skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Making progress is conceived of as "upwards" movement.

Same concept exists in brazilian portuguese, at least in certain circles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porglish

> Upar or uppar

> to up (on a level; slang term used for RPG games by Brazilian players, instead of Port. evoluir)

> to upload (instead of rarely used Port. subir – the opposite of baixar, the literal translation of download)
> leading to overcomplication and obscurantism

Mathematicians attempt to express ideas in the most readable and clear way possible.

It's actually code that must be obfuscated by the constraints of the language and computer. Mathematicians have no constraints preventing them from presenting something in the way that makes the most sense.

The part that can be called "Obscurantism" is when they use a high-level abstraction you are unfamiliar with. This is mostly driven by the audience.

> Indeed, 99% of pure math is non-constructive

Citation needed?

> the algorithm converges in O(N) steps

That doesn't sound non-constructive. Even the group example is usually done by constructing such a group.

Also the best part about math is you can use it to approach the problems you want with constraints you want. Knuth uses math to solve real CS problems.
The author does not even attempt to analyze the safety impact of removing the second stair. The only evidence they provide is that Western Europe has fewer fire deaths than the US. Which suggests that perhaps the US should be increasing fire safety standards rather than removing them…
Perhaps this might be the first great use-case of AI - stopping people from doing inappropriate harassment..
What's the definition of "sexually harassed"? Does it include being spammed with some form of sexual content? That would inflate the numbers.
> The thing about PaaS is you really have to do your research.

I find this true of pretty much all modern cloud development. So many people want to just pretend it’s another VPS alternative and are shocked that their misuse leads to high monthly bills. You need different patterns to take advantage of the strengths of PaaS cloud services and to avoid the weaknesses and gotchas. I PaaS all of the things that I can and my maintenance and support efforts have never been lower. My services scale to zero and I only pay for actual utilization.

If you’re standing up a lot of VMs in the cloud and pretending it’s just another data center of course you’re going to have a bad time and waste money.
> I don’t know what a “physical email” is

Sorry, it's embarrassingly my bad. I meant physical mail/postal mail/snail mail.

> The US is a federation of fifty states so photo ID cards are issued at the state level, similar to how your national ID in Europe will be issued by Spain or Estonia rather than the EU itself

I would argue against this. The EU is a continental union[1] and not the same as the US [2]. All european countries are fully soverign states (unlike US states) and most of them are unitary. A few of the EU/European states are federal states/governments, like the US. So I think it'd be more correct to compare the US with Germany, Switzerland
or Spain. EU would be something more similar to African Union. And there's also an upcoming EU-ID project [3].

About the US "E-government" (and I'm don't even compare it to systems like Estonia's, but) the problems you described sounds like bad system design and lack of identification.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_union
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation#Contemporary
[3]: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...
It’s a protocol, not an implementation. If you say your implementation of the protocol says objects are defined by their hash, then your implementation can also assert that the hash of the retrieved file matches the hash you looked it up with^ (which you should do in your library/app regardless of what the protocol says will be returned, though ideally your protocol would define some sort of merkle tree or whatever to verify the hash piecemeal).

^ which you, by definition, already have
Because whoever works there can use that data to more effectively and efficiently carry out their work. How is this even a serious question? Not everything is about headcount.
I was in my late 20s at the time and had graduated from a well-known engineering school. They ask everyone, even tenured professors...

It was also the single highest-density pool of talent that I've ever worked with, then or since. Our office manager had a PhD from Colgate.
Better not to use anything Meta, this company better dies, once and for all.
>> The ‘Foundation Series‘ is what I’m starting with. It’s for adults to help streamline learning (it skips the stuff that kids need, but adults don’t) and work back up through college-level math relatively quickly (emphasis on relatively ).

I'm curious to know what 'stuff' he's referring to. And what about it makes it such that kids need it but adults don't. And if that's true, are we SURE kids need it?

