skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The place where the founding fathers of the US got the idea of separation of powers?

That would be a synergy of ideas primarily found in Polybius, Montesquieu, and the extant British constitution.

Not to discount the value of teaching about the political system of the Iroquois -- that's an interesting a valid topic to cover in school -- but it's not appropriate to attempt to link it to the US Constitution in a way that's wholly speculative and tenuous, and do so at the expense of properly teaching about the actual ideas that factored into the development of the constitution.
It only really works where the audience is already limited in country/timezone though. Sure a global service could just stagger the downtime around the world.. but (unless you've already equivalent partitioned the infrastructure) then you're just running 24/7 with arbitrary geofencing downtime on top.
Large companies struggle to cannibalize their cash cows from within. Powerful managers step up and fight against change.

I think Microsoft is a notable exception. I was impressed how they went all in on Cloud Computing (at the cost of installed software business like Windows and classic Office) and think it‘s now doing the same with AI. Maybe it‘s because they almost missed the internet revolution and arguably lost in mobile.
I made no assertions as to whether or not this was an appropriate trade-off.

The issue at hand, however, is not about any particular media content being censored but about the manipulation of how that media is presented or suppressed by a foreign source. I think people should be given the freedom to choose what to view, but I am also not naive enough to think that we as a whole are not susceptible to influence, often without even being aware of how we are influenced.

To the end that the US has a national security interest here: We have other laws on foreign political influence like FARA and the Logan Act that have similar tradeoffs around free speech and free association, but these elicit much less controversy. There’s a fundamental question: should the ideals of free speech be allowed to undermine the framework that allows that free speech to exist? To some, saying yes to that question is like arguing the US Constitution is a death pact.
> Go spend some time in a classroom and get a clue how much more there is to teaching than what your layman's view entails.

How, by the lack of it?

A lot of people bet for home schooling because, not despite of, their perspective from inside a classroom.
The longer I read the article, the more "stiffness" feels like mass. In Lagrangians, the quantity saying how stiff it is is precisely the mass term, vide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar_field_theory.

At the same time, the author does not give any different definition; he says it's "stiffness". In the comment, he writes:

> The use of a notion of “stiffness” as a way to describe what’s going on is indeed my personal invention. Physicists usually just call the (S^2 phi) part of the equation a “mass term.” But that’s jargon, since this thing doesn’t give mass to the field; it just gives mass to its particles, which exist only in the context of quantum physics. The word “mass term” also doesn’t explain what’s going on physically. My view is that “stiffness” conveys the basic physical sense of what is happening to the field, an effect it has even without accounting for quantum physics.

So well, it is mass. Maybe not mass one may think about (in physics, especially Quantum Field Theory, there are a few notions of mass, which are not the same as what we set on a scale), but I feel the author is overzealous about not calling it "mass (term)".

So, I am not convinced unless the author shows a way to have massive particles carrying a long-term interaction (AFAIK, not possible) or massless particles giving rise to short-term interactions (here, I don't know QFT enough so that it might be possible). But the burden of proof is on the inventor of the new term.
Honestly I swapped them myself both in the Joycons and in the Pro controller a couple times each over the years. The modules cost like $15 through Amazon or Ebay, and unlike the XBox controller, they're separate modules with a ribbon connector instead of soldered in, which makes replacing them a breeze.
The web is backwards. Designers and web site operators spend ridiculous amounts of engineering trying to control what users see, with the limitation that they have no control (other than exclusion) over what software the users chooses to view the content.

HTML went way too far IMO, trying not only to represent the structure of information, but ALSO trying to solve the layout problem.

It will never happen, but I long for a web where layout and content are disassociated. Where content is structured, requested by clients, delivered by servers, and then the client chooses the layout. Blind? Terminal only? Compute limited? No problem, use an agent that works for you.

But big content wants CONTROL. They want to control what you see, how you see it, and what the preconditions are. They also want the web to be an application platform (that they can control, of course, and not have to deal with Apple or Google or Microsoft) that is free to them and supports all their controls.

<rant/>
Apollo 11 was crewed, though.
The portability was amusing but then turned out to be absolutely phenomenal (and likely resulted in multiple sales to individual households).

It both saved them from having to work out what to do with the handhelds, and introduced parents to "the kids can just bring it with them".

I have an Xbox Series X and I'm still not sure I got "the right one" but since I got it as a glorified blurry player that can also play games maybe, it's fine as is.
Our company has been using zoho since we started almost a decade ago. It's been rock solid. We use their CRM & Accounting (Books) as well and everything's integrated nicely. Also has an easy to use API to glue arbitrary things together & scrape emails, etc.
I have yet to see an LLM reliably push back against anything firmly, so I don't know how this would work if the first time a user says the LLM is wrong, it apologizes for the confusion and flips its script.

