skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I truly hope I dont have to eat my words but YEAH, fuck Ray Dalio fear-mongering and his FUD mentality! I regret sidelining by listening to his BS!
A short history of exodus in the Middle East
A long-term ketogenic diet accumulates aged cells in normal tissues
Right below install instructions, on Bend's README.md:

> But keep in mind our code gen is still on its infancy, and is nowhere as mature as SOTA compilers like GCC and GHC.

Second paragraph of Bend's GUIDE.md:

> While cool, Bend is far from perfect. In absolute terms it is still not so fast. Compared to SOTA compilers like GCC or GHC, our code gen is still embarrassingly bad, and there is a lot to improve. That said, it does what it promises: scaling horizontally with cores.

Limitations session on HVM2's paper:

> While HVM2 achieves near-linear speedup, its compiler is still extremely immature, and not nearly as fast as state-of-art alternatives like GCC of GHC. In single-thread CPU evaluation, HVM2, is still about 5x slower than GHC, and this number can grow to 100x on programs that involve loops and mutable arrays, since HVM2 doesn’t feature these yet.
What sold NixOS for me were setting up servers, and I would also recommend people to set up their *servers* with.

It was when I watched someone transfer their server to another disk. It was literally one command to set up everything like it was, with bootloader, all services, ssh keys, user accounts, .... Then reboot, logging in via ssh, set an account password and that's it.

I also started using it on my workstation, but as you mentioned it is a long and tiresome process to convert my current set up to Nix and have everything work.

And another thing that really annoys me is the added time when you want to iterate quickly on a configuration file (e.g. when setting up a new program), as there is always the build process in between and looking up how to use that specific nixos module, and most of the time I need to look at the source code of the nix module to perfectly understand how to use a specific config option. So in the end I need to read the official documentation for that program, then the nix documentian and/or the nixos module definition. I have a powerful machine, but it still takes 20-40 seconds for a one line change, which would normally be 2-3s (editing the config + restarting a service)
What is the step debugger for clojure you recommend?
I don't get your analogy and I don't care about nuclear specifically.

There were many examples where dams weren't built to protect local ecosystems. Pumped storage denied. Roads not build that could shorten the travel. Ethanol in fuel that actually emitted more CO2 because of land use change to satisfy the enforced demand. Multi-use bags that require so much energy and resources to build that you need to use them thousand times to get even with single use ones. Paper bags that require more energy and resources to produce which decay or burn releasing CO2. Plug-in hybrids that barely anyone charges that are hauling useless heavy batteries while burning more gasoline. Whole recycling scam mascarading as a solution. All these dumb specific interventions that backfire.

The only thing that comes to my mind that actually improved situation was the global ban on fluorocarbons.
If you understand what a Gaussian Process is, you understand what a Gaussian Distribution is. This work estimates the parameters of many Gaussian Distribution in order to fit the approximate geometry of a GD to a geometry in a scene.
Most boards have some ecosystem to rely on. Either mainline support, some community organized either independently around a particular SoC manufacturer (like linux-sunxi), or around a board manufacturer (Radxa, Pine64, ...), etc.

You're rarely on your own. And even if you are, it's much easier when you have an actual detailed SoC documentation, board schematics, and when things are not some weird ad-hoc thing, but something fairly standard like U-Boot, that you already know and can re-use the knowledge of on any other board, without any vendor lock-in, etc. And when the docs are not some completely ridiculous thing that Rpi was known for years ago.
Yes. Charts are communication devices. Any "rules" for charts should be seen like similar "rules" for essays or emails: good advice that almost always gives a satisfactory result when followed. Reliable paths for infrequent authors.

But what matters most in charts is the same thing that matters most with writing: pick one major point and stick to it (if you're really good or can't avoid it, maybe a couple points). This also explains why a lot of dual-axis charts don't work: the author explains two sets of data that aren't even measured on the same scale and then leaves the reader to connect them and understand the meaning of that connection. You can't be sure the reader will end up at the point you wanted to make.

