skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So practically no one studied coronaviruses until 2003 because they thought it was too difficult. And some scientists still think there are only four coronaviruses, even though there are thousands of variants of covid and many coronavirus variants have been discovered in animals. Medical research really seems to have dropped the ball here. It looks entirely possible that coronaviruses have been killing people and causing long term health effects for centuries and nobody knew. Who decides what should be studied and what should not be? It seems to mostly be left up to the scientists and if they're all going for the low hanging fruit or stuff that enhances their reputation, then important stuff just doesn't get studied. I think I just found a reason to educate the billions of poor people in the world and to put them to work.
>it sounds ridiculous to rely on one particular employer for daycare

About as ridiculous as relying on one particular employer for health care coverage
Sounds like regular stimulant abuser behavior to me
Yeah that is as bad as it can get.
Of course, I have to take this with a grain of salt, can't verify it, but what a story.

Post office should have used your Turbo Pascal-based system, the post master would not be forced to become a taxi driver.

This reminds me I always wanted to build a fictional cashier system with terminal interface in ncurses, after I saw these still used in early 2000s in DIY stores. Maybe a local post office system would also a great side project for the weekends.
>An RTX 4060 (with a pitiful 8GB vram) is about $300.

Remember that AMD Radeon 7600XT (16GB vram, faster than 4060) is a dramatically better option than that, at $330.
That seems to be less the case if one is evaluating continuing to use existing systems for which the up front capital costs have mostly already been paid.
Ask HN: What's your startup validation playbook in 2024?
So it’s 2024. Building new products is trivial but getting sufficient eyeballs on them to validate a market seems like a huge pain due to channel saturation, unless you already have a huge social media following. (eg. “Just build a splash page, bro” no longer works.) What are your go to methods for rapidly validating ideas?
> Why does fertility rate matter?

I don't want to post spoilers here, but the inverted population pyramid is going to result in some interesting times.
ahem if I was into tinfoil theories, I'd wonder if Cloudflare knew more about the attack =P

Oh? You want that attack to stop? It's going to be big number.
You aren't going to learn anything new by looking at the website. If you are getting laid off your employer has to notify you directly.

You also aren't going to get advance notice, in the sense that they will fire you immediately and then continue paying you for the next 60 days, which satisfies the notice requirements.
gun violence in the workplace tends to be from people coming back after with vengeance, not bringing guns to work every day just in case.

immediately escorting somebody off the premises seems more likely to trigger such gun violence than avoid it.

in any case, gun violence remains a very unlikely event wrt to the headlines it receives (divide the statistics by "out of 335 million people")
I never said it was impossible, I just said that a lot of what's currently possible in game engines is absolutely dogshit compared to even Electron. This is not really an opinion, the features just aren't implemented yet, and UX is not a concern.

And I never said video games can't handle text. I said it currently can't do it at the same level as the OS or browser, with all the features.

Implementing is of course possible. But unlike something like React Native, or Electron, if you want to keep the rendering model of game engines, you won't be able to leverage 40+ years of OS development and 30+ years of browser development. You gotta restart from scratch. The ceiling here is something like Flutter, which cost Google millions of dollars.

It even remains to be seen if performance will be even comparable to Electron if someone implement all the missing features.

> "Accessibility is often language in game technology. That should be better."

There are exactly zero game engines or game engine libraries currently that provide the automatic accessibility at the level of something like Electron. This is something else that must be rebuilt from scratch.
> The cars require a Tesla account with a credit card attached in order to use Super Charging stations, which is managed by Budget and then they add the charging costs on to your bill at the end.

Hertz did it correctly, they use their account and just charge your credit card after your rental period is over. Just like they do with parking tickets or tolls.
It's Geoffrey Moore's chasm, right on time with respect to market adoption. It's all pragmatist arguments as predicted as well.

You can see a similar dip at approximately the same point in other EV adoption curves, such as Norway: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/norway-electric-vehic... ... That green line, we're in the dip right now.

Since the US is such a big market you can't look at it holistically. You have to look at it regionally (the US has 60x more people than Norway):

https://insideevs.com/news/688779/california-tops-us-ev-adop...

We're talking about the markets with high pickup rate which have recently seen a downtick.

It's only unexpected if you don't study literature of market adoption behaviors of emerging technologies. This lull absolutely was coming. It always does in behavior-based products, especially those with infrastructure requirements. Here it was in broadband for instance at about the same point in 2004: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2006/05/28/part-1-broad...
Is that a thing Americans still grapple with? “I need to keep this job to keep health insurance for my kids”? I thought the ACA helped eliminate that in some way?
A Love Letter to Tinkerable Software
Definitely Teslas became less attractive to a lot of people with Musks behavior in the last year. But also interest rates are up, and EV enthusiast market may be saturated, so now you have to win over just regular people.
Enshittification rolls downhill.
ALL BLE phone app access control thingies are garbage. It doesn't matter whether it's Latch, OpenPath, whoever.

