skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does a practical opening ceremony even mean? It's in the name, it's a ceremony, a ritual.

Even if it wasn't being broadcasted, this is an act of prestige that flows both ways. Power people go these events to lend their gravitas, and power people go to these events to borrow from the gravitas.
A friend just had them and he was in the hospital a few hrs while they IV flushed him with some chemical magic that supposedly helped dissolve them. I think the bill with insurance was 250.
> so we just get the Russians to spend some money funding

Ya, that's illegal. If any political party conspired with a foreign state actor to get secret funding and targeted propaganda campaigns on Canadian citizens? You're ok with that?

I think you meant to say, if the foreign state actor independently without the local party conspiring with them, chose to back them up by targeting Canadians with messaging against the other parties and in support of the one they want to win, and you say that's illegal, that would seem wrong.

That I agree. But it still leaves a problem that Canadian have all been manipulated and deceived. At least if it is found out, people should know just to what extent the information they were fed was curated to them by foreign actors to influence you in aligning with their interests. And after that information comes out, if it was that a majority amount of it was, I think it would be fair to have a redo election. Now people could vote conservative again, if they assume that even with that knowledge, they still feel strongly about it.

I'd also add, for future elections, it really shouldn't be possible for foreign actors to target and curate information like that to local citizens, there needs to be safeguards of some sort.
How is it harmful? It’s never take a dime from me and it’s easy to turn off the crypto/ad junk
The conference started at 8am, the assassination happened at 6:45am. The assassin was only waiting there for a few minutes ahead of time. It's surprising how "on time" the assassin was. Wasn't waiting around there for an hour or anything. Seemed like he knew when the CEO would arrive.
Why is this downvoted? This is similar to Bernie Sanders’ idea to tax companies whose employees are on welfare
I tend to use a sentence along these lines:
"Give me a straightforward summary of what we discussed so far, someone who didn't read the above should understand the details. Don't be too verbose."

Then i just continue from there or simply use this as a seed in another fresh chat.
A $105T Inheritance Windfall Is on the Way for US Heirs
Sure, but someone still needs to raise the firefighters and doctors and plumbers. One's success at age 50 is directly tied to their family dynamic and financial situation at age 0-18. Saying you value a doctor but not the circumstances that made them a doctor isn't quite rational.
Here I’m talking primarily about effects in society in the form of child rearing outcomes.

The gap between outcomes where there is a stable division of a full time breadwinner and homemaker during formative years vs those where there is heavy involvement of daycare services is a very stark chasm.

But the economic stability has to be there as well, as this breaks down significantly in poverty.

Moving both partners in a domestic life into the workforce also creates strong downward pressure on wages, since it supplies an extra 30% or so employees into the workforce.

All in all the breakdown of a stable domestic workforce has been good for corporations but bad for children, employees, and stable home relationships. And if we look at the current state of affairs of partnering, it’s been bad for just about everyone.
But I think we can write computer programs to generate infinite amounts of "correct" data. For example, imagine you want to train AI to recognize Tea Cups. We can generate using computer graphics (not even AI) infinite numbers of "correct" example images to train on, simply by rotating a CGI model thru every possible viewpoint on a 3D sphere. If that doesn't work, it means there's got to be some deep physics about why. If training works on "natural" correct data but not "synthetic" correct data, that's telling us something DEEP about physics.

The same is true with LLM (language data) factual statements. We can generate infinite numbers of true factual statements to train on. If the AI refuses to learn from synthetic data despite that training data being correct, that's bolstering my view that perhaps there's more deep physics going on related to causality chains and even crazy concepts like multiverses.
One of the most spiritual moments of my life was entering Notre Dame, and I was not expecting it at all, wasn't really excited to go there, and am not really religious. Honestly I expected Stonehenge to be more impactful but Notre Dame is a way more worthy visit.
Hopefully, they won’t become a relic of globalism. When goods stop crossing borders, usually soldiers takes their place.
SFSU had to declare a financial emergency due to declining enrollment [1].

[1]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-state-declares-fis...
Yo chat is this real?
Hey, I am trying to make a version control system with semantic diff. Electrical circuits and layouts are high on my list.

