skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I personally have an interest in human advancement, and would definitely be following that sort of competition.

I'm all in favor of safeguarding the athletes, but I feel it's getting ridiculous at this stage and we should just allow for a type of competition where everything's allowed.
The white page should be fixed now.
I am unsure about the quotes.

Maybe you are using https://search.jojoyou.org/pri version? This version uses only own index and I haven't added there support for quotes yet.

In https://search.jojoyou.org/ quotes should work. (But I haven't done any changes to it yet)
Great notion! Are there any projects or publications attemtping to map preferences like 'invigorated by mountainous forests', 'enjoys building and living in underground tunnels', etc to DNA markers? It seems plausible that these preferences could be genetically embedded based on ancestors' living conditions.
Tranformer-based Denoising AutoEncoder for ST Unsupervised pre-training
A new PyPI package for training sentence embedding models in just 2 lines.

The acquisition of sentence embeddings often necessitates a substantial volume of labeled data. However, in many cases and fields, labeled data is rarely accessible, and the procurement of such data is costly. In this project, we employ an unsupervised process grounded in pre-trained Transformers-based Sequential Denoising Auto-Encoder (TSDAE), introduced by the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab of Darmstadt, which can realize a performance level reaching 93.1% of in-domain supervised methodologies.

The TSDAE schema comprises two components: an encoder and a decoder. Throughout the training process, TSDAE translates tainted sentences into uniform-sized vectors, necessitating the decoder to reconstruct the original sentences utilizing this sentence embedding. For good reconstruction quality, the semantics must be captured well in the sentence embeddings from the encoder. Subsequently, during inference, the encoder is solely utilized to form sentence embeddings.

GitHub : https://github.com/louisbrulenaudet/tsdae

Installation :
pip3 install tsdae nltk datasets sentence-transformers torch

Python code :
from tsdae import TSDAE

# Initialize an instance of TSDAE
instance = TSDAE()

# Load a dataset
train_dataset = instance.load_dataset_from_hf(
dataset="louisbrulenaudet/cgi"
)

# Train the model with the dataset
model = instance.train(
train_dataset=train_dataset,
model_name="bert-base-multilingual-uncased",
column="output",
output_path="output/tsdae-lemon-mbert-base"
)
Indeed, that's the biggest gripe I have with this project: shoddy execution. The way the wire insulation has been damaged just makes me cringe.
do you check back often to confirm how wrong everything they said was?
I have a mouse on each side of the keyboard, so changing the mouse pointer shape was never even considered.
Ask HN: Are we the first advanced species in the universe?
My question is not whether we might be the first advanced species, but more about human nature.

I've read many theories about intelligent life in space and why we might not know about them. The great filter, Fermi paradox, etc. The popular theories presume that if there were intelligent life, it would be way more advanced than us.
Do you think we are imagining more advanced species because we need god-like creatures in our lives, or is it a more practical approach? Taking or stealing someone else's research is always cheaper than doing it yourself.
>an appliance that will likely stop receiving bug fixes or security updates in 3-5 years when the company releases a new version

Do current smart fridges even get security updates at all?
Does small claims court work in some states and not other ones? I'm assuming you are us based? And my understanding was that small claims courts are very different in each state.
Yes, that's super annoying. They should be clearly labeled on the device as to what their max capacity is (and you should then stay well below that to give you some margin).
I'd like to add to all of the reasons I find valid (not obscuring what one is pointing at, mimicking pointing with a finger) that everything displayed on the screen is pretty much perpendicular to the x or y axis. The tilted cursor thus sticks out among the rest of the content.

As an aside, as a typical Amiga quirk, the early Amiga mouse cursor was tilted in a 45° angle to the x axis, contrary to all the other popular GUIs with more acute angles for the cursor. And there was a built-in tool for creating custom mouse cursors, which I personally loved. See for example http://toastytech.com/guis/amiga12.html
> A smoking gun would be a file with a name like cursor.bitmap or some code like "declare cursor_default = [ [ 1, 0 ... ] ];" from a major source (ms/xerox/apple) say, pre-1988 or so, with some comment above it explaining the rationale of why that cursor style in particular.

