skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that system existed in America, what would it take to keep it as clean and as safe? (Edit: I visited Japan and loved the train system)
Take a phone and glue it to a large sheet of plywood. You won’t mindlessly scroll when you have an awkward experience trying to use the phone.

- If you’re trying to solve the problem of phone being too addictive, make it less addictive. Delete twitter, setup your life around you so that it’s not focused around responding promptly to people. Intentionally don’t connect to WiFi and limit the speed to 2G.

I can’t speak for Europe, but here in the USA it’s still very practical to create a life without a phone.
>Cheating is indistinguishable from debugging skill. Even with knowledge of the exact bug ahead of time, if you just open the file with the bug, barf out the code to fix it, and run the tests, you’re going to fail the interview.

Umm hopefully you don't fail for this. I've definitely known and hired devs that can do this with surprising frequency. Just because the interviewer may have taken hours to find the bug doesn't mean someone else must.
I'm not a fan of the truck driving crowd, but why do you get to dictate that someone should drive a minivan instead of a truck?
Arguing against standard vocabularies (part of the Semantic Web) is like arguing against standard libraries. "Cool story bro."

But it is true, if you can't make sense of your data, then the Semantic Web probably isn't for you. (It's the least of your problems.)
s/to/too/ damnit
I've seen very few people obviously incompetent. As such it takes a while to prove they are incompetent. They do write working code and get it through review. Often the only clear sign is nobody likes working with them - only after you get rid of them do you have concrete evidence that they weren't contributing (that is the team got as much done now since they no longer were stopping their own work to help the incompetent person on things that it is never clear if should have been figured out alone)
Now CockroachDB Ditches Open-Source License
Its a great sound byte for the politicains. Politicians aren't known for the economic and business acumen. Sound bytes and promise of jobs get them elected.

Don't know the details of this project but if the cable is subsidized by the government it doesn't matter if it scales super or sublinearly, taxpayers are on the hook.
You asume intent. A NPP is a threat if it is in an active warzone, even if no party intents to damage it. It is just in the chaotic nature of war.
The surprising cause of fasting's regenerative powers
Sort of tl;dr: mimalloc doesn't actually free memory in a way that it can be reused on threads other than the one that allocated it; the free call marks regions for eventual delayed reclaim by the original thread. If the original thread calls malloc again, those regions are collected (1/N malloc calls). Or (C) you can explicitly invoke mi_collect[1] in the allocating thread (the Rust crate does not seem to expose this API).

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc/blob/dev/src/heap.c#L1...
> To the extent there is an exception, testing-only code may be. Testing-only code has very different constraints than production code anyhow. Even then, though, I still find that refactoring problem arises, and test code needs to be refactorable too.

For me, I avoid defining anything within a function except when that thing being defined is what is being tested in a test, e.g. https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/blob/87647d268c8c27e3298b2c0...
Yeah, I think it's pretty rare to actually need a "local" type as opposed to just making it private to a module in Rust as well. The use case the article gives is one of the few where it I could see it being useful; if you're using a macro in the body of a function and want it to generate a type, there's not anywhere else you can define it (without an additional macro invocation outside the function, which often defeats the purpose of trying to wrap up all the boilerplate into one concise place).
And the TFA is basically an interview with the CEO of the company that makes the drug, saying "it works".
No. There are no studies, other than for vitamin D. That is the point.
I've only ever seen bad-faith arguments about oracles. They set up the goal posts as if the goal was "You can trust absolutely nothing. You are born and will die trapped in The Matrix. You are in Descartes's proposal where everything you can possibly observe is a deception from a malicious demon. How do you set up a home-loan contract?" And then declare themselves clever by pointing out that any input to the system requires trusting that input.

That's not the goal of trustless contracts.

The goal is that some resident of an oppressive nation can get a loan without being denied all access to finance at the whim of government-controlled bank. Can't trust your region's banks? Crypto is a wild land. But, it's a better alternative for billions of people.

It's easy to say that crypto is useless when you are in the top 2% of global wealth, a well-regulated banking system is scrambling to serve you, your government doesn't frequently confiscate your assets or inflate your hard-earned money to worthlessness.

And, it's easy to complain that crypto didn't magically spring from bottom-up grass-roots overnight, solving all financial problems by the poor for the poor in a single step before enriching a bunch of already-rich tech bros.

Creating a new global financial system from scratch is a lot of work. It requires a lot of investment, a lot of losses, a lot of hard-earned lessons. Blockchains have been demonstrating utility in that endeavor for 15 years. Growing from nothing to being valued higher than the global market of silver in that time.

