skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you can speak for the entire left here, it's really not hard to find articles from the 2010s from otherwise fairly respectable progressive publications which are pretty confident. Usually when I've heard ideologically minded people talking about "transgenerational trauma" [1], it's from a lens of epigenics. I don't think anyone would reasonably doubt that wealth or poverty ripples through many generations, the idea which I hear touted pretty frequently (and is discussed in the article), is that past trauma from war, famine, racism, etc. has a biological mechanism which explains disparities we see today.

As others have pointed out, it's a super convenient conclusion for folks who seek to understand the world in such a way, but at least presently the data just isn't there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_trauma
couldn't install it because i have python 3.10
Thought the same. I’d say it’s _too_ obvious because every time I have someone new in the passenger seat I have to warn them when they grab it.
I have to actively, preemptively teach passengers how to open the door lest they crank it open manually, instinctively. My dad opened it manually 3x before understanding what I was saying.
> Tell a GPT to "do something you enjoy" and I bet you get an answer back.

So will an RNG. You haven’t addressed the implications of your own argument.
> That's what we seem to observe; but I'm not aware of any reason why that should be so a priori, and I don't know what kind of evidence would be conclusive, either this way or that.

This is my personal opinion, not an "official" physics opinion, but I think that the second law of thermodynamics creates a ratchet that prevents movement backwards in time.
Scientists preserve DNA in an amber-like polymer
Sort implementation differences in Chrome and Firefox
If AGI isn't created in the next 5 years, then the smart money is going to lose interest in this like they did Crypto and self driving cars.

There are serious discussions about multi-100B USD compute clusters and building multi-GW power generation. If we could replace all artists plus half of mathematicians and scientists tomorrow, it still wouldn't be worth the investment. Nothing short of summoning the Computer God will justify that.
Is this the one where she tried to update in a fast food parking lot and ignored the warnings?
If you don't measure the problem you don't know if it's getting better or worse, or even, strictly speaking, that it exists at all.

"Let's first fix the problem, and maybe later figure out if it exists" is much worse than the opposite order.
A pragmatic guide to Go module updates
I was furious at the protesters until I read the article. Now I'm furious at the headline writer for scaring me (whether that's the HN submitter or possibly the NBC writer, if the HN title reflects an older version of the NBC title).

I think this goes beyond sensationalism and into lying. It sounds like this will have no long-term effect, much less one that would count as "damage", but who knows. Regardless, obviously the word "damaged" is very inappropriate at this time.

Edit: In case it's not obvious, none of this is a commentary on the protest itself.
No problem.

> That's a lot of question with smilies.

One question with one smilie.
>> How did you get into that?

It was from networking and timing. I was on a team that was being dissolved because of some internal politics and at the time I had been talking with some people in the UI/UX department about some openings they had for designers or UX researchers. By chance a director heard I was poking around and wanting to move over and reached out and said they were going to need to fill some backfill roles and asked if I ever considered accessibility.

After meeting several people on the team, I thought it would be a good fit and a role I could use a lot of my development background as well, so the learning curve wouldn't be so steep. The final weeks of my team being dissolved was basically spent being onboarded onto the accessibility team so when I moved over, it was a really smooth transition.

>> What's the job title?

I'm an accessibility engineer. We do mainly two things - consulting and assessments. Its a great place for me as a developer because I get to work with designers and developers so I'm in the middle of all the action and interface with everybody on the team. Its been a great move and its an area that is becoming super important so demand is only going to increase in the future.
I have to tell people not to use that secret handle when exiting my model 3. Damn the media hates Tesla
180nm is still going plenty strong and the fabs get a constant stream of upgrades, but the lithography systems are officially EOL. ASML/Nikon/Canon don’t make them anymore except for the occasional (very expensive) custom order and the cost of repairing them is steadily increasing. If they don’t need the bigger node size, greenfield projects are better off with a smaller node but anyone with an existing design is going to keep using it.

