skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder

These guys went through quite some hardships to define the length of a meter. Good read!
https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/05/06/arcade-raid-the-duke-of... is a much better article.

Here’s the list of games: http://www.opdenkelder.com/muerto/arc/shiplist.png
If someone wants to have a credible prediction scorecard, get it on some third-party platform like Metaculus, Manifold, GJOpen, Polymarket, ...
>believes their money is better spent buying back their stock,

Alphabet has to buy back their stock because of the massive amount of stock comp they award.
Who is Kate?
Confused: Who uses this, the patient or the medical staff (nurses and doctors, etc.)?

"Organize your support team for your health care."

"Kate's App is a tool created to support medical caregivers"
Yet such an underground system should exist to transport deliveries.
Worth pointing out that EPFL's PR release includes a picture of Won Dong Shin (the PhD that actually built it) as opposed to a picture of the lab's director as it sometimes happens in academia.
I have a el cheapo 2024 Hisense TV with Amazon fire TV and it does not care if I had it set to HDMI 2 when I turned it off. It always comes back to its own home screen. I haven't figured out how to have it stick to my computer when it turns on.
I don't disagree, but I vote with my wallet. If the owner of the phone doesn't agree with that, they could stop using the phone/apps. Similarly the biometric data also doesn't get backed up or transferred over to a new phone. That's a product decision and I'm just explaining why things are done that way on iOS.
I mean that if the company wants to alleviate the situation the bosses are suffering from, cutbacks need to be serious and frequent.
The author of this Ask HN is asking because conventional cancer medicine is not good enough. I think cancer dissidents say the screening programs for early treatment makes the doctors look better by increasing the number of non-fatal cases that are “diagnosed”. But most people who die after a certain age all have non-fatal tumors in their bodies…

> Q: What do you call alternative medicine that works? A: Medicine

Medicine that doesn’t work is grandfathered in to be called Medicine to. I don’t know how standard harmful treatments get retired from active use.

I mentioned your joke in a comment on a submission about stents:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14722748
If you can figure out how to identify propaganda with AI I’ve got a job for you.
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The NET estimation is supposed to be a counter to the irrational exuberance of media and PR. E.g. musk says they'll get humans to Mars in 2020, and the counter is "I don't think that will happen until at least 2030".
> getting infected with the zika virus (probably the best thing to do IMO

Virology based methods don't last very long because the immune system adapts quickly. If you want to go down that route, make sure you have experts on hand.
Q1 Update from Our Leadership Team [video]
I guess they can't get away with just claiming to add rocket thrusters to their cars to hype their brand. I don't even know who the CEO is. Still a silly idea, unless your customer is batman.
You’ll be fine. It’s like laundering money.
It's a concept for R&D to try stuff out and for Marketing to get people to talk about the brand. I would be surprised an active system like this would survive the lifetime of a car without an unpalatable amount of maintenance and parts replacement.
Lol, I love it. Why didn't you include points multipliers when more than one line is filled though?
...and speedbumps!
Realistically, in a bigger project, you might have a NodeSystem type n layers deep buried.

E.g. you just grabbed a hypothetical canvas dependency, which has a Canvas. Can you tell if it does any form of IO or not?
Yes, very memorable prologue:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder-ebook...
What, global warming?? Naaaaaillllll!
Out of the Shadows By Jonathan Kingsman
https://shepherd.com/book/out-of-the-shadows

Amazing book about the grain markets and how they have changed over the last 40 years.

"Once shadowy figures, grain merchants have now come out of the shadows. Almost everything that you eat or drink today will contain something bought, stored, transported, processed, shipped, distributed or sold by one of the seven giants of the agricultural supply chain. The media often refers to them as the ABCD group of international grain-trading companies, with ABCD standing for ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus. The acronym, though, ignores the other three giants of the food supply: Glencore, COFCO International and Wilmar. Together, they handle 50 percent of the international trade in grain and oilseeds. In this book’s series of exclusive and unprecedented interviews, CEOs and senior traders from these seven giants describe in their own words how the agricultural markets are changing, and how they are adapting to those changes."

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By Benjamin Lorr
https://shepherd.com/book/the-secret-life-of-groceries

Five years of research really explains large swaths of our food system and how it changes what we eat.

You might like these as well:

The best unexpectedly enthralling books about seemingly boring things
https://shepherd.com/best-books/good-books-about-seemingly-b...

