skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems to me the constant harping about it (both by media and loud voices) is a self-reinforcing story. In the actual meaning of the word "meme".

The world has never been more full of choices and opportunities (as in "things that one might do" - as opposed to a more limited but fashionable "next job one step up"). And extremes in the world are still just as irrelevant to our own lives as they have ever been - whether you envy Jacques Cousteau or Jeff Bezos. In that what they have is not added or removed from your life (although what they achieved added to our lives - if you see the distinction), but you are still free to use them as models and steer your life by them.

What has changed:

- the harping

- the spectrum of actual possibilities in what we can be

- our self-awareness that we fall short of what we might have been
> A professional developer does thorough work when it matters, and cuts irrelevant corners that aren’t worth wasting time on. Extremely productive developers don’t have supernatural coding skills; their secret is to write only the code that matters.

IMO the true mark of a professional, a truly talented, engineer is knowing which corners to round off before they cut you. Anyone can cut corners and leave the world full of problems for the next guy. But then the assumptions change. A queue gets really full, or we start needing utf-8 for emojis, or someone wants to rearrage the field order in a CSV.

A great engineer would make a system that just works in those cases, because they can be (at least in go, node, python) implemented in just as many lines, just as complex of code, the only thing required is foresight (or its cousin, experience). Many will say YAGNI, but in my experience these things almost always come up (and I'm sure there are many others). Sometimes being a great engineer means reading between the lines of product designs, past sevs, and experience to figure out what the real feature ought to be.
its worse than that. A physical system can go far without QM -> see a system subject to Newton laws.

A chemical system is necessarily QM. Chemistry is either purely empirical, or quantum.
We are underfunding R&D for addiction by 95%
Words are intended to cut up the world - this is how they get their meaning. If you’ve taken these words to apply to everything in the in universe, you’ve rendered them meaningless, which is not the intention. Projectiles are subject to quantum effects but you can model their behaviour classically perfectly well. A charitable reading would be something like “to model the operational behaviour of the brain, classical mechanics is insufficient”.
I added the last part later because I was really excited to try this until learning it required so much personal information up front just to see what it is. Generally I’m willing to create an account on a platform I trust, am familiar with, and certain will be useful. For this type of thing, I would not expect it to be necessary, so it feels weird, and makes me suspicious. It’s also just a hassle- usually apps like this have a guest mode so you can initially explore without hassle, and then only create an account when doing so is useful to the user, and they are sure they like the app.

It sort of feels like someone asking for a commitment on the first date…
Sorry, do you mean on Andriod or IOS? (I live in Sweden ... and can download on IOS) If Android, then it is because we are waiting for Google Playstore Approval.
or as I like to tell my product folks "I can build you anything a computer can do, but you might not like the cost"
I worked on 2 houses and partially a 3rd where the buyer asked for a 'man cave' room. We'd put nicer insulation on all sides and slightly gap the board from the wall (hard to explain) then double layer the drywall. We'd use thicker board typically used on ceilings for all walls, and carpet the room (makes a difference), along with a solid door. A good window if it had a window, like double pane or a window marketed to be sound proof.

Then most importantly we'd go around the cracks of the room with a can of foam insulation and seal every hole we could find.

These rooms where pretty quiet. I can't say how much of a difference just the drywall would be, but if I wanted the cheapest way I'd do foam sealing and double drywall. Tearing everything out to replace behind wall insulation would only be something I'd do if there was zero insulation in the walls. I guess you could tell by knocking the walls with your hand. If they sound hollow you'll know. If you have a friend with a sound proofed room ask to walk around and get a feel for the space so you'll know what to aim for.

Drywall is easy to replace though and something more diy-ers should try more often imo!
The ideas aren't as universal as they are made out to be. "Technical tradeoffs" are often not just technical, but also a business decision. They can have significantly different risks, costs and implications for business strategy. You may not have the insight into these things like someone who makes it their job. The "tenons" comparison frames these decisions as being trivial details that happen in a vaccum which smells like strawman. There are generally more factors to consider in tech decisions, and unlike cabinetry there is often a great deal of uncertainty in how it will play out in the future. This advice could be reasonable in the right company and role, while completely setting someone up for failure in another. There's irony in the article being about corner cutting and tunnel vision.
> I'm working on a simple protocol capable of tunneling TCP/UDP over WebSockets. Basically you can think of it as a way of providing QUIC/WebTransport functionality over WebSockets (multiple streams, backpressure, datagrams, etc). Reference implementation is in Go. Feel free to reach out if it might be useful.
It may surprise you that the happiest country in the world, Finland, has universal conscription.
Japan has what must be the largest public debt vs GDP in the world, at something like 260%. This in particular constrains them to near-0% interest rates, as they wouldn't be able to afford the interest payments. Since 2022, most of the developed world hiked rates like crazy, in response to rising energy prices, but Japan kept theirs basically at 0.