It’s just a cost-curve thing - older nodes eventually hit the other end of the bathtub curve where keeping the fab running gets more and more expensive while newer nodes are still cheap.
I’d love an actual description of how this will change personal computing. The blog post is just a bunch of small technical decisions and opinions, doesn’t mention anything about personal computing. Maybe they should build an OS variant instead? The home page blurb of “No AI. No cloud. No distractions” is already very attainable without inventing a new type of computer…

Regardless, respect. Seems daunting, but will no doubt be a really cool project.
I like competitive programming/interviewing but hate software engineering
I'm a software engineer and I hate it. Everytime I solve leetcode or competitive programming problems I find it super enjoyable. In fact I love interviewing way more than the actual job. How do I fix this?
>Oh and ofc I made sure that no further upload could be detected.

Can I ask how you did that?
I had a similar experience when I came to the valley right as dot com was taking off, but numbers were lower back then. instead of a $500k investment for 5 years to return a $20m company, VCs wanted to give out $500m and get a $5b company in 6 months. they invested in @home which hit those targets, but collapsed about 6 months after that.

SiliValley VCs are about selling quick to the greater fool before the marks wise up. If you're getting $5m arr, there's no way you can spin that as a billion dollar revenue company in 6 months no matter how good you are at scaling up sales pipelines.

no one knows how AI will make anything cheaper / faster / better. but investors out there have watched enough sci-fi to know AGI will happen "any day now." and when it does, it'll hockeystick like Facebook in the 2000s. we all know there's profit a few steps after collecting underwear, but it's a relief no one's figured out the middle steps. that means your portfolio firm started by your old dorm roommate's kid has as good a chance as any at cracking this nut. but a company wasting its time generating recurring revenue is absolutely not focused on getting that done.
Tbh I'm happy to see any new OS thats not just yet another heavily unix-inspired clone. We desperately need more fresh ideas in the OS world
Best POKE Ever? For Commodore 64 [video]
Unfortunately people were hurt, the good news is nobody died.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/completely-preventab...
How about we think of emulation as making games accessible? I know, it wouldn't work for like 99% of use cases, but it sure makes my life easier, as a blind person. Since Retroarch now has accessibility support on iOS, and loads its screen reader when it detects that VoiceOver is on, I can open the game I want to play. And then, using VoiceOver's Screen Recognition, which basically works as OCR and basic image recognition, I can read game menus.

For now, this just allows me to play games on my phone who's gameplay is already pretty playable, like fighting games and visual novels. Except, now I can read menus, character selection screens, character dialog, stuff like that, all on my phone. Too bad Android doesn't have a screen recognition feature for TalkBack; they barely just got image descriptions that VoiceOver had for years. So, even though emulation is far better on Android, I still choose iOS. Apple could, I don't know, sure capitalize on that. I mean, even at the end of this article[1], it shows someone using what I suspect is emulation to play Metroid Prime on a Vision Pro, probably through Dolphin on a Mac. So they surely know about the need for JIT in emulation.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/apple-vision-pro-dis...
I think the issue is that in a calm, rational state you would think "let me just slowly visually examine the door area and where a typical lever or latch would be" but in a state of panic humans get tunnel vision and lose their slow methodical approach. That's why emergency planning and evacuation type designers will create UX/UI affordances that are multi-factor and unmistakable (flashing lights, alarm sounds, bright colors, capital letters with simple instructions). Think about the neon red EXIT signs above doors or the horizontal panic bar door mechanism (which to be fair has other design considerations like the fact that in a crowd crush situation even people unable to move their hands and arms may push the door open using the weight of their body and torso itself against the panic bar).
This is the natural result of our media’s and society’s preference for flashy, sensationalist news. I’m certain these protestors have been doing peaceful protests for a while but have you ever heard of them before? Peaceful doesn’t get views.

They took advantage of an upcoming event to raise awareness in a way that is ultimately harmless. Had they not done this I wouldn’t know about the labor party’s lackluster climate plans.

