skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a lot of mental gymnastics. T gondii is a highly problematic pathogen, not sure why you are trying to find an alternative explanation.
What you're quoting is their literature review, not their study. Their study was:

>... conducted in a medium-size store operated by a large, nationally known chain of supermarkets ... The study covered a nine-week period starting on January 28 and ending on March 31, 1980...

... M0=no music, M1=slow, M2=fast music...

...they measured (1) traffic speed (2) daily gross sales (3)...

...for (1) they found: traffic flow was significantly slower with the slow tempo music (Ml mean = 127.53 seconds) than for the faster tempo music (M2 mean = 108.93 seconds) ... Ml stimulated an even slower pace than no music (a mean of 127.53 seconds for Ml compared to a mean of 119.86 for Mo), although not statistically significant...

...for (2) they found: The higher sales volumes were consistently associated with the slower tempo musical selections while
in contrast, the lower sales figures were consistently associated with the faster tempo music (MI mean = $16,740.23 compared with M2 mean = $12,112.85). This difference is significant...
Please allow Miranda Priestley to disabuse you of that notion:

https://youtu.be/Ja2fgquYTCg?feature=shared
All of physics, and science in general, is based on arguments from induction. If you want to call that illogical too, then, fair enough.
Anecdotally, I've been one of the oldest developers in my companies since I started in the industry. I have no idea where old developers go, but it's starting to feel a bit lonely here.
Do you think that the distortions effects are negative or positive overall now? And in the future? I'd argue they are positive now and in the future, so it sounds like this is where your disagreement is coming from (since you said it as if it's overwhelmingly negative now and into the future).
Play Doom via Console.log()
> Moderation tools fall under the “reach” layer: you take all of that speech, but provide a way to limit the reach of stuff you don’t care to see yourself.

Sometimes, people say that BlueSky is “all about free speech” or “doesn’t do moderation.” This is simply inaccurate. Moderation tooling is encoded into the protocol itself, so that it can work with all content on the network, even non-BlueSky applications. Moreover, it gives you the ability to choose your own moderators, so that you aren’t beholden to anyone else’s choice of moderation or lack thereof.

Ah yes, the famous "if you don't want to see this content, just close your eyes" approach to moderation. I know this philosophy is well-liked in Silicon Valley, but I think it's fundamentally flawed: There are legitimate situations in which you want to prevent unrelated other people from talking about a certain thing or acquiring certain content.

Classic examples are cybermobbing, doxxing and revenge porn: Two or more people talking about how to hurt a third person, publishing private, unflattering or false information about the person, etc. Removing this information from the victim's feed is completely useless (in fact it likely won't appear in their feed in the first place) as the harm comes from the fact that other people view the content or engage in the discussion. Nevertheless, the harm is real.

In a system with traditional moderation, a moderator could stop this kind of behaviour by deleting the posts for everyone and/or banning the perpetrators. None of this is possible in a "just hide the content" system.

Shared blocklists or "labels" won't work either as the consumers of the content don't have any motivation to block it - indeed, they want to see the revenge porn. The one who wants to block it is the victim, but it has no power to force everyone to use a particular blocklist. (The whole idea behind this system is to no one can force a blocklist on someone else)
> What’s the main difference between an ape’s brain and a human brain? Scale.

This is incredibly naive with absolutely no scientific basis. There is no evidence that this is in scale of data nor scale of architecture.

There are a number of animals with larger brains in terms of both mass and total number of neurons. An African Elephant has roughly 3x the number of neurons humans have. Dolphins beat humans in total surface area. Neanderthals are estimated to have had larger brains too! It isn't mass, neurons, neuron density, surface area. We aren't just scaled up chimps.
PCB information is useful for, among other things, doing board-level diagnostics and repairs of broken electronics to avoid turning it into e-waste.
FTA:

What is DirectSR?

Super Resolution Technology:

At its core, DirectSR is a super resolution technology designed to enhance graphics quality.

It aims to elevate the visual experience by upscaling lower-resolution content to higher resolutions, resulting in sharper images and improved details.

Standardized Solution:

Unlike vendor-specific solutions (think NVIDIA DLSS, AMD FSR and INTEL XESS), DirectSR seeks to establish a standardized approach.

It operates at a software level, making it compatible with a wide range of graphics cards and architectures.

The goal is to simplify implementation for game developers, ensuring that DirectSR works seamlessly across different GPUs.

Compatibility and Cores:

While specifics about the GPU cores remain undisclosed, DirectSR is likely to leverage GPU-accelerated cores.

It aims to be compatible with modern GPU architectures, including those already supporting Intel XeSS, AMD FSR, and NVIDIA DLSS.

By providing a unified solution, Microsoft aims to streamline the development process for game studios.
Url changed from https://polar.sh/epogrebnyak/posts/justpath-to-explore-path-..., which points to this.
Not doing something is not the same as not being able to do something. That should be pretty obvious to most people. Reach out and contact the author and find out rather than assuming that he's unable to explain what he means. His contact info is linked from the article page, click on his name.
OnePlus took a 3-year pause before increasing its smartwatch battery
Thank you, that’s gold
https://archive.ph/4huQd
A new vision for HCP Waypoint (2023)
I'm familiar with the NN-as-GP papers. In practice we don't train infinite width neural networks!
Tell HN: Amazon claims "Zero tolerance for fake reviews"
Noticed this for the first time today on Amazon.de:

> Zero Tolerance for Fake Reviews
> Our goal is to ensure that every review is trustworthy and useful. For this reason, we use both technology and human investigators to block fake reviews before customers ever see them.
> We lock Amazon accounts that violate our community guidelines. We also block sellers who purchase reviews and take legal action against parties that offer these reviews. Learn how you can report. [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GLHXEX85MENUE4XF
One of my favorite CRPG NPCs of all time is Erritis from Planescape: Tides of Numenera.

He's "infected" with nanobots called "The Audience." The nanobots were created in a long-forgotten war to push their hosts to take great, heroic risks. So he always ends up doing insane things in perfectly innocuous situations. It's great.

https://numenera.fandom.com/wiki/Erritis
I'm a staff engineer. My work is quite different from what I did as a senior. I spend much more time investigating/solving organizational problems, attempting to make knowledge available cross-teams, extracting requirements from existing projects, proposing new projects, etc.

When I'm not doing that, I'm working on deep technical issues, but I already did that as a senior/tech lead.
Hm, I'm having a weird and interesting issue with this website.

I'm using Firefox ESR with the (recommended) Auto Tab Discard [1] extension to save memory for idle background tabs. Unlike prior extensions AFAIU this should be using largely native browser code paths.

When I return to the jlreq page after it has idled out, all the Japanese text comes back and the "English" button is inoperative until I click one of the other language options.

Whose bug is this?

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
Quick creation of a Openseadragon viewer of the PCB from the article:
https://ha-norge.no/images/pcb_highres/highres_pcb.html

Full resolution on mobile phone without the need for downloadning 124MB JPG. The image consist of layer with different resolution, and a lot of tiny pictures (+ 45.000). Enjoy.
Well, the site's not backendmasters
Dunno about that but I do know that RMS made a huge contribution to open source and Rossman seems to be doing the same for right to repair.

I’m happy that people are doing good work even if they have shitty opinions or are even shitty humans. I will appreciate what they have done for humanity.
Yeah, the problem with central is that it can get out of sync, but for tracking time it's definitely superior
Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)
You left out the part where the President tried to persuade the Vice President not to ratify the election based on manufactured false pretense of election fraud.

Or that same President trying to persuade another State’s elected officials to “find votes” so he could win.
I Read All 59 of Warren Buffett's Annual Letters. These Are the Best Parts
One data point that supports your assertion: Japan has 29 lawyers per 100k population. The US has 4,000.
Don't you think it's strange that humans have little to no interest when root causes to their problems are found?
In Search of the Last Saola
I’m sure the point about labor unions is true in this case, but I did a quick search and it seems labor union participation is even higher in Japan. 17% in the Japan and 10% in the USA.

I think in many ways we do labor unions wrong in the US, and from my cursory knowledge it seems like the Taft-Hartley act has a lot to do with it. That concentrated union power in the leadership which created an opportunity for more corruption, and also weakened certain powers that would make labor struggles more useful. Of course in Japan, they would likely use Japanese workers due to strong nationalist sentiment so this particular issue wouldn’t occur.

I’m only saying this because some will read your comment and take away “labor unions bad”. I suspect that the truth is we aren’t doing labor unions properly here, and also the desire to use Taiwanese workers suggests there is something lacking about the US education system. It is of course reasonable for US workers to want a chance, but we need to make sure they are worthy of that chance. You can leave it up to the market to let people find higher education, but that’s going to leave smaller numbers in the end due to how wealth is distributed in this country. If you want higher numbers of educated workers, more provisions for affordable education are required.
The right reason is a preference, i.e. some in our state think the right reason is to prevent building so that manufacturing is done in other countries.
Or they could just use dollars like the U.S. is doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/climate/enriched-uranium-...
IDK about easier... How is it easier if you now need to add in a DB, workers need to pulse their availability (load on DB), and you need to write queries to the DB to figure it out, handle race conditions on claiming resources, etc?
Windows and macOS font rendering difference
I couldn’t write any other type of code if I tried
The oldest hackies tell it like it was (1966)
Right, that's what qemu has ended up with.
Making Carbon Steel Hairsprings for Watches [video]
Confusing sincere but incorrect belief with hallucination is categorically wrong.
Just bought a new PC, it won't let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account
F2B shrinks the attack surface. There's almost no chance of somebody getting in if you secure your server properly, but "almost no" is not zero, and making it even closer to zero seems like a good idea. My main concern is that some future update to SSHd will contain a zero-day vulnerability and F2B would at least slow the bad guys down. My second concern is that I might spin up a server and forget to disable SSH passwords and leave one enabled that happens to show up in a password database. Oof.
it would be curious to see the average gap between toxoplasmosis stories. it's the topic that just keeps on getting clicks, every few months, in various guises, for years.
Real world and toy examples are very different. The example isn't like what people are using coroutines for in the real world. I'd urge you to look at how coroutines are used for inversion of control (quite correctly) in qemu.
> Worrying about how to compress the data in real time doesn't seem like a good way to pay attention.

Well the whole point is that you should only do it if it actually helps you pay attention. If it is a distraction, then of course you should not do it.

I guess typewriting tends to generally be more of a distraction. But again, if it turns out that typewriting is the best way for you to learn, feel free to do it!
It is one of the most dangerous markets to compete in, and often leads to one's demise, but I don't see it as an absolute guarantee. Regardless, lots of historic undertakings (and accomplishments) with outsized rewards came with substantial risk....maybe modern Westerners have become too soft to be the masters of our own destiny.
In on the Joke at the First-Ever Florida Man Games
It’s important to differentiate between standards and regulation. It’s entirely possible that the US has far higher bureaucratic red tape to navigate that increases costs and time but doesn’t actually produce superior quality products.
It was definitely true for Objective-C with GNUStep, or during the time Microsoft had their porting framework into Windows Store (Windows Bridge for iOS).
It would be \\n
Maybe this is why we need to force LLMs to dream. To get all the hallucinations out of the way during ‘down time’ and clean things up for ‘waking hours’.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/us/florida-man-games.html...
Please don't be the jerk who leaves fake bills that say tipping is detrimental. I promise you that servers don't have power over management to change the tipping system, you'll just come off as an asshole.

The difference is that wait staff effectively get paid 20% less than they would otherwise, on the expectation of getting a 20% tip. According to US labor law you can even pay servers less than minimum wage, as long as their tips make up for the difference. So by not tipping you're shorting workers of their wages.

If you want to end tipping culture, call the restaurant owners and tell them to bake tips into the menu prices.
Futurama predicted it
> Bigtable _uses_ leveldb as its per-shard local storage mechanism

Ah, that's probably what I'm conflating with it then.

Thanks for the information.
You’re the first comment I’ve seen that has the same view as me. I don’t know why so many people worship that guy. Same with RMS. Both of those dudes give me the creeps even though I often hold the same or similar views on their areas of specialization.

Someone, long ago, once told me: “There’s always going to be someone on your side that you wish was on the other side.”

I didn’t realize how true that would become until years later.
First, I'm not religious in any way. I thought that was clear but maybe not.

Second, I'm not attacking you. My candor comes across as brash sometimes.

Asking "how come smart people often believe stupid shit" (again, candor, that's basically what you're asking) doesn't really have a reply that would satisfy you. But you don't have to understand it, they do. All you have to do is acknowledge that people believe what they believe and let them be.

Whether someone else's branch is harmful says something about your particular brand of faith. They don't think it harms others. Would anything you believe in harm people if it were implemented? Is everything you think good and correct? People don't owe you an explanation for what they believe, just like you don't owe me answers to these two questions. We all believe things others don't like, we all believe things that others would view as harmful, and we all believe things we don't understand.
One also has to consider other factors. Despite the evolution of the core of Emacs not being impressive and possibly even stagnating, it is remarkable how many external packages are available. GitHub alone hosts numerous Emacs Lisp packages, making it the largest body of Lisp code among various Lisp dialects, surpassing Clojure, Common Lisp, Racket, and others. Isn't that impressive? Can someone name a single scripting language used exclusively for configuring a specific editor that is as widely used as Emacs Lisp? Elisp is not a general use programming language; it's not very popular, even among Lisp-hackers; it's not even a great Lisp - it lacks tons of nice features other Lisp dialects had for decades. Yet it is undeniably, the most used Lisp of them all.
How can anyone observe all of this and claim that Emacs is dying?
> What is the difference between a machine that for all intents and purposes appears to understand something to a degree of 100 percent versus a human?

There is no such difference, we evaluate that based on their output. We see these massive model make silly errors that nobody who understands it would make, thus we say the model doesn't understand. We do that for humans as well.

For example, for Sora in the video with the dog in the windos, we see the dog walk straight through the window shutters, so Sora doesn't understand physics or depth. We also see it drawing the dogs shadow on the wall very thin, much smaller than the dog itself, it obviously drew that shadow as if it was cast on the ground and not a wall, it would have been very large shadow on that wall. The shadows from the shutters were normal, because Sora are used to those shadows being on a wall.