So it's a bit of a double edged sword.
This seems like a really cool idea! After downloading, I decided to delete it for the following reasons (some are duplicated in other comments):

- profile picture requirement -> this seems unnecessary

- unlocking additional access by inviting partner -> with the current value prop, it doesn’t seem like an app where both partners need to be engaged to get value

- the ideas presented on download weren’t as creative as I hoped -> the first few I swiped through before deleting were some variation on “Watch a movie and buy candy.” I understand I didn’t give you a lot of data on what our preferences are, but diversity would have helped keep me engaged at this phase

I look forward to revisiting the app in a future version. Again, cool idea!
Oops, my reply [0] wasn't a reply. But there you go.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337601
The idea is very nice and the app seems good enough for what it is, but having to also create an account on my partner's phone and connecting with them defeats the whole purpose for me. I want to surprise them, not let them know that I installed an app, which they have to create an account for and connect to me, to surprise them.

I guess that the idea is to connect the personality test results between partners to find better suggestions, but please consider dropping that suggestion. With only 5 suggestions, this app is sadly getting deleted from my phone very soon.
Bill proposes for all Chinese high schoolers to receive military training
> If the technical debt is a problem, 1) we shouldn’t have put it in there

I guess it depends on your definition of tech debt, but there are lots of examples of things that aren't tech debt at the time but become tech debt over time. You can make the best decision possible today, but in six months that npm dependency (for example) is still going to be incompatible with that other npm dependency you needed to upgrade, and you need a few days to figure it out.

A cabinet maker might not put "make tenons straight" in a sprint, they would include it in the estimate and not tell the customer, sure. But they would definitely tell the customer that their lathe tool broke and they needed a few days for repair before continuing work.
Most marriages do not end in divorce. What nonsense.
Hybrid Basic/ASM C64 OS Programs
An experiment that proved that there are no local variables which secretly determine the outcome of a quantum measurement won the Nobel Prize in 2022:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

It appears to be completely random.
TBH I kinda agree with the argument that distributed training is too hard. Its so architecture/compute-resources/network-topology dependent that when people open those can of worms, they quickly realize that the cost/benefit tradeoff is limited unless you are doing large-scale pre-training. its just so much easier to train as much as possible on a single node
First of all..
RIP Pioneer. Thank you for your service to humanity.

> The hospital said it had “no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant.”

A major issue, at least in Canada, is that the system will let you get too sick to recover before helping you. There are times when a healthy person enters the queue, and doesn't get fast-tracked / called upon until their health begins to fail severely.
Maybe people are just tired from the same old alarmism which is then used to introduce more and more limitations and never touches the biggest offenders. Sure, introduce the next tax, lovely. Hope Nestle doesn't get touched.
What happens to corn that's planted 48 hours too late?
>What is worth more investigation, is how they carved symmetric granite vases within 1/100th of an inch precision.

The thing that gets me is that all of these questions can seemingly be answered with -- lots of time.

If you work slowly, and have lots and lots of people to throw at problems, nearly anything is possible.
Reminds me of this article which I'm often drawn back to.

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/finish-your-derivat...
Maybe even both a&b can happen at once. The article also mentions Fermi’s paradox and “the great filter”, a proposed solution. There are more[1], notably: “our search methodologies are flawed and we are not searching for the correct indicators”.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_extraterrestrial_...
Freeter: Cross-platform, open source organizer
The following is most likely nonsense, but I always had the intuition that there is a hidden connection between mother and child that remains after the child's birth.
The closing statement in the article was unexpected "With nearly five billion Bluetooth devices sold annually, the impact of this breakthrough could be huge".

It's one thing to use 2.4GHz spectrum in orbit between two satellites where there probably isn't much interference. That's interesting/cool. It's another thing to imply a BT consumer device on earth can connect to a satellite which seems like grossly misleading claim.
I could actually see an app making sense, because then you can easily do everything it does totally offline and private.

Of course, the fact that it wants to create an account rather undermines that.
“Patient dies of congestive heart failure, not due to pig kidney transplant” Also would be more apt.
According to Arch: "openssh does not directly use liblzma. However debian and several other distributions patch openssh to support systemd notification, and libsystemd does depend on lzma. Arch does not directly link openssh to liblzma", so at least one of your examples is wrong. That specific vulnerability was not in Arch.