Mission accomplished.
This one settled it for me: https://youtu.be/J-VnWB4fiFk?si=BHg_ppZIAb2ykU2-&t=301

It's an important enough member to warrant 10 (I am assuming symmetry here, you cannot see all of them) not quite tiny bolts and nuts, but you can see clearly through the thing.
> I like the 0 indexing.

Thanks!

> I guess I don't understand the problem. If you don't want to buy the laptop, don't buy it?

The problem is I want a risc-v laptop, but I don't want many risc-v laptops. Before framework, if I bought one of these risc-v laptops then I would either be stuck at exactly that level of performance, with no ability to get chips with newer instructions (for example, the DeepComputing board that is going in the framework laptop does not have the vector extension), or I would have to upgrade at some point which previously necessitated getting another entire laptop which is needlessly wasteful. This isn't as much of a problem in the mainstream laptop market because advances from year to year are pretty small but risc-v is in a rapid development phase.

> I'll note that an SBC and a SoM are different thing

Are you saying that if I took a raspberry pi compute module and soldered power to the power pins, that it would not boot? Because if it would boot then its an SBC, just with a nifty form factor. I've not run that test myself, but my understanding was that all the necessary hardware was on the module itself and the carrier boards were just routing pins to PHYs for peripherals.

> SMARC

TIL about SMARC. It looks nice, and I agree that it could be less wasteful and therefore could be better. I guess it comes down to which level of interface will have the greatest longevity.

A socketed processor is the least bundled and therefore potentially the least wasteful but then you're stuck with the pinout in your socket, for example, AM4 is stuck on DDR4 ram.

SoMs like SMARC move the interface a bit further out by moving the ram to before the interface but it looks like you're limited to 4 lanes of PCIe, 2 USB 3.0 ports, there are 6 USB 2.0 ports which is silly in 2024, and there are even pins wasted on nearly-dead standards like SATA.

And then there is the Framework option which moves the interface even further out, being more wasteful by having more stuff bundled on the board, but also achieving the most flexibility since you just need to drive 4 type-c ports, and the handful of onboard connectors like the eDP, webcam, battery, and speakers. If, in the future, USB 7.0 is still using the same type-c port, SSDs are using the new m.5 connector, and LPCAMM 4.0 is out using optical magic connectors, then the Framework shell is still good-to-go whereas a laptop SMARC carrier is not (as demonstrated by SMARC 2.0 not being backwards compatible).

Personally, I think Framework is drawing the line at the right level to ensure longevity, but only time will tell. In the case of SMARC time has already told as we can see by them being stuck on USB 3.0.
Correct, there's no global timeline, so it's not clear what "just" 300M years ago even means. Some RFs seen it already, and some will never see it. But in ours it happened in Jun 2024. It's 300M light years away, not ago.
Annual Rainfall per square inch seems like a relevant factor though.
The best advice I got when starting Equals
Almost half of Dell's full-time US workforce has rejected the company's RTO push
man, sometimes things are obvious and right in front of us.

I've known the Dogen saying for years. Have even meditated on it.

I've been enjoying Bell Curve meme for sometime. Very funny.

Never put together that these were the same thing.

Today I am awakened.
Yeah. NT used to be so fast even through remote desktop, now it is so slow because of the bloat. Also I've read somewhere NT suffers from young developers wanting to rewrite parts in higher level languages, avoiding old winapi. But the Kernel is fast and nice...
Where have they been wrong?
Can we agree to at least cure cancer(s) or Alzheimer’s with some of that money? A trillion in research for each over the next decade?
Interesting; neomycin is not an antiviral in vitro, but it evokes an antiviral immune response when given as a nasal spray. Pretty Damn Nifty.
I’m sure a great deal of HN readers live and work in Israel.
Latitude and Longitude, or My New Daily Driver
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_o...

