skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The corrupt government officers then start using the AIs to try to cover up the evidence of their crimes in the financial statements.

There's a difference between an AI being able to answer questions and it helping cover up evidence, unless you mean "using the AIs for advice on how to cover up evidence"
> no one eats mcdonalds 3 times a day

Wasn't there a guy claiming to eat only Big Macs in the documentary?
The fans literally never come on for my personal M2 MBP 14" or on my work 16" M1 (it helps that the heavy lifting of running stuff and compiling happens on a dev server)

During work from home during Covid I was still using an Intel MBP and video conferences invariably caused the fans to kick up to the point where using noise cancelling headphones and not the built in speakers was necessary for sanity.
>I'm sat there until I either realise that it's a scam or I give up

Well, there are ways to do this (for an easy example, just edit your hosts file). But the barrier of entry is high enough that a non technical person will give up even if they're completely oblivious.
I think they should treat it like in the UK and use a different measurement like “1 standard drink”, and, probably more importantly, forbid it from being used in marketing. I think if the minimum was 1, and even if a beer has low calories it still counts as 1 drink, it would avoid this issue.
Maybe it uses the camera for gesture recognition so you can air-write each letter one at a time? Air-quotes will be fun... air-tabs, not so much. "Space, but <widens arms> BIGGER!"
This part is relevant to Hacker News:

> A Northern California sheriff accepted bribes to grant gun permits to political donors.

That was Laurie Smith, sheriff of Santa Clara County.
Sorry for being pedantic, but it’s ray “casting” not tracing. It’s similar in some ways but very different in others.
I don't know if it's nostalgia or silliness, but I've at various times reused the ICQ uh-oh audio as irssi hilight/putty audio bell sound, SMS signal and Discord voice channel join sound over the years. Usually I find it entertaining the first two or three times and then it acts as a very large stressor.
The rumored price is enough to make me not worry about those.
Does anyone have insight into why arm CPU vendors seem so hesitant about implementing SVE2? ~They seem~ *Apple seems to have no issue with SSVE2 or SME.

Edit: Only Apple has implemented SSVE and SME I think.
What the hell has happened to google?

Who remembers google doing things like not closing HTML tags as a way of shaving microseconds off of the page render? Just tons and tons and tons of work being done to make google.com load quickly, and provider answers people want.

Google.com as it is today is a slow, bloated, spam filled mess. The closest thing to a use case I have for it at this point is using it like a DNS phone book, or maybe to grep Reddit.

The benefit of providing these answers but keeping them on Reddit or the onion or anything else is that it provides context. If assblaster42069 on Reddit is telling me to glue my cheese to my pizza, it’s telling me something else than if google itself appears to be telling me that.

Why not spin up Gemini as a separate product and see if people want it?
Who said anything about clouding? Often in anger my judgement is clear and precise
>Name a food where you wouldn't gain weight eating it in excess.

You seem to be laser focused on the chemistry and less on the psychology. The point was that yes, some people back then (when fast food was actually cheap) would eat it 3 times a day and not question much. It was only filling enough for a couple of hours but highly calorie dense (mostly friends and soda, though). Much easier to lose track of that then most other foods.

If we could scientifically convince people not to overeat, there wouldn't be an obesity epidemic in the US.

Lasty, consider the audience. I watched this in 4th and 6th grade. What's obvious to you c. 2024 wasn't obvious to 11 yo me, especially not in anticipation of a lifestyle where I drive everywhere instead of being subjected to 1 hr of PE a day

>McDonald's even gave an official PR response and basically the gist was "we actually agree with the movie, you should not be eating our food like that."

And people continued to. The shuffled some stuff around as PR, but the calorie density remained the same. Coke gives too much profit margins to cut but is the biggest problem. Salads were still covered in sugar and salt so they were not in fact better than burgers. Super size was cut, but large sizes increased to 80% of supersize.

So yeah, as you said. Any food in excess gains weight. The portions and ingredients continued to be excess.
Preschool’s probably hopeless, but I happened to get to see a somewhat-nice (doctors and fancy lawyers send their kids there) local private elementary and a bunch of local public elementaries handle Covid.

The public schools re-opened later and had terrible transmission rates the whole first year. Kids and teachers were sick constantly. Masking was nominally mandated but compliance in all grades was terrible, mostly due to attitudes from and modeling at home (i.e. their parents were chin-maskers who complained about masking a ton at home in front of their kids) and then social effects of having quite a few like that, causing even more to mask poorly. Kids routinely came to school with fevers and got everyone sick with what always seemed to turn out to be yet more goddamn covid.

