skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ensure that your legs are working for the full length, by raising the seat as much as you can, to avoid problems with joints

Raising your seat isn't the first step: first make sure that you're pushing the pedals with the balls of your feet, not close to the heel. I used to get terrible knee pain during prolonged bike rides as a kid, and nobody could tell me why.

It took me many years before I finally figured out what I was doing wrong: if your feet are too far forward on the pedals, you effectively lock your ankles in place, and all propulsion must come from your upper legs through your knees. If you can bend your ankles, you have two joints and three sets of muscles to share the load. This gives you better range of motion and less muscle strain for the same amount of propelling power.

If you ride in winter conditions, lower the bike seat until you can reach the ground with the tips of your shoes instead

This is the correct seat position all year round.
Getting scans and tests from hospital. In the UK you can wait weeks just to get a blood test.

Looking to the future, I'd like to see a full body scanner that you lie down in and it can diagnose the vast majority of ailments. See it has a combined x-ray/CT scanner. Sounds like science fiction? Would return instant results.
Personally, I think inheritance is the ultimate expression of success = luck and should be capped hard with the remainder flowing back into support funds for things that help re-balance opportunities. However, most people I've brought this up with find the idea completely repulsive - the idea of "I want my kids to get the fruits of my labor" seems pretty ingrained.
lambda functions are arguably a lot simpler and easier to toss in the static site mix than a server properly configured for cgi.
Yes, they fall into the category "A few other types of berries". In Sweden those 3 are the most common.

Also wild raspberries would count, I guess, although raspberries are also cultivated. I don't know if that means that also the wild raspberries are tainted by human hand.
Stay alive and keep pushing. You have 500k, come on. :)
Air purifiers and air monitors. It is shocking and disgusting how much dust and particles these air purifiers suck out of the air. The air monitors detect when to open windows for CO2, among other things.

My allergies no longer exist.

Edit: A few people have asked for recommendations. I recommend the Coway Airmega AP-1512HH for larger spaces and Blueair Blue Pure 411 for smaller spaces. For the air monitor I have the Qingping.
I find it really admirable that Halide team writes some great articles on Smartphone computational photography.

Those who are interested in this area should check out their explainer article on what’s iPhone’s ProRAW format: https://lux.camera/understanding-proraw/

I’m from this field (tech for phone photography) and it was really helpful.
> rendering 2560x1440 to a 4K screen

How does this work? Will it just upscale or is e.g. text still rendered at 4K? Rendering not at native resolution results always in blurred edges in my experience.
Lata Mangeshkar, 'nightingale of Bollywood' dies at 92
There's something so gratifying about seeing your mental models of entropy and probability explained so visually. I wish all maths was taught with interactive diagrams, but it's not fair to expect everyone to be able to make 3b1b-level animations.
Barbed wire might be a great invention but my personal experiences with it are not so rosy.

I was cleaning up my property and found some laying on he ground from where there once stood long rotten fence posts that had since decomposed completely.

While cleaning it up by wrapping it around a piece of wood, I learned the hard way that safety glasses are essential when working with it...An end of a strand in an almost lifelike manner whipped up and slashed me across the the bridge of my nose and my right eye lid.

That was but one experience, since that time I have had the pleasure of laying under my backhoe with bolt cutters to remove 100s of feet that ended up wrapped around the front axels and walking through puddles in my gum boots only to realize the dreaded stuff had struck again by putting invisible holes in the bottoms of them.

I believe I have managed to collect the majority of the abandoned wire but now I face the dilemma of what to do with it. I don't want to take it to the land fill and make it someone else's problem but don't want to have it in my way either as it is very heavy and cumbersome to move.

My only idea is to get a forge or smelter and transform it into a less menacing product.
There’s a long list of tools that follow a general pattern: they take an input file and produce an output file, but the output file doesn’t just depend on the contents of the input file; it also embeds its modification time somewhere. Sometimes the goal is to be able to automatically regenerate the output if the input changes, by comparing timestamps. Sometimes it’s just intended as general-purpose metadata. Debian’s reproducible builds wiki page has many examples:

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/Howto#Files_in_da...

Notably, this affects archivers such as tar and zip, but there’s also a long tail of application-specific tools.
> The US government will never let its housing market fail,...

Maybe I'm totally missing your point, but didn't exactly this happen in 2008?
single .php file…
Laundry.

Fold my laundry with a reasonably sized device and you can take my money.

It's been ~60 years since there has been any innovation in household appliances, and I just loathe folding clothes.
I hate seeing WSJ articles on hacker news.
> It's tough to go running in normal headphones because you can't hear danger

There are some noise reducing headphones (like Airpods Pro or Sony Wh-1000xm*) which have ambient mode - mixing music with external noises which also work great for that scenario.
On text rendering, I've seen that too and I agree with what you say, unfortunately. There is a difference between being professional/straight to the point, which I appreciate, and being dismissive.

