skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WeChat is a 'super app' to the point that you don't need really a browser in China anymore. It's a mobile first based ecosystem (WeChat, XHS, Douban, Taobao, etc)
Seagulls do this by dropping things from high on the concrete.
How much do missile interceptors cost?
If I had to guess from postings on Twitter and Linkedin, I think hiring is taking everyone by surprise. I remember a Linkedin comment talking about how the company received 1,000+ applicants for a single dev job.

Some blame the layoffs.

I don't think so.

Before GPT, it was a struggle for devs to appear articulate in the domains that they reference on their resume.

Possessing exceptional writing abilities was a definitive competitive advantage.

It's no longer. Now everyone can sound like an expert and craft a pretty good, customized, concise cover letter.

The whole process needs to move to video-based cover letters. It's as simple as that.
Sure, I saw that as well. But based on the data in this post, the local trash disposal method is to just dump it in the river.
[spoiler alert]

y ≤ (x+t) / x

Thats an hiperbole, with the vertical asintote in -t (at the left, outside the graphic), and the horizontal asintote in 1 (the top of the graphic). It would be nice to add the "whole" hiperbole to the graph at the bottom.
Yeah but since their prices are high, their costs must be higher than other stores'.
That is a good question but I suspect we wouldn't know. Just educated guesses and I cannot find those at the moment.

I think the other big issue is that back then we didn't have industrial civilization and high level agriculture dependent on specific environmental factors.
Note that BEL(0x07) is valid UTF-8.
It's different because it's worse.

In a supply chain attack against a system that produces some artefact (a container image, an executable, a VM image, whatever) an attacker can't modify what was injected after the fact (without building in some kind of remote update/attack persistence into the injection). This means that it could be audited and found later, for example the various projects designed to scan for the xz backdoor in executables.

But with this not only could the "attacker" (the CDN owner) change what is injected at any future time, there's no record of what was done as the author points out. A clever attacker could even selectively adjust what is sent based on the requester. They could distribute the unmodified code 99.99% of the time, but distribute malware 0.01% of the time — making it extremely hard to detect with simple 'spot checks'. They could exclude IPs known to be associated with the bank or CI systems from the malware distribution, so in-house malware checks would never see it.

Combined with other forms of intelligence, you could even build a system to target specific users with malware for very targeted attacks.
A friend started working in this space last year. It seems like the usual story here is smaller companies giving you lottery tickets in the form of pre-IPO options. And large established companies paying a bit below market rates.
For sure, we made a privacy tradeoff to do it server side (given some screen change delta) because of this. Accessibility is a good "in addition to" but there are just so many apps that don't handle it well
Curious if there are any metrics anywhere of how often these types of mistakes happen. It sounds very serious and it would be nice to have an authoritative answer on whether they are indeed increasing and/or whether it's particular (as commenters suggest) to any particular airports.
The claims are entirely plausible and fit the operating model. I suppose everyone forgot how Paddock got CP'd even though it was totally unnecessary except it made people stop asking more questions about him because he could be "written off" just like that. He was a fall guy for a larger clandestine operation that went wrong. Even back then the Internet was so quickly scrubbed of his information is was shocking how well organized the erasure process was across many sites.
How much actually went wrong here? Forgive me, genuine question.

Afaict from my armchair as a computer scientist, at least some level of operational safeguards worked to cover what I guess is an edge case (multiple controllers racing against each other allowing multiple planes onto / crossing a runway at the same time)? One of them saw traffic on the runway and then proceeded to make a 6 minute detour instead of blindly hitting it. Maybe this is still safe enough and is worth it vs having everything be slower the rest of the time forcing all the controllers to wrap commands in a semaphore or mutex, so to speak.
It's not exactly trivial, certainly when it comes to the edge cases. Emergencies, unusual situations, etc.
"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" - T. Dobzhansky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_Dobzhansky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in_Biology_Makes_Sense...

Seeing biology in light of processes on (evolutionary, developmental, ecological) timescales is one of the 2-3 realizations that made biology interesting for me.
Manchester's there, ESE of Salford, if you zoom in enough.
Hi!

Why did you decide to go with Godot instead of Unreal or Unity?

Are you happy with your decision?
Oh! Thanks. It was gone last time I looked...

I recommend it, it's excellent!
What versions of Visicalc can we find in the wild that would have used the IL interpreter?
> they're probably smelting copper by now.

Thank you, this is exactly the kind of cerebral snark I come to HN for. I laughed out loud awkwardly while getting a pedicure with my wife. That's the good stuff.
StreetComplete is outstanding app, and an iOS port will bring more contributors to places like the US. So happy to see this.
The tricks in the 80s were different than today's tricks.

