skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to recreate an account just to reply to this discussion because I'm so appalled by its content. At the time of me writing this, 99% of the comment here are complaining about UTC moving to keep track of solar time or smugly arguing that we shouldn't do that.

Different time standards exist. International Atomic Time (TAI) is a strictly monotic clock based on the average of multiple atomic clocks throughout the world. UTC is defined as a tweaking of TAI to approximate UT1, a rough definition of which would be the historic mean solar time at longitude 0. UTC shifts TAI to be within one second of UT1. That's both its definition and the whole point of it even exising. I repeat, it UTC didn't track solar time, it would have no reason whatsoever to even exist.

If you want TAI, just use that. Stop complaining that UTC is not it.
There is no python runtime running on the 6502 hardware, and no Python semantics at runtime whatsoever. Python code is only executed on the host system during compilation. Python's role here is a glorified macro assembler.
The river is the Sarasvati.
I've heard others say similar things. Apparently, how good or bad it was depends a great deal on where you are.

Around here, following the digital switchover, most people could no longer receive all stations, but which ones depended on exactly where they were. And those that can be received are of exceedingly low quality. Very heavily compressed and relatively low resolution. But each station now provides multiple streams.

On the positive side, that did help me finally stop watching TV entirely!
Because this is an assembler with python being used as the macro language. No actual python code runs on the target.
I'm not an expert on batteries but why are sodium batteries not a thing? It seems sodium would be much easier to procure across the Earth than lithium.
There is a common refrain about the Armstrong era "all the top guys were taking them so it's fair" but it's not really accurate. Because yes, the people at the top were all taking them, but that's because the clean guys that _would_ have been at the top otherwise aren't there: the prevalence of doping meant that you had to dope to even be in the conversation at that level, and so the clean athletes that might have won otherwise aren't coming in 18th, they're at home on the couch or they're racing at the pro-conti level.

For example, Greg LeMond won the TdF in 1990. In 1991 he came 7th, and then never completed it again. There is some complication here because of the hunting accident he suffered in '87, but he also said "The speeds were faster and riders that I had easily outperformed were now dropping me", and the guy who won in 1991 was Indurain who was basically the first mega-doper.

Without EPO and blood doping becoming prevalent, does Greg LeMond compete for a few more years? Do other guys with similar talent who aren't willing to dope also make it to that top level. I think the answer is probably yes, and so all those guys who doped are responsible for excluding those clean athletes from the top level.
Has anyone (Proton included) talked about their E2EE encryption claims for this web-based document editor? My understanding of E2EE on the web is that it's as much marketing hype as it is true security, given that they can freely break it at any time they please.

Have they actually attempted to solve any problems associated with this space or are they just claiming it and getting the marketing points?
Mechanical doping, a problem so wide-spread that only one person at the elite level has ever been found to have been doing it. To date, no one has ever provided hard evidence of another rider using a motor. I am not saying that this doesn't happen at the amateur level (it certainly does) but to imply that this is a pervasive problem in elite cycling is little more than a baseless conspiracy theory until someone shows up with some actual evidence of motors being used in major events.

Ghost in the Machine [1] is a great podcast on this topic.

[1] https://play.pocketcasts.com/discover/podcast/de6ba1d0-9132-...
Thread yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40860363
Hmmm... According to the benchmark configuration they used powersave mode. In general you want to use a fixed frequency when benchmarking, not frequency scaling.
If you like IPAs or light beer, NA beer is having a renaissance. Dark beer, not so much.
The lack of $100-$150 usb-c hubs with 3.2 speeds and enough ports is already an issue...
The article does not define what "confusion" means in this context. Does it mean that people are confused about what their criteria for mate selection are? About who is available as a potential partner? About what kinds of relationships are desirable?
Also a paying customer, I'd like it if they would email an invoice every month instead of me needing to go login to the web UI and dig for it when I do my monthly tax reporting.
The performance difference between cheaper bikes and top end bikes won’t make the difference in being a successful cyclist.

