skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MDMA is one of many drugs that interferes with temperature regulation. It’s a direct contributing factor and they wouldn’t have had severe medical issues without taking it.

Drunk driving is a more indirect risk, but I am also including that as one of the risks of Alcohol consumption elsewhere in the thread. If you’re objecting to the name fine, but the risk still exists as MDMA consumption regularly kills people due to this and other risks.

PS: Water toxicity is a similar situation. It’s not just the amount of water alone that’s a problem instead the amount they’ve been sweating is often a contributing factor. Oddly, they also mention MDMA as a risk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
I think the former might strongly imply the latter.

If a company can't think of a single way to ensure the person who interviews is actually the person who comes to work the first day (hint, there was a time when webcams did not exist), then that company is probably also inclined to inflict lazy, intrusive surveillance-based schemes on employees after they're hired.
Guaranteed that marketers are salivating at the idea of eye tracking on apps and website. It's an amazing feature that absolutely needs to be gatekept.
should not assume that they should develop for one kind of player.

Or even better, if they accommodate the lowest common denominator, you actually can end up with better experiences for even experienced players.

I’m looking at this tech in reverse. Sure it’s going to help the disabled, but it’s also going to enable entire new things in games. I fly around a helicopter a lot in Arma, and I’d love some simple solutions for head and eye tracking just with my web cam and it looks like most of this r&d is happening in the accessibility space, not in the game design space.
It's kind of baffling and fascinating at the same time : a company with an infinite dump truck of money launches a once in a generation new kind of product and .... forgets to fund even basic content for it? Even their first party content (new environments etc) is languishing. I kind of wonder if they have a sort of internal view that it needs to survive on its own merits or die - like putting your newborn babies out in the cold the first night. Even if they lack belief, it is surprising that even the parts that just consist of signing checks seem anaemic.
Having run this kind of thing for customers over the years, my takeaway is that every place that wanted this was a completely toxic and paranoid work environment.

Except for one. This place that seemed to have a reasonable use case. They dealt with very sensitive legal cases involving children, and they wanted an audit trail to ensure sensitive media was handled according to their policy.
I guess that information will also be be useful, when weighing "X% less likely that your phone is taken when your wallet is taken from your gym locker" against "Y% more likely that a mugging turns into a maiming".
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/zh51l4/raspberr...
Oh christ. What absolute nonsense.
Apparently not just me that think the same, lol.. yeah lured by free vmware workstation, still cannot download after a day, "Account verification is Pending. Please try after some time."
My friends that use synthetic voices prefer cleanliness of the older and familiar voices. One friend listens at about 900 WPM in skim mode and none of the more realistic voices work well at those rates.
Sure, and they've been cut off for almost double the time of the planned journey for no good reason.
iOS 17.5 is allegedly resurfacing pictures that were deleted years ago
GPUsGoBurr: Get up to 2x higher performance by Tuning LLM Inference Deployment
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I think the idea is that you should design tools and pipelines to take advantage of current hardware. Individual nodes have more CPU cores, more RAM, and more and faster local storage than they used to. Instead of launching many small jobs that compete for shared resources, you should have large jobs that run the entire pipeline locally, using network and network storage only when it's unavoidable.
As the lorentz factor calculated above, not much!
Time would only be dilated by that much, and length by the the same amount. It'd definetly be hard to hit something at that speed, but not due to relativity!
I am not saying there was any free market capitalism in feudalism. I am trying to explain to you the basic economic principle that those that can produce something more efficiently will tend to dominate. I used the example of corporations under capitalism as an example that I hope you would be more familiar with.

If I need to use 90% of my population just to produce enough food to sustain them, I can only use 10% for other things. The society that only needs 50% of the workforce to be in agriculture can easily entertain for example a vastly bigger military even with the same population.

Economics is what wins war. Economics is what allows technological progress.

Yes, slavery existed but the question is what the dominant form of ding agriculture.
I (thank god) got out of manufacturing IT around 2000 but I still have friends working in that industry. A guy I know makes an absolute fortune frankensteining old MFM drives together and fixing resistors on 10base-T network cards because someone thought the exact same thing and subbed out a PLC for a computer to save a few bucks.

