skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IMO this was never about masking. This was about a minority of cluster-B types having a public meltdown at the ideologically intolerable fact that collective responsibility is a real thing.

Whoa there...you skipped a big step. "Collective responsibility" requires that the thing you're all doing is shown to be responsible. If the thing doesn't have any effect, then you're just engaged in theater. Or worse, maybe the thing has negative consequences. Because that's certainly possible, and not something you can just hand-wave away.

You don't get to skip the test of effectiveness, blindly assume that whatever you're mandating is automatically good, and dismiss anyone who dares to question your assumptions as "irresponsible".

Instead of just running the damned experiments, it's tribal warfare and insults, and clinging desperately to crappy data.

> And unless you're seriously going to try to argue that dentists and surgeons have been wasting their time and money on PPE for all this time, the effects are clear.

Huge conceptual leap from "dentists and surgeons wearing fitted, fresh PPE in a sterile environment" to "people on the street wearing unwashed cloth rags" (aka "a bit of cloth on your face"), so I'd probably start there.
How could they discontinue this product due to low demand when it was released to market in February 2022 and discontinued in July 2022? It wasn't on shelves long enough to assess demand.
Yes. My reading is they are printing wires, and the sensor bit is science fiction. Maybe the actual sensors are external, picking up deformation or position of the printed gunk?
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You kid, but there's this drink, Soylent Green. They actually sell it!
Might make some more progress on my VisionOS app! Was a little disappointed by the API restrictions and so I took a break for a while.
Most of those here didn't wear a mask. When the local mandate to wear them was imposed that just pissed people off here and I got scowled at when wearing them but I refused to react to it and that's as far as it ever went.

I never reacted any different at all to those who were not wearing them. I understood early on wearing those masks were not for my protection and I really did not want to infect anyone.

The N95 masks were a way to protect myself and others at the same time so I kept up with when they'd become available and got them as soon as I could, and made a point to use them, and we gave quite a few to others. My wife brought them to where she works and handed them out. They'd been wearing cloth masks there up until then.

You're spot on about the division. Like I said, I took a lot of guff early on for wearing a mask here. Honestly, I think no small reason that stopped happening here is because so many got infected here and after dealing with it themselves they settled down on shitting on those wearing masks or getting vaxxed.

I see a few people wearing a mask when I go to the big box stores in town now and no one pays any attention to it.
I got textures I worked on for a temporarily paused project that I was working on just as a hobby trying to put the game Strife in UE5. https://github.com/navjack/strife-rtx-pbr-textures I handmade a ton of height maps or displacement maps for the textures and they might work really good with this.
I think we need to find another way or some kind of middle solution.

Like in the situation where everyone knows this person did crime X or Y (for example lets say murdered several children) we can just immediately execute them via hanging or firing squad (quickly) instead of letting them sit in prison for a decade+ while we "wait" on their lethal injection nonsense to go down.

The tricky part is having a fool proof system where we only execute people where the evidence is 100% and then perhaps multiple independent review panels also agree all evidence points to yeah they did it or the criminal themselves admits to the crimes.

Some kind of system where everyone executed has been universally agreed upon as guilty.

A sentence of death should be swift, agreed upon by all, and not a criminal spending decades in prison wasting tax payers money.
I never traded consistently and successfully but I did do a startup with a seasoned quant trader with the ambition of using bigger models to generate novel alpha. We mopped the floor with the academics who publish but that is whiffle ball compared to a real prop outfit that lasts.

Not having made it big myself I obviously don’t know the meta these days, but last I had any inside baseball, the non-stationarity and friction just kill you on trying to get fancy as opposed to just nailing it on the fundamentals.

Extreme execution quality is a game, people make money in both traditional liquidity provision and agency execution by being fast as hell and managing risk well.

Individual signals that are individually somewhat mundane but composed well via straightforward linear-ish regressions is a game: people get (ever decaying) alpha out of bright ideas (and rotate new signals in).

And I’m sure that LLMs have started playing a role, there’s a legitimate capability increase in spite of the dubious production-worthiness.

But as a blind wager, I bet prop trading is about what it was 5 years ago on better gear: elite execution (no pun intended) on known-good ways to generate alpha.
Oh ho!
Chinese technically does not have grammar tenses, but it has aspects indicated by particles. They mark the completion status, direction, presence, and so on.

However, the verbs themselves don't have tense. So these sentences can be identical: "I will walk home, then I will eat a cake" and "I walked home, then I ate a cake".

The overall timeframe can be given by a larger context: "Once my shift is over, I ..." / "I drank too much yesterday, that's all I remember: ".

It's simply not possible in English because every verb has a grammar tense built into it.
The Windows mechanisms you're mentioning were also added over the course of many, many years. Much of Windows also happened a long time after UNIX signals were invented.

