skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not clear what exactly the profile of these people is. The article says they’re paying their way but also that they’ll be doing experiments?
from the paper:

"The current medical approach has two main poles: trying to address symptoms by drugging molecular targets, and waiting for the body to 'heal' after various procedures. We instead suggest that we need to develop interventions that target the healing systems, specifying their target states by reading and writing physiological memories in vivo. We should also be working on augmenting their capabilities with the somatic equivalent of nootropics (cognitive enhancers)"
It's a word with multiple meanings, though admittedly the one you mention is the most common modern one. Presumably, given that it's a journal and about medieval studies, it's a reference to speculum literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculum_literature
Read the book and whenever you come to a theorem, stop and try to prove it on your own. If you can't, read some of the proof, then try to continue on your own.
>> Do you consider killing animals ethically justifiable right now because their flesh tastes good and is hard to replace in cooking

Eating is a biological process. If the modern world goes away right now, you can survive, but you're going to need B12 and that means eggs milk and meat.

I would tend to think that in the absence of technology matters of actual ethics would remain constant.

Do you think that because technology makes something possible that you should use it to justify your choice as "ethical", and apply it to others?
Cicadas like that exist in different places around the world, including in the southern United States. They're a kind of regional mascot in Provence.
Last november, leading figures of the AfD met with Neo-Nazis to discuss plans on 're-migration'. AfD is without a doubt a fascist party, and would love to turn Germany back into a reactionary hellhole.

https://correctiv.org/en/top-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-...
Wireless ones have a switch, the wired ones all have the "maybe you have to hold a letter depending on the game, kernel version and OS" problem.
I once modified a SNES controller and put a whole Raspberry Pi Zero, battery and boost/charger board inside for a portable retropie setup.
If I have $100 to pay someone in the US, about 25% of that will go to "fringe" (taxes, health insurance, unemployment/worker's comp, 401k match, PTO/sick, etc) and that percentage is probably higher for lower-paid employees. So, start with $100, fringe expenses take $25-30, agency middleman profit/overhead/flex-risk takes maybe 20% ($20), and the end worker gets $50-55 out of the $100 the original company is paying for them.

That the end worker is getting ~50% isn't that crazy to me. If directly employed, they'd be getting only about ~65-70%. (which is less than the direct fringe ratio because someone has to fade the PTO/sick/hiring lag flex to ensure the trash cans get emptied consistently and the agency is doing that in the other case).
Have you checked their download page? :)

https://www.qt.io/download-open-source

Here you go. Now that I looked at it, it's not only threats any more, it's a combination of threats, lies * and begging.

The point is not to discuss the properties of LGPL but Digia's attitude towards potential LGPL users.

* "In return for the value you receive from using Qt to create your application, you are expected to give back by contributing to Qt or buying Qt."

Where does the LGPL say that, I wonder?
This is an important lesson in data and operational security. Don't use your credit card on websites you don't trust, and use virtual cards whenever possible. And 2FA all your online accounts. A few easy steps could have avoided a massive headache.
I think it's not quite NISC. There's no microcode alright, but there is a predefined instruction set that is decoded into the appropriate control signals. OTOH instruction scheduling and hazard control is indeed handled by the compiler back-end, which makes it quite complex. The compiler may take up to a few seconds to find a compact and valid instruction sequence for a given program, but it works well enough. I'm currently working on a browser-based graphical programming environment. The intended application is audio signal processing and generation. Might be anything from guitar effects to sound synthesis from a MIDI source, depending on the available hardware ressources (ADC and MIDI-UART, respectively).
What they’re referring to is the court records that show whether someone was ever put through any kind of criminal justice process. If someone is arrested and charged, that record is publicly accessible to anyone for a few dollars. If the charges go nowhere, the record of the arrest and charge remains on the public record forever.

It is indeed an unfair system.
Flying comes down to a "dollars per minute" - you can rent a plane "wet" today for $120-200 an hour (depending on your location) - which translates to $2 per minute or about $1 a mile.

