skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DC Comics has done a good job of keeping Superman relevant through time as well. 40s, 50s, 80s, etc. The whole Death of Superman was a big deal back in the early 90s also even though the cartoons I don't think were as popular. You are spot on in that Betty Boop and Popeye like you said are relics from their time and absolutely don't translate - although anyone around in the early 1990s will remember a brief Betty Boop merch resurgance.
Not just in hindsight -- but by 2011 it was clear to anyone paying attention where Russia was heading (if not to war, then certainly to a long-term dictatorship). Anyone who failed to see the signs, or chose to intellectualize past them - did so willingly.
Agreed. The original iPhone SE was peak form factor and ergonomics. Everything after has been a regression.
Running a one man startup without the experience, network or compensation is a gift..?

This is a bit of a curse, not the worst role to land on but I would not get too comfy and try get into a tech company in a year or two.
I'm not sure I've ever laughed this much at a HN comment chain
Presumably the workstation changes over time :)

I like benchmarks that properly describe their environment for posterity.
This is classic zero sum thinking. A dollar more for space is not a dollar less for the environment, and one more aerospace engineer is not one less environmentalist.

You might as well argue for a global ban on dancing or fun because it is a distraction from improving the earth.
Good point, that's fair there are more use cases. IDK about architecture, typically you want more structure/determinism instead of probabilistic generation. Overall this is very cool. I like the consistency it has and it does generally amaze me nonetheless. But you gotta admit selling a billion dollars of anything is really hard. That is three times the budget of the highest budget movie ever created! (avengers endgame at 356 million). It is almost the ENTIRE budget of the biggest game ever, grand theft auto six.
we have tried communicating with dolphins. maybe the issue was that we didn't give them enough LSD

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt
It's entirely possible that there's never any point where "observed gender" is even implied and my mind just filled in some blanks when it talks about passing for human. To be honest I never gave it an ounce of thought before this whole conversation.
To build an LLM that can reason about the 3d world. I suspect they will add the ability to reason about the physics of the world next. It's just another attempt to get closer to AGI.

They most likely will have to pivot a few times but once they show their LLM solving problems that others can't, the others will quickly add these features too. Right now, it is cheaper to wait for World Labs to go first. The others are not that far behind: https://cat-4d.github.io/
Escaping pollution is not a reason for going. Creating habitable areas on/under Mars is clearly harder than maintaining habitable areas on/under Earth. We have people who are much more motivated to do it and we might learn more from it, though.
i would think Albert Londres invented guerrilla journalism?
I can find some recent internet posts noting that FlightAware dropped iOS 15 support, but at present it claims to support iOS 16.4 or later devices, which would include the 7 and 8 if updated. I don't use iOS 16 or FlightAware, so it's possible that they allow you to install it from the store and then do some runtime check and refuse to actually run, but that would be super weird behaviour.

I get why devs do this sometimes. iOS bakes a lot of support into the OS (so does Android, though increasingly because of slow uptake of new versions Google baking everything into the Play API), and iOS 16 is necessary for a variety of APIs, and even a lot of SwiftUI functionality if they went down that route. And then your APIs start changing so you end up invariably doing breaking changes so you can't just ignore the old versioned apps in the wild.
The problem is you need to be able to convince the auditor that your controls meet the requirement. That's a much easier discussion to have with robust logical or physical separation.
Only 1 or 2 Tesla field from a station at an L1 stationary orbit point, according to https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo...

Of course, actually getting that much material there, powering it, maintaining it, keeping it at the L1 point, whether it ends up being effective are all open questions.
That's irrelevant. My whole point is that such restrictions go against the whole design of the PKI, at a systemic level. It's actively harmful to try to restrict trust in a CA to certificates for a certain TLD, because the two don't have any relationship whatsoever, by design.

It would be like restricting trust in a CA to certificates for sites whose name starts with a certain letter. It's exactly as meaningful from a Web PKI perspective.

Could Microsoft make it so that Windows only trusts this CA for certificates on domains whose name starts with a "b"? Sure. Would it help with anything? No. Would it be actively harmful to companies whose name starts with A that are using this CA? Yes. The same thing is true for domains whose name ends in .br.
I am primarily interested in applied projects that make a difference and aim to tangibly reduce human and animal suffering: med R&D, eco, civil infra, pharma or space, but may consider other projects as well.

