skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was hard to track down a source to confirm a half-remembered fact, but apparently the expansion content will be split between a number of mods so that you can independently enable/disable them, including quality:

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/16ja44x/friday_fa...

Well, assuming they haven't changed their plans in the year since, and won't in the next few months.
Vlogger crosses the Darién Gap, the world’s deadliest migrant route
*RFC - I have this bad habit of using hacker news only on my phone :)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3514
Nah a lot of times lies are very easy to point out and confirm. Lots of things do have absolute facts backing them up and aren’t simply contextual or “opinion”. Saying covid is a virus and can kill people, especially those with weak immune systems is something has absolutely been scientifically proven. Saying “it’s a government hoax and they made it up” is quite easily qualified as a lie by many sources, and it was also something very easily found all through the USA politics during the pandemic. That’s just one example.
Let's reform Alex Trebek's name, it's difficult.
Japan Phases Out Floppy Disks
Fair use doesn't exist in many jurisdictions (where artists may come from). I would assume carpet bombing is easier than surgery.
Requiring account creation to view the program, even see any screenshots or view a description of how it works, will stop most people from proceeding. It immediately triggered my "user-hostile" alarm.
Because that was her job as hiring manager and she personally reviewed them (she made that clear in the post)
Show HN: ScrAI, a first principles AI model for time series forecasting
I wanted to share the whitepaper-style pitch/demo video I made for my company, ScrAI, to get any early feedback from the community here.

We just kicked off a seed round, and while reaching out to investors and networking are now a priority, our biggest priority is getting feedback from potential users. That includes data scientists and analysts doing demand forecasting, market forecasting, economic forecasting, weather forecasting, anomaly detection, and denoising in time series data.

So, for those of you who do time series forecasting:

-What are the biggest challenges you face?

-Given the existence of a tool that has the mathematical machinery to handle complex time series data and make accurate predictions, how would you want to interact with that tool to fit into your workflow? (E.g., would you like it to work in a similar way to calling models in tensorflow?)

-Assuming you watched the video, what challenges do you think we will face? I'd love to hear your opinions and answer any questions.
I don't think we have a software crisis. Millions of programmers are able to create more or less useful programs all over the word; everything including your toaster is running software on it succesfully enough; and the community was able to build programs that are accessible to all from a 5 year old kid all the way to your grandparents. Where is the crisis in it?

However, we have a project management crisis, which is not only limited to software, where people in charge of planning are distanced from people in charge of the delivery. And we don't seem to be able to bridge the gap. Agile, Scrum, whatever are indicators of this gap where "gurus" take all of us as fools and we are not able to produce anything better ourselves.

Commoditization of software development is also contributing to this mess because people of all skill levels can find a way to partake in this activity with results of varying success. This is not good or bad, but just the nature of ease of entry into the field. Not much different than food business where we have both Michelin star restaurants as well as MacDonalds of the world both of which have consumers. But we don't say we have a restaurant crisis.
Look up the copyright drama regarding the Atomium in Brussels.
The purpose is to make sure you have a desperate person you can force worse conditions on.
Homeopathy is total BS, but the placebo effect is real. Is there a way that medical science can allow people to benefit from the latter without rewarding quacks who push the former?
Sync rights are expensive and complicated. Not covered in your Spotify subscription.
Here's an old ad for a later model - the IBM Magnetic Card Selectric typewriter - it demonstrates the functionality pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW_jJjUarp0
Ad Hominem? Or are you just stating that as a fact and not questioning the veracity of the arguement?
> If you have an option to choose, take a look at TSID maintained by Vlad Mihalcea.

TSID:
> A Java library for generating Time-Sorted Unique Identifiers (TSID).

Wouldn't this TSID thing be more useful if it were implemented as a set of PostgreSQL stored procedures or something than a Java library? Not everyone uses Java.
Some people have proposed resetting year 1 to 10,000 years earlier. The current year would be 12024. This way you can have pretty much all of recoded human history in positive dates, while still remaining mostly compatible with the current system. It would certainly be convenient, but I don't expect significant uptick any time soon.

For earlier dates "n years ago" is usually easier, e.g. "The first humans migrated to Australia approximately 50,000 years ago".
The point is that the edge grain cutting board absorbs less liquid, period. You'd like your board to not absorb blood from meat too much while you are cutting it.

As for strength and hardness, for the vast majority of people the difference will be negligible thanks to modern glues. Maybe you'll notice that your knives won't dull as fast with edge grain over end grain.

About the only people it would really matter for are if you need an actual butcher block which is going to be used for chopping continuously for 8 hours every day (do they even use them in commercial facilities still?). However, a genuine butcher block is a very different beast. If you find one it looks like it is made up of a hardwood (like maple) in 1x4ish lumber about 6 to 12 inches long. The rows are dovetailed in one direction and generally held together by a threaded rod in the other since hide glues sucked.