Maybe "global financial system" is a small number of uses. But, it's a small number of rather large, rather important uses.
I use the silent mode on my Apple Watch. It does require topping off the battery in the early evenings and/or keeping it on the charger after I wake up until after showering.
This is exactly what triggered the Therac-25 radiation therapy defect: the UI was very slow to update, but experienced users knew what order to hit the buttons to go through the screens quickly.

Except that there was a bug where if you go too quickly, some of the software safety interlocks didn't work right, and they had removed the hardware safeties in the update from Therac-20.
What do you mean by USA not experiencing a recession or stagnation? What about recent collapse of the stock market, which was experience due to predictions coming from the U.S. - inflation and recession exactly?

As for the book - it's hard for me to say, but I'm not convinced that the author is trying to sell us anything. Especially since, as you can see, the website doesn't have it yet. But if you switch to the Polish version (because the author is from that country, I think) you can see that the book is published for free and you can optionally donate money to some organization (I think taking care Bleeding Disorders).
"Benjamin Franklin built and demonstrated a macroscopic electrostatic motor in 1747,” says Krein. “He actually used the motor as a rotisserie to grill a turkey on a riverbank in Philadelphia” "

I want to know more about Ben Franklin's electrostatic turkey roaster
Or run tracking apps.

Russians lost at least one officer to an assassin finding his profile on an running app and lying in wait.
"I mean, you already severely handicapped the country by outlawing slavery. This was a bridge too far." she continued, "Just look at what North Korea and China have been able to accomplish with death camps. If you exclude the workers who died of natural causes, they have a 100% retention rate and productivity is way higher than here! This is the competitive landscape emerging in the global community and America needs to be number one! It's just too expensive to get to number one by being number one in educational outcomes, healthcare, transportation, or any of the other social or physical infrastructure needed to get to number one in the world economy without unjust exploitation of the citizenry and citizenry adjacent people."
The literature on Microsoft TTD [1][2] indicates it is a instruction emulator full-trace approach. It is a little unclear if it is a basic emulator or a instrumented JIT approach, but the reported ~10x overhead is more consistent with a basic emulator. Though maybe their recording implementation is just inefficient causing such excess overhead.

[1] https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2019/05/time-travel-debuggin...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/vee06/full_papers/p154-...
One suggestion is simply increase the price. Price is strongly correlated with quality of customer. Price also acts as signaling that this is a tool for professionals who make actual money and so shouldn't be bothered coughing up something trivial like $100 for a subscription. You end up making more with far less customer support.
Yes indeed it is. The feds would have to find some financial incentive which could strongarm the states into passing laws overriding local zoning ordinances, in the same way that they used the threat of withholding highway funding to coerce states into establishing speed limits and the 21-year minimum drinking age.
Tracking a call's life-cycle in Teams Telephony [video]
The 'lost day' occurred because the expedition had been traveling westward, in the same direction as the Sun. As they circled the globe, they were effectively chasing the Sun, which meant that each day was slightly longer than 24 hours. Over the course of their journey, these small increments added up to a full day. Thus, by the time they completed their circumnavigation, they had 'lost' one day compared to those who remained in one location.

I like the concept of chasing the sun. That should be a metaphor.
(2022)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32422082
There are various ways they could be made to care, e.g. wrapping a function call in a macro that expands with some sort of assertion about hardware state. But I'm guessing that if they were told to design emulation counter-measures, it was to defeat hardware emulation and not WINE-style library shimming.
Not feeling surprised :-(
Ah, thanks!

I wonder why MIT PI's haven't found the same disastrous effects in the past 4 years... unless the summary at OP doesn't accurately represent actual faculty feelings...
> But for now, the $200 I get every month with almost no work is a nice passive income.

Wow, not that I wouldn't enjoy having an extra $200/mo, but it would be a pretty insignificant chunk of my budget. Stepping back from the author's initial perspective (wanting to help people and grow business) - was this ever worth spending more than a couple hours a week on?
Yeah, nothing but losers from Berkeley, UMich, UW, etc. /s
Blind from birth use visual brain area to improve other senses (2010)
But most people who drive metal boxes would actually take long fast metal tubes that don't have issues with traffic if they were given the opportunity to. This means all the people who really want to drive metal boxes or have to drive metal boxes don't have as much traffic.

Tokyo is of comparable size to LA and they don't have these issues. LA used to have the largest streetcar network in the country but they stripped most of it out circa WWII. See also NYC, London, etc.
Ok, go on. What are 5-10 countries where rich control the state to a low degree?
It’s actually chemistry, and given that we don’t really know how a lot of the human body subsystems interact in 2024, it’s closer to witchcraft than medicine.
No. Just no.

For as painful as the debugging story was I have spent vastly more amounts of time working around garbage collectors to ship performant code.
> procedural methods written by humans

I did not understand what you intended here, but I see what you mean. I totally agree that these are the algorithms to beat.

