skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What we are working on is very relevant / core to what this BigCo does so there are legit reasons why they are interested. One of our investors made the intro to a very senior VP there who told Corp Dev to speak with me.
excellent advice, thank you!
The headline is wrong. That's not what the article says at all.

A more accurate summary is "Scotland has always had mosquitoes and no one paid much attention to them. We went looking for Scottish mosquitoes recently, and we found more than we expected, but we can't quantify what we expected because no one ever paid attention, so we don't really know what that means. But now we're paying closer attention to mosquitoes in Scotland because of climate change and we'll know some day whether there's anything changing with Scottish mosquitoes."
Thank you for the reference, these concepts are definitely closely related

This is super interesting:

> We successfully test the algorithm in the fields of Prime Number Theory (where we prove explicitly that the sequence of prime numbers is not periodic)

What we do, and what ML algorithms try to imitate, when learning, is exactly that: finding loops (periodic sequences) within the data (or rather, fitting the data to continuous “loopy” representations)
I think it’s more that because there was so much capital looking for an outlet, anyone could suggest any big large thing and the money would be made available. Vs tight times where every expenditure is scrutinized.
What the heck is "Nasa"? Not the sword I'll prefer to fall on, but even if you're in the UK, let's honor that this organization is in the United States and they self-describe as "NASA."
> an advanced style in a medium nobody had really explored with a cohesive well thought out message.

Only of you ignore Miyazaki. Nausicaa and to a lesser extent Castle in the Sky aren’t cyberpunk, but definitely pushed the state of the art and storytelling forward with universally applicable narratives. I’m not saying Akira isn’t good or that the viewing wasn’t serendipitous, but it certainly wasn’t alone in what was happening in Japan at the time.
Again I disagree on cost. I just had a look again at what it costs to buy a company off the shelf in the UK (last place I did that). It’s about £299 and another £50 a year. Theres probably some other small change fees in there.

I completely agree on risk though and it highlights the core of the argument - building a business is time consuming and risky in a way that being an employee is not.

That’s one reason why business owners are able to capture more profit. They took more risk and placed themselves into a situation where their earnings are not bounded by a single contract.

Everybody has free will and could start a business but not everybody is capable due to skill, capacity, circumstance, etc.

Therein lies the irony. None of the people whining loudest will start a company because it’s risky and fraught with danger but they want all the spoils of ownership and responsibility.
I wonder the same. My wife and I drove out to a park east of Seattle late last night to spend a couple hours watching the aurora, and it was... okay. I saw some faint grey wisps, like high-altitude clouds, which occasionally faded away and reappeared elsewhere. A mild novelty, but nothing I would bother to seek out again; I assumed we were too far south, or out of the path, and hadn't gotten to see it properly.

This morning, though, my feeds are chock-a-block with dramatic, colorful, detailed photos, complete with rapturous commentary about the drama of the spectacle, posted by people in the same area who were apparently watching the same sky! Well... that's a different experience than I had. I'd been told that the colors showed up more clearly through a camera, but I hadn't realized there would be little to see without one.
Answer from the article:

> That the sexual violence that took place wasn't as significant or as systematic as The Times claimed? Perhaps
He's kept access to the beach in various forms of uncertainty for 15 years, it's hard to argue that the law matters at this point.
For a bit more depth here, it turns out that German anti-nuclear (and other green energy source) activists were funded by Russia, a fossil fuel empire. [0]

It should also be noted that some of the US anti-nuclear activism was also funded by US fossil fuel industry, since the 1950's. [1]

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-00127...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement#Fossil_f...
Thanks anyways
Which in turn becomes the dichotomy between wanting the diagnosis and thinking the diagnosis is silly.

You start off with some institution that has a set of rules on paper, which nobody actually follows or even reads because they discover what they're expected to do via social cues. Then someone with autism doesn't pick up on the social cues, commits a faux pas, and the administration flips through the rule book to find whatever rule they can be found to have broken in order to punish them.

