skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Make it an option to hide your shameful guilty shit you don't want people to see! De-network if you must, if you are scared

Why does it have to be about being "scared"?

In my mind a like is between me and the person who posted. Why does every little interaction have to be broadcast as far as possible?

And I agree the threshold for re-sharing is high. That's why turning likes into a soft re-share is annoying. I didn't want that shard.

I don't really care if my likes are hidden. I don't care if people can look at the likes on a post and find my account

But I don't want it broadcast either. If I wanted it broadcast I would use the "I want to broadcast this" button

> I want to share what I like but I'm not trying to flood the zone

But that's what it is doing by turning your likes into a reshare. Every like you make becomes part of the flood. Only you get to feel like you aren't doing it on purpose

I found it incredibly annoying when I would see more "someone liked this post" than actual new stuff

If my feed moves slower because I'm only seeing new posts and deliberate reshares then that is a good thing imo. I don't need the system to dig up infinite content for me by farming everyone's likes and other interactions
I made CrazyHealthStats to understand the scale of obesity
to put it bluntly asf, you're being poor (and I'm being insensitive). what's $500k going to do for you if you come from a rich family? you already have your rent paid for until you die, and vacations paid for. all you have to do to do is put up with your annoying family, which isn't the worst if you've been through therapy. your mom or dad's abusive? if you've been through enough family therapy, that's not a problem.

if you ask you mom or dad, whichever believes in you, they have enough money to fund your dreams (if you care enough to ask) of joining or starting a startup to become an (x) CEO/salesman/builder/marketer/whatever for whatever you want to build, and that includes signing onto some startup that won't pay you a living wage until it fail-exists for $5 million and everyone goes to burning man/Berlin/ibiza on the founders dime (including rent for everyone N months).
Wild that we predict that the economic impact will hit $20T across the US, China, and India.

CHS covers the top 10 most populous countries with:

- Live updated population stats based on current day & growth rate

- Population growth rate

- Live updated obesity stats based on current day & growth rate

- Direct economic impact of obesity

For other countries, you’ll get the same detailed data minus the obesity growth rate and economic impact.

There’s also a sources tab so you can dive into the details yourself.

It’s open source, and there’s a link to submit a PR if you wish to do so.

Safe to say I get it now.

ps. not mobile friendly.. because tables.
Ask HN: What are some noteworthy startups lost to acquisition?
There's a common cliche about companies getting acquired and then putting out press releases celebrating "our incredible journey," followed by an announcement that they are soon shuttering their product. Or hyping the partnership with their parent company, and then within a year later they shutter anyway.

What about companies that do that but are just forgotten? That never received an entry on the Tumblr (https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com)? But are still worth remembering, even if their brand is long-gone?

I nominate Realm (YC S11), the mobile database / ORM solution, which was bought by MongoDB in 2019 with little HN fanfare (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737949). The product has now been clunkily rebranded to "MongoDB Atlas Device SDK" and still exists, though presumably much less popular as first-party Swift Data on iOS and Firebase on Android gain in usage. But the even bigger loss imo is the Realm Academy, which used to be a massive treasure trove of resources on mobile development across multiple platforms. Realm would find outside developers to give tech talks, preserving them in one spot, and providing transcripts long before Apple did for WWDC: https://academy.realm.io

Prior to the MongoDB acquisition, we would regularly see technical presentations from realm.io posted to HN. Now, the Academy is no more. Rest in Rebrand, Realm.
I don't really buy that argument because:

(1) plenty of HN users post comments from plenty of ideological positions without breaking the site guidelines and (therefore) without getting moderated; and

(2) users breaking the site guidelines from all different ideological positions do get moderated.

That doesn't fit with "you're taking a side". In my experience the causality goes the other way: when people get moderated they have a strong tendency to jump to "the mods are against my side" rather than look at how their posts are breaking the rules and/or go against the intended spirit of the site. In other words it's not "I got moderated because you're taking a side", it's "you must be taking a side, because I got moderated". So it's probably worth adding:

(3) The users who jump to "you're taking a side" are distributed across all the ideologies.

There are also users of every ideological view making the case "my ideology is special; it requires me to break the rules, otherwise it cannot properly be communicated". This is disproven by all their co-ideologists who have no trouble communicating similar views without that.

I agree with you that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136616 was not as bad as your other three comments I listed, but it still used the "people like you" trope, which is a flamewar + personal attack combo that leads to forum hell.

I don't believe you need personal attack, clichés of internet aggression, etc., to make your case for what you believe in. On the contrary, these things cheapen your position. Morever, they are fungible across all the ideologies—that is,

(4) commenters who resort to breaking the site guidelines resemble each another far more than they resemble anyone else. Ideology is not the high-order bit here.

By the way, I don't identify with your word "politeness". Enforcing politeness in not at all what we're after, and in that sense I agree with you, though I think you're misassessing what we do as mods. Politeness is profoundly uninspiring as a value, and I'd find it profoundly demotivating if that were the principle. But it's not.

The HN guidelines used to say "Be civil", but we changed that years ago to "Be kind", because civility (which I take to be close to politeness) doesn't go deep enough to capture what we want here. Kindness is a far better word. We want people to be in good relational connection with each other, even when they disagree about a topic. That's an ideal, of course, but it's the right ideal for HN, because it's needed in order to optimize for curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
Yeah I got that part but how exactly do you go about achieving that, especially for something that can significantly alter a person’s life. Only thing I can think of is an AI based filter but that seems dangerous.
Also: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262140539/a-small-matter-of-pro...

Makes the observation that there are intermediate users that are a natural target for end-user programming.
Japan enacts law ensuring access to third-party apps
Telepathy is the ability to use your mind to reach out into the mind of another, thereby allowing you to passively observe and/or change the contents.
Intel gets a sweet break on property taxes too, basically paying a flat fee per year. Otherwise, they could never afford the taxes on $20-40 billion of equipment in a single fab. The state makes up for it by taxing 20,000 well paid employees at a 10% income tax rate.
> larger versions, including one up to 45 cubic metres (1,590 cubic feet) in size that would be able store around 10kWh of energy needed to power to power a house for a day.

45 cubic meter is a cube with side 3.56 meter. That is not large at all. Especially, if it can be sunk into the ground. I assume septic tanks are also about the same size.

Paper, if anyone interested: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2304318120?doi=10...
Honestly I think the only reason you guys shipped as many units as you did was blocking other voice assistants from interacting with Audible. I've had an Alexa/Echo since the early beta and it has literally always been worse than other options like google home. It's gotten progressively worse over time as well. Not just comparatively but vs it's own experience several years ago.
Remote Amazon tribe did not get addicted to porn
One consideration in choosing a proof assistant is the type of proofs you are doing. For example, mathematicians often lean towards Lean (pun intended), while those in programming languages favour Coq or Isabelle, among others.
Talmud and Its Shape
https://archive.ph/N30K7

https://web.archive.org/web/20240602043457/https://www.nytim...
If you don't force people doing nasty business to pre-pay cleanup costs, they get to keep the profits and socialize the expenses of cleanup to everyone else.

That's why there are hundreds of EPA superfund cleanup sites, no-one has to pay, just bail out of town and keep the profits.
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Isn't that the same thing the fracking companies tell people when their well water is contaminated? It's not related to fracking because we're not injecting water into your wells?
I don't understand the obsession with reimplementing Python utilities or ecosystem elements in Rust.
It’s a mixed bag of design ideas. There is definitely inspiration from LogDevice (disclaimer, I am one LogDevice designers) and Delos for (Bifrost, our distributed log design). You can read about Delos in https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi20-balakrishnan.pdf
Not to put you on spot, but this behavior is unprofessional, and you should name names IMHO.
The wide variety of life forms on planet earth is nothing short of remarkable. As much as our technology today is incredible, it just doesn’t match the natural world in terms of sheer complexity. Evolution of innumerable species that evolve together over billions of years is a form of gradient descent that only a Dyson sphere could calculate. Truly remarkable and humbling. I think it would do a lot of technologists good to contemplate nature.
See discussion for pgvectorscale in this HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40646276
I've seen the problem surface in designs where a single key is shared across many devices.
I wish them the best, but I think they would have been best not drawing the comparison to Salesforce. IME people buy Salesforce not for the CRM but for the force.com platform. The ability to seamlessly build business logic over the entire flow of a business is Salesforce's bread and butter. CRM is a small part that definitely gets heavy use, but it's only a small part of the larger picture.

If they had a way to quickly spin of LOB apps like Salesforce does, and had implemented a CRM on top of that... I'd say they would be much more apt drawing the comparison. Particularly if that doesn't require code to do. I know a LOT of companies that would pay dearly for such a hosted platform, GPL or not.
> In fact, the entire article is the best publicity Impossible could have possibly asked for.

An entire paragraph in this article is literally just quoting ad copy from Impossible. I don't think this article being good publicity for Impossible is mere coincidence.
> the theories don't protect the people who hold them. Knowing that a bureaucrat is willing to disarm you then starve you to death ... does not help that much when the army or secret police gets involved.

the unelected bureaucrat branch of the US government, referred to as the "deep state" by some, is so large and powerful due to funding.

