skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually the "I found and translated this old work" gimmick is presented within the text, not outside it.

That aside, digital humanities work can be interesting, but I found a preprint of the actual paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.00142.pdf) and their conclusion seems to be "Ossian is closer to these Irish works than it is to Homer".

I'm not going to bother digging into their methods to see if they're plausible, but it's not clear to me why you'd expect anything else, or be able to conclude much of anything from that. If Ossian were real, then you'd expect later sources like "Acallam na Senórach" to either have been inspired by it or similar sources; if Ossian were not real then you'd expect it to have been inspired by "Acallam na Senórach" or similar sources.

That is, they've found correlation, but from all hitherto existing analyses we already know there's substantial correlation, and what we care about is causality.
> the Copilot integration) relies purely on Microsoft's goodwill

Given that the founders and several employees are former GitHub employees, I have to imagine they know how to do this integration in a proper & officially allowed way.

https://zed.dev/team
On the Quest for the Main Disk (Planet Dyne S2024E03)
Well it's an inescapable fact that anything alive is going to die, and likely be eaten.

Basically all animals, and even plants (living creatures too) are going to die horrible deaths, being ripped apart by predators etc. We too, will likely be food for worms.

The point he is trying to make is to celebrate the life of whatever you're eating by at least making something special out of it an enjoying it rather than turning it into fast food junk which pointlessly ends up in the trash after 10 minutes in the burger warmer or whatever.
I use something similar to design 1, when deer hunting in really cold weather. Similar looking gadget in silicon. Moisture does become an issue - as water will accumulate over time. It is marginally better than wrapping up in frozen scarves.
Looks pretty well done but confused why they used art from the Safavids as the cover art. Entirely different cuisine and time period of the contents of the book. Surely they could’ve celebrated art from the region?
Loneliness is a human instinct based on our evolutionary history as social primates though - if you travel up the antennae enough that there's no 'others' there's also no evolutionary pressures to make that loneliness a source of danger.

But what I find cool is that the lonely social ape can also look up the antenna and find all the security it could want - where I think some religions err is that when this happens, if you keep identifying with the insecure social ape rather than the many-antannaed-deiform it can interfere with the smooth communication between the two.
Anyone else think it said Basecamp at first?
Any "compression" mechanism that apparently violates Shanon's theorems would be "lossy" anyway, and lossy compression is essentially creating something that looks superficially like the original but isn't.

A script and a list of actors would take up 8k already (if not more), so yeah, an AI that can work on the prompt "take this script and make it like a Hollywood blockbuster" might be our best way to attempt to recreate this "compression" system with SoTA tech.
I can do that by just running them in an adjacent room at max for a few hours a day. Pretty simple. I've suffered from massive allergies all my life and hardly ever sneeze now. Getting rid of carpet and getting the air filters were all big quality of life increases. To each their own though. I can see why you might want to do that. I don't like running them when I'm not at home personally.
Somebody had way too much fun writing the lead paragraph: "Japan's space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system—although the probe appears to be lying upside-down."
I’ve been enjoying the coverage over the last week of the 40th anniversary of the Mac. Lots of nostalgia to dig into if you grew up in 80s and 90s.

If you happen to enjoy the interesting history of the Mac and Apple, I highly recommend Jason Snell’s series “20 Macs for 2020”[1]. I just discovered it last year, but I’ve found it to be a really fascinating look at Apple and the computer industry through the lens of computers Apple released over the previous 36 years.

[1]https://www.relay.fm/20macs
Wishful thinking. The masses don't "remove" someone who has a dozen or more ultra-mansions, yachts, and private jets, with wealth and assets all over the world.

