skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sarcastic, why would I? I really don't understand how you can be for free market fundamentalism and for regulation of asbestos at the same time.

From watching the US from the outside and from several visits, it looks like a huge amount of people in the US are free market fundamentalists. People did label me socialist for suggesting market regulation.

You're right. I haven't thought that one through.

Consumers could band together and pay labs for lists of products, or subscribe to a labeling service.

Or if there is a market, companies will label their products for a segment.

(If it isn't clear, I'm no free market fundementalist)
Having been down this road a few times, this:

> What I've heard is Azure is a pain in the ass, and things take three times as long to set up there, for some reason.

Doesn't matter. The cost here is a rounding error. What does matter is something like this:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2021/05/Google-Docs-...

https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/elev...

https://killedbygoogle.com/

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/g-suite-free-shutdown

Etc.

These sorts of behaviors take out whole swaths of businesses wholesale. It's random, and you never know when it will happen to you.

It's the difference between managing a classroom with:

- an annoying kid throwing spitballs every day (Azure)

- the quiet kid who, one day, brings an assault rifle, a few extra mags, and starts spraying bullets into the cafeteria (Google).

Yes, one is a constant source of annoyance, but really, it's very manageable when you consider the alternative.

(Oracle, in the school analogy, is the mean kid who spreads false rumors about you. As far as I can tell, there is never a sound, long-term business reason to pick Oracle. Most of the reason Oracle is chosen is they're very good at setting up offerings which align to misaligned incentives; they're very often the right choice for maximizing some quarterly or annual objective so someone gets their bonus. In return, the firm is usually completely milked by Oracle a few years down the line. By that point, the decision maker has typically collected their bonus, moved on, and it's no longer their problem.)
Dedicated to medical research. They also have a large investment in quantum computing.
1.1B Taxi Rides Using ClickHouse on Intel's Core I9-14900K
Rehoboam from Westworld is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear "supercomputer" now. What a terrible last season the show got!
You're a better man than I am. Yes, I'm unwilling to be around those who deny the suffering of my people, the history of my country, millennia of bloody conquests, all in the name of some new found, new age concepts or equity or equality or democracy. It depresses me to be around the people who deny my suffering. I don't want to do neighborhood wine and cheese weather chat when I know he fundamentally disagrees with my right to exist or his book teaches him to wipe out my people. It is difficult for me to go to my church, synagogue, or temple, learn about burnt babies, and then go a block party and talk about Taylor Swift, cuz I sure as hell cant talk about anything else.
I mean, the article did a pretty good job of explaining the situation to a general financially-savvy audience considering how complex it is.
I am an unabashed nanochess fanboy but it’s not really Logo without lists and functions.
Yes, this is the correct explanation. Datelines are generally based on the writer’s location. I don’t know for sure that’s CNN policy, but it’s AP policy, which is widely followed.
Title says "wipe out all life on Earth." Subtitle says "sterilize all life on Earth." But paragraph 8 says "sterilize half of all life on Earth."

I clicked because I wanted to know how it was possible to sterilize all life bar none.
We're already talking about how great it's going to be to eat the bugs? That wasn't supposed to happen for years. Which one of you morons leaked the script?
What? I still have to go to work. Obviously it doesn't work fine.
Call us when they change their license
Labor hoarding when money was cheap and returns expectations were low.
Now money costs money, returns expectations are higher, and labor hoarding is less advantageous.
>We need a new term for the current situation. The data shows that the wealth of the bottom 50% has recovered - but their lifestyles and happiness have not.

"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it". —Jeff Bezos <https://sports.yahoo.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-explains-2123...>
cache on a nas would limit cache speed to network speed. 1gbit is just about 125 megabytes/sec, while you can get a nvme disc with 4000+ megabytes/sec speed. so consider running sccache locally or just disable it for better build performance
I have extensively used https://pypi.org/project/diskcache/. Is there a reason you decided to make an in house solution?
Because of the absolute shit show of misconduct, and of taking marketing claims by vaccine companies at face value during Covid and basically forcing them to age and risk groups that didn't need them?

If you want to battle mistrust for vaccines, start by not cooking up numbers, making BS claims, and so on, for quick bucks, when there's an emergecy.
I just got an offer from GitLab, though I didn't end up accepting, and it was a pretty standard interview process

~3 rounds with a little homework. No leet code. Regular interview questions. The interviewers were polite.
Test server with Ping, Traceroute, DNS, HTTP and more from global nodes
NodeCook, a website to test your server and website with Ping, Traceroute, DNS, HTTP and more from global nodes!
A strict definition is almost never required outside maths. We got so far being unable to define "woman" it turns out.