Rental prices include everything so you can own your own plane for less, it'll be ancient and old, and if you do your own maintenance it can be even cheaper.
https://archive.is/1fskY
Some quick thoughts,

Usage based pricing with some sort of free tier ideally is typically is _best_ for individual developers and smaller businesses who are price sensitive but want to get off the ground quickly. Larger businesses can benefit from a usage based model but typically enterprises will want a more guaranteed price and stability quarter to quarter for planning purposes. This doesn't mean necessarily that usage based pricing doesn't work for enterprise businesses however it does mean that they typically are keen on having alerting and limits setup so that they don't accidentally go massively over budget.

One common strategy to continue with usage based pricing for enterprises but have more stability is to have them buy the usage "upfront". As an example, to use this product you may charge them "tokens" which correlate to dollars, and they can buy 1000 tokens upfront which get burned down over their time using the platform.

Another reason why enterprise plans are not typically usage based, or at least why its less common, is that many enterprises want to self host the product in their own systems in order to meet their internal security and compliance standards for their data. If that ends up being the case, self hosted products typically are not usage based because the act of sending consistent usage data back out of the enterprise's VPC adds a lot of additional complexity for the product and both business parties. Typically an annual license based structure is the model most businesses go with for self hosted.

Just to disclose a bit, I help companies do billing and figure out their best pricing strategy. Also a YC company. Congrats on the launch, the demo is technically impressive, and the value prop to me is really clear.

If you want to chat at all about it, happy to just talk for a few minutes. My email is in my profile.
The book "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory describes how the Labs was working.
The last chapter tries to figure out why it was working and one of the conclusion is that the Labs was always guided by the long term idea that it might help the telephone company (and that the breakup removed a) the long-term funding b) some kind of direction )
The absurdism to having a replica Cray-1 for the sole purpose of watering my plants is too amazing to not entertain.
Roku would be another example of a competing platform that Google blocked Youtube access for.
They're all military people from different countries; andsoitis's link has links to all their profiles. So it might be a commercial flight, but it's not random people.
That was on a 700 MHz Raspberry Pi 1. On an 1800 MHz Raspberry Pi 400 NEON SIMD the difference was another order of magnitude.

[QUOTE]
Comparison - The three 700 MHz Pi 1 main measurements (Loops, Linpack and Whetstone) were 55, 42 and 94 MFLOPS, with the four gains over Cray 1 being 8.8 times for MHz and 4.6, 1.6, 15.7 times for MFLOPS.

The 2020 1800 MHz Pi 400 provided 819, 1147 and 498 MFLOPS, with MHz speed gains of 23 times and 69, 42 and 83 times for MFLOPS. With more advanced SIMD options, the 64 bit compilation produced Cray 1 MFLOPS gains of 78.8, 49.5 and 95.5 times.[/QUOTE]
I wish we could "cluster bomb" celestial bodies with such spheres where they have a sensor core and just roam about. Imagine deploying a body of bots via a star-link-type-launcher that just spits out a bunch of these guys as it orbits the moon - then they land and roll araound and comm back to the deployment sat and talk to eachother as the Roomba the F out of the moon and give all sensor data back to the sat launcher as it orbits...
Presumably special relativity. Our reference frame is no more special than any other.
They don't. American's general education is so poor that just chanting certain phrases garners support. They want _their_ advertising to be considered "free speech" because it invokes a strong response of support in many Americans. This wasn't and isn't about free speech.

