skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, politics really doesn't belong here. I have no idea why your comment would be downvoted. I disagree that Biden was effective, but should you really be downvoted because people disagree with you?

You kinda make a good point regarding Covid, but at the same time, I think the action he took there was basically what any non-lunatic would do. It wasn't like he had some massive amazing plan and he actioned it. He just stopped the ignorance of previous administration.

WRT Ukraine, "letting them stand strong" wasn't strong enough. The delays and lack of significant support is, I believe, what has caused the war to drag on. It's like there being a person with cancer, and rather than giving them enough chemo to kill the cancer, you give them just enough that the cancer has difficulty spreading.

What was necessary was a conclusive coordinated action among allies, so that isn't entirely Biden's fault, but everything did seem haphazard.

Also, being in Australia, I think from an economic standpoint, you are overstating the easing of the economy. Everyone has faced some level of inflation, but when I go to the US, it seems to me that "real" inflation has hit you more than other countries I've visited.
Yup, case closed. If enough people cared about this then they wouldn't buy iPhones anymore. The market is speaking, and Apple is listening with rapt attention.
I don't have any wealthy relatives, so I'll never be so lucky as a lot of my friends. It's a struggle to even save up a down payment to buy a car, as our car is pretty old now - and I make 200k a year. Renting a house is really the only realistic way I'll ever get to live in a house, at least in the expensive city I've lived in most of my life.
That was a front door not a back door! They were 100% open about the fact that it was there and most people wanted it to be there. If it didn't exist they would have to invent it. Why should I be the slightest bit upset about this?
Would you please stop posting flamewar comments? We just asked you this, and you've continued to do it (e.g. here and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222779). Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does it have any impact on focus or motivation to get work done, do hobbies or recreational activities, engage in human relationships, sex, intellectual curiosity, etc.?

It would be fascinating and almost too good to be true if we found a way to suppress only largely harmful (in our current environment) urges but leave the good ones intact.

Something like that becoming widely available could change the world, and mostly for the better. It would refocus our entire economy on much more constructive pursuits instead of gambling, addiction, and pandering to transient urges.
It's crazy that this is possible. I wish US would develop this immune system. Where do you see this light at the end of the tunnel to think that effort may be underway though? I hope you are right.
Great website! I signed up. I found a bug: I cannot input new emojis in headlines or description.
Doesn't macOS also use this for power savings, rather than only DRM? This is something that Linux is also starting to pick up, and is probably one of the biggest reasons for Apple Silicon Macs having superior battery life.

The GPU is the thing decoding the video stream and putting it directly on the display (via hardware planes). It doesn't need to send it back (aka copy) to the main CPU. Screenshots can't see what's there because the CPU has no knowledge of whats there.

Rather than the GPU decoding the video, sending it back to the CPU which then will send the frame back to the GPU as part of composition, and wasting power.
Instead of discussing many different points, let us focus on one.

You're not referring to any primary sources here. [...] The first is evidence based - Russia is expanding. The second has the convenient property that it backwards rationalizes Russia's violent actions [...]

Give me a pre-invasion source that says that Russia has expansionist ambitions, bonus points if that claim is substantiated by evidence. I give you Putin's speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference [1] and the draft Agreement on measures to ensure the security of The Russian Federation and member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [2].

And just to be clear, I think that declaring that Russia has expansionist
ambitions is backwards rationalization, nobody claimed that before the invasion. Russia warning about the consequences of further NATO expansion, especially Ukraine, on the other hand has been stated countless times and for decades now.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ58Yv6kP44

[2] https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en
US intelligence agencies have said that unlike the other branches, the Russian nuclear forces are well managed and have relatively low levels of corruption. The gist is that more than enough of the rockets will work just fine and deliver bombs that will go boom.
Monetary deflation is easy to solve: just print more money.

But who do you give it to? Well, obviously, you give it to billionaires because they are the best at managing money because they're billionaires. They can then spend it on wages, without having to produce anything useful because they are just getting free printed money.
Just because they extract massive profits from the US market does not mean that they would stop operating if they only extracted healthy profits.
I think a very wide game of Pong would be fun!
In my experience using LLMs, the 90% is less about buggy code and more about just ignoring 10% of the features that you require. So it will write code that's mostly correct in 100-1000 lines of code (not buggy) but then no matter how hard you try, it won't get the remaining 10% right and in the process, it will mess up parts of the 90% that was already working or end up writing another 1000 lines of undecipherable code to get 97% there but still never 100% unless you're building something that's not that unique.
'The tusk, especially the tip of the tusk, was used to interrogate and manipulate the target by brief contact, which typically elicited a response from the fish.'
Well, yes, if you were poked by one of those tusks you'd react!
> I think Windows still offers easy screenshotting of frames from DRM video not because the streaming services somehow don’t care about what Windows users do

This is incorrect. The DRM on Windows varies based on the browser. Trying playing Netflix in Edge vs Chrome and take screenshots. The video will be black on Edge but visible on Chrome. If you use Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D on Edge or Chrome to bring up the stats or view their test videos at https://www.netflix.com/watch/80164785, you can see that Edge plays 4k HDR but Chrome only plays 1080p SDR. Netflix allows 1080p with weak DRM but requires strong DRM for 4k.

