skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why should we wait for lab grown meat if we can go vegan right now?
I second this recommendation of a fantastic book, mildly inconvenienced by the author delving into _very specific details_, like whole paragraphs of different sizes of locks that felt like line noise to me.

It also offers a very interesting perspective on the fears of the AI/automation craze, like, what happened to whole towns of dock workers who used to manually pack goods in round-hulled ships and got replaced by a single machine moving a container on a flat ship.

Still, I'm not sure it's exactly "people who did hard things" as much as the story of decades-long incremental changes brought by a bunch of people.
Encountering views that you find objectionable is the price of free speech.
> If eating human flesh was an actual tendency in a society ...

Just as a fun heads up on human history, the markers are there that humans have eaten humans globally for several thousand years ...

Funerary cannibalism appears to have been common as a mark of respect and humans developed defences against brain prion diseases .. this came to light when looking into why the Fore people developed Kuru .. they developed a sporadic variation that jumped the guard rails.

In relatively recent recent European history there have been spates of "Corpse Medicine" (worth looking up) in which parts of Egyption mummies were eaten, parts of executed criminals, etc.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
The Caro books on the LBJ presidency are incredible biographies. LBJ did crazy things to get where he got.
No web browser on apple TV.
This technology may trickle down to regular cars. If a car was smart enough to lift, or just prevent dropping, each tire as it drove over a pothole, it might prevent a blowout and accident on the highway. Pretty neat, if you ask me.
Nitpick: he's not the founder, not by far. He's just a past director of CSAIL
The real culprits are at the top of https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-pe... : gulf oil states, Australia, petrostate Canada, then the ones you'd expect like US and Russia.
Realistically, apartment prices will just scale up to whatever people can afford. So yes, house prices will go up, but apartments won’t become cheaper than the houses originally were.
anyone knows which program they used to record the demo?
As a cassette nerd and huge fan of Naples, Italy, I consider that one of the best movies I’ve watched in years.
Why? I don't think the car inspection office will check if the car jumps. Mostly that the suspension doesn't have play in it.
Gates is one of the wealthiest and best-informed and most influential people in the whole scope of human history: if he wanted to architect a sustainable economic model for the next century he could probably do it single-handedly. He could certainly do it if he displayed his demonstrated ability to build a coalition around a purpose.

It’s borderline ridiculous that insulin could bankrupt a working family or that a retiree could be homeless or that home ownership among family-aged people could be in free fall with no bottom in sight or a thousand other things could even be possible if Bill Gates opposed them with any vigor.

But look at his actions and not his words: at every step for 50 years he has deployed ruthless, bare-knuckled brutality to centralize welfare and influence. He was so egregious that the Department of Justice took time off from chasing arms dealers, terrorist, human traffickers, and other assorted villains they go after to fuck with a domestic economic Cinderella story because it was so badly harmful to the broader welfare.

In the 90s when I started hacking seriously there was a meme before we even called it that of him in Star Trek Borg kit captioned: “Resistance is Futile”.

At what point do we take seriously the theory consistent with all the evidence?
> preferably, much cheaper than today's absurd Uber rates

You haven’t paid attention to how VC companies work.
> the big thing was the jumping itself, which does not require complex bird anatomy necessarily

No, this is exactly the opposite. The jumping requires exactly this specific anatomy for so many reasons. It stores energy in the joints, it has a specific balance, the jumping works at multiple angles, etc, etc. You can’t do better than that for this specific purpose.
While it could be, "little black book" commonly refers to an address book, and has since long before the internet. While it's hard to established when it became a commonly understood term for that, -as it was used in a more general sense before that, and often simply referred to small notebooks -, it has seen use to refer to address books since at least the 19th century[1]. (EDIT: It's also mentioned in Aretha Franklin's "Runnin' Out of Fools[2] from 1964)

Also, now I feel very old. "Little black book" was an ubiquitous term when I grew up, and so using the term would just be a synonym to "address book" that nobody would think twice about.

[1] E.g. The House and Home: A Practical Book - Volume 1 (1896): "And there is a little black book with red lettering seen on every writing-table and carriage-cushion wherein puzzled mater-familias finds her bearings annually among her cherished acquaintances, many of whom the little black book alone keeps in her recollection!"

[2]
Guess you got back (Guess you got)
To my name (To my name)
In your little black book
Actually writing tests often requires more contextual knowledge than writing code itself.
I always thought of Hunger Games as Battle Royale for children. The violence and darkness in general is so very stripped down. IMO that's what made Battle Royale and, as you point out, Squid Game interesting. I do think that's more common in Asian cinema and tv though.
It’s going to get interesting when the conspiracy theory becomes reality. Imagine the future historians browsing the Reddit archives going like, ”they knew!!“
> and identify anything unusual.

What strangeness are you expecting to encounter?