My profile has links to webpages with my contact info.
Yeah I’m afraid we may never find out the whole truth unless some whistleblower sneaks out with a bunch of evidence or some new genetic techniques come about that let us know without a doubt it was man-made rather than various credible sources saying “most likely it was engineered”
Just keep using the app. It wasn’t at the beginning.
I’m not trying to be hostile to OP. I’m addressing the fact that he feels the need to engage in a bunch of throat clearing just to say that it’s bad to devalue work that women disproportionately do and want to do.
Err on the side of keeping your options open. Heck, even dentists and doctors offices are taking on investors and getting acquired these days, probably without an original intent to do so.
I agree that homemaking has strong direct benefits for the people involved, but reduced criminality, better education, and better socioeconomic outcomes for children raised with parents as primary caregivers is not a nebulous attribution to societal benefit.
I mean Larrabee did already back in 2008-ish, but with BSD. That was a real advantage of the reuse of some x86 cores.

On the flip side, until somewhat recently, NVIDIA GPUs didn't have the kind of hardware protections you'd want to build a modern multitenant OS (e.g., hardware page table and TLB support).

In the actual tweet (https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1865127952712905197) he mostly seems to be talking about RLO style diagnostics with busybox on the device much like Dell servers with fancy BMCs:

> I still think today’s GPUs should be able to operate without host CPUs if they have a private link. Chains of accelerators are a legitimate use, but it would just be fun if GPUs made their own video signal with diagnostic information when you apply power outside of a host system. You could go farther and put a tiny linux system running busybox on your command processor, and backchannel keyboard input through the display port if you don’t have a USB port.
You may not "owe" the government, if you can find a loophole where you can technically avoid paying legally. But in my opinion ethics definitely comes into it, why wouldn't it?
> a common .22 handgun can take out a helicopter. Even a well-placed rock can take out a helicopter:

You appear to be arguing that the DoD wasted a ton of money when all they needed to do was give the Ukrainian army lots of rocks. If that wasn’t your intent, consider that effectiveness might be the principal behind the law - there’s a huge difference between being able to get lucky with perfect circumstances and being able to reliably down aircraft. In particular, consider that the Border Patrol commonly uses helicopter rotor backwash as an improvised weapon against migrants which requires them to get much closer to their targets than would otherwise be the case - people can’t throw rocks anywhere near normal firearms distances.
It’s possible he really downloaded some 158gr+ to get it as quiet as possible. To the point it wasn’t supposed to cycle.

Typically, though, you don’t necessarily get less recoil with subs. You get different recoil.

A 115gr 9mm at 1300fps as a sharp recoil. More than enough to run the gun.

A 147 / 158 / 160+ 9mm at 1000fps, has a lot of of the same energy, and typically a slower burning powder is used. It’s also enough to run the gun, the recoil is a lot longer and pushier instead of snappy.

I don’t know. If it was me, I would have my ammunition ready to cycle the gun. Yes, it’s a little bit louder, but the chance that I need to fire more than a couple of shots in order to achieve my goal and escape, outweighs the absolute sound reduction to me.

But, there is something to say that if I filled my silencer with wire, pulling gel, it was a big can, I have some ammo that I know won’t cycle, and I didn’t think I was gonna be in a place with cameras, yeah I don’t know. Maybe it was intentionally downloaded ammo.
No. Raising children is the central function of society. The factory and everything else exists in service of that function.
I don't have a strategy that I like—it just amounts to having to say "you forgot about requirement X, try again keeping that in mind".
His point is that there is no reliable way to differentiate between real honey and adulterated product for the average consumer in store.

If 1/3 of the honey in the store is fake, but you don’t know which 1/3 is fake, then what is the point of buying any honey at that store? If you need advice about where to buy pure honey because you don’t personally know the farmer then, “treat everything at the grocery store as suspect” is fine advice.

If you have personally toured an apiary, know the keeper, and happen to know that he sells at a few grocery stores as well, you don’t need the advice, and your addition isn’t helpful since the end result is the same: the average person can’t trust the honey at their large grocery store, and they should find a local beekeeper.
They’re not supposed to. This is what a booster in a handgun silencer does.
I don't know, I think things like refrigeration or electricity or antibiotics were pretty visible. The closest I can think of in more recent times is the invention of the blue LED, which, it was obvious would open floodgates to 10x more efficient lighting. Maybe power semiconductors too, which unlock inverters for EV or solar. But it still doesn't compare in quality or quantity to early 20th century IMO.
>people who could easily live a secure and comfortable lifestyle if they just managed their budget better.

and inside that group - people who made one bad decision, and people who have neuro-divergent issues that make managing the budget more of chore than it is for someone without the issue.
> Did you send in your comment via fax?

Fax was invented in the 1800s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax

The 1968 Steve McQueen movie Bullitt used a fax machine to send a photograph of suspect. It's a pre-1970s invention, as is the modem: the Bell 101 was released in 1958.

Edit: the authors of the book do say that the mainstreaming of computers and the Internet is one of the post-1970s innovations.