Seems well within range; and yes they travel at C - there have been some LIGO observations that were successfully correlated with more traditional (e.g. optical or radio) observations.
Of course! Just not every time.
iOS apps tend to drop support for older versions very quickly due to that the overwhelming majority of users are at most one version behind, but macOS apps generally don't. Okta Verify appears to be the only third-party app I have installed which requires >11, and that's something that has no reason to support older versions (one of the things it specifically does is stop me from logging into work things if I haven't fully updated my system).
Tje difference is because we cannot easily tell between “curve of second order” and “curve of other order”.

You can get an idea when you try to understand why the function

y=0 for x<0
y=x^2 for x>=0

has two derivativea but not three.

But the issue is infinitesimal, so very hard to tell.

Jerk you can “linearise” if you think of a car (with no air friction) and its accelerator. Somehow…
Not only are his personal accomplishments amazing, but the number of people he taught and mentored who then went on to do the same with the next generation is immense.
perhaps we should start criminalising more things for the sake of tech innovation
This is 100% a RTFM moment. User error should be the main jist of this dumb news story. I guess it'll help other clueless owners.
Maybe we'll go full circle and go back to sending letters for communication.
With a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, I measured about 2 seconds for speech recognition of 30s of audio (although for shorter durations it takes not much less than 2s), while for translation about 2 seconds for a text of 300 characters (in this case, however, the performance scales linearly based on the length of the text).
what a silly change to make, and what a silly response. I still had 255 on my Arch machine, and systemd-tmpfiles(1) starts with:

> systemd-tmpfiles creates, deletes, and cleans up volatile and temporary files and directories, using the configuration file format and location specified in tmpfiles.d(5). It must be invoked with one or more options --create, --remove, and --clean, to select the respective subset of operations.

Okay, sounds reasonable. Then I updated to 256, and the intro becomes:

> systemd-tmpfiles creates, deletes, and cleans up files and directories, using the configuration file format and location specified in tmpfiles.d(5). Historically, it was designed to manage volatile and temporary files, as the name suggests, but it provides generic file management functionality and can be used to manage any kind of files. It must be invoked with one or more commands --create, --remove, and --clean, to select the respective subset of operations.

So what, we need to carefully study every systemd changelog to see if "temporary file" has somehow radically changed meaning according to systemd? And that commands that were previously perfectly fine are now hugely destructive? Actually, I can't even easily distil that information from the changelog: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v256

And look, maybe this is a perfectly reasonable thing to change in some way. But the way this was done, and then the initial response... That guy's brain seems to be suffering from an int overflow or something.
WebAssembly is still waiting for its moment
Sure, hard to tell either way. That's kinda how bubbles happen in the first place, because if we really knew how valuable something was, it would already have the price to reflect that.

But it's also why Lord Kelvin claimed in 1895 "heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible"* and in 1897 that "radio has no future".

* don't ask me why birds were not a proof by example; we have the same problem today with regards to human brains being proof by example that human level intelligence is possible.
This is a great point, as far as the understanding of "bot" is concerned. Although I think the overall point is that the bots create an algorithmic determinism toward information.
This article seems to forget E2E can be enabled now in iCloud… there’s clearly an agenda here.
Only people who were using gcc 20+ years ago will know the pain
just tried to run it and it says i dont have cowsay command which is just an output of a text based cow with a cartoon bubble

So far on my M1:

1. I tried to install Pomoglorbo, fails due to python requirement

2. Scrolling down I find muccadoro, fails due to dependency

3. 10 minutes in im feeling the impact and inefficient

4. Should've just kept moving
Bingo. Defenders of the app store have severe stockholm syndrome. Apple ruins the PWA experience intentionally, so they blame people who use PWAs, instead of Apple.
I wonder if this can discern for fishing nets pollution, called ghost nets, which entangle and ensnare marine animals. The scale of harm for these animals is unthinkable.

