skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have mine on Pentosan which did have a noticeable difference for him so that's great. You could possibly talk to your vet about this, it's significantly cheaper than Beransa (110AUD/month) and for my dog it's biannual with a booster shot in between

I actually (anecdotally) heard a similar issue with Pentosan that it stops working after 12-24 months due to the immune system so you have to "time it" at an appropriate time in a dog's life. To be blunt, by appropriate I mean you'd want to start using it 12-24 before the dog is expected to pass and not at the first sign of osteoarthritis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentosan_polysulfate#Dogs
After seeing all that Blender could do, I used believe that learning 3D modeling/animation could be a very useful skill. And it's free, OSS, etc.

However, it has a very steep learning curve, and I'm not sure how generative AI queers the pitch.
I either had that come up in an interview recently myself, OR it wasn't clear to me that I was allowed to use encodings/json to parse the json and then deal with that. I happened to bomb that part of the interview spectacularly because I haven't written a complex structure parser in years given every language I've used for such tasks ships with proper and optimized libraries to do that.
I feel for you but I'm hoping they are not.
Look at they UK, that is where giving law enforcement this power leads.
Citizens rounded up for protesting. "Show me everyone that was in the vicinity of the protest for x-y. UK even has a recent precedent where you are refused bail if you were just watching, you did not even have to participate.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240810105207/https://www.teleg...
a man isn't going to run himself to death either. unless you have better friends than me, it'd take a lot more than a little ask or pushing for one of your friends to run themselves to collapse or to death just because you kept asked him to. would you "will" yourself to run yourself to death? few would argue they would or could.

further, from the conclusion: "The case for defined limits in horses and dogs is particularly strong" and "... race speeds in these animals have not increased in the last 40–60 years. Thus, for horses and dogs, a limit appears to have been reached"

"The situation is less clear cut for humans, in particular for men" and "data suggest that a limit to male human speed exists, and that this speed is only a few per cent greater than that observed to date. But unlike speeds in horses and dogs, and sprint speeds for women, speeds for men have not yet reached a plateau"

So if human men have this "will power" advantage, why have they not yet improved to their plateau? (which is still far below the horse)? they certainly have plenty of coaches asking and "pushing" them, and many other strong incentives to go faster.

to me it suggests that is not will power that is an advantage at all, it's instead a willingness to do what is asked just for the sake of it. great horses just have a really big heart and they do love to run. that's their advantage.
Bear in mind that physical cash is somehow able to be charged with crimes, thus enabling police theft via civil asset forfeiture. Even when the police had no reason to suspect there was any cash on people in the first place.

So it doesn't seem like much of a step to "the evidence was screaming to us from inside, begging to be found". It's about the same level of nonsense. ;)
Turing Complete - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/

I also made my own assembler as part of learning the ISA and put it at https://github.com/Arnavion/riscv . You can see a screenshot and video of the CPU in action there.

The game's campaign walks you through creating a simple 8-bit CPU and then a larger CPU similar to old ARM. But then it also has a sandbox to do whatever, and you can use whatever design you want to solve the puzzles intended for the original two CPUs.
> Seriously folks need to breed more.

People who want to are welcome to -- you be you.

People who don't want to should not be pressured to do so.
Nation's best hackers found voting machine vulnerabilities – but no time to fix
Speak for yourself. I was quite happy living nestled in the suburban brutalist paradise that is the UC Irvine campus. Some people appreciate the aesthetic.
Is it doctors, or is it medical administrations reluctant to deal with "selling" your insurance provider on covering you for a service?

At least in the US, I've found that if you're paying cash up-front, you can shop around for what you want, without referrals, and without this kind of hesitation.
Wouldn't this lead to a spectrum monopoly and the death of family radios, home wifi, etc.?

The market may be "efficient", but I don't want my radio regulator to optimize for cost alone, rather for balancing a variety of different needs, ranges, and durations like they are now.
> Why should Apple be able to charge money for "access" to me, as if I were a prostitute and Apple my pimp? I'm simply using a computer, which I paid for.

