skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of this as a generic problem that happens when the (in this case) age structure of the representatives differs from the working population.

So any fix would involve changing the age structure of representation. The particulars of the fix would depend on the specifics of a particular system, but one idea that could fix things would be absolute limits to the time you can be in office. So for example a rule that states any person may serve only X years in parliament over the course of their life. Those limits might have other benefits.

Maybe even an absolute age limit would make sense, e.g. retirement age + X years. Of course old people should get political representation, but maybe putting a cap on it would work to make it more a government of working people.

Another idea would be a voting multiplier, that gives proportionally more power to representatives that are from age brackets that are underrepresented in the governing body.

All of these might have unanticipated side effects and there are probably even better ideas, but the point is: whatever it is, it has to be something that gives true concessions to the young people, otherwise there can be no true political negotiation between the retired many and the working few.
One of my favorite UIs of all time. Inspired a then-20 y/o to have a career building complex UIs =)
Compare the hardware specs between the iPad and the Laptops.

The laptops have significantly larger batteries and active cooling, while not being as light, thin or running a display against the main heat producing components, while the iPad is thinner than an iPod nano.

But by all means promote a trivially debunked conspiracy theory.
Searching for them how? By name? I'm talking about an unambiguous interface. Also, job verification by being a member of a workplace, etc.

In the past, TheFacebook had similar features about colleges, work, then they got rid of those - not sure why. And then they launched a separate product, which was doomed since launched.
An interesting thing that Google does is to watermark the AI generated videos using the [SynthID technology](https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/).

It seems that the SynthID is not only for AI generated video but for image, text and audio.
Coroot – open-source, No Code Observability
We built Coroot to Simplify Observability, making it simple to deploy, requiring zero configuration or code changes and easy to use, providing simple insights rather than 100 dashboards.

Coroot is based on industry standards such as eBPF, Open Telemetry (Otel) and Prometheus and stores a lot of data in Clickhouse which is both more efficient than storing data in MySQL or PostgreSQL and also allows for additional data visualization with Grafana.

We see customers using Coroot to replace Jaeger, DataDog, Newrelic, Dynatrace

Compared to other Open Source Observability Solutions such as NetData and SigNoz, Coroot strives to be a simple developer focused APM solution. We believe in “less is more” approach, where actionable insights are better than data overload.

Coroot works great with Kubernetes, but not limited to it - it also supports major clouds - AWS, GCP, Azure as well as VMs and Bare-Metal.
'Eternal You' shows AI's impact on death and grief
I think I was never convinced so I can't be disillusioned...

In general terms: big tech know IT have started to be spread enough to makes people thinking back at classic desktops, hosting own services and so on, making their business model rooted on lock-in and others ignorance in a threat status. They have successfully pushed laptops, but have failed to go further with netbooks and mobile "the cloud-integrated platform", Chromebooks prove to be a limited success, people still want to own their own data even if far less than we all need. Emails are almost a synonym of webmails now, but even with modern antispam sheriffs they are still a success, modern socials after usenet have gained a big success but ultimately lost much of their popularity, hw is cheap enough to own a small machine room at home in most of the west world for most people and some https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-... or https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-gets-a-billion-dollar-wor... have started to talk how cheap and effective is owning something... ML systems are a potential solution being not a small show. They are also very nice to hide any sort of nasty things, isolating people without them easily notice and so on.

Aside the dream to "talk to computers like humans" or having "smart devices" who follow us easing our life till the point of being able to became another species transferring our consciousness in something we built in a factory to finally reach the immortality, the pure intellect is still a thing as it was since ever.

Bottomline: we are in declining and aging society where schools was reformed to generate legions of useful idiots https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-usef... because they are easy to manage like Ford model workers, unfortunately they are not just workers, the lowest base of the society but ALL LEVEL of the social pyramid and while became ignorant is easy became literate it's not.

It's about time we need to know to use computers, the myth of a chimp able to operate was and still is a myth, the myth we can make eye candy UIs not demanding users knowledge is and was a myth. We see CLIs coming back in nth forms, we will see DocUIs coming back, and big tech is desperate who to make them back since we need them but without giving power to the users and without loosing their digital dominance. I can't predict the future, but I'm pretty convinced we see again bat tech take ground while not fully succeed.
traditionally, every culture used seasonal/unequal hours! just, in Europe, the advantage of mechanical clocks was so great that the culture changed to fit the technology
> its a financial service, not a software company

I have no experience in the financial industry, but I work in a field which is also highly regulated (medical devices). Failure to pass audits or be otherwise compliant to regulation can very much make the difference between having or not having any business at all.