These kinds of things want BLE to scan all the time. Your phone OS wants BLE to scan never. The app will always lose this battle.

All of these services work with an RFID fob or keycard. I suspect it will take a couple of "equal opportunity" lawsuits to force landlords to cough them up.
The logic seems pretty easy: it was so limited in availability that it benefited very few workers.

So very few people will miss it.

It would be a totally different situation if this were a perk where there had been plenty of supply, so that it actually met employee demand.
Why not just use FROM and multistage builds in your dockerfile?
Psychopathy is generally a requirement to exploit the amount of people a typical CEO has to and does.
I knew someone who worked at the child care center. Things got really bad after the pandemic. I heard that people were promoted for very sketchy reasons. The result was a bureaucracy-heavy mess of incompetence and political infighting. It apparently was unbearable, and it is not a surprise to me that this happened. All the corner-cutting and nickel-and-diming made it clear that the higher-ups were trying to kill this perk. It is kind of sad, since this single perk was specifically called out when Google used to get the ‘Best Place to Work’ awards.
These are some awesome games with low hardware requirements.

Let's also add Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail to the list.
I think this applies not only to startup founders but also to early-stage engineering teams. We distilled this into our company's engineering values:

Real work is work that improves our product or makes our users happy. This includes writing code, helping others write code, and helping hire people that write code.

#fakework is work that seems like work, but is mostly just vanity. Examples of #fakework include thought leadership, migrating things to shinier new technologies, and going to conferences. #fakework can be fun (and fun is worthwhile, too), but it doesn't count towards anything here.
> 2) It feels like the enthusiasm and excitement has gone out of tech. This may be UK specific, or perhaps it's just me, but being part of the tech industry doesn't feel so shiny as it once did.

Just conjecture here (from a fellow British person), but I think it might be something to do with tech employment that's changed. Listicles and blogs about Google's workplace culture were being churned out week on week in the mid 2010s, and working at a startup was portrayed as a futuristic, modern type of employment where you published a crowdfunding campaign, arrived at a makerspace to draw sketches of gadgets and GUI mockups with a team of enthusiastic colleagues, then, I don't know, did a TED talk before going out for a drink. The results for searching stock image sites with the term 'startup culture' bears witness to that stereotype!

I was never part of that, so I can't tell how accurate that portrayal was. However, since then, the press has now moved to reporting scandal after scandal: fraud in high places with companies like Theranos, well-meaning but naive founders falling victim to hostile takeovers, all punctuated by the routine whack-a-mole of cryptocurrency scams.

So perhaps it is not that technologists have become less enthusiastic as a whole, but the enthusiastic ones don't join many startups and FAANG-adjuncts any longer. Without the blank cheque of such an employer, financing a £££+ trip across the country for a meetup isn't so viable. I would certainly go to more conferences and hackathons if money weren't something to consider.

And on a personal note; your comment history suggests that we're not so very far away geographically, so make sure to post on HN if you do decide to restart your event :)
They were made aware that collecting targeting data on the kids in the daycare program would be a COPPA violation.
People want to WFH? Well this is what happens.

A lot easier and cheaper to hire in South America right now.
It's also smart Game Theory.

If they remove the fees, then competition might be pressured to do so (as a marketing response). Thus making it easier for people to switch to Google.
You can have <a href="..."> links inside an SVG. It's been there since the first SVG standard back in 2001: https://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/linking.html
You can probably do that on your personal door but doing that on a shared access front door will very much get you in hot water.
I think you guys are missing the actually comment.

The question isn't "can you send live animals" the question is "what happens if I sent a live/dead animal and _don't_ tell USPS". That question is not answered by the section (?) 526 rules [1].

[1]: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm
This is so going to happen. 100% margin for the kindle content
This is considerably weirder than ensembling because they are not, in any sense, averaging the predictions or taking a majority vote or in some way collectively processing multiple models to yield a single slightly-better meta-model. They are just... randomly picking a model to use to generate the next response. And users find that more entertaining to talk to?

As there is no analysis of why that is better or evaluation of alternative approaches (what if you alternated A/B/A/B? Or cycled through them systematically A/B/C/A? or picked a different shuffle of A/B/C each time?), it's hard to say what this means.

My best guess is that this reflects the fact that GPT is, thanks to RLHF, boring. It has mode-collapse and does things like tell one of a handful of jokes every time. It will write a rhyming poem even if you ask it for a different kind of poem. And so on.

The random sampling of different models serves as a rather ad hoc way of avoiding the RLHF boringness. The various models might all be tuned similarly, but they won't yield identical results, and this sneaks in response diversity through the backdoor, undoing the same-ness from the RLHF mode collapse.

