skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that makes it not racist for me is that he's clearly trying to point out that, as primates, in non-Western surroundings and when not socialized to prefer soft beds with fluffy pillows we tend to adopt similar sleeping positions as other primates do. It would be very racist if he had adopted a sneering "look at the lowly primitives" tone, but he's trying to show that these sleeping positions have helped him immensely and he's suggesting that we might research sleep positioning more as there seem to be differences in the two populations under comparison.

You can look at the COVID pandemic for an example of how body positioning has helped change how well people can breathe. Proning of severely sick patients substantially improved outcomes. That's literally just rolling the patient from their back to their stomach. So there might be something interesting there that we can learn if we pay attention. And he's trying to say "we can learn something from these people if only we pay attention."
Obligatory critique of the division of labour from that same book:

> In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations, frequently one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding,or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Fun Fact: Love that they ref Battle Chess, the apocryphal source of "just add a duck" to get around micro-managers who need to make a change to feel like they've done something:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/#5
Homeland Security tests AI to help with immigration, trafficking investigation
If we just stop looking at Elon, he will lose his power. Why oh why do we keep giving him attention? There are plenty of great models out there that _aren't_ backed by maniacs.
Are we assuming the objects retain form? If I smash two iron cubes together and apply enough gravity, eventually I'll get fusion of the atom cores. As the highly-compressed charged particles start to collide more-and-more, some will repel, some will fuse.

As long as the 2nd law is in play, I could see the two objects as being passed through each other. One side you have particlesA[cub1_particles, new_fusion_particles] and on the other side you have particlesB[cube2_particles, new_fusion_particles]. Both of these would sum to the same thermodynamic energy of [cube1, cube2].

Right?
Yes. That’s why they buy the sweeter food when given the option…
I'm surprised that most the comments are concerned about the telemetry and observabilty per se rather the potential of frame pointers to the programmers at large. This can provide beneficial insight for hard to debug programming constructs for examples delegates where C# and D have but not Rust, and also CTFE where D and Zig have but not Rust. In the new future I can foresee is that seamless frame pointers integration with programming language constructs can ease debugging of these extremely useful higher order function constructs like delegates. It also has the potential to enable futuristic programming paradigm as proposed by Bret Victor's presentation [2].

[1] D Language Reference: Function Pointers, Delegates and Closures:

https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#function-pointers-deleg...

[2] Bret Victor The Future of Programming:

https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4
This should be its own HN submission. I want a discussion on this.

Edit: nevermind, it was posted 2 times already [1, 2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24768721

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867918
You might be interested in the book, "The Knowledge"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knowledge:_How_to_Rebuild_...

(not to be confused with the cab driver test)
San Francisco's unclaimed dead get a unique funeral
Show HN: Securityblogs.xyz – A simple feed of security blogs
It's most likely 300mm, otherwise they'd have to make their own wafers.
Hi HN,

I wanted to show a project that I worked on last week. securityblogs.xyz is a simple website that aggregates a bunch of news sites and blogs and displays it on a single page. I have been trying to learn Go and used HTML templating to generate the html page for the site.

Feel free to raise a new issue [1] if you would like to add a new source to the site.

[1] https://github.com/CyberT17/secblogs
so all the people discussing appropriate vitamin D levels should also be considering where people live, their typical sunlight exposure, and/or other factors.
Firebase attracts teams that don’t have the experience to stand up a traditional database - which at this point is a much lower bar thanks to tools like RDS. That is a giant strobing red light of a warning for what security expectations should be for the average setup. No matter what genius features the Firebase team may create this was always going to be a support and education battle that Google wasn’t going to fully commit to
I didn't know Apex used the Source engine (or supposedly a modified version of it). Considering its closed source I wonder if they made a deal with Valve at some point.
YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8811610/

Figured people can Google, all I bring is awareness this is widely overblown, having taken myself, for therapeutic purposes, upwards of 100k IU per day for months without doctor supervision (but doing it correctly, with a very low calcium diet). People take vit D megadoses for autoimmunity, with significant success, but I'm not discussing this here.
> "The hip of Trigonopterus oblongus .."

Screws are also found in nature, like this weevil uses a screw 100 million years ago, to move a joint allowing it to cling onto plants more robustly.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonopterus
My guess is that you don't see anything that isn't semiclassical at the outside of any reasonably sized black hole (say greater than 1 Earth mass)

My guess is that the classical picture of the black hole interior is completely wrong but of course you can't know because you can't look inside and then tell us what you saw.
Max 25kmh is stupid. 5km slower than the traffic I'm trying to keep up with, so being constantly close-shaved is an e-bike pain.
I have a bigger problem with "up to": this means it's at most that much faster, but is probably not even such an improvement to begin with. I understand this is marketing, but it'd be great if they shared what's the average improvement they've seen in their customers' workloads (a random sample of).

