skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fossil reactor at Oklo https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100912.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto... can be used for that question.

From Wikipedia:

The natural reactor of Oklo has been used to check if the atomic fine-structure constant α might have changed over the past 2 billion years. That is because α influences the rate of various nuclear reactions. For example, ¹⁴⁹Sm captures a neutron to become ¹⁵⁰Sm, and since the rate of neutron capture depends on the value of α, the ratio of the two samarium isotopes in samples from Oklo can be used to calculate the value of α from 2 billion years ago.

Several studies have analysed the relative concentrations of radioactive isotopes left behind at Oklo, and most have concluded that nuclear reactions then were much the same as they are today, which implies that α was the same too.
The two aren't conflicting ideas. Stock returns are directly tied to dividends and buybacks and indirectly tied to profits and overall company performance. If I think a company isn't returning enough, I'll invest my money elsewhere, and its share price will go down. If I think the stock market isn't returning enough, I'll invest my money in bonds or commodities or foreign countries or Bitcoin or cash under my mattress, and the entire market will go down.
(this comment is about using ipad as a general computer, rather than purely coding)

if you're like me and continually open new apps and browser tabs, never closing them, then one benefit of using iPad versus mac is the OS process lifecycle. iPad/iOS processes that are not in focus go into background/suspended state, and don't make your ipad slower and slower - whereas on mac you need to be a bit more disciplined, or else ...
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Yes but a private cannot become a general without decades of experience.

What we see with ilya is not dissimilar. I don't see why it's bad that people are more hesitant to give a talented 18 year old $1B than the guy who's been at the forefront of AI innovation.
iPhones will happily pair with Bluetooth keyboards, Apple’s Magic Keyboard is pretty good IMO, if you can bear a short key travel (and even then, it is a nice crisp short travel key).
Sure, but "is building" could be very far from "is able to smoothly switch production if the main plants and some/many of the associated people are war casualties"
[dupe]

Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41448022
Yep.

But I'm so extremely skeptical the "your 401k will always go up by 10%" argument is going to continue to hold for more decades.

Eventually the blood they are squeezing out from companies and consumers will run out...
Now you’re just defining FP as a contrast to OO. That’s wrong and boring.
If this was true then every bit of math must have a real-world application. But math doesn’t need to have real-world applications in order to be valid.
This is fair. But the theoretical maximum of profitability is 100% of revenue. A company that increased their revenue 10x while keeping the same 10% profit margin (both numbers quite normal) achieved the same profit as if it kept the revenue the same and grew profitability to 100% (pure fantasy).

Also, larger streams of money create the economic multiplier effect.
Good point, I've resorted to nmap in desperation in similar cases but would hope there is a more elegant solution.
Got it, only the Pro version is paid?
> how often in your day-to-day are you put on blast, being critically watched and scrutinized while having to give birth to an elegant solution to some stupid random question? How often does this solve-immediately-or-GTFO happens at work?

Well, honestly, once to several times a week during backlog grooming, meetings with stakeholders and other similar stuff. I find it much easier to work with people with fast recall who can be confident and correct even under time pressure. Nobody wants to sit through many time-consuming meetings that end with “we will check that and get back to you later”.

There is a succinct chess joke that summarises what being an expert means: a journalist asked Casablanca how many moves he thinks ahead. He replied, only one, but it is always the best one.
If his prediction comes true, forget TikTok, I'll steal all Youtube's users and videos and short GOOG to fund it.
It doesn't matter. Constraints enable art, not the other way around.
> Homeownership rates are high (significantly higher than Europe)

What's your data source for that if you recall, just curious?
You realize Starlink Tx power is 0.5W right? It's less than a wifi AP: https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/ndh92t/dishy_rf_o...
Hetzner is what is always mentioned for VPS in these sorts of posts but worth considering IONOS too https://www.ionos.com/servers/vps#packages
>Visa's 2% fee may seem low but from a scale and competitive standpoint it is fairly absurd - they are making 80% gross margins on $30b of revenue to do what boils down to a few API calls and some fraud repayment.

The banks issuing Visa cards do fraud repayment. Visa gets paid for their network, and specifically their network of higher income spenders who want to play the rewards game. Also, note that Visa does not earn 2% of transaction totals. A signification portion of total card processing fees goes to the card issuing banks to pay for rewards and fraud repayment.
YeS, exactly. The trick is to have enough tough data so you find optimal one. I think as we will scale models back to smaller sizes we will discover viable/correct representations
The representative was threatned with arrest, what did you expect them to do? Hire another one so they could also be threatned?
What principles? The guy retweets Nazi propaganda then bans people he doesn't like while claiming he's a free speech absolutists.
That's not remotely saying the same thing. Just because someone could do it doesn't mean it will happen. These things require MUCH more then just the possibility of it happening. For example I could go out right now and murder someone. Doesn't mean I will do it. I'm certainly capable of it. In fact most people are in this exact situation yet there are only a tiny amount of murders happening each day compared to the people capable of it.

So the real question is. Is there someone else with a similar or better drive then Musk, that is as smart as Musk, that has as much discipline, has the right personality and at the right time. The answer is much more likely to be no then yes in my opinion. Because if the answer is yes we would have another Musk or close to it.
You could achieve this with a single graph. Graphiti has a "message" EpisodeType that expects transcripts in a "<user>: <content>" format. When using this EpisodeType, Graphiti pays careful attention to "users," creating nodes for them and maintaining "fact" context for each user subgraph.

"Facts" shared across all users will also be updated universally. Alongside Graphiti's search, you'd be able to use cypher to query Neo4j to, for example, find hub nodes (aka highly-connected nodes), identifying common beliefs.

More here: https://help.getzep.com/graphiti/graphiti/adding-episodes
Many of us can save a child's life, if we rely on the best data
as somebody who spent many years writing "regular" css, this is magic

i wonder if we start to see the "css engineer" job posts sooner or later
The sad truth is, most people simply don't care about anything that doesn't affect them. Yes, there are people who do care, like many of us here on Hacker News, but we are very much in the minority. And even among those who do care, very few are really willing to do anything about it, far from enough to bring about any meaningful change.
I think it would be much less dramatic than that if you mean human level abilities by AGI. Initially you might be able to replace the odd human by a robot equivalent probably costing more to begin with. To scale to replace everyone levels would take years and life would probably go on as normal for quite a while. Down the line assuming lots of ASI robots, if you wanted them to farm or build you a house say you'd still need land, materials, compute and energy which will not be unlimited.
There are many differences, starting with the public image. As far as I know, in the US, the Supreme Court is seen as people with ethics and known legal knowledge. In Brazil, they are political appointees. Furthermore, for many, they go beyond the limits and sometimes legislate.
If your system requires people to adhere to specific movement patterns for it to function effectively, it suggests that your system is flawed. This requirement only adds to the mental burden placed on your drivers, which contradicts your stated goal of simplifying their experience. But let's be honest: it seems the real objective is to shift blame onto employees in the event of an accident.
Doesn‘t even have to be about money. Would be perfectly rational to comply to minimize uncertainty, public outcry, getting into the cross-hair of other countries‘ regulators and distractions from operating the core product/service. In short: for most people it wouldn‘t be worth the headache to stand up against a state like this.
twitter is not complying with brazilian law, as stated in the constitution, and within brazilian legal framework, the supreme court has the legal atribution of defining what is legal or not, juditiary branch of government is separeted from executive and the judge in question was appointed by a right wing president in 2016 , current one is left wing, so everything acording to the law, telegram had this issue in 2020, they comply and now they can operate, as will twitter after comply with a simple court order, wich is required to have a legal representative in brazil, there is no question if it can or cannot operate, it can, just need to have someone to be responsable for the company and comply with the law
While laptops are slightly less worse than tablets ergonomically (when you need to type a lot), a height-adjustable desktop monitor (or two) with a dedicated keyboard is what you really want.
Yes but Satoshi is very strongly a _name_ in Japanese - yours might be comparable to the question “Donald loosely translates from Gaelic to world-ruler?”

Nakamoto is quite common as a name as well.
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Wow, I had no idea!

When I last used Linux and Windows on a Thinkpad, lid closed was equivalent to S3, as indicated by the little crescent moon LED on the lid, fans out, and the battery in that state would last for several days.

My Mac does occasionally turn on with the lid closed to do "useful background tasks" (not actually that useful to me, except for broadcasting "Find my Mac" via Bluetooth), but except for one time when I accidentally had that option permanently flagged one via some "prevent sleep" app (I only found out when I noticed that I could SSH to my laptop while it was in my backpack!), it hasn't noticeably drained my battery.
I think this field of discussion needs a new word for a new type of fallacy I'll name "Appeal to Base Reality" (ABR).

When someone makes a conjecture about physical reality like "Consciousness is made of EMF Waves, not Computations" (like I did) and then someone else tries to refute that with an appeal to the Simulation Theory (like you did) then that's called "Appeal to Base Reality".

Even if we're living in a simulation we still should consider EMF waves a very different phenomena than computations. Computations are not a phenomena of physics. Computations can be done on an abacus.
How about spiders intelligence? They don’t even have brain
In Turkey this wouldn't fly for even a second. He thinks he can make an example out of Brazil (and it's clearly striking a nerve even if it ends up not working out.)
I think the better way to ask this question is: how much large scale spatial variation can there be in the laws of physics so that the observable behavior doesn't contradict existing observations? As far as I remember, this has been studied, but I can't find a reference right now.
Heh, we (a manufacturing facility of specialized devices), just got acquired by a public company.

