MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jkaplowitz | 2025-05-19 00:42:30+00:00
I knew a bit about it at the time (nothing confidential that I remember now), and saw both internal discussions and external media reports about it at the time. Wikipedia continues to document that it did exist. But sure, I don’t think it was very well publicized.

I will say that Google has generally been bad at product decisions and execution, such as genuinely understanding what their customers and users want or need and effectively giving that to them in a logistically and commercially viable way, more often than they’ve been good at product decisions and execution. (Engineering quality and technical innovation are completely separate questions, and ones at which Google has historically been excellent.)

It’s very possible that better product decisions or better execution could have made Contributor a success.
by flexagoon | 2025-05-19 00:43:27+00:00
What do you mean by that? WebView is just Chrome embedded inside of an Android app. Same thing already exists on Windows (Edge WebView2), macOS (WKWebView) and Linux (WebKitGTK). There's also a library that wraps all of them into a single interface:

https://github.com/webview/webview

The entire point of WebView is that it's a browser embedded inside of a different application, how do you expect it to be a "standalone project"?
by mynegation | 2025-05-19 00:44:20+00:00
There is a solution for the first. I have setup my home server torun Tailscale _and_ be a router to 192.168.2.x network (you can set this up in the Tailscale UI). I have server.mydomain.com to resolve to 192.168.2.x address and this way I can access it from the outside via Tailscale and from inside without the need to turn on Tailscale. I have https setup via DNS-01 challenge as well and updated automatically.
by nkurz | 2025-05-19 00:44:26+00:00
Most of the time it means that they are putting the plate on a 1988 vehicle or that they were born in 1988. But it's being denied because H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, and thus 88 might be construed as HH, which might be construed as Heil Hitler: https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/88. In some rare cases it might even be intended to have this meaning.
by behnamoh | 2025-05-19 00:44:40+00:00
> Write down all the rules for number plates and someone will find a way to write an offensive one, or language will change and the policy won't have caught up. You need human subjectivity in the loop as a check.

That's not what I meant with subjectivity. I want objective rules, like "license place should be 6 alphanumeric letters".

as soon as you say "it shouldn't be offensive to the average citizen", you're in the subjectivity realm.
by hollerith | 2025-05-19 00:45:00+00:00
Your comment ignores the main point of the comment you are replying to: namely, a lot of reporting on studies that find that some intervention increases lifespan ignore strong evidence that the same intervention fails to increase (or worse, actively decreases) healthspan. A diet low in protein for example, will tend to increase your lifespan while tending to make you one of those 70-year-olds (or 60-year-olds if you're unlikely or maintained a diet very low in protein) with very little muscle left -- and no way (that we know of) to regain muscle: at that age, neither exercise nor increasing dietary protein quantity and quality will significantly increase muscle mass even if muscle mass is very low.

I suspect that something similar can be said of not doing enough exercise.

We are commenting on a press release from a university, i.e., written by professionals whose job is to increase the prestige of their employer. It is rich for you to criticize Peter Attia, M.D., and ignore that little gem. At least Attia is trying to understand some aspect of reality more fundamental than impression management and increasing the public's awareness of whatever their employers tasks them to target.
by neilv | 2025-05-19 00:45:12+00:00
> Those concerns intensified this week with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase disclosing that as many as 97,000 customers have had their personal information stolen, including addresses and balance snapshots.

I'm not a professional journalist, but let me give it a shot:

"Those concerns intensified this week, with the disclosure that criminals stole from cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase the personal information of as many as 97,000 customers, including cryptocurrency balances and physical addresses."
by ajross | 2025-05-19 00:45:42+00:00
You're misunderstanding. The point is absolutely not that the fitness/accident correlation must be fictitious. It's that the fact that it exists exists suggests that the fitness/cardiovascular-mortality link may not be as direct as previously understood.

It might be co-causal, for example: to take your list, maybe "making poor decisions" has a bigger impact on cardiovascular health than we thought.
by bigyabai | 2025-05-19 00:45:59+00:00
I think that's a gullible worldview to demand when nearly every actual member of the Third Reich is dead or dying in 2025. You're kinda just profiling people to virtue signal, instead of letting their actions speak for themselves. Putin uses the same rhetoric to justify annexing Ukraine.

