skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your teeth are in good health (no work done in years and none expected), paying out of pocket for dental appointments might still be cheaper. Though that assumes you could cover an unexpected expense - this is effectively self-insuring.
Is it Tend?
> I've heard people say "oh you cant pay attention to this study because it's in Australia

So a study for Australia should be applicable everywhere else? Like in Germany or Norway?
I don't understand how this is an "attack"?

You can trick a human into copy-pasting something into an LLM and then (somewhat) drive the LLM output? Is the vuln that humans uncritically believe nonsense chatbots tell them?
Economics Roundup #4
How long do we have on the 13 mini before it becomes so slow I have to get a new phone? I don’t know what I’ll do at that point. On the 12 mini now and can never go to a big phone.
It doesn't preach so much as it explores. The author strikes me as being more economically literate than Rand or LeGuin, but not as good a writer as the latter.

The real and staggering excellence of the series is the speculation - it's not such hard SF that it explains the mechanisms by which everything happens, and there are real characters who do more than stand as cardboard observers to technology, but it's crunchier than most.
Is there somewhere where this Apple Intelligence can be used ?
“Modern” more usually means some new JavaScript thing. In JS land, they consider anything that hasn’t had a commit on main branch in over 3 days to be a dead old project in need of being replaced with something new and “modern” that is up to date with the latest trends and breaking changes from the previous 24 hours of their world.

Usually the hyperbolic superlative for Rust projects is “blazing fast”. Of course, any kind of benchmarks or comparisons with other implementations are completely optional. It is simply enough to “cargo init” and start hammering out code. You don’t even need to consider the characteristics of the algorithms you choose to use! If it’s Rust, it’s “blazing fast”.
I've known a few people who worked in vet clinics, and they've all told me horror stories of how pets are mistreated. I'm talking left to sit in their own feces and urine overnight, fixed when they weren't supposed to be, injured during surgeries and then not communicated to owners.
Reflections on India
It's not a linear thing. It's a network, probably not even acyclic.
I didn’t take a sabbatical as a founder, but as a relatively early hire. It was post-IPO but there were some really big hurdles left, and I was leading the tech side of getting over some of them, and an important but background player in quite a few more.

I found myself tired and thinly-spread. I did a lot of interventions throughout the business and in one case, one of our biggest customers, to make sure things would keep working out. Folks in my org couldn’t easily fill my shoes - mostly because it seemed hard to share that stuff - so it wasn’t looking good on a whole bunch of levels for me.

I think that “when it’s time, it’s time” and when that realisation comes, it’s pretty important to do something about it, consequences of not doing so can get grim quite fast.

I told my story to my favourite board members and sold the dream of rolling back some of the bus-factor if I were to take a nice, longish break.

The board - each of them - owed me big time for what I’d done, which may have helped, but I think that the dream of having more folks in my org able to do the tech, stakeholder and cultural work got them over the line in less than a week from suggestion to agreement.

I think my message here: what’s in it for them? Loyalty counts, but it might not be as strong a play as you hope.

I decided to roll off on (paid!!) six month sabbatical about 2 months later.

Those were pretty heavy weeks. I thought I could prep people for growth, change etc. Ha.

I also prepped my sabbatical by interviewing people I trusted who had taken breaks.

The best advice I got was:

- focus on mental plasticity to untangle from the last decade or more

- do new things that are potentially fun

- make bad art and poetry

- do something difficult

- do something intense

- write down some really big questions about what I wanted on my last day at work, put them in an envelope and look at them a few days before the sabbatical ends

- don’t sweat the changes that are bound to take place at $work

Coming back six months later after a lot of adventures and self discovery it became very clear that the genuinely refreshed, new me would get sucked right back in to bad old habits.

So I created a more realistic one year exit plan, got the board to buy into the little steps like all the different org consequences, but not letting them in on my decision to leave - loss of soft power can be a thing - and just after a stupidly high stakes sprint to cap off four years of work of hundreds of people, I did the mic drop. Did a bit of work travel to say goodbye to old colleagues around the world and moved on.

I’m a much happier, well-rounded person and professional now, very picky about the people and situations I choose to associate with. My next gigs weren’t walks in the park but I learned a lot and didn’t pick up much damage in the process of protecting and supporting good people.

