skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's at least one company that infiltrate various large companies just to observe, record, and compile lists of these ideologues doing activism in the workplace. I hear they're doing well selling the evidence to other companies that want nothing to do with these people.

As the Overtone window continues to shift back, it would be wise for those captured by idealogical stupidity to earnestly apologize. They've irreparably soured themselves to most people over the last few years, and unlike the past, I think the damage is too great this time to just move on. People have to take responsibility and be held accountable.

For every James Damore, there's 10 nameless people as effected, but without the name recognition. It hasn't been easy for them. I can understand why retribution and vengeance are more important than moving on.
Distances are not.
I would say it is. As usual, need to be aware that his conclusions are controversial. But the whole area is
Blow up the pokies
I wanted to like it, and Apple included it in iOS, but supporting it on real servers was going to be too hard...

When I was deployed on FreeBSD with no load balancers, there weren't recent patches. And even if there were, I'd need to do some serious work to avoid advertising the private network ips as alternates...

When I was on Linux behind a load balancer, it's too complex to get the streams to the right place. And the load balancer doesn't want to do it anyway.

Processing two streams together involves a lot of complexity in a high throughput code path. It's a lot of risk, and you've got to reboot for changes.

And then you do all that work and it only benefits iOS users, who tend to be on better networks anyway.
You probably spent a lot more time on the details of TX history than they did in Mass
Or the Cybertruck's wheel covers coming off, or the lack of ridge next to the windshield that causes any moisture on the windshield to hit the side windows (and intrude if they're open), or the extremely failure prone Model S door handles, the cost optimizations that have lead to stalk-less steering columns, etc. You could write a book about all of the quirky little problems that Teslas have.

Incumbent manufacturers have most of this stuff figured out; Tesla seems to want to "be different" on the most minute and boring of things. They keep stubbing their toe along the way.
I'd say it is due to a lack of variadic type parameters. You can write something like this:

<T, X extends Throwable> void forEach(ThrowingConsumer<T, X> f) throws X;

But the only way to have multiple exception types without losing static type checking is to have multiple X parameters, like X1, X2, X3... (with unused parameters being set to some subtype of RuntimeException so that they do not participate in checked exception handling).

Whether or not it is worth to write this madness just to satisfy one's OCD is up to the reader.
If protons do decay, their decay product would include a positron that would in turn annihilate with the electron. Leaving a universe with just photons and neutrinos.

If neutrinos are their own antiparticle then they could react with each other and produce ??? Not sure, because you would have to find out of the lepton number is conserved.
Because it's fun to have diminutive version of many words. And because it differentiates us from boorish Americans - or as they are also known in Oz, seppos.
They want to keep access to the US and EU market as well, they just don't fear them in the same way.
> I expect the first shot was fired with the Google+ Real Names policy,

What is this about?
>For such a male-dominated industry creating a game for a largely male audience, it is impressive how well and positively women were portrayed in the MI games.

Wait a second, why is that surprising? As if to you, something being male dominated must usually mean women being portrayed negatively by men, and if they're not then it's a surprise.

Sorry, but your comment just reeks of sexism by assuming mens' default is to not have a positive portrayal on women.
> That sounds like a rather cheap version of evolution

The format of an HN comment imposes some pretty serious constraints on communicating technical nuance and detail.

> Beware that for every Skinner, there may a Chomsky around the corner to give his views a run for his money.

Sure. Science is not a magic bullet. It can steer you astray. But in the long run it works better than any available alternative methodology.
BDS is not a hate crime, but the movement is hateful in the methods it employs. It assumes all Jewish entities are guilty by association, unless they make an effort to proclaim their ideological alignment with anti-Israel ideology. Jews are seen by this movement as Zionist-by-default until they declare otherwise, and it takes a very small amount of circumstantial evidence to be targeted for boycott.

We don’t treat other ethnic or religious groups this way. We shouldn’t treat anyone this way.
Recent immigrant to Australia here. Love the place, but the power of the gambling industry is alarming. Very interesting episode on the link with sports, and increasing earnings:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2023/may/10...
>Thinking that some ugly creatures aren't ugly, or that beauty isn't real and objective, is part of of the aesthetic inversion of our time.

To be clear, I think you're claiming:

1. beauty _is_ objective

2. this beauty-is-subjective thing is a recent phenomenon

I disagree with both of those claims, but the second one is more interesting to me. At least in the 1700's some people believed that beauty is subjective [1]. But perhaps you consider the 1700's recent?

[1] https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/david-hume-beauty
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha whew.

Move fast and break things, ketamine-fueled edition!
Graphics Offload Revisited
You don't think those happen?