The Inside Macintosh pages from 1985 I cited above may be what you're looking for.

Especially page 158 (I-146).

It doesn't give a longwinded rationale of why you need an X/Y hotspot offset, it does much better than that. It shows you several cursors with their hotspots, so you can see why a hotspot is needed. And it lists the data structure to support it.
Gives a rough idea/reminder. I'll often wander off and do something else for the 10 minutes it takes to cook pasta or whatever so a timer is preferable to ruining my food. I don't know why I'd need it spatially over the specific dish, my cheapo smart speaker will do multiple just fine.
Panama appears to be solving the abysmal UX of JNI but puts the final performance nowhere near close .NET (without even measuring direct P/Invokes which are literal direct C calls if you statically link AOT binary).

Do you have references that say otherwise? (I know you don't, it has JNI level of performance)

p.s.: you have to be insane to use Java today on those listed platforms, which are much better served by C and now Rust. RPi is as small as it gets and on that I'd rather never touch any Java tooling because liking it is literal Stockholm syndrome - it is as low bar as it gets and almost anything else is better.

p.p.s: for anyone's interested, here's the JEP for Panama: https://openjdk.org/jeps/424 do give it a read, then look at C# spans and interop API and ask yourself whether you want to look again at Panama without gouging your eyes out.
U.S. Strikes Test Iran's Will to Escalate
It sounds like a company that offshores to reduce cost, so its likely a less consumers product or B2B where the quality of the interface, etc isn't as important.

With this in mind keep in mind the CTO role is about business objectives, low cost and SLAs (reliability) as opposed to say for example, experimenting with the latest technology, bleeding edge, etc.

The software stack is also likelier to be more mainstream (i.e Java/PHP/Javacript) and more 'generic'/off the shelf. Not sure if that helps you but you know what you're working with.

So expect:

- Awareness about mainstream products/languages and stacks

- How to deal with SLAs and reliability

- Don't expect using newer/bleeding edge technologies, if there is something new like AI itll probably be wrapped around something common or off the shelf as well.
https://archive.is/bPmbR
I used to be the same. Until I started a family. You suddenly realise how… unimportant coding is when you have people who depend on you and you them. I’m a different developer now than I was back then, but I think better for it.
As an empathetic person, this really makes me feel that we should fight for an economic system that gives people more leisure. Rewarding life doesn't need to be expensive, but it does require us to have the time to do something that we love. This is also why I dream about financial independence. I'm not lazy, I just want to do something else than what I have to.
I agree with you but the how is pretty hard to imagine. Especially with how housing speculation is so deeply tied to people's retirements and life plans.

I'll give that book a gander. Based on the reviews I think I'll like it given my context of growing in Florida and now living in Amsterdam and wondering how things can be so different.
Everything is an antenna if you try hard enough.
>We know that studying hard does not guarantee success and what the level of risk is.

That's exactly my point even though the survivorship bias is higher or lower.

We shouldn't discredit advice from successful people on the grounds of survivaship bias. We should only discredit advice on grounds of merit.
Unlike sending engines for cryptographic cyphers across nation state lines, night vision is absolutely one of those things ITAR cares about. And the number of loops holes and exemptions Audi had to apply for made the project financially unprofitable to the point of moving to always on high beam DLP style headlights.

Retrofitting one system in my car which had the option code was a yak shave.

Most automotive systems get by this by limiting night vision to 8fps(!). Similar to how GPS was limited to 100m accuracy in the first civilian models.

What blows my mind is one can get Chinese models off Taobao
with 60fps for 1/10th the price of US products like FLIR.
Quite a bit of good advice here but I'd strongly recommended a "no screens in your bedroom" rule and make sure you have a good book to read.
The Times has lurched extremely far right within the last decade. The main difference between it and the Telegraph or Daily Mail is one of tone rather than content.