> Also in what way are "refinements" not technological innovation? e.g. modern cars are massively safer, more reliable and comfortable.

But not a new invention. The Model T started production in 1908:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T

By the late 1920s, more that 80% of US households had at least one car; by the 1960s it was something like 160 cars per 100 households (i.e., most had at least two cars). It was by the 1930s that society had already been transformed by the automobile, regardless of how "safer, more reliable and comfortable" (or not) they were:

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2924825

For safety, the four biggest factors were seat belts, airbags, ABS and crumple zones, all of which were invented in the 1970s or before:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system#Histo...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag#History

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt#History

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone

Comfort: AC was invented by Willis Carrier in the early 1900s, and put into air cars by the 1950s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_air_conditioning

For reliability/efficiency, fuel injection was in cars by the 1950s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_injection
There are probably only so many obvious metrics from which to pick and you wouldn't have to game them all, just pick the easiest ones and keep grinding. Fraudsters are usually motivated and not that dumb.
I’ve never seen any data that showed it was any more dangerous than any other vaccines that we’ve used for decades, and the “objections”always seen to come from the sorts that don’t trust the government at all for any reason or because it serves their political advancement.
> What needs to be normalized is a single salary being enough to support a family of four, like it used to be

Is this an American thing or just a rich people thing? I can’t think of a single generation in my family going back to pre-ww2 where this was true. Everyone always worked. At least on the family farm.

The farm generations even put their kids to work. Our school system (Slovenia) has certain school vacations timed so kids can help with the harvest.
Same, and the story is really of all technology. A suitable amount of friction is the invisible force that holds together much of society. We have to be very careful about what activities and actions we make easy to do, because if destruction is simple, we will be governed by the laziest and most stupid among us who will harness it without thought or care. The same goes in the opposite direction; if everything is hard to do, our dynamism is oppressed.
This is blogspam, just submit his tweet directly instead.
Gen Z's financial angst underlies shift to the right
My dirt cheap Asrock A320m-ITX and my mid-level Gigabyte Aorus Elite x570 support bifurcation, did the feature become much less common in the last couple years?
It implies the persons' leverage is limited to only what they personally do. That's obviously false. A non-manager engineer can have broad scope in putting in a proper architecture, in mentoring others, in cross-team communications. I would go as far as saying there's virtually no engineer whose impact is limited to themselves. They have a harder job since they need to affect change without having official authority to affect change.

The term's very existence it puts people in a certain bin. Why is a CEO not also an "individual contributor"? They're an individual. They contribute. It's just newspeak.

I've never thought of management positions in an organization to reflect something derogatory. But maybe to some.
So you have an "older" and "younger" password. If you are the younger person (ie child) in the conversation you tell them the "younger" password, and if you are the older you tell them the "older" password.

or something like that. Remember this is mostly to defeat casual one-off scams.
I'm actually a pretty big Dijkstra fanboy after having taken the time to read through most of the archive the submission is from. For whatever reason, I suddenly remembered this paper, and yeah it does seem apropos so I shared it.
Method of the Year 2024: spatial proteomics
If cathedrals were practical, they'd look like big cross-shaped barns. To turn the restoration of a city's cathedral into a spectacle befits their nature. They were supposed to inspire awe.
OSX took in a bit of FreeBSD and NetBSD to modernise sons areas, but the main thing for 10.0 release involved pulling in the latest OSFMK.

Also, several APIs introduced after BSD 4.4 are very visibly missing, pointing to how little was taken from Free/NetBSD
sounds obvious, yes?
I don’t really think basing your knowledge on a debate is a good place to start on anything that is a scientific matter like the origins of covid. I’ve read both sides and while I lean towards it being an escaped virus, the other side also has some pretty valid arguments and it’s not been a slam-dunk for any, especially those claiming that it is.
So impressive the way MIT adds to the depth and breadth of human knowledge.
How's the healthcare?

I have Portuguese friends who relocated to the US (for the salary, rest assured they own homes there to go back to). They're saying there are waits and quality issues.
My personal belief is that the primary culprit is the price of energy. Energy prices dropped exponentially for 100 years, and then since the early 70s it has been relatively constant, roughly tracking inflation.
I just created a regex-based content blocker that literally blacks out text content on any webpage. Chrome extension.

2 modes - block only matches, or, block surrounding text (too).

Create as many rules as you like, it will block anything.

I entered it into Google Built-in AI hackathon the other day.

Uses local LLM to scan blocked content to determine if regex was too trigger happy, then lets user unblock.
> The problem with that is there will be proto-inventions all around us that will later be improved and made economical, but we can't see them yet.