Trust me, I loathe PLCs, but Allen Bradley will still sell you a drop in replacement for something the now retired previous guy put in service 15 years ago.
VisionOS has this too. I mapped it to a triple click of the button for when eye tracking becomes inaccurate.
A search engine for memes from Telegram
This is a web app consisting of:

- A telegram crawler

- An OCR

- An elasticsearch instance

- a web interface

- a telegram bot

~280K files indexed at the moment, and counting.
Stop Helping Me: When Nuclear Assistance Impedes Nuclear Programs (2013)
It's bullshit. If the situation becomes unbearable or unsafe to maintain humans on the ship, they ought to be escorted to controlled access lodging on-shore or elsewhere, and offered transportation back home. Trapping people on a ship is inhumane and tantamount to slavery.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation#Transport...
I've lost 2 different gmail accounts, apparently due to Google deciding to change or not respect my security settings. It's hard to say for sure. Meanwhile I still have a Hotmail email address. (This isn't me saying Microsoft couldn't cause similar issues, but I've at least been able to get things fixed through support in the past.)

I'm of the same mind that providers can be underrated risks, because it doesn't always cross people's minds that the provider could be that seemingly incompetent. It's certainly a potential situation to consider when dealing with companies that have poor support. And unfortunately, not all of them have great support or self-service tools like account recovery codes.
Crickets always sound the same.
That's a great interpersonal approach. It's my preference for sure. Be honest. People you interact with will learn that you are honest. Then you don't have to pull the long bow to convey an accurate message.

It's less clear when it's groups communicating with groups for the benefit of a third party audience. If a member of the Society of the Friends of Truth says something but you hear it via a paraphrase from some AM radio bloviator, individual reputations are less at play and discourse becomes coarser. The audience thinks, "That person is a virtue signaler. Bloviator says things I like to hear. Bloviator has my back. We have the same enemies, he and I. Mr. Virtue can cram it with walnuts!" After decades of this happening, it's easy to see why people would change their rhetorical technique.
Ah, that's a good point. I've thought about this, but I use a trackball due to mild RSI. So, I don't think it can help me there.

(This is going to make me embark on a weekend project to use an Arduino, some servos and a 3D printed finger to move my trackball.)
Yeah pretty quiet in here - the crowd is not roaring for the Google announcements.

Every Google product announcement should come with a planned cancellation date.
I mean, (when they're hiring) all the big techs are hiring from wherever they can. Local is great, across the country is great, outside the country is fine too. Really big tech can do stuff like hire you, have you work near where you are or somewhere that's easy to get visas for, and sponsor you to apply for H-1B when the lottery opens every year until you win or they can apply under another category (I think there's a category for 'important overseas manager' which sometimes they'll do). Then once you're here, I think it's relatively straightforward to get on the path to a greencard, if the employee wants to sponsor that.

Getting directly hired seems hard; H-1B requires application by early April and if you win the lottery, you can't start until October. I'm not sure many employers will be willing to do that. Maybe if you can WFH in the meantime? Other work visas might not have the same application -> start times, but are still a bit of a random wait on immigration processing, which could be denied.

Getting a masters in the US is a good pathway to immigration though, yes. You can work under OPT after graduation, and you have time to mingle and maybe find a spousal sponsor ;) But it's probably too late for that.

I got in the easy way, through birth, so I don't have direct experience. But I wouldn't suggest you rule it out for sure. I think there's also a 'diversity visa' you can apply for, and they might draw your name out of a hat. I know someone who got in that way. But I know a lot of immigrants because I worked at big tech companies, and they're a magnet for immigrants.
For the curious, here's [1] an IPCC paper on the subject of this sort of climate engineering. It's among the more promising geoengineering approaches to counteracting global warming if carbon emissions continue, although there's still a lot of uncertainties about it.

It's generally believed that we're already doing this by "accident". Along with carbon emissions, humans have released aerosols that block sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface + increase cloud cover, and are believed to be counteracting climate change to a significant extent (not enough to stop it, but enough to slow it down). We're pretty sure this works, because big volcanic eruptions that emit a bunch of sulfur aerosols are known to cool the Earth down (c.f. the "Year Without A Summer" [2]), and accounting for aerosol reduction has long been part of climate models.

A natural experiment of sorts has been going on for the past couple of years that further suggests this might matter. In 2020, new regulations on sulfur emissions (which are a significant pollutant in addition to their climate effects) went into effect for shipping around the world. Aerosols went way down almost overnight, and ocean temperatures promptly spiked to new record levels. Here's [3] an article from last year, when ocean temperatures were beginning to separate from the historical record; this process has continued dramatically through to the present [4], with global sea surface temperatures at record levels for the entirety of 2024 so far - despite the fact that last year's El Nino (which leaves a large patch of the Pacific warm) is largely gone and a La Nina (which leaves a large portion of the Pacific cold) is replacing it.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_Chapt...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

[3] https://www.science.org/content/article/changing-clouds-unfo...

