skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to pin this on "wealth inequality" is misdirection. Amazon having a large market cap and Jeff Bezos owning a significant fraction of the shares isn't really what caused any of this.

The real issue is poverty, and in turn cost of living. People can't afford housing, become desperate, crime increases. But trying to fix this with "safety nets" is basically "let them eat cake" unless you have a way to fund it, and trying to fund it while the prices are still so high means the government can't afford it either, whereas if you were to adopt policies that lowered housing prices then that would be the solution in itself.

But now you need to make that happen in San Francisco.
Coca-Cola is luxury in this sense too.
Are there sentencing guidelines for judges? Do those guidelines recommend letting the criminals back out, or are the judges going against the guidelines?
I don’t do anything in that list you just mentioned, and I will probably stop drinking tea from a bag now. This is helpful research.
or use a small metal or ceramic bowl to hold the tea -> zero plastic involved.
TikTok / IG prankster arrested for spraying pesticide on grocery store produce
Are you really saying that you want to make thinking the wrong things a crime?
I mean, why not? I get your point but before wide encompassing studies and meta studies, a lot of things will be looked at because we can look at them. It's like asking why investigate dolphin language instead of all animal communication.
Show HN: Try test-driven agent development in this holiday prompting challenge
Our team at Invariant has built an awesome agent testing challenge for the holidays, that showcases how agent development can benefit from concepts known from test-driven software engineering.

You can play the challenge at the linked URL. You are given a pre-existing agent implementation where you can only change the system prompt and your goal is to make a small test suite of unit tests pass. The tool implementations are complete, but the agent needs to be instructed to use them properly.

The challenge was created to showcase two open source projects we released recently: A trace viewer for agent trajectories (Explorer, https://github.com/invariantlabs-ai/explorer) and a library for building agent unit tests (Testing, https://github.com/invariantlabs-ai/invariant).

Let us know what you think, we'll be around in the comment section. Happy holidays everyone!
If you are seeking a country that doesn't overspend, you should move to Somalia. If you want an actual constructive conversation in which we don't portray the opposite side inaccurately, please document yourself on capitalist realism: you don't even have to agree!

Merry Christmas to you too.
If you microwave your consumables in plastic that is on you. Microwavable plastic is a marketing myth. Put your food on a plate or bowl and cover it with a wet paper towel.
what would AI do that human intelligence couldn't? Is it not a linear cause-and-effect relationship? more plastics cause more illness? (yes | no). If plastics are toxic, wouldn't we see for ourselves (thus NOT requiring AI) a proportionate increase in sickness in samples (people or animals) with higher plastic in their bodies? Why is the message more profound if AI tells you versus a human team of college researchers?
The idea that someone should be paid by a corporation when they don't provide value is very strange to me. Doing so seems like the real race to the bottom
Brand-new chip has no little cores, could beat Snapdragon in mid-range phones
One should avoid all the things which you mentioned and using a microwave at all.

The context is a comparison between good old paper tea bags.
I just use a French Press.
> And sure, maybe books like Checklist Manifesto and The Goal could have been reduced to a hundred tight pages.

The Checklist Manifesto came from a New Yorker article. The article was perfect, the book is repetitive and full of stuff (building plans for a office tower are a checklist — sure, and at that point the word has lost all its meaning).

Read the article! Really, it‘s great. Skip the book.

And the book is rather thin already, not some 600 pager.
I can taste and feel the chemicals in tea bags, so I always wash the bags with cold water, then a first draw of boiling water, then I fill it up. Feels much cleaner.

When dealing with our highly processed factory food products that come to you direct from a factory, a first wash with clean water is usually a good bet.
I understand the appeal of having a machine helping us with maths and expanding the frontier of knowledge. They can assist researchers and make them more productive. Just like they can make already programmers more productive.

