skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one nuance that empasizes his point is that within millions of years, and likely much sooner (as we are already rather 'overdue'), there will almost certainly be another genuine mass extinction event that will once again strip most life from this planet.

The notion of rates is also quite a bit more contentious than many appreciate. The extremely high rates in modern times are based on modeling with rather debated assumptions. This is how you get claims of hundreds of extinctions per day even though there have only been about 800 'verified' extinctions in the past 400 years [1]. And, notably, a number of those verified extinct species ended up showing up elsewhere later on!

[1] - https://e360.yale.edu/features/global_extinction_rates_why_d...
That's just true for people in general, nothing specific to capitalists.
This stuff is so boring.

Yes, it's an absolute swamp of information out there. It's nearly impossible to know what is true and what isn't.

But not everything is a meticulous plan by Russia or China. We have FAR more enemies than that, and this kind of social agitation is cheap and easy. And the vast majority of the worst stuff comes from fellow Americans. And a lot of it isn't even intentional.

If you immediately point to China and Russia as the source of all this, you do not understand internet culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Rudich
Java in general tends to massively dislike environment variables.

Which is a Good Thing, but unfortunately it makes dealing with proxy support so much harder - especially as there are just so damn many HTTP libraries that people use...
> I wonder how pizza does not come out of the oven completely dehydrated

Is because water is trapped inside the pizza materials.

DNA and water are very different substances. One is very fragile, the other is practically indestructible

If the temperature changes, water just will change temporarily its state to became ice or vapor, and if that gas is contained, it will return to liquid as soon as the temperature allows it, as many times as needed. When the pizza is out of the oven, the water returns.

DNA can't do this out of a live cell.

DNA chains unzip and split away at 96ºC and then you need a live cell to recreate the molecule again. Lets assume that somebody ordered a pizza in the same year that Pompeii fell, as we know that half of DNA will vanish each 500 years (more or less), today more than 90% of all DNA in the pizza would be lost just by natural degradation. Now put this pizza in the oven at 200ºC and basically most if not all of this survivor DNA will be reduced to ashes.

But they are here talking about not just finding DNA, but also about knowing if was a man or a woman, That's even more impressive. Those tiny fragments of DNA survivor should belong also to identifiable parts of the X and Y chromosomes.

In this terms, finding "Y" means man, but not finding it does not mean woman. It means either woman or a man where all the short Y chromosome was included in the 99,99% of the DNA lost just by chance in the taken sample. This means that some of the identified girls could be really boys.
They were.

Of course, we still loved them. And the nostalgia, now.
Void Linux, xorg and never has this issue, often going many days without rebooting with Steam constantly open.
so whats stopping them from running these chips side by side to add more qubits?
What's slashdot
This is great. I particularly liked this observation:

> Shipping is a social construct within a company. Concretely, that means that a project is shipped when the important people at your company believe it is shipped.

A lot of the ideas in here resonated with me a lot. This is the kind of article I wish I'd read before I spent a few years leading an engineering team at a medium-sized tech company!
I’ve traveled a bit and it’s pretty clear that the US has extremely high material prosperity. It’s not universally distributed but it is widely distributed. It’s not purely smoke and mirrors and creative accounting.

Certainly there are things that matter more in life than material prosperity, and there are many alienating things about western society.
Yeah, yes, Schrodinger meant no such thing. But suppose for a moment that a wave, in going up and down repeatedly, is manifesting time itself repeating. Like time legit has an aspect where it's a repeating thing.

To reconcile that with the common experience of time progressing, it could be a sort of statistical matter of time not repeating exactly, where the accumulation of little differences produces the experience of passing time out of quantum-level mostly repeating time.
Among 'nm' and 'binwalk e $FILE'.
They ship because they do project management right:

1. Focus on stakeholder management

2. Know and understand what you build end-to-end

3. Because of 2. you can quickly assess the impact of various options to resolve a problem and communicating this back to stakeholders, generating trust

I like the example of 3. In the blog post.

So many people run projects like they just coast around. Never a moment to pause, reflect and proactively thinking about potential risks and possible mitigations.

Oh my, we never saw this road block coming, how could we have known? Well..
I could shorten that to “why is paying income tax painful” but if you don’t understand taxes, it’s like a micro version of winning the lottery, you don’t get all of it.

Or were you just being a prick?
Yeah, the transparent board with fiduciary marks and a camera was the road I was going down at one point.

There's also a really neat solution that involves a matrix of wires, one for each row and column, and then running a current through the wires. The pieces then each interact with the current in a unique way producing a signal. You then do some clever stuff to figure out all the pieces that are on a given wire. Cheaper than RFID, and you don't need a sensor for each square and can do some multiplexing. I think it possibly uses magnets in the pieces? You can tell electronics is my strong point!
If they aren't paying attention then move to a project they /do/ signal interest in with their attention, and ship that.
Not seeing Pandora, apparently 46 million people still use that as of 2023
Bluesky is a way healthier option. It doesn't have an "algorithm " that pushes unwanted controversial topics into your timeline for "engagement". It's who you follow and their reposts, and that's it. Breath of fresh air to be honest.
Please elaborate. Are these products likely dead now that Broadcom bought VMWare?