Due to the utter hell it's already been for meeting accounting standards they need for their financial disclosures like inventory count of fucking 1 cent screws in the warehouse needing to be perfect. Even the engineering staff had to be on hand to take part in warehouse recounts for the auditors.

The heads are already talking of cutting the entire 500 person manufacturing staff and outsourcing the manufacturing. Just because the accounting requirements are huge to run your own manufacturing as a public company.

It's easier for a public company to just outsource anything with annoying requirements to a private company who can handwave behind some paperwork.

Public companies are one reason manufacturing in the US died.
I tend to try and buy direct from electronics sellers but a large number of them sell through amazon.

Which is funny because one step I've had to adopt to avoid fraud is going to the manufacturer's website to find where to buy the item. I can't trust the amazon listing that comes up on a search.

It's less about wanting cheap crap now and more about amazon having a huge market presence that makes avoiding them difficult.
This judge got appointed the censorship czar without checks or balances. One of the first things he did after getting appointed was wrongly censor a Brazilian magazine's story about the guy that appointed him by calling it fake news.

After other press found the story was true, he was forced to rescind that order. The damage was done.

He also got the cops to raid some businessmen' homes at 6am because they were in a group chat where someone else joked about a coup.

Source: NYTimes article:
https://archive.is/plQFT
The judge froze Starlink's bank account because Elon refused to comply with a legal order given to SpaceX by the Brazilian government to block X. Agree with it or not, it's something that is legally required of ISPs operating inside of Brazil. Elon Musk refused on "free speech" grounds, and they retaliated.

He's now complying and blocking X to Starlink customers in Brazil.
My understanding was SpaceX were operating as an ISP in the country of Brazil, and refusing to comply with the ruling to block X.com within the country of Brazil.

Is that not the case?
... so in the intro video at like 2:37, it says that a program can be in language, or an arrangement of components, or a hand-drawn diagram, because anything you can write an interpreter for is a program. The "arrangement of components" and the "hand-drawn diagram" shots show stuff drawn on a whiteboard, which seems like it can be edited by redrawing. Are you saying that a hand-drawn diagram program can be freely edited by changing the diagram, but a language-based program cannot be edited by changing the representation of its code? That seems ... worse.

I would think that you'd want a fiducial marker on code-printouts to identify that a piece of code has a language and a namespace perhaps (i.e. "this page contains a kotlin definition that lives in com.acme.foo"), but that the contents should be modifiable. Otherwise, what's the point? If to edit the code you're gonna pull up a keyboard and screen (or project an editor window) ... then this seems like what we already have, plus you have to print stuff out.
OpenFold, which was AlphaFold2's open-source implementation was published in Nature Methods. We will prepare a similar publication once the model is more mature and when we have a nice set of experiments showing the model's interesting properties.
Show HN: A SQLite-backed job queue handling 15k jobs/s
15k jobs/s is on my macbook pro m1 without batching.

i did a bit of benchmarking and optimizing, but there are probably quite a few things that can be done to improve throughput.

plainjobs is a bit more feature complete than just a bare-bones queue with atomic pop semantic. it supports scheduled cron jobs and auto re-queueing if a worker dies.

the queue has an api that can be used to build a dashboard, which is one of the next things i'm going to do.

i extracted plainjobs while working on a SQLite stack for web development in TypeScript, hoping it could be useful for others!
I can't say I've seen the same, so I dug into it. There's a good list from RedHat[1] on CVEs SELinux mitigated. I went through them:

- CVE-2016-9962 - Bypasses Apparmor [2], mitigated by SELinux

- CVE-2022-0492 - Apparmor and Seccomp also protect against

- CVE-2019-5736 - Mixed, blocked by the default SELinux policy in RHEL (not Fedora), not blocked by the default AppArmor policy[3]

- CVE-2021-3156 - This one is not a good one for RedHat to put on the list. SELinux by default doesn't protect against it, Debian 10 at the time had a Linux security feature enabled (fs.protected_symlinks) that helped mitigate it, and additionally CVE-2021-23240 came out which had similar effects but only occurred on SELinux systems.

- CVE-2019-9213 - Not mitigated by AppArmor, mitigated by SELinux

- CVE-2019-13272 - Not mitigated by AppArmor, not mitigated by default SELinux policy, but easy to mitigate by enabling boolean. I'd consider this a win for SELinux, but only just.

While digging into this more, I came across this BlackHat talk[4] which really quantifies how SELinux improves security (though doesn't contrast it with AppArmor). I also came across a paper on usability of SELinux and AppArmor[5] which brings up an interesting point: If the tool is too complex, even if it's more powerful, more often than not it won't end up having better results.

That's all to say, I think if you're willing to invest a lot of time into it (say you want to make security your niche in your development career), SELinux is still the best. But I can see why many may gravitate towards AppArmor so as to not make perfect the enemy of good. That said, I still wish Debian had a choice between the two, right now SELinux isn't really doable without a lot of work.

