skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIUC, the problem is that the founders have no good way to force a resolution at all until whoever buys the warrants attempts to exercise them.
Absolutely, we understand your perspective. The option to create an account upfront was initially available, but due to a large volume of users, we've temporarily disabled it.
> is there any advantage (military or otherwise) for China to persist with obfuscation?

I don't think so but it would be an embarrassment for the government to admit it no longer serves a use and such an action would be anathema to them.
These are magnificent creatures. There is so much more left for us to learn about them and us. Phenomenal.
That’s why execution is the ideal solution, not prisons. During a brief transition period you may have to deal with violently resisting arrest and the like, but eventually you get to the point where all the criminals are dead.
> or that a massive number of small farms (let us say 100 times as many as exist today) each grow a huge variety of plants (let's say 10 times as many types as they do today).

It's called a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_nursery and many specialized in native and obscure cultivars.
You’ve made a logical error here - you can basically say the same about every cancer.

The specific cancers that fit directly into the category you are carving out for mesothelioma are squamous and adénocarcinomas of the oesophagus, gastric mucosa and large bowel; lung cancers and other cancers of the epithelium.

The basic pathological process underlying cancer is cell dysplasia (usually caused by irritation/prolonged inflammation) which leads to metaplasia. Whether this is driven by a de novo mutation in that cell or from an external source is totally irrelevant and mesothelioma is certainly not unique in how it comes to fuck you up
Following up on this due to additional information discovered, numbers below as requested. Can you share your thoughts considering our subthread?

> There's been no "surge" in immigration, except in the very short term where migration caught up with the backlog due to the pandemic.

> You literally failed to show numbers showing a surge in immigration though.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-03/us-jobs-r... | https://archive.today/MSWd3

> Nonfarm Payrolls: While economists generally see payroll gains stepping down in April from the first quarter’s booming pace, a 240,000 increase would still be above the average pace over the second half of 2023 — and is the most optimistic estimate since October 2022. Many have cited surging immigration as a reason why employment growth remains so strong even at a point in the business cycle when it would be natural to expect slower hiring.

> “Elevated immigration boosted labor supply by roughly 80k per month last year, relative to normal, and we expect a continued tailwind averaging 50k per month this year,” Goldman Sachs economist Spencer Hill wrote in a May 2 note. “Given the still-elevated level of job openings and the ramp-up of the spring hiring season, we assume many of these individuals found jobs during the April survey period, including in the construction and leisure sectors.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-29/how-immig... | https://archive.today/0PJzM

> The recent surge in immigration to the US has led many economists to boost their forecasts. Now they’re looking for more signs of its impact in the data.

> Growth in employment has continually surprised to the upside in recent years, running at a pace formerly deemed as unsustainable. Economists have coalesced around population growth as a key explanation after a recent Congressional Budget Office report estimated higher immigration than previously thought.

> With over a million people entering the country each year, it stands to reason that a bigger population will increase demand for housing and a wide range of other goods and services. For now, some of the places forecasters are looking to gauge the impact may not provide obvious answers: consumer spending data, for example, aren’t broken down by demographic.
Pixel phone's ability to answer calls for you is very useful. Rarely scammers want to talk to a bot.

Does any of you know similar software for (non-google) Android?
> the way that they pronounce (sing) diphthongs is not quite right

I find it amusing that you say you have a “very basic understanding“ of Greek and then judge whether a team from Oxford who has been studying this for many years is pronouncing it correctly.
I wonder why they can’t track cardio indoors. Perhaps because the watch doesn’t link up to most / any treadmills and is generally totally inaccurate with respect to distance and speed?
If my memory is still correct, in China camera products must have their GPS module removed/disabled before they're licensed for sale. Since these products looked the same from the outside, and are commonly used by everyone who wants to, nobody will bother to check every single one.

Unless of course, if the camera gets too close to (say) a military/civil defense installation (often includes their office buildings), their security will probably do a check or just ask people to leave. They usually setup a sign near by to indicate "No trespassing" and maybe "No photographing" etc, just don't bring the camera over the line (I mean, better stay out completely if it says "No trespassing").
Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups
This was really hard to read.

Some component of silk provided some sort of health benefit.
The article indicates that buyers of an initial tranche have included startups buying back their own warrants (as the headline one unsuccessfully attempted to find funds for) and VCs who make similar portfolio bets routinely.
Is the '4000-5500 SGD pm' salary range mentioned in the CareerFuture link correct?
What do you mean, "reinventing these wheels"? Are you sure there are other tools that look and feel the same?