The most naive meaning of understanding, such as "demonstrating ability to apply a concept to a wide range of situations" is good enough for many cases, Goedel be damned.
CNN franchises around the would are something completely different.

If you thing CNN is bad, it is because you because you never watched its franchises. The one from Brazil is a far right news outlet that disseminates fake news.
500 Internal Server Error, so https://archive.is/20240319115956/https://europeanspacefligh...
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmbmkjp-10y?count...

Looking like they have made some improvement. Not a bad curve, but a ton of improvement needed.

Not in GDP though. 265% debt to gdp is absolute bananas. They still havent balanced their budget. 56% income tax rate is crazy.

Then they have to deal with major population decline and aging population; without immigration? So um are they planning to cure death or something? Like anti-aging drugs or something? So perhaps they can turn their aging population into young population?

Something extreme like that is Japan's only hope at this point.
The primary source is this ESA story and it's much better:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid...

The current OP is just a summary of this one.
Anecdotally, yes, it happened to me. An older extension spring setup where each end of the spring had a J-shape hook. The hook itself sheared off of the body of the spring and shot a ~2 inch steel boomerang across the garage. Fortunately my only injury was psychological and temporary.

The replacement spring was constructed differently, with the "hook" portion replaced by two complete loops of metal. The safety cable runs through that and would hold it back during a similar failure.
I think the downvotes are purely from the snipe at COVID restrictions, since it is sadly still a hot button topic. My initial urge was to downvote but I undid it and will keep my input neutral there because it’s just not on topic.

I personally think that the sudden need to accept remote work, delivery services, and isolating at home opened up a mode of living that until now has been inaccessible to those of us who actually like that sort of thing. Before, socializing with strangers simply couldn’t be avoided, because there was no other realistic way to live, besides going off into the wilderness and setting the entirety of civilization aside. We now have more options and that’s great! People who like the old way can still commute into the office, go to their pub, dine out in person, and so on, but now, the option has opened up for people who don’t want to do that, and I don’t think there is anything wrong with that. One size doesn’t fit all.

I now have the option to stay in my house for a month+ and not see another human being if I want, and still earn a living, enjoy modern life, conveniences, shopping, dining… not really possible as recently as 2019. It’s not for everyone but to me it’s better than the old way.
Which is unconscionable

That’s 90B of stolen value from employees who should be the owners of the stock
I found DiskCache sometime last year, it's amazing. Very simple to set up and works great as a cache for so many different things.
>I would argue the Chinese are focusing more resources in Australia compared to the US.

What are your sources? All declassified documents that I know of suggest otherwise. For example UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament report titled "China" almost starts with "China sees almost all of its global activity in the context of its struggle with the US".
>There's a reason Facebook is worth about 10x what SpaceX is worth, and most of that value doesn't come from the ability to build software. Facebook isn't even particularly good at building software.

One is a publicly listed business with as much of an objective look at real time "worth" as possible in today's world, and the other is a private business with confidential financials.

Seems like you would be unable to even calculate SpaceX's net worth, much less compare them to a business with the most objective measure of "worth".
We recently had a new CEO come on board, and within 60 days they cut 3 product lines and all the people associated with them. We were making a profit, albeit less than usual due to "market conditions", but not anything that wasn't predicted to turn around in the foreseeable future. These were leading-edge products in our market, fulfilling a niche that our competitors weren't looking at in any meaningful way, and of great importance and interest to our biggest customers - and somehow this one person could predict the future and adapt to that better than legions of decision-makers in the organisation?

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think someone can reasonably come in and in such a short time make such sweeping decisions in an informed manner. I simply think it's impossible to do more than guesswork in that time frame. They're gambling with people's lives to make themselves look impactful, nothing more. These products were maybe 2 or 3 years in development too. I honestly feel like most CEOs spend a couple of days looking at a balance sheet for the next quarter, and make it all up from there. It's insane.
The Difference Between Reacting and Responding
Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report
"medical research"? Yes, that's it.

In Terminator 2

"
John Connor: You know what you're doing?

The Terminator: I have detailed files on human anatomy.

Sarah Connor: I'll bet. Makes you a more efficient killer, right?

The Terminator: Correct.

"
Ask HN: Will AI slow down progression?
I keep hearing about how AI is going to replace developers, I can’t see it but if it did would it stop progress?

This is my little theory, I work with data so this is data tooling focused but could equally apply to any new technology like rust vs c!

If we had the LLM’s ten years ago and startups created to replace software devs with low code solutions then the AI tools would have been automating Hadoop and Map Reduce and there would have been no reason to invent Spark.

My reasoning being that new AI can learn how to use our existing tools but I don’t believe they will create new tools?