Paying of decades worth of debt in a few month where clients see no shiny new features was likely more and better service than that founder-CEO type deserved.
> So do women have equal rights in the UAE or SA? Can they vote or drive cars?

The UAE and SA are very different.

Non-emiratis women are wearing bikinis everywhere on the Dubai beaches. You can buy alcohol there are the supermarket (you need a license for that but it's easy to get).

And, yup, women can drive there.
Yeah intrusive collections in C is the biggest use I’ve seen. I played with a physics engine a few years ago (chipmunk2d) which made heavy use of intrusive linked lists to store all the objects in the world model. I suspect there’s some clever data structures out there that might have better performance, but the intrusive linked list approach was simple and fast!
I don't have concrete evidence, but in a ranking of destroyed musical instruments, guitars would likely be the clear leader.
I love this concept. Did you all come up with this or is there prior art? Is there a name for this concept?
I am a happy user of LibreWolf: they do the opt out for me. On android I use mull. I have to say that I am quite happy and really do not understand everyone moving to chromium based browsers.
I think the only solution is to confront the deep root of this issue: you've grown your identity around the current system and your worth as citizen within it, a period of unexpected upheaval is extremely scary. I can definitely relate, especially since the Wall Street Fat Cats (retro is cool) are in an extremely advantageous position vis-a-vis AI. They see how AI isn't just a new internet fad, it's the culmination of computing - and they're investing to match that assessment.

But just because we have long battle ahead of us doesn't mean it's over. Hackers built the internet and AI and Silicon Valley for all its fucked-up idiosyncrasies, and I think we (/our predecessors) should be proud of that.

This will make me lose any authority I have, but I unironically suggest watching Mr. Robot, a dramatic fiction about an individual "hacker"-type in times of great technological upheaval, and IMO it puts forth a compelling analysis of the various ethical and practical barriers that present themselves therein. For example, "how to influence technology without working at a giant company"
The only website I visit every day without fail (except when I'm in an area without cell or internet connectivity) is my own RSS news aggregator.

The only other website I visit very often (although not every day without fail) is HN.

My daily routine is: I read through the news in the morning, and interact on HN when I need to take a mental work break.
They seem to have have deemphasized it, but it's still there under Settings -> System -> Tablet -> Change additional tablet settings -> Tablet mode.

It basically reverts to the Windows 8 UI.
I'm not an expert in postgres performance, but I would think that excessive WAL flushing would also slow down workloads with constant writes.
Wondering why this got shadow banned from the front page?
They were setting the goalposts for a “pro” computer, though, not a personal one.

I mean this is a site for programmers. Surely everyone here has the experience of bumping their head on annoying IT-approved vendor-supported software limitations, right? It could be a pro device where your company locks down everything inside an Apple provided framework. They could even (since they are going to need to put together the plumbing for this anyway to comply with EU) have an internal IT department provided company store.

People here want iPad libre. I want that too. I don’t think that’s what Apple means by pro, though.
I remember getting a cracked version of Shake in high school and using the optical flow stabilization on mini-DV footage for the dumb videos my friends and I made. Worked amazing for the time.

We made a mini horror film, Donnie Darko style, about a crazy uncle drugging a bunch of his nephew's friends. The scenes where a character was under the influence were whatever crazy color grading and effects I could squeeze out of Shake without deep knowledge. Great times.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I still work a full time job. There are still some good challenges that gets me motivated on my day to day at work. I mentioned those projects as a hobby. I like computers and i think I'll ever will. They will not take away the joy of it for me
UK mining giant to offload De Beers diamond business
Geologists, biologists unearth the atomic fingerprints of cancer
Apparently Disney is playing the long game.
US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house
I love this stack and using it for my personal blog. But that gets very low traffic. Are you using this in production and at what level of traffic including DB writes etc. Would you be able to share some numbers if possible ?
Interesting material, but poorly written page. It has a breathless tone, and gives too much and too little detail at the same time.

Reads like it might be by a domain expert who has lost sight of what "regular" people know. Jargon is optimized for talking about specific things (Eskimos have 200 words for snow...). It's important to translate back into "regular words", which is jargon for normal life!

Something like

"Bioglass is a synthetic material that is <non-reactive?> inside the human body. It bonds to bone, and is used in surgery to <patch bones?>.

It was discovered by <xxx> in the 1950s, and is composed of..."
This looks really good for promo videos. All scenes in here are basically that.
>The keyboard, trackpad, and fans, mostly.

read that again, but slowly.
AFAIK the Shoemaker-Levy impact was useful for other studies, but not so for the density/mass of Jupiter (also as per your link).

