skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering we only differ from chimps by about 4% in genome or less, this is really fine grained analysis.

Guess maths stats & modelling play a big role. Which means some other experts will conclude differently from same data.
> If billions are at stake, then it's fine if CEOs make millions.

Not least, because the incentive to steal from your employer scales with the difference between your compensation and potential gains.

Do we really want someone making $50k a year also making decisions that could easily be corrupted to get millions in kickbacks?
Because there are literally thousands of risk reducing actions I can take, and I'd like to have something of a life in between taking them.
Because pure black doesn't exist in nature (well, save for black holes, that is) and usually is perceived as jarring. Common design principles therefore advocate for using a colour that's almost black.
I lost my wife at 46. I didn’t get to a place that dark, but my decision making process was compromised for several months.
So long as MSFT stock remains airborne, there will no changes to its behavior.
Yeah: There's a huge difference between "confidence in the product itself" versus "confidence that if the product breaks someone other than me will be paying for the damages."
In related tech media reporting:

A new version of the Trinity desktop is out, with a new window-snapping feature. And that's not the only way it's snappy.

The Trinity Desktop Environment (latest release 14.1.1), or TDE for short, is a fork and continuation of KDE version 3.5, the last release of KDE 3. It's loosely comparable to MATE, which is a continuation of GNOME 2 after the developers moved on to the radically different GNOME 3. KDE 4 wasn't as radical a change, but it introduced a significantly different design based around customizable widgets called "plasmoids."

The Register Thu 2 Nov 2023 (12 months ago)

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/trinity_desktop_q4os/
> This is the sort of thing that a decent corporate lawyer ought to be able to handle.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but given that plenty of quite small companies seem to use Carta for handling their shares, it seems pretty ridiculous to have to pay for a lawyer to be able to cancel a subscription. Do early startups really need to keep a lawyer on retainer or be forced to pay by the hour for something like this?
I Ran PS3 Games on PS5 Silicon to Prove Sony Wrong [video]
I use copilot at work. Why? Corporate IT/compliance. Getting cursor vetted ain't a hill I want to fight for.
Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning
aluminum, or mild forged steel, blueprints or coordinates, and goto your workshop.

trust only steel.
Elon Musk calls homelessness a 'lie' and 'propaganda'
Ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleads guilty to lying about the Bidens
The problem isn't so much that you need to throw sand in the gears. We've eroded some of the checks there used to be (e.g. moving to US Senators having statewide elections instead of being elected by state legislatures) and maybe we should put them back, but in general the system of checks and balances works kind of okay.

The issue is that it's not perfect, and it's never going to be perfect, so you're occasionally going to have things get past the gauntlet and make it into law when they shouldn't. And over time those things accumulate.

So what you need is a functioning process for clearing out the cruft even once it's already there. Something like, make it much easier to repeal rules than enact them.
> Actively preventing someone from providing assistance is.

Sure, but this happens with legalization, too. Only licensed physicians can assist in suicide. Other attempts to assist will result in state violence. Most people trying to provide assistance won't be licensed physicians.

Which is a completely different effort than the one intended to execute those undesirable to the market. God forbid we support people with anything other than a suicide implement.
The reactions were my favorite part because I can barely follow the actual chess.
From your link:

> experience unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that *cannot* be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable

That is indeed "very loose," and is not "clear" or "strict." Any mental condition that the patient thinks cannot be acceptably relieved now qualifies (or will after March 17, 2027, when that document says mental illnesses will begin to qualify, because it will somehow become more right on that date than when the law was passed).
Sorry Google.

You lost this one to Facebook, like you did messaging.

You're going to kill it in a few months anyway.
That’s what they want us to believe. But at the end of the day, we can always fight. There’s little they can do to stop a massive violent uprising.
Instead of running local resolvers for caching, they should have used nscd DNS cache to decrease the volume of queries from those machines running the logs tasks. nscd is not designed for that, but is long known to have this best-use practice:
https://prefetch.net/blog/2011/03/27/configuring-nscd-to-cac...
That concerns a small minority of cases, the vast majority is elderly dying people who want to keep their dignity. By steering the discussion to that minority, which even itself is still debatable, you risk flushing the child with the bath water.
What languages would that be?
Maths may not have a replication crisis like some other areas, but when I go to maths events, it seems widely agreed there are far too many papers with incorrect theorems, it's just no-one cares about those papers, so it doesn't matter.