Will AI create new tools or will we be stuck with the current generation of tools forever?
Ask HN: Mac Bluetooth mouse polling rate fix?
Macs cannot seem to poll the mouse cursor on BT Mice at a fast enough frame rate to keep up with the display when it is running at higher refresh rates. This is especially noticeable if you use a BT mouse or trackpad with a newer MacBook Pro with Promotion display (120hz). Just move the cursor with the mouse and then notice the difference.

Move your BT mouse over the window and see it do 60-70hz. Then use the trackpad and see it's 130hz.

The prevailing Internet wisdom says that this is a result of Apple's poor choice of BT hardware and to just use a USB mouse or dongle - but this is crazy.

Windows laptops do not have this problem. I have a hard time believing that my midrange Lenovo laptop has such substantially better BT hardware than a MacBook twice the price.

It's got to be software. Has anyone figured out a fix or a hack?
I have a question:

In radio we are seeing phased arrays and software defined systems becoming more popular.

Why can't we expand the resolution and increase the bandwidth with ultrasound as well using the same ideas.

Wouldn't we be able to get a more clear tomographic pictures if we used many receivers places around the body and layered different frequencies? I'm especially wondering why not use lower frequencies for deeper penetration, using phased arrays to offset the loss in resolution.
Yep. Correlation does not imply causation.

And according to the Heart Association press release (linked in the article) this study didn't even try to avoid confounders: "Factors that may also play a role in health, outside of daily duration of eating and cause of death, were not included in the analysis."
It changes alot. It is not legal to make a 'CUDA' driver for an AMD GPU as Nvidia own cuda. You can see there was a open implementation of this that AMD sponsored until they got threatened with a lawsuit by Nvidia
True or false, that's an assertion. Does anyone have any stats so that those outside the field (mostly taxpayers?) can assess all of this?
New York Times: Microsoft's AI Tools Are Nothing Like the VCR
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240319100720/https://jacobin.c...
Because we can't trust our politicians and "experts" and "professionals"
I beg to differ. It's about Airbus. The blurb reads like a compromise between one faction screaming "safety is a never-ending effort and preventing accidents is a constant quest for all those involved" and another screaming "well, some people let the effort end in their work and we should make clear that we're not like those fools."

I find it difficult to disapprove of people who do good and talk about it.
Here's the full list of the companies it owns:

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html
Meme this is referencing should be "It's always DNS config."
> Why would a democratic society tax itself needlessly? LVT is by definition limited to a certain proportion.

There is no such thing as a democratic society, only democratic states, where the state is a single institution within society, not some distillation of the whole. Political states are administered by particular fallible humans, operate under a complex of incentives that is not necessarily aligned with the interests of the surrounding society, and operate under processes that are often subject to manipulation by factions with ulterior motives.

The examples of democratic political states acting in ways that are either unrelated to or even antagonistic to the presumed interests of the societies they operate within are endless, and arguably much more prevalent than examples of markets producing outcomes that are not aligned with the interests of their particpants.

> The entire thesis of my OP is that the last 200 years of protections of property rights are now quickly leading to a "rent-seeking state by a plurality of various oligarchies".

I'd attribute that outcome to the last 200 years of erosion of property rights, largely by well-intentioned people making severe mistakes on account of failing to reconcile theoretical propositions with concrete reality.

It seems very bizarre indeed to recognize the problem of a "rent-seeking state by a plurality of various oligarchies" and to propose as a solution that the very state in question should act as everyone's de facto landlord.
It's good for everyone on the software side, but it's not so good for the hardware side, because it means that whatever you're designing now for tapeout in 6 months and release in 12 is going to be obsolete in 2 weeks.
(I'm also not a theoretical physicist).
Not entirely true, I was looking at proton decay recently and one model of string theory model apparently predicts 10^36 yr lifetime [1] which is within experimental reach.

[1]: Igor R Klebanov, Edward Witten,
Proton decay in intersecting D-brane models,
Nuclear Physics B,
Volume 664, Issues 1–2,
2003,
Pages 3-20,
ISSN 0550-3213,
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00410-3.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S055032130...)
The remote tools in VS Code are amazing. I rememer text editors and filezilla.

I also recently discovered with the docker extension I can see inside containers in VS Code. Not exactly breaking news I am sure but I am one who is slow to change my ways.
Sounds like the Hertz CEO and his Tesla fleet. I'm an EV proponent but that was a huge strategic shift and in a short time it became obvious it wasn't well thought through or prepared for at all.
Show HN: macOS status bar app for better interaction with web AI chats
Hi HN!

Heydi's main goal is to reduce context switching. All interactions can be initiated with keyboard shortcut to either open a chat window or send an audio message to a chat. No need to stay on a chat window waiting for response or keep it in focus – you'll be notified once it's ready.
It supports ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity.

