skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making a computer play like a 1300-rated human is harder than making a computer beat Magnus Carlsen.
> so it seems unlikely that Android phones are secretly monitoring what you say without anyone noticing the data being transmitted or the battery drain.

Ah! So that’s why Androids always have bigger batteries than iPhones. ;)
I have a few friends that left tech for personal reasons and layoffs.

The ones that stayed out for a while, lost their ‘drive’ to reenter. They tasted the good life of no leetcode or on-call duties.

They make enough to support themselves but still less than half of what they could make in tech.

They realize their good life isn’t on the right trajectory and would like to reenter, but just don’t want to put in the effort, especially since the roles available to them are behind their friends that didn’t take a break
I had a very weird day and I thought about this.

Cloud sessions for everything, one unified OS for your phone, VR, PC, TV, etc.

Built from the ground up, it both runs on a 30$ phone and a 6k computer. Do it on Risc V or another open source architecture.

Then I came back to earth and realized this would cost hundreds of billions to build and market.

Android is close. But ultimately you can't run any PC apps on it( although Dex + Remote Desktop to a Microsoft Cloud PC can fake it).

In my dream we don't even need USB C, your just limited to whatever device your currently using. For example you're TV could probably play the Sims, or use cloud gaming. Your PC could also play the Sims, but AAA games as well.

We'd have to build a new OS( probably a Linux distro) which is heavily dependent on cloud services.

I'd be hyper aggressive with the marketing. A 50$ mini Risc V PC gets you started.
Yep, no stats or advanced math is needed. My primary focus is to cater to beginner and intermediate users.

For beginners, it is a good tool to understand the basic finance and accounting concepts. It is interactive, you can practice the formulas via quizzes, much more fun than reading a textbook. I suggest you try financial statement module.

For intermediate users, you can practice financial modeling by solving generic modeling problems (3-statements, DCF, LBO, M&A). It will help you build the muscle memory of using the functions/formulas.

For advanced users, I am planning to onboard more industry specific modeling content and practice cases.
Great list. Small correction: the latest version of Scoot (admittedly, I haven't updated it in quite some time) offers both grid and accessibility-based navigation modes.
> Chess is different from sports in only one way: the loss of very intelligent capable people who could be helping to create the future.

Being good at chess does not mean you're "very intelligent". Most of the top players are good at chess because they are very good at memorization & pattern recognition, those are the actual abilities of a high level chess player. Does that translate into other intellectual pursuits like theoretical physics or math? Not really.

Grandmasters aren't going to be dumb by any stretch of the imagination, but they aren't super-intelligent geniuses, either.
And trained on models that for a large part were made in Blender.
The hilarious thing is that Google already had a VR platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Daydream that they abandoned.
Meta even offered to put Google Play on their headsets, but Google refused.
Indian scientists develop novel gene therapy treatment for haemophilia
The article mentions Alex Jones was objecting to the transfer rather than creditors. Having a new round of bidding, especially with increased publicity is a reasonable thing to do.

I’m simply agreeing with independent 3rd parties who state that The Onion’s bid was larger and better for the creditors. Alex Jones clearly doesn’t want his life’s worked turned into such an obvious mockery, but while he’d love to sell these business to his parents for 1 dollar but the courts are acting to maximize the transaction’s value. Thus he can only object in terms of monetary value not his personal preferences.
Why hasn't this type of program been integrated into i3 windows manager? It seems the natural fit for a system that wants to keep your hands on the keyboard.

Does anyone know of something like warpd, but is in the ubuntu repository, instead of someone's github like warpd?
> That said, maybe there are populations which are much more sensitive. I suspect the lawsuit would be more informative to learn more.

Yeah, the LD50 is misleading for potassium in this context. Most people can tolerate higher doses completely fine, but people with kidney and cardiac issues can die from doses on the order of ~10g (typically due to arrhythmias/fibrillation).

