skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

On a slate-gray Sunday morning last month, a man in an ogre mask trudged across the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle. He passed prospective students and their parents, who paused their tour of the school to gawk at this person stalking the grounds looking like an actor in a low-budget Halloween thriller.

The character in the mask was John Marzluff, a professor who has spent his career studying human-crow interaction. Dr. Marzluff has developed a high regard for the birds’ intelligence. He describes crows as “flying monkeys,” because of their aptitude as well as their large brains relative to their size.

How long do crows hold a grudge? Dr. Marzluff believes he has now answered the question: around 17 years.

His estimate is based on an experiment that he began in 2006 on the Washington campus. Dr. Marzluff captured seven crows with a net while wearing that ogre mask. The birds were soon set free, but, Dr. Marzluff says, the episode traumatized the crows and other members of the murder that witnessed it.

To test how long the campus’s birds would hold onto their grudge, Dr. Marzluff or his research assistants would put on the ogre mask periodically and walk around campus, recording how many crows let out aggressive caws, a sound that experts call scolding. The number of scolding crows crescendoed around seven years into the experiment, when around half the crows he encountered cawed vociferously.

Over the next decade, according to data Dr. Marzluff has collected but not yet published, the numbers of grudge-holding crows gradually tapered off.

During his September walk, Dr. Marzluff recorded in his notebook that he had encountered 16 crows. And for the first time since the experiment began, they all ignored him.

Christian Blum, a cognitive scientist specializing in animal behavior at the University of Vienna, conducted a similar multiyear experiment partly inspired by Dr. Marzluff’s work, using ravens, which are cousins to crows in the corvid family.

“They are also excellent grudge holders,” Dr. Blum said of ravens.

In the study, which ran from 2011 to 2015, Dr. Blum and his colleagues wore a mask and carried a dead raven past an aviary filled with live ravens. They then donned a different mask, a control, and walked through without the dead raven.

Just as in Dr. Marzluff’s experiment, the ravens scolded the “dangerous” mask — even without any dead raven present — with much higher frequency than they did the control. And the scolding lasted for the duration of the experiment, suggesting that ravens’ grudges were also very long lasting.
The minified jQuery script at 70KB is smaller than most images on an average website.
Ah yes, man made horrors on the edge of my comprehension.
Google speech to text, siri, zoom subtitles, youtube subtitles etc insert almost only things I didn't say into the transcriptions. Whisper understands exactly what I say, even if I mumble, use abbreviations etc, and, at speed too. Maybe it does something wrong sometimes; the old way is infinitely worse. It's almost a joke between me and my colleagues to switch on speech to text when doing team calls (even 1 on 1); it gets 99% completely wrong; we talk about programming Typescript; it transcribes about robots and sex and rocks in the purple water; it's funny to read. If you would turn off the audio, you, as a third party, would think we are drunk or on acid, while with sound you would follow every fine.

I assume native english speakers do better (?) but we speak english (with accents) and whisper has no issues at all.
Fortunately Teams takes ctrl shift v, and it also leaves links untouched.

Unfortunately it's rather easy to mistype it as ctrl shift c, which --as you might have guessed-- is "call everyone".
Azov was formed on February 2024

Battalion Azov was created on May 5, 2014 along with other battalions of the Special Purpose Police Patrol Service (SPPS) on the basis of a decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бригада_НГУ_«Азов»

And BTW, speaking about Azov [they're not nice, etc]

Which is of course irrelevant to the perversely broken chronological narrative under discussion here.
On some systems (like on mine) sh is just a link to bash, so I couldn't test it.
The question is: for this boy, which one was the "real world" and which one was the "virtual world"?
That is irrefutable. Eat 4 eggs fried in butter and then measure blood sugar an hour later vs eating the same amount of sugar by weight on separate days, on an empty (12 hour fast).
To go back to what I said which you were responding to

> the fact that different people respond to the same consumed items completely differently

You are making this more specific than it is to be just about sugar and diabetes.

My, non radical, assertion is that different metabolisms lead people to process the same things in fundamentally different ways. Some of these clearly lead to diabetes (and gout etc).

The underlying problem is consuming x or y in isolation could be ok for everyone but in some people x and y are dangerous. Given the mix of what we consume this rapidly becomes a combinatorial headache (especially if factoring in gut bacteria) so there is some sympathy for researchers in this area, but the tendency to confuse cause and effect is way too common.
As much as I am a huge WFH proponent, I do agree that forming social bonds with coworkers is harder in that environment. An unsurprising consequence of that is managers having less personal attachment to individual employees.

On the other hand, I do know of a few companies that manage to team members socially engaged, mostly in ways that don't feel like forced "mandatory fun time". It's not easy, and it's a cultural value that needs to permeate everything. But it can be done.
> So the controller only ever increased the torque request, or kept it at the same level. Even when I simulated pressing the brake it was like "Nothing needs to change, we're not even moving!"

So wheel speed sensors drop out and the car will accelerate uncontrollably? I love EVs, but with all this complexity I wish there's some kind of mechanical disconnect or a big red STOP button somewhere.
Not sarcastic at all actually, I take you you've missed the absolute horde of dollar signs it uses in its syntax?

Reminds me of this old joke: "Why do greedy developers all learn PHP? Because there's a lot of dollars in that."
They intend to double it, soon: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1850991323010261230
Agreed. ELO is a crude but simple statistical model, and its primary benefit is that it's easy to understand and reason about.

I'd love for there to be a multidimensional player skill vector (aka "embedding") that encapsulates more information as well as a more nonlinear model to go on top of it.

For example, in many games, a team usually needs a support player, but a single number isn't enough to capture that for the purposes of matchmaking.
plumbing for the water

Really? Not glycol? [0]

0. https://www.towerwater.com/how-does-a-glycol-cooling-system-....
What's your point? The article implied that sugar magically causes obesity and diabetes, all calories being equal, when the weight of the evidence supports neither assertion, and ironically implicates saturated fat as being worse, showing an ability to cause an increase in visceral fat and worsened insulin sensitivity (measured with oral glucose tolerance tests), even in weight-stable subjects.

> different approach to nutrition

The "different approach" HNers gravitate towards is eating bacon and butter (i.e., keto/low-carb) and denying all of the evidence linking these foods to CVD, probably because fat and sodium are so addictive, much more so than sugar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42028432
Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method (2022)
Ask HN: Elderly Friendly Photo Printing Sites?
Hey, just a shot in the dark, but does anyone know of any good photo product sites, like Shutterfly, that have user interfaces that are elderly friendly?

My mother likes to get cards and other things using her photos, but she is continually having horrible experiences with the sites she's tried. And every time I go to help, I find UI's that are just not well designed. Sometimes I have to switch her over to Chrome, other times nothing makes it better.

Today, Walmart's site wouldn't even let me try to log her into her account in Chrome, just kept showing me "are you human" pages. And in Firefox, their photo app is clearly not working very well. The preview for the Christmas card was tiny until I switched her system font size from 150% to 100% scaling. Then it got bigger. And Firefox console was full of security warnings.

Shutterfly is not very good either, she consistently has to redo entire projects (that take her hours to put together) before it works, and it's hit or miss on if it works in Firefox or Chrome.

Are there any photo printing services out there that have UIs that: A) Work. B) Were designed with the elderly in mind?

Thanks!
What does Excel do here that Google Sheets doesn’t? I don’t always carry my laptop with me, so local files are kind of annoying.
Local services are not tech jobs.
The second you decide to go tech, you have to be prepared to complete globally.
M4 Crimes for Metaprogramming Processing
Show HN: Chrome Extension Calculator without ever leaving the browser
in a world of AI, I present you this simple thing I created for fun.

