skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cynicism is forgivable. Smart, even. Given that it implies expectations from experience. Naivete, and possibly "willful naivete", on the other hand is not forgivable given perceived stakes by many.

It's not cynical whatsoever to understand that features that enable surveillance are for surveillance. It's simply a realistic take.
This wasn't actually a gun rights win at all. The SC didn't say that altering rifles to work like machine guns was a Constitutional right, just that the regulator was acting outside its mandate. A functioning congress could have this effectively reversed next week.
A second Trump term: from unthinkable to probable
Boston is the biotech capital of the US.
Bambi starts off with him being born - his mother doesn't die til the middle of the movie.
Let's Rescue CMake Presets
IC Design Companies Adopting TSMC's 3nm Process Trigger Cost-Driven Price Hikes
Folio Archives 379: Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M. Doughty
How Do You Train to Become an F-22 Raptor Pilot?
Ah, a energy force field it is then.
A 19-year-old's commentary on LinkedIn services
mastodon is beyond broken. also, network effect.

it's fine for cyber security content and furry con. besides that, everyone's on meta or xitter.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2024-03-21/russia-wa...
>switch to 199.999... lbs/s for all the 200 lbs/s burns, not just the last one

That's not it. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40685081
Mostly due to acquisitions, they own a huge range of business applications, both generic (such as Peoplesoft and NetSuite) and industry-specific (e.g. Cerner in healthcare). These kinds of apps tend to have high lock-in: once your business is running on one or more of them, migrating to something else can be an expensive megaproject.

Also, historically they had a big push for their apps to use their own tech products (DB and middleware), so the tech side of the business benefited from the apps side. Although, I remember when I worked there (6+ years ago), they were trying to move away from that somewhat, and cloud apps teams in particular were being given more freedom to use whatever technology they thought was best for their product rather than forced to adopt Oracle Whatever. Plus, acquired products run on all kinds of different tech stacks, since (at least my personal impression was) the tech stack wasn’t a huge concern in deciding what to acquire
I love this. Sometimes we humans are so batshit crazy trying to build that next-big-mega-thing... and here we have an easy-to-use map of forest sounds, and it just works. Kudos!
Thank you so much. I came to the comments looking for a similar explanation.
“Try doing a 24 hour water fast”

In the referenced study water was available ad libitum.

It’s food that was restricted, for 24-48 hours, that promoted beneficial cellular autophagy in mice.

[Longer (“chronic”) fasting was detrimental (in rats, further removed from humans; (and not examined in that paper, just referenced))]

[This is why I like HN, replies backed up with literature references to further meaningful interpretation and discussion #ThumbsUp!)

EDIT: TIL: a “water fast” is not fasting on water but on food… with ample water…. should be called a “water feast”
Into management? :)

There is no career path for programmers. Once you are a programmer, that's the end of your career. You climb the ladder by starting to manage people. But you don't become a super-programmer.
> There's not much else.

Western (WWU) in Bellingham is decently sized (~14k). There are some smaller schools in Seattle itself like SU (~4k) and SPU (~2.5k). And there are UW's branch campuses in Bothell and Tacoma (~5k undergrads apiece).

Outside of the I-5 corridor, Central (CWU) and Eastern (EWU) both have ~11k undergrads.
The whole issue is with Recall storage, and information gathering on Windows.
Can anyone comment on how efficient the Warp code is compared to manually written / fine-tuned CUDA?
Since your core point is that Tesla requires drivers to be fully engaged 100% or the time, it is an odd way to challenge someone blaming Tesla by responding to me pointing out that Tesla's advertising is fundamentally dishonest.

Tesla are trying to have it both ways. They ADVERTISE and promote that it is "FULL Self-Driving" and "FSD", while simultaneously doing everything post-sale to ensure the driver is responsible for failures of FSD.

I wasn't originally in that camp, but your arguments are convincing me that Tesla does in fact bear some responsibility for the crashes, despite the facts you point out that Tesla post-sale promotes driver attention.

