skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be called the Department of War. The "Department of Defense" name came about in 1949 for PR reasons. Also, "PR" is an American propaganda term which means "propaganda".
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Saturated fat (the most prevalent fat in meat) is causally connected to cardiovascular disease. This is based on a huge amount of evidence and, if you are going to discount it, I suggest you also should discount the whole field of nutrition, because this is the close to a scientific fact as we can get.
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Help the ppl out, Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179929
I'm not sure that the average CS paper really tested the algorithm they thought they were testing. That comes from a lot of commercial projects where people weren't using the algorithm they thought they were using (even simple algorithms) and a few cases of working with code from CS researchers.

There was that time I got a C program from a famous ML researcher, tried to run it and it segfaulted, I pointed gdb at it and realized it was crashing before it got into main(). Understanding why was an educational experience (don't allocate a 8 GB array you never use on a 32-bit machine... It worked for the researcher because he had a 64-bit machine) but it did not increase my faith in the code quality of academic projects.

Some CS researchers are brilliant programmers but the fact is that ordinary devs make a living writing code and CS researchers make a living writing papers.
You're discussing The Egg. I appreciate that. https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
Funny to equivalate poor MacDonalds workers who don't have many other options to highly paid Googlers and Meta employees who could work anywhere else, and also equivalate damage being done from building housing for the poor to damage being done from building user tracking and manipulation software.

Building housing for the poor does damage to the environment but it also provides a public good, the poor now have housing.
I have always wondered why most religious people's counter argument of the Big Bang event usually is that one cannot create something from nothing, while most documentation about deities also do not explain where these deities suddenly came from.
> bonus: at least once a week: fish, salad, nuts, fruits

i thought you want to eat nuts and fruits daily?
Normal TLDs like .COM, .ORG, .CO.UK, .FR and so on have stable prices.

Massive price inflation seems to happen with new or trendy TLDs, where an initial $5/year can become $50/year or more.
I don’t really relate solipsism to simulation theory. Solipsism is boring and doesn’t have much depth beyond being a “whoa” moment when first encountered.

Simulation theory raises actual questions about meaning and the afterlife, offers some hypothesis to debate, etc.
VLC can do this, if I recall correctly. I remember watching a video in a terminal once, some time ago.

What about the sound though?
Definitely looks better for productivity, but for gaming and social?

Nothing on Vision Pro is comparable to things like Beatsaber, VR Chat, Pavlov.

Hard to tell if the hand tracking could handle those sort of experiences currently.
I'm not sure about other niches, but it seems to be fine in HPC. I'm getting more recruiters messaging me on LinkedIn than ever.
If you use a banned email address for install it'll skip the registration and allow you to use a local account.

no@thankyou.com
https://www.accessmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/20...
Damn. I never knew I needed a pre-ADB Mac M0001/512K/512Ke/Plus keyboard + mouse to USB adapter until just now…
I don't think that's a real issue.

The innovation isn't happening on the Mid Dishes. This is well understood tech that's been around for several decades. There are some interesting advances in the Low antennas, but those are being built mostly by Italian companies.

I think - as general knowledge - that manufacturing in China usually saves in the cost. But that's not the big part of the budget.
Not a book, and a bit self promotional, but I have a small photo series I worked on https://mkaz.com/silicon-valley/

Also, look for Silicon Valley '07 by Gabriele Basilico, it's a photo book - not a huge coffee table book but pretty good with about 80-100 photos from 2007
They will be manufacturing them for their customers.

Also arm isa is just isa

You seem to focus on it too much when it isnt THAT relevant.

Isa doesnt imply perf/energy characteristics
> If you are reading this, you probably are relatively wealthy, are almost certainly of high socioeconomic status, and quite plausibly have never paid one red cent for check cashing in your entire life.

Explicitly stating unfounded assumptions about your audience doesn't change the fact that they are unfounded assumptions. A whole hell of a lot of people in our country have relied on check cashing services regularly at some point, and believe it or not, many of us read blog posts just like them proper folks from polite society.
Binance Code and Internal Passwords Exposed on GitHub for Months
Not on Digikey or Mouser, they haven't.

Yes, there have been an assortment of dodgy "RISC-V" chips from dodgy Chinese suppliers that would appear and disappear like spectral invaders from another dimension.

Until last year, though, I couldn't plan around being able to buy and put a RISC-V chip in a product. Now I can.
https://github.com/diffblue/cbmc The github repo is active and they are very responsive to issues. As you say, it is unneccesary and probably undesirable to post an issue for a tool you don't use. The links for this are multiple places in the submission. The state of the cprover website is unfortunate and represents the state of the project unfairly imo.
> societies are better served by a lot of passionate defenders of rights

We don’t have this when it comes to privacy. Keyboard warriors, yes. Folks willing to make a call or write a letter, no. (Not in New York, Pennsylvania, Arizona or California, at least.)
The big moat IMO is a pre-existing network (and after building a network since this is going to be a bit of a gold rush if the current occupants in your space are slow to evolve).