But maths are also fun and fulfilling activity. Very often, when we learn a math theory, it's because we want to understand and gain intuition on the concepts, or we want to solve a puzzle (for which we can already look up the solution). Maybe it's similar to chess. We didn't develop search engines to replace human players and make them play together, but they helped us become better chess players or understanding the game better.

So the recent progress is impressive, but I still don't see how we'll use this tech practically and what impacts it can have and in which fields.
The reason every game studio is trying to force their way into a "Live service" game that hits big is because they are basically unmatched when it comes to profit per unit effort. Whales will pay ANYTHING to buy EVERYTHING you offer, and everything you offer took literally an afternoon for your cheapest artist to throw together.

Honestly Gaijin isn't even the worst offender in this regard. Sure the game is so goddamned grindy that you basically HAVE to spend money if you ever want to play with the fun toys at the top of the tech trees, but a new plane model based on a real machine definitely takes more implementation effort than a hat.
We've used refillable pods for years now.
Musicians: see also radial planar circular harmonics, e.g. drums. This is a halfway point in between vibrating strings and vibrating bubbles. It’s highly applicable in music and is easier to understand and visualize than 3d basis functions; maybe a nice stepping stone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrations_of_a_circular_membr...
you'll still be bitten by the parrot.
These are all questions that are pretty easy to answer these days; perfectly appropriate for asking to an LLM or search engine.

Long story shot - yes, this is a major problem. Yes, you're getting it from bottled water and plastic utensils and plastic lined cups. No, it's not like microwood.

This shit is being found in every organ of our bodies from our sex organs to our brains. It's found in most wild animal samples, it's found in rain, it's found on Everest's peak and in the Mariana Trench. And every indication is that it's getting rapidly worse, scaling up with our ever-increasing plastic production.

And there are perfectly good alternatives for the vast majority of this use, but the costs are a bit higher (since they're not being externalized onto the planet and our organs as much).
Right on. Gotta love 2024.
If you want prison to be used to keep criminals off the streets, then you have to be willing to put criminals in prison for life for even the most minor offenses, because that's the extent you have to go to for this strategy to work.

I mean can you give any non-absurd answer how you think this works? Someone knocks over a liquor store with a box cutter: is there some magic number of years in prison that they can be released where they won't reoffend?

Every piece of evidence I've seen indicates that the opposite happens: people in prison are traumatized further exacerbating mental illness, connected with other criminals, and then released with a criminal record that makes it even harder for them to obtain legal employment, making crime even more attractive. This effect is generational: children separated from their parents by prison time are more likely to end up in prison themselves. Your "solution" doesn't solve crime, it causes crime.

Not only does your "solution" not work, it's ethically repulsive. The vast majority of crimes are crimes of desperation, and you are so self-absorbed that you're only concerned with solving your own problem--crime--and totally unconcerned with the suffering which causes people to commit crime in the first place. Your only solution is to cause even more suffering by locking people up and throwing away the key.

The causes of crime are economic, and crime will continue until that problem is addressed. It's not hard to see that if you have any care at all for your fellow humans.
There's the co-founder of Cloudflare (Lee Holloway) who has frontotemporal degenration at a very young age, too...

https://www.theaftd.org/posts/front-page/cloudflare-co-found...
Talking tea bags, this is a rabbit hole as a few sibling commenters pointed out already:

- most tea bags contain plastic themselves

- pretty much every bakery / small coffee place place serves tea in paper cups lined up with plastic, it's very difficult to get a tea in a proper ceramic cup those days

- waters heaters often have plastic lids

- pretty much every insulated thermos also has at least a plastic cover

For the last one, a friend has recently found some plastic-free thermos: https://www.kleankanteen.com/collections/plastic-free

Please share if you know others.
Where do you find plastic tea bags? I don't think I've ever seen one.
> This is what Amnesty has to say about return:

So Amnesty decides for the Palestinians what the right of return means? Nice. Yeah, sounds super realistic that's what Hamas means when they talk about the right of return.
> I saw the unrelenting pressure investors put on insurers to spend less paying out claims

Once your org has made bank, owns a chunk of the market, margins are stable, and things are coasting and self sustaining push the rent collecting investors out.