Wasn't really my point though.
I think it's not so much as having many options but more so of having a lot of backup plans for when things eventually go wrong. There's analysis paralysis after all. It would be better to say that empowerment is maximized when there is a definitively best choice and there are several good backup choices (complete with sensible rankings down the chain of backups, ideally definitive) if the original choice suddenly becomes unavailable due to the arbitrariness of life.
Presidential elections are frequently pretty close. Taking the electoral college into account (not the popular vote, which doesn't matter) Donald Trump won the 2016 election by a grand total of ~80,000 votes in three states[0].

Knowing that retractions rarely get viral exposure, it's not difficult to imagine that a few sufficiently-viral videos could swing enough votes to impact a presidential election. Especially when considering that the average person is not up to speed on the current state of the tech, and so has not been prompted to build up the mindset that's required to fend off this new threat.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/do...
How is fake FOSS different from FOSS ?
Update on the Collaboration with Google and the Forge
For those curious about what the above poster is talking about, here’s a well done video explaining the topic of the apparent changes of light’s “speed” through materials

3Blue1Brown - But why would light "slow down"? | Optics puzzles 3: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KTzGBJPuJwM
You're aware the other legacy manufactures have recalls all the time, right?
> you would be fighting for Hamas to issue uniforms

How exactly does one fight for that? These googlers saw an opportunity -- their employer took a contract from a belligerent in the conflict -- and they acted on that opportunity to protest. What opportunity do any of us have to influence Hamas's sartorial choices?
I wish people would stop repeating this.

If light is emitted and absorbed at the same instant, how does it know when/where in spacetime it's been emitted and absorbed?

You cannot apply SR to light in this naive way. SR works just fine for anything with mass, but without a theory of quantum gravity no one has the first clue how massless particles operate in spacetime, or what they do or don't "experience."
Yes, that's right. But if you want to assign any meaning to the math, and in particular if you want to adopt an ontology where you exist, then the math leaves you no alternative than to conclude that parallel universes also exist (unless you resort to special pleading like the Copenhagen interpretation).
>I think the point of GP’s comment is that the situation is substantially more complicated than the settler-colonial framing

Did you read his original comment? He was talking about how the Jews got chased out of their homeland by a "pedophile warlord" and how Jews have to make a last stand for Judaism. If they weren't both dead, it might as well have come from Baruch Goldstein or Meir Kahane themselves.

I don't disagree with anything you say, but if you look at his own numbers of Jews that had to flee Muslim countries after the establishment of Israel they are in the ballpark of what Palestinians went through with the Nakba. There were a lot of massive ethnic cleansings and deportation events post-WW2 based on the "ethnostates are good" / "minorities are the fifth column" ideas that were all fucked up and Sephardi/Mizrahi don't have a privilege in saying theirs was uniquely evil.
I think his point was that, lets say some philosophers or programmers, are having a detailed discussion. But are overheard by lay-people, maybe mid-argument, without the background, having not heard the definitions, would takeaway a lot of misunderstandings.

Or maybe his point, in a discussion like this on HN, a lot of people are jumping into the conversation in-the-middle, without catching up on the history.
I just watched this recently and thought "he looks old." But he was as sharp as ever. I hope my brain still works right up to the end
This is a good point. As long as Tesla continuously churns out software that breaks the car the percentage of “woops the accelerator stuck because they mixed soap with the pedal glue” issues gets smaller and thus less relevant
I doubt we'll ever find as great a fuel source among the various replacements. An energy-dense liquid fuel that burns off as you use it is incredible attractive for transport purposes and there isn't a good replacement for that.
It's not a secret. Most of my immediate family is or was in healthcare and nobody is getting put on BP meds because of a single errant reading. They're getting put on meds because of persistent, uncontrolled elevated BPs and with non-pharmaceutical interventions not addressing it. Everyone, especially physicians, know there's a list of 20-30 things that can give you temporarily elevated BP that won't respond to BP meds.
I want to read this book
Apple Removes WhatsApp and Threads from App Store Under Orders from China
What's your company? I'd be interested in learning more about (multi-omics, etc.)
Not if you work in a cooperative. Maybe we should explore forms of corporate leadership that are not quite so authoritarian.
I find it to be the most common view of people who aren't that involved, monetarily or emotionally, with the AI industry and especially among people who aren't that involved with the software industry in general.

Here on HN, the people who think that this stuff is the start of some sort of whole new world are overrepresented, as we would expect. HN readers tend to be a fairly specialized subset of even the software industry.

> why is it to obvious there's a new amazing version around the corner

I'm not sure what your question is here. Are you asking why it's obvious, or why it's not obvious? My bias is that I don't see much reason to think that LLMs are on the edge of some kind of massive leap into AGI, let alone a "superintelligence".
That would be cool, at least for someone building a small app with just one tiny SaaS bill to worry about. Even better; using the free tier for an app that is a very very small niche.
Ask questions about Git repositories from a web UI
> No, one doesn't need to be of good breed to be freely able to speak multisyllabic words.