The autistic individual is then told that they are bad and need to learn to follow the rules, so they read the rule book cover to cover and follow every rule to the letter. But many of the rules are aggressively stupid and impractical or even purposely designed to be violated by ordinary behavior so the administration always has an excuse to punish whoever they want. Strictly following them is also a faux pas.

The question then is what to do about it. The autistic individual wants some accommodations so they're not constantly being punished for not picking up social cues. The administration wants them to take some drug that makes them stop being atypical, or to be rid of them. These are, of course, two very different and incompatible things.
Sort of a poor man's version of the Caltrain employees who built apartments in some unused space inside stations https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2024/04/06/two-bay-area...
golden-ratio works for this as well.
I'll incidentally mention that gluten-free diets tend to incidentally be lower in FODMAPs which are another gut intervention, and autism has LONG correlated to digestive and dietary issues. Ketogenic/low-carb is also popular.

The gut-brain link I'm aware of three major theories. Gut issues could be causing a disorder of the brain. A disorder of the brain could be causing disordered lifestyle habits (Diet, exercise) causing digestive issues. A disorder of the brain could directly impacting digestive function.

I will however say, I would treat claims about the gut-brain axis and autism with the utmost scepticism as disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield, who popularised the link between the MMR vaccine and autism to personally financially benefit from an undisclosed patent on a measles vaccine using fraudulent research, was a gastroenterologist and later anti-vax influencer who ended up popularising the gut-brain link of autism particularly among those who distrust scientific institutions. He notably influenced Jenny McCarthy who became a noted alt-medicine momfluencer in the '00s/'10s pushing gluten-free and anti-vax. Which is to say, research on the gut-brain link is done quite a lot by legitimate scientific researchers, quacks, and frauds alike so you have to be discriminating.

Additionally there have been various scientific reviews of dietary interventions, gluten-free being one of the most researched, and the evidence hasn't been shown ANY dietary intervention or gut intervention like fecal transplants is a silver bullet.

This isn't to say that there isn't anything to the idea that some people we've diagnosed as autistic or believe they're autistic, cannot be helped by dietary interventions. I would dare speculate, that a significant portion of those called "autistic" could make autistic symptoms fall into the sub-clinical range through gut interventions (diet AND exercise), and that such people may even be clinically distinct from other people considered autistic other than through their similar behaviour.
> Who is waiting while food cooks? When I cook I am attending to the food the entire time. Perhaps if you are a heavy oven user you get time to do other things, but otherwise, no.

Long long ago I had a neighbour who cooked ONE day per month and froze everything. He printed out a menu card for himself with 3 and 4 course meals. He used a table cloth with the fine silver utensils and fancy plates. He would sit himself down, look at the menu, pick something then move the food from the freezer to the microwave. It looked like a high end restaurant. His argument was that he hated cooking and didn't want to spend any time on it.

The house had a shared kitchen. The one day he cooked was hilarious. He cooked for 40-50 people (inc guests), made various kinds of soup, all kinds of meat, pastas, curries, deserts etc

He one time pondered buying a rice cooker to make better rice but decided it was to much like cooking.

The food went in plastic bags in containers, when frozen he would pull it out of the container to save space and avoid having to wash the containers.

I also know people who eat together. They have no further relationship. They take turns cooking. Small groups like 3 or 4 but also larger ones like 6 or 8 people. You do need space for that ofc.

If you really attend to the food for an hour it is probably a more nutritious and more sophisticated meal than the fast food? How much money are you saving in that hour?

Parenting is just hard work. I'm afraid it includes teaching how to cook.
Or a second order step response.
Germany as well, this year there are huge swarms of mosquitos everywhere on the hiking trails. In the past you could find them deep inside forests, now they are even around the fields in broad daylight. It's unprecedented.

Not sure what is going on, maybe they all hatched before their predators came around. Haven't seen one dragonfly yet.
cos + jsin baby.
Citation Needed – Wikimedia Foundation's Experimental LLM/RAG Chrome Extension
Experimental LLM powered RAG application for checking claims on the Internet against Wikipedia.

You can read more about it at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences/Experiment:...

Disclaimer: I worked on this.
Wheel does nothing at all for me in Firefox, I have to drag the bar.
Eh, I'm not really an Elvis fan...

One of the problems that GitHub and GitLab are going to face in the coming years, as Git gets supplanted whatever wins, is that "Git" is in the company name. Those names are going to sound they like provide yesterday's tech, in a hurry.

Not gonna make that same mistake for Grace.
Cab Calloway was a pretty radical dude, in his day.

The Beats were proto-hippies. Many Hippies arose from the Beat movement.

The Hell's Angels were a bunch of pissed-off military veterans. They were into their own brand of self-expression.
Was an employee at six-person tech company that was acquihired. We went through a process with 7 companies (at least - founder tried to drum up interest with others), team interviewed with 4, we got 3 offers, and the founder chose the one that best fit the narrative. Answering from that perspective.

1) To maximize your chances, you need to speak with multiple companies and get multiple offers. Offers fall through so it's good to have backups and be able to tell potential acquirers that there is other real interest to up the urgency. If you haven't already told your team, you should tell them so they can prepare for interviewing with potential acquirers. If the majority of the team doesn't pass their interviews and/or is not a good fit for the company, they will pass. If a single person does not pass, they might decide to offer the whole team roles besides that person (happened to us).

2) Packages vary based on what you have to offer and how you can sell the team. In our case, investors got some shares in the acquirer (didn't match their ownership in the company, but at least they got something), there was a big PR campaign that saved face for the founder/investors/team, and the employees (including me) got solid base offers in addition to a small equity bump beyond our base grants.

3) From when I was told to when the deal was done, it took ~2-2.5 months. There was definitely some work the founder did prior to letting the team know, like gauging interest with founders/executives of the potential acquirers.

4) I wouldn't worry about this since you don't know what environment you are going into. In my case, it took a while for employees at the acquirer (~100 employees) to accept the the rest of the team and me, but ended up working out (we all stayed at least a year, most of us 2+ years).

Stop all work that isn't trying to sell the company and preparing for interviews. You may want to consider raising a bit more to bridge for another 3-4 months so you are covered if the acquisition process takes longer (e.g. during the summer key people might be out of office). This will also allow you to convince other potential acquirers that there is "synergy" to bringing your team and you in.
Threejs indeed https://web.dev/case-studies/100000stars
Nitpick: Multics was used by non DoD users - e.g. Bell Canada, Ford, General Motors, and a number of Universites worldwide.

https://multicians.org/sites.html
Scale model of the solar system! https://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/solar-system/activity/...

Have each kid 'adopt' a planet, give them the materials to construct the planet at the appropriate scale and they tell the group 5 fun facts about their planet when the group walks from Sun to Pluto. It is a WHOA experience for kids and adults about the emptiness of space. Scale for the stamina of your kid group, Pluto is way out there.
I suppose it's a bit simplified, but my impression of public housing in both socialist-capitalist societies and those communist societies that outright ban private property is that the government becomes the slumlord. I've seen public housing in France and Spain and in the former Soviet bloc, and it's just as grim everywhere. It never looks like the utopia on the 50s posters.

The only housing people take care of is their own. Now, should a society enforce provisions on landlords to take care of their property? Absolutely. That's just capitalism with some basic rules.
It's been a rainy spring, so lots of puddles, which I would guess provides more breeding options.
Simple question which I asked before- if you accuse Israel of genocide, why is the IDF not dropping bombs on Ramallah? One would think that if the goal were genocide, Israel wouldn't discriminate between the PA and Hamas, right?
Really only a thing in the USA due to the ridiculous American rule wrt. attorney fees.
I, like the person you replied to, will surely remember it for good thanks to your reminder.
It's easier to find motivated Open Source contributors to a Rust project than a C++ project. It's also easier to integrate with a Rust project, reusing parts of it to make language tooling.
Scot here, can confirm these tiny, winged devils have always been around to some extent.