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This series reminded me about my favorite HFY short story of all time: ABBY514

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/c0ojkr/oc_abby514/
You can’t ask the user of a website to fix overfull hboxes for you after they resize their browser window.
Surely it's obvious even before finishing high school that everything you are taught in science is at best a partial truth and that this is especially true when you are young and inexperienced. Newton's laws are an approximation to reality at low velocities so we learnt them knowing that it was not the whole story but was good enough for a huge amount of work. In my Applied Physics degree (50 years ago) we didn't do General Relativity, there simply wasn't time to learn the relevant mathematics as well as everything else so we made do with Special Relativity. And so on.

I do agree though that some teachers do give the impression that what they tell you is the whole truth, perhaps I was lucky in mine being mostly more enlightened.
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I'm an experimental physics PhD and data scientist with three years of industry machine learning and backend experience. I'm currently teaching myself frontend / react. Core soft skills: writing excellent documentation, presentations, listening, and learning quickly.
Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope (1990)
Ask HN: Books you read in 2024 and recommend for 2025?
I worked for 3 months for Intel. I can genuinely say that there is no saving that company. Recently, they are hiring many PhDs from various US universities (particularly Indians) to try to compensate (they offer generous stocks and are hiring like crazy right now). There are two major problems I saw: lack of genuine interest in fabs (most people are there for the Intel name and then leave or in the case of Indians, they are there for Visa purposes. Mind you, we were not allowed to hire people from China since Intel is subject to Export laws). The biggest problem by far is lack of talent. Most of the talent I know is either at Apple or Facebook/Google, including those trained in hardware. Intel is bound to crumble, so I hope we as taxpayers don't foot the bill. There was unwillingness to innovate and almost everyone wanted to maintain the status quo. This might work in traditional manufacturing (think tennis rackets, furniture...), but fabs must improve their lithography manufacturing nodes or they get eaten by the competition
To 3, I'll vaguely say "like how we are wrecking the Earth". To 1 and 2, I think you have a far more optimistic view of the technical and social aspects of this issue than I do. Dangerously so. Enough people look at Musk and others talking about Mars, or "believe in the technological revolution", or don't care about the Earth, that fixing the issues on Earth is a very urgent matter with not enough mindshare.
No, I have never bothered with this. I am a "satisficer" rather than a "maximizer" when it comes to compensation, so I count myself content once I have received a good offer. If it so happens that I end up getting more than one good offer to evaluate at once, that's fine, but it's not something I put effort into.
Nothing beats only listing things the restaurant is great at making and always have fresh ingredients for. All else is subjective.
I'm struggling to understand the leap from ephaptic neurons to the explanation or location of consciousness. This assumes that consciousness can be located in the brain.
It's not voluntary if your customers have signed contracts with you on the basis that you gain and maintain that certification. And if they haven't, you shouldn't have wasted your money.
It’s still just a few different sizes. A HTML website has to support every possible width.
I like Phil Eklund’s approach for High Frontier. The manual includes example games with every event and move explained, and the game has a solitaire mode that lets you play by yourself. There are small differences in some of the rules, and scoring is different, but the core gameplay is the same. Once you've beaten the solitaire mode you will certainly understand the rules quite well.
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Email: alexfdrover@gmail.com

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Software Engineer (Backend, but can Fullstack in a pinch) with 4 years of experience in a lean startup environment.

Able to carry projects from cradle to grave - from sales, to system design, to engineering, to devops, to support.

Applied Science / Engineering degree.
Hypothetically, if Qualcomm have broken their Arm licenses in a way that damages Arm’s business do you think Arm are supposed to just let them carry on? Should Arm say ‘legal action won’t look good so we’ll just let it pass’?

And the fact that Qualcomm got just about everyone to endorse the acquisition ahead of announcing it but didn’t even tell Arm is a bit of a tell.
Is it just me or is listening to most bird song recordings really irritating?

Listening to real birds in nature is wonderful, but trying to boil that into a recording never seems to work. Any recommendations?
Please stick to email rather than posting replies like this. (If everyone did it, the threads would become unreadable, and if only a few are doing it, that's not really fair.)

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42298342.
My point was that great powers are always in some kind of military conflict, so it's not really a deciding factor when choosing where to build an R&D.