People don't like to hear this, but the majority of self-described "fascists" I've met in my life grew up. Their stupid worldview stemmed from a place of dissatisfaction, delusion, or a desire to get a reaction out of people. When you attack them outright, you feed into their fantasy that they're persecuted instead of just mentally ill.
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2025-05-19 00:46:01+00:00
Went to one of their hackathons last year. I think there's a lot of potential in this idea - imagine a robot that can do your real life chores - but this isn't it. The robots don't know their own positions, so as soon as there's a bit of slippage in the actuators, the robot will start flailing on the floor.
by josephcsible | 2025-05-19 00:46:07+00:00
> Is everyone born in 1988 prevented from using their birth year these days, too?

Yes, they are:

> BLK88BZ,2,NICKNAME AND BIRTH YEAR,88-HITLER. BIRTH YEAR VERIFIED AS '88,N

> 28GSV88,2,IMPORTANT DATE.,"88=HATE SYMBOL, NO 88 CAR ON ANI. 28 IS BIRTHDATE AND 1988 IS YEAR",N

> AMK 88,2,INITIALS AND YEAR OF BIRTH,"88=hate symbol, no 88 car. was born in 88",N

> 88DURAN,2,YEAR OF MY BIRTH AND LAST NAME.,88-HITLER. BIRTH YEAR CONFIRMED AS 1988,N

> 6TTT88,2,BIRTHDAY AND INITIALS,88-HITLER. BIRTH YEAR CONFIRMED AS 1988,N

> 88 MAR,7,MY BIRTH YEAR AND MONTH,88-HITLER. BIRTH MONTH AND YEAR CONFIRMED.,N

> 88HENRY,7,YEAR OF BIRTH AND LAST NAME,88-HITLER. BIRTH YEAR CONFIRMED,N

In case it's not clear, in all of the above applications, the DMV confirmed the person was really born in 1988 and denied the plate anyway.
by jameshsi | 2025-05-19 00:48:44+00:00
Ah i've been curious about what improvements folks would like to see most in SRS learning and this thread is gold! It does seem as though Anki’s core is undeniably solid, yet its power can also feel like a hurdle for non power users. Additionally, i'm not sure "boring" is necessarily bad, as i've heard and to agree that learning may be best when it feels like a strenuous workout.

I've been exploring some of these questions in my personal foray in design. If anyone’s interested, I posted an early experiment here: https://dribbble.com/shots/25737616-Descartes-Design-Flashca...
by kayodelycaon | 2025-05-19 00:49:05+00:00
It’s a little bit more nuanced than that. One of the problems is administration doesn’t actually know how to tell if professors are actually doing a good job.

At the university I went to you could get in serious trouble if too many people failed a course or if too many students gave you a bad review at the end of the semester.

My high school did something like this as well. If too many parents complained, it created a lot of grief.

Everyone in authority is too busy covering their own asses to do an even a passable job.
by arwineap | 2025-05-19 00:49:20+00:00
The port expects yachts to safely operate their vessels, and it's up to the captains to execute. That could mean sailing in / out of port, or it could mean under engine power.

The trouble I'm having is if they were leaving under engine power alone, with such fast current, why was the ground tackle not ready to be deployed?

We ran a much (much) smaller vessel with an unreliable engine and often pre-prepared our anchor before getting into port
by kjkjadksj | 2025-05-19 00:50:35+00:00
I really liked the handwritten bluebook essays we did in my “old school” style history class. Zero emphasis on flowery language or coherent structure really, 100% emphasis on regurgitating all you knew on the Triple Entente or whatever the prompt was, which is the point of history class after all. You’d be citing the assigned readings anyhow so that wasn’t even necessary.

And of course, no way to cheat out of it but to learn the damned thing.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-19 00:50:59+00:00
Ketogenic diet research is fascinating in itself for how many manipulated or misleading studies get published.

The most recent example is the KETO-CTA paper, which was released in April to loud claims that high LDL in a keto diet was not really bad. It got picked up by various news outlets as vindicating ketogenic diets. The authors posted long Twitter threads full of meme animated gifs celebrating their victory over keto skeptics.