Anyone can pick up a bike and start training and racing in competitions and be talent scouted in the same way that you would in football, it’s what happens here in Australia.

Yes a football is cheaper than a bike, but it’s not 0.0001% type stuff like Formula 1. Where you legitimately need to pay millions just to get a look in.

Theres plenty of people on $8,000 bikes I pass on my 8 year old bike worth $2,000.
I'm always open to change my mind, but I struggle to see the relevance of that in this context.

Are there timezone areas in the world which change their UTC differential fluidly throughout the year and by the yard to pin midday to the highest position of the sun?

I'll definitely say that that'd not only surprise me but blow my mind if true!

If there isn't ... Then what was your point?
What do you consider "AI"? Because machine learning models have been deployed in enterprise systems for years. Video processing, security, data labeling, sentiment analysis. The sexiest one I can think of in recent memory is nVidia DLSS.
It doesn’t matter which definition you pick. I e.g. had it defined axiomatically when I studied, i.e. we were given a list of properties which identify exp unambiguously and then we were given a proof of its existence. The fact that those properties were part of the definition doesn’t take away from their profoundness. The function could still just not exist. Same thing with defining by formulas. The map is not the territory.
"if you’re not seeing enough resistance, in most cases, you can just keep driving downward until you do" -> "Many have said similar about their code" -> "works on my box"

How does this make sense or have any coherency?
> What's the rationale behind releasing yet another half-baked product?

I suspect they're attempting to build up an attractive package for business customers, competing with the likes of O365 and G-Suite. There's probably a lot more money in that than in personal email hosting.
> If you're running an ecom shop with a lot of product pages, expect a large portion of traffic to be bots and scrapers.

It's crazy; I registered a new website last month, and every day I get around ~200 visitors, for a landing page only! This site is not mentioned or advertised anywhere. The only list where you might find it is in the newly registered domains.
Is there a consumer protection agency in your country? Or a similar regulator?

Or the equivalent of small claims court?

If I were you, I'd never order anything off the internet without credit card chargeback protection. Especially from a random marketplace. Amazon's marketplace is full of counterfeits and such.
I don't think I ever met a single woman in person. Like literally a married woman asked me out at one point (though I had to figure the married part out on my own).
I have always been uncomfortable with the way strategy is tossed around, a little skeptical of its emphasis.

But I thought strategy was more of the what/why and tactics was more how?
I actually think it's their best (in-house) product (and SimpleLogin from the acquired products).
They do systematic checks for the winner, whoever has suspicious performance jumps one day, as well as random racers. They do take it very seriously and what you are saying is a bit far from the truth.

Some people will try, and some scandals will happen, sure. But it is not a widespread problem and is unlikely to become one.

See here, for example: https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-racing/tour-de-fran...
Tell me you live in California without telling me you live in California. A non-exhaustive list of EV limitations that have not been addressed:

* The charging network is still splintered between a couple different standards, and even taken as a totality which isn't reflective of how it functions to a particular user, it's still woefully inadequate next to gas stations

* They still get obliterated by cold weather. Having to run electrical heaters both for the cabin/passengers and for the energy cells absolutely murders range, which is already the biggest issue with them.

* You throw out "lithium batteries without cobalt" as though lithium itself isn't a major part that requires sourcing and that we have a finite supply of, a ton of which is still being utterly wasted on single-use products because the market is absolutely stupid in certain key ways that libertarians like to ignore.

* The time required to charge an EV is just not acceptable for long-distance driving. It's just not. I can fill my 30 gallon V8 truck with gas in 5 minutes. The F-150 lightning takes TEN HOURS to charge. That's just not going to work. And if you're towing something a good distance? Hopeless. Utterly hopeless.
Predator vs prey i thought too
now do it in Russia. or be Uighur in China. or maybe talk about Tienanmen?
That's an interesting way to do a checksum
I find that some people tend to doomscroll here much like how people do on twitter or tiktok. Hackletter only filters by the articles that are trending that day.
That's fairly rare, when you consider the massive amount of open source. There's also many good examples of open core projects.
I'm not sure I'd call it a losing battle. But, I agree vigilance is necessary.