[4] https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
What even is this comment

Also,

<spoilers>

It didn't do anything bad to Zaphod Beeblebrox, in a pocket universe created especially for him (therefore ensuring that he was the most important thing in it, and thereby securing his immunity from the mind-scrambling effects of fully comprehending the infinite smallness of one's place in the real universe).
> I don't know why they're touting it as a new feature.

This is powered by AI! /s
Ah, that's an interesting point. I haven't tried to correlate that, but it must be true. For example, the screensaver never seems to appear during Zoom calls!
At least I put off the phone while I was in the car. Not the case now. Thank you Apple but I'd rather be sick while looking at your phone in a car.
I didn't understand the story, it left too much unexplained. Why was a Snr Eng II I'm a leadership role and what did that even mean in context? Technical lead? Team lead? Something was being rolled out to 3 countries a week then slowed to per month... how is that not a success? There aren't that many countries. Unless it started with the North Korean rollout and went downhill from there.

Given the lack of context and information and juxtaposed message, why should we take anything from the authors conclusion on what the problem was? The boxing wizards metaphor is unnecessary for saying "I thought it was a technical issue but it's really a people management problem" and we don't even know that is the case because the article doesn't say why.
Easy, you ask them to talk you through their reasoning.

LLM’s are fucking terrible at this for anything nontrivial.
Both of these are easily achievable (if I understood the second one correctly; an example would help).
Regarding Kubernetes and the Apache license, Apache license 2.0 has to be one of the most business friendly licenses around? It's widely used and understood, no requirement to open source changes, automatic patent license for any patents the software uses included. If the corporate lawyer says no to that, what do they say yes to?
Unless they are using a fork with an rss feed reader you can still follow him.
What about all the disabled people that you are silently rejecting? They don’t typically have it in them to make as much noise as your one idiot customer but please be aware you are actively harming them.
Ask HN: Can we have an AI-free day of the week?
I propose choosing a day of the week when any posts mentioning AI never appear on the front page of HN. Maybe I'm getting old but it all just seems so exhausting. While taking days off is, of course, an option, I enjoy coming here; there are lots of good topics between the current hype.
> Last I checked you can't get much better than 1.5GB/s per core with LZ4

you can partition your dataset and process each partition on separate core, which will produce some massive XX or even XXX GB/s?

> up to a maximum ratio < 3:1

this is obviously depends on your data pattern. If it is some low cardinality IDs, they can be compressed by ratio 100 easily.
It's not your computer, it's a company laptop.
>Who's definition of trademark?

I mean, if you want to argue the point, I live in the US where we have a very large stack of case law that defines the definition of trademark, in which if you violate said trademark cases in a court will occur against you. And if you act belligerent about it, the court will dispatch a guy with a gun. So I recommend asking the guy with the gun (that is the right of the state to be sole arbiter of violence).

Now, as it comes to the term open source, there is a very wide range of accepted behavior that you can get away with when using the term before a guy with a gun shows up and asks you to stop regardless of what you or the OSI says.
This doesn't apply to stars in the Milky Way. Unlike planets around a star, stars in the Milky Way don't follow Keplerian physics in their orbit around the galactic center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve

```

The rotational/orbital speeds of galaxies/stars do not follow the rules found in other orbital systems such as stars/planets and planets/moons that have most of their mass at the centre. Stars revolve around their galaxy's centre at equal or increasing speed over a large range of distances. In contrast, the orbital velocities of planets in planetary systems and moons orbiting planets decline with distance according to Kepler’s third law.

```
Cybersecurity nerd here, have talked to many platform and financial company CISO’s, security teams and recruiters over the past few years.

Fake interviewees are pretty rampant. We’re getting to the point where presenting yourself in-person to a government representative, agency or a private attestation company will be part of the onboarding process. At this point it looks like it’ll be iris scans.

In the US it’s even an issue in-person with H1B’s where they get interviewed and hired online, then someone else shows up.

Also the fact that insider threats are almost never budgeted for, and so many companies blanket-approve access to systems like logging systems, customer support systems, source code, etc - means attackers don’t even need to get hired into a very important role to get the data they want.
> The USA claim in particular is ridiculous,

Hmm...you think it's ridiculous, but it's from the US government's energy.gov website:

https://www.energy.gov/lpo/articles/sector-spotlight-advance...