Eh? Not what I'm saying at all. Breed has nothing to do with it... circumstance has much more to do with word shortenings... not sure what I got downvoted for...
Show HN: Evaluate your startup ideas based on criteria from top entrepreneurs
We all know what the frustration of spending days juggling an idea in your head, wondering if you should pursue it or not. That’s why I built Percepto, I always dreamed of being able to ask a incredible founders like Paul Graham if I should pursue “insert random startup idea”. So I thought what is the closest I could get to that dream? Well the checklist he evaluates an idea on is public online, if my idea could objectively pass his checklist that would certainly give me enough confidence to pursue it further!

The crucial word is "objectively." When I evaluated ideas in my own mind, subjective emotions inevitably crept in, whether through overly optimistic leanings or random waves of self-doubt about the idea's feasibility. I also frequently overlooked crucial factors that I would not uncover until days/weeks of deeper idea validation.

That’s why I built Percepto! It’s built to be an objective second look for your ideas. As I was building the app I found it super helpful for getting an objective second look on ideas that would randomly pop into my head before I went to far down the rabbit hole. I recommend trying a few different checklists and maybe come up with a few of your own. I hope you find it as useful as I did!
I'm sure the people involved are utterly irreplaceable. They really showed google with this one!
At this point I wonder if Musk is so insecure about anyone being him at anything that he decided to pick on Boeing.
I wouldn’t have believed this when I was a teenager but as an adult I know it to be true. I’ve worked with guys who knock out 10 hour days everyday with an hour commute to and from work. I could only keep it up for three months at a time but immigrants and guys fresh out of the military are machines.
not at all related
At my last job I had built a system where users could enter text into a quill textbox (and style it), and then save it into a database in their delta format. Later, a different team member would pull that into an InDesign plugin where we could easily read what styles had been applied to the text in quill, and style that using the styling in InDesign. This was used when the front desk person would enter in a legal notice for a newspaper, and the production team would be the ones who would get that into InDesign for printing. The quill delta format that it uses made this process so much easier than if we were to have been given HTML like most other editors output / save. Glad to see this is still around, its been a few years since I had heard / used quill.
Poster I saw on a men's restroom wall in a restaurant in Brisbane:

Fly 1: Bet you I can run up this wall faster than you.

Fly 2: Bet you you cant.

They say Australians will bet on two flies running up a wall. If you have a gambling problem, call this number yada yada yada.

Other poster from the same restaurant:

Win a trip for two to Las Vegas.
I might be missing something obvious, but it's not clear to me how to get an mp3 out of this on Ubuntu 22.04.

Following the docs, `./tsac c myfile.mp3 myfile.tsac` generates a tsac file that's unplayable with mpv. Trying ffmpeg to convert to mp3 didn't work: `ffmpeg -i myfile.tsac compressed.mp3` ("myfile.tsac: Invalid data found when processing input"). Using a wav input file has the same result.

I can use `./tsac d myfile.tsac output.wav` (I don't really want to decompress anything, but worth a try) but then after compressing `output.wav` with `ffmpeg -i output.wav output.mp3`, output.mp3 is the same size as if I hadn't used tsac (of course). If I use ffmpeg with a low bitrate like `-b:a 16k`, I get the usual low-quality gargle rather than the tsac output.
They really need to bring out the Edits API point before they shut it down for good
Qt Ubuntu remixes show that there's room for the flavours to innovate
Beneath Cocoa are Core Foundation and things like Core Graphics for example, which both are C.
The free software movement is for sure older than that but I can't find any verifiable source of "open source" being used in its current form earlier than the 90's.
Care to expand on this, provide evidence, or even pointers to what you mean by it?
Given my knowledge of the part involved and the materials used, absolutely. I'd be doing it in the same way that I'm betting "the safety of [my] family on the efficacy" of the cheap little shim that I bought to make water bottles fit in the cup holders better.

Despite the high language involved here, there is no risk.

Although if you want to take up a career as a service advisor at a dealer, you might make good commissions from that style of rhetoric.
Sure, but this is just a casual conversation. The problem is not with philosophy per se, the problem is with the academic field, which assigns (IMHO) outsized importance to undersized ideas.
Made by indies for indies!
Glad you enjoy it!
This law is based on citizenship not ethnicity, right? So is it really discriminatory? I also think it is fair to restrict actions for citizens from states that are adversaries of the US. Do we really want companies or housing or infrastructure to be owned by citizens of those states, that can be influenced by their government?
Hmmm. I don’t think you understand how airplanes work. They have to take off and land. With petroleum, they consume the fuel and get lighter as they do so, thus extending their range. Plus, the energy density of petroleum is ridiculous. I don’t see this realistically changing any time soon.

