skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> make sure to use a unique email for each service you sign up for.

Unfortunatly that's a big hassle that I am not willing to go through.

Apple's approach to pseudo emails was very nice and in my experience, works very well, but as mainly PC user I can't take advantage of this.

Do you know or recommend a service for this thats easy and fast to use?
I realized part of the problem recently; if you can afford to live in a 15 minute bike city, you're also living in a 5 minute car city. (Or more precisely, if something is a 10 minute walk away, it's about a minute or two by car.)

Until you go from one car to zero, the car is a damn good temptation.

I just did a round trip to pick up something from the library, a mile away. Could have walked, but couldn't have walked and got back in time before my meeting.
It's plug-in system is quite comprehensive. I just finished writing a note taking plug-in and the source code itself was a great reference for developing a plug-in.
Not sure if you intended it this way, but it sounds like you believe that it's not a great thing that almost all traffic on the Internet is encrypted today, or that you think it would/will be good to have all computers on the Internet running only "trusted" code.

One can believe it's crazy to run unencrypted traffic while also believing it's crazy not to allow me to run any code I want to connect to the Internet. There is no slippery slope between these two.
Here's a case study of 42: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1016/j.jfms.2009.09.018
And there's certainly many more cases than just those at a "referral hospital in Sydney, Australia."
Great point.

I think this will weed out the people doing tech purely for the sake of tech and will bring more creative minds who see the technology as a tool to achieve a goal.
In what way is the bittorrent protocol criminalized?
Firebase does that, the problem is "warning them" isn't as simple as it sounds. Developers ignore automated emails and they rarely if ever open the dashboard. Figuring out how to contact the developers using the platform (and get them to care) has been an issue with every developer tool I've worked on.
NSF: The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2024
The National Science Board (Board, NSB) is required under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1863 (j) (1) to prepare the biennial Science and Engineering Indicators (Indicators) report for and transmit it to the president and Congress every even-numbered year. The report is prepared by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within NSF under the guidance of the Board.
After Gemini's embarrassing "woke images" debacle last month, probably a lot of people wouldn't want it on their phones, nor on their desktops/laptops. Until Gemini is cleaned up and all the political biases removed, it's a tainted product, at least among a lot of vocal influencers, if not the masses.
Are you telling me I packed all this hose for my trip to London for no reason at all? Can I pick up an adapter at the airport?
The catch is that those people could, barring the AI advances we seem to be seeing, could retrain for an SWE labor market that lagged demand; that wont even be possible for devs put out of work in the future.
RP2040 Boot Sequence
> the ordinance was pushed for largely by drivers.

This, too, is baseless. Plenty of people who aren't drivers support legislation like this. Neither the claim that most drivers support this legislation, nor the claim that this legislation has been mostly supported by drivers is substantiated.
> lost is the ability of the 4th estate to establish a single narrative

For a brief while, radio and then television reigned. They were a tight little oligopoly. The only other news came from periodicals that "weird uncles" might read. That was the era of the single narrative.

Then there was the rise of cable and in the US, the loosening of rules that led to the talk radio boom, then finally the Internet. The carefully-groomed narrative gave way to cacophony.

Today the fingerprints of government are all over main news sources, be that "ex-" spooks actually on camera on network broadcasts or active government interference with Internet feeds. We've always had government trying to stop reporting and censor, but this seems like a different magnitude of involvement. I'm more concerned about that, frankly.

> It fosters extremism.

Disagree. I think it fosters quarrels. Everyone being encouraged to conform fosters extremism, from the fascist movements of the 20th century to the red scare to the cold war, people were required to salute and stop thinking or else they're not "one of us."
Mac os is literally a gui on a turnkey linux distro. Under the hood its very comfortable.
it's a win win win!
> Can you resolve the paradox?

What's the paradox?