But, I also view anti-doping measures as more of a safety issue than a fairness issue (maybe 60/40-ish). First priority - prevent athletes (and their coaches/sponsors) killing or crippling themselves with chemicals. Second order - guarantee some baseline level of fairness (because without it, the fans go elsewhere).

This isn't really different than rules in motor racing. Gotta keep the drivers safe first, and keep the race entertaining (nobody outside Italy wants to see two Ferraris dominate every F1 GP).
Curious, what is harmony?
Pill version has been out for some time and personally I'd prefer the jab over pill because pill needs to be taken to empty stomach and you can't eat it drink for half an hour after it, every day. Jab on the other hand, takes a few minutes, doesn't even sting and you need to do it only once a week.
Proton Pass supports Credit Cards as a paid feature!
Long term, LLMs are not going to create more actual value than the sum of their costs and negative externalities. Bookmark this comment and check me in 5 years.
I wouldn't go so far as a sibling commenter and so that most academic research is irreproducible bullshit. But academic research does tend to be chewing-gum-and-baling-wire products that are meant to hold together just long enough to get the necessary results. The rate-limiting step of turning academic research into useful products is "let's flip through all the academic research to find interesting papers," it's "figure out how to make this very-barely-works academic product usable on anything other than the exact things they did for the results section."

And, to be blunt, I have never seen anyone pitch an AI project to do that. AI pitches, even today, are almost invariably solving problems that are already decently solved (search is essentially a solved problem). And most of their proponents have shown no willingness to the practitioners telling them what the actual problems they need better solutions for.
I think we already do pressure artists into “productive” work - it’s very hard to make a living as an artist. I personally would like more art around my life!
I don't think anybody else would describe an ideology as a collection of rituals.
>One ritual involved tying something that belonged to a sick person to the end of a throwing stick smeared in human or kangaroo fat. The stick was thrust into the ground before a small fire was lit underneath.

>"The mulla-mullung would then chant the name of the sick person, and once the stick fell, the charm was complete," a Monash University statement said.
The Employee Ownership 100: America's Largest Majority Employee-Owned Companies (2023)
No, not really. These motors exist, but it’s not really a thing on the Tour de France. And I only mention this race because I am not much of a devotee and don’t really follow the others, but I would expect quite a lot of noise if it were a thing in the other big races.
Do you mean… codeweavers crossover?
Meh- people have done without the trappings of modern society, with varying levels of comfort, for thousands of years.
Probably a case to be made for doing that. At least with martial arts/combat sports, American football, and probably rugby (mostly related to brain damage, not broken bones/joints).
I think they now have 3 carrier groups out in the world at the same time. each of these is basically enough to best a foreign military excluding nukes.
spot on. furthermore, weak analysis.

best article on the subject is prolly https://hbr.org/2018/04/your-strategic-plans-probably-arent-...
>Don't blame the tool when someone misuses the tool.

Sure, but just like when finding the fault with everything indicates the fault is in you if almost everyone misuses a tool the fault is in the tool.
1 + (-0.1) = 0.9

(2e)^(-0.1) = 0.844243...

The former is not <= the latter.
There goes the draft Cuomo movement.
Do you sponsor Visa? I am in India right now.
Oh, lord. The butter robot ...
Pydantic models are significantly more heavyweight than dataclasses -- They serve as validators as opposed to dataclasses, which are primarily just tools for managing structured data. Both are important problems, but they are different.

The power of Pydantic models comes with benefits in terms of what they're able to do out of the box. But this comes at a significant cost of speed, which does matter for some applications. There are plenty of applications where it simply doesn't make sense to validate types every time you stand up a class.

