skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This works until it doesn't.

Professional body builders do bulk/cut/bulk/cut because after awhile you can't lose weight and put on muscle at the same time, especially if you want to get to the point of being shredded.

(well you can do it, but there is no benefit over bulking and cutting)
That’s an interesting approach. I don’t think I’ve done that myself, but I can see how it could be helpful.

One positive effect of having studied pure mathematics when young might have been that I became comfortable with thinking in multiple layers of abstraction. In topology and analysis, for example, you have points, then you have sets of points, then you have properties of those sets of points (openness, compactness, discreteness, etc.), then you have functions defining the relations among those sets of points and their properties, then you have sets of functions and the properties of those sets, etc.

I never used mathematical abstraction hierarchies directly in my later life, but having thought in those terms when young might have helped me get my head around multilayered issues in other fields, like the humanities and social sciences.

But a possible negative effect of spending too much time thinking about mathematics when young was overexposure to issues with a limited set of truth values. In mainstream mathematics, if my understanding is correct, every well-formed statement is either true or false (or undecided or undecidable). Spending too much time focusing on true/false dichotomies in my youth might have made it harder for me to get used to the fuzziness of other human endeavors later. I think I eventually did, though.
Don't worry, as soon as this becomes production grade enough to justify buying less Mac Minis in data centres, Apple with shut it down faster than the speed of light. They could have done this themselves if they wanted, the reasons were never technical to begin with
On the contrary, Junior positions will be more and growing because now you do not have the fear of Juniors being liability for a while as with very little guidance they can get stuff done while Seniors keep an eye on bigger things and have free time not being spammed by n00b queries.

Also, given the saturation of STEM graduates now, you have proven group of juniors who can learn themselves over expensive lottery of bootcampers who might bail out the moment it is no longer the surface level React anymore.

With AI, more tiny businesses can launch into market and hire juniors and part time expertise to guide the product slowly without the massive VC money requirement.
Almost certainly not. If he runs it will be by ignoring the Constitution, and at that point we’re legitimately in civil war territory.
I also heard the power companies just don't have the extra power to supply the ferries. The terminals need to be redesigned to receive and emit that much juice.
It's the other way around, they only support arm at the moment: https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun/issues/10#issueco...
When I came to the office, I would check in at the entrance. So the director would see that I had come to work. However, if I was feeling unwell, for example, if I hadn't slept well at night, I could sit all day just staring at the monitor. And I was also very tired on the road, getting there for three hours by transport, and coming home very late.
When I worked remotely, I tried to work better. I saved a lot of time on the road. I like working remotely more. Once I worked for a month to build a system in C#, Docker in Windows. Because different versions work differently, I had to look for a lot of information. I made great progress in assembling the system, added useful recommendations to the documentation, but after a month I was fired because they wanted high speed work.
Recently I was asked to do the layout of a website page. I said that I could do it in a week, but they told me to do it in 1 day. This is actually a very strict requirement, and I cannot do it faster than I do. A person should rest more often!
Should be somewhere in The Origins of Order (as if that narrows anything down!) — keep in mind that I may not even have the original vocab correct, just the basic idea that recombination keeps a population from getting stuck in local minima. (Combined in my head with bacterial taxis: tumble while you're in a food-rich environment, pick a direction if not, and keep straight while gradient is increasing)
But that's the thing, part of the plan was in a bad case we can switch to manual processing, but at no point someone thought to suggest manually processing one failing plan

I work with great QAs all day, and if one of them heard that there are duplicate area codes, there would be a bunch of test cases appearing with all the possible combinations
> The city has been trying to force public works to go do those things BEFORE road projects, but it's an uphill battle.

Is Public Works a state agency? I would have expected them to be subordinate to the city.
In the past science waited to overturn a consensus, today it waits to reach a consensus.
AI guided missiles.
But why? I feel like I just read an overlong answer to "why did the soccer player miss the goal?" that amounts to "the ball went the wrong way."
Those numbers mean disposable household income divided by the square root of household size. American households are unusually large for a developed country, and measures like that overestimate individual incomes relative to countries with smaller households.
A fourth option would be "we want to keep Boeing in business, but can't offer direct subsidies per trade agreements"
* in the US.

In many developed countries higher education costs the same as high school.
Because you can only browse pages from 2005 with KHTML (Standards evolves and KHTML hasn't been kept up to date in that respect)
From https://www.cbsnews.com/news/air-force-overpaid-8000-percent...