There are similar restrictions for mobile devices, VR headsets, etc. where the resolution is limited on certain devices and browsers because of their DRM configuration.
That's a relief! And Tiny Tapeout has already done a beta with IHP's open-source 130nm BiCMOS SiGe PDK.

The IHP PDK is really a lot more exciting to me than the Skywater stuff because it's aimed at submillimeter analog things (450GHz fₜ, 650GHz fastest oscillator) and why would you fab a digital design in 130nm instead of just programming an FPGA?
https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und-verkaufen
> Rent to own" is just another name for a mortgage, except that you have to pay more for the right to give back the property at any time instead of needing to find another buyer yourself.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. You can leverage whatever you're mortgagibg as an asset (or in this case, whatever portion of the property you now own). You can't leverage your rental property despite almost certainly paying more than the equivalent mortgage.

As you point out, rent makes sense for transitional or temporary living. I just think you should get ownership over some portion of the assets you are de-facto paying for.

> Developers want to build

Well, stalled developments are a problem across basically every metro market in the country. They don't make their money by building, they make their money by waiting for the labor & materials market to make an eventual sale profitable. In some metro areas with labor-this may be sufficient for some markets, but others (like the bay area) it's clearly not going to provide the housing people expect yimby zoning policy to deliver. Like yes zoning is a major issue in the city, but it's only one of many, and it's not sufficient to explain dysfunction where development was already zoned and approved years ago.

One really great way to encourage developers to perform the role they're allegedly already serving is by having public-sector competition (zero- or negative-margin development/property management) to give them an incentive to be realistic about costs and timeframe. Or just straight fine them for wasting city property on zero-or-arguably-negative-value use.
Good thing they only made 2 Terminator movies
I'd also point out that one of the big assets of the US government as an employer is an implicit promise of stability, which helps it compete for employees against the private sector despite offering lower wages.

The recent half-random half-stupid-keyword firing spree is smashing that asset to pieces, which means the government will have to start offering more in wages to keep attracting competent candidates, which is likely to overwhelm any short-term "savings."

Or at any rate, it will on a longer time-horizon, which might not matter to perpetrators who plan to make a giant mess and leave it behind for someone else to handle.
That is literally my point... The definition of AGI has been twisted so much by the ones that claim to be on the verge of achieving it that it is not anymore in line with what AGI has always meant.
Refusal of business is not harm. But telling someone to “use their brain” is tantamount to calling them an idiot
In the case of famous petrostate Russia, evidently pretty great.
Because they are willing to pay my asking rate. Maybe it’s 3 jobs, but for me it’s still one. I can’t help that their 3 other devs aren’t as productive. I’m not here to defend them either. Absolutely quite some companies are going this route, it’s not a unique situation either. What should I do? Not adapt and complain about the job market? Using AI -IDEs since day one, I also see the writings on the wall, so I’m also taking advantage of these things (like anyone should).
> My morning starbucks routine has changed from 2 food items to just 1, which alone saves me $200/mo (sorry starbucks).

Starbucks food is especially calorie dense. I realized this when I lost a bunch of weight in 2018 and I noticed the calorie counts on the printed cards that some stores have. Even for junk food, Starbucks junk food is more calorific than average for the same items.

I started to consider that for a typical customer's consumption, McDonald's might actually be healthier than Starbucks. Which totally goes against the image people have of both places.

People think if they are "going for coffee", it's better for you than having a milkshake and following it with candy. But it's essentially what they're doing.
> but as opposed to the old intel avx512 cores that got endless (deserved?) bad press for their transition behavior, this is more or less seamless.

The problem with Intel was, the AVX frequencies were secrets. They were never disclosed in later cores where power envelope got tight, and using AVX-512 killed performance throughout the core. This meant that if there was a core using AVX-512, any other cores in the same socket throttled down due to thermal load and power cap on the core. This led to every process on the same socket to suffer. Which is a big no-no for cloud or HPC workloads where nodes are shared by many users.

Secrecy and downplaying of this effect made Intel's AVX-512 frequency and behavior infamous.

