skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
/? list of companies by paternity policy; parental leave https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+companies+by+paterni...

/? paternity leave: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=paternity+leave

Parental leave in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave_in_the_United_S... :

> The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not offer paid parental leave. [109] Of countries in the United Nations only the United States, Suriname, Papua New Guinea, and a few Pacific island countries do not provide paid time off for new parents either through the employer's benefits or government paid maternity and parental benefits.[110] A study of 168 countries found that 163 guarantee paid leave to women, and 45 guarantee paid paternity leave. [111]
That's easy to say with the benefit of hindsight! But before going down the rabbit holes, we didn't know which ones were unnecessary. If you didn't go down any of the rabbit holes, you'd end up with a US$60k machine built around US$5k ballscrews and ABS and whatnot.

The point at which people serious about making a shippable product got involved was already after it was no longer theoretical.
If the early internet had a voice it was definitely his, "You got mail!" is iconic.

I'm a sad panda hearing that he passed. Rest in peace, and thank you.
Do you have an opinion on using N2O (laughing gas) as an energy carrier?

2 molecules of N2O exothermically react to form 2 x N2 and 1 x O2 molecules, approximately the same composition as our atmosphere.

It is a very potent greenhouse gas, so quite disturbing on that front.

I've been making calculation for designing earth suits, where the suit replaces the home, internal showering, ventilation, heat recovery etc. Using N2O for heating looks rather promising because with fossil fuels one is forced to lose heat by inefficient heat exchange or forced to be exposed to the exhaust fumes; laughing gas decomposed is just warm atmosphere like air.
anecdata: when i was sorking in support for a particular city service, i once called a client to inform them that we couldn't send them an email because "mailbox full"

to what they answered: oh yeah i have heard about that but what should i do? buy a new telephone?
why not both, it's not the jersey in itself, its the constant tentative of sell you something
Smart ultrasound pulse train accurately visualizes fast blood flow
Have you tried to scrape data in your Bubble webapp?
It's not 'defaulting' to that, it's what you have as the canonical link in your HTML which HN follows

<link rel="canonical" href="http://api.jqueryui.com/1.8/datepicker/">
Ten terabytes of spinning rust is only $100-$300 or so, that's not bad at all.
Cellphones used to operate on a frequency band that was very close to the same band used by ground proximity warning systems, so theoretically they could interfere with the safety systems on a plane. Modern phones use different frequency bands now.
12 years ago: Our Tractor Literally Drives Itself! (GPS Auto Steering Technology) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YStRc1fCj38

It has a guidance system that is connected to a wheel that is friction attached to the steering wheel and turns it on an old tractor. A newer system with an old tractor - https://youtu.be/t0uIYjOds_o

Newer tractors have this built in. The modern tractor cab is a mini data center. https://youtu.be/ZhOvchjeqgM (and you can see that he's not touching the wheel most of the time)
Another problem with it (for me) is that when there's multiple branches, choosing any given one feels arbitrary. Media feels pointless if it wasn't created with intention. It's the same reason I can't take AI art seriously. Art is meaningful when it's contextualized with its creator and creation. When you dumb down the intention of creation or sidestep it by putting out multiple versions/branches, that puts it firmly in the content category as opposed to art.
It would be implementing a popular vote nationwide by circumventing the electoral college. It’s just a mechanism to get around modifying the constitution.
You can't post like this on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We have to ban accounts that do this, and have warned you before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36384536). I'm not going to ban you right now because it feels unfair to single out one person, but please fix this so we don't have to in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
While yes, it was more than ten years ago, we can see that such stupidity is woven into their DNA as a company.

TL;DR: where a cloud provider hosts customers for which there are real-world consequences for data leakage, not a single customer can be at-risk for data leakage. It's a different line of thinking, almost "a different world", to those who have this line of thinking vs those who do.

"The thing about reputations is you only have one".

By contrast even more than ten years before that, AWS was publishing whitepapers about how all contents of RAM to be used by a VM are initialized before a VM is provisioned, and other efforts to proactively scrub customer data.

I worked at a niche cloud provider a bit over ten years ago. We used Intel QAT for client-side encryption for our network attached pools of SSD. We were able to offer all-SSD at low cost and without security blindspots by crypto key rotation implemented by compartmentalized teams and also physical infrastructure compartmentalization patterns. Which, about half a decade later we found we were second only to AWS and almost second (but ahead of in other ways) to some smaller cloud-style hosting provider.
Elon has said repeatedly he doesn't care if X makes money. Its not the reason he bought it. Saying its lost a ton of revenue doesn't matter to Elon or the people who use the platform.

Its kind of funny to see the discussion here about X. First it was the platform has lost too many users. Doesn't matter, its still very popular. Celebs, politicians and companies still advertise on there. If the platform didn't generate revenue for these companies, nobody would be advertising on there, would they? No they wouldn't.