Thanks for having a look!
That is a great skill to have.

When I set Win 11 or earlier version PCs for others, I always load up Void Tools "Everything" and then swing by FossHUB for the full set of tools.

Libre Office, Inkscape, and many more all go on the machine.

And then I explain what they just got and what it is worth. Almost everyone ends up being able to use the OSS tools.

Doing this saves a ton of money!
Yup, avoiding burnout is all about having rich alternatives for your time. If you find yourself working yourself to the point that you don't have the energy to do anything else outside of work, you need to cut back.

If you do get burned out, the only remedy I've found is time away, sometimes many months of it. That's really tough (or impossible) for many people's financial situations, though.
I run 3 miles a few times a week and it’s something near 500-600 calories. I’d say maybe 4 miles depending on the type of burger we’re discussing
Too bad you can't game on a H100 without major hacks.
Sure. Did they (or anyone) say they were going to strip Musk of citizenship? (al_borland's original claim was specifically about Musk's citizenship, not citizenship in general.)
Yeah. Sports science is about evaluating individuals in a team and trying to come up with statistics that make team picking more reliable.

Moneyball is a good movie that dramatizes the dawning of this science.

Fantasy Football is a game version that's become popular for online gamblers.

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I've seen a paper or two floating around on the subject. But I've forgotten the names of them by now and I dunno any good references unfortunately.

Hope you find something in your search!
I didn't mean nested f-strings. I mean this is a syntax error:

>>> print(f"foo {"bar"}")
SyntaxError: f-string: expecting '}'

Only this works:

>>> print(f"foo {'bar'}")
foo bar
> Anything you put in an oven covered completely in aluminum foil —like a baked potato — is only going to end up baked, not roasted.

Actually, this produces a steamed potato. Covering it in foil is a poor technique for this reason. To properly do this: wash the potato, stab the skin a few times with a fork (failure to do this may produce an exploded potato), sprinkle with salt while still damp so the salt adheres, then roast directly on the oven rack (or in a barbecue) until squeezing it gives a fair bit of give.
Quantum Machines and Nvidia use ML toward error-corrected quantum computer
We're using jQuery on our sites which score 100% on all Google Lighthouse pagespeed tests. A smaller version of jQuery really wouldn't matter to us, our pages are already extremely fast to load and score amazingly well on any page speed/SEO test.

About the only place I could see a benefit from this library is maybe in embedded, where space really is an issue. I've created a few IoT devices with web interfaces that are built-into the tiny ROM of the device. A 6KB library is nice, but I'm using Preact with everything gzipped in one single .html file and my very complex web app hosted in the IoT device is about 50KB total size gzipped - including code, content, SVG images and everything, so jQuery or a JQ substitute isn't going to be a better solution for me, but maybe it fits for someone that doesn't know how to set up the tooling for a react/preact app.
A growing horror is how Windows handles them. On a Mac they open and work fine, but on Windows they grind the system to a halt. What’s going on?
Nobody is implying it’s so simple that you can “eat whatever you want” and be at a healthy weight. This is true if you’re underweight as well. If you’re trying to gain weight, you need to eat more than you want.
Maybe if you have millions of rows you might have trouble with excel. Other than that, from a data storage perspective an Excel is just a database that’s human readable.
Discussion (39 points | 1 day ago | 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42019398
Show HN: Prediction Markets on Policy Outcomes
A friend and I hacked together a little dashboard to display the probability of different events conditional on Trump vs Harris winning. Odds are pulled from Manifold's real-money prediction markets.

The volume is too low to be super accurate yet, so keep checking back! (or correct the markets yourself...)
Meta: if you click on a comment's timestamp, you'll get a "favorite" link that you can use to bookmark a comment.
IMHO the way to achieve this is to pay the upfront cost of building out a small framework for your application, which has lightweight abstractions for common patterns. With some design, a small internal API can be as nice to work with as the kitchen sink abstractions. (Much nicer, too, when it comes to maintenance and debugging.)
Exactly.