(1) Single-pass compiler. No separate pass to convert to object or executable.

(2) Written in assembler (!). Helps that Pascal has fewer dark corners.

(3) No use of disk. A single file read or write would take 10-20s on a floppy. Instead, it's memory to memory.
I'm a big fan of overhauling the system for a lot of reasons, but safety isn't one of them. 'Close call' without 'accident' still means there wasn't an accident. Rebuilding the system because you think it is dangerous will likely lead to a less safe system since the one in place is incredibly safe with many years of statistics to prove it.

However, overhauling the current system because it is incapable of handling the future where autonomous vehicles flood the skies, now that is something I can get behind.
The statement made was not that John Clauser cannot express an opinion.

The opinion offered was that John Clauser's 60 odd years of work in Quantum mechanics don't magically make him authoritive or even well versed in the practicalities of cloud cover.
Three Myths About the Scientific Method
> You just need to start to work, and rework if necessary

And making changes on paper is cheaper than in code.
This got me to donate. Seems like such a high-impact way to prevent / reduce pollution.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40094986
If you want to learn one of the oldest assembly languages you can still find a modern computer to run it on check out IBM Z assembly. There is a great list of resources here: https://idcp.marist.edu/assembler-resources

The one resource they don't list is the ISA manual which is called the Principles of Operation which the latest version can be found here: https://publibfp.dhe.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a227832d.pdf

It is actually pretty amazing at how easy it is to learn other architectures once you understand how one or two work.
Floor’s around $70k-80k for a new grad in my 3rd-tier (but still a couple million population) non-coastal US city. A couple major tech firms you’ve surely heard of are based here, plus some other really big ones you definitely know of if you work in the industries they serve. Not just offices—headquarters.

The benefits will be decent, but nothing special, at a big place and dogshit anywhere smaller, so it’s not made up there. You’ll probably have 10 vacation days, maybe like 14 if they pool vacation and sick leave.
I tried to use only UN approved names. « Somaliland » isn't on unterm.un.org, it's why there is two Somalia. I'm pretty sure that Eritrea isn't on the map because of a display bug.

Definitively, if you are making a map, your have to make geopolitical chooses. And yes, I have edited NE data to highlight the geopolitical choices that I think are the simplest to defend.
Seniority in helping large organizations navigate software development, not seniority in actually building software.
It runs locally, so you could just block outgoing network connections for the app.
this is super helpful, thanks for making it! bookmarked.
That’s not a calculated minimum. It’s a generous maximum; less-than-optimal play can still win.
> Because they would then trade those like carbon offsets or find away to ignore them/workaround them for a market advantage.

Isn't that the point?

I'm not arguing (or not arguing) for this solution, but charging people the cost of cleanup and allowing them to "ignore them/workaround them for a market advantage" seems like an improvement on the status quo? Because the local government collecting the tax would now have funds to put toward the solution. This is classic internalizing of what were externalities.
I assume you're being sarcastic, in which case maybe you don't understand how global warming works. The overall solar energy flux to the Earth is huge — around 170 exawatts — almost all of which gets re-radiated into space. CO2 and other greenhouse gases affect how well the earth can radiate waste heat.

If we were to replace all human energy generation with off-planet beamed energy, this would increase the influx by something like 0.01%; that won't change the equilibrium point much (remember the S·B law is fourth power). In contrast, the CO2 generated by fossil fuel use changes the earth's emissivity, which does have noticeable effect on the equilibrium point.
a time honored and tested management philosophy.
If it's so trivial, why do you think we haven't done it yet?
Anarchy in the US, Part 4 (What if they gave a revolution and no one came?)
What kind of client doesn't allow setting the fee manually? According to https://bitcoinfees.net/ you can probably get a 90% discount if you're willing to wait 24 hours for a transaction to go through.
If there's no refuse collection service, then people dispose of it themselves. In this instance, it makes rational sense for the individual to dispose of refuse continuously/immediately (dump) rather than aggregating it (collect). And if everyone around you is doing that....culture.
Most people don't start working from birth, either.
Ed Yong recently published a beautiful article on the joy of birding:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/opinion/birding-spring-me...

To me, birding always seemed to be the worst kind of Feynman's stamp collecting. But there's so much more beauty and joy hidden in knowing what lives around you in detail; your connection with your surroundings will grow deep.