I had horrible math teachers growing up and always thought "I just don't have the 'math gene'." I eventually disabused myself of that thought and set out on my own (re)learning journey. Could it have been less arduous had I skipped the stuff I didn't need to know because I was an adult?
These are great operational wins. Agreed very much that having autonomic (can fix itself) systems at your back is a massive game changer. De-crustifies the act of running things.

The other win is that there's a substantial cultural base to this way to go. Folks have been doing selfhosting for ages, but everyone has their own boutique setup some their way. A couple tools and techniques could be shared, but mostly everyone took blank slate configs & built their own system up, & added their own monitoring & operational scripts.

https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops is a set of helm scripts and other tools that is widely widely used, and there's a lot more like it. It's a huge build out, using convention and a common platform to enable portable knowledge & sharing.

Self hosting did not have intellectual scale out at it's back, before Kubernetes came along. Docker and ansible and others have been around, but theres never been remotely the success there has been today in empowering users to setup & run complex services.

We really have clawed out of the server-hugging jungle &started building some villages. It's wonderful to see.
Can OP now understand the decoder architecture? I would be interested in a follow-up post.
I separate emissions reductions tech, such as fitted to power stations, from atmospheric carbon capture. Filtering emissions at source makes sense, and is nothing new. Lets do more of that and better, and I will have no problem with carbon neutral natural gas power if someone can get that to work. Trying to suck carbon out of the atmosphere though is a fools errand, and I do reflexively oppose that, because it has always been lies and propaganda. Large chunks of climate policy assume magic will happen, because technology will save us. But math and physics disagree.
I think the issue is that they could have taken steps to lower their rate, but didn't. There are steps even privacy-conscious companies can take.

Like it doesn't even have to be E2E messaging, they could check the birthday of people, train an LLM to differentiate appropriate vs inappropriate comments on children's Instagram posts, and use that to help surface problematic comments. They could bring up a popup asking any child to report the conversation which would be triggered by client-side javascript based on a hashed word list of words commonly used by groomers. They could warn the kids whenever they upload images to share directly in DMs rather than publicly on their insta or fb.

In a perfect world, the rate of grooming would be zero, but at Meta's scale, just creating even a little more friction that makes it harder to groom kids should be seen as worthwhile.
Japan, India, China has a big population and yet better on this.
Mislabeled and tainted RCs became enough of a risk when fentanyl and fentanyl analogs started gaining popularity that the guys I knew who were ordering from overseas just stopped messing with RCs. It's disappointing that it ended up like that. 2009-12 I had access to pure and dirt cheap 2C-E, methylone, 4-ACO-DMT, the JWHs, ketamine, methoxetamine, LSD (I don't think there were any analogs available yet?). It was a crazy time.
Seattle also allows for single stair multifamily. It hasn't been a problem for us yet.
Sure but you have to actually establish something first to pivot from. Declaring some half-baked idea and then not executing and then replacing that idea with some new half-baked idea is not actually pivoting. It's blathering. See:

"Facebooks Endless Pivots":

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/04/facebooks-endless-pivot-met...

Has Facebook as a business ever really pivoted from "social network advertising company?"
indeed, as I am aware. thats why I used the word liability instead just saying insurance.
Considering all the open models that already exist and are yet to be created before all the rulings and appeals are done, that toothpaste ain't going back in the tube.
Godot is free and does 2d and 3d.

I am not a game dev but there are a heap of YouTube/web based tutorials, free models and everything out there for you to get started with!!!!!