See how Disney recently dealt with Nelson Peltz.

Thats the playbook. Don't be a Robot reciting but but I have to please the investor till the heat death of the universe.
We do know that microplastics may be reducing male fertility. I know there are others but I haven't done a ton of research [1]. Wood and stainless steel are different because we have evolved with these materials in our surroundings or at least something close to them. Also, wood, and even metals, do not have the staying power of plastic. We already do know that heavy metals are bad if they stick around in your body, but we do need metals in our diets as nutrients as well.

It should be assumed that anything that we have invented in the last 200 years should be guilty until proven innocent at this point imo. So many of the "modern marvels" have shown to have horrible health effects.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9134445/
If you're first going to golf it, endless-def:

def fib(n, cache=Hash.new{ |h,k| h[k] = k < 2 ? k : h[k-1] + h[k-2] }) = cache[n]
"Microwood" is basically just cellulose, aka insoluble fiber, which naturally exists in our food. "Microsteel" is just elemental iron which is a necessary nutrient.

Microplastics are novel hydrocarbons that don't exist in nature. They're similar to cellulose but no organisms exist that eat them. They're believed to be nonreactive and therefore harmless but they might bioaccumulate which could be bad, or they might react with things in our bodies in unknown circumstances. We have limited experience with these molecules so it is hard to say.
> using a microwave at all

Why?
Go look at it for Hillary Clinton, and specifically the sources for anything from the past 15 years of her life. It's 80-90% corporate news sources owned or controlled by billionaires.
China has faced less strict sanctions and has been able to engage in much more aggressive academic and industrial espionage than post-Soviet Russia. It remains to be seen whether, now that sanctions have ramped up, and access to Western/Japanese research and expertise is being curtailed, they can maintain what they've already replicated, never mind build on it to make newer and better things.
Those same 5 meds are probably free in most EU countries and even some south american ones. It could also be given for free in the US at a fraction of the total spending but that would impact the GDP too much.

From zero to 25usd/month is a huge difference
hopefully, they did find some traces of tea in those tea-bags
Well, no, because those measurements are per ml. A nylon bag uses many more mls than a paper bag using plastic glue.
There are tons of companies that have tea bags made out of biodegradable materials such as tree bark. Or if you don’t have access, consider a metal steeper and loose tea. Unbelievable the stuff people just shove in their gullet with no inspection.
I go to the gym 2-3 times a week. A good workout can't defeat a bad diet.
The study was off by a factor of 10, and the levels of flame retardants found was actually under the FDA guidelines for maximum daily exposure.

However, in my own assessment, my maximum daily exposure to ingested flame retardants should be zero, rather than some off the cuff figure that was certainly done with appeasing industry in mind.

So yes, I still ditched my plastic cookware in favor of stainless steel and silicone, and am still happy that the erroneous study got my attention.
We did for years, and even have a pretty cool one with dual filtration that prevented almost all grit. (the Espro) However, I didn't enjoy the wasted coffee and cleanup, and found that using refillable pods used less coffee and mess for the same product.
How do you cook food?
It's $40 a month for every product. That's affordable for anyone.
I’ve actually found that when I work on less altruistic projects more random roadblocks come up. Take it as a sign from the universe to reflect.
He's not a prankster; he's a poisoner.

He should be charged with attempted murder.
Why would apple release a backpack?

I would be surprised if there's ever a GPT5. o3 seems like it'd be superior in every way
I should have clarified, I wasn't talking about third party auth SaaS providers, I was talking about auth libraries you'd use in your codebase.

