skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, if you look at history, the perceived value of a lump of gold has changed a lot over time. Even if you assume that recent price differences are due to wild swings in the value of currency (apparently a dollar was worth twice as much in 2000 as in 1990), the claim that the value of gold has been consistent over millennia is just not true.

The way I know this was because of the giant laugh that my historian wife gave when I showed her your comment.
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I think there is a good argument that we eat too much food for our own good and that we should eat way less.

As far as I am concerned, intermittent fasting helped me achieve better metabolic health. Not on the level of hunter gatherers, but above average for my age bracket.

But I didn't have to give up all the perks of civilization to achieve that. Just some daily physical activity and eating less.
Does oral cortisone (a.k.a. prednisone, the pill not the sprays) have any effect? [I'm fairly certain most ENT doctors would prescribe that, not as a continuing prescription, but as a test].
yeah but "No news or tweets or blurbs, just good high quality writings"
This is a really good point, and something I think a lot of people forget. It's true, the most secure web app is one written with no code/no OS/does nothing.

Adding value is a compromise of some increased security risk - and it's our job to mitigate that as much as possible by writing quality software.
Ask HN: Are Apple App Clips Dead?
https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/
Correct, like the flu vaccine, it does not stop 100% of infections, it reduces the spread of disease. Now you know!
What research do you think they would be doing that would have given them a clear picture of long COVID prior to widespread infection?
I think we are starting to get sick of even playing these gaslighting games. There isn’t a person alive who doesn’t know this whole game is bullshit and you’re trying to reinvent language to justify racism against whites, sexism against men, and so on for every category of persons who made it on the fair game hit list.

You’re not communicating with authenticity or decency, it’s just rhetoric all the way down. It’s at the breaking point where we all know you aren’t a good faith actor.
You'll then create two systems – PPOs for the healthy that can afford it, underfunded HMO for those who can't.

Just drop the rebates, and make any secondary insurance be primary. That would make sure the insured group for the public system includes the healthy rich (which makes the pool for those that actually need and can't afford their health).
Not sure why this is being upvoted. Your olfactory nerves are literally extensions of your brain. Any damage to these nerves equates to brain damage.
Do you think it's really that valuable for Google to spend engineering hours on an ad-targeting integration that will only improve targeting for maybe ~100k users at most?

And probably far less, actually. As many GCP users as there might be in the world, most of them are IT staff working for some-or-another enterprise; where that enterprise only has a single GCP billing-account administrator. Nobody else in the enterprise has their card on file. (And that billing-account administrator's card-on-file is just a corporate credit card, that tells you what the corporation buys, but tells you nothing about the individual. And their email is just a group/alias — billing@ or somesuch. Impossible to log into; impossible to browse the web as; no way to target ads at.)

You'd think the long tail of individual accounts could have more value, but those are the same users who GCP is least interested in recruiting to their platform, and the ones whose entered data is least trustworthy, because of all the spammers and crypto-miners attempting to use stolen credit cards to pay for service. You want to bind some poor random Joe's card-hubbed ad-profile to a spoke created by the person who stole their identity? That's negative average ad-targeting ROI!
You're just not right. Saying prices rose 8.5% in March means prices rose 8.5% in March, not in the year ending in march. Reputable journalists say inflation rose to 8.5% in march, which isn't the same as saying prices rose 8.5% at all. I really don't think this is petty at all. Saying prices rose 8.5% in a month is incredibly misleading.
> Paying no taxes helps.

Interesting. Similar to the argument that certain forms of aid given to developing countries can undercut would-be local suppliers.
Advertisements and telemetry made it so much more uncool.

But you touch on the real thing here.

>Wherever I looked at the world's problems, more technology seemed to be the answer.

The more you get into just what and how those problems are, the less will it seem that technology is an answer to anything. Technology can cure my loved one but I'll lose them some time nevertheless. Give people something to eat yet not solving starvation. Elevated the lives of many yet haven't eliminated even extreme poverty. Technology reshaped the world but we're still the same humans we always were (terms and conditions apply) - and so, our fundamental problem were, are, and will ever be the same.

There's not even a solution to this, as a feeling. You "just" need to move on with life. Tech can be exciting again but that won't come from the outside.
My sense is that most no code tools will face a far greater challenger from AI programming tools like Copilot than from further unbundling through web interfaces. It's just so much easier to set up an automated chain of api glue when you don't have to read the docks.
UI is bad for ETL...huh? I hope you're not talking about Stitch/Fivetran, because they're a godsend in my experience.
“Inflation was X% in march” is what you’re suggesting. But the title just says “Consumer prices rose X% in march.”
Yeah, it’s out in the yard with the 747, dreamliner, etc. not sure when they picked it up, but it’s very cool! I suppose it could be a replica, but I’d be surprised if it was. It’s the full deal with cockpit and instruments, engines, gear, etc.
It really does suck, but when the choice is between Biden and Trump, two totally incompetent leaders, you cant expect much better.