Hence we can say Sora doesn't understand physics or shadows, but it has very impressive heuristics about those, the dog accurately places its paws on the platforms etc, and the paws shadows were right. But we know those were just basic heuristics since the dog walked through the shutters and its body cast shadow in the wrong way meaning Sora only handles very common cases and fails as soon as things are in an unexpected envionment.
You mean Kagi? They’re pretty transparent about how they approach query data, and it’s as privacy-friendly as any I’ve seen.

https://kagi.com/privacy
Notes on paper (2023)
So frustrating to not have a screenshot in GitHub :'(
That's not a problem with building, tons of people in the US know how to lay down asphalt and make concrete because its a very local industry (the materials are too heavy to be economical long distance). It's a problem with white flight and the post-war suburban expansion that way overbuilt the supporting road system without considering how much it would cost to maintain in the future.

Now as more and more of the deferred maintenance bills come due, they have to make the hard decisions they should have made a long time ago.
If TG can be spread sexually maybe it could be classed as a STD and a scary one that actually changes behaviour to spread more.
Jaysen- Jay-s-on
I did but the comment still holds.
Japan has the highest fertility rate in asia
Florida Passes Sweeping Bill to Keep Young People Off Social Media
^^^ why is this downvoted?!?!

Nothing is wrong in this statement.
I don’t know if it’s exactly the same, but the ads and BS that get pushed onto my TCL / Google TV are infuriating. I’m convinced it’ll become unusable with a few years of updates because they can’t help themselves and will keep shoveling crap onto the Home Screen.
This sounds like Dave Chappelle’s view about Cosby: “he rapes, but he saves”
And if a very, very successful AI researcher who rose through the industry against significant odds got headlines for talking about the mechanics of film production, I'd discount him, too.
Definitely, "labels as values" (aka "computed gotos", https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html) is so much better than Duff's device.

Unfortunately, computed-gotos is not a C language standard. I don't understand why. I think FORTRAN had it in the 60s. It is so useful in some situations, like a coroutine, or a byte-code interpreter. Is it because some obscure DSP chip with a sizeof(char)==32 using 1's complement arithmetic can't support it? Then maybe make it implementation-defined and allow the rest of the world get nice things.
Ahab's Leg Dilemma
The more worker’s rights the less work?
Another entry for https://noyaml.com
MS Word is dramatically different from a 737. If MS Word doesn't work quite right, people spend 5 minutes looking up a work-around, or live with not-quite-as-prettily-formatted documents. If a 737 doesn't work quite right, hundreds of people die.

Basic table-stakes for having any sort of decision-making authority at a company is understanding the context of your decisions. A word processor that tries to get everything right hasn't launched yet. A airliner that moves fast and breaks things...well, breaks things.
What's Behind the Evolution of Neanderthal Portraits
The measure — which Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would “be wrestling with” over the weekend and has not yet signed …………..The new rules in Florida, passed on Thursday, would require social networks to both prevent people under 16 from signing up for accounts and terminate accounts that a platform knew or believed belonged to underage users. It would apply to apps and sites with certain features, most likely including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube.
I didn’t know what it was until someone posted a reply to my comment. I don’t have an Android device and I can’t be bothered to fill in the obvious gaps the author left when the thing isn’t of immediate consequence to me.

It wasn’t intentional, but one could argue by my not defining the term I helped it really sink in for people how annoying it is, heh.
Martti Malmi unveils old email conversations with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, detailing their joint efforts on launching Bitcoin's website using Drupal.
No. They shouldn’t.

I can’t think of a worse American policy idea than giving preferential treatment letting companies exploit American workers more aggressively, but only if the owners of the company who will profit from this are not American.
I think you are forced to login with a Google account on Android TV, I remember when setting up an emulator on Android Studio it wouldn't let me get past the setup without an account.
I disagree with this take on a couple of fronts.

Yes, China does not have domestic silicon manufacturing as advanced as competing nations, but SMIC is producing 7nm chips - far more advanced than the double-digit process referenced in the article. There are of course benefits to smaller process nodes, but nothing prevents SIMD processors at larger nodes from running the same accelerated code as smaller nodes. If the Chinese government were so inclined it could manufacture what it needs and eat the higher energy costs. They already build supercomputers for state projects, this is just a different kind of computer. Model alignment is of course an open problem, but it isn't insurmountable. Although AI could undermine the regime by containing knowledge refuting the state's propaganda, that isn't stopping domestic businesses from creating heavily censored conversational AIs today. The Great Firewall isn't impervious, consumer model restrictions won't be either - but they don't need to be. They just have to work well enough to prevent the formation of a critical mass of dissent. The Chinese government is certainly aware of the potential of AGI and is certainly working on projects in private to pursue their goals. A "race" might not be the best term for the ongoing situation, but don't dismiss them as incapable of posing a threat.