skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we don't yet know what's happening in that area: as the DARPA 2022 report puts it in a press release entitled 'Solid State verification of nuclear particles in electrochemical cells'. "Work should continue - much interesting science to be done. Results do not yet rise to level publishable in peer-reviewed physics journals". Bottom line: some neutrons appear and they cannot explain the mechanism. If neutrons are detected and it's definitely 'cold' then what would you call it?

There are many other reports more or less with the same proviso. 'Not yet publishable'. Many will wonder about the 'yet' but that's usually the case with potentially new areas of science.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0153487
Li–Pd–Rh-D2O electrochemistry experiments at elevated voltage
When the owner could do that, they already have, and not having a Union is not going to make you competitive against people working with a fraction of your salary anyway.

If you care about preventing corporations from moving jobs abroad, voting for more capital control is a good addition to unionizing.
I have to give it to them, choosing OCaml was excellent bait. Gives them an aura of intelligence while they milk Wall Street dry ;)
>run some automated pen tests on your site and then you are done

Haha you are obviously choosing to hide some pain away from your memories.

I agree that you run automated pen tests, but then securing up all networks servers with the results of those pentests can be incredibly time consuming and awkward.
I really enjoyed this podcast about the issue: https://www.stitcherstudios.com/shows/verified-dust-up.

They've known about this issue for a long, long time and decided to just change who they sell it to from wealthy, "discerning" people to groups of lower socioeconomic status. This will be a tarnish on J&J's reputation for a very long time.
> were sourcing was riddled with asbestos

It was allegedly contaminated beyond a couple of confirmed samples that contained very low levels. It was never demonstrated that the issue was widespread or that any plaintiff had ever purchased a contaminated product.

That isn't to say that there isn't/wasn't a problem, but "sourcing was riddled with asbestos" is a gross overstatement.
Wrong place to post this, I think. You probably want https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40224210 in stead. HTH!
A few observations from a European entrepreneur post a 2-week US trip
The right question, as Avalonia is the gold standard for the cross-platform .net ecosystem.

Maybe this opinion piece might help:
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5366945/Multiplatform-X...

His conclusions:

«Now what I mean by "better" - it (ed: Avalonia) allows considerably faster development, maintenance and support of the products. In particular:

- It is a more powerful UI package allowing much more re-use and creating shorter code faster to achieve the same functionality. Part of the reason for that is that it is not confined to WinUI/UWP bounds - it is actually more powerful than WPF which is in turn better than WinUI or UWP. Another reason is that it has a better implementation with a lot of code re-usable across all of the platforms while Uno and MAUI essentially have completely different implementations for each of their platforms.

- There are many features in Avalonia that are not implemented in Uno or MAUI, while I do not know a single feature implemented for Uno or MAUI that would not work in Avalonia. If someone knows a single feature available in Uno or MAUI but not available in Avalonia, please mention it in the comments and I will refer to it in this article.

- Avalonia covers all the same platforms as Uno and more than MAUI does and has considerably fewer differences between behaviors on various platforms.

- Avalonia is easier to switch to for an expert WPF developer than to Uno or to MAUI.»
Value capture through value destruction going as planned, I see.
Could be nice if there were a log-scale slider to interactively vary the exponent from 1 to ∞-ish and see how that affects the frame-cropped preview.
>give objectively better answers without all the weird SEO and advertising cruft.

i think you forgot a “yet” or a “for now”
That’s quite some editorialising. It isn’t the title of the page, and the article points at a number of other problems besides AI.
I guess you can wait for metastasis instead for easier access. /s
How long have Uno being FOSS ??
IT Support Thanks You
Fun with suno.com .. attach to end of IT support emails to keep good vibes flowing.
Hectolitres and hectograms are used fairly often (the latter, daily) in Italian, for example.
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Every time I see these I wonder what if you use those massive 50 gigapixel images and a few of them and throw it into gaussians
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First, their trading's global, so "for each average American" isn't the right denominator, nor is it obvious to divide things on a per capita basis rather than a wealth-weighted one.

Second, it's not at all obvious that market-making is a zero-sum game, where profits to the market maker are "lost out" to someone else. Market-making profits from the bid/ask spread, but a new market maker tends to reduce that spread. Ordinary people tend to invest as price-takers, and thus they benefit from a reduced bid/ask spread.
Honestly, I think they are a tad late -- Envato should sell and cash out.

There were a few other marketplaces that started when FlashDen started. I just searched my email archive and found Collis (Envato's then-CEO) asking me for an interview for FlashDen (late 2006).

I'm a happy customer of Envato and now I'm happy for them.