That's not to say a dual-axis chart is always the wrong choice. Just that, if you start making one, stop and ask if there isn't a better way to show the data. Same with pie charts.
You say this but it's death by a thousand cuts, tons of building code is crap like "a kitchen has to have an extractor fan" because you know, opening a window like Grandma did isn't good enough, wealthy people care about air pollution because they can afford to. Then there's zoning.

Buying some tools, using some common sense and building a structure on a plot of land is accessible.

Once you do everything "by the book" and allow no room for gradual upgrades (it all has to be there from day 1) it's now a profession and is essentially out of reach of the average person.

I'm not in the US but I can afford to buy multiple homes now as a result of aggressively pursuing wealth when I was younger. Not everyone is in that position, most people are bus drivers or nurses or whatever and struggle to make rent.
not sure i agree with this.

> But Dutch prosecutors say the case was simpler than all that. It wasn’t about the right to privacy, or the liability of open source developers, they claim, but the choices of an individual. “[Pertsev] made choices writing the code, deploying the code, adding features to the ecosystem. Choice after choice, all the while he knew that criminal money was entering his system,” M. Boerlage, the lead prosecutor on the case, told WIRED ahead of the verdict. “So it’s not about code. It’s about human behavior.”

How is it different than, say, gun or ammo manufacturers? I suppose the quote here is highly simplified and almost all nuance removed, but still. How is this different than metasploit?
This kind of sound like Mojo. I wonder how these compare?
(Besides HVM/Bend being opensource, which is awesome.)

https://www.modular.com/max/mojo
This got duped twice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40387394 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390287
Coordinated Omission (2021)
Your comment made me go and check ... this project pre-dates the implementation of git, which was in 2005.
Not sure about "popular"

99% of ML engineers wouldn't know what it is.
Yeah, exactly. Though the 48k param lora might be as good as a 48k param layer of higher rank, I haven't looked into that case really.
I don’t have a dog in this fight. (There are benefits of experience and also benefits of fresh ideas) but in no way does the parent comment prove the reverse of what they’re arguing. It is not an example of an exception proving the rule.
EU Investigates Facebook and Instagram over Addictive Effects on Children
optimists make airplanes; pessimists make parachutes

we need both if we want to live long enough to evolve
Yes, this is an issue, with more than just soap residue.
120cm to inches
U.S. government websites are getting an overdue rebrand – Fast Company
I mean, I began by saying:

> the IFR of the seasonal flu is around 0.1%

We're all going to die some day. Based on current causes of death, there's a 20% chance, give or take, that it will be heart disease. A 20% chance it will be cancer. A 2% chance one of us will die from kidney failure. And around a 1.5% chance it will be from the seasonal flu, which has an IFR of 0.1% or less.

Anyway, bringing this back around to the Spanish flu, it's fascinating, to me, that if you were alive in 1918, there was around a 1% chance you would die, that year, of the Spanish flu, and around a 2% chance you would die, years or decades later, of a seasonal flu. Pandemics get you upfront, all at once, epidemics get us eventually, over time.
1. Yeah the marketing folks would hate this but we need to use a subset of HTML.

2. Ok so these are the people who are going to want to help us and they run the largest email servers at the moment

3. I think MS products already have web views in them (either edge or old edge), if we had a change over like MX 2 maybe that would be an acceptable trade off to break the old.
That's a good point. What's funny is that "The Great Mouse Detective" was actually the film I was thinking of this whole time - I believe the ending sequence took place in Big Ben, and it looks quite good by 2024 standards. But I forgot the name of the movie and assumed it was "Oliver & Company" because Oliver is a plausible name for an English mouse :)
I'm not sure what constitutes an "original source" in your eyes. The article quotes several people by name (including the current DA), and refers to specific cases.
Quantum internet draws near thanks to entangled memory breakthroughs
In the Release Preview released today [0] PC Manager will be installed by default on devices in China. How long until it is no longer confined to devices just in China?

