skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downloaded a Snellen chart, and put it up on the wall. I practice twice a day. I read somewhere that you can also have a closer chart and a distance chart and to swap looking at each throughout the day.

Of course, you could memorize the letters, but that isn't really helping you. What you want to do is to focus on the blurry point, try to make out the letters. Over time, you'll slowly find that you are able to improve.

Previously, when I was younger, I just focused on getting outside more and trying to read signs that were far off in the distance, or ensure that I was looking at far distant objects regularly.
I hope you're doing well as you can. I injured my back many years ago and I was worried about developing a habit. Surgery and PT have got me back to 95% though I occasionally use medical marijuana as a crutch for bad days. I count myself lucky, not everyone can deal with their symptoms with exercise and light medication.
I thought Usenet users wanted that due to spam from Groups?
Very fun poem! But do you know who Phong Ngo is? I'm having much trouble finding on the Web any other works attributed to such an author.
Ask HN: Do you have refinement sessions too?
My team has one (sometimes two) refinement sessions per sprint (1 sprint = 2 weeks). What we do in these sessions is basically a mini-brainstorming about jira tasks that will go into the next sprint (plus assigning story points). Typically one engineer is on charge of presenting a jira task for refinement (usually a jira task is written by a product manager, but there are gaps and the assigned engineer needs to “fill the gaps” so that the whole team knows what the task is about).

We just got a new manager (ex faang), and he has introduced refinements in our sprints. I can’t but think these refinement sessions are huge waste of time.
You could serve ads in RSS. Either has their own distinct items, or embedded in the content of the RSS feed. Although I suppose the point your making is that these forms of ads wouldn't be something that Google necessarily could control or monetize.
It is not mandatory for consumption, but that is not the problem anyway. The problem is that actual crimes are done while under the influence and in that situation the court will give out mandatory participation in rehabilitation. If you fail to do so the court’s social services will advise the judge for other measures.

If you think of it nobody bothers with alcohol consumption but if you have an accident under the influence of alcohol it is pretty reasonable the judge prescribes AAA participation, instead of just punishing you. Failure to do so can then lead to the judge finding you guilty on more severe charges like involuntary manslaughter or just plain contempt.
Of course crimes related to heavy drugs are often much more severe so if you don’t play nice you will go to jail and not come out for some time. Portuguese prisons are also overbooked and known for being very miserable.
Related. Others?

The Radioactive Boy Scout (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31318248 - May 2022 (54 comments)

The Radioactive Boy Scout (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23538908 - June 2020 (1 comment)

The Radioactive Boy Scout (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15466860 - Oct 2017 (34 comments)

“Radioactive Boy Scout” who tried to build a homemade nuclear reactor dead at 39 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12957768 - Nov 2016 (67 comments)

Radioactive Boyscout (David Hahn: Oct 30, 1976 – Sep 27, 2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12951194 - Nov 2016 (2 comments)

The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9867739 - July 2015 (5 comments)

The Radioactive Boy Scout (1998) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310748 - Sept 2013 (1 comment)

The radioactive boy scout: the teenager who attempted to build a breeder reactor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=611583 - May 2009 (18 comments)
https://athenaintelligence.ai our product renders mermaid markdown, which has mind map, ERD, flow diagram and other high level components. since we run everything through an agent/llm it’s become an interesting way to literately brainstorm.
>$28K per homeless person in the city per year to "address homelessness"

Do you have a source for that number, or similar numbers for other cities? I believe you, just wondering if there's a breakdown or something. It's absolutely bonkers to imagine.
We'll just have our trusty robot companions remember our entire lives and remind us as we go.

It'll be _perfect_.
You don't. Arguably, as far as the software is concerned, karma points are a signal for meaning but of course it doesn't work that way in practice. Maybe you could sort by a ratio of upvotes to comments, or recency, obviously leaving flagged threads out, possibly also leaving out threads that can no longer be commented on. But all of that is just sorting by a bad heuristic (karma) with extra steps.

I don't think you should bother trying to find "meaningful" threads at all, since there is no objective definition for that in context, other than "relatedness" to the current thread. I have a browser plugin that does it, it doesn't need to be that deep. Let readers decide what is meaningful to them. You can't automate everything.
At least they're calling it Open-Weight. I like the term Model-Available. Definitely not Open Source though.
BSD seems nice but nobody uses them outside of firewalls or appliances. Therefore sort of useless in the end for doing work.
Are they forced in? I thought they were given a choice of pursuing a treatment program funded by the state, or getting a more conventional punishment such as jail time.
That entire section is about amateur rockets; nothing there applies to balloons.
A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets
Lockbit Statement on FBI Takedown
IIRC there were volunteers, at least 3 or 4 engs who were content to work on maintaining it either as their 100% project or as their 120% project, but it just wasn't an option.
I don't understand why maintainer is so snarky when this tool found legit issue that they fixed <wtf>
The comments will inform the drafting of regulations on open weight models under the Biden executive order on AI using his powers under the Defense Production Act.

