skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there is a specific criteria to meet to qualify for this visa. Actors also have their own list of requirements. Not every model or actor will qualify.
800 dollars what the hell.. i guess i'll have to skip this one
Mojo is a closed source language that will never reach mainstream adoption among ML engineers and scientists.
Germany and Japan were occupied after WWII. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/united-states...
Does Meta hire 17 year olds?

Edit: oh, is this degree apprentice thing a UK thing I'm not familiar with?
Thanks for talking publicly about this. Thousands of interesting people take this route (also, me) but not many blog about it.

My lawyers originally described this category as "for internationally recognized people such as Nobel prize winners". That seemed a bit out of my league. But they issue 13k O-1 visas per year, so it's really the top (in some sense) 13k people who want to immigrate to the US each year. So I applied and got it.

The annoying part is that it demands legible recognitions: awards the immigration officers have heard of, and recommendation letters from people with Titles in Organizations they've heard of. But they seem to know something about the STEM world. They know about the International Math/Physics/Chemistry Olympiads, and the ACM Programming Contest, good universities, and reputable tech investors.

If I can offer a tip, it's the following. You know what's impressive in the STEM field. The immigration officer also has some experience of what's impressive. Your lawyer has the least idea of the 3 of you. So don't be diffident or self-deprecating with your lawyer! You have to tell them what you've accomplished and how notable each thing is.
> As a researcher, I've always wanted some guy with an econ degree and a year of ML eng to recommend me papers after glancing at them for maybe 30 seconds.

This kind of elitism is baffling given the quality of work from independent researchers recently.

And no, I have no I have no “vested interest” (whatever the hell thats supposed to mean) in someone’s Twitter.
> Tesla has done a fantastic job of updating the software, adding useful features. They still do (some basic) updates of the cars of 10 years ago. They managed to keep the UI fairly fast and responsive on old hardware, even as they have update the hardware for the console cpu etc many times. This is in contract to VW and many other legacy auto companies, that have struggled with software.

I don't know about VW, but my Honda has decent (not great, but decent) software for the head unit (Android, basically). Because my car has no modem whatsoever, it's never been updated, which I vastly prefer to having to deal with "upgrades" of any kind.

IMHO, car software should be developed like a pre-internet videogame: finish it, test the hell out of it before release, then bugfixes or minor enhancements only, distributed through a totally consumer-controlled channel.

A car is a tool, and like a hammer, it's UX shouldn't change after you buy it.
> the entire land to be ruled by the Jewish people

Not Jewish people, a very select subset of that group: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2784649
"Virgin" plastic is full of all kinds of additives which can be harmful. For instance

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

which was developed as an estrogen active drug until they found this stuff

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

which worked "better"

Plastic for use in food packaging ought to be regulated as to what you put in it, which ought to be easy for virgin plastic (though seemingly it isn't) but would be much harder if you were recycling plastic meant for different uses.

(Of course there is a lot of controversy about the mobility of plastic components. We know the carcinogenic styrene monomer exists in significant amounts in polystyrene, what's not so clear is how much of it migrates out)
Another way they can use this is to log the generated text, and when crawling pages if they find text that Chrome didn’t generate, there’s a chance it was a human, or another tool. But I doubt if people have access to this on Chrome they will really use another tool, so Google can probably differentiate between sources.
> Well, the alternative to diplomatic solution is total annihilation of palestinians in west bank,

This conflict is taking place in Gaza.
I sold my GOOG shares from 2005 to buy NVDA last year and definitely agree with the article.

The thing is that Wall St doesn't understand any of the technical details and will just see huge profit growth from NVDA and drive the price crazy high.
apple forcibly inserted themselves to "protect" their ~~users~~ cash cows
The Knife - Raging Lung.
If Germany or Japan is your guideline here, maybe Israel should get a Bomber Harris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Harris#Second_World_War) or a Truman (see nuclear weapons dropped on Japan) on the scene?

People are saying that what Israel is doing right now is a genocide. You have seen nothing yet: With either of them at the helm, there would either be an unconditional surrender by Hamas or no Palestinian alive anymore - and by November 15, last year.

We don't do such things anymore, and for good reason, but that means that these past situations are unsuitable as example for the present.
I was a troubled soul during my sophomore year in the University back in the early 2000s. Somehow I found several Dragonlance novels and in turn found a lot of AD&D documents online at the Candlekeep website. They satisfied my imagination of escaping into some fantasy world and pulled me away from depression.

I'm not a people person so I read the rules, modules and novels all by myself. My favorite settings are Dragonlance, Ravenloft and Planescape but FR has the best novels and computer games.

