skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most recent glacial period started 120,000 years ago and ended about 12,000 years ago. During the glacial period, much of the earth would have been covered with ice and the agriculturally habitable band around the equator was much smaller. Nomadic hunter gatherers, on the other hand, would be able to move around and follow the fauna that had adapted and survived. This is roughly around the time that humans started wearing clothing (based on body lice molecular clock studies) so hunter gatherers would be able to occupy much larger areas with a much larger diversity of food sources than any agricultural society tied to its productive land.

IIRC one of our genetic bottlenecks is from this time period so humanity barely survived as it is and the glaciers would have destroyed most evidence of human habitation, especially when it's in an open field ala agriculture. The stuff that survives was generally buried in a cave of some sort and protected from the elements so even if they had discovered agriculture, evidence of that fact would not have survived.

During the glacial period the sea level was also much lower than it is now, so all the settlements are now far underwater, if they existed at all.
The deprecation of "crypt" could have been handled a bit better, IMHO.

It recommends to use "hashlib" instead, which isn't API compatible to crypt, and if you load it on a new enough python... triggers a deprecation warning about "crypt" being deprecated. Oh, and it seems unmaintained.
Darknet diaries is always interesting
How does Encyclopedia Britannica compare to Wikipedia? I would have assumed they stopped publishing it, but it looks like they are still updating the digital version. I find Wikipedia to be a pretty good resource on most subjects, even if occasionally I run into low quality writing or missing citations.
I really hope hikikomori doesn't become normal
It was never free, it was subsidized by pick up or eat in.

Now that prices are high and margins are tightened (blame practical downstream or “greedy corporations” or just MBAs, I don’t care) that subsidy isn’t bearable. So you pay for delivery.
It is unpopular to say, but I've observed the same thing many times before.

Not that an attitude change would solve the world's problems, but some people have no sense of intentionality in their lives.
If rent is the predominate cost, why do pizza delivery only ghost kitchens not take off? Doesn’t matter where it’s made, just where the customer is. You could make them in a shipping container dropped in a big box parking lot with a roll up door for delivery drivers to load their trunk, like Spirit Halloween for pizza. What am I missing?

You don't need a robot pizza machine, you need an operating model where rent doesn't hold your bottom line hostage (based on my very limited understanding of the business fundamentals). Rent goes up? Class 8 Semi pulls up to pull the trailer to somewhere else with hookups.

Edit: thanks for the learnings y’all!
Private jets one was good too
Wow, that's amazing. I wonder if attacker like this feel unappreciated since they can't take credit for their work.
Have you tried changing the web browser or VPN?
maybe they decided that they can squeeze an extra couple percentage points of revenue this way while keeping menu prices low. so exec comp can keep going up.
That's not hypocritical, if you're not swinging from the rafters shouting about how a declining birthrate is the end of the world.
Drones seem the obvious future to me. Bulk build and just overwhelm the manufacturing capacities of your enemies for pennies on the dollar.
If you complain about headlines on HN you'll get attacked. Or even you mention this fact.

Flag away, infants.
The court can decide it should be upheld but also simultaneously decide the ban was an overreach and order some different type of remediation.

i.e. There's more then 2 possible scenarios.
How do you not know this isn’t what we are doing in some more advanced form? Anyways, the comparisons will become more apt as the tech advances.
He laments that users "don't know about the freedoms we promote which are increasingly in their interest", but wasn't this the point of Open Source as compared to Free Software

true, but to anyone who paid attention at the time, bruce perens already pointed out this problem only one year after announcing the open source initiative: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/02/msg01641.html

so not only is this problem not new, but also at least bruce perens has been aware of it all this time.

but what is happening today probably would have happened without the promotion of open source as well. so i agree, that it is time to act. GPLv4 anyone?
Just realized that these release notes are missing added support for public use of atomic pointer ops. Julia has had support for atomic operations for a while in various forms but now users can use `unsafe_load`, `unsafe_store!`, `unsafe_swap!`, `unsafe_replace!`, and `unsafe_modify!` with an `order` argument.
I mean, has _any_ change in _human history_ impacted those considerably? This argument is like saying we live the same way the cavemen did...
OpenAI doesn’t maintain a copy.

A core argument OpenAI is making is transitory copying is allowed as long training is fair use. But a permanent copy stored in a training database isn’t transitory and would itself be copyright infringement, so they don’t do that.

Thus training each version requires permission to download a new copy, which they now lack.
Today in "Things that never happened, but were deemed good for a Guardian article considering the Guardian middle class readership".
imperative programming is like sitting in one chair; pure functional programming like sitting in the neighbouring chair; and Meijer's thesis in TFA is that "mostly functional" programming will turn out to be like attempting to sit in the space between them.

for the title, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle

(given his involvement with C#, I am willing to consider the notion that his views may well reflect having had unpleasant experiences. If Rust moves beyond the "innovator" segment, it would be a counterexample.)

