skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.

- Open source [https://github.com/Future-Scholars/paperlib]

- Zotero import

- Scrape paper’s metadata and even source code links with many scrapers. Tailored especially for machine learning.

- Fulltext and advanced search.

- Smart filter.

- Rating, flag, tag, folder and markdown/plain text note.

- RSS feed subscription to follow the newest publications on your research topic.

- macOS spotlight-like plugin to copy-paste references easily when writing a draft paper. Also supports MS Word.

- Cloud sync (self managed),

- Extensions
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8s Gen 3: A Cheaper Chip for Premium Phones
This seems asymmetrically good for Google, less so for Apple. If Gemini proves to be an indispensable feature embedded in future iPhones it assists Google in branding and fine tuning. Meanwhile Google can do the same Android and lock down certain features for iPhone users
Europe Needs a Grand Strategy
I see, so you still can build up plaque, which is what causes bad breath and gum disease, but that plaque won't produce lactic acid which is what causes cavities.
Finder cut and paste is cmd+c then cmd+option+v for move.
On the rest I agree.
I would argue future engineers should be worried a bit. We no longer need to hire new developers.

I was not trained professionally yet I'm writing production code that's passing code reviews in languages I never used. I will create a prompt, validate it compiles, passes tests, have it explain so I understand it was written as expected and write documentation about the code, write the PR, and I am seen as a competent contributor. I can't pass leet code level 1 yet here I am being invited to speak to developers.

Velocity goes up and cost of features will drop. This is good. I'm seeing at least 10 to 1 output from a year ago based upon integrating these new tools.
Version of this is happening right now with the Trump "Bloodbath" comment. He is clearly speaking in the context of automobile manufacturing but the media has spun it to insinuate he is threatening violence. Personally I very much dislike Trump but the media spin on this from supposedly neutral news companies is egregious.
Forcing the sale of private property to anyone who can fork up the cash sounds absolutely ripe for abuse.
Hotmail. Still in active use as my "for important life affairs" email address.
Disagree about restaurant. Yes, they’re hard but there’s literally hundreds of thousands of successful examples of restaurants and cafes in the US. I know plenty of people who have this dream and a few who have pressured it successfully. It’s as valid as any other career pivot.
I attended a talk by the founders in early 2004. It was a non-profit hobby project, so it may have existed in some form before 2001.
Potty Trained Cows Are No Joke for the Climate
DuckDB in Action
> SCL Fab in Chandigarh, which back in the 1980s used to sell Intel knockoffs to the Soviet and Indian defense industries before it was burned down during the Khalistan insurgency.

Among other things, they also made a BBC Micro clone called the SCL Unicorn, our school had half a dozen of them and they were always in popular demand with us computer nerds.
My problem isn't the graph or even its particular failings (vanishing gradients in science being one of many), it's the ideological opposition to regularization.
Apple is doing the same thing, passive-aggressively doing things like removing support for pinning webapps / PWAs / whatever they're called to your home screen, then backtracking after backlash. Or Microsoft with their browser choice screen or Windows releases without media player. And even those aren't as bad as the malicious compliance of cookie banners.
Say you add a super_secret_internal_notes field. If you're writing a traditional backend, some human would need to explicitly add that to a list of publicly available fields somewhere (well, hopefully). For systems like Firebase, it's far too easy to have this field be created by frontend code that's just treating this as another piece of data in a nested part of a payload. But this can also happen on any system, if you have any JSON blob whose implicit schema can be added to by frontend development alone.

IMO implicit schema updates on any system should be consolidated and lifted to an easily emailed report - a security manager/CSO/CTO should be able to see all the super_secret_internal_notes as they're added across the org, and be able to immediately rectify security policies (perhaps even in a staging environment).

AFAIK Firebase doesn't do this - while there are pretty audit logs, there's not an automatic rollup of implicit schema changes: https://firebase.google.com/support/guides/cloud-audit-loggi...

(Also, while tongue in cheek, the way that the intro to a part of Firebase's training materials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMa0hsHqfHU implicitly centers security as part of the launch process, not something ongoing, is indicative of how pervasive the issue is - and not at all something that's restricted to Firebase!)
Have a look at Unison which uses constraint programming to do optimal code generation.

https://unison-code.github.io/
Not really used in Hong Kong that much anymore apart from a small subset of people (WhatsApp is king). It's also heavily used in Thailand.
"But you can't deny that for Pigs, Cows, Chickens, that up to 2005 and even up to recent years ~2020, it was commonly accepted that they were not conscious, and not intelligent and thus have no ability to experience pain."

I'm not sure if you mean the majority opinion was they are not conscious? If so I do deny this outside of survey data showing otherwise.