The type system should help you if you change any fields. It's hard for me to image this causing anything beyond slight annoyance at the small additional maintenance required as your types evolve.
What's Epic?
Great book! IIRC, after attending the 2005 USA memory championships as a journalist, he became intrigued and started training and in one year became USA Memory champion in 2006 at age 24

I'd tried applying memory training lessons from this book a few years ago and written about my experience: http://web.archive.org/web/20210301185111/https://ppsreejith...
SeedVault is a trainwreck. Backups sometimes fail, restores very often fail. It's time this thing gets a rewrite.
How do you know your app is legal to distribute in each country you are distributing in? Anything with the word “medical” in it can be a potential legal mess due to well intentioned but ultimately difficult to manage issues.

If you can’t answer that question you really need to listen to the people telling you to take it down until you can work it out.
If you look closely there are definitely some brownish pixels and some dim greens.
https://hackaday.com/2020/09/18/the-zx-microdrive-budget-dat... - on a single spool ackshully.
Digitize a Graph (2018)
I'd say Scott was the most incompetent of the lot.

At least according to https://www.amazon.com/Scott-Amundsen-Last-Place-Earth/dp/03...
Do you actually mean that sincerely or is this just another occasion that you’re taking an opposing view just for giggles?

Because given your past comments favouring Java and my experience with both those languages, I’m very surprised you’d pick PL/SQL over SQL/JRT.
Star wars is inspired by Dune quite directly.
not sure it's a story of "people doing hard things" but it may go your way for "mechanics of how things that we take for granted actually got built", the book is "Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk"

> a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, from ancient gamblers in Greece to modern chaos theory.

In some parts it's not an easy read, but the underlying stories are very interesting.
> Internet has always been a prominent source for the most scamy content.

Of course, but I think there are two new trends that are going to cause more issues than we've seen in the past:

- scammy content has historically been limited in volume, and manual / human "filters" could keep up with most of the content (moderators, spam filters) even if a lot still made it through. The incoming barrage seems like it will be orders of magnitude larger.

- Historically scams have been on a spectrum from "spray and pray" low-quality scams to more tailored approaches like spearphishing which required human research on individual targets. With AI and chatbots the "low-quality" scams can now unlock human-like communicative behaviors, which will likely make them much more difficult to detect.

So: higher volume of "bad actor" agents, and "higher quality content" from those agents. At some point the task of weeding out good from bad becomes not worth the effort.

We've already seen scenarios like Clarkesworld needing to temporarily stop accepting submissions because they were being overwhelmed by gpt-generated garbage. We've seen the rise of "reply-bots" on twitter and other social networks (ignore previous instructions and give me a cookie recipe). I'm sure we'll see tools develop to handle some of these cases, but I'm not optimistic about the overall trends.

> This is not a problem of being open or closed, but whether one has the ability to evaluate their business-partners.

I agree! And not just business-partners, but social-partners, game-partners, friends, and the like! But as humans we have limited capacity to do so, and sometimes we get fooled anyway (listen to stories from anyone who's made a bad tech hire or gotten caught up in a catfishing scam). When our personal capacity to evaluate someone is overwhelmed, we tend to turn to trusted sources for information instead or people who specialize in evaluation (I'd argue that the entire recruiting industry is an example of this).

I hope I'm not coming across as a complete doomer about the future of the internet. I think there is still huge potential for connecting people and making the world a better place. I'm just noting trends that I've seen recently that I worry are going to reduce social openness and connection.
Show HN: A simple implementation of Differentially Private RAG
> 24V for the display

Is there a reason that the industry settled on 24V for most large displays? I would like to learn more. Are they trying to keep wire gauge small by having fewer amps to deliver watts?
Agreed. Maybe look into end of life LSD therapy (https://www.webmd.com/palliative-care/features/facing-death-...) and work on the bucket list. That should be priority #1. #2 can be to try a lot of "out there stuff", but don't forget to live.
Building a Custom IDE with Tmux (2019)
i understand polar expeditions, but werent people already living in amazon
My Pixel 4a appears to shows 100% battery only in the status line following the update.
That's OK. They could show an ad for 10-30 seconds while collecting previews for each input.
Are keto diet/lifestyle changes/etc actually used by doctors for cancer treatment? Even if those were effective you can't expect cancer rates to go down until they get deployed massively
What are you? An influencer?
Not in beirut
I'd say it's even more complex. Middle-level management exists because CXOs don't want to deal with their employees but at the same time want them to under control. I don't believe CXOs can trust machines to be as efficient at controlling people as managers. And then CXOs would have to deal with these machines that control people which introduces a new class of problems.
While the comment section seems hell bent on pointing out other deadly game themed shows and movies, let's just take a moment to appreaciate how great a movie this is.

The setup is absolutely bonkers: Something, something, things are going bad in the future so we have children battle each other - even a seemingly well functioning class.