Also, LLM aren't unbiased, all data it trains on is biased one way or another. Ask any HR question and see for yourself how its answers lean to be HR BS that favours employers.
Agree, and on topic of Apple, this is also a perfect response to why many of Europe’s regulations against Apple are so bad.

Not all of them; I don’t have an issue with requiring the use of one charging cable standard, but the privacy and user safety side effects of the legislated undermining of security cannot be ignored.
The link doesn’t work anymore but this one does for me https://aalto.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_926740c...
next time! :)
But they say what they do on their product page. They provide a solution.
for what it's worth Nintendo had planned to make the SNES backward compatible and that intention influenced design choices, particularly the very similar CPU.
I believe the Wii had the best or second best attach rate for a Nintendo console (how many games sold per console sold). It lived a long time and had a ton of good releases.
I had the great displeasure of working with a colleague who thought he was the only one who cared. He told me flat-out that "its OK to care!" during a disagreement.

I did care. I just cared about different things than he did. He cared about fixing little hinks in code that drove him made. I cared about fixing things users cared about and would notice.
They’ve got the weird shit covered still, apparently the joy cons in this gen can be used as mice.

Was heavily rumoured/leaked and this teaser video literally shows them gliding along a surface.

How Nintendo will leverage that functionality, who could honestly say, but that’s the genius of keeping a toy company mindset in an industry full of sports car company mindsets.
The Wii Remote Plus had gyroscopes built-in, the attachable 'Nunchuk' also had an accelerometers.
You seem to ignore lots of other areas of development. What the EU really does not need now is chauvinism.
> A Porsche is a Porsche, a truck to show you're manly and outdoorsy is a truck.

A Rolls-Royce is a BMW, a Chrysler is a Fiat, an Aston Martin is a Ford, a Jaguar is a Tata, a Lamborghini is an Audi. And a Porsche is a Volkswagen.
How vehemently are we talking? Perhaps it's all subjective, but Israel doesn't seem to be fighting back too hard. Besides, all they have to do is just respond with PR, which isn't exactly taxing nor difficult.

> US and EU leaders wouldnt be going out of their way to downplay this.

Again, theatrics.

> It makes a difference becausr undermines US and European moral legitimacy.

To whom? Neither care about the opinions of 3rd world countries. The countries that matter do not mind, and the countries that mind do not matter.

How is Ukraine a military disaster? The US and Europe have been trying to tip-toe the line, but it's not like the US nor Europe has lost much of value -- excluding poor Ukraine obviously.

I do not think the West is showing weakness, but rather restraint.
I missed that figure, I stand corrected.

So it’s “only” one fourth that told that it may be justified - the rest up to one third didn’t confirm nor deny that it may be justified.

It’s also very reassuring that maybe they don’t find that violence is justified when you publish only one image of muhammad. Maybe you’re right and it’s repeated publication of muhammad images that deserves violence.

Here is a long-time offender: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/17/wikipedia...

Or maybe you meant that violence against anyone who does anything may be justified (?) because of some other thing that they may be doing.
well you can showcase your project on Hetzner's subreddit :)
It’s funny to me that I would never ask those questions. I’ve specialized in legacy rehab projects (among other things) and there seems to be no upper bound on how bad things can be or how many annoying reasons there are for why we can’t “just fix it.” Those “just” questions—which I ask too—end up being hopelessly naive. The answers will crush your soul if you let them, so you can’t let them, and you should always assume things are worse than you think.

TFA is spot on - the way to make progress is to cut problems up and deliver value. The unfortunate consequence is that badness gets more and more concentrated into the systems that nobody can touch, sort of like the evolution of a star into an eventual black hole.
> Why do you talk about hours per day? Does it matter if you play less hours per day, but more days?

Because the only way to level up your character is to grind through a dungeon. You'll get experience for doing so. Every time you level up your character, it takes exponentially more experience to hit the next level.

I don't remember the exact number of hours per day that are required to hit the levels his characters are at, but it's in excess of 14+ hours/day.

Combine that with the evidence from his live streaming that he doesn't actually know how to play these games, and it's clear that he can't have achieved the character levels he has on his own.

This youtube video has a decent breakdown of the whole thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N-WW0UDrVQ

To be clear, I don't think anyone really cares that he's paying for a leveled up account. What people care about is that he's taking credit for achieving the high level on his own, when that's obviously not true.

Q: Why would a person with $300 billion feel the need to lie about being good at a video game?

