skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know we shouldn't attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence (or other potentially less negative reasons), but it does seem like Mozilla has worked harder against its own success than any competitor. I consider this new brand in the same vein. I'm also saying this as a daily desktop firefox user (but fennec on Android).
Why Russia is more likely to go nuclear in Ukraine if it's winning
Flywire – The first complete connectome of the entire fly brain
currently we are using silero VAD to detect speech: https://github.com/livekit/agents/blob/main/livekit-plugins/...

it works well for voice activity; though it doesn't always detect end-of-turn correctly (humans often pause mid-sentence to think). we are working on improving this behavior.
I am so grateful that McDonald's is going after these suppliers. I hope Yum does the same thing.

Less than retailers of packaged raw foods, these giant restaurant chains have big claims for damages.
> The moment the road widens, more cars fill it up to the brim.

Jevon's Paradox is not a law of nature.

- - - -

Mark Miller pointed out, "A Computer's Perspective on Moore's Law: Humans are getting more expensive at an exponential rate."

The explosion of AI means that humans are getting more valuable, but only for doing things that only humans (not AI) can do.
I'm assuming they already have done so for years and that the cost is already baked into McDonald's prices.

As someone who doesn't eat there often it doesn't really affect me. Am I glad there's a cartel in general? No. Am I worried about commodity grade beef prices? Not really, it's not a significant part of my diet for a variety of reasons.
Worth clicking through to the actual filing where you can see the evidence McDonalds presents, which I personally find very compelling.

Also worth noting that assuming I'm reading this correctly it doesn't just impact McDonalds but everyone who has bought beef since 2015.

I do wonder at what point does McDonalds vertically integrate and process the beef themselves.
Thanks! This is a near perfect use case for Ractors since we chunked all the files and there’s no need for the file processing function to share any context.
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Then we should allow Iran to build nukes, which means Turkiye, KSA, and UAE need to build nukes, which means....

Nuclear Proliferation only increases the risk of conflict, not decreases it.
You do realize this has rolled down to the end consumers?

It's not just Tyson either. Trump's right that you decrease energy costs and you decrease consumer costs. What he's wrong in is that energy costs are going up from cartel actions [1] not because of red tape.

[1]: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-inflati...
It’s losing money because it invests in growth. GPT4 has cost them 500mil and is making 3b revenue annually.
Back in the day, I made an attempt at LFS but gave up halfway through. In my defense, I had done a gentoo stage 1 emerge earlier that year. ;-)

I never intended to end up with a usable system, I was just in it for the learning experience. And I did end up learning a lot.
Shrug. Maybe it's an argument to de-modernize more things in order to bring daily life back to the environments we're healthier and happier in.

Edit: In particular, I'm not convinced the internet was a net positive. Running water and sewage systems, sure. But what has 24/7 smartphone access actually done for our societies? Most people today don't seem any better off than they were in the 80s and 90s, and in many ways that actually matter, they seem worse off. Sure, they have access to way more information than our predecessors ever did... but it's not like we built a better world off it. Mostly the internet has accelerated the concentration of wealth towards the top, increased anxiety across the world, and significantly contributed to the global downfall of representative democracies, to name a few. Sometimes modernity can just be a collection of pathologies with a few beneficial side effects.
This is a good point! I've got a few decades of tolerating neosporin for normal uses so wasn't overly concerned.
Legal filings don't require special jargon. Most lawyers just use jargon because they know exactly what the jargon means and how a judge will interpret it. In a lot of cases, they use the jargon simply because its what they learned in law school from professors who learned it from professors who learned it from professors who learned it when the jargon was still required.

A layperson can file their own lawsuit, and as long as they satisfy the requirements of the law outlining the necessary elements of the lawsuit, they don't need any jargon or special language. (Formatting is a court-imposed requirement; that does not come from the lawyers.)

Access to the courts is limited by imposing filing fees. An LLM like this won't change that; if anything the most likely response is to increase filing fees.
Agreed. Except I suspect most shuffles are people playing cards, and many (most?) games put a lot of order back into the deck, again returning to well trodden decks.
I was referring to the total bill, in both cases. Sadly, yes, I do have a high deductible plan.

The $300+ bill usually gets adjusted to about 50% by the insurance (I’m in network), and then I pay my share, depending on the state of my deductible and out-of-pocket expenses. (So in my case, 90% before deductible is met, then 10%, until I reach my OOP max.)

UC bill is processed in a similar fashion, and my actual responsibility tends to be less than from my primary care doctor.
The fact that you may not have experienced it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist :) There is actually a lot of socializing on TikTok, for example in the "BookTok" community. The format is a little different than on a message board, or IG, but it is there.
An AI that writes complex accurate code will not be based on LLMs. That’s because you cannot possibly write precise and complete instructions using human prose, regardless of whether you might call yourself a “prompt engineer”.
Such an AI would take in symbols as its specifications.