Looking forward for feedback!
All the babies/toddlers I've seen (my own kids included) naturally do that "asian/slav squat" - for example to pick up toys from the ground, or when they want to rest a bit without completely sitting, right?

So at which point/age do some of us stop doing that type of squat before "use it or lose it" kicks in?
https://github.com/modularml/mojo/blob/main/LICENSE Is this not it?
Recently graduated, just entered the workforce.
Ah yep.

But I was mainly trying to think how to extend Zigbee-network over TCP (without LoRaWAN).

Currently it seems to be almost impossible.
What industry do you work in? I’ve done the gamut of regulated industry work - medical, defense, banking etc, and never run into this. Aaron is (as usual) spot on with his analysis.
They already had called it the EyePhone. I'm dying
I had mentioned that. This is true today when software developers are writing proofs and why automation is useful.

You would still need to be able to read the proof that a computer generated and understand what it contains in order to judge whether it is correct with respect to your specifications. So in some sense elegance would be useful since the proof isn’t written by a human but has to be understood by one.

If the input here is still plain language prompts… then we’ll have to assume that we eventually develop artificial cognition. As far as I know, there isn’t a serious academic attempting this, only VC’s with shovels to sell.
> The star system, normally magnitude +10, which is far too dim to see with the unaided eye, will jump to magnitude +2 during the event. This will be of similar brightness to the North Star, Polaris.

I've never been in the northern hemisphere so I don't know how bright the polaris is :(
> IMO it'd be sensible to let the markets set the interest rate

I'm not sure what you mean by this. The interest rate policy is linked to the money creation/destruction process, which is ultimately a centralised state function. Banks create/destroy the money, but the pace at which they can do so is governed by interest rates.

I don't understand how the market would be able to set that rate. You'd need multiple entities acting as "central banks", and somehow competing?

What do you have in mind?
> The railroads and Acme Brick are gone from the portfolio.

They still list ACME bricks [0] unless you're thinking their website isn't accurate. I doubt it's inaccurate though.

[0] https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/subs/sublinks.html
funny that I don't have to even turn around from my desk to count more than that if I count everything with at least one processor in it...
I've always found redis cluster to just bring problems with it.
IPO-bound Reddit discloses patent infringement complaint from Nokia
Chinese swarm drones can rapidly multiply mid-air to create tactical shock
> the frame that interest rates are like a little knob that the central planning committee adjusts is suspect … IMO it'd be sensible to let the markets set the interest rate

Are you suggesting there’s no correlation between market set interest rates and central bank rates?
I understand the idea of DIY and self repair, but doing some kind of specialized DIY work will require special tools, domain knowledge, ability to fix things on the go, ability to stay focused after a full week of work etc.

I am not dismissing DIY at all, but YouTube repair channels make it sound so easy but viewers forget making these repair videos is their job while your job is writing software. When you try it out IRL these repairs are always considerably more difficult and nobody talks about shipping cost that makes 5 minute replacements considerably more expensive.
Is there really room for AI in medical imaging?

Medical imaging is not about getting the expected result as is typical in most bodies, rather, it is about getting the actual result as is found in this body.
Docker and Chainguard Join Forces to Deliver Secure Containers
In addition to sites mentioned already (eBay 1998, Hotmail 1997), my metafilter.com account is the same (8-8-2002) and I visit weekly.
I just had a nice chat with Bing about this and Bing is adamant that it's because they are "essential for solving complex problems, advancing AI models, accelerating innovation, and providing competitive advantages in technology and research".

And definitely not because anything with "AI" in the name is now virtually guaranteed to attract far more investment and government support than things without "AI" in the name. Bing was very clear about that.
Its the politicians who put Ukraine into the dangerous position, by not employing diplomacy to ensure that peaceful relations were kept with their neighbors.

And its the bomb makers, and their willing media lackeys (whom are owned by the bomb makers), who are convincing the gullible American public that it is in their interests (it really isn't) to get involved in yet another heinously evil, disgusting war - this, after having also convinced their willful subjects to invade and destroy Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia .. exactly the same folks involved in Ukraine.

One bomb dropped every twenty minutes, for the past twenty years. We're almost running out of places for America's ruling oligarch classes to extract a profit through their war-mongering ...
Ask HN: AI is tool or Co-worker?
It's often said that we are in the age of artificial intelligence. Will AI stay a tool? Will it become a real coworker? Will it end up being a tool, just like we don't call Excel, figma, or Notion a coworker? Or is it going to be something that really interacts and evolves?
What are you using qmetaobject-rs or cxx-qt?
From the Alto to the Xerox Star
For what procedures are the current resolution limitations inadequate? What would be the cost difference towards a machine that provides adequate resolution?