Two identical pieces of land, both pay the same in taxes, one requires more work to improve it (as it needs a tear down first). So that piece of land will sell for a lower price than its neighbor.
Yes, but there is a report of him being around around 2022 also - https://web.archive.org/web/20220128114020/https://whyy.org/...
Yes, I noticed the autocorrect but it was too late. Thought the context was sufficient to expose it as a typo.

“…for font size, typographic scale, and spacing.”
Can you find some examples of drivers speaking out against it? At public hearings etc? All the news coverage I've seen about it has mentioned significant driver support and very little opposition.
Interesting. With a bit of work, this would have genuine use for something like a text display on an Atari2600, where the dimensions are significantly limited.

I've used glyphs as small as 4x5 but I've struggled to come up with anything smaller for most characters.

Here's an example of a full text adventure for the 2600 if anyone's interested https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Adventureland-2600

Better or worse with an even smaller font? I'm not sure.
Why? Macos is already a unix os.
And way less particulate pollution. Automobile drivers are actively hurting you everytime you breathe their exhaust fumes, tire wear dust, or brake pad dust. Of course the same can be said for bicycle tires or brakes on a far smaller scale, or probably even pedestrian plastic shoe soles.
It is a pretty complex topic, but, personally, I am just thankful to GA lottery for making it possible for me to go to college without having to take out bajillions in student loans.

No, I didn’t win the lottery, but it just happens to fund the state’s Zell Miller/HOPE scholarships that are available to any GA resident attending a school in GA. As long as you qualify GPA-wise (which had a rather generous cutoff iirc back when I was a student, 3.0 for HOPE and 3.3 for Zell Miller; you can also regain that scholarship later or lose and regain again, it isn’t a one-and-done deal), you are set.
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> But other items that were stolen were not nearly of the same caliber: a nondescript Chinese metal vase; a fairly ordinary bronze eagle from atop a flagpole; and five minor sketches by Degas. The thieves walked past paintings and jade figurines worth millions, including a drawing by Michelangelo, yet they spent some of their 81 minutes inside fussing to free the vase from a tricky locking mechanism.

Would love to find this out. Were the more expensive pieces under increased security?
Any with arm
> I'm pretty sure you'd find that they actually reduced exploitation

Correlation is not causation. It would be illogical to remove options and have less exploitation. When luck and free markets compensate for the removed options - great. A strong labor market with lots of employers is the best tool against exploitation. But here we are talking about a corrupted, monopolistic government-controlled market where there weren't many choices to begin with. New entrants should be encouraged and celebrated, not shunned and punished.

Minimum wage laws are incredibly damaging as well. For example, the unpaid part-time "job" that launched me in the IT field would be illegal now. And I would be much poorer for it. But, hey, I wouldn't have been "exploited".
Many streets have been transformed to one way or made cycle-only so some critical arteries are getting congested a lot. I feel the violence and anger too, you don't even need to go to Paris, the suburbs are becoming a mess of seething drivers. I get a lot more of very dangerous behaviour, insults from drivers on shared infrastructure as I did 5 years ago, even though I have my kids in a cargo and I cycle around the max assisted (25km/h) speed or higher if my legs work, most of the time.

I see shouting matches at least once a week, angry drivers honking on streets they can't even pass a bicycle... And isolated infrastructure is not always possible...

I feel this has become another part of some culture war, where I just don't have a license and drive my kids around in a bicycle (I don't want to drive a car) so I'm some angry green extremist out to annoy every driver out there...
New Privacy-Preserving AI Technology in the Pipeline at Apple
I marvel more at say a cat than a spool of wire.

They are physically skilled in ways that humans aren't! They don't have language, but they do know a lot about what's going on.
GPT-4 Turbo: 31.0

Claude 3 Opus: 27.3

Mistral Large: 17.7

Mistral Medium: 15.3

Gemini Pro 1.0: 14.2

Qwen 1.5 72B Chat: 10.7

Claude 3 Sonnet: 7.6

GPT-3.5 Turbo: 4.2

Mixtral 8x7B Instruct: 4.2

Llama 2 70B Chat: 3.5

Nous Hermes 2 Yi 34B: 1.5

The interesting part is the large improvement from medium to large models. Existing over-optimized benchmarks don't show this.

