skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a case has reached the Supreme Court, it means that many judges have been confused along the way. And it says more about the law than judges.

It rather seems that the author has very strong convictions and bias.
They banned r/fatpeoplehate. Never forget
I credit cannabis edibles with burnout prevention and focus improvement. It seems likely that I have ADHD, and for whatever reason edibles keep me motivated in a similar way to adderall. I write SQL daily, if that’s considered coding in this context. Bugs are not really a concern with SQL, I triple check my results to make sure I’m not making calculation mistakes. One thing it doesn’t always help with is task avoidance (if it’s not something I want to do), pure stimulants are better for that. Everyone is different, but I have zero plans to alter course, edibles make my job more interesting and much less boring. I highly recommend Wyld brand sativa gummies.
Yeah that's nuts. Sauna is for unwind and relax. You'll be spending max 10-15 minutes per entry, max 4-5 entries. I'm sure Americans are far more busy than Fins, but that somewhat ruins the aura of sauna.
Something I was hoping to see is more about APIs for folks making their own specialized experiences. NOAA is doing a good job at raw data, but a lot of gov services consumption & utilization is more specific.

We are building some emergency management tools here (genAI first: continuous monitoring -> alerting, chatbots, tailored sitrep reports: feel free to reach out!), and as many agencies, utilities, etc, need specialized variants, I've come to appreciate the last mile data & UI difficulties that weather.gov must be solving internally and would benefit other agencies.

Weather.gov afaict is run by NWS under NOAA, so interesting it's not in the mission revamp here..
Please don't start nationalistic flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Assumptions about which country another commenter is from are frequently wrong, btw.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
brake pads on Teslas don't get used as much, thanks to regenerative braking though, to the point that they start rusting (until Tesla updated the firmware). So EVs come out ahead there.

The downside of EVs getting better batteries is that the range anxiety goes away, and because the car speakers are powered from those same batteries, EVs with extremely loud stereos will be able to blast their music for all of their neighbors to enjoy for an extra long time without sacrificing the vehicles ability to get there and back.
Nothing except the costs, but then it's not a single reactor anymore and other power plants scale as or more easily. So nothing is really special about fusion power if we just want to scale horizontally.
You may be getting richer in dollar denominated value, and you may even be getting richer in purchasing power for assets right now, but if asset prices (say housing) are increasing 10%-15% year on year can you maintain that 'getting richer'?

Also from the sounds of it, and the fact you are both on HN and doing well in the market right now, implies you are in a pretty good position, compared to the general population.

To answer your question more directly, the market is doing well because both the metrics and mechanics of markets are heavily heavily gamed. The 1 trillion dollars that is being added to the US debt is going _somewhere_. You happen to be getting a piece of it which you think is great (understandably), but you can be assured that there are many people above you in the chain getting much bigger pieces, and people lower in the chain getting less and less.

A dog hanging around the table of warlords will be a lot better fed than the dogs whos owners just got their harvest taken from them.
A promising leap towards computers with light-speed capabilities
In what part of the world is it typical to say "45 year engineer"? I'm an engineer in the western US, and would say "an engineer with 45 years of experience". I interact with lotsa international english; this one is new
Because Neanderthals were discovered in Europe, people think Neanderthal DNA is a marker of European ancestry.

East and South Asians, and Native Americans have higher Neanderthal DNA than Europeans.

Source: https://images.app.goo.gl/Q1JLpT6MqiubCHq18
It really depends upon the dosage. If you get completely baked, of course you aren't going to be very productive. However, a lower end dosage can have a relaxing effect and sometimes stimulate ideas that might not be considered otherwise. The same is probably true of booze. A drink or two might have net positive effects but drink a 750 and you aren't going to do very much of anything good.
I was under the impression most minimal phones don't have wifi hotspot feature/capability ?
Bit of discussion 6 hours ago [0] (19points, 7 comments) - this is the same text, different syndication.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39573032
If those 78% of shareholders believe that Elon having $56B MORE is a priority in their lives, then should just voluntarily give Elon their shares or send him cash.
> And that’s the issue - everyone wants to use Apple’s App Store and have their own payment system not avoid the exposure they get from the App Store.

But why would it be an issue to be in the App Store and provide your own payment option? Why not just let developers do that and let the market decide? I’ve asked that about four times now and you still haven’t actually explained why.
I really hope the trend of asking for free work dies.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch in Bash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347501 - Feb 2022 (90 comments)
In Korea they cook soy-sauce-marinated eggs
> Memory unsafe? No government contract for you!

That's exactly what the GP pointed that isn't on the memo.

But if you insist on using unsafe languages, and not using any of the tools and procedures available for making those safer, then yes, no contract money for you, and no insurance if something happens.
I spent fifteen minutes in a 112 deg F shower today [1] at presumably near total humidity. I do this all the time, and that isn't even hot.