With batteries, they don’t get lighter and have to land heavy. It’s something you don’t want to do because modern airframes aren’t really built for it to reduce weight so they can fly longer.

As for sustainable solutions… I’m not sure that’s something we necessarily want. I’m all for sustainable solutions, but we actually probably want certain pollutants to help cool the earth (like a volcano) and less of others that cause greenhouse effects. So, if that’s what you mean by sustainable solutions, then that’s something we agree on.
For comparison, here's a nice video (in Brazilian Portuguese, but should be understandable even if you don't know the language) showing a solar farm being built in the traditional way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1nQT7az8c
Or, if you don't want to trust the source, https://drand.love/
Discussion: [0](99 points, 8 hours ago, 110 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40085214
This is really cool!

Broadly, I think there's so much potential for computing in construction. If we can model logistics decisions as optimization decisions, we can leverage incredibly efficient solvers to extract efficiencies. The challenge, of course, being the "info pipeline" - integrating machines with construction processes and planning software and orchestrating it all in a way that adds value.

If an entire construction plan is modeled, you could also compile it into a staged procurement/shipment plan, and essentially orchestrate the supply chain in sync with the jobsite activities.

It'd be cool to have more info on how the process looks like with/without these machines, how rates of specific activities are impacted etc. but a bunch of this stuff is probably proprietary.
I asked about the data you are using when you say it is disproportionate. It sounds like you don’t have any.
Windows Server is barely used anywhere anymore outside of Azure and niche IT operations that demand it. CentOS Linux, Amazon Linux, and Debian Linux run on 100's millions to a billion boxes.
> ...the sceptical incline to think it may be an invention or refurbishing carried out by some educated antiquarian. If so, he did his work long ago and successfully, for the ballad was already in print in the early years of the seventeenth century...

That's an amusing possibility. I'm inclined to assign authorship of JB to "Trad." but do believe I ran into a similar case of a joke running for a few thousand years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39658391
Post author here - would be very interesting to hear more of your thoughts on this! It's not easy to find a pro animator willing to consider the question given the current level reached by AI methods
Real age is chronological age, full stop.

If you were born 50 years ago today, you're 50 years old. Age is a concrete, mathematical thing. That your cells appear to be younger or older to your actual (chronological) age is irrelevant. You don't get to say your "real age" is 45 because your cells are slightly better than they "should be."
That sounds like an artist's network. A lot of podcasts have networks, there are some webcomic networks, etc.

The problem with networks, much like with insurance networks (but kind of backwards), is making sure that the superstars that hit it big and bring in a disproportionate amount of the money don't spin off into a solo career to keep more of the money themselves, while also not making them feel trapped and resentful in a contract jail.
You apparently failed to note this sibling comment:

> Wittgenstein himself states that the Tractatus is nonsense in its closing pages.

> My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless...
I'm honestly amazed people still think riddles that are essentially asking a fish how well it climbs a tree are relevant to anything.

Ask it to write code for you, ask it pop culture questions to test recall and hallucinations, literally a million more interesting things you can do.
> Air travel is ~6% of global petroleum demand, they will switch to a non fossil liquid fuel.

"SAF is a biofuel used to power aircraft that has similar properties to conventional jet fuel but with a smaller carbon footprint. Depending on the feedstock and technologies used to produce it, SAF can reduce life cycle GHG emissions dramatically compared to conventional jet fuel. Some emerging SAF pathways even have a net-negative GHG footprint."

"An estimated 1 billion dry tons of biomass can be collected sustainably each year in the United States, enough to produce 50–60 billion gallons of low-carbon biofuels."

https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/sustainable-aviation-f...

"The global fuel consumption by commercial airlines increased each year since 2009 and reached an all-time high of 95 billion gallons in 2019. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the fuel consumption dropped to only 52 billion gallons in 2020. As of 2021, commercial airlines increased their fuel consumption, which is forecasted to rise to 74 and 86 billion gallons in 2022 and 2023, respectively."

https://www.statista.com/statistics/655057/fuel-consumption-...
I have high biomass samples from soda lakes (high salinity and alkalinity). Other people in my lab work with soil samples, samples from methane seeps, and low biomass samples from rocks. It could also be useful for wastewater samples.

What’s the general pricing structure? It sounds like you can do 24 samples at once? Approx how much does each sample end up costing (for dna extraction and library prep?).
I wrote a small utility named "reminder" that lets me set a reminder, optionally with a message, for any time in the future. When the time comes, I get a phone call (and an SMS if I attached a message).