skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Altruism in large social groups is something chimps haven't worked out yet

But their close relatives, the Bonobos, apparently have.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Behavior:

> Primatologist Frans de Waal states bonobos are capable of altruism, compassion, empathy, kindness, patience, and sensitivity, and described "bonobo society" as a "gynecocracy".
Notan: Cross-Platform Multimedia Layer
Anti cheat is DRM. It's added specifically to make it so modifications are DRM circumvention and therefore copyright infringement. This isnt to protect the player, but forced by big suit investors to "protect their investment".

The best anti cheat is proper net code. Games rarely do this because it's expensive and difficult. Consumers will buy it anyways.

Anti cheat overtop is like calling an open window with a loud Weiner dog guarding it "defense in depth".
Wish I knew some of these takeaways before I had to come up with a mobile timeline concept myself — nice article!
Then why do monsters become blurry smudgy messes when shot? That looks like a video compression artifact of a neural network attempting to replicate low-structure image (source material contains guts exploding, very un-structured visual).
> Suppose you own 51% of your company, i.e. a controlling interest. The company is doing very well under your leadership -- value doubles. But then you have to pay tax on the unrealized gain. The shares are your main asset so the only way to pay is to sell them. Now you no longer have a majority of the shares and control of the company moves to the soulless Wall St vampire squid which only cares how much money they can extract from your customers by any means necessary.

One of the reasons I'd like this policy even more if the shares were sold to the government and the government is forbidden from voting outside of exceptional (e.g valuation crash over x years) circumstances.

But the reality is that companies play games with voting rights on shares all the time, so your scenario is easily worked around by founders themselves.
Better Customer Feedback?
I worked on a startup for 2 years, and my biggest pain point was customer feedback. I know startups, including mine, mostly use surveys and emails to contact customers. Some more recent startups have gone a little more modern with Slack channels, maybe reddit etc. My thought is why not create a reddit type platform specifically intended to facilitate user/founder and user/user interaction. That seems way more engaging than surveys, or siloed emails.

I am looking for ONE startup to work closely with as I try to make customer feedback better. Essentially, I'm just as invested as you to ensure you are getting good feedback.

You can check out the website here: https://thecontor.com. I'm very happy to build any features into it, as long as you can justify how it improves the experience.

Good luck to everyone building stuff. Godspeed.
"the media _said_ why they were covering the rally, checkmate and QED good sir" lol just pathetic

This is the same set of institutions that insisted from January 6, 2021 until about June of this year that Trump was a literal existential threat to democracy who had attempted to carry out an actual insurrection, and needed to be completely deplatformed. Now, all of a sudden deciding to cover his campaign like it's just one more ordinary old POTUS horse race. Okay.
I'm very much in favour of using (or even mandating) air purifiers and dissuading (or banning) people from going to work or sending their kids to school with a communicable disease (including any respiratory illness, not just COVID-19; people seem to think "It's not Covid. So, it doesn't matter.").

Implementing such highly useful measures hasn't been tried, though, at least not at any meaningful scale. Everything politicians tried was about more restrictions and ever more severe lockdowns.

> Vaccines aren't perfect, even including them about 3-5% of the infected have a risk for debilitating long-covid (i.e. ME/CFS). It's not a gamble I want to take part in.

Again, I'm totally fine with that. I'm myself still getting vaccinated once a year with an updated vaccine and I occasionally still wear masks depending in the setting (cramped indoor spaces, particularly during cold season).

If people personally want to avoid that risk that's perfectly ok. Demanding others behave in a certain way (e.g., by enforcing restrictions on their freedom of movement) is not, though.
> Then the question becomes, what do you personally do to protect your computers boot firmware?

I have a multi-stage strategy.

First and most important, physical security. My computer is valuable enough that if I left it unattended in public, someone would probably nick it and put it on ebay. So I only leave it unattended in places with good enough physical security.