Despite all Tesla's efforts towards driver attention, Tesla ALSO broadcasts conflicting messages which do give the impression that FSD is more capable and safe than it is. What percent responsible? I don't know, but I think it's above 5%, especially for new drivers, who have been more exposed to the sales pitch and less to the documentation.
If you swap out superintelligence with the market we're long past the point of no return. I don't see how ai could be any worse.
> Because dark kitchens / ghost kitchens aren't just outsourcing their seating area, they're outsourcing everything but the logo.

Which means that you thought your food was going to be prepared by some people you don't know, but ended up getting food prepared by other people you don't know.

> It's dishonest and done exclusively to put more "options" on delivery apps that funnel orders to the same business.

How is that any more dishonest than multiple OEMs rebranding the same manufacturer's consumer products or conventional restaurants using the same recipes and buying the same bulk ingredients from Cheney Bros. or Sysco?
I learned how to format cells in early 2000s or maybe even 90s on Excel, so I know this functionality has existed for a long time, and these instructions are valid all the way back to Excel 2016, and up to current Excel 365. On Excel desktop, you can even set your own custom date parsing format. I don't know if this will work for you, but it is built-in and supported using the GUI, no coding/scripting necessary.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/format-a-date-the...
Why do you assume NSA have ChatGPT queries?
My suspicion is that Microsoft learned of Apple's effort, thus this rushed, skunkworks implementation, pushed to be released before Apple. The effort backfired spectacularly.
> May I ask what you did to improve your deep sleep?

I think Steve Gibson (of the Security Now podcast, and absolutely not a doctor), had a "healthy sleep formula" of taking a time release melatonin and a time-release niacinamide supplement, and he claimed his Zeo would register more deep when he took it. I got the impression he thought his own sleep was poor and was trying to fix it, and just talked about his personal project on his podcast.

I tried it, and anecdotally I did feel like I slept deeper.
Actually I had done: scorpion://zzo38computer.org/blog/c_OPERATING_SYSTEM_DESIGN.scorp (I may write more later, too)
> I don't understand why this is surprising. The shareholders already voted to do this once, and it was revoked by a judge in Delaware for obvious political reasons

What obvious political reasons?
Housing developers have low margins overall, huge up front costs (and high interest rates these days), massive regulatory burden, and decent amount of risk.

Becoming a housing developer is a lot easier said than done. Do you have the startup capital to build one house? Five houses? How about startup capital to purchase a new development, go through regulatory approval, a year of utility moves, heavy equipment for a year of subgrade preparation and site sloping for drainage and elevation as well as installation of basic utilities like sewer/water/electricity/networking, and then actually building and finishing houses? Not 5 but dozens?

That's a game for people who are already super rich not a game for people who want to get rich. If you want to get rich stick to flipping and renovating.
Strange, they mix cities and countries.
barely. you're more helping them by keeping the network effect going despite how hostile to users they make it.

for one high quality person they retain thanks to this, they can abuse other one thousand who will also stay because of that person.

basically, they will moan it will be shut down but there won't be any true effort
@quinnypig's tone[1] wears on me a bit. I don't mean that in judgement, we all suffer from followers disease[2]. I just don't like the effort of having to parse through the tone of everything to figure out what's actually going on.

For instance, here, the original B2B tech company, still turning over billions upon billions, wouldn't provide the base unit of B2B tech?

Really?

Interrobang of surprise at that?

I don't think so. You'd have to be very young and made 0 effort into ex. checking IBM's business metrics over the course of your lifetime.

[1] my current standard for this is "how long would you feel people were talking about your efforts accurately, if they talked the same way you do?" -- standards are leaky and hard to word.

[2] The Algorithm has multiple tentacles, you end optimizing for your most engaging behavior
Does anyone have a good calendar that shows interesting celestial events for say the next 10 years?
I'm sure there are one or two counterexamples but ad-tech clients were very resistant to GDPR and nearly all violated the requirements. Even to this day a lot of international market advertising companies will adhere to GDPR in region and violate it out of region - the site banners are a separate issue and are usually rolled out by content platforms to all clients for simplicity.
> More generally though, I wish we could avoid having exceptions to begin with. What's the reason behind their prevalence in almost every language?

