everyone is so impressed that we own a healthcare clinic.

The medical cartels don't have to play by the rules, they are the power. They decide when red tape is cut, what are you going to due? Sue them? Ha look at those odds. Good luck finding a lawyer.
but he concludes with

> "...and I don't want nothing to do with it"
Here’s how that would play out: You’re the only store manager out of all of the chain to have this policy. The Sherriff calls the Mayor who sends a “concerned” email to your VP of Sales. You standing up for your team not only gets you fired but now you’re on a list against the police.

2023 United States baby. Land of the free.