It turns out to be very, very common (as discussed in the linked article) that when someone really carefully reads old papers, the proofs turn out to be wrong. They are often fixable, but the point of the paper was to prove the result, not just state it. What tends to save these papers is that enough extra results have been built on top of them, and (usually), if there had been an issue, it would have showed up as an inconsistency in one of the later results.

The trunk is (probably) solid, but there are a lot of rotten leaves, and even the odd branch.
I appreciate that.

The parent had skipped over responding and I wanted to voice that I too would be curious to know the answer.

Are you saying the best and only option is upvoting?
What you're saying is made up.

Can you provide a single example of someone who started chess in their 20s who became a grandmaster?

Starting in 20s and getting to 2000 FIDE does happen, with an awful lot of work and dedication. GM, I have never found a single example of. By all means, prove me wrong.
Why not create mirror viruses to infect these mirror bacteria? And mirror predators to consume the mirror bacteria. Or compound microbes that can eat both mirror bacteria and regular bacteria, so that we can deploy them before we create mirror bacteria. For example, there is already a bacterium that can eat L-sugar, which is a mirror of regular sugar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Glucose

Once the mirror creature is big enough, it will not matter that it is an indigestible mirror creature, as the predator will eat it regardless. So we only need to create mirror predators up to a certain level.
The Postal Service's electric mail trucks are way behind schedule
Another piece of evidence in favor of my view that pretty much all competitive games and sports are awful when perfectly optimized.
I've seen the same suggested of Sergey Karjakin, and he made it to the top (and I've seen it suggested that it helped him get to the top, that being a GM sooner got him more access to top trainers sooner).
The link the other person posted didn't make it as immediately clear as a definition I found-- it's basically multiple types of charity banks (e.g. food bank, clothing bank, bedding bank, hygiene bank) operated as one entity.
It's not about blessing, it's about people being sent to jail for colluding with a self determinator.

People get sent to jail for assisting someone, even if it's just to buy some stuff.

That's government overreach.
It is reasonable to conceive of Erlang as encompassing OTP. Perhaps somewhere in the world there is some developer out there hot on Erlang but just hates OTP and doesn't use it, but they must be fairly frustrated at how hard it is to keep OTP out of their code base if they ever need any libraries.

Restarting is arguably the definitive thing that makes Erlang stack the 9s out past what most languages and runtimes can achieve... the thing is, it's more complicated to use in practice than a web page like this makes it look, and it's beyond what most products need. Few applications need the fifth or sixth or seventh nine, and it gets to the point that you can't have it anyhow because your Erlang cluster, no matter how well distributed, itself probably doesn't have 99.99999 availability, and your users probably don't have 99.99999 availability on their own network connection.

It's not impossibly complicated, but it is the sort of thing where you if you want to use the feature you need to have it sort of constantly in mind as you write the rest of your system, and it's a lot easier even in Erlang to just design the system to take entire nodes down and bring them back up, if not the entire cluster down, rather than fuss with hot reloads. I wish Erlang advocates would be more upfront about pitching this as an interesting niche feature, but not really a reason to consider Erlang. Unless you absolutely need it, in which case it can indeed be the thing that puts it on the short list of choices... but as evidenced by the vast, vast majority of software and systems not being on Erlang and managing to get along, there aren't really that many things that need it.
I'm curious what caused you eyestrain if you ever found out? Small font or something more?
Sure. I extracted tags from here https://lobste.rs/tags and expanded on that just from having spent a lot of time on HN. Then the app uses GPT3.5 to choose the appropriate tags for each story from the master list of tags.

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904988
I can't either
The author appears to be unfindable, the abstract is clearly talking about something close to this but also mentions adapting existing UK based fossil fuel powerplants, lowballs a bunch of estimates, and somehow brings up a seemingly completely unrelated process that is also well-trodden ground in the distant past but hasn't been used in a century: A way to take the MnCl2 (Manganese-chloride) that is the waste product of an old timey way to make chlorine gas, and get yourself the manganese back out so you can recycle the process.

Which flummoxes me because the castner process was the one that _does not_ involve any chlorine. Perhaps the author of this paper is referring to the general principle here, which again is a mystery to me because the castner cycle I am referring to (sodium as an energy transport; [sodium + water] -> [heat, h2, caustic soda] to 'consume' it, [caustic soda + energy -> water, sodium] to produce it) doesn't have waste product at all other than water.

