skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a woman, much less a lesbian, so I can't speak for them.

I do know that they are going to get stuck either way. It is undoubtedly true that people have the right to have preferences. Some preferences are taboo to state. You don't have to date black women, but there is no language to say that without running into a history that includes a lot of violence.

Lesbians date very differently from straight women, and I wouldn't presume to tell them their business. But it wouldn't surprise me if their best play was to forbid that kind of language, and just ask people to not accept offers they don't want.

Of course if there are men pretending to be trans women, that is a different story. Harassment is always wrong. In real life the number of men pretending to be trans women is small to the point of non-existent. Trolling is safer online, so they will have to moderate that the hard way.
There isn't enough incentive currently to publish reproductions, starting a new journal using the same general publishing model isn't going to change that. But with money to burn you could add some incentive, or you could at least do things to improve publication quality like actually paying for good peer reviewers.
Better yet have bounties like how the tech world has bug bounties.
Let’s look at a real example. Here’s the source code for binary search from rust’s standard library:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/slice/mod.rs.html#2786-28...

The function is pretty short - 40 lines including comments. Despite how short the function is, it still uses whitespace to separate and group adjacent lines of code. Personally, I find the code more readable like this. Indentation makes syntactic blocks obvious (the while loop and if statement). But there are also conceptual groupings between lines that mean nothing to the compiler, but are semantically meaningful to humans. I can tell at a glance that the comment about safety is most associated with that one line below the comment. And so on.

I think this code would be worse if we deleted the whitespace. How would you improve this code?
I like the idea. If you're a startup that's losing money, you can get paid by the government to commit crime?
Glicol is absolutely amazing!!
Besides growth, Nvidia also has much higher profit margins. In Q1 2024, Apple's margins were 42% gross, 26% net, versus Nvidia's 78% gross, 57% net. May or may not be sustainable, but for now Nvidia's basically printing money.
No the dominant deformation on earth is that it is flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator. This is because of axial momentum and makes the earth an oblate spheroid.

If you stand at sea level at a pole you are much closer to the center of the earth than if you stand at sea level at the equator.
It's no different to desktops IMHO. The used market on parts is quite healthy.
> If you say the word “concede” but then spend the next four years saying “the election was stolen” and “the president is illegitimate” you’re damaging public trust just as much as if you hadn’t conceded.

False dichotomy.

> Gore exploited a loophole in Florida election law to seek hand recounts only in counties that had gone heavily in his favor.

What you call "exploit[ing] a loophole," others would call "invoking a statutory procedure to exercise a right created for candidates by the legislature." Nothing stopped the Bush campaign from doing the same in counties that went heavily for them — instead, the Bush campaign lawyered up to try to stop the recounts altogether [0]. (And perhaps you've forgotten about the infamous "Brooks Brothers riot" [1] by out-of-state Bush lawyers and staffers.)

And let's not forget: Gore won the popular vote nationwide, which is irrelevant legally but of nontrivial weight morally.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
>I took the information given and attempted to interpolate (unsuccessfully, I might add) what OP was talking about.

You could have used your brain and just Googled "TEE Android". But by all means, despite not having either the domain-specific knowledge nor the common sense to manage to Google it competently, feel entitled to be an arse about it. I trust you can read my tone here?
> If a paper is retracted 20+ years later, and it has 4,500 references, those references should be retracted non-negotiably in cascading fashion.

Imagine you're reading a research paper, and each citation of a retracted paper has a bright red indicator.

Cites of papers that cite retracted papers get orange. Higher degrees of separation might get Yellow.

Would that, plus recalculating the citation graph points system, implement the "cascading deletes" you had in mind?

It could be trivial feature of hypertext, like we arguably should be using already. (Or one could even kludge it into viewers for the anachronistic PDF.)
Bitcoin still refuses to move to proof of stake. It's obscene https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Very cool, I like the simple mark up.
- "Can you send us your high school diploma?"