Secondly, I avoid doing anything that would impose spy-thriller-movie-level security requirements on my equipment. My employer wants to secure a critical code signing key? I'll be happy to sort them out with their own HSM in their own properly secured data centre, or their own USB stick in a bank vault, or whatever their requirements dictate. My personal security research? I anonymously publish anything interesting I find right away. And I strictly avoid going to countries where I think the government ought to be overthrown.

Therefore, the chances of an attack targeting my boot firmware are exceptionally small.

Finally, I embrace the reality that the TPM wouldn't have helped me anyway. Firstly the security the TPM offers depends on the security of the BIOS, and we all know that's a joke. Secondly, even if the TPM worked perfectly and the BIOS was secure and so on, an attacker in a position to mess with my firmware could just as easily install a physical keylogger, or a hidden camera pointing at my keyboard, or just have masked goons hit me with a $5 wrench until I tell them the password.
That is kind of cool though, I would play like being lost in a dream.

If on the backend you could record the level layouts in memory you could have exploration teams that try to find new areas to explore.
It would seem like they use high res telephone and isp operator data to feed into some blackbox for bomb targeting.

What could possible need that much storage and compute otherwise? Video feeds?

I wonder if Hamas has figured out that they should not carry phones or use the internet by now.
> The most popular, highly ergonomic, best implementations of CRDTs actually break the academic rules of CRDTs.

There's a popular, highly ergonomic implementation called Automerge[0] that would beg to disagree with you.

[0]: https://automerge.org/
iOS user trends and preferences in EU: 2024 Setapp report
Different colonies of the same species of ants are absolutely ruthless against each other.
> If there is one thing every parent in my social circle is cursing about, it is all the tons of bugs their kids bring home from school because other parents can't be arsed to let their kid spend a few days at home watching TV

Viruses spread prior to any indication of infection. By the time any kid in daycare has a fever, the class is already infected and spreading to others. A huge proportion of viral infections just result in runny noses.

One of my kids’ classes got hand foot mouth a few months ago, and I don’t think even a single kid had a fever, or even any painful spots. Just some red spots for a few days, but otherwise unaffected. Not to say that it should intentionally be spread or ignored, but just providing perspective on how non problematic the vast, vast majority of viral infections could be, especially relative to the cost of preventing them.

Also, schools serve as daycare taking on the legal liability for handling kids, allowing parents to work. The changes you seek would crater the economy of any developed country, and especially so with aging demographics. And I don’t think any country offers unlimited paid sick time. Not to mention that efforts to prevent abuse of this unlimited paid sick time would be another huge resource sink.
Research is the acquisition of knowledge that may or may not have practical applications.

They succeeded in the research, gained knowledge, and might be able to do something awesome with it.

It’s a success even if they don’t sell anything.
impressive, imagine this but photo realistic with vr goggles.
Plus, presumably, either training it on pilot inputs (and being able to map those to joystick inputs and mouse clicks) or having the user have an identical fake cockpit to play in and a camera to pick up their movements.

And, unless you wanted a simulator that only allowed perfectly normal flight, you'd have to have those airliners go through every possible situation that you wanted to reproduce: warnings, malfunctions, emergencies, pilots pushing the airliner out of its normal flight envelope, etc.
Fantastic comment, I'll take these to the drawing board... thank you so much for taking the time!
a syndication feed would probably suffice
You are absolutely right. The layers are useful for upper management and C-Suite. They are not useful for any actual work, actual workers, or productivity.

In a way, it is an abuse of organizational authority. The company might need more engineers so as to reduce the burden on existing engineers. But the upper management wants to more managers to build their empire to shield themselves from any work. Thus, what gets hired is managers after managers - completely against what the company needs.
Odd layout. After entering a search in the text field, the next element is a title: “Search for an API” and a subheading: “Searching for APIs…”. The results were below the fold on my phone. This title made me think the query was not yet submitted, so I’m sure I submitted the form a bunch of times.
These are good thoughts to chew on.