Good luck and enjoy the time with your kid
But not while carrying passengers.
Also interesting how Harappan Indus script is now partially deciphered. These developments are beginning to reveal much about the ancient world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOZ21f3DKs4
What's not covered in the diagrams you've provided are construction standards (for fire ratings) and also whether scissor stairs [0] satisfy the requirements for two staircases. These vary widely across the countries noted

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnC9ge6WQAAFd7p?format=png&name=...
It's a shame that VM86 mode wasn't able to be nested. I don't remember the specifics, but as I recall there are instructions that don't trap and prevent nesting VM86 within itself. I know Intel rectified this in later CPUs-- I believe that's the VT extensions.
Just got Bell 1.5Gpbs/940Mbps for 50$, no time limit. The base price was 90$, but got a big rebate because some salesman came to my house.
most likely there are no security issues in the code, but there could be potentially, see this link: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/81926

tldr: its possible for images to not really be images. Whenever you are getting user input, its usually best practice to always validate it "server side", in this case, the rust code, which is compiled machine code. An attacker could possibly upload a malicious "image" and if there are rust functions that operate on that data blindly, it could lead to a pwnage (ex. access to memory outside the browser/colorizer program)
I've talked to some Canonical interviewers and they all were perfectly nice. No "high school brag" vibe at all. I suspect people who wrote those long form questions and people who actually do the interviews are completely different departments and the latter have no much influence on the former.
Might go back to Wayland if it turns out the new support fixes the flickering I was experiencing in Excel.

But I've kinda grown attached to IceWM over the last few months...
I feel the need to write yes 50 times.
Concrete is probably not a great thing in much of the US for lower-rise buildings. Definitely not here in Oregon. And the fire suppression stuff is mandatory in multifamily housing anyway.
It could be a chat preview generator. Users DM links to some internal project pages in an chat tool and the tool fetches the page in the background in an attempt to render a preview.
To be entirely fair, the currency attempt was hampered by governments (predictable, maybe), and as for the metaverse... well he created something — technically it's impressive, commercially and in terms of product market fit, it's a flop.

I don't think they're done with the metaverse thing either, whether it will succeed, that's another question.
It was!

Just to be clear incase it isn’t the “xxxx” is a placeholder for what her name was - she was HR related.

Which is ironic as you would think HR would be polite.
With the first one we did that. She even had a compatibility layer to thanks presents fron Sante, Baby Jesus, Three Wise Men or whoever was sennding them via our relatives.

The second one got an overdose of YuoTube ad Netflix. Every kids program has a Santa special episode. And we had to choose between telling the true (and a week of sweeping) or just ignoring tricky questions.
Labels are freeing. Labels are also confining and limiting.
I saw her speak once at a technology and art conference and I remember getting the sense that much of what she was saying was hot air skillfully applied to draw in grants from companies who want to have partnerships with the prestigious brand of MIT.
> obviously some kind of security system

I don't know where the "security" bit comes from, but this is, to me, obviously web scrapping
It might actually, if a network connection is temporarily down.
Do you work at Epic or is this an external effort?
1. With the child's complete DNA or key markers, I bet we'll eventually have algorithms for DNA -> adult phenotype

2. With only parental or relative DNA, if we are able to gather an enormous amount of extra information -- social group, gym use, hobbies, dating circles (mate selection probably yields a huge amount of info!), profession, fashion purchase activity, etc. -- then I bet we can get pretty reasonable confidence intervals on a lot of physical characteristics. Height, eye color, eye distance, face shape, lip thickness, etc. etc. Perhaps even elements such as voice timbre, etc.

If we had their familial phenotypes, photos and phenotypes of all a person's dating history, then I bet that lets us cut the search space down tremendously. If we add music listening habits and hobbies, I bet we'd also be able to cut it down.

I'm hypothesizing that physical appearance might correlate from behaviors, social graph information, and limited DNA information. I have nothing to show for that, however. (I would love to read literature on this topic.)

I'd imagine that constructing such a predictive model would require an enormous amount of data. Facebook + 23andme could probably pull it off.
Life was not good for people who ate traditional diets. https://jacobin.com/2015/05/slow-food-artisanal-natural-pres...
That's basically what it is. There is nothing to learn from this post other than "smash that beta sign-up button".

Has anyone tried that course? Is it any good?
Yeah, this rage-inducing headline is completely unwarranted.
Most but not all vSphere SKUs are listed. Instead of having 30 different vSphere "products" they'll have a handful and do price differentiation in different ways.