I was born and live in heat, so when I hear cold climate SF denizens say the end is nigh, I have to chuckle.

I took a look at your source [2]. I'll have to read the underlying literature. The way this is presented to a lay audience doesn't make it clear if they're controlling for acclimation. I'm not educated in physiology beyond an undergrad class, so I'm not sure if their measure is a good proxy.

It'll take sixty years to raise the temperature two degrees, after which I'll probably be dead. It'll take centuries to push into dangerous ranges. I think we're already building the tech to deal with this, and very little growth is exponential. This is going to be yet another sigmoid. And in geologic times, just noise.

I will say I am worried about loss of species diversity. But I'm more worried about a lack of cheap energy to fuel our ascendent climb to the next stages. And more worried about nukes.

As far as green tech goes, I've always been worried about particulate matter in the air leading to cardiopulmonary diseases. So it's not a bad thing and I've never once been against it.

What I am concerned about is that we're teaching Gen Z and Gen Alpha to just give up. Go look at /r/GenZ and all the threads about climate - these kids are just giving up on life because of these memes. In reality, their lives will not be impacted by climate change whatsoever. We're scaring them to death and their entire generation is experiencing trauma because of this.

We do need to control these systems, and we do need to protect ecosystem biodiversity, but this hysteria is ridiculous.

[1] I just measured the water temperature.

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-hot-is-too-ho...
It was just a guess. On second guess the atmosphere is a fluid so maybe it has very little effect. But when a satellite is traveling billions of miles, a little effect could easily move it a few feet one way or another, maybe.

As others mentioned, there are larger effects.
It still seems like there is quite a bit of siloing, though. The Office of Water Prediction for example runs its own GitHub org, has its own sites separate from water.weather.gov at preview.water.noaa.gov and again at water.noaa.gov/map, but all their field observations actually come from the USGS who host data and web services at waterdata.usgs.gov.
I would like to build image labeling tools with bounding boxes and pixelwise segmentations. Ideally it would support 16bit grayscale medical image. As a stretch goal it would support 3d stacks of image for a CT or MR. This is obivously too much to ask, but I would like to have a way to build it. It would require some sort of custom frondend events making it to the back end.
If your life revolves around desktop computers, I can see why you would think it’s the norm.
Cloths masks really don't do anything against a virus that persists in tiny droplets that hover in the air making it airborne spread. They might have worked against droplets fairly well if both parties are wearing them but by the time they introduced cloth masks the authorities knew the science said it was airborne. However N95/FFP2 and definitely P100 masks are highly effective and there are plenty of people who have used them since the beginning of the pandemic who have never caught Covid as confirmed by antibody tests. Proper PPE works very effectively against Covid (and Flu, measles, colds etc) and reduces the risk drastically.

You have and are doing the right thing to protect your health against a virus where about 250,000 medical papers all show is very bad news for humans.
The average is being brought up by Europe and China. I don’t have exact numbers, but I believe of the two, Europe is lower total sales, higher percentage, whereas China is higher total sales, lower percentage. The rest of the world is low total, low percentage.

So, yeah a lot of it is China, but Europe is leading as well.
I very rarely even use the brake pads on my EV thanks to regen braking. They’ll last forever.
I try to keep a smallest possible amount of accounts and consolidate similar accounts. However, in reality there are many types of accounts and you can’t merge them.

Sometimes accounts of same type in same country can’t be merged. I have a very stupid example: I’m unable to close Robinhood account because I own a few YNDX shares that I can’t sell or transfer. So I have it just hanging there (but excluded from my ledger)
The extremely vehement push-back after any suggestion of using less code[1] in the future. Any talk of efficiency or lean techniques were instantly shut down, with a distinct undertone of nervousness. As in: “He knows! We’ve been found out!”

For reference this is in public service where it’s easy to get away with this kind of thing, even for decades or until retirement.

To clarify: this is the softest form of corruption. There’s no brown paper bags with wads of cash in them exchanging hands. It’s a passive exploit of a disinterested organisation with too much money that’s happy to pay for developers to write verbose code for years on end with no business purpose.

[1] To put some numbers against this: recently I was tasked with migrating a data feed API to the cloud. It has about six Visual Studio projects: multiple tiers of APIs calling each other over the network. Roughly 3K likes of incredibly repetitive code written by hand. I replaced it with 70 lines of code. It was faster to do that than to write the infrastructure templates for such a complex architecture.
I don't understand how this would help the author. Since the bash doesn't support floating point numbers anyway
I originally thought this article was about junior software developers having a hard time finding a place to live. This was not correct.
I was friends with John Draper (Captain Crunch) in the 1970s.

But never as close a friend as he wanted me to be! (Anyone who knew John or the stories about him may know what I am referring to.)