I still have a half-completed Ultima spinoff game based on Dragonlance. Maybe I'll complete it one day.
I think the question was framed around verifying the part where it claims the European Commission is said to agree with Apple that the 2 operating systems are separate.
You said the only other solution is genocide (which you thankfully say you don't see happening this century). Relenting from their occupation is another solution. I agree with your assessment of their state of mind though.
You would go absolutely postal over our pronunciation of Icelandic volcano names 8)

I do accept that junta should be pronounced "hunta" (in English). Spanish is easily an important enough language that most people that use a Roman style alphabet should be able to fix up pronunciation of those words/letters to suit the language in play.

I often notice that BBC news starts off with an awful pronunciation for a place, concept or whatever that might be considered obscure and then it gets better later on, once someone has noticed and the message has been passed through to the news reader.

I think that the last time our news readers had to deal with the pronunciation of junta was in the 1980s and Argentina. It's 2024 now and I hope we treat Spanish with the respect it is due.
FYI: If you swipe down you can just type mathematical expressions like finder on OSX. It may be finder, but I don't know.
> I don't know why people waste their time using teams

Because its use is mandated by workplaces, schools, and lots of other entities & communities. I rather hate Teams, but suddenly I’m finding myself spending half my days with it.
> If there is a mechanism to monitor the dependency chain.

So that would not be less secure, but it would also not make it more secure than dynamic linking with a good mechanism, right?
If we make murder illegal, only the people who are good at evading the police will be able to freely commit murder.
Michael Snoyman has a great talk about this, “FP is the new OOP”. He argues that some major concepts that OOP popularized are now mainstream and accepted, and OOP-bashing ignores those concepts and just acts like OOP only means the bad parts.

https://youtu.be/to8ISIQjETk
“I have the right to say what I say” is a disingenuous and thought-terminating. What you are essentially saying is that you purely intended for this to be your soapbox, that you see your role here as dispensing your wisdom, and not to have any actual conversation other than one where people agree with you.

GP can just as easily say that they have a right to their opinion that your classification of the experience is invalid. “Yeah but I was talking about how I felt!” just doesn’t pass the smell test. Mature people can have their mind changed and can see when they were being a little over the top. Your “I felt this way, so I will always feel this way, and there’s nothing you can do to stop me” attitude is not a hill worth dying on.
That’s not how international laws and customs work. Besides, be careful what you wish for since if they’d follow that line of thought you’re in for a 20-25% tax plus an import fee for importing electronic devices from a different jurisdiction. (Also, the non-compliancy would be your doing as importer; not Apple’s.)
I wonder when the NFL is going to finally abandon all the various single-game exclusivity deals and just say “the only way to watch NFL games is through the NFL app.” Cable would die overnight. The NFL could basically charge what they wanted, and people would pay (a cable plan already costs $60+ a month and many people only subscribe during the season anyway.)

Whatever the NFL is raking in through these exclusivity deals for individual games, and whatever Comcast/whatever is paying them, I’m sure they can find a price point for a single unified NFL app that will make them more money.
This is a cynical take.
PyTincture: Pythonizing Web GUIs via Pyodide
It is really difficult to recycle plastic, because there are just so much different materials that we call plastic. Some can be reshaped with heat and others need chemicals. Packaging often contains multiple different plastics and it is REALLY hard to separate them. Also the molecules break down over time/use, degrading the quality of the material.

Another nasty property is that some chemicals used to make plastic soft or change other properties (additives) often don't chemically bind with it and they leak out over time.

"Recycled" could probably be removed from the title. Plastic and its additives are very likely bad for you period. "A path towards safer reuse of plastics" is missing a more useful point: reduce single use plastic and replace if other materials make more sense for the use-case. Sure, there a many points we could improved regarding to the usage cycle but some problems are just inherent to the current set of plastics.

I try to avoid plastic as much as possible, especially for food or beverages (even more important if hot).

It's sad that such a useful and versatile group of material also has so many downsides.
Yes, blood tests confirmed I missed a little bit of iron, took supplements and levels are now normal but the fatigue and dizziness didn't go away.

Thanks, it seems a lot of people have similar symptoms, hope some of the causes get better treatments, but also more recognition, feels awful going to work every day like this, and doctors not prescribing time off work because symptoms are to broad/vague and no life threatening illness is found. If I didn't have a family to provide for, I'd just stop working right now.
Sadly I don’t have time right now for a complete response, but for example, in just the battle of Mariupol:

Per Russia:
3,000+ civilians killed[43]
Per Ukraine:
25,000+ civilians killed[44]
50,000+ deported[45]
There's also The Story of English on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FtSUPAM-uA&list=PL6D54D1C7D...
>They just want Palestinians to have full human rights on their land, from the river to the sea.