> "We are reviewing the report, which appears to be based on an inapt comparison of the prices paid for parts that meet aircraft and contract specifications and designs versus basic commercial items that would not be qualified or approved for use on the C-17," the Boeing spokesperson sought to explain in a statement.

I was thinking that it would make sense in future contracts to try to define a class of parts that are allowed to be 'unapproved' by the manufacturer and still be used, but then I tried to think of what all those parts would be and it doesn't seem like it would be that large of a list of items. I wonder if the juice isn't worth the squeeze to try to prevent this. What a strange world.
That reformulation doesn't let you avoid renormalization, does it?
That's interesting cause this reddit album[1] has this picture: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

[1] https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1al24h7 (images #9 and #10)
Ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips
Display ad insertion would be legal and there are definitely ways to do it all client side.
What is needed though is the either storage of energy (batteries) or the redistribution of consumption (robot butlers pushing peak evening consumption forward in the day).
Google's response:
"DOJ’s staggering proposal would hurt consumers and America’s global technological leadership" https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/doj-s...
> Dunno where you got this "ideal".

I wonder if people like you just lack the imagination or system thinking or equate poor with useless or are just afraid of thinking people? From the perspective of the state and the society it’s beneficial to have an educated population, unless you think you won’t have enough stupid people to man the factories?
what do you mean? Which allies and who is the West ?
DOJ's staggering proposal would hurt consumers and US global tech leadership
Updates in the background? It's not 2005 anymore... All phones do that. Androids have done that since version 1.0. Just works? Ditto. So the answer is just... vibes?
Also in a military context it's probably worthwhile to heavily scrutinize your supply chains and nog just install soap dispensers from Amazon.

Only a few months ago we saw an example of a intelligence agency implanting and blowing up bombs in equipment
Yeah, no.

It's posted at midnight on Thursday (eastern time).

It's mobile unfriendly, hard to read, and has no videos. The other models had playable demos and videos, and they were posted in the middle of the day so we could think about it during work.

The hype wave for this stuff is going to require bigger splashes for each new model. New image-to-3D models garner a yawn, and it's going to be the same here soon.

These folks put a lot of thought into their branding (and CSS), but they kind of let the excitement fizzle as there's nothing to look at and evaluate. We just have to trust that they did things? It's a bunch of pictures of a car and green text.

It's far too late to open the paper.

Basically they just don't excel at marketing. 3/10.

Edit: I had no idea this was Chinese until you said it. The page doesn't mention names at top, and it didn't suck me into the paper.
What happens if family earns $200,001 ?

Follow up question - what is a “family” here? A single parent with 3 kids? A married couple with one child?
easy_things -> comfort_zone
This is what I see everywhere. Something is a success and then everybody starts using it wrong. Like Elastic search as database, people use it for searching and then start using it as primary database. Mostly pushed by management BTW not always the software engineer.
Justice Department: Google must sell Chrome
> What's interesting about the Trump election is that it in effect gives Biden a license to give Ukraine one last, (modest) push like this.

I ask myself if it is a tactical game from democrats to make the life from Trump's administration as harder as possible with the expectation to come back in 2028.. In another hand it would be too evil to put the internal politics game above everything..
>The same way the wealthy will pay themselves a tiny salary and just live off the asset value of their stock.

When you say them living off the asset value of their stock, you mean the dividends from the stock?
They just need to break down the invoice.

$72 soap dispensers
$140000 knowing where to put them

People love those stories.
> I don't know if it's the earliest example of a written legal code but certainly one of the earliest that we have a record of.

It isn't, but it was discovered early and benefited from intense popular interest in the Bible. Popular interest in Mesopotamian history fell off sharply as it turned out that history generally differed from what the Bible said.

It's still very early, roughly the 18th century BC.

>> If a builder constructs a house for a man but does not make it conform to specifications so that a wall then buckles, that builder shall make that wall sound using his own silver.

This is obviously a statement about who bears liability for fixing the wall, but it's funnier if you imagine it as a requirement for the builder to repair the wall with silver bricks, as a penalty for the original shoddy work.
I keep feeling a bit of this is how much less energy modern things need over the past. Obviously, industrial use has gone way up. Basics in a household, though, were trending surprisingly down. Modern lights and general entertainment are thankfully low in energy.
Mike's PBX Cookbook
The next thing is what's happening in batteries. Solar panels are great, but you need storage to go with them. Battery prices dropped about an order of magnitude over 12 years.[1]

Energy density continues to improve. At some point, one of the half-dozen companies trying to get production cost down for solid-state batteries will probably succeed. That gets about 2x the energy density per unit weight over lithium-ion, plus charging times under 10 minutes. Then fast chargers can replace gas pumps on a one for one basis.