Edit: NB (2014) ; he may well have revisited this topic more recently?
I've been very happy with my tesmart dual DP 4 port KVM. The only limitation I have is that it's only usb 2 host controller, so a lot of higher speed devices like some webcams can't get switched using it.

LAlso if you need Apple products in the mix, you have to use two physical usb3 cables from the mac just to distinguish the two display channels because apple hates MST for reasons (another reason to hate their arbitrary bs).
Tailscale is also a great alternative
Normally you'd just configure the firewall to drop all packets not from Cloudflare. Maybe also get a new static IP first.
Plumber does job work based on agreed price in advance and gets paid for every job.

The artist has no sort of guarantee of income from any particular piece of work or really even subsistence from their entire life's output of work.

I think most people would agree that the physical trades and the arts are not well-suited for comparisons. They are just fundamentally too different.
Yes. Technology and our knowledge of the world allows for an accumulation of wealth, power, control and social status that have never been possible before.
> The US court system is so biased towards rich transgressors lmao.

Masimo is a multi-billion dollar company themselves. They may not be Apple-big, but they are definitely in the category of 'rich' for this discussion.
Israel's F-35I Combat Experience Is Providing Lessons for Future Pacific Fight
I've heard enough reports about more than one of them that I'm willing to condemn them all without specific examples.

My girlfriend works in restaurant management and has seen the douchebaggery first-hand. Oh, and drivers taking customers' food into the shitter. Yummy.
That's true. It also happens the other way. Building more luxury homes will reduce the price for non-luxury homes. This is because the wealthy will not be bidding up the prices of the non-luxury homes because there will be luxury homes available.

This effect is not recognized by people who decry the building of luxury homes.
As the OP of the headline complaint, I do that a fair amount, and I've almost never gotten attacked for it.

I suspect if you are getting attacked when you complain about headlines, its about something more specific than just the fact you are complaining about a headline.
I think Chisel's main win is that it is great from an open-source research perspective.

Taking advantage of the functional nature of Chisel enables a set of generators called Chipyard [0] for things like cores, networking peripherals, neural network accelerators, etc. If you're focusing on exploring the design space of one particular accelerator and don't care too much about the rest of the chip, you can easily get a customized version of the RTL for the rest of your chip. Chisel handles connecting up all the components of the chip. All the research projects in the lab benefit from code changes to the generators.

Chisel even enables undergraduate students (like me!) to tape out a chip on a modern-ish process node in just a semester, letting Chisel significantly reduce the RTL we have to write. Most of the remaining time is spent working on the physical design process.

[0]: https://github.com/ucb-bar/chipyard

[1]: https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2023-Spring-ELENG-194-0...
Societies pre-IR had multiple periods where energy usage increased significantly, some of them based specifically around coal. No IR.

That's a straight up misstatement of the parent argument - the parent argued that coal was necessary, not that coal sufficient. True or not, the argument isn't refuted by the IR starting with water power either.

And pairing this with "anti-woke" jabs is discourse-diminishing stuff. The theory that petroleum was a key ingredient of the IR is much older than that (I don't even agree with it but it's better than "pure innovation" fluff).
> Might be an unpopular opinion, especially in North America

I once had the opportunity to ask a Vietnamese immigrant[1], "What do you think the US could learn from Vietnam?" and his answer reflected this. He frankly thought it was sad that US families "fracture" when children move out early. He admired the independence and individuality he saw in the US, but the recognized the cost of it was atomized families and expressed a deep sense that his kids would relate to him differently when they become adults.

The average American doesn't have the social technology to interpret habitation with parents in any way but through the lens of individuality and independence. I have sometime to learn here too.

What do you feel like you had to learn to make your arrangement work?

1. and Uber driver
I didn’t say outside of a metro area, I said outside of the West Coast metros. The rest of the country does exist and many of us own homes and have jobs. If you live in San Francisco it’s probably easy to get the impression that everyone who isn’t a multimillionaire either pays $6000 a month to rent a studio apartment or lives in a tent and poops on the sidewalk, but that’s not what the rest of the country is like.
Howso? If the plaintif wins they can be compensated by their back royalties for all the watches Apple already sold.
How is this new license going to be enforced by people without money, power and/or lawyers? Otherwise nothing is solved IMO.

I know several corporations that actively violate the GPL license of "poor" people's projects that have no money or desire to litigate, so they get away with it.
According to this article, it's the result of union strategy:

https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/12/minimum-wage-2024/

I don't know much about it.
That's not a risk, because there's zero chance that Apple just abandons their latest Watches.