If you're including all that other stuff, it's probably fair to include all of the subsequent development of notification mechanisms on the UNIX side of the fence as well; e.g., poll(2), various SVR4 IPC primitives, event ports in illumos, kqueue in FreeBSD, epoll and eventually io_uring in Linux.
> Understand the problem space, understand the solution space, and try to find a fit, don't just grab your favorite hammer and start whacking away.

People who understand the problem space will eventually notice that kubernetes isn't a hammer but whole toolbox. So you can reach for it when you need a hammer, a different hammer, or a screwdriver, or when you're not sure what you need, or when you're 90% sure what you need but also willing to admit you might be wrong.

Not a universal panacea, but if we're going to get into this "right tool for the job" discussion, it's a complete misunderstanding to characterize it as a single tool.
Google Search's "udm=14" trick lets you kill AI search
LMG (Linus Tech Tips's company) releases outcome of third party investigation
There is legislation against this in many places. I don't know if this product was offered for sale in New Zealand but if it was Spotify is in violation of the Consumer Guarantees Act and must issue a refund to all customers who request one.
Some additional information from WSJ. But ... there's not much out there that I could find in terms of support for retirement or people retiring in the States. =/

Here’s What Retirement Looks Like in America in Six Charts

https://www.wsj.com/articles/retirement-charts-social-securi...

and:

https://archive.ph/U5VjN
ADHD trends towards the extremes.

A hyper-fixation session feels closer to how people describe addiction than I’d like to admit.

When unmedicated, I can easily find myself diving down the rabbit hole for 12-14 hours straight, working on interesting but unimportant tasks.

You forget about any concept of time. You feel hunger but can’t pull yourself away to eat lunch or dinner. Daily goals are forgotten. You only stop when your body literally forces you.
I'm 467533, managed to remember my password -- haven't used ICQ in >20 years. I'll pop online periodically from now until the shut down. Say hi!
> You also have to remember that Tesla doesn't advertise.

It's funny how persistent this myth is. Tesla has always advertised.

Here's an ad from almost 5 years ago. Tesla's YouTube channel is nothing but ads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfMtONBK8dY

Tesla ads to benefit Twitter:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/elon-m...

https://electrek.co/2024/02/06/tesla-controversially-adverti...

Tesla's advertising to try to convince shareholders to approve Musk's pay package:

https://electrek.co/2024/05/13/tesla-spends-ad-money-influen...

It's a shame that Tesla has a tendency to lie in its ads, especially about things as trivial as quarter mile times where there's simply no need to lie. But Tesla went ahead and lied about it:

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE
I find Spotify's library system deeply lacking. The only update I have seen is they changed like/dislike songs to 'hearting' songs - and they removed the default view from 'Custom Order' playlists to 'Recently Listened.'

I want control over how my library is organized and made accessible to me. Any basic library system would allow me to tag music and create ways of organizing music in a way that works for me.

For example, I can't view a catalogue of my downloaded songs - only albums and playlists.

What if I could explore music by entering a mode to listen to music as if I were at the time I was in college, considering what I was listening to then?

What if I want to listen to the music I've listened to the most- view the stats of what I listen to, like last.fm's scrobbling?

Why hasn't there been a music video made available in Spotify?

Why isn't there a way for Artists to interact with fans in a meaningful way beyond promotions? Why is there still a barrier to entry for Artists to make their music accessible to an audience- they still have to go through an costly, label-esque intermediary. Why haven't they attracted the DIY scene of bandcamp and built better goodwill?

Further, Spotify's playlist/song centric model promotes only listening to a small number of songs from a large number of artists. I wish they invested in allowing for listeners to discover music in different modalities- like enabling someone who wants to seek out and listen to a whole new album.

A common take, but their recommendations are tired and often just songs I already listen to. Why must their recommendation also be kept behind small sample sizes like the 'Discover Weekly?' Why can't I query/paginate through recommendations- such as viewing artists I might like if I like these sets of artists?

My really only options for discovery are finding music on a lucky chance on a radio- or actively clicking through "Related Artists." - or more likely, not on Spotify.

Further, I cannot get Spotify to understand that I have multiple listening profiles. I sometimes want to listen to jazz or post-rock for background music. In terms of music discovery- I want to find more in my preferred genres, and not have lofi-hip-hop interrupt my listening session. This has never been possible.

They used to support native app integrations- the only way you could use a music visualizer- not anymore.

New features I can think of- there's been the recent DJ- which is a worse version than an app that predated it, Radiant- which is more creative and does a better job at blending AI by taking the form of a robotic person who can provide weather updates.