- Max is 100. 267 puzzles, 3 prompts for each, uppercase and lowercase

- Partial credit is given if the puzzle is not fully solved

- There is only one attempt allowed per puzzle, 0-shot.

- Humans get 4 attempts and a hint when they are one step away from solving a group

I hoped to get the results of Gemini Advanced, Gemini Pro 1.5, and Grok and do a few-shot version before posting it on GitHub.
My last understanding was that it fell outside the standard model and would require some kind of new elementary particle to explain. It doesn’t interact with light or electromagnetism. The only real basis we have for it is gravitational abnormalities.

I guess I have to ask: why do you presume there exists an undetectable force that makes your equations work and not that the equations don’t account for everything?

Seems silly. You would never believe 85% of software bugs were caused by unseen, undetectable stochastic physics errors that only manifested as a system crash. The fact that doing the same thing over and over again produces the same result certainly doesn’t cement that theory in my mind.
Is it a product, is it a service?
I'd say you're right. The lighting draws a line down the middle of her face; our brains don't like asymmetry so arranging the lighting and expression like that has intent.

No photographer trying to capture a regular image would have the light fall like that, and it would be very hard/lucky to get it to do it "by accident"
The base functionality is free (and this is far more than a basic kanban). If you want more enterprisey features it's paid, although I don't believe it's too difficult to bypass the license check.
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> They listen to symptoms, make an educated guess at a root cause based on limited information, make an educated guess at what might resolve the situation, and then wait to hear back if that fixed it; if it didn't, the loop continues.

Having been a mechanic and having worked with a lot of MDs, unfortunately, neither profession really works that way anymore.

Mostly, you're taking symptoms, yes, but then you use a computer system to 'help' educate your guesses. By 'help' here, I mean that most mechanics and MDs just kinda blindly plug the symptoms into the computer and then start reading.

These systems have pretty detailed stats on the possible causes and fixes, what you should go check out again to get more data for the computer, etc.

Both sets of systems can pretty reliably turn a C level person into a B+/A- level person. As such the subscriptions are worth every penny.

Mechanics (in my day) use AllData : https://www.alldata.com/us/en/repair

MDs use UpToDate : https://www.uptodate.com/login
It really mostly comes down to jitter. On a low-jitter, low-packet-loss path and/or using large receive buffers (which adds delay, but that doesn't matter at all for faxes) fax is very possible.
Thanks, that's really great news. The only thing I wish for now is aarch64 support on Apple Silicon
This feels like people getting spooked by autocomplete in editors.

We're pretty far from AI being able to properly, efficiently and effectively develop a full system that I believe before that will take my job, I'd probably be retired or something. If my feeling is wrong, I'm still sure some form of developer will be needed, even just to keep the AI running
The question is not about what AI can do today but what we assume AI will be able to do tomorrow.

All of what you wrote in your second paragraph will become something AI will be doing better and faster than you.

We never had technology which can write code like this. I prompted ChatGPT to write a very basic java tool which renders an image from an url and makes it bigger on a click. It just did it.

Its not hard to think further and a lot of technology is already going into this direction. Alone last week devin was showne. Gemini has a window token of 1 Million tokens. Groq shows us how it will feel to have instant response.

Right now its already good enough that people with Copilot like to keep it when asked. We already now pay billions for AI daily. This means the amount of research, business motivation and money flowing into it now is probably staggering in comparision to what moved this field a few years ago.