The US already has a law that requires the minimum age of the president (35). They should change the law and add a maximum age set to ~65. Could solve a lot of our problems.
I don't think anybody is going to break into my house because they surveilled the place with a drone. I do worry about feeling less secure on my property because someone keeps watching me in the backyard with a drone and I have no way of finding out who it is. There are plenty of fantastic things that drones can do, I just want greater accountability in knowing who is doing what. There's a reason trucks from Rando Contractor LLC carry a giant "VERIZON CONTRACTOR" sign on the side.
zapier sounds like something that doesn't scale, or will be replaced by the platforms themselves. it's like a business on 1000 other people's platforms.
> If GDP goes up 5%, but you only get a 3% raise does that make GDP a bad measure of the economy?

let's stick with the basics. this was the whole conversation, a leading question that pretends to be a thought exercise that suggests in some other scenario that GDP is a good measure. no more, no less. I think we've gone over everything now.
VP9 isn’t better than HEVC though is it? And HEVC has hardware encoding and decoding support on most modern devices.
This is exactly where my programming career started. I was a young kid, aged 11 or 12, learning Visual Basic 5 & 6, making UIs that were backed by coms
(I think that's what they were called?) downloaded off the internet.

I wasn't knowledgeable enough to write the coms but I could make interfaces that called the functions within them. I made little apps that let you change the chat colours and phishing apps to message people so you could appear like an AOL staff member and maybe get their username and password.

Those same chatrooms are where I was exposed to pornography for the first time. My innocence never recovered from that, but it is what it is.
Seems to me the Netherlands could put huge amounts of this material to good use.
I think you answered your own question. They are going after easier low hanging fruit that keeps them on par with other services.
I added the script to PATH, so other tools that hard-coded to use yarn or npm (e.g. create-react-app) are hijacked to use pnpm when installing packages
Sorry, yes, QuantumYeti is correct; specifically talking about MBA programs at Harvard and Stanford
I've done this analysis for games. My theory was that the correlation was falling because the ratings of old games were dominated by players playing old games now and then rating them, and they were more likely to play games for which there is already a consensus that they are good (old bad games are mostly just forgotten). Whereas for current games the games being played are more random.
The Ultimate Stargazing Road Trip
Dark Sky Alqueva
https://darkskyalqueva.com/en/
I'm so confused why the author thinks this is ironclad. I don't see why racism necessarily has anything to do with collective guilt or how it comes out of a desire to extract reparations for a wrong someone else has done.

Racism can have many impulses and origins behind it, from using a race as a careless and convenient boogeyman against which to unite a community against, to a natural fear of the unfamiliar and foreign by a monocultural society. These do not involve seeking reparations for a past injustice.
It doesn’t sound too far off from what I’ve seen. The details of the sprints may not be worked out, but a dev team might have several months of high priority project queued up and marketing might be deemed lower priority. So getting extra work done from another team can sometimes take a very long time.
Yep, Review Apps are spinning up a full copy of your application per PR.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/review_apps/

As part of my pre-merge pipeline I deploy the application to k8s, create a public IP, DNS entry from the branch slug, TLS-to-the-pod with wildcard cert, and then run the full end-to-end test suite. If you get your docker caching right, it can be as little as a couple minutes to deploy the whole stack

This makes it a lot easier for engineers to iterate on their changes with stakeholders, not to mention it lets you test infra and API changes before actually merging them.

We got to tens of engineers using this, so I didn't optimize utilization heavily; this ends up being a bit expensive, but I think worth it.
It's not Ruby itself that has features being deprecated/broken all the time, it's the libraries they're using that are changing.

If you built an app targeting Ruby 1.8.7 (~15 yrs old now?) with maybe rack and sinatra as your only dependencies using only the bare feature set that was available then, it would easily run on Ruby 3 with no code modifications. It would be a lot nicer than Perl too I bet.

If you rely on industry standard software libraries however, you have to keep in mind that keeping up with the industry standard is in the bargain.
That's not that different from doing piecework.

> Though, I suspect treating their workers better and giving them more benefits, security, and humanity would be about cost neutral compared to their intense current system of treating workers like cogs. You can only squeeze someone for so long.

I only see stories of bad treatment from activists, interviews I've seen with actual employees say they are happy with the work, and "people who complain have never done warehouse work".
> I can build up a relatively vivid mental image of my walking route to school (from the bus terminal) over 40 years ago. Is it accurate? Who cares.

It's not just decades old memories. Memory of recent events is likely to be suspect. Which is an issue for the legal system because it relies so heavily on eyewitness testimony.

https://theconversation.com/new-research-reveals-how-little-...

Not only is human memory unreliable, it is also malleable. And if we are just a collection of our memories, then who are we really?
Show HN: Add live runnable code to your dev docs
Hi HN community,

I'm Vasek, co-founder, and CEO of Devbook [0]. Devbook is an SDK that you add to your docs website and then every time a user visits your dev docs, we spin up a VM just for that user. The VM is ready in about 18-20 seconds. We haven't had enough time to work on optimization but from our early tests, we are fairly confident we can get this to about 1-2 seconds.

In the VM you can run almost anything. Install packages, edit & save files, run binaries, services, etc.

You as a documentation owner have full control over the VM. We give you full access to filesystem, shell, stdout, and stderr. You don't have to worry about any infrastructure management. It's just one line of code on your frontend.

On the backend, the VM is a Firecracker microVM [1] with our custom simple orchestrator/scheduler built on top that just gets the job done.
We chose Firecracker for 4 reasons:

* (1) the security with a combination of their jailer

* (2) its snapshotting capabilities

* (3) quick booting times

* (4) option to oversubscribe the underlying server resources

This allows you to create a whole new set of interactions between your dev docs and a developer visiting the docs.
We've had users building coding playgrounds [2] to show how their SDK works or adding embedded terminals to a landing page [3] to show how their CLI works.

The way Devbook works is that you use our frontend SