skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Background:

I have terrible finances compared to her. I make more money on an hourly basis, but I'm not working full time right now, and I've always been quite financially irresponsible. She makes a little less per hour but has been super consistent with her job for decades and is very good at controlling her spending. She's the very epitome of "slow and steady wins the race", while I have spurts of high income followed by months of poverty.

How we split it all:

To protect her from my poor management, we have separate finances (accounts), but we split the rent and household bills evenly. I end up prepaying for most of it upfront, we use a spreadsheet to calculate what she owes, and she Venmos me her half at the start of every month.

For fun spending money, we both deposit the same amount into a joint account every month (we use Zeta, a virtual bank, which replaces what Simple used to offer). We both have a debit card that can charge to it directly, and we use it for joint outings, dinners, and other fun stuff. Sometimes I eat a bit more, sometimes she does, whatever, neither of us are worried about that.

And for less predictable shared expenses (groceries, pet vet visits, etc.), we have a separate credit card for that purpose only. We pay it off in full every month.

This three-way system has worked very well for us for 3+ years. The essentials are always taken care of first (via my automatic payments and her paying me half). We have a set entertainment budget every month. Then the joint credit card is only for our unexpected/unpredictable spending on top of that, which isn't very much (few hundred dollars a month).
Goth -> Gothic

Therefore

Forth -> Forthic
Photons have momentum, while not having mass. Interestingly, Newton has formulated his second law in terms of momentum: F=dp/dt.
Ask HN: Treadmill under your desk – gimmick or worth it?
Hi folks,

I’m considering investing in a height adjustable desk + minimal treadmill combo.

Primary goal is to up my step count. With a busy job and babies at home it’s difficult to hit 10k steps at the mo.

I’ll keep my Aeron on the side for when I feel like sitting / need a break.

Wondering if it’s going to be an indulgent expense that I regret. But no way to know unless I try.

Curious what your experience has been?

Thanks ^_^
This approach is already in use, and will be tested in court in Australia:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/22/in-australia-a-wome...
I had the same problem with some unknown party making a booking on my behalf. After digging deeper, I also discovered that anyone can place any booking with your account as long as no immediate payment is required. This spooked me, and I cancelled everything and deleted my account after more than a decade of being their customer.
Friend of mine had 150k job working for system's integrator, was stressed out because of the frequent travels & certification requirements. Quit and went to work for hospital as sysAdmin for about 75k/y.
U.S. Launched Secret Anti-Vax Effort During Pandemic to Discredit Chinese Shot
Technically the formula for force is F = dp/dt, or the derivative of momentum with respect to time.

For particles with mass the momentum of such a particle is p = mv, and so you can use that to yield F = ma. However for a massless particle like a photon, its momentum is p = E / c. If you use that momentum to describe a beam of photons being absorbed by a material, then you get F = n * E / c, where E is the average energy of the photons, n is the rate of photons per second, and c is the speed of light.
I agree that the safety fears and waste disposal issues around nuclear are overwrought, but still: I would much prefer solar and wind farms (even with the downsides you mention) over the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe. Even if the probability of something like that is 0.0000000001% or whatever, the consequences are so severe that it just doesn't seem worth it when there's a good-enough alternative. Also consider that nuclear is expensive (both in capex and opex)! The whole "too cheap to meter" nonsense from the 1950s never came to fruition.

I get that opinions differ on this (clearly you have a different take), but that's fine; reasonable people can disagree.

(To be clear, I don't believe solar/wind is the be-all, end-all. Base load generation is still a problem there, and neither source is reliable or consistent in the way that something like nuclear is.)
Also,

Forthsider, from the Firth of Forth?
Switched from a startup job to an academic research job last year. The stress and pressure are just gone entirely. There is no slack/chat, meetings are rare and ad-hoc. People just talk irl or email if it's really necessary, but most of the time there's nothing that important. No idiot clients that really need some dumb feature added by Monday, and there's almost complete freedom on what to work on and how.

Probably one of the healthiest changes I've made recently tbh.
Gosh. Emblematic event: the journal Lisp and Functional Programming changed its name to drop Lisp, around early 90s iirc. So much of Lisp is super mainstream since before some programmers were born, now, that those aspects are no longer linked with it. And dynamic typing and GC are fucking ubiquitous compared to their status in the 80s.
I am guessing that Apple is one of the top 10 email providers.

Why don't they send DMARC reports?

Every little podunk email provider seems to be able to send me DMARC reports, as well as Microsoft, Yahoo!, Gmail, Xfinity, and AOL. Every morning I get a pile of them. But never a peep from Apple.

They like to reject our email for inscrutable reasons. We don't send bulk email. We only send email (almost entirely transactional) to about 5,000 paying customers who have accounts on our website.