On the other topics, I'm not informed enough, but at least it's good some work on the accessibility front is happening, compared to the dire situation of the last decade... I hope that eventually the situation improves. Accessibility improvements really benefit everyone.

Regarding the matching of the look and feel... in the last few years, this mindset has become very common, where each app is an island and no effort should be made to look native, because, in fact, there is no native look anymore. Windows has always been like this, and Linux desktops have started embracing that. From the app developer perspective, it's understandable. For the user, it means giving up decades of usability studies and the pleasantness of coherence. Given this direction, I expect GTK apps to look like GTK apps wherever they run, unfortunately. On the bright side, the default look of GTK4/adwaita apps is kinda similar to what macOS and Windows 11 are going for, so at least it won't look too alien over there.
Spatial, temporal changes of outdoor thermal stress affecting urban land cover
Yes! Getting rid of the need to learn special syntaxes and awkward commands is a big part of why people use search so much. Again, I really cannot stress this enough. Nobody outside of the HN bubble thinks the way this works is a problem.
> I’m not putting it forward as a scientific hypothesis right now. It’s a thought experiment for how reality could be.

This is a key point. The simulated universe is unfalsifiable, meaning that there is no experiment we can (currently, perhaps forever) perform that could prove it true or false. Even if we could conceive of such an experiment, simulation advocates could argue that the simulation was set up to produce the results we see.

Also, it's worth bearing in mind that simulation is really hard and computationally expensive: we cannot yet model a single human neuron at the atomic level, let alone at the quark level. You can try to get around this detail by saying that the simulation focusses computation / resolution on where we are looking, but this again seems to be moving the goalposts.

I would like a simulation proponent to propose a credible laws of physics for the host universe, as well as making some comments about how computation (i.e. simulation) works in that universe. For example, is the host computation subject to the same theoretical constraints that our computers are, e.g. the halting problem, and P versus NP.

[Edit] minor rewording for clarity.
The larger word array is... yea, it allows for a lot more interpretation of variation of intent and interpetation.

Consider this older one where there weren't as many words - https://youtu.be/6MMGmRVal6M and https://youtu.be/FPC6ElzSdxM

Or for billie the cat - https://youtu.be/DiuQqgTw-jY

The point with these is that there is language related thought going on there and an attempt to communicate from the dog (or cat) to the human.
Countertop air frier. It’s equally good for cooking and reheating food. In my household we use it about twice a day.
In general I agree but I'm making an argument that a non-functional change for you may be a functional change for your users.
I'm not sure that technical choices are the #1 factor in people staying or going. (They can be - if someone arrives at their job to find badly written code in a poor choice of language with zero unit tests, that certain ain't gonna help.)

I would think that interesting problems are more likely to hold staff than interesting tools to solve those problems.
Firefox on Android as well.
There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns. I believe Mars colonisation is today 95% unknown unknowns, so there is no way we get any valuable insight from a simulation that misses 95% of the point.

E.g. a moon landing simulation in 1969 (with todays software and hardware) would not have taught us that moon dust is very sticky due to electrostatic charges, and that it heavily impact operations on lunar surface. Any simulation game that did not take that into account would be heavily biased and misrepresent reality.
If you have any desire for free movement then it payed out having a boat during covid. Pretty much the only way to leave your country at times
Did I read correctly that the AI generates millions of potential solutions per question and then filters these down? That's an interesting approach and one that had occurred to me. Have a critic evaluate AI generates content and then have it take many tried to come up with a sample that passes the evaluator
This has nothing to do with the question, why are you going off on a tangent about philosophy of automation?
Never send your private key to any third party.

Flagged.
>> by making it legally risky for large social media and platform companies to offer end-to-end encryption

I'm converted. I now totally support this legislation. Lack of secure encryption will bring down all the large social media companies. It happened to Blackberry during the London riots a decade ago. The kids quickly realized that someone associated with the police was reading their texts. From that point, Blackberry was doomed. Also Skype.

So let the FBI have a free hand inside facebook. Let teachers inspect the social media posts of their students. Let cops track the location tags of clandestine highschool parties. Every teenager will dump facebook, creating huge new markets for other services. Facebook will be MySpace within the decade.
Could you say a bit more about how you use CoPilot? What are the "other tools" you use?
Hey Tyler!

Funny to see you here. Matt and I haven't given up on this, we're giving a lot of that another try at Chainguard.
Have a friend who works in managing properties or insurance. Call your house insurance agent and ask who they would call to fix a leaky pipe or whatever it may be.
100% estate tax, higher taxes on higher incomes and on established wealth, stronger funding for public utilities and institutions, etc.

these problems their solutions and nothing new, I think many people just don't want to pay more for "socialism"
It's not a cop out it's just a way out.

