skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>every small locally owned coffee shop has become totally overrun with folks buying one latte and proceeding to take a whole table to themselves and their laptops for the next 5 hours.

That's what a third place is and what people are lamenting the lack of now.
I have hired 4 engineers from “Who Wants To Be Hired” threads.
Charred red meat still is. There's nothing healthier than slowly cooked vegetable beef soup! I don't like why people are such fans of steaks, beef soup is cheap and amazing!
Embedded Python: MicroPython Is Amazing
I would argue that self-hosting hundreds of Nodejs modules might still be a better choice than the alternatives, specially since it give a easier time for bundling tool such as Webpack to workout what it needs to do in order to bundle the project in a better way.

And, let's don't forget creating a self-hosted CDN service to serve those bundles is not really THAT hard. (also creates job ops)
How obesity drugs create a full feeling
Naively, a small shop only needs to pay on-the-ground workers and direct owners who may be a subset of the first group. Starbucks has to pay the regional managers and their bosses and the shareholders, etc. Also, at the mom-and-pop, no one is screaming “Why is the fourth derivative of profit increase not higher??”
Weren't some people just complaining recently that most LLMs were not trained on their particular language? So how can they inherently speak whale?
More time has passed since the Consent Decree ended than while it was in effect.
Absolutely. We live in the most peaceful and least violent age of all recorded human history.

https://towardsdatascience.com/has-global-violence-declined-...
> the brain inside the robot's helmet is currently just a mock-up, with the actual brain tissue kept separate for testing purposes
DNA in bones, in ideal conditions, will completely disappear after ~6.7 million years. Researchers have successfully recovered dna fragments from a 2 million year old mastodon, for instance.
I get it, but even on terra firma, they are having to track relative to each other in 2 axis. In space, they would have to add that 3rd dimension and I stipulate that extra dimension is not linear in complexity. However, tracking on the ground in RA and Dec per object across the distances of VLA is not "simple".
Connections with other human beings are irreplaceable.

Go for it. Focus on the people. Lead by example and people will be inspired by your joy of the subject.

I find this tactic works especially well kids.
I'm not sure what you mean about the NK situation making the diplomatic pouch an attack vector? Can you elaborate?

Fun fact, those "pouches" don't have to be a pouch or even a bag. They can be boxes or even crates and have been used for smuggling in the past, including drugs, weapons, gold and even - allegedly - people.
I suspect that George Bush cares more about black people than Nike
Interest rates rising providing a risk free rate substantially higher than the last decade, making it less necessary for investors reaching for yield to get VC asset class exposure. No VC funding, no startups issuing lottery equity tickets.

The situation will improve as the Fed cuts rates, but zero interest rate policy that fueled the previous economic exuberance is unlikely to return due to structural economic changes.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

https://www.goingvc.com/post/how-rising-interest-rates-impac...

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/high-interest-rates-cr... | https://archive.today/DPlzm
FWIW, I just checked and the only permission I have granted to SyncThingFork is "notifications".

I think it optimistically requests all, but I can testify that it works fine without granting it all storage access. I just had to create/select a subdir in my SyncThingFork directory.

I don't really know how the restricted storage access works. Maybe it's that if /another/ app has already claimed a directory, that SyncThing needs more permissions to be able to sync it? But that seems unlikely, just speculating.
I might have given them the option to use their own OS (Red Star OS) at an approved location but I highly doubt they would have been able to do any actual work on it, especially nothing official.
That's a huge misconception and poor science. In fact, enteric-coated aspirin is worse as it could cause bleeding in the intestines, which is worse. There are plenty of studies that show taking aspirin with vitamin C or DGL does not cause bleeding! I think taking it alongside collagen/gelatin also prevents bleeding.

