skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> The researchers sampled air, water, snow, soil and sediment near manufacturing plants in Minnesota, Kentucky, Belgium and France. The bis-FASI concentrations in these samples were commonly at very high levels.

As expected, this is a manufacturing and recycling issue, which is not terribly hard to improve. People have known for ages to not throw a standard car battery in the trash can, for example. They even get money back for the “core”.
This reminds of the way the S-Bahn system works through central Berlin. Several different lines all converge on the same route through the heart of the city, providing "adequate" service intervals to their actual endpoints, but as a side effect, 90 sec departures in the city itself.

It's like a magic trick!
I did exactly that and now I'm in the process of being fired because my boss was pressured into snitching on their team members that don't comply. So, YMMV. :P
No, I think it’s a source for the claim and not the actual evidence of what they spent it on.
I don’t like to do my hair or dress very well so seeing people vaping is a relief for me.
Parent's point is that the hardware is perfectly able to identify you, but we choose not to.

In 2024 having a card reader is indeed not that great, but I still have the one given by my bank ~20 years ago, as it's a strong factor which I can use to set up weaker second factors (typically push notification to the mobile app, nowadays).

We could imagine several ways people link their real, physical government ID to a trusted device. Every smart phone has had a built-in security key for the past 5 years or so. Banks have to check your ID at some point due to KYC. We could kill multiple birds with one stone.
Building an inverted index is actually very cpu intensive. I think we are the fastest on that (if someone knows something faster than tantivy at indexing I am interested).

I'd be really surprised if you can make a 10x improvement here.
Also give Pico-8 and Tic-80 a chance.
Apple are the ones responsible for a lot of this subscription nonsense. They went around (had meetings with top devs) and convinced developers that they should switch to a subscription model. That's about when the narrative of the starving software dev came out as well.
Steam engines and gears were used for explaining the mind as well but those turned out to be incorrect metaphors.
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Sorry, I can't really function in an environment that thrives in this kind of duplicity.
I hardly ever shop at Amazon anymore because (1) so many of the product listings are word salad, and (2) I've complained and they tell me they don't care.

I opened a Facebook account to use with a Meta Quest 3; I haven't otherwise used Facebook or added friends but it generates a feed for me anyway that looks like subprime spam from after the heat death, on a level of "sketchy" well past the come-ons for pig butchering scams I get on Skype.
The best Debian-based desktop Linux distro today is Linux Mint. There are versions based on Ubuntu but LMDE is based on Debian. Linux Mint is friendlier, easier to use, and is closer to the "it just works" ethos than Ubuntu and doesn't have Snaps (by default). It also supports multiple desktops such as Cinnamon, XFCE and MATE. You can also manually install other desktops such as KDE Plasma.
When it comes to TZCNT vs BSF, they are just compatible enough for a new compiler to use unconditionally (if we assume that BSF with a zero input leaves its output register unchanged, as it has for decades, and as documented by AMD who defined LZCNT): the instruction sequence

MOV ECX, 32
TZCNT ECX, EAX ; i.e. REP BSF ECX, EAX

behaves identically on everything from the original 80386 up and is better on superscalars with TZCNT support due to avoiding the false dependency on ECX. The reason for that is that BSF with a nonzero input and TZCNT with a nonzero input have exactly the same output. That’s emphatically not true of BSR and LZCNT, so we’re stuck relegating LZCNT to compiler flags.
Problem with vapes is they are too inexpensive and you don't have to light a new one every now and then so there are people who are vaping almost without pause all day long.

I know a smoker who ended up increasing his own addiction because of that and went back to cigarettes, smoking more than he used to.
Possibly just a nitpick, but back when Photoshop had permanent licenses did the terms (and the software itself) allow customers to make functional copies (with the one license key, I mean) and store the copies elsewhere?

For me, the lesson is: use free as in freedom software over proprietary software whenever practical.
Ask HN: Freelancers with a Full time Job, how do you handle BG Checks?
I'm looking to land a c2c contract, currently I also have a full time job and a short term contract.

The short term contract will be finished by the time I start the c2c.

I'm wondering what they'll say when they see these 2 jobs on my Work Number provided by equifax. I started both of them recently so they were not on my resume when I started the interview process with the c2c.

Should I just freeze the work number or should I just try to explain it to them?