--- "We need you to take a typing test." No thanks!
>What is most characteristic of intelligence is intentionality.

Intentionality refers to the quality of being directed toward an objective or purpose. It involves conscious decision-making and goal-directed behavior. Given that insect have intentionally do you consider insects intelligent?

While intentionality might motivate and guide our actions, the ability to foresee the results of these actions is what defines intelligent decision-making. Prediction requires a deep understanding of cause and effect, which is a hallmark of intelligence. When we predict, we infer potential outcomes based on our knowledge and reasoning. This process involves not just abstract thinking but also practical application. Accurate prediction involves the synthesis of various cognitive functions, including inference, analysis, and reasoning.
Yes. See GDPR (max fine 4% of global annual revenue) or the new EU Digital Services Act (max fine 6% of global annual revenue).

These are both fairly new laws, if you look at the laws they replace (which themselves may not even be that old), the fines are a huge leap up.
I've tried multiple times to get into freecad but the ux is just not for me. One time I also lost like 3 hours of work so I called it quits.

Now I usually use solvespace, though that only does 3D modeling, no CAM, ...
Is this a novel concept?
We’ve designed and built something that is exceptionally good at making humans believe it is smarter than it is.

Yep, and even ELIZA could do that, to some extent. But at some point you'll need to define what "understanding" means, and explain why an LLM isn't doing it.
This is a nice idea from that discussion, using machined header pins.

https://makezine.com/article/technology/if-breadboards-break...
It's 5 minutes of revenue. They made it back 12X since an hour ago when the article hit HN.

For comparison, for a person making $100K per year, the fine was less than a dollar.
> With ownership, the government also then has the ability to 'peer behind the veil' more easily and make sure management is behaving

You want every politician you don’t like in the country having this power?

> if a company continues to misbehave the government over time takes ownership and can then replace the board

This is expropriation. (It’s also fines with extra steps and ongoing costs.)

> think a corporate equiv to a death penalty

Corporate death penalties are fines with extra steps. They’re a red herring to avoid what companies actually fear, massive fines that force them into liquidation. Anything you want with a corporate death penalty, massive fines achieve more cleanly. The only function bringing the former up has is to distract from the latter.
My armchair impression is Nvidia will continue to rise until there’s another hardware player in the AI space.

I’ve seen people suggest the big players might be 2 to 3 years out from bringing internal hardware online.
Amazon made $64,809,782.60 in revenue every hour in Q3 2023.

Source: https://www.junglescout.com/blog/how-much-does-amazon-make-i...
Along those lines: When a postdoc in my lab committed fraud, I had to face my own culpability – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38766484
Sounds like expropriation by another name, honestly.
I am involved on the design side and would personally not live in these. The rent is too high because it's calculated for the urban locale (typically) and the residents are too transient. How can you consider somewhere a "home" when it's a boring white plaster unit that you can't customize? How can you consider somewhere a "community" when its better described as "cells" not "homes"?
That's pretty much Tether. You could probably bootstrap a POS coin by staking Tether. There would be a lot of details in getting it to eventually grow independent of Tether. I don't claim to know how that could happen. Especially since Tether is not a highly-regarded/trusted token in the community.
Remember Tony Xu stole tips directly from his poverty wage delivery workers.

I can’t think of a lower piece of garbage in this world. And when dealing with someone that low they will stop at nothing to get their way.

I hope the courts humble Xu someday because the lesson he teaches the valley is to just steal and rob the weakest and call yourself a genius.
Who says you can’t?

https://www.oracle.com/uk/business-analytics/analytics-platf...
Everything you wrote is currently true. That said, Signal can no longer claim to be privacy-focused if they submit to these demands, and if they refuse (as they've indicated is their plan), they'll lose a huge user segment, and the network effects that keep them dominant will weaken. Something will have to change.
Kessler Syndrome is the main problem with Elon's plan to build a nuclear defense shield in LEO

according to Grok: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1dgyujd/comment/l8...
I love the idea. It would also dampen the tendency to over-cite, and disincentivize citation rings. But mainly encourage researchers to actually evaluate the papers they're citing instead of just cherry picking whatever random crap they can find to support their idea.