Jupiter is full of surprises still (mostly about its interior). However, the assessments made in this article about the mass and radius of the planet are using very basic physical laws (mostly Kepler laws from the 1600s).
Sure they watched the paths. That doesn't tell them what they were, how far away they were, helicentric vs geocentric, etc. Anybody can watch paths and notice they repeat.

> heliocentrism are ultimately just an optimization that wasn't obvious, necessary, or meaningful given what little practical use there was to the paths of those planets until very recently

True, but that wasn't my observation. My observation is it was not advanced, sophisticated, etc.
Not really and not all companies are like this even today. E.g. I knew someone who ran a business repairing some equipment for other businesses. He wasn't hustling. He wasn't interested in expanding globally. He wasn't battling competitors or doing anything like that. He was friends with his clients and workers, and ran a business that brought in enough to pay everyone fairly and that was that. Probably 25 workers I'd guess, if that.

Of course its different when you are a public company or take on a lot of investor money.
Then AI should be directed towards sifting real from unreal.
> It's the recruiters job to represent the company. Canceling a meeting with no notice and not replying to emails asking about it is not just unprofessional but negatively impacts brand perception.

Candidly this isnt the way to look at this. Them giving you a reason is just evidence for some sort of claim. It always has been and it always will be that way. The difference from your perspective is that you're probably used to being in demand. Right now you are not, there's 1000's of laid of tech workers all doing the same thing you are. 24 months from now when the market heats up again your phone will ring off the hook.

Dont hate the player, hate the game.
He did: https://twitter.com/R00tkitSMM/status/1790391961737711697

Satisfied now?
Higher RAII and the seven arcane uses of linear types
AirPods have way more features than you think
A land of contrasts, etc.
And?

You're replying to a comment that points out Gemini Ultra was never released, wasn't mentioned today, and it's the only model Google's benchmarking at GPT-4 level. They didn't say anything about feelings or context window.
Change for whom?

Is that optimism shared by the foreign workers?
> The platform owners could so a lot to ease this burden, but everyone wants their own little fiefdom.

The thing is that most people use one platform. So the owners try to present one consistent view on how to use that platform. Trying to provide a common paradigm across platform is the goal of companies that love their brands too much. But as a user, I just want for everything to function similarly so I don't have to read a manual for each app. I've done Android dev and dabbled in iOS, but now I'd only recommend React Native if what you want can be a web app, but you want the extra UI performance and some native features. If you want something more complex or consistent, go native.
> Researchers tested two authenticated locks of Beethoven’s hair. One had 380 micrograms of lead per gram of hair, while the other had 258 micrograms. For reference, a normal level of lead in a gram of hair is around 4 micrograms or less. His hair also had 13 times the normal level of arsenic, and four times the normal level of mercury.
MariaDB: Towards a Healthy Ecosystem
> Tastes and looks like beer

I have tried almost every major non-alcoholic beer in the U.S., and none of them truly taste exactly like beer.
...and enter your email into the form again despite being logged into a Google account.
> Individual particles have half-lives, they can be each measured to decay.

Just like how individual people have memory, and their ability to recall things can be measured.

> Their having this property follows from QM, it doesnt not follow from population statistics.

Nope. It's entirely impossible to determine the half life of a substance by observing a single particle, nor can the value be derived mathematically from QM or any other theory. The time it will take for a single particle to decay is random and unpredictable, and the half life can only be determined by looking at population statistics.

Even still, the half life is a real physical property, and it does tell us the percent likelihood for a single particle to decay over a given span of time. And if we (for example) wanted to design an experiment or a mechanism, and we were dealing with an unstable substance, we absolutely could use the half life of that substance to decide the optimal parameters of that experiment (e.g. we can use the half life to assume that a certain approximate amount of radiation will be emitted from the substance over a given period of time).

So I really don't see what is so strange or pseudoscientific about saying that, if we know experimentally that people tend to remember things better under certain conditions, then let's apply those conditions in a classroom in an attempt to have the students retain more information. Your argument is basically that particles are simple and people are not. But that's both irrelevant and subjective.
Interesting question!

From this article[0] it seems ~60% of the calories in lager come from the alcohol - presumably ~40% come from carbohydrates. And from Google, acetic acid is 349 kcal / 100g, versus pure ethanol at 700 kcal / 100g. So if this approach converted 100% of alcohol to acetic acid, you'd drop the calories from lager by ~30% overall. To your question, dry wine or lower-carb beer would be proportionally even better.