Old $work is much more sustainable than if I hadn’t taken the time off and ultimately left. My former colleagues are mostly still there and growing into even more awesome folks than when I was there. All good!
What is the purpose of an open-front toilet seat?
It makes sense, the iPad Pros graduated to using full blown M series chips so the A Pro chips they used to use can filter down the stack.

edit: oops I mixed up A Pro and A X
For what it's worth, I'm just a devops person and I found that article on How CSS Floats Work to be very understandable :) Thank you for writing all this great stuff!
Nuclear can handle variable loads just fine, if reactors are designed with load-following in mind. France does that, for example.
What’s with the sour grapes? I can’t afford a Pagani. Doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the engineering.
That's a welcome improvement. It would take away some of the friction and inconvenience that makes me avoid using passkeys right now.
I'm Moving to New York
In this podcast (1) Jigar Shah (head of DOE’s Loan Programs Office) said:

"...the first one will be more expensive, the second will be cheaper, the third one is cheaper, the fourth one's cheaper. So it is objectively the case that if you went to a 1200 MW coal site, which by definition only has 1200 infrastructure around it, and you built one AP1000, that would be more expensive than building four 300 MW reactors, because the second, third and fourth one will be cheaper than the first one."

1. https://www.volts.wtf/p/nuclear-perhaps said that
A funny alternative: If a company is deemed large (and stale) enough the government prints money against and purchases it. If you buy a 100 bl company you can write the 100 bl IOU no problem. Innovative departments should be split off into separate companies that start out with a good size government contract.

Government can then immediately start "mis"-managing the company to make it less profitable (while theoretical profit stays the same)

You would get for example a government google search and a government adsense department.
It's all situational- any predator will eat another one when it has the advantage.

No animal comes close to equaling humans as predators at the top of our game as hunters- e.g. young healthy adults working together as a team with well made weapons, a coordinated strategy, local knowledge, and hard won experience. But as this article shows, there are plenty of situations where these advantages don't apply.

For the most part, predators generally dislike trying to eat each other unless all other options are exhausted, as it is much safer and easier to go after things that have less of a chance of turning the tables on you. I am a freediver that dives mostly in a place with a lot of white sharks, and contrary to popular stereotypes, they're actually quite afraid of, and keep their distance from humans. Rare attacks seem to occur when there is some situation that visually confuses them, and they mistake us for one of their common prey animals.
lol as if teachers have money to buy this to make their lessons plans.
> I don't think it's worth trying to write a rendering engine for HTML. You will never finish - HTML is a spec fully owned by Google and Apple at this point and it's just too complex to implement from scratch.

This keeps being repeated. But it leans on three false assumptions.

- That is has to be "finished" at all. For many use-cases, a subset (of a subset) might just be fine. The screen in my refrigerator, or the information display in a train, might want to render some HTML, but when the HTML is controlled and constrained, there's no need for "everything".

- That is has to adhere to "the spec". See above, but also if the HTML+CSS+JS is less controlled, quite a few use-cases it's fine to ignore lots of the quirks or even large parts of the specs. Even Chrome and FF don't implement "all", whatever "the spec" might be in the first place. But a browser in a TV set-top box, my e-reader, some dedicated wikipedia-device, or the "help section of an app" are fine if they break on complex sites.

- That is must be implemented from scratch. Even if you forego the big rendering engines, JS VMs and so forth, there's a lot of libs that do DOM handling, CSS parsing, JS runtime etc. There's a lot of shoulders to stand on, aside from "just run chrome headless".

By repeating this mantra that its not worth "building a new browser" or "rendering engine", we only cement the status quo further. And promote the idea that your car, refrigerator, test-runner, help-section, dashboard, e-reader and whatnot must run either a full chrome or firefox. We stiffle innovation.
This CMS appears to be a breath of fresh air amid the toxicity in the WordPress world.

Considering devs are looking at complaints/features in this thread, I will post one:
In WordPress, I can copy a plugin folder from one old project into a new one and enable it in the ui without touching code or cli. I see the benefit of defining plugins through a cli tool, but I also like the copy-paste folder structure of early 00's software.
I love iPad minis, but a keyboard folio for this size would be great. I've used this form factor with the iPad Air for writing, and it's perfect for carrying in a small bag. I know this is an expensive toy, though.

[*] For reference, the iPad Air with the Magic Keyboard is about as heavy as a 13" MacBook Air.
Any chance the code for the landing page is available? Love how simple it is!
As opposed to current browsers that run wasm and JS I mean

Yes there would be a DOM in addition
The vuln is that a user can be tricked into exfiltrating data without it being obvious.
Just offhand no ai is required for this to be true right. But "invisible text that a piece of software can understand" is a lot less trendy of a title
Show HN: Aflow achieves 96.2% on HumanEval at 4.55% of GPT-4's cost
We've developed AFLOW, an automated agentic workflow generator using Monte Carlo Tree Search:

Outperforms human-designed workflows in Coding, Math, and RAG
Achieves GPT-4o-level performance on HumanEval at just 4.55% of its cost
96.2% HumanEval accuracy using GPT-4o with AFLOW
Generates custom workflows in 1.5h with just an eval function
No doctor or assistant bothered to tell me about the impact of caffeine. I had a few borderline-high readings over a few months and was concerned until I realized I was drinking my normal 2-3 cups of highly caffeinated coffee just before these visits.
Guess this gets to my other point.

