skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a thing called a rocket. Those have different constraints (e.g. energy proportional to mgh to get out of the atmosphere, dramatically less efficient engines since you now need to carry your oxidizer, etc. It seems vaguely plausible that for very long distances (e.g. New York to China), a rocket could be more efficient than an airplane, but it does seem pretty unlikely that a rocket can be as efficient as a normal airplane.
Scientists debunked one of conservation's most influential statistics
> Infection with H. pylori is responsible for around 89% of all gastric cancers, and is linked to the development of 5.5% of all cases of cancer worldwide. Although the data varies between different countries, overall about 1% to 3% of people infected with Helicobacter pylori develop gastric cancer in their lifetime compared to 0.13% of individuals who have had no H. pylori infection. H. pylori-induced gastric cancer is the third highest cause of worldwide cancer mortality as of 2018. Because of the usual lack of symptoms, when gastric cancer is finally diagnosed it is often fairly advanced. More than half of gastric cancer patients have lymph node metastasis when they are initially diagnosed.

I've got symptoms, but this would scare me even if I didn't.
Would I be happy if after the education I paid my daughters they decide to work in public sanitation?

Think honestly about it. Do you think I have anything against sanitation employees?
Can you link to this other source?
Could we solve climate change if we just accepted being dramatically poorer, forever? As I’ve written before, the answer is 1) no, not really [...]

You can almost certainly solve climate change with degrowth, the plantet can probably handle ten billion people living stone age lifestyles, it is just a question of how much we have to give up. But the not really part is the important one, you are not going to convince people to reduce their living standards significantly. If the required amount of degrowth means going back to the living standard from a couple of decades ago or more, that is not going to happen before the surface of the Earth is a deserted wasteland and people really feel the need.

I guess the best you can do is maintaining the current living standard and put future growth into making that living standard less environmental impactful instead of further raising the living standard.
Beaches in Massachusetts in the US were closed a number of times this summer because of algae blooms and other reasons.
Porn once again predicts the future of social tech.
I doubt any boss would open an onlyfans link and if they tried I'd expect the company firewall would block it.

I could imangine a boss getting links to those videos on some other site that looks innocent [perhaps at home] but the boss is unlikely to do anything as those are what you do in private. The only exception would be if you work for a church where such is not allowed - and even then if it is a much younger you, you can rebent of your past sins.

the above is about work. If you were trying to marry the guy (who presumably isn't your boss as an ethics) it would be different some guys would not accebt that.
In the end we had sufficiently good tests to detect such foolishness. But even that isn't good enough because if the result of the test is merely slightly off some people will just adjust the assertions!
There is a new-ish phenomenon of some women going to the gym, setting up suspiciously placed cameras, and then uploading to TikTok (or Instagram or OF) with complaints that the people in the background - who do not want to be recorded - are "staring."

It is usually obvious what they're doing. It's not merely "there are women in the gym."
Just the nuance of the language. Im saying _statistically_ those scenarios are "Im currently trying to spell a word and Im verbally asking you which is right". Very rarely would that be written in text, and I think its much more likely to be framed as "is there 1 or 2" as the question. I think _statistically_ it is overwhelmingly likely the question as framed is a trivia style question asking for the actual answer.
Funny I was building apps like that in 2006 so now I look at most of the popular JS frameworks and think "gee those are good for form processing even if they might not be necessary" but not for the kinds of applications I was building back then.
I don't think its black and white. I think sometimes success is a matter of luck. For example, in large organizations there can be a lot of roles generated where there isn't always that much direct pressure and people can be hired through luck (e.g. getting on with the boss, some types of diversity hires, being loyal to a company even if you are not that good etc.). If teams of people make products/reports etc. sometimes it can be hard to shine, and 'talkers' who don't contribute much can get promoted into a 'lucky' role.
Its not black and white.
> will entrench the user in a walled garden ecosystem from a very specific giant tech company that isn't big on making their products compatible with other companies

Are you suggesting AirPods aren't Bluetooth 5.3 and aren't compatible with Bluetooth audio sources? Or that it doesn't play AAC, MP3, and FLAC?

The proprietary capabilities (such as instant smart switching between active devices) are all incremental, taking nothing away from normal Bluetooth usage.
That's why equity investment in creative endeavors is an entire class of business. Possible to risk-balance adjustment, similar to anything else.
Nubank, the Brazilian bank unicorn, described their approach as “if this works, it’s because we reached massive scale quickly” (paraphrased) and started with an architecture that would support that from the beginning. They were very happy with their choices and have blogged about them in detail.