I still use both, but only for VMs on Mac and Windows, which is not how I normally run VMs. (That being KVM/QEMU on Linux.)
Great project and write-up. Was hoping to find some info on the UI design and the libraries used. Did I overlook it in the post?
Anything that makes the US look bad is sticky around here.
Thank you for the submission! Should this be a Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This unvirtuous cycle is my fear for California, what with mandated installation and PG&E's travails.
> He presumably received the report well in advance of the meeting...

Where'd you get that from? That everyone else had read it / lied about reading it?
46 million active users or 46 million accounts created?
> I could shorten that to “why is paying income tax painful

Yes, that was my point.
So does that also mean you can't write e.g. a POSIX shell in Java?
It's certainly much bigger, given diagnosis is still fairly vague (no standardized test).

Here is a chilling possibility it may be closer to 25% already:
https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-long-covid-28003/
Yeah, the alternative is that everyone else lied and the boss has impossible expectations of his team. That's absolutely possible but not my default assumption.
I think something similar was in the Apple Keynote but it wasn't as nefarious. Basically, your worklife is hell so you forgot your kids play but magic AI cures it by letting you know that it's coming up? I forget exactly what it was but it seems like something a calendar reminder could have solved.

I think all these consumer facing AI tools seem to not address the root of all the problems that connected technology has brought on. It's like being allergic to dairy but instead of abstaining, you just take a lactaid pill and keep eating pizza.
I’m all for people having the freedom to throw rocks. Can you try not to hit me in the face with rocks, though? It’s annoying.

Similarly, if you want to place a wager, that’s great. If you want protection under the bankruptcy code because your executive function is poor, please try to avoid sticking me with the bill. It’s annoying.
I believe there are 4 common types of the virus influenza.
I cannot imagine how it would benefit society to provide full deduction of gambling losses, and can conceive of avenues for corruption to expand if it were offered.
Ugh.

This article is not about “shipping”software.

It’s about pleasing upper management. Those are not the same things. The article even says it explicitly - if your users hate it and the market laughs, but executives like it, you’ve shipped. If you’ve given users the best software ever but your executive management doesn’t know, or even actively hates it, you haven’t shipped.

Blech.
Hating the F-35 in general has been a thing for the Anti-American crowd, mainly driven by western peaceniks who don't see a point in military might (largely depleted now) and the pro-Russia/China/etc crowd who need it to be shit so their fighters can seem competent. As is usual the latter "inform" the former.
Welp either I’m dense or you didn’t make a point. We can go with the former.

Cheers.
> So while the right may ban porn because 'evil woman parts leading us astray', the left will ban it because 'exploitative patriarchal degradation of women'

Your whole comment is pretty silly considering only one of these things is actually happening.
Ehh. While I understand your point, I think we should also ask ourselves if it’s reasonable for a fighter to cost $110m a pop.
Windows Shortcuts in macOS
What would that get you over any other distro with the steam software installed?
more people use it for production than you think. I have 20+ ActiveX controls being used in production using IEMode in Edge =D
I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?
> if a summary could fully capture the report, the author wouldn't have written the report, they'd just have written the summary

That is not my experience with corporate writing in the slightest.
Thanks, fixed! "Albeit" seemed like it would work, but "although" indeed fits much better.
I love the example with pigs haha!
Nothing has changed. https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=431 still applies as much as it ever did.
The first one is humorous, but the second is a little iffy (lying to your family). But the final shot of the mom is funny because she looks almost nefarious.
The solar panel will eventually require cleaning.
From the original paper the key argument is:

> Our estimation relies on a coverage assumption: a system will face
serious delays or will be likely discontinued if its current
set of authors covers less than 50% of the current set of
files in the system

An author of a file is defined as a user who has made significant (based on pre-calculated weights) contributions to a file
Ask HN: What are diverse political YT channels?
Any recommendations for YT channels about (global) politics?
Yes, but... that's bad corporate writing, right? I suppose you could argue that's the reality for many, but it's not what we should aspire to! The solution isn't to add AI summarizers, it's to stop writing BS!

Easier said than done, I get it. But I'm scared of AI normalizing this. What happens when no one, even the good writers, can write for actual people any more, because everything is uniformly thrown into an AI?
In a way that analogy undersells it, because part of the problem comes from deceiving and hurting others.
(I ran a large forecasting project for a while)

I think one criticism that the linked post misses but the OP article touches on is that most forecasts (whether they be prediction markets or super-forecasting style) is that they often predict the wrong things.