Fact Sheet: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

Full Details: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
I am proudly still immature enough to enjoy the the below anecdote, especially the apt species name:

"Hermaphroditic marine flatworms (Pseudobiceros hancockanus) are known to duke it out to determine which one will provide the sperm and which one will receive it. These flamboyant, flowy creatures rear up and attempt to stab each other with their dual-pronged penises. The loser will be saddled with the hassle of rearing the young, while the winner gets to go off to fight another sperm-centric battle."
GenAI and erroneous medical references
Sigma 500mm F/5.6 DG DN Sport Review: The Perfect Telephoto?
Ah, thanks for the clarification; I think I misread you here:

> The weasel word here is "reliably". What does this actually mean? It obviously cannot be reliable in a sense of always giving the correct result, because this would make understanding something a strict binary

What did you mean by "it cannot be reliable in a sense of always giving the correct result", and why would that make understanding something a strict binary?

I do agree that some people understand some topics more deeply than others. I believe this to be true if for no other reason than watching my own understanding of certain topics grow over time. But what threw me off is that someone with "lesser" understanding isn't necessarily less "reliable". The degree of understanding may constrain the possibility space of the person, but I think that's something other than "reliability".

For example, someone who writes software using high level scripting languages can have a good enough understanding of the local context to reason about and produce code reliably. But that person may not understand in the same way that someone who built the language understands. And this is fine, because we're all working with abstractions on top of abstractions on top of abstractions. This does restrict the possibility space, e.g. the systems programmer/language designer can elaborate on lower levels of the abstraction, and some people can understand down to the bare metal/circuit level, and some people can understand down to the movement of atoms and signaling, but this doesn't make the JavaScript programmer less "reliable". It just means that their understanding will only take them so far, which primarily matters if they want to do something outside of the JavaScript domain.

To me, "reliability" is about consistency and accuracy within a problem space. And the ability to formulate novel conclusions about phenomena that emerge from that problem space that are consistent with the model the person has formed.

If we took all of this to the absurdist conclusion, we'd have to accept that none of us really understand anything at all. The smaller we go, and the more granular our world models, we still know nothing of primordial existence or what anything is.
I've known quite a lot of lawyers for various reasons.

I would say many of them are rather smart. However I would also say that many of them are not very interedted in things.

That's a strange sentence I know, but what I mean is that they often seem to have a distinct lack of curiosity about the broader world.

I don't quite know why. I can think of a few things that contribute to this: having very little free time during their degree, and then being crazy overworked in internships (matches with doctors, who I find also share this intersection of traits), occupying one of the most adventurous periods of most people's lives for them with narrow toil and misery; mixing in a very incestuous social millieu which is constituted of people who not only work professionally within the same "industry", but usually have very similar backgrounds; charging in 6-minute increments, which has a strange psychological effect on how you spend your free-time by quantifying down to almost a minute the opportunity cost of anything else you spend time learning or doing, all while you already have a reasonably high paying job; already spending an enormous amount of time reading, collecting, arranging, reasoning, and synthesising about knowledge, which, having completed a masters degree, I can assure you, has a deleterious effect on one's capacity and interest in doing so during one's meagre free time.

These are just ad hic theories about what might contribute to the phenomena, but the point is, while many lawyers are intelligent, my experience is they are both ignorant and incurious in many ways.
The problem looks minor, but real.

The reporting is terrible though. Publicly releasing severe vulnerabilities is not very ethical. But they also called it severe without actually analyzing it.

Their AI really looks like a useful tool, but that's not the best way to show it off to say the least.

Is it a commercial system and is their intention to advertise that they found a severe vulnerability in curl with it?
UNRWA was created in 1949 to help displaced Palestinians from the 1948 Palestine war. That was 76 years ago. Today the Palestinian life expectancy is 74. (In 1948, it was under 50.) Almost everyone they're supposed to be helping is dead.
Ancient Genomes Reveal Down Syndrome in Past Societies
I think the iPod played a critical role in normalizing podcasts as a globally accepted form of content consumption. And I actually don't think RSS was too far behind. There is more in the way of development and integration that could have continued to normalize RSS, And I suspect it wasn't a specific reaction to the benefits of RSS, so much as it was the company's mobilization behind Google Plus, that led to their strategic pivot.