Edits:

1. Here is their story https://www.envato.com/blog/the-story-of-envato/

2. I contributed to one of their competitor (a friend from the community) for equity in the company (something like that) but the company went bust after his divorce. One thing I remember with that story was of McCoy’s dialogue to Kirk in Star Trek,“I got nowhere else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce.”
Actually, science can explain oracles. There is a whole field of study devoted to understanding how to deceive people. It's considered more art than science, but it actually is both. It's called "magic". And there is a whole sub-field of magic called mentalism that deals specifically with things like what the oracles did.

BTW, since you brought up oracles, you might enjoy this:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/01/a-multilogue-on-free-wil...
But the literature on this is incredibly light. The idea that asbestos messes with chromosomes is wild! And not at all similar to what happens in the lungs.

And the correlation here is really weak - all women who developed ovarian cancer and also happened to use talc at some point in their lives.
depends on the organization/country, in Italy the largest organization managing this is AVIS[0] and they do both infections (every time) and cholesterol etc (once a year), and you get the results, it's a "plus" of being a donor.

In Hungary presumably they do the disease checks but they don't tell you the results either, AFAIK.

[0] https://www.avis.it/diventa-donatore/
You obviously havent had to manage PCI compliance for a company which takes credit card numbers directly onto their site or over the phone.
Yeah it drives me nuts, and I am somewhat convinced that it's going to backfire, though I don't have any hard evidence on it.

I will go to restaurants when I'm traveling for obvious reasons, but for the six months or so I haven't really eaten out more than five or six times, all of which were for special occasions. For comparison, I used to go to some form of restaurant in the past four times a week. I gradually started to avoid places that have the tipping kiosk, but then just transitioned away to just avoiding restaurants entirely

Now, there's actually a bunch of reasons that I don't eat out anymore, but one thing I'm pretty sure is this: you know what's even worse for a business than people not tipping for a service? Them not showing up to even buy the service.
And that's caused by Google Unions being too strong I guess?

Do you realize this example is actually hurting your argument a lot?
Correct. For clarification, the title on the page is "Closure Announcement". While you're right about there being a variety of issues, both around mental and physical health, it sounds like having to weed through AI submissions is the veritable straw that broke the camel's back. She spends half of the article discussing the AI aspect.
costco, home depot, and a bridge
And cost billions in state pensions. I'm not suggesting that's any sort of counterargument but the costs should possibly be offset against other types of end-of-life care.
Article does say it is the final straw, gets the most attention in the post, and is a huge time sink for them.
I feel "Virtue signalling" isn't really fair when they have so much skin in the game here. That's evidence of sincerity rather than disingenuousness, agree or disagree with them.

Unless the definition of virtue signalling is so expansive as to be meaningless, where every act of protest which is not anonymous is virtue signalling.
> This is no MRI nor CT scan, so what _is_ it checking for $500?

The $500 goal mark is for Ezra, a full-body MRI scan. The Neko Health scan is listed as costing ~$230.

As for bloodwork the cost may be covered to you as part of insurance/the visit but it's most certainly not free. and there is definitely variety in what tests "bloodwork" includes.
such a deplorable legacy. shameful that only this degree of hedonism piques the 'moral sense' of some, and yet for others not even.
I was able to get Counter-Strike 2 running on an iGPU of a fourth gen Radeon chip. Don’t remember the name, but I got barely 10FPS and it was unplayable, but it ran. And it was amazing.
Price of chicken feed is up as well which might explain locally jacked egg prices.
Cloud gaming + a monthly subscription is probably going to be the end result. Inwon't be suprised if the next xbox generation is a streaming stick + wireless controller.

The writing is on the wall for me. A cheap streaming device + a modest games subscription will open the platform up to many who are currently held back by the cost of the console.
What premises? The scientific method has no premises, it's just a method. If you are "unable to consider" some possibility that is not the fault of the scientific method, that is a shortcoming in your mental abilities. The scientific method doesn't stop you from considering anything. All it forces you to do is reject ideas that are at odds with experiment.
In their defense, the AI hype folks have been ignoring the ethics community from jump. I'd leave too.
Safety is always a trade-off. If I am in an area with cholera epidemic I gladly will consider the chlorine in my drinking water safe. Where I live the water is clean and adding chlorine does make it definitely less safe.

Chlorine is a very hazardous substance after all.