Given that it's broadcom it's safe to assume that this won't be a good thing for vSphere customers, but VMWare's vSphere product line was pretty batshit insane and consolidating it seems sensible.
Yeah my first psychiatrist (who prescribed me citalopram vs depression/anxiety and methylphenidate vs symptoms of AD(H)D but only gave me GAD diagnosis) must've thought along that line. Cause he told me [paraphrasing] he could give me a lot more diagnoses which wouldn't help me. Well, I'd love to have known earlier in my life. Because all my pros and cons, my personality can be deducted to the root being ASD. Meanwhile, my cousin had asperger diagnosis and my mother told me that describes me as well. ASD runs in my family, in both sides.

Anyway, I firmly disagree. Self acceptance knowing you are wired differently and understanding aspects like Theory of Mind are a great opportunity to better function. The earlier the person learns to deal with these fundamentals (with which they likely WILL face issues with including in early childhood), the better.

Case in point: my 5 y.o. daughter just does not read her little brother's social cues. She cannot fathom he does not want X or Y.
I’m a thirty-something with an arts degree who decided to learn math. Basically I was tired of reading popular science and being fed metaphors to understand concepts. I wanted to “see” it for myself. I spent time online at Khan Academy and friends for a year or so on and off. It was fine but meandering?

So I enrolled in community college! It’s great. I have a clearer path, immediate feedback, teachers, and an obligation to do work that keeps me on it.

Ultimately my plan is to get enough transfer credits for university and spend this decade slowly working toward a bachelor of science in physics.
The tool might be good but there’s also strong selection bias due to its price.
> The channels promoted content that undermines the scientific consensus on climate change that human behaviour contributes to long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns, the report said.

I'm about as hardcore an environmentalist as they come, but I don't actually have a problem with this. Strong attempts to enforce a one-sided dialogue will only result in backlash and a sense of persecution of climate denialists, which will strengthen their beliefs. This is exactly what happened during COVID.

Platforms like Youtube should promote a free exchange of ideas, even wrong ones like climate denialism.
The Alpine acrobatics that make ski lift journeys safer
Somewhat misleading headline. They plan to release a paid version of Alexa AKA Alexa Plus using generative AI, but testing didn't go well and they are trying to rebuild it using LLM tech from the bottom up.
This is cheaper than lessons with a teacher, so it's hardly excessive. (Even if higher than other learning services)
Does anyone know how QEMM worked exactly? I thought all the tricks would be known by now but no other implementation comes close to it.
Investor Narrative, Not Goal.
Similar. I've done experiments with subgroups suggesting approximately a 2.5x speedup for sorting (using the WLMS technique of Onesweep). Binding arrays will be very helpful for rendering images in the compute shader. A caveat is that descriptor indexing is not supported on mid-old phones like Pixel 4, but it is on Pixel 6. I somewhat doubt device buffer address will be supported, as I think the security aspect is complicated (it resembles a raw pointer), but it's possible they'll figure out how to do it.
I've cloned and modified genes in eukaryotes. I think I know where to get started.
Amazing that in every other country in the world, generic drugs sell by the billions. The US health industry is the problem here.
I can’t get specific. Suffice it to say that we are working to recover from destructive pasts. Sometimes, we don’t succeed.
> technically it's impressive, commercially and in terms of product market fit, it's a flop.

I didn't know that. What parts are impressive? It seemed like VR Chat + Roblox to me, but I've barely seen anything.
Citizens United anniversary marks expensive start to 2024 election
They're understaffed because they cut headcount assuming that more data will help them to catch more 'bad guys' with fewer resources.

Part of the problem is that they don't employ enough people smart enough to use the data in mathematically and statistically accurate ways.

They only look at 'bad', and don't seem to have any realisation that there could be an offset for 'good', or at least 'not bad'. I'm strongly biased in this opinion having personally been on the end of police misinterpretation of data.