> Other users did vote for them. There are actual elections for diamond mods.

I don't like the idea that I have to be on board with a website's unvetted volunteer moderators in order to use it.

I agree with SO but I don't agree with its power mods. The power mods are constantly at odds with SO's policies. Therefore it's a power mod issue and not mine.

> Do you distrust forum/subreddit/discord moderators as well?

Absolutely! Why should I trust these people? Some subreddit moderators for specific smaller niche subs can be ok, but a lot of questions should be asked of large subreddit moderators.

Who are these people who spend hours a day working for free for a billion dollar company? Why do they do it? Why are they moderating 100+ subreddits? Why do all of their posts automatically go to the top of the Reddit front page even if they get relatively few comments?

Reddit seems extremely easy to astroturf and it's very clear to see during US election periods like we're in at the moment.
Also The Matrix, Oblivion, etc.
OK, this is the single most perfect comment someone could make on this thread. Diffusion me impressed.
I've used Taskwarrior (and Timewarrior [1]) for some time and one thing they uniquely do is automatically rank your tasks by a number of factors.

For your tasks, you can set priorities, a deadline, dependencies, and more. Using this information, Taskwarrior computes an urgency score so you can see your most urgent task using:

task next

Sometimes I wonder what a GUI-based app would look like that does such urgency rankings.

[1]: https://timewarrior.net/
Derp. They buried the lede... Edited.
The culture of sexual assault and retaliation is depressing.
What kind of dog accidents bend planks?
I also noticed that they played AI DOOM very slowly: in an actual game you are running around like a madman, but in the video clips the player is moving in a very careful, halting manner. In particular the player only moves in straight lines or turns while stationary, they almost never turn while running. Also didn't see much strafing.

I suspect there is a reason for this: running while turning doesn't work properly and makes it very obvious that the system doesn't have a consistent internal 3D view of the world. I'm already getting motion sickness from the inconsistencies in straight-line movement, I can't imagine turning is any better.
> average age that skews older than, say, 30 - to which you unfortunately seem to belong

Haha, unfortunately you would be correct.

> in response to this post there are multiple posts each suggesting their own conspiracy. I wonder if this actually points to something, or it too is a just random noise.

After I posted my original comment full of personal anecdotes, I thought “It’s always my useless posts that get the most responses.” Checking HN later in the day confirmed my suspicion.

As a data scientist, there are certain fields of study concerning the physical world that overwhelm me with the vast number of baseless and likely wrong theories within them: psychology, sociological, and medicine. Basically any field that attempts to study the human body or mind.

We likely have sufficiently advanced ML and inference techniques by this point to discover the true root causes of allergies and autoimmune disease (and all disease for that matter), but unfortunately this is a case where the problem is the data, not the algorithm.

We have no reasonable system in place to accurately collect, process, and store vast amounts of observational health data. And beside the data quality concerns, the privacy implications of attempting to store all of that sensitive data securely are mind-boggling.

Nevertheless, with observations from billions of people, it seems like even simple techniques could extract a lot of signal from the noise, which is just too difficult with the tiny number of low sample, high variance RCT studies we currently use. When you’re trying to predict causation from one or a few variables, it’s simple. When you’re considering thousands of variables at once, it’s next to impossible.
They could down convert the entire model to only utilize the subset of matrix components from stable diffusion. This approach may be able to improve internet bandwidth efficiency assuming consumers in the future have powerful enough computers.
Yeah, sounds like it. I wonder why hamas isn't using something encrypted? I guess isp and teleco info still would give a general location, encrypted or not
Let's talk about Frame.work's Customer Experience
This is my experience with frame.work's customer support, and how things should be improved.

One of the things I think is dangerous about the current state of their official communications channel (Discord, Reddit, etc) is that the moderators (which are volunteers but still overseen by framework employees) close conversations when people complain (as seen at the bottom of the linked post).