I always have at least one machine setup with all local tools and storage.

Any new ideation and certainly anything private gets done on that computer first.
this post was taken from https://chat-to.dev/post?id=137 could you contribute to it?
The law is the law. He has no right to not be subject to the same laws as you or I. If we’ve done the same to other immigrants, it’s only fair that once the authorities are made aware of it that they investigate. No one should be able to buy themselves a carve out from the law. If the precedent is that nothing has really done about it in the past then do that as well, but no reason he should be above the law.
I was not expecting to see town names adjacent to mine!
Boston Dynamics: Trick or treat, Atlas [video]
How does this deal with auth for the backend db when running in the browser?
> One side says that it is totally secure, basically 0 fraud, most secure election in history

Additionally, the sides have completely flipped. Utterly bizarre.
Sounds like you're not a potential Trump supporter. For now.

And like you're unaware of, or in denial about, the motives of current and near-future Trump supporters.
Google Sheets doesnt have Solver in the consumer version for one.

In reference to your second statement though, I also dont always carry my laptop but it doesn't matter because my spreadhseets are in onedrive too, so I can close my laptop and open my phone and have the same spreadsheet with zero thought.
It’s a valid question though; I’m also curious what the motivation was here given Cal.com is also open source hmmm
I loved my automatic rice cooker, but I have given it up for a new love - The Pressure Cooker, in my case from Instant Pot. It does as good or better of a job as my rice cooker, but about 33% faster, and has several other useful functions. It's better at steaming dumplings; With the trivet set they also sell that's perfectly sized I can make a meal's worth of dumplings in twenty minutes with zero effort. The Instant Pot recipe Pulled Pork is almost as good as my local BBQ place, and it cooks in an hour.

On the other hand, one of my friends has a Zojirushi rice cooker, and swears by it. He describes making perfectly fluffy and buttery rice every time.
Oh wow, that’s awful. ‘Like the web, but on a pdf and done entirely by Adobe.’
Enjoy it and spend as much time in the moment as you can.

It doesn’t seem like it now, but I promise you, the kid will be an adult in the blink of an eye.

People also told me this but I didn’t grasp it at the time.
Yes, and this results in the MLP layer being functionally unchanged. In the vanilla GPT-2 Transformer, the MLP layer is defined as a 4x up-projection, then a non-linearity, followed by a 4x down-projection. This can be understood as a specific case of their method, as they describe here:

> The number of key-value parameter pairs in both the
query-key-value and output projections corresponds directly to the hidden dimension. In contrast,
the FFN module utilizes four times the number of parameter pairs relative to the hidden size.

Here is the original FFN as described in GPT-2:

y = GELU(x @ W_u) @ W_d

And here is their FFN, when understood as a special case of their "Attention":

y = modified_softmax(x @ W_k) @ W_v

You can name the matrices whatever you want, but the grand enhancement that the authors make to the FFN is just replacing the GELU with a different non-linearity. Shazeer already conducted extensive empirical tests of different non-linearities for the FFN layer in 2020. Among the best were SwiGLU, which is used in Llama today. Unsurprisingly, a modified softmax did not make the cut.

Again, if the changes in this paper were truly a step forward instead of a mindless scrambling of architecture in an effort to achieve something publishable, it would show in the results. Instead, as you can see in their appendix, TokenFormer is on-par or loses in fair comparisons to other models.
>the car will accelerate uncontrollably?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009–2011_Toyota_vehicle_recal...

'Michael Barr of the Barr Group testified[30] that NASA had not been able to complete its examination of Toyota's ETCS and that Toyota did not follow best practices for real time life-critical software, and that a single bit flip which can be caused by cosmic rays could cause unintended acceleration. "
For a site that claims to be minimalist/brutalist and has lynx in its name I was hoping that it would work without JS. But the edit/create page doesn't.
> Now this is what should be being researched.