If video games, side projects, promotions, rock climbing, travel, etc. work for you, then go for it.

But I think for most, those fade. Kids are an investment that pays dividends forever.
Lots of ads are for things that aren't appropriate for Shopping, e.g. most service businesses. So that wouldn't work. Universal search is a ship that sailed long ago my friend. People find it useful and Google has tons of metrics to back it up. It's not going away. Mixed mode search is just so much easier to use.
>The problem is that doing so is, I expect, harder for the human than writing the code in the first place.

Programming is mostly about writing boilerplate code using well-known architectural patterns and technologies, nothing extraordinary but which takes time (at least in my experience). If I can describe a project in a few abstract words, and the AI generates the rest, it can considerably improve my productivity, and I don't think it's going to be harder to review than code written by a junior dev who also makes mistakes and doesn't usually get it right on the first try anyway (given the AI is pretrained to know what kind of architecture we prefer). I can envision a future where programmers are basically AI operators who iterate on the requirements with the client/stakeholders and let AI do the rest. It looks like we're almost there (with GitHub Copilot and all), and I think it's enough to "revolutionize" the industry, because it changes the way we approach problems and makes us far more productive with less effort.
Open Source solution to scan Java Code for security and best practices
This is a book that focuses on managing software complexity and to "avoid painting oneself into a corner":

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility
AGI is a real problem but the proposed pace is marketing fluff -- on the ground they're just doing good work and moving our baselines incrementally. If a new technique for let's say document translation is 20% cheaper/easier to build and 15% more effective that is a breakthrough. It is not a glamorous world redefining breakthrough but progress is more often than not incremental. I'd say more so than the big eureka moments.

Dipping into my own speculation, to your point about how to measure, between our (humanity's) superiority complex and with how we move the baselines right now I don't know if people will acknowledge AGI if and until it's far superior to us. If even an average adult level intelligence is produced I see a bunch of people just treating it poorly and telling the researchers that it's not good enough.

Edit: And maybe I should amend my original statement to say I've never heard a researcher promise me about AGI. That said that statement from DeepMind doesn't really promise anything other than they're working towards it.
Oniongr ok: Onion addresses for anything
We are insignificant and meaningless. Just look at that data. We live on a planet that's billions of years old in a solar system that's probably even older. Currently each one of us is but one of almost 8 billion others currently alive right now. One day you will die with millions of others. Not long after that anyone that has a memory of you will die. You will be completely erased.

You can see that as depressing if you want. I see it a liberating. Accept your current experience for what it is. Not what your silly little mind thinks it _should_ be. When you do that there is no room for discontent, only happiness, peace and contentment. Live life for what it is; a beautiful dream.
I mean someone must try a strategy the first time only hoping it will work, but it does seem suspicious as I wouldn't think of J&J as particularly innovative or daring.
I'd disagree with this. Sampling bias but I do have a 100% win streak average of 4 and I've never needed this information to win
For something that can only occur when the answer contains a letter twice that seems a bit harsh.
"Never take risks with a well sharped knife."

I developed the habit of cutting myself once, with every new knive I buy. (Now I am hesitant to buy a new one)

So far I was quite lucky, but you can easily loose a finger or worse, if you do not pay attention.
Many would argue that retaining basic civil liberties and freedoms is foundational to public health.
> we trust a set of individuals and hope that they'll cooperate when asked to

Yes, in most cultures these individuals are called “family” or “friends”. It’s a rare concept in the crypto world though, yes.
An interview with Zak of croc, easily send things from one computer to another
The new GaN transistor power brick charger thingies. Surprisingly small with high power output means no more carrying around a huge laptop power brick. Anker sells them on amazon under the “Nano II” brand
Honestly I think after you reach a certain point of brand awareness your marketing becomes just about maintaining name saturation and letting brand loyalty and affinity do it’s thing. Watching it in action is strange to people like me that put a great deal of value into measuring campaign value.

As much as I am critical of the approach, I can’t really says it’s a bad strategy, as these are brands that had worldwide reputations long before I became involved and most of my involvement was pretty narrow to a specific product or product vertical.
The best part is that you may already have one.

Modern hard disks have a track pitch in tens of nanometers, and the read head has to move with matching precision, it also flies 3 nanometers above the surface.
You're right, but do people really make money with apps (except a few lucky ones that are "too big to ban" anyway)?

It's possible to build Android apps without having a Google account, but distribution (and getting money) is going to be difficult. For me it's not a problem I'm the sole user of the apps I made and I use a GrapheneOS phone without Google Play) but it's an unusual setup.
I think culturally lat/lon is the standard - it is what looked right to me before I started working with geocoords.

Cartographically, in terms of standards, that seems to be the case. I don't think because libraries have been written which are backwards, that there should be some popularity contest - that's too small a bubble, just makes programmers sound like entitled asshats...