Because nobody really wants low-level stuff like divide by zero, memory errors, index out of bounds wrapped as a `Result type ? Both Rust and Go have panics. Every function would effectively return a `Result` type since any non-constant expression can hypothetically return an error.
I mean, it's obviously not relevant here, but technically there is also heat entropy, isn't there? It's not always information.
> ZorinOS is catching up FAST and QUICK

This is a perfect example of a frustrating problem with Linux on the desktop. There is always a perfect distro that my aunt can just use and that never breaks. The problem is that once it was Mandrake, then Ubuntu, then Manjaro, then Pop_OS!, and many others. Most of them fade into obscurity after a couple of years, to be replaced by $shiny_distro that this time will be perfect for non-technical users, I promise! And a year later, there will be another one and everyone will start raving about it and dismiss $shiny_distro for being broken.

This does not work. To work with a general audience, a distro needs to look nice, behave well, be good at marketing, and last long enough to establish a presence. Maybe ZorinOS is good, I have no clue. But I never heard of it (and I am following what’s happening in tech in general), and i have no clue whether it will be around next year. So I’ll stay on Tumbleweed, and I still don’t have a really good solution for normal people who might want to use Linux.
It will if immigration is controlled and purchasing of properties by commercial interest is regulated to make sure people can live affordable before companies become landlords.

It's not a problem with building it's a problem with everything but building.
I don't think it would be any more ironic than a house using the heater in the winter and ac in the summer

Also, acidification is another problem of co2. Honestly you might rather release methane or refrigerant if your goal was only to heat/insulate the atmosphere with minimal changes to chemistry, but I'm not a chemist etc

Also never forget the great oxygenation event and the azola cooling the planet to the point of mass extinction and snowball earth
Yep. Geoengineering like seeding clouds or atmospheric aerosols (albedo modification) and fertilizing the ocean could absolutely have an impact on global temperature and CO2 levels respectively, but also would almost certainly cause environmental impacts at least on the scale of climate change, and possibly worse.

So GP is mistaken: if we threw environmental caution to the wind, and given sufficient funding, we absolutely could produce tangible reductions in AGW using today's technology.
Related:

The Door Problem (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24313607 - Aug 2020 (11 comments)

The Door Problem (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16021509 - Dec 2017 (27 comments)
Well, then, I guess, I should've prefaced what I wrote with "ideally".

Of course, there are circumstances we, the flesh-and-blood people cannot change, and if Python is all there is, no matter how good or bad it is, then it's probably better to make it do something we need... One could still hope though.
Sounds like they are doing drugs now

https://www.verseon.com
Then he should spend time figuring out how to raise fertility or lobby for cloning or artificial wombs. The human species is on a terminal decline.
Same thing that happened to AT&T.
I didn't downvote them, but didn't upvote either. "Chinesium" - the supplier it was traced to is Chinese, but the source is unknown beyond that because the documents are falsified. It's also not yet clear if there is a quality issue, the tested parts and materials are turning out ok so far but the lack of provenance makes it difficult to know with any confidence how long the material will last. It could be the right alloy but a low quality production process that will permit much earlier than anticipated failures (potentially critical ones, it's used in both structural and mechanical parts).

That's part of why they're investigating how to replace parts made from it, the quality is unknown since there's no way to verify the certifications passed on through the suppliers since it's already known that the certificates are lies.

For all we know, this is Russian in source but given false documents to get it sold on the open market bypassing some sanctions or getting some oligarch sitting on a supply some extra money.
Nevermind accessible to other users, but accessible to any 3rd party application that the user executes. A nightmare of a security hole.
If you do not realize that labor is by far the largest cost in nuclear power then I am not sure you have done even elementary thinking or research on the subject and we have nothing to discuss here. Obviously labor costs go beyond operating and maintenance. Have you considered design, regulatory, construction, legal costs (all mostly labor?)