Still, I prefer them to midges :-/
Neither the existence of this link nor anything in it contradicts the developer's earlier post. It looks like the situation was inaccurately summarized by the HN user with the top comment here—the PeaZip developer didn't announce that he or she was going to stop working on PeaZip.
are there lessons here for regular (non vision) transformers? sounds close to attention sinks/pause tokens?
Thank God people are moving towards this modality. I have a fervent hatred for textbooks and publishers. The former are antiquated, static, badly formatted, and often ride with distracting garbage in the margin, or worse inline. It makes actually reading them far more difficult than needs be, with unremarkable asides that may span pages and that are easy to get pulled into. While I understand that they have a purpose, they aren't for everyone so having a platform with the dynamism of a webpage is something that I hope will inevitably lend itself to future development along this course. Not to mention being able to have interactive questions that give quick feedback rather than requiring turning through pages to find out if you're on the right track... And this interactive stuff is just an excellent means to drive meaning from terse and difficult to explain systems.

Cheers to the folks that put this together, a thousand thanks for the travails you've been through to blaze these trails!
Do the tools save developers time? Do the tools make deployment or code more maintainable? Is the cost of resources greater than the cost of paying for developers time? They sent rockets to the moon with 64kb of ram because they had to, not because they were trying to skimp tooling.
"Germany as well, this year there are huge swarms of mosquitos everywhere on the hiking trails."

Certainly not all of germany.

But it was a very warm and wet spring, followed by a cold snap that should have killed plenty, unless you live where it was too warm for the cold to be effective.

But I doubt we have more mosquitos in general now (and the article does not say scotland has more btw.)
Billionaire problems. The beach is south of Half Moon Bay.
U.S. newspapers have a tendency to convert abbreviations to title case, even when everyone else uses all-caps. For instance, I've only ever seen "Covid-19" written in newspapers: everyone else always used "COVID-19", "COVID", or just "covid", or "the coronavirus".
It appears to lack a single proof so far, while many of those who claimed to have seen evidence of it have been shown to be mistaken when not outright lying.
Astronomers Are on the Hunt for Dyson Spheres
I hiked the length of Scotland north/south about 10 years ago and I can confirm back then that there were approximately a shitton of mosquitos.
As far as I'm aware, France was a relative outlier in Europe in regards to popularity of Japanese media with it preceding more widespread adoption in popular European culture.
Add some instruments, like a guitar and a drum.

There are a few osciloscopes and espectrogram online, that use the nic of the computer.
In the northern hemisphere, you can enjoy that view - spectacularly - from Mauna Kea. I had never before realized that you could perceive depth in the sky.
> x86 CPUs do allow themselves to reorder reads around other reads. The rule is that no memory access is allowed to cross a write operation

That's not correct. Intel manual, vol 3, sec. 9.2.2:

> Reads are not reordered with other reads

> Writes are not reordered with older reads.

> Writes to memory are not reordered with other writes

A read may be reordered w.r.t. an older write (and hence tfa is incorrect that po=ppo on x86), but reads are not ordered with other reads. You can see in the c/c++ processor mappings here https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cpp/cpp0xmappings.html that load acquire/store release can be mapped to plain loads and stores on x86.
> And that many common chronic disorders/illnesses (including ADHD, Autism, weight gain, etc) in our generation are actually attributable to a disfunctioning microbiome

All of those things have existed for ... ever
https://schoolyourself.org/
with different ideas about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cQIbZa7P80 Computer-Assisted Instruction

http://dmentrard.free.fr/GEOGEBRA/Maths/export4.25/golf.html
some people manage to create some applets in geogebra

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2022/07/29/teaching-formal...
a way to teach theorem proving

maybe I'll remember something else and add it here
minidisk or superdisk ftw
Not sure if it's just me, but the experience with this slideshow is no better. Reddit desktop has become even worse lately.
Warner Bros. reverses course, won't delist Adult Swim indie games, devs say
Scotland has indeed always had mosquitoes, and it is a thing that they're unbearable in summer:

https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2016/07/dreaded-scottish-midge...