The people who use the term "deep state" unironically are engaged in political activism where they are arguing for dismantling, drawing down, and defunding bureaus that they feel are out of control.

it's ironic that these activists are dismissed by you as being mere "conspiracy theories". it's like calling BLM a conspiracy theory. people who are fighting the power of unelected bureaucrats are political activists. They're just defamed by the same machine that they're opposed to. What a shock! The people in power defame and attempt to discredit those who seek to remove them from power.

Truly, if you do not understand the complaints of those who decry the undeserved and overgrown power of the deep state, you are not thinking about the position of those who hold those views long enough to understand them. You don't have to AGREE with them, but they aren't touting a conspiracy theory. The administrative state exists, is large, has power, and these are activists who want to change that.

They want to stop it before there are secret police or the army is corrupted. Of course, the CIA is secret police, and they coined the epithet "conspiracy theory" that you repeat in order to discredit these activists. Coincidence?
Would cochlear implants qualify as transmitting to the brain?
This is ridiculously expensive from the point of European prices.
A modern fab is basically a super, super clean warehouse. The equipment and layout can easily be changed up for a new generation of products.
It would have been preferable if this complimentary online service had been made available concurrently with the introduction of stable diffusion, similar to DALL-E and Bing Chat.

Nevertheless, it is still commendable that it is being offered now, albeit belatedly.
1. There is no maximum execution duration for a Restate workflow. Workflows can run only for a few seconds or span months with Restate. One thing to keep in mind for long-running workflows is that you might have to evolve the code over its lifetime. That's why we recommend writing them as a sequence of delayed tail calls (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659687)

2. Restate currently does not impose a strict size limit for input/output messages by default (it has the option to limit it though to protect the system). Nevertheless, it is recommended to not go overboard with the input/output sizes because Restate needs to send the input messages to the service endpoint in order to invoke it. Thus, the larger the input/output sizes, the longer it takes to invoke a service handler and sending the result back to the user (increasing latency). Right now we do issue a soft warning whenever a message becomes larger than 10 MB.

3. If the user does not specify a timeout for its call to Restate, then the system won't time it out. Of course, for long-running invocations it can happen that the external client fails or its connection gets interrupted. In this case, Restate allows to re-attach to an ongoing invocation or to retrieve its result if it completed in the meantime.

4. There is no limit on the max number of state transitions of a workflow in Restate.

5. Restate keeps the journal history around for as long as the invocation/workflow is ongoing. Once the workflow completes, we will drop the journal but keep the completed result for 24 hours.
The problem is that I always generate a strong password with KeePassXC on my laptop, and I don't know about how bad the mobile sign in experience is until it's too late. And many systems require mixed case and/or special characters, so my password generator is configured to add these by default.

This user-hostile UX decision is simply unjustifiable. It's baffling how this even gets past code review.
That's definitely the vibe of the example we're presenting. But for specific customers, the agent can cluster and bring additional relevant context to each of the 'events', and even recommend actions / automate certain actions e.g. if you detect a compromised account, send it team X.
"Do surprisingly well" depends on your expectations I guess. Yes, it can be a treat to see a healthy herd. It's much less a treat to see emaciated, dehydrated horses, which are not that uncommon:

https://stateline.org/2022/07/20/westerners-struggle-to-mana...

and while one can argue about the "true" motivations of the people arguing for culling/control, it's absolute true that conservation organizations think that feral horses are bad for the environment:

https://wildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FactSheet-Ho...
Making plastics still generates carbon dioxide, and their existence has their own problems. Some of them, are apparently quite bad such as microplastics.
I'm focusing on a tiny technical detail here but from the description, it sounds like the ISOs weren't set up with an 83(b) election which is another bummer.
The "blooming, buzzing confusion" of William James (2010)
You don’t understand. If there is no DFU the next application cannot be fixed if it broken. Hence bricked. If the boot rom goes right to the sd card image then there is no problem.

Almost all embedded devices have a secondary boot loader.

Do you understand my question now?
The argument that a startup could be the next FAANG is anchored in lottery-like odds.
Speculating that the brand behind AWS might be in the late Sears phase is hilarious to me.
Mistral raises a $640M Series B led by General Catalyst at a $6B valuation
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-68515368
Can you expand on that a bit more? Sorta get what you're saying but I think I might not have a super coherent sense of what that is
Ha! As if it required an entire system to control you, I could do it with a TV or the hypnotic trigger of "tell me more about yourself." -Edward Teach M.D.
When the Vive first came out, there was a neat VR FPS named Pavlov VR that was pretty fun.

It was neat to play an FPS where ducking for cover worked, reloading involved actually having to pull a magazine from your belt and jam it in, you could duck behind something and blind fire over it.

It mostly worked very well. The annoyances were around how physically exhausting constantly ducking and weaving was (and sweating into the foam), and getting lost in the moment and nearly sprinting out of the "safety box" into a coffee table.
Unless you're talking about any of America's current enemies list, where not seeing state conspiracies everywhere is not healthy skepticism.