The private school opened sooner, but had very-good air purifiers in every room that ran whenever possible (too loud when class actively working) and practically perfect masking. Kids didn’t come to school sick. Despite re-opening sooner, they did a ton better. Any extra costs were more than made up by not having to pay for as many substitute days. Even first graders and kindergarteners masked decently well—because their parents did, and didn’t complain constantly about masking and talk about how it’s pointless and watch media complaining about masking in front of their kids. The parents’ attitudes made most of the difference as far as masking goes.
Are people supposed to be outraged that that is too little or too much money?

That's still cheaper than sending them to prison!
Great article. Great nostalgia. I wonder, do you still enjoy playing the games, now that you have thoroughly reverse engineered them? Also, what other insights have you gleaned? Also, have you read Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings, by Ken Williams?

https://kensbook.com/
>> we're not ruling out the possibility of some sort of opt-in feature that might be useful in Zulip Cloud.

Zulip's weasel wording indicates they are nerfing a great (maybe their best) opportunity to stand out from the herd.

How about this for a mind-blowing concept (/s) ... If a web-public channel wants to add some sort of useful feature based on a technology trained on their data then let the owners/administrators of that channel flip that switch on. Zulip should have no involvement in that decision, period.
Isn't this public information anyway? Does it include sealed cases?
The US Justice system is built on precedent. Once precedent is set in a case the science is settled as far as future court rulings. The two systems don't interface together very well.
That's exactly what we're doing with our Fasten Health PHR[0] & with our Fasten Connect[1] product. The biggest issue is that there are 250,000 registered health systems in the US. That's a massive long-tail to support and integrate with (we only support 30,000 at the moment). It requires a ton of time and effort, and at the end the Patient experience is still... mediocre. Patients need to search for each health system, then login to their individual patient portals -- it's pretty high friction. And thats even before you discuss all the barriers that EHRs put up to make it difficult for app developers to register and get production access to EHR systems.

- [0] https://www.fastenhealth.com/
- [1] https://www.fastenhealth.com/connect/
What about jet building videos! :)
There is very simple reason for this: "ski" it the most common suffix of Polish surnames, of which the most popular is Kowalski. There are a lot of people out there either Polish or with Polish origins.

Author of https://ciechanow.ski – the site we all love here – is Polish programmer working for Apple.
I have been seeing these AI summaries in my SERPs for many months now. I am surprised that with so much testing they are still pretty unreliable. They used to include code snippets that almost universally didn't work properly.

Google, it only takes one or two blunders for people to stop trusting your AI. Why risk it by releasing a half-baked product?
Thanks for this, very insightful. I'd love to hear from sumitkumar as to why they think it's good to express anger, as well as any sources that they have.
I think the deliberate enjoyment of those things is absolutely something to value, and maybe coloration only has a small role in incentivized passive scrolling through media, but I think it's a hell of a lot better to not shit where you eat. If you want to play games, use your game playing thing, don't put yourself in a position where game playing or YouTube is easily capable of competing with other material that's also valuable but not nearly as stimulating or chance oriented.

I think it's pretty common for people to spend hours a day on their phone doing absolutely nothing of true substance, because activities of substance require intention.
That's a solved problem with precision guided, self-steering tractors. They also remember where they planted crops so they won't roll over plants later.

There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in agtech, most of it is practical, too. But yeah, guidance add-ons to a farmer's existing equipment has a pretty good return on investment for the farmer.
It says right there: "The regular expression does not cope with comments in email addresses. ... The Perl module pre-processes email addresses to remove comments before applying the mail regular expression."
The Man Who Killed Google Search: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Definitely opinionated but worth the read.
NYC Council tweaks Mayor Adams' City of Yes business-zoning plan ahead of vote
I was so proud of my meticulously tagged mp3 collection, and even took the time to add album art to everything. I always wanted mp3s tagged with the original album they came from, even if they were from a greatest hits CD or something. (Looking back, this wasn't quite the right mindset, as sometimes the versions on a greatest hits CD or similar will be slightly different than the "real" album version, but it was my collection!)
I worked in an automotive plant opened in 1954. (I worked there from 200x to 201x). I was specifically told that the support columns were set a certain distance apart from each other in case it needed to be re-tooled for wing production, and that was a condition of the financing or deal or something with the govt.

Any of that could be a misunderstanding or an urban legend though.
> Maybe we should just give all such prisoners access to a seppuku knife once a year.

Honestly, I don't understand the desire to make the death additionally torturous. If we must kill, just give people a gram of fentanyl. They'll enjoy the last few moments of their life, a grace that's traditionally afforded in the form of a last meal, and simply forget to breathe.
I think your experience reflects high expectations that these CS students will be academics first and foremost. Also, if you have a big brand degree, you get away with knowing less. The expectation that you will learn on the job is higher among people that care about such things.

