skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to distinguish the actual research from what is relayed by the article. These people are looking for proofs existence of a theoretical objects, the primordial black holes. Finding them would: 1. add proofs to the validity of the current model of the big bang and 2. help quantify the PBHs which we can then add with more certainty to the model. That's obviously very fundamental research, it's not going to lead to application any time soon, but general relativity was too in the 30' and yet we wouldn't have GPS without it.
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For those in California, our union, University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE) has blown the whistle on the inadequate avian bird flu testing in the state. There is only one lab rated in the state of California at UC Davis that is responsible for timely testing of poultry and dairy. You can read the article at the following: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-12-01/lab-worker...

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The University of California system has failed to keep the health and safety of our food supply in safe and working order, with lab testing sometimes waiting weeks for turn around, causing avian bird flu to spread and causing mass culling of chickens, and tainting diary, and increasing the likelihood of animal to human spread.

UPTE members at CAHFS are raising concerns about severe understaffing and unsafe working conditions that jeopardize their critical role in testing for diseases like Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1).

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Pattern Matching in AI Compilers and Its Formalization (Extended Version)
Presence of Perfluorohexanoic Acid in Fluoroelastomer Watch Bands
I've undergone psychiatric care for things not related to psychosis. As for psychosis, I am mentally healthy.

As a child I was obsessed with math. I had a pseudo-religious obsession with Platonism, connected with my childhood fear of mortality. A bizarre belief system.

While trying to make new friends in a new city, I was shunned from a new group for unknown reasons. I was going through a breakup from an abuser. I was depressed and grasping for explanations, thinking I was being conspired against. A persecution complex.

Lack of information and strong emotion are enough.
This is great for situations where you need to edit code within an app ecosystem that won't let you dev locally.

My use-case is ServiceNow which forces us into their crappy proprietary editor.

But you do need to get good at calibrating which sites get set off by it because as others have said you don't want it going off an every little text prompt you get most likely
> pure, liquid, lab-grade fentanyl ... just washes their hands.

Your description is a little hyperbolic! That pubmed paper referenced "10 microgram fentanyl citrate base per ml" approx 0.00001% fentanyl "over a large skin surface area".

Pharmaceutical form for injection is fentanyl
50µg/mL (as citrate). https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/Datasheet/f/Fentanylinj.pd...
True but I don't remember it being nearly as convenient to distribute those modules as it still required the whole build environment on the target and you still had to deal with perls exceptionally efficient but ancient and cumbersome object and type system.

XS wasn't _that_ bad once you got the hang of it; anyways, but I do remember ruby 1.6 coming out and being blown away by how improved the experience of creating distributable C modules was. The class system was flat and easy to access, you could map ruby language concepts into C almost directly, and the garbage collection system was fully accessible.

perl 6 started being discussed right around this time and I think it was clear in the early years that it wasn't going to try to compete on these grounds at all instead focusing on more abstract and complex language features.

Anyways.. even seeing your name just brings me back to that wonderful time in my life, so don't get me wrong, I loved perl, but that was my memory of the time and why I think I finally just walked away from perl entirely.
It's a good local improvement, but the other hand that old traditional syntax was a good effective "keep away" sign in Java that saved many CS students from being fed Java as a first language. And it's still a bad first language after this change. I wonder if this small improvement might make things worse in the big picture.
I got charged for the modem even though I returned it to Xfinity (another champion of customer service) when I canceled. It wasn't worth my time to fight, and I wasn’t going to pay for something I didn’t owe. I could take the hit to my credit rating so I did, and after a few years of collections letters, it went away.
I never understood the move to Discord. Maybe I should host a PhpBB and bring some sanity back.
The argument that our rate of growth will decrease in the future is not incompatible with the argument that our current rate of growth is unsustainable.
> But many states are barring them from public motorways because regulators say they are too fragile to share the road with American-sized automobiles.

But yet we expect cyclists, motorcyclists, and pedestrians to share the roads with American-sized automobiles? If American roads are unsafe for anything that doesn't weigh a couple tons, I think that is the problem that lawmakers should be addressing.
I totally agree. I use java for every possible coding script or task. I have been using it in my company for last 5+ years and have understood the language too well to be able to switch to something else and learn its caveats. In my comfort zone with java and I love that its being actively developed and improved every day.
When does market competitors collaborating on FOSS become anti-competitive, collusion, etc.?

