skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is thought leader the next evolutionary level of the "idea guy"?

With 40 years and counting in this particular sub-field of anthropology, it's been fully confirmed that the so-called "Thought-Leader" (Ignoramus Rex) does not fall within the evolutionary branch of the now-extinct "Idea" man (Traumus Pieintheskii) whatsoever.

On the contrary, Ignoramus has now been shown to be an evolutionary dead-end that arose from lower-intelligence forms than those which gave rise to Traumus. As we have seen from intact specimens, Ignoramus is simply not capable of achieving the level of sophistication in its natural environment as Idea Man once exhibited during the brief epoch when it was thriving.
> leetcode correlate with IQ and general intelligence

Links? Kind of sounds like something you just have a gut feeling on.
We've got a 15 year old software on our hand. You think they ever brought on a UX person to talk to a customer? Any software developer (we're currently a team of 5) ever met any customer (5,000) using the software? No. It'd be so easy for the whole team to meet customers.

But management 3 levels up decides on colors and wordings.
Collective Sensing in Electric Fish
That's really not the point I'm making at all. You're talking about hardware, which is a whole other conversation about quality. I'm talking about software, data collection, "listening," etc.

We all live with some uncomfortable amount of dissonance on who's collecting our data. I personally take great issue with just opening the door to my life to China by installing TikTok. I don't have other social media (not interested in a semantics debate about what constitutes social media, my purpose in saying this is that I try to avoid data-hoovers in general), but I'm not perfect at avoiding unwanted data collection. I just don't see a need to make it so easy.
The Constitution was written 235 years ago.

Even defenders of the administrative state do not argue that the Supreme Court can simply “reinterpret” the Constitution to allow executive agencies to make law. That’s too intellectually dishonest even for the “living Constitution” folks. Instead, they rely on legal fictions to distinguish administrative rules from laws.

And in some cases, to be fair, that legal fiction suffices. Congress can outlaw harmful drugs and then have the executive make lists of which drugs are harmful. But in many cases, the rules being made by agencies are indistinguishable from laws.

The funny thing is that there’s a couple of agencies that actually respect the distinction between administrative rules and laws, because they date back to the early republic. The USPTO, for example, has all sorts of rules governing the administrative process of getting a patent. But it doesn’t have the power to make or change patent law. It can’t make legislative decisions, such as deciding that patents should be valid for a longer or shorter amount of time. Congress must do that.
Can you elaborate on how addition fits into this? You don't mean vector addition of the "clocks" do you?
I combined both OS and manufacturers since in this case they are from the same company.
if there's one thing I've learned from these "smart" and "dumb" conversations, is that you can't really generalize a person. "Smart" and "dumb" are just lazy evaluations.
> What percentage of Bob's customers bother to do that?

Would these people use a cleaner solution anyway?
I mean, you can say that of any refilling system, if people don't use it.
I don't have the answer handy, but I do know there is a ton of research that goes into wind farm optimization. Location of the towers, cost to build, etc.

I am curious how much small elevation differences impact optimal positioning of turbines, as that is a non-issue with offshore wind. The turbines in land-based wind farms are not in a nice grid like the offshore wind farm. https://openinframap.org/#9.68/41.6112/-92.4971

The excerpt from an abstract below mentions the wake turbulence can cause other turbines to shut down.

"...The distance between the turbines is among other things dependent on the recovery of wind energy behind the neighboring turbines and the increased wind load. Models for the mean wind speed and turbulence intensity in wind turbine parks are considered with emphasis on modeling the spatial correlation. Representative limit state equations for structural failure of wind turbine towers are formulated. The probability of failure is determined taking into account that wind turbines are parked for wind speeds larger than 25 m/s resulting in reduced wind loads. An illustrative example is presented where illustrative models for the spatial correlation is taken into account"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/102866006011566...
I mean I have seen a house framed in a day. How many days were spent "finishing" the house? What about when I want to move a wall and remodel? Also they try to make it sound like there are no windows because this is a data center but the truth is windows and openings in the wall slow this build process down alot.
Remote job: No

Telework eligible: No

Travel Required: 76% or greater - Extensive travel required

Makes a lot of sense...
During the Cuban missile crisis SAC went to defcon 2 while the rest of the armed forces stopped at defcon 3. The wiki page is an amazing read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis
> Not true at all, USA begin to care about it too with foreign companies(TikTok) gaining traction in the American market

I'm not sure banning foreign competitors count as "caring about internet privacy". Has there been anything lately to actually protect internet privacy in the US?
That side process is like nothing I have ever seen: Such things can, and at every reasonable place I know are, tracked as non-conformities on the corresponding work order and reviewed and approved by quality. If no work instructions exist yet, a singlenuse on is created, checked and approved before the work is done. For having the idea in the first place of allowing some side discussions on whethe or not documentation is necessary should have someone get his ass kicked. And it should be a major audit finding, which it seems it is for the FAA.