[0] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/05/17/releasi...
It can be given an as-of-yet unchosen new name :)
Is there a word for feeling fascination and discomfort at the same time? These little molecular machines are so sinister.
The way these pathogens work is that once the environment is sufficiently dense with their spores there is no stopping them. There are certain continents where you just can't grow bananas for this reason. That's why they're burning the bees with the equipment, to prevent it from spreading.

So what's to stop your neighbor from paying the high premiums, getting infected, and then a wayward bee carries the infection to your uninsured hives? As much as it would be nice to protect the bottom line for each farmer, it's far more important to protect the environment's compatibility with bees, and thats not a game that insurance is set up to play.
Trying to use this but stuck after exporting from the labeler (guessing that is close source), lots of questions:

What do I do with this data exactly? Not really following the instructions from README

Do I need a hefty GPU to run this? Doesn't say anything about hardware.

What am I going to get as a result? Will it generate a 3d model or "point clouds" ?

Do I need multiple inputs (from different angles) through the labeler?

What is the depth estimator being used here (this im most interested in especially its able to detect ground from multiple angles) ?

Guess I'm just really lost here but super eager to use this. We do have a real world application to use this.
> Which currencies appreciated significantly against USD in this period?

Very few did. A quick snapshot is the Dollar Index, which is a basket of six "major" currencies (pound sterling, yen, Euro, Swiss franc, Canadian dollar, and Swedish krona), which remains higher (stronger dollar) today than even the Covid crash peak, during which basically everything that could be traded did so in a huge range due to extreme market volatility.

The Swiss franc is stronger against the dollar since 2019, and so is the Mexican peso, both by roughly 9-10%. That's about it for what I can think of in terms of globally relevant currencies. Most everything else is weaker against the USD than back in 2019.

The US dollar, by virtue of being the global reserve currency, can likely absorb more abuse than others. It's often called the cleanest shirt in a pile of dirty laundry.

> the UK didn't. It borrowed instead. Why didn't GBP massively increase against USD?

It looks like the UK spent roughly ~5k per capita as a response to Covid[0]. When the spending comes from budgetary deficits (that is, absent a commensurate increase in taxes) financed by new bond issuance ("borrowed", as you said), and a large part of said bonds were absorbed by the central bank[1], it's effectively printing money.

[0]: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

[1]: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/central-bank-bal...
The Cicadas Are Here
Sure but what GP said and what I think is a common perception is that wealthy people oppose development because they want the value of their house to grow in the same way that you would want the value of a stock to grow. I.e. so you can turn it into more money later. I don’t think they care so much about turning it into more money later, but more about the other factors I mentioned. Of course indirectly preserving or enhancing the other factors may result in also being able to turn it into more money later, but that is not usually the goal when opposing development around one’s primary residence IMO.
Everyone: This is a nice simple interface for making a discounted cash flow (DCF) model, and the pro version lets you export that to Excel. There’s still a lot of work to fill in those fields. More on DCF:
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/valuation/dc...

OP: What are “AI Models"
What platform you mean? With that lack of add to home screen? I use that sometimes on Firefox on Android.
Makes sense since Windows is probably still just using the “latest” Convolutional Neural Network type algorithms for their OCR from 10+ years ago :-)
Does that work? Companies get fined for bad behavior all the time and they rarely change that behavior.

It would seem that once we enter a one dimensional incentive space dictated by money we just forget about the reason behind those incentives and instead try to hack around our new limitations.
The main issue is whatever replaces email MUST be intentionally asynchronous. There are a 1000 email replacements. The problem is they try to be better. No one wants email to work better than it does from a performance or function perspective. Email is literally the last tech bastion keeping us from 24x7x365 work days as matter of default procedure. Everyone knows this deep down and thats why they refuse to learn or adopt the better systems that already exist.
I don't know, should we? Over here, potassium permanganate became a regulated substance only about 10 years ago so I wouldn't be surprised if in 10 more years, sodium hypochlorite too stops being sold over the counter.