To then hear that they are investing on building B2B software with commercializing Backstage is concerning. It further hurts their ethos to learn that they are pushing 'Ghost' artists to avoid paying royalties to deserving artists.
This was the first explanation that I immediately memorised. Thank you for sharing. I got quite a few right, but as I experimented I failed on February 7th 2032. My math was:

Years since 2012 is 20
Leap years is 20/4 = 5
Magic month number = 4
Date is 7
(20 + 5 + 4 + 7) % 7 = 1

So I was expecting Sunday, but the answer is Saturday. After some thought I realised: 2032 is a leap year and the chosen date is before February 29th. In those cases (on or before that day), it is necessary to subtract 1.
I was this kid. Pain just didn’t really phase me. Or, at least didn’t override my sense of play.
Take a look at System.Memory; it’s quite possible you don’t need to leave C# to do what you need with memory.
I'd say all RISC CPUs were designed with the intention to run C very efficiently. However virtually all other designers didn't come to the conclusion that register windows were a good idea.

Patterson has said they only did that on RISC-I and RISC-II because Berkeley didn't have as good compiler technology as the MIPS guys at Stanford, and once you have a compiler with good register allocation the now standard Argument / Saved / Temp register split as an ABI convention is better.
Major robotaxi firms face federal safety investigations after crashes
Good thing I only aspire to floss regularly, since we primarily use Glide.
> A claim made by socialist 200 years ago and yet it hasn't actually happened.

It kinda did. Large stagnant industries tend to collapse into monopolies. However, this was masked either by new more nimble companies pushing out the incumbents by utilizing newer technologies, or by industries fading away entirely.
I don't know if that was as asinine, all-pervasive and exhausting as the AI one. Altman bought millions of dollars of video game cards to make a website that can invent sentences by parsing hundreds of years of human work to guesstimate what passes for expected, and now each time I go to a meeting like "Algo trading, onboarding client X" in my company just yday, a frigging asshole always asks: "And AI, have you thought of AI to trade algorithmically". And the head of algo, a PhD in mathematics, C++ developer, actual money maker, sigh one more time "yes, we're studying what it can do ofc, since it's the future of everything".

The asshole asking that question is always the same: optimal level of incompetence, insecure about his position, aggressive with anyone "resisting change" when we try to save him from himself, and gone within 2 years. Sigh, the time we lose, and as I grow older and navigate those hypes, I feel half of humanity is some sort of social scamming parasite. I just am too shy to try and be one myself.
How do those people feel about wearing pants at the point of a gun?
I assume they may be referring to freenets that was an early method of accessing the internet for free, not requiring AOL or some other service for access.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-net

ex. https://naples.net/
Tons of options, some more "lock-in" than others. But the stuff you're talking about in general is really not that much lock-in.

For secrets, I personally use Github for that and you can add them in as a build step. Google also offers this: https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/configuring/secrets

For logging, I just use Google's logging layer. If I was to migrate somewhere else, I'd just use that logging layer.

For releases, I just used github releases as part of my build step. But google also has the concept of releases... https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/deploy

and on and on...

None of these are major lock-in problems though... any other PaaS platform you want to go to will need those sorts of things too.
ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down
For regulatory reasons, the slicer.org team found out after the software was written... that it was illegal to deploy in a medical context within the US.

The reason was you can't legally use software with patchwork origins and licenses to cobble together something where the authors are not able to be found/held liable for damages if they accidentally injure someone.

If the data is not being used in _any_ way for patients diagnostics/e-record roles, than your team might get away with just clearing HIPAA rules in the US (not sure how each state would handle that exception.)

You have been warned about the historical rules, but if something changed since I was last in that Circus... than I hope the project does well.

It is always wise to talk with a local legal specialist to clear up current rules. I'd wager people had a billion reason$ to keep things as they were... =)
Seems like I used to be able to do stuff like this from a bash shell under cygwin, but I haven't really used Windows since the XP era.
It was a good era where when ICQ added too many ads and features to the 99a client, I was able to switch to an alternatives like Miranda IM and they didn't make any attempts to block the alternate clients.
I love this idea. I was just coaching a founder today about the stale, rigid structure of their cold outbound and how they need something personal/targeted that's not an obvious callout from their LI profile.

Just confirming: would this allow me to use recent financial/company news as an opener or am I limited by OpenAI's data age?
Lots of ML, fintech, and some biotech. It is also worth to keep Krakow and Wroclaw in mind.
Interesting. I always wonder why vets don't just jump ship and start their own clinics.
The law firm should release their interviews and notes and recordings so we can verify the findings.
Meh, when I boycott a place I just revoke my money and/or review the place accurately, but I don't posture about it. When I get bad food at a restaurant, I might mention it if it's really rough and ask for something different, but I'm not going to berate the server or kitchen staff; unimaginable. People have enough shit to deal with, like fearing impending layoffs and the likelihood that because the product didn't bring in enough money, they'll be out of a job for god knows how long if they don't turn things around.