Making something twice as fast is great IMO, and as a firm believer in iterative improvements, I'd never knock it.

Eg. if setting up a stack goes from 100s to 60s, that's a marked improvement.
When those great role models are able to build a profitable spaceship company from the ground up I am sure we will pay attention to them.
https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard

This application is in maintenance mode. What does it mean?

Citing Wikipedia:

In the world of software development, maintenance mode refers to a point in a computer program's life when it has reached all of its goals and is generally considered to be "complete" and bug-free. The term can also refer to the point in a software product's evolution when it is no longer competitive with other products or current with regard to the technology environment it operates within.
- The author of this application is not actively developing any new major features (only small fixes)
- New releases are published regularly depending on the contributions made by the community
- Pull requests for new features and bug fixes are accepted as long as the guidelines are followed
Some might consider that a plus in the same way that "you can't get fired for choosing IBM" -- it's a way to outsource blame.
I commuted 15km each way for a few years through heavy traffic and had a few close calls - would they count as "dying in glorious battle".

e.g. I was cycling home at night once when kids threw a brick at my head...
"The Ascend 910B is widely considered the most competitive non-Nvidia AI chip available in China."

Those chips are produced by SMIC. So they have a competitor not only to Nvidia, but also to TSMC. The biggest break on SMIC growth seems to have been the EUV export emergency break by Pompeo. But it may in the end turn out to be a blessing in disguise for China. The jury is still out on this one.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-chip-demand-forces-hua...
The bugs of course
> Given the very limited space available in Paris centre, I don't really see an easy way unfortunately...

Bicycles take less space than cars, both on road and when parked, don't they? A four-lane bicycle highway is as wide as one-lane car road. If anything, people switching from cars to bicycles should produce more free space for the city, not less.

Am I missing something?
Why D.C. Is Hot for Geothermal Energy Production
Musk Says His Ketamine Prescription Is in Investors' Best Interests
I have a few friends from back in ICQs heyday that still use it. It's kind of a running joke. One of us will fire up a client and login, then email the others asking, "where in the hell is everyone" and we'll use it for a week, then it fades again, until a few years later, someone fires up a client, and emails the others asking, "where in the hell is everyone"... ;)

I also like keeping ancient accounts. I've been on some form of the internet since 300bps modems, so I have a number of ancient accounts that I'll pile up, and when I die, they'll be given to my partner, so they can hang on to them, until they pass. Some day, 371 years down the road, a small child will hold a sheet of paper with these accounts on them and wonder what in the hell was wrong with people 400 years prior. lol

edit: That compuserve line wasn't a joke. I still know my username/password from those days.
Online search data could be used to detect gynecological cancer cases earlier
I’m down for taxing fat people to neutralize the externalities they create but I don’t think selling unhealthy food has negative externalities. Eating too much does so sure tax the eater. There is zero external downside to a healthy person eating a moderate amount of unhealthy food.
It's funny that Uber/Lyft say drivers make more than that, but whoa, if it were a law to do what they already claim happens, then they'll have to charge a lot more. The math aint mathing.
Seven-digit starting with 5 would be at least fall of 97.
Fair enough... I consider that all propaganda. Anyone acting with an agenda, especially when they're trying to persuade without openly disclosing their agenda. Even more so, there's plenty of people who post stuff (like the fringe violence or whatever) who aren't necessarily psyops, but then the algo can promote it in a way that influences people. And I know this can all be done gradually and subtly.

But you should do a deep dive on tiktok if you aren't already on it! It's almost all fun/bizarre/educational videos. When you have so many people (lawmakers) critiquing it who don't use it regularly, it all just comes across as McCarthyism.

(edited to remove a sentence I started and didn't finish)
Many businesses don’t have full time developers. They contract out to agencies who build the website for them. The agencies have a rotating cast of developers and after the initial encounter with their good devs they try to rotate the least experienced developers into handling the contract (unless the company complains, which many don’t).

The vulnerability emails probably got dismissed as spam, or forwarded on and ignored, or they’re caught in some PM’s queue of things to schedule meetings about with the client so they can bill as much as possible to fix it.

> Some days I think one ought to be licensed to touch a computer.