To me that leaves an opening for a software architect that can put these symbols together quickly and efficiently.

A core skill of such a person would be deep technical domain knowledge. Other things like negotiation, persuasion, communication, management are also core skills worth developing.

Of course, many peripheral jobs would still be needed like cybersecurity, databases, networking, hardware etc.

This kind of AI technology is coming soon. The good news is that most software people are really good at adapting to learning new things.
Yup.

Basically:

1. Ban them from updating the plugin.

2. "btw, here's a CVE for that plugin, you have 30 days until it gets removed or ownership changed."

You can guess what's going to happen next... "Oh, they didn't fix their plugin, the repo is now owned by Automattic."
Overly literal bad faith interpretations are a waste of everyone's time.

Try using context and engaging in good faith to deal with the intended meaning of someone's words or don't bother interacting.
Ask HN: What is your top submission according to HN and top acc to yourself?
I have my Google account configured to automatically send an email with my most important usernames and passwords to close family and friends with a brief description of the most important sites I frequented with my main accounts. One of those is the master password to my password manager. I prefer that over some service that could be abandoned or close down before (or even after) I die.
Gravity vs. active pressure.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is at least as good as 4o.
I play WoW still. It is very much a fun social group and hobby as much as it is gaming. We nerd out over the lore and shared experience in the game. It can be a very humanistic experience if that is what you want. I have played this game for 15 years now. Been with the same guild for 6 now.
Sorry, I had no clue about that context; in my world "computationally tractable" only means polynomial time.
Even Spotify. Just saw their short audio clips feed of interesting sections of songs, tracks.
I am not sure I understand. It seems very easy. You cannot directly remove an element from an array, you could create a new array that excludes that element. Arrays have a fixed size once declared, and I cannot imagine anyone who has written some code not knowing. :/
I use firebase auth with Google, Facebook and email (magic link)

This is live at https://screenrun.app/
I'm glad Elon's plans aren't totally ruined as the end of the article says the space bricks will in part be made of human tears.
They should have and now they should put boots on the ground to rectify the mistake.
One additional obstacle for modern audiences is that the TV sets themselves are computers running software. They take a MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 file coming in some network port and send it to some mixed parallel/serial interface to a LCD or similar panel.

If you understood how a 1970s TV worked (specially the simpler black and white ones used in the first video-games) then imagining a circuit that would generate the needed signals was a bit easier.
Sabre was a charming little Santa Clara network company, decades ago.

But some incompetent entrepreneurs and a shabby LA law firm tried to win at a patent trolling. The outcome is hilarious only because I am not paying Cloudflare's lawyers.
Tyson is one of biggest benefactors of prison labor
Amazon Layoffs: Tech Firm to Cut 14,000 Manager Positions by 2025, Says Report
That post really made me sad.

I'm not disabled and neither is anyone in my family. But my relationship with my parents was always bad. I never spent any time thinking about the lives of disabled people because they've always been such an alien reality to me, but I think if you'd asked me think about it I wouldve had the vague intuition that disabled at least had good relationships with their parents because how dependent/how much time they were forced to spend with them. Your comment about the trauma that parents never overcome added a really dark twist for me to the concept of "bad relationship with your parents".

Anyway thanks for sharing
https://www.udio.com/creators/jcims

yeah its not surprising that you wouldn't volunteer this, man
That's the thing.

WoW came out in 2004. What came before in a similar genre? Maybe Diablo II in 2000-2001. And while the Guild Halls were planned for D2 they never actually shipped. There were forums etc but nothing like the scale and possibility of WoW. There were no patterns for this before.
The title itself should tell you that the book is there to sensationalize and grind an axe, not to actually provide any historical accuracy.

And yep, the author didn't even bother to use primary sources: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4851/1

It's like recommending a book about Apollo program written by Russians without reading any US documentation.

If there has to be a western author, James Harford's Korolev biography is a better put together look into Soviet space program and actually has some proper academic reviews.
Well, λ-terms are defined by the rules of the λ-calculus[0], or variants of it, while mathematical functions have their own, distinct definition[1]. Essentially, the axioms used to define either are fundamentally different.

Not all mathematical functions can be expressed/represented by λ-terms; a famous example would be the halting problem[2]. Generally, keep in mind that the λ-calculus — as Turing machines — can only express computable functions[3].

You could also try to think about how to perform usual mathematical function operations on λ-terms: limits, differentiation, integration, etc.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_(mathematics)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function
iPhone by far. Not saying that Android isn't secure. But if you're not technical (not average joe technical, but actually working in Cyber Security) you will probably be leaking a lot of data.

