skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we follow @mah’s interpretation, we get “if everything is important, nothing is”, which makes sense in the same way it makes with “bold”.

Our quest for “meaning” is a quest for what is important to us that we also have some agency in.
There's a difference.

CCTV footages aren't used for profit and it will not be published to the public.

Brendan's live video is used for profit and is published for everyone to see.
Show HN: We're working on a startup to reduce space debris
The Kessler Syndrome (aka the Kessler Effect) posits that space debris colliding with other space debris could render satellite operation, let alone space exploration, very difficult, if not downright dangerous.

The mission of our startup is to get a handle on this problem right now by operating continuously (and autonomously) to decommission old satellites and remove debris chunks. We have an advantage over our competitors in that we won't run expensive "expendable" missions but instead stay up and clean up.

https://cleansat.co.uk/

As always, HN, your feedback, questions, comments are welcome and appreciated!
Great article, loved it.

>For the ASCII encoding mode

What's this encoding mode? There's no mention of an ASCII "encoding mode" in the rest of the article. wtf? Did you mean "bytes"?

>bytes case

Suppose it's not bytes, but any of the other modes. How do we read these?

>The error correction is generated by some fancy math, and we don't care about it

Please include error correction. Even if reading by hand, I want to know if I read properly! For that, I need to calculate the error correction.

Even just saying "there's a CRC-32/ISO-HDLC here" is better than saying nothing. I understand CRC is outside the scope of the article.
Do You Brag? [video]
There are a lot of things we can define with physics because they can be easily measured. The particular problem with intelligence it is a measure of systems complexity which is something us as humans are very bad at measuring. As far as I know all measures of intelligence we have are relative. That is one person/system is more intelligent than another. But there is no meaningful measure if how intelligent a system can be. That is, what is peak intelligence?
My experience is that, because of concerns around single-point supply chain failures, most good design operations try to use off-the-shelf components as much as possible, and only custom manufacture that which cannot be purchased externally and still achieve the desired performance. Fitment is one of the factors, but fitment is itself dictated by a lot of things (aesthetics, ergonomics, safety standards, etc etc) that factor into the overall design.

One could argue that Lamborghini could just drop a Ford Triton V10 into the Huracan and call it a day (it would save tens of thousands of dollars per car), but would that allow the rest of the car to still look like it does? Perform like it does?

Enshrining right-to-repair into law is, in my opinion, a pretty good way to make sure that field-repairability is factored into the design. But I don't think its productive to force manufacturers to use a particular design technique to achieve that requirement. That hobbles their ability to actually deliver on their design.
Avoiding Made in China is no longer popular idea, as we can see iPhone/Mac is a top brand. Avoiding Chinese brand is still a thing.
Probably a few more zeros on that 1000 to get to the spammy domains, and including those doing seo hijacking
> Severance Pay — We’ll offer a minimum 6 months of salary,

Well that actually does make it seem like it was something they wanted to avoid.

I might need to eat my hat https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957024
> You have been blocked

I've seen Firefox-only blocking at WSJ before. Today, when I visit their front page with Firefox, I see the same message you get.

But when I load the OP's article I see a white screen with the following page code behind it (ublock disabled).

<html><head><title>wsj.com</title><style>#cmsg{animation: A 1.5s;}@keyframes A{0%{opacity:0;}99%{opacity:0;}100%{opacity:1;}}</style></head><body style="margin:0"><p id="cmsg">Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker</p><script data-cfasync="false"> ... host':'geo.captcha-delivery.com'}</script><script data-cfasync="false" src="https://ct.captcha-delivery.com/c.js"></script></body></html>
E.g. engineered I-beams may contain particleboard which in general may contain formaldehyde in the binder; so you have to ask for formaldehyde -free wood.
> The poorest countries have the greatest percentage of plant-based food and, no surprise, they also have the shortest lifespans.

Are you suggesting it's because of plants and not because they're poor?

Instead of making ecological comparisons, you should ask the question of what the science shows within one population, like in prospective cohort studies. Does increased vegetable consumption correlate with better or worse health outcomes?

> Hostess Twinkees, Hohos, Ring Dings, etc. are all very good examples of plant-based food.

Sure, but that's not what people are talking about when they refer to plants in the context of health and nutrition.
> 3 days a week, you pick the days

This is the worst of all worlds.
Ha, I was thinking of that when I typed it. I agree though - I think many of the AGI boosters on HN would be very surprised by how little economic productivity increased thanks to computers and the Internet.
> You seem to be inverting cause and consequence: it's the websites who are annoying to the users, not the law.

No, I mean that the law could've been written in a way that makes giving consent less cumbersome for users. I agree with GP: if it had been a browser setting that websites _must_ comply with, like the abused and now dead DoNotTrack header, then we wouldn't have ended up with annoying consent forms to begin with. After all, it does make sense for this to be a global user preference, rather than something the user needs to consent to on each site. Even without getting into technical details, this should be evident to anyone.

