skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have four children. I have never regretted it or wished for a different path. I know it isn't for everyone, but it absolutely was and is for me.

At the same time I do think articles like this should be countered with the reality that many fathers aren't overwhelmed with waves of love or "surreal magnificence". With each of my children being born the primary emotions I could point to were dread and anxiety.

The sudden overwhelming obligation to provide care, comfort and security for such a vulnerable human for decades encompasses your being.

One of the reasons birthrates have plummeted in the West, and sentiments about having children have dropped, is that we have no "village", so to speak. Having children is not only an astronomical expense -- every single element of life is dramatically more expensive, made much worse with the housing crisis occurring in many Western nations -- a couple is often entirely on their own. There are no respites or breaks.

And as children get viewed as a selfish luxury, the social norms for what a parent needs to do to be proper climb ever higher.
> which I think we all agree is a good thing

Not all of us agree and I say that with 3 covid vaccine shots coursing through my body.

I believe the two FDA scientists were concerned about the Biden admin demanding vaccine mandates around the vaccine booster where the FDA would normally have consultative influence and was intentionally excluded. By the time of the booster, there was active reports of adverse cardiac side effects in younger men. Exactly the demographic (military aged men) most affected by the mandate. Also, the original effectiveness of the vaccines were decreased due to the COVID mutations.

So the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive but certainly politics will spin the language in the report. The vaccines can and did help save lives and were rapidly created by Operation Warp Speed. Mandating the boosters for the military also put some lives at risk as well.
"there's a part of me somewhere else."

This. Although I'm not sure this merits my quote book. I would phrase it as "there's a big part of me that's someone else" maybe.
Ah, the beauty of hormones and how they effect your perception of life and love.

My experience resonates with the authors. But certainly the experience ranges dramatically for different people under different life circumstances.
Systems which handle everything in memory can also be distributed and be required to provide consistency guarantees.

"Once you have fast random access" happens just from moving up a step in the memory hierarchy; that's what I mean.
You need to read the "earlier coverage" link for this to make sense. For starters, "Tom Evans" is the manufacturing company, not necessarily just a random dude. But I guess Mend it Mark embarrassed the hell out of this company, so they're lashing out in the finest corporate-approved tradition for YouTube.
In the current state of policing, this would just be probable cause or fits the description of type of things. Sure, you might not be identifiable by facial rec, but you'd be recognizable by every flatfoot out there, or even the see something say something crowd.

Might as well just wear a face mask and sunglasses. If your FaceID can't recognize you, neither can the other systems.
pfff.

I found this difficult to read.

My father in law has a Nobel (shared with his team). He worked on the
environmental science that went to form Kyoto. He's from a working
class background and has two characteristics that Guardian writers
naturally have a blind-spot for; being smart and working very, very
hard.

Being a climate scientist he also has a sense of humour (as you must).
He hangs the prize in the toilet, because - as he says - for all the
fucking good it does.
does that really matter? its netherlands. most important stuff is tied to digID. more and more is tied into it everyday.
Oh I'm not arguing that the study is flawed, I'm saying it's not applicable to the point of the post
This was the most accurately description of first-time fatherhood I've read. It was a bit light on how debilitating constant lack of sleep can be but everything else: yes.

I would strongly encourage all fathers to become as closely involved with day-to-day care of their babies as possible. Don't wait until they can walk and talk.
Somebody should use the extrnsibility to integrate it with blockchain then, to make even more cool.

(and more hot)
My PhD Pursuit
just asking out of curiosity btw. i kinda find it handy :p aware of some risks but also some practical benefits.
>I really hate cyber security, you would need to pay me a lot of money to work in this field.

that phrasing is odd. "cyber security" is a good thing, no?
There are impartiality rules to stop owners from directly influencing the content in media companies. While they can still exert influence via editorial direction, investments, and personal power, it's unquestionably against the rules and you have an entire structure of editors, writers and reporters who have sworn an oath and have clear incentives to keep their credibility intact.

Another important aspect is that you, the reader, actually have a choice of which vehicles will earn your money and eyeballs.

Even when those interventions happened, they are a lot more subtle than turning an election completely around in a couple months. It's still game-able but a far cry from such billionaires directly controlling algorithms which dictate exactly the kind of content you're seeing, where and when.

> The solution to this issue is rooted in economics.

How so? In what plausible scenario does intellectually-stimulating, rational content would win over engagement-driven content?
Oh, so the image was a tortoise upside down? Now I see it
https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/infosec-researc...

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/28/the-russian-metadata-i...
The deep roots of Americans' hatred of their health care system
> Assad was so bad for using chemical weapons on citizens

Thats fake/contested

https://x.com/scotthortonshow/status/1863289718890193160
It certainly looks like some amount of image matching is going on. Can the model really hear the white/green sign to the left in the first example in figure 3? Can it hear the green sign to the right and red things to the left in the last example?
There are multiple historical examples of public opinion being shaped by propaganda.