Oh, doing your own benchmarks on your own hardware which you paid for and releasing the results to the public was verboten, btw.
Oh, I was in the liberal bubble and echo chamber just 3 or 4 years ago. One of the things that opened my mind was how differently Tesla was suddenly being treated in the media/HN/Reddit once Musk turned. I didn't agree with Musk's politics and still don't agree now but the bias has been crazy. Same with SpaceX since the past 8 months or so.

You saw how many liberals and moderates who voted for Dems in 2024 didn't vote in 2024 or changed their vote, even minorities. While liberals expected a big victory because they were stuck in their bubble.
Association of alcohol consumption and gray/white matter volume in UK Biobank
A data-driven approach can optimize for the wrong thing, usually because of statistical fallacies or because it is disregarding context. In that case, gut instinct may yield more desirable results. Telemetry also isn’t a replacement for end-user field studies.
I dont track it. I order instacart a couple times a month which costs $300 per order. Plus eating out. So about $1k or more a month. Single, live alone.
I can't wait until the rich start inbreeding so much they get deformed.
This even extends to screensharing on Teams. If I recall correctly, DRM protected content is completely black even when using Chrome.
A bunch? I've only seen three—but that's still a huge improvement over zero pre-Skywater.
Condolences.

IME, Google Meet isn't the worst videoconf (that might be Microsoft Teams). Each one has problems.

But what's even worse than when company/boss mandates a bad or so-so videoconf product, is when you're doing partner/customer calls, and for whatever reason, you wind up using their preferred service. So you have to keep a few/several different ones working on your devices, poorly configured, and have many first time joining difficulties at the start of possibly important meetings.

Another time you need several videoconf is when job-hunting, and so many companies want you to use something different. And it's often shitty. And the first impressions can be high-stakes, while you're trying to get their shitty proprietary thing to work, even with Chrome or as an app you put on your sacrificial videoconf device.

This is a little tricky to solve entirely with open standards, but there's a reason we started doing open standards.
Same as you and me, really.
Which is odd — all the YC startups likely have another talented pool of eager engineers to likely hire. Or they probably think they’ll just be replacing engineers with angentic ones (sic).
Nice! Might travel to Berlin for this.

Any idea how non-german-speaker friendly this will be? The hackerspace website is german only, but I'm hoping we can expect most attendees / sellers to speak english?
> Android Studio in most respects sits somewhere between not anything to write home about and bad.

If only Xcode was nearly that good.
It's simple to enable on Windows, any surface with DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_FLAG_DISPLAY_ONLY set will get excluded from screen capture APIs. No DRM is required.

DRM isn't always the reason for video not being capturable, though. Efficiency optimizations can also get in the way, such as hardware video overlays. Back when overlays were first introduced, attempting to capture the screen would often omit the video because it would only capture the chroma key in the primary surface. Even today, the DWM has to undo multi-plane optimizations and specifically composite the screen when screen capture is requested.
> imposes a massive (and for most people, confusing and frustrating) hindrance on honest people simply trying to easily capture high-quality (as opposed to, say, using their damn phone to take a photograph of their reflective laptop display) screenshots of the shows and movies they’re watching.

Legally, public screenshots accompanied by text/audio/video commentary are fair use. When shared on social media, reviews, or fan sites with influencer commentary, they are unpaid marketing for video creators.

Censorship of free advertising is against the economic interest of rightsholders. Is this checkbox compliance theatre, e.g. does everyone in the distribution chain mindlessly click a DRM button? Can Apple differentiate between DRM screen recording and DRM screenshots? Can Apple differentiate between 30-second promotional clips and longer recordings, or rate limit N captures per M wallclock time? Can rightsholders add metadata to enable screenshots on a per-title basis?

If one studio can demonstrate marketing success with authorized screen excerpts, other studios may follow.
> I haven't seen anything on memory vulnerability issues.

The issue is that barely nobody uses the Ladybird yet, so there are zero interests for anyone serious party to test that security. So nothing gets published about the issues. I don't even know if Ladybird runs in Google's Clusterfuzz.

Memory safety is their long term plan (according to them), and they are going to use Swift for that. Let's see what happens.
The article doesn't really explain it, but looking at the image provided, I think I understand. A girl is born with all her eggs already, so the egg germ cell that becomes the grandchild is already present inside the grandmother while she is pregnant with the mother. In this case, the genes being methylated are in the cell which will go on to become the grandchild. Changes themselves are not being passed down through generations, per se, but are being effected in the 3rd generation at the instant of the trauma itself.
This was my primary reason for using Claude. Absolutely useless experience with chatgpt oftentimes. I’ve mainly been using LLMs to help maintain a ridiculously poorly made technical debt dumpster fire, and Claude has been really helpful here mainly with repetitive code.
We might not know what it is, but it's not that. At a bare minimum smartness requires abstract reasoning (and no, so-called "reasoning" models do not do that - it's a marketing trick)

The burden of proof for that claim is on you, we cannot start with the assumption these are intelligent systems and disprove it - we have to start with the fact that training is a non-deterministic process and prove that it exhibits intelligence.
OK, so imagine Hitler didn't have death camps, but otherwise was the same. Invading all of Europe, for democracies to fall to fascism. And then he'd start invading the rest of the world.