If you go to a lower-ranked school, it is full of working-class students who need to hit the ground running. So there is less abstract stuff and more practical stuff IMO. I've never been to a top school but I can tell you my program at a bargain state school was excellent and practical. It had theory as well but the university consulted industry people often to get feedback on the program.
Too late to choose now, both are needed under emergency conditions.
Combining React Server Components with react-query for Easy Data Management
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I have a 7 digit number but I remember it still after all these years lol Was able to login still.
I highly doubt that anybody is going to have a hard time sleeping for many nights because of the news of ICQ shutting down.
https://archive.is/NDvnE
Apparently this could be reduced to a VBScript: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/112494759440985111
Using OpenStreetMap data to map stuff the balloon flew near: https://youtu.be/sQ_sEWodIrc?si=LUfvRR4kvlqQyrZ1&t=16
Where I am I don't have to care about that, it seems.
The (for me) most interesting thing is: why the fuck has no one managed to reverse engineer AirDrop and AirPlay yet, in a way that's mass market compatible?

Like, there is OpenDrop but that is dead since five years [1], it was a code dump by some researchers, and there are no client implementations to interact with Apple servers for getting keys, or with registering Find My devices...

[1] https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop
the fact that there is no trivial way to transfer files between any two devices in the same room is one of the most pathetic failures of the tech industry

2024 and people still email themselves files
>> I can't imagine many things worse than being famous

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."

-- Bill Murray
three words: normalization of deviance
I wonder anyone has a suggestion for a book on the NACA -> NASA change era
Because California probably has lots of immigrants from other US states too, and they should be counted too to make the numbers comparable.
Anyways: one such report, about the conference, is via MEMRI. MEMRI is itself not really all that trustworthy! I would steer away from any analytical results! But this piece is largely direct quotes. Maybe they're fabricating them. Seems a little unlikely, though?

https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-sponsored-promise-hereaf...

Notably, a bunch of more mainstream sources corroborated this report (just Google for the name of the conference). I think it's very likely to be legitimate.
That scene at the end, where they land in the car park of the "Redwood" building in Oakhurst where the Sierra offices were, was one of my favourite parts. Like many of you I'm sure, I dreamed of one day working for Sierra in that building.
I've been using godot with chatgpt as a side project to see how much I can coax a game out of it, with minimal effort. Its a manual form of systems like this but definitely shows how generative tools enable independent devs or small teams to tighten their dev loops and rapid prototype ideas.

When you can rapid prototype ideas in a game search space, its more likely to get a high quality output, or at least games that hone in on fun more effectively than a AAA made with a waterfall model and a huge team with poor crosstalk abilitiy.
I agree it's a hard question. The USA could vote out the death penalty at any time, it's not baked into the constitution. But the USA doesn't, so we have to accept the democratic judgment.

I do think it's literally impossible to have a death penalty without killing innocents. If you look at the stream of criminal convictions that get reversed by appellate courts on a daily basis, combined with all the exonerations handed down to deathrow defendants, it is clear a guarantee of guilt is impossible.

And bear in mind, that reversal of a conviction is usually only possible if there was a trial. Those who enter guilty pleas are often exempt. And 90%+ of defendants enter guilty pleas for a host of reasons. I think Trump's NY judge even commented recently that Cohen entry of a guilty plea wasn't evidence of his guilt (i.e. you might plead guilty and be innocent).

Having spent a lot of time in the justice system, it's clear criminal trial courts don't have the resources to ensure fair verdicts regularly, and don't have high-quality staff to run them.
There seems to be a big farmer preference for buying such technology in the form of tractor attachments. Several companies have built lightweight ag robots that slowly cruise fields and zap weeds. They can be lightweight since they don't have to spray that much volume, so tanks are small. Those things aren't selling. What's selling are attachments that hook onto the back of a tractor far too big for the job. But if you need this kind of thing, you probably have a hulking huge tractor anyway. And the big ones have air conditioning.
> The student syndrome is a form of procrastination, because it involves unnecessary delay, which is often unintentional, and which can be expected to cause negative outcomes for those who display it.