I also left "auth" ambiguous and didn't specify "authentication" or "authorization" because my original comment applies to both imo.
This is the second time I've seen the Alexander the OK video about Elite referenced here in two workdays. I love that channel so much, he does excellent dives into the history of more obscure vintage computers, such as the D-17B Minuteman guidance computer and the CK37 used in the Viggen jet
Yeah. Same shit with water. https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2024/1/10/stu...

Currently, I buy Pellegrino at Costco. But probably I just should get a sodastream with a glass bottle and filter my tap water.

Shipping water from Italy. Fucking insane. Maybe I should open my own bottling company with glass bottles.
The key is detachment. You can’t stop the voices but you can ignore them. Don’t get sucked in.
This competes with WASM Serverless, therefore something like Fermyon Spin, which is built on top of it (https://www.fermyon.com/serverless-guide/speed-and-execution...). Wake up a RISC-V emulator on a http request in 1µs, do your thing and exit. Then gone is the RISC-V VM. WASM takes a millisecond or more to spin up, as it is bytecode.

Is there any cloud that provides RISC-V VM's, coupled with SQLite access for persistence?
What exactly is the difference? Are you talking about hardware virtualization via e.g. intel vt-x? Do you mean virtualizing hardware subsystems with drivers instead of forwarding syscalls directly? Running a kernel?

Maybe I’m not seeing how those things are fundamentally different than “setting up a datastructure and calling an interpreter”.
I never thought of peer review as being meant to verify calculations.

But rather to ensure the experimental methodology was sound, it cites the appropriate previous work, that it is significant enough, etc.

I actually think that calculation verification and statistical significance verification is a great idea, but shouldn't be done by "peers", but rather someone who specializes only in that. More of a type of auditor.
An off-by-10x multiplication error in a published paper?

How about this off-by-100x multiplication error I discovered in a published paper[1]?

AFAIK, that paper hasn't been retracted. I was meaning to contact the author and publisher, but never got around to it. A mitigating factor is that the error is made in regard to a side topic of the paper, not the main topic of the paper.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27419018
Yup. Seems like a great idea at the time, until it is both such a great idea that it becomes ubiquitous and we start looking at it more closely.

Kind of a proverbial 'boiling the frog' problem. A little bit of handling lead pipes or pumping leaded gasoline or inhaling or ingesting microplastics won't do anything. But when modern life gets so we're all bathing in the stuff all the time, the big problems are revealed.
It's actually kind of ungolfed. The default version would be just

fib = Hash.new{ |h,k| h[k] = k < 2 ? k : h[k-1] + h[k-2] }

fib[7145]
If only Google’s Product teams were a tenth as good as their engineering teams.
https://archive.is/mAXxS
But isn't that a good thing? I don't mind having more DLLs if stuff just works. It avoids the similar, though harder to solve issues on Linux. I'd rather be able to have a copy of the MSCVRT.DLL than to have to pray that my system has the right glibc to be honest.

But maybe I'm not understanding the trade offs correctly.
Nobody has ever made a printer exceptionally well.

But seriously, you'd have to say how it is that your maker of mundane widgets can do a much better job than any competitor. Maybe the company is run by a printer savant, ok. But if it's just because you have good practices they should be copyable, if it's the best employees it should be possible and worthwhile to coax them away, etc.

A reasonably defined "efficient" market is one that will chip these differences until you have only normal profit being made while making an acceptable product. A long term super-normal profit making a commodity is the opposite of efficiency.
Show HN: I added mining to my WASM rain hash dashboard
Elegant and pithy answer to a well asked question.
Mesh tea bags, like are used at Starbucks, are plastic.
The devs cannot make the game match the reality, because that would be very very unfair for the people who play non-NATO countries. The game needs a semblance of balance.