I was alive since 1982 and have noticed no cultural shift on this topic. I imagine for most people whether animals are conscious has little to do with whether it's okay to eat them, I recall someone in high school once saying "being a vegetarian is stupid because animals eat other animals."

The U.S. president first pardoned a turkey in 1963 and it's been an annual tradition since 1989. I recall an author possibly making an overly speculative argument linking this to the fact most people in modern times grew up with children's movies like Bambi depicting animals as sentient.
My hotmail account reconverted to skype and then microsoft account
In the same (old) boat. I ran email and USENET over UUCP before I had IP access for Gopher. Such a long time ago. In my area Gopher was free for everyone with a modem because the local university did not authenticate dial-in connections.
That’s not quite right. The theory which MOND is an alternative to is General Relativity. Dark Matter is the name given to the missing mass resulting from our observations (light we observe directly) not according with mass we infer to exist by GR and the amount of gravitational lensing we observe.

As an aside, MOND is not doing so well these days. One of the leading proponents of MOND has published a paper showing a need for substantial revision to the theory following observations of wide binary stars [1].

[1] https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/3/4573/7342478
You are wrong.

First, let's state that you are referring to taxable income, not gross income. The former is usually non-trivially smaller than the latter, due to adjustments (including pre-tax paycheck deductions) and itemized/standard deduction.

Using 2023 numbers (since we don't know whether 2024 tax law will change between now and the end of the year), and your dollar amounts:

$400K of ordinary taxable income tops out at 35% marginal rate, the total tax is $111,895.

$120K of LTCG income is taxed as follows:

$92,300 x 15% = $13,845

$27,700 x 20% = $5,540

Total LTCG tax = $19,385

(the 2023 LTCG 15% bracket tops out at $492,300)
> It's called permethrin.

Seems there are a couple of chemicals that act as anti-tick. We're using Seresto collars for our two dogs (no ticks in a decade of usage), which seems to be using Imidacloprid (anti-fleas) and Flumethrin (anti-ticks).

So at least there seems to be two ingredients, there are probably more.
Have the lawsuits/regulation been anything that taxi companies didn't also have to deal with when they had a monopoly though? I don't really see it as disrupting the system if you just don't pay the taxes or follow the regulations of the other guy.

I'm starting to think that ride sharing is just an area where you can have a profitable, sustainable company (taxis) but not the sustained, exponential growth a company like Uber is pitching. If Uber was happy to settle for paying drivers decent (but low) wages and operate at a sustainable level they would probably be fine, but that's a death sentence for a publicly traded company in their position.
Ask HN: Best budget E Ink E-Reader?
Hey guys, I am currently in the second semester of my CS degree and our professor supply lots of reading material as .pdfs.

Now I have noticed that reading those on my iPad causes extreme eyestrain after a while so I would like to switch to an E Ink E-Reader. I found a ton of them online after a google search but I am a bit lost if any of the cheap devices are actually serviceable so I figured I would post an Ask HN :)

Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
I have had chatGPT suggest that I give it more data/information pretty regularly. Although not technically a question, it essentially accomplishes the same thing. "If you give me this" vs. "Can you give me this?"
Great - I do not plan on buying a PS4 for awhile now…I still have a ton of PS4 games and currently building my Switch library
Why is it different than web search? Surely Apple could build a search engine if they wanted to.
Just checked my Amazon history and it goes back to 2001. I remember clearly that I was ordering from Amazon in 1998 or so, but I suspect that was actually on my parents' account.
”In order to stop this fear response in mice, the scientists injected them with a harmless virus meant to stop this neurotransmitter switch, which curtailed the mice's generalized fear reaction.”

That sounds very far from harmless.
I'm so old, the first time I connected to a different computer was through a 300 baud modem. The Internet didn't exist yet, just BBSs. The local BBS scene was a blast. I'm still friends with several people I met back then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39486241

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39682743
The plan cache on Oracle in combination with prepared statements where the optimizer can't peek into the parameters has been really problematic for me in the past. I usually had to go in and either add hints or force a plan.

Even simple queries like SELECT * FROM t WHERE x = TRUE; could turn into a nightmare depending on the distribution of the x values in the table.

With Postgres I rarely encountered such problems but I must admit that I haven't used Postgres with prepared statements.

I have seen some queries with slow planning time (>100ms) where a cache could have been useful but I don't remember ever really needing to optimize one.
I believe you, but that's depressing
The GDRP is about all kinds of tracking, of which things you can block locally at the browser level is only one part. So yes, even those users that already cared enough to block/discard cookies benefit.
That was your choice in the end, but this was the problem - people didn't have the choice, or the awareness. The EU law fixed this, but instead of corporations going "Hmm, maybe we shouldn't track users", they instead went with malicious compliance and implemented annoyances - because data is more valuable for a lot of websites than whatever said website is peddling.
Comparing them to taxis isn't one-for-one for this context: most municipalities had barriers to entry to prevent just anyone from running a taxi service (i.e. the medallions in NYC).