Its not clear at all how fast we will progress but i'm pretty sure, we will hit a time were every junior is worse than AI which will force people of rethinking what they are going to do. Do i hire an junior and train him/her? Or do i prefer to invest more into AI? The gap will widen and widen, a generation or a certain amount of people will stay longer and might be able to stay in development but a lot of others might just not.
Thank God we are finally doing something about this!
Yeah I had the same response. He makes lots of anecdotal claims about tribespeople's back trouble but where's the data? It's mildly interesting nonetheless.
Do we want to take a step back and look at the revolutions that history labels as such? The invention of the wheel, of the press, the industrial revolution, internet and the world wide web?

And now, let's reflect on how many times per day we catch a glimpse of the word 'revolution' in connection with AI, quantum computing, large language models, the latest large language models, future large language models. Too fast, too often. The word 'revolution' has lost its power.

Can we look at the progress of AI through the Pareto Principle lens, and see if the 80/20 rule applies? Is it possible that it took just 20% of the R&D effort to achieve what we perceive today as 80% of the result? In terms of accuracy, reliability, relevance and usability, is it fair to say that current models of generative AI have reached that 80% threshold? This is debatable, but if we accept that assumption, it may imply that another 80% of the R&D effort may be needed to come close to 100%. And still, that would only be 100% of what a probabilistic model could achieve, 100% of what you can obtain from next token prediction.
Believe me, there is a lot of hard work needed to make even barely noticeable incremental progress. Ad we'll need to read about many more 'game-changers', 'breakthroughs', 'paradigm shifts', 'tectonic shifts' and other revolutions before we can be confident that LLMs will make history.
Indeed. We don't get to have that cool ambiguity here Norway
I've milked this to death:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
There are only two forms, the plant/mushroom form (D2) and animal (D3) form.

As with anything fat-soluble it's wise to take it as part of a meal that includes plenty of fat.

The problem with most studies is, surely in part because of this unfounded fear, they are underdosed. I don't have anything on hand, but I know there are clinics supervising megadose vitamin D protocols all over the world, but mostly in Germany and Latin America, that I'm aware of.
It's written that way at the top of the README.
> It seemed to suggest or question the point of improvement, betterment, or desires entirely.

That says a lot about why I made that comment to begin with. It’s this way of jumping to conclusions and feeling attacked that seems to be quite deeply conditioned in many of us. Hence, I admit my comment was kind of provocative.

To clarify: By no means did I want to indicate that betterment and improvement aren’t worthwhile endeavors generally speaking. My point is rather that they should be embedded in something greater. Otherwise, they might yield counterintuitive results which can, in extreme cases, become dangerous.

To support my point: Look at what’s currently considered “successful” in our contemporary society. Then look at its detrimental effects which become more and more pronounced in many areas. A bit more balance would be desirable at times.

A lot of this stems from the deeply entrenched believe in a false conceptual self. At least that’s what I am convinced of. That’s why I made that comment in the context of this article.
Do you think so? My hardware vendor is Dell and I bought my XPS13 as a Developer Edition with Linux out of the box.

Everything I've read suggests that this is just a fiddly config issue and setting up the correct script combination would solve it. I just don't have the time of patience to get to the bottom of it right now.
There's also so much talk about penis protection, I would love to know if women use different sleeping positions at different rates than men
Yep, all the time. The amount of complexity involved in all the precision engineering in everything I use daily has me in constant awe. It's the entire reason I'm an engineer in the first place. It's incredible that everything works at all and is affordable to a mere student.
European Union AI Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterorhabditis_bacteriophora

"Heterorhabditis bacteriophora is a species of entomopathogenic nematode known commonly as beneficial nematodes. They are microscopic and are used in gardening as a form of biological pest control."

That's fascinating. Have you noticed any knock-on effects? E.g. fall in the number of other wildlife which might normally feed on those insects?
I would love to see some data to back that up. I expect L3 cache to have a much more drastic difference than memory bandwidth.
And a driver assaulted me with his car last week (I was on a bike in a "sharrow" lane). Almost put me into the ditch, and when I didn't fall, he proceeded to brake-check me.

I've had food thrown at me by motorists when I'm in dedicated bike lanes.

I've been buzzed by trucks and buses while in bike lanes.