If one newspaper can convince the United States to support the Spanish-American War because one of her own warships blew up due to poor maintenance, It's not a stretch to believe a sufficiently well-funded state operation with relatively unfettered control over an entire media application could run a similar opinion shaping operation.

Public opinion is the cornerstone of the US system, but the public can be misinformed at scale.
Wow, that link is a great resource. Thanks for the info
Best and brightest at what? Software engineering has a lot of subspecialties, like distributed systems, operating systems, graphics, AI, and so forth, and those are the places where the best and brightest go because their talents are valued there.
Russia’s ability to implement a war economy isn’t unique - the last time they did it (WWII) so did the UK, Germany, and the US.

More recent examples include the both sides of the Iran-Iraq war and Armenia in its war with Azerbaijan.

GDP has implications for the productivity of an economy and the budget of the government.

41% of Russia’s government spending at the minute is on the war which means they have to either cut spending on other things weakening the state or drive massive debt and inflation.

There’s a reason you can only run a war economy for so long - eventually you win the war or bleed your economy dry. Russia’s had the advantage of huge legacy reserves of equipment from the USSR days and a larger population. We’ll see how long they can last tapping the well.
Hey OP, I'm not sure if this is something you control or if it's a Vercel config thing, but when I try to share your website using iOS's share sheet it actually sends the direct link to your Vercel instance instead:

https://air-fry-abc-projects-xyz.vercel.app/

That link just asks the visitor to log in to what I assume is a control panel or something (I haven't used Vercel).
This analysis helped me understand the situation better: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-to-think-about-the-...
Whether or not you love in a food desert, the result of your actions are the same. You may have no choice, but you're still financially supporting animal cruelty.

The action is cruel, not the people committing it.
That greatly depends on why you need it.

If you host a business on the domain that makes a lot of money, sure, go ahead and get the domain. But if you are currently thinking about creating a start-up without concrete plans how to turn a tidy profit? Then no, you have bigger challenges than which domain to use.

My suggestion: get a dirt cheap domain with 8 to 12 random letters, build the site, and once you have a couple of (paying!) customers, then worry about the domain and move to a nicer one.
That would be explained by data leakage too, e.g. sampling frames in the train and test data from the same video sequences. There's nothing in the writeup that says suggests the model is explicitly matching audio to ground truth images.
What’s the assumption that causes them to find there’s still a market for fossil fuels at all by 2060?

I’d be surprised if its share of energy generation doesn’t drop to practically zero. Why would we think it flattens out?

With some technology transitions there’s some benefit of keeping old technology around. But for coal and oil, there’s huge costs associated with digging/drilling the fuel out. Without the economies of scale that the oil, gas and coal industry has today I would be surprised if the whole thing doesn’t collapse completely in a fairly short time.
Sure... You just wanted to add your own clickbait because AI is popular, ironic huh?
I think your comment is additive to the conversation, despite it not agreeing with the core HN cohort. Not worth downvoting IMO.
Sounds cool, but can't help feeling like snorting nanoparticles sounds a bit concerning, especially when it targets a wider net based on shorter sequences of amino acids... are we sure we aren't overfiltering?

Not at all an antivax person, but I can only compare my vague concerns to installing a more aggressive spam filter that increases the chances of false positives. I concede virus vaccines may simply not work like this, but that is immediately where my mind went.
in the 1970s or 1980s if a nice dress shirt was $10-15, then it's not entirely a different thing from $70-100 today.

it's not a question of "want to pay $70", we'll want to pay the lowest price possible for the equal goods. if the cost of shirts doubled, you might buy less of them and wear them longer. i remember my dad probably had 5 nice dress shirts, two suits and a sport coat.

i'd rather have $70 (or $100) shirts and a functioning middle class.
You cannot be dogmatic and unrealistic. When adversaries are systematically abusing your own systems to influence your society repeatedly, you need to take action. This is far less action than say China is, which not only doesn’t allow TikTok as is on their own population, but has banned all us social media for years and years.
https://archive.ph/AH4Ud
I bought some cheap panes on Ali express. I think the battery controller was $.99 the inverter was a couple bucks. I run a small, cheap mini split off it ($500 retail in the us). Strangely I wasn’t able to find a dc powered mini split. I guess they make em for RV use but they’re more than twice the price of the one I bought.