Similarly, if you do not realize that the labor associated with the design, construction and maintenance of solar is a fraction of that of nuclear I would be quite impressed at the depth to which you have buried your head in the sand. Do you truly believe that the operation of a solar panel (wipe clean occasionally) or a battery (swap for a new one if it dies) is comparable to that of a nuclear reactor?

I suspect you have gone for the operation labor angle because it is the only one without obvious easily-Googleable figures showing the dramatic delta between battery-solar and nuclear. Amusingly, the figures are not easily Googleable because they are so small, but I will provide two for real-world solar plants. The Oberon solar plant near Odessa, Texas is 180MW and will employ 2 (two) FTE plus 2-3 seasonal local jobs for maintenance [1] and the also-named-Oberon battery-solar plant in California is 500MW and will employ a maximum of 10 employees at any time [2]. The labor to operate battery-solar plants is insignificant.

[1] https://assets.comptroller.texas.gov/ch313/1276/ector-1276-o...

[2] https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/coloradoriver/board_decisions...
Explain the personal utility here... Ohh I cannot find that one website I visited but I know I had found it a couple weeks back? Really. The personal utility use case looks pretty weak IMO.
FYI, the FTC noncompete rule does not go into effect until September, and it specifically carves out an exception to the rule for existing noncompetes for senior executives
It'd be a lot more simple, and faster, for us to just stop releasing so much carbon into the atmosphere if we really cared.

The idea that we can invent our way into a scenario where we can have our cake and eat it too is just a lie that kicks the can down the road. How likely does it really seem that we will find a solution in which we can continue to use more and more natural resources but magically make all the negative externalities suddenly disappear? And is that likelihood more realistic or reasonable than just stopping creating the damage as much as possible?
We're straying a bit from the original topic of direct access to hardware, but I'll humor you. Let's look at one of your users who does click yes to everything. In $YEAR, spam websites will say "enable push notifications to view this funny cat image. In $YEAR+1, spam websites will say "install our PWA to view this funny cat image" or "install our native app to view this funny cat image" and our user will still obey because the popup is in the way.

For the clueless user, nothing has changed other than which button they obediently push. For the savvy user, you've added an arbitrary special case and a hoop to jump through to get the functionality you wanted in the first place. Neither case is improved in the end.
SCOTUS Struggles Applying the First Amendment in Intellectual Property Cases
Yes, sorry, I had diverged upthread into the part where the CCP read the USA's gov emails.

I can't get over that little tidbit.
The PlayStation 3 is the primary reason I maintained ownership of discrete dvd/Blu-ray players and never got into the PlayStation ecosystem. There were a couple PS3 games I was interested in and if they had run on the PS4 I would have owned a 4 and thus likely a 5
The electronically steered phased array antennas used by SpaceX for Starlink dishes (a consumer product only recently) was already used by the U.S. military 20 years ago. Although 20 years ago such a thing cost seven digits.
The Netherlands are one big metro area, I guess.
or we will learn those studies were by the same caliber of people who did the food pyramid etc
Would love to hear your guy's thoughts on this. And again, excuse my language in the document.
> as would any firm that offered the same sort of feature.

I’m reminded of the backlash to Apple’s plan to have on-device scanning for CSAM in (I think) 2021. It blew up badly for them.
> But it’s generally both inexpensive and fast.

I guess inexpensive is relative. I've been on cloud for a while so I'm not sure what the going rates are for "remote hands" and most of my experience is with on-premise vs co-lo.

> Two of everything may still be cheaper than expensive cloud services.

That is true. Everything has tradeoffs. Though in the OPs case I think the math is relatively clear. With Open AIs pricing he calculated the break even at 5 years just for the hardware and electricity. Assuming that calculation is right, two of everything would up that to 7+ years, at which point... a lot can happen in 7 years.
Compared to what? Seems like the externalities and entropy associated with our current path are at least as chaotic and difficult to reverse.

