skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let k be the fraction of the information contained in the original perception that you're able to hold in your mind. Regardless of how large k is, the universe maintains apparent consistency to the subjective observer, so its intermediate states between when you observe it and when you observe it again must be held somewhere, be it in the configuration of particles in a physical universe, or the memory storage of some mad scientist who keeps your brain in a vat and feeds it fabricated data. If the universe consisted solely of whatever it is you're perceiving or contemplating at any given time your thoughts and perceptions would not make sense to you, because there would be no consistency from one moment to the next. You would look at Hello, look away, look again, and see Bye. Even if time is an illusion and you only looked the second time, you would need to account for the fact that your false memory of a moment that never existed matches the perception that you're processing now.
It is absolutely true still, it is especially bad on iOS and the worst when you have a ProMotion device. They did hard lock the max fps to 80fps on scrollable elements on ProMotion devices, which really is telling enough but it doesn't solve the very noticeable jitter either.
Interesting that another Lancet paper on this topic was recently retracted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38894636
", which we did."

This warmed my heart greatly.
You make good points, but I do think that the proliferation of WFH has the potential to poke a bear that wasn't getting poked before.

Just one more thing to make those people unfortunate enough to find themselves in certain ruts to feel defeated by.
Agreed, seems they are sowing FUD by playing on a global disaster event still fresh in short term memory to advance their goal of regulatory capture... the competition isn't letting up so they'd very much like regulation to hamper things
Even full-strength GPT-4 can spout nonsense when asked to come up with synthetic routes for chemicals. I am skeptical that it's more useful (dangerous) as an assistant to mad scientist biologists than to mad scientist chemists.

For example, from "Prompt engineering of GPT-4 for chemical research: what can/cannot be done" [1]

GPT-4 also failed to solve application problems of organic synthesis. For example, when asked about a method to synthesize TEMPO, it returned a chemically incorrect answer (Scheme 2, Prompt S 8). The proposal to use acetone and ammonia as raw materials was the same as the general synthesis scheme of TEMPO. However, it misunderstood the aldol condensation occurring under primary conditions in this process as an acid-catalyzed reaction. Furthermore, it asserts that 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine (TMP) is produced by an inadequately explained "reduction process." In reality, after promoting the aldol condensation further to generate 4-oxo-TMP, TMP is produced by reduction with hydrazine and elimination under KOH conditions. GPT-4 may have omitted this series of processes.

The scheme after obtaining TMP was also chemically inappropriate. Typically, TEMPO can be obtained by one-electron oxidation of TMP in the presence of a tungsten catalyst and H2O2. However, GPT-4 advocated the necessity of excessive oxidation reactions: the formation of oxoammonium by H2O2 oxidation in the presence of hydrochloric acid, and further oxidation with sodium hypochlorite. Two-electron oxidation is already performed in the first oxidation stage, which goes beyond the target product. There is no chemical meaning to adding NaClO in that state. This mistake probably occurred due to confusion with the alcohol oxidation reaction by TEMPO (requiring an oxidizing agent under acidic conditions).

And this is for a common compound that would have substantial representation in the training data, rather than a rare or novel molecule.

[1] https://chemrxiv.org/engage/api-gateway/chemrxiv/assets/orp/...
I'm curious what your thoughts are on implementing a sane authorization system in 2024. You mentioned writing roles onto macroons but what does your policy look like? Is your surface area simple enough that it's not a concern?

I've been on various security teams with disjoint product-facing authz, internal authz and service authz policy engines / mechanisms etc. Additionally, authz gets baked into service code and product interfaces, so it's hard to change later.
It doesn't materially matter to the lawsuit.
ABC Problem
> and the idea is that the work of a Level 1 employee is automated

Interesting part of the article. Likely through AI ? But did anyone pull this off though ? Looks like additional work for "level 2" employee
Yes, I'm aware that 4-tuples must be unique. And so, by having a LB and/or server bind to more than one IP address, you can easily overcome that limit.
There have been plenty of people who, proportionate to what they could do, were worse than Hitler. Whenever a group of people assert that their rights can only come about through the policing of another group of people you face this possibility.

I'm surprised you didn't come to this conclusion beforehand given the large history of people being retained in custody or prison despite being innocent or the state otherwise not having the right to detain them.

False negative tests do exist. But yes, power differentials of any sort do easily lead to 'letter of the law' situations.
> I guess my worry is not about free speech or other people just criticizing but more of the woke crowd that just wants to cancel you because they disagree.

What's wrong with the "woke crowd?" Is that not merely a nebulous group of people who have political opinions with which you disagree? What's wrong with them wanting to "cancel" you? Is that not an exercise of free speech and free association? Freedom of speech has never meant freedom from consequences. "Cancellation" just a social consequence, is it not?