Put another way, the theoretical ratio of LD50 to LD1 is way larger for potassium compared to most other common meds.
As someone who was against the Iraq war, it's hard to express how important Paul Krugman's columns were to me at the time. It felt like the world had gone mad, but he provided an island of sanity. And he was right about the war.

I also appreciate Krugman's rediscovery of current music as an older person. It encouraged me to keep exploring.

My favorite Krugman moment is him visiting the White House after he won the Nobel Prize. This photo of him with Bush (who he'd been railing on for 8 solid years) is priceless: https://freakonomics.com/2008/11/bush-congratulates-krugman/
How could you possibly claim that Jone's has faced no consequences when the best case scenario is him spending $10-100MM to buy back his business from his creditors?
What is the Hacker News posting limit?
Can an AI Agent post autonomously to HackerNews?
No need to picture a cute hypothetical set of facts that are dissimilar to that actual set of facts.

These are serious military protocols not a academic exercise in a vacuum.

Unauthorized flying of even dji drones near and over military bases is illegal and people get arrested for it. In fact a Chinese citizen was just arrested yesterday for flying a drone over a Space Force base.

Based on reports and video evidence the drones being observed are not common dji drones (certainly not a kite blown over the fence), reports are these are 6-10ft and don’t have any radio frequency. Otherwise they are being reported as specifically going to/coming from military bases.

And though I don’t think it is credible, at least one Congressman is publicly stating these are Iranian military drones being launched from Iranian submarines.

Just seems to me “scrambling jets” seems like something out of a movie to people unfamiliar, but it’s an daily occurrence.
Map of Wikipedia pages, tagged by geolocation
I don't believe they used an LLM to gather or transform information ahead of generating this map (used https://wikinearby.toolforge.org, a database of geotagged articles), but the ease of processing the necessary information to create something like this using AI is part of the reason the future could be great.
This is emphatically not an "entire population" question. This is an individual rights question. I don't know what safeguards exist in other countries to prevent "people who are unstable or overwhelmed personally" from "leaping to the extreme", but in Canada the rules are strict and multiple doctors have to sign off. You can read the MAiD eligibility criteria and the approval process here[0].

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-servi...
This is awesome! Thank you for building this.
Oh, you can't judge this, but you can declare hundreds of millions of Americans as "not normal" and yourself better than them. Is this a joke?
Guess everything will be quantum content now. It only converges to a concrete state if you look. I hate content superposition.
Huh? If your point with comic books etc. is that "sometimes some people take issue with things that end up inert", then sure. No argument there.

I suspect that your point was more broadly that the presence of those people somehow suggests that we should discount risks about the particular subject we're discussing today, then it makes no sense. The comic book examples only matter if you can demonstrate a systematic tendency to overrate risk.

You'd struggle to demonstrate such a tendency due to selection bias, so I maintain my position that each technology should be assessed on its own merits and not by associating it with other positive or negative reactions to other types of technologies.
This seems like a terrible license. Imagine if an email client were released under it. As soon as someone sent you a nonpublic email, you'd be in violation of it.
I tried a joystick on my keyboard, but for me it didn't really work! To be fair I also don't really like the track-point. I wasn't able to find a joystick "nub" that was comfortable to use, most joystick on the market are not meant for the kind of use that i would need on a keyboard and are really uncomfortable, maybe you could 3d print something more ergonomic but I'm not sure.

One thing I would love to try is a couple of really sensitive encoders for the two axis of a mouse. My split keyboard already has two encoders but they are to "stiff" to be used as mouse.
Show HN: Typosquat Domain Search
That's a high concentration. Drugs are often effective in nM concentrations.
It feels like a general rule of thumb is that the more efficient you make a system, the more brittle it becomes
> If they maintained a steady presence in the space

Problem is no one gets promoted for that. That would require a vision and strong leadership.

Something both Apple and Meta have but Google does not.
Bin Laden should have been arrested and processed by a court.
Killing the Iranian General was wrong. (this is a place for covert action, perhaps)

Same with everyone else the US has killed by drone.

Sentenced by a court to die, given the rule of law, is OK.