I had the same feeling but I couldn't put it to words that well. But you hit the nail on the head. Thanks for this!
https://web.archive.org/web/20240812222957/https://www.nytim...
Some related work that might be interesting:

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/project/solar/

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/cmc/projects/solar.html
LLMS are not AI. Large language models have no formal reasoning, they have no long term recall, they contain no structured logic.

I’m not saying it can’t be solved. I’m saying it can’t be solved INSIDE the LLM. Anyone with a phd in machine learning would probably agree.
Maybe consider the possibility it’s intentional. Basically by writing this way he got rid of all the annoying people! It’s a filter to only get the attention of beyond the surface thinkers.
Anyone found the actual Office of the Inspector General report yet? It ought ot be here [1] or here [2], but it's not.

[1] https://oigforms.nasa.gov/audits/auditReports.html

[2] https://oig.nasa.gov/investigation-reports/
We should develop an AI which does exactly that.

Thank you!
But what about second breakfast?
If a races are decided by such small amounts, like lane 1 being a millimeter ahead than lane 2, then the lanes have to be the same down to a millimeter for it to be a fair race. I wonder if timing will outpace feasible construction before long and we’ll have to say, “lane 1 finished a zillionth of a second ahead, but that makes it a tie because we can’t tell if they started a zillionth of a meter closer.”
Primary goal of Pax is "designability" -- any project can be opened and edited visually at any time with Pax Designer, which is a vector design tool.

The difference between Webflow and Figma is immense; Pax unlocks a Figma-style visual creative experience while building software.
> stoked that they can just go to one place to cancel any iOS subscription

So much of these anti-console anti-appliance threads boil down to:

Value-adding experiences consumers want enough to pay for (such as peace of mind that anything bought here can be cancelled no questions asked) should be prohibited, because I don't want to offer that experience.
Yes, that's the exact scenario being described in the article. So I don't see why the IDL matters.
to be fair, and I'm never one to defend Rationalists, they probably expected that AI would be rational
The vaccines with the microchips in them? Or the ones that prevented millions of excess deaths?
Headline makes it sound like it's intentional, like Boeing knows the moon's haunted and wants to prevent people from going.

Turns out they're just a giant company suckling on the teat of mommy government and have developed severe structural dysfunction that prevents them from effectively executing their plans.
Yes but it's depressing how it only takes a tiny $4.5 million in (direct) political contributions in 2019/2020 election cycle to control the ~$100 billion CA rental industry:

Special Investigation: California Apartment Association’s Deep-Pocketed Campaign To Kill Tenant Protections (2021)

All in all, in 2019 and 2020:

- the CAA Issues Committee made campaign contributions of $534,091

- the CAA Independent Expenditure Committee handed out $1,299,795

- the CAA Housing Solutions Committee delivered $261,675

- the CAA Political Action Committee gave $2,409,976. That’s a grand total of $4,505,537 in campaign cash shelled out all over California by the CAA and real estate industry in 2019 and 2020.

https://www.housingisahumanright.org/special-investigation-t...

Is California Apartment Association the Most Notorious Landlord Group in the State?

https://medium.com/yes-on-proposition-21/is-california-apart...
(So uh, just to clarify for posterity, when I originally made this comment it was just a link to https://postgres.new/ without any description, and kiwicopple's comment was just a link to another comment of his on a related post. Obviously now there are more words, everywhere, explaining everything.)

(I still hate LLMs in my DB. I KNOW SQL LET ME WRITE IT.)
bflat has somewhat different set of goals and offers "zerolib" and "uefi" runtime target flavours. Its author is also working on the official NativeAOT, which bflat builds on top of :)

While we're at it, it's impressive how much NativeAOT has improved within just 2 releases or so: https://migeel.sk/blog/2023/11/22/top-3-whole-program-optimi...

