skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we're all applying our own anecdotes, I can tell you my kids have had unfettered and unregulated screen time pretty much their whole lives on account of I don't really believe Haidt's point of view. They have absolutely zero interest in any social media platform except YouTube which we all frequently watch together.

My son got inspired to cook by watching youtube. My daughter loves Vihart and wants to study math in college. I use Reddit and HN, but no Facebook or Tiktok. We also pretty much all have elevated levels of anxiety and it's all due to things happening in real life. Too much homework, annoying coworkers, annoying neighbors.

And I also observe that my kids and their classmates are just so incredibly good. There is nearly zero bullying. My son got picked on recently and his classmates jumped up and formed a circle around him like heroes. There is zero tolerance amongst even middle-school kids for anti-LGBTQ sentiment that was just basic banter for kids when I was in school. I hear this from a lot of parents. I think Gen Z and Alpha have anxiety because the adults in charge of the world are such worse people than they are.
Undetected only in the tongue-in-cheek sense. AARD was obviously intentional.
This is real. Those of us who remember pre-social-meeds Internet know. I am no longer able to read books. If the book is a long Twitter thread - I will read more of it.
Lentils, chickpeas and beans are the best sources of proteins among non-processed vegetables, but they still contain too much starch and it is impossible to use them exclusively to provide enough proteins within a diet of not more than 2000 kcal/day, suitable for a sedentary life style.

They are necessary for a vegan diet, but they are not sufficient. They must be combined with some other source of proteins, which must contain much methionine and which must have a better ratio between protein content and calories.

The commercial protein extracts from them are much more expensive than meat, so they are a non-solution.
"The freedom from the scourge of drugs" is why I can't buy an asthma inhaler without paying out the nose to see a specialist that will prescribe it to me. As a result I don't have an asthma inhaler. I feel very free when breathing gets hard.

This is a snarky comment, but this is the consequence of this "negative freedom".

I do think that there's some merit to these ideas, but I think it would always leave the choice to the individual. But we also have to realize that some things you just can't opt out of, eg electromagnetic radiation from cell towers.
>That's not at all what I said, and you know it.

It's truly appalling the precision with which my experience here for the past five years can be summed up with these exact words you just wrote. And this thread seems but a reenactment of that.
Any thoughts on whether some frequencies are superior to others for various reasons, or what strengths/weaknesses different frequencies have?
It's not that difficult to do, it's literally day one of a "learning SQL and databases" course. You don't need that much tech savvy to follow a tutorial and start queries in what is a basically a big fancy excel workbook
> Despite a remarkable amount of algorithmic effort on Boolean satisfiability (SAT) and related problems, to date no
one has invented an algorithm with faster-than-exponential (O(2^n)) running time; indeed, there is no polynomial-time
algorithm for SAT unless P = NP.

[1] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/complexity/2018/7982851/
[2] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~sabhar/publications/learnIJCAI03.pdf

The [1] shows how to replace numerical problem solving process with the SAT (circuit) based one and obtain exponential speed up.

Let me quote the [2]: "We also show that without restarts but with a new learning scheme, clause learning can provide exponentially smaller proofs than regular resolution, which itself is known to be
much stronger than ordinary DPLL."

So, in my opinion, there are algorithms that work in O(2^(n(1-e))) time.
I have a blog post coming in a few days on this topic.

But basically, I agree, architecture doesn't really matter. The number of parameters and the training data matter.

The tradeoff transformers make is that you saturate the hardware really efficiently (so: easy to parallelize & scale) but the tradeoff is the n^2 scaling of the attention mechanism.

This turns out to be a great tradeoff if what you're doing is scaling models to 7B+ parameters.
Brandolini's Law also comes to mind. Countering bullshit takes more effort than creating it. It's an understandable self-defense mechanism for an individual or even a community to just isolate and quarantine the source of a problem than to engage with them in earnest discourse. Trolling, astroturfing, and propaganda are real things, no amount of engagement will sway the opinion of bad-faith actors.
You mean social skills or the AI part... because Social Skills make sense the AI part doesn't. You need to stop looking in the mirror for every assumption you make there is a whole world out there.
Assuming there's no way they make an egg alternative cheaper than chicken eggs, and that most non-vegans don't have any problem consuming eggs, is the market for this just vegans? In other words, a much smaller market than the one for meat replacements, which have not been very successful so far?

I suppose there's also the very small number of people who are allergic to eggs, but it's not clear to me based on my limited knowledge whether their bioidentical substance would get around that problem. Assuming it does, that still doesn't feel like a lot of demand.