Maybe negative citations could be categorized separately by the authors and not count towards the cited paper's citation count and be ignored for cascading citations.

If the citation doesn't materially affect the paper, the author can re-publish it with that removed.
European Citizens Initiatives
The two slit experiment still works if you emit a single particle at a time. Which means that the wave nature is not an emergent property of a group of particles, but observable in just one.
Why do you think “self driving” doesn’t include self driving buses?
They have a good reason for targeting the practice. They do not have a good reason for targeting Amazon in particular.

And I suspect the good reason you mean is this:

> Quotas must also be limited to not prevent workers from taking rest breaks, meal breaks, bathrooms breaks, or prevent compliance with health and safety standards.

Amazon is not being accused of doing this here. They are being fined for keeping the quota secret, not for the quota itself.
My Philanthropic Pledge – Warren Buffett
Cascading invalidate. I don’t think it should disappear, I think it should be put in deep storage for future researchers doing studies on misinformation propagation.
Los Angeles school board votes to ban smartphones
US Navy successfully connects aircraft carrier to the cloud
My apologies.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/noam-chomskys-wife-r...
AMD MI300X and Nvidia H100 benchmarking: VkFFT, cuFFT and rocFFT comparison
Well, above you seem to be describing "how things are". What if what you're describing is not the things themselves, but rather only a model of the things?

Like, where are the details of how you are "measuring" these things? And what measurement instrument returns values like "is clearly" and "is really just"? I can think of only one.
Thanks, but in addition to checking out the source I'm more interested in following your work and what you do next on github (or gitlab, etc)
Ah this brings back fond memories of the EngineYard challenge that consumed HackerNews in 2009[1][2][3][4].

From what I recall it was a bunch of YC founders writing janky cuda code vs djb who proceeded to smoke us all.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704182

[2] archive link to the dead link in [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090717104634/http://www.engine...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716851

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Next up: Regulatory mandates being considered to watermark AI-generated speech through an obligatory stutter ...
Case for Leveraged ETFs
In the United States, they can't lower rents.

The loans that they got to build the building were underwritten assuming X square feet of retail space would be rented at $Y per square foot.

If they were to rent the spaces at lower rates, the bank would need to reassess the building, taking the lower rental rate into consideration. Then the Loan-to-Value would be higher, making it harder and more expensive to refinance after the 5 to 10 year term of the loan. The bank doesn't want that either, as long as the payments are coming in on time.

Strangely, keeping the space vacant doesn't require the bank to reassess the space as though it's renting for $0.

So, the financial incentive for the borrower and bank is to keep the space vacant at $Y than rent it for less.
As a 1-man band my approach is:

* Don't promise release dates.

* Stick with known tools/libraries/frameworks where practical.

* Automate (with comments/documentation) what you can. Checklists for everything else.

* Prioritise fixing bugs over adding new features.
Another source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-18/lausd-bo...
Do you mean Ondsel?
There are enough innovations in the pipeline that it's very safe to predict continuing battery price drops for the next decade, another 80% reduction or so. It's possible it stops after a decade. At that point nuclear would need a 100x price reduction to compete.
> do not have a good reason for targeting Amazon in particular

The law applies to all warehouses.
If someone wanted to buy them from Foxconn, then probably…
2 minor ui features are in Ondsel & latest git that make a huge difference:

- auto-constraints. If you select a line and click "constrain", it automatically chooses a length constraint. If you select 2 lines, you get an angle constraint. A circle, a radius constraint.