On iPhone if you enable Lockdown mode, Advanced Data Protection and buy iCloud to use iCloud Private Relay you're off for a really good start.
A better version is here: https://datavizproject.com/
Gathering all that together sounds worthwhile, but let me encourage you to share more of yourself in small parts as well. It takes practice to find the right amount to share (it’s a balance and depends on you and them), but taking an extra moment after dinner to ask what they have been up to or share a thought you’ve had recently can really help you connect better to them while you’re alive.
Here is the book passage that this is referring to.

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...
50 years of cold war proof otherwise. Better a new cold nuclear war, than a hot conventional war.
Have they ever announced a CVE like this before? This seems really convenient. I don’t really like conspiracy theorizing but with everything going in, it doesn’t seem far fetched to think this is sabotage.
That sounded almost too good to be true, especially with autoimmune stuff which seems even trickier to tackle than many cancers. One hell of achievement if it pans out long term.
> We want one thing, and one thing only: "When this fails, in a way where we can't fix it using documentation, experience or the support forums", we need to be able to call someone. Everything you're offering below that is useless to us.

I don't doubt your expertise in technology. But there are so few companies that can actually do what you describe that it's not a viable market for vendors.

The first problem is that the kind of staff you need when things go really bad are (a) really hard to find and (b) are looking for permanent employment. That's why support vendors want term contracts--it's the only way to make the economics work.

The second problem: While you say you just want to call your support vendor when something really bad happens, that's actually the most expensive and least satisfying approach for most users, even very expert ones. Far better to engage before there's a failure, e.g., at design time or during regular health checks. Data base upgrade planning is case in point where early engagement pays off in spades. That includes things as simple as having an expert on-call when the upgrade happens.

YMMV. That's at least been my experience from 18 years of supporting open source database software.
If You Meet ET in Space, Kill Him
>> The monodepth space is full of people insisting that their models can produce metric depth with no explanation other than "NN does magic" for why metric depth is possible from generic mono images. If you provide a single arbitrary image, you can't generate depth that is immune from scale error (e.g. produce accurate depth for a both an image of a real car and a scale model of the same car)

> You wouldn't use monodepth for self-driving

I don’t think you need accurate metric depth for self-driving. “seconds to impact” plus a reasonable estimate of one’s speed (one second from impact at 100km/hour is more dangerous than at 1km/hour both because braking distances grow faster than linear and because a hit at lower speed is less damaging) is way more useful than “meters away” for that.
If you hit Reject and Pay on the cookie notice, it’s a £7 monthly recurring charge that does not subscribe you to The Times, and does not turn off ads, nor allows you to browse without tracking. It simply turns off and personalisation and promises The Times (but no mention of their partners) won’t use your personal information for ads. And apparently this stands only for the website, not the apps, for which cookies are “managed separately”.

£84 a year for one website to still advertise to you and still track you in their apps, and not even give you paid content.

Even if you choose to accept all cookies and tracking, the next modal asks to pay for digital access to read the article. Meaning — you might need two recurring subscriptions to read the article, it seems.

This level of grift — I couldn’t have even imagined. What a trash-tier business practice.
For the sake of my question let’s assume this is legit and magically works for a wide range of autoimmune conditions. How many years away are we from being able to sign up for this treatment? 10 years? 20? 30?

It would be nice to dream of it happening sometime soon.
Russia caused more suffering in a few months of war than the USA in a decade in Vietnam.

Absolutely and obviously false, as you will quickly reveal to yourself by spending a few seconds looking up the toll of civilian deaths and maimings during the US-driven conflict in Vietnam.

Comparing the two is utterly dishonest.

The comparison is in any case completely vacuous. There's no indication that you're being dishonest here, however. Most likely it's a case of simple willful ignorance.

In this example, one among countless others,

There are exactly 3 others since WW2: Chechnya, Syria, Afghanistan.

Their number is not, by any stretch, "countless".
> I do wonder at what point does McDonalds vertically integrate and process the beef themselves.

Never. McDonalds probably wants to avoid getting into a low profit margin, high liability business:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSN/tyson-foods/pr...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/prof...

Look at the difference in trajectory and amount of profit margin and market cap (<5% and $20B versus 30%+ and $217B).

Tyson deals with the laborious and dirty work, as do McDonald’s franchisees. McDonald’s probably likes where it is, collecting royalties for “quality” control and real estate appreciation.
It was a joke, sir
>simply because interacting with the environment might be a prerequisite for developing consciousness.