Letting your development team control and build their own tools is a good idea, if they are able to. You probably don't want to do it in Java or C#, it'll take too much time, too many people, and be too unreliable.
Video of Traditional Mongolian Cavalry performing Horseback Archery by Namnaa Academy archers.

https://youtu.be/qzTaYvMmNYU?si=e-BiruFuNRm6Bzqr
Cool, but carbon capture from the air is at best a tiny fraction of the solutions we need. Right now our time is better spent on emissions reduction.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00953-x
It isn't necessarily in the talk page, those are scrubbed sometimes too.

Compare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hummus&oldid...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hummus&oldid...

Yes there was an edit war over Hummus being called Levantine because some people insisted the Jews were colonizing the food.
Likely ineffective as the techniques involve compression of the input data and general purpose motion detection.
I’ve recently taken up the erg machine doing an hour a day, and it’s been phenomenal. The one problem I’m faced with is canabalizing my chest muscles for increased legs and back. Eating enough calories is actually impossible.
It's also absolutely amazing for mental health. It's a shame it isn't considered a first line of treatment for mental health because it's super effective (and free).
Do not go cold turkey from SSRIS (lexapro is one) The whiplash effect could kill you. Seriously. If you decide to quit tell your doctor and they will safely ween you.
I'd learn to code today, if I were to start over
Hello,

I've been a software engineer for sometime now, and had so many people I know ask me how to get into tech, and I recommended some to simply learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript and then React, Next.js or Node, Express etc. to land their first frontend or backend role and figure things out from there, but in 2024, I think that's not enough, a lot of companies are actively choosing not to hire new grads or new programmers, and I feel people learning to code should learn to 'learn' instead of just learn to code. Hope this guide helps someone.
Would this implement indexing strategies like HNSW? Linear scan is obviously great to start out with, and can definitely be performant, especially if your data is in a reasonable order and under (say) 10MB, so this shouldn't block a beta release.

Also do you build with sqlite-httpvfs? This would go together great https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs
2 hours a day is a ridiculous amount
More cyclists on the road makes it safer for cyclists. Combined with risk compensation, this seems enough to make helmet laws a net negative. Well studied. Wear a helmet though, they work!
You should add some diversity in your activities and you will perhaps identify some that you enjoy more at a given time.
Sorta related: My boomer mother is experiencing cognitive decline, probably the early stages of dementia. Her doctor said that as we age, blood vessels in the brain can get starved for blood and eventually dry up, making them useless. This is the biological explanation of her loss of memory and difficulty thinking. I asked if there's anything that can be done to at least slow this decline. She said the best medicine for the brain is physical exercise; it forces blood into the areas of the brain where blood vessels are at risk, prolonging its well-being.

BTW, I asked the doctor how much exercise is enough. Her response: If you smell the same when you're done exercising as when you started, it's not enough. I found that both humorous and helpful.

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or expert. If a loved-one is experiencing memory loss or difficulty thinking, see a doctor.
This reminds me of something that was posted once, that I haven't been able to find again: A demo where a page returned content, but if you viewed the source it was 0 bytes.

If I remember right, it took advantage of a feature that let you reference CSS through the HTTP headers (so it wasn't in the HTML), then the CSS added things to implicit required elements the browser would add to the page.
Haven't mentioning mainline support at all, and I'm speaking relative to Android: vendors that do Linux poorly do Android even more poorly

And I wouldn't say that these vendors blanket provide support before EoL. I work on a product where EoL is a very long time due to automotive involvement. The vendor's standard of support is extremely low, with most requests resulting in being pointed to some "partner" which is usually a ragtag team of contractors well versed in some set hacky fixes for the vendor's boards
Data Science at the Command Line, 2nd Edition (2021)
For sure it is a murky world. It becomes less murky by not doing business with genocidal regimes, who are actively committing crimes against humanity now. I think we both agree that a less murky world is better?
Altruistic org, nah, these people just wanted less blood on their paychecks, maybe. Or just that the organisation they work is not complicit in these heinous crimes.
To help you stay on top of what governments are doing on AI, I created an interactive world map that tracks AI regulatory and policy developments around the world. Click on a region (or use the search bar) to view its profile. This website is updated regularly (including new regions to be added).

Free to access. No login required. This is for the community :)
You’ve done a great job communicating the project, in every aspect. Nice work. I’m excited to try this out!
I had the same question myself. The article notes that most of the first tranche of warrants went unpurchased which makes sense. However, the article also says that some of the portfolio went on to have an exit or raise later funding or something (the article mentions some company in Australia that seems to be a going concern, but they're claiming that the warrants are invalid). My take is that whoever is overseeing the portfolio has determined that the likely aggregate value of all the warrants > 0 so they are trying to sell them to recover something. In practice most of the warrants are indeed are worth 0 so it's actually not as a big of an issue as this is made out to be.
Weird that people seem to assert that causality is not established? There are hundreds to thousands of studies that show that pretty much all markers for mortality and morbidity go down with excercise, i.e. put someone regulalrly on a treadmill for a couple of month and pretty much all health markers improve.