- constraining on drawing. When you draw a rectangle, you can immediately type one dimension, press tab, type the other dimensions. You don't need to manually select constraints.
The penultimate sentence is

> Finally, we fill the empty spaces in the source text by words from the target lists, in the order that they appeared in the target texts.
It's a video. Right click and click play.
Study finds self-driving cars are safer than human-driven vehicles
> Why would I ever agree to that?

You're already looking at the ad. $0.02 > $0.00, so the situation is a strict improvement.
District heating maybe
Or you could just use Onshape. There's a free plan. It runs in the cloud in a browser on desktop so it's on MacOS, Windows, Linux, and there are mobile apps for iOS, iPadOS, and Android. The versioning system is very much based on concepts from GIT, and it will let you merge changes if you want. They recently added workspace locking so that it can be even more like GitFLow (i.e. branch to do work, merge changes into main when you're happy) and the version graph shows merging more clearly than it used to.
How much of that was from Californian warehouses? Because if you don’t do that math, the fine gets overturned by the courts.

That not only reduces the deterrence factor. It delays private enforcement by the harmed employees who would have otherwise relied on the commission’s facts in court without the colour of them being overturned on appeal.
Might as well ask, as tangentially (even so slightly) related: DAE know of a way to get/generate "vanity" (arbitrary or close) Bitcoin addresses?
I am pretty sure this is just malware being upvoted with sockpuppet accounts, I'm surprised it hasn't been flagged.
Straight up fabrication is more common than we'd hope, but probably not systemically threatening. I'm much more concerned about how poorly replication goes even when authors are not malicious/generally following the "status quo" for methodology in their subfield.
My rural community has a solar farm going in, and it is not going over well.

Lots of NIMBYs that “did their own research” to conclude that solar is actually bad for the environment or uneconomical or whatever. But the real reason for their rage is that they see it as a physical manifestation of the spread of “progressive ideas” and for that reason alone it must be stopped
We strongly need a "prestigious" journal devoted to publishing reproductions of other studies. Moreover, we need to change our perception of a good scientist. Doing novel research is awesome and great but reproducing other people's work is also important - it is a fundamental pillar of science.

The problem is even more pronounced with more and more specialized and expensive equipment required for doing certain experiments.
Well, you see even there I think you'd think differently if people lived in the same general area as you and you could conceivably walk passed their door.

And the delivery service in question was, slow, arbitrarily changing their rules and governed in a foreign country that had a bad reputation for dragnet surveillance.
Hmmm this just seems like any other data tool that connects to different data sources via connectors/integrations.

What I want to know is if I have an app that has react + API layer + database layer. Why can't I use the API payload for analytics instead of the database, because the API data is usually denormalized and has a lot more context.
You can't. In a Capitalistic world, companies, large companies control the world. You are asking for the hand to cut itself. It might work for a few countries but is unthinkable for any medium-large countries when companies are allowed to grow to a certain extent.
Thank you, cody.dev kept giving me a white blank page.
Joint account. Though, we’ve ended up with a “discretionary” budget for each of us. We made sure that it was sufficient that we could both do things we wanted.

This has largely solved any money quips between us.

* Large purchases are always shared, planned, and discussed.

* Day to day expenses end up wherever. It doesn’t really matter as they’re largely consistent each month. This includes utilities, bills, groceries, basic clothes, vehicles, etc.

* Unpredictable expenses get discussed, but that’s about it.

* Discretionary is no questions asked. This is where our hobbies, individual activities, and personal spending preferences come in. I largely use it to fund hobbies and eat lunches out. My wife used it for hobby classes and splurges on clothes likes. No questions asked I. This category, so there’s no guilt and no second guessing each other.
So then logically, wouldn't you geoblock earth for compliance reasons?
> designing vehicles to require diagnostic and software updates that only the company could provide

Lol. Duh, integrated software is the biggest advantage Tesla has.
It probably makes sense to look over papers that cite retracted papers and see if any part of them rely on the invalidated results. But unless the entire paper is worthless without them, it shouldn’t be outright retracted.