How did you find this? It's.. fascinating.
would you be willing to pay for something that essentially is google inbox - but a separate web view client with more personalization/better search?
C++ because 99% of the major games are built in that language.
Seki: KDE Connect Alternative with Notification Mirroring, Screen Mirroring
Rust’s Incremental Compiler Architecture
>Obscured by Clouds

In their own way as an art band that's not-yet-popular-and-nobody-knows-if-they-ever-will-be, they were still following in the footsteps of the Beatles anyway with this early movie soundtrack. Too bad they weren't the stars of the movie.

There was also a movie called Zabriskie Point where they did some work on the soundtrack of that.
> At the end of the day there’s no upside to either me nor my organization to respond to cold emails beyond politeness.

You mean to any of the cold emails that you were sent already. You don't think it's possible for someone to send a cold email that could benefit you?
Not a single one of those examples is relevant.

> secure boot can't be disabled - arguing for the ability of fine scale control on "secure boot"
> only install apps from the app store - arguing for "install apps with known behaviors" and "specifically identified hardware access"
> programmatic ad blocking is too dangerous - arguing for fine scale filters that the user has awareness of and the ability to choose specific types of content to remove
> replacement parts have to be genuine - arguing for "parts with tested and verified behaviors" documented by a reliable testing agency with layers of verifiable history and previous known functional parts supported by users with well documented case study examples
> forbidden from performing maintenance on your electric car - arguing for "you as the user can do literally anything you want to your own car (within the known legal limits of your state or nationality)" rather than having the auto company install a bunch of secondary BS you have no idea what its actually doing
> we can't let you have unrestricted AI access - arguing "each user can download whatever variation of each 'AI' each user desires tailored toward their own specific use cases"
> let you see the source code of your cellular chip - arguing for the "right to maintain, disassemble, and repair your own hardware" if you've bought the hardware
> we scan all your private photo uploads for csam - arguing for "no one anywhere is allowed to have external access to your hardware without an extremely well documented rationale."
...

Amazing! You've figured out insurance!
Changing the Way We Measure Time
Watching the repair video, at 13:25 he states that the resistors have to be have well matched for the circuit to work.

I posit that you could use 10% resistors, and it would work just as well. The individual gains don't have to be exactly the same, since they're all being summed anyway.

Oh, and those plastic stand-offs really need to go.

This reminded me of an old advertisement which compared a component stereo amplifiers specifications to that of a piece of wire. I spend almost an hour looking with google, etc., and I can't find it. 8(
Programmers want flow. When programming, light turns red
I'm not sure, I assume good faith on HN, so I'd guess that it was in the works for a a while? But yeah, it's 100% not a process that can be done in a week, like, for sure.
How do you know that exposure to comments by people named “cwillu” does not lead to cancer by some delayed chain reaction that takes decades to become visible?
What do you mean? They can work on any voice recording without needing to get someone to say a specific thing
> This attempt to substitute therapists, who are professional people who care, is a huge step towards that future. Do you want a future where Medicare only gives access to a chatbot, rather than a human professional? I don't want that, and I hope you don't either.

No, I don't want to do that. And I 100% agree with you on the importance of human connection - as you wrote, "we know, from research, the act of _having a person care_ is part of what makes therapy work."

Yes, exactly that. I'd dare say it's the most important part.

However.

The future you fear has already come to pass. In the developed world, human labor tends to be the most expensive part of any product or service. That includes therapy. That 1:1 time with a trained specialist is expensive, and you need a lot of it. Most people already can't afford it at all.

I don't want LLMs to replace therapists, and I wouldn't even be talking positively about their utility in this space, if a person like me could just go into therapy whenever they needed it. Alas, we can't. It's way too expensive, way too infrequent, and takes way too much time (billed time) to get to the point where you can even hope to start to make progress. So as much as I'm typically against replacing skilled labor with self-service tech solutions, with therapy we may be forced to do it simply to have anything available to people at all.
I created a tool to monitor prices
I used both dBase II and dBase III a lot back in the day, though not for anything that turned out to be all that useful. There was a lot in the package: a programming language, UI tools, and the data base proper. I’ve always been surprised that no one has written a comparable end-user product based on SQLite and some simple programming language.
My first serious programming work was with dBaseII on CP/M. Years later used Clipper, FoxPro, before it all went visual. Good times.
Incredible recall of such an obscure fact that isn’t mentioned in the subtitle of the linked article.
You could cheat with computer too
And at more than double the energy density of today's EV batteries, its range could be considerably longer.
Just because I looked that up recently, there are at least three forks based on amarok 1: Exaile (a GTK port), Clementine (a fork towards Qt4) and Strawberry (a fork of Clementine, I don't know the background).
The ability to push it through the air isn't there. You end up dumping a lot of power into the transmitter which then just heats the air around it rather than go anywhere because the oxygen is absorbing it.