Two days ago I was however delighted to receive a reply to an email I had sent to them on May 1 asking for assistance and clarification on why they block us. They told me that the website of one of my wife's employers (not our website or domain), featured in her email signature, was hosting malicious software. It isn't on any blocklists and I can't find any evidence of this currently being the case. Maybe it did at one point and they cleaned it up? I suspect Apple blocks and never revisits if the reason is still valid.
I have long maintained that the NIH should set aside 25% of its budget to fund spot checking of the research output of the remaining 75% of funded research. Even if this funding is only sufficient to review a handful of papers each year, it stands to have a transformative effect on the level of hype and p-hacking in many fields, and could nearly eliminate the rare cases of actual fraud. It would also improve the overall quality and reliability of the literature too.
It’s debated, but the prevailing belief is that it originated to refer to the number of stories. Hence you’ll also see “5-over-2” used fairy commonly as well.
For me its this one ;)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35100297
Partly, but the nature of the job involves days away from home, odd work hours, being called in on short notice, stress ... obviously WFH is not possible. Stuff that a lot of young people just don't want in a job these days. More pay solves everything, up to a point.
Isn’t superposition the quantum physics word for probability distribution?
All the observations are consistent with waves... that change in behavior when you poke them in any way.

Macroscopic waves also change in behavior when you poke them, this is not mysterious. But the relative energy of the poking to the wave on quantum mechanics is huge for out macroscopic standards.
This. I would have been happy to stay in academia forever as a DINK person. Once there was a kid, that option evaporated.
AI tool PSICHIC accelerates drug discovery by predicting interactions
If you fire a single particle between two slits repeatedly, the cumulative places it hits form a wave-like interference pattern, of course.

If you fire a single particle between two slits just once and it still forms a wave-like interference pattern, then surely what is being observed is more than just a probability distribution?
with computers and drone tech, you can get back to "aerospace" for a fraction of the penny as a hobby.
Do you have any idea how long it takes for a technology at a research stage to enter scale production and be commercially viable?
> a utilization of 0.90

Industry standard utilization is 50-60%, not 90%. If it is 90% utilization, you are destined for failure as 10% extra requests even for few seconds would kill your service. And it should be 60% even if service time increases or decreases, so decreasing the service time by half should ideally halve the resources.
the model is probably most of the "secret sauce" of cody, so if they gave that away people could just copy it around like mp3s. my guess
What can GPT do that’s interesting without a human in the loop doing the prompting?

Understand what the human in the loop doing the prompting is asking for, for one thing.

The magical aspects of LLMs are on the input side, not the output.
Load scheduling driven by price incentives (namely hot water) is already the largest flexibility source in France iirc. I’m not sure that there is much difference between price-driven flexibility and smart grids though (in that most of the benefit is captured by communicating prices ahead of time rather than dynamic load modulation)
I quit a high pay/low cost of living job to move to a high pay high cost of living job when I was young. The skills, connections, experience I got were great but eventually it was clear I wasn't on a path for long term happiness in that city. I then quit that high pay/high cost of living job to move to a low cost of living area. I bought a house, which was unattainable in hcol area. I ended up getting promoted to comparable pay after a few years. I am now planning to go from leader to individual contributor role soon. I have saved enough in retirement accounts to still retire early, but I'm not in a hurry because my partner wants to work another decade or so and generally be stable while we raise kids.

you might Google and read up on the concept of "coast fire", which is essentially front loading retirement savings then working lower paying jobs while you let your savings compound.
Yeah, I hoped to get it on the cancel screen but the only offer I got was 2 free months. I'll try again in 2 months :) [USA here too]

Maybe I could also look at another location? My YouTube sub is from Venezuela.
Nanoassembled multilayer graphene plus structure is probably already doable?

- "Towards Polymer-Free, Femto-Second Laser-Welded Glass/Glass Solar Modules" (2024) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10443029 .. "Femtosecond Lasers Solve Solar Panels' Recycling Issue"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40325433

- "A self-healing multispectral transparent adhesive peptide glass" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07408-x .. "Self-healing glass from a simple peptide – just add water" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40677095

- "High-strength, lightweight nano-architected silica" (2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642... .. "A New Wonder Material Is 5x Lighter—and 4x Stronger—Than Steel"
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a44725449/new-mater... ..

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253573 :

> maybe glass on quantum dots in synthetic DNA, and then still wave function storage and transmission; scale the quantum interconnect

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38608859 re: 2DPA-1 polyamide :

>> However, in the new study, Strano and his colleagues came up with a new polymerization process that allows them to generate a two-dimensional sheet called a polyaramide. For the monomer building blocks, they use a compound called melamine, which contains a ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms. Under the right conditions, these monomers can grow in two dimensions, forming disks. These disks stack on top of each other, held together by hydrogen bonds between the layers, which make the structure very stable and strong.