This also shows that population testing has been a thing for a while.
How is one “optimized” for this or that? They’re both just computers.

Well, a sports car and a truck, and a Mini Cooper and an 18-wheeler are all road vehicles too.

The difference is tradeoffs, optimization, cost, user experience, and so on.

The iPad could indeed get the ability to be used as a Mac (hook cable to hub, perhaps monitor, full macOS etc). It would still not exactly be optimized for that, it would need all the extra stuff, but it would work.

A Macbook with a touch screen not so much. It would either have to be detachable (like some PC models), which comes with certain tradeoffs, limits on construction, materials, battery life, thinness (as the screen would need to be able to work autonomously, thus have the CPU and everything), etc.

Or it could be a laptop with a touch screen (again, like some other PC laptop models), which would give an unatural, unergonomic experience.

>Heck, maybe it would be interesting to work on touchscreen software on a touchscreen computer in a touch oriented IDE or editor, no?

Based on our experience with laptops that have that, not that interesting in the end. There's a reason we don't see people using those PC laptops that have that using them for the touch screen in the wild, and that they haven't really caught on.
Hang on.. they're not the same thing?!
Ah, did that know that! That makes the voice acting and script even better then.
Decades ago, the same thing occurred at the local super market where I worked as a kid. He was living between the ceiling and roof. He had a bed, TV, small dresser.

The guy worked at the store and was there for quite a while. They discovered him because for 1 week, the night crew schedule was changed. He was seen walking around "shopping" after the store closed in his PJs.

They did not prosecute him so they could avoid the press, he was just fired.

The night crew usually works 2 nights a week and the stores closed at 9pm.
Nix Constitutional Assembly Applications Open
What’s with the “late stage” part? People have lived rough (under bridges, squatting, and wherever) through all stages of capitalism, including before capitalism.
yup, unlike the name implies, it does not only do the golden ratio (1.618:1)

Though now I also found https://git.sr.ht/~wklew/golden
Europe's election campaigns are under constant threat of foreign interference
For those like me who were wondering, it seems that the game studio in charge of Kerbal Space Program 2 (KSP2 above) has announced it will be shuttered down [0]. This is a few days old.

[0] https://www.ign.com/articles/take-two-shutters-kerbal-space-...
> goonies II

Now I'm interested. Loved Goonies II on the NES.
I know the internals of DMD extremely well.
> Any plans to assimilate the build system as well?

No plans, not at all.

One of the design questions I've had in mind the entire time I've worked on Grace is: "What belongs to Git, and what belongs to GitHub?" (or GitLab or Azure DevOps or etc.).

I'm interested in completely replacing Git, but being very selective about pulling anything into the version control level that really belongs at the hoster level.

The only big thing I blurred the lines for is the including of Owner and Organization entities, to make multitenancy easier to support. My implementations of Owner and Organization are super-thin, just really hooks so the hosters can connect them to their existing identity systems.

The big hosters already have massive CI/CD and build platforms. The Grace Server API - and Grace Server is just a modern, 2024-style ASP.NET Core Web API, with no special protocols - will give us the ability to create, for instance, GitHub Actions that take the place of the Git fetch action that we all use today in our pipelines.

I'm happy to let the product and engineering teams at the big hosters figure out how to integrate with Grace.
Midges are not mosquitos though. I've lived there and saw clouds of midges but mosquitoes are rare.
Thanks, I'd never heard about this before. I definitely think it helps in understanding his commentary. It's really a shame that DeepMind picked up his communication style.
Viltrox announces AF 16mm F1.8 Z, a fast, wide-angle lens for Z-mount