skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Please don't go! Bad things might happen!"

Better, in my opinion, is a clear and easy way to "uncancel" if you accidentally cancel. But even that can be abused: "Here's a button that looks like a confirmation, but actually it's a resubscribe button." It's just too tempting to make that "number of people who resubscribed after cancelling" number a target. You think you're reminding the customer of their mistake, but really you're just optimizing the dark pattern.
A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
Results demonstrate that the Waymo ADS significantly outperformed both the overall driving population (88% reduction in property damage claims, 92% in bodily injury claims), and outperformed the more stringent latest-generation HDV benchmark (86% reduction in property damage claims and 90% in bodily injury claims).
> Hamas fighters are not fighting in uniform. They do qualify as Prisoners of War.

I'm assuming you meant "do not". Please see the U.S. State Department's report on the "exceptional measures" involved: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-country-reports-on-human-.... This is in direct violation of the UN Declaration of Human rights.

> I’ve seen absolutely no evidence for this. Can you share evidence that Israel is precisely destroying water, sewer and electrical infrastructure?

Google is your friend here. I didn't (couldn't initially) believe it myself until details of this (initial) BBC report came out in May. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68969239 What, indeed, could possibly be the anti-terrorism purpose of destroying solar panels?

> Why in the world would Israel fire expensive precision guided missiles in unguided modes instead of using unguided missiles instead in the first place?

Because, apparently, a preponderance of exigent circumstances dictated a rapid response--collateral damage be damned. Being more than passingly familiar with guidance systems technology and avionics in "smart" glide-bombs, and their exorbitant costs relative to "dumb iron", this is just stupid. Additionally, the IDF has the most highly trained urban assault force and undercover (Duvdevan) anti-terrorist commando (Egoz) units in the world and yet they somehow _must_ bomb an entire hospital to (potentially) take out a single cell?!

> For the most part, the failure of aid reaching where it needs to go has been a result of Israel being unable to provide security. We’ve seen what happens when Israelis don’t provide security for aid workers.

Notable that the "inability to provide security" seems highly selective wrt the source of the aid and not its contents. See details of the WCK attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_conv... and also this UN report https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148141 .

I completely concur on "genocide" being an attempted "Day 1 PR-flank", but far too many precise and planned actions have since been taken. In a perverse way, the Israel government played into Hamas' hands at the expense of the Palestinian people, trade, the quality of life of the Israeli people and further instability in the region.

As I mentioned in a prior thread, see the actions of the British in east Africa against the Kikuyu for a close historic analog.

I had hopes that Gallant's official ouster would be a political pole-star/umbrella under which the Knesset could rally, but that (sadly) appears not to be the case.
In addition, this society has to fail to identify what the resulting health problems were caused by. If only the people who ate the excavated material or live in its vicinity get sick, that should eventually be obvious before they spread it to the whole human population through their weird global religion.
I definitely get the appeal. It’s analogous to the single file executable. One file to move around, no install process needed, just grab and run. It was the main reason I used to reach for Delphi back in the day for Windows utilities.
How to Mirror Worg to a Hyperdrive
Cool! This could be interesting as the base for a quick kanban board for mid-sized personal projects.

That said: agree with others that sharing state between devices (either yours or others), and being able to collaborate on the same board, is sort of the canonical feature requirement of kanban boards. They can be used for 1-person projects, goal tracking, etc. - I've used e.g. Notion boards in this way - but they gain most of their value from allowing multiple people to share awareness of task status and ownership.

Plus the use of localStorage means I'd eventually blow away my board state by accident - which is kind of a showstopper IMHO; being able to trust your tools is important.

Still: nice to see people experimenting with what you can do just using web basics :)
Is this a feedback widget on the frontend and an AI summarizer on the backend? If not, then I have no idea what it is. If so, then consider being clearer about (a) what the tool specifically does, (b) what uses cases it specifically addresses.
Given that Bezos has announced plans to donate $1M to Trump’s inaugural fund, supporting local businesses helps keep money out of the hands of fascists.
The message needs to be honed.

Subtitle of “More trials, not laxer standards” then gives an example of RBM where in-person site visits and comprehensive data validation are replaced by digital “checks”.

Ok, so “laxer standards” it is!

The key is knows which standards can be more lax without jeopardizing patient safety.

But I agree with the idea of the FDA incentivizing sponsors to leverage cost and time saving technologies. They often won’t do it themselves (or at least not quickly), but the FDA is in an ideal position to incentivize it.
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I find this article particularly hard to read. The author states:

> I’m using Python as pseudocode; pretend I used your favorite low-level language)

But then the code is full of Pythonic constructs alien to any other low-level language (and, I suspect, also to most casual Python users) that spoil all the fun. I found myself spending more time parsing the specific syntax than grokking the intent of the code.