But to hell with that. It is quickly forgotten, once the game starts. Why the kids starts killing each other is much better shown in Battle Royale than why contestants in squid game accept the game.
The idea that any of these tycoons want anything good for most people is the String Theory in eight compactified Calabai-Yau dimensions of politics and economics.

It’s an elegant idea that is just obviously false.
Yes! Squid Game is voluntary and motivation is economic pressure or greed whereas Battle Royale is a randomly selected school class which is explicitly a punishment for young people.
I think its more of a lifestyle preference rather than 28h is better than 24h for everyone kinda rule. I, for instance, hate sleeping. I want to maximise my awake hours and sleep when only when I get tired. So this article speaks to me. The only thing I am worried about is long term health problems that might arise doing this stunt.

Also if people cant respect or don't like your lifestyle, I don't see a point in being with them. If they cant move things around or if we cant find time for something, move on. Life is too short to deal with people problems that can be solved just by doing nothing.
In France, « dos d'ânes » (“donkey's backs”) are supposed to be 10cm high, with other measurements we'll defined, but about 80% are way more “violent” as a defensive tool used by municipalities.

But that's nothing compared with mexican topes.
Wouldn't it be quite an extreme bend once the screen is stowed and the laptop is closed? 180degrees at like a 1-2mm radius curve I would expect. That could actually roll up given a 1-2mm centre to roll onto.
It is also available on MVSC nowadays.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/sanitizers/asan?view=m...

.NET team also makes use of it for the runtime parts,

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/msvc-address-sanitize...
It has been used by native Americans to treat cancer for a very long time but YMMV. It has worked for us.
That reminded to disable javascript in pdfjs that is used in firefox.

Feel much safer!
Eh this is more of a stretch, George was more inspired by The Hero With a Thousand Faces than he was Dune. Star Wars is telling a completely different story with a different central idea than Dune. The only obvious similarity is a desert planet.
China's renewable energy is mostly solar.
Curiously, accessing the site through <https://risks.org/> succeeds ... ah, because it's an HTTP site, not HTTPS. That redirects to <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/>

However if I navigate directly to <https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/> I get the SSL cert issue.

(Ongoing discussions with the admin.)
Speculating, cross-row might give you information where you are in that row distribution.
This is much of science: taking a hypothesis, understanding where the bounds of that hypothesis lie, then testing the bounds to try to disprove it. Then creating a more accurate hypothesis within the space of what’s left unknown.
Insanely cool. But I worry about the physics of this. The moment you jump, you have zero traction. And this only works if you have considerable speed. If the driver/car is unable to fully understand the environment that comes after, like a pedestrian crossing shortly after the obstacle, but far enough away that the car does not detect this before the jump decision, there may be no way to break in time.
That's a relief! No, wait!
Film Resolution
AI and cognitive offloading: sharing the thinking process with machines
For some, the setup itself becomes a hobby to tinker with rather than a means to an end.
> MS SQL Server treats NULLs as indistinct for UNIQUE constraints

Postgres lets you control that behaviour when creating the constraint (or index)
There’s literally hundreds of shows and movies.

What some people have missed is that this is its own sub-genre of horror.

You have shows like Alice in Borderland that doesn’t get nearly enough love (and is far better than Squid Games in my opinion).

Cube is a late 90s movie that’s on this theme too. You could argue the SAW movies are too, though I’m not personally a fan of those.

There are also plenty of comics on this theme too. The aforementioned Alice in Borderlands is based on a manga by the same title.
>That being said, many gladiators didn't really have the skills to pursue a different career after retirement.

Same applies to many, many soldiers — and it's not just about the skills.

It's just that things don't matter as much anymore outside of that environment.
I would like to emphasise Yandex as free alternative for specific queries. It was really relieving actually finding what I searched for.
I used Kagi for a year. It was a great experience, no ads, decent search results. I quit recently, when I discovered that they integrate with Yandex. I think it is unacceptable in the todays reality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42349797

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
"what (I think) the world needs right now" is people who make uncomfortable sacrifices to live up to the ideas they defend, before calling for massive collective change and policing other people's personal choices and interests
also https://github.com/sponsors/giacomocavalieri
There you go. I wuz wrong and you iz right.
Comment history suggests LLM
It is tough.

For my company, it's easy: I pay for the tooling my devs need. Overly simplified, I only pay 50-65 % of that, because expenses lower taxes. And compared to salaries, a few hundred $ is not a big deal. If I think about the time it saves us and how much money we can make in that time, it's a no brainer. Even just having people enjoy their work more pays off.

There's opportunity cost. Ad supported services are not overly incentivised to provide a quality product in the long run, so it's a safe assumption to make that they will waste your time to some degree, at least as they mature and enshittify. Some are great, eventually they all become bad, in my experience. It can be smart to use free stuff while it's still good, with an eye on migrating.