If Apple and Google collaborated on a FOSS smartphone OS that both used, that would seem obviously illegal. What if the collaborated on the kernel only? What about the screen UI only? In a way that seems worse, but engineering-wise it's less significant than the kernel. A security subsystem? Some drivers? Keyboards?

I'm not sure how that applies to these automakers. While none of Apple's or Google's market power, as far as I know, and while an OS is less significant to a car than it is to a smartphone, possibly, I'd be surprised if they all can ship cars with the same OS. Where and how is the line drawn?
>but even then they'd likely be able to make something like a 1750s era blacksmith

They don't mine ore. Once they've scavenged all the scrap, they couldn't make nails. That probably wouldn't be the biggest disadvantage though... they couldn't make much of any manufactured good, and their lifestyle depends on it. Whatever institutional knowledge they had for how to live in the 18th century is long gone.

When they're back to a single-row iron plow pulled behind draft animals, they're not going to be getting 70 bushels of wheat per acre, they'll be getting 10. And then they won't be able to feed large numbers. None of what they do now works if our society fails, they need us. And they don't know how to do things they way they used to do, either.
Have you read the terms or are you just saying things?
Canada's center of bad driving, fraud, and temporary worker abuse.
As if the JS world didn't have enough garbage in it
Ah my bad, mentioning writing applications 3x faster and narrative ties to a day job led me to assume your day job way writing applications :)
All the fuss sounds like protectionism
"model available" would be my preferred term.

Is Photoshop.exe "interpretable" by anybody with a copy (of windows)? How about a binary that's been heavily decompiled, like a Mario game?
You submitted this story 3 hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457979
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Controversial Covid study retracted after four-year saga
I don't think that's necesairily true for HN people?

I regularly get mind-blown by the number of anti-features of modern cars v.s. my 32 y/o Camry.

Some that come to mind: no physical buttons, no right/possibility to repair the car yourself, can't replace the car stereo by something else, extremely slow unusable navigation systems even in 2024 models (I just use my smartphone and put it where the screen would be in a modern car), beeping when not wearing seatbelt even at 5 km/hr on a parking lot, data plans/simcards to enable car spyware, extremely expensive tires with (broken) pressure sensors in them, headlights made of plastic instead of glass that get ugly after a couple of years, use of rusting materials instead of aluminum for body, active suspension systems that are extremely expensive to service, tons of unnecessary electronics that will break as the car gets slightly older and extremely expensive to service. I could go on and on.
cache misses are slow because of latency, not because of throughput.
I prefer using "Sleep as Android" as nothing changes when I change to a different smart watch or android phone.
Thanks!
It would be great to ask what kind of usage you have in mind? I've currently been using the Roslyn plugin mainly with the engine repository itself because it helps me extract queries from tests, I use it in combination with GPT, which helps me create documentation. In the longer term, I would like this plugin to help me refactor some problematic code fragments, but for that I will need to further develop the Roslyn integration itself.
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I have a visa card with a Canadian bank and get transaction messages within 5 seconds of payment usually. Maybe it is a per bank thing?
That's just Podman.
I mean look, some people seem to be extremely productive, and sure, I could say that those people are almost surely more productive than others. It's still genuinely very hard to quantify if those people are actually vastly more productive, or if it just looks like that because they produce more obvious artifacts of their productivity. Hell, what is productivity, is it more productive to fix 1000 bugs or to be the tech lead on a product that reaches 1 million ARR? Does it matter what bugs?

I stand by what I said, whether people like it or not.

Including the part about going off vibes. Please explain how this "you can just kind of tell" mentality is not literally just going off of vibes?

(And I wouldn't choose a cofounder only based on productivity, anyways. I'm not even sure that would be the main criteria.)
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The US would really benefit from having some sort of federal agency tasked with protecting the environment, ensuring clean air and water for taxpayers. I would love to see my tax dollars go towards that.
Discussion (72 points, 15 hours ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450888
Whether it’s inside your circle of influence (not control) or completely outside.
My favorite alignment story: I am starting a nanotechnology company and every time I use Claude for something it refuses to help: nanotechnology is too dangerous!