I think using more explicit loops and less lambdas would have made the article more meaningful.
I would think that "pressing the button to turn on the backlight so I can check the time" would be a good indication that I'm awake :)
> mobile generators offering free power

Wow, where is this magical place? I want to move there. :)
Completely agree with most of that, especially the problem that allowing nulls means that all of your values are now suspect.

Just picking up on the term "sentinel" here, which I believe refers to using an actual member of the set to represent something else - which I am totally against,

e.g.

int itemCount = countItemsIn() - countItemsOut();

The rationale goes: no-one would ever think -1 is a valid count of items, so we can use it as an error sentinel.

Then when countItemsIn() returns 1 and countItemsOut() fails, we deduce that itemCount is 2.

So I guess a sentinal is a kind of dual to a null (which is a non-member of a set pretending to be a member)
No platform should facilitate targeted anonymous messages; that’s one thing we’ve for sure learned about social media, in part thanks to Sarahah. It should be noted that the reason Google and Apple “disliked” it is that hundreds of thousands of their customers petitioned to have it removed. Those people were mostly parents whose kids were getting bullied anonymously.
I get them within 30 to 45 minutes, consistently. You won't get them if the people are traveling with you.
It depends on the city.

> Police to give out free air tag tracking devices to combat rise in stolen vehicles

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/police-to-give-out-f...
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I unarchived it and started working on it again.
Cannabis has nothing to do with the deaths. They could have been fertilizing peace lillys with the same outcome.

Clickbait
International Day Against Digital Restrictions Management
Yeah, gonna add stripe and paddle integrations soon.
The term covers a variety of styles, with old ones hanging around as new ground is broken. Perhaps it is a "meta-genre". There are various articles around explaining its history which might be worth looking at, if you're interested.
I'd expect to hear some degree of improvisation in jazz, but not in easy listening.
I would be stoked if you wanted to contribute.
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Excellent!

"green" is green, but my favorite is "peace" actually.
25kW? That is crazy huge! How many panels? What does this guys house (mansion!?) look like? Google tells me that average installation size is about 7-8kW.
"September 29, 2024: I check the reported issues today and confirm they are all fixed."

This is the most amazing thing about this story. Not only did the company not threaten him, they actually fixed the issues.
Another jurisdiction example would be Romania. Even if the thief themselves are in possession of the property you own, you can be charged with theft if you steal it back. The law clearly delimits possession from ownership.
PCs are all about customization/flexibility, control, performance, and value (perf/$).

On your watch, phone, or Mac desktop you generally have no choice on OS, not much control on ram, storage, GPU performance, etc. You can't have ECC, you can't expand the ram, can't have 4x M.2 drives, and often can't repair them. Sure you can max out a M2 ultra's ram, but it's going to be pricey.

Do you want Linux (Asahi is trying, but is currently only supporting M1/M2)? Freebsd? ECC memory? 5 disks of spinning rust for ZFS? How about a 96GB ram desktop, fast GPU with 16GB, and 12 fast cores (zen 5) for $1500?

So far ARMs for desktops are either crazy expensive, very limited (Apple), or slow (Qualcomm SXE). If you want to move up to workstation/server class the AMD Siena, Genoa, and Turin are pretty compelling compared to their ARM competitors. Say you need a ton of ram or high memory bandwidth for $750 you can get the Epyc 9115 for $750, motherboards are similar, and you can have 12 64 bit wide DDR5 dimms (actually 24 32 bit wide memory channels) for whatever your memory intensive needs are.

I'm all for ARM, have wanted to buy a Mac studio, but just couldn't justify it compared to a desktop PC that had better support for Linux, better support for numerous LLM stacks, more flexibility, and should be relatively easy to repair and keep running for a decade or so, like my last desktop.
Yeah, I wanted to see all the products at a glance without having to click & open each one of them.
Reuters was forced by a lawsuit to take down the post. They eventually got it posted again but not without a disclaimer on it.
Is there a deadlocked thread that should have rendered the 'n'?
Ask HN: Why did psychology take so long to evolve?
Psychology became really effective in recent years (aprox. since the '90s). I personally know from multiple sources that modern psychotherapy can cure most psychological problems completely and permanently. But my question is not about effectiveness. It's about evolution and context.

Why did it take so long for psychology and psychotherapy to evolve to where it is today?

It didn't need any electricity, plastics, it doesn't use precision tools, microscopes, or even advanced math. It does use some basic statistics.

I belive that even ancient romans or greeks could have done psychology. They already had philosophy. Why not psychology?