Also, the masses usually end up in just as bad a pickle as before, if not worse. (Reference: most revolutions/uprisings.)
DaVinci made the Automa Cavaliere in the Middle Ages, and there were some pretty complex clockwork dolls in both france and japan during the 18th century. if you go further back, there were some clockwork animal novelties used to entretain sultans and chinese emperors
The materials change with the era, (earliest ideas involved wood, leather and ropes, modern age mechanisms are full of tin, copper, rare metals and wires and after the industrail revolution everything is iron and steel), but the fascination with making mechanical animals and men exists for as long as people could make relatively small devices do many different motions.

but in the past a complex mechanism needed to be as big as a water wheel or windmill and depended on a natural source of movement or someone constantly manipulating it to work. The industrial revolution and steam powered engines allowed for the same machines to run independently for hours. That's what changed fascination to a fear they might be "too independent" one day
I cycle to work everyday with my roadbike. My current job is quite close (only ~5-6km!) and below 1-2°C I wear my rain pants and only at like -10 and lower do I actually dig out the ski mask. For everything else my Oakley Jawbreakers work great.

Generally it's not as bad as many people think, it only becomes hard if the trip takes longer than an hour and temperatures are below -2 -5 degrees.
The Loss of Our Languages
What's the MRV of an oven filter? Is there another step on the ladder I'm not aware of?
We're going to have at least one episode of those lawyer shows where they pressed enhance, and the neural network hallucinated something that wasn't there.
There is some sense of destiny here:

> On May 3, 2013, Dan Piponi, now principal mathematician at Epic Games, made a post on Twitter (now X) that asked people to prove that π to the power of π to the power of π to the power of π isn’t an integer.
Accurate but not reliable. Precision would come into play if they launched more than one.
Amazon's Ring to shutter video-sharing program popular with police
The late, great, possibly most human of humans, Terry Pratchett, had so much to say about just such a species that Truckers, Diggers, and Wings, the Nome Trilogy, is also known as the Bromeliad Trilogy.

All because a central plot point, and one of the many, many, many most beautiful things Terry ever wrote, hinged on a miniscule frog living in the rare water inside a waxy plant high up a tree.

If you haven’t read it, do so… then go spend your life fighting to preserve beautiful things in the world.
Vienna's co-housing model offers a key to keeping families in the city
In my experience this kind of story should be treated with extreme skepticism. Not that the specific thefts it describes didn't take place, just that they are likely to be blown out of proportion. Not unusual for this to be a story pushed behind the scenes by the entities that stand to profit from the attention, such as the railroads and shippers that would benefit from society devoting more resources to solving their problems for them. Would not be surprised if the (anonymous) "expert on supply chain risks" (who offers an estimate of the size of the problem that is much higher than those of the relevant law enforcement agencies) specifically has the job of making a fuss about this in the media. See e.g. the widespread credulous reporting of "organized retail theft" numbers last year that turned out to be basically made up based on misinterpreting previous (baseless) numbers from earlier reports from the same retail lobbying organization.
Thank you - you've literally just saved me £500.

Turns out I've been trying to track down the USRobotics Sportster voice modem sound from your first link. Even better as I can't find my 56k USRobotics, only the 33.6k one, so probably wouldn't have ever found that sound with hardware either.

Thanks; that's been lodged in my head for a couple of decades.
The speed range from 20mph to 35mph (give or take) has been pretty well researched and documented as a range where pedestrian fatalities ramps up dramatically.

Additionally, stopping distance (very rough average) will double for most drivers from 20mph to 35mph.

So, yeah, for this range of speeds, that 10-15mph difference is absolutely critical to maintain pedestrian safety.

Remember, 20mph is slower than the default residential speed of 25mph (in the US). It's almost exclusively used in tight neighborhood streets, where pedestrians (children in particular) should be expected.

70mph vs 80mph, I don't so much care about. In theory, those speeds are only ever seen on a limited-access highway.

The California bill is stupid, but probably DOA as well. But, that doesn't mean the problem it's trying to solve doesn't exist.
is there a Japanese translation for Vorzeichenfehler?
I mean, it's an alternative for Bandcamp's _software_. It's not an alternative for Bandcamp's _infra_, and that's a pretty significant cost-and-complexity center for a new band or solo artist that just wants their music out there for purchase.