<rantmode>

Freedom of speech is _not_ an individual right. It is a principle of restriction on the U.S. government; namely, that the government cannot preemptively prevent you from even speaking about a subject. It was never about you being free from responsibility for what you say. The majority of Amendments came out of the abuses of the English monarchy where the King:

* Prosecutes you for not following (real or imagined) his particular vision of religion (1st)
* Tells you are forbidden to even talk about something you know (2nd)
* Tells you that you're obligated to station and feed his troops (3rd)
* Sends enforcers to look through your stuff because "reasons" (4th)
* Commands you to provide evidence of your guilt, so you're guilty if provide it or guilty for violating the king's command to do so if you don't (5th)
* Locks you in jail and forgets about you (6th)
* Stacks the judicial system with his people (7th)
* Finds "creative" ways to punish you (8th)
* Is the sole authority over the people (9th)
* Is the sole authority of law (10th)

This is fascism. Like, not mocking, "oh, I'm going to call you a dirty word 'cause I don't like your position" fascism, but what a real fascism system is. It's where those in power are free to exercise any actions without any responsibilities, while anyone who attempts act in the same way to those in power are suppressed. [Anyone](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-threaten...) who [says](https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/9/elon-musk-pu...) anything about [them](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-04/spacex-su...) isn't.

</rantmode>
This has been a reliable pattern, and why most people typically say wait for version 2 of any Apple product (and feature if we’re being honest).

I will say though, as much as it doesn’t make financial sense, I have been a part of some really rewarding experiences that were only possible while having new Apple products day 1.
A Guided Tour of Apple Vision Pro [video]
Yeah, I saw that. I’d like a combination of both :D But it will be at least another, maybe 2-3 years, so who knows what they’ll have out by then. I’d also have to check the support story.
Speaking of graphene, I've been hearing about its miraculous powers for years. Are there any practical applications yet?
> You’re telling me a truck buyer won’t have, even once, a case where he actually needs it?

No, that's not what I am saying at all. What I'm saying is that the majority of people would be better off if they bought a smaller/cheaper/more fuel efficient car and using those savings to rent a truck for the occasional need.

> It’s the same reason people buy insurance.

Not at all. People buy insurance as hedge against catastrophic losses. They are totally rational, and the cost of insurance is correlated with actual risk, i.e, a 25 yo will pay less health insurance than a 50yo, so it is not like there is a opportunity cost curve here.

> especially with tax advantages for depreciation.

You can also rent and deduct it as a business expense.

> Also, this reeks of the spirit of “you’ll own nothing and be happy.

On the contrary, this is the same advice that really wealthy people will give you, because they know that there are better uses for their capital than buying things they don't need.
Sorry, had to look up TANSTAFFL... There's no such thing as a free lunch. Totally makes sense now.
100% with you.

And growth is not just in physical size but in intelligence. 40 year old me knows a whole lot more even than 20 year old me thought he did.

Sustainability is hard. Would Google still be a favorite if it had never gone beyond a handful of products? Well never know, but has chasing new shiny worked out?

I guess for the billionaires, it has.
Or even Futurama from 1939: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_(New_York_World%27s_F...
Some children are raised by grandparents, aunts or uncles, siblings, etc.
(the canonical talk on that topic: https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?feature=shared)
It is a private company, not the country of Japan, if I understand correctly.

EDIT: Other sources say it's JAXA. I'll withdraw the comment, sorry, but I wonder if there's a bit more to it.
Now paint me a picture of a cat. Good LLM.
Any Estonian will tell you that Finnish is similar to Estonian except that it takes twice as long to say anything.
https://archive.is/O5WD8
35 Years Ago 'Rock Porn' Senate Hearings Made a Free-Speech Showdown (2020)
Have you ever seen this chart? SAT score correlates almost exactly with income.

https://www.futurescienceleaders.com/yvr1b/wp-content/upload...
Aren't these also in FLOPS? The rpi isn't exactly a floating-point monster. Hell, until the Pentium, Intel CPU's weren't guaranteed to even have an FPU.