There are plenty of examples of fields where professional licensing is mandatory but you can still find large numbers of incompetent licensed people anyway. Medical doctors have massive education and licensing requirements, but there is no shortage of quack doctors and licensed alternative medicine practitioners anyway.
Interesting that they found that to meet the target threshold, you'd need to take well over the "tolerable upper intake" or 4000 IU.
Architectural erosion is an ongoing problem for humans, but they don't produce tightly coupled low cohesion code by default at the SWE level the majority of the time.

With this quality of changes it won't be long until violations stack up to where further changes will be beyond any algorithms ability to unravel.

While lots of companies do only look out in the short term, human programers are incentivized to protect themselves from pain if they aren't forced into unrealistic delivery times.

At&t wireless being destroyed as a company due to a failed SAP migration that was largely due to fragile code is a good example.

But I guess if the developer jobs that will go away are from companies that want to underperform in the market due to errors and a code base that can't adapt to changing market realities, that may happen.

But I would fire any non intern programmer if they constantly did things like removing deprecation comments and introduced circular dependencies with the majority of their commits.

https://github.com/CognitionAI/devin-swebench-results/blob/m...

PAC learning is powerful but is still probably approximately correct.

Until these tools can avoid the most basic bad practices I don't see any company sticking to them in the long term, but it will probably be a very expensive experiment for many of them.
I use permethrin around my yard as well as have some clothing I’ve treated myself. I also use flea and tick treatment on my two dogs which is primarily permethrin.

I have two cats and we haven’t had any issues that I could see.

I make 100% sure they can never be exposed to it when it’s wet, but they’ve been around me in treated clothing, escaped the house and walked through treated (dry) grass, been around dogs that have been treated with it, etc.

Given the number of people that have cats and dogs living together who are treating their dogs with it monthly, it seems relatively safe if used properly and cautiously.
As far as I know, you should be able to generate textual CLIF files and feed them to Cranelift: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/crane...
> including a rare Vermeer

What does this mean? Wasn't Vermeer a painter, and therefore all of his works were one of a kind (unless he painted copies)?
Rather not mention their name here without their permission, sorry! But this is one of the outcomes[1]

1. https://www.disguise.one/
> If you want to go all the way down the rabbit hole, you can follow along with John Plant on YouTube

He's better known by the name of his channel, Primitive Technology. Most viewers probably don't know his name. Unlike most YouTubers, he never speaks to the camera (or speaks at all), and rarely writes about himself.
"https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1006147.1006176" "LEVEL LANGUAGE DEBUGGING WITH A COMPILER" -> about LispEdit
NASA - the most under funded and over accused/attacked agency of the US government!
Central MA, also can confirm this is false. Possibly RMSF or something other than Lyme, but you can definitely get sick from non engorged nymphs.
My USA health insurance used to cover the blood test for vitamin D, but stopped about 10 years ago. Now to get a blood test it's somewhere in the $70-100 extra range if I want to get that in addition to a normal yearly physical blood panel.

Yes, that prices isn't that much for your health, but if you decide you want to take a LOT of vitamin D then you need to comprehend the blood test costs.
Only the market could possibly create the magic of modern society. Countless independent firms operating with knowledge only of their inputs and outputs, adjusting prices and wages based upon their unique window of the larger economy.
those who don't know: ^_^

those who know: -_-
I would point to the authors at this publication

https://jacobin.com/

being more interesting leftists to read than anyone from their list.
AzureAD doesn't work with Firefox on Linux if you need a yubikey or similar as a second factor.

At some point FF wasn't able to do the user verification under linux (ask for a pin). Even though that's been fixed now, azuread still throws an error.

Chromium on Linux works fine. I haven't tried FF on Windows.
Then it sounds like it would be easy for them to meet $15/hr minimum wage...
On the CDC's website there seems to be an outbreak of e. coli every year, and uncooked greens are a constant: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks.html

Washing them doesn't help: https://www.consumerreports.org/e-coli/washing-greens-protec...

Could be linked to cows: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/01/unclean-... https://www.verywellhealth.com/lettuce-e-coli-contamination-...

On top of all that, root veggies and leafy greens absorb a lot of toxins: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/vegetable_selection_makes_a_di... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15016510/
But we were getting the results we expected, just not what articles and blog posts expected. I learned very quickly that most things I read regarding projects I had knowledge of were wildly inaccurate.
I realize there is confirmation bias here, but ticks always seem to cause pain and inflammation after being attached for a bit
Yes, I wondered about this as well. I understand why the author might not have observed women sleeping, and certainly wouldn't have photos, but one might at least mention it (especially given all the attention to the penis). Bust size & placement for sure has a significant effect on where arms can be placed, among other things.