Now, lest this comment of mine becomes too upvoted, here is another controversial take to counterbalance it: some things can be used almost exclusively only to kill people, like guns, unlike knives. Yes, you can stab or cut someone with a knife, but you can stab or cut many other things than humans for useful and helpful effects while the gun allows you too... put small, deep holes into things from a distance, with not-so-great accuracy? At the very best, you can sit in an arm-chair with your hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges, and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet-pocks, but I feel strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of your room would be improved by it.
Probably meant “Disney animated feature”.
Hubble Network and Life360 send Bluetooth into low earth orbit
How far does this extend? If a restaurant doesn't pay its taxes would the Canadian government go after the people who ate there for the money? They are the source of the restaurant's cash flow.
Job Crafting: The Cure for Career FOMO?
If you can generally rely on people not being dicks, it's possible to avoid spending large amounts of effort on features that you need only when large numbers of people are being dicks.

Manipulating the "honour system"* night and rural trains to get unlimited free rides is, and was, probably even easier than spoofing natel location data for this app, but why would anyone bother to do that? It's not like we're barbarians, after all.

* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/TiLo_aut...
Hammock driven development https://youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

When I worked in an office I'd get up and go on walks, or move to a sofa and let the problem simmer a bit, several times a day. I've been fortunate to work in companies which seem to, I think, recognize these are productive activities
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.04.033
Also, it's kind of amazing that they consider that it's China who is "confronting" them. China has enormous trade with the US, it has not attempted in any way to diminish that, quite the opposite, it's been trying really hard to increase trade! What action has China taken that shows it wants to "confront" the US???
See this Intel document from 2014:

https://www.thunderbolttechnology.net/sites/default/files/Th...
You would want to calculate the threshold by choosing your target epsilon and delta and an 'm' equal to the largest conceivable size of the stream. Fortunately, the threshold increases with log(m), so it's inexpensive to anticipate several orders of magnitude more data than necessary. If you wanted, you could work backwards to calculate the actual 'epsilon' and 'delta' values for the actual 'm' of the stream after the fact.
To me int* x is preferred, here's why...

I read it like 'IntegerPointer x' or 'x is an integerPointer' or 'x is a pointer to an integer'

It rhymes with the following :
'MilkGlass m' reads as:

'm is a MilkGlass' or 'm is a Glass of Milk'
I think InterSystems Caché did it first. Its SQL join syntax lets you do `WHERE employee->manager->manager->name`. I'm not sure it has arbitrary recursion like you can do with graph databases, however.
I don't see the problem with implementing it via the MX2 option. That makes backwards compatibility a lot easier than messing with the existing MX option. It also means if the proposal goes over like a lead balloon it at least won't have made the existing situation worse.

Good luck convincing Microsoft to implement anything you're suggesting in Outlook though. Or for Google to add it to gmail.
If you plan on needing much in the way of cross-references (i.e. like in documentation where you're linking to other things all the time), you can use a slightly more advanced markup language like rST (reStructuredText) which is used by Sphinx (though it also supports Markdown). Sphinx docs can be output to a variety of formats, including epub, single-file HTML, PDF via LaTeX, and of course, a multi-page HTML site.
Cursive, https://cursive-ide.com/
Would be great if Google/Apple/Microsoft could lead some of these Internet upgrade initiatives. I think we have more cross corporate collaboration on Emoji selection.
I think it's important to recognize the article does not suggest any obvious user-facing changes to how email operates; only technical ones that would hopefully fix the many pain points there.
Right, that's why thousands of enterprises use them.
Building a Crystal Clear Whiteboard (2013)
What is a technique/library that can take an image of a 3d environment/drawing of a room and detect a rough mesh highlighting ground, walls, barriers ?
Thanks, and I apologize if I got defensive, it is just that I put so much effort on being truthful, double-checking, putting disclaimers everywhere about every possible misinterpretation. Hell this is behind install instructions:

> our code gen is still on its infancy, and is nowhere as mature as SOTA compilers like GCC and GHC

Yet people still misinterpret. It is frustrating because I don't know what I could've done better
'The Specter of the Archive' by Nicholas Popper Review
The tech side, while having (IMHO) some quirks, did really well under the poor leadership. Chris Bolt was walking glue and baling wire, and I was always impressed at what he could keep going under a shoestring budget. Ryan Ford was a great UX guy.

