skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the recommendation. I write about animal intelligence and will be keen to pick that one up.

The molecular basis of circadian rhythm has been studied in fruit flies. Every cell has a chemical clock which adjusts for a range of temperatures. They found that calorie restriction and cold temperature extends the life span of fruit flies. But if you alter the DNA of their circadian clock those lifespan increases do not happen.
I actually switched from Thinkpads to a Legion 7 2021 and I'd recommend them over Thinkpads. It is by far the best Linux experience on a Laptop I've ever had.

* upgradable RAM

* two NVMe slots

* actually good keyboard (that unfortunately is part of the case, but replacement parts are available)

* the glass touchpad is better than my P14s with the X1C glass touchpad mod.

* the panel and refresh rate is very good and there's no lottery.

I don't know why Lenovo cuts corners on their business laptops, especially in the last two points.

It's heavy, but I don't lug it around too often, and having a 140W (max power spec) 3070 is great.

Just avoid placing them vertically on a stand, I had to replace the thermal assembly eventually.
Seems like France has one of the highest total fertility rates in the developed world. Nearly twice as high as South Korea. (1.7 vs 0.9 birth per woman, with 2.1 as the population replacement level). If any country is too far down the population implosion road, it would seem to be South Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer...
Your question is disingenuous IMO. Physical property is about physical things, not thoughts. "Intellectual property" is literally about thoughts and work based on them - it's in the name.
This is the first model that I’ve noticed offers the one feature that I am really looking for in a laptop: an integrated keyboard and the included screen at eye level.

Sure, that one has a first screen where the screen usually is (next to the keyboard), and that’s certainly useful. However, the possibility of not straining my neck is by far where most laptops fail. That’s why so many people use either one of those stands and separate keyboard, or a whole different screen and close and plug their laptop into a desk setup: better keyboard, sure, but it helps less than a well-positioned one; bigger screen, not sure that counts when you want to focus.

I use a separate screen from time to time (for presentation, I either need a separate viewing angle or some remote screen sharing like Zoom works better that way). However, I initially bought those to set them up higher while traveling, and it’s practically impossible to do without a heavy stand. Hotel rooms or café tables don’t have the support I need.

This model could. I’m very excited.

Let’s hope the screens are light enough, the base heavy enough and the hinges sturdy enough to hold it all upright.
I don't think it's an optimization, for that you would typically use non-temporal instructions which avoid polluting cache with one-off accesses.
Fauci himself admitted last week that a lot of the policies he pushed for had no science to back them up. “They just kind of appeared” to paraphrase him. However when he was challenged on the science of those policies during that time, he called it “an attack against science.”

No wonder no one trusts the government anymore.
no there is literally none if you earn more than the lower middle class. if you poor yes you have lot of benefits
This is true until today, on a global scale. Mining and other resource production tends to kill people and create horrible lunar landscapes. I grew up in a rust belt city myself.

It is also somewhat nationality-agnostic. Coal miners in Merthyr Tydfil weren't any less exploited than coffee gatherers of Ghana.
Not too interested in this as a Windows machine, but if it runs Linux well (which it seems like it should, being Intel with no dGPU) it’d be a neat Linux machine.
When traveling recently I’ve used a 12.9” iPad in Sidecar mode with a 16” M1 Pro MBP and the combo is quite good. Will be interesting to see if having both screens integrated yields a significant advantage over having the two seaprate.
> If ads and sales are on the same continuum, then the world's best salespeople are engineers, data scientists, and product managers.

I stumbled over that sentence. I genuinely don’t understand what this means in context. Can someone explain the metaphor and/or the point that’s being made here?
Ok but, for example, Boeing has recently come under fire for poor quality control, which people are blaming on management decisions taking power away from technical experts.

And the enormous Millennium Tower in San Francisco is sinking and tilting.

So it's not unique to software.
Does anyone know anything about James Radford (James Radford - Jim Radford developed Special Purpose Devices that solved intractable analytic problems, often by enhancing the performance of supercomputers by a factor of hundreds)?

I found that super interesting but couldn't find anything online about him, not even the era (Cold War, 911, recent). If anyone has any links or literature about things he did I would very much appreciate it.
Not everywhere in Europe. Not in the UK for example.

There is legal accountability though, and a much better understanding of who can be held to blame for what. Software suppliers are pretty much immune to consequences of carelessness.

However, I think the real problem is that software is far more complex than a bridge or a building. IT system have complex hardware (far more complex than any mechanical device) running even more complex software (counting all the layers from OS up). On top of that people (meaning users/buyers) have no idea how to evaluate safety/reliability/security and mostly seem to regard it as a nice to have to be traded off against other nice to haves, not an essential baseline.