I dunno, I wish them well I guess.
Air Force Secretary Kendall Will Fly on Autonomously-Piloted F-16
You seem really hung up on this as an interview question. I repeat that it's a historical question that has been really successful for us, and we scale it up and down according to the experience level of the candidate.

This is honestly a toy problem for people with the direct experience that we are looking for, and there are a bunch of levels of implementation according to the level of the candidate that result in a pass. We've used this successfully to hire candidates who don't even know golang, and to filter out engineers who bluster and just wave hands and say "this is easy just XYZ...". OK cool, show me.

Like all good interview questions it has an infinite number of solutions and it's primarily used to determine if the candidate is "smart and gets things done" AND as a test to filter out candidates who talk the talk but can't walk the walk.

YMMV. It's being shared now primarily to help people who for some reason or another need to code backends in UDP, once the solution is published, at least there will be something that pops up in the google search results and gives them some hints.

Jesus. Next time I won't even bother trying to help people :)
Does it really matter if this small piece of background information is unsourced? A historical treatment of trans identity isn't the focus of the report.

Seems like rather an irrelevant criticism to be honest. I don't quite understand why you believe this to be a problem, or why you think this somehow undermines the rest of the work.
The design and decision to make it Fab with TSMC was way ahead of Intel's Foundry services offering. ( And it is not like Intel had the extra capacity planned at the time for Intel's GPU )
Every time I look at accounting, the different kinds of accounts baffle me. I can never keep straight what each kind of account is used for, or which ones have positive credits and which ones have negative credits.

As far as I can tell, the point is to double the amount of work in the hopes of catching certain kinds of errors. Which makes sense when you have humans making the entries and humans doing the arithmetic.

But I grew up in a world where computers do all of the math, and it always looks to me like it's violating the Don't Repeat Yourself principle. If you say the same thing in two different places, one of them is always going to be wrong.

I feel as if, had accounting been designed in the modern era, we wouldn't have done it that way.

I'm not an accountant and my failure to understand does not make the thing wrong. But my bafflement at "credits decrease an asset account" feels emblematic of something being genuinely off base.
These are coroutines. Just... look at the code, this isn't a proprietary binary product where you have to take someone's word for it. They're very clearly coroutines. I don't know what else to say here.
I'm thinking a simultaneous laundering at Vegas, Atlantic City, and other gaming venues could launder tons. Drop a few hundred into a slot machine, play a few games, hit cash out. Take the ticket to a cash dispenser machine and leave.
Chinese Organized Crime Now Targeting Gift Cards in U.S.
Abstraction rediscovered
Subtitle:

> The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort’s bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden from 1958 to 1992

Before anyone gets excited about this awesome demonstration of secret-keeping by the general public - do recall the "We are only X seconds from nuclear doomsday" vibe of that era. If you were born & raised in a kinda-insular little town, and knew that blabbering the town secret might result in you & all your family & your neighbors & etc. being vaporized when the Soviets saturated your hometown with nukes - just how tempted would you feel to blabber?
I did this kind of edit once with a hex editor.

The trick was to keep the message text the same length, so as to not upset byte offsets.
Ask HN: Go-to Linux distro for general use and development?
I always went with Ubuntu because it was considered the "default" / "go-to" option, given I don't have the time or patience to keep trying different distros.

In 2024, is there any other distro that "just works" and that you recommend for general use but also development?
Yes. Do you believe this is not logical, if one is allowed to use "pedantic" logic?
Please, for the love of god, listen to this commenter. I’m coming from the Ruby side of things, and hidden monkeypatching will be the death of us all.
The answer seems more to be, "people haven't really been using this magical technology in decades", so maybe they'll start coming up with innovations to it eventually, and find out whether or not near-infrared frequencies are superior or not or what the advantages/disadvantages are.
> Because people make the mistake of using their 'real life' identity online.

That's all well and good if you never leave your mother's basement, but for everyone else going outside from time to time, hiding your identity is much more difficult.

Herein lies the problem: We used to be 'hard' on online accounts because they were anonymous – everyone understood the account did not represent a real person and that was just for fun. That's fine. We maintained compassion for real people with real identities with a desire to treat them as being human. But over time we stopped recognizing a difference between a real person and an internet account, now treating the people out in the real world like they are anonymous internet accounts.
Thanks. It looks complicated. I'm learning Windows desktop development and will take a look of QT first. I used it for a small project years ago and the experience was OK.

> 1. A standard way to define components that is statically reflectable (so you can populate property and event editors), and get documentation on the fly, etc.