(note my personal belief is that the death penalty is wrong. today, it is legal).
Note: the title should be updated.

The BBC article title now says "Assisted dying" not "euthanasia".
Often, the distinction hinges on whether the patient or a medical practitioner administers a substance that brings about death. The Canadian policy actually provides for both, but as I understand it the stats being cited in the article combine both, so only a subset of the tally are "euthanasia" deaths.
Pro tip: did you know that there are certain words and phrases that make people's glaze over? Many authors of press releases don't. "XR" is one and "Gemini" is another. Use more than one in the same headline and your audience concludes the message is "move along folks nothing more to see here"

(at least they avoided 5g and blockchain... for now)
The rules of robotics vav a bolshivist robot... interesting.
+1, so true!
I find it cliched but still interesting that the rebuttals to my opinion on this particular topic are so vitriolic and laden with, as the poster above you has done,ad hominems and emphatic statements of incredulity. It kind of supports the assertion that ugly people are so disliked that to even suggest that they might be at a severe disadvantage is fought against because giving them even a smidge of sympathy or acknowledgement due to the accident of their birth is simply untenable. It might also stem from a rejection of the concept due to inciting hopelessness in the rejector should they accept it as true. Or maybe it's unconscious yet ill informed benevolent dishonesty.

Nevertheless, there are countless scientific studies outlining the severe disadvantage ugliness inflicts on people in all aspects of life. This has been magnified by social media.

You can't really "bootstraps mentality" physical attractiveness outside of weight control. All the confidence in the world won't help a goblin be desirable. Plus, personality is as genetic as looks, and some people just aren't wired for extroversion.

I fear that pushing a bootstraps narrative for ugly people will just result in unwarranted self blame.
Like a Google account? I’ve always been curious if that actually had ever been a showstopper for anyone other than very niche tech circles.
Read the Code: Using Drop for Safety in Rust
Show HN: Made an akshually good AI logo maker with SVG exports
As an indie developer working on multiple projects at once, one of the most annoying (and time-consuming) things is creating logos. I don’t have the time or the budget to hire a designer for each new app or side project, but I still need something that looks professional and fits the brand. That’s exactly why I built Proicon.ai.

I wanted a tool that could help me quickly generate logos without needing to be a design expert. You just input a few details about your project—what it’s about, the vibe you’re going for—and the AI does the rest, giving you a variety of logo options to choose from. And since it exports everything as SVG, I can tweak it further in Figma if I need to make adjustments.
Mozi is a private social network for seeing your people more, IRL
For those who want to know the most consistent UFOlogy angle that wasn't invented last week: Over on 4chan there was an alleged leaker and follow ups back in 2023 who says that there's an underwater ET mothership off the east coast that produces 3-d printed made to order small anti-gravity drones that launch and do various tasks to monitor us. Anything that approaches the underwater mothership is destroyed before they even know they're under attack. They treat us like zoo animals, have been here for at least 100 years, and mostly ignore us except when we get trigger happy with nuclear weapons[1]. This is largely consistent with "The Crowded Galaxy" resolution to the Fermi Paradox[2].

From a UFOlogy angle, America trying to start WWIII with Russia might have something to do with all this uptick in drone activity since there was a huge amount back in the 40s and 50s when we were also at the brink with the USSR.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/4chan-whistleblower-NXjWQaN

[2] https://botsfordism.substack.com/p/the-crowded-galaxy
The ccp extension is just another c++ flavour /i
Not really because it’s subjective to the level of player. What’s a blunder to a master player might only be an inaccuracy to a beginner. The same applies for higher levels of chess player. I’ve watched GothamChess say “I’ve no idea why <INSERT GM> made this move but it’s the only move,” then Hikaru Nakamura will rattle off a weird 8-move sequence to explain why it’s a major advantage despite no pieces being lost. Stockfish is a level above even Magnus if given enough depth.
Sounds like you're assuming that the Maidan sniper massacre was Yanukovych's doing. There is good reason to believe it was orchestrated by the far right because they didn't want a peaceful solution.

Ivan Katchanovski is a Ukrainian-born Canadian political scientist who is definitely not a Russian sympathizer. He has studied the history of the Maidan uprising and argues convincingly (IMO) for this conclusion.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266855828_The_Snipe...

He also has a very interesting podcast with Robert Wright where he discusses this, among other issues related to the Ukraine war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rvx_M3_Yi0

I also recommend following his twitter account if you're interested in a fairly neutral perspective on the Ukraine war: https://x.com/I_Katchanovski
When people start throwing ad hominems, and incredulous suggestions of getting therapy, that's when I know they know they have no argument.
Yeah, the "just use something like Caddy" is the main issue. Most software and especially most hardware appliances aren't that progressive yet.

A big part of the reason why shorter cert validity is desirable is because CAs routinely violate the mandatory revocation deadline, usually with an argument which boils down to "$BigOrg doesn't want to". And they don't want to because they have developed an extremely complicated manual process around certificate renewal, sometimes requiring weeks from end to end.

Luckily most of the cert issues are primarily administrative, but it does show what the PKI infrastructure will most likely be unable to timely respond to an incident with real-world consequences. The major browsers are already planning to reduce the validity of all certificates to 90 days or even less, and LetsEncrypt serves a nice role by showing everyone that high-frequency renewal is indeed possible. After all, if a nonprofit can do it surely a well-paid CA wouldn't have any issues with it?

By normalizing short certificate lifetimes they are essentially forcing the industry to innovate. Either make sure everything using certs has an API which allows for automatic renewal, or stop using the public PKI infrastructure and run your own private CA.
> With the iPhone XR

Enough time has passed that this doesn't feel like a real concern.
Not in chess, where the (by far) most likely outcome of a world championship classical game is a draw. When Magnus Carlsen played Fabiano Caruana for the world championship, EVERY classical game was a draw and they had to go to tiebreaks, which no longer makes it a classical tournament.
Postal Service's plan to electrify mail trucks falling far short of its goal
> To a new user coming from Teflon, they absolutely stick.

That's exactly what I read everywhere before buying the pans a couple years ago, I was fully expecting things to stick a lot but somehow never had issues...
I feel the same way, it's incredibly frustrating how many HTs exist these days that can charge off of USB-C PD but still require these janky headset jack adapters to even do serial data transfers. There hasn't been a good excuse for lacking full native USB support for over a decade at this point. I can not explain it in any good faith way, the only logical reason I can come up with is an intentional choice to keep people buying the adapters.

I don't even care if it's just the USB-Serial aspect and not audio/SDR capabilities. Something more than just charging.
Looks like a chance to finally have modern standalone HMD with unlocked bootloader. Meta and ByteDance ones are locked down and full of spyware
oh...thanks, apologize for my typo
Characteristics of the Entrepreneur: Social Creatures, Not Solo Heroes
I don't see mention of OHM anywhere within TimeMap, is there something I'm missing? Is there a page about where the historical data comes from for the map?
AMD Platform Security Processor – OSS Firmware for SEV on Genoa
Magnus is bored of classical chess and doesn't want to spend 6 months every two years preparing for classical games against one opponent.
Didn't Google flat out deny that Stadia was getting shut down only to see it close 2 months later?
I think that's not quite the point. Leela has an advantage over AB chess engines, where it has multi-PV for "free", meaning it will evaluate multiple lines by default at no cost to performance (traditional engines, like Stockfish, will lose elo with multi-PV). This allows us to know at a glance if a position is "draw/win with perfect play" or if there is margin for error. If Leela shows multiple moves where one side maintains a winning advantage/losing disadvantage/equality, we can use that as a computer-based heuristic to know if a position is "easy" to play or not.
> Nobody says "Hey, at least this has a human touch! I'm sick of basketball video games." if the NBA finals are relatively boring one year.