Still, I think getting viable alternative software is a huge checkbox on the path to getting good alternatives. Now there just needs to be an affordable hosting company that'll run Faircamp for up-and-coming artists.
I wonder if having some intrinsic randomness to the AI model would help to mitigate this problem? So that each AI has a subtly different perception of the move, and in order to satisfy every possible judge, the gymnast would need to complete the move as comprehensively as possible.
You are somehow right but miss some points out of anger

For instance, your awk example with /etc/passwd : the important thing is not that awk fails to be the perfect way to parse the file's content. The important thing is that you can parse the file with a generic tool like awk.

To me, this is the good idea behind all this : using a standard set of tool, you can process the data.

I cannot find a better alternative, and you failed to provide one too : standardize the files ? Their format, yes, not their content. Create a dedicated tool for each kind of file ? Good idea, people would need to learn hundreds of tools, one for each file.

Because most of those files are stored in ascii and can be handled as regular files, you can use just cat to get the content, you do not need to run a specific tool with internal binary parser that create syscall or grab data from shared memory or whatever (but you could).

Another thing : a file-system with an "undelete" capability is a filesystem that do not support data deletion. That would be pretty useless for most use cases, so most filesystems (from the Linux's gang to ntfs to ufs to refs to fat) do not implement this.
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/pQZQx
I switched to primatejs
Nice! Super timely for a friend's startup, whose CEO was getting all confused about dilution.

Thank you!!
From wikipedia:

> Johnson also dismissed the poems' quality. Upon being asked, "But Doctor Johnson, do you really believe that any man today could write such poetry?" he famously replied, "Yes. Many men. Many women. And many children."
This happens to me. I have a common real name so my gmail is used by all sorts of people. I am married and get signed up to dating sites that don't verify email. It is embarrassing.
I expect members of organize gangs do want to not admit to being members of such gangs. I would expect to hear a slurred version of "I just wanted something and I saw a box. I'm homeless. I don't have a name. They never told me when I was born. I didn't grow up like you did."
A malicious browser extension can steal all sorts of secrets. Is there a unique weakness here in the linked tool? Otherwise, this seems similarly vulnerable to everything else on the web.
I feel that if one does not have the patience to wait, one may just go and selfexperiment. It is not, that Consciousness is in a lab somewhere where only some scientists have access, no it is right here! It is so much in our faces that we do not explore it ourselves, but rather wait for some "authorities" to explore that for us.

No! We can explore it by calming our mind and our senses with well established methods which are known for thousands of years (the ancient tradition of yoga for example, an do not think twisting and bending, no this goes MUCH further!!)

And then, when the senses are turned of (by practice or "outside help" e.g. think tank) and the mind is silenced, then we start to explore what lies beneath!!

They say: "When all the movements in the mind have ceased to exist, the knower dwells in his real nature" (or something along the lines, in the Yoga Sutras, roughly 1500 to 2000 years old )
It would be extremely difficult to get away with this, there's a reason why the SEC twitter account hack targeted bitcoin rather than a traditional stock.
I agree with that.

But if you have one person reporting an experience and can capture the 'physical state'.
And then take someone else and have them report an experience, and capture the 'physical state'.

And they match, then you can start making the relationship.

Then if my mind is captured, and I'm thinking something that correlates, then I can 'assume' i'm experiencing what the other person is.

It will always be imperfect. I agree the experience of each person is unique.

But-> The whole problem of the 'eye-can't-see-the-eye' means the eye doesn't exist is also kind of just playing with logic.

So just because we can't embody the experience of another person, doesn't mean we can't reason about how that experience is being generated.
> Gasoline may be a lot more energy dense, but ICE are about 20% to 40% efficiency while electric motors are about 60% - 80% efficient.

You are correct about energy efficiency of ICE vs electric motor efficiency.

> So the differences aren't as great as you might think.