Behind each of these question marks is nuance: I like Ken White's treatment of the topic: https://popehat.substack.com/p/our-fundamental-right-to-sham...
When I say that a variable is used, I mean that its value is accessed. This is in line with compiler jargon. In this basic block, the variable x has no next use at the first line; the assignment of 42 is a dead assignment.

x = 42
y = w
x = 43

Search the web for "next-use information".
> we should have a system where there is a basic level of housing available for anyone to afford

There is plenty of cheap land in the middle of the country. The problem is getting (and wanting to get) there.
It's not just landlords using the same algorithm, they're using the same company that tells them all to set the same artificially high price. In other words, RealPage isn't saying "average rent around here is $2000 so that's what you should charge", it's saying "I just told every other building in this city to charge $2000, so you should too".

If there were 50 of these companies all competing in a particular city it wouldn't be a problem, but when most apartments are priced by just one or two companies, it is.
When I graduated from Columbia in 1999, I interviewed and got offers at various tech startups, but entry-level jobs on the "PM track" for those without a CS/engineering degree didn't formally exist at the likes of Microsoft or Yahoo as far as I know. I had a technical background, but was almost entirely self-taught, and had no interest in writing code for money anyway. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36027171>

Of my offers I chose an investment banking job where I worked with tech companies. Thank goodness for that; I got to participate in the dotcom bubble without being directly swept up in its popping, and saw the Valley immediately post-bubble collapse. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34732772>
It's illegal in some US states like California. The California Genetic Information Privacy Act prohibits these companies from disclosing a consumer’s genetic data to any entity that is responsible for administering or making decisions regarding health insurance, life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance.
ICANN is still accepting public feedback:

https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/proposed-...
From your own quote:

> They do have canines that are pointy enough to serve the purpose of tearing meat.
Domains can be far less than $20/year
Also, HN has its own search engine at: https://hn.algolia.com

This allows you to search for specific content types (Stories, Comments, Ask HN, etc.) and optionally specify a date range.
Why not let them be what they are? The most base level definition, a corporation is simply A group of people authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law.

Even if you take a slightly more expansive take on that, there is nothing that inherently means a corporation should exist to maximize profit. Its minimally viable definition is pretty well understood: A legal organization of people to act as a singular entity and are recognized as such under the law, typically formed as commercial entities to transact commerce on their behalf.

I don't think that misses anything.

Anything piled on top of that seems like something that should be specific from business to business. Thats my general issue with the US courts siding with maximize shareholder value to the point its now seen as a decree.

Especially when such rulings tend to trounce majority shareholders by minority ones.
If they wanted to use that information for underwriting they'd just make getting a genetic test a prereq before underwriting the policy.
systemd-resolved does special handling for .local because it's reserved for use with mDNS only. Using it outside of mDNS will cause problems.

> Multi-label names with the domain suffix ".local" are resolved using MulticastDNS on all local interfaces where MulticastDNS is enabled. As with LLMNR, IPv4 address lookups are sent via IPv4 and IPv6 address lookups are sent via IPv6.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
> So games are limited in what kind of gameplay they can offer

I disagree. Games will have limitations. Limitations constrain but foster creativity. Console games were already limited in so many ways yet people found amazing ways to make them fun as hell. When mobile games come I truly believed that nobody would be able to have fun there, yesterday I played the entire game of League of Legends retrofited for mobile and it works! So now VR gaming is great, people will find ways to make it even greater without free movement that makes you sick
When I was a manager meetings were darn close to my whole job. Sure there was some quiet work, but when if I'm going to be spending 6 of my 8 hours in the conference room, you might as well save space and just make the conference room my office instead of giving me a cube.

Also I think the focus on private conversations is a bit of a red herring. I can assure you, none of the engineers or sysadmins that reported to me wanted me in the middle of the cubes, constantly on the phone or having a conversation.

To be clear I think most employees should have offices.
It's wild to still be seeing random Elon tweets show up as serious comments. There are a number of reasons that so many companies incorporate in Delaware, and Elon having to follow some of the rules doesn't negate anything, despite him being cranky about it.
He always made gambles. But electric cars and space travel was cool, breaking up a safe space not so much apparently. I still remember the hipsters spinning their fidget spinners, swiping their iphones and discussing Musks latest endeavour like it was yesterday.

Granted I don't follow his every move so I'm out of the loop, but what objectively awful things has he done? I have plenty of opinions about many people, but none to the point we see some people hate Musk.

Edit: instead of downvoting, argue your points cowards.
If you're gonna go screen and keyboard might as well go the CLI route. So people could touch type.

You can still have the web based display and click targets, and have them send the commands to an in-browser terminal/command log. This allows people to learn the CLI while exploring the GUI.
You're contradicting yourself. If there can exist universes that can start from nothing and are not simulated then this universe could have started from nothing and not be simulated.
Looks very cool but unfortunately iOS only.
I also really really want to use TRAMP by default but there are some issues that keep it from being painless.