If not glass or polyamide 2DPA-1,

Maybe aerogels? Can high-carbon aerogels be lased into multilayer graphene circuits?
> There's still a surprising amount of resistance for some reason.

It's not surprising at all; it's a perfectly rational unwillingness to treat our current quantum mechanics (and not even relativistic quantum field theory, but non-relativistic QM, which is already known to be just an approximation) as though it were an exactly complete fundamental theory.
Newly deciphered papyrus describes 'miracle' performed by 5-year-old Jesus
Some years back I went from full-time (5 day work week) to part-time (3 day work week). For me it was absolutely worth it. My mindset and lifestyle are that of an artist: I spend all my free time writing, coding, drawing, composing music, cooking, and just generally building stuff. Money is not an issue because I don't buy anything other than what I need to survive. I'm aware I'm not the norm.
I mean, I'm pretty sure rats also have a theory of mind. My data point is exactly one of the little buggers who used to be my pet. Whenever he was running around my room, he'd peek around to see if I was looking at him before jumping on the couch. If he couldn't see me, he'd jump. If he could, he wouldn't.
btw, battery charging is a lossy process too. Oft-quoted 90% figure for power supply conversion efficiency compounds.
It's more complicated than a probability distribution (e.g. the wave can have a negative amplitude), but it's not very far from it.
I think if we devoted only 1% to this it would be a huge improvement.
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that's not what's happening here. What jccalhoun is describing is actually a reduction in the cost of living. The younger people from the city are moving from the city because the town is cheaper. They didn't move before the aparments were built because the detached homes in the suburb were too expensive.

What's happening is two things 1) that people in detached homes in the middle of town the who aren't willing to live in apartments are seeing costs go up (because their land is more valuable) and 2) more people from the town are working it the city.

Of these two thing, I'd say that #2 is generally bad, but also orthogonal to building apartments. It just happens to be that they often happen together.
"Building a platform", patience
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40678796
I'm not trying to sell anybody on it, but it was certainly the right choice for me. Maybe it's just that I'm, burned out, in my forties, and I would rather make widgets all day than learn another framework.
This is not about trust. Its about ease of use and not wanting to learn to do anything complicated. Like using encryption or something more complicated than a Facebook feed.

Try taking to normal people. They will find their pitchforks if you mention encryption and privacy.
https://x.com/safbf/status/1803154724415287513 Not dead
"Shameful and sad that Valeria Chomsky had to deny news of Noam Chomsky’s death over the phone here in Brazil, because a bunch of places decided to publish pre-written obituaries and posts at the first online rumour."
I think the grant application provided a strong case of benefit from the fraud, likely why it succeeded.

(I agree... fraud is fraud, and should be handled with criminal law)
Yes it's likely that such things could never be built in Miami, but the comment of "nowhere" is more what I'm referencing.
Nearly all of it. You need a lot of pictures without cats to explain what a cat is.
> As far as all joint accounts vs having individual accounts, I think if has to do with how you view marriage. Is it a single whole, or is it a joined pair of individuals.

Your point is a good one, and I agree with your overall thrust; but if you'll permit a deeply nerdy analogy, we can model this as a concurrency problem. Is it better for two threads of a single process to manage access to shared resources via mutexes and shared memory, or by message-passing between separate arenas? Naturally, we have to say that "it depends".
That's pretty cool. Kudos DeepComputing, Framework, et al.

Tenstorrent is supposed to be delivering a "high-end" RISC-V CPU soon/this year... Don't know what it will look like, but one can dream: It's Jim Keller, after all. If RISC-V is going to blow up general purpose computing he'll probably be making the explosives.

And then one can imagine a Framework mainboard running it.

The DeepComputing launch page[1] reads:
WORLD'S FIRST RISC‑V LAPTOP GATS A MASSIVE UPGRADE AND EQUIPS WITH UBUNTU

Am I suffering a lingo mishap or is that a rather obvious typo?

[1] https://deepcomputing.io/
Oh Thanks! Should have known I was missing something basic :-)

edit: btw - thats a REALLY nice explanation :-)

Thanks
Statement by President of Signal app about EU chat control for mass scanning
A Sense of Rebellion — A Podcast Series by Evgeny Morozov
Retractions don’t imply wrongdoing, but they are not that common so they look very bad.
Would it be possible to remote-control a bicycle like you can remote-control a drone?
It mentions the device is open source. On their page https://github.com/murexrobotics/electrical/tree/main/networ... which is linked to from the techspot .....

The documentation link ( https://docs.murexrobotics.com/elec/boards/switch ) gives a "404 This page cannot be found"
Yes, and I think people take exactly the wrong lesson from pointing to worse places. Seeing pervasive surveillance should be taken as a warning about where we don’t want to go, not as a new limit. Having secret, private versions of everything the Chinese government is openly doing isn’t better, but that seems to be the trend.
> Ideas like entangling with the experiment and the decoherence of quantum states are very well-established.