There was a sublingual form, which I cannot find (Fasprin). Also, there's Vazalore, which might be liposomal. I don't know, but the effervescent Aspirin C by Bayer is amazing! It works very well for gargles for sour throat, too!
I'd love to love MUI, but in my experience: MUI + React + Typescript just moves the toil of doing anything away from the style concerns and makes it a purely Typescript puzzle.
If you’re going to be anal, explain why:

“Whisky (no e) refers to Scottish, Canadian, or Japanese grain spirits. Whiskey (with an e) refers to grain spirits distilled in Ireland and the United States.”

Johnnie Walker Black Label is Scottish, hence no ‘e’.
Most large banks already largely offer non-SMS 2FA through their companion mobile apps. This is about pretty much every other service you have that does not have a dedicated mobile app and doesn't want to teach their users how to manage your 2FA codes.
Per their docs, yes: https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm/blob/main/docs/Tailscal...
For context, my understanding is that SpaceX builds one new Falcon 9 upper stage (not reused) every day. I doubt there is another entity on earth building a new rocket every month.

SpaceX has a large fleet of Falcon 9 reusable boosters, but still needs to build one every now and then.
i wrote a quick hack program to edit that 4×4 stipple https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos/blob/master/yeso/stipple.... and recorded a short screencast of using it http://canonical.org/~kragen/stipple.mp4
I don’t have a shelter but thanks for your contribution to this riveting discussion.
> the money the Pentagon just loses every year.

It is very likely that unaccounted-for money wasn't lost so much as diverted to black budget projects.
I was actually thinking she has a similar look to Anya Taylor-Joy, and would have a similar look if she were a younger actor today.

There are definitely actors today to also have an unconventional look, but you’re comparing 1970s unconventional to 2020s unconventional.

I think she would have fit right in today.
And then renting out for $3000/mo a thing that was renting for half that 2-3 years ago and isn’t even a good place to live.
The use-case seems to be intentionally narrow:

> The Secrets Manager Agent provides compatibility for legacy applications that access secrets through an existing agent or that need caching for languages not supported through other solutions.
> plants that grow over the soil where deer with CWD decompose can transmit the disease to animals that eat them

I've heard this before but the last I tried looking into it I could only find a single study with these findings. Do you know if this was ever replicated? If so, I'd be interested in reading it -- I have to wonder how careful the researchers were to isolate the raw plant material from the contaminated soil, which may have non-plant matter transmitting the prion. Plants transmitting a prion is just hard for me to believe.
I agree it's ridiculous (though not in the way you meant), but he is telling the truth. I don't doubt that there are facilities which are watched as closely as you describe, but not all are. I have worked in a SCIF where the only thing stopping me from bringing in a phone was the fact that I said I wouldn't, and I keep my word.
There is a much simpler approach to making a nice looking resume.

Just use markdown > html > pdf using a custom css style sheet

This is what I use for my resume:

https://github.com/LarsDu/LarryDuMarkdownResume
Grit, Latent Space
>later that year they switched to stainless steel instead of carbon-composite

A decision which, according to Isaacson's Elon Musk, Musk insisted on against considerable opposition from his engineers. One more point against the frequent claim that Musk isn't a "real" engineer/doesn't really do anything at SpaceX.
Apple developed language best, says Apple
I've thought about this idea a lot. It seems like the idea we have of the centralized empires of the past is mostly based on movies and fiction - and maybe from the actions of the last remaining empires in the 19-20th century. I think we take for granted advancements in communications and transportation that allowed for the governance of large areas of land in more recent history.

Are maps of ancient empires even accurate? What do they even mean. If you went back in time to some backwater village on the edges of some Empire map and asked the villagers who was the emperor could they even tell you? Or would they still name some king from 50 years ago?
> from two points we infer that they were there the whole intervening time?

This is not deductive, it's abductive. The reasoning is weak but it's all the reasoning paleoarchaeology offers.