By the time you are 'compatible' then you have implemented everything needed to also be a 'drop-in' but data file formats might need a conversion.

So convert from Minecraft data files to Pumpkin data files. Then it could drop in.
I intend not to die of chemotherapy. And no, I shall never regret being a prudent steward of taxpayer resources. Let's consider the collective good over an individual's selfish longevity.

What would Mr. Spock say about "The Good of the Many"?
Considering the bestselling laptops at Walmart for $400-500 still sometimes have Twisted Nematic displays, I think the screen is fine.

I also don’t get the complaint about the A-series chip. What does an M1 unlock in iPadOS that the A17 doesn’t?
For some games it's perfect, others more dubious. If you look up what you're interested in on protondb it can give you a good idea of the odds things will work well on your setup.
I love it! I have had my technician license awhile and wanted to play with AX.25 networks and this seems like a fun use case.
Nothing wrong with continuing to use the iPhone 13 Mini today: Apple CPU has been so far ahead of the competition that apart from on-device generative AI there’s nothing that hugely pushes it. For data, search for “single-core” and “multi-core” in https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-...
For science, literal proving hypotheses science
Watching a video doesn't tell you what's going on internally. Here's how Dr. Livingstone describes being attacked by a lion:

"Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening."

I'm not guaranteeing you'll have similar results in every attack by a predator, but just because soemthing looks horrifying doesn't necessarily mean it'll be experienced as such
It nullifies your entire diatribe and all of its bogus numerics, but O.K.

Good sign of someone arguing dishonestly is that when you call out their lies, they tell you that the truth doesn’t matter.
Time to eat some dirt :yum:
Might there not be some selection bias there?
See also: https://learnbchs.org/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38798383
Constraint-based layouts. The world's most sophisticated UI system uses that (Apple's UIKit).
If she's looking to sketch or just doesn't mind not having color, I can't recommend the Kindle Scribe enough. I bought it for reading but it's become my combination work notes/presentation board/drawing tablet, and I absolutely love it. The premium pencil honestly smokes the Apple pencil and it feels so nice to use. I just wish it did color too.
I was thinking it would be cool to have a Minecraft server built with Bevy, but that has also already been done: https://github.com/valence-rs/valence
I also found this attack months ago: https://x.com/igor_baikov/status/1777363312524554666
tl;dr: invisible symbols should be stripped to not let an attacker use lots of tokens. You should always place hard limits and/or count tokens using tiktoken or similar libraries. If you only count characters, in some implementations you'll miss invisible characters.

I also found the attack explained in this article days after my tweet.
Citation needed for the claim that any particular non-trivial fraction of engineering talent has been wasted on ad algorithms, or that those are the "best and brightest", or that those people would have been doing other useful work if the ads didn't exist.

Without evidence this is just a repetition of an old, unproven meme for internet points.
I realize that there are bad Androids out there and the abundance of choice makes it difficult to sift through the good and the bad, but there are good Android phones out there in the $200-$300 USD range. My current phone is a bit over three years old and it is still very usable.
C++ D3444: Memory Safety Without Lifetime Parameters
In Beer Yeast, Scientists Find Potential Path to Starving Cancer
> Fast, performant and cheap. You wanted all 3? Now you got it!

Fast, Good, and Cheap. Performant is just a synonym for fast. Is it any good?

Also call me a miser, but $499 is not "cheap". I recently bought a new Nokia G42 with the same camera and storage for <€150
All I want to know is can it do windowed multi tasking with stage manager?
Probably a couple of more years provided you can keep replacing your battery. I’m on a 13 Pro Max which has the same SoC as a 13 Mini and while I might want a battery replacement within the next year, the phone itself has no performance issues. I think the iPhone 12 model line is essentially in the same boat, just a little bit older and with worse batteries.
I'd love to learn more about exactly why Europe fell behind. Only a few decades ago Britain and France had competitive or higher GDPs per capita than the US.

Many people argue the stricter business and environmental regulations hampered European growth, but these things were mostly even stricter 30 years ago.

Whatever the cause is, it's something that's happened in the last 15 years or so.
I obviously cannot vouch for the safety of this extension, but I'll just post this quote from the VS Code docs:

> The Marketplace runs a virus scan on each extension package that's published to ensure its safety. The virus scan is run for each new extension and for each extension update. Until the scan is all clear, the extension won't be published in the Marketplace for public usage.