Fixed energy storage doesn't need more density, just lower prices. Lithium iron phosphate batteries are just fine for that. Retail chains with huge flat roofs (Walmart, Target, etc.) are going in heavily for solar and batteries.[2] The power bill for air-conditioning those huge spaces quickly justifies it.

This is now entirely driven by the economics. No more need for subsidies.

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/23807/lithium-ion-battery-pri...

[2] https://electrek.co/2024/11/19/corporate-america-is-investin...
Networking is a way to maximize your optionality. If you limit your network you limit your potential options. Rich kids have more options and there’s absolutely zero downside to being exposed to some of them. (Don’t confuse with actually exercising them when they appear, I’m just talking about having them.)
We're not talking about what manufacturers can do, but about what users can do, they're not the same
You'd be surprised how many engineers make these kinda decisions.
I bet this describes Whitfield Diffie, who started at MIT in 1961. A riot happened that year over tuition rising from $1200 to $1400 [0]. He’d intended to transfer to Berkeley where tuition for residents was something like $120.

[0] https://alum.mit.edu/slice/what-50000-i-better-practice-more
A quaternion formulation of the Dirac equation [pdf]
Effort, combined with the right motivation, can overcome most perceived barriers
That world we life in sure feels innovative ..not. 1 new thing per day,with 8 billion humans alive and connected. The web promising the new edison or tesla, meanwhile those two lifed in a time of mass book copying without repercussions. Copyright is toxic, extractive landlording , mining innovationspaces with penalties and bureaucracies. Its deeply anti-libertarian on an individual level.

People should be allowed to violate copyright all they want, but if they create something comercial the "inspiring work" as derived from the consumption history should get a kickback.
I think Swift already does this but I appreciate good type inference. Writing functions in a Pythonic/dynamic looking way (i.e. without a bunch of type declarations unless you want them) but still actually statically typed and enforced at compilation/runtime.
Please don't commit acts of war. War is bad.
Unfortunately the real answer is:

* Only operating system vendors can ship web browsers. (But not Google.)

The USG in general seems to love giving Apple more monopoly power. This will effectively constrain browser development to just Apple and Microsoft, since as you note, the DOJ is also trying to regulate Firefox out of existence; and Apple has huge incentives to simply pause browser feature development (and has been dragging its feet on Safari for years).

Incredibly, this will also hamstring Android even further, since its parent company can't even make a web browser for it anymore! Only Apple, the Biden administration's favorite company, can do that kind of thing.
Hi Adrian! You’re doing great work Scryer Prolog, keep up the good work! :)
Social media ban for children under 16 is introduced in Australia's Parliament
I have started quoting the robustness principle when people ask me what my politics are.
Obviously no two people are the same. But there isn't some magical gap between cis and trans women that's categorically bigger than the gap between, say, white and Indian cis women. Women raised in different cultures are different -- women that are a different sex at birth are different.

You don't have to say that apples and oranges are the same. What's based more in religious/patriarchal ideas than in rational evidence is the belief that men are like apples and women are like oranges (or that men are from Mars and women are from Venus). There are some differences that the patriarchy magnified into a monstrous set of institutions (coverture! implied consent! vomit). We're on the path to slowly undoing it, but progress isn't monotonic that's for sure.

(By the way, calling a trans woman, especially one who has medically transitioned, a "biological male" is both an HR violation and not rooted in evidence. It is really frustrating to hear your basic dignity being talked about by people who are as confident as they are ignorant. When I was still cis-presenting and didn't fully understand what my trans friends were going through, I didn't spout off my thoughts like a fool. I took the time to learn.)
"an inapt comparison of the prices paid for parts that meet military specifications and designs versus basic commercial items that would not be qualified or approved for use on the C-17"

This is the problem--the government heavily regulates (which the big contractors encourage) all the parts and suppliers until Boeing becomes the sole-source supplier and can charge arbitrary prices. There is a reason for it at times, i.e. to answer does someone die if this part fails or can we just stock a few spares? But obviously many many things being vastly over-specced most of the time.
Just a subtle way to say you're using Dvorak! :D
The US has 222 C-17 Aircraft. A single C-17 costs over $300 million.