Yet when people started looming into the study they noticed that the study failed to report the data from the pre-registered trial endpoint. This is highly unusual because if you establish an entire clinical trial, you are expected to publish the primary results you pre-registered.

After a lot of prodding, people finally got the authors to release the percent change in non-calcified plaque volume (NCPV) values that they pre-registered for and they were extremely high. Even higher than seen in certain serious medical conditions. It became clear that they chose to hide the values because they were so incredibly bad.

> The top metastudies on a simple google search both conclude positive effects on CVD.

There are a lot of die-hard keto defenders who produce papers, blogs, and podcasts claiming it’s either neutral or good for CVD. You have to look past the SEO optimized content and go to actual CVD experts who do not have their internet presence tied to promoting keto diets.
by alwa | 2025-05-19 00:51:57+00:00
Slogan: “May we live long and die out.” They don’t even call for suicide, much less murder.

I am struck by the difference in tone (and militarism) between that early-Internet-era, un-self-serious, strident-but-just-an-argument venture and these new forms of atheist death cults.

I wonder how much of that is down to shifting cultural norms and how much has to do with the way digital platforms foment extremism at a structural level.
by gdudeman | 2025-05-19 00:51:59+00:00
I think that at best the jury is still out on Rapamaycin. It has healthspan- and lifespan-increasing effects on most animals studied.

Bryan Johnson quit using it, but he’s on 40 other things and there are bound to be drug interactions.

That said, limiting consumption of health and fitness influencers is bound to be good for lifespan: you’ll have more time to live.

And yes, it’s hard to make a living as an influencer saying “eat food, mostly green, move your body, and spend time with friends and loved ones.”
by yakbarber | 2025-05-19 00:52:16+00:00
I don't think I'd agree with their hypothesis though that there's no connection between dying in a random accident and fitness.

Fit people:

1. more able to "get out of the way" / coordination / agility

2. faster reaction time

3. potentially suffer a reduced injury

4. more likely to recover than die from the injury

There's probably a dozen rational things we could think of to counter that hypothesis.
by ajross | 2025-05-19 00:53:04+00:00
This was a Swan Song machine. It was instantaneously great but part of a dinosaur architecture with no future. It was released in 1997, just as the modern massively parallel datacenter paradigm was launching. By the time Web 2.0 was firing up on AWS, this kind of thing seemed ridiculous. And the world hasn't looked back, really.

It's sort of a recapitulation of the mid-80's, when the last waves of ECL mainframes (c.f. VAX 9000) launched with jaw dropping performance numbers and price tags, just to be buried beneath the flood of cheap CMOS workstations within the decade.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-19 00:53:06+00:00
Roam’s product people sprinted to the 100m line with what they built at the start, but then Notion’s product people ambled past them and went on to run a full marathon.

Roam also took absurdly long to finish loading, long enough to lose my train of thought and get angry at Roam instead of writing down what I wanted to write down. I would write it in Sublime Text while Roam loaded, then paste it in. Then wonder why I was bothering with Roam when I could’ve already saved a text file with my note, to a directory somewhere.

Do you think Roam’s team fixed the performance problems? Ha.
by MoonGhost | 2025-05-19 00:53:13+00:00
It takes practice. LLM can't read your mind, put it in prompt if you have some specific ideas. Usually helps to ask for options and overview first. You may get some ideas here. I think communication barrier is one of biggest problems when working with LLM. You can often see posts like "I asked it for XX" and it gave me some crap in return. Well, it depends on 'how' you ask. Also you need to consciously stay in control. At takes some efforts and usually LLM is arrogant, bossy, self confident, and sometimes manipulative. Just like human 'experts' on forums.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-19 00:53:23+00:00
> It is a video game. It was remastered but not recently. It received a sequel and was adapted into a television series.

This might be pedantic, but the sequel was remastered and was released for Windows in the first week of April 2025.

In the context of the PC versions of the original game, it has been remastered and remade, in that the PC version development started after the release of the original remaster of the console version for PS5, which was itself a remake of the PS4 remastered version of the original PS3 version.

I think the original comparison to Oblivion was fair and accurate.
by alexjmu | 2025-05-19 00:53:27+00:00
Eh, they're consistent at least.