There are other niceties like dehydrated binary sections, metadata compression, linker that is deeply aware of the type system, etc. to keep the binary size scalable as you keep adding dependencies. I'm seeing even smaller sizes with .NET 9 preview.
In 2020, COVID caused the most dramatic rise in unemployment the U.S. had ever seen. Employees who were lucky enough to avoid being laid off during the first few months of the pandemic largely hunkered down and resolved to stay with their current employer until the dust settled, even if they would otherwise have been looking to change jobs.

This led to a phenomenon in 2021 and 2022 called the Great Resignation, a period where hiring began opening up again. All of those employees who'd been itching for an exit saw an opportunity to make their move.

One of the interesting effects of this higher-than-normal employment migration in a relatively short period of time is tenure synchronization, where a large percentage of employees have been with the company for the same amount of time. Naturally, there will be some variation in when they decide to make their exits, but this synchrony does increase the chance of a mass exodus event once they've passed the year of average tenure.

There are other macroeconomic phenomena that are contributing toward sustained "phase locking" of the amplitude of employment migration. Post-pandemic, we saw an era of high inflation, and that caused many companies to veer back into more cautious territory and question whether they'd over-resourced themselves during the hiring boom. This led to rounds of layoffs in 2022 and 2023. These conditions have also led to downward pressure on wages. Thus, many employees are waiting until the next hiring wave to make their move.

These factors are likely to induce even more phase locking than the tenure synchonization alone, which means that we could see a second or even third "Great Resignation" event occur during the current decade as employees' synchronized tenures lead to voluntary exits that coincide.
FWIW, the fact that the recession market on Manifold doesn't resolve until the end of 2025 (to give the NBER time to declare a recession) limits how low people will push the probability. I'm the biggest NO holder, and my credence is closer to 10%, but the rate of return isn't attractive enough to bet it lower. This is somewhat asymmetric, since bettors who expect a recession also expect an earlier payout.

I made this derivative market to try to address the issue somewhat, but not much trading yet:

https://manifold.markets/chrisjbillington/will-manifold-pric...
If you like this kind of thing, the rest of qntm's work is definitely worth checking out - as evidenced already in several comments. Another good pointer to follow is to Unsong and Scott Alexander's other fiction (all shorts, spread through his old blog Slate Star Codex and new blog Astral Codex Ten).

Both of those were already mentioned, so let me drop a recommendation for something new - Worm, the first (and absolutely massive) book in Wildbow's Parahumans series. Iirc it's longer than all 5 published ASOIAF novels combined, so it's a big commitment, but that length moves through a ton of different arcs. It's centered around a "superheroes" kind of scenario with a level of analysis and thought that'll tickle the fancy of certain kinds of nerds. The main character's power is to control bugs - and it's a lot of fun to see the author make that seemingly lame power into something incredibly useful and lethal. It's just a fun read overall, lots of room to nerd out about it. I haven't read the sequel yet, but I've read good things.

Also, though they're more mainstream, Greg Egan and Ted Chiang are some of the best spec-fic / sci-fi authors I know of, and do a similarly great job of breaking down interesting concepts into compelling stories.
I think I'd want to try to decode into map[string]interface{} (offhand), since string keys can be coerced to that in any event (they're strings in the stream, quoted or otherwise), and a key can hold any valid json scalar, array, or object (another json sub-string).
Ok I’m sorry but I adore brutalist buildings. I think they can also be quite practical and re-fittable in many ways. I certain like them more than the giant tampon (The gherkin in London) or Mordor by bank (the shard).
Give me another few Barbican centres and it’s gorgeous gardens and lakes any day.
I'm a long-time Apple fan and this news just sucks.

Apple have been openly pro-creativity and pro-artist for a long time, and now they're actively hamstringing one of the best online platforms for facilitating that, for... profit reasons?