"The United States will likely need 200 gigawatts of new nuclear generation by 2050 to meet national decarbonization targets. "

This was also the official policy statement of the United States at the Nuclear Energy Summit hosted in Belgium in March 2024.

"For the USA, John Podesta Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy, Innovation and Implementation, said the summit was a 21st Century update for the Atoms for Peace vision, and referenced the commitment by countries at COP28 to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050, which he said means 200 GW of new nuclear capacity in the USA. He said a start had already been made and added that the country would also aim to help tackle the climate crisis by helping other countries across the world "build safe, secure, reliable, nuclear power"."

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Leaders-back-nuc...
Two major releases, what do you expect
No it doesn’t. It’s a UWP app with DRMs everywhere.

Although there is an unofficial Linux launcher capable of running Bedrock natively using the embedded machine code in the Android version but it requires to buy the game one more time from the Google play store.
I suspect most people's interaction with Prius' are Uber rides. Maybe Uber drivers just get bad habits from the platform incentives (drive fast = get more rides)
Ah, game over
It's legal if the recipient owns the game, it would be covered under fair use for compatibility purposes.
Different subsidies.

BYD received billions of dollars in funding grants from the Chinese government. The government also pays raw materials manufacturers to dump materials like steel and lithium on the domestic market at a loss.

The government tax break on the sales price of the vehicle is not really what's relevant here.
I love that style from David Goodsell! You did a great job in mimicking it programmatically. Was that tough to get right?
As much as I like Elon and think the term cisgender is stupid, this is such a bad look for him if X is meant to truly be the free speech platform. This is just woke but inverted.
Well, they're talking about alternative solutions that do exist at runtime like wrappers.

Granted, it's hard to know exactly what solutions the person is pitching (the person they're responding to). This person presumably thinks renaming arguments like foo(string:) to foo(hash:) solves branded types. And then they vaguely gesture at other solutions like namespacing and 'safe classes'.
Yep, my policy is to never "cross the streams." Work stays on work-provided (and controlled) devices and personal stays on personal devices, and never the twain shall meet. I work remotely, so I even go so far as to ensure all my work-provided devices are on their own VLAN which is isolated from the rest of my network and only have limited Internet connectivity. I don't really understand people who use work devices for personal (sometimes VERY personal) tasks, or even worse vice-versa: Bring Your Own Device for work tasks.
Oh nice ! I’ll check that !
The system doesn't supply data like widget highlight states to apps for exactly that reason.
The plague was a factor in the demise of Rome, but it was not the factor. Mary Beard's SPQR discusses some that are not always mentioned today, perhaps because they are too close for comfort for Europe and the USA or too political. I recommend reading Beard's book.
The heck with bread and circuses. Fish sauce for all my friends!
It’s just convenience and trust. No need to input addressess or make another account plus good return policies.
FBI seizes hacking forum BreachForums – again
What would happen if somebody brought data sims onto the boat and gave them to the crew?
> adapted from arm limited optimized routine

Shoulders of giants and all that
In this case you have the opposite issue, with no-one actually guaranteed to get a lock even though nothing is holding one. Fuzzed retries may work in practice but theoretically speaking this is a flawed algorithm.
Of those 100 announcements,

17 are not directly related to AI:
61-64, 66, 68-72, 75, 76, 85, 86, 88, 89 and 91.

5 look like they involve AI (would need to check):
43, 49, 56, 60 and 67.

78 are clearly related to AI somehow.
This might be a good thing, since it means it could be more easily ported to Windows and Linux as well
A large part of that Emmett Shear interview is about the fallacy of pattern-matching beliefs like you're doing right now. "oh those people have X belief, which is stupid, so I just tune the rest of them out." I guarantee you haven't done an in-depth study of the merits of cryogenics. Neither have I yet, but there are many smart people who do think the tradeoff is worth it. The point I and Emmett make is that AGI X-risk people are dismissed prematurely based on vaguely sounding like other stuff the subject already believes isn't worth investigating. Whether that's mistakenly believing they're not pro-tech along most axes, "dismissed", they generally have some other quirky belief like cryonics, "dismissed", or they think we could be headed for a very dangerous place, "sounds like other doomsday people, dismissed."
1) read it again without being aroused please

2) https://www.wired.com/story/apple-communication-safety-nude-... they have some motives, obviously .. it's a technical issue, you're right.