I've seen many rejections for "HATE", any word that could be considered a sexual euphemism (TACO), anything that could be construed as a gang reference, and often anything that the reviewer doesn't understand that is not explained by the submission ("NOT SURE WHAT PS MEANS"). The latter feels paranoid, but it's probably justified.
by Swizec | 2025-05-19 00:53:56+00:00
> It might be co-causal

Kinda like how wine after dinner improves health outcomes. The kind of people who can afford to regularly drink wine, but not a lot, also have more access to healhtcare.

Also riding horses makes you healthier! (it’s a proxy for wealth)

One could argue that high VO2max may just be another proxy for wealth. People who can afford to work out every day can also afford lots of other things that correlate with health and longevity.
by strken | 2025-05-19 00:54:09+00:00
> Nobody wanted to live a long time but be unhealthy in their older years.

If nobody wanted that, then why have we spent so much effort keeping older people alive and in agony for a couple more days, often in direct opposition to their preferences and DNRs?

If nobody wanted a medical system that caused such suffering for such little reason, then how come the excellent How Doctors Die[0] needed to be written?

[0] https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/
by zfnmxt | 2025-05-19 00:54:11+00:00
> Notice that all the all the languages mentioned depends on the external BLAS library for example OpenBLAS for performance.

That's incorrect. Futhark doesn't even have linear algebra primitives---everything has to be done in terms of map/reduce/etc: https://github.com/diku-dk/linalg/blob/master/lib/github.com...
by hedora | 2025-05-19 00:55:03+00:00
There’s a question of which of the banks are liable, sort of.

The banks that sent and received the money are liable. It doesn’t matter who touched the check before the fraud occurred.

The bank would have a case if they could show the victim endorsed the check and then colluded with the thief to allow it to be intercepted. In that case, the fact that the victim had temporary possession of the check would matter.

Note that, if the courts rule otherwise, things get bad fast. Your bank account number is basically public (you provide it to anyone you write a check to or ACH transfer to). If anyone can use that number to forge and cash a check against any account, and the only threat of recourse is “the account holder recovers the money without the help of the banks”, then the US financial system will collapse.
by amazingamazing | 2025-05-19 00:55:16+00:00
I’m skeptical that it’s worth it to spend too much time working out.

If there are three options:

1. Sedentary lifestyle (<3 passive or active exercise weekly).

2. Moderate (~1 hour passive exercise daily, like walking a dog a few miles daily).

3. Active (>1 hr active, like running several miles or lifting).

I think there’s huge value in moving out of (1), but am not sure if it’s worth going from (2) to (3) w.r.t longevity
by Aurornis | 2025-05-19 00:56:56+00:00
> A diet low in protein for example, will tend to increase your lifespan while tending to make you one of those 70-year-olds (or 60-year-olds if you're unlikely or were very protein deficient) with very little muscle left

Low muscle mass is correlated with shortened lifespan, though. Very low muscle mass is known to be a high risk for early mortality.

> It is a rich for you to criticize Peter Attia, M.D., and ignore that little gem.

I don’t feel bad at all for criticizing Peter Attia, especially after his ringing endorsements of the Oura Ring and claimed “investor” status were revealed to be a contractual deal where he got shares in the company in exchange for promoting the Oura Ring. He’s been revealed to be very oriented toward fame and self-promotion, as evidenced by his recent claims that Kevin Spacey’s accusers were all wrong and Kevin Spacey was totally innocent after Kevin Spacey’s team set up a promotional dinner between Attia and Spacey. I know a lot of listeners develop sorts of parasocial defensive relationships for their podcasters, but you can’t deny the irony of a CVD-focused podcaster starting his podcast career deep into Ketogenic stuff before he saw the writing on the wall and backed off.
by ip26 | 2025-05-19 00:57:00+00:00
There’s a difference between being tortured in the “to death” sense, and milder forms of suffering. Hunger pangs, mild sleep deprivation, pushing through exhaustion, mild hypothermia, etc are a form of suffering. But they are also something people are routinely willing to subject themselves to during sport.

I would like anesthesia for surgery, but I still participate in endurance sports…
by jlawer | 2025-05-19 00:57:34+00:00
Job / Position description means something more... It means that your expected to do the task and perform well at it or you will be let go.