I was specifically told the following (by a Lead Investigator, not just a plod):

- Use of Mega is suspicious

- Having virtual machines is suspicious

- Having tor on your computer (their wording) is suspicious

Top of their fucking class they must have been.
This is basically an unsolicited ad post. It communicates nothing of substance and the entire thing amounts to "click the sign-up button". It doesn't even cover the course contents. How this makes it to the HN front page is mind-boggling. Goatse would at least be more entertaining.
hardware MMU & paravirtualization
First successful external liver perfusion using a porcine liver
The etymology of "Cheechako" is an interesting one, since it descends from Chinook Jargon (from the Columbia River Valley, originally) rather than (one might imagine) one of the native languages of Alaska or northern Canada.
> Meanwhile, let’s look at what happens when you do batteries properly:

> > By ten years of age, cars were down to 82.5% of the original capacity.

> https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/study-real-life-tesla-battery-d...

Yeah, a Tesla... I can only have one if I'm fiscally irresponsible or rich. Everything can be "done right" for enough money, but not done for everyone, EVs need to be for everyone. A Tesla can't compete with the economy of a 3k 2004 ICE car where you don't even have to think about range.
Show HN: Lightweight Productivity Tool
Hi HN!

I’m the founder of Zlinky (http://Zlinky.com).

Zlinky is an app that helps you save and organize your links and screenshots. We have worked hard to keep the app very simple. We also have a web version and a Chrome Extension.

I was inspired to build this app as I was struggling to find an easy way save / organize / revisit / connect ideas. I couldn't find an existing tool that was lightweight and purpose built.

I spend a LOT of time consuming content, and I felt that I wasn't being effective revisiting the highest quality content for work or personal purposes. My screenshots were also in a mess and that one important screenshot often got lost.

I learnt about building prosumer apps as the Co-Founder of ManageFlitter (RIP). We scaled ManageFlitter to over 4 million users. Eventually Twitter refused most of our most valuable features. The ManageFlitter story captures the crazy rollercoaster that was building on top of the public Twitter API.

Zlinky has a very generous free account that should be sufficient most users for a long period of time.

Would love to get your feedback, questions, and ideas. Thanks! :)

Kevin
The Questionable Value of the OpenAI GPT Store
What's happening is that some MiTM Palo Alto networks system is intercepting the HTML contents of the page, waiting a bit, and then rendering that HTML content again in old Chrome on a separate machine. It's like if you go to a authenticated page that only you can see, like https://news.ycombinator.com/flagged?id=aaron695, did "View Source", copy-and-paste that source into a HTML file, and then you send me the HTML file and I open the HTML file on my computer.
That /. thread was amazing. So many people trying to justify behavior that cleanly pointed to murder. Not every action by itself, but the combination of all of them: buying crime books, removing the seat, cleaning his car and there were more actions. But the slashdot technical community defended him until the moment he confessed.

It was really cringey.
The two stairways result in double-loaded hallways which also negatively impact unit sizes and make it impossible to have windows on more than one wall in most rooms. It's a total disaster
The flaw in your assumption is that perfect tech or tech powerhouses win. I mean, sure when they do, they win big; but the endgame for b2b SaaS is mostly M&A, powered by sales, which is mostly down to c-suite relationships and perception of being one among the market leaders ("nobody ever got fired for buying IBM").

If you can move fast, deliver, expand, and raise money, there's a good chance the AI wrapper lands a nice exit and/or morphs into a tech behemoth. Those outcomes (among others), even if mutually exclusive, are equally possible.
Hausdorff Dimension
From the article:

> But wait, these are different devices, they have none of the same cookies. If this were a VPN it would be the same device.
What’s the maths and physics that make it impossible?
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I’m interested in the limits.

I still think reflexively opposing a potential solution is stupid. Skepticism is healthy, automatic rejection is a waste. I wholeheartedly agree politicians spout a lot of nonsense, and that the solutions are closer than we think, we just need to get the bad policy out of the way.