He usually had some decent pot, so when I ran out, I would sometimes visit him at his Berkeley apartment and we would smoke and do some Forth hacking.

I never heard about the "nine-N instruction" though.

I ran into John again at the Computer History Museum's Homebrew Computer Club reunion in 2013. When I re-introduced myself, he didn't seem to remember me at first. Then his eyes lit up and he asked, "Did we work out?"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geary/10861963196/
I recorded a video of another e ink phone running many common Android apps really well (in direct sunlight)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvO9ScTdwz8

It's the Hisense A9 with a beautiful and fast Carta 1200 e ink display. It's very capable, I would have preferred a phone more like that instead. It's biggest drawback is terrible USA cell reception. This company was initially going to make a phone like this but apparently keyboards were much more popular in polls.
Exactly. My driving created ~400 kg CO2 a month, no way tires are contributing anything close to that. How would they even.
Clever accounting trick? AFAIK noone has strict enough rules to make people bother with clever accounting tricks.

I think it's more likely to mean that ① advanced economies have advanced further in the transition, ② advanced economies are also economies with few children and global per-capita emissions peaked about a decade ago, or ③ both.
Sports analytics may be outnumbered when it comes to AI
> not much to worry about.

Unless they are literally coming straight ahead at us!
I was so close to buying this. But dang. Im nearly 300Gb of photos. Thats pretty pricey for me since job security right now isnt great. Man the big guys have this sewn up. Here's wishing you guys the best of luck. I'll keep an eye on it
Why's Trader Joes suddenly getting all this attention?

Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's [0](274 points, 150 comments, 23 days ago)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304068
Every time you want to search your voice clips, do it in a text file or notes on your phone.

If that file is empty in 6 months then you’ve just saved yourself some time and effort and can just delete the files.
Yes, and expected to peak at 10.4 billion in 2086 although that may be an overestimate given how fast some of the East Asian countries' birth rates have plummeted in recent years.

For more info: https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth-over-time
In the short term, for the individual: yes, it could be better to medicate.

However in the long run, it ends up giving license to shitty employers to continue being shitty, and perhaps to become even worse.

Such employers need to feel the negative consequences of their behavior. Their business needs to suffer from high turnover and poor quality work, and if they don’t change then they need to fold.

Businesses are, at the end of the day, just people - people who live together and participate in the same society. I can’t honestly say that the best outcome is for workers to medicate themselves to be able to tolerate their bosses. Work doesn’t have to be so toxic and awful, you know?
> Using multi milion euro tracked vehicles firing expensive 35 × 228 mm ammo to shoot down drones the size of a Starbucks Venti costing less than and Apple Vision Pro is like using your AR-15 to shoot mosquitos.

Yes. The Royal Navy has used £1.2M Sea Viper missiles to shoot down drones in the recent Red Sea conflict. They have also used their Phalanx guns to shoot down drones, which is much cheaper than the Sea Viper.

> it's the definition of asymmetric warfare.

Totally. My point though was that it is possible for modern counter measures to shoot down fast moving drones, even if John Wickes can't. IIRC Phalanx was used to shoot down incoming mortar rounds for base protection in Afghanistan.
I'm leaning more and more towards this myself, except for the fact I hate the look of most of them, and love my traditional watches. Maybe I could just keep it in my pocket. But it's ideal for what I want - GPS, WhatsApp, telegram, Spotify.
There's no landing page to describe what the heck I'm signing up for. This company makes some weird UX decisions.
> C can also be safe

In practical terms, no, it cannot. Even C codebases held to very high standards tend to have memory-safety issues.

> memory safe languages can be written in C

That says nothing about the safety of the C language.
That is to say, you live in the future. I have the same experience with my phone. 5G is already here.
I don't know if it's a generalized result, but the Circuits team at Anthropic has a very compelling thesis: the first phase of descent corresponds to the model memorizing data points, the second phase corresponds to it shifting geometrically toward learning "features".

Here a "feature" might be seen as an abstract, very, very high dimensional vector space. The team is pretty deep in investigating the idea of superposition, where individual neurons encode for multiple concepts. They experiment with a toy model and toy data set where the latent features are represented explicitly and then compressed into a small set of data dimensions. This forces superposition. Then they show how that superposition looks under varying sizes of training data.

It's obviously a toy model, but it's a compelling idea. At least for any model which might suffer from superposition.

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/toy-double-descent/ind...
Let me change your analogy. You take each person, and measure their height. You also "measure" how tall they "should be". You then show that the differences between their actual height and the height they should have had fits a model. That's nice, but for each person, you still assigned a value for the difference between how tall they are and how tall they should have been.

That's what I mean by "it's a per-galaxy parameter". For each galaxy, to explain the behavior of that galaxy, you're saying "it must have X amount of dark matter".
> the robot firmware replacement for vacuums had that after the warning that it was a personal project and you get what he wants and that’s it.