It is however great for a non-contact point to point where you connect the xmitter and receiver by attaching adjoining faces together. Imagine a PCIe card where the edge connector had no electrical contacts it just sits in the slot and the connection is a 60GHz link between the card and the base board. With inductive power transfer you don't need any conductive contacts at all.

Its very cool and sciencey but the tranceivers are stupid expensive and the use case is really pretty limited.
Like a DIY Busy bar (1371 points, 2 months ago, 461 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838337
I'm with @navane, you're concerned about what is very much a minority edge case.

Still, I'll bite - it's a good thing.

Why? Well an official path to suicide, as per the arrangements already in place, comes with layers of professional guidance and counselling.

It's not a dispassionate "wave 'em through" treadmill of corpse creation.

The best thing for young people with suicidal affixations is to talk to them and take their concerns seriously, correctly established this could arguably reduce teen suicides by recognising the problem, giving the at risk a place to go, requiring them to detail why they want to die, etc.

If you want to take a dim view of faceless government motivations then you might ask yourself why such a souless collective would want to deprive itself of a potential taxpayer before they've even really started to chip in.
The same logic applies to capital punishment
But it’s also shifting the Overton window and normalizing making it banal even.
It seems like somewhat reasonable safeguards for most circumstances, except that other guy replied to you saying he thinks there should be zero safeguards and he may well continue espousing and voting for that viewpoint for the rest of his life now that the basic system's in place.

Even if you think the current safeguards are the "sweet spot," continued pressure to make it more difficult will be necessary to prevent it from being made less difficult. (And if you don't think it would be a problem for it to be made less difficult, then citing those safeguards as part of your argument would be disingenuous.)
I believe Wiles' proof requires the case of n=3 (Euler), and n=4 (Fermat) separately. That is, Wiles' proof starts with n=5 for nontrivial reasons.

So it is more likely that Fermat saw n=4, and thought the rest would be similar.
Chess and its superstars are often anything but humble and modest. Magnus Carlsen's commetary for this match was riddled with derogatory statements. since he wanted to sit out this championship he should be gracious and respectful toward the players who fought for the title in his stead but he has been anything but that.
I was thinking that the divide probably lines up pretty well with people who think the Trolley Problem is a great moral quandary versus people who think it’s obvious you pull the lever and don’t understand the fuss. Which is basically what you said.
One of the few groups that gets it are truckers who still use CB (27MHz) but even they are becoming fewer.
I've always thought that using vertical space and indentation alone to organize code was a failure of imagination for IDE development. Why can't the IDE allow for and auto-format code in a horizontal line? For instance, I can easily imagine background color shading as an indicator of logical depth. That would be fun to play with.

And along those lines, why do coding best practices always encourage vertically stretched out logic? Its analogous to writing all literature as poetry. That's clearly suboptimal or at least limiting if you can read multiple ideas in a horizontal line.

So, I think, ideally, semantically-aware IDEs should allow for any formating and supply dynamic adjusters which can reformat code to the users preference, then save it in a presentation-agnostic encoding.
That makes complete sense. For me, the time investment is totally neutral. I would buy a water filter anyway to mitigate other harms. Using stainless steel utensils vs plastic ones doesn't cost me any time at all. So I have risk reduced with 0 time investment.
I see your point, but the problem in the UK is we seem to have ground to a halt because "everything is awful".

Not the same argument, but near where I live people have campaigned against new houses for 15 years, because the roads aren't good enough, and the doctors and dentists aren't good enough, but those things haven't been good enough for 15 years, and they probably aren't going to get better.

I fear there is basically no chance we are going to fix the NHS to a high standard in 20 years, if ever, at this point. In that case, we can't simply do nothing until everything is improved.
There's a lot of places on this earth. 2,400 providers isn't even a million customers per company for the US (333million)
Thank you - this is helpful! It exempts it.
I work at a company that deploys Elixir/Erlang and while we do /prefer/ to push a fully tested build in a new container, sometimes things get nasty and we need to console in and re-define a module in production. It's not a "best practice" but it stems the bleeding while the best practice is going though its test suite.
Article title: It’s knot DNS. There’s no way it’s DNS. It is DNS!