In my experience, modern edge gain boards are a marketing optimization to hide crappy wood. You can use smaller wood chunks and use a lot more glue.
I think if anything it's under-prescribed. Many of my nerd friends growing up showed signs of ADHD, but in adult life very few have taken it. Why? Mostly due to pervasive moral equivalizing "drugs = sinful" that transcends religious boundaries in the US.
- UNIX: everything is a file.

- LISP: everything is a lambda.

- Tandem: everything is a database.

- QNX: everything is a message.

- IBM System/38: everything is a capability.
Presumably that would result in massive amounts of air pollution (much of it probably heavily localized) which would be pretty awful.
Except for a short window around the release of GPT-4 (especially the inflated claims around beating expert trained humans at legal and math tests, as well as "replacing google"), I think people have more or less right-sized their expectations for large language models and generative AI. Clearly it can do interesting and impressive things but it's not superintelligence, and the folks predicting we're just around the corner have been recognized once again as shysters, hucksters, and charlatans. It doesn't help that state of the art ML researches have gotten so good at over-hyping the actual abilities of their technology.

However, I do think we'll continue to see impressive advances in the areas of media consumption and production, with complex reasoning on hard problems being a likely area of improvement in the near (1 decade) future. While I once never expected to see something like HAL in my lifetime, I feel that many aspects of HAL (voice recognition, ship automation, and chess-playing) have been achieved, if not fully integrated into a single agent. We can expect most applications to be banal- the giants who have the largest data piles will train models that continue to optimize the addictivity of social media, and click-thru rates of ads.

I am also quite impressed at the recall of information by language models for highly factual and well-supported things (computer reviews in particular).
One big difference between software and everything else is that software is built on top of other software, on top of other software, in an ever-increasing stack of abstractions and "good enough". This stack grows faster in software than in any other domain, because, as jdbernard said above, there's a lack of physical constraints preventing this from occurring. As this stack grows and grows, more points of failure are introduced, which can cause emergent, unexpected bugs and issues, which are hard to diagnose and pin down, because doing so involves traversing the stack to find the root cause(s).

It's one thing to appreciate the natural world around us and how it all seems to work together flawlessly to provide the reality we all experience together—but that's because it's natural, not artificial, like the world of software we have created. When things work less than perfectly in software, there are human causes behind it, which, once identified, could be resolved in order to improve everyone's lives. But instead, most people share your "good enough—it's a miracle it all works!" mentality, which causes acceptance of any and all software issues, which leads to further issues down the line as we say "good enough" and build yet another layer atop it.
Information space control, like all authoritarian gov't try to do

VPNs allow the people to access content the gov't doesn't control or filter
Reminds me of https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35969734
At what point are we going to accept the fact that China with over a billion people may also develop something more advanced than the west?

We are still pretending that we have the most advanced of everything and can't accept that it may be China worried about the west stealing from them.
This. I can't remember the last time I noticed an ad of any sort, including on the link here.
On what do you store backups that don't rely on an external party?
Americans appear to habitually do this. They'll label the original "UK" but won't relabel their remake. They've done the same with Wilfred and other shows. Just an insular viewpoint.
most people don't drink too little water; you're reasoning from a false premise there

if you do develop this habit, your kidneys adapt by eliminating water faster. this is usually not dangerous in today's world, but it's inconvenient to need to carry around a water bottle and frequently find a bathroom. occasionally it can lead to mild dehydration if your access to water is interrupted for a few hours

also, inevitably, you do lose some salts with all that urine, which you have to replace, so drinking too much water mildly increases the risk of, in particular, hypomagnesemia (hypocalcemia and hypokalemia are much rarer, and you really have to be pounding the water bottle to get hyponatremia; on the plus side, you don't have to worry about being in acute hyponatremia for more than a few hours). these are a little more dangerous for the type of food faddist who believes things like 'drinking more water is good for you' because they're disproportionately likely to also believe that salt is bad for you

drinking extra water can be really dangerous for people with renal insufficiency, because they can get hyponatremia from fairly mild overdoses of water, but generally they're already aware of this problem if they have any access to proper health care at all

so basically it's an addictive habit with mild negative health consequences, similar to eating a low-fat diet, drinking coca-cola, or injecting heroin

under unusual conditions, like going to the black rock desert, continuing to drink when your pee is already clear is actually a good idea, because then you actually can get dehydrated without any urge to drink. but you should probably be drinking stuff with salt in it, like gatorade, though homemade oral rehydration solution is enormously cheaper
Discussion (41 points, 2 days ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40864635

Related:

Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents (83 points, 5 months ago, 88 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203106

Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use (99 points, 2 years ago, 130 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32663995
On MacOS and probably on iPhone as well you can right click text in images and easily search for it.