The flip-side of this is perhaps consumption of too much acetic acid! It's impossible to calculate potential toxicity without understanding the strength of the acetic acid generated, though.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331119759_Nutrition...
There was a small thread here:

Muse Retrospective · Adam Wiggins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408507 - Feb 2024 (10 comments)

(but it never made the front page, so I've spawned a fresh copy)
> Isn't this a success of the commons?

I've not heard that term before and can't find it, but I think I know what you mean. If it seems like I've gotten it wrong, then please let me know :-) Thanks that is a very interesting question. To some extent it may depend on perspective.

I don't think so, because this isn't the commons doing anything, it's just a dictator with all the power forcing people to make the right choices. At least in the case of government enforcement, there's (ostensibly at least) some rights you have and limits/restraints on the government, including democracy which keeps it in check against abuse.

When it's a private corporation like Apple or Amazon just making these decisions, you have little to no recourse (except maybe switch brands, but there aren't many viable options out there for most of these devices. It's not reasonable to point most people to the Pine Phone for example).

To be the opposite of Tragedy of the Commons, I would think it would need to be people self-organizing or self-regulating to prevent the tragedy. If a powerful overlord forces it, I think it's something else.
E-ink devices have improved a lot over the last 10 years, across the board: refresh rate, latency, computing power, responsiveness, you name it.
I think we should all take a pause and just appreciate the amazing work Google, OpenAI, MS and many others including those in academia have done. We do not know if Google or OpenAI or someone else is going to win the race but unlike many other races, this one makes the entire humanity move faster. Keep the negativity aside and appreciate the sweat and nights people have poured into making such things happen. Majority of these people are pretty ordinary folks working for a salary so they can spend their time with their families.
Especially those reading the classic sci-fi novel 'Don't create the Torment Nexus'.
It sounds like they're doing the "we're an engineer-led company" thing of just releasing their products with the codenames instead of coming up with a marketing name for them.
> you're underselling the accomplishment of determining some of these things, particularly predicting eclipses

If you keep records over the decades, you can predict it. It's just a pattern, not an understanding. It wasn't until the last century, however, that the application of math to the precise orbits was able to predict the track of an eclipse very accurately.
I can't keep up. Is "doxxing" bad today, or not?
I mean, did anyone survive those times?
Last time I went to NW I got myself a Google 8 Pro, really nice camera. Cannot stop it from asking me to activate the backup for my pictures and videos. I dismiss it today, it will ask me again next week.

I wonder WHY Google wants all my pictures and videos on their servers...
Socialism is interpreted differently depending who and where you ask. Do you mean social democracy? Like, for example, Germany.
Usually, you would see the sign of this in the data - because we can actually detect the gap between the planet and eventual rings. But if the gap is extremely small, then it could be a possibility.
Sometimes our capacity for metacognitive reason is in conflict with our capacity for selfconscious motivation. I feel you. Still, I encourage you to persevere where able. Imagine a world where DnD-style fantasy magic appeared over night, and your friend refused to learn it because the looming threats to their occupational identity made them sad... I think you'd try to appeal to their reason, in the long term!
And their bottleneck is what? Data transfer. State is gigantic and needs to be frequently synchronized. That's why it can only work with sophisticated, ultra high bandwidth, specialized interconnects. They employ some tricks here and there but they don't scale that well, ie. with MoE you get factor of 8 scaling and it comes at a cost of lower overall number of parameters. They of course do parallelism as much as they can at model/data/pipeline levels but it's a struggle in a setting of fastest interconnects there are on the planet. Those techniques don't transfer onto networks normal people are using, using "distrubuted" phrase to describe both is conflating those two settings with dramatically different properties. It's a bit like saying that you could make L1 or L2 cpu cache bigger by connecting multiple cpus with network cable. It doesn't work like that.

You can't scale averaging parallel runs much. You need to munch through evolutions/iterations fast.

You can't ie. start with random state, schedule parallel training averaging it all out and expect that you end up with well trained network in one step.

Every next step invalidates input state for everything and the state is gigantic.

It's dominated by huge transfers at high frequency.

You can't for example have 2x gpus connected with network cable and expect speedup. You need to put them on the same motherboard to have any gains.

SETI for example is unlike that - it can be easily distributed - partial readonly snapshot, intense computation, thin result submission.
original source with more discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40357271
We come to the inevitable problem, the problem that has been obvious to everyone from day one. If you cut out the content creators, what feeds the AI? Where does it get its information from?