Source: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/extension-marketpl...
Birds don't use quantum mechanics. Birds use reality. Quantum mechanics is a model of reality.
We have plenty of small but commercially successful natural gas plants, so it doesn't seem to be a general principle. The only scaling law mentioned in your article is this:

> a 400-MW reactor requires less than twice the quantity of concrete and steel to construct as a 200-MW reactor, and it can be operated with fewer than twice as many people. Writing in Science in 1961, a senior member of the AEC worried that “competition [from fossil fuel plants] is indeed formidable” and suggested that “with current pressurized-water reactor technology, lower nuclear power costs can be achieved most readily with large plants.”

Almost all the SMRs we've built have been water cooled reactors, which require a large amount of concrete and steel. Newer designs, such as molten salt reactors, can use a lot less, because they operate near atmospheric pressure, don't have to leave room for a high-pressure pipe break introducing a large volume of steam, and have nothing that can cause a chemical explosion. They're also inherently stable and adaptive to load, with little need for active control. A small modular MSR could well work out.
Like arguing which level of the OSI model a particular function of a network stack operates at. I’d love to have those hours back from 20’s me.
Yes, it means you're better than others at chess.
SimpleX Chat: A messaging platform that has no user identifiers of any kind
> armies of lawyers

Which no startups have. So, antitrust favors incumbents, of course.

> money they've made operating in the competitive space cleared out

Again, not startups. It’s incumbents that take advantage of opportunities like that.
A few years still. The XR is still supported with iOS 18.
> No, purchasing power is down. Costs of living have gone up faster than wages.

No, you're wrong on the facts. CPI-adjusted wages are up.
survivor
Buddy if I retire early I will ;)
But what "data"? LLMs don't know anything except whatever they were trained on, right?
Minimum Password Settings (2022)
PyCharm Becomes Official Python IDE of OpenCV
Show HN: Site where rich people can fulfill poor people's wish. P2P
I saw a tiktok the other day where it said there should be a website where wealthy individuals, unsure of how to spend their money, can fulfill the wishes of poor people. They could compete with other wealthy donors on a global leaderboard based on their contributions.

And I made it in 4 days on cloudflare ecosystem using serverless.
However, we're all winners when the two worst people you know fight each other.
This got me thinking - is Rust really the right tool for the job? And I thought, Elixir/Erlang feels like the perfect tool. Sure enough, someone did it! Great reference material for someone learning how to do things on the beam https://github.com/thecodeboss/minecraft
As far as I remember, this paper draws an analogy not to system structures, but to the method of approach in their analysis. If a purely statistical approach to a designed system is presented as flawed, it is even more problematic when applied to more complex living systems. So this paper makes good point here.
so.Rats have,tuned olfactory nasal tractor beams.
use this knowledge to kill rats
there must be a huge,evolutionary/survival advantage that would be difficult for a preditor
to exploit under natural conditions
here little rat,yesss,everything is as pheremonaly
fine as we can make it,closer little rat,endorphins await,trusssst us
Its commodity you can buy from dozens of other vendors for much cheaper price.
> somehow

yeah by recycling their project from a previous interview and adding more to it

I just don't engage in that kind of assessment anymore, the job market isn’t thaaaat tough to need to compromise

or, put another way, jumping through that hoop will not solve your interview progress as its just far too subjective. other hoops are just as fine
It's probably true that not a lot of people make constructive use of their sleep data, but people just love learning about themselves: it's kind of a form of narcissism, unless you are experimenting with methods to shift the numbers some way. For my part, I use it for a lot of statistical tests.
How do mathematicians come to focus on seemingly arbitrary quesrions:

> another asks whether there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by only 2, such as 11 and 13

Is it that many questions were successfully dis/proved and so were left with some that seem arbitrary? Or is there something special about the particular questions mathematicians focus on that a layperson has no hope of appreciating?

My best guess is questions like the one above may not have any immediate utility, but could at any time (for hundreds of years) become vital to solving some important problem that generates huge value through its applications.
This is wonderful!

I had an opportunity to run a tutorial on basic command line usage for newer software engineers. It's always fun to see people's expressions or read their reactions to seeing me telnet to port 25 and 80.
The Air is a significantly better drawing display.
Speed of light decay should be fairly easy to disprove.

Anything that contradicts Special Relativity requires an exceedingly compelling argument or preponderance of evidence in favor, and Tired Light does not have it.
Review of Metal Screw Extrusion: State of the Art and Beyond
The size of the mini is really the best, but the external monitor support is very disappointing. Do jailbreaks etc. allow for native monitor resolutions or are we limited to the iPads screen resolution by hardware?