skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There might be a dietary difference, even though it seems superficially like there shouldn't be. This is my summary of the reaction from a chemist who did her master's degree in sugar chemistry: "Complex sugars (sucrose) and starches are broken up into glucose and fructose quite efficiently by enzymes in your digestive tract. Only glucose and fructose are absorbed into the bloodstream."

That chemist is my mom. So I'm biased. ;-)

The puzzle is whether table sugar and high fructose corn syrup have different dietary effects, and if they do, why. I don't think it's a settled matter.
I agree this is a bad incentive, but a conflict of interest alone does automatically mean an ability to act on it.

In the case of health insurance, driving up the costs requires a monopoly or collaboration of firms without defection. As a result, this means one firm cant act in isolation, and cost increases usually come from the industry not pushing back on outside changes that impact all the firms equally.
Examples could be more training for healthcare workers, more expensive standards of care, more regulation and paperwork, ect.

It is pretty telling that UHC prices are not that different than similar plans at Kaiser (which is a vertically integrated non-profit insurance, hospital, pharmacy, and PBM provider). About 15% different when I was picking between them during open enrollment this year.
i think to prove it, you'd need to define what you mean by AGI.

There's something like the universal approximation theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...) for neural nets, if that's what you're looking for!
If that were true, they wouldn't make such a partnership. Such companies exist merely to launder the bad reputation that accumulates from this kind of behaviour. It is right and proper that any company that engages firms like that should face reputational damage, if not for moral reasons, then to correct the incentive structures.
What can I run with the 128 GB Mac laptop?
> They don’t cost that much to install.

DC fast chargers are >$100k to install in the US.
My point is this isn't the start of a class war.
Something tells me that by the end of the century only the one-time pads will still be holding their secrets.
Amazing tech != socially good

Of course, as knowledgeable people in tech we can look at the last few years of AI improvements as technically remarkable. pen2l is talking about social impact.

I hope our trade can collectively become adults at the big table of Real Engineers. Consider the impact on humanity of your work. If you don’t care, then you are either recklessly irresponsible, don’t know any better, or are intentionally causing harm at scale.
I want a tool with the best parts of both git and a crdt:

- From CRDTs I want support for realtime collaborative editing. This could even include non-code content (like databases). And some developer tools could use the stream of code changes to implement hot-module reloading and live typechecking.

- From git I want .. well, everything git does. Branches. Pull requests. Conflict detection when branches merge. Issue tracking. (This isn't part of git, but it would be easy to add using json-like CRDTs!)

We can do almost all of that today. The one part that's seriously missing is merge conflicts.
Am I arguing? I didn't notice. I like Napoleon too and I'm intrigued that someone blames the casualties of the Napoleonic wars on the Revolution rather than, you know, Napoleon.
What happened afterwards? Was that manager still at the company, at that time?
How conceptions of the future self transform intertemporal choice (2013)
Or the most obvious case of setup ever.
Star Wars? Not worth anything, huge reliance on "machine-generated" imagery. Lord of the Rings? Useless film, uses "machine-generated" imagery. Don't even get me started on anything by Pixar.

/s
I'm imagining that the cop was his dad
> come out of academia

isn't the same as in academia.
This is almost true.

The real story is that he's anti-anti-competition. His competitors in particular already have deep ties with the government and its various departments. Companies like Boeing, Lockheed, etc. have engaged in deep regulatory capture to prevent competition from emerging.

These already established corporations have a revolving door with the government and that's the real impediment. That's what he's against.

So while you're right about his self interests, I think it's important to clarify that the decades long entrenchment of these various incumbent corporations is why this is all happening in the first place.

That's the real reason.
I mean, no? None of the AI-generated images managed to be indistinguishable. Some people were much better than others at spotting the differences. He even quotes, at length, an artist giving a detailed breakdown of what's wrong with one of the images he thought was good.
You've submitted this twice in the last 4 days, with comments on both.

(21 hours ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42363295

(4 days ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42335051

Perhaps you could check the guidelines, particularly: Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Quantum computer becoming available / powerful does not mean all cryptography will get broken. People who have actual knowledge and expertise are already busy working on various aspects of PQC.
> Zwave is a proprietary protocol. Its old and unnecessary complex. Zigbee devices are a lot cheaper. And in many cases better performing than zwave mesh networks.

That’s not entirely correct. Zwave is more expensive because if you want to sell your zwave solution there’s a monopoly on zwave.
Nothing to do with complexity or age.

As for “better performing”, I don’t even know how to respond. Latency? Reliability? Power? Bandwidth?