People implying that the study shows only correlation really don't seem to understand how we establish causality in science.
Carbon capture is so dumb. Just do the effective things like building out massive renewable energy generation like in China and India, phase out coal and oil, improve/install heat pumps, top down changes to phase out the use of plastic and reuse more containers like milk, soda etc like we did in the past, make nuclear plants, come up with cheap, safe lab grown meat etc.
The CCP newspaper report on this is… Interesting:

> Faced with such a "hard nut", Li Chengming strengthened his confidence: "In the war years, Communists were not afraid of death. This difficulty is nothing! We must do it! And we must do it beautifully!" Under the guidance of veteran experts, he led his team to fight for a thousand years. Over many days and nights, a set of nonlinear confidentiality processing technology for topographic maps suitable for national series of scales was developed.

https://archive.ph/20110804185923/http://cxzy.people.com.cn/...
> Also- dogs can throw up on demand at any time, they don't need anything like grass to help them.

How sure are you about this? Everything I am reading seems to disagree with this.
always wondered what the effects on the gums would be since the saliva concentration would be higher with gums/lozenges and it’s primarily surface absorption vs. airborne nicotine.
It’s not about not being able to stand being beaten and not being the best. I’m truly sorry that a lot of people who cheat are also toxic.

I’m not advocating for unfairness by just letting people use automation to trample upon those who don’t. Like I’ve said, a machine will always win an unaided human in some tasks - so there is no competition here. Rather, I propose to accept automation and start giving it to everyone, so games will be fair for everyone. If some mechanic relies on imperfect mechanical skills - that’s a bad mechanics that never will be fair despite any wishes to make it so.

Technology is the greatest equalizer. Don’t automatically blindly hate people who want to make bots or copilots. That was the whole point.
Instead, people try to fix it with antidepressants, benzodiazepines or something else.

It feels a bit like the US approach to pain management – instead of massages or physical therapy, some opioid pill is cheaper to prescribe.
For me, it was quite the opposite.

I started with Windows, in 94, because in France it was the reference system for work, then I stayed on it for a long time because of games and Office, although I used Linux for servers. In the end I'm glad I avoided Macs altogether, I probably would have spent more money, learned less and done less computing.

Then around 2016 I tried Linux on desktop and it gradually became the only system I use, for development, games and work. For 2 years now, I haven't had any issue with games, the performance is even better than on Windows.

You should try again.
Also Seamly, that I'll probably try eventually: https://github.com/FashionFreedom/Seamly2D
Previous HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16245873
Fascinating - thanks for the detailed reply. I can’t believe I failed to think of lighting but this makes so much sense.

It’s almost like for a pure ML solution you would need a nerf (or similar) which is conditioned on the entire (dynamically changing) scene geometry and lighting positions?

Graphics isn’t my area of ML though, so I’m sure there’s a lot of nuance that I don’t appreciate.
I don’t have any solutions but I offer my empathy. It sounds like you’re going through a really hard time and have gone through a lot. I feel for you. I really hope you find a safe path through it. Please lean on your family and friends, they will be happy to help and they really can help. Good luck, I have faith that you can find a positive way forward.
Craft Docs
Astronomers still haven't decided if Planet 9 is real
What I find interesting from the analysis is that the hard-coded, per-app event handlers suggests their integrations are nothing more than traditional wrappers around the services they support, instead of some magic, AI powered LAM living on the cloud that can interact with anything:

UberEventHandler
SpotifyEventHandler
FoodDeliveryEventHandler
MidjourneyEventHandler
TranslatorEventHandler
SearchWeatherInfo
SearchStockInfo
Currently getting a server error on the Stanford link.

Archive link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210425082459/https://web.stanf...
Silk vests were the secret armor of the mongols against arrows.
Deaf people don't have to deal with this shit. Maybe they will repopulate the earth after everyone else has been scammed.
The only data I’ve seen on that is one guy who self-sampled and self-reported. I’d be happy to see more.
> Every claim about a person in every video posted to youtube would need to be fact checked prior to being visible on youtube.

No it doesn't. Defamation requires some form of mens rea of the statement being made (negligence or actual malice depending on who it's about), so liability for defamation in a no-§230 world largely means "will take it down after someone complains" as there's a pretty solid defense that not verifying the statements before uploading doesn't constitute even negligence, much less actual malice.

The liability rules in a no-§230 world aren't entirely clear since we're basing everything on just two court cases that existed pre-§230, but the social media companies are going to be extremely willing to throw down millions of dollars in legal fees to persuade judges to evolve liability rules that make their moderation policies feasible.