Google has trained everyone to go to Google.com for answers, sliding in AI and other tweaks is just the natural evolution of that.

Design pros already use Adobe; sliding in AI to make them 10x more efficient is the next evolution of that.

etc etc

Disruption out of that is going to be interesting but hard to predict.

I think a lot about voice agents... but Google and Apple are well-positioned for that (Amazon maybe a little, but not as much IMO). I love using ChatGPT with voice on my phone, but the minute Apple releases something equivalent tied into all their stuff I would use that (I use siri for todos but boy does it suck).
Why does it have to be a 30 minute drive? Why not a 30 minute transit ride? (if transit cannot provide a 30 minute ride that is a fixable problem)
It's not really fraud though. If we get paid to upvote each other, the problem is not that we upvote each other but that there's someone paying us to do so.
> All that matters is if there if fresh money coming in

Every time a trade happens, someone is "coming in" and someone is "getting out". The more trades there are, the more opportunities there are for anyone (including the German government) to take the other side.

> after the recent lack of price action from the ETFs, it doesn't suggest the existing volume is legitimate.

This is by no means the only reasonable interpretation of the price action surrounding the ETF approval. It's totally plausible that the lack of price action just means that the amount of money "selling the news" of the final ETF approval is around the same as the amount of money "buying the rumor" of a big influx of cash.
Okay. Well, then you have to trust Twitter or Keybase, centralized authorities. And your profiles there can be taken down also.

And if you have a homepage, why do you need Nostr at all? You can just sign content and publish it on your website then, no?

I'm starting to think that the main thing with Nostr is convenience. Should you run into an issue with any relay(s) you simply change to different relays without much work involved, i.e. without "your operations" having to pause. But that doesn't solve the discoverability issue with relays.

It's actually not much different than if you signed your tweets and then if you got banned just moved to facebook. Just more convenient.
IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-managers-move-near-office...
>Sooner or later, the company is going to realize they can hire the same developer for 15% of the salary that the company is paying you.

Yes and no. Admittedly, I'm a full time SD in the US and I do make a decent salary, but offshoring and outsourcing don't worry me. There are many anecdotes of companies being burned by outsourcing as there is almost no accountability.
Computational universe is not necessarily a lattice universe. We can compute with a graph of relationships (including distances between particles) and time snapshots; I think this model fits better.
The difference with these new satellite systems (if they can deliver what they promise) is that every phone sold within the past few years is essentially compatible.

At that point, you could only request that phone manufacturers retroactively provide firmware updates that ban these networks, or maybe make it hard to get SIMs allowed to connect to them (but then there's eSIMs too).

I think in practice we'll see a combination of these countries applying legal/economical pressure on the operators and jamming, with larger/less isolated countries leaning on the former, and the others on the latter.
this is a super slippery slope. this would mean most manufacturers are actually monopolies because they have control over their own products. i don’t see how this makes any sense.
There is a standard of reasonableness - i.e. if the diet and exercise program results are reasonably good.

Good health doesn't have to be an exact science. Forgoing processed foods, forgoing too many calories, and taking a daily walk is sufficient for the average person. The questions you are asking here only matter at the extremes (professional athletes, et. al.), not to the average person.
Turtles all the way down my friend
So does this mean we should completely surrender and forget about any privacy and security? By the way, my Librem 15 has a disabled and neutralized Intel ME.
I'm curious whether their "Locality Groups" concept can be implemented using stock AWS. Imagine you have 1000 type of tasks that can be called millions of times by users; each node can do any task but resource usage would be better if same task was performed on a node that already has done it. Sticky sessions is not it, as the same task can be initiated by different users.
That would be comparable i think if the walmart employee would be kidnapping people outside of other shops and taking them into a walmart :0
yep, its still alive and kicking in 2024... with latest version of O/S IBM i 7.5
Show HN: Chat Interface for OpenAI Assistants
Debt vs. Equity: Whats the Difference?
> Does a balanced diet include fast food? How much ultra-processed food?

omg shut up, this sort of contrarian semantic shit doesn't make you look smart like you intend. everybody knows that fast food isn't a good component of diet. everybody knows how they can improve their very unique and individualized diet. it's like telling a smoker that cigarettes are bad for you.
> Appending site:Reddit.com

Or, with DDG, append !r
Foveated rendering don't work but not the way described in GP; human eyes are too fast against current latency and frame intervals for it to work.
So there is a way.
Yeah. PhD have to eat too.
We disdain academics when they are too hype, then turn around when good information doesn't get wide spread, we blame them for being to 'dry'.

Do we allow marketing or not. We dislike when media over-hypes, we dislike media when it doesn't get the word out.