Indeed. Not only that, but it as well. And believe me, it is being researched.

> The public health problem with that is you might come to a conclusion where it is harder to blame the patient.

How is that a problem? Public health is not about blaming anyone, it’s about improving individuals’ health and diminishing the burden of illnesses on society overall.

> The “sugar is bad mmmkay” serves a convenient purpose when providing people with something to moralize about.

A lot of things are bad. Sugar, like most things, is benign in small quantities but at this point its downsides are quite well documented. It is also quite addictive. There is nothing moral or immoral about this. I don’t really blame people who consume too much of it, but at the society’s level we should do something about it. And other things, we have more than one problem.
A 45 comment thread at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33480799
Have you considered PRK/LASIK/SMILE?
FWIW, a permanent 1-machine Excel-only license key is pretty affordable on G2A et al.
Is it necessary to heat it to 80c, can one heat it to 50c only, instead? Also, do you use a thermometer to measure the temps?
You can use Excel in the exact same way with Microsoft 365.
"you would want to interact with your car through voice"

I stopped reading at this insanity. I'm usually listening music or radio, or talking to other passengers, I can interact with the car with easier, flawless and much faster buttons.
> For reasons I don't remember, the Perl interpreter allows arbitrary code in the inner "[...]" expression that creates the array reference.

...because it's an array value? Aside from how the languages handle references, how is that part any different from, for example, this in python:

>>> [5 * 'x']
['xxxxx']

You can put (almost) anything there, as long as it's an expression that evaluates to a value. The resulting value is what goes into the array.
A guess that's probably correct: Many torrent sites (where the client can download .torrent files from when given an URL) their infra sucks. This includes expired certificates. Users don't want to deal with that shit. Developers don't want to deal with users complaining. It's not really considered a risk because lots of those torrent sites (used to) just use HTTP to begin with, so who cares, right?
Thanks, good points.

> why is IO more expensive to the point it needs a cache

The advisory mentions it's only exploitable if the upstream auth server is unresponsive. So it seems to be mainly for resilience.
And even more so profit from the operating company is not a goal. It is profit from market valuation of the company. Which when you really think about obviously only can lead to some sort of failure or catastrophe.

Ofc, HN with VC funded companies love this model. Generate "wealth" from essentially imagination. Throw more money in and number goes up, end goal find someone to dump whole thing on. Be it public or some established company that found extractive niche.

I find lot less wrong in traditional capitalism. Start making something, sell it for profit, build a factory to sell more. Then use proceeds and possibly loans to build bigger factory. Rinse and repeat. At least you are generating possibly something useful for eveyone and getting money as part of process is not unreasonable.
Grok 3 will be released by the end of the year. What if it beats OpenAI? There is some value in that.
Thanks for giving it a look.

You're right, I'm hoping some traction will come with a bit of virality or by focusing on a specific niche community first.
The way I see it once you’ve thinned the polyfills to next to nothing, the enduring feature of jQuery is the automatic list comprehensions. The ability to unselect all of the buttons in a form in a single call is still hard to match elsewhere. That and parent queries.

The main problem I have with the implementation is that it chooses to fail silently when the list is empty. I’ve fixed too many bugs of this sort, often caused by someone refactoring a DOM tree to do some fancy layout trick after the fact. If I were implementing jquery again today, I’d make it error on empty set by default and add a call chain or flag to fail silently when you really don’t care. I’ve spent a few hours poking around at jQuery seeing what it would take to pull out sizzle and do this, but never took things any farther than that.

At the end of the day jquery is about the old debate of libraries versus frameworks. We’ve been doing SPAs with giant frameworks long enough now for the Trough of Disillusionment to be just around the corner again.
FWIW, here’s what I found:
https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/s/p2lDRJhAEx
It looks very interesting indeed. Thanks for the suggestion!