The FT certainly has its biases but I agree that it is generally the most reliable. Noam Chomsky once said it was the most trustworthy newspaper because of its incentives to tell the truth:

> Those who Adam Smith called ‘the masters of the universe’ have to understand the universe. They have to have a tolerably realistic understanding of the world that they are managing and controlling. That’s true of political elites as well, but the business world particularly.

https://www.ft.com/content/bcdefd38-3beb-3506-b24c-82285ac87...
Build a Flutter App in 2024
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile
Demystifying GPU Compute Architectures
A horizontally flipped (straight edge on the right) cursor does exist, I think some versions of Microsoft Word use it when editing the left margin of a document or something like this. I don't think it's a standard Windows cursor though.
I'm not making this up, I thought the same almost immediately and only then saw the throwaway's message: By the first paragraph, my spidey senses were tingling, and by the first two sentences of the second paragraph, I wanted to write the same... and then saw someone already did.

I hope you do have the ability to get it assessed eventually. If you do, make sure to go to an adult(!) ADHD specialist (psychiatrist/neurologist) not a regular psych.

In the meantime, when you read about productivity tips, try reading about ADHD-specific productivity and organization tips, I think they might help a bit better.
Regular wifi doesn't need to be pointed either, unless there is interference. It goes about 2-3km.

source: had the only wifi point for hundreds of km in Afghanistan.
Animation? Did I miss something?
Show HN: Unofficial Google Lens OCR API
Default OCR in ShareX is pretty bad, so I reverse-engineered Lens API and made a library to call unofficial Lens API and made a script for ShareX to OCR the captured region. URL points to library I've made, there's a tutorial for ShareX in separate file: https://github.com/dimdenGD/chrome-lens-ocr/blob/main/SHAREX...
"Live high, train low"

You do need good oxygen supply during training in order to fully utilize (and grow) the muscles.

Low oxygen (such as found at high altitude) is good for the non-training periods (e.g. during sleep), where it induces a hypoxia-adaptation reaction that consists among others in increased erythropoietin (EPO), resulting in increased hemoglobin, etc.
Right; there is an element of satisfaction that comes from doing a job well that is relatively independent of the kind of job it is.

In a way, that kind of enjoyment is actually more important than extrinsic rewards – it actually is your moment-to-moment life.

Which, to be fair, is what Spanos' piece is getting at too.
Suppose that a group of people are crazy enough to try to create the "Amiga of 2024". How would that computer be like to be as revolutionary as the original Amiga was back in the day? Would that be kind of like a XBOX X/PS5 with a keyboard and no DRM?
Mind the Gap: America Needs an Office of Technology Net Assessment
But it is one of important ways to diversify it.
It only looks cheap because meta made cheap, low effort avatars.

Apple could make stylized eyes look good if they wanted, I’m sure they have some Pixar connections too if they really wanted to bring on experts.
Muse Is a Canvas for Thinking
Meta did a bad job at it.
neovim and vim (since v8.1) come with a terminal mode, and the default key combinations to get out of terminal mode is a little cumbersome (<C-\><C-n>). It's not unthinkable that if someone already maps jj to get out insert mode that they would do the same for terminal mode.
> Firstly, let’s make clear that it’s unlikely that you’re good at something you don’t love. If you managed to do that, you’ve probably dedicated the hours to something that does not fulfill you. The goal is not happiness. It’s about fulfillment. After all, you have to do what you love. You are that, how can you be doing anything else?

The author is not considering loving meta-skills. I don't love programming, I do love intellectual challenge. I also love learning things as fast as possible.

If I'd be a cleaner as a job, I'd teach myself how to be mindful while doing it. I'd teach myself how to be okay with the boring/mundane and utilize the job as a tech detox. If I'd be a bus driver, I'd utilize the job as a way to make my social skills better (I've seen bus drivers do that in NL) or I'd utilize the job as a way to reflect on life as I wouldn't need all the brain space for driving the bus. If I'd be a blue collar worker, I'd flip homes since my network would allow for it. I'd also do a lot of crafting on my own.