I'd argue that procedural methods should also include human writing processes, which to date have produced the best output.

I assume the technology will get there eventually.
Xiaomi Mi band is cheap enough and has that feature
> Citizens were additionally asked to avoid posting to social media any footage taken from dashcams or similar equipment

Well, there goes half of Russia's national cultural exports.
>[1] The main thing surveillance cameras create is distrust between neighbors, and [2] to enable businesses to better ignore the community they are in.

I see your first point, but don't get the second.
What do you intend?
Okay, we agree.

This just seems painfully pedantic.

> Intermittent fasting is any of various meal timing schedules that cycle between voluntary fasting (or reduced calorie intake) and non-fasting over a given period.[1][2] Methods of intermittent fasting include alternate-day fasting,[3] periodic fasting, such as the 5:2 diet, and daily time-restricted eating.[1][4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting
China isn't gonna run out of coal anytime soon.
I think the best approach would be to enroll the device in a MDM solution such as jamf. You can use this to apply very granular restrictions to what apps or websites can be used, and if you set a complex passphrase then you can’t just log in and reduce the restrictions.

I started down this path, but unfortunately I’d already been using the device and it was tricky to migrate data like photos/contacts onto the restricted device.
USN Ships are crowded, and unworkable.

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

Note: Japanese ships do not get into collisions. Why? Their trains run on time.

You have 4 control surfaces? And a steering command? Why not have all 5 people looking at each other and communicating. Add two people who are Looking each direction to know where the ship is GOING?

When you fix the organizational attitude, that its supposed to be hard...
You have a very charitable view of this whole thing and I want to believe like you. Perhaps there is a virtuous cycle to be built where infrastructure that relies on people being more honest helps change the culture to actually be more honest which makes the infrastructure better. You don't wait for people to be nice before you create the gpl, the gpl changes mindsets towards opening up which fosters a better culture for creating more.

It's also very important to think in macro systems and societies, as you point out, rather than at the individual level
The second moment of area is quadratic with thickness (t^2), so 250/8" plate. But in reality 2-3x more than that, because at that scale steel gets a bit... goopy.
No secret. Reading from memory is synchronous and always has been, at least in a normal computer. (Sometimes I think of how you could fit a fancy memory controller in a transport triggered architecture but that’s something different)
When it comes to cloud, it's China against the world
It also has a lot of teflon.
well the next time I need some 130ft thick brackets I'll ask them whether I can use it after hours or on the weekend

EDIT: or, according to hwillis' math, 2.5ft thick. I guess those could be useful for anchoring a zipline to the moon or something.
It's also a $12k a year medication that potentially half their customers would want and qualify for under if obesity is qualifying alone. I can understand why they'd quake in fear at the cost. It's a real shame as these drugs will course correct the obesity epidemic and give millions of people decades of life they probably would not have gotten.
there is no search button. but you can search in the url bar, which will show you a button to switch to the corresponding tab
I use a smart band (xiaomi mi band, 40€) for alarm vibration on the wrist. It is supposed to avoid deep sleep wakeups (if enabled, alarm within 20minute frame) but I dont use that.
Really cool! Do you know if there's anything similar for Chrome?
How many RPM is "high?" I have a router that can go up to 40,000 RPM, reciprocating sander that goes about 2000 RPM, et. al. But if I want to actually do good high-quality sanding, lower RPM with higher momentum is better.

Also how big is a "large?" motor? Are we talking tens of horsepower, or single-digit horsepower? My drill press's motor is about 2 horsepower and my router is about 2.5 horsepower, for reference.
This is kind of amazing.

We actually have the miracle “weight-loss pill” we’ve always dreamed of.

I get it, not actually a pill, but the point is there appears to be a straightforward way to attain a healthy weight that will work for a large proportion of people.

Some possible drawbacks…

affordability - if it’s $1K/mo, it’s actually not feasible for a large proportion of people.

maintaining - seems like you probably have to keep taking the drug forever to maintain the benefit. That is, if you stop, the weight comes back.

negative long-term consequences? - It’s great to hear about the positive consequences of this, but since it appears you have to take the drug long-term, what are the negative consequences to doing so?

Personally, I’m a couple months into a diet to get to a healthy weight (a light-weight form of calorie counting). It’s working (yay), but if I don’t do it just right I end up hungry for significant periods of time. That’s miserable, and if it happens too much I probably can’t maintain the diet.

A miracle weight-loss drug sure is looking attractive right now.
Blockchains are not intended to be a universal solution, they excel in different ways, particularly enabling trustless and censorship-resistant value transfer. Which, for many new chains, is still their most used function.
We prefer cars. It's fine.
Very interesting point of view
> Are they?