This is a case where “things will be much easier when we scale to a massive number of clients” turned out to be true.
Interesting to see a trickster/coyote legend from east asia, and fairly recent (last few hundred years). I wonder if there’s a longer tradition in Japan of people like this.
Dedicated FP64 is great for real-time audio processing. Like an included DSP chip.
Land of the free my as.
> Looking at western culture

It's not a "western culture" thing. Many western cultures do, sure. Many eastern cultures do as well. Not literally puritanism and that specific history, but very similar kinds of thoughts and ideas.
SpaceX has done such a phenomenal job rebuilding from scratch. How is it not obvious to you rebuilding airlines from scratch is also the best route?
Off topic - is Firedancer going to survive Jump winding down its crypto arm?

Kanav left, they liquidated a huge staked ETH position a few months ago (+ a bunch of other coins), and the SEC/CFTC is all over them for the Terra Luna fiasco.
They aren't doing that currently though, right? The only thing I remember is the NeuralHash thing which was delayed and then never came.
By that token, as far as we know the system has always been stable, only that not enough datapoints to overcome the noise have been observed yet.

What we are observing being anything other than noise is highly unlikely.
I don’t think the stigma is around hearing loss it’s about age.

And stigma is probably not the right word, it’s an internal acceptance issue.
Has Online Dating Made a Difference to Marriage Matches?
Rich people borrow against appreciated assets. They don't sell and incur capital gains tax. That's why company leadership loves buybacks.

Ordinary people have to sell assets to take advantage of appreciation. So unless they can time sales to optimize taxes - really only an option for retirees - they might as well get regular dividends.
What are you using to make handwritten text? Is it a model?
You never been in a conversation where someone asks "is it 1 or 2 r in strawberry?", ignoring certain single instances of the same in other parts of the word?

Think about it- as I said below, usually it's about things like s vs ss, r vs rr, l vs ll etc
Does your nations healthcare system not cover that?
To be fair to AI, you can't really trust press releases even if they don't involve it.
That's fine for you (though I'd challenge you to ask yourself why), but younger generations and many in older generations like myself are realizing that sex work is just work. Bodies are just bodies. Relationships and past sexual history are in the past.

It's another flavor of bodily autonomy.
Are you speaking from experience or did you just study the f/w? I agree, gotta have those thermal switches, and they need to result in killing power on threshold breach.
When I was 11, I had the incredible opportunity to join him in the recording booth during one of his voice-overs for Bell South. I stuttered badly at the time, but he was incredibly kind and understanding. He took 30 minutes out of his day to sit with a kid he didn't even know and talk about the art of speech—it was life-changing. I’ll never forget that day.

A few months later, we received two large 3x3' posters in the mail. Blown-up photos of us working together that day. In the lower right-hand corner of each, he had signed them, "May the force be with you! JEJ / To my friend, Best Wishes, JEJ (AKA Mustafa)."

What an awesome guy. I just pulled those pictures out, and 29 years later, I’m still filled with awe and immense gratitude.
> parasocial relationships

sounds like you meant "professional courtesy"
There is a difference between solicited and unsolicited information. In my experience people who can't live with someone without asking them the number of past partners are the toxic ones.
This comparison is backwards.

Listening to music performed in person by other humans is the natural way of things, like actually having sex with another human.

Recorded music is much more like pornography.
You only have to hold a stock for 60 days to get qualified dividends. For long term gains it's a year.
The question obviously was meant as "except Boeing".
The scaling thing is a great boogeyman. It preys on this optimism your software is going to be so successful in such a short amount of time which people want to believe.
> Highly recommend this thread.

Shame that Twitter doesn't let people without an account to read it.
This. This is the real social problem we should be fighting. SW should not impinge on career or social status.

As a hiring manager, if anything I'd want to consider sex performers as a green flag in a job history. Speaks to resourcefulness, social skills, courage and self confidence.
From the article:

> In many cases, the responses are actually written by a member of the creator’s extended team – remember, many of these creators are now multi-million dollar enterprises, and its obviously impossible for creators such as Bhad Bhabie to engage in detailed and personalized conversations with their scores of VIP subscribers – though this alleged subterfuge has resulted in some legal action.
His skill is helping creators do their best work. It’s a rare one.
A single Hetzner bare metal server is going to be a few times cheaper than all of these scalability gimmicks while offering a significant productivity.
Donut County is my favorite game to sit someone down and watch them play through in a single sitting.
There’s still value in curbing many of these vices. Smoking is a good example. You can smoke, but you can’t advertise cigarettes, you need to be an adult to buy them, you can’t smoke them indoors, and we’ve all been subjected to propaganda from birth about how smoking is bad for you. If you have all of that in place (which took decades for tobacco and now people are trying to ban it in some places), you can have legal vices.
It's a for-loop isn't it?
Recovering the application from failures especially when updating multiple data sources, once and only once execution and such things are in the application domain. They have never been done by relational databases. That is the problem solved by the Python SDK of DBOS ( and typescript SDK)
I am European (left FWIW, which I guess in the US is "far-left" or something alike), been influenced by Reagan for sure (against most of his stated policies and views) and I do believe the government should exists to help people among other things. The government should not aim to generate profits but instead spend that overflow money on improving more lives.
If the number of ex or sexual intercourses is the one of the first questions you ask when you are in the "prospective" state, yes that is creepy. And a huge warning sign that you are probably a toxic person.