When one loves a meta-skill, many things become their passion.
I learned recently that you want a fixer that knows and bribes people where it's customary and expected. Going through lengthy processes deaf to the trigger phrases will make your life, which could be incredibly easy, unbearably hard in many countries.
"Alexa, set a spaghetti timer for 10 min", "Alexa, set a sauce timer for 15 min".

10 minutes later:

"Your spaghetti timer is done."

5 minutes later:

"Your sauce timer is done."

At least this works fine with Alexa, just name the timer.
Did you not try to pay some coffee money? Do you have local Vietnamese connections?

Seems like something you could have paid 500-1000k (20-40USD) and been done with.
> I’m here just living normally while there are millions running for their lives from war zones like literally.

capitalism and consumption is all about escapism. escaping from the mundane (and horrific) realities of life. seek fulfilment in material pleasures and distract from real world issues and concerns.

this device literally commodifies our personal experiences. its a branded and status-driven consumerist invasion of our inner space. even further cutting us off from reality.
That's why after a plane trip across the country, the amazingly high prices for land/real estate seems like it must be a scam.
What should they have done differently in the 90s, and what would the regulations have looked like?
On the other hand, sometimes it’s also refreshing to just hear about what makes someone happy and appreciate it on its own merits without assessing its validity against others who have it worse in various ways. There’s a time and a place for both, I think.
It's a powerplay imo. You can show your emotions if you are in the power. I've found repeatedly getting penalized for being emotional at work.
That's one of the reasons I want to move out of a job.
> Which jobs are you considering no one would want to do?

Not OP but most low-skill, sanitation-related jobs are most likely the best example. There certainly is craftsmanship behind cleaning but it mostly boils down to hard physical labor.
Looked up the largest health insurer, they operate hospitals:

> Kaiser Permanente operates 39 hospitals and more than 700 medical offices, with over 300,000 personnel, including more than 87,000 physicians and nurses.

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

The second largest also owns Optum with 60k doctors:

> Optum Care is a family of 60,000 doctors in 2,000 locations nationwide. We work together to help 20+ million people live healthier lives.

https://www.optum.com/en/about-us/optum-care.html

So I'd ask you back, how many insurance companies aren't under the same parent org as hospitals? The 2 largest are, wouldn't surprise me if most are.
> A nuclear reactor is a bit like an ion drive: great for long distance space travel, but not great for getting off a planet.

What are you basing this on? NERVA was for getting off the planet. It had a thrust of ~250 kN. In comparison, a SpaceX Merlin engine has a thrust of ~900 kN, while ion drives have <1 N of thrust.
To people who actually aspire to be MBAs, why?

Is there any incentive to the field other than money?

I never hear anything good happen because of MBAs, but there must be something.
Crosscut is a stylus and tablet tool for drawing dynamic models of your thoughts
So, the future is Universal Basic Income and Open Source.
Exactly. If it crashed into the forest, you probably wouldn’t be able to see unless you were at ground level and within 30-40 ft of the wreck.

Depending on how dense the forest is and the foliage coverage you likely couldn’t spot it from the air.

Reminds me of search planes during WW2. They go out on search patterns over the Pacific and even with nothing but water, it was easy to miss an aircraft carrier unless you were relatively close (within 10 nautical miles).
Le Monde is toilet paper level. Nobody told you?
Light travels 300km in one millisecond, so I doubt that's a limitation here.
The main issue with huge pickups is that the headlights are so high compared to other cars that aiming them down is less useful than cars.
I think they probably mean Dread? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UE4nOYc0RkA
I had a lucky exit and no longer need to work. I now only consider working on something if it could increase my net worth by an order of magnitude or so — because if it won’t make me a billionaire why bother working?

I’d rather do art or open source or go fishing.