The xz package was potentially vulnerable (although not in reality because "the build script was configured to only inject the bad code in Debian/Fedora based package build environments", while this was a choice by the attacker, it's still true the vulnerability wasn't there), but patching OpenSSH made OpenSSH specifically vulnerable when used with a malicious xz install.

https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoore...
I mean, global warming, war in Europe, russia/NK/China/Iran attacking democracies, financial equality, unaffordable housing across the globe and everything keeps getting worse and not better but we just keep on buying new iPhones every year - not realizing that we live in dystopian world is delusional. I have plenty of hobbies, volunteering for 2 nonprofits in 2 different cities and enjoying life, but I do realize that I’m very much privileged even though I live from paycheck to paycheck.
>> Andrey Removich Belousov (Russian: Андре́й Рэ́мович Белоу́сов, Russian pronunciation: [ɐnˈdrʲej ˈrɛməvʲɪd͡ʑ bʲɪɫɐˈusəf]; born 17 March 1959) is a Russian economist and politician, serving as the Minister of Defense of Russia since May 14, 2024.

Thank you, two-days-from-now future editor!
After Snowden, talking about how citizens' or companies' data is protected from the US government is just not realistic.

> that level of control over its population

The difference between the US and China is not that data is protected from the government in one. If the US government wants your data, it will get it. The difference is in issues like censorship and habeas corpus.

> whataboutisms

When someone starts going on about how Chinese companies can be compelled to give data to the government, as if this is something particular to China, the fact that the US government can just as easily compel companies to hand over data is absolutely relevant.
As soon as I started reading this I knew it was Hanno. Love your work dude.
They specifically said they use deep learning which implies a sizeable neural network.
Two satellites? I wonder if one is a very sensitive receiver and the other a transmitter or they trade off roles.
> What happens to corn that's planted 48 hours too late?

Yields might be marginally lower. Across almost a billion acres, that matters, albeit only at the margin.
I can't read the full article but low-T MRI is potentially a big deal IMO because a 0.05T magnetic coil can be air or water-cooled but higher T-magnets (like 1.5 and 3T MRI magnets) have to use superconducting wire and thus must be cooled to sub 60K temperatures (even down to sub 10K) using Helium refrigeration cycles. I worked for a time at a company that made MRI calibration standards (among many other things).

helium refrigeration cycle equals:

- elaborate and expensive cryogenic engineering in the MRI overall design.

- lots of power for the helium refrigeration cycle.

- requirements for pure helium supply chain, which is not possible in many parts of the world, including areas of Europe, North America, etc.
What I've seen mostly is developers bringing complexity, then cutting corners after that because they don't want to deal with it. In Coders at work, Douglas Crockford said to spend the sixth cycle - whatever the cycle is - on refactoring. It's a sound advice if you care about technical debt as an engineer. Spend some time to revisit the code architecture to see if it still fits the problem you're solving. Instead of spending three cycles on something that could have been done in one because of how fragile everything is. Or having a long list that is tied to the same root cause.

Sometimes it means redo your React marketing website in Node and EJS (or the equivalent) instead of trying to make it SSR too.
Is cost of machines really barrier? I can get MRI for $400-$500 as a self payer (Eastern Europe, i.e. if i just wanted it, not that doctor would say he wants it).

I read a paper few years ago about utilization rate, machine/service cost, how many machines per citizen/hospital... They were running day and night. Cursory glance at other countries also reveal sensible prices.

Unless it gets to a point of ultra sound machine(i.e. machine in a the consulting room a doctor can use in 10 minutes), I don't think it will decrease price much.
“It’s says it’s’paired’ but not ‘connected,’ but the manual uses those words interchangeably…”

“Do you see a ‘forget satellite’ button?”
I'm currently actively learning my 5th language and passively learning the 6th one. There's no universal way to learn a new language. What works for one doesn't work for another. Also, a big factor in how hard it will be to learn a new language are the languages you know already. If the new language is similar to the one you know already, i.e. is in the same language family, you will have a much easier time learning it. Languages are not just words, they are a way of thinking. You may find yourself having to learn to think in a new way literally.

When I start learning new language, I first focus on speech. So just audio until my ears can pick things like intonation, tones, words, and I start to grasp the sentence structure. After that, get my reading to a basic level and learn the alphabet (if necessary). Only after that do I start with some formal study to build a solid foundation. Usually, some kind of textbook series that covers reading, writing speaking, and listening. After that, I try to immerse myself in a language and learn as necessary.
> Learn only 4 tenses. Past for one time events, past continuous, present, future. These are enough to go by and explain yourself.