Complete strawman. You are one of very few people who think this match was "relatively boring."
I dunno if it's in your wheelhouse, but I recently discovered a "game cafe" locally that allows folks to check out games by the hour (like a very specialized library), but they also sell beer/wine/coffee/pastries plus running the events like you said. I am so incredibly sad I didn't think of that first - that forehead slapping moment is my definition of a "good idea"
I meant that he built the business out of attaching sandy hook parents and similar actions. I think that's the obvious reading for anyone who knows anything about Jones.

I sure could have been clearer. But what exactly are you saying? That he didn't build his business this way? Or are you just trying to attack the words I used.

What are you hoping to accomplish by parsing my words technically?

>> Whatever you think about Jones, it doesn't do anyone any good to portray the Sandy Hook case as being about other things.

What do you mean? My whole point is that Sandy Hook is not different from what Jones did every single day, and you don't seem willing to disagree with me. You just seem to want to parse my words.

Why? What exactly is your point here? Why are you arguing this specific turn of phrase? Unless you think that Alex Jones is a voice you want to hear and protect. Why don't you just say that?
Excellent stuff! I’ve worked in this area. Have you considered applying ratios like the Altman z-score?

I’m also curious how you back tested to get the final scoring.
Satellite Photos Show China's Warships in Naval Standoff
do you think that grad students doing research at a university are pulling in millions in grant money
I worked at the salt factory that is the supplier for a lot of these companies. Management is a shit show and their health and safety is trash. We had animals on the property, the staff are poorly trained, and the environment is not conducive to making a good safe product.
I heard this when I was young, and I wasn't that familiar with the Dr Who TV show. So when a hockey game was on TV I thought "oh cool they're playing the Dr. Who song".
I'd bet on Meta because XR is Zuckerberg's Moby Dick whereas it is 20% of a 20% priority at GOOG. Meta is watching competitors (Vision Pro) but also keeping an eye on cost conscious consumers. It's so refreshing to see "Big Tech" taking such a pragmatic approach.
I don't have many friends.

It won't be hard to convince 5 people.

If I badly need to reach out, I will just make a normal phone call or text.
I fed TRELLIS an image of the left side of my Vespa, and it correctly (mostly) added exhaust on the other side.

Super, super cool to see -- really hyped for what this means for 3D representations!
Likely nothing will happen, but the way it looks, it is not obvious it is only for testing and you now posted it in the open and there seems a comercial intent. The law is quite clear there last time I checked, it needs an adress. (Even for uncomercial projects it seems advisable).
To clarify, you can't use any teflon or ceramic nonstick coating at the temps required, regardless of heating method. The coatings will degrade, and possibly poison you.

That being said, you don't need to be using gas. It is possible to get good wok hei on an induction wok, despite what the foodie peanut gallery says. Not on a 120V unit, though. You need to use a commercial multi-kilowatt setup.
I like that first comment:

"Microsoft continues to have a terrible abusive relationship with its customers. It's what Microsoft wants, not what the customer wants."

Yup, that pretty much sums up why I left for Linux.
Some of the countries, like Japan, are close enough to racially homogenous that the results wouldn't be affected. For France or something it would be more interesting to see racial breakdowns, if the data existed. I don't think that means the comparison in the chart is arbitrary
Looks like FileMaker is still around, or do they somehow not count as end-user db?
Anyone who's been close to a dying cancer patient knows what the last couple months are like for many: unending suffering plus tomorrow will be worse. Many people would choose not to suffer like that and I can't understand who anyone else is to tell them they must endure utter misery for nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMSAT-OSCAR_7#Use_by_Polish_an...

The oldest operating satellite (older than the Voyagers) appeared to fail to due a battery issue, but somehow woke up in a mostly-working state soon after. It was noticed by activitsts in Poland, and was used to bounce radio messages out of the country. Since satellite communication is pretty directional, and into the sky, it was difficult-to-impossible to triangulate the source of the signals.
>it would take far longer to unpack them than it took you to type them

Why is this a barometer for whether to answer a question or unpack assumptions?