As to ARM in general, here's a post about how ARM-1 compared to the 387: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24826/did...
What about https://www.w3.org/Amaya/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_(web_editor) ?
Making Apple Vision Pro [video]
Sounds about right, the RCMP has a long history of First Nations neglect. This seems like it would be a straightforward case to prove his innocence. Also a good reminder of why it's important to never speak with police without a lawyer.
If the man is taken at his word, his only error was buying from a seller on Amazon.ca. What credit card he used there didn't matter at all.
Assuming it did flip over would Japan still be on the list of countries to have successfully landed? There's a big difference between what we presumably witnessed and an out of control craft smashing into the surface.
Unfortunately in this case, the guy getting punished didn't do anything wrong. It's the woman who's Walmart account was hacked who messed up.
How would this prevent what happened to Timothy Barker?
The two websites in question were Amazon and Walmart. If you can’t trust either of those then who can you trust?
People forget how common this cycle reappears in tech. Jobs founded Apple in opposition to IBM culture alongside Wozniak the ultimate hobbyist tinkerer. Musk was lauded for open-sourcing Tesla’s patents, ten years ago. I’m sure even an up-and-coming Microsoft was seen as a “good guy” at the top of the ‘90s. Though some of this was just public posturing, of course.
Thank you for your response. I think I have been in a similar situation through a lot of ups and downs. And finally I am accepting simplicity. I am 26, software engineer. Typical 9 to 5 tech job. I would like to get to a stage where I am financially independent so that I can a. Read more books b. Build things that I care about.

Would love to connect with you to know more insights on how to reach there.
Did you mean Copernicus, with his heliocentric theory, rather than Ptolemy, whose theory was geocentric?
Even better, live somewhere where you're the police
This is true, but at the same time, completely irrelevant to the valid point GP was making.
This argument is absurd. Facebook has a settings page with a list of all the companies that have told Facebook they do business with you. That's the monetizable signal that Facebook is paying for.

It doesn't matter if they took your name, hashed it and then facebook reversed the hash via a lookup table. Presumably, the fact that they're doing the hash stuff is to give themselves plausible deniability when you tell them to delete all your personal information, and they decide not to.

Here's a sketch of the argument:

- We got a request to delete your info, so we deleted your name and email address and everything with the hash, including the fact that the hash doesn't want to be tracked.

- 10 ms later, data brokers started pumping information about the hashes back into our system, but there was nothing we could do to block it (we forgot the hash)

- We rebuilt your profile to high fidelity within a few minutes, and linked it to all your devices within a day

- The next week a shady app developer sold us info to link your real-world identity to the hashes, but we had to assume this was a new user that hadn't opted out, since we deleted your info.
The point, as I understand it, is for Microsoft the additional cost of making their search return results as a LLM is pretty small as compared to their overall business.

However, they will force Google's hand into moving their whole search load over to LLM to avoid loosing market share to Bing. This will cost Google a lot more as search is a much bigger part of their business.

It's an interesting theory but I wouldn't know enough to evaluate how likely it is.
Unlikely this was COVID, we know enough about how it spread to almost certainly rule out it was outside China in significant enough numbers for you to have had it in Japan before 2020.

The May paper is most likely wrong. You heard about it because it is an extraordinary claim that gets attention, not because the evidence is good.
Most news anchors don't just wing it though, except in the rare case of live breaking news. The vast majority of the time they read a prepared script off a teleprompter, which is written by - you guessed it - writers. Sometimes the anchors are also the writers, and sometimes they don't always stick 100% to the script, but whoever wrote it and whether it was followed aside, there is a script. I don't see why news channels couldn't publish it alongside the video - it would be useful for hearing-impaired audience at least.
I will have to write a case study on this at some point, but triangle fraudsters have attempted to use our company's delivery service [0] to fulfill curbside pickups from Best Buy etc presumably to unsuspecting e-commerce buyers. I noticed certain a subset of users frequently changing their card, and the name on their delivery, and figured out what they were doing.

We stopped a few dozen attempts, filing police reports and contacting the people with names matching the cards. We now use Stripe Verify to ensure identity matches, which I really would have preferred not to do as a privacy-oriented person.