The other, even more dangerous thing, is that they've created and push an attitude of "don't care about the issue even if it's bad, I'll just buy a replacement instead of making a warranty claim" that makes users question their choice to contact Support. An example here: https://imgur.com/OLFJITP or straight up defending some the company's shady behaviour [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/1drjp5w/comment/...
I don't buy it, in the sense that ants are among the species we can observe that most display any lack of real "reasoning", they're the closest things we can easily study that feel like algorithms.

A famous example is when they form circles and just die all following those in front of them.

In fact, ants are so basic, that when an ant dies it releases a specific hormone that tells other ants to kick it out of the nest. Scientist could prove it by putting some of it on very lively ants. It didn't matter that it was clearly alive and moving, as soon as it was inside the nest, other ants would group and kick it out.

I think empathy requires a level of emotional intelligence such a basic insect just does not have.
Do you have a cite for the air filters? I'm under the impression that stand alone air filters don't move enough air to be effective.
Yeah, I don't think so either. Conflicts are good - the knowledge that someone else also did something [here] is useful, and external context can completely change what the correct next step is. The info needed will never be fully encoded into the text.

That said, a clearer model for why it conflicts, and how things got there, can definitely help understand what happened and therefore what to do next. Git isn't great there, you're just given the final conflict pair.
I do remain skeptical that the node on the Microsoft org chart that usually strangles anything good the companies does is waiting to strike. It used to be Windows node, but now it seems like the ad node comes in for the kill most of the time. The company is slowly morphing into Google as Google morphs into Amazon, while Amazon is morphing into UPS.

Strange times.
Yes! This is exactly what it's meant for.
What do people do with thier pictures? (modern life, media and backing up)
It struck me when chatting with my mother in-law that whether you're on an Android or iOS phone you may still be pushed into purcahsing more sych storage to keep your photos/videos backedup or simply give yourself more space...

For years now (as an iOS and Mac user) I've used Image Capture to download and free up my photos from my phone and backing them up on a RAID harddrive.... I'm probably not the norm here...
So what do people do to keep media, free up space and make it easy (thinking of the older generation)... ideally without paying for the privilege?
That depends on the profile, firejail supports both.
Water is a reasonably good insulator actually. You need a lot of dissolved minerals to make it a good conductor.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dcrY59nGxBg
1 billion frames in memory... With such dataset, you have seen practically all realistic possibilities in the short-term.

If it would be able to invent action and maps and let the user play "infinite doom", then it would be very different (and impressive!).
Having lost 30lbs so far in 2024, you are highly under estimating the devastation of our gluttonous foodie culture.

All the factors you mention I suspect are completely meaningless in comparison to consuming excess calories and I am pretty sure research would back this up.

I was starting to have various health problems a year ago this time that have all gone away literally like magic.

I think what you are talking about is actually a form of denial. Blaming meaningless variables we can't control so we can ignore the fat elephant in the room right in front of us.
Honestly I never feel the need to have high quality always on mic, or a macrobug (as opposite to classic spaying devices, payed by those who spy instead of me, and well hidden instead of being in plain sight)...

Sure, if we live in the house, not at a desk, might be nice to have some "audio-based UI" but it's far from being a normal case. While I work or anyway I'm at the desk I can see anything quicker, when I'm not I'm typically do something else so I've no need to ask for current weather or something like that.

On contrary I do like MUCH home automation, but on MY terms. I do not like much Home Assistant but that's the least unusable of all I've tried, and I do like to have for instance:

- auto close/open certain roller blinds following the Sun position and the home+outside temperature

- run or not run water heater depending on water temp, available p.v., others running/scheduled charge, next day weather forecast

- auto-closing main home water valve when I go out for more than one day, also auto-close inlet, open purge in case of food sensors alarm

- ...