Yes, I linked to direct evidence it's being accounted for in models.
'We all read like hell ' How Ireland became the literary powerhouse
Market is tight and competition is high.
Yeah I didn't really state that very well. My point was mostly what you say: because people are fans of artists, and because AI music is/will be essentially free to produce, AI music isn't something that will make money for anyone, unless it's the default way anything online makes money: ads are injected into it. I'm not going to pay for it. I'm not going to buy merchandise, or go to concerts, or do anything a music fan does and pays money for. I'm not even going to put it in a workout playlist, because I can just as easily make a playlist of real human artists that I like.

I disagree that it's a threat to the recording industry. They aren't going to be able to sell AI music, but nobody else is either, because anyone who wants AI music can just create it themselves. Record labels will continue to sell and promote real artists, because that's how they can make money. That's what people will pay for.
How are you calculating that? The national debt itself currently has an average interest rate higher than 3%.
When it comes to words like discipline or willpower, they are typically a signal that the poster is about to:

1. Ignore the continual and catastrophic failure of the idea that we can will ourselves out of an increasing crisis

2. Pat themselves on the back for their smug victim blaming

Hence the negative reaction. I don’t have an alternative word for you to use.

Humans at a population level have severe limits on what they can deal with. This is why tech companies use dark patterns, because exploiting and abusing people until they can’t put up resistance works fantastically. Suggesting that the real solution to mass exploitation is just to have the discipline to not be exploited would and should receive a negative reaction.

Ultimately, the solution to obesity is to make the fix as easy to obtain as the primary causes of the problem. Can’t wait for a gambling and (working) smoking vaccine.
I find most people suffer from at least one (and more commonly two) of the following: insufficient attention to detail; poor time management; and bad organization skills.
The common ISA definitely helps -- it opens the door to just running the game image directly and shoving the right dependencies under it (i.e. what WINE does) rather than having to boot the console's OS.

Generally speaking there's been a lot of good work in the industry for binary translation too, cf. Rosetta 2. That's another tool in the box for hoisting a binary on to a different host environment.
Bookmarks don't have tab history.
Related post on hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2017/10/03/ben-franklins-weak-motor-and...
Former LG Display Employees Face the Music for Leaking OLED Panel Technology
Yes, I care deeply about diversity in the browser land.

Luckily Gecko also performs the best for me.
I've only spoken to one Russian this year, and he was honestly pretty embarrassed and ashamed. I agree with you, that's probably the representation on HN too.
Who's pretending I should - I'm just some schmuck on the internet! But it's a matter of plain historical fact that trucks and SUVs took over the American market as a consequence of policies established by the US federal government which made trucks more profitable for manufacturers and ordinary cars less so. Why should we not propose that the mistakes made in one session of Congress ought to be corrected by another?
I can't speak to every car, but my experience is the lanekeeping assist applies very little force to the wheel and if you're making any sort of emergency maneuver you'll go straight through it and feel a slight bump warning you that the car thinks you're crossing the line. If you push against it at all it doesn't stop you. Maybe it even stops trying to apply force entirely if you resist its initial nudge.

I thought it might be annoying when I first got a car with LKA, but I've yet to have any complaints about it.
The testing of AI in medicine is a mess
My dad was like you. At age 61 I finally got him to try 90 days of only fresh home squeezed/extracted vegetable juice. Technically all his calories those 3 months came from the sugars in the vegetables (celery, beets, carrots, cucumbers, tomato, orange).

All his markers improved, even diabetic markers, and blood pressure. He's off the 3 meds he was on.
I'm referring solely to technical skills. I think it is actually harder to be an L6 today because of the sheer number of (both political and technical) constraints you face, but L6s and even L5s in 2010 would do large-scale system design of a sort that basically doesn't exist anywhere within the company today.
I'm guessing Amazon?
isn't git effectively a blockchain? Its got blocks, they are chained (or tree'd) (to some degree), it doesn't need verifiers or mining since it can have users signing their inputs, and that is the only thing to be cared about.
Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone
If you pay them enough money you can sign a custom contract with them that means you can sue them to pieces if they are later found to be storing your original content despite saying that they aren't.

Personally I've decided to trust them when they tell me they won't do that in their terms and conditions. My content isn't actually very valuable to them.
I guess it's an express lane, but limited to cars that fully participate in these imaginary traffic management protocols that don't exist.
Ideal condition speed vs congestion speed is a different thing- I'm not suggesting they don't face the standard scaling bottlenecks, but it is also true that under similar congestion conditions, the network will run faster as hardware improves.

SQL databases also run slower under high load, which is totally independent of faster hardware allowing for faster databases vs the baseline

Re: independent verification, I agree with you. It's not a great tradeoff. I'm not here to shill Solana as a panacea or anything of the sort, just pointing out clear inaccuracies from the OOP.