This was what I really loved about Visual Basic back in the day. Everything is within clicks -- even with the legacy IDE it still feels slick.
Not OP, but to provide some historical perspective, RTX hardware raytracing is very firmly a gimmick and it isn't AI nonsense that's going to be the end of it. It's going to go the way of PhysX, 3D Vision, and EAX audio. Cool, but complicated and not worth the effort to game devs. Game designers have to make all the lighting twice to fully implement RT, and it's just not worth the effort to them.

Nvidia's own site[1] lists a total of 8 Full RT compatible games, half of which they themselves helped port. There are far more games that "use" it, but only in additional to traditional lighting at the same time to minimize dev costs. Based on that and past trends, I would personally predict it to be dropped after a generation or two unless they can reuse the RT cores for something else and keep it around as a vestigial feature.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/nvidia-rtx-games-e...
So now monolith is the new microservices. Makes sense!

Wake me up when the next big thing arrives.
By eating them you contribute to the overall demand for new beef, thereby perpetuating the cycle of bovine misery.
Potentially Hardest Trad Route – Bon Voyage (9a) – Adam Ondra [video]
Hello! I’m a UX/UI/CX designer with ≈ 10 years of experience, designing and building functional prototypes for mobile/desktop.

I’m looking for a position where I can be in the middle of design and technology. The dream would be working in the field of education, learning, AI, LLMs, IOT and/or robotics. But I’m interested in almost everything, as long as it’s technology-related.

Email: don.clark.ux[at]gmail[dot]com

Design: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience and Miro

Presentation: Keynote, Microsoft PowerPoint

Project Management: Jira, Confluence, Kanban Boards, tldv.io, fathom.video, and Trello

Prototyping Tools: Figma, Axure RP, Plasmic

Programming: Basic HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript,
custom Wordpress development,

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I am looking for full-time contract or freelance/consulting opportunities at the moment (up to 40 hours/week) in UI UX Design.

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Ask HN: Tips/Advice on Creating Datasets?
How can I create a dataset with fake values (preferably automated).

Any specific advice/tools/tips w.r.t to recommendation system (collab filtering - trip planning) or general advice/pointers on automating dataset creation with fake values?

TLDR; Dataset not available - tools/advice/experiences on dealing with this problem?
I was going to say "this reminds me of Ruby". :-D
Process matters. Intel was ahead for a long time, and has been behind for a long time. Perhaps they will be ahead again, but maybe not. I’d rather see them competitive.
https://adsb.lol provides this data licensed under ODbL, this site violates the attribution and share alike clauses
Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora, OpenSuSE are all solid choices.

Arch if you want something different but I’ve not used it much.
Isn't that exactly backwards to what most people think of credits and debits? If you credit me something, I now have something. I don't owe anything.

I can kinda squint and see "Oh, you want the universe to balance, so if I have something it is some kind of karmic debt". But it still feels like exactly the opposite of what I grew up thinking of these terms to mean.
Flat design was welcomed by a lot of designers as it required far lesser skill compared to designers before the flat era. As a result it spread rapidly.
Whether "unique" is in the claim is not a trivial detail. One should always be wary of bugs in the interpreter, they are far less battle tested than compilers, operating systems, etc.
> If anything the real losers are the people like you and me who frequent the site but didn't take advantage of the opportunity that it provides.

What am I exactly losing out on by not visiting?

What opportunities do reddit provide for me in comparison of me going swimming tonight?

What are the benefits of an hour worth of scrolling, exhausting myself mentally reading people's comments?
What do you think of the future power demand and sustainable development of power hungry multi-trillion parameter models?
It's a well defined and established terminology, regardless of opinions.
> 2FA in general makes a bad solution worse all for the sake of security; it's not long for this world.

Yes, and given all the recent examples of accounts hacked because they didn't have 2fa for the sake of convenience, it's worth it.
You could encode the data in a format that would be resistant to this transformation.

We'd need to know the specifics of this transformation to build something adequate.
There are two data sources: adsb.lol and adsbexchange. The first is updated each day from https://github.com/adsblol/globe_history_2024. The second should be updated each month (they provide only sample data for the first day of each month), but I still have to put it in cron.

The update scripts are also open-source, published here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/blob/main/prepare...
> This is the best thing to happen to Linux desktop, ever.

That's what we all said about Munich in 2003, too.

So, I'm hopeful, but not exactly holding my breath.
From a low to low-mid developer, I feel like this is a great introduction (or at least good reason for) inheritence (from a 10k foot perspective) and why its awesome
Pitchers are buckling and breaking across baseball
can you explain why would i pay and use this over Handbrake on a Mac?
What massive corporate breakup happened in past 2-3 decades? People keep referring those few cases but that was world and generations away, current politics (regardless who is at helm) are completely different and much more pro-megacorporations.
The world is full of people who disagree with you, but you need to learn more than ever to recognize and filter out what you don't care about. I don't even view replies to posts any longer, 98% of the time because I am not seeking validation sharing my opinion.