Interestingly, the police usually didn't want to deal with these things, even if the merchandise was in their jurisdiction
I've also encountered plenty of other cheeses in Switzerland, so it certainly wasn't absolute, but it did happen. I can't find the original article anymore, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Cheese_Union also mentions it. In short, the Cheese Union insisted on focusing on these two cheeses. This ended in 1999, so seeing more cheese now is to be expected, but even in the 1980s, there were absolutely other cheeses available. However, that doesn't mean that variety wasn't way down.

Too bad I can't find that original article, which went into a lot more detail than Wikipedia.
How about we simply make credit card companies liable for all of these kinds of frauds? Not the merchant, not the consumer, not the marketplace--the credit card company.

If we did that, suddenly all the banks, marketplaces, etc. would have all the nice security things we've been bitching about for years.
Brake lights are not only about showing deceleration, but also intention.

If I tap the brake and it doesn't really change my speed, it still signals to those behind that I was (for whatever reason) think about slowing down, which is useful information.

So I think brake lights should come on when deceleration is greater than a certain value, OR when the brake pedal is pushed.
If I'm understanding correctly, the innovation touted in the article is not the Methanol electrolysis, but the Allam combustion cycle which sequesters the CO2 byproduct.

Maybe they are taking carbon capture credit into their accounting, since nowhere do they mention the efficiency of the Allam cycle.
It will still be a seller's market, because of IPRs.
My experience is that Linux is rock solid as long as you're not running it on super duper expensive hardware and doing crazy-big things on it.

Randomly in my career so far, notable kernel panic causes were:

- when a spark job finishes and deallocates close to a TB of memory, kernel panic. jobs using below 750GB were typically not seeing this happen, so it was something in there. this just kind of stopped happening after we updated the kernel and spark in a semi-unrelated push, so never really got a root cause here.

- bad hardware

- a spark job that was doing simply insane amounts of shuffle output (which goes to disk) was hitting kernel panics which ended up being related to a kernel bug that only impacted ridiculously high-disk-io-using applications, with some additional spin that made me think "ah so this is basically only affecting spark jobs"

- bad hardware

Did I mention bad hardware? I've spent way too much time hunting down "bugs" that ended up just being a bad mobo and linux was kind enough to inform you of it. But "this is the only program that causes the kernel panics!" and yet when we move it to a temp server for a few days the program mysteriously stops crashing. Another reason I do like "the cloud" - I can just cycle out an ec2 box I suspect is bad instead of fighting with the IT guy about whether the 2 year old expensive server is already busted or not.
Languages and Dialects
The tech community as a whole is dropping the ball by not advocating loudly and openly for adversarial interoperability.

It is a fundamental digital right despite what nonsense-ese is present in any service's egregious terms and conditions.

There needs to be an anti-adversarial interop specific complaint department at the EFF.

Otherwise one day, one of these developers will take the lack of support at its face and choose to defend themselves in court without any (legal) resources.

When the precedents are set that billion dollar megacorps can ruin an interop developers life due to overreaching ToS or some bs about copyright then it'll be too late to cry about it.

Invidious (YouTube), beeper (iMessage), Meta Vs many OSS Devs, etc. etc. etc. largely show that tech's freedom loving stance is not much more than lip service.

Interop projects aren't sexy. The Devs behind them get a pittance if anything. It's not VC-able. Yet instead of praise for the dog work they do we have well-actually-niks berating then in situations like this.

We are now becoming digital beings. We should have digital human rights. Interop is a base level digital human right.

I want to thank you for your work Andre0512 and Long Live hon!

P.s if there any EU digital lawyers out here please reach out to Andre0512 and actually help him please!
Sorry if my comment sound too harsh. I've noticed a lot of people commenting autogenerated summaries of the posts, trying to farm karma I guess.
I’m not even sure it takes more work than, say, getting good with language. Hell, it might take less!

I think the main difference is that practicing language is far more rewarding for most people, than practicing math. They also have way more opportunities to practice it naturally, without even intending to do so.
Where are you getting the figures that Chrome is more dominant than Safari on Apple devices?