Then I pointed out it still generates billions in revenue. You said, "Well, it used to generate a lot more." Well, it also had massive overhead operating costs which Elon cut to the bone, so back before he bought it, the platform needed to generate a lot more because of the amount of people who did little or anything productive for the platform. If you take into account the reduction in human capital, and the overall reduction in other overhead costs, the profit margins are still very close to what they were pre-acquisition.
You’re still listening to vinyl, arntcha?

Lossiness definitely matters when you’re doing forensics. But not for consumers.

If you just want to bop to Taylor who the fuck cares. The iPod ended that argument. Yes I can be a perfectionist, or I can have one thousand songs in my pocket. That was more than half of your collection for many people at the time.
You can’t symlink, but you can hardlink. I do that for iPhone backups.
You pointed out no problem.
>Could easily just be a memory leak that is accumulating until the OS crashes.

That would be my assumption since they are storing them in labs while trying to crack them under non-normal conditions, so it could easily be a memory leak that doesn't happen under normal conditions. Either that or its the software they use to mess with the encryption causing issues.
They mean Subject Alternative Name (SAN) not Server Name Indication (SNI).
What I understand is that people that use multiple desktops they do because they might have 2 apps not fully maximized in desktop 1, another 3 in desktop 2, etc. But for me, I have maximized maximized apps 99.9% of the time, so I can not see and advantage on alt-tab to another app vs shift-alt-tab (or whatever the option) to switch desktops. Or am I missing somthing here?
Right, you need a microcontroller in the printer to avoid having to send PWM signals over your parallel port. But they don't have to be modern microcontrollers. An 8051 or Z80 would be fine, maybe with some external chips for PWM generation.
You park the forklift in the storage container and seal it in. It's not that hard.

Anyway, the forklift example wasn't about literally picking up pieces nuclear fuel with a forklift. You obviously use the forklift to move the shielded container around which contains the nuclear waste. Nuclear fuel in general is always at least in a water bath, which shields the neutrons, so your forklift is going to be fine.

In contrast to nuclar fuel, you cannot use a forklift (or any other equipment) to feasibly pick out the evenly mixed mercury atoms from the ocean or the atmosphere that we put there from burning coal.
The new Mac Mini takes a small step towards upgradeable storage
Clearly placebo for me, I guess? It's wild how many people are saying phenylephrine is completely ineffective. It saved my ass during a really long COVID stint. It was impossible to find by itself but when we finally found it we bought 2 boxes because we use it and, for us, it works wonders... Hope they release something else better I guess.
Sadly, the article has moved
do you have evidence that it is only a beacon signal between Apple devices post v18 ?
Yes, KDE6 surprised me in a good way. I still prefer the other desktops, but I know I can use KDE just fine.
Just for fun, here's the OST from this game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qvdAWLcPyU
- "How my Universal Child Care and Early Learning plan works"
https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/universal-child-care
What are your thoughts ? Is this actually needed?
Selling Spirals: Avoiding an AI Flash Crash
Actually... it looks like they may have just added somethign similar in iOS 18.1. It's based on the phone not being unlocked, though, not network activity.

https://chaos.social/@jiska/113447894119816217
The story is based on this report: https://www.theguyfoundation.org/space-health/

> The report’s principal conclusion is that humans venturing into space may face more serious health hazards than previously thought. Conditions such as accelerated ageing, the development of insulin resistance, early diabetes and reproductive issues are likely to get worse the further we travel from Earth. These effects may be difficult or impossible to reverse and, if confirmed by research, will call into question the viability of human exploration in deep space. They appear to be associated with the disruption of cellular bioenergetics, which could also have other perhaps more worrying health consequences.

> Quantum biology studies point to the damaging effects of the space environment on mitochondria and the electron transport chain. Contributing factors include reduced and zero gravity, increased radiation, the lack of a magnetic field and the lack of near infrared radiation.
Boycott men? South Korea's 4B movement gains traction in the U.S.
It's great that you wrote this up!

One thing I have found with many open source/selfhostable projects is just how much running them yourself can vary. It can go from a simple compose file with everything included to having to dig for obscure services and piece together how they all form the whole.

For example, I recently looked into self hosting Zotero. It is so under documented and complex that there is almost no way one could self host that (even for just one user) without that being ones job. So one needs to make a distinction between something being open source and being feasible to use/maintain.

In the end I gave up with Zotero. Even though it could have replaced Obsidian Notes, Calibre and Syncthing all at once for me.
Voice AI Agents Are Eating the World (Or Why Realtime Voice AI Is So Hot RN)
Hi HN Community,

I'm one of the founders of Canonical AI. We work in the Voice AI space. Here’s what we're seeing in real-time Voice AI and our take on why it's happening now. Would love to hear what the community thinks!