So why did it take so long? What was missing?
I find all of the geeking-out about how we might warn people not to mess with such a facility kinda irrelevant relative to this little sentence:

"in fact, the jury’s still out on whether WIPP has solved the basics of the storage problem at all. In February of 2014, a leak was detected at WIPP which exposed several workers to radiation and WIPP has been closed since"

If you follow the link, you find gems such as

"The report states that it took 10 hours to respond to the initial emergency alarm, then a bypass in the filtration system allowed the radiation to escape above ground. “They failed to believe initial indications of the release,” said board chairman Ted Wyka. It also found that much of the operation failed to meet standards for a nuclear facility; a lack of proper safety training and emergency planning; lagging maintenance; and a lack of strategy for things like the placement of air monitors."

Given that we can't even keep such facilities safe while they're staffed and operated with the sole goal of providing safe storage, it seems pretty clear that waste storage is not, as nuclear power proponents like to claim, a "solved problem", and is in fact most likely unsolveable.

Nuclear technology is not, never was, and never will be safe. Because people are fallible, stupid and greedy.
Definitely very much like an average GM.

Facts:

- 18 years old, GM since age 12

- Youngest ever world champion after being youngest ever winner of the candidates

- Youngest ever to have > 2750 FIDE

- Wins individual gold on board 1 at the olympiad with 9 points out of 10 matches and no losses

- Magnus Carlsen says "Gukesh almost never makes mistakes, which makes him an extremely dangerous opponent under any circumstances..."

Hackernews commenter:

- Gukesh plays like an average GM when out of prep
Depends on your jurisdiction. UK home solar under 4kW doesn't require permission.
Woah, your electricity is so cheap! Is it mostly hydro?
But like, isn't YAML still available for configuring things?

Have they gotten rid of any YAML configs, with things that are now UI only? My understanding was that they've just been building more UI for configuring things and so now default recommend people away from YAML (which seems like the right choice to me).
> But for a first time unknown product? You get a lot fewer interested parties. Lots of people want to wait for tech reviews and blog posts before committing to it.

I used to think so too. But then Kickstarter proved that actually, as long as you have a good advertising style, communicate well, and get lucky, you can get people to contribute literal millions for a product that hasn't even reached the blueprints stage yet.
My view is that legalization is only occurring due to their greed for the sweet sweet tax revenue it brings to the government.
GNNs are useful at least in one case, when your data a set of atoms that define your datum through their interactions, specifically a set that is that is high cardinality (so you can't YOLO it with attention) with some notion of neighbourhood (i.e. geometry) within your set (defined by the interactions) which if maintained makes the data permutation equivariant, BUT you can't find a meaningful way to represent that geometry implicitly (for example because it changes between samples) => you YOLO it by just passing the neighourhood/interaction structure in as an input.

In almost every other case, you can exploit additional structure to be more efficient (can you define an order? sequence model. is it euclidean/riemanian? CNN or manifold aware models. no need to have global state? pointcloud networks. you have an explicit hierarchy? Unet version of your underlying modality. etc)

The reason why I find GNNs cool is that 1) they encode the very notion of _relations_ and 2) they have a very nice relationship to completely general discretized differential equations, which as a complex systems/dynamical systems guy is cool (but if you can specialize, there's again easier ways)
> Across 10k-100k+ servers

If you "need" that many servers (and aren't Google), you've built your systems massively wrong.
> If an octothorpe (#) is located at the start of the value, it's removed.

An “octothorpe”! I never knew it was called that (and, apparently, neither does autocorrect). What a glorious name!
What I don't like is that most voice assistances perform really bad on my native language so I don't use them at all. For english speakers yes, but for all other not so much. I guess it will get better.
We still have remote tribes who have very little interaction with nuclear technology. We could test some of these communication methods and see how they interpret them.
Also worth noting that notebooks and kts overlap quite a bit. They use the same mechanism for imports and defining remote repositories, for example. A notebook is effectively a kts script. And of course gradle uses kts as well for its Kotlin dialect. These things actually overlap quite a bit.
I never mentioned python in my comment, though
anyone tried https://getleon.ai/ ?
Agreed on the cat mouth/butt contamination.

But I wouldn’t compare a litter box to the toilet flush. At least the toilet ensures most of the feces (save for the particles you’re talking about) is sent away.
the best subset
Aren't Mac the opposite for the developers with subpar support for say, containers and dev tools, and crappy out of the box window management compared to a laptop running on linux?

Seems to me you have to do a lot of manual tweaking and install before having something half decent as a dev.
So they have a operable spaceship, they know what radiation is because they talk about cosmic radiation and shielding, but they don't have any way to measure radiation or awareness of what exposure looks like or even an inkling that it could exist on a planet, even after visiting several defunct technological civilisations. It's a fun story, but it goes to show the lengths you have to go to to contrive a story where there's a possibility of harm to even a couple of people.