> We asked questions of the type “Will Google integrate LLMs into Gmail by Spring 2023?” and “How many parameters will the next LaMDA model have?” Yet what executives would have wanted to know was “Will Microsoft integrate LLMs into Outlook by Spring 2023?” and “How many parameters will the next GPT model have?”

It's really hard to build a prediction market for these things and I'm not sure "forecasting" is the right way of thinking about them.

(Following some links led to https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uGkRcHqatmPkvpGLq/contra-pap... which has some interesting points too)
I’d believe either, though the latter feels tiny. Pandora is still better than any of the others listed for discovering new music, IMO. Spotify always seems too conservative with its suggestions, making it worse for discovering new music. Subjective, of course.
one of the craziest comments i've read on HN. google does a lot of internet things these days, idk if you've been out of the loop for a while
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_Engines
I've been doing this, and here in Canada https://ca.7digital.com/ is literally the only option I've found that let's you buy normal MP3s, would highly recommend. I've been able to get modern albums without a hitch, but don't know about modern singles. I think in the US Amazon let's you buy MP3s, but not sure there.

For the price of a Spotify subscription, I can usually buy a new album every month! Which is great; and I love slowly growing my album collection.
Sorry, I just meant the original comment sounded like there was something especially onerous about income taxes on gambling winnings compared to tax on other types of income.
The author's archive of animations is very pleasing: https://bleuje.com/animationsite/2024_1/
I had thought it was associated with NodeJS but apparently it’s Ruby.

https://stackshare.io/stackups/nodejs-vs-sinatra
I've enjoyed the selection on Qobuz, which is all DRM-free and allows mp3 or lossless flac formats.
To some degree it's less that ^^ and way more:

* First "tech-hit" is free (setting up LEO's to contract and buy same gear for years to come in larger volumes), and

* Bypassing public meetings to a) debate whether new spy|drone gear is appropriate and b) if so, what options are available ..
I have a 2011 MBP running Mint and it works great. Not unreasonably slow at all. I wish the author had at least tried to use Linux, maybe it was the learning curve.
Git and Jujutsu: In Miniature
I use a mix of Qobuz and Bandcamp and have been happy with them.

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop

https://bandcamp.com/
Unpopular opinion: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then dude, it's a duck.

Inverted chords have, in my ears, never sounded anything like the chords they are supposedly an inversion of. It's like saying "10 is just really 3+7". It's true, and it's also useless. Let 10 be 10. Let 3 be 3. Etc.

Most composers don't even use this system as they compose, it's just for after the fact analysis. Composers hear a tune in their head and then transcribe it. Unless they're writing cookie cutter shit without inspiration, then they might synthesize some soulless crap that intentionally follows some well known chord progression as picked by a dart thrown at a poster of the circle of fifths.
> they’re generally left them in “audit only mode”, sending logs to a destination accessed by no-one.

Aren't these still useful for figuring out what happened if you're hacked?
Did you read the decision? The company must provide some means of doing this. They’re allowed to say “ok email is for work only” but if they have a platform that is used for non-work communication then it must be able to host union and pay-related communication. Apple has one: Slack.
I think this falls under the category of "Don't hate the player, hate the game."

I agree with you: It totally sucks that this is the way the business world works.

But if you want to work within the confines of this flawed system, you need to know how to navigate it well, and I think this post does a good job of giving you the guided tour.

There is a failsafe, however. The post points out that if the project launches and users love it and it makes the company a ton of money, then upper management is going to find out about it even if you don't tell them, and they will be pleased that you have made the company a ton of money.
It's the quantum version of simulated annealing.
To not start with MIDI means starting with audio. That means a microphone, preamp, digital audio interface ... all of which are significantly more expensive than the essentially zero-cost DIN or USB MIDI port that this device requires.

This device is a hardware solution. Hardware solutions are very popular in the music technology space, because nobody really wants to be screwing around with their laptop or whatever. A software solution that did the same means a computer that is running with a mic, preamp and audio interface at all the same times as the person produces sound.

The product in TFA has no dependence on the presence (or absence) of synthesis in the keyboard unit.
Elections have consequences, I just hope the incoming administration isn't actually going to roll things back on vaccines, etc. Otherwise, we may end up with upticks of diseases previously mostly eradicated (at least here in the US).
Yes!

People who keep saying PC when they mean a Windows or Linux machine. As if the Apple machines weren't PCs too.
Yeah, I was gonna say, I ran into all sorts of issues, but I couldn't immediately tell if it is my weird config or something. I don't want to give up on it, because the idea is interesting, but I will admit I only have so much time to spend on this today.
Schrödinger's douchbag
There's too many comments here making assertions that seem to be based on misreading the article.

Too many to respond to individually.