A: Likely because deception has become habitual/reflexive for them.
I love this aspiration and it's something I wanted to do, but unfortunately if you get into a situation where you're wanting to sell to larger more old-school enterprise or government customers it's going to be hard to impossible to execute. Unless your product is low cost and has no higher-level enterprise offerings, you're going to have to have sales.
> it feels like

You're correct - it's a feeling. But far from reality.
Palestinians aren't even trusted by their Arab brethren, and they expect to be given the benefit of doubt.
At least a sarcastic LMGTFY got the person closer to an answer if they clicked the link. Asking ChatGPT is a dead-end.
Many things that suck, like DMV, do so not because nobody cares, but because incentives are aligned in a way to make things work the way they do.
> Apple sharply limits (or regulates) what you can do on your phone because they think they have a better idea of how you should live your digital life.

I think that it's Apple's bottom line that dictates how Apple corral people to live their digital lives. It's not because they are benevolent dictators, inspired geniuses, altruistic utopians or whatever. It's just a way to make more money for themselves. They perfected the walled garden, made huge profits out of it and will fight to keep those walls standing.
Mainframes have absolutely gotten faster. They're basically small supercomputers.
> we don't do commissions, we just pay good salaries

The semi-joke I always heard about this was that if you don't pay commissions, you'll hire a sales team who are good at selling you that they are doing a good job, rather than selling the prodct.
£200000 per year to treat fifty people via bloodletting? Seems excessive; I'm not up on how much blood donations actually cost to do the quick hemoglobin level check and pay for the bag, but I'm pretty sure it's a lot less than £600-700 per unit collected.
> Edit: Why does rebuilding take a decade or more? This is not a complex system. It doesn't need to solve any novel engineering challenges to operate efficiently. Article does not give much insight into why this particular task couldn't be fixed in 3 months.

You do know the UK government has been cutting all their budgets to the bone for about 10 years? That means everywhere is pretty much understaffed.

And how do you know it's not a complex system? I would think that a system like that would be somewhat complex. It's not just driving licenses but a whole bunch of other things that are handled by the DVLA.
Pretty sure discussions like this really take place
I, for one, welcome our AI overlords.
Ask HN: What AI tools is your company using in production?
What AI tools has your company actually integrated into production systems and workflows? Not just experiments, but tools that are being actively used by employees or deployed in production.

I'm curious to hear about real-world AI adoption beyond the hype.

Looking forward to hearing about your experiences.
Maybe it isn't running on faster hardware? These systems are often horrifyingly outdated.
Useful for code-golfing HTML, but the complexity of rules sounds like a maintenance nightmare for professional use.
Note that the "Pause breakpoints" [1] should be fixed in the next release, Firefox 135, which should ship on February 4.

Regarding Ctrl+P, there is a bug on file [2], we could easily make it so that it switches to debugger and open that search-for-file UI from there. Showing this UI on top of any panel would be a much more involved change.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1933764
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409544
Show HN: Play tag against an opponent trained with reinforcement learning
This is a little prototype I made recently while learning about reinforcement learning and to explore the use of machine learning in games. The learned model that the computer-controlled opponent uses is by no means optimal, but I think it still gives an interesting experience. Enjoy!
The FDAs 9 also includes Red 3 which is gonna be banned.
You can already do this with a robots.txt file
Front-running your trade.
45 000 deaths is genocide ?
What's the civilian/military ratio ?
It's not just the ratio. In many medical roles, engaging your full humanity with every patient would destroy you psychologically, even at a much lower number of patients.

"Follow the process, follow the training" is how medics, emergency responders and the armed forces are able to stay in the job more than a few years without burning out completely.

(It's also, as psychological defensive mechanisms go, somewhat fairer than those used in the past. Ask a retired medic in their 80s or 90s if you know any.)
Like you said, the energy comes from somewhere. If I had to guess, it's effectively solar powered (the catalyst lowering the activation energy enough that photons can actually do the work), plus indirectly solar powered in that you need wind to physically move the compounds around.
Apache DataFusion Comet is a high-performance accelerator for Apache Spark, built on top of the powerful Apache DataFusion query engine: https://datafusion.apache.org/comet/user-guide/overview.html
Nice pivot. Don't want to talk about the Uyghur camps eh?

Respond to the prison labor vs concentration camps point, since you brought up prison labor in attempts to compare convicted criminals to an ethnic group being forced into labor.
Related to the Japan thing, but one thing they don't do well is avoiding harsh white lights. It's far more common to find unpleasant fluorescent or LED lighting there than the US. The idea that warmer (or even dimmer) lights are preferable in most situations isn't a widespread opinion there apparently.
I didn't mean buy any ETFs either. I was making the case for individual stock holding, as a response to my parent comment.
Fractional Distillation is nothing new.
Any way to speed it up? So of course I can try (keyword) to improve the results, but it all comes down to how well the embedding is stored, the quality of the actual user content, and of course my prompt.

I have a multi-step workflow already, but it is getting slow now going through all those steps. And sometimes, if the result is wildly incorrect, it feels really bad.