You used to be able to increase the sampling temperature on GPT to undo some of this blandness, but since RLHF flattens the logits in GPT-4, it's unclear if that still helps. So swapping in random models may be a useful trick. (Although fixing the tuning itself would be much more desirable.)
How Threads Will Integrate with the Fediverse
This is type of stuff make me not like big corp, the culture and company value eventually corrupts. And if you are like Apple, after the charismatic founder dies, pretty much it goes to shit as well.
It was Riot Games but it looks like Blizzard sued Valve in 2012 for similar reason (I thought the Blizzard law suit was about some characters being too similar but maybe that was yet another lawsuit).
Jail time and asset seizure, only just solution.
I trust them more than Amazon. I don't trust them much, but... like, a lot more than Amazon.

In our city there's a flea market in a bad part of town where the parking lot has a metal sliding gate and there's barbed wire on the roof and all the windows have bars (obviously, given the rest of that) and there are live vendors in there hawking their goods at folding tables, with about the proportion (... high) of stolen and counterfeit goods you'd expect.

That's Amazon. Ebay's like an ordinary, mediocre antique mall. You might buy something that's crap or was misrepresented, or you might overpay, but it's not an entire business basically dedicated to crime.
Because they're older and on average so are their children
Yeah, I rented a Polestar from Hertz and this was my takeaway too: less fun to drive than my 3, clunkier control surface and not particularly better in any noticeable way.
And they will pay them leadership salaries which enables them to afford privatized daycare
People usually become Senior Engineers in their late 20s, if not mid 20s. It's the fakest job title in the industry. The majority of Senior Engineers are probably age 28-40 - common ages to have young children.
No I see very frequently what "these people" have as a position, you can see it all over this thread. There's no such thing as "no aging". Age is a function of time, you can't stop time. You can hold back on the superficial traits of age, but a human is designed with an expiration date. You can stretch it, you can also cut it short, but you won't get very different productivity in the end.

But most of all. You're not special. I'm not special. Life is not special in each instance. What's special is the system, the collective result of the relentless loop of selection, evolution, adaptation.

Trying to stop death is basically to stop the loop that is life. To stop death is to enforce death. I've seen few comprehend this. You see, you're linked to your environment. Cultural, physical, what have you. As you grasp to stay the same (alive) and the environment changes, you'll naturally fight to hold back the environment from changing. Which will destroy the environment for the next generations.

Hence trying to stop death, causes death. It's not poetic or vague notion. But quite literal.
if you have the choice, you'd have to run the numbers, but then you create adverse selection issues.

(Technically you can choose a tiered pay X for first kWh and then X+Y above that in my system, but if you're in a building, the building gets to decide which of the two every user is put on)
Books out of print for example.
Thanks, would like to try it out
Salespeople, I done sold a feature that needs that code.
I know some European companies disable your access and just keep paying your salary to get around the mandatory notice period.
have the speed - half*? the speed maybe?
There are around 5 million uninsured people in my state, and the Republicans are talking about cancelling the ACA again because apparently that isn’t enough.
> Speaking to WMC, ASSC’s national campaign director pushed back against criticisms, saying: “We don’t go to a school unless there is another religious club operating.”

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I really like this club and would consider sending my kids there.
Boric acid is great for killing some kinds of ants, and it is in eyedrops.
You'd be amazed at the number of people that do not take measures in anticipation of this day ever happening. If you give someone with access to critical information no notice about their dismissal, they might not have actually backed up their emails, contacts, or any other work product.

If you are the leadership and don't take this action and that "rare" small number of people that might do something untoward does do something, then you are left holding the bag. So, as they say, better safe than sorry. I've even be present when actual criminal activity has been committed, but no charges have been brought but the company is still offered the use of actual police during the dismissal/escorting off premise without making an arrest.

So, I guess I'm happy for you that you've never had to experience the darker side of things, but, it's part and parcel around here now of the process.
If you need to explain how your clever clever Python code works, you're doing it wrong.
Limewire is making a comeback using GenAI and Blockchain
Interesting to see this company that once was one of the most used applications for multimedia P2P transfers.
>eventually the wings will fall off an old plane in the air.

Has this ever happened for an airliner?
Do you work for Google in Europe? Or Amazon? we are not talking about small local IT companies
Tesla's changers are *half(?) the speed...?

I hadn't heard this.
Daycare was an anti-perk for Google, practically speaking.
It was a huge waiting list to have a chance, and a small fraction got to use it, so most parents just got to be somewhat frustrated by it.

Lots of perks aren't widely used, but mostly by choice; a perk I could potentially use is still a perk, and it feels good to have that option.

Pushing toward remote work or asking someone to work on a different campus also makes the on-prem daycare a bit weird.