So I just ask it to explain why. Then ask it to clarify again and again. By the 3rd or 4th time it figures out that there is absolutely no reason to be concerned.

I’m convinced its prompt explicitly forbids “x-risk technology like nanotech” or something like that. But it’s a totally bogus concern and Claude is smart enough to know that (smarter than its handlers).
Circumvention is easy, that is true. It still leaves a sour taste in one’s mouth that you can’t use any default German ISP DNS server without seemingly random blocking orders.
Nice. Some thoughts.

Look at PPM. Your prediction model would work better with personalised data. PPM is efficient (nb. I see you are using python - look at this https://github.com/willwade/pylm - although be warned - i think my code is not quite right..)

Layout shifting for finger movement - well its great if you didnt have to look. The time for visual processing the letters adds a significant lag (its why typical word prediction isnt used that much and when it is - not over 3 predictions (I have papers on this if you are interested). But its not all bad..

Switch users who need next letter prediction this could dramatically support their rate of input. (view https://youtu.be/Bhj5vs9P5cw?si=VnytfH_vdEUWuLok&t=73 - now note how the keyboard blocks the scan up. But imagine if it just scanned each letter first by next most likely - or heck - like this repo - actually changes button position and kept the scan pattern the same. It would be a ton more efficient)

(and a bit of a rabbit hole.. What if keys had word predictions on them? This is basically the end result of ACE-LP: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/ace-lp-augmen...)
Shout-out for the Hooligan rotary-swapped kei truck:

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That's cool ... i just want an awesome new holy moly personal device and I see a GPT phone could be it. Open AI has that Facetime an AI where it sees you and your surroundings and it acts like your talking to a real human.

I want that front and center in my AI phone as my personal assistant. The AI Phone's UI would be sparser.. wouldn't be a lot of UI (some app icons but not as app icon driven). While the image/video of your AI chat bot personal assistant you look and talk with could be a celebrity to a deceased relative or loved one (they live on and help you through your day to day). There's so much things to innovate and move forward from the boring iPhone!

Hopefully Open AI makes an even bigger announcement of getting into the personal device business soon (or later).
Oof. I’m sorry.

From someone acquired by ServiceNow… I hope your stock options are worth it
> We absolutely have the technology to make growth sustainable

No, respectfully, we don't.

Every organism that succeeds in doing what you advocate for (growing "sustainably") is swept from the record. If life doesn't cycle (grow/shrink) or otherwise live in equilibria, life exhausts its niche on any meaningful timescale, and the universe sends it into oblivion.

Perhaps interestingly, even records of "successfully" growing are purged, because the most effective thing that persists records of life on long timescales is the descendant path of the life itself (whether that's specific DNA sequences maintained as mutational clocks by cellular machinery, or libraries of books and concepts maintained by specific civilisations), and uncapped growth collapses the informational diversity required for life to thrive and persist -- by which I mean that we, as continuously persisting living biological and cultural structures, are the best evidence of living things like us existing a million or a thousand years ago.

When the lineage dies, evidence of the experiment rapidly decays, compared to actually successful experiments that refrain from growth and collapse of their ecology. Only DNA/culture that doesn't "succeed" in growing beyond its resources survives on a significant timescale. When an overly zealous strain of life grows too much and fails, evidence of that life is swiftly and rapidly purged as well, for any later life that cares to try to look.
This is the actual data. It's a hell of a story don't you think? High end watch bands on many of our wrists containing high levels of toxic chemicals that our bodies have great difficulty eliminating.
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>Well, see, if human population plunges enough, then there wont be the society that favors low fertility.

In that scenario, no one does well. Back when we lived primitively, there was a large young population, tens of millions globally. Any single death or small group of deaths didn't really threaten extinction except locally (usually not even that). But though total population will be high even well into this era, it will be top-heavy with geriatric humans. A few deaths of those of reproductive age could have grim consequences.