I have personal grievances with my iPad, but I'm not about to say "If anyone at Apple is listening, I hope you do worse financially".

I presume they were a bit upset and chose overly broad language, it's not a big deal either way, I don't believe they truly wanted harm on anyone, it just seemed like a silly tone to choose.
Well, that and Tesla in China sources a large amount of their metals from Russia...
An alternative view based on Energy returns on Energy invested-

1. Most agriculture pumps orders of magnitude more Energy into the farm to make fewer calories of food. Petroleum becoming food is indeed useful as it is fungible for human consumption.

2. As soil productivity is dropping around the globe given pesticides and fertilizer usage, the EROI is dropping.

3. The future of farming, few believe is in making more from less as the hidden subsidies disappear.

---

apcnf.in is one of the world's largest natural farming transitions with a few bits of contrarian genius that could be highlighted here:

1. Rather than dumping a lot of nitrogen into field they innoculate it with a microbial power few months before the rain. This 'pre monsoon dry sowing' uses many times less fertilizer and uses time and daily breathing cycles of earth for a few months to spiral in microbes. Look up ghana jeevamruta on youtube for details.

2. They use foliar sprays which urges plant leaves to develop filament like needles on leaves turning them hygroscopic. There is much more water in the air than in rivers + freshwater bodies on every continent.

3. They try to trigger mineral - fungus - bacteria - root rhizosphere - plant synergies rather than pumping nutrition by brute force. These small spirals become larger and larger and are highly highly multithreaded natural algorithms.

4. Science has recently discovered that seeds contain millions of microbes. They coat the seeds with beneficial coating as seed balls and plant them few months before the rains. The day and night cycles of breathing in and out, with rythmic background of dryness and wetness urges them to grow. They also auto deploy at the right time, vs being artificially timed by irrigation.

5. They work on fundamentals of plant immunity which leads to wild grass like resistance and endurance in plants without artificial irrigation. These plants are also pest resistant and the produce has lower perishability in tune of weeks.

6. They discovered that good fungus extends and grows into the plant body like rails that carry microbes. The microbial 'water' is coated with thick cell walls and doesn't dry as easily as irrigation water.

7. They keep the field under 365 day green cover via 5 layers of plants. This might not be equally possible in all bioregions but helps protect the soil from blazing heat.

These are just some of the points I noticed in their attempts to lower the net input cost at farming. Most developed economies do not have to think of this today given financial, logostic and govt subsidies but as inflation grows and supply chains become fragile, I feel this way of thinking has a lot of merit for those trying to make things work under sustenance economics.
Yep. If the client gives up its full list of currently cached intermediate certificates it certainly reveals information about its connection history. Clients would probably need to use per-site certificate caching.

But in general your point about fingerprinting is well made. The more negotiation that happens between the client and server, the more data that is available for client fingerprinting and tracking from the server side.
And that's how the justice system breaks down. Prosecutors who pursue a matter with zeal because they can, not because they should. The outward sign of this most often is an emphasis on irrelevant but prejudicial talking points, such as the accused researching lawyers to represent them, or flying a private plane to the Super Bowl to participate in bawdy activities. It starts there and ends with an unjust execution because the police didn't like the way the accused looked at them.
> I think if you say the words “my cat” to me when I am on my deathbed I will immediately hum three notes.

The song is currently ruining my life in a very different sense: I keep listening to the song over and over to try to guess which three notes you're talking about, but I can't for the life of me figure it out. Mind clearing that up for me?

(Personally, I definitely see how the song could be perceived as infectiously catchy, but it doesn't seem to do it for me. I think the structure and rhythm are a little too irregular for it to get stuck in my head.)
End of day Friday disclosure before a long holiday weekend; well timed.
Why don’t you want another CTO type job?
Big ongoing discussion [0] (778 points, 9 hours ago, 520 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467625
What’s unsafe about an AI having a voice? Is it due to someone being duped into thinking the voice is a person’s?
You'd be wrong. On multiple accounts - people can't "fake" clinical trial results like this to sell medication.

And there is global shortage right now.
I believe that's the book I still have on my shelf. IIRC "UNIX Network Programming" and I learned a lot about networking and a lot about how UNIX works reading it cover to cover. I think I learned more from that book than any other.

Mr Stevens replied to something I wrote back in the day. I can't recall if it was a Usenet post or email, but I was over the moon!
> if you came in there every single day with meth spots asking for the "bomb making book", that book would be taken out of circulation

Do libraries commonly remove books from their collection because unsavoury people are reading them too much?

There must be millions of libraries in the world, so I’m sure that kind of thing must have happened at some point - but I’ve never heard of it happening before, which makes me doubt it is common.

The libraries most likely to contain “bomb making tutorials” are academic research libraries, national libraries, etc - and those are the kind of libraries least likely to remove items due to these kinds of concerns.