I'm really interested to get the c2c job because it is exactly what I want to be doing and it has potential for renewal.
Super cool project for a high schooler, ridiculous amount of skills shown. Highly recommend Joe Barnard's (BPS.space on Youtube) videos on this topic if you're interested. He was the first one to really do this project successfully, and had a pretty much identical design to what is in this article. His videos are super informative on the topic, and he has a plethora of other rocketry videos now, including custom motors and significantly larger scale rockets.
Alice has arthritis, so it takes her 3min longer to write any functional changes. She, however, has domain experience across the entire application. Bob can write code 2min quicker than Alice, but is relegated to a specific section of the codebase.
Tangentially related, in the Netherlands there's 2 types of train, Sprinter and InterCity.

The Sprinter is the one that stops at every small station along the way, whereas the InterCity is the one that speedily goes only to the major stations.

This has always annoyed me to an unreasonable degree
As @jltsiren noted, this is a false equivalence. You need to compare the population densities where most people actually live, not overall density. When you do that, a very different picture emerges.
It’s a reduction in acceleration, not velocity. They are still increasing the number of EVs they produce, but have slowed down increases in capacity. Sales growth is also slowing down, but not falling. This could still be a problem, however.
Thank you for your valuable input. This is one of the most convincing "evidence" I have seen so far regarding the "exclusion" during hiring. I wonder why we don't see such cases written out by people often in these discussions -- most of these are quite handwavy.
> and there's often in practice no penalty for violating them.

This is the crux of the matter. The laws are too weak. If the law said that that in addition to a refund there was a mandatory $100 compensatory payment due for every payment taken improperly (eg. every payment taken while unsubscription using the same method didn't work) then you'd have a few activist consumers waiting five years, recording the evidence and then demanding $6000. The problem would disappear overnight.
This almost happened to my S/O. Luckily I had setup NextDNS to block newly registered domains along with a list of uncommon TLDs so the site got blocked.
I’m curious why there’s no mention in the article of Joe Barnard’s efforts at bps.space which are “prior art” in this problem domain (landing a model rocket using TVC).
Yeah, it looks quite nice.
The title of the paper is also a reference to the famous YA novel "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green.
People carry they smartphone around though.

I keep my Yubikeys in a drawer at home and use my phone as day-to-day security key.
Yes. To validate the claim would require not only a formal instruction set but also the code to account for all sorts of cognitive states and processes. I'm not ruling out that some people are indeed programmable computers but I would like to see some actual evidence presented by the people who make these claims about themselves.
I don't think those are good analogies. An encyclopedia contains references or summaries of a concept or idea, but not a compressed volume of all possible text. A closer analogy would be an unauthorized "collected works" of your favorite HN commenter packaged up and resold.

It also feels similar to the recent article posted about photography and how during its early days pictures were used for advertising without the consent of those photographed. [0]

[0] https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-troubled-development-o...
The M4 is the highest single core CPU in the world and it’s in a ridiculously thin tablet without cooling. I don’t understand where this idea that Apple has lost most of their chip design talent and is in trouble rhetoric is coming from. Apple still makes the world’s most advanced and efficient consumer chips, years after the M1.
The decimal currency in the UK is essentially the same age as me - and I have never heard this claim that an interpunct is somehow more official. So the claim stood out to me as being outlandish; not impossible, just super unlikely.

To show I have no ill will toward outlandish Britishisms, this one applied in Parliament until relatively recently...

"To increase their appearance during debates and to be seen more easily, a Member wishing to
raise a point of order during a division was, until 1998, required to speak with his hat on.
Collapsible top hats were kept for the purpose."

https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-inf...
I'll deviate a bit. I just opened up with "you single, girl?" and it gave a pretty suitably colorful deference followed by a lengthy description of the basic prose. I think this is kind of emblematic of why this sort of thing won't really work.

1) Games really need to be clear that something either did work or didn't work. It's going to be really annoying if we get into a place where an action could have worked to advance the game logic but didn't for obscure under the hood logic. This is sort of a natural problem with real communication that is completely avoided with specific pre written dialogue choices.

2) In this example here, the officer has segued into something pretty unrelated. It gives the feeling of being on rails. Which is true. It is on rails and that's ok because it is a story. But once you understand that it's on rails your goal becomes moving along the rails. This strongly encourages trying to think about what the bot would need to hear to return the correct thing which is very very different from what would be a roleplay-effective strategy.

3) It also generally implies that narrative logic should revert to their natural sensible outcomes which is kind of boring. Like there's going to be a constant battle between suspension of disbelief, obedience of game rules, and narrative coherence.