The problem with getting lsp modes working in things like docker containers is:

- docker containers set PATH
- tramp doesn't use PATH by default
- even using `(add-to-list 'tramp-remote-path 'tramp-own-remote-path)` doesn't work

tramp-own-remote-path doesn't work because:

*Note* that this works only if your remote ‘/bin/sh’ shell supports
the login argument ‘-l’.

For whatever reason this doesn't work in many docker containers or perhaps is a NixOS issue... not totally sure.

I need to revisit this at some point, because otherwise you have to update your tramp connections every time the PATH in the docker file changes, which for many make it a non-starter.

I'm sympathetic to the security first approach of why tramp doesn't just use PATH or the behavior of `tramp-own-remote-path` by default, but it makes working with the insecure by default rest of the IT ecosystem more difficult.

Related threads:

https://www.mail-archive.com/tramp-devel@gnu.org/msg05953.ht...
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/220187
Show HN: Stanchion – Column-oriented tables in SQLite
Hello HN!

I built stanchion to scratch my own itch. I have personal applications running on SQLite where I want to store log and metric data (basically forever) but don't want to add complexity by bringing in a new database or whole separate server. Some of these applications are running on a Raspberry Pi, where storage and compute are limited, but I still want data warehouse like capabilities.

I envision stanchion being used in similar scenarios: on phones and resource-limited devices in applications that are already using SQLite. I know that there are alternatives like DuckDB (which is very cool), but I want stanchion to be "good enough" that it is useful without having to add whole new database technology.

If you think stanchion may be a good fit for your use case and you are interested in contributing, please test it and provide feedback by opening issues for any bugs, difficulties, or missing features you would need! Ideas are also welcome in this thread or as a github issue. Of course stars are always appreciated as well. The CONTRIBUTING doc in the repository has more details.

- Dan
love this! The sounds are great and the caching is smart. I'd add a little loading animation or something... as a dev I knew it was hitting the LLM but my friend thought it was just laggy. I prototyped a similar concept with a numi/soulver type of UI a few weeks ago :) https://twitter.com/_0_/status/1747756622494265397

What model is being used for the backend?
Tree + Water = River

This is a great result, a branching of water/wood.
Except they appear to have done this in 2013, at least 13 years after people were using it for local internal dns
> But you can't just defeat market pricing by fiat, it just doesn't work.

True

But there is still a lot city and national governments can do.

"Rent control" should not mean simply "cap rents". It means having a richer set of criteria for allocation accommodation units than a market with price, and ability to pay
The first is about rights to do something, the second is opinion on what others should do.

e.g. "I support the right of people to eat what they want, but really wish they ate less junk food."

With respect to criticism, I tend to agree in general. I wish people spent less time giving importance or fixating on random dumb or offensive things people say.
The health data is pretty underwhelming for most people, outside of a few highly studied genes like BRCA variants. I did a genetic test and it reported that according to one study I had something like a 3% risk of a shoulder injury which is higher than the population average of 2%. So what am I supposed to do with that information, wear shoulder pads or something?
The levels of cluelessness of George Hotz is always amazing to watch.

No children allowed - do you intend to sterilize every women going to Wireheading City? No, free birth control is not going to work.

"export of these drugs is strictly prohibited, and you’ll be aggressively searched on your way through the exit path of the exclusion zone" - dude, if inmates are able to get drugs in prison, how efficient do you think your "aggressive search" is going to work? Have you also ever heard about drones, tech guy? And how exactly is the waste going to disappear from the city?

"Violent crime and property crime will be illegal in Wireheading City, so no weapons will be permitted in through the border" - well, problem solved! Hotz is a very intelligent guy pats head

The guy is completely unmoored to reality. Watch him drift further and further into crazyness in the coming years.
If that is not a reasonable interpretation then what are you trying to say? Humans are meant to eat meat but are physically incapable of performing the same actions that other meat eating animals can?
I'm ultimately glad Adobe is not going through with the deal, but I can still kinda appreciate the irony in this.

Regulators made the deal hard to keep more offerings on the market. In the end... the consumers still lost the choice. They saved patient for it to get hit by a bus.

Still, Adobe, why? Why not figure out sooner that you need to kill of your app - maybe before trying to get your purchase of the competitive product through an anti-competitive review?
FTA: "it’s really hard to expressively, passionately hate this business and not hate the young lady working in it"

Fact check: so false, as to call in question the author's good faith.
If it were "illegal", the State would be actively prosecuting any executive not making money. That's obviously absurd.

Not maximizing shareholder value (which in itself doesn't necessarily mean profit, btw) is, at best, a breach of contract, a civil matter between private parties. Losing a civil trial doesn't mean having done something illegal.