Boeing is in trouble, I'd say.
Landmark study links microplastics to serious health problems
> "That is not at all what I said -"

You literally did say that. In response to:

>> "who deliberately positions military hardware such as rocket launchers in and around civilians and civilian infrastructure"

You said:

> "Gaza is a very dense, urban area, so it's kind of unavoidable."

But ok, if you really are commenting in good faith then also explain why Hamas puts military hardware inside of schools, mosques and hospitals.

Are you one of those people who insist that Israel must have everything signed in triplicate and verified by 20 credible sources while Hamas just has to gesture vaguely?

United Nations Report on Schools: A report from the United Nations confirmed that Hamas stored weapons in UNRWA schools during the conflict in Gaza. Notably, weapons were found in the UNRWA Jabalia Elementary “C” and Ayyobiya Boys School. The report highlighted that it was highly likely that Palestinian armed groups used these premises to hide weapons and, in some cases, to launch attacks. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned these actions as unacceptable, stating that such conduct put UN schools at risk

https://www.thetower.org/1955-un-report-confirms-hamas-store...

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Evidence: The IDF has released photos showing that terrorist groups placed rocket launchers next to schools in Gaza. This action aligns with long-standing charges against Hamas for using civilian infrastructure for military purposes

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-releases-photos-showing-te...

White House Intelligence on Al Shifa Hospital: The White House disclosed that it had intelligence indicating Hamas was using Gaza's largest hospital, Al Shifa, to run military operations and likely to store weapons. This information suggested that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were using some hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including Al Shifa, to support their military operations and possibly to hold hostages. The actions at Al Shifa hospital were described as constituting a war crime

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/white-house-says-i...
I’m incensed reading this article, early on.

First, that Robin Williams anecdote. It’s absurd. If it’s even true, a macroeconomics class isn’t necessarily difficult nor do they always ask difficult questions. It’s more likely, “What happens to the price when demand goes up and supply remains the same?”

Next,

> If asked, “Why did the stock market fall 0.23% last week?” an average person will shrug their shoulders and walk away. A very smart person will show you their yield-curve model and valuation analysis and tell you whether the performance will continue.

This is patently false. Some smart people might do this. Many will behave in the same manner as the average person. Smart does not mean a person feels the need to have a correct answer for every question and to convey the confidence of always being correct. I know the article might arrive at this point, but lying about reality before getting there is a nonstarter. So this is where I stop reading.
More and more countries are following the EU's lead. For example, Vietnam's PDPD is similar to GDPR (stricter in some ways) and is coming into force on July 1st:

https://blog.didomi.io/vietnam-data-privacy-law-pdpd-everyth...

However, I guess we won't talk much about Vietnam's new law on the English speaking web, whether it's successful or not. Purely because we don't talk or hear much of anything about Vietnam's internal policies on the English speaking web. While we will continue to discuss every tiny detail about the GDPR.
Being readable as english for the business people was a fad of the era. It didn't pan out, it made a mess.
I still want to view the results of a controlled trial to test that hypothesis...
Personally English is very different from my language and I process programming languages and natural languages very very differently.
SQL is often good because is declarative, is almost always bad because of its composability story, but is and always will be a mess that makes some things more complicated than they should.
This will just increase piracy as is prevalent in the Android ecosystem. Stealing apps will become common and so would hacking if the entire app ecosystem is opened up for apps. This will stifle innovation everyone knows the money is in the iOS ecosystem where the user pays not Android.
Unfortunately cosmopolitan wouldn't work for dockerc. Cosmopolitan works as long as you only use it but container runtimes require additional features. Also containers contain arbitrary executables so not sure how that would work either...

As for WASM, this is already possible using container2wasm[0] and wasmer[1]'s ability to generate static binaries.

[0]: https://github.com/ktock/container2wasm

[1]: https://wasmer.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628388
The pros and cons of some other Arm Linux distros for the Raspberry Pi 5
So you exaggretated your knowledge for the sake of winning an argument? That pretty much proof my point and experience.
Chiplet IP Standards Are Just the Beginning
# People they delighted or prevented from feeling frustrated? The problem is, this is rather hard to measure.
> It also links to a Telegram exporter.

Telegram has this natively already
Thousands of Palestinian hostages? What are you talking about? Please clarify, as I assume you are not talking about prisoners convicted of terror activities.
3d-printed data-center; which is cool, but not as cool as 3d-printed-data center: they printed the center, not the data.
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/06/security/whatsapp-mess...
Ok well you should work on your writing then because it sucks and doesn’t communicate your points well.