You can build a better mouse-trap, doesn't mean anything if nobody knows about it.
> do employees not have the obligation to refuse certain demands in order to protect the shareholders?

That might actually be the problem. Public companies may have an obligation to protect shareholder investment/returns, forcing a focus on near future profit. So you stuff in ads and tracking, because that will yield a "positive" result with the next quarter or two.
Have you seen this announcement by GitHub regarding Apple Silicon:

https://github.blog/changelog/2024-01-30-github-actions-intr... ?

Today, GitHub is excited to announce the launch of a new M1 macOS runner! This runner is available for all plans, free in public repositories, and eligible to consume included free plan minutes in private repositories. The new runner executes Actions workflows with a 3 vCPU, 7 GB RAM, and 14 GB of storage VM, which provides the latest Mac hardware Actions has to offer. The new runner operates exclusively on macOS 14 and to use it, simply update the runs-on key in your YAML workflow file to macos-14.
Thanks!
I am new to this and found out a way to post it on show. Solution is to prefix title with "Show HN:"
Macaroons Escalated Quickly
Take another booster, can't be too safe.
Another stand-out feature of Mitsuba is its focus on differentiability. Wenzel Jakob is an absolute rockstar in computer graphics, and his group creates informative demo and explanatory videos for their areas of work. These include:

Differentiable rendering: http://rgl.epfl.ch/publications/Jakob2022DrJit

Volumetric rendering: http://rgl.epfl.ch/publications/NimierDavid2022Unbiased

Optimization of light path choice via AD: http://rgl.epfl.ch/publications/Vicini2021PathReplay
> US spy agencies do not have the right to spy on US citizens without a warrant

CIA needs a warrant. Undefined for the others. The NSA can’t arrest you.
[Dupe] again from techdirt, wasting our time OP

Last week's news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136770
They wanna keep you on your toes :D

I'm doing taxes for the first time this year, wish me luck!
Ask HN: Best way to create an AI chat interface for consulting a book content?
I want to create a public site where users use an AI chat interface to read/explore the content of a 600-page official document with educational guidelines.

My reference is Tyler Cowen’s project: https://goatgreatesteconomistofalltime.ai/en (check the “Explore with AI” link).

How should I proceed?

I am a frontend engineer with no AI/ML knowledge. Should I consume OpenAI API? How do I feed the model with the 600-page document content? Should I use hugging face?

I am willing to pay the cost of the AI service (as long is reasonable, like <$50 a month).

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
Right… and her direct boss (who doesn’t care about remote) is, by nature of job, not in office.

Its fucked.
Do you have a reference on this?

I don't think the space of subsets is going to be bounded, which means the Poincaré recurrence theorem won't apply to it.

That coupled with the fact that starting our Lorenz equation on a box shaped subset will cause that box to stretch and distort, asymptotically approaching the Lorenz attractor. This implies that it can never become box shaped again. The set just gets closer and closer to the shape of the attractor as it evolves.

Otherwise it wouldn't really be an attractor now would it?

P.S. If you take a discrete subset, like pixels on the screen, then I agree those sets of pixels will reoccur, making it look like the box has reappeared. But in reality that is just no longer a representative sample of the twisted form of the actual set wrapped around the attractor.
All this is so weird to me -- or, rather, it points out how weird my career has been.

I'm 53. I've worked at home since 2001, but it happened kinda accidentally. The dot-com-era software consultancy/internet studio I worked for in the late 90s cratered in the fall of 2001, so I hung out my shingle and went back to doing hands-on technical work. This was catch-as-catch-can for a while, but I kept the lights on -- and at no point did I consider renting an office to do it.

Then I joined a startup that didn't really take off, and we BRIEFLY had an office before realizing it was dumb and giving it up (so, like, 4-6 months?). We were traveling all the time anyway.

Then I went back to consulting and worked at home or on the road.

Then I joined my current employer, which has NEVER had an office anywhere, and as such had employees spread nationwide. We used to be cagey about it with customers (who are generally large traditional companies), but since COVID normalized WFH we've been much more open about it.

I miss very few things about an office. When I think about it, what I actually miss isn't the office, but the few moments in my early career where the office was also a place generally full of people whose company I enjoyed even external to the working relationship. That's an unusual thing, and (I bet) something you're more likely to experience in your 20s than your 50s.

I would like to see my boss more often. It's been a couple years now. I haven't seen our VP of SW in person in probably 10 years. But my home office comes with cats, a better coffee machine than any in-person office has, a kitchen I can cook lunch in, and a couch if I want to catch a short nap.
Where I come from, you don't need a license (or any kind of study) to become a developer.

That means the market is loaded with incompetent people who just don't mind grabbing a framework and learning about programming in the process. And if they fuck up, they fuck up.