My whole system is off grid. I run 12v lights and even have a redundant battery system. You can do lot with cheap Chinese parts.
The fact that you can install the WLED firmware _from the website_ is the cherry on top. It’s a fantastic piece of software.
“ There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective.” RFK Jr, Lex Fridman Podcast #388

"He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I'll take on the data and show that it's not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that's his point.” - Howard Lutnick, Trump transition team co-chair, CNN interview, October 30
Yeah. I put URLs I'm 100% sure weren't generated by AI spammers, and got out a third rate AI generated summary that skipped most of the detail. I put in URLs consisting entirely of obviously AI-generated shilling and got brief AI generated shilling. I put in the HN homepage and the text got longer ....
> Sometimes the predators are in the ascendancy, sometimes the prey.

This statement has been modeled as the "predator–prey model":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio...
Why are we cheering this? Is it because Russia supported Assad and now Russia has been defeated? Because we love Ukraine right? Also, Assad and Russia don't like LGBT persons? Can someone spell it out for me in plain words please, I'm on the spectrum.
So i could write some complex logic with nested for loops and ofload it to the coprocessor
I don't know about other places, but here there's no bank that will turn that slip of paper into real money. I've never even seen a cheque or chequebook in person, it's almost exclusively mentioned by Americans (In my experience)
Yeah, good point. I work in games, there's always an army of youngsters willing to put up with anything to break into the industry. I shouldn't be surprised...

And I know only all too well employers will continue even at the point of hiring unqualified someones willing to work for less...

But I'm wondering if there is more at play. Like is the web so full of HR BS that people don't know better? Is the economy really that bad or is it a self fulfilling prophecy because corporate scare tactics work?

And don't get me started on LLMs confidently repeating the same one sided HR BS when you ask anything about work conditions, and then claiming it intends to provide a comprehensive list of unbiased potential solutions to try, conveniently leaving out the last one which should be if all else fails start sending resumes...

Anyway, I'm seeing more unions spin up and more strikes this year, so I guess that gives me a bit of hope at least.
Vaccines have been forced for centuries. Somehow nobody cared, except for a tiny fringe of kooks, until 2021.
Of course animals exhibit teamwork, but they do not have a free will that can choose compassion in the face of its opposite, selfishness.

You can note all the abstract thought that animals exhibit, perhaps some equations on a chalkboard?
Those sorts of systems run in realtime. They neither know (or care) who you are. They work by identifying people and pulling out appearance characteristics (like blue coat/red hair/beard/etc) and hashing them in a database. After that, it's straightforward to track similar looking people via connected cameras, with a bit of human assistance.
Think of zk proofs as an extension of asymmetric cryptography to arbitrary logic.

A zkVM makes encoding the arbitrary logic as easy as writing a normal Rust program.
A proof is a probabilistic statement that a specific program run with some public inputs and maybe some private inputs was executed correctly.

For crypto zk proofs are mostly for their succinctness property, not for privacy.

Outside of crypto privacy is the more important property, let's say a government issues a signed document, I could prove any arbitrary statement about that document without revealing the document. We could use zk proofs for anything we use canonical documents for today and we would gain privacy. Will we do this, probably not, but it would be an improvement.
Ah makes sense. I missed that part!
Makes sense. Thanks for your advice.
At what point will these people have enough money and power? Less than 10 people now have more money than the bottom 50% of Americans combined. There’s so much concentrated power now it makes me wonder when Americans will just give up, dramatically constrain their lifestyles and get by on way less of an income just to have a simpler life.
Writing Clojure without spaghetti isn't too hard, and definitely more practical than waiting for a Jepsen alternative to come along.

The Jepsen author gave a great talk on all the performance engineering work that has gone into it, Jepsen is near enough an entire DBMS in its own right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUdhyAdYfpA
In that scenario, where your wife is dead if you don't pay the ransom, is it good that the government stops you from paying the ransom?

Maybe, because if the government stops everyone from paying ransoms, there is no point demanding a ransom. The person whose wife is being held as a hostage probably won't see it that way.
Write a proper GUI application.
That was my point, DJI already demonstrated a drone going all the way from base camp to the summit.

You also have a stream of hundreds of people climbing it daily. If each one carries a few hundred grams payload to help with construction, or a sherpa takes an extra O2 cylinder every once in a while...

I know nothing about climbing, but thought, given the volume of people and money, it doesn't look like a "greatest feats of engineering"-level project to save a few dozen lives.
(Author of this post.)

If you’re interested in how this went down, the timeline section[1] in particular is worth jumping to: my key takeaway is that this vulnerability was reintroduced, and that there’s only limited evidence that the Ultralytics team have done a full revocation and rotation of all accounts and credentials that the attacker may have had access to.

Given that, it’s not inconceivable that a third round of backdoored packages will occur. I would recommend that people exercise extreme caution when installing the current versions; most users would probably be best served by pinning to an older version from before any indicators of compromise.