TBF this is basically all science but we kind of smear the probability aspect and call it scientific fact.
Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court rules
I think two out of 4 definitely are.
Upgradability of RAM isn't the issue, it's the price of getting access to that RAM. On PC you get it for cheap, you just pay for the RAM modules. On Apple, you get it for arm and a leg, as you don't pay for the modules, but for the privilege to use their higher end model with enough RAM.
Linux: Direct-to-Device Networking [lwn]
This is really cool, I've been running something similar to simplify rotating database credentials for legacy projects.
Nice, taking credit for an extraordinarily difficult decision your grandparents made to trivialize the difficulty. Do you hear yourself?
I'm more curious if he could re-specialize in a surgery that he finds more rewarding. I'd think orthopedics could provide very clear and quick resolutions for patients; hip replacement is known as the "surgery of the [previous] century" for having such clear quality of life improvement.
>However it also fails in other areas quite spectacularly:
> Anything which requires logic
> Anything which requires actual understanding

Not really the experience most people is getting at using AIs nowadays.

It actually shows a high degree of understanding or plays mostly perfectly an internal process that leads to show what humans perceive continously as "understanding" stuff.

In many scenarios shows a high degree of logical reasoning/thinking/pattern detection driven behavior. Again, whatever internal process used, is what humans usually think as "logic".

Some processes are known, others are a bit black boxes yet, mainly because of the non deterministic stuff happening inside the models, I mean the reason behind why model produces a different output having been inputed the same prompt more than once.

Not everything is mistery, most processes are known by now, they are "subproducts" of emergent mathematical structures inside the model's architecture, like when you take circle and you make it rotate around a point, you get a sphere.

The emergent "sphere" would be the "logic" and "reason" behind the models.
Who said anything about an ad server ?

An ad is a particularly sized JPEG that you place in your images directories… and then point to with an HTML tag.

Everything we tried to build for you was lost once you deviated from that level of complexity.
Show HN: T-Max – Port of a Classic Mac OS Game
Wonder how this will jive with the supreme courts recent decisions on standing.
Hive Plots – Linear Layout for Network Visualization
This is the same for every drug. None of them work the same for everybody all the time. Like they say everybody is different.
I think the audience for this is someone who is already using AWS Secrets Manager, but wants to reduce their API usage (perhaps due to cost).

Chamber uses SSM Parameter Store, which for many cases is similar, but some people might have a preference for Secrets Manager. For example, a team might like the automatic RDS password rotation for Secrets Manager and decide to put everything there for consistency.

For Doppler, well maybe someone doesn't want to pay for it, or they'd rather control access to their secrets via IAM instead of through a separate tool.
Hyperinflation requires austerity measures.
FreeDOS Turns 30 [lwn]
Inferno Drainer fails attempt to launder ETH
MSFT reportedly banning Palestinians in the US for calling relatives in Gaza
FYI `schemaCompletionSource` exists https://github.com/codemirror/lang-sql#user-content-schemaco...

But if you want an example of async completion, I do it here

https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive/blob/fe86a8a185e4be470...

which is called from here

https://github.com/AlexErrant/Pentive/blob/fe86a8a185e4be470...

Perf isn't really a problem for me since I'm calling SQLite in the browser; it's maybe 10-20ms.
"They literally have a legal duty to do so. "

Their only legal duty is to conduct lawful business.
Welcome to the Chart of the Week blog series!

Today, we’ll explore how to visualize the hearing range of various living beings, from humans to animals, by creating a Range Bar Chart (Transposed Column Chart) using the Syncfusion WPF Charts control. We’ll also customize the series and marker appearance of the range bar to achieve the dumbbell chart appearance.

The Range Bar Chart is a horizontal range column chart that uses range bars to display values for one or more items based on high and low values. It is also called a dumbbell chart. Using this chart, we’ll visualize the hearing range from Hertz (Hz) to kilohertz (kHz) for various living beings on Earth.
Because NSAIDs can lead to erosion and bleeding in your gut.

I've been told to avoid NSAIDs "forever", or at least until a gastroscopy has shown my stomach is fully recovered after using ibuprofen strictly within the dose limits. It's a known risk, and lowering the dose just reduces the odds - it doesn't remove the risk.

Acetaminophen/paracetamol overdoses do happen, but they're rare and usually involve significant overdoses rather than minor accidental excess use.