I'm not convinced it can be expected to cause negative outcomes. It certainly can cause negative outcomes, but I wouldn't say that's my default expectation. I've exhibited the tendency to procrastinate until a deadline looms my entire life. I'm here on HN, doing it right now. But I've never missed that deadline, and would immodestly say the results have always been pretty acceptable to excellent in every case I can recall. I'd rather treat it as a way of approaching prioritization—worthy of study, but not to be treated automatically as a problem except on a case-by-case basis.
AI has now automated citogenesis [0]

[0] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/978:_Citogenesis
Resistors can easily be scaled up. The heat storage medium can be easily scaled up. But what about these thermophotovoltaics whatever they are? Can they be cheaply mass produced?
Openstep had as a default 4 hppa, sparc, i386 and m68k - I often built stuff on a HP for production use on Intel and 68000 boxes and I think they also had unreleased m88k as well at the same time so internally might have had five way binaries.
It might mean the Baader–Meinhof effect.
2FA is why I can no longer utilize online banking (which is frustrating).
> Do you remember when the Canadian Health Minister said people should ignore any information that isn't coming directly from the government?

On that environment, with several groups spreading lies everywhere, and with a public health issue that couldn't possibly turn into a political hot topic, that statement made a lot of sense. That is not suppression of scientific speech. (Suppression of scientific speed happened a lot less than popular press manipulation. Still happened, though.)

Personally, I am much more afraid about how people managed to turn covid into a political hot topic.
Genre started out useful. Five or six categories. Classical made sense. Pop made sense.

Now, I have to decide if this is West Coast electro skiffle or its Canadian folk influenced digital beats.

We wind up needing another tag, to do classical/pop/folk in.

Also, players don't agree on artist/composer/orchestra or on movement numbering, you can't even rely on BWV. I've had multiple CD sets split by the amazing variance of back catalogue mining meaning an 11 part cd set of Chopin can match a 9 or 10 part set and a single release cd or two.

The taggers are fine. The information model is a nightmare, matched only by how hard approximation of date is in EXIF
There is also no good study showing that parachutes prevent death when falling from an airplane. The best we have is observational "evidence" where there are many uncontrolled variables, such as people whose parachutes failed (but they may be unlucky or careless in other ways, or incompetent fallers). And then speculative physics models involving rates of acceleration and energy transfer, which can hardly be assumed to carry over to the real world in the absence of a proper large-scale randomized test.
You missed my point - I am agreeing with you that the arguments for or against both end up political, because politics is the reason both are being promoted. Technically both products are equivalent. And both products may also be sharing data with government(s). The right- in the US just hope that Telegram isn't sharing it with the US government. :)
So when a person commits a crime, they can just say: "the initial state of my molecular machine made me do it!" ...?

To me that is exactly the same as saying "the devil made me do it!"

i.e. both things are euphemisms for "I'm not accountable for my actions"; "I'm not at fault"; "It was beyond my control", etc.

And if you truly believe there is no such thing as free will and that everything is predetermined, then you'd have to agree. Hitler can't be held accountable for his choices; his actions were all predetermined and his fate was sealed at the big bang; he just got an unlucky "initial state".
>Pointing to his alcoholism to dismiss the health concerns, which are obviously true, seems very odd to me.

The very doctors talking to Spurlock in the documentary told him that what they saw of his liver should be impossible if he wasn't an alcoholic, thirty days of eating 5000 calories a day or not. It takes a significant amount of time to do that kind of damage to your liver.

Turns out he was an alcoholic.

SuperSize Me wasn't "about" "hey did you know if you eat a lot of fast food, it's bad for you?", the thesis of the production was that thing that America loves to ignore: A company wants you to buy more of their products and services, and will happily sell them and push them to you, no matter how much it hurts you.

"SuperSize me" was about how McDonalds had their cashiers push supersizing at every single purchase, as if it was Gamestop pushing their magazine, despite that empirically not being something the vast majority of purchases SHOULD do, because it's profitable.

Like christ folks, it's the damn title!

The "it made me unhealthy" portion of the movie was basically fraud though, and quickly called out as such. But it wasn't there to "prove" anything, but rather because American Documentaries from the period (and probably still now) view themselves first and foremost as "shock" entertainment, second as spectacle, and only have meaningful content if there's some spare room in the runtime. Documentaries "compete" with action movie schlock in the US
Ultima Online plus ICQ, those were the days
I suppose we browse different parts of the net, but I've never come across that scenario.
A oh!
I use both the Windows and macOS version almost daily (work vs home), and I'm happy to report that the macOS version is just as efficient as the Windows one when dealing with huge directories. I regularly have to deal with thousands of files at a time, and it just zips through them. One of my all-time favorite applications, no doubt.
I would think some sort of mesh beacon network on all flying things to enable auto-avoidance protocols, would be a logical technology solution?
I think it's not actually in the training data. The llm is just using RAG, meaning it gets the top search results for that query and based on that generates a text. Kinda like perplexity but apparently worse then it.