Edit: the ghost nets come from ships. We need to pinpoint the “fishing vessels who continue to dump their old nets into the sea with impunity.”

https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/en/plastic-problem/pla....
1) How is this any different from social media influencers especially those in health and wellness?

2) I would argue that LLM's are designed to give an answer that is the closest possible answer to the right answer without being a plagiarist. Sometimes this means they will give you a wrong answer. The same is true for humans. Ask any teacher correcting essays from students.
On device LLMs focused on sub tasks to improve productivity probably don’t threaten privacy.
I think Kurzweil is always overly optimistic.

However, I wish he were right. The world advances way too slowly.
> I miss the early internet that was just experts sharing knowledge because they loved the topic and wanted to help and educate others.

That internet didn't end willingly, it was intentionally starved to death by search engines for the sake of the ad-ridden sludge.

It still exists to some extent, and is impossible to find. You can't even find a book review or discussion of major, influential works (not fucking fiction and entertainment, which we're deluged with), stuff you could find easily in the internet 20 years ago. All you get is Amazon and Goodreads, also owned by Amazon. The only reasonable book reviews I can find these days are contemporary reviews in journals, because at least journals are still indexed. If it weren't for sci-hub, an illegal project and enemy of the state, I wouldn't even be able to read those.

I feel sorry for kids these days. At least we had libraries. The libraries that I went to as a child have had successive remodelings where each has resulted in fewer and fewer books. And those books tend to be fiction, or condescending lectures by middle-class morons about how you should feel about other people.

When the pull the plug on google books, archive.org, sci-hub, anna's archive/libgen etc., which are basically outlaw sites, there will be nothing worthwhile left.
The entire planet is unstable nowadays. In case you haven't noticed, we are teetering on the edge of a global conflict.
I can confirm that in Isabelle/ZF one can set up a context (locale) with the meaning of the ℕ ℤ ℝ ℂ symbols defined so that ℕ ⊂ ℤ ⊂ ℝ ⊂ ℂ. However ℕ for example will not be equal in such case to the canonical set of ZF natural numbers where 1 = {0}, 2 = {0,1} etc.
Measurement means the same thing in classical and quantum mechanics: you interact with the system using a measurement apparatus. For the particular experiment I'm thinking of, you'd have to interact with the bouncing droplets to measure some property that is shared by both through their common pilot wave. Most likely this should be something like adding a wave filter and seeing if the droplet is dissolved or not, similar to a polarization filter for light. The key is to perform the two measurements in a way that should show some correlation, such as checking for polarization under non-orthogonal angles.

The reason why I'm certain that this experiment will not reproduce the quantum effect, even though I didn't perform it, is that classical wave polarization is a local phenomenon, it propagates at the speed of light (or much slower) from the location where the polarizer is added. Conversely, the kinds of correlations that have been observed between entangled particles are non-local: they can't be explained by the two particles exchanging information at speeds lower or equal to the speed of light. This is well established in experiments related to Bell's inequality. It is also well established in experiments that this doesn't hold true for classical systems.
IISc physicists find a new way to represent 'pi'
Are you from the US, and trying to tell me that what EU people have been meaning by "socialism" in the last "70+ years" is wrong because that's not your definition?

My feeling is that US people tend to struggle understanding that there are cultural differences in the world, and think that "socialism" has to mean what they understand from their US-centric point of view.

"Socialism" is a bad word in the US, not at all in the EU.

> are obviously as socialist as Barak Obama

In my country, we tend to say that Barack Obama is our right wing, and those right to him are our far right. And that's not something you can debate: that's how we see it in my country. For me, Mitterrand is clearly to the left of Obama.

And Macron is a fraud, I don't see the point in bringing him here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_(computer_scientist) has more information
They didn't walk web 2.0 back because web 2.0 won so completely that web 1.0 sites are noted for being quaint and charming callbacks to an older era.

Web 2.0 was "social web", wikis, AJAX requests, and the move towards SPAs. It's very much still the reigning paradigm.