Their ability to bring down fevers etc. also tend to differ depending on source.

Acetaminophen/paracetamol is usually the first recourse in hospitals etc. because as long as you dose it right, the odds it both works and doesn't incur harm are better.
I don't think it sucked but it was told, not sold.
You're gonna need a better programming language if you want to get to that level.
> The Shawshank Redemption was fantastic for instance.

Eh it comes off as a corny and flat depiction of people who might otherwise be interesting. Romantic, but not a depiction of believable humans. And the problem certainly ain't the actors.
This appears to be a single tweet opinion with no supporting evidence.

Why is this worth a HN discussion?
The study basically compared neighborhoods that received a Starbucks versus neighborhoods that did not. What if Starbucks decided to open in those neighborhoods because of some confounding factor that suggested an increase in economic activity?
I assumed idempotent here was going to be about some trick of incremental compilation. Not reproducible builds.
>Just because Hamas killed 1000 of your children does not mean you have to kill 20000 of Palestinians

The total civilian death toll of Israel is 695. Edited.
Would love to see someone propose this here in the States, the headlines out of the South would be pure gold.
AI #72: Denying the Future
I've been to tiny embassies and I was thoroughly searched and anything remotely looking like an electronic device was temporarily confiscated.

They usually make a big deal out of it.

This in embassies between friendly nations!
NYC's failure to allow enough housing to be built for families is a policy choice, and a bad one: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/nyregion/apartment-vacanc.... Both the city and state should do better.
"I do therefore lots of people do". I see.
A 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities
AMD to Acquire Silo AI to Expand Enterprise AI Solutions Globally
use new address. problem solved
Again, I don't doubt that some facilities do have that level of scrutiny. I'm simply saying that not all do.
California is working on a "passive speed limiter" law. It's basically just a verbal warning that the driver has exceeded the posted speed limit by 10+ mph.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a60871999/california-passi...

My last 3 cars have had this feature and there are more false positives than not because none of them had a perfect map of the speed limits, so they'd often get triggered in places where I was not speeding, or they get triggered on a Saturday when you're driving through a "__MPH Speed Limit when children are present" zone.
Not sure why it mentions or needs eBPF or anything kernel-side; this is already possible with just OpenSSL/etc. shim libraries.
In the same vein, aren't there also McDonald's McCafe's too? Some friends have told me the coffee ain't too bad, actually.

[oops, sorry, this should have been under the thread about Starbucks Reserve]
> We find that, when compared to census tracts that were scheduled to receive a Starbucks but did not do so

There still might be a confounders, but they at least tried to control for that.
I added “most of the time” to match my experience. If the entire building is a SCIF, I’ve usually left my phone in the car. If it’s just a room in a building, they usually have lockers outside and use the honor system.
That's not so universal and there are often still limits on any bigger wiring changes. You definitely cannot generalise the to "other developed countries".
Not sure but sailsjs?
Back when I was doing S-100, my boss mentioned TRS-80 or something of the sort. I advised him to get involved “while computers were still understandable”.

But, as others have mentioned, the problem solving skills are portable.

When MS “invented” the GUI (they didn’t), we command-line folks referred to MS admins as “button pushers”, and I ran across many examples of where command lines worked where GUI tools failed (try partitioning a disk with that little cursor). I repartitioned many a disk on which my helper created overlapping partitions.

Now that we get answers “for everything” (we don’t) then people think like the (reputed) statement that "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

You might explain, so that they don’t learn the hard way, that ChatGPT is “uncomfortable” in new pickles, the ones that are the most important to solve, and that videos aren’t as useful as static content when you need to refer to one particular point or points, and that the trillions of bits out there on the internet aren’t like a book (even an e-book) in terms of being coherent, connected and focused.

It’s like relying on your brain to piece things together, and to shoehorn chat results into the problem at hand, or the one coming at you like an 18-wheeler, when there are alternatives available.