Please, especially if one is criticizing someone else's judgment, one should show the good judgment of getting one's facts straight.
System.getenv exists, so getting is easy... But setting env vars generally involves a convoluted process.

You can modify the JVM's buffer, or spawn a new ProcessBuilder, or a few other things. But it's a nasty place to be.
To put it another way, albeit shouldn't be used with independent clauses.

1. I leave Steam running all the time (although I never open Steam Chat).

2. I leave Steam running all the time (albeit never with Steam Chat).

"I never open Steam Chat" can stand on its own as a sentence, but "never with Steam Chat" does not and thus can be appropriately modified with albeit.
I doubt that OP is talking about taxing player winnings. He's probably referring to taxing the betting companies. Anyway, I'm sorry you had to pay income tax on the income you made. Truly painful.
One of the largest Godot projects is transitioning off of Godot
as someone who creates and updates training plans for cycling, this is rly neat

it could be cool to be able to upload studies or point to websites or anything else that would be relevant context for the AI to produce better calendars

e.g. sometimes I'll be motivated by a training study I recently read, if the AI could easily build me a training calendar based on the study that'd be pretty cool
It's a catch-all in case any single service is badly configured. This often happens while people are fiddling around trying to configure a new service, which means they are at the most vulnerable.
Isn't this where those scenes from James Bond 007's World is Not Enough were shot?
Amazon music still sells the mp3 downloads, though they definitely nudge you away from them as much as they can.
Bandcamp, 7Digital and (extremely reluctantly) Amazon. The bigger the label the harder it is to buy music digitally.
I worked out of the SGI campus before it got sold to Google, and I remember the on-site cafe there was amazing. I don't know how much Google changed about it, I've never been.

As a vendor, I (well, my company) had to pay for meals at SGI, I have no idea if the employees got free meals.
I think the article does a very good job of defining the term "shipping" in the context of large organizations, where it you genuinely do need to please upper management - if you want further career advancement, in any case.

It's a bit cynical, but that doesn't mean it's not true.

If you want to ship software without worrying about upper management opinions, go work somewhere smaller.

You can still please end-users AND upper management at the same time. That's what I would aspire to do in that situation.
Isn't that just parts of the cpu and at the OS level though? I don't think that happens for thermal reasons, more for "welp, nothing worth doing" reasons.

Maybe I'm wrong, looking back at what I said I'm having a hard time explaining what my objection is, but I just don't know of a mechanism that's like "welp, I'm too hot, pausing for a few seconds, see you then!". Aren't there buses and caches and etc. that need constant attention whenever the machine is on? The cpu can't just tell everything to wait for a bit.
It’s unfortunate neither the Navy nor the Air Force want anything to do with the close air support role. The Marines are the smallest arm of the US military but they “do it all”, except tanks, they got rid if they’re Abrams some years ago.
I love the briefness of your post. Your code and method are clearly conveyed.
Funny as it is, it also hits close to home. Some people[0], at least in some cases[1], may really think in lists (or trees); many (most?) others prefer prose. Turning those structured thoughts into expected prose can sometimes be very time-consuming.

I'm not ashamed to admit that, more than once, I used AI tools to turn a bullet-point-list-shaped brain dump into a first draft of an e-mail. I never sent it out without an almost complete rewrite, though - the point was just to get through the mental block caused by forced thinking mode switch.

--

[0] - I suspect software devs more than company average, but I have no hard evidence for that, could be just my bias.

[1] - Myself, often, when my mind is busy processing something else. In those situations, I write even more verbosely than my verbose usual.
Hi Lewis,

Nice idea :)
I think there is a small issue with converting \r\n into <br />.

https://lead.dev/Mahmut_Jomaa

Can't wait to see the leaderboard!

PS: Can you support 2 letter handles? Also converting links in the description would be nice.
For the first few months, I was drinking enough to start feeling shitty around lunchtime the next day (as opposed to hangovers, which have rarely bothered me). I believe this was mild withdrawal symptoms the day after and it waned after several hours. I already drank a good amount each evening before the pan and it went gangbusters during (I was single and lived alone and had no car, so very isolated).

I was able to pull back and even quit a couple of times since (well after we had vaxxes and boosters and got back to normal). I’m presently dry while I put into effect some major life changes. Unsure whether I’ll start again once that’s complete. Life is much better than five years ago and I don’t expect I’ll feel the need to self-medicate, but I just love alcohol, as so many alcoholics do.
It it can’t do laundry I personally don’t care if it can add 2+2 correctly 99% the time
I've known alcoholics but not gamblers, how do they differ?
This is the reality. And if you happen to be in an environment with less cooperative folks, get your requirements to ship in writing, agreed upon, and as up front as possible. Hold them to it. Otherwise, it just opens you up for nitpicking, and in some cases goalkeeping, by folks whom end up delaying your shipping.