I think LLMs could add value for pointless banter and flavor. But they should not be able to feature in gameplay dialogue mechanics or serious plot discussion.
Yes, living by principles is inconvenient sometimes.
I hear there's another guy who's going to try to catch his rocket booster vertically in a pair of over sized chopsticks. It seems unlikely but I'm rooting for him. If it doesn't work out he should try to hire this high schooler to help.
Autograd hides the backward pass in that implementation, but this code spells it out explicitly.
Yes, but it could learn to associate tokens with word counts as it could with meanings.

Even still, if you ask it for token count it would still fail. My point is that it can’t count, the circuitry required to do so seems absent in these models
You would have had the same experience staying on Android. I used to switch Androids every ~2 years, but I've had my latest Android for >4 years and feel like I've got several more years in it.
I love it! My grandma was a "computer" who held patents on coax connectors and kept some early CAD mainframes alive. Can't wait to try OSICL.
Yes, I have often thought if it wasn't got GPT-3, this work would have been more recognised and more powerful. However generative embeddings are still more useful for more abstract cases and do embed a different space to these similarity/contrastive kind of embeddings.
Thank you for the kind word @ZeroCool2u ! :)
Just recently where I work, we dropped a major supplier of single board computers because their customer service was almost entirely unresponsive the one time we needed their support. We spent a million or two a year with them. Small potatoes in the big picture, but still significant money that is now going to one of their competitors.

That change was a significant cost to us as well, as it meant that the system we were using the boards in had to be redesigned to accommodate a different board.
Generating an Audio Book Using Text-to-Speech Part 2
> Financial institutions have to log a lot just to comply with regulations

Where is Binance regulated? Wiki says: "currently has no official company headquarters".

> On an exchange that does billions of operation per seconds

Does Binance have this problem?
The Nordea ID app tells you if you're verifying a purchase and shows how much you'll pay.
General Theory of Neural Networks
If everything is political, then all art is political, too.

But this definition makes the term "political" meaningless.

If you choose a definition for "political" which has actual use, not all art is political.
"The only difference from GIMP or Photoshop is that the UI/UX has a different efficiency metric (mainly because interactive image manipulation is more efficient when you are interacting visually). But the operations are just as discoverable"

I know. Which is why the year of the linux desktop was such a success.

"Why does it matter to the person who makes their solution available that the common people won't?"

They have all the right not to care, but it still is not helping the goal of being useful for normal people.
InterCity makes sense to me (inner vs inter). I’m guessing “sprinter” has more to do with being advertised for shot trips. Still silly though.
Ok, and the NHS let Jimmy Saville molest possibly hundreds of children.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28021488.amp
That this isn't already covered by some general legislation to avoid one way over reasonable reusable stuff is sad.

That this is not yet banned or supertaxed by specialized law shows the slowness of our regulatory bodies - as designed and good for the bad stuff.

It's a shame, but small tip of the iceberg!
This is very true. PyCharm is by far better than any other IDE for professional python work. With how dynamic Python is, PyCharm's completion and static analysis is pretty remarkable.
Get proper Linux support and the RISC-V variant they seemed to be working on and I'll buy the laptop ;-) I have no interest in Windows and even less so on ARM.
I never understood why these sms confirmations don’t tell you what you are actually confirming.

They should also tell you when some major change was made.

Seems so silly!
I was at a large financial news site, They were a total splunk shop. We had lots real steel machines shipping and chunking _loads_ of logs. Every team had a large screen showing off key metrics. Most of the time they were badly maintained and broken, so only the _really_ key metrics worked. Great for finding out what went wrong, terrible at alerting when it went wrong.

However, over the space of about three years we shifted organically over to graphite+grafana. There wasn't a top down push, but once people realised how easy it was to make a dashboard, do templating and generally keep things working, they moved in droves. It also helped that people put metrics emitting system into the underlying hosting app library.

What really sealed the deal was the non-tech business owners making or updating dashboards. They managed to take pure tech metrics and turn them into service/business metrics.
> That works right up until the moment the other side gets enough power to write some very specific regulations that are not open to interpretation.

You assume the Democrats want to govern instead of capitulate to the Republicans after enough delay.
I smoked for 20 years. Tried stopping for 5 years.
Then did a course on the nature of nicotine addiction.
Some core facts:
Smoking works by relieving the psychological pain that is created by not smoking. Reread that.
There are no other real benefits. Smokers have a higher baseline stresslevel.
All nicotine addiction works the same as smoking, all nicotine products are created by the tobacco industry. You are still addicted to nicotine if you use patches.
The only real way is to stop using it and to endure the mild withdrawal symptoms.

