skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, events, async, eventual consistency, decoupling represent a difficult/complex solution for some hard problems encountered when scaling high.

But people often forget there are trade-offs to everything and if you don't have these hard problems, you're giving yourself only headaches.

My pet-peeve is "decoupling" - it's treated as holy with only benefits and no downsides. But it's actually again a level of complexity - unless you need it, tightly coupled code will be easier to write, read, debug etc.
> People still say it's a scam though because their experience when making a claim doesn't play out like they expected.

A friend of mine had her insured bicycle stolen.

It was locked up with an extremely heavy chain and lock, which were rated 'gold' by insurance companies for locking up motorbikes. Her insurance denied the claim, because the chain wasn't gold rated for locking up bicycles.

By all means get insurance - but when their marketing talks about being on your side or providing peace of mind, you gotta realise that weaselling out of paying claims is a big part of their business model.
Even at our point in history, there is at least one watch brand which advertises with the message that this particular toy[0] is one you are merely the custodian of until you bequeath it to your successor[1].

[0] the difference between men and boys is how many people are on the payroll for taking care of their toys.

[1] for patina, rings beat timepieces, but those families aren't exactly a growth market, now are they?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alBm88ZjMrc
There's also the excellent http://astronaut.io, which I found via Hacker News. It automatically plays short segments from YouTube videos with those default filenames, inevitably surfacing a kind of gallery of the mundane: The unproduced, untargeted, mostly unwatched, everyday moments of real life.
Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/retailers-hate-tha...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1nxkDL
Not at all. The brick acts as a commitment device. You don't need willpower when the brick is at home and you are not. Or mail the brick to yourself.
Most of vertebrates (including human's ancestors) lost the 6th sense of electric fields in process of the evolution. Apparently 6 is not always better than 5 from the nature's point of view. Moles went further to loose sight as well.
Their GA branch is now the annual channel, not the semiannual, so the next release would be "on by default in 25H2, impossible to disable in 26H2, not available in 27H2".
Did you try friendica? This is the most facebook like i know.
I don't know how people imagine viagra working - it's not like you take a pill, you continue browsing the internet, reading news, and suddenly, a boner lifts your desk.
Also (Austria) - I live in a shared appartment in Vienna - We cook a lot, consumed about 1800kWh for the year, so 150kWh a month or 5kWh a day. 50kWh a day certainly seems Insane, but then again we have no AC.
>>Having insurance is gambling, but not having insurance is also gambling. This is because life itself is a gamble. We don't know what the future holds and we have the choice to insure or gamble on just about any aspect of our lives.

You could say insurance is an attempt to stop the fortune to gamble against you for a specific case (like flooding your house). You are already the party in a gamble and insurance is a way out.
Worth noting that this issue is not unique to the C++ standard library either. Java is saddled with an overly-general HashMap implementation with awful worst-case performance characteristics as well, and older versions of Rust's HashMap had performance problems as well (though these have mostly been addressed).
I wonder if it would help with the brain fog of long Covid...?
Infamous because USBee was the first to sell overpriced logic analysers based on the FX2 reference devboard, then Saleae did the same (a little less overpriced) but they both complained about all the clones, and tried to "FTDI them" which also caught their own original devices:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/warning-about-usbee/

That Corebai clone is interesting. They apparently also have a CBM9001A which is a clone of the Cypress SL811HS (the datasheet is a search-and-replace, they even forgot to do that to the PDF properties), and almost all their other products are marketed as "Replace" for ICs from big brands like Maxim and Analog Devices. I wonder if these are layout-RE'd clones or reimplementations --- I suspect the latter.
I don't think homeless people should have rights.
You can't procreate, that sounds like a pretty big difference in capacity?
If a person hadn't experienced a debilitating depression it's hard to imagine what another person is experiencing. All those walks in the park and hobbies sound logical and wonderful, on paper. Reality is a bit different.
No but it can reveal all of your accounts if you have more than one.
That was a plot device that didn't make sense to me: they could upload and download a functional copy of their brains (and also human brains), but they didn't keep a backup copy of their old DNA?
I haven't used Rails, but I assume the two are similar. Django is more popular, which probably means more of an ecosystem, but if you need a simple API, either will do.
Life...uhhh....finds a way

- Jurassic Park
If you can't find out yourself then you're probably not motivated enough.
Electric car could be a big chunk of that.
On an unrelated note I’ve been hoping someone would reimplement DirectPlay. There’s a childhood game that barely works on modern Windows as it is, and it has a networking component that allowed for either LAN or public internet play.

The server was never made available and even if it was, I wouldn’t want to host a DirectPlay server from over 20 years ago online.

Caveat is here I would prefer to write the server in C#.