How many papers entirely depend on the accuracy of one cited experiment (even if the experiment is replicated)?
Council to greenlight Chatcontrol 2.0 on Thursday
Well it is Linux
Fun! What do the yin yang button and the one to the right of it do?
I've been using BAML to develop Zenfetch and it's easily the best engineering decision I made for the product
Why not base it on ESP32? You can emulate multiple OS-es, including Commodore VIC20, MS-DOS, Windows 3.0, Linux ELKS - all using FabGL: https://github.com/fdivitto/FabGL
Show HN: I Made an AI Software Engineer with Google Gemini 1.5 Flash
Hey HN!

Thank you for all the support and feedback on my original submission 2 months ago. I've been improving the backend using a MCTS/AlphaZero approach and it's currently producing much better results.

My long term goal is to allow users to manage multiple projects, deployed autonomously, both from scratch and by making continual updates all prompted with natural language.

The cost of each project has been lowered to $9 as performance with smaller models has improved (I migrated from Claude-3-Opus to gemini-1.5-flash).

Thanks for checking it out!
I'd make it a pluggable middleware with a document on how to implement your own and provide a reference configuration that uses something like Vouch [0] which will redirect the user to another identity provider.

You could also provide another implementation that implements Cloudflare's zero trust authentication [1].

[0] https://github.com/vouch/vouch-proxy

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/identity/au...

In other words, I don't think I'd want to actually take responsibility for authentication these days and use an authenticating proxy. The less security infrastructure you have, the less there is to go out of date.

You can always start with this approach and then implement your own built-in user directory later.
When is this a useful thing to have?
The Ruliad: Entangled Limit of Everything (2021)
humiliation ritual
To all the CS folk, he was a legend.
My uncle in Moscow used to have his gas cooker on all the time in the kitchen.
only hope is to minimize LOC - keep entire system down to 10,000 LOC. Which we don’t know how to do yet (and even if we did, the migration path needs to be solved for too which is a human problem moreso tech)
Don't count on it. FPGAs are stupidly expensive, and those vendor-provided devboards are often sold below market price. Anything worth your time is stuck behind a proprietary toolchain. Besides, there just isn't all that much you can realistically do with it. FPGAs shine at realtime processing of huge volumes of data, but you lack the necessary IO in a mobile form factor to do anything meaningful you couldn't already do with a CPU or GPU.

The Precursor is a neat device, but in the end it's essentially a toy. The entire concept hinges on emulating a SoC with the FPGA, but a real SoC can offer an order of magnitude more performance at a tenth the price. It only makes sense if your risk model is a chip vendor putting backdoors in the SoC - but at that point why would you trust the FPGA? It's just moving the goalposts, really.
The trouble is, it's full of stuff I don't understand because I'm not managing it, such as:
include:_spf.qualtrics.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:sparkpostmail.com include:spf.mailjet.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:_spf.myorderbox.com include:eig.spf .a.cloudfilter.net include:spf.websitewelcome.com
Of course not. He's an economist! /s
The powerhungry warmongers are certainly scary, but think of the average contemporary westerner and then imagine the average Spartan..

We are fat, with hunched backs, stiff necks and wearing glasses.
Eh, it’s the same retributive frustration that leads people to conclude that any violation of any law should result in massive jail time. (And a history, in America, of too-low corporate fines.)
If it reduces corporate power enough we might actually be able to get some trustworthy people into office.
I know HN is full of people who have moved far from their families. For those living far from your family, do you feel projected grief for having moved away knowing your parents will ultimately die? I feel like I am going through something like this, where I can’t be close to them physically and nothing else compares, and yet I know I’ve made a decision to move and they will die and our time together will have been cut short - by me. I feel grief and don’t know how to cope with it. Anyone else with any experience similar to this, I’d love to hear your thoughts / coping mechanism.