What about the rights to elections? Free speech? To be gay and not be thrown off a building? They don't even support these basic human rights in the land they rule, for the people they claim as their own.
Don't worry, industrial farms buy that compost for cheap, and you then buy their food in stores.
"you'll have the largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world staring down at the very existence of that nation"

Do you really think that Russian government and military would kill in cold blood tens of millions of people over Putin's fate?

Besides, they would be too busy jockeying for power after Putin is out of the game.
Why does the official EU site use cookie banners then? https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en
Well, by calling it "malpractice", I say that it works for "true professionals". Then we could say that "it doesn't work in practice if people who don't know what they are doing cannot use it", of course.

The question then is where we want to put the bar. I feel like it is too low, and most software is too bad. And I don't want to participate in making tooling that helps lowering the bar even more.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39142613 (flagged)
This is also one of my fears, and my strategy has been openness - I share my analysis/code with colleagues/Github/as supplement. Maybe they can spot errors or reuse some of it, and I feel that there is some "protection" in it
5-pin DIN is still the more stable option today and doesn't introduce any noise, unlike USB which carries power.
What to do when you need staff, but the nonprofit organization you're leading can't afford staff?
Based on the chart, something very drastic happened in the 2010-2020 decade. Major changes in that period include always connected smartphones, social media, a financial crisis, streaming services, ecommerce, ongoing digitalization of just about everything.

Seems to me that the part about increasingly inhabiting different spaces is likely true, even outside echo chambers men and women seem to have segregated socially acceptable interests that group us all into separate areas, both online and irl. Plus the whole death of the third place that people keep going on and on about, and less buying power to hang out in the pay-to-exist places.

With covid slamming us all headfirst into total isolation, and now work from home continuing it I would say the odds are very likely that this continues to accelerate exponentially because it's a feedback loop. The more time we spend apart, the less we have in common. Add today's chatbots to the mix that people will be talking to instead of real humans to relieve some of their loneliness and we've got a real problem.
It changes nothing unless you’re a web browser, in which case you have to apply for the entitlement.
We need to have regulations and laws that only allow a handful of types of plastics to be manufacturered, and all of them must be recyclable. The fact that we have tens of thousands of different types of plastics, all so that companies can profit from that, is why we are poisoning ourselves.

I don't care how expensive some types of plastics are: we should only allow companies to produce safe, recyclable plastics and not let them poison the earth just so that they can make a few basis points of more profit.
The US barely even recycles any plastic to begin with!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plastic-recycling-failed-concep...
I don't think you understand how the EU legislative system works.

The EU is composed of multiple bodies, one of which is unelected people, one of which is people chosen by someone who is elected (roughly) and one of which is people directly elected by EU citizens.

This last body is a Parliament, and is where laws happen.

Once laws are voted, each individual country has a delay to transform it into a local law.

So, yes, the fact that phones must have a usb-c connector is, in fact, the law. The text is here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...

Admittedly, it's a bit more complicated than that between who has to say OK and whatnot because, you know, that is how The Law works.
> they don’t have to, yet they do

I had said that, “Consumers catch on to dishonest business practices and want [to] choose new market options if/when they become available”.

So you agree then?

And ya know what, I think that’s BS: you definitely have a choice and if you think you can’t follow through you’re weak. You definitely don’t need to use facebook for anything and you don’t need to fly either. It’s a choice, mate, and if you don’t think you have a choice you’re weak.
Same as the "commingled recycling takes care of it" crowd.
I might put forth assegaai (a type of throwing spear)...?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/assegaai

Berber -> Arabic -> Spanish -> Dutch -> English

each link makes sense if you consider (in order) Caliph Al-Walid, Ferdinand and Isabella, Charles V (or Charles the Bold?), and William III
> Servo has also seen updates to its included WebGPU, GStreamer, and ANGLE libraries.

I am a little confused, does it run gstreamer pipes natively or what is exactly that supposed to mean? Looking at Servo’s demos, I don’t see anything about it.
considering that its all put in one big truck I'd assume its much more efficient than hundreds of cars and probably multiple trip for each
(Un)Just In Time Code of Conducting to be even more hilariously capricious: your "ban user" button has a "reason" field that then appends that "reason" to your Code of Conduct.
The US actually put sanctions on the members of the ICC. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...
It would almost be better to have cargo version of the A380. Then the nose could open up and you pull out your house and your car.
Some one should make where wordle of faked research images
I like ADND 2e. The rules are bit more geeky. The modules are more unforgiving. The worlds are many.

But I only play CRPGs and read rulesets and modules so I'm definitely an outlier.