The worst possible outcome for customers is that Apple pushes a software update to disable the feature, but it's a fairly useless feature for most people.
Thanks. What are the authoritative resources?
Why We Sleep: a tale of institutional failure (2020)
The thing that won’t happen, happened. Time will tell who is right.
Wealthy nations have easier access to contraceptives and low child mortality, and women joined the workforce. It's not so cut and dry as a mere question of income. Even your source has a section for contrary findings and fertility j-curve when using HDI rather than GDP.
We actually have built more housing where the population has been growing. 2006's wild speculation really killed the builders. But overall population growth is going down to nearly meet new construction.

https://usafacts.org/articles/population-growth-has-outpaced...
In the cookie control settings option on this site, can anyone tell me with certainty how to set the sliders to refuse optional cookies?

Is (■ off) or (on ■) the state I am looking for?
A lot of apps in the AppStore and PlayStore are filled with spyware and adware or contain obscenely priced subscriptions and loot boxes that people still fall for. So I’m not for sure if there is a big difference, as the gatekeepers willing allow this junk in.
> Every MRI machine quenches and vents. The question is what is different, in detail, that heightens the risk with this machine.

The design can't safely accommodate the level of energy that ends up in the machine if its clogged.

In the spirit of analogies, it's like asking why a 10 oz glass overflows with 200 degree water and a 10 oz glass doesn't overflow with 100 degree water. It exceeded it's capacity.

There's nothing more complicated to it, you could call in an MRI technician, get the PDF manual, talk to several doctors, disassemble it and put it back together, and learn no more than that.

You got extraordinarily rude and personal, I hope you don't do that often on HN, that was an outlier in my 13 years here. I hope all is well and it's an exception.
using 'mad' to describe actual mental illness seems dated, but it's still perfect to describe nonsensical behavior
> The idea of "mostly functional programming" is unfeasible. It is impossible to make imperative programming languages safer by only partially removing implicit side effects.

Except that people do it all the time, and they find it safer than not doing it.
Video: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/37c3/relive/12144
Financial instability will do that to ya. You finally achieve a somewhat comfortable lifestyle but that requires DINK status to keep up the mortgage payments and then you look at having kids and it pushes you over the edge because daycare alone is half your mortgage.

But when you thrive in financial instability and have a lifestyle that works with a parent that's out of work or not having stable income having kids doesn't add much to that.
Can you elaborate? So you instruct the model to either follow the grammar OR say why it can't do that? But the model has no idea this grammar exists (you can tell it the schema but the model doesn't know its tokens are going through a logprobs modification).
Stocastic parrots are going to stochasticate.

The author also cited a few human assisted efforts as ML only.

The fact that the author also is surprised that GPT is better at falsifying user input while it struggles at new ideas demonstrates the fact that those who are hyping LLMs as getting us closer to strong AI don't know or ate ignoring the know limitations of problems like automated theorem solving.

I think generative AI is powerful and useful. But the AGI is near camp is starting to make it a hard sell because the general public is discovering the limits and people are trying to force it into inappropriate domains.

Over parameterization and double decent is great at expanding what it can do, but I haven't seen anything that justifies the AGI hype yet.
It's definitely dying in SoCal, apparently the result of private equity firms having purchased most franchisees.
honestly, I've yet to see a practical application of pure functional programming that is that much better than mostly functional.

it's hard for most people to follow a completely pure functional programming model, but certain concepts like anonymous functions are still very nice and practical
> the existence of a patent that another company copied is by definition stealing

It literally and figuratively is not.
They should use fastapi.
It is elsewhere; maybe not in California. There appears to be two payment modes, base pay and earn by time, and the driver can choose which they want to operate under.
>> There is no way music companies would allow their stuff on there for so cheap if they could stop it.

Which is just another way of saying "Music Companies would stop technological progress itself if it affects their bottom line (and they can figure out a way to do it)."
Jony Ive Poaches Lead iPhone Designer to Work on OpenAI Hardware Device
The best solution to roaches I've found is to support your local ant colonies! Healthy ants will eat all your other bugs and the only drawback is having to keep your dry foods in ant-proof containers.
Seems strange for a state with no income tax, that would happen
This is not totally correct. One reason it appears that fertility is inversely correlated with income is hidden confounding variables. Among comparable populations (within the same country, as a starting point) income is positively related to income.

https://www.niussp.org/fertility-and-reproduction/income-and...
> Could even have a crack at toy HDL in the form of the fixed SystemVerilog with a decent type system solution I proposed above using CIRCT as an IR...

This is the exact type of activity that CIRCT is trying to make easier! There are both enough core hardware dialects that new languages (generator-style embedded domain specific languages or actual languages) can be quickly built as well as the flexibility of MLIR to define _new_ dialects that represent the constructs and type system of the language you are trying to build while still inter-operating with or lowering to existing dialects.