Maybe the ill-fated "crushing creativity" advert was just the beginning.
https://archive.ph/1uyq7
Although I agree in principle, the counter-argument to this is that Apple would ultimately be blamed in the minds of consumers for not keeping those devices protected from bad software. They could say I told you so, but that doesn’t help them after the golden goose of the App Store has already been cooked.
I kinda hate this article because it could be so much better and yet it isn’t.

The headline is clearly, in some sense, silly. It’s silly because the usual notion people have of fps is something like video where you need to move your roll of film or read out from your sensor at that rate. The ‘frame rate’ for a photo finish is much more incidental to the way the image is made.

If you have an image from a typical digital camera that is 4000px high formed by a typical two-curtain shutter that shutters in 10ms, you expose 400 rows per ms or, in some silly sense, 400k FPS. If you wanted a 1-pixel high slit to be exposed then that’s an exposure of 1/400000s, which is faster than any camera I’m aware of. But I think the analogy is useful – instead of a shutter moving a slit over the focal plane, exposing different parts of the sensor at slightly different times, imagine the sensor being moved behind a fixed slit and then reading out the values from it. You can reasonably easily imagine doing this with film too – just move it past the slit at a steady rate – not dissimilarly from taking an old-school panorama camera and moving the body instead of the lens.

I think the thing happening here is not a moving sensor but rather a 1 pixel wide sensor (or perhaps a few pixels for colour reasons). This makes it thousands of times smaller than the resolution of the final image so even a fairly typical cmos sensor at 2e9 pixels per second could read 50000 pixel ‘frames’ at ‘40k FPS’. (In practice the number would probably be lower for synchronisation reasons). When your frame is very skinny, that still gives you plenty of resolution.

I don’t like the article because they did some silly arithmetic that produces a big number instead of digging into interesting details, e.g.

- talking about how the system works as a whole (when does it decide to start/stop the image, maybe something about buffering)

- talking about how much light you need and how you get enough

- talking about the optics, how you keep everyone sharp while still getting enough light, how you even focus such a thing

- talking how you make sure the camera is setup fairly (eg perpendicular to the lanes, able to get a good view of all the lanes)

- maybe something about reliability and how you avoid the bad scenario of the system failing when it matters most
Doesn't work unfortunately.
My story is about the same as yours. Kovid's arrogance pushed me away.
Yeah exactly. Patreon doesn't have to be an app. It would work just fine as a website or even as a progressive web app. There is absoluteluy no need for it except marketing and data collection from the user (the main reason that most platforms say they are 'better in our app'). It's not at all better for the user, it's better for the platform. They can access more data from the user which they can use for marketing. There's the rub. Even without Apple's advertiser ID they can still collect a ton more info than a PWA. It also stops the user from using adblockers in many cases.

The thing is: Patreon is a service that's meant to be paid by a small fee included in the donations. There should be no need for them to gather data on their users as well.
I agree, under the assumption that users jailbreak their devices. In my mind Apple has zero obligation to enable it maximum leeway to obstruct it. The people don't want they locked down single function phone, they shouldn't buy one.
I grew up in a city called Coventry in the UK- if you like brutalist architecture it was paradise.

For me, it was a decaying, grey, tumour-ridden, thorny & hideous hell-hole.

The whole city center was wrapped[0] in a snaking, concrete slabbed, elevated road.[1]

Every corner of every stairwell waiting to take its toll out of your flesh with its sharp edges.

The grey of the sky blending without contrast into the towering blocks of a building so revered that it would be eponymous with the city[2] and dominated the city center[3] yet was quite literally so forgettable that I could not tell you how large it was or what it looked like- despite seeing it daily.

And flanked on all sides by dingy towers[4], each identical, cold, and somehow peering at you: telling you that this place was poor, poor not only in funds, but poor in culture, beauty or any sense of personality.

No, it was shit. Fuck brutalist architecture and the car dependent designers of the 60’s. They destroyed even more of what was a beautiful city than the blitz did.