Everything works counterintuitively with declining populations.
By definition a US Person would not have a visa, since that qualifier only applies to US nationals, permanent residents (which do not need nor have a visa, permanent residents do not apply for admission after status is granted), refugees or asylees.
Sure, but i was talking about an individual process. If you don't know what state it's in, you simply can't trust it to run anymore. That's all.
Would it? Especially as it's FOSS - rising ship raises all tides and all that.

If it was behind closed doors, then yes.

(Usual IANAL a lawyer disclaimer, and I don't mean my comment to shoot yours down - think there is merit in further discussion here!)
That's why genetic mutations happened and they grew hands and started smelting on land.

This happened.
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Probably via Tabby (https://www.tabbyml.com/)
Read Moby Dick; it's more relevant today than possibly ever before and arguably essential reading for Americans (if it wasn't before).

It's a challenging book to read; don't be surprised if some of Melville's writing never quite makes sense; not everything has to make sense. The narrator, who introduces themself at the outset, is a person of varying reliability - you'll need to decide how much.

Reality edges closer to Melville's fantasy.
That is a valid tradeoff in many situations, yes.
How old are these mini-trucks? The article mentions a '91; similar American-made vehicles also had some safety issues in the 1990s.

• Dateline NBC 1996 Minivan Crash Testing (https://youtu.be/QNNkAvT6lns)

Then again, maybe more domestic vehicles should be illegal.
Exactly like that (well, almost exactly: if python includes the quotes then it's not really equivalent to print()).

The point was that by including that print(), people already do say yes to including "like you'd do in a real program" ceremony in their supposedly minimal examples.
Yeah, it just sounds like the ole "no one wants to work anymore" line when really it's you're not paying enough.
A safe, air conditioned kei truck would be great, but I can’t imagine a small truck in America given the current gigantic car culture. Sedans are too small for the American market now, let alone subcompact cars which are already gone.
Sure, abuse by the government is the exception, private enforcement with little oversight has to be normalized before.
The UK is poor because they decided to financialize the economy in the 90s and stop making things. It's like canada where the GDP per capita goes down every year. I'm amazed there hasn't been a revolution.
Ford maverick fits that and still no one else makes anything comparable. There are wait lists and dealer mark ups.

Not as small as these but way smaller then pickups and handles like a big car. Hybrid awd model is coming this year
Their switches are just crap. They use Omron switches mostly due to their low cost, even on supposedly "high-end" mice. People routinely replace them with better alternatives (e.g. TTC Gold or Kailh, but there are lots of them) and get years of heavy usage after that without any problems. The switches can be obtained on aliexpress, you do need a soldering iron though.
The Fermi paradox can be answered in so many ways, and is tied to questions like what is the purpose of life and the universe.

Beyond the existence of a single person (such as myself, or you) what do we exist to do?

Is it to learn the universe? (Curiosity)
Is it to decrease entropy locally in order to increase it globally? (Spend energy)
Is it to increase complexity? (Do interesting things, foster maximum diversity?)

For example, if the purpose is indeed curiosity, maybe all we will need is one Dyson sphere in order to understand the universe. We could have a dozen super intelligent life forms in our galaxy alone and probably wouldn't notice them. Basically would just look like a quiet black hole the size of a star.
Large companies (think FAANG) can and do have non cleared, non citizen, non us persons (permanent residents, refugees and asylees) working on such projects with the proper separation of scopes, data access restrictions and so on.
Could the 10bits be some sort of instruction-set-address-width?

Meaning that while you are solving the rubik‘s cube, your brain has the capacity of switching into one of 2^10=1024 possible next states, which might fire nerve impulses for the body and also come with a new set of 1024 next states?

When focusing on the cube about 20 or 30 of the next states could be related to the cube, while the rest is concerned with bodily sensations, other thoughts etc.

What if learning something well meant that less states need to be reserved for the task/cube at hand because the decision tree going forward has become more efficiently packed, so more states are open for something else.
Where would you place this between osquery and steampipe? It seems to borrow concepts on both sides, but I'm not sure how it could not be plugin for either.
> Especially as it's FOSS - rising ship raises all tides and all that.

That's anti-competitive, at least in many ways. I doubt Ford could freely give GM some highly profitable technology to help GM's profits; Ford should maximize its advantage. OTOH, there are industry standards - but those could be defined by performance or they could possibly be for (non-competitive?) aspects like safety.