So Apple users do the obvious low effort thing and just post images instead of text. This is toxic in a similar way to using iMessage instead of something like Whatsapp for group chats.

It makes more people buy Apple so the stock goes up though.
ID can easily be social engineered. What is the security key?
That's because they're attempting to affect what the neural net would actually do after the fact. You are what you eat, doubly so the LLM.
Has anywhere remained anywhere after a couple hundred years of colonization, conquest and migration? This weird idea that populations are, or should be, eternal and unchanging is pure fantasy.
Large eruptions probably would. Short term anyway, they don’t really happen often enough.
you have a tobacco company funding studies under the name "Foundation for a Smoke-Free World" that show smoking is not harmful... what else could go wrong?
I know a few small youtubers who make "walk around" live-stream type videos and they always struggle with music from bars etc. It's always kind of funny when they attempt to talk over the music or start walking faster. Kind of sad how megacorporations can affect our behavior.

I hope this won't spill over to a general deterioration or avoidance of music. People are really good at copying behavior they see from people they see as "authoritative figures" and influencers are that, for young people.
What's the pytorch/ tensorflow/ keras alternative in other languages? Haskell would've been nice...
I don't know if you visited Philip Morris web page [1] lately, but from the content side it talks about smoke-free future, are they playing a two side play to confuse people about their real intents?

[1] https://www.pmi.com/
Another stark reminder of the need for transparency and independence in scientific research. I, however, don't have an easy solution.
I think insert performance is a bad way to evaluate performance here, no? While B-Tree performance for time sorted keys is better on insert, what about during large transactions?

In SQLite, my assumption was that the consensus was towards UUID4 rather than 7 because it meant less likelihood for page cache contention during transaction locks? Would that not also roughly map onto a Postgres-flavored system? Or dues Postgres only have row-level locking?
Isn't B-Tree with UUIDv4 keys getting more balanced than with UUIDv7? Doesn't longer insert time result in faster searches later?
Hmm, depends what you mean by 'fancy'. There is a 'full screen' view of any given report: https://demo.sqlexplorer.io/50/?fullscreen=1&rows=1000&query...

And it can do PDF export (with a plugin).

Would love to hear what you have in mind?
conditioned in buddhism refers to the fact that anything that exists, originates from something else.

so any one thing you examine will be “conditioned” on the previous things that cause it to appear

cause and effect basically

this has some philosophical implications, since all you are as a person is a bundle of emotions, mental patterns, etc that are ultimately conditioned

this leads to the buddhist view of no self, where there isn’t something that makes you “you”. just a bunch of responses to stimuli. some of those responses are thoughts of a self.
The relation to hackers is that you're going to have a hacking cough after you do it for 20 years
Current employers should use the same system for master software engineers as those guys did with yeast. You've created some valuable codebase for IBM, why not just bring all the source code with you when Microsoft comes calling.
Yes, very. ML and LLM has its specific uses, but every company is slapping “AI” onto everything and it’s so stupid. Have you heard about the AI rice cooker…?[1]

You might enjoy the talk Adam Conover had with Ed Zitron[2]; I found it quite cathartic.

1: https://ifdesign.com/en/winner-ranking/project/ai-rice-cooke...

2: https://youtu.be/T8ByoAt5gCA
Amazing! Thanks so much!
What doe NR stand for ?
Things like "17th century", "1600s", or "1990s" are rarely exact dates, and almost always fuzzy. It really doesn't matter what the exact start and end day is. If you need exact dates then use exact dates.

A calendar change like this is a non-starter. A lot of disruption for no real purpose other than pleasing some pedantics.
> We worked hard to get the sulfur compounds out of our fuels... What if that was a long term mistake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...

> Stratospheric aerosol injection is a proposed method of solar geoengineering (or solar radiation modification) to reduce global warming. This would introduce aerosols into the stratosphere to create a cooling effect via global dimming and increased albedo, which occurs naturally from volcanic winter.

Also read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/ (you can find snippets of the NOVA program about)

> Perhaps we should be putting extra sulfur in our jet fuels.

Kind of... though it's an interesting thing. https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-airplane-contrails-are-he...