Putin's concentration of power has been alarming, but only since around 2012, to be honest. It was relatively stable between 2000 and 2012 in general (minus isolated cases of mysterious deaths and imprisonments). Russia was business-friendly back then, open to foreign investors, and most of Putin's authoritarian laws were yet to be issued. Most of the conflicts Russia was involved in were viewed as local conflicts in border areas (Chechen separatism, disputed Georgian territories, frozen East Ukrainian conflict, etc.). Only in 2022 did the Ukraine war escalate to its current scale, and few people really saw it coming (see: thousands of European/American businesses operating in Russia by 2022 without any issue)

So I kind of see why Intel didn't do much about it until 2022. In fact, they even built a second R&D center in 2020... (20 years after the first one).
If you don't verify emails (or SMS, or use something like Facebook Connect, or make people prove they have a credit card, or...) you will get totally screwed with bot accounts. That was true in '99 and it is still true.

To take an example of why CAPTCHAs don't really work, circa 2009 there was a site a lot like HN that didn't have email checks and I made about 1000 fake users for it that had halfway decent profiles generated for them (got pictures out of a big pile of cartoon characters, real people, abstract things, etc. -- nobody seemed to care that I made no effort to make the gender of the profile pic match the name)

With those accounts I had as much control over that site as I wanted. Certainly I could write a mediocre blog post and people would wonder why it got so many upvotes but they never got past leaving comments wondering about this. I did it all with Tor so I never ran out of IP addresses (pro tip: look at Tor exit nodes as nests of problem users) I don't think the operators of the site cared, my bots voted for random articles so they weren't obviously part of a voting ring, my bots were polite and never made trouble.

Note I could have solved 1000 CAPTCHAs myself in 10 hours or paid somebody else to do it; it just wouldn't have stopped me from making enough fake accounts to make a voting ring that would take heavy use of statistics to catch. I could have easily added something to my mail server so I could make multiple users on the same email domain, but if my whole voting ring came from the same or a small set of domains it would have been easy to catch.

(Granted hackers and spammers really do create gmail accounts by the 1000 but they are dealing with Google's black ice)
A typical server is serving more than one request at a time, hopefully.
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Send me an email if you’re interested.
For banking specifically, I use the bank's website. I always prefer websites to apps, because they aren't tied to a particular platform or device. Mobile deposit isn't something I really need, though if I had to deal with a lot of paper checks I could see that being convenient.

I could lose my phone tomorrow and it would be a bit of an inconvenience but (by intention) nothing approaching "half my life" is tied to my phone.
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I'm a polyglot software engineer looking to get back into day-to-day programming after being in management for the last few years. I've worked in software since ~2011 and have worked with many tech stacks during that time- from PHP to Scala and Next.js to Rails. I've been fully remote since 2016 and have hired and managed and worked alongside globally remote team members at multiple companies. I've spent the majority of my career in venture-funded b2b SaaS and I'm familiar and comfortable working in a high-velocity company.

My approach (both as a manager as a team member) centers on 1:1s, transparent retros, and fostering a deep understanding of the business purpose behind the work we do. If this sounds like the type of culture that you have or wish to build, I'd love to hear from you and learn how I can support your mission and the team helping you accomplish it.

My family and I are currently located in the Orlando, FL area, but are actively looking to relocate to somewhere in Texas, elsewhere in Florida, or Tennessee, or we’re open to international locations as well.
Parq | https://parqhq.com | Austin, TX | Full Time | Onsite (Remote Possible)

Hi! I'm Alex, Head of Engineering at Parq. We're looking for folks to help us solve hard data problems in the world of manufacturing sustainability. We're generalists who do a bit of everything - from engineering & data analyses to software development and even sustainability education!

About Us: At Parq, we’re on a mission to revolutionize sustainability in the industrial sector. We combine cutting-edge technology, expert consulting, and innovative partnerships to deliver top-tier Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs), and sustainability solutions.

We're currently hiring a Senior Software Engineer and a Product Manager.