Once its implement everyone assumes the computer must be right, and acts accordingly. The presumption that computers are right is even enshrined in UK law (the intent was to stop people getting out of things like speeding tickets by claiming speed cameras where faulty) but I think everyone has come across situations where the final word on a dispute was "the computer says so".
So you have arbitrarily decided on units, such as bees and dogs. But perhaps it is an error to consider a singular bee as an arbitrary unit. What if we consider the entire hive/swarm as a unified organism? What would our results be then? What about considering individual cells of a dog instead of that whole dog? Wouldn't that tend to skew your results unfairly?
That particular feature is a Windows feature, though there's no reason you theoretically couldn't do something similar on another OS.
It's not clear to me that he means only Modula-2 and Oberon when he says 'modular languages', especially as just in the previous paragraph he says: '...stopped caring much for purely modular languages, including Ada as it was then'
> Interestingly, because /bin/sh sets $SHELL, fish doesn’t change that value, so my fish shell reports /bin/sh as the value for $SHELL

Fish actually doesn’t write to (or directly use?) $SHELL at all, as it doesn’t consider it part of the shell’s contract to do so. At least if I’m not misremembering.
Not really on topic but

I mean I would usually go with NextJS since it just works so well with Vercel, providing a really convincing, complete solution.

But I will check out Vite nonetheless, curious how it fares against it...
The increase in slope at 1850 onwards corresponds to the start of the British Raj rule, when about a trillion dollars of wealth was transferred. India went from 23% of global GDP to under 3% during this period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India_under_the_Bri...
People may say they want kids but their actions say another thing. I always get a chuckle out of seeing right wing people talking confidently about how they could increase birth rates.
The majority of our healthcare research, logistics, and environmental advancements, and most other aspects of 21st-century living can be switched over to alternative technologies that do not require computers. The main thing we will definitely lose is social media, which many people would be glad to see removed from our lives, as it provides shallow and addictive dopamine hits, much like cigarettes, while diminishing the amount of time left in the day that people get to spend together in person.

Moving to non-computer-based technological alternatives takes significant cleverness. The engineers of the analog electronics era were geniuses compared to us today, and we can re-attain that lost level of skill. I welcome the challenge.
"So the conclusion is that one of the things wealthy elites tend to do when given the opportunity doesn't serve their nation, but at most themselves. Which is not really groundbreaking after two world wars."

It nevertheless makes sense to study the exceptions, because these exceptions made a difference.
> You're just mirroring the parent example. Prior to AI (or even computers), this was a problem.

Not at all, and your argument isn't the same thing.

The problem with current AI, which is very different from past forms of automation, is that, essentially, its failure mode is undefined. Past forms of automation, for example, did not "hallucinate" seemingly correct but false answers. Even taking your own example, it was obvious to your colleagues that they didn't know how to get the answer. So they did the correct thing - they went to someone who knew how to do it. What they did not do, and which is what most current AI solutions will do, is just "wing it" with a solution that is wrong but looks correct to those without more expertise.
In Europe, most Euro 6 diesel engines have have heaters as they are so efficient, they do not heat up fast enough for the coolant to flow properly.
Yeah, that's a pretty bold claim. I almost stopped reading their otherwise valid post when I saw that.
Yeah, I would be cool with people just posting pages of their favorite links again, maybe separated by topic, almost like the ancient web catalogs before Google.

It doesn't need to have every link under the sun, just whatever the author thinks is worth sharing.

I know I sometimes see that with text links in a basic github project with a readme file, and that's nice, but I wouldn't mind seeing it with a bit more visuals, like thumbnail previews at least.

I'm sure these things must exist out there somewhere, but I don't know how to find them anymore and haven't been recommended any in probably a decade or more at this point.
A lot of gaming doesn't really have the luxury of waiting for the oscillation to kick in, in order to then balance the system, though. By the time there's oscillation, it's already too late to fix, you need to preempt the oscillation.
California plan to store CO2 in old oil fields nears approval
Today’s richer nation plunder poorer nations through skilled migration. You may have heard of it as “brain drain” - the plunder of people who know modern science, and the techniques of industrial production.

Industrialised nations maintain their place in the world by having other, poorer, countries subsidise the raising and training of doctors, nurses, engineers and accountants.
I am honestly surprised that they are making these "small" cuts when there are other ways they could save money. For example, from what I can read of the earnings statements, Verily has produced little to no revenue and hasn't really grown significantly over the past decade, while delivering a stream of not really impressive press releases. This seems like a great time to write off Verily by closing it. Similarly, Google X. It can't be cheap to run X and it really doesn't deliver much (also a steady stream of not really impressive press releases) and has some truly kooky off-brand research project (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231117120649.h...)