There is no future tense in Finnish. Or gendered personal pronouns. Oh and there’s about a gazillion words for snow. And god help you if you need to articulate that your spruce is returning.
I'm not sure if I get your point here, but it's possible that "invisible" was too ambiguous. What I meant was that a memory bug may be less likely to cause noticeable functional changes to the behaviour of the program during everyday usage. I.e. the client won't notice them.
Perhaps the title should have been "Brain uses Quantum effects in a useful/controllable way". Sabine explains it well in the video. To use quantum effects for computation, you'd need very controlled conditions and it was thought be to not possible in the brain.
It's meaningless to say you don't like violence when you can't suggest an alternative.
Damn I wish I saw that 5 hours ago, it's just what I needed.
Yes its GDPR compliant. Our team has simply never made one of the Apple Appstore Required Encryption documents, and due to that we decided to be on the safe side, and therefore wait with France untill tuesday next week when we can get help with it.
"Not for use on primary coolant loops of liquid sodium-cooled reactors. Product does not constitute OSHA-approved shielding against gamma radiation. Backing color may appear to change when illuminated by Cherenkov radiation. Product neither catalyzes the development of, nor blocks the use of, mutant super powers. ..."

/s?
Nobody's forcing you to get a cure. But denying it to others is a really weird idea. Until we can tell apart kids who will develop fun quirks from those who won't be able to live independently, prevention doesn't sound bad either.
For a detailed investigation of this topic by an renowned quantum computer scientist: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0159.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWwUuWRgsM is the popular video summary being shared, AFAICT
That would be misleading too in the other direction, we don’t know if it played a role.

“Patient given modified pig kidney dies two months later, cause not confirmed to be kidney” or something along those lines would be the best headline.
Given how inhospitable life is to organisms like ours, it seems almost guaranteed that any space faring entity must be what we call "artificial". (Whether that be silicon computers or something else.)

And at that point, probably some sort of hive mind or "super intelligence" as well. (Since having billions of independent actors is very inefficient -- so much redundancy and annoying coordination problems to deal with).

It/they would probably have mastery of biotechnology and could print whatever life forms they want at the last mile if needed. Maybe purely for the entertainment purposes of embodying some highly constrained consciousness. Or for interfacing with new species encountered. Or just for downloading the stored consciousness of their pets from the home world so they can run around again.

It's a pretty minor detail as to whether the biological life forms that created the thing still exist happily on their home planet, or uploaded their consciousness into it, or were exterminated by it or themselves or some unavoidable natural disaster... Biology just doesn't have scaling power.
Makes perfect sense, and important ideas tend to occur in multiple places over a shortish period of time.
> Very true, it is not a good reason, we do this for now due to the security, users calendar, notes, and partner related information is truly personal, so for now it's much more secure.

...No?

"Much more secure" would be not saving anything on the server that doesn't need to go there in the first place (move things and logic to the client from the server - what value does the user get from uploading everything?)

Or if this is for syncing/backup purposes, at least encrypting data on the client before with a key only available to the client before uploading the encrypted data to the server (this sounds overkill and unnecessary for the goals of this app).

User data is a (in places legal) liability for you. Handling it properly will cost you time and money. Without extracting additional value ("selling") it, it is not in your interest to centralize it.

Simple rule of thumb: If you don't strictly require it to provide service to the user, don't strictly require it from the user. For optional functionality (email reminders, server-side push) requiring server-side to collect additional information, that information and functionality should also be opt-in. This is the gist of GDPR. As you note, many companies either (obliviously or not) flaunt it or employ dark patterns or legal chicanery to maliciously comply (courts are still out on the latter in many cases).
You are simply used to a different (and in my opinion much healthier) way of working.
Have you been in your new role for a long time?
You may either get used to it, or find the right fit in the company.
Or you might not and need to look for a better job.
There is absolutely no shame in considering how you work when choosing a job.
SSH can authenticate a user, wireguard (as typically deployed) only authenticates a computer.

SSH can sometimes authenticate intent, like Yubikey touch.

Using wireguard for authentication is a mistake. The category of mistake is usually referred to as ambient authority, often exploited via a confused deputy.
Presumably because no one's made them take it down.
This is the kindest response I’ve ever seen to someone suffering from whatever it is that causes these kinds of comments on this specific website.
Thank you for answering for me. And yes this is the case, the contracts with Scandinavian Universities are very slow and heavy. But the process has started.
No they don't.

My postscript just meant to point out the fact that since you asked a question about a school as a place while answering to my comment mentioning a school of thought (that's not a place), perhaps there's some miscommunication happening.

Me mentioning a school of thought and not a specific institution implied the fact that when it comes to culture, there could be a considerable variety of positions within one such institution. For example: when it comes to universities, students can be taught by professors from different faculties but the subjects can intersect significantly, so they get to see the varying approaches to even the basic stuff and they are supposed to make their own minds. Humanities are like that, there's no formulas set in stone until disproven.
Looking at their blog it seems like it's receive only. I wonder what their firmware does to make existing chipsets compatible.