Sure you can turn some of that off with Pydantic, etc, etc, but the fact that dataclasses don't require a third party install and are efficient and easy out of the box makes them useful and non-duplicative.
> What's the rationale behind releasing yet another half-baked product?

New product often means new segment of customers they can go after. Whereas refining existing ones will help reduce the churn.

Their sales/marketing pitch gets that much better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abecedarium
The article doesn't say explicitly these are high performance non rare earth magnets.

Niron uses synthetic tetrataenite (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrataenite) which is a fascinating material. Until a recent 2021 discovery it was believed that you could make it easily, but you'd need to let it cool slowly around 30,000 years! Only a few kg existed on earth from meteors.

But iron nitride Fe3N would also be a similarly good and less exotic choice.

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/01/iron-nitrides-powerful-magne...
Where are you getting that from? The article states it was a healing ritual -- the ritual was something done to someone who was already sick. Presumably...to make them better. I have no idea where you got the idea that it was intended as a curse.
Pretty accurate predictions about Linux servers, startups, and remote work.
Recipients who do not have a Proton account need to create a free or paid Proton account to access the shared content. The email invitation includes a link to the Proton sign-up page.

Once account creation is successful, they will receive another email with the link that allows them to access the file.
I mean yeah, pretty much every meta-analysis says this, even when they produce high quality comprehensive evidence.

The reality is that labs employ people who have families to feed, and the PI's primary job is to keep money rolling in so people can keep being paid. We are now generations removed from scientists being largely upper-class hobbyists who seek to advance humanity or make a mark on the world.

Modern science is an industrial complex that produces research papers as a product.
Alyx doesn’t use models that look like cheese left in a hot car.
At 250w average during a 5 hour ride I'm burning like 1000 calories per hour or something mething close. Glycogen reserves are 2000 calories from a quick Google search, so that's 3k calories I need to make up for or 600 per hour. I'm sure there's a bunch of stuff I'm missing but 400 definitely makes more sense than 200
You're right, I forgot geo blocking entirely as all services I've used it on added mitigations over the years.

The last time I've successfully used a VPN for that was around 2015, but there might be services around (which I just dont use) that can still be unlocked by changing the IP, so that'd be a valid usecase for a few people
The WWE didn't invent it, they perfected it.
NFL fans don’t want to watch flag football, generally
There’s a military historian who’s blog posts show up on this site occasionally (because he does fun nerdy stuff like analyze videogames and fantasy novels). I always thought his note on strategy vs tactics was great:

> We should start by returning to our three levels of military analysis: tactics, operations and strategy. We’ve dealt with tactics (how you fight) and operations (where you fight, and how you get there). Strategy is an often misunderstood term: most ‘strategy’ games (especially real-time strategy) are actually focused almost entirely on tactics and operations; as a rule, if ‘don’t have a war’ isn’t an option, you are not actually doing strategy. Likewise, a lot of basic planning in business is termed ‘strategy’ when it really is tactics; not a question of goals, but of means to achieve those goals. Because strategy is the level of analysis that concerns why we fight – and thus also why we might not fight. Let’s unpack that.

https://acoup.blog/2020/06/19/collections-the-battle-of-helm...
Yea I found Araxis Merge better than BeyondCompare, FileMerge, DiffForm, and Meld (mostly based on diffing prose rather than code, though).
Interesting, I've seen the opposite. In the US it's hardly played at all, nowhere near something like chess or poker, but a large (relative) percentage of the play that happens is for money, often at absolute nosebleed stakes.
> Either works, but I think going for a dev shop is a bit better because you know the team already knows how to work together, so there is a lot less initial friction.

People working in a dev shop don't give a shit and are generally not skilled enough to work by themselves as a freelancer. Plus the agency always doubles the prices. Never go with a dev shop you get worse people for higher prices and in the end nobody there gives a crap.
Yeah, in language that suits HN, formal poetic structure amounts to error correction in oral tradition.

