skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately perhaps not as clean as you would hope: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9819315/#:~:text=5.....
Affirmative :)
Miro to lay off roughly 18% staff
Yes, I can imagine use cases where it would have value. I just have none of those use cases. I don't find that, on the whole, it actually saves me any time due to the need to double-check the output.

I'm certainly not saying that it has no value to anybody. There are plenty of people here who claim that it's been a great boon to them, and I don't doubt them.
And where will the money come from for this second study? What about a third? Fourth?

We live in a money-dependent world. We cannot go without it.
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Yeah totally.

Here's a nice video on what NASA uses to communicate with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=586Zn1ct-QA Not something you'll put in your backyard :')
I've been wondering is how long before we get a 'PC-console' dedicated gaming device, there's certain aspects where PC is falling into the gravity well of the console model. Whether that's the technical aspects like how far you can lock down for security (and who's security) or DRM, whether people only want a nice front end, whether everything should be managed by a defacto 'good' platform holder versus allowing companies to do their own thing (clients or commerce). At some point such a thing looks like a more expensive ultra-pro console.

Then that has to be balanced against the freedom aspect where people want flexibility to build a workstation how they want and do what they want on it, and expecting it all to work (windows games being supported on non-windows is a more common issue now). PC casts the broadest net and catches a lot of different desires, similar with how high-end and low-end seem to be splitting over the past ~5 years rather than being a continuous spectrum I wonder if there will be distinct types of PC for gaming (eg set models like the old Commodore Amiga) or if trying to resist splits does more harm than good.
> much less science being done

This isn't obviously a bad thing, in the context of a belief that most results are misleading or wrong.
Hypothesis: imagine a situation where an app development task is split across multiple teams. Each teams' code could be excellent, but collectively it could suck, because each module calling another team's module incurs an i/o operation or a network round trip. I assert that low performing apps are disproportionately created by orgs with a diffuse structure or codebase.

I don't think the impact of org and dev team structure on code performance and quality has really been studied.
They're less common than they are newsworthy. So they get our attention and we think they're more common than they really are.

The title is misleading.

They're so uncommon that they have their own Wikipedia list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_close_election_results
no fights at all. we all wanted to do it.
Considering the energy requirements for near-light speed travel, I'd bet on the latter, if I were a betting man.
Weird for Netlify to be cowed by someone with deep pockets and, in the absence of a volte-face from those deep pockets, making the bullied party go through unnecessary steps, just in case the deep pockets became angrier and threatened Netlify some more.

Ultimately the bullied party upped-and-left Netlify, after which Netlify wiped its brow and said "phew! that was a close one! i nearly got caught up in a dispute!"

Netlify sound like cowards. I don't think they'd have my back if anyone objected to a website I hosted with them. I shouldn't purchase their services. Also, I should look at the track record of anyone else I'm thinking of using for hosting; do they have a good reputation for defending their clients' rights and telling barratrous lawyers to GTFO?
Cascade Model of Relational Dissolution
Okay, the linked benchmarks proved me wrong. I trust cinebench numbers a whole lot more than a geekbench score.

My bad.

And just to be clear: I didn't speculate that Apple tune's its chip to Geekbench, I speculated that geekbench was overly optimized towards apple's latest chip.
I haven't measured in a while and I don't feel "weak" per se, but I did notice in the mirror that my left bicep seems to be smaller than I remembered (and that's an area that I don't really have any fat buildup which might just be disappearing due to weight or water loss). I also haven't been doing any workouts (intentionally, just to see what happens on GLP-1 meds) but I suspect just some simple workouts would help. For me right now, after ~4mo it's not enough to concern me more than just "ah, guess I should find the weights some time" but I am keeping an eye on it. Otherwise I haven't noticed anything else so it may not be related or might just be me being paranoid
I'd be far more impressed if the CEO said "The AI deleted a quarter of our company's code".
10 years ago I was using https://mosh.org/ to sutomatically reconnect ssh sessions.
My carbon steel pans are essentially non-stick and a fraction of the weight of my cast iron ones. They're cheaper than their stainless All-Clad counterparts. They're a pleasure to cook with.