If you ask Boeing for soap dispenser parts for these, what should they cost? Boeing charged $149,072 for the dispensers. That's $671 per plane. Is that too much?

If you had to make these dispensers, make sure they conform to rules for aircraft parts and Air Force parts, provide formal responses to bids, etc., how much could you make them for?

It seems high to me. The article says 8000%, which is less than $10 per plane. So while it seems high, it's definitely not 8000% high.
There’s no market for limited partnerships in mom and pop shops. The whole thing may go for a low multiple of yearly revenue, like 2 or 3x.
The article says Google took "manual action", which implies thats exaxtly what they did.
Keyword: "in mice"

Second gotcha: how much of the decrease is just attributed to the lower mass of the subject after the weigh-loss treatment

Though it's one good reminder that "catabolism" and "anabolism" are less selective than we wished to
> I merely mentioned that your and other claims that "anyone with a high school education has to have heard of him" is bollocks.

> I have both a high school and university degree and have never heard of him

With all due respect, it's far more likely that you have heard of him, but you didn't retain the information.
> because it is still working

That's a big "still" and you don't loose anything in case the real owner of the "fronted" domain suffers loss.
That looks like it might be a hand sanitizer that was added due to covid? My work has those command strip stuck all over the building.

It's possible the soap dispenser is to the left of the sink and just hidden by the angle.
Scale to what? You could manually look at the top million searches each year with four average college graduates.
My work/productivity stack as a business founder
Yeah, if you know what service is down, it's also trivial at Facebook to track down the oncall for that service. What isn't trivial is when you get a blank page where there might be dozens or hundreds of teams that might be responsible.
I might be biased in my perspective because I tend to focus on links that make it to the front page. It's true that many links end up languishing in obscurity.

I just think the level of effort involved is different. For instance, the person who posted the link to the study we're now discussing earned 199 points with far less effort than you put into replying to my comment. Many of the links posted are copied from Reddit, Twitter, Slashdot, etc.
It's been a common problem with HN. I remember when NodeJS came out, it was exactly the same, and then with all the crypto-craze.
How much of math aversion stems from a chain reaction of ineffective instruction
Lunduke is happy: “I told you so!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVmZy95vMUc
One of the killer features of Qubes when I used it was the ability to "pause" a VM and all of the apps running in it. That's something I've tried to replicate with tools like tmuxp but I've never found an abstraction as clean as "serialize the whole process tree to disk" like Qubes has.

I gave up on it for usability reasons, but that feature is killer. Anybody else aware of anything similar?
> That billionaire can probably just buy up some land and put their house there, though, since "affordability" is not part of the equation.

Not in California; we have an entire bureau, the Coastal Commission, that exists to prevent that very thing.
Its like it never ends !
Would like to know the numbers built and how different from a regular airline soap dispenser. If you ask any manufacturer to build something custom made with unusual specs and you buy only 5 pieces, you will get pretty steep quotes vs the nearest approximation on amazon.
I've had some success converting people by telling them others had convinced them they were stupid. They usually have one or two things they are actually good at, like a domain they flee to. I simply point out how everything else is exactly like [say] playing the guitar. Eventually you will be good enough to sing at the same time. Clearly you already are a genius. I cant even remember the most basic cords or lyrics because I've never bothered with it.

I met the guitar guy a few years later outside his house. He always had just one guitar but now owned something like 20, something like a hundred books about music. Quite the composer. It looked and sounded highly sophisticated. The dumb guy didn't exist anymore.
Well only 1 platform lets users do pretty much whatever they want... That's not even up for debate.
There is also an enormous amount of money tied up in old power, guaranteed profits for companies that run old plants and political games denying climate change and turning the population against renewables.

Nobody wants to predict a future they know will be unpopular and make a lot of people angry.

I.e. when I say you won’t even be able to buy a new ICE vehicle on roughly 10 years people get very confrontational and angry
Some of the most brilliant computer scientists got password policies so wrong
"armored"

I don't get the impression that you've looked at the physics of orbits.

Everything up there carries tremendous kinetic energy.

It would be pretty hard to build something strong enough to take on intentional collisions, let alone large debris.

Fun reading: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/Hypervelocity_...

Here's a picture to illustrate: https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/im...