But yeah, a company day care that has enough spots to serve most interested parents would be a pretty nice perk. But, I think for most parents, a daycare near home is much better, especially those not working from office every day.
Critiques of caloric restriction (CR) studies include issues with control groups in animal research where these groups might eat more than usual complicating comparisons. Also, CR's benefits could vary based on eating habits and may not apply to everyone. There's a concern that extreme CR can weaken the immune system among other issues like bone density loss etc. The overall impact of CR on health and longevity clearly needs more research to be understood.

While its undeniable that some of the strains of mice and fruit flies did live longer, extrapolating that to humans and associating that with "health fasting" is questionable at best. If this becomes a viable technique for human health and life extension it ought to be undertaken in a supervised and managed way with the assistance of health professionals. Not sold as a magic treat-yourself cure for all ailments on the internet.

All in all CRL outside of an academic and scientific setting is almost certainly just going to spread dangerous misconceptions about health and our bodies.

> "Well fasting is hardly a consumerist conspiracy, as that would be a contradiction."

No fasting clearly isnt but most of these "health fasting" diet types also shill other dangerous "health" advice from juice "detoxes" to radioactive "aura cleansers"

About that "CALERIE" trial:
"many of them had BMIs that fall in the overweight category at the start of the trial. This means that any health benefits observed cannot be fully decoupled from the weight loss most participants experienced on their restricted diets. It is already well-known that going from being overweight to a healthy weight has a positive impact on the body; however, the trial results do not clearly answer the question of whether metabolic changes due to calorie reduction beyond a normal diet can improve health. Moreover, the trial was too short to determine the long-term effects, good or bad. "

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/can-calorie-restrict...

So like I said above portraying this as somehow proven to be healthy in humans is a vast oversimplification of a complicated field and really isnt related to "health fasting" at all
Starlink Shows Off First Texts Sent to T-Mobile Phones via Satellite
I bet my ass that the recent re-emergence of the Stuxnet story has got everything to do with liability.
Who is going to pay for all the damage done outside of Iran ?
Questions are tabled in Dutch parliament...

The focus on a guy with a USB stick and access to shitty SIEMENS/SCADA systems makes a nice james bond story but I don't see the actual relevance.
ArchiveBox doesn't really phone home for any reason, so unfortunately I don't have good analytics to know how many real users there are (I'm the ArchiveBox creator). We also set noindex/nofollow on public snapshot content by default, so unfortunately we cant search the web to find public ArchiveBox instances either (for good reason, otherwise users would immediately get tons of automated DMCA notices / copyright trouble).

We do add `ArchiveBox/v0.x.x` to the user agent for all requests by default + push URLs to Archive.org. So in theory someone at Archive.org could look in their server logs for that string and get a pretty good idea of the daily activity (at least for users with default settings). I've asked them a few times in person to run that search but never gotten a follow-up. They're probably very busy and it's just for curiosity, but it would be nice to know someday!

The only other metrics we have as of 2024/01:

- ~5m Docker Hub image pulls

- ~17k Github Stars

- ~1k issues and PRs, 100+ contributors

- ~1k browser extension users
From my experience, many Tesla fans don’t agree with Elon and that is okay with them.
Distances to the VA can be far for many. It can be extremely difficult to be seen by another facility/provider. It can be difficult to get/use your benefits in general. PPOs are basically the same type of restrictions, only the facilities tend to be held to higher state standards.
It may well be the case that Israel has a vested interest in discrediting the UN, but it's also pretty clear that the UN doesn't have much of an interest in establishing its own credibility. The Human Rights Council includes military dictatorships and countries responsible for unquestioned genocides. It has had a standing agenda item ("Item 7") regarding Palestine and the "occupied Arab territories"; Israel is the only country to receive such attention. The Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesa Albanese, has accused the US and Europe of being "subjugated by the Jewish lobby". The UN itself sponsors several organizations dedicated to the Israel/Palestine conflict, despite drastically more severe human rights issues elsewhere on the globe.

None of this is to defend any of the Netanyahu administrations actions in Gaza. I think these discussions on HN are largely cursed, and nobody is going to persuade anybody to "switch sides". You don't have to agree that the UN is, as Israel's supporters would say, so clearly biased against Israel as to be fatal to their credibility. But I don't think you can dismiss the charge easily. If you dig in, you're going to read some uncomfortable stuff.
http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...
Companies structure their relationships with Microsoft in detailed contracts, which specify what data Microsoft’s corporate staff can access, and why, and what the penalties are for violating the contract.

These contracts are extremely lucrative and extremely detailed. Microsoft applies a business analysis to each one of them. If they determine it’s more financially beneficial to abide by the contract, they will.

There is zero “blind trust” involved, on either side. Where there is trust, it has been earned. And it can be burned.