According to the CDC the TLV for chlorine is 1.5 mg/m3. Note, that this is per cubic meter and not per liter. So a TLV of 0,0015 mg/l vs 4 mg/l in US drinking water.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/7782505.html

And here the definition of TLV from Wikipedia:

The threshold limit value (TLV) is a level of occupational exposure to a hazardous substance where it is believed that nearly all healthy workers can repeatedly experience at or below this level of exposure without adverse effects.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230399/

Have you seen anything newer that resoundingly disputes this and the studies cited herein?

More recent, and accounting for more recent studies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209379112...
I can at least tell you that in Australia, nobody tips anybody unless they feel like it, and nobody complains if you don't.

Our minimum wage is higher here though.
My suspicion is that there are uses for technical tasks where a proper software developer is unavailable or the accounting math doesn't work where Gen-Ai would be useful. I'd really like to see how someone puts something like that together and how it functions in a business.
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> The only way to have equal care is to eliminate high end care.

That's one way to think of it. But you also can just say: the only way to have equal care is to raise the standard of all care to the quality of high end care. That's worth trying to achieve even if it's not logically perfect. Most things in life aren't but trying to get there is still a "reasonable goal". It's just about priorities.

The elephant in the room is also access to preventative care. Many people wait until the last possible moment to seek medical care because they can't afford otherwise, or do not have access to local medical facilities. Improving access to preventative medicine and care, which is often cheaper and more simple than cutting-edge procedures, would lower the overall demand on last-minute medical infrastructure, like an ER or hospital, which is often what people think of when someone says "access to medicine". An excellent example of this is Costa Rica, where much more effort is spent on access to preventative medicine and all of the infrastructure required for that. As a result, Costa Rica's health care system rates higher than the US while also spending 1/10th per capita on healthcare.

A lot of the healthcare system in America is just what we've ended up with, often as a result of greed and a relatively recent extreme distrust of public options, rather than some sort of clear eyed logical end point of healthcare rationalization. Improving access to medicine and raising the over standard of universal care is still a goal worth trying to achieve.
This is really fun!

What would be really satisfying would be to be able to make “creatures” out of real words. Currently a lot of the common vowels represent “end” segments (either heads or tails).
This was their plan. I encourage you, and everyone who is a US citizen, to write/call your representatives. Tell them you want corporate heads to have personal liability for these issues. Tell them to dispose of Citizens United.
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Gotta wonder if "human hand made" gets to be a subset of some types of content and only trusted / known human creators walls go up at some of those niche places?
You are describing an ideal, not what happens.

What really happens is that important information and resources get hoarded because that lets you control things. The only people "held responsible" are those you can convince others to punish arbitrarily. You'll create an entire shadow government the majority of the group has no knowledge of.

And showing how it worked within a group of 4 to 5 people is kind of useless. Lots of things work on small scales. The minute you scale to the point where you can't keep track of everyone, you're going to need an actual system in place to deal with everyone.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222722
As others have said, this only for a particularly hairy product called XPF, not Avalonia, so the price point is probably warranted, lol. Basically, they remimplemented WPF itself, the whole shebang as far as they could, to make a transition towards cross-platform support. Microsoft never even attempted this. It's for people mainly having a large, legacy WPF product so they probably already are a business and a desperate one at that to look at these fixes.

But if you're making something from scratch, just use the free Avalonia.

By the way, Avalonia also supports NativeAOT, unlike WPF, if used with the compiled bindings feature. Pretty cool!
And prevent the capital from moving abroad in the first place. Allowing corporations to play a reverse auction on salaries and work conditions is the main reason why economic inequalities have skyrocketed at the expense of workers.
I am confused about Dropbox Sign's pricing model.

Why are they charging per-user? What exactly does that mean? A company will have one singular account and send documents to non-Dropbox affiliated entities, who aren't classified as users.
At the detriment of experience.
> A 2 week vacation and 2 long weekends to Disney World don't seem out of reach for any middle class family, let alone a company owner.

The fact that this person is going on all these vacations while his workers forgo meals is just kind of fucked up. The fact that people don't seem to see a problem with this is the problem.
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> And while it is easy to shrug this off if you are outside the industry and claim, "Well, the cream rises to the top," anyone that has been around the industry long enough knows that what rises to the top is what Amazon's algorithms push there. And the AI bots are much better at manipulating the algorithms that real people.

This is why it's a good idea make sure a non-trivial part of the content you read/listen/watch isn't spoon-fed to you by Big Tech. Join forums, read personal blogs, read books, listen to podcasts that exist outside of a walled-garden platform. If you hand over control of your attention to a platform fueled by advertising and algorithms, it's not a question of whether or not your behavior is being manipulated by them, only to what extent.
2 hours ago. 96 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40235138
how is a magic "4" better than MouseEvent.MIDDLE_BUTTON_PRESSED?
CS2 runs fine on a steam deck with its iGPU
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230790
I buy hard drives based on these reports. Thank you Backblaze.
I would call it "anomalous room-temperature neutron production".
People in nursing homes died from untreated illness. They were completely locked down, and isolated from friends and family. They weren't allowed to be transported to actual hospitals. Anyone with simple bacterial pneumonia was left to die.