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

+-----------------------------+-------------+------------------+-------------------+
| * | Gasoline | Li-ion Batteries | Gasoline Multiple |
+-----------------------------+-------------+------------------+-------------------+
| Gravimetric Density (MJ/kg) | 0.59 – 1.06 | 46.4 | 56.5x |
| Volumetric Density (MJ/L) | 1.74 – 2.83 | 34.2 | 15.5x |
+-----------------------------+-------------+------------------+-------------------+

Gasoline weighs ~50x less and takes 15x less volume for the same energy in a battery.

There is only so much electrical energy that can be jammed in metals that form batteries. Chemical energy in C-C or C-H bonds is so much more dense.

https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoret...

In a similar paradigm, fusion energy is 20-100 million times more dense than gasoline.

https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/fusion-energy

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We have so much science and engineering to do to truly be masters of energy and intelligence.
try https://wiby.me
To be fair, that same Chevy Camaro I am complaining about above was sold in EU and UK as well, so I wouldn’t throw stones at the US regulation being behind in this case.

It only stopped being sold in 2019 in EU+UK, only the SS version, and not due to the front visibility. Sadly, seems like Chevy announced last year the end of production of Camaros in 2024 in general.
He is absolutely one of my favourite Catholics and runs a massive worldwide ministry.

Ironically his ministry really took off thanks to the New Atheists back when they were gaining steam with Hitchens and his gang.

As a side note I loved Hitchens as well even if I disagree with his arguments myself. If I had a pick a favourite Atheist it would be him.
Same here. Imagine the horror of the 2 top dudes at Basecamp.
Toyota's chairman doubles down on EV skepticism, forecasting 30% peak adoption
I think that would be a dealbreaker for most. My only purpose here was to point out that even if you had an on/off switch for sperm production, the latency between starting/stopping the treatment and seeing a cessation/initiation of sperm in the semen is going to be on the order of several months
Currently. But in 50 years $950 might not be so large if it doesn't follow inflation.
trying to answer your questions since you asked.
maybe they used nasa code, but forgot that they were starting from the other side of the earth
Thanks <3

2023 was not the ideal time to be operating a tech recruitment company, but we pulled through.
Have you considered buying a car?
Is there any way you could have a being like a human, who when asked would say they're not conscious? Is a definition of consciousness allowing that possible?

I'm not talking about whether they are or aren't, but surely all
intelligent beings would say and think they're conscious?
I found this relatively well written, though I am no peer reviewer (I suspect most of you aren't either)

Would those who are flagging or down voting it please give a sentence or two for their reasons? Do you not like the methodology, the conclusion, or the article's presence on a 'tech' site?
An Overview of Cannabidiol as a Drug: Pharmacokinetics and Cellular Effects
That line of reasoning seems pretty silly given that consciousness is supposed to be much more subtle than electromagnetic fluctuations and omnipresent, but it reminds me of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition where the most difficult practices are only done deep in mountain caves where no light can reach the practitioner. I wouldn't be at all surprised if minimizing cosmic background radiation was a factor in sufficiently subtle inner inquiry.

One of my ancient aliens theories is that the Pyramids are artificial mountain caves.
> Faircamp bills itself as “a static site generator for audio producers”, but an easier way to understand it is this: it’s a simple site that you can host yourself. Install some software on your server, point it at the folder of the music you want to sell, and your site’s pages will build themselves.

That "on your server" part is going to make is unsuited for 99.9+% of bandcamp artists, and speaking as someone who buys an awful lot of music on bandcamp, I would have some concerns as well. (Not least of which being that with bandcamp I can download purchased music years after purchase, even if artists have died or bands broken up, I wouldn't have that guarantee here).
AI will increase the number and impact of cyber attacks, Intel officers say
Libraries like io-ts make it trivial to write type definitions once and use them both for both static and runtime checking.
How did you do the original scanning? I have a ton of Super 8 that needs to be scanned.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/fed-cut-q2-probably-june-...

https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...
Wegovy is not a new drug though. It’s something we’ve used for a while but now it’s being considered for a new purpose.
I just prefix "simple" searches with !g or !gi, bangs don't count against the limit
You're not wrong about the inefficiency of LA (or really California) welfare spending. IMO, too little of the budget is on payroll. It's largely outsourced to non-profits with poor outcomes.
Depends on how old they are.
My grandpa used to run on a linux pc we gave him.