[1]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2024/12/06/zizmor-ultralytics-inj...
I don't think of it as a hack any more than Sirius or XM making a "control plane" signal by just interleaving the what's on or channel map in with the music signal.
If you ever want to go all out with a musical light show, I have some recommendations here: https://aluhrs.com/blog/holiday-lights-electronics/

For your specific question, Wally’s Lights is great, and like others have mentioned, something running WLED to control them is a great choice.
Honestly, I just wanted to say something funny haha. But yes I see how those are different though, thanks!
You're describing Brave
National Libraries of the World — Online
Back in the early days of the PC, GW-BASIC was an important thing to have if you had a clone instead of an actual IBM. The IBM PC had BASIC in ROM, but the clones did not, so if you wanted to develop, or run some of the vastly available BASIC code, you needed GW-BASIC.

https://www.ardent-tool.com/tech/ROM_BASIC.html

I came across this Linux-based GW-BASIC implementation a while back, and it is awesome.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/pcbasic.1.ht...
hahaha, you’re joking right? honestly I can’t tell over text
Can I sue the insurance companies doctor for malpractice? In standard care the doctor is liable, not the hospital.
Yes, it could replace all government ids, while allowing you to prove arbitrary statements about said signed government documents without revealing them (not saying it will happen).
Scratch and Sniff Stickers and the Gas Panic of '87
Makes me nostalgic for when we were getting into programming and sent ach other the .exes on ICQ to try out. I added some code so it stays in the background and ejects the CD tray randomly during the day.

Fun times.
They always choose their instinct to survival; only we have a conscience and free will to choose whether to behave selflessly or selfishly.

Only we can think abstractly about the needs of the group, the happiness of others.
Yeah, Red Hat put a fair bit of money and investment into a direct VMware takeout using oVirt/RHV. Pretty much went nowhere. There's presumably some money int here post-Broadcom acquisition but Red Hat is mostly betting on Kubevirt and OpenShift. Some (presumably smaller-scale) customers will prefer more of a like-to-like lower-cost replacement but personally I wouldn't bet on it as a business.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/young-men-investing-bi...
Saltwater crocs bridge the gap! (idk only eaten alligator but it was surprisingly “terrestrial”)
Company known for being riddled with bots and sock puppets posting fake information and scams creates and releases tool to help create and disseminate fake information and scams.
> One of the reasons birthrates have plummeted in the West, and sentiments about having children have dropped, is that we have no "village", so to speak.

It probably true but even the well of who can afford to buy the village aren't having kids.

I think it has more to do with

1. cultural acceptance and lack of strict cultural pressure to have kids. Its unimaginable in India to not have kids by choice. Its not a choice at all unless you want to be pariah.

2. Availability of affordable widespread recreation that will keep you occupied. Affordability of lots of on demand TV, dining out, live music, internet, hobbies, travel ect.
Looks like some company was really embarrassed someone would show that they added too many zeros to their product price...
I’ve been here for a bit and I’m a Christian. Pain and suffering are difficult to rationalize with the whole “God only gives you want you can handle stuff.” It’s not comforting. Bad things happen to Christians all the time. I try to ease suffering no matter who it happens to. It does help me to remember that Jesus suffered too.

I’d say more but my son is saying “play with me” over and over. Take care ya’ll.
You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you
Imagine a creator who could design a universe that evolves over 13 billion years and countless trillions of living creatures to generate you and me and the rest of humanity.

To me, thats much more amazing than a designer who builds life like a really complicated lego kit. In fact it’s almost insulting to imply that God couldn’t create our world through evolution. Evolution is so much more beautiful and complex than the (easily comprehensible) image of a guy tinkering in a celestial garage.
> tech CEOs have gone mask off and backed Trump

There is a price to secrecy. You don’t get to use your hard earned reputation. Reputation requires consistency and intellectual honesty. Secrecy enables intellectual dishonesty, but is no match for transparent logic.
Seems not everyone, and it appears that seeing them is a combination of skill and vision.

Never been able to see them, but my eves have different enough vision that it is hard to make them work together at certain distances.
Sure. But that’s another discussion than the one about balance in nature.
Or maybe I just know the truth? It's very difficult for someone who denies reality to formulate any semblance of an argument against the truth.
Isn't the solution for Patreon et al to offer embeddable widgets that implement the Payments Request API?
> Every time I read explanations of any database anything, it looks childishly simplistic to what I've done with C pointers and structs.
Basically it all exists because of storage devices:

One of the key motivations for relational was to have a standardized system for data storage so data consumption was simpler.

Prior to relational every system had it's own unique method of storing data (e.g. your pointers and structs, and other things etc.) which required unique custom programming for every new data consumption use case.

With relational, there is a simpler (not simple, but much simpler) method of access that no longer requires a developer write a custom program to get the data for each new request.