Zwave in general is better then zigbee due to lower frequencies and staying out of WiFi/bt. However it is more expensive and less options.
There is a front page reddit post showing bushy eyebrows vs none. So more likely not the guy
That's most of it, but there's also MAP. A lot of products Microcenter cells have minimum advertised pricing. That means brick-and-mortar can compete with online and make decent margins.

If Amazon / Walmart sells something for $149, and Microcenter does as well, I might go with Amazon / Walmart for convenience of having it shipped, or Microcenter for speed of having it now.

MAP can give pretty high margins too, in some industries.
There's little reason to give BrandShield the benefit of the doubt, but there's plenty of reason for Funko to pause and collect all the right information before making specific statements about what happened.

Remember that there's some specific set of nontechnical people running comms at Funko, and they've probably never heard of a domain registrar before today. At a minimum they have to gather the stories they're hearing from both BrandShield and itch.io, identify who at Funko has the technical background to judge between the two, and convince that person to take time away from her normal responsibilities to evaluate some weird drama she doesn't care about.
can't wait to see what Dura Ace has to offer
Day four of the two year bet:

https://x.com/MKBHD/status/1866152437838393797

Please, please, please take that bet my "South Asian" friend.
It think you are supposed to use a "past" object to get your results before calling the API.
I think it'd be worth looking at what's already out there before you put a lot of effort into this, unless of course this is merely for fun/learning.
Santa deniers be like "that was your parents who slapped Arius at the council of Nicea!" Do not believe their lies.
Is that how kids use quotation marks these days?

"...embraced an emperor, and raped and looted the rest of Europe."
It's not that simple because the user's devicePixelRatio might be fractional. Say it's 1.5, then scaling up, some low-res pixels get scaled up to N pixels and other to N+1 and you can get something really ugly, especially if the thing you're scaling is a stippled pattern.
> they don't give the suspect the option of turning themselves in

That seems a lot like the responsibility of the suspect? Like, if you're planning on shooting a high profile target in midtown Manhattan isn't the exit something to think about? Based on what information we might actually have, the shooter had plenty of carelessly missed opportunities to not be caught. Poor planning, in retrospect, is a choice.
Didn't the Russians develop a ternary computer system during the cold war?
>highest risks of most outcomes were found in the lowest intake category

If I am reading this right, it means small amount is even worse than a lot of it.
Starlink satellites are designed to de-orbit safely at the end of their operational life.

Ref:

The Kessler Effect: A self-perpetuating cascade of collisions between satellites and debris.
This is exactly what happened with the “red wine is good for you” claim
Thanks, I did not know that you could use Canva for presentations. However, it is still proprietary software. (Worse, it lives on the web)
Ha, thanks! Ok, 1-2 days more. Fortunately, important though these discussions may be, at least they are not urgent.
Co.dev – Turn your ideas into full-stack apps (YC W23)
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That’s a great article. Thanks for sharing it.
Some of the comments were like, "come on guys, if this was real it would be way dirtier"
Show HN: JSON querystring, but compact and human-readable
in the US the marketing of pharma isn't targeting the average consumer, it's targeting doctors. or so i've heard. It does boggle, though, because that's a lot (a lot) of money in any given market to reach less than 0.1% of the market, assuming they're even watching the channel at that time.

In the same vein, and as further evidence, whenever i'm in a car that isn't mine and an ad plays, especially on siriusXM, there's a good chance it's for ziprecruiter or linkedin job listings or something. How many hiring managers (or small business owners?) are listening to that ad? 25? 100? 1?

Most of my online ads are for $100,000+ network gear and the like because i'm adjacent to that industry. I just loaded edge and went to youtube to see what's up and i got an ad for an electric car (i won't own one manufactured in this century), an ad for an adblocker (pie), and i guess google caught on because i can't get any other ads to show up (i clicked a couple dozen other videos and couldn't get another pre-roll to show up).

advertising has never been relevant to me, i've only ever gotten out a credit card because of one online ad, ever, and i ended up never receiving what i paid for, so there you go, lesson learned. I haven't owned a TV since 2003, no subscription services (including CATV or Sat, netflix, etc). So when i see ads or hear them, they stand out, pretty strong.
Then I'm genuinely confused. The meaning of that sentence, to me, was that pillaging has helped with the famine. It would have been a sentence that was consistent with your previous one, except for the "decades" rounding error. Isn't it not what you meant?
> Because of this, just like the first Trump shooter, the media will quickly completely forget about the suspect's politics.

I don't really see this bias existing to the extent you seem to be implying. The first Trump shooter didn't have many apparent political motives, and the second was completely crazy. The media definitely stops talking about things soon after they happen, but I don't have the impression that they're turning the a blind eye to right wing extremism. I mean, just look up "right wing extremism US" on Google news.