We can't even define what consciousness is yet, let alone whats required to develop it.
Microbial Aromas Might Save Crops from Drought
Just because it doesn't affect you doesn't mean you shouldn't care. Why should price fixing be a non issue for beef and not other industries? If you allow some companies to get away with it, it means others can get away with it in industries where you do care.
License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars
There is no stark increase. It only looks like an increase because the charts Haidt uses are cropped at a low point. Look at longer term data:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187478/death-rate-from-s...

The number of suicides now is little different for men to 1990, and is significantly lower than it was in the 1970s.
I am not sure "of a similar format" suffices here, it should not have any resemblance or similarity to this new question or riddle.
Hey: it's this story again. As someone who's around my 30s now with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and who has friends with the condition, I've always found it a bit too bleak about the quality of our lives (probably for drama's sake). Yes, I need a wheelchair and full time care attendants, but also:

* I went to university and had a great time there

* I had a pretty normal social life growing up, and made some life-long real life friends in college who I still visit regularly.

* I talk to women and have had romantic relationships.

* I've had and continue to have what I consider a pretty successful career in software.

* While I like video games and played a lot of them in high school, I'd say I prefer going out and having interactions with friends more, however challenging it can be logistically.

I know DMD severity varies between patients, but I don't want this article to discourage people with DMD or with children that have DMD. It can be tough, but I think that modern treatments allow us to lead fairly rich lives outside of Warcraft.
4000 days is just a few thousand days, but it's [checks notes] over 10 years away.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dissolve

Definitions of dissolve:

to cause to disperse or disappear

to separate into component parts

to become dissipated (see DISSIPATE sense 1) or decompose

BREAK UP, DISPERSE

Those seem like pretty accurate descriptions of what happened. Yes, dissolve can also mean something stronger, so perhaps it is fair to call the statement ambiguous. But it isn’t incorrect.
We can mine asteroids for space food – International Journal of Astrobiology
The "it doesn't affect me" argument is not scalable.
Agreed. These liquidity events are a way to retain and reward early employees while allowing the founders to recover their personal finances and buckle down for the growth phase.
Science fiction already covered why you don't want 'Libertarian' billionaire types running your mars colony, so of course valley billionaires want to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8lT-Sn-HqE

Just another instance of the Torment Nexus meme and valley sensibilities.

I remember when I admired these people and we didn't have civilizational wide meme's about how evil they are. Sad how things turned out. If only it could have been different. But that would require, you know, basic human compassion when instead they could just build bunkers and distant Hawaiian island escape compounds. And we can't blame them really, it's in their nature. They can't resist taking the wrong lesson from science fiction dystopias and they played Fallout.
I suspect you mean "beneficiaries," and you're right to point this out. It is appalling that slave labor apparently wasn't enough of an immoral business advantage for them.
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I probably missed it, but is someone invading Iran?
Interestingly enough, In-N-Out does do their own beef processing, they take whole sides of beef, and turn them into patties.
I just want to say you needn't feel pressured by relations that could have been by leading a private life. Love and kinship reach beyond knowing one's inner intricacies, and I feel the big stories don't matter all that much when it comes to love and family--it's the walks in the park or sharing a meal, the happenstance moments that are fleeting. And there is still time for many such moments, that remain difficult to capture in any sort of digital legacy we try to impart.
Some parents aren't interested in it.
My parents don't really know anything about me; it's just not of interest to them. It's all basic weather talk at best. And whenever I tried to talk to them, I got shut down. They have their own problems, their own things to worry about, I guess.
I'll start.

According to Hacker News, my top 2 submissions are :

- The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol (ietf.org) :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863915

- Attacker with access to XML config can trigger
keepass.exe
to obtain passwords (mitre.org)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545010

According to myself :

- Fast food makes the immune system more aggressive in the
long term (uni-bonn.de)
no comments, 2 points.

- Attacks on genetic privacy via uploads to
genealogical databases (elifesciences.org)
no comments, 2 points.
They'll just put up "captchas" or whatever.

The point if phone lines is to waste the client's time. Not to have the client waste their time.
Haha, that's why you will be the last person to know if that ever happens.
I suppose I’m guilty of the demand for immediate care too. Not because I go to the doctor immediately after I get a symptom, but because I try to get better on my own until I reach a point where I think I need help, and at that point, I no longer want to wait.

I cannot just schedule an appointment for 3 days ahead because “late” cancellation costs $$ too.
But of course can never happen

Home fermentation of foodstuffs is allowed, and always has been.

Lots of people do it. Kits are available on Amazon, and many grocery stores will even sell them in-store. As other people on this thread of have pointed out, they ferment a lot of their own foods and drinks.

What isn't allowed is selling home-fermented stuff to others. When someone goes commercial, rules kick in to protect their customers