This is something it's taken me a while to come to terms with. I used to want to fully engage with everybody and everything. It was anathema to me to just "broadcast something into the void" and ignore replies. But over time I came to realize that a. I don't scale to engaging with every single person who replies to something I say online, and b. I don't owe those people a response or any of my time/attention; especially the trolls and bots and other lamers that are so prevalent these days.

So now I'm more comfortable (albeit maybe not 100% comfortable) with treating things in more of a "fire and forget" fashion. I say what I want to say, and people can do with it what they will. I just can't be arsed to engage with the trolls and other randos. But... if somebody has a mature, reasonable, professional response then I am willing, on a selective basis, to dig in deeper and have a longer discussion.
Because double-entry accounting requires two (thus "double") entries for each transaction (i.e., Alice buys a book)

- one for the assets/liabilities account involved in sending or receiving the money ($30 credit, bank account)
- one for the income/expense account to which the transaction corresponds ($30 debit, "education" expense account)

one of the two entries is a credit and the other a debit
It will be interpreted as saying minorities commit crime since minorities have a much higher rate of abortion in the US.
Kamila Szewczyk is working on a bzip3 to improve the state-of-the-art in the domain of compressors based on Burrows-Wheeler:

https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3

I’m keeping fingers crossed for the project. Especially given that the author is 19 and her best work is yet to come.
I think it is a great article and graph representation would be very useful to have in accounting. There are a few things I would add:

1. It may be beneficial to segregate ledgers (used to record transactions with customer accounts, i.e. with assets you do not own) vs. books (transactions recorded to present own assets and liabilities). Books are used to account for all possible types of assets and liabilities, while ledgers are usually strictly limited to reflection of cash movements. I think the article is about ledgers.

2. Regarding the state of each account at each period in time, I think there is a lot of confusion between reflecting activity / transactions in the period and adjustments related to how prior transactions were recorded. I personally thought that adjustments could be better accounted for using something like a model with slowly changing dimensions where you can see history of each change. So it is not something you want to see on the directed graph by default, but something you want to be able to trace.

3. There was one idea that I really don’t like because although it make sense on surface, it has really bad implications for accounting and analytics. The idea I am talking about is that you don’t need to have one debit and credit for transaction, rather you just need to make sure that total debits equal total credits. say, Bob has several types of accounts and multiple customer. Now Bob asks you to tell him, how much of the current balance of a specific account was generated from proceeds by customer. To answer it, you now have to solve many-to-many relationships between customers and Bob’s accounts. And sometimes it has no deterministic answer because we balanced multiple accounts in one entry. And accountant now have to use imagination and excel to prepare a manual report that uses multiple assumptions to answer this question.
> $42k and just a little bit of time for a functional mini-apartment, complete with plumbing/kitchenette/etc.

> “Doesn’t sound cheap or impressive”

Let me introduce you to the glory of construction experience in San Francisco[0] and how ridiculous it gets.

Direct quotes from the article:

* “It takes 523 days, on average, for a developer to get the initial go-ahead to construct housing — and another 605 days to get building permits.”

* “And after spending five years and more than $500,000 to design bespoke trash cans — with the prototypes costing more than $12,000 apiece — the city has shelved a plan to put 3,000 of them on street corners because of a budget deficit.”

* “The toilet project broke down the minute taxpayers realized the city was planning an event to celebrate $1.7 million in state funds that local politicians had secured for the lone 150-square-foot structure. That’s enough to purchase a single-family home in San Francisco — with multiple bathrooms.”

What I am getting from this is that the whole mini-apartment cost the construction workers in the OP about as much to build as it cost for the city to produce 4 trash cans (that all got shelved anyway). Or about 2.9% of how much it cost the city to build a single 150sqft public bathroom (or, in other words, you could build around 34 of those mini apartments for the cost of 1 public bathroom).

Not going to lie, at this point, I would much rather see the people responsible for those spending decisions to be charged, as opposed to two random construction dudes who dont even own that mini-apartment they built.

0. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/us/san-francisco-toilet.h...
Made an alternative PR for reproducible tarballs that should work years from now.

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/13338
Death to APIs. Long live APIs!
Well any empty room with a door lock can be a private sex room if you really need one.
Not much use then either, it's like encased in resin. Limit the ability to provide input, maybe?