But we’ll only be able to consider an alternative once the 150-year petrochemical free ride is decisively over, and what-if arguments are no longer scary enough to cause doubts.
The problem with adding "search" to a model is that the model has already seen everything to be "search"ed in its training data. There is nothing left.

Imagine if Leela (author's example) had been trained on every chess board position out there (I know it's mathematically impossible, but bear with me for a second). If Leela had been trained on every board position, it may have whupped Stockfish. So, adding "search" to Leela would have been pointless, since it would have seen every board position out there.

Today's LLMs are trained on every word ever written on the 'net, every word ever put down in a book, every word uttered in a video on Youtube or a podcast.
Yeah I share the same stance. Im not sure there is even a point in knowing or caring about freewill regardless of whether it exists or not or is just some completely meaningless abstract concept.

At the end of the day, im still going to act like me. From what I can imagine the most knowing the answer could ever accomplish is induce existential crisis in some people.
Iron is an interesting one. We use a huge amount of iron to produce steel, but that production process releases a massive amount of carbon into the atmosphere. The scale is such that steel is much more a byproduct of releasing that carbon rather than the other way around.
Are you talking about the same FAA that allowed Boeing people to certify themselves?
There is no equivalence. Apple has been building on this technology for years now, all with a focus on privacy. Microsoft neither has the engineering talent, the time, nor the development ecosystem to catch up.
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By what mechanism was this intended to work? Any known fields would surely have stronger local effects outside of direct sunlight...
The main hangup is probably around what year "24" should auto convert to being ambiguous as that adds an extra IF() to handle converting to 2024 instead of 1924. Beyond that it should just be =TEXTSPLIT(A1, "/") and =DATE(D1, C1, B1).

If I was going to drop my hackerman shades and pull up to an Excel code golf competition this is the "fewest total characters using a single cell" I could come up with: =REGEXREPLACE(A1 "^0?(\d{1,2})\/0?(\d{1,2})\/(..)?(\d{2})$", "20$3/$2/$1")
SuperPrimitive: Scene Reconstruction at a Primitive Level
well if you’re a problem solver and creative you can figure those out pretty easily. Anyway yeah I guess if you want specific skills you could just learn whatever is in demand and get the job.
> Well OK, but what about H.265? It's one louder, isn't it?

I had some old, gigantic, video footage (in a variety of old, inefficient, formats at a super high quality).

So I did some testing and, well, ended up re-encoding/transcoding everything to H.265. It makes for much smaller files than H.264. The standard is also ten years younger than H.264 (2013 for H.265 vs 2003 for H.264).
While I respect the power of intuition - this may well be a great path - it's worth keeping in mind that this is currently just that. A hunch. Leela got crushed due to AI directed search, what if we can wave a wand and hand all AIs search. Somehow. Magically. Which will then somehow magically trounce current LLMs at domain-specific task.

There's a kernel of truth in there. See the papers on better results via monte carlo search trees (e.g. [1]). See mixture-of-LoRA/LoRA-swarm approaches. (I swear there's a startup using the approach of tons of domain-specific LoRAs, but my brain's not yielding the name)

Augmenting LLM capabilities via _some_ sort of cheaper and more reliable exploration is likely a valid path. It's not GPT-8 next year, though.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.03224
The blackbirds and the tawny owls that live around my house remind me bit of the tui and the ruru sometime. But the tui birds are really unique and amazing! It's almost magical :) I remember listening to them one last time before hoping into the bus to the airport because I knew I would miss them a lot.

I also spent half a year on Steward Island during my first winter where there's a lot of kiwi birds and I still catch myself waiting for their calls in the forest next to my home in Europe at night haha!
GDPR/CCPA were punch 1.

Apple killing IDFA was punch 2.

Ad dollars shifting massively to GOOG / META / AMZN meant advertisers (and agencies) didn't need to have 3rd party data anymore to power campaigns ... they could use the platform's great data and match their 1st party customer data to it.

Oracle bought great data companies but didn't have any 1st party ad inventory to use the data with, and they got boxed out. If they had acquired TikTok back when Trump wanted them to, it might have saved their data biz.