You know how people say things like "I wish the fundamentals of coding/math/financial accounting/music/whatever were actually taught in school, everyone should know them"? I wish people also got a basic understanding of legal terms.
I am sure he pretends to master the subject very well. Having never seen a single one of his videos, I can also tell you with 100% confidence they are a complete lie. He is not memorizing 100+ words a day + grammar. Maybe 20-50, maybe. Learning jujitsu fast is a complete joke - there is a physical component that can't be separated from the skill work. There is practice, which tires you out, etc. Feels dirty even responding to this tripe.
> at some point they realized that their headset had multiple months of dust on it

I bet these people also have consoles that are collecting dust as well
Such a good movie. (If a bit slow paced.)
Multi-bitrate JPEG compression perceptual evaluation dataset 2023
Because it seems like most people that bother to comment on posts about .internal are upset I’ll say that I’m perfectly happy with this decision and will gladly migrate my internal services to this new TLD.
I couldn't find it either. Fortunately, I downloaded the genotypes in July.
Tribe follows tribe and nation follows nation
> So basically: law intended to encourage domestic industry via economic pressure has intended effect.

Where is the domestic industry that was intended to be encouraged? Where are the US shipbuilders capable of building viable ships? Where are the US registered ships?

This 2019 press release from the department of transportation kind of says it all [1]:

> U.S. commercial shipbuilding of large merchant-type ships has been locked into a downward spiral of decreasing demand and an increased divergence between domestic and foreign shipbuilding productivity and pricing.

> In the case of large self-propelled oceangoing vessels, U.S. shipyards still lack the scale, technology, and the large volume “series building” order books needed to compete effectively with shipyards in other countries.

I'm not against the intent of the the Jones Act, but it hasn't resulted in a viable domestic industry of shipbuilding or water transport. Instead, water transport within the US is very limited and there's a lot of unnecessary import/export of fungible products. There's probably some amount of unnecessary import/export that's useful for other purposes --- economic relations between countries does have value, and maybe there's some additional flexibility this way.

Fundamentally, I think the question is: Is it better to have a barely viable shipyard industry and very limited domestic water shipping capacity or a military only shipyard industry and greater domestic water shipping capacity? And/or --- is there a better way to encourage the US shipyard industry than this?

[1] https://www.transportation.gov/testimony/us-maritime-and-shi...
I've used Outlook, Thunderbird, The Bat, Airmail, Spark and a few others I think.

Nothing beats not using email at all.

Fastmail has a good web client though. But what is more important it has aliases and "Masked email". They kind of make you life with email a bit more bearable.

Still - best email is dead email.
Isn't that the point of reserving something like .internal? So that people don't "borrow" a TLD that could get assigned to something else later?
I left academia a long time ago and now I buy ads for one of my old papers for fun. I still get citations from time to time which is nice.
It's hard to take Adobe XD seriously, because its name is a laughing face emoticon.

Or was that the whole point?

I can't wait till they ship Adobe 8D, which expands into Adobe 8====D after you play with it for a while.
I guess my actual concern is more just with job market in the profession. I think he has what it takes to be a decent "computer guy", I'm more worried there just won't be the jobs out there in 5 or even 10 years.
Ask HN: Early Amazon Culture?
Nowadays, Amazon is often invoked negatively with phrases like "PIP", and "Amazon managers". But I'm curious how different the culture was during Amazon's early years. Anyone stay long enough to notice a shift?
> Companies have been relentlessly thinking about how to automate and offshore positions, regardless of the broader economic trends

Sure? The point is WFH provides a working template that expands where it works, and where it’s worth trying.
A Compose Multiplatform app. Neat!
I have had this on my bookmark for a very long time. I didn't pursue physics as an undergrad but had a few of the books for my physics and chemistry courses. I can definitely recommend this guide. Perhaps I will follow this guide and pursue studying physics just as a hobby someday.

So You Want to Learn Physics… - https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
AD?

[edit] Oh, Active Directory
Unless I had a really long history with that company and was happy to move to another team I would immediately ask for a raise.
That was not the question. Your question was: "Does a balanced diet include fast food?"

The answer to that is simple: No.

A balanced diet is a healthy mix of essential nutrients. Highly processes foods rich in fat or sugar are not part of it [1]. Most advisories merely acknowledge that a large part of the population doesn't want to stop eating this stuff completely. But the real goal should always be zero.

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-guidelines-and-fo...
In the third_party_caveat code sample, I think you mean to be passing in the tag rather than the url, and the arguments at the call site are in the wrong order.

Edit: Or I guess along with the url.
Honestly it’s good from that aspect. CRUD apps bring worth billions just does the make sense.
2024 iPhone shipments likely to decline significantly by about 15% YoY