Generally you don't put those skills in a Junior PD, but you would expect a Junior to take on these tasks if they hope to progress. The Mid level PD would have it listed and as the junior shows they can meet each and every additional skill, the option of a promotion becomes available.
by socalgal2 | 2025-05-19 00:57:39+00:00
I probably need to go read the studies but of SRS is so great, why aren't all schools just SRS farms (or are they?)

Especially for language study, as a friend put it, speaking a language is like learning a musical instrument, no amount of book studying will teach you how to play the instrument. The way you learn to play is to play. And similarly, the way you learn to speak is to speak. Sure, you can fill your vocabulary, but I question a little how much it helps in context. Obviously it's not zero. I'm sure curious, if there are better methods than SRS for language learning given that hearing, creating, understanding, and speaking whole sentences is the goal, not individual words. I can generally learn a new word in my native language with one exposure, no SRS needed.
by DennisP | 2025-05-19 01:00:40+00:00
This is why some crypto people have most of their coin in multisig wallets. They can only transfer small amounts without getting m-of-n friends to sign their transaction. If your friends know not to do that without hearing a code word, then the alarm will be raised.

Another option is to keep your cold storage in a safe deposit box or private vault, so you have to physically go someplace where there are other people. An advantage of the multisig is that the criminals can verify the situation, possibly before they show up at your house.
by linksnapzz | 2025-05-19 01:01:12+00:00
FPS, which had purchased the assets of Celerity Computing in San Diego (well, La Jolla on Towne Centre Drive) , which was where much of the Sun large-systems development would occur.

Celerity had built RISC superminis out of NCR32K chips, running BSD 4.2, then got bought by FPS, then by Cray, then Sun. The Towne Centre Drive property is now Takeda Pharmaceuticals, IIRC.
by iLemming | 2025-05-19 01:02:13+00:00
Some practical examples of how I use Transients in my config and some more stuff — for inspiration, discussion and further ideas.

Talking about different use cases I have for transients; showing how I use them to zoom-in/out, cycle themes, control video playback, translate sentences, search for things, apply edits to regions of text, perform structural editing, use for LLMing, annotate PDFs, control tabs and extend third-party transients.

It's a good video for both - beginners and advanced users of Emacs.
by kachapopopow | 2025-05-19 01:03:26+00:00
At first it will obviously make it easier for artists to create what they want at the expense of doing everything yourself which will take the fun out of it. At first we might see some raise in the money some people can make, but as I said the choice artists will have in the end is being someone who draws pictures for a machine to be trained on.

I also think AI is the next evolution of humanity.
by coolcase | 2025-05-19 01:04:41+00:00
Indiehackers.com has stripe-verified revenue for many small saas so check that out to see what makes money. General trend is other than the AI assistant bubble, the money is in marketing automation. The bar is high for dev tools. You compete with Jetbrains for quality and a lot of free stuff for price. Unless you are very niche. E.g. I think something like a tool that solves kubernetes soc2 compliance sort of thing.
by loveparade | 2025-05-19 01:05:05+00:00
> When I write my notes the thought, ‘Where am I going to put this?’ plagues me every time.

This is so true. Regardless of how useful note taking actually is, the kind of people using these apps are those who like the idea of having everything "perfectly organized" - and this friction and uncertainty of where to put notes gets in the way of that. I'm the same. Every time I know that I don't have a proper place for a note I stop taking notes alltogether. I guess that's for the better.
by AJ007 | 2025-05-19 01:05:07+00:00
Wow, I had no idea he had died. This undersells what a critical influence he had in the direction the early internet took by setting a bar on what you could just post online (as an American.) Wikileaks got a lot of publicity, but Cryptome probably was much more important. If tech companies had more John Youngs and less sales people eager to sell censorship machines to dictators we would be living in an utterly different world today...
by akoboldfrying | 2025-05-19 01:06:04+00:00
> and no way (that we know of) to regain muscle

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/mar/11/older-adult...

TL;DR: In the 1980s, Maria Fiatarone got 9 patients in their 80s and 90s to do 2 months of progressive resistance knee extension training. The minimum increase in 1RM strength was 61%.