If nothing else they appear to have microelectronics (e.g. video playback and displays). Manufacture of that requires knowledge of radiation because you need to keep the encapsulation material low-activity. Plus the general ideas behind semiconductors and microlithography are based on physics very close to the physics of ionising radiation (e.g. photoelectric effect) and you probably use D/EUV, X-rays and ion/electron beams somewhere in the process too.
Can you ELI5 how LLMs help there?
The Technology Emits the Genius
venv + requirements.txt has worked for every single python project I made for the last 2 years (I'm new to python). Only issue I had was when using a newish python version and not having a specific library released yet for this new version, but downgrading python solved this.

Being new to the ecosystem I have no clue why people would use Conda and why it matters. I tried it, but was left bewildered, not understanding the benefits.
So what? We are talking about low-fi, chill music and smooth jazz; these genres already sound AI generated from the start. And this won't stop people from making music as well, maybe just deny them to get paid for making a track in half an hour on Fruity Loops.
Not everywhere. In Sweden that would be a crime (a little bit depending on what you mean left in the open).
They release records and play shows.
> she couldn’t figure out what she should buy.

I am not sure what "should" means in that context.

Surely many models would have been suitable. It is more a self induced SKU nightmare/issue for the manufacturer.
Plus add the fact that — if society collapses so dramatically that we forget about radiation and where we stored it, then humans wouldn’t be capable of finding the waste anyways.

We’ve already extracted just about all of the “easy” energy reserves, in terms of oil and coal. Now, you need major machinery to access it. That means, a future society that is rebuilding itself wouldn’t have energy be able to advance far enough for it to matter.

Based on our current extractions of resources, we’re in too deep and no future society will be able to have an Industrial Revolution again for millions of years, if we fail completely. And by then, the radioactive waste doesn’t matter.
> exact same chance of winning each time, so the Kelly criterion isn’t applicable.

Actually, the main assumption that leads to the Kelly criterion is that you will have future opportunities to bet with the same edge, not constrained by the amount.

For example, if you knew this was your last profitable betting opportunity, to maximise your expected value you should bet your entire stake.

I'm slightly surprised it leads to such a nice result for this game - I don't see a claim that this is the optimal strategy for maximizing EV zero variance is great, but having more money is also great.

Of course you are right about roulette and, if you are playing standard casino roulette against the house, the optimal strategy is not to play. But that's not because bets are uncorrelated, it's because they are all negative value.
> I'm surprised Apple created their own format

There's nothing surprising here, it's been Apple's style for the entire time I've been working in tech - 15 years or so - to create formats that they control and preferably which only work on Apple devices. It's a big part of why their walled garden is so strong.

> Additionally, the format is undocumented, they haven’t responded to an open question on the Apple Discussion Forums asking for more detail, and they didn’t cover it in their WWDC23 sessions

Unfortunately, this is completely normal behavior from Apple and I've run up against it far too many times.

When finally forced, by regulation or industry pressure, to answer questions, open their format up, or support other open formats, they pay lip service and drag their heels in every way possible.
RIP Mycroft. A tad too early.
"smurf" gives a nice #0000f0, ain't that funny?
There's even "REST API", that now means "RPC over HTTP using JSON".

I don't think I've ever seen anyone who describes their HTTP API as "REST" ever implement the HATEOAS part of the REST definition. And calling it REST without HATEOAS, is like calling a database ACID without Atomicity (for example).
This chart on the progress of PV cell efficiencies always blows me away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaics#/media/File:NREL...
>Specifically, the deliberate intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a protected group.

Jews were not a protected group in the 30's/40's, so...?
A single threesome is enough to put all its participants into those 20 per cent, and according to studies, 10 per cent of women and 18 per cent of men had a threesome.

There is a majority of the cohort already, and if your friends perceive you as judgmental, they won't likely tell you that they have had one.
High level nuclear waste gets less radioactive pretty quick. It gets easier further out, not harder.
You can kind of see this in golang. Originally it came with stuff to download dependencies, but it had major issues with more complex projects and some community-made tools became popular instead. But it meant that multiple tools were used in different places and it was kind of a mess. Later on a new system was done in the default toolchain and even though it has problems it's good enough that it's now surprising for somebody to use non-default tools.
Spoken like someone who doesn't live in NYC
https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-elec...
Eivind Groven developed a mechanical piano for playing in just intonation: http://www.joranrudi.no/mediefiler/The%20Just%20Intonation%2...
Why though ?
So one day my car insurance company will tell me: "you have to pay us more because you are driving yourself".
I've met a guy doing this a fee years ago, way before AI boom. He said it's a pretty easy way to get some cash if you know how to automate things. I'm wondering if it's even easier now, or the competition made it harder actually.
Have enough of such sites and you have prevented establishing a civilization that doesn't care about radiation.
I wish you could have been forced to live there.
this is really nice. what's your MRR?
do you know anifusion?
My $2 version:
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