I'm not aware of why this didn't happen, or why the DNT header was killed, but it wouldn't surprise me if the (ad)tech industry strongly lobbied against it, and won. The internet loves to criticize this oversight as incompetence from politicians, but politicians couldn't have elaborated the technical aspects of the law without IT consultants, and these surely understood what could be the implications. The fact they went with the consent form approach, and the fact this hasn't been rectified years later, is probably a sign that the tech industry still has considerable sway in regulatory matters.

But to blame this situation on the law itself, or the EU, is just delusional. I'm still happy it exists, warts and all.
Most people don't want to be start-ups. Media is overbiased towards leaders and makers. But the average person just wants to show up, get paid, and go home. They don't want to have to figure out how to constantly reinvent themselves to be marketable.
ML Engineering Online Book
IMO free software exists at the noise floor where the value of software fluctuates around zero. Give a large but finite number of bored monkeys typewriters and they'll eventually write a really great guide to swinging on vines. But they won't create King Lear.
The Itanic Saga: The History of VLIW and Itanium
It's hard for astute readers to read that far into something that is constantly telling them what they already know.
Any system of standards and testing can be gamed. It's better for the average person to better educate themselves on purchases. I don't know how realistic this is. Additional difficulty is added by the amount of (mis/dis)information available to consumers. Very few sources are trustworthy and your mileage may vary of course.

Adjacent to this issue is the broader issue that rampant capitalism encourages rampant buying of stuff - often stuff that we don't need, and surprisingly often stuff we don't even want. Think Gift Giving culture nowadays. With fewer things to purchase, more effort could go into the important purchases, I would think.
Yea, but at the end of the day, your software either has memory safety bugs or it does not. Presuming that the choice of language has the largest impact on this outcome is modern folly, I suspect.
Backlog tickets should have a cost range field and potential value range field.

Title: FizzBuzz copilot
Description: ...
Cost: $50,000-$150,000
Potential Value: $3000-$5000
All it takes is for one of the big firms to go on a big hiring spree and the others will follow.
I can definitely name a few in Seattle off the top of my head that don't accept cash. 2 because they stopped during covid and never started back up. One because of robberies and break ins, so they've stopped keeping cash on site as a deterrent.
It's just the difference between internal and displayed precision.

sqrt(2) ≈ 1.414213562373095048801

So if you type in sqrt(2) - 1.41421356237, you're just getting the next 10 digits after that.

1.414213562373095048801
- 1.41421356237
_________________________
0.000000000003095048801

= 3.095048801e12
Sorry, how did we get here from explaining the intuition behind _..._ denoting italics?
70. I've got a decade left
Gotta juice that stock price!
Their severance looks good, (6mo minimum, cash bonus, health insurance, computer, etc). Also, kinda weird to being referred as a bet.
> and store other ideas elsewhere.

Why? Why have two places for the same thing? It's just an awkward tagging system. When would you search this but not search tickets?

Alternatively, just don't write them down. If you don't get a benefit from keeping the idea, don't write it down.

Mid-option, I think linear does this by default, cancel backlog items older than X. Not been touched or moved? Probably not relevant. Plus you can always search through cancelled tickets.
It’s extremely hard to draw any conclusions from this. The Nordic cultural tendency to remain physically distant from strangers is so pervasive as to have been a meme long before COVID. You wouldn’t expect as strong a comparative effect between countries. Not to mention the general collectivist attitude which almost certainly yielded different baseline behaviors than, say, Florida’s culture did, regardless of top-down mandates.
Cash is a nuisance for a small business. You're going to lose/miscount some not-insignificant percentage, and spend a lot of time and effort counting and storing it.

The benefit of accepting cash is, besides there being no processing costs, is that it makes it really easy to... uhhhh, fudge your revenue numbers. I've had a few cash transactions where I ask for a receipt from the business and the owner scowls at me.

> Other then 6 million people across the united states cannot buy from your shop.

Depending on the type of business you run, I can almost assure you these customers are not going to be in your target demographic.
Sure, though most workloads will take a hit from this. Probably the right move but painful regardless.
Yes thank you. That was my underlying point without explicitly saying it.

That the borrow checker does not influence compilation and just determines if a program is valid or not.

Just like you can ignore the syntax checker of languages as long as you never give it incorrect syntax.

I guess my core concept is that you wouldn't do these things because they provide value. And that removing the rust borrow checker without restricting what programs you write does not make sense just like trying to pass incorrect syntax to a compiler with the syntax checker removed.