If I said “The sky is blue today. So, I went outside.” You would probably be surprised to learn that I hate clear weather and prefer the rain. Because, that would violate the most implicit, obvious assumption in my statement…

Likewise you saying “I’m mentally deficient. So I have to use Go” makes it seem pretty fucking obvious to me what you think about Go programmers and programming in general
This is such a tired retort to the point I'm trying to make. It's not about the quality of the data they're collecting, or how interesting it is. It's the vast quantities they collect, in total, I take issue with. I don't care if you agree, leave the app installed, double down and grant it all the permissions it asks for, whatever. The high-level version of this is that I'm just not ok with the amount of data being collected, and the party that's collecting it, regardless of what that data actually is.

Your argument is the same as "I have nothing to hide, who cares if the government tracks my face everywhere I go and listens to everything I do?" Bad argument, focused too narrowly on personal experience.
Wow you are not wrong. Maybe it works for them but I would guess they are losing a lot traffic by having no real visible pricing on their website. This is not an enterprise play, I would imagine they are most likely wanting to target developers and developers want to see pricing...especially for something as simple as a database.
Maybe they wanted it from/for the other persons perspective for some reason?
>It’s amazing what happens when you become open to the best ideas, rather than the most credentialed voices.

Is it though? For starters, you're going to have to listen to a lot of terrible ideas, which is time-consuming even if ideas are easy to evaluate (like jokes). If we're talking business strategy or science or technology, ideas can be very difficult/expensive/time-consuming to evaluate, credentials serve as a useful filtering step[0]. Next time the author has a health problem I suspect they'll go to a credentialed doctor rather than polling random people on the street.

I agree that smart people can be overconfident, so it's good to have some humility, but it's also good to try to spend time effectively. And dumb people are perfectly capable of being overconfident as well, it's not like this is a problem unique to smart people. Ignorance can breed overconfidence just as much as knowledge; it's easy to "solve" a problem when you don't actually understand why it's difficult in the first place and your solution never gets tested against reality.

[0] The extent that this is true is also a way to judge the credentialing system. Most areas have informal "credentials" based on experience/reputation, eg Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David are considered authorities on comedy and it's not because they have PhDs.
Lapce Is a Native Open-Source Code Editor Written in Rust
I think the basic thought is flawed, I would argue that this is not completely true:

> Needless to say, the best meetings are the ones you never attend in the first place.

The best (avoided) meetings are the ones that are pointless and *are cancelled before they happen*.
None of the DEI initiatives have anything to do with pure profit. If pure profit was the prime driving initiative, Google Gemini would not turn out like it did.
Framed? As in wooden? We don't really build houses like that in Europe. This is much closer to what we consider proper house while being much quicker to construct.

Inner finishing and thin interior walls are very often done by the final owner to their own liking so it's sometimes not considered part of the construction itself. We call it "shell and core".
In a similar vein, Gary Stevenson (UK economist & trader) also does an excellent job of confirming (and explaining) this. He has a new book out, the Trading Game that's well worth a read (excerpt here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/london-finance-the-t...)
At that point why not use something like Postgres?
Gemini is an absolute catastrophy performance-wise vs GPT 4 (in the 2 use cases I've tried).
Let's make Device Neutrality a reality in Europe
Musk rejects Trump and Biden:I am not donating to either candidate for President
I think it is less of a problem than it used to be, but historically PTFE-lined hot ends have been prefered for budget machines because they are more forgiving if all you want to do is print PLA.

When everything is working right there should be no difference, but when things go wrong, not having plastic stuck to the heat break makes it more likely that a beginner can fix their own problem.
It actually does not absorb radar energy, rather it reflects it away (specular reflection). That's why rougher sea surface appears brighter on SAR as it turns from a specular to a diffuse scatterer. Furthermore, in some specific conditions (low incidence angle, closer to nadir), calm water can appear much brighter than other land surfaces.
This Week in Rust 537
Court costs can be much more expensive than the defendant can reasonably afford, even if they're likely to win. The copyright trolls take advantage of this by demanding less money than the court costs would actually sum up to, making it financially pointless to defend yourself rather than immediately pay up.

I agree that the grace period is also not a perfect solution, but I fail to see how anybody could consider the copyright trolls referenced in the article as anything more than predatory drains taking advantage of a legal technicality to drain money from innocent people. An honest typo regarding license text should not cost a person thousands of dollars, and copyright is one of the few places where it can do so, thanks to repeated lobbying and legal abuse.
Is it really true that we don't really understand why transformers work so well?

I mean we obviously understand how they work at a pure mechanical level, and we have this analogy with lookup (keys, queries, values) and "attention," but do we really get it? Can someone explain to me why that design works so much better than lots of other things like RNNs?