To quote:
>So much more of the natural world feels close and accessible now. When I started birding, I remember thinking that I’d never see most of the species in my field guide. Sure, backyard birds like robins and western bluebirds would be easy, but not black skimmers or peregrine falcons or loggerhead shrikes. I had internalized the idea of nature as distant and remote — the province of nature documentaries and far-flung vacations. But in the past six months, I’ve seen soaring golden eagles, heard duetting great horned owls, watched dancing sandhill cranes and marveled at diving Pacific loons, all within an hour of my house. “I’ll never see that” has turned into “Where can I find that?”
I think it’s naive to not see globalisation in the context of assuming the nations doing the ‘lower level work’ wouldn’t move up the ‘value chain’. Perhaps that’s hindsight being applied to historical trade assumptions, and perhaps it’s simply capitalism undervaluing long term investments, but I think the question is still relevant in the context of the post which repeats the trope of they must be copying the west
Intense fighting, lack of resources leave wounded soldiers on their own
I have a hot take that biology is just too complex and complicated for humans to truly understand.

We have the cognitive ability to reason about the relationships between about 150 humans. So, if thats a plausible upper limit for how many genes we can hold in our head too, then we’re toast. Each cell has thousands of distinct proteins, and many more small molecules. When we knock out one gene, we regularly see hundreds change in response. We just can’t hold that large of a system in our head. Parts of it, maybe, but genes are so interconnected that it’s very hard to draw a sensible boundary between distinct “parts”. Also biology behaves in really unintuitive ways. Feedback loops, randomness, long tailed distributions. These are very important concepts for biological systems. Humans are also notoriously bad at thinking about all of them.

It’s just too big and too weird to try to think about a single cell. Forget tissues or organs.

So, I think computational modeling will be really important to teach to students early. We have to rely on computer models because its too complex for our brains.
This is normal way how molecules biologists gibe ecologists.

The war between subdisciplines never end.
I know that. But is there no web access at all?
Physically Based Rendering[0] was an excellent textbook when I read it ages ago and conveniently enough it looks to have been updated with a new edition last year.

[0]: https://pbrt.org/
The same reason why ACH transfers still happen by transferring large files to a FTP server once a day or why San Francisco's train routing system still uses 5.25-inch floppy disks or why social security payments are calculated by a system running COBOL. It has always worked this way, and there's no political will or public pressure to change it.
This is so sick haha and I'm loving this new norm of providing local options by default :)
> What is it then, that is so super expensive today, that wasn't too expensive in the 60s?

- Education. Include how much education you need and prep (duration increases costs and reduces wages).

- Insurance,

- Health care

- Transportation (gas, cost of vehicles, average commutes).

- Professional services (accounting, law, etc).

- Housing

The point is in 1960 you could be a normal member of society with no health insurance, a high school diploma, one car for your family, and 1000 square foot house downtown.

That game plan is no longer viable.
Would it even be feasible to provide a taxi service with remote human drivers? I get the remote driver occasionally dealing with slow movement, but I think full time driving at speed would be impossible due to latency issues. It’s not a remote piloted drone that is in the air and so has much less of a chance of hitting something by accident.

Otherwise you think someone would have tried offering taxis driven by people in India or the Philippines already.
My wife and I tried the game out over the weekend. Overall the game does a lot really well. I'd say it's a well-done game, in the same vein as one of those games where you select dialogue choice options. My wife quite enjoyed it (gave it 8/10) but I expected something a bit different (5/10). In particular, I was hoping there would be a lot more freedom to guide the game, or at least guide conversations, through language. In reality, most of the dialogue was about accomplishing a pretty specific and simple objective. Ie. compliment this person, agree with their viewpoint, etc. The game was just about figuring out the objective of each challenge and then completing it. There was no balance (ie compliment him but also seem genuine. Don't offend him, but also don't be a pushover) or opportunity for creativity (ie. you can lie your way out, or appeal to their pity, or distract them, any of these could work). If someone likes games where you select dialogue choices this might be a good game for them. But I was hoping for something that felt more natural and self-driven. At the very least, I think making the conversations longer and more open ended would be nice, even if the outcome doesn't affect the story. One of my favorite challenges was booking the dinner reservation, just because I ended up having a short conversation with the man about the pasta bolognese that didn't feel like it was part of any script.

Everything else (graphics, voices, dialogue, interface, story, transcription) worked great and I don't think need to be improved. But the main mechanics of the game feels like a thin layer of LLM on top of a rigid skeleton of scripted scenarios with fixed outcomes. I'd love to see the language model on a longer leash.

Thanks for sharing and huge kudos for creating a playable game that was legitimately enjoyable! I look forward to the next parts of the story.
Have the government install cable trenches along all the roads

What? Like actual open trenches with exposed cables? Along every road? Is that sarcasm?
> However, overhauling the current system because it is incapable of handling the future where autonomous vehicles flood the skies, now that is something I can get behind.