I recall a suggestion that jets should "run rich" which would increase the water vapor in the exhaust and create more contrails in combination with eliminating redeye flights so that contrails aren't formed at night (allowing more radiative escape)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening

> Marine cloud brightening also known as marine cloud seeding and marine cloud engineering is a proposed solar radiation management climate engineering technique that would make clouds brighter, reflecting a small fraction of incoming sunlight back into space in order to offset anthropogenic global warming. Along with stratospheric aerosol injection, it is one of the two solar radiation management methods that may most feasibly have a substantial climate impact.
This is a much better approach, I like it. Does anyone have a demo videos of this actually being used from when it was in beta? The demo in the video about the feature doesn't demo the results, just the UI.
Of course, we are almost on the cusp of the Butlerian Jihad :)
I'm not sure.

Quantum computing is based on a series of scientific breakthroughs and still needs quite a few scientific and technological breakthroughs in several domains before it becomes viable for cryptography (in other fields, we're much closer), in addition to lots of custom hardware.

It's extremely rare (and unpredictable) for a scientist to achieve any kind of breakthrough entirely on their own. They need to exchange ideas with other scientists from all over the world. So you pretty much need your scientists are to do their research largely in public – it _might_ be possible to emulate this if you have a large enough number of scientists on some kind of secret campus, but you'll need to make sure that you're hiring top scientists and you're hurting their ability to both learn and teach the future top scientists you're also going to need and their disappearance from the public track will attract lots of attention.

Add to this the custom hardware, which will quite often come from another country, and it's really hard to keep the big things secret.
1Password accounts have a password and a security key/token you need to login.
I'm confused.

If you're part of an organized evacuation, you're doing this before the storm -- correct?

And if that's the case, then: It doesn't matter how long an EV will or will not run the stuff inside of your home, because you won't be there.
It’s just greenwashing but for tobacco
5 rounds in 1 day, with a lunch break in between. For a bog-standard developer IC role.
I know a lady with Downs who was born into a wacky Christian family. She's at the end of the spectrum where she just seems a bit odd if you don't know what to look for. The wacky Christian family is important because since she had downs she wasn't expected to breed. And that meant she went to college, got a degree in music. Developed a career in music. Eventually married a divorced Jewish guy with two kids. That would have been completely unacceptable if she didn't have Downs.

She's way way way happier than her sisters.
What I don't get about homeopathy is that there's not even a plausible mechanism for it to work. So research into its effectiveness is like studying how well rocks repel tigers[1]. It seems necessary to show that a homeopathic "medicine" is substantially different than plain old water first.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4GzMizVAl-0&pp=ygUTc2ltcHNvbnM...
It was created by Brit. Not hard to see how Thatcher and Reagan would be fans.
UUIDs are guaranteed to be unique?

They often use tricks like including the MAC address of the generator machine and other ways to increase uniqueness assurances.

It was my understanding that uuids are simply very very unlikely to duplicate in situations with random generation.
Corporations, as entities, don't often act to their own detriment. The people in them, trapped, often, in moral contradiction, will find ways of expressing their discomfort in ways that are profitable for the corporation. Somebody working their could genuinely believe they are doing their best to help others, because considering the alternative might cost them their job.
The 2021 Texas ice storm and related power outages would have been one where driving to Oklahoma City or Shreveport would have been a place to go to. That also would have significantly reduced that theoretical 230ish mile range of a Lightning or similar EV.

Lake Dallas dam breaking after major flooding in the Trinity River would cause quite a bit of destruction in DFW and potentially make things pretty unlivable around here and force a lot of people out of here and into the surrounding areas. Also an event that wouldn't necessarily be seen days ahead of time.

I grew up in South Houston, so I had a number of times of hurricanes coming through and not necessarily destroying my house but making the surrounding areas pretty unlivable for days to weeks. Maybe it gets cleaned up enough in a couple of days, maybe it doesn't.
it's literally the same thing. anyone who claims otherwise is uninformed.
Yes, someone without ADHD will have a vastly different experience to someone with ADHD. People without almost always talk about the burst of energy and happiness (flow of dopamine) following by a wired effect (heart racing, poor sleep, etc), while people with ADHD tend to experience a calming, quieting effect.
Startup Claimed Its Blood Transfusions Could Reverse Aging. Then, FDA Stepped In
>Seeing the picture of a building is not the same as seeing the actual building.

Sure, I agree with this.

>Hearing a piece of music is the same as hearing the piece of music.

Gonna disagree there; in the same way that looking at a picture of something isn't the same as looking at something, hearing a recording of a performance is not the same as being present for the performance.

The Treachery of Images, as Magritte called it.
What if many forks were made of salt? [video]
You can now buy salt fork from previous salt fork viral video.
News for Hackers. Nothing that makes it to the front page isn't for us.
Meloni’s party in Italy seems to be anti Russian, so presumably they’d rather give money to their competitors / coalition partners like Lega.

I’m sure they’d be supporting far left parties as well (they probably do to some extent) like back in the day if they had any chances..