The best books that make sense of how globalization broke down, and what happens next
https://shepherd.com/best-books/globalization-breaks-down-wh...

*Features The Big Rig, a book about the American trucking industry and it's breakdown

Some good ones in there :)
It wasn’t just a touch screen though.

Ericsson had touch screen phones for many years but they where a single touch, stylus driven UI that was clunky.

I had Nokia phones with web browsing, media and a camera but it was WAP not full web and the UI was so bad.

Listening to media required proprietary headphones and data was extremely expensive.

Jobs changed all of that in one product without adding bloatware.
The issue thread about regional search has been open since January 2024 [0], with a lot of talk but no change at all. Some people like the change because they apparently always search in regional mode and want all results there. I posted several examples of my issues there.

I also asked on discord about the dropping of search terms and was just told to use verbatim search (quotes) if I don’t want dropped terms.

[0]: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3022-ideas-for-improving-localint...
Not sure why this one got zeroed, it's not a bad talk. Sure ISO27001
is a bit boring but give it a chance.
It's based on a manga. Or whatever the Korean equivalent is.
Can't stand that video mastering, looks like AI fake.
I am continuingly impressed by Serenity, even if there are times I disagree with the implementations.
Tokyo Uber Blues [video]
It is encoded as such. That's why most columns are made nullable. It's crazy to say you need to use the full power of a 1:N relation with some child table when you know N cannot be greater than 1, when a nullable column already exactly encodes a 1:(0..1) relation. I'm not trying to shill for null here: one of null's great problems is exactly the fact that null can represent "unknown", "known absent", "not applicable", or even some sentinel-ish "other" escape condition, each with their own subtle differences in how they should be handled.

Null has tons of problems, of course. But it's patently absurd to claim that you "ought to be" making a different 1-column table with a unique foreign key or shared primary key for every column that might be absent, because of some vague appeal to the fact that you can write it as a 1:N relation with N<=1. You can just as easily claim that every non-nullable column is a 1:N relation where N==1 and "should be encoded as such". It is encoded as such! That's what a column is!
> For parties less than 6

But it sounds like major studios would also be able to take advantage of this loophole if they only send 6 people?

Overall the rules sound good, I'm just concerned that national parks are going to loose out on an additional funding stream because of technicalities in the law
My argument applies to reinforced masonry as well. You seem to be operating from a naive model of what is required to prevent combustion of buildings. We already use non-flammable walls in a lot of places; it is a speed bump for a serious fire without a lot of additional mitigations.

Most typical reinforced masonry will fail during a severe earthquake, for which there is ample empirical evidence. The cost to reinforce masonry to e.g. a M8.5 standard is not small. The quantity of rebar, ties, etc required is expensive in both time and material. It isn’t cheap nor does the labor exist at the scale required.

I actually live in exotic construction, designed for extreme seismic and wind loads. Lots of steel, not much concrete, and extremely fire resistant (even though that isn’t a requirement here) but much cheaper to build and more seismic resistant (in theory) than reinforced concrete, which is what it replaces (its raison d’être). No structural wood either, but it wouldn’t be economical to construct a typical house this way.

This is an active area of research. If it was an “urban myth” there wouldn’t be so many engineering firms investing in developing new construction techniques that provide seismic resistance without the cost. If reinforced masonry actually worked in a reasonable way, we’d just use that.
What you marked as hype is a flaw in your skill to recognize real world cases vs wishful thinking.

You are not predicting just daydreaming.
@Sammi, well that's a wonderful thing, assuming it's true in some ways.

After reading as much as I could before feeling unrewarded for my efforts, I felt like an LLM might have been a good starting point for their efforts.

Maybe they should try using an LLM next time and go from there.
Definitely check with a lawyer because the exact meanings are not intuitive. For instance that phrasing you gave (within the scope/course of employment) is typical, and would generally not apply to unrelated projects you did outside of work, but it's obviously not something to just assume - one way, or the other.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/124718.One_Man_s_Wildern...
Hi! Sorry to be late to the party. I don't really understand how relational programming relates to discrete optimization and constraint programming.

I did several MOOCs on discrete optimization and I understand how a constraint solver works, and how local search works, for example. I also understand how a SAT solver works.

I just do not understand what logic/relational programming does. Is that a constraint solver solving just one kind of constraint, ie logic equations, a bit like a SAT solver?

[Edit] on my side I was really impressed by a paper using Minikanren to generate an algorithm, a sorting function if I remember well. It was about 8 years ago. Tried to fully understand the paper but gave up at some point.
I have found it does a ok job of writing simple bash utility scripts.

Stuff like "I need a bash script that saves my current git branch into a temp file, then another script to create a new git branch based off the value in the file"
These studies are not well formed.
There is an easier way to test for vaccine damage leading to autism. Compare children with any dosage of vaccines vs children that never received any dosage of a vaccine. The Amish in a very good study found that no Amish born children had autism. A rate of 0. Compared to those children that had autism all have been vaccinated.
This enough is for me to know that while one or a single dose does not lead to autism possibly (though i have doubts here too) that many dosages of various vaccines combined in certain ways may lead to autism. This causal path is complex, for certain, but it is clear it is a non zero probability that you will be autistic (and if you watch that new show, telepathic).
Wheels need a reasonably flat surface to be efficient. Walking is more efficient than flying for short distances..
i must confess i never saw the ones with Honor Blackman, it's on my todo list!
Spacedesk driver adds Windows Arm support
Keybase was a pretty good idea, but it’s no longer much developed since 2020.
I don't believe democracies cannot build big infrastructure because it's hard to get permits. This ignores the reality of last 200 years, especially the cold war.

I don't believe capitalism inherently incapable of this either. China, as you said, an autocratic country but not a socialist one. It is plainly capitalist, and they are able to make German EV manufacturers sweat.
previous discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226442
Ending a Kagi query with a ? gives ok responses with plenty of citations. And those citations are a goldmine when exploring an unknown topic. And it's unobtrusive. I don't see the issue.
And before that there was The Running Man and The Long Walk both by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) that were about deadly game shows / contests in futuristic dystopias.
Datalab – SOTA document intelligence models
I'm always sceptic about range. Polish city Gdańsk made tender for electric buses. Requrement was at least 400km real range. Winner promise that and reality was ~250km. There was no chargers installed on terminal loops because it should handle whole day on single charge. That is result of designing system without actual tests and rely only on vendor promises :)
Can you imagine thousands of flying cars flying low over urban areas?

Skill level needed for "driving" would increase by a lot, noise levels would be abysmal, security implications would be severe (be they intentional or mechanical in nature), privacy implications would result in nobody wanting to have windows.

This is all more-or-less true for drones as well, but their weight is comparable to a todler, not to a polar bear. I firmly believe they'll never reach mass usage, but not because they're impossible to make.
With a lot of AI content everywhere, truth becomes hard to agree on. Wikipedia alone will not be enough to capture all facts so everyone is happy.
For anyone who wants a refreshing candor from an unimpeachable legend I really recommend Nick Frosst:

https://youtu.be/4JF1V2hzGKE
> Ya know, like leaders worth following.

Indeed. Some years ago, also during a California wildfire, I was at a company with honorable leadership. Not only did people impacted by evacuations get all the time off they needed but the company paid for hotel accommodations if necessary.
Trying to attribute it to just one cause is always fallacious. In truth the modern Western diet is probably the worst of it.

Highly processed seed oils that are chemically extracted and used for frying and baking. I'm not one of those people who believes that they are genuinely toxic but they have too much omega-6.

Inexpensive sources of sugar everywhere.

Conditioners and preservatives in everything.

Most vegetables and fruits are sprayed with pesticides to some degree.

Low variety and diversity of vegetables in traditional diets.

Combine this with exceedingly high levels of misinformation both from the government and various dietitians, celebrities, medical journals, doctors, Facebook groups and users, conspiracy theorists etc. It's hard for people to know what is actually going to kill them and what isn't.

All I can tell you is is that I got a pair of 90-year-old grandparents who always eat eggs and bacon for breakfast, cook their food the old fashioned way, drink plenty of tea and always seek out the highest quality ingredients for their foods.
I think Russia would love to have control over a group of supposedly "fact-checkers" to manipulate their citizens.
Thanks for the book, I'll check it out. In that vein I really enjoyed Rhythm Science by DJ Spooky. Hope you enjoy it too.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262632874/rhythm-science/

https://www.criticalimprov.com/index.php/csieci/article/view...

https://www.artbrain.org/journal-of-neuroaesthetics/journal-...
Note that even the examples he gives are related to things like an operator telling the car to overtake a stopped truck instead of waiting for it to start again. So occasional high level decisions, not minute-to-minute or even second-to-second interactions like you have when flying a drone.

