skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! This is working better than archive.ph lately.
Useful projects I've worked in are usually related to automating manual tasks.

For example I made a tool to create Azure DevOps tasks faster during Sprint Plannings. It allowed us to create tasks in batches, with templates, and displayed total time of tasks being created for a User Story.

It saved each team between 30 minutes and one hour when planning large sprints.
You definitely own land in Japan. Even if you buy a condo you own a fraction of the land the building is built on. It's the only thing that doesn't lose value.
Sodium (Na) in its pure state desperately wants to give away its electron. It will react with anything where it can dump electrons (e.g. H2O).

Upon meeting water, sodium (explosively) releases its electron to water, lowering its energy state to a more favorable state. The extra electron in the water serves to split H2O into H+ and -OH ions. After releasing it's electron, sodium becomes sodium ion (Na+).

Sodium ions (Na+) can only exist in solution. In the case of water and table salt, H2O + NaCl -> H2O + Na+ + Cl- . In other words, adding salt to water produce sodium ions and chlorine ions. Both of these forms are stable in solution, because they have their desired number of electrons (and are at in their most favorable energy states). At no time was sodium (Na) involved in the equation - rather, it's stable ion form (Na+) was involved.

As an aside: You can generate chlorine gas (Cl2) by running electricity through salt water. Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) is also generated, but is immediately split into Na+ and -OH since the generation of NaOH occurred in solution. The -OH makes the water more basic as a result. It would be a good exercise to look into why that is. NaOH loves water - it will suck it right out of the air.

Haven't stretched that chemistry muscle in nearly 15 years...Hope I didn't pull it!
A super common one from my time is to use google translate’s web translation feature as a proxy since google translate is almost never blocked
There can be leaks in pipes, and people generally don't like being hit with steam.
A Brief History of Airbnb's Architecture
It seems funny that the researchers are studying what people are building to experiment. crewAI is one example.
I was asking on Twitter if Aaron had any experiments for transformers, since they provided some graphs for CNNs and the like, but no transformers.

* Aaron et al's past work on D-Adaptation won a best ICML paper, with their follow up work being Prodigy - but both on transformers did similar or worse than AdamW. https://twitter.com/danielhanchen/status/1775547139248341125

* Superconvergence + LR range finder + Fast AI's Ranger21 optimizer was the goto optimizer for CNNs, and worked fabulously well, but on transformers, the learning rate range finder sadi 1e-3 was the best, whilst 1e-5 was better. However, the 1 cycle learning rate stuck. https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/16013

* A huge issue is this needs tuning??! But how about a well tuned AdamW? Eg see https://twitter.com/kellerjordan0/status/1776716388037529843 which outperformed it using a tuned SGD.

* I'm just a little bit reserved for now since the author themselves aren't providing any transformer benchmarks, nor have they compared their CNN baselines to superconvergence, which is the goto standard for fast training for CNNs. Likewise https://parameterfree.com/2023/08/30/yet-another-icml-award-... wasn't pleasant.
CF has such a limited TLD selection. I know it's growing all the time, but sites like namecheap seemingly support every TLD as soon as it comes out.
I gave them 20 years to do this. Platorm doors were available 20 years ago so nothig is new and they should be well on their way.
Tokyo is not shrinking yet, but Tokyo housing is still plentiful and affordable.
A lot of VPN plans have a traffic limit instead although a free VPN with no traffic limit is really cheap tbh
Twitter is literally unusable if not logged in. All I see is the first tweet, and every link I can find that might reveal the rest of the thread takes me to a login page.
I'm not familiar with this cache system. Where is it from?
that changes every year as old trains age out.
I've seen a few towns where everything shut down. Supermarket, all restaurants, gas stations closed because people working those jobs can't afford to live there at all. They even thought about bussing people in, but they had 0 takers.
> The government is obsessed with obtaining economic growth via unrestrained population growth.