It seems that the author's observations are primarily from various camping-equivalents, more so than home life.

To my sibling commenter, whether pregnancy is or isn't "healthy" isn't quite the point, IMO. Various stages of pregnancy do occupy a non-trivial part of many people's lifespan and significantly change the ergonomics of sleep. Given that humans have been getting pregnant for a long time, it is a big miss to not even mention that it hasn't been considered. Academic training tries to impress on most authors that they should mention what they're ignoring and why, not least to set up the citation train for the future and support grant applications.
Being as an article was just posted talking about an Economics Nobel Prize in its title, the comment seems certainly needed, and if it is not novel, then its repetition would seem necessary.
Seconding this. American cyclists are extremely rude to pedestrians. Whenever somebody brings this up, cyclists dismiss it by pointing out that cars kill more pedestrians than bikes. Well that's certainly true, but I've never had cars yell at me for walking on the sidewalk or over a crosswalk, while cyclists have hurled abuse and (deliberate) near misses at me more times than I can count.
I get the impression that mathematics really just is quantitative philosophy. I wonder what the etymology of math is.
https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html is a letter that goes into why >= 4000 IU daily is recommended based on blood serum levels with more literature review.
does not jive with the documented case of 2M IU (50mg) per day for months, nor with this case:

> Two patients, a Caucasian 90-year old man and a 95-year old woman, were monitored from 1 h up to 3 months after intake for clinical as well as biochemical signs of vitamin D intoxication. Blood vitamin D3 concentrations showed a prompt increase with the highest peak area already hours after the dose, followed by a rapid decrease to undetectable levels after day 14. Peak blood 25(OH)D3 concentrations were observed 8 days after intake (527 and 422 nmol/L, respectively (ref: 50–200 nmol/L)). Remarkably, plasma calcium levels increased only slightly up to 2.68 and 2.73 mmol/L, respectively (ref: 2.20–2.65 mmol/L) between 1 and 14 days after intake, whereas phosphate and creatinine levels remained within the reference range. No adverse clinical symptoms were noted.
Every time I scan a QR code to view a restaurants menu… I’m at amazed thinking through all the technology necessary to pull that off
Sweating is absolutely not a “trained” response.

I’ve always been an athlete from when I was a competitive athlete in my college days (cross-country running) but I’ve always sweated a lot more than average and it’s not correlated with my fitness. I’ve always been slim and fit and I’ve often noticed that I sweat a lot more than people whom I’m beating in races! That is, I can be fitter and faster than someone and still sweat more.

On the flip side, I am extremely cold resistant and when others are chilly and need to wear a sweater or coat, I don’t need it. My body just seems to run hotter than others, for better or worse.
I dont know about the details of this particular painting, but Rarity here could refer to something like the type of paint used, the size, or even the subject matter or time period.
In Paris, most people who are now biking are people who would have taken public transportation before, so the amount of cars on the roads is roughly the same as before.
> This globally recurring tread of return to the office

I think "trend" is the word best suited to this sentence.

That aside, my former employer ran a six week test where we came to the office twice a week. At the end of the six week period, they looked at the numbers and said wfh was now normal. They downsized and got a smaller office (we'd been talking about expansion before the pan). We basically only needed a place to store equipment and receive packages, so that was what it became.

My current employer does three days in-office and two days at home. But that's largely because my role requires access to equipment. I think other roles are fully wfh.

I don't get bean-counters who want to flex authority over employees who are just as productive when they aren't in office. Gotta let them have their little fiefdoms, I guess.
Not until you build it, no. You didn't invent anything, you thought of something. But until it exists you didn't invent it, as you have no proof it works. Edison went through a 100 different light bulbs before he had one that works, should he have gotten the patent for "a glass ball that uses a heated filament to make light" before he figured out all of the hard parts?
The printing press lets people reproduce other people's thoughts more widely. As to reproducing your own thoughts more widely, this is why I was describing a cultural "canon" as being the foundation upon which new ideas can be built. In the AI world, the "new" idea is effectively just the prompt (and iterative direction); everything else is a remix of the canon. But pre-AI, in order for anyone to understand your new idea, you had to mix it into the existing canon as well.

Edit: to be abundantly clear, I'm not exactly hoping AI can do very well. It seems like it's going to excel at automating the parts of software development that I legitimately enjoy. I think that's also true for other creator-class jobs that it threatens.
AutoGen: Enable Next-Gen Large Language Model Applications
Yep, and I've seen code shipped that passed all its unit tests but the interface between them was subtly wrong so it violently failed to work at all after being shipped. Had to write functional tests to make sure it all worked together.