I see cars regularly use the bike lane outside my house to make aggressive passes of slower auto traffic.

Pedestrians have been killed crossing the streets near my house. All by cars, not bicycles.

Cars regularly kill animals. And not just squirrels, but raptors and fox and other predators we don't want to lose.

And on and on. We all have our anecdotes. The answer is dedicated infrastructure for a range of transportation.
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>The authors predicted that a low dose of ketamine in healthy volunteers who scored in the low hypnotizable range on the Stanford Clinical Hypnotizability Scale would report an increase in subjective ratings of dissociation and demonstrate an increase in hypnotizability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39744725
Gives us poor plebs some context please.
What an incredible web page design. It loads and paints instantly on any browser in existence and reflows faster than any site I've seen. The content is front and center and there's a ton of it. This is what peak website performance looks like.
> Ride share driver's aren't slaves.

But they can be some desperate people, who are willing to put up with inhumane working conditions just to survive. We, as a developed society, should have a floor on the working conditions. Otherwise, businesses will take advantage of the weakest members of the society to bring back practices like 9-9-6, peeing in the bottle at the warehouses, child labor and what not.

Regulations are the best defense against a race to the bottom.
https://archive.is/219k0
Massive 'Apex Legends' Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns
The recommendation for 200 to 800 IU daily is for people who already have normal vitamin D levels. To correct vitamin D deficiency, modern sources recommend a minimum of 1,500 to 2,000 IU daily [1]. The Endocrine Society even recommends 6,000 IU daily [2], so 5,000 IU is not crazy by any means. There is also nothing crazy about five years of supplementation: Many people won't maintain normal vitamin D levels even after five years of 2,000+ IU (unless they make lifestyle changes like being deliberate about spending more time in the sunlight) and they may need to continue vitamin D repletion indefinitely [2, 3].

5,000 IU is probably a bit much to give without rechecking the vitamin D level at least once a year or so, but at least to me it's not obviously medical malpractice. If there is medical error here, it's ignoring calcium levels higher than 11 mg/dl for months and the fact that the patient had to refer herself to an endocrinologist because her PCP did nothing about it.

Overall, I really don't like this article. The author is generalizing based on outlier cases. She even admits this: "Of course, there is a selection bias in who comes to me. There are people out there doing just fine on 5000 units of Vitamin D daily. I only see the ones who develop high calcium levels." She uses "hormone" as a sort of scare word, kind of how "chemical" is used in other contexts. Sure, there are some hormones that can be very harmful, but there is nothing inherently wrong about taking hormone supplements, even for an extended period of time, just like there is nothing inherently wrong about consuming "chemicals."

I strongly disagree about restricting over the counter vitamin D. Tylenol and ibuprofen lead to thousands of hospital admissions and hundreds of deaths per year, and yet we freely give them over the counter. If vitamin D doesn't meet the threshold for OTC, then basically nothing does.

Parts 1 and 3 of the series are better. I agree that the evidence on vitamin D for most things other bone growth in children and osteoporosis is weak.

[1] https://www.ccjm.org/content/89/3/154 ("Increasing and maintaining the 25(OH)D level consistently above 30 ng/mL may require at least 1,500–2,000 IU/day")

[2] https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/96/7/1911/2833671 ("We suggest that all adults who are vitamin D deficient be treated with 50,000 IU of vitamin D2 or vitamin D3 once a week for 8 wk or its equivalent of 6000 IU of vitamin D2 or vitamin D3 daily to achieve a blood level of 25(OH)D above 30 ng/ml, followed by maintenance therapy of 1500–2000 IU/d")

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912737/ ("Regardless of initial vitamin D therapy, and assuming no change in lifestyle or diet, a maintenance/prevention daily dose of 800 to 2000 IU or more will be needed to avoid recurrent deficiency")
Apple has a great backup tool called Time Machine that would have had you whistling a different tune if it were used before your system failure (which can happen with any system fwiw).