Even King Charles said as much “property developers have been more destructive […] than Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe.”

Pictures (that, if anything, make it look much better): https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/27...

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Coventry...

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Moat_str...

[2]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Coventry...

[3]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/WTC_Anth...

[4]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Samuel_v...
If only we haven’t defanged the regulatory agencies …

FTC is more active than it's ever been under Liza Khan, particularly in this sphere
The point isn't just that it would happen, it's that it would be rewarded and encouraged, and ethics preventing the most profitable action (murder) would lead to being outcompeted by an organization with a structure that allows its members to coordinate and profit from murder without their ethics preventing such action. i.e. the market will ruthlessly optimize ethics out of decision-making.
I understand its probably not the case today, just that C# shares some of the MS reputation and its hard to get rid of. Especially when there are dozens of open-source independent languages around.
Don't worry, it's only a matter of time before the supreme court hamstrings the EPA and the clean water act. Then it won't matter how much mercury is pumped into the water.
I love my brutalist townhome.
Curiously, I've just finished this book a few days ago, and hands down, one of the best pieces of writing I've enjoyed.
Not related to the content of the article, but did anyone notice how those graphs become more saturated when you mouse over? It made me expect an interactive graph but it's just an artifacty jpg. Interesting little flourish.
Offhand, I think the general pattern is to bind related external libraries (E.G. a gui stack) into one agent thread and use channels to send it messages.
> As the court noted, geofence warrants require a provider, almost always Google, to search “the entirety” of its reserve of location data

I haven't read the ruling, but this has always struck me as the key problem with geofence warrants that courts have been ignoring. A geofence warrant doesn't just involve a search of the location data that is in the area, it involves a search of all the location data collected worldwide to determine that it wasn't in the area. It couldn't be less localized.
This is a very strange analogy.

I didn't buy my credit card. I don't own it. The credit card is just a little piece of plastic, totally useless without the line of credit, i.e, the service provided by the credit card company, in stark contrast with my computers, which can be used quite extensively without the App Store.

The credit card company is not gatekeeping "access" to me. I can pay for things with cash, a debit card, a check, etc. If I choose to pay with a credit card, it's because I wish to take advantage of the specific features of the credit card, the primary one of which is the ability to pay for the product later rather than at the moment of purchase.
I'm reminded of this Futurama clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5MohK5FHEY
"Moss on my teeth is hindering my getting a date" reads the same. I think different people will get different interpretations.
But the app ecosystem is also a selling point for users to actually buy an iPhone, on which they already make a huge margin compared to the rest of the industry.
Adobe isn't paying Apple either.

You buy Adobe from Adobe, "Get" Adobe from Apple, and log in with an email.

Also, a minority of consumers by headcount choose Apple. A majority of wallet share is spent by those who do choose it. That's behind most of the sour grapes.
This is fantastic. I’ve worked on this problem and it’s an incredible invasion of privacy.

However, until we get clarification from FISA courts we will still have to deal with it. The problem is the line where FISA has been used to acquire information for criminal prosecution rather than for intelligence purposes, and the broader and broader definition of terrorist and the dramatic expansion of domestic watchlists in recent times.

Let’s hope that it gets unilaterally outlawed and then FISA is forced to follow the supreme law of the land in future rulings.
Yep, already did that one! Making it performant was a pain, but it should be useful.

Other feature requests/ideas would definitely be appreciated.
There was never any question as to whether DEF CON was capable of further funding Entropic. They fired Entropic, which mooted the question of how to find additional money for them.
[stub for offtopicness. please don't.]
NextNav is city-wide navigation. It looks like beacone can cover a few miles which makes sense with the frequency. It can also work indoors.

Navigation system like that is useful for more accuracy or when GPS has problem. But not at the expense of 900 MHz band for other useful things. I'm surprised that they can't find an awkward slice of low-band that mobile provider would get rid of or lease.