Did you know that the tobacco industry spreads anecdotes of people who died of some smoking related disease and kept smoking till the very end? Why? Because it implicitly tells you two things: it's either just so good. "To die for" good. Or it must be really hard to quit.
They also spread horror stories about withdrawal. Many smokers think the withdrawal will get even worse when they are actually already at peak withdrawal. Just hang in there a little more. It's not so bad. You can do it.

Then, when you have kicked the habit. Convince yourself that even just 1 cigarette will enslaved you again, so smoking "just one" is not an option.
The question is why would someone need search through TBs of data.

If you are not google cloud and just have your workers ready to stream all data in parallel on x amount of workers in parallel, i would force usefull limitations and for broad searches, i would add a background system.

Start your query, come back later or get streaming results.

On the other hand, if not toooo many people search in parallel constantly and you go with data pods like backblaze, just add a little bit more cpu and memory and use the cpu of the datapods for parallisation. Should still be much cheaper than putting it on s3 / cloud.
I'm not the only one who's noticed truck cabs growing, and truck beds shrinking. I believe that within about 20 years, there will be so-called "trucks" with beds too short to fit a push mower.
Turns out ads aren't just annoying little acts of psychological terrorism that eat up a lot of bandwidth and computing power, they are also the #1 vector for spreading scams and malware on the web.

In other words: If you're trying to improve your security posture, installing an ad-blocker is one of the best things you can do. If you have less tech-savvy friends and relatives, I would strongly recommend setting up uBlock Origin for them.
Their Q2 sales fell quarter-on-quarter vs Q2 2023; it's just that analysts had expected an even greater decline than the one which materialised (consensus was 439k, they sold 444k, a year ago they sold 466k).
> all is well and will be well, for AI shall be unto us a confort (comfort?) in loneliness

Uh, I don't want all of my online social connections being replaced with robots, thanks.
From Unlabeled Data to Rich Segmentation: The Magic of Self-Supervised Models
> Better all jump on the bandwagon before its too late

Heh, my take is the opposite. Better to get out before it's too late.
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This is just an extract from a more comprehensive article: https://news.unsw.edu.au/en/erica-picked-up-a-rock-10-years-...
Do they understand the difference between logs and metrics?

Feels like they just log instead of having a separation between logs and metrics.
I don’t think that’s the real solution.

To be able to come up with a solution you’d first need to be aware of a problem, which in many such cases you wouldn’t be, until one day you are banned and lose all your accounts, and solutions in hindsight won’t help with that.
Panda3D [0] (which is what Ursina uses under the hood) and Pygame can both run on the web due to PygBag [1].

Truth be told you can build a game on any tool, obviously the tool you choose will help shape the game you make - but it's more about keeping at it then the underlying technology.

Personally I really like Panda3D and feel like it doesn't get enough attention. It's scene graph [3] is interesting because it splits it into nodes and nodepaths. A node is what gets stored in the graph but you manipulate them using the nodepaths which simplifies programming.

It also has a really amazing aync task manager [2] which makes game programming no problem. You can just pause in a task (or even a event) which sounds simple but you'd be suprised by who many engines won't let you do that.

It also has a multiplayer solution [6] that was battle tested for 2 mmos.

Finally I really like it's interval [4] system which is like Unreal or Unity's timeline but code based.

It's also on pypi [5] so super easy to install.

[0] http://panda3d.org/

[1] https://pypi.org/project/pygbag/

[2] https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/programming/tasks-and-e...

[3] https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/more-resources/cheat-sh...

[4] https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/programming/intervals/i...

[5] https://pypi.org/project/Panda3D/

[6] https://docs.panda3d.org/1.10/python/programming/networking/...
Imagine, one time, some writer, writing a short story of laying in bed with their sleeping spouse on a peaceful summer night, wrote wistfully of how they loved that their spouse's hair smelled faintly of citrus at that moment.

And a blogger stumbled upon this piece, and decided there was a widespread problem with people rubbing oranges on their heads, and, further, with the general problem of the author's entire nationality of people, and that this urgently needed to be exposed to the public, in a patient explanatory blog post.

Seeing this blog post, others, realizing that there's been a misunderstanding, but knowing more about that nation (and/or fruits, and/or hair care), than about PR damage control, proceeded to respond, with a flood of various corrections, all over the map.

For example, "I prefer fresh-squeezed lemon, so long as you're careful to avoid traumatic brain injury." And "Those people are not that bad; the many stories of kidnappings are often exaggerations of muggings." In all seriousness.

And anyone observing is thinking "I'm even more confused than before, but those people sure are defensive about whatever the heck ungodly things they're doing with fruits. It might be a nice place to visit, for a day trip, but I wouldn't want to live with those crazy fanatics."