Except that the book isn't taking about "proto-inventions" but items that could be purchased and used by the general public, from transportation (planes, trains, automobiles), food-related (refrigeration, microwaves, even induction cooking), radios, television, medicine (penicillin/anti-biotics).

All the major inventions (except the Internet) that we would association with 'modern civilization' were invented pre-1980.
> my specific point is that he does not sound like he needs to make hard choices

Some people are just like that. I've been in similar moments (financially) as that guy, and as weird as it sounds, I was laughing at it. lol

I don't think me or him are immune to anxiety by any means, but that our triggers are probably different.
A practical introduction to the Starlark language
18 months + 18 months in NY State for a total of 36

Just that COBRA costs quite a lot.
I have found myself worrying about global politics, climate change, microplastics and whole lot of other things. Things that I have no control over. Don’t get me wrong it’s good to be informed about these things but constant influx of such information is not helping anyone. It’s critical to regulate what we consume on web because our brains have a tendency to think about what we consume. Our thoughts get influenced by what information we are consuming. Seriously ditch the feed that someone else is curating for you!

RSS is all you need https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/why-rss/

P.S. I haven't been able to ditch hacker news like I wanted to.
I was more awed by Stonehenge than Notre Dame. There's just something mystical about it and it's also much more ancient. Notre Dame was another cool cathedral. It's famous but Europe has many.

Either way sounds like an amazing rebuilding effort with many great passionate craftsman working on it. It goes to show that when we want to we can get stuff done. It's like a hackathon in a big company. Let's take from that and do more great things.
>I’m surprised by this and curious at the “team thinks” framing. What advantages do you see here?

>I think I would much rather own the critique myself than say “the team thinks x.”

"the team thinks" means, well I went around and talked to everyone else about you before talking to you and they all say you suck! In short I don't think there would be an advantage to that.
I suspect front end will be similar to how AI impacts other domains: experts who can leverage the tools will be able to be more productive at the cost of junior engineers. Even before AI, low or no-code frontend solutions already impacted the frontend market.

I suspect that’s true of most commoditized domains where AI has enough training data. Niche domains will be less impacted.
Are you sure it won't work?

I ask because cmd.exe has DOSKEY, which is basically a very slightly souped up version of bash's alias. I think it wouldn't be hard to use DOSKEY to replace CD and PUSHD with macros that run some command to update %PATH% and then change directory as usual.
> That has _always_ been the case

Not before chevron. Judicial deference on ambiguous language was invented in the chevron decision.
It is. I would prefer the advantages of a “cheap as possible but robust” basic car design. I want a car that is air gapped and not phoning home, that is electric (or good hybrid), and gets me from A to B. I want it to be reasonably comfortable and inexpensive to replace the parts, which comes about via mass production and minimized labor costs. Unfortunately almost all of those go against what car manufacturers want to do. That’s why I drive a 2010 corolla for now and until it blows up.
Thank you, I think I’ll be looking into this.
“Digital signage” refers to screens showing ads on billboards, announcements on public transport, menus in fast-food restaurants, and the like. Those aren’t cheap devices: consider that not so long ago you’d encounter humongous plasma displays there. Using a full (industrial) PC to drive one is totally normal, and the cost of an RPi is likely negligible. Don’t know if an RPi is well-built enough though, as some signage installations may need to exist in pretty hostile environments (vibration, dirt, EMI, etc.).
The first prototype Lithium Ion battery was 1985. I'd say that was a pretty major invention considering how many devices use them now.
This is only in cases where there is ambiguous language or the law doesn’t specify something. Plain readings of laws aren’t suddenly up for debate.
I think the situation is generally better on AMD platforms than Intel ones, but still YMMV.

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/any-lga1700-motherboards-wit...

Some boards will only bifurcate the x16 slots into x8/x8 mode, which is sufficient for an x8 GPU with one SSD attached to the spare lanes, but that still leaves 4 lanes unutilized. Adding two SSDs to fill up the bus requires support for x8/x4/x4 mode, and an x16 carrier for four SSDs requires support for x4/x4/x4/x4 mode.
This is just a roundabout way of saying raise the minimum wage.
Somewhat similar to EGA graphics
It depends. Some places use pretty strong stickers. I've taken to using a case with the sticker already pre-applied :)
X gains a new image generator, Aurora
You’re making a strawman. I agree that those examples are not sexism but your post has very little to with employment percentages and more to do dating prospects and how women behave in the dating market; I think that’s what the person was talking a about.
Yeah but then how do you pay for social benefits such as SSDI, medicare, medicaid, etc.?
Ship of Theseus comes to mind.