The business will do the math to figure out what they can get away with. Honestly there probably is a little political posturing here as OP said, but if they return it's because they made the math work, otherwise they'll stay gone.
A younger one here. What's MUD?
I hope he targets something better than a vt102 (going for 520 like Zutty would be good) and remembers to do extensive checking with VTTEST. Blog post from the Zutty creator about correctness: <https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-...>
> Lumina Probiotic is launching during Vitalia 2024, at a price point of $19,000. There are no follow-up costs. [1]

oof. it's cheaper to just deal with cavities.

[1] https://www.luminaprobiotic.com/faq
CanvaSX currently doesn't have its own rendering event loop or anything like that, it simply renders everything that is passed in. For now this makes the implementation very simple and naive.

Internally we are using this for our Aha! Whiteboards product, which is built on top of Fabric.js The Fabric framework provides a lot of the rendering optimizations out of the box: it will only render shapes that are visible in the current viewport. Fabric resets and re-renders the entire canvas every time, but it will only re-render as needed. There are also instances where we need to manually trigger a re-render based on state changes to the whiteboard.

So the rendering performance thus far has not been an issue. We are always looking for improvements to our product and the implementation of CanvaSX, but we didn't want to prematurely optimize or over-engineer the framework.
Sounds like they did what they said they would.
> ("Rolling Stone" could serve everybody ads for Taylor Swift's latest album without a banner, etc).

And that would be fine, as long as Swift was willing to pay for it. But the tracking and personalized ads thing was a numbers game; personalized ads have a higher conversion rate, thus are more valuable, thus we need data to personalize ads.
This was brought into sharp focus during Covid and the supply chain break down. We are so incredibly reliant on so many points in the chain and we take it all for granted. When it works its incredible and when we get a single point of failure, everything breaks down.
I'm aware of areas where real estate taxes are high and large swaths of land are owned by private non-profit conservation organizations.
There's a typo in the article referring to "727 Max 9". Does this make anyone else super nostalgic?
X.com points to Twitter now, so I imagine that’s why it’s broken

(Unless I’m pointing out the obvious unsaid joke)
There's a forum for a game I used to play on windows 95. It seems my account is still active on there from around 2001
Google Docs uses Canvas + WASM, I believe.
I added the trail, the viewpoint, and the article link to OSM right after this made it to HN, didn’t expect it to be useful so soon!
Show HN: Return To Office Mandates suck
Hi there, like many of you out here, I was affected by my company's return to office policy. When the policy came into effect, I lost a couple of hours every day commuting and my daily routine was disrupted. Imo, the company lost even more in terms of talent and in terms of trust from the employees.

I might sound like a spoilt brat complaining about my cushy dev job, but I think of my little project as a collective voice where we help improve the working culture of the world.

I made this site to track everything return to office and the silliness of it all. Thank you for checking out the site. It's a work in progress, do let me know if there are any suggestions etc
When the first grunt plugin came out that could auto-generate a sprite map, that was love. Had been using images with the hover version offset out of view to avoid flicker on load for many years before.
No, the current status of neutrinos and of dark matter are not at all comparable.

Like another poster has already written, the status of dark matter is like that of the neutrinos when their existence had been postulated, but before means to detect them by alternative methods have been devised.

In the beginning, the existence of neutrinos has been presumed because in certain reactions the conservation of the energy and of the linear momentum and of the angular momentum was not observed.

So every time when there were missing energies and momenta, it was assumed that they had been carried away by neutrinos.

In the same way, nowadays whenever there is an extra gravitational force, it is assumed that there exists some dark matter that is the source of the extra force.

Until another means of determining the existence of dark matter is discovered, this does not constrain enough the properties of the dark matter. For any mathematical model of the gravitational forces, when we see that it does not match reality we can add a fictitious distribution of dark matter computed to match the observations.

In fact, for the postulated neutrinos even before their first detection we had much more knowledge about them, because they had to satisfy many distinct conservation laws, so we knew that they must be fermions with null electric charge and h_bar/2 spin and that their mass must be much smaller than the mass of the electron.

On the other hand, we are really in the dark about dark matter. We know nothing about any properties of any constituents of dark matter.
> 1) Those tasks that it is still currently only possible for a human to do. 2) Those tasks which are easier and cheaper for a human to do.

I agree, but "1" must include all tasks where a mistake could lead to liabilities for the company, which is probably most tasks. LLMs can't be held responsible for their fuckups, they can't be punished, they have no body. It's like the genie from the bottle, it will grant your three wishes, but they might turn out in a surprising way and it can't be held accountable.

The same will apply for example for using LLMs in medicine. We can't afford to risk it on AI, a human must certify the diagnosis and treatment.