Long story short SIMPLE things, but beyond Alexa capabilities anyway. And things that could be far easier if a concept of OPEN, STANDARD appliance exists instead of the current sorry state of IoT...
> but there is no process to "re-open" a question where the state of the art has changed)

Of course there is. When you get closing privileges you also get re-open privileges. And, believe it or not, people do reopen questions when it's appropriate.
This is compounded by their propensity to rename everything at periodic intervals.
I figure there could be some time correlation attack at isp level? I mean, Israel control the Palestinian internet, right? Aswell as cell towers.

That would explain the need for the storage, for ip packet level timestamps and header.
Show HN: Language Links Game (Connect Words in English, Spanish, French, German)
I built a small, statically exported Next.js site to host on Github Pages with a custom subdomain.

Connect the same word in English, Spanish, French, and German to complete a row.

Inspired by NY Times' Connections.
That's totally doable but we haven't put together any examples of that kind other than perhaps this one https://rerun.io/examples/generative-vision/llm_embedding_ne..., which uses UMAP to project some text embeddings vectors to 3D
It sounds like .NET is on the way toward becoming the Java competitor it set out to be.
This is so silly, it might be just a form of trolling.

A nuclear power plant is a nuclear rector plus a thermal power plant, i.e. a turbine. Even if the safety of the reactor is 100%, what happens if there's an accident with the turbine? How do you perform maintenance? Sure, you have elevators to move people up and down, but how do you move things that are several tons up and down? A typical fuel rod assembly is about 4-5 meters long. The efficiency of the thermal power plant is about 30%, which means you need to dispose of 70% of the heat coming from the reactor. With regular nuclear power plants you use cooling towers; how are you going to do this when you are 1 mile underground? Do you install some pipes that bring cold water from the surface? Sounds reasonable until you do the math and find out you need to move 10 tons per second. The pumps that need to push the water up will need to fight the gravity of a column of water one mile high and push 10 tons each second. The math is not that difficult (potential energy = mgh), such pumps need to have a power of about 150 MW. That's ignoring the friction of the water in the pipe. But that's a big thing to ignore for a mile-long pipe. Oh, and the pressure at the bottom is 165 bar, about the same as the pressure in the reactor. You can avoid this huge pressure by creating moving the water up and down in stages, but that complicates the engineering, and increases the construction and maintenance cost.
Penrose (Nobel prize in physics) stipulates that quantum effects in the brain may allow a certain amount of time travel and back propagation to accomplish this.
Show HN: AppTimer-GUI – A Linux Open-Source Tool to Limit App Usage
Hey HN, I’ve just released AppTimer-GUI, a productivity tool designed to help you manage your screen time more effectively. Whether you’re looking to reduce distractions, limit app usage, or maintain a better work-life balance, AppTimer-GUI provides a simple and intuitive way to control how long applications run on your system.

Key Features:

Graphical Interface: A user-friendly GUI built with the Fyne toolkit.
Flexible Time Units: Choose between seconds, minutes, or hours for your timer.
Pause and Unpause: Temporarily stop the timer and resume when you’re ready.
Stop and Kill: Instantly stop the timer and close the app at any time.

Use Cases:

Enhance Focus: Limit access to distracting apps while working or studying.
Control Screen Time: Set strict usage limits on entertainment apps to avoid overuse.
Work-Life Balance: Manage work-related app usage to ensure you don’t overwork.

Get Involved:

I’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvement. Contributions are also welcome! You can check out the project on GitHub.

Background:

This tool is an evolution of a CLI-based version I previously created, which you can also find on GitHub: https://github.com/Varrow1/AppTimer
WebJars – client-side web libraries packaged into JAR files
I've heard in California that will cause cancer.
Locusts and Honey Badgers – Closed vs. Open Workload Models in Load Testing
I'd say it only makes sense if you control the forwarder.
>"only monospace fonts, no external javascript, only static content"

So most of the Japanese amateur internet? :V

(CJK fonts are mostly monospace.)