Current Government or the previous Morrison Government, and, in either case, what evidence do you have for that ?

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/populati...

(2021) https://population.gov.au/sites/population.gov.au/files/2021...

Both skirt any policy to increase or decrease population, just focus on the planning and the need to decrease pressure on city infrastructure by increasing growth in rural areas.

The ABS lays out several paths, net-zero migration and slow population decline from ~ 25 million, along with low, medium, and high growth.
This is all true. Looking at that same reality from a different angle though:

- available housing is primarily for single persons. Family housing has become a luxury, which makes having kids all the more expensive.

- those single person apparts are flimsier and less maintained than past homes. Leopalace grade housing is becoming widespread.

- buying anything above 2 rooms apparts will land you in the 30+ years debt area. And to get those you'll have to prove a stability level that's not common anymore thse days.
My point is that no matter what you do or wear, you should assume you are invisible and, like you said, ride like every driver is trying to kill you.

High viz vests CAN be beneficial. Don’t rely on them.
I agree, I'm struggling to see how the employment contract is relevant. The 7 minutes on the other hand...
> People would live closer to where they need to be.

And work the first 25 days out of each month month to pay for it, LOL.
Others have done this. retrofit is more difqicult but nothing unusual. They should be remodeling stations on a regular basis anyway.
Is that a 1:1 comparison? There's a considerable difference between human-human interaction and human-computer interaction.
It's not the housing, it's the people making money off squeezing us all for housing, and the laws that allow them to do so.
There are unstable cases when static learning rate doesn't work. Solution starts wobbling too much after some time and explodes. Using too small LR from the beginning leads to local minima. Making it stable _is_ possible, but it's a different story.
Australia's growth in housing supply has outpaced population for over a decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/dec/12/austra...

Yes population is important, no it's not the crux of the matter.

> And the government - mostly landlord owning multi house portfolios - have zero interest in fixing it.

That 100% is. Would add that news corp is largely a portal to realestate and nine/fairfax is to domain.
happy days was running out of ideas and wanted to continue to retain audience attention and had The Fonz water ski and jump over a shark.

silicon valley was running out of ideas, but steve ballmer famously delivered the Developers, developers, developers speech paving the way for capturing developer market share, for a platform with platform developers is no platform at all.

there’s tooling that solves technical problems and tooling that business problems.

a system has “jumped the shark” when there are at least five ways to accomplish the same thing and the audience was just trying to have some happy days on the tubes.

my core hunch is that the ecosystem is a compile target versus a respected platform and that’s where i believe the shark has been jumped.

the web is cool, if only we stopped trying to jump it and befriend the shark already.

the long answer is, i’ve got a bespoke markdown like syntax i’m using for both a
web publishing and screenplay authoring. i feel no difference between telling stories in interactive web formats or printed pages.

maybe i’m jumping the shark.
Chopsticks makes sense because there's only 5 of them and they have to share the 5 chopsticks.
> I don't think this is federally illegal either

If the FCC wanted to overrule it, they could, and the Courts would likely be on the FCC's side. See https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46736

But I doubt it would ever get that far. It would be a huge burden on every large corporation operating in Texas, if interstate traffic had to go through some legally mandatory firewall or content filter. The Texas state legislature is generally pro-business, and if almost every major corporation in Texas would be lobbying them not to do something, I doubt they'll do it. And, in the very unlikely event the legislature ignored that lobbying and did it anyway, and the Governor didn't veto it – then those corporations would likely go straight to petitioning the FCC, and I think it is likely they'd succeed in convincing the FCC in overruling it.
I'm concerned about the long game nature of things here.
1-Sure they bid their time to setup the "infrastructure" to create the backdoors.
2-I'm sure their plan was to play another long game after the exploit got in the wild, in production. It's the right way to spend lottery money. Invest.
3-That makes me wonder if such games are being played today.

Scary.
That's moving the goalposts; we started at

> You can use a firewall on GNU/Linux phones though.