This is more like telling your units to go somewhere in a video game, and they mostly do it right, but occasionally you have to take a look and help them because they got stuck in a particularly narrow corridor or something.
QED And The Men Who Made It, by Sylvan S. Schweber. About the development of quantum electrodynamics. It is partly biography, centering on Freeman Dyson, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin-Itoro Tomonaga in roughly decreasing order of word count by rough recollection. Mostly I'd say the subject matter is history of physics from a fairly hardcore technical perspective. Tbh I didn't understand that much of the physics, though I learned some through reading. The history and biography parts were quite engaging anyway.
It shouldn't be that complicated. I tried it once with gravity and without limits on the edges. The cluster of stars moved around in 2d space and stars were repeatedly catapulted out, which then disappeared. Maybe you need a super gravity (black hole) in the center to keep it stable.
Yeah, him. Well, he was killed, hard to perform questioning in his current state. I bet he would be used as a martyr if he would have a prettier face. I bet if the roles were reversed, Luigi would try to kill Trump and failed, and Crooks would successfully shoot the CEO, all attention would still go to Luigi.

But yeah, this is cheap talk, I don't have any proof obviously.
Jail time? Or just multi-million fines.

Will he be allowed to lead Meta if convicted as criminal?
Why did this take a month to build?
I like comptime concept over macros, because on Rust you need to annotate a type with the macro derive or manually implement the encoder or decoder, while in Zig for example, (I'm not experienced with Zig, but it seems that is possible to do this) it should be possible to have the encode and decode method to implement the logic to do the work, that means that the boilerplate is generated only when needed and also should work for third party types where you don't have control over.
The lower tiers don't have Kagi Assistant, but they do have the Quick Answer and Summarization features. You can turn them off or not use them though, so it shouldn't really be an issue.
"They'll just get better" is a huge non sequiter.
Google Play Integrity support lands in microG
FB was doing this on their own during covid, the government simply pointed FB towards content they found concerning w.r.t. public health policy during a global pandemic. FB then made their own calls for their content moderation policy
> I've heard plenty of engineers say. "Yes, but that's a training issue"

I'd go one step deeper.
Where did they learn to say this?
I bet they learned to say this from the business.

Because I've asked about input validation on a line of business application and heard something similar to this "given this application is used by internal users only and because these users are trained experts on this subject, we don't need input validation".

You will get shut down really quickly if you ask whether a combination of choosing option A in step 12 and option C in step 37 together makes any sense at that company. Ask me how I know.

Oh yeah, of course the same person asked why we allowed these combinations once the application hit production.
Why is it hard to hire developers [video]
Ah https://youtu.be/3KPYIaks1UY?t=83
They could fix potholes, but instead decided to make their cars jump? Very creative. :)
Zuck did a calculation: "Does the risk of lawsuits and bad PR outweigh the benefits of being early?".

If u remove morals from the equation, nearly every CEO would have made that same decision if in that position.
Wow, I cannot believe how awkward to see such negative review just because it's a Chinese brand...

This is insanely cool.

Not mentioning the implied tech.

Of course you know it's a Chinese brand. The internal mindset shifting happen so naturally...
> in real life I appreciate being able to write in my own language on a computer.

I do too, which is why I hate the "unicode only for everything everywhere" narrative that's taken hold. My language can't be written properly in Unicode, so support for traditional codepages and encodings is really important!
Its in quotes as im not sure how well calibrated it is - tbh it prob is miles

I do wish it had ant support - i keep thinking i should write an app using an ant sensor on it

Speedwise im doing around 10mph
Release UCM Desktop v1.0.0
It's great and I'm never going back as long as it stays great. But I have one complaint: Maps. I have no solution to offer, but google maps is so damn good, the maps in Kagi which appear when clicking certain results (e.g. looking for a doctor) are almost unusable for me (slow, outdated).
My Gen Z kids had a surprising reaction to 'Dead Poets Society'
Their is still the Hindenburg. Fear and loathing
3. I open it on my phone and it doesn't work at all. And that is a new phone with a current browser.
That's your professor's opinion, and probably one that does not come from industry experience. Look in 4 different databases and you'll see 9 different conventions. A common one is to have all strings non-null with a default value of empty string. And not all columns are strings; there is no "obviously empty" integer or boolean.
I think the OP was making a sarcastic dig at Musk’s history of promises and cult of personality, by comparing to a company that is comparatively just quietly executing.