Sure, you can get a cheap non-stick pan that may or may not give you cancer, but why? I'm in my 40s and since I can remember thought it made no sense to cook with plastic anything. My parents still cook with the same wooden spoons my dad brought back from Algeria before I was born. The pans will last multiple lifetimes. The same can't be said for their plastic and non-stick counterparts.
I have a disability which makes hand-washing cookware impractical, regardless of how "easy" it is for a "normal" person.
> It will be tapped out [sic] in 2025

So... won't exist until end 2025 and suffer yield difficulties. Nobody can test it. It doesn't sound like it's on the top 10 of Intel's problems even.
To be fair, the societal harm from deciding to play multiplayer instead of single player is probably a few orders of magnitude less than toxic waste in the water.
New Sota Text to Image
comparing js to a spacecraft is like comparing junior-level PHP to top engineers using Rust
Legacy code in a dynamically typed language is never good.
It's 2024, you can find the information if you wanted too.
I wish they'd gone into more detail about how they generated those sounds. It's not just sine waves, obviously, and there's also a stereo component there.
It was called out because OP used "Inshallah". The argument is that it's cultural, and complaining about it is silly.
I think the main issue with "p < 0.05" can be summed up as people use it to "prove" a phenomenon exists rather than a pragmatic cutoff to screen for interesting things to investigate further.
"Politics is about cutting things in half."
Hey Breck! Really appreciate you trying and no sorry, no web version just yet - I did launch an early web prototype but the majority of feedback wanted a native experience.

The email signup is purely so I can send out invites to TestFlight atm
Why do they have to use actual companies’ exact names and logos to make their parody, which someone could confuse for a real product? Can’t they use slight variations (e.g., McDowels to parody McDonalds)? Wouldn’t everyone still know who they were referring to?

Edit: Yes, this is satire, not parody, and satire needs to clearly identify its target to work properly. Here, however, the target of the satire appears to be carbon offset sellers, as a farcical “life offset” seller. The companies in question are linked as mere “supporters” of the satirical service; they don’t appear to be the direct target of the satire.
Are there particularly bad flame retardants to avoid? why is it bad?
You are the one who can't come up with a good argument and have to resort to personal attacks. I call that a falacy.

I have been playing CS for +20 years.
The point I was making is that this phenomenon occurs in other languages. Arabic and its phrases involving "allah" first came to mind. So how was this "needlessly"? I needed to give an example of this occurring in another language.
> The 0.05 threshold is indeed arbitrary, but the scientific method is sound.

I guess it depends on what you're referring to as the "scientific method. As the article indicates, a whole lot of uses of p-values in the field - including in many scientific papers - actually invoke statistics in invalid or fallacious ways.
> I've been saying it since they started popping off last year and everyone was getting euphoric about them.

Remember the resounding euphoria at the LK-99 paper last year, and how everyone suddenly became an expert on superconductors? It's clear that we've collectively learned nothing from that fiasco.

The idea of progress itself has turned into a religious cult, and what's worse, "progress" here is defined to mean "whatever we read about in 1950s science fiction".
Yes, and I think of them as examples to grab interest, particularly of young people. Which is good, the world needs not only more scientists, but more people who understand and appreciate how it works.
Silicon is rubbery, but unlike rubber it is normally not sticky to either your hand or food.
Not exactly. What I mean to say is this: We know there are certain phenotypes that predominantly appear in certain populations, in broad strokes. But while we do have lists of correlates, we don't have good definitions for what an "ethnicity" is biologically, and there is very good reason to believe no satisfactory definition exists.

To use OP's example, we know that the gene mentioned is frequently found in the Inuit population. But if an Inuk does not have that gene, it does not somehow make them less Inuit. We can't quantify percentage Inuitness, and doing so is logically unsound. This is because the term "Inuit" doesn't mean its biological correlates. It simply has biological correlates.

To use an example of a personal friend, slightly anonymized: My friend is an Ashkenazi Jew. There is absolutely no uncertainty about this; Jewishness is matrilineal, and their mother was an Ashkenazi Jew, and her mother before her, going back over eight documented generations of family history. But alas - their grandfather was infertile, a fact that was posthumously revealed. Their maternal grandmother had a sperm donor. The sperm donor was not an Ashkenazi Jew. Consequently, can said friend be said to be "only 75% Jewish," having missed the "necessary" genetic correlates? Of course not. By simple matrilineage they are fully an Ashkenazi Jew.

Why are these terms used in medicine, then? Because, put simply, it's the best we can do. Genetic profiling is a useful tool under some limited circumstances, and asking medical subjects their ethnicity is often useful in determining medical correlates. But there is nothing in the gene that says "I am Inuk, I am Ashkenazi," because these ideas are social first, not genetic first.
The BATNA acronym helps people understand negotiating a bit better, but outside of education, I don't see that it has much use.
Core i7 6700K was released in August 2015. 4c/8t 4.2GHz.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/88195/i...

Core i7 14700K was released in Q4 2023. 8 P-core, 12 E-core, 28 threads. ~5.5GHz for Performance-core max frequency.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/236783/...

This is the same CPU tier, just a later generation.

Passmark scores:

6700K: 8,929

14700K: 53,263

Yeah, that's practically the same performance.

But hey, that newer i7 has way more cores. Let's pick something with a closer core count for a fairer comparison. Let's pick the Core i3-14100 with its 4C/8T with a turbo of 4.7GHz. Even then, its Passmark benchmark 15,050.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/236783/...

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2565vs5719vs5831/Intel-...