I don't care about ex partners. I'd rather know if my sexuality is compatible with that person and if that person is comfortable/confident with their sexual life.
The build timelapse is fun given that the light/shadow gives a strong additional sense of assembly duration.
Why Your Code Isn't as Innovative as You Think It Is
I am a big believer in the idea that engineers, real professionals, need to have a clear view of what kind of performance technologies deliver, and should never ever view performance statements as a political statement. They may be right or wrong, but they aren't political. This includes both not writing a project that needs very high performance and reaching for a known-lower-performance tool, and also not reaching for the absolutely highest performance tool which generally comes with a price when you are orders of magnitude away from needing it.

Erlang/Elixir has plenty of performance for plenty of problems, but Go is definitely generally a cut above. And there's definitely another cut above Go in performance, it's not the fastest, and there's a cut below Erlang/Elixir as well because they're generally faster than the dynamic scripting languages. And even the dynamic scripting languages are often fast enough for plenty of loads themselves.
Boredom is an invitation to slow down
More states and cities can retain immigrant entrepreneurs
I haven't read this book but I hope they came to the conclusion that this cannot be done without a huge expansion of the rail network.
I don't remember the details of basic swimming tests but that sounds about right. The bottom line is that if you end up in the water within sight of shore under normal conditions you shouldn't panic or drown. I can easily believe 60-80% depending on the criteria. I haven't swum regularly for years and was never a real distance swimmer but I can swim by any reasonable measure.
> But my harmful behavior still doesn't make your harmful behavior good, and vice versa

In principle I agree.

We have a society praising a soldier for killing and risks losing limbs and life (basically selling his body) during military service, but demonizing a sex worker.

This society needs to take a good hard look in the mirror. We have people admonishing sex work and marijuana use, while its most "successful" members are in arms dealing, fossil fuels, workers exploitation (amazon), and gambling with the livelihoods of people (banks/wall street).
I think this is incredibly relevant for HN readers, maybe seen as "subversive" by _bosses_.
Outside training, M1 also makes sense as a lower-bound deployment target ("we support Apple Silicon").
> they sided with their captors against the authorities.

Because the authorities told them point blank they would rather the hostages die than the captors walk free. That's not some unique phenomenon, that's what any rational person would do.

In the last paragraph, the article states a 2008 review basically found that stockholm syndrome is pop science, not a well defined and experimentally verified phenomenon. While it doesn't debunk every claim of Stockholm syndrome, it doesn't need to - clearly the burden is to show an actual case of Stockholm syndrome that stands up to scrutiny.
Thanks to the author for the fascinating and detailed write up. It feels like a lot of the time this level of detail around the specifics of 'blessed' (not homebrew) console porting are only revealed years after the end of the consoles lifetime.

As an aside, reading about this kind of deeply interesting work always makes me envious when I think about the rote software I spend all day writing :)
There's an inherent risk to hiring someone who has sexualized themselves. False allegations or true allegations are more likely to arise that put the employer in legal jeopardy.

It adds risk that another hire may not have.
My reply to this is that the potentially outsized rewards gives Carmack de facto leadership of his next project, because he’s the one paying the bills, and it lets him work on whatever he wants, in perpetuity, without ever having to consider money again. In a system where that’s not the case, then maybe his superior skills are enough to secure a leadership spot, or maybe not, because maybe he hasn’t invested enough in developing his political skills. This is generally a failing of engineers versus business people. Many of the engineer-led companies you see these days are because they were founders.
People never talk about Gemini, and frankly it's output is often the worst of SOTA models, but it's 2M context window is insane.

You can drop a few textbooks into the context window before you start asking questions. This dramatically improves output quality, however inference does take much much longer at large context lengths.
Show HN: I open-sourced my HEX code to Tailwind color converter
I posted 3 months ago about a little web app I built that converts a HEX code to a Tailwind color (hextotailwind.com). I wanted it to be one of those online tools that get decent traffic.

I managed to get it ranked 2nd on Google and 3rd on Bing for the "hex to tailwind" phrase. However, it's not generating enough traffic to warrant me investing more time on it. See the analytics here: https://um.app.taralys.com/share/9lrPut4XEF1miVx3/hextotailw...

So I decided to open-source the project. I know it's not that big of a deal, but I figured I should give it a go.