And that's true. There are phones, that run GNU/Linux distros, that give you a working software firewall. Pointing at blobs doesn't make it not GNU/Linux on a phone with a firewall. At best it points to a place where a firewall could be undermined, but if that's your standard then (nearly?) everything fails, including actual literal firewall hardware appliances (I'd take Linux nftables on a blobbed network card over Cisco any day).
My main current concerns are I tried asking for a transformer benchmark to see if this worked on transformers, but didn't get any response. Also they seem particularly focused on CNN type benchmarks, but did not bother to benchmark superconvergence + Ranger21 + the learning rate range finder, since they explicitiy said Schedule-Free needs tuning as well.

Their past research on D-Adpatation (won ICML best paper 2023) and their follow up work Prodigy all did worse / similar than AdamW, so maybe this works on CNNs, but does not on transformers - but for CNNs we have superconvergence.

I shall wait for their paper which will come in 1-2 months.
Oh, bikes are perfectly safe; it's fixed barriers that aren't.
Supabase?
Okay, so you were not involved in a EAL5 or higher software certification. You did a checkbox-level certification and think that proves the harder certifications are all useless. Sure, if the harder certification was useless then you would have a point. If the Navy SEAL test is easy, bootcamp is easy. That logic does not go the other way. Just because you can pass bootcamp does not mean you can be a Navy SEAL.

As to your point about ROI, well duh, we are literally in a post about how cybersecurity is broken because nobody cares about cybersecurity. Of course the ROI is poor if nobody cares. I also never even said that formal verification is a goal. I said that the SKPP is a means of demonstrating a product has serious security as it demands a very stringent process that, as far as we know, is theoretically and empirically verified to protect against highly capable state actors. You could theorize some other means of doing so and then verify those means are effective by empirically testing it against highly capable red teams, but you can not claim those techniques are effective prior to the tests, and the SKPP is a known effective certification mechanism for the level of security needed against state actors.

As to the fact that there is more work to be done than just a secure foundation. Again, another duh. But again, should we rely on processes that have failed to produce secure systems for decades, or should be rely on processes that have demonstrably achieved a level of security that most people believe to be impossible. All the high security processes have ever done is succeed at a small scale. That is clearly inferior to the regular processes that continuously fail at immense scale. I mean, everybody knows how to scale and hardly anybody knows how to make things secure, but clearly scaling is the hard part in this equation.

And frankly, this is all besides the point. We need highly secure systems at scale or we must disconnect safety-critical systems. Saying that we do not know how to be secure at scale does not mean it is magically okay to be insecure at scale. Engineering is about minimum requirements, you do not get to just muddle through and harm people because you want to do things beyond your capacity.
I'm currently in the market for a 55-inch Sceptre "dumb TV", for a family member, having seen them frequently recommended on HN.

But I can't find one anywhere! I even tried e-mailing the sales contact on their Web site, but I haven't heard back. Any pointers?

(I can't find a 55-inch Insignia, either -- that's the other "dumb" brand that gets some recommendations, including in this thread.)
This county owns land which it is going to develop for housing. Their goal? $450k houses because that will bring in more tax revenue than the same number of affordable homes.

Clown world indeed.
Don’t forget NIMBYS at the middle end.
Canadian Lawmaker Testifies Chinese Students Were Bused in to Elect Him
That’s a perfect example.
> Avoid the temptation to believe false information just because you happen to worship someone, it reflects poorly on your ability to critically judge information.

Ad hominem attacks are the hallmark of insecurity and your expression of same reeks of pompousness reserved for the most arrogant I have had the displeasure to engage.

You know nothing about me, nor my background.