Return to the tomb of horror, Die Vecna Die and a few others are my favorite reads. I also like reading the Ravenloft ADND 2e source books.
The name is based off the old windows tool, "Disk Defragment" -- and while this tool isn't "defragmentation", per-se, I didn't know what else to call it, and I was excited when the npm package was available :D

hope others find it useful!
Do what you can control.

If everyone waits till all the rest take a step forward no one will. Until is too late, of course, then everyone loses.
Oh yeah, dimensionality curse wasn't the reason for cosine, it was the NN output.
We don't ban anyone nor moderate HN based on agreeing or disagreeing with someone. We moderate based on trying, to the extent possible, to preserve the site according to these principles: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

People are welcome to disagree about particular calls, i.e. whether X broke the rules or not, or how badly–but that's a different question than what the rules are.
Given the literal billions of dollars at stake, presumably this has been viscously litigated already, and this is where the EC and Apple have landed
Maybe this? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/developers-get-linux...

The caveat is that it only seems to be available on older hardware. This is absolutely a hack that Apple actively tries to stop in hardware implementations.
I'm as cynical as anyone, but iPadOS was introduced at WWDC 2019 and thus was in the works for some time before then. This conspiracy theory doesn't stand up to the historical timeline.

The more plausible and less conspiratorial theory is that iPadOS was made separate to help market more expensive iPad Pro devices.
Are you me? This is how half my GPT prompts read :(
Excellent question! A sufficiently advanced battery can theoretically beat gasoline.

Any given energy storage technology can store a maximum amount of energy in a fixed volume or mass. Behold one of my favorite plots: [1]

From lowest to highest energy density:

- springs, which use mechanical elastic potential energy, are kinda horrible

- capacitors, which use electric permittivity, aren't great

- next are both batteries and combusted fuels, which both use chemical reactions.

- nuclear gets us another few orders of magnitude

- finally, antimatter (E=mc^2) is a ways beyond that

Both batteries and fuels rely on the energy difference between unreacted molecules, so their theoretical energy density is the same. Well, actually, fuels are burnt to create heat which is converted to energy, and this heat->energy conversion is fundamentally thermodynamically inefficient (only ~tens of percent), whereas batteries are the same sorts of reaction but much more controlled. A sufficiently clever battery, which moves atoms around to react in the right places at the right time, is thus more efficient and thus energy-dense than fuel. However, moving atoms around like this to make a more efficient battery is much more advanced nanotech than what we currently have. But it's theoretically possible.

This is what biology does: us humans are powered by chemical storage (sugar/fat/glucose), which is used more efficiently than current batteries but without combustion. (lithium-ion is ~0.8 MJ/kg, glucose is ~16 MJ/kg, gasoline ~46 MJ/kg)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
“User-hostile” is not a term to use when you intend on giving useful constructive criticism. User-hostile is an accusation. I’m sorry that you’re so desperate for people to give you feedback that you’ll stoop down to the level of engaging with people who obviously seek to complain first and improve second, but…come on, your position as someone that ‘makes things’ is FAR from unique in this community. I think that a lot of people here understand the value of feedback, and the possible negative and positive attributes of feedback. It’s fair to point out this quite valid negative attribute.
That’s also why the EU probably won’t get more strict than this. The climate is very bad for tech companies with increasingly vague and weird laws (that mostly nobody asked for I might add) and this is starting to piss some countries off as they see other continents starting to excel and we can’t catch up due to such insane amounts of red tape.
As a point of interest, for particular types of investors, underneath all the hoo-rah of the charts

How fast will batteries continue to grow and improve? The answer is a lot faster than today’s consensus view.

isn't exactly true in reality for the billion+ dollar end of the resources market who expected battery demand to be much much higher than it is, leading to temporary(?) setbacks such as:

What's behind the drastic downturn in nickel and lithium prices, and what does it mean?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-26/examining-the-drastic...

TLDR: Despite high expectation demand didn't meet ramped up supply at the raw material end.
I wish every program that contained ads; had to give the user a signal to noise ratio as part of its listing. Some programs only show ads 5-10% of the time. Others have nearly as many ads as content and are unwatchable. Unfortunately, you may not have any idea which is which until you have wasted 15 minutes watching.
I think the allies (largely the US) were able to effect massive cultural changes in Japan and Germany after WWII from aggressive, totalitarian, racist societies committed to military victory by any means necessary to relatively peaceful, even pacifist societies only via:

1) Forcing unconditional surrender on Germany and Japan, whereby virtually every citizen of those countries was convinced that they had lost the war and that resorting to armed struggle for their goals was a complete failure for Germany and Japan, and,

2) A lengthy occupation in those countries that accomplished many things, including the "de-nazification" of educational system.
"content filters", as in those things everyone else has had for more than a decade?
>it pays for itself with more energy and focus throughout the day (and better sleep quality).

...for some people.