Any questions, let me know!
If we connected, why not? I guess I'd make sure we both had clean sti panels before engaging in sex, but I'd do that with any partner.

"They used their dick or vagina to make money" is not any different to me than "they used their brain or hands to make money".
10-Minute Challenge: 'The Unicorn Rests in a Garden'
Lottery tickets are not policy. SpaceX took decades to get to the success they realize today, having been founded in 2002, and it took a lot of luck to build a rocket shop from scratch. We must realize that companies are not built out of Legos, but ecosystems that require care, feeding, and are fragile systems.
It could be "probability of token being useful" rather than "probability of token coming next in training data"!
The model does not solve this through adding inference compute time or improving its quality.
This is good news -- cheap imports of fast fashion items coming from China via Temu and Wish are flooding U.S. markets. Undoubtedly they have extremely poor labor practices (possibly using Xinjiang slave labor) given the prices they charge, and most of it is junk that will end up in landfills soon anyways.
> how CD Project Red handled their successful Cyberpunk integration on Netflix as a model

A reminder that Cyberpunk IP holder is Mike Pondsmith, not CD Project.
Thank you for that. The background music was irritating, but it’s a really fantastic video!
> What % can kill customers on the scale of Boeing and get away with it?

100% of the ones that are at, or near, the top of their domain. As the US and other developed nations move more towards Oligarchy, this describes a vast majority of the economy.

If you pick a domain, any domain, there's typically < 5 companies that represent almost 100% of the value in that domain. There're some exceptions, like tech, but not many.

Losing even just one of those companies therefore has catastrophic economic effects. So you can't lose them, or even really hurt their profit much, because what's good for them is good for you (you being the US economy).

Bayer Pharmaceutical famously gave thousands of people HIV, knowingly, instead of clearing their inventory. Who knows how many of those people went on to unknowingly spread HIV to their future children or partners. We literally can't measure how many people died of AIDS because of them.

But they're one of the most important pharmaceuticals out there. And we need drugs.
And also branded machine got QC before going to my home, instead I’d not trust myself to do anything related to the boilers
I'm sorry, what? IIS? o_O
The wind was still blowing, the rivers were still flowing, ... :-)
The US and UK have reduced their annual CO2 emissions in absolute terms as well.

Denmark's emissions move the needle exactly in proportion to Denmark's emissions. They alone won't save the world if India and China aren't reducing emissions, which is why we should be convincing them to reduce emissions, not throwing our hands in the air with totally non-factual claims like:

> Any time you spend thinking or breath you spend talking about someone else’s carbon footprint is a total fool’s errand.

This is demonstrably, unequivocally untrue. Thinking and breath spent talking about someone else's carbon footprint is reducing people's carbon footprints.

I know cynicism and fatalism sounds cool to certain types of people, but it's generally intellectually lazy and in this case it makes you simply wrong.

It's interesting how you're taking this position about how "people" always excuse their own behavior by pointing to larger polluters and therefore we're doomed, but what I see in the data is that plenty of people aren't engaging in that behavior. However, you are, and you're projecting that onto everyone else (despite clear evidence otherwise). You can simply choose not to :)
Most people don’t wear hearing aids because they don’t like how it looks and think their hearing isn’t bad enough to warrant social stigma from it. I don’t see how Airpods solve that problem as they are very unsightly, no matter how much pundits say they love them.

In fact you mentioning how they are like hearing aids has made me justify never wanting a pair.
This website is a so distracting with ads I couldn’t focus and had to close it. Too bad—i did want that content. Ya ya i have ad blocking but over vpn my dns settings change. Must… fix…
Statistically I would surmise it's more often asked with a 1 vs 2 framing, because I don't think anyone genuinely was ever asked by another person how many of any character are in any correctly spelled word in written form, because that would be a redundant question, right?

But I suppose to answer this it could help to actually gather statistics on the frequency of either version in texts online.
The fact these tools and some creeps exist doesn't mean your actual coworkers in your career will use those to find you.

And more importantly, said creeps would be the one who would have an inappropriate behavior in the workplace regardless of the tools they have at their disposition.
We're learning valuable lessons from all modern large-scale (post-AlexNet) NN architectures, transformers included, and NNs (but maybe trained differently) seem a viable approach to implement AGI, so we're making progress ... but maybe LLMs will be more inspiration than part of the (a) final solution.

OTOH, maybe pre-trained LLMs could be used as a hardcoded "reptilian brain" that provides some future AGI with some base capabilities (vs being sold as newborn that needs 20 years of parenting to be useful) that the real learning architecture can then override.
Ballard was definitely part of the British gentle apocalypse school. Se also Wyndham etc. He also had a lot of other science fiction and experimental work in addition to Empire of the Sun.