Going further, I personally would like to see Google Cloud spun off to its own Alphabet company so that Kurian can run it like AWS/Oracle, and:
shut down Wing (I thought it was already, but it's not clear), Fiber (yes, it will piss some folks off), and Calico (larry can fund his own immortality projects). Sell off a bunch of real estate.
Basically: The ones who are healthy enough to take care of others prefer to stay at home (where they often take care of a spouse).
At least processing scanned 1D barcodes at resolutions of 200-300 DPI can be surprisingly hard. After deskewing the tolerances of a traditional EAN barcode are always violated due to aliasing in the image.

Probably a HID scanner has the advantage of a better spatial (horizontal) resolution?
An acquaintance of my second cousin has experimented with SingleFile CLI (https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli) and she reports it works great (it is rather heavyweight because it does invoke headless Chromium or even Firefox if you set it up right).
Would it be fair to observe at this point that reading a sarcastic and contemptuous paragraph about how I should be more open minded about casual racism in my sociological fluff pieces is creating a bit of cognitive dissonance for me?

For anyone wondering, the paragraph in question is: "It wasn’t just the spaces that were homogenous, but also the customers, Gonzalez observed: “If you go into the cafes, they’re predominantly white. But [Kloof Street] is historically a neighbourhood for people of colour.” Only certain types of people were encouraged to feel comfortable in the zone of AirSpace, and others were actively filtered out. It required money and a certain fluency for someone to be comfortable with the characteristic act of plunking down a laptop on one of the generic cafes’ broad tables and sitting there for hours, akin to learning the unspoken etiquette of a cocktail bar in a luxury hotel. The AirSpace cafes 'are oppressive, in the sense that they are exclusive and expensive', Gonzalez said. When whiteness and wealth are posed as the norm, a kind of force field of aesthetics and ideology keeps out anyone who does not fit the template." No support is given for any of the gross generalizations made, and they go unchallenged by the journalist. Does this lend credence to the rest of the article?
Beyond backup: Independent mirror boosts software resilience
Writing your PID controller is a few minutes work. Tuning your PID controller is a day job. Most people just don't actually make it their day job =D
> But I will check out Vite nonetheless, curious how it fares against it...

It is 100x better. :)
No, heroin is not "openly accessible". Massive corporations are not profiting off pushing heroin.

You'd see a massive increase in heroin use if it was fully legal. And that's not a good thing jn any possible way.
The government prefers W2 workers because their taxes are automatically withheld by their employer, creating a predictable revenue stream for the IRS and decreasing the risk of tax avoidance (including accidental avoidance, like when a worker fails to save money for taxes).

Beyond simple monetary risks, a citizenry of 1099 workers poses a threat to government power, because the citizens can collectively choose to withhold their taxes. When taxes become a tool for collective bargaining, government revenue can fluctuate at the whim of social movements.

Imagine a population of 1099 workers where half of the electorate refuses to pay taxes in order to protest the policies of the government in power.
Progress in AI is one way. It doesn’t go backwards in the long term.

Not necessarily. AI has gone through a winter before.

Elon Musk has made this point, that progress isn't a monotonic ratchet. Progress in rocketry went backwards for years. Progress in top speed of commercial flight went backwards. Keeping current tech levels requires constant effort.

In the software industry, many argue that UI quality went backwards with the shift to web apps for an example of cases where progress isn't obviously one way.
Kagi update and outage post-mortem
Not the greatest analogy I've ever come across.

Take a bicycle instead, and watch in awe how simple it is designed, yet how far it gets you ...
This my voice controlled robot: https://github.com/atomic14/voice-controlled-robot

It does left, right, forward and backward. That was pretty much all I could fit in the model.

And here’s wake word detection: https://github.com/atomic14/diy-alexa

It does local wake word detection on device.
So what we already knew, IPFS is a slightly better torrent.
Thanks. Let me be more specific. The ESP32 included WiFi on the same chip. Is there an MCU with on-chip features for AI? Perhaps an optimized TPU combined with an MCU. Would that be an advantage?
Yup it's a very straightforward concept (notice how my post contained nothing false, emotional, or bigoted), and yet it gets downvoted by a sect of people who simply cannot allow "this type" of free speech to exist.
We add humans. Not much but it's something.
1729 (Number)
By and large, the rest of the industry doesn't follow Apple. They copy specific features or hardware cues, but Apple doesn't leave anything for third-party OEMs to use in the first place. You can't integrate with iMessage, you can't implement AirDrop, and Quick Pairing/Find My is off-limits until you pay licensing fees. Lightning replaces USB with a licensed alternative, and third-parties have to apply for MFi, neither of which is commonplace in the greater smartphone market.

The fact that laptops got thinner over time is not evidence that the industry deliberately follows Apple. It's evidence that technology gets smaller, a fundamental observation made 10 years before Apple Inc. was incorporated.
A previous employer (regional healthcare system) did exactly that: staff used their badges (along with another authentication factor, IIRC) to pull up their VDI instance on any client. This was just being rolled out ~8 years ago.
How about this. I'll spend a hour writing a virus if your anti-virus picks it up, I'll keep it.
Wonder if there are other factors at play here. Regardless, more power to him.
Unless the value of the company is based on one product with alleged copyright infringement.