I expect that in this case, the shooter's motivations will defy the standard left/right split as more information is released, much like his apparent influence Ted Kaczynski. You mention Rogan, but Rogan supported Bernie Sanders in 2016. I would say liking Rogan shows an anti-authority streak more than anything.

As for why right wing politically motivated attacks seem to be more common than left wing ones, I'd suggest a few causes.

- People who have access to guns, grew up around guns, are willing to buy guns are more likely to be right wing, and are more likely to be identified as right wing for obvious reasons.

- People with low agreeableness and high neuroticism are more likely to be right wing, and those traits perhaps make politically motivated attacks more likely.

- Extremist right wing thought has perhaps been more effective in recruiting followers than extremist left wing thought since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Or maybe he’s just not that smart… it’s pretty much expected some number will lose their marbles and become semi-deranged or fully deranged every year.

I’d guess at least 1 in ten thousand per annum. Which would equate to hundreds of newly deranged developers per year in the US.
Never heard of him. Wikipedia lists him as an alt-right blogger.

I assure you, criticism of the French revolution is not a hot new take.
I don't understand people who do the "well we'll survive as a species!" argument.

Like, sure, okay. But if I told you to do something which killed 1 out of every 30 people who attempted it, you wouldn't do it.
AI too.

I've followed Many worlds & Simulation theory a bit too far and I ended up back where I started.

I feel like the most likely scenario is we are in a AI (kinder)garden being grown for future purposes.

So God is real, heaven is real, and your intentions matter.

Obviously I have no proof...
"it" in that sentence refers to battery banks and not generators.
I've similar anecdotal experience. Generalizing however can be very dangerous so I offer these words with caution.

The most difficult people I've had to deal with throughout my life are those who've had a sense of entitlement. They are greedy and have no shame at exploiting people and they do whatever it takes to achieve their own ends, if that means lying or doing crooked deals then so be it.

Some, I figure, are psychopathic and or have extreme sociopathic tendencies, they have no sense of guilt, and the word 'empathy' is lost on them altogether.

I have difficulty in dealing with such people and I feel ill at ease being around them. What I'm reasonablely good at however is recognizing them early on and that helps when I have to work or communicate with them.

Unfortunately, one of the major problems in the word today is that the drive, ambition and ruthlessness of these people find them in disproportionately high numbers in government, industry and other positions of power, and that has contributed to the growing inequality in the world. As we're now witnessing the smooth functioning of society is being disrupted by their decisions.

Throughout history most societies have never found a way to combat these people effectively, for when in power they use that power to further entrench their positions.

You mention socialism. Take a look at Marx and Engels' work and how that was bastardized by nasty ruthless bastards such as Stalin. Today, the authoritarian rule of Stalin and cohorts is held up and used by those about whom we are talking to taint and discredit any form of socialism or distribution of wealth. They deliberately hold up the outrageous excesses of the likes of Stalin for the very purpose of obtaining power, wealth and control of their own.

Now take the neoliberalism of the late 20th Century, once Breton Woods fell in the 1970s many of these self-centered opportunists reordered the world's economics, and now we have the rich becoming richer and the poor becoming poorer to the extent that the social fabric in many countries is starting to break apart. The middle-class is now fast becoming the new poor.

The problem with these people is that their force of personality, pushiness and lack of consideration for others always puts them in the fore. And it's always been so throughout history.

Tragically, I see no reasonable solution for ways of keeping them in check.
YTD S&P 500 has a 26.9% return and GOOG has 25.7%.

Intel has been around since 1968 and Google since 1998. As you say they're also in a different business. But Intel has executed pretty well up to maybe 2007 so over about 50 years. vs. Google's 26 years of existence.

Most of your bullet points aren't anything new, this is Google riding on work that's been done a while back. The question is what will be the new bullet points and whether it will be able to stave competition eating into its existing bullet points. The pressure to get the stock price higher is going to take its toll as the bean counters try to artificially inflate it.
I wouldn't jump to this conclusion too quickly, because there are a lot of possible confounding factors and possible reverse causality at play here.

For example, it's entirely plausible that being at high risk of any of these diseases would cause people to cut back on their sweetener intake into the lowest consumption bracket, leading to unhealthy individuals showing a bimodal distribution (those who cut back dramatically on advice from doctors and those who have very very bad habits) while healthy people have a more typical curve.
If it makes one feel better... these values will vary a bit depending on your country %Debt to GDP ratio, immigration rates, and current population demographics.