But I’ll go back to the problem-solving aspect. If all you get are answers, you’ll never be able to solve a new problem, and things change.
When I heard they were making a movie of Doctor Sleep, knowing that the final 20% of the book is absolutely untranslatable to coherent movie content, I could not understand how they could close it. In the end, they more or less worked around the finale, which is basically a series of psychic battles fought remotely. It's a tolerable movie.

One example of a truly unfilmable King/Bachman novel is Thinner, though maybe it could now be done, at great expense, with AI (there was a ridiculous TV version, though).

I interviewed him, when I was aged 16, in 1983, and asked him about The Shining. He was in a conciliatory mood on the topic that day, but re-emphasized how little he thought of Kubrick's shot choices for the scene where Danny discovers Wendy reading his manuscript.

To that criticism, Kubrick responded over the years that if we had just been jump-scared by Jack suddenly appearing over Wendy's shoulder as she read, we would have felt relief and even started laughing to blow it off, which would have undermined the tension Kubrick was looking to build past this point in the scene.
TIL that compact fluorescent lamp bulbs contained yttrium and/or europium as a phosphorescent material.
It's not just NYC, it's the same policy choice made in almost every place in America where people actually want to live. America just doesn't want to build housing in any significant amount.
Less Alone (2022)
Then keep it private, and nobody else can do anything with it. Otherwise too bad
Over the past few months I've actually gone back to buying DVDs. Sure their quality isn't amazing, but they're so practical and dependable.

The local charity shops sell movies for €1 each, and boxed-sets of TV-series are typically no more than €5 each. I even managed to pick up a decent DVD player to sit under my TV for €25, used.

Before this I used to stream to a chromecast, with VLC, but it was always a bit of a pain. Now I can pop in a disk, or tell my child to do the same, and hit play and everything just works.

Streaming services are pretty, but you can't rely on them for keeping content available, and it's risky to get sucked into a new show that might get cancelled after one, or two, series. Much better, for me, to watch all those other shows that are complete, or nostalgic.
Also, as with the starving artist, supply may be artificially high.
Nitric adds Terraform Support
Yeah, Starbucks is hated among the cool artist types that are the early wave of gentrification.
I mean, this basically is Windows 3.1 with some small changes; it doesn't have win32 and it's visually 3.1 with a theme added. Looks right to me for "Windows 3.1 with 3 months of development towards the next version".
We've been teaching kids Euclidean geometry for ages to teach them to think clearly.

I'd say coding can do this even better for some ways of thinking.

So even if coding stopped being a majority Human performed activity (e.g. like writing assembly today), it would still be valuable.
https://avherald.com/h?faq=&opt=0

> The Aviation Herald concentrates on "Air Transport", meaning in general The Aviation Herald will report only about commercial flights or commercial operators involving airplanes with capacity for 19 passenger seats or more.
This article says that the proposed tachyon quantum field theory doesn't work:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14225
> I would venture to guess that for most people, they would be more productive on a Mac or an iPad versus Linux.

Why is that? Because of different UI? Guessing, since you're comparing hardware(Mac/iPad) with operating systems (Linux distributions)...
Tigran Gambaryan and the Politics of Untraceable Crypto Transactions
Fully agree.

Just watched a episode of Friends yesterday. The cafe there could be the definition of a third place. ;-)
Why do you want to scam them out of their hard work?
Except how do we know that the reason they didn’t do so was precisely because of that confounding factor? It’s a neat idea but leaves one wanting for better data
Leveraging AI in Incident Response
From the poster:

In this work, we propose a light-weight (~20M param.)
causal voice conversion solution that can run in real-time
with low latency on a commercially available mobile
device. The key design elements are: (1) using a causal
encoder to learn soft speech units; (2) injecting whitened
f0 to improve pitch stability without leaking source
speaker info.

In our later V2 version, we found that f0 rescaling
followed by a NSF-style harmonic-plus-noise
conditioning (as is done in RVC) results in better quality.
I’d start with something very simple such as Reciprocal Rank Fusion. I’d also want to make sure I really trusted the outputs of each search pipeline before worrying too much about the appropriate algorithm for combining the rankings.