Again, I'm not an expert in this field but I am trying to learn and improve my product.
Yeah, 2 failures is par for OldSpace. NewSpace usually does much worse, though SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Rocket Lab's Electron managed to get the traditional par.
One of the most infuriating b2b calls I've ever been on was setup by our vendor to sound like this. After almost a year of using their product (on a month to month plan), they wanted to check-in and see what features we were using, what we liked, didn't like and show us the new stuff they'd released etc. And then in the last 10 minutes of an hour long call, they dropped a little "we just need to go over some administrative details" bomb where they started negotiations to get us on a year long contract. I will never accept another discovery call from this vendor again. It was such a huge piss off.
If you care enough and have the resources available. It's rare for someone to care only about one specific thing like a bicycle ramp to put in the resources to make a difference, though.

(i.e. my experience is that people do, on the whole, care. But they generally care about different things, and especially have different priorities in terms of how they allocate their resources, especially time. This blog is a rant about people caring about things that the author cares about, a lot of which are reasonable, but are not the be-all end-all of priorities)
There’s a new-ish body of research that suggests aging is non-linear/happens in “cliffs,” and that the first big decline is mid-40s. Something to look forward to.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/15/1096799/aging-hi...
This take is correct as the primary measure.
Its certainly why I bought one!

However computing juices really started to matter to me since that first buy …8 years ago? Ive been told this by other switch owners too. Some xplatform games get ported to switch and do end up being worse. Witcher 3, which ive beaten on switch, was repurchased on PC to play over steamlink because the switch was slow/choppy/lossy. Switch1 was precovid. Id imagine that many of us now want BOTH. Great content and great specs
Missing lobste.rs
I'm of the opinion that parents are largely to blame for all this stuff. School is viewed as daycare and education not really prioritized by a large part of our population. Teacher's get all the blame and that's not right at all.

I'm for things that entails negative consequences for the parents prior to the kid being pigeon holed as a deplorable or unfitting for academic environments. Sending them home is one way to make the parents suffer. But before that, let's group them together and then find ways to level them up as a cohort. Everyone suffers when the class has a huge standard deviation of skills/knowledge/enthusiasm/engagement/support/etc.
> The A380 is rated for ETOPS-330

I thought ETOPS is for 2 engine aircraft. Are there minimum diversionary requirements for 4 engine aircraft?
There's such a thing as sports watching, when you're associating yourself with a team and are glad and sad together with them. I guess something like this could happen elsewhere...
Sounds like he ran up against the snails pace of enterprise sales. It takes patience. When I cofounded a company selling a KYC solution to global banks, I did a survey of 30 FinTech founders on how long it took to get ink on paper with a global bank. 18 months was the usual answer, and it took even longer to get an actual check. If demand for your product is from large enterprises and you don't plan for this up front you simply can't survive. SaaS and "no meetings" are a great alternative... if the demand is there and it scales to a real opportunity. A lot of startups get lured into dealing with calls because a huge company with a potential $1M+ sale looms and they could raise their next round now if they close it. It is hard to say no.
I struggle with the same thing but have concluded its best not to bring up security concerns unless life is at risk.
What a bizarre thing to say. People buy indie games for all sorts of different reasons, and sometimes it's the beautiful art style.
It must be. Maintaining the original hardware would be more expensive that upgrading to compatible but faster systems.
I don't know about that. We might not have all the choices for eating we have now, but there are a lot of people (even in my own family) that like growing/ hunting for, and serving food for some reason. At this point we have all the resources and knowledge to produce the food needed to survive, but it's in human (animal) nature to always want more than nature provides.
The point is Elon lies about the most trivial things where it's easy to show he's lying. Elon is a habitual liar. His continual lying is starting to hurt business.

When will Tesla FSD be fully functional? Why would you believe anything Elon has to say on the matter since he's a habitual liar?

Elon faked the Optimus robot demo. Which has called into question the entirety of the Robotaxi reveal.

Tesla's new DumpsterTruck doesn't have many of the capabilities he promised years ago.

Maybe you don't care that people habitually lie to you, even about the most trivial of things, but I care. It tells me a lot about a person's honor and integrity, or in Elon's case, his utter and complete lack of those virtues.
Batch size is usually fixed by the business problem in these scenarios, I doubt you can process them in 3msec if the job requires reading in every driving license in the country and doing some work on them for instance.
And how does the presented device make use of solar power? Wind movement?
I think camera is a major smartphone selling point and certainly cannibalized the digital camera business. Kodak could have upgraded from camera to phone like Apple upgraded from mp3 player.
> These coins will be returned to the account holders which were affected by the hack.

I haven't seen any reporting on that. Bitfinex, the corporate entity, is receiving the coins recovered from the feds. It's up to Bitfinex how they device to dole out those funds, if at all.

When these things happen, often times exchanges will make their customers whole by giving back the monetary value of the coins at time of loss. It's very rare they repay them 1:1 in bitcoin.
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