So if there was ever an open source implementation of DirectPlay for emulation/preservation reasons, I’d jump on the opportunity to get the game working again.

Well it’s either that or I try do some reverse engineering of packets with wireshark…
She did not because she tested positive for a diuretic.

> Diuretics affect the way the body metabolizes and excretes beta-2 agonists. If you are on a diuretic medication (or on any other substance in the S5 category of the Prohibited List) for any reason and you are using an inhaler that contains salbutamol (albuterol) or formoterol, then you may need a TUE. Please see the TUE section below.
That's great and all but the lowering of sulfur emissions from ships has recently been blamed for the consistent high temperature records across the globe due to less sun being blocked by those emissions. Be careful what you wish for?

>"Sulphur particles contained in ships’ exhaust fumes have been counteracting some of the warming coming from greenhouse gases. But lowering the sulphur content of marine fuel has weakened the masking effect, effectively giving a boost to warming."

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...
I agree. However, whether all kids should receive gene therapy to develop the echo-location once the science allows for that is a more nuanced question.
> Two of the children even gained an ability to appreciate music.

Interesting: Does this mean that the other 3 children are still kind of indifferent to Music and presumably other kinds of sounds?
To be frank if swapping is a possibe problem in a place with more than two periferals add a label that ties it to a machine.
> What about the deaf people that don’t enjoy their life as it is and do welcome the opportunity to hear?

I would be happy if they had such an opportunity.

The question, once again, was different: should the hereditary deafness be eradicated in childhood by gene therapy once advances of medicine allow that?
Esp. wrt. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24762360 there's a substantial overlap between geek and jock cultures that I believe arises because both have a much more substantial, objective, externally verifiable, component than typical human endeavours.
files.catbox.moe is blocked in russia. You should use litterbox.
What are the benefits of one over the other?
rOpenSci - open tools for open science
Dan Simmons, Hyperion Cantos. “Biosculpting”
For me having kids has been massive personal growth. In some ways having kids is synergistic with many of life’s goals and personal growth. Career, less so, but I can a more capable human for being a parent.
Actual title: The Hidden Life of Google's Secret Weapon

Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-hidden-life-of...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1nM8xa
You're probably confused because we agree: the low-quality stuff doesn't tend to wind up in RSS

(and if it does, it's easy to drop that feed)
Why though? Seems to me that while any website of any size that allows any kind of user generated content (without every post being pre-approved before it goes live) needs protections like what Section 230 is meant to provide, the more users posting, the harder your problems are and the more important those protections are…

I mean, you can make the argument “I don’t like big tech so I want to make it impossible for them to legally function while allowing any user-generated content” but I’m not sure most would agree.
This is great fun--and accurate. My lettuce floated just like the picture I drew when I tested it in the bath.
>there’s no subjective choices to be made during printing and/or scanning

Same could be said about a simple smartphone photo, but they hardly hold the same respect.

I personally get the same feeling, but as hard as I try to define where the "honest analog" ends and the "manipulated uninteresting lies" begins, the more blurry it becomes. At the end of the day, there is no honest representation at all, as many people manipulated the analogue photos as well.
The point is to try and see if LLM's wide general knowledge can have advantage in something like sensory data + action learning as well. Current self driving models don't have that.
Record low birth rates for most of the west

Though perceived views of humanity and overpopulation and the alleged benefits of reduction are the narrative
Renewable energy also helps combating terrorism since oil revenues are financing terrorism in the middle East and Africa
Any unbiased algorithm that uses an unbiased coin to shuffle n > 2 elements must be potentially unbounded.

Proof: there are n! possible permutations. If the algorithm always finishes within k coin tosses then there are 2^k possible outcomes. For n > 2 we have that n! does not divide 2^k, so not all outcomes can be equiprobable.
1 in 100 people (or os) is schizophrenic. It's quite predictable what happens when a schizophrenic person takes psychedelics. I am not saying this is your case here. However, if anything your single case example shows inadequacy in the health- and social care systems and not unpredictability of DMT.
It's been over 10 years that film photography is said to making a comeback... just see the price of development!
Totally. We are extremely fortunate to have these things. That said, I still think even with the unnecessary fluff taken out, if you're heating your hot water with electricity you'll be using a lot of kWh.
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It also seems to cause melanoma, so... Pomergranate/beetroot/garlic seem safer. Arginine/citrulline perhaps as well (all of them increase NO in the blood).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178948/

https://www.drugwatch.com/viagra/melanoma/

"In 2014, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that the use of sildenafil, more commonly known by its brand name Viagra, within 3 months prior to the study’s start increased the likelihood of developing melanoma by as much as 84 percent.'
A futurist I knew of long ago pointed out that the Moon’s gravity is light enough that the human skeleton could achieve sufficient lift without sustaining damage in the process.