Until cars can drive themselves without crashing into stopped fire trucks[1], I don’t want anything autonomous flying anywhere near where I live.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tesla-driver-killed-plo...
An explanation for why X is true must also be an explanation of why not X is false. But God could perfectly well explain why not X is true and X is false. If God has no predictive power, if it's consistent with anything, it can't be used to distinguish between any possibilities, and hence can't explain why they should hold.
>and even some consumer purchases trigger SAR review when I withdraw the cash

If what you're doing is legal, so what? If anything, a sort of social protest in favor of cash and against pervasive, parasitic transaction monitoring should arise to saturate such systems with bullshit SAR reviews. In effect, people should decide to deliberately go cash-heavy for transactions that arbitrarily trigger these idiocies.

The bean-counter bureaucrats want to watch how we spend every penny of paper and coin? Make them suffer the burden of it.
much like iq obsession, right?
Is this the year when this scam conglomerate finally goes belly-up? Halving happened, and there is zero hype around future use cases, the people who are in are just hoping that the value magically goes up. The one thing pushing the value up is Tether fraudulently printing USDT without backing and buying bitcoins with that, but the miners have electricity bills they need to pay in real money, to the tune of millions of dollars every month. If a corresponding amount of money isn't inserted into the system each month, the miners go bust. It's obvious that none of the surviving exchanges are actually sitting on enough real money to back their crypto holdings.
Anytime you want to make something GPU accelerated that doesn't fit as standard operations on tensors. For example, I often write RL environments in Jax, which is something you can't do in PyTorch. There's also things you can do in PyTorch but that would be far more difficult, for example an efficient implementation of MCTS.

I also used Jax a lot for differential equations, not even sure how I would do that with PyTorch.

Basically, Torch is a lot more like a specialization of Numpy for neural networks, while Jax feels a lot more like if you could just write CUDA as Python, and also get the Jacobians (jacs! jax!) and jvp for free (of everything, you can even differentiate hyperparameters through your optimizer which is crazy).

At the end, when you're doing fundamental research and coming up with something new, I think Jax is just better. If all I had to do was implementation, then I would be a happy PyTorch user.
Pontzer's work isn't about napping. It's about your body having a set point for how many calories it burns, independent (up to a factor of +/- a few hundred calories) of how much exercise you do. For most people this is true, as their work shows. It may not be true for extreme athletes. I don't think Pontzer's team of dozens of people working over ten years misunderstood basic thermodynamics. Their work clearly points to "compensation" -- the body making up for energy it burned during the day by gently lowering the metabolism later on.

Saying "burning 600 calories now means burning 600 less later" gets the point across. It's pretty much on the money for some people. For others compensation may not be total. I guess I'm not really sure where your beef is.
The first first time, or the second first time, maybe the third?
That corporate taxation though hasn’t worked too well so far. What makes you think that having robots would change anything?
> I'd argue with decent results

Is it decent results because of functional programming? Or decent results because those colleges select for the people who generally have the most intellectual aptitude and you could have them write Cobol on tape for CS101 and they'd still be great
I don't believe they directly "validate" that email, but they do send the admission pass there. So without providing the email address [it won't even process the CC transaction] you wouldn't be able to receive a printout of the permitted entry [again, presuming it would still transact without providing email].

>no email address

I only use temporary burners, nothing longer-term storage than ten minutes. At a chancery court action about a year ago, judge made me sign a statement attesting to not using email.
You have a seriously incorrect conception of how these scams operate. Most scam calls nowadays originate from large-scale call centers, often using slave labor reading from scripts. Attempting to appeal to the morality of the individual operators is futile; they have no control over the scam, and they may not be free to leave it either.

For some context, please read:

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/apr/02/i-couldnt-escape...
Haha good one.
>The bitter pill to swallow is society needs to learn to tolerate some amount of crime in order to maintain their freedom.

I would go a step further and say that society needs some level of crime in order to gain freedoms, not just keep the ones they have. As a thought experiment, imagine you had a machine that would magically prevent anyone who would violate the law from doing so from the moment its activated for the rest of time. Is there any point in all of history that you think would be a good time to activate that machine? Certainly you would want to avoid activating it any time that slavery was legal. Probably be a good idea to skip the world wars era. Civil rights era would be another good time to avoid. The Troubles wouldn't be a great time either I wouldn't think. And if you believe in the benefits of medical usage of various schedule I drugs, I wouldn't recommend turning it on today either.

Sure, a reduction in crime might be a great thing for society, and there's no telling how many lives would be improved if truly bad people were prevented from doing their crimes. But the flip side of that is I can't think of a single point in history where some group or action was criminalized that later turned out to be something that should not have been so. And I don't have faith that we'd make nearly as much progress on things without people willing to break the law and bring those injustices to our attention.