In conclusion we can say LLMs can't handle accountability, not even in principle. That's a big issue in many jobs. The OP mentioned this as well:

> even when AI coders can be rented out like EC2 instances, it will be beneficial to have an inhouse team of Software Developers to oversee their work

Oversight is basically manual-mode AI alignment. We won't automate that, the more advanced an AI, the more effort we need to put in overseeing its work.
>>> since bats are mammals, they literally turn mosquitoes into milk.

and now I'll never have breakfast anymore. Thanks
> This allows it to hit the previously unheard of 6.2 GHz on two cores

Does this mean that only two cores can be simultaneously at that speed?
Ebay 1998 (used a few times a year), amazon 1997 (used all the time)
I way pre-date the web, so I guess I'm older than the author. I typed my first line of code into a teletype terminal connected to an HP3000 mainframe at my high school in 197... something... 6 I think.

Also I kind of think we old people should shut up about the whole "blink of an eye" thing. I've been guilty of it myself. Of course time didn't go by in the blink of an eye: it went by 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour. And of course you can't remember it all so looking back it seems like the years flew by, which they didn't. So we go around trying to make younger people feel a sense of urgency that they don't really need. What we should be saying is: slow down, take your time, enjoy, think it through, there's plenty of time. Oh, and ignore that old guy in the corner checking the time every 30 seconds.
> the German state railways

No such thing anymore, unfortunately.
Dehydration really is the one that gets me
I've only traveled in Europe and Asia so far but this never looked like an issue to me.

Also I'd also use the transit system for the following days in the city, so have to learn about it anyways. (Not that there's really anything to learn)
Oh, I didn't know MUDs are still a thing. Memories...
> Ride share driver's aren't slaves. They chose to drive for ride share companies above the other options. If it was a bad deal then Uber and Lyft would be having trouble finding drivers.

And slaves aren't slaves either, they chose to remain slaves above other options (rebel and be beaten or killed). If it was a bad deal, the slaveholders would be having trouble getting their slaves to work, and would just be killing or beating them all the time.

I find type of argument irksome. It basically ignores whatever the actual situation is with a blind assumption whatever the market does is the best (or at least better) thing and is therefore fine.

If you give a person terrible choices, and they pick the best of a bad lot, that choice doesn't excuse the situation. All Minneapolis did was mandate one those choices had to be better. The rest is up to Uber and Lyft, who chose to play hardball to keep exploiting their workers to the degree they've become accustomed.

> How is strictly fewer options a good thing?

Exploitative options aren't a acceptable.
Maybe.

Currently, these models seem to be useful but produce incorrect code sometimes, right? So coders might need to still exist. And they do they actually work well for whole projects, or just snippets of code (I’m sure increasing project size will be an area of rapid improvement). Also the models are trained on existing code, will the models need extra data to train them?

The analogy would fit if we still needed horses to drive manual cars or to help navigate. Or if cars were an interpolation of horse behavior and we studied horses to improve the operation of cars.
This strikes me as less likely to happen for a few reasons.

First, there's anti-trust. Are regulators going to let Google own the smart-assistant on both smartphone platforms? There's already so many eyes on the Google/Apple search deal.

Second, why would Apple cede the smart-assistant to Google now? It seems like it would put them in a bad position long-term like it did with maps. Apple let Google be the maps on iPhones and then they watched as Google Maps on iPhones quickly fell behind their Android counterparts - until Apple came out with their own maps that forced Google to upgrade their iOS maps app.

Third, why would Google want to offer this to Apple unless it was licensed for a good amount of money (or a discount off being the default search on the iPhone)? Companies are racing to create generative AI assistants, but is there money in it? I'm not saying there isn't money in generative AI. I'm not saying there isn't money in ChatGPT Plus/API for $20/mo. But I don't think there's money in the AI assistant itself for Google to want to give it to Apple for free. With search, Google is getting ad revenue. If Siri-Gemini starts providing answers without searching, that's not good for Google.

Fourth, there are other companies. It notes OpenAI, but there's also Anthropic's Claude 3 and I'm sure others I'm unaware of. Apple just bought DarwinAI within the past week.

Apple might be behind on generative AI, but it seems like a partnership with Google here could be a misstep (obviously it depends on what the deal would be). I know that Apple worries about being behind, but Gemini hasn't been the most impressive and Apple was able to turn an Apple Maps fiasco into a wonderful app that I think is nicer than Google Maps. Are people clamoring for generative AI? To an extent, but it seems hasty to execute a deal with Google just to hit a fall-2024 deadline that probably won't impact iPhone sales that much. It seems like Apple should be a bit more deliberate with its plans here if generative AI is going to be a major part of their future.
New Streamlined Plan Structure (Netdata)