True, you might have to be a junior Olympian to do it, but it’s possible.

On earth your pectorals would tear off of your sternum long before you achieved takeoff.
You're doing what the power is encouraging, though?
And here I'd thought « entre la poire et le fromage » ?

(William the first may have preferred calvados, and the current William is unlikely to be based enough to style himself William the last [ending the monarchy in 2066], but I prefer my Williams in a bottle)
> It’s like when a car is driving with 200mph toward a brick wall and you say “I don’t understand why they panic, the car will stop doing that before hitting the wall”.

I disagree, it's more like you're in a tank and have been running over every obstacle in the way, with someone on the side constantly shouting "new next one is going to destroy your tank". It's obviously possible, but considering how little we're already valuing labor and have been in a phase of adding even more entirely pointless jobs because the labor is cheap and available - I honestly do believe that I'd be a very healthy thing for our societies to downsize (numerically) again. At least to pre world war 1 levels.

It's obviously not going to be easy, but this whole system is going to go bust anyway once the millennials get too old to work, immigration at best postpones this issue for a few years while introducing a shitton of new ones to the equation.

There is no perfect solution, but immigration is one of the worst for this particular problem
Yours is definitely the best take in the comments section (especially actually acknowledging the damage getting rid of Section 230 would do to smaller sites).

I agree that I also don’t know what the answer is, but getting rid of Section 230 is definitely not the answer. The answer is in some other kind of regulation, and this push to kill 230 is madness and the people pushing it don’t understand what it would actually do!
> “Objectively,” left-handed versus right-handed changes nothing about a person’s capabilities in the world,

As a leftie, this is only true in the current world — I live in a culture with a left-to-right writing system, and yet technology means I don't ever need to use a fountain or quill pen.

I did have one teacher who insisted on "no biro" when I was a kid, but they were also my first introduction to "not everyone is actually nice".
My question still stands. How could anyone besides OpenAI be confident of there being a limit if no one has managed to even build as strong model so far as OpenAI has? Only Claude Opus seems close, but still weaker at reasoning than GPT-4o. Better at creative writing though.

And only after 1.5 years? And especially of we just had an happy surprise like you mentioned. How does it make sense to already start claiming that we have hit the limits. How do we know there is no more scaling, optimisations and happy surprises?
Economies of scale. Shiny hubcap manufacturers will very generously subsidise the R&D for other, more worthy users of a technology. They aren't competitive or independent, they're synergistic. The billions of dollars we "wasted" on making video games look more realistic gave us a revolution in high-performance computing that nobody could have created intentionally.
Last 10 years of social media by trial and error crystallized perfectly addictive media form turning humans into dopamine addicted zombies. The form is a 30 seconds long vertical video with action and vivid music. It works and it's not a only trap for "dumb people". You open to check or learn "something useful" and one hour later you wake up scrolling the infinite feed.
One of the appeals is they aren't real-time.
Ask HN: A daily diet analysed with PyTorch (?)
Many years ago I read a story on HN submitted (or referenced ?) by one guy who analysed his daily diet using some framework (I think it was PyTorch but I am not 100% sure). He was looking for correlation between each piece of food he ate every day and his weight. And he found it.
Does anybody remember that ? If you do can you provide a URL to this ?
And I have seen people use mobile air conditioners without properly leading out the warm air that is created out of the building so they basically have a closed loop where the aircon fights itself. And even when properly letting out the warm air, new warm air from the outside is sucked in. Typically these types of air conditioners are just plain useless except for cooling one person who sits in the cool air blow.

It's also amazing how so many houses in warm countries are so poorly isolated and have bad window screens to avoid the sun heat up the inside of the building.
This, at least, I agree with.

(Though not quite in the same sense.)
> All the recommendation algorithm driven platforms tend to encourage active posting and discourage occasional participation.

This is an important point that is not mentioned enough.

The problem whenever a platform introduces an algorithm to decide what users see, by either promoting or penalizing submissions, is that it unavoidably leads to content that is created purposely to game that algorithm, which ultimately corrupts the user experience.

This happens not just with social media and video platforms, but with web search results as well. The vast majority of web content is now spam whose only purpose is to generate ad revenue. SEO is a more accepted practice, but it really shouldn't exist at all.

For search results there obviously needs to be some algorithm behind it, but this should be driven exclusively by delivering the most relevant results, and the only smart behavior should be spam detection. Google had solved this decades ago, yet they've created a global problem they can't, and likely have no interesting in solving. As far as investors are concerned, it's a legendary success story, and that's all that matters.
Gay people can obviously procreate, nothing about your body stops functioning when you are gay.