Even a govt. standard should not be the measuring stick - govts change policy with the wind, or different govts. The lon/lat programmers with the pitchforks are the upstart rebels here...

Lat/Lon
> My least favorite thing so far was indices starting at 1. It seems blasphemous, in a way.

In the real world we start counting from 1. CS people cannot stop complaining about it but it makes sense in languages used for mathematics and statistics. Zero-indexing is not very relevant if you don’t care about memory layout.
Because the backspace question (essentially: is T a subsequence of S with a deletion size of N?) probably occurs hundreds of times, in one form or another, within AlphaCode's training corpus.

Any leetcode grinder can tell you there are a few dozen types of competitive programming problem (monostack, breadth-first state search, binary search over solution space, etc.) so solutions to new problems are often very similar to solutions for old problems.

The training corpus for these code transformers is so large that almost all evaluation involves asking them to generate code from the training corpus.

To evaluate CoPilot, we should ask questions that are unusual enough they can't be answered through regurgitation of the training corpus.

What does CoPilot generate, given this prompt:

// A Go function to set the middle six bits of an unsigned 64-bit integer to 1.

Here is a human solution:

func six1s(x uint64) uint64 {
const (
ones = uint64(63)
shift = (64 - 6) / 2
mask = ones << shift
)
return x | mask
}

Can it solve this simple but unusual problem?
I think the Gnosticism of The Matrix comes at least in part from Grant Morrison's The Invisibles.
I would just like an appliance that can detect changes in the health of my teeth.
I'm not. I don't want mob rule or anarchy. There are plenty of examples of people bringing about social changes through peaceful protests and other means.
There are numerous other ways to sell your bitcoin, p2p exchanges, pay online via bitcoin, OTC and 20 other ways.

Gold is very traceable, because it leaves a trail of people behind. It's very heard to disconnect your identity from your gold sale, because you have to make that sale in person, so there are always witnesses, cameras, paper trails.

If you want to put in a middle man, you also need to know him to trust him not to run away with the gold and he becomes a liability, because he knows your identity.

That's why this is the maximum fungability you get, be it with bitcoin or gold, none of the two have the upper hand here.
Because they're wildly different things.

An author deciding to not print more copies of their old book is a different thing than a library or bookstore banning it.
I have seen several people talk personally about why they do not trust the vaccine from Johnson and Johnson on HN over the last year in various comments. Overwhelmingly they were attacked when they spoke on the cancer link with talc powder.

Regardless of the direct correlation or none at all to the 'contaminated' talc they were selling as a product with baby in the name, and it verifiable contained asbestos. I think the manner they public conduct themselves speaks volumes about how and where they generate wealth.
Yessss I have a Garmin Instinct and I love it, easily my favorite Smart watch. It's got just enough smart stuff that I'd use without a bunch of extras I'd never use.

And I charge it once a week if I'm biking a lot and using the GPS.
Here is a recent successful injunction delaying publication: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/media/mary-trump-book/index.h...

Though it didn’t last long.
the lawyers ripped off J&J by spending time on this

I wouldn't be surprised.

My mother worked for the VP a company that was involved in a lawsuit that went on for decades. It was commonly known in the company that the lawsuit was being deliberately dragged out for the benefit of the opposition's lawyers, and that the case was even handed down as a kind of sick inheritance from father-to-son as people retired.

I've only been involved in a court case once. I was picked as a juror in a case where two divorce lawyers were suing each other over how to split the fee from a high-profile divorce.

I'm sure there are good lawyers out there, but they seem as rare as hen's teeth and well-intentioned social media companies.
Do Interviews Matter?
> The ads are definitely targeted, as I only see ads for books related to what I've already purchased and read.

Maybe you do. I'm subscribed to Asimov's and SF&F electronic editions digitally via the Kindle store. Not even once have I noticed an ad for scifi/fantasy books on my Kindle. Most of the time it's fluffy bestsellers.
I wonder if the virality of the game would have been boosted if the word list was stored server-side and not readable from the client source. Although I'm not on twitter so I don't know if future word spoilers are an issue.
This seems to be the issue. Running it 10 times gives me quite consistent performance near the top.

0 - Passes: 5876, count: 78498, Valid: true
1 - Passes: 5870, count: 78498, Valid: true
2 - Passes: 5944, count: 78498, Valid: true
3 - Passes: 5903, count: 78498, Valid: true
4 - Passes: 6051, count: 78498, Valid: true
5 - Passes: 5874, count: 78498, Valid: true
6 - Passes: 5902, count: 78498, Valid: true
7 - Passes: 6041, count: 78498, Valid: true
8 - Passes: 5906, count: 78498, Valid: true
9 - Passes: 5889, count: 78498, Valid: true

Will run it 100 times now to lower the risk that this is just a coincidence.