In the UK, nursing homes were discovered to be sedating patients and not administering water and nutrition. I wouldn't be surprised to learn the same happened in the US.
both is very easy to achieve and also kind of medically obvious
> So in terms of concern about the enforcement of bad laws surely the correct way to deal with those is in the legislative process, rather than

In emergency situations, you rely on whatever mechanisms are still partially functional. We're 0.003 milliseconds into the fatal crash, and here you are saying "but are we really going to rely on the airbags, shouldn't we fix the seat belts"? If this is what passes for insightful and mature for you, we're all fucking doomed.

>Otherwise why artificially make law enforcement more inefficient?

How exactly does one grow up thinking that the measurement they want to optimize for in law enforcement, above all others, is "efficiency"?
Neat! Congrats on the launch.

I built something similar as a feature embedded in a niche product aimed at helping manage a specific type of business many years ago.

The most popular part of the feature was the gamification built on top of reporting. Managers enjoyed the checklists being completed (and reported) more accurately. Staff enjoyed getting a (small) raise for being on the leaderboard.

Basically we just tracked who specifically marked an item off the checklist as complete. Then provided reports (and printable awards) to management.

The business would then implement a program like “whoever completes the most tasks per quarter gets a $0.50/hr raise”.

These checklists were things like “Front of house AM” “Back of house Lunch” etc. with a step by step list of things that needed to be done.

Just throwing that out there as an idea for a future iteration for you.
Hasn't that been tried by well-funded companies like Google starting over 10 years ago and failed?
The removal of the "!" inverts the title: originally "does not equal"

> kind of incredible how the world is being flooded with bandwidth. The question is quickly shifting from how slow is your connection to how slow is your device?

I wold point out that it's not just that people are experiencing the internet through slow CPUs, but they often have shitty input options, too. For most people, most of the time, the phone is a "read only" device.

When the equipment to browse the net included the possibility of contributing as well, we were better served.
Fair enough; I wasn't applying for a quant position, just a software job. Looking back, I suspect the real reason that they were even considering me was because I had professional Haskell and Scala experience on my resume, and so I looked appealing, particularly if a dropout was learning it for fun.

What I find amusing is that I'm categorically a much better functional programmer now than I was then, with professional F# experience with a lot of Clojure to boot, but they haven't responded back to any of my applications in the last three years.
8-bit-era computers like the C64 (which were all monospace) had glyphs in the font for making borders and lines and the like.
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The US is special due to the unique absence of a safety net, compared to all other developed countries. Not only will you have almost no income (unemployment benefits are a joke), but you can lose everything once you lose your health insurance and have an accident/illness.

People work extra-hard in order to not be in that bottom 10% that is going to be cut.

I cannot speak for Japan as I know very little about their workaholic culture, but it seems more performative - just toil in the office after hours to look productive.
hang out in bars around the office you want to work at.
As a hobby ceramicist, I must acknowledge a certain amount of grumpiness borne from what the talc allegations have done to our niche community.

Talc is used extensively in low-mid fire clay bodies as well as an additive to increase plasticity (makes clay easier to work with), and is an excellent source of MgO for fluxing glazes. In short, it's a great material to have in our cabinet [1]. But now there are essentially no more talc sources in the US and the ripple effect seen in our suppliers and manufactures has been a big shock (we are ever at the mercy of big industry!).

But I honestly just don't get the link to ovarian cancer. Chronic exposure to asbestos causing lung cancer, sure, if it were present in talc in high amounts (which is somewhat dubious in the case of talcum powder). Ultimately I have to conclude that J&J, with all of its billions of dollars and army of lawyers, couldn't find a way out of this. So either the research is dated and needs to be reviewed because there is something going on with talc that we don't understand (unlikely, imho), or I'm left speculating that there is something else motivating them to avoid closer scrutiny of their products.

- [1]: https://digitalfire.com/material/talc
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230790
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>You’re definitely still conscious when you’re asleep — dreams are certainly conscious experiences

I would say yes and no. I think we all feel there's something different about wakeful consciousness vs sleeping consciousness, and also, it seems that we are indeed sometimes "out cold" and that something like an "activation loop" (new term to me) might be necessary to play a role in distinguishing these various states.