So yeah, I have no disagreements with you there, but imagine what they could have done with a real product roadmap that didn't change on a whim?
Show HN: I Built an AI tool that transforms URLs to Memes
Hey there!

So, here's the scoop: Google Ads decided to block my account out of nowhere (ugh, so frustrating, right?) and now I’m on the hunt for some viral ways to promote my startup, Rusher.ai. Instead of relying on paid ads, I'm diving into more creative territories – and I might just need your help!

Now, about that cool thing I wanted to share (drumroll, please) – we’ve whipped up a free tool that uses our AI to generate memes for your project or startup. Yup, memes! All you need to do is enter your URL, and after a minute or so – bam! – it spits out a few memes. It’s super chill, super fun, and who doesn’t love a good meme, right?

Give it a whirl and let me know what you think! We’re all ears for feedback and would love to know how it resonates with you and your audience.

Cheers!

P.S. No official name for this meme generator tool yet – still noodling on that one. Got any suggestions?

— Your friendly startup nerd
For Chase Personal and Amex you can opt out in the settings. When you get new credit cards these institutions have the default setting to sharing your data. For Capital One you need to call them and have a chit chat that you want to exercise the restriction advertised in their privacy policy and they'll do it for you.

PG&E has a "Do not sell my info" form.

For other institutions, go check the settings and read the privacy policies.

I don't see the point of Rocket Money. They seem like they exist to sell your info.

You should keep track of your own subscriptions. My way of doing this is to have a separate zero-annual-fee credit card ONLY for subscriptions and I never use that card for anything else. That way I can cleanly see all my subscriptions on that credit card's bill, cleanly laid out, one per line, without other junk. I can also quickly spot sudden increases in monthly charges. I also never use that card in physical stores so that reduces the chance of a fraud incident where I need to cancel that card and then update all my subscriptions.

If you want to organize it even more, get a zero-annual-fee credit card that lets you set up virtual cards. You can then categorize your subscriptions (utilities, car, cloud/API, media, memberships, etc.) and that lets you keep track of how much you're spending on each category each month.
I guess it helps to have a clown costume if you're going to act like a clown.
I've been following Quanta for some time, I'm sure they don't care about SEO and number of visitors, they care about the quality of texts. They write for the general audience, and even though they try to preserve the scientific accuracy, sometimes their explanations may seem oversimplified and even a bit confusing when you come from the same field. It's not clickbait, it's their popular science style.
Re: your morning shower example.

People seem to make the mistake of setting the mixer valve to their desired temperature position, routing to the shower head, turning on the water, and waiting for the water to reach temperature. That takes a long time, and wastes water. Probably not 10s of gallons, in an ordinary house, but 7-8 would not surprise me.

The more efficient procedure is to turn on hot water only, routed to the tub spout only, for ~15 seconds until water is flowing hot. Then move the valve to the desired temperature position, and divert to the shower head. This wastes about 2 gallons.

A tankless water heater wastes zero gallons, but it requires a gas pipe to the bathroom.
I was wondering about this as well, I think he is suggesting they report the spam to your domain registrar, who either does something about it or there whole cert chain gets blocked by default.
I could be wrong, but Vostok watches (from Chistopol) are still made the same way they were during CCCP. They improved things a lot by using more durable materials; for example, bezels are made from stainless steel these days; in the past, they were made from brass. However, the underlying machine design and build process are (or should be) the same.