I hope you take time to reflect on what you wrote above and choose to engage with others differently in the future.
'Oppenheimer' Opens in Japan Eight Months After Worldwide Release
that's one of the most aggravating websites i've ever seen
Good luck with that ;) Actually you _can_ learn juggling this way, just couple of minutes at a time.
That's why I only eat a couple paint chips a day
I'm building a better Fortnite. ask me how [video]
I doubt he meant « two engineers full time », I suspect it’s more like a role of maintaining / improving when necessary.
Huh, this looks very neat. I like the effect that happens briefly while you scroll.
I made an account after Musk took over and Mysterious Twitter X started mandating logging in, in large part since he made the place tolerable and I follow illustrators and official accounts for games I play anyway.

Making the account wasn't that annoying. Once upon a time they demanded my phone number and that was obnoxious to the point of noping out, but nowadays (after Musk took over?) they also take email instead. Email for registering accounts is nothing new, so no big deal; been doing that since 2002 when I registered my first forum account.

After I made my account I went and followed all the accounts I usually follow, and my recommendations got relevant in very short order: Posts from illustrators, the games, and players who play those games.

So, thanks Musk. You've at least convinced one guy to make an account where Dorsey flatly couldn't, and made the guy even happy about it which was pleasantly surprising.
Somehow nobody has mentioned this yet but big props to the original author of this post. Super impressive work
Much of Europe has sufficient natural fluoride levels in the groundwater, often exceeding the amounts put in North American water supplies. Where this isn’t true, fluoridated salt is common (in my experience).
Can you name those towns and the approximate times it happened? I would likevto learn more.
‘moshix’ has many excellent videos on Youtube about the IBM mainframes and their operating systems - including how to run them on an emulator, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl8qG9KilJg.
But if I set the temperature to 0, the model will pick the highest probable token and the output will be always the same. But we already know that by no mean it can guarantee a correct answer. So how can multiple runs be better?
Google slaps Chinese developers with lawsuit in NY for 'pig-butchering' scams
If you could sell your car for a million bucks, you would. So would I.

What prevents it is there are no customers willing to spend $1m on our cars.

This is the Law of Supply & Demand, and how markets work.
That would apply to any fortified food. The iodine in your salt, the vitamin D in your milk, etc.
Just one of the many reasons why currencies require nation state backing.
Developmental fluoride neurotoxicity: an updated review

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6923889/

Conclusion

The recent epidemiological results support the notion that elevated fluoride intake during early development can result in IQ deficits that may be considerable. Recognition of neurotoxic risks is necessary when determining the safety of fluoride-contaminated drinking water and fluoride uses for preventive dentistry purposes.

Environ Health. 2019; 18: 110. Published online 2019 Dec 19. doi: 10.1186/s12940-019-0551-x
PMCID: PMC6923889PMID: 31856837
Developmental fluoride neurotoxicity: an updated review

Philippe Grandjeancorresponding author1,2
Author information Article notes Copyright and License information PMC Disclaimer
1Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115 USA
2Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Philippe Grandjean, Email: kd.uds.htlaeh@naejdnargp.
corresponding authorCorresponding author
Windows 9x was significantly lower in resource requirements than NT (mostly from memory, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95#System_requirements / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0#System_requirem... seems to agree). I'd 100% believe that MS was going for market segmentation, but I don't think it was just leaving out DOS compat.
Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding
>in large part since he made the place tolerable

oh yeah? Interesting you chose not to elaborate on how, given the statements I made about ruining public access stand.

But in summary, you're saying you used the platform the same way it was usable before Elon bought it, other than all of the things I mentioned that make it unusable for those not-logged-in? Let's be frank, Elon made it 200% worse, than relinquished to only 150% worse, and that's a win?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_countr...

It seems that one or two European countries ban fluoridation; however few practice it. But "Europe banned this" is simply false. Moreover, it seems that there is fluoridation of salt instead (eg in Switzerland).
this is pretty neat—it’s been a while since i’ve tried caching layers with gha. it used to be quite frustrating.

my previous experience was that in nearly all situations the time spent sending and retrieving cache layers over the network wound up making a shorter build step moot. ultimately we said “fuck it” and focused on making builds faster without (docker layer) caching.
I wondered if it was just a perception difference...I didn't get the feeling housing was still affordable, but it might depend on individual needs.