OpenAI has one asset: GPT.

>Commercial use does not automatically make the use copyright infringement, but it is an important deciding factor.

https://saltiellawgroup.com/2021/10/%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bcan-yo...
> selling industrial products to willing customers

Like opium.
Ask HN: Best API to check for scam/phishing/spam domains?
I'm building an app where the user has to input a domain as part of one of our user flows. For safety/security reasons, I want to integrate with an API that can check if the domain that the user has input is scammy, spammy, or contains other malicious content. I was looking into Scamadviser (https://www.scamadviser.com/scamadviser-api), but does anyone have recommendations for any other potential APIs or tools?
yes, it is! i still use it on my own website.
I think this a fascinating, yet unsurprising finding. We’ve known for a long time that automation leads to skillset atrophy on the part of the user. Perhaps most famously, in aviation where some automated systems make complicated procedures so easy that pilots effectively lose the skills to do the proper procedure themselves.

The discussions I hope are happening is the prospect of intentional capability limits of AI in critical industries/areas where humans must absolutely and always intervene. It seems analogous to having a superpower without knowing how to control it, creating a potentially deadly situation at best.

Then perhaps more long term at the generational scale, will humans cognitively devolve to a point where AI is making all of our decisions for us? Essentially we make ourselves obsolete and eventually we’re reclassified as “regular/inferior” species of animals. Profit and return on investments here cannot get in the way of handling these details with great oversight and responsibly.
> Google search worked better in a world without Google search.

Oooh, I really like that. Very succinct and topical statement of Goodhart's Law.
Linking the latest generation tech to the previous generations is actually really helpful from my perspective.

All of the terminology for this tech is still emerging, and it can be quite difficult to formulate a reliable mental model for any of it due to how quickly it’s changing.

If hammers were more difficult to understand, I could imagine someone writing about the fact that hammers are in fact, just a piece of steel mounted on a handle made of wood.

> Neural networks are generic enough that you can make them equivalent to almost everything.

Which to me is why papers like this are useful. They help newcomers conceptualize what the latest <popular architecture> is actually made of in terms of <a bit older concept> that the reader may already understand.

It will take some time for this information space to stabilize.
If they fired Musk, he would wage a never-ending scorched earth campaign against Tesla, and as an executive he definitely has access to a lot of internal information that would allow him to inflict a ton of damage. At this point their only practical choice is to maintain the status quo by submitting to his demands.
YouTube had this same issue for years to the point where various creators had scripts they would run constantly to clean the spam out of their video comments using very simple filters. It's amazing the apathy that big tech companies have to this sort of problem.

Wonder why HN doesn't have the same spam problem? Because Dang actually cares about the site's content quality and not about quarterly user growth :)
Eh, the term "hipster" itself has been through the laundry at least once; the last iteration became "hippies"
> What you probably get is a LLM that can perfectly understand well written text as you might find on Wikipedia, but which would struggle severely with colloquial language of the kind found on Reddit and Twitter.

Great. Let's do that then. No good reason to volunteer it for a lobotomy.
I assumed they were just using near-zero interest rates to make bets on future growth/start all the projects they could/vacuum up all the workers they could and they always planned to scale down if the economy pushed them to?
That's what I always tell at work.
Paywall. Anybody got an archive link?
Step 0: stop writing code that consumes JSON and distinguishes between "key not present" and "key present with value null"
It really isn't unavoidable on macOS. @rpath is designed specifically to handle this sort of thing, and is how all the command line tools distributed with Xcode link to libraries embedded in Xcode and continue working even when you drag Xcode to a new location.

Admittedly supporting that would require updating how all the tools are built and not just defaulting to Whatever Linux Does™, which is probably too much effort to justify in this case, but it is hardly an unsolvable (or even an unsolved) problem.
From the article:
"consultants using AI were significantly more productive (they completed 12.2% more tasks on average, and completed task 25.1% more quickly), and produced significantly higher quality results (more than 40% higher quality compared to a control group)."
The first reference in the article has the working out.

https://plus.maths.org/content/mysterious-number-6174
> We don't need to kill it. Just pay your dang labor.

> But if we are treating proper compensation as stifling technology, I'm not surprised people are against it.

That's just it, nobody looking to get paid by OpenAI actually did any labor for OpenAI. They did labor for other reasons, and were happy with it.

OpenAI found a way to benefit by learning from these images. The same way that every artist on the planet benefits by learning from the images of their fellow artists. OpenAI just uses technology to do it much more efficiently.

This has never been considered labor in the past. We've never asked artists to "properly compensate" each other for learning/inspiration in the past. I don't know why it should be considered labor or proper compensation now.

But we shall see what the courts decide!