At least at one point, Russian tanks in the game had just free magic armor to protect the ammo carousel from cooking off from literally any hit. "Spall" and damage fragments would just magically not trigger the ammo cookoff, specifically on some Russian tanks.
Maybe in the "western world", but look up asbestos use and mining and export in brazil, china, russia and you may be horrified.
Check out https://explorer.invariantlabs.ai/benchmarks/ for an interesting list of use cases for agents.
https://www.tiktok.com/@wolfiekahletti
Synchronized drone light show failure injures boy
My thoughts as well. Given their business model, any Honey replacement will be engaging in the same sort of behavior. Never seemed worth it to me.
Ah, interesting. I guess they were manufacturing the bigger corporate machines, and rebranding this medium/small sized printers. They also had solid ink printers (we had one in the office a long time ago) but I think they aren't doing them anymore.

I bought past year a bunch of Xerox branded toners for an HP printer, and I didn't know they had diversified the business that much. I wonder if they manufacture them.
All the big players are pouring a fortune into manually curated and created training data.

As it stands, OpenAI has a market cap large enough to buy a major international media conglomerate or two. They'll get data no matter how blocked they get.
At least in the US, pretty much everything that is state-run, including state-run companies (like Fannie and Freddie) are notorious for being massive money pits that do not generate profits.

Additionally, what you're proposing is incredibly optimistic from the perspective of how much economic utility prisoners actually have.

The median state's average cost of housing a prisoner is about $65,000 a year, with wealthy coastal states like CA, WA, NYC costing over $100,000 per prisoner per year. [1]

It's a sad economic reality, but many of the people in these prisons aren't even economically capable of producing output that has a market value even meeting the costs it takes it house them, let alone exceeding it, with the exceptions being largely concentrated in the minimum security prisons where white collar criminals and executives are housed (think Martin Shkreli, Bernie Madoff, etc), though you obviously can't ask people like that to perform the same kind of economically productive work that enticed them to get themselves sent to prison in the first place, if that were even possible (would you invest any of your money in a hedge fund that had a CEO working from prison for fraud?).

[1] https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-do-states-spend-on-pr...
It's not hard to cut out the exposure listed in the comment with a little effort and time, except for the steel thing which is a bit over the top.
In their attempt to block OpenAI, they block me. Many sites that were accessible just 2 years ago, require login/captchas/rectal exam now just to read the content.
The dangers of sawdust (micro wood?) vary from species of tree to tree, but are generally well known and studied. in particular Manchineel and Yew are known to be dangerous.

Wood in its natural state is not a safe substance. African Mahogany for example is highly toxic, causing dermatitis, respiratory issues, giddiness, vomiting, boils, asthma, headaches, and nosebleeds. Has also been linked to nasal cancer.

https://www.mountainwoodworker.com/articles/toxic_woods.pdf
Linux Benchmarks of Intel Arrow Lake with New Bios / 0x114 CPU Microcode
i bought mirror reflective tint for my back window a couple years ago so that super bright headlights people would get a taste of their own medicine, but decided against it because i didn't want to be a dick just because others were being thoughtless

it would have been pretty effective i think because i drive a hatchback with a very vertical back window
Really interesting stuff - also goes some way to explaining the absolutely massive gatherings you see on Iran on occassion.

As a probably permanent expat with kids, I've been looking for some sort of more social and family oriented culture to raise them, and stuff like that sounds amazing. If we could just pick and choose the parts that each culture excels at!

Though with Alireza I was referring to Alireza Firouzja - a top 10 chess player in the world who also ended up in France like the earlier poster.
Criminality is a social contagion.

Wealth inequality, frankly, has little to do with it.
Please try again: https://vimeo.com/1041701840
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
I’ve never seen glued teabags in Europe it’s usually just a metal staple holding them together.
“The tea bags used for the research were made from the polymers nylon-6, polypropylene and cellulose.”

They aren’t pure plastic.
Oauth usually implies some variability of access - ie selective permissions. Is this more a pure authn layer as opposed to authz?

You have a repo on GitHub... Have you looked at using account public keys for anything? Ie https://github.com/hpsin.keys
I hear a lot about how those keys should get used to bootstrap pki systems but I've not seen it happen yet.