Yes, but neither of those explains why we observe measurements to have single results. The MWI "explains" that by saying that actually, measurements have all possible results (which is what a straightforward application of the Schrodinger equation says), but we don't experience that, we experience a single result in each branch of the overall entangled wave function.

This "explanation" is treated with skepticism by many because it is completely different from how we treat individual branches of an entangled superposition in any other context besides "measurement". Normally, when two quantum systems are in an entangled superposition, we say that neither of them individually has any well-defined state at all; only the total joint system containing both of them does. We don't say that each branch of the entangled superposition is a different "world" in which each individual system has a well-defined state. The MWI has to claim that somehow when a "measurement" involved we can say that.
I left a large corporate job to start my own business: I ended up going 18 months without income, and then working for a startup.

In my case, I really needed to be "in control" of my day-to-day work for awhile. A part of me regrets the lost income, because my investments that I used to live on would have gone bonkers; but I was in a situation at my old job that was quickly getting unhealthy.

So what I'll say is:

1: There's a lot to be said for making gobs of money when you're young. If you can tough it out for XX more months and invest gobs of money, those investments might help you retire much younger than you think. (And at that point, you don't need to show up for work.) (To put it in perspective: I missed out on a rather lucrative investment because I lived on my savings for 18 months and didn't have the spare cash to invest.)

2: There's a lot to be said for work satisfaction. You might need to "scale back" a bit: Drive a Toyota instead of a Lexus, have a more modest home, ect.

In my case, I don't regret quitting my job to start a business. I regret certain mistakes I made with the business, but those are critical lessons that I'll use if/when I ever work in a "low income" stage of a startup again.
It's important to recognize that the only thing that matters is how big of a bag you can get. Making money is the only point of tech. Get in, get your bag, and get out!
Montreal first Canadian city to ban golf course pesticides
If wrongdoing is the same as intentional deceit, I would guess there are some that were not intentional, but instead driven by incompetence or simple mistakes.

Fraudulent/doctored images don't fall in to the incompetence/mistake category though.

Some types of mistakes/incompetence: improperly applied statistics, poor experiment design, faulty logic, mistakes in data collection.
From experience, counting small stock (10s of pieces) in a warehouse allowed me to zone out into a high fidelity mental landscape.

At one point I was doing my job and vividly hallucinating what I was going to do in dwarf fortress later that evening.

Honestly one of the trippiest experiences I’ve had and a sign that I should probably be applying my mental abilities to something else, which I did eventually.
I'm referring to the internet, not the whole of human existence. That would be too complicated a subject to make any such simplistic statements on. But actually I also disagree with your premise that we don't have small corrupt groups already deciding what's "best" for everyone, WRT the internet or life as a whole. Just because they're openly motivated by greed doesn't make them less harmful. It's the cabals atop Google and Facebook which ushered in an age of absolute surveillance on a mass scale, how cool and fun.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40721115
Does this mean that stem cells cannoot become any type of cell? Certainly this should have been easy to test over the last 22 years?
Have a similar story.

Was a front-end developer, then tried to go full-stack and it was just too much to deal with. I worked at a huge corporation and the team I was on was full of the "rock star" types - like you said, always chasing the latest thing. I finally had to get out when someone said, "Bruh, you still use Angular? Pfffft, SVELTE is where its now, you're practically a dinosaur!" Same thing, it became so consuming trying to know the coolest thing instead of just being able to build something robust, accessible and easy to use. I look back now and just think how bizarre that mindset is.

I moved into accessibility and love it. I'm further up the chain and work closely with business owners and designers which is really fun to work with and I get to indulge the UI/UX side of my brain now.

I'm doing the same thing. I do some fun dev stuff on the side and have a few freelance clients I work with to keep a nice side income coming in. I have a lot less gray hair now and actually enjoy having free time to decide what I want to work on and when I want to work on it. My wife says I hardly ever complain about my job now so I got that going for me, which is nice.
Not really sure why this take is controversial. Protecting your assets is the prudent thing to do. Sure, you don't earn yield from buried gold or non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, so it's a suboptimal investment vehicle, but every person should have a backup plan for when the IRS or Family Courts come knocking.
Argument of running out of data is kind of stupid.

We have billions of cameras, microphones and IMU/GPS sensors. In-fact one in almost every pocket and desk.

Survival requires intelligence being energy and resource efficient.

Those who build the most powerful and useful models that run locally on edge and are data efficient have a higher chance of winning.

Whoever provides the cheapest fastest most useful models will keep on winning.
Increasing housing density is a great thing and I'm all for it. That said I wish that cheapo stick framed buildings weren't the only way to get it done.

In my experience, living in a multistory stick framed building usually means absolutely zero sound isolation from neighbors which can lead to some really frustrating situations. It was night and day better when I moved into an apartment building from the 60s with the levels made of concrete.