Tom
https://archive.is/S0kRn
Why don't you think it's a thing? A trivial example is audio. A ton of audio speakers can produce frequencies people cannot hear. If you have an unprocessed audio recording from a high end microphone one of the first compressions things you can do is clip of imperceptible frequencies. A form of compression.
Did you read that link? Group 2 is pretty poorly explained to laypeople, Aloe Vera is listed as "Possibly carcinogenic", 2B.

High concentration and quantity and long term exposure to glyphosate is probably bad for the farmers spraying, but their listing of glyphosate is completely irrelevant for the consumer buying a crop that was sprayed with it. They never once mention any danger to consumers in that entire article.

Even in that limited case (occupational hazard), the data is mixed, and the IARC says that the US AHS study of 50k pesticide applicators did not find a correlation between cancer and glyphosate. They say that doesn't overrule the other findings.

They are being hyperconservative for the safety of workers. That literally doesn't apply to you, the consumer.
Big fan of The Case of the Golden Idol, mentioned in that list.

According to Steam stats, it's been a huge success for them, which surprised me and has given me hope for the state of the gaming scene.

The two DLCs have been excellent. They're also working on a sequel set in the 1970s, The Rise of the Golden Idol, due for release in a few days [1].

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2716400/The_Rise_of_the_G...
It's not clear to me what is the problem you have with Gruber or this post. He's just a journalist/blogger who's covered Apple and related topics by, you know, publishing his own writing on his own website (for over 20 years). You seem angry that such a person exists, or that someone can be enthusiastic about some things having to do with Apple while criticizing others. I really don't understand the animosity towards him and his site that seems to be simmering away in this community.
I don't know if it would. At least according to the Wikipedia article on state compacts[0] and the entire article on the constitutionality of this specific compact[1] SCOTUS has already ruled that explicit consent isn't always necessary (it can even just be inferred,) and there seems to be some room for debate.

Of course it doesn't really matter. The Constitution means whatever you can bribe the Supreme Court to say it means. God Bless America.

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

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutionality_of_the_Natio...
A friend and I have been trying to build an AM radio. We got a few working, like the basic "crystal" (germanium diode) one with an earpiece, generally picking up 1 or 2 stations very faintly. Then some attempts with an AM radio IC (TA7642), some that use a couple diodes and LM386 op-amp but they're generally terrible, if they work at all. It seems that following random schematics off the web or a youtube screenshot doesn't work very well.

I do have an RF design book I haven't started (by Chris Bowick) as well as this PDF now, which should be even more practical, so I'm hopeful I can figure it out. I also have some test equipment such as nanoVNA, tinySA, and an oscilloscope which makes it possible to get visibility into how stuff behave beyond "I don't hear anything; no idea what's wrong." I was able to see how the tank circuit was behaving as you tune it.
Nvme hardware started coming out in 2011. Yes, 4 yrs later Apple introduced it too. That's kinda "years later" of you didn't notice.
So the electors are restricted to what they can do to some extent, but can the individual state tell the electors to do something that conflicts with what their own voters may have overwhelmingly voted against?

That seems like it would inevitably fall apart.

Also present a lot of mystery about "they going to do it?" and then someone doesn't and someone else chooses something else.

Talk about a mess for democracy ...
I would certainly like to see serious critical analysis and calculations of such hypothetical setups by physicists.

Would such a setup slow down the local expansion (action and reaction)?

Since iron is essentially a nuclear ground state, a steel cable being lengthened seems like the least worse mass loss imaginable.
The current compact only kicks in is the electoral college vote and the popular vote differ.

That is quite a bit different than the popular vote as you can see this year when Trump would have basically run the board of electoral college votes without that caveat.
The main problem is that it takes power away from one party.
This is one game I think would be amazing in VR.
> There's no appetite to do this kind of work. People are too comfortable.

I really hate implication of this statement. (You may not have meant exactly this, but I've heard it said with a straight face by others.)

Syllogized: People don't want to do [unpleasant or dangerous job], therefore let's make the rest of life worse so they will.

I can acknowledge the logic to that position, but there is also a logic to let's make [job] less dangerous, more bearable, and / or better compensated.

(To be clear: ensuring safety is broadly speaking the realm of government to enforce. Improving pay and working conditions is the responsibility of employers. Unions can affect both, but require the support of the state to be viable.)

I don't understand why anyone would choose the option which increases human misery. In what moral system is that the right thing to do?
This is kind of my point, but this any many other articles and opinion pieces are just breathless with optimism about how the Internet Golden Age will come again and it will topple all the evil social media and we will have Life Eternal in a digital Paradise that no corporation can drive us from.

Well kind of? We, the enthusiasts, can just opt out of the social-media big corporate internet any time we want. But it's never going to happen on this grand scale that these starry-eyed people are dreaming about.
Nice strawman. You know very well what I mean.