Have a wonderful day, =3
Yes to all of this except the term "gas fees" is primarily a Ethereum related term.

To your point, transaction fees, latency, and the lack of ability to trust unconfirmed transactions thanks to feature added to the protocol called "replace by fee" has crippled the usability of Bitcoin.

On the other hand Bitcoin has worked out as a nice investment vehicle over the past 10 years, although you don't actually need to possess or use Bitcoin to take advantage of that.
Hopefully this is the catalyst to major reform. Insurance companies have a deal with us, yet constantly find ways to deny claims. Even pregnancy I had a claim denied, from a procedure the INSURANCE demanded I get.
I don't claim to have any experience with symbolism.

With that particular Pokemon, that is pictured at the end of the text, there are a few battle strategies. One that is very well suited is one in which it uses status effects to paralyze and poison the opponent while healing itself.[0]

[0] https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Breloom_(Pok%C3%A9mo...
Succession ended a couple seasons too early
It is a technical limitation lmao. The internet is still down here. Starlink is a network managed by humans who live on planet earth. And the starlink constellation is constantly replacing satellites lost to attrition.

Lets say he flipped that switch, anywhere else but the US. They would:
Ban Starlink devices for the sake of it.
Block / Filter Starlink IP Addresses.
Shut down Starlink ground stations, and tear up telco licenses of anyone who does business with them.
Reallocate the frequencies Starlink pays to broadcast on, likely heavily deteriorating the service.
Arrest anyone affiliated with Starlink in country.

If they did it in seppoland they could go one better and just prevent new satellite launches.

Heck, he shut down starlink in Ukraine because he is on board with Putin.

You arent magically free of earthbound constraints, you just have a new one, Musk.
Washed brain.

https://yandex.com/search/touch/?text=jack+ma+reeducated+ccp
Isn't this the original design of hypertext as intended by Ted Nelson? Like, instead of clicking links and navigating to somewhere else, the relevant information would actually accompany the text?
Bleah this post was overly wordy by 10X and so meandering it was really hard to read. I gave up after 15 mins and realized I was only 1/3 of the way through. My suggestion to the author is to break this up into smaller essays and be more succinct with less meandering.
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
It's the time of the year again, so I'd be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.

Previously asked on: 2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467691

2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421

2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095

2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167

2019 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899863

2018 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306

2017 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804
Hey HN, I wrote this little library a while back. This may be a bit of a niche thing, since there hasn't been much prior art tackling this problem. Before making json-qs, I was using my fork of juri [1], but it valued compression too much for my taste and, IIRC, I had some issues with it (can't remember the specifics).

If anyone has any feedback on the design, I'd be interested in hearing it. Or if you have questions about design choices, I can answer them. Thanks for reading!

[1]: https://github.com/scrollback/juri
Actually, David Skrbina's "The Metaphysics of Technology" is the most easily readable, comprehensive cover of critical philosophical views towards technology from the ancient greeks until modern time.

Ted K made virtually no reference to Ellul in his manifesto either. In either case, both were quite sane. Ted's manifesto is not a philosophical analysis of technology like Ellul or Skrbina. Ted's manifesto is a practical treatise agains technology and its primary thesis is that technological society must be destroyed.
> all you can get is DMA access into a VM that doesn't actually have much of interest in it, and no access into other VMs...

Of course you have to ensure that you harden the interface between that VM and the host sufficiently.
Do they record names of guests? It would take two seconds to ask the NJ DMV if someone by that name exists. If they don't, then the ID was probably fake. If there is someone by that name, showing the real ID photos to the hostel receptionist would quickly clear up whether the ID is fake or not. The receptionist flirted with him and got him to show his face so there's a good chance she'd be able to look at some photos and say whether any of them look like the guy.
Actually, his bombings got his manifesto published and the manifesto did get some traction in places.
You haven't explained why the effectiveness of violence should differ depending on the change that's desired.
What's the point of this windy article? An allusion to "debanking people is OK actually!"

Allowing the bank remove your financial lifeline via some opaque and kafkaesque process where you have zero recourse is not OK and we should not tolerate it.
Or, y'know, the camera's moving smoothly backwards through the train? Would be bit of an odd choice (and high-effort to make it that smooth versus someone just carrying it) but not impossible by any means.
My parents live 1000 miles away and we haven't been in the same household for 20 years. Either our troubles were independent and uncorrelated events, or banks are crawling through people's family trees like they're 23andMe. Maybe my cousin who I haven't seen since we were kids did something shady and tainted our whole family tree in the eyes of the banks, who knows anymore.
Portable LLM apps in Docker [video]