What you mean is that they don't have sexual attraction towards people of an opposite gender, where if they had a relationship with them, that relationship would encourage procreation.

To me that just doesn't seem like a "difference in capacity".

I personally don't want children, and will probably seek out a partner who likewise does not want children. If I encounter somebody who wants lots of children, I will see that we have different life goals, and I probably won't be very keen on being in a relationship with them. Do you consider me "damaged" or of "diminished capacity" because of it?
This ignores all the High Roads…
It would be odd because GPT-4o is much faster and cheaper so it just seems optimised, pruned gpt-4 with few improvements in certain intelligence areas.

I would have expected gpt-5 at least initially to be much, much slower, and they have only recently talked about starting on it.
Settings > About Fennec. Tap the logo five times to unlock the debug menu, then there will be an option to install addons from a file.
FWIW, in my house, ~50% of the electricity is used by the electric water heater. This feels like lots of waste, given that we take at most 30 minutes of shower per day.
What I appreciate in film is that with the development of technology, we can extract more information out of it, retroactively. This is a big contrast to digital media, where the information is coded as-is, and with increasing accuracy, we can only hope for a more reliable reading of the same thing. For one thing, film's analogue information density enables us to have 4k or even higher renders of the original footage, instead of relying on the versions rendered for their then-current time.
Ok, so this is a single person's (math PhD no less) Rust project that's just the kernel, that also happens to not support Linux. I have a feeling that getting from this to anything useful for mechanical engineering is a long, looong, looooong way away.

Meanwhile, in my little land of utility-first, Inkscape proves to be the minimal viable solution, and when I need more then qcad does the job. Any suggestions of other tools that happen to support Linux is much welcome.

I also wish luck and perseverance to the Truck's author. They gonna need it.
Will be interesting to see if AMD's Strix Point can perform. Basically, radically beef up the graphics unit in an APU.

(Doesn't make it upgradable of course, but could offer a better choice for people that want a gaming laptop that's also an ultrabook)
It's more about the self conditioning IMO. For me it was the flashing LED that made me question if something interesting might have happened somewhere.

By removing triggers I could adapt back to a more healthy relationship with my smartphone.

You can use social media and still don't get that hype / rush or FOMO.
$50 seems a bit steep for a 3D-printed RFID tag.
I'm not sure there's too much oil revenue flowing into the coffers of the dudes in Peshawar and Kandahar, but it doesn't stop them knocking the s*t out of each other and anybody else there.
This is very interesting, thank you!
When I was implementing random shuffling I used xoroshiro128+ instead of Mersenne twister and felt pretty good about it but only because it was used for randomness needed for Monte Carlo simulations, not for gambling games where there are potential adversaries looking to break it.
Are you aware of how that one (xoroshiro128+) or other pseudo random generators fare against adversaries?
Not to say they don't use a lot of AC/energy, but Singapore's per capita numbers are a bit biased by the 300k+ daily commuters from Malaysia.
>While I feel this quote now applies to me, I also think it’s bias mostly.

Yes, that's mostly what it is. It's basically how people grow up and react to change. And there are many biases at play, like the recency bias, where the current events seem more impactful than the past events, or the survivorship bias of the old refrigerator of grandma, chugging along all these years, they don't make stuff like this anymore. And the funny thing is that despite bias, there is good information in the experiences as well, because things really do change over time, and certain things really do have certain upsides, which were lost when the thing changed.
It is associated with increased risk of melanoma, but not known to cause it. The third variable is expected to be lifestyle / socioeconomic. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2338254

> Men taking PDE5 inhibitors had a higher educational level and annual income, factors that were also significantly associated with melanoma risk.
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I agree V2G will be huge, but rolling it out will be hard, especially somewhere like the US without major financial incentives (for both the infrastructure and getting people to accept the idea that they might not fully control their rolling castle’s battery). Conceptually though, I think it’s one of the coolest ideas in sustainable tech - distributed prosumer/battery networks. There’s also some cool P2P topologies.
That was a good guess. Whatever there is, there's a hobby version of it, especially in this age of capitalism.
I have 6.5kW of solar PV and a 16kWh battery system in the UK. On a sunny day I’ll generate about 50kWh and export more than half of that to the grid. The rest is for charging my hybrid car (25kWh) and just general house use.

So far this year, our net grid import is 3000kWh and solar generation is 2500kWh. We have a 5kW heat pump and that uses quite a lot of electricity in winter when we don’t generate too much.
Singapore tends to set the AC systems to super cool temperatures which makes them consume even more.
1000kwh/month in the winter and 350kwh in the summer. 4 people in central Europe. We use electricity for heating the house, warm water and everything else. We have an air-to-water heat pump.
Draw a fat boat with a very thin long mast.