This was the kind of thing that didn't work well with Chisel's FIRRTL IR as it was very closely coupled to Chisel and it's opinions. Now FIRRTL is just another CIRCT dialect and, even if you're not using Chisel and FIRRTL, you're benefitting from the shared development of the core hardware dialects and SystemVerilog emission that Chisel designs rely on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/science/space/astronomy-b...
> with all the downsides of that process (data sharing

how is that legal?
The cookie content screen on this website is ludicrous, also it captures the back button and is littered with ads. No thanks.
This is true if you're born in certain parts of India and then move to a big city for work.
I wouldn't be surprised if with the rise of Uber Eats / Doordash, they were wanting to get out of the business of first-party deliveries anyway, and saw the wage increase as a final straw. I can't imagine that these companies particularly want to be in the business of last-mile logistics, so much as that historically it was a very complimentary business to selling pizza. Now that companies have sprung up around a complete food ordering business, it makes sense to outsource that part to them and stick to their specialty, making and marketing food.
Paperless-NGX: transform your physical documents into a searchable archive
This power plant and related Westinghouse bankruptcy were major contributors to Toshiba’s problems and sale recently discussed here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67757333.amp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38706547
Saving for a down payment is largely a fool's game, at least in many areas of the country. Prices tend to rise faster than you can save thus putting you further and further behind.

If you want to own your own home (and not everyone does or should) then a better approach is to take advantage of one of the various low down payment mortgage programs. Focus on credit score and cashflow rather than down payment. This is somewhat risky in that a temporary reduction in income can quickly put you into a foreclosure and bankruptcy situation, but it works out in the end for most consumers.

I understand that from a social policy standpoint it doesn't make sense for governments to encourage rapid residential real estate price inflation or high levels of leverage. But from a personal finance standpoint we have to work with the system as it exists rather than expecting it to change.
Is it poaching if he no longer works at Apple, and instead runs a design studio?
Yes it has been going up.
I'm very excited to see 2FA become mandatory.

It's worth noting that that 2FA requirement will have (virtuous) knock-on effects: package uploads will require an API token instead of allowing a password, meaning one less place where a user can accidentally expose control over their entire account. For packages published through GitHub Actions, PyPI's Trusted Publishing goes a step further and removes the need for a shared API token entirely[1].

[1]: https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/
If we’re worried about cost overruns, then perhaps cancel the California high speed rail boondoggle. That project could buy several nuclear reactors.
Show HN: Choose-your-own-adventure bedtime stories by AI
Hi! I have a 3-yo child that loves bedtime stories and I built an app for him that has evolved a lot during the last 5 months.

The main features are:
- Personalised stories with your own character names, topics (emojis) and moral
- Interactive mode, which is like the "Choose your own adventure" books I used to read in the 80s
- Image generation (DALL-e 3)
- Text-to-speech (Google TTS)
- Supports 5 languages: EN, ES, PT, FR, NO

I'd love to see some feedback about the app functionality and how to find a suitable business model (that covers API expenses).

Thanks in advance!
I like this for the “sum is greater than the parts” aesthetic, which keeps the door open to so many applications.
Apple's saying that the import ban will hurt them in ways that can't be fixed, and so it makes sense to stay it until their appeal decides what's going to happen. It's why this stay is only for ~2 weeks, because that's all they think is needed to get to a more-permanent decision from the appeals court.

The idea is that harms that can't be fixed (by e.g. ordering someone to pay money) should be avoided until the system has settled on a definite answer.

> I’m not sure I understand why third parties are still allowed to violate a ruling, either.

The ruling is just blocking imports, not sales. I don't think that Apple is actually required to freeze its own sales, per se, but they're very just-in-time for stock so it was an effective ban for them unless they wanted to stockpile.

Third parties are thus able to sell through whatever stock they have.
My proof-of-concept Python record type
Show HN: My side project is helping me manage my finances
For years, I have struggled to understand my cash flow and save for the future. In addition to that, my wife has many credit cards and accounts that complicate matters. I am building a tool that connects all our accounts, helps us create a budget, and tracks and adjusts expenses on the fly. I am also sprinkling some AI magic on it for financial suggestions. I am looking for feedback on the implementation. More importantly, I am looking for more beta testers to improve the product.
The issue of pay for delivery drivers is that the job is very low productivity (cannot make that many deliveries per hour and consumers are not willing to pay much for delivery).

I think in general it works for pizzas because pizzas have very high margins so that some or all delivery costs can be bundled in the retail price of the pizza.
CriticMarkup seems to emit more correct HTML, but is more demanding (e.g. it recommends against embedded newlines). It doesn't emit TeX. It does have more (i.e. any) editor syntax files.

I mildly prefer having the marks outside the brackets: ++[foo]++ seems easier to read than {++foo++} because the "wrapping" is outside the "box".
Oh right, makes sense, that must be it!