That core passionate user base that believed in and used the product, I believe was in fact the critical alchemy that was missing from Google+, which by comparison was soulless and pushed by strategic considerations rather than organic iteration on user feedback or response to user needs. Articles have been written about this before, but I absolutely believe in the right circumstances Google could have successfully built out a social network, but it was Google Reader in fact was becoming one. I think Google correctly assessed that there was redundancy between Google Reader and Google Plus, but they just chose the wrong path.
Why not use ActivityPub?

ActivityPub is a federated social networking technology popularized by Mastodon.

Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements. Our solution for portability requires both signed data repositories and DIDs, neither of which are easy to retrofit into ActivityPub. The migration tools for ActivityPub are comparatively limited; they require the original server to provide a redirect and cannot migrate the user's previous data.

Other smaller differences include: a different viewpoint about how schemas should be handled, a preference for domain usernames over AP’s double-@ email usernames, and the goal of having large scale search and discovery (rather than the hashtag style of discovery that ActivityPub favors).

from https://atproto.com/guides/faq
No, it’s kind of like living when you are 4 years old. Very different than when you’re 40.
That sounds low.

https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-11-billion-....

says $57k per person.
A Modern Operating System in 1.44MBs
I would be wary of extrapolating what the author is writing of here to general software projects. I think it makes a lot of sense on large open source projects, where there are many contributors with little context- it is worth the effort to maintain such a document in this case. But all the developer committed documentation I've seen on smaller work projects have inevitably become unmaintained.
No need to fight anything. When it is actually useful, I’ll be happy to use it.

Is “upskill to prompt ai” the new “learn to code”?
Fewer types:

Values are at the center of your computations. Only a handful of predefined types of values exist:

3 # int
"Candy" # text
Green # symbol (uppercase)
(Foo, Bar) # list
[Name: "Candy"] # struct
{ it -> add it 2 } # function

Not having a Hash/Dict type is very oldschool lisp-y.
The issue is less related to morality, which I think is what you are referring to, and more following the ethical guidelines and standards for a journal. The former is relative, and the latter is definite and concrete. It’s related to “following the rules,” less about “conceiving of right and wrong as I do.”

That’s where the interrelation with following standards regarding honesty, transparency, etc. You can fall afoul of these out of inability to follow the rules rather than duplicity - there are standards for record keeping, statistical rigor, etc, which are prescriptive and fairly inconvenient. If you can’t follow the ethics rules because you find them inconvenient per your cost benefit analysis, what about rigorous record keeping? Not ignoring inconvenient outliers? What calculus do you use that lets you choose which inconvenient rule you won’t follow? As someone who doesn’t know your standards, how do I trust you’re making well informed decisions that don’t skew results in your favor in your convenience calculus?

A simpler way is hold a standard and rules and when you vary you assume variance exists everywhere.

This is science, not business. Science isn’t just about discovering results, it’s about conveying your results in a rigorous and believable way following high standards that build confidence others can build ontop of your work. Cutting corners damages your reputation on all dimensions.

I would also note these standards come about for a real reason it’s not just a bunch of anti progress bureaucrats devising ways to make everything expensive from a “western” culture perspective. These are best practices derived from observations of real and genuine horrors. They are absolutely restrictive. But when the rules don’t exist, some jackass somewhere does something inhuman and gets rewarded for it. Maybe it creates progress, but it leaves real victims whose lives are destroyed. This being unacceptable isn’t a western culture thing. It’s a human thing. No one wants to be the victim, and most people agree it’s not ok to exploit and harm people for your benefit. The difference is some societies (not cultures) have weak systems that protect the individual over profit, power, and greed. One could make the argument that the current society in China doesn’t prioritize human rights very highly, but I think it’s wrong to say Chinese culture doesn’t. There’s a difference between a people and their government.
You're right, I was flippant with my descriptors.
Agreed - I am a bit troubled by the maintainer stance here, even if they have to wade through a bunch of AI nonsense every day and this report is fluffed up way too hard.

"We assume 64 bit overflow is not going to happen because nobody can store that many bytes" could be valid if the existence of those bytes was required for reaching this code. But if user input can lead to UB being triggered here, fixing the code is indeed prudent, even if everyone were fully convinced that current compilers are not outsmarting themselves.
> A well-known example of the Shirky effect in this context is the cobra effect. It describes a case where British colonial officials in Delhi (India), set a bounty on dead cobras, in order to reduce the cobra population. However, this led citizens to breed the cobras for profit, and eventually to release them when the bounty was canceled.