That to remove the borrow checker would still require you to still follow all the rules of the borrow checker! Now you just don't know if you did it correctly or not.
left join requires an `on` clause, which can feel out of place when doing it like this, but makes sense when you consider the parenthesized join to be a relation itself

c left join (
a left join b on a.a_id = b.a_id
) on c.a_id = a.a_id

The parenthesis syntax is also super useful when you want to left join to a group of tables that all need to inner join together:

a left join (
b inner join c
on b.b_id = c.b_id
inner join d
on c.c_id = d.c_id
inner join e
on d.e_id = e.e_id
)
on a.b_id = b.b_id

that way, the b/c/d relation is all or nothing instead of the possibility of get values from b but not c and d.
You can just use the web browser to watch Netflix
only so much time in the day/familiarity?
There are companies that hired distributed teams over the past few years. When everyone was remote, the geographic makeup of the team didn't matter. But now many of those same companies are forcing employees back "the office" which ends up being the employee's local office. Where they proceed to work remotely with their distributed team from "the office". They've badged in, they're in an official office space, but the actual mechanics of work are still just as remote as they ever were.
I do not believe Riot Games is publicly traded. Tencent do own a large stake however along with their stakes in other gaming companies
Popular as in “everyone is using it”, not necessarily “everyone is fond of it”. How did Jira become so popular? The dynamics that lead to such outcomes are interesting, but hardly unusual.
> Generally I see AAA studios churning out Boring Shooter: 2024 Q1 edition

This seems very selective. Shooters seem to take up a fairly small portion of released AAA games these days and it's easy to find AAA games that don't fit this at all. We all know about Zelda ToTK, Baldur's Gate III, Alan Wake II, Mario Bros. Wonder, Hi-fi Rush. All games that came out last year, are AAA games and take risks and don't fit what you criticize at all. We even had debates about Dave the Diver which is a game from a major studio, but kept getting falsely celebrated as a indy hit.

If anything the "boring shooters" like Cod and Medal of Honor are taking up less space these days. Fortnite might have started out as a shooter and is massive, but at this point it's hard to tell what it even is.
There is a lot of labor involved in counting and tracking cash in a retail business. You need to manage change, many businesses worry about cashiers stealing from the registers and thus have separate cash drawers for each cashier. Cash has to be secured against theft, you need to make deposits. All of this is much easier with electronic transactions.
Everyone is enjoying the ongoing industry-wide wage suppression too much to want to jump back into rapid talent acquisition just yet
I'm not sure what you're objecting to: it can be a nominative complement and and a perfect active adjectival participle.
I don't know how accurate this release is, but on its face it seems very generous.
Got a source for that? They’re a private company, unless you have access to non-public financial info it seems like you’re just making an assumption.
PASV works around some but not all NAT breakage. There are things FTP can do outside a NAT that it can't do with a NAT around. (Workarounds can be concocted, but NAT really did take away some of the natural abilities of FTP.)
It's a decent severance package, honestly.

But, as usual,

> As CEO, I’m accountable for the changes we’re making and where we’re headed in the future. So, I think it’s important for me to share how we got here and how the next few days will work.

I see no indication as to how Dylan will actually be held accountable for the decisions that ultimately led to this.
Well, the product isn't shipping yet.

Most of the "apps" seem to be just watching video on the thing. It's mostly a desktop screen you can wear. There are only three apps listed that actually use VR/AR - What's the Golf, Super Fruit Ninja, and something called Game Room.[1]

It's still too clunky for wide use, like the last round of VR gear. Carmack wrote, after the Oculus debacle, that these things need to get down to swim goggle size to get any traction, and down to eyeglass size to go mainstream. He's probably not wrong.

I was expecting Apple to come up with something closer to the eyeglass form factor if they got into this area. Something like NReal's product in form factor, but higher resolution.[2] NReal's glasses look more like an Apple product than the actual Apple product.

[1] https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/01/22/apple-vision-pro-ap...

[2] https://us.shop.xreal.com/products/xreal-air
Assuming teachers were in class teaching when this occurred.

What do teachers use their phones for during class that they would have noticed this?

Genuinely intrigued as you never caught a teacher on their mobile phone in class when I was in school.
The majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. On average, American's may have sixth months of savings, but that is due to the long tail of wealth distribution. Only about 1 out of 4 of them actually have six months or more of savings.
> Most people don't want to be start-ups

Most people don’t want to do work. The point is there will be terrific surpluses generated at every level of society. That gives those people choices. In some societies, they’ll horde it. But in resilient ones, they’ll recognise the long-term collective interest in ensuring everyone who can make does.
Whose, Tencent?
Their ham-fisted linking of facebook and instagram accounts has been an absolute nightmare for those of us that use their messenger apis. It has never fully worked correctly, and has led to more lost dev time than I care to count. I can't even begin to imagine how much worse this is going to make it.
One could say that the choice of buying over repairing was a wash.
> what is your result, and interpretation of it?