The real question is when will they start treating skepticism as a medical condition, and how can I invest now in the drugs that will be advertised to treat it?
Yes, that’s part of why it is absurd.
> observe how you jump to conclusions about strangers

Conclusions are based on observations mate.

> culture wars

a few noisy fuck wits pretending to be construction workers so they can protest is hardly a culture war buddy.

> Hard to believe they are sifting through phones at the border "just looking for kiddie fuckers".

I gave you a paraphrased list of what they've told the media and the Senate they're looking for. An exact quote is

> Border force said a phone would only be seized where officers suspect it has “special forfeited goods” such as “illegal pornography, terrorism-related material and media that has been, or would be, refused classification”.

Given that they have sniffer dogs checking for fucking bananas it doesn't really surprise me that they want to check for porn, and the numbers quoted aren't exactly a large percentage of the number of travellers.

> There is a reason why you think their approach is completely wrong.

Yes, because it's done without a warrant. My issue is not with the government investigating suspected crimes. My issue is with random staff peeking at shit without sufficient oversight, and the potential for mishandling of legal, but sensitive material that may be held on a device.

> You know that makes no kind of sense, it is security theatre.

As I said, I think it needs to be backed by a stronger case (enough to convince a judge to grant a warrant), but that doesn't mean it's useless.

> There is a fellow Australian in this thread describing being searched three times.

And we know zero about the context of why he was initially searched.

> In reality you are at the mercy and at the discretion of the border guy.

That's literally the case in every border crossing everywhere.

> if he acts like you've acted here and comes across an antivaxer I have a reasonable expectation he would give them a hard time out of spite

If someone turns up at the border and starts waffling on like a pork chop about COVID or any other completely irrelevant topic then yes I would imagine he is treated like the twat that he's being. Short of another pandemic, there's basically no scenario where a persons vaccination history or beliefs are going to come up while crossing the border. If you rock up at the border wearing a t-shirt that says "vaccines are for suckers" or whatever, I'd imagine it'll go about as well as wearing a t-shirt that says "I fuck kids". Yes, you're potentially going to have a shit time. Yes, you absolutely brought it on yourself.

> I'm talking about how it is enforced.

Yes, I already told you I believe that the way this policy is currently applied needs more oversight and transparency.

> It isn't something I read online either. Because of this atmosphere people have bad experiences. Normal people.

What atmosphere? People learning the consequences of their own stupid actions isn't an atmosphere.

You keep referring back to anti vaxxers being treated poorly and then throw in these mysterious "normal people". What's normal?
Probably the latter, wouldn't be the first time a company does that.

I'm signed up with Plivo but so far it doesn't seem like I've got any spam to that email (yet?)
Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization
Hm, I wonder how that composition varies, but at least off-hand the quantity probably matters. It's the off-gassing and the top coat that get you with flooring.
> Greg Egan is often cited as one of the current greats when it comes to hard sci-fi.

I'd also suggest a good look at Baxter's books and Robert L Forward's too.

I've jokingly called Forward's books science papers with a plot. Timemaster starts out with:

> There exist semieducated but obstinate people who have raised the concept of strict local causality to godhead, and attempt to use such words as "obviously" and "it only makes sense that ..." in an attempt to "prove" that their version of causality cannot be violated, and that any sort of time machine is logically impossible. From my reading of the scientific literature, they are wrong. If I receive a letter from this sort of person complaining about the "impossibility" of the time machines in this novel, I will throw the letter in the nearest wastebasket... unless the letter is accompanied by a reprint of a scientific paper published in Physical Review (or any other reputable, refereed scientific journal), written by the person writing the letter, which proves that the paper "Cauchy Problem in Spacetimes with Closed Timelike Curves" by Friedman, Morris, Novikov, Echeverria, Klinkhammer, Thorne, and Yurtsever, is erroneous.

My take on it is more of a "what is the focus of the story?" Is it the soft sciences? Psychology and sociology and politics ... and the Foundation.

Or is it one more of challenges met with the STEM disciplines of physics and astronomy and biology?

It's also not a "it is either a this or that." Some books can be both and I think that Clarke is a prime example of this. 2001 is as much of a story of psychology as it is about astronomical distances and the ship needed to accomplish that goal. The Songs of Distant Earth is about two cultures clashing ... with the real problems of engineering a ship to travel (it's a softer story than it is hard).

Protector by Niven likewise scores high on both the soft and hard scales.

Foster tends to higher on the 'soft' side of the scale, though sometimes it edges up there with some real biology and the limits of technology are sometimes real limits.

And so, it is "are the challenges that the characters surmount solved with tools developed from the soft or hard sciences?"

"Use the Force Luke" is not a hard science solution.