I get it, an old CPU can still be useful. I'm still using an Ivy Bridge CPU for a server in my closet hosting various services for my home, but it is vastly slower than my Ryzen 7 3700x on my current gaming desktop and was even slower than the previous Ryzen 5 2600 I had before and sold to a friend.
> This desync doesn't cause any problems for me.

Are you sure you're not chronically depressed? Because our brains and bodies have this thing called a circadian rhythm, which causes all sorts of problems when disrupted. Being a night owl is no excuse, and it's often just a symptom of some underlying issue
Ok, but why? It's a synthetic molded polymer, so I think it fits all the definitions that I can find.

Are we saying that plastics are bad and then redefining "plastic" as the subset of the previous classification which are bad? That's the kind of language trickery that duped us into making utensils out of an industrial waste product in the first place. If we're going to protect future generations from whatever harm comes after plastic we're going to need to stop being so vage.
That power is usually considered too reckless to retain and simultaneously too cumbersome to actually use, partly because it was never planned in the first place.
That would be notable... if anyone was actually using Gemini.
The threat to innocent people posed by incompetent or tyrannical police is arguably much greater than by ordinary criminality.

In small towns across America, corrupt police departments hassle outsiders and issue minor citations as a way to generate revenue. If someone is found to have large amounts of cash for some reason, they often will confiscate it in a process called civil forefeiture. Many US police officers act with impunity because their misconduct will be protected by local prosecutors and judges. There absolutely are towns and neighborhoods good people should avoid because of the police.
Are you part of the team?

I was looking for more technical info, like what "bi-propelant" means. It took me a while to find https://gruyerespaceprogram.ch/program/F-100.html (linked in the main page, but I didn't see it.)

> F-100 is our rocket hopper bi-propellant engine. This engine uses N2O and IPA for a maximal thrust of 1.2kN and a minimal thrust under 0.5kN.

IPA is isopropanol?
This story is all over the place.

What’s with the random mention of the Israeli rail line in the middle? It’s a one paragraph claim and then jumps back to the main story.

Apparently, they are referring to these plans:

https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/benjamin-netanyahu-unveils...
Oh my, I did truly laugh out loud - you're not sure about the difference in overall quality of life between the US and Botswana. Thank you for this.
"The obvious argument for the existence of a creator is that we have no other explanations...[so] it is only reasonable to accept the only one that we do have to be true ... [but] if a creator created us, who then created our own creator?

Given that we can only operate based on knowledge that exists within our own world, it is hard, and maybe impossible to answer that question. And it is maybe possible that we come to develop very good theories about that the more we understand about our own world in the future."

This morning I woke up thinking about human behavior as it relates to various beliefs we hold. I was mainly focused on the more irrational ones like religion, and I've come to believe that it is not always a lack of raw intelligence that undoes us (though that is certainly an issue), but it is a lack of consistency that harms us the most.

The opinion expressed at the end of the quoted message undoes the entire blog post, and it begs the question, if you can acknowledge that there are simply things that we do not currently know and that we may discover in the future, why not take that view when thinking about God?

The simple fact is we do not know regardless of any hypothesis we come up with because we don't have a good test currently.

The author's reasoning is inductive in nature. I.e. it takes specific facts and tries to make a general rule from it. This type of reasoning is strong in certain mathematical context, but it's weak in many real life applications.

I'll give you an example with 3 sequences of numbers. The first two will be easy. Guess the next number.

Sequence 1: 5,5,5,5,5

If you guessed 5, you are correct.

Sequence 2: 1,2,3,4,5

If you guessed 6, I would tell you that I lied earlier. There is no 3rd sequence and the lesson is here at the second. The above sequence is an infinite loop of the sequence "1,2,3,4,5," and the number 6 is your "rational" conclusion on God. If you honestly guessed the sequence was a loop, you have a strange mind, but hopefully at this point you can see the answer was arbitrary and subject to my whims.

I could have come up with multiple answers.

We collectively have no more insight into the workings of universe, than any of you have into the workings of my mind. A simple "I don't know" will suffice sometimes.
Nope. In fact, the higher density silicone with better heat resistance will turn white on bending far more readily than the low grade stuff designed for hair dryer pockets and such.
A Financier Penned a Crime Novel. Prosecutors Want to Know How Much Was Fiction.
Not even that - the data being written is coming straight from the network, and the pool has no issues keeping up.
So the reveal was supposed to happen 2:27 ago… did it, or has it been rescheduled for 6 months? #familyradioflashbacks
People who have more than the FDIC limits probably have the most choice of banks because they are such desirable customers.
There's also `et`: https://mistertea.github.io/EternalTerminal/
https://archive.ph/T3aYZ
Mayo Clinic study: What standing on one leg can tell you
Show HN: React Code from Mocks
> I don't think there's ever been a neighborhood law abiding citizens had to avoid because of fear of cops.