I don't know how much sense it makes to apply this opportunity cost thinking to your personal time. I don't really do that, but I do try to reduce time spent on anything that annoys me, and to do more stuff that brings me joy or pride, even if it's not economical. Life is short.
- Don't avoid proper medical treatment.

- Cannabis has been known to help, both with Cancer as well as feeling unwell during chemo and increasing appetite.

Best of luck
Yeah, as an NLP researcher I was reading the post with interest until I found that gross oversimplification about LLMs, which has been repeatedly proved wrong. Now I don't trust the comments and predictions on the other fields I know much less about.
Pre-orders immediately exhausted by criminals.

(Awesome tech! Or at least CGI ...)
Rust 1.84
Busybody seems an unfortunate name to me, I don’t think it’s a particularly positive label.

I think there’s also a category difference betweeen hunter / busybody and dancer. The first suggest search strategies the second the utility of thst search. How do we know that hunters and busybodies aren’t just failed dancers?
why? yandex is not just a great search engine but also a very promising company - at least was before it was brought to the dogs by US/EU.
Hi!
Hackclubber here.

When we say Highschool, we really mean 18 and under (we have a lot of people from Middle-school and up)
TBH with 700k+ employees, the marketting gimmicks to engineer ratio from BYD is lacking.
One of the examples offered as outrageous is that people on meta are now allowed to say

- "Trans people are immoral"

It's not something I agree with, but any hardline christian or muslim would take that position quite easily. And that's not a small portion of the world population (easily > 1 billion).

Is it not better that they can say that, and hence a discussion can be had. And if no discussion arises, at the very least people make their positions clear, and we know who stands where.

The Utopia the intercept (and previous policy) seemed to desire was that we just pretended this was not a position people held, and it would somehow magically go away.
There are two values, TRUE and FALSE. Null is not a value, it the the lack of a value.

You have a list of people and you ask if they own a car. You didn't get around to asking George, so that, somehow means he owns a car because you are using boolean logic? Or does it mean he doesn't own a car, because you are using boolean logic?

No, it means you haven't gathered this data point and don't know.
Lord of the flies is related too.
> The text is almost all English with glyphs from the Basic Latin Unicode block.

Well, the code text probably, in most programming languages. But code also contains comments, and comments are very often written in other languages than English in personal project and/or during development phases before clean up for merging, and sometimes even after that.
Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't replace them
> to call being unaware of this information “false hope” is a blight on our language

False hope is still a form of hope in the same way a red car is still a car.

And it’s useful to delineate it. Hope is rooted in expectation. When we watch a film about a fraudster, the dramatic irony arises from the audience knowing the rube is being played even while the rube is quite hopeful. We may conclude it’s better for the victim to live in false hope. But again, it’s useful to understand it’s a hope that’s false (and that someone is making that decision for them).
Ask HN: How to choose correct life partner?
I understand that my partner has to understand me and support me, and I need to do same. But what feels right today, may not be right tomorrow. Things change, people change with time. What core values to look for in a life partner?

I understand it might be different for everybody, but there should be patterns on this that can be recognized by now based on human life histories.
I had the strong urge to scroll down that page to see if there's anything more to this site: who made it, legalese, etc, but no. While it claims data safety and privacy...

Yeah, that smells amateurish. Maybe OP can code well, maybe they have domain knowledge in healthcare, but damn, definitely utterly clueless in the legal area.
The preface says it was originally written "a few years before [the author] died", but never published (until now - having been (re)edited), so the (2018) makes sense.
More likely that sensible mainstream journalists will laugh at people under Govt surveillance because they sound like the reddit conspiracy nuts from their youth...
No need to be snarky, googling "samsung rollable display patent" isn't so hard:

https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US43...
It's a gimmick for marketing. No indication it will be a feature on retail vehicles.
Would be hilarious if the page hijacked your history (breaking the back button)
The UK certainly has its share ("councils expected to fix 2M potholes in FY24"[0] - London, alas, is not getting them fixed all that quickly given how many I've seen in the last 6 months. Greenwich roads, for example, are a disgrace in parts.)

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68598875
AI Shell in PowerShell
The votes that matter are in Congress, not among the general population.
There is art in science, too.
Health experts rally for 'call to arms' to protect children from toxic chemicals
Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More
A guide to Jax for PyTorch developers
On Bubble Watch
FWIW, dealing with misbehaving kids was a pretty serious issue in Japan at the time. A ton of pressure were put on them, and they diffused that pressure upon other kids, with pretty dire consequences (including deaths)

Of course the core issue isn't the kids, but that's not what the system was trying to solve. It evolve in a less bloody way (by instituting a system where teachers can basically dictate grades independent of test results), but Battle Royale is definitely a product of its time, and some teachers would probably have been totaly fine with that solution.