I noticed this too back when that project was posted.
Willy's Chocolate Experience
No, you're not getting it. The reverse engineering itself is obviously extremely difficult work, but it's the work of an individual or at best a small team. Reverse engineering work only provides existence proofs of security issues, mostly singular instances. Taken to its extreme, some reverse engineers believe this means that all memory unsafe software needs to be rewritten. The sheer amount of software written in C or C++ dwarfs the size of the reverse engineering community in amounts I can't even fathom.
> he posted a video last week with sort of an epiphany

He does this every year or so. He always has some big takeaway – engineering for fun, getting back to enjoying his work, getting anything finished so he can go on tour which he enjoys...

I followed the channel for a few years because I wanted to see a machine come together, but I realised over time that the machine is not the point. It's a self-help channel, it's about productivity, burnout, and the process of engineering and design.

If that's what you want, great. But I get enough pontificating about engineering process in my job, and I was there for the machine, so I gave up. If he ever goes on tour I'll be there, but I'm not holding my breath.
>The Future of Smart Bullets

https://youtu.be/KAqSGhOuGm4?si=ZlklaMzN06SeG238
Which countries and y
This! I appreciate you helping me communicate the idea.
Butchershop Economics
Not to be pedantic but,... some of them do need more because a sudden withdrawal from certain drugs (opioids, alcohol, benzodiazepines,..) could kill them.
These phones remind me (a bit) of the Windows vs Linux arguments. There are a lot of appealing aspects to these phones but switching to them is really impractical for most of the population.
I see cannabis less as a bandaid (though it can be used that way) and more as an experience enhancement. Sure, maybe data pipelines seem a little boring. But spend enough time working on them under the influence of cannabis and before you know it you’re having fun.
... most important skill of a leader being completely absent

Maybe these are very coincidal exceptions to your rule, but if it had been absent, the high volume versions of Teslas would not have existed, SpaceX would not exist and plenty more tax money would have flown to NASA.

Anyways, with or without all cult culture around his person, bottom line his intentions towards humanity are pure, we should at least give him that.
The reality is that most people do not want to carry multiple devices around. Carrying some kind of minimalist phone for text and voice, and a tablet or other device for "apps" isn't really a great experience.
> The Seattle resident booked with Alaska Airlines last March, purposefully selecting a flight with a plane he was happy to board – essentially, anything but a Boeing 737 Max.

“I got to the airport, checked again that it wasn’t the Max. I went through security, got coffee. I walked onto the plane – I thought, it’s kinda new,” Pierson told CNN. “Then I sat down and on the emergency card [in the seat pocket] it said it was a Max.”

How is this possible? Are airlines hiding/obfuscating the plane type?
I'm also curious to see a study focused on psychoactive substances considering their proven track record of 'enhancing creativity'. It's also well known that early silicon valley was filled with microdosing enthusiasts.
You Won't Believe How These Shapes Roll – New Discovery in Mathematics
... after he moved back to California from Hawaii
Location: Toronto

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: All things web, JS, React, CSS ( it's getting good! ), WASM, Web Workers, Three.JS. Other things I like: Unreal Engine, FL Studio. I've done a good amount of backend work in the past, but it's been a while.

Résumé/CV: Its out of date, my recent project is here: https://github.com/alexpineda/titan-reactor.

I'm a strong mix of product, development and UX.

Email: past.dog0687@fastmail.com
The best clue in televised murder shows is how good (or how famous) the actor is.
I find square brackets quite useful for some kinds of expressions, that have multiple cases or branches. To make a visual difference there can help with readability.
Or you if you flip the correct compiler flags.
Yeah, it's somewhat falling for the public relations spin to think NIF's fusion research is meant for power generation. NIF's fusion research is meant to simulate hydrogen bomb detonation physics.

The fact that they take a closer look at interesting power generation possibilities is a fringe-benefit: that's just scientists being thorough, but it's not why it was built. It's a bonus.
Thank you for your comment. Yes, it definitely felt like being cheated.

Totally agree about the importance of a co-founder's integrity. But honestly, it doesn't seem like most investors or even employees care much about it. This is the third early stage startup I joined / cofounded. Each time it's been a rollercoaster. The amount of lying, stealing, backstabbing is eye-opening.
How does he convert a variable speed hand motion to a constant speed rolling? Some spring mechanism?
I'd be fascinated by any modern studies on energy output per total energy unit input (manufacturing, construction, operation, and decommissioning, including carbon/pollution externalities).

Post-scarity, prima facie, would be a ratio > 1.

Curious how close we're getting...
Not if that someone was a neofascist with an agenda to rewrite relatively minor history.

Sadly that happens, and it happens a lot more than most people realize. It's way too easy to fake a reputation on Wikipedia.