I think there's a fair number of stories of POC be accosted by police officers because they were in a neighborhood they didn't "belong" in, so your statement is likely inaccurate.
Ask HN: Best Tools for High Availability PostgreSQL?
PostgreSQL has lots of different tools available for replication, though in various states of support and maintenance. What are your current recommendations for a small-scale Postgres cluster (e.g. 3 node on modest VMs)?

My use case is a relatively standard web app with database backend. One write master is fine, but it should have automatic failover if the primary is unavailable. As a solo dev, I'd like to avoid the overhead that comes with tools like Kubernetes, if there are suitable alternatives.
ePub to Audiobook Converter
This is such a nice project utilizing the advances in TTS models. Just converted an ePub in German via OpenAI. This gives me way more flexibility in reading / listening to books.
Why Pascal Deserves a Second Look
its clearly a plastic? polyamide?
The scientific method is sound != every experiment that claims to use the scientific method is sound
> I am sure there are plenty of people who misunderstand or misinterpret statistics. But in my experience these are mostly consumers. The people who produce "science" know damn well what they are doing.

As a statistician, I could not disagree more. I would venture to say that most uses of statistics by scientists that I see are fallacious in some way. It doesn't always invalidate the results, but that doesn't change the fact that it is built on a fallacy nonetheless.

In general, most scientists actually have an extremely poor grasp of statistics. Most fields require little more than a single introductory course to statistics with calculus (the same one required for pre-med students), and the rest they learn in an ad-hoc manner - often incorrectly.
They neglected to use the phrase "precious bodily fluids" in their Plasma Pals explanation, which is mildly disappointing.
Teflon is not very thermally conductive, so the bottom contacting the metal substrate may be at a significantly higher temperature than the top. Chemistry reactions have activation energies, and you can generally always trade temperature for time. If it happens in a minute at 260 C, it will still happen at 200 C, just slower.
> They’re excellent when answering questions on topics you know nothing about, and somehow embarrassingly wrong when you actually know the answer yourself…

Sounds like Gell-Mann Amnesia. Maybe LLMs should replace reporters.
One ebay sourced Chinese transformer that blew its back off (!) letting our the magic smoke and tripping the RCB was enough for me.

These days I'm older and wiser.
Geofenced in some places, therefore https://archive.is/Kmwyd -- but no sound here, the video is on ESA's channel on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6Tc7XI0iUYU?rel=0
There are some ideas that spacetime is an emergent phenomenon. One such proposal is that it is produced by the large-scale presence of entanglement between particles: that entanglement creates spacetime. Where entanglement between regions of spacetime is stronger, the space is closer together, and where that entanglement is cut things get farther apart. This idea is known as "ER=EPR" [0].

That's the link bridging gravity as a particle (small-scale) and gravity as a feature of a manifold (large-scale). Physicists are trying to find a way to make spacetime emerge from quantum field theory, or make both emerge from some common framework.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER_=_EPR
Ask HN: How to Minimize Data Collection Linked to My Apple ID?
I've become increasingly concerned about the extensive amount of metadata Apple collects through my Apple ID (Apple Account now?)

My account dates back to the early 2010s and contains a large history Applecare interactions, device activations, but even stuff like legacy data such as my iTunes wishlist.

I can see a record of every interaction, downloads, each redownload of already purchased apps, every time I activated a feature and deactivated one, along with all the location, full IP, device ID/serial/imei, you know... the works.
This is to be expected, but I'm surprised they still kept full strings of very old data.

I've been thinking about starting fresh by creating a new Apple ID for each device to limit the data generated and stored going forward.

My main goal is to be able to delete data selectively over time, but Apple only seems to offer the option to delete everything (account and all) or leave it as is.
And I wish I could transfer my previous purchases, but that's impossible.

So I have a few doubts on how to approach this better:

What about my paid apps? Would setting up a "master account" for purchases and using Family Sharing be a good strategy?

I don't use iCloud at all, except for Find My, so the devices need to stay activated with one. And I still need to download apps from the app store, of course.
So, any other strategies for reducing data collection and dealing with this in a privacy-conscious way?
I wonder if apple intelligence will be resource heavy and this is the reason for the RAM increase across the board.
Connect Postgres Row-Level Security with Any Authentication Provider
Which editor is Google's AI code completion integrated with? VS Code?
This was one of my first thoughts, too. In what ways can this contaminate their codebase? What if they use AI to add uncopyrightable code to GPL projects?
No one ever figures in the cost of medical care from breathing low-grade gas fumes for years. Or the occasional spontaneous house explosion.
Tony Fadell took a shot at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman "I'm not just spouting shit"
It's not an inshallah, it's a masha'Allah.
Quest, undertaking, chapter.
CEO Pat Gelsinger Loses 40% Discount from TSMC Over Comments Made