That means, finding a good developer is a nightmare. A vast majority of them do a mediocre job by accidentally, or they may actually try to scam you.

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In the US at least, plumbers need to be licensed after a probationary period where they learn the craft from other plumbers. They don't make much money initially, and it can take a few years before they become journeymen.
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Discussion from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136770
Follow up note: It also depends on what country you are in.

For IT people in the USA you can look at this site: https://www.statista.com/statistics/199995/rates-of-jobless-...

I assume most people who believe it is brutal out there are looking for a job and were laid off. Being laid off is EXTREMELY PAINFUL. We were never taught how to handle it. For most people, myself twice, it was a horrible surprise.
You know how 911 works without a valid cell plan?

Hypothetically, in the event of a war or similar unrest, the US could use satellite cell 'towers' to give an entire country limited connectivity with old devices people have stashed away in some drawer or closet without otherwise active cell plans, which are therefore off the local government's radar. People could be coerced to turn over the phones the government knows about but still retain some connectivity.
The "different gpg key" would be flagged by a package manager, but (critically) not this tool.
> That's a $221 million loss in 2021

That was down to a one-off $800M lawsuit settlement. They technically made $580M profit in 2021.
It really doesn't matter. Companies want to hire me. As a result they have to hire me as remote. Once they do so my productivity is sufficient that they want to keep me around. I earned the right to be remote a long time ago. Before I earned the right I worked in offices when I had to. Whether other people earn that right or not doesn't really affect me.

This isn't I think a bad state of affairs. If remote is more productive then companies will eventually switch over. If remote isn't more productive then they won't. If it's a wash then the people who earn the right to be remote will do so. The rest will go into the office. Life is full of earned rights like this. No sense in getting worked up about it. If you want to be remote then earn the right to be so.
I suppose print-on-demand services are cheap enough that you could put together your own fairly easily. Flickr has very permissive licensing by default, if you wanted to make it available for others, too.
My guess is that spiders build webs in many places, but only the successful ones remain. In other words, survivor bias.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Overemployment?
I just went through a rough case this week where one of my employees was overemployed FT by three companies and pushing commits to these throughout the workday. When confronted he denied it despite overwhelming evidence, gaslighted me by painting me as untrusting and used that as an excuse to quit.

Is it worth hunting down this type of behavior? I honestly don’t have a problem with someone having a side gig, but when it reduces their attention to just being able to do the bare minimum asked of them it seems very unethical.
Debugging Python
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The google enshittification continues, more news at 11.
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I strongly prefer: https://tvfool.com/
That's not the pyramid I mean. It's too expensive to have kids because housing (and to a significant but much lesser extent fuel) prices are out of control.

The infinite growth pyramid that's the problem is that banks, governments and pensions all rely on real estate doubling in value every 10 years. They have for decades but we're at a point now where people can't even afford rents in some places. The Welltodos in their 50s and 60s have hoovered up a large bank of properties in the past few recessions with a view they can sit back and make their 8%.

It can't carry on. This euphemism, "global fertility" is the side effect that our economics is utterly unsustainable. And no, I don't have a solution.
We have concrete, quantifiable knowledge of the benefits of WFH. We can measure the cost savings from not needing to pay for real estate and we can directly point to quality of life and time savings for employees. We can also point to lower carbon emissions.

The return to office argument is very hand wavy. None of the advocates have come out with hard data as to why it's better.

edit: And the study from this article is one data point in favor of RTO having no productivity benefit.
I am also an avid Ark player (Ark 2 can't come too soon), at least when I have copious quantities of time to waste haha. I kind of enjoy the grind, reminds me of a more manual and exploration focused Factorio. Get dino to enhance resource acquisition, use new resources to make new tools, use new tools to get new dino, and repeat.

To be clear, I don't think Pokemon is entirely the reason Palworld is selling. It's a reasonably well-made game for an early-access indie title, and it does pull the best parts of a lot of games.

My only gripe is that I don't love the capturing system and I wish they would re-work it a bit. Having to try to get them down to 1% HP without good control over how much damage you're dealing can be very frustrating, especially when you try to go back and capture things much lower level than you. It ironically becomes harder to capture low level things as you level up.

I prefer Ark's dual-HP system where HP going to 0 makes them die and torpor going to 0 (or max, can't remember which way it fills) makes them pass out so you can tame them. It feels like I have a lot more agency, and having to protect the dino while it tames makes it feel like a huge accomplishment to capture a high level dino.

The breeding system is also in dire need of some love, but I think that's more easily fixable. They just need to add some randomness when you're breeding two dissimilar species. I.e. you shouldn't be able to deterministically breed a level 43 boss (Anubis) out of two level 17 Pals. It's super cool that it can happen, but it should be like a 10% chance.
The parent said “no matter how thin or light they get”.
Same. Let's work on publishing one. I am happy to fund it.