You think that would have been preferred then? You would prefer that today we would live under a fascist Third Reich, instead of democracies, so that we could have saved the lives of those who fought in WWII?

I mean, you're free to prefer that. But everyone who fought did it because they thought it was worth it to die, to save democracy so they and their children and their children's children wouldn't have to live under fascist rulers from another nation.

Maybe you don't think Ukranians should fight. But Ukranians clearly believe it's worth it. And people in the country honor those who die for it. And I do too.
The interesting thing here to me is that the llm isn’t ‘hallucinating’, it’s simply regurgitating some data it digested during training.
Seems to me a reaction to the US making itself their enemy.
You'll be fine. Worst case scenario have the calculator on your phone ready to type in numbers.
I am super happy I switched. I live in Texas and have W-2 income as well as multiple 1099s (1099-R, 1099-INT, 1099-DIV, 1099-K, 1099-MISC, etc.). I started using TaxHawk for in 2022. I previously used TurboTax for over a decade but despised Intuit[1] and was finally able to switch away from them.

TaxHawk doesn't have the same level of importing as TurboTax. The best TaxHawk can do is import a W-2 from a PDF or image. But, TaxHawk can't connect to bank/investment accounts. So, you have to enter that info manually. However, the manual input isn't very hard (and TurboTax importing didn't always work).

Once you get a year done in TaxHawk, it will keep your info to help with the next year.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
> 1. a) Build a framework for rebuilding Ukraine and Russia

What do you mean rebuilding Russia?

> The neutral third party, together with the partner countries of both sides establishes sanctions for violations during the negotiations.

Sanctions so far have done nothing to deter Russia.

The problem with negotiations is that Russia would never come to a peace agreement which legitimately had potential influence on them not being able to invade again. Because their goal is to invade again, after the peace deal.

Either you overpower them and show effectively that you have overpowered them, or they keep coming.

The only peace deal Russia would accept is if:

a) It just allows them to invade again as soon as possible.

b) It tells them not to invade again, but the consequences are meaningless so they'll invade again and nothing happens, and the same thing repeats again.

There's a fundamental misunderstanding of what Russia is. To simplify this, you need to think of it as a bot playing Civilization that is programmed to maximize its territory gains, while at the same time have some sort of uncensored LLM spewing random justifications for why they are invading, and influence on other countries to have them approve of those invasions.
Signal Desktop seems to be the best conference app these days. Give a tip.
You're confusing average with good.
15% body fat (for a man) is completely healthy, so as the OP said, he is slightly overweight.
Or the wronged parties were those who entrusted someone else not to put their data (e.g., closed software, NDA material, proprietary internal info shared with contractor, access control secrets) in a public repo.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/29/we-will-coup-whoever...

This was in 2020. Is it only bad when it's about Europe and the US?
Apple devices will happily play non-DRM content.
Software is not, itself, an industry, it is a layer on top of other industries, many of which still use outdated processes and paradigms. It's just that software engineers build what they know, mainly B2C and apps for other SWEs, not actually for these other industries.

It's like saying the "engineering industry" is maturing when in reality there's no such thing, there are engineers for every such industry, like mechanical, nuclear, etc.
I am not pro LSD (I don't think I'll ever try this or similar).

But I would say sleep is similar in this regard especially dreams.
Storelx – Peer-to-Peer Storage Marketplace (Just Launched in Canada)
Hey HN!

We’re two international students who just launched Storelx – a peer-to-peer storage platform that connects people with extra space to those looking for affordable storage options.

The idea came from our own struggles trying to find a place to store our stuff during summer breaks. Traditional storage units were either too expensive or too far. That’s when we thought – why not help people make money from their unused space while offering others cheaper, local storage?

We’re starting in Canada and would love your support! Whether you have a spare room, garage, or even a small corner of your closet – every bit of space can help someone out.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
I am 8 months in, you do develop a tolerance over time to the drug (and why you need to increase the dosage progressively). I have gone up slower than the prescibed steps but still, this drug is to help doing diets, I don't think it would work as a long term medication. And as far as I can tell, when you get off the drug or have become tolerant to the current dosage, it is easy to gain back some weight if you are not careful. So the point being I don't think it will suppress completely obesity, but it will certainly help people make a time limited effort to go down to a lower weight.