> and protections for diverse people

Do you really think minorities (who are generally of a lower socio-economic status) care more about being called a slur than having a roof over their head and being able to pay their groceries? Or that women care more about the ratio of male-female CEOs and senators rather than if they themselves are getting paid a livable wage?

People like to pretend policy isn't zero sum, but it is. Governments have finite budgets. People have finite attention spans. Thus things must be prioritized. Rent, finances, food, health, these need to be prioritized. Once everyone is doing good on those points, you can move up the pyramid.
In Japan, anyone can rent a shelf to sell books
This paper seems dubious, because it flies in the face of what the reft/pyreft paper is showing (you can use 0.0001% of the parameters trained for 100 epochs to personalize on a small dataset):

https://github.com/stanfordnlp/pyreft

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03592

Note that the OP paper is not peer reviewed yet, and while the one I linked isn't either, it has Christopher Manning (yes, the one you know from youtube), the head of AI at Stanford, as a co-author.

In general, I think that Lora and especially reft should be more resistant to catastrophic forgetting due to them literally not impacting most of the model.

The Stable Diffusion community has literally tens of thousands of lora's that don't cripple a model at small rank.
Streaming https://www.svtplay.se/the-pirate-bay works via e.g. Mullvad VPN (pick a Swedish location).

It only has audio and subtitles in Swedish though, so...
> "IARC classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans".

This category includes: carpentry, bracken ferns, aloe vera extract and traditional Asian pickled vegetables, magnetic fields, radio, coffee.

I'm not kidding, go see yourself: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/list-of-classifications (group 2B).

This agency has zero credibility now. No serious agency (EPA, EFSA, etc.) classifies it as dangerous: https://www.efsa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2023-07/glyph...

It's like I can cite the Cato institute and Heritage Foundation to say that we should ban electric cars, because they are polluting the air with brake dust.
>EDIT: If/when we build a human-level AI, perhaps we could use the number of transistors / artificial neurons involved as a proxy for an absolute measure of how difficult it is to answer some problems. This would be imperfect but better than nothing.

Wouldn't that be roughly equivalent to equating brain size/volume to intelligence? I know there's a decent correlation between intelligence and head-size, but it's not that consistent. Some brains just work better for their size.
And then what? What are they supposed to do with that realization?

Was Kamala Harris supposed to say, "I too hate everything Joe Biden did for the economy, and I'm going to do the opposite of that"? That doesn't sound like a winning strategy.

Or perhaps "Here's a bunch of programs that I'd like to introduce, including even more student loan forgiveness, especially if you give me a Congress who can work with me?" She did do that. Nobody believes it.

Trump promised a few incoherent ideas, and I doubt anybody really gave a moment's thought to whether it's really a good idea to jack up tariffs. All he really needed to be was "not the same as the last guy", despite not having done so great as the previous guy.

The fact was that Joe Biden got saddled with an economy that people didn't like. There was little he could do about that, and nothing Harris said would change it.

Meanwhile, the next guy will inherit the fundamentally sound economy we've got going. Maybe he'll manage to actively screw it up, though it's really going to mostly succeed or fail based on external events. (Like Ukraine, the loss of Russian fossil fuels, a pandemic, etc. affected the economy for the past four years. Or maybe there'll be an AI boom comparable to the one Clinton got undeserved credit for in the 90s.)

So great, you all think you're worse off. There is absolutely no amount of "messaging" that's going to change that, and no set of programs you're suddenly going to believe will fix your problems if they haven't already.

And we get what we get. I've got every reason to think it's going to be terrible, and in four years they'll be looking for The Other Other Guy to save them from the bad decisions they made four years ago.
> And they have solved the problem by using this tool. To the point that for years now, by default, RH boxes are installed in enforcing mode.

They’ve shipped it, yes. It doesn’t count as solved until all of the apps are running with policies which actually block attacks like this, just as having a fire extinguisher on the shelf doesn’t mean your fire is guaranteed to be out.

> Comparing Mac to RHEL, there’s only one place where Mac is ahead and that is a default Mac install at least on Apple silicon will have an immutable root.

Also they have far more common use of sandboxing for applications (including the harder bits about selective permissions for apps), code signing, memory protection, pervasive use of HSM and robust layered storage encryption, etc. – all out of the box, whereas even in the much easier case of servers you’re looking at many hours of skilled labor to configure an equivalent.

My point about budgets is that this is just a lot of work. Apple’s not perfect but a lot of people have a mental model from the 2000s which is no longer true.
Although we are often taught that it is slavery slavery slavery, the electoral college is also an attempt to prevent the tyranny of the majority - something the founding fathers were worried about.

It is also easy to forget that we are called the United States for a reason. We were more like the EU than we are like France...