(That’s not quite what you asked but I don’t know how many actual billionaires will read your comment so figured I’d chime in — to me it doesn’t seem unreasonable that calling wealth would change what people work on and how much they produce.)
That last part would indicate that the restrictions are utterly moronic if one were to reason. At the very least they need to be relaxed so technology that's readily available to end consumers worldwide isn't restricted.
I once had a conversation with a cleaner, she liked it because she could listen to Spotify podcasts all day (she was working as a cleaner in Sweden).
Peter Thiel bankrolling ‘Olympics on steroids’ that allows athletes to dope
I feel sorry for you, man. I have T1D as well, but pump supplies + CGM work out to something on the order of $200 a month in Poland. I am not even sure how much exactly, because I don't bother to count since it's not big money for me. Still a lot given the median pay, and you still have to buy the pump out of pocket, but nowhere near what's going on in the States.
It's super common in the south nowadays. I grew up similarly, and had light bars on my trucks/all my friends did/etc. But we weren't driving around town with them on.
That’s probably true and for a long time Quora was of sufficient value that I would have said it was worth it.

Anymore that’s not the case. Answer quality has gone down drastically and the percent of Google searches that end up there has gone up.

Google really ought to de-index them. And don’t even get me started on Pinterest.
They’re all in on Poe now.
They’ve collected years of QA data.
How are you better for it?
What is wrong with PowerShell core?

*PS core is the one based on the new versions of dotnet.
incessant vibration
Health care needs an enema.

I think one thing I would have done different when i switched primary I would have gotten a new Rx.

Not sure how much trouble that would have saved in the end but that is just what I tend to do.
Thinking about that I really start to love the Swiss version of health insurance where (with most providers) you'll just provide your insurance card and they'll pay first and then decide whether to get reimbursement from you.

Much more easier to fight than if you'll have to bring them to pay something you paid first.
The "saves a calculation" answer sounds like complete horseshit. Any machine fast enough to update a mouse cursor every time the mouse moves could have afforded two additional subtractions on a click event.
This ELF file is not minimal. A loadable ELF file needs no sections at all. The section header table can be empty and the .shrstr section does not need to be present. The .text entry is a just a pointer into one of the LOAD segments and can also be eliminated.
Motivation takes many forms. Emotion, and not even every one, is only one.
> And my position also stands that it would make far more sense to finally agree on a config file standard format

It would also make far more sense for humans to agree on most things and work towards a common goal that benefitted us all, but that’s just as much of a pipe dream.

Proposing something that will never happen is not a practical solution.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Either Vec<u8> or https://github.com/BurntSushi/bstr
They are! I have two of them, both look identical, work the same, and have different ratings on the device. They may be true, but can you risk it?
What an incredibly weird take that makes a lot of assumptions. For reference, I live in Seattle now, no car.

Prior to Seattle, I also lived in Texas and Virginia. Also no car. I moved to VA being unable to afford a car or insurance.

In many situations it is doable. But it requires restructuring how you life and where you live. I spend more on rent, but make up for that by not paying for gas, insurance or the many other small fees that add up. People get trapped into this idea that they need a car that they never consider the costs it has.
Ask HN: Has Firefox Focus started deleting downloaded files on close
Pixel 8 Pro (and, I think, also on 6 Pro). A couple of days ago, I lost a few files so downloaded, on the 6 Pro. But, I thought it was because I was low on storage space.

This evening, I've had it happen twice on the 8 Pro. Plenty of room on it. The second time, I checked the files' presence in Total Commander; they were in Download, where Focus put them and as expected. Then I closed Focus. Returned to Total Commander, to Find the files no longer listed.

I never experienced this until a couple of days ago on the 6 Pro, as mentioned.

I use Focus sometimes to visit JavaScript-dependent sites that I want to keep relatively isolated. This change in behavior, intended or not, is a real hassle. And Google turns up nothing on it.
I grew up in pretty severe poverty, the adults around me didn’t work glamorous jobs but they all took pride in doing a good job. Even sanitation jobs, which were pretty common in the family. They would actually say something pretty similar to what the guy wrote - that if you’re going to spend so many hours of your life doing it, it’s taking pride in a job well done, the relationships you have with your colleagues and customers you get to know, and things like that that you connect with emotionally. Spending 50 years doing a job where you try to dissociate emotionally as best you can sounds something like a nightmare, and what would a person who behaves like that be like to work with?
Byzantine punishments were more along the lines of castration and facial amputation.