All he needed was a web browser, an email client and a word processor. And that's it. So Lubuntu did the job perfectly.

Obviously more expectations may be harder to meet
Cue Star Trek IV hospital scene with Bones.
somewhat related xkcd comic https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png
What's the architectural difference between the two?
I built a site like this for running (https://dressmyrun.com). I've gotten a few requests to make a similar site for cycling. I don't ride much myself so it's a little more difficult for me to judge how it should work. But I keep meaning to at least take a stab at it.
> We have no way of telling a dynamic universe apart from a static one where we're all just suspended in a single unchanging moment.

I am curious to know why you think so. What would you say about repeatably observable causality, in that case?
2FA authentication via SMS is the most insecure option to ever exist. It is 2024 and it is still unbelievable that this dreadful option is still used waiting for users to lose their money.

Who still thinks continuing to use SMS 2FA in a banking website / app is a good idea? (Hint: It isn't)
I do wear glasses, but they have an anti fog coating. Also, I prefer to leave my nose out of the balaclava and instead cover it with a neoprene nose cover (NozKon), which helps prevent glasses from fogging (and doesn’t squish my nose).
Good luck stopping the Russian procurement people.

We could not even stop them from spying on the Manhattan Project.
They didn't have to waste much time going to school -- and certainly not going to school with average people. That makes it a lot easier to get a good, well-rounded education -- if you are bright enough!
> I wonder if having some intrinsic randomness to the AI model would help to mitigate this problem?

This would result in identical performances resulting in different scores with the difference being artificially arbitrary.
One of 5 countries in the world. Amazing accuracy too - within 100m^2, and it lost an engine within 50 feet of the lunar surface.

That’s an incredible result.
The police or anyone else are not going to stick a tag on a box with your name and number so you can come to claim it after the grace period elapses

This of course varies a lot by jurisdiction, but yes, in many places that is exactly what the police will do.
Deno 1.40: Temporal API
I commute by bike 2 or 3 days a week outside of Portland Maine. Last week had the coldest days so far at 17F (-8C). Generally my face and breath are always fine fully exposed, but my fingertips always get very cold even in the 30s. My ride starts off with a couple uphills so that warms me up pretty well, and I alternate pulling my fingers into the palms of my gloves from one hand to the other. The traffic is not usually _too_ bad, so the joys of biking generally outweigh all the other irritations!
> Top Gear did to the Toyota pickup though.

Exactly what went through my mind!
Goodhart strikes again.
Related stories on HN -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38970805 (23 points, 8 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063739 (34 points, 35 comments)
Also Bandcamp already has my credit card.
> not being able to just "vertical-align: middle;" inside divs for the last 30 years must be billions of dollars.

One of my favorite CSS hacks, it doesn't always work in every single situation though...

div {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
}

Feels dirty at first but separation of concerns is still enforced, and I can't see any other downsides.
afaik Bandcamp as a service to artists and consumers has not changed...yet.

>With the recent sale of Bandcamp to predatory VC extractive vultures, and the main move to finalise that sale was to fire all the recently unionised staff

I suppose the next move is to squeeze the artists, then the consumers.
My personal world view is that it is because housing has become financialized. In this situation the rent probably doesn't even cover the fixed ownership costs for the property (caveat: prop 13).

So why are investors clamoring over houses that have a negative rate of return? The speculation that the value will increase. We should do everything in our power to make real estate a non-appreciating asset. If that means government owned entities constructing social housing as needed, sign me up.