that the square root of 2 is not 1.41421356237.
I was about to say that this would be illegal in Australia, but I'm wrong. There is no law against a business refusing to accept cash for goods and services:

https://www.accc.gov.au/business/selling-products-and-servic...
SpaceX is already functionally a monopoly at 92% of Western launches with the remaining 8% being heavily subsidised holdouts or VC-subsidised challengers. I strongly, strongly doubt SpaceX will ever face any regulatory scrutiny over that monopoly status in a location where it matters (the US), because SpaceX is the entire reason that the US is currently outcompeting China in space. The US isn't going to fuck with their golden goose, and they don't care if that really sucks for Arianespace et al. The EU could go after SpaceX for antitrust reasons, but SpaceX doesn't have European offices so they can just say no and not do business with the EU. SpaceX can afford to lose European commercial launches, the EU would lose access to by far the cheapest way to get into space (which they might do, to be clear, because getting into space is great but not critical for them). SpaceX isn't a company like Microsoft where they have a lot of employees in EU jurisdiction and need to do business with the EU for their business to be healthy.
Thanks for taking the time to provide an explanation. This also helps me contextualize some of the interpersonal friction I've had with Austrians as well. I'm very informal and American and consciously attempt to treat those around me as peers.
"To all the Rioters who are being laid off"

imagine if a retained CEO's layoff statement resulted in actual rioters
The link between animal protein was investigated in some detail in the China Study. Also in the documentary Forks Over Knives. Evidence found that there were “diseases of the west” that correlated with the western diet. Since then, the Cleveland Clinic has used plant-based diets to reverse heart disease successfully. Other programs use it reverse heart disease.

The book How Not to Die covers many of the top killer diseases in the US and what food are best and worst to eat to avoid those fates based on reviews of scientific literature. The trend thoughtout is that plant-based diets fare best. Not surprising that this correlates with Blue Zone diets.

The book Fiber Fueled looks the science of gut health and what foods are best for gut health. The answer: a variety of plant foods.

As a study size of one, I’ve personally been able to recover quickly enough to do 6 26.2+ mile runs in six months in my forties. I think that would difficult and injury prone on a high-inflammation diet.
> but just because every node has an edge does not invalidate the use of edges

Not necessarily, but every edge has a value, and when we have so many edges to explore, it becomes difficult to assign value correctly to them - to know which connections are relevant and which aren’t, which connections express actual relationships and which are nothing more than coincidences, artifacts of a limited connection space.
I am more interested in the (old) rumors of a big 384 EU graphics processor:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/More-details-on-the-2024-Intel...

I am not up-to-date on Arc's architecture, but I am hoping that is in M Pro/256 bit memory bus territory. Big enough to run/finetune generative AI (especially with Intel's many own contributions to inference engines) with sufficient speed and plenty of RAM.
The stage we are waiting for is lease and tax agreement expiry.
They are usually filed electronically to FinCEN now, who's namesake is crime enforcement rather than revenue collection.
Accountable... to the board, who are loving the efficiencies.

Who's upset with this CEO's actions besides the families affected by it, who have no power individually over anything to hold him accountable? They're his capital resources. Executives aren't accountable to that.
Another take: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/we-are-witnessing-...
How do you join a team without talking to anyone?
since when does any company gaf about employees? this is 2024. theyre al sociopath and completely chaotic and random in their firing and hiring/
> All 1Billion of them

Fun fact, most companies don't have 1 Billion customers. Most don't even have 1000. They can have large data due to the subjects they may work on but that data tends to be accessed sparsely(i.e. a SaaS that provides KYC products to 10 regional banks).

Google, Netflix and the few other exceptions probably should stick with the traditional stuff for now but there's a huge number of companies that just don't need those hugely scalable systems and sacrifice flexibility and/or spend resources on problems they don't have.
I feel like shadows are the "simple tech" path. It was known since ancient times you can get the circumference of the Earth (remarkably accurately) by doing some calculations based on the angles of shadows from the mid-day sun at two points sufficiently north/south from each other (a fantastic application of trig). Knowing the circumference of the Earth and these angles lets you know the diameter/radius as well which lets you create a "straight line" distance (i.e. not the over the surface distance) between those two points. Using those two points and known angles to construct a triangle with the Sun should let you see it is at least extraordinarily far away, even if your measurements are relatively innacurate.
> The Wall Street Journal noted that Rollins, the integrity officer, is also a co-author on two of the studies. He told the outlet he is recused from decisions involving those studies.

Yikes.
Why wouldn’t they want to be as profitable as possible? They aren’t a charity.
while there is always a risk of regulatory capture—which i abhor, the current imperfect system is better than no system.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/we-are-witnessing-...
the sounds aren’t read directly from the rom - the buffer is in a fixed place in ram, and sounds from the rom get copied into there

remember that it’s not like the music is just there as raw audio, the raw audio is just the sounds of the different instruments