To get an external perspective, average house pricing [0] and average rent [1] have stably rose, while average wages have stayed basicslly flat [2] during these years:

[0] https://japanpropertycentral.com/2019/09/new-apartment-price...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202559/japan-rent-for-a...

[2] https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01631/
Did you mean 1 or 2 GB?
You can always tell what part of the HN regularly goes outside and interacts with normal people. I’m sorry but “just memorize the CVV and erase it from the card” isn’t something anyone really does. The comment that Google Wallet is more secure is a generally applicable comment.
One of the interesting patterns happening in Rust is io-less libraries. I'm not sure where best to link this phenomenon. It here s a open issue for an io-less quic library, from 2019, https://github.com/aiortc/aioquic/issues/4

It'd be so fracking sweet to see filesystems follow this pattern. If we could re-use the file system logic, but apply it to windows or fuse or Linux or wasm linearly-addressed-storage, that would allow such intensely cool forms of portability/reuse & bending/hacking.
> Nobody should be subjected to mandatory fluoride in their tap water.

Why? Just for the sake of freedom?

I think this raises an interesting question.

Suppose we have empirical irrefutable proof a practice is beneficial and doing so would not hinder anyone's lives whatsoever (as in, you don't have to change your lifestyle at all). Can this practice then be justified?

For example, suppose that fluoridating tap water (at least in the quantities present in most municipalities) was shown through many longitudinal studies to not have any adverse effects but was shown to have positive effects such as improved dental health. Would you support fluoridating water then?
It would be hard for the insurance company to prove that the head injury was from the trampoline rather than tripping on the porch.
In New Zealand we have the same problem, in sub-zero temperatures, in our alpine party capital Queenstown which is popular with international movie stars and musicians [1]. The house prices and rents are crazy high, but the tourism sector "needs" (wants) young low wage workers. You would think an equilibrium would be reached where the tourism sector / luxury housing size is limited, but it has not yet.

[1] https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/queenstown-housing-...
Bad news for the fluoride salesmen.
This article is leaving a lot out IMHO. I'm from Spain and I've had friends and family working and living in Ibiza. It is a "financial paradise" to work because you make a crazy amount of money in very little time, if you can stand the drunken/drugged culture. Both "peninsula" (mainland) people and locals go work there in summer to make a little fortune. It is known that many locals work OR rent out the 2-3 summer months and with that they have enough to live for the rest of the year.

While it's true that summer rent is very expensive, people who work there can definitely pay it, but then you would not save THAT much, so people find their way into cheaper accommodations, whatever that means. So while I don't know the personal story of the interviewee, it's definitely not because a lack of jobs or low pay (a problem that DOES plague most of the country).

For hacker news, imagine if this article was about the "poor Google employee living in a van and cannot afford rent", you'd laugh at its face.
Because many want a website that is accessible and more of a whiteboard than a piece of art.

WordPress, if maintained properly, gives a chance at that.
A Few Lessons I from Reading Steven Spielberg's Biography
It descripts a system using the energy concept. The total energy of the system, which is the sum of kinetic energy and potential energy. Its formula often looks like H = T + V, where T represents kinetic energy and V represents potential energy.

Both the quantum mechanics and molecular dynamics have shared a similar concept.

In structural mechanics, we use the virtual method to calculate the hyperstatic structure to determine displacements in a structure, given forces acting on the structure. Another kind of Hamiltonian.
The problem is that a lot of people (a truly shocking number) won’t do that, and can’t be forced to (nobody wants the Toothpaste Gestapo). Without public health programs for things like fluoridation or vaccination, small slices of the population become disproportionate sinks of public health resources.

(You were told not to swallow the fluoride in school because it’s significantly more concentrated than contents in the water supply. The dose makes the medicine and the poison.)