And this comes back to the main point again: no moderation just doesn't scale, not even in channels of merely a hundred people, let alone hundreds of millions. It is naïve to think that companies are going to suddenly decide that "no moderation" is less risk than "tailor both our moderation policies and the law to find some middle ground that is actually feasible."
Exercise is a factor in reducing the risk of several types of cancer. And fitness does reduce the effects of COVID even if it wont stop you getting it.
This is THE classic Orangutan series to watch. I think some episodes (excerpts?) are available on Youtube Smithsonian Channel. Here is one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3hJgI2UrSg

Anybody who watches these will come away with a deep appreciation of the Natural World, Darwinian Theory and how Human-like (even more than Chimpanzees/Gorillas) Orangutans are. After a while you forget that they are a different species and start laughing/crying/empathizing with these beautiful animals.

Very highly recommended to watch with your kids and entire family.
Yup. AI hacks are now the norm. They’re Pretty much undetectable too. I use aimmy for shooters, which amusingly claims it’s an accessibility app for the physically disabled.

https://github.com/Babyhamsta/Aimmy

I love it because suddenly I can actually compete with the sweatlords who spend every waking moment optimizing their play. I don’t have time for that shit, but I want to have fun.

Downvote away, but game cheating is subversive in the best way possible, and the haters can simply deal with it. I think it’s straight up good for society as it encourages a technological race to the top from others who want to stay competitive. There’s more value in learning how to cheat in a game with respect to learning about computers than there is in playing legitimately. Time spent getting good at a random video game is simply a waste of our precious limited lifespans.

I argue we should legalize doping in sports too. Daniel tosh argued for this famously, pointing out that a bunch of roided beefcakes playing sports is far more entertaining for the average viewer since it improves the quality of play.
Lynn hype
> if your function takes a t* and someone casts a random int to a t* and pass it in, it is gonna segfault.

True, that is not something a function ought to defend against.

However, the complaint was not about that, though, it was about not checking if the dataSize parameter is NULL.

I don't really have a problem with functions that segfault when given NULL pointer parameters as long as this is clearly documented!

Sometime, however, you just need to be familiar with enough projects in C that common-sense gets built. In the specified example:

unsigned char *LoadFileData(const char *fileName, int *dataSize);

I expected that a function that returns an array needs to tell the caller how large that array is. This specific function is not one I would complain about.

These things are usually documented in the headers. In this case it says:

// Load file data as byte array (read)

So, yeah, it's pretty clear to me that the number of bytes has to be returned somewhere, and there's only one parameter called `dataSize`, so this isn't something I consider to be a valid complaint.

[EDIT: Escaped pointers, and added last paragraph]
I disagree.

Weight loss doesn't automatically mean "healthier."

Using vo2 as a metric of "health" would not be correct if weight loss is the sole attribution of vo2 gain.

One can lose weight without doing a minute of exercise and vo2 would increase.

If one is interested in getting healthier, I think it's well worth the time to learn about how the metrics work.
> Nevertheless, the solution is still the same: eat less.

Or make life harder! Quit the elevator. Quit the automatic transmission (and car). Quit the online shopping.

Making some progress with self-checkouts and pointless lineups at airports.

Less jokingly (hard to outrun a bad diet) but more pedanticly: drinking less (alcohol and calorific beverages) might be a better start than eating less.
I think what you're experiencing is AI fatigue turned up to the max. Some people have become so soured by AI hype that they lash out at anything AI-adjacent. It's probably nothing to do with open source even if they use OpenAI's lack of openness as an excuse. Unfortunately for you, there's really nothing you can do but avoid such people and the places they control. You should also understand that you're going to have to work extra hard to distinguish yourself from AI hustle bros.
I don’t get telemarketer calls anymore.

But when I used to, I turned it into an even more fun game that you described

My goal was to waste as much of their time, and as little of mine, as possible.

Hi, this is so-and-so from DIRECTV. We’re calling with a special offer….

Oh sweet! I’m so annoyed with my cable company

That I let them get into their spiel

A quick sec, I got a pot on the stove

Disappear for 30s

Oh hey, sorry, you were saying about 150 channels?

Let them get going

Ah, shit. Paperboy is at the door. Gimme a sec I’ll be right back, this sounds like an awesome deal

And so on, with longer and longer gaps between each fake reason for disappearing, and more enthusiasm for his pitch each time I returned

I remember the DIRECTV example in particular because I tied That dude up for over 40 minutes.

Barely impeded my watching Farscape and kept him from harassing anyone else for the duration.
Nowadays there is also more and more nothing shared besides the kernel. Look at technologies like electron, docker, flatpak, etc.

Similar to multiuser: Security is important, but as applications get more and more powerful it is not about what individual users can and can't do, but what each application can and can't do.