Or did we just tinker a lot (a method known as "graduate student descent") guided by mathematical hunches and loose analogies with biological brains until we found something that kinda worked?

It wouldn't be the first time. AFAIK we got the idea of wings from birds and figured out how to fly with them before we had a really solid fluid mechanical understanding of how and why wings work the way they do. We just thought "hmm so birds fly, so lets try stuff that looks a bit like that..."
There are many situations where the extra constraints on pure functions are very useful. Pure functions can't segfault. They can't overwrite memory used by other parts of your program due to stray pointer references. They can't phone home to Google. Verification and optimization is often much simpler when you know that some functions are pure. Reactive programming frameworks that execute callbacks in response to events can cause really weird bugs if the callback mutates state somewhere. I could go on and on. Nobody is arguing for pure functions all the way down. A program's top-level functions will usually be side-effecting, and then you can call out to pure code any time. In practice, a surprising amount of application logic can end up being pure functions.
One of the most frustrating things I’ve dealt with is a junior developer (who, based on years in the industry, thought they were a senior) who would write clever/complex code just for the sake of it. That and touching 10+ things in their commits that were outside the scope of the ticket (“cleaning up other code”).

I’ll fully admit I used to be that person but some people never seem to grow out of it. They see what they perceive as “gross” code, repetitive code, or verbose code and make it their mission to DRY it out or rewrite it in a shorter, more clever way. Cleverness in code should be avoided at almost all costs, code golfing might be a fun exercise but has no business in real codebases, and trying to abstract and centralize logic with only 1-2 implementations is foolhardy at best.

I’ll take verbose, understandable code every day over code that I have to stop and think about for any amount of time.
The American diabetes association admitted last year that T2 can be "reversed" with the caveat that you mentioned about existing damage. However, to actually damage things to a level where they are noticeable takes years and years. If you catch it early, T2 is entirely "reversible".
> Is it more egregious if price rises from 90 cents for a 100g ketchup bottle to 90 cents per 90g bottle, instead of 1 dollar per 100g bottle?

No. The issue is that consumers tend to remember the price they last paid for a product, but seldom remember the weight/volume of the same. A producer can raise the price for a product in two ways: 1) directly increase the price for the same weight/volume of product, or 2) reduce the weight/volume of the product while maintaining the same price.

If the company performs #1, a majority of consumers notice, and the company often sees reduced sales (thereby negating the extra profit from the increased price).

If the company performs #2, a majority of consumers will not notice the weight/volume change. Esp. if the outer package is the same size as the prior version, and all that changes is the small "weight/volume" listed on the label. In this instance, most consumers do not realize the price actually increased, and so continue to purchase the same amount as before, but now the company captures greater profit due to the "stealth price increase".

Over time, more and more companies have learned this consumer physiology and are often attempting to hide price increases behind weight/volume reductions. Laws like this are simply an attempt to prevent this stealth price increase and instead make it clear that if the company wants to raise the price of the product, then the price of the product should be what increases. Whether any regulations that result from this statute (should it get enacted) produce that outcome is yet to be determined.
How does DoltgreSQL compare to Neon's branching?
From the article:

> IAB Europe argued that it is not responsible under the GDPR as a “data controller” because it allegedly only sets the rules for how data should be used, but does not process the data itself. The Court rightly rejected this, and confirmed that IAB Europe, as management body for the TCF, is a “data controller” under the GDPR.

IAB stands for Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe [0]

[0] https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/policies/policy-areas/enterpri...
Tuvalu preserves history online as rising seas threaten existence
https://openai.com/our-structure

The ownership of the nonprofit OpenAI, Inc. is private, I think. In any case, generally speaking, the board of directors are fiduciarily bound to execute the company's constitution, and the constitution stipulates how the board is appointed or elected.

Generally speaking non-profits are self-governing in this manner with respect to their mission.
This paper [1] models some simple (r) NN as ODEs, and uses ODE tools to train and for inference. It’s a start.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07366
> I sense this pervasive belief on HN that Apple's reviews are infallible

Our language makes booleans easier to communicate than nuances.

For example, I absolutely do not consider their reviews infallible, I just didn't think it would come across that way when I wrote the comment you're responding to.
Calm water surface is a specular scatterer, meaning radar energy will be reflected away, and proportionally so as the incidence angle increases.

Images collected at lower incidence (closer to nadir) might feature very bright surface water if it is calm, as more energy is reflected towards the radar.

Rough water surface is a diffuse scatterer, and will generally appear brighter than calm waters.
If you've got 1,000 employees and 1 of them has a good, workable, and practical solution, and the other 999 have terrible expensive unworkable "solutions" then there's a technical sense in which this sentence is true but sorting out the good from the bad is still a hard problem which requires some work.