[1]: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7032454

[2]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/2128

[3]: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2019-5736/

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkL1sDMXRVk

[5]: https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/outputs/journa...
that’s not the whim of a judge, that’s brazilian law.

piercing the corporate veil is different than in the US, that’s how Starlink got involved.
Actually, its worse than that. They froze Starlink as Brazilians can bypass state internet censorship via that. Its all about censorship.
"When you absolutely, totally, fundamentally, have to, fundamentally be sure" :)
Ask HN: Is Intel's Struggle a Sign That OKRs Are Ineffective?
Intel has been under-performing in recent years, missing out on major trends like mobile and GPUs/Machine Learning.
Given that the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) methodology was pioneered at Intel, could their current struggles suggest that OKRs might not be as effective as believed? Are OKRs causing companies to micro-optimize and reach local maxima rather than driving true innovation? Or Intel failure have nothing to do with OKR?

Would love to hear experiences and thoughts from others who have used OKRs in their organizations or if I´m just too grumpy about OKR.
Maybe they just assume everyone's reading this on an iPhone. I'm not, but if I wanted to I could access it via my phone which has Apple News which is how I access WSJ.
If you do business in a country without a strong tradition of the rule of law, you have to accept that the law is not the supreme authority. Sometimes the authorities do what they want, and you have to deal with it if you want to continue doing business.
Roughly speaking, that running Linux as a desktop OS would be easy enough that even non-technical users would be able to do it with difficulties comparable to, say, Windows XP.
None of this is a problem in Azure PaaS. There is autoscaling and shared storage volumes for serverless components. Perhaps the problem is Kubernetes?
So for 25$ a month I get access to ChatGPT and Claude offerings in addition to access to Kagi search. This sounds like a good deal, compared to the 20$/month access to ChatGPT only. Or am I missing something?
This fits well with some of what Ray Dalio has been saying. The are business cycles and also cycles of those business cycles. At this time we appear to be in a long term transition downward following a long period of relatively strong upsides.
I would think a ship would have sensors for this sort of thing
If they're working there, they believe its their best option.

If you're successful at causing amazon to crumble and they lose their job, would you really feel good?

Imagine telling them they don't have job anymore because you know better than them whats good for them
The recordings are stored on a usb stick in the car. The time window is quite long.
So as long as innovation is outgrowing stagnation then returns should continue to outpace typical zero risk interest. In essence if you believe the stock market will fail to exhibit growth you’re betting against technological progress and productivity gains. Bad bet I’d say.
Cool, not a feature I personally want and behind a higher priced tier than I pay for now. That seems entirely reasonable for both Kagi and for me.
2019, when TSMC N7+ entered high volume manufacturing.
Redox OS Unlocks Faster VM Performance, "Slightly Faster" Than Linux
If anybody else is wondering whether you need a Connect subscription to use the device, it seems the answer is no[1].

I watched the linked video and got kind of excited about buying one, and I was wondering about whether they'd pull the move of making me pay them a subscription to even use the thing I already paid them to own. That would basically make the whole device a non-starter for me.

Somewhere in the midst of this, I realized the actual reason I won't buy it is that I have no real use case for it, even though I think the technology is cool. Your mileage may vary.

[1] https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...
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I invest in Tesla because I think it's a great product with a positive vision of the future. I do wish Musk was more measured but my opinion of him doesn't affect my opinion that electric cars are good, Tesla makes the best and has proven their ability to scale.
There's a problem with a key that lives on your machine that you can't transfer; if I drop my phone into a ditch, I'm suddenly "person-less" until I can go and get another one, and go through the process again.

And a key that can be duplicated, will absolutely be sold online so that AI and others can use it.
It's possible to measure the ratios of the constants, like mass_of_proton/mass_of_electron . Another is the fine structure constant, that is related to the charge of the electron (divided by a lot of other constants to cancel the units). Both of them are related to the spectral lines of the light emitted and absorbed by atoms, so if they changed the "color" of the other galaxies should have changed a little. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensionless_physical_constan...
I’ve been hesitant to try them because some of their pricing pages look like this: https://cloud.ionos.com/managed/dbaas/postgresql#pricing
As a developer, I've had to tell "ops" how syslog() works. Also, as a developer, I've had "ops" bitch because we had different config files for the service. Yes, because the service is geographically redundant, and each site had different IP address! And I, the developer, have maintained, and continue to maintain, the configuration file! Checked into your ops repo. You (ops) have never had to maintain it at all!

I've also been on the other side of the wall, as ops, having to tell the developers why the keep seeing zombie processes on the server. Because the developers had no experience with Unix signals and having to wait on child processes. And again, about how syslog() works.

It goes both ways.
And how many famines were there under the Tsars?