To apply, see https://parqhq.notion.site/146b2189b7e980458d47e77eff5cf5d0
> Additionally, PostgreSQL requires N^2 of memory depending on the number of connections,

For sure, not all the PostgreSQL memory is N^2. AFAIR, just a couple of components, including deadlock decoding, require a quadratic amount of memory. Normally, they are insignificant but growing fast if you are rising max_connections.
Scientists baffled as orcas seem to revive an 80s trend: dead salmon hats
From Vector Search to Entities: Evolving Zettelgardens Connection Engine
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"homebrew" just means you made it yourself. nothing to do with snobbery.
The 2-4 speed ratio was not meant to denounce C#, which is a great language I loved to program in for over two decades, coming from Delphi.
Unfortunately, C# has not a complete SIMD support.
See our request to support the SSE4.2 _mm_cmpistrm instruction https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/discussions/63332, which we required for a vectorized intersection between two sorted 16-bit arrays.
We did the switch from C# to Rust not light-minded, as the cost of porting a fairly large codebase is time-consuming.
We just wanted to share our experience for our specific task, not as a general statement.
How often are you giving your friends thousands of dollars? It's not something I'd advocate for.

I'm not the one posting on HN about the burdens of having boring friends so a broader view could be a starting point.
New cars really are feeling like a fresh install of an OS - the first thing you have to do when you get one is install the updates, uninstall the bloatware, and disable the undesirable ‘features,’ by force if necessary.
I'm not looking but I am curious and maybe someone here can tell me the conversion rate of topics like this ?

Some of the job postings here are amazing on paper, but they never actually seem to materialize into a response. Not to brag, but I'm usually very over qualified and apply because I like the idea of a startup environment and I'm financially secure. Wondering how the other side feels.
The idea that an iPhone (any computer, really) is a high end item is pretty ridiculous.

I would like a good phone that was not made out of glass to require future replacement purchases, and I’d be thrilled to pay for it. Up front, in cash.

This rental economy’s final destination is the same in all categories: cheap junk.
Here you go, 9360 new stories about Han, Luke, and Leia: https://archiveofourown.org/works?commit=Sort+and+Filter&wor...
It’s internet youth culture bleeding into highbrow discourse.

An suitably brain rotted riposte to your complaints would be something like

‘Wordcels be sneething at rotationmaxxing shapechads’

and an image of a badly drawn wojak figure.
A Quieter Place
The "morph" in "xenomorph" as a purely Greek scientific jargon construction mostly just means "shape". It is interesting in English "morph" as a verb has come to mean "change shape", and it is possible the users of the term in the franchise do intend that. But technically if that were the intended meaning it would be something closer to "xenotransmorph".
iPhone 7 is stuck on iOS 15.8.3[1].

> I don't use iOS 16 or FlightAware, so it's possible that they allow you to install it from the store and then do some runtime check and refuse to actually run, but that would be super weird behaviour.

This is exactly what they appear to be doing. It should be against Apple’s guidelines to release an app that simply says “go away until you buy a new phone.”

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_7
In the US, a random/personal selection of major works that will be public domain are:

* Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms"

* Ludwig Wittgenstein's essay "Some Remarks on Logical Form"

* The first part of the 14th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica

* William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury"

* René Magritte's painting "The Treachery of Images"

* Wassily Kandinsky's painting "Upward"

* "Un chien Andalou", directed by Luis Bunuel and cowritten by Salvador Dali

* "The Cocoanuts", the first film of the Marx Brothers

* the first "Silly Symphony" cartoons, including "The Skeleton Dance".

Not a bad year at all!
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- Tech Lead Manager - Frontend / Visualization (U.S. time zones; TypeScript, WebGL, Wasm)

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https://foxglove.dev/careers
HX-2 – AI Strike Drone
Reuters has some inside information: https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-ret...

>Gelsinger, who resigned on Dec. 1, left after a board meeting last week during which directors felt Gelsinger's costly and ambitious plan to turn Intel around was not working and the progress of change was not fast enough, according to a person familiar with the matter. The board told Gelsinger he could retire or be removed, and he chose to step down, according to the source.
proper cooking is not really objective though, and the moment you have anything involving brining, marinading etc. the salt level is kind of out of your hands.

the two strategies to adjust this i've seen, are either

* a sauce boat for sauced dishes, since the sauce is the thing that contains more or less sodium and is controllable

* more so in Asian restaurants, but you can order sides of unseasoned carbs (e.g. rice) to balance it out