It dramatically narrows the possibilities of what idea or word or sound or whatever could fit in any particular place in the verse, making it easier to memorize and accurately recite. Clever (and some blundering) poets and changes in language still set up these recitations to evolve away from whatever they originally were, but the original seeds linger a long, long time.
Personal preference admittedly, but I much prefer Kagan and so far, Jackson. Sotomayor, like Alito and sometimes Thomas but generally not the rest, strikes me as purely results-oriented. The Chief justice is results-oriented in a different way. I think the reasoning matters more than the outcome, but I understand that not everyone does.

Kagan's also a much better writer.
I heard it's because they can't do Initial Coin Offerings and just sell the coins to fund the project anymore, but they still need to distribute their coin to try to get usage going. So instead they "airdrop" it around in the hopes people will pick it up and use it. Maybe even if you sell it you're still helping someone else to buy the coin.
That's not how I understood it. From the article:

> "The mulla-mullung would then chant the name of the sick person, and once the stick fell, the charm was complete,"

Which to me seems like a healing ritual.
(2023)

Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34520498
Is $2000 really "cheap" though? I personally would need to use a cycle to work scheme, and I consider myself pretty well off. I know people on lower incomes who would find that very off-putting as a barrier to entry. I think you'd need to go to the $150 or less range to be appealing to people in that situation.
Isn't that really sport-dependent?

EPO and other red-cell increasing drugs provide a massive gain for endurance athletes (runners, cyclists, XC skiing). Steroids are a massive gain for strength athletes (sprinters/athletics, contact sports).

Both can be used "safely" or "unsafely" depending on dosage, combinations with other drugs, etc.
You can port forward via a proxy or use a VPN, but both still create traceable signatures. Depending on your country's restrictions, they may or may not really care.

I doubt any country's gonna send people after you for playing a game, but they might add you to a list of some sort and use it to paint you as a subversive if you do anything else questionable.

You can also stream the game from Shadow.tech or similar, where the game runs on their computers and the multiplayer network goes from their data center out to the world, so there's no direct Minecraft connection from your computer to any other. Your network traffic is just to send controller inputs to and receive pixels from the stream provider.
So the UI can respond while the CPU is calculating. Assuming the AI is using some sort of alpha-beta search the CPU also will scale embarrassingly well across multiple threads.
Invulnerable Software (2008) [pdf]
I guess I didn't like being the only lieutenant then lol

It felt like I had authority on paper but not in effect. And nothing was organized and nobody wrote anything down...
The number, which by the common person is to be interpreted as unique viewers, is blatantly absurd.
I consider it important to my career to be sure my skillset doesn't get stale[1]. I don't bother to learn everything that comes down the pike (who could?), but I do keep an eye on things and if it looks like something might end up being in demand, I'll learn it. I don't always forecast correctly, of course.

But I'm a programming polyglot. Learning new languages is pretty easy (if you already know the paradigm of the language, then it's just a matter of syntax), so why not?

[1] It's important to me mostly because learning a new language or other skill often gives me a new understanding or insight into programming overall. Also, having a wide skillset makes me qualified for a wider selection of jobs, making it more likely that I can find one that excites me in some way.
I bet it would be pretty cool to hike to the center of it.
Well, a lot of the scammers are actually slaves, trafficked into Myanmar boiler rooms, by Chinese Tongs.

If AI takes off for this stuff, the gangs are less likely to be kidnapping these poor schlubs.

So … I guess this would be a … positive outcome?

Not sure if AI zealots will be touting it, though.
Combat troops, and especially SOCOM, have lower rates of PTSD than other troops. That data doesn’t seem to align with your guilt hypothesis.
I figured out how to clean out my inbox in 0 minutes with two clever automatic filters/rules: https://blog.leftium.com/2023/11/automatic-inbox-cleanup-wit...