Human nature FTW!

That's like the Dilbert cartoon, where engineers wrote bugs, and fed them to the QA people for the bounty.

I understand that was actually based on a real event.
>The fact that many stopped using RSS after the demise of Reader is simply a reflection of how many people Google introduced to RSS.

Right, but simultaneously, that statement is an affirmation of how much damage Google did to RSS, by eliminating their support for a protocol that they themselves had done so much to elevate.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine implies otherwise.

It's unlikely the US will find itself in such a conflict soon due to their technological advantage. However, multiple simultaneous engagements can stretch the available manpower to such an extent that a draft is needed.
If the point is to get better at your craft, pursuing rapid promotion (especially into management) is antithetical to the goal. Craft comes from practice.

I’m sure there are all sorts of cynical strategies that are more effective for getting promoted, but if you love programming then putting the love into your programming will probably work out alright for you.
> Edit: Just want to make one point really clear; these errors don't generally manifest out of the box. That is, it takes time before the CPU becomes affected. In my case, every CPU took between 1-3 months before the exact same behaviour started to show. DX12 and shader comp, either at initial shader comp or during gameplay, would crash the game client out.

> The issues started small. Very occasional errors as per the title, when trying to load the game, but clicking away and trying again would mostly work. Then sometimes work. Then never work, indicating the CPU was degrading. Then even in times where it would load to the menu, trying to get to the staging area would crash out, again with the same error. Checking the game log, it pointed to the shader comp causing a fatal error.

> Replacement CPUs fixed all that. For a while. But in those cases, the game would load up and go into a match but during gameplay, would CTD. Checking the game log again, it showed that shader decompression, due to traversal, was again causing a fatal error.

Uh oh, looks like the physical CPU itself degrades over time. The problem here is that currently, the only fix once you start experiencing the degradation appears to be a complete replacement of the CPU. I have a sneaking suspicion we will see some micro-code or dodgy kernel patches which affect performance.

The only current proposed work around will buy time, but will still degrade:

> "Intel i9 13900k/i7 13700k: Underclock 'Performance Core' Speed
It has been noted that players with the Intel i9 13900k/i7 13700k CPU are prone to these crashes. Players have been able to work around this by underclocking the 'Performance Core' speed using Intel XTU, from x55 to x53."

Note to self, steer well clear of Intel for a while.
How would a giant meteor like that have stayed intact? The article explains why there wouldn't be an impact crater, but even then, it would heat up massively during entry and it wouldn't exactly land softly. Then again, it'd land on sand which might be a bit more forgiving I suppose. But yeah, I'd expect it to shatter, and / or there being a lot of debris around it as well.

(I am an armchair internet commenter, I don't know much about these things)
No, they won't pointlessly waste energy like that.

Also Roko's Basilisk is mainly an excuse to ask for donations to the "Machine Intelligence Research Institute" which claims that giving them all your money is the best way to prevent this.
How do key matrices work?
That's a great point! I'd agree that just the extra emotional motivation from having your own thing is worth a ton. I get some distance down that way by having a large RAM no GPU box, so that things are slow but at least possible for random small one offs.
An ethical code and standard however is. Cutting corners in following the rules in one area for convenience is indicative of not following rules that inconvenience you. It’s not relevant if you agree with the morality of the ethics, which are rules and are singular and expressed as a standard. If you can’t comply, you can’t be assumed you follow the other rules as well.
Perhaps it’s a smaller piece of a much larger meteor?
It's fascinating to think of what alternative norms could have emerged. I think people forget how significant delicious was to its particular time on the internet. I think it was every bit as influential as Reddit during its heydey, but unfortunately was catastrophically mismanaged into the ground by Yahoo.

I do think delicious could have normalized social bookmarking in different circumstances.
They don't love the product, they love how it makes them feel. So your product either has to be addictive or confer status.
I believe there’s currently a single relay. When there are multiple relays, each will have a different view of the network, and the one that includes more posts will be better than the others.

It might be quite hard to get relay diversity rather than using a single dominant relay, sort of like attempting to get traction for an alternative DNS system. Then, if your posts don’t get picked up by the dominant relay then it seems like you’re out of luck?

But it’s still very early, so perhaps it won’t work out that way. And even if there is a dominant relay, well, GitHub isn’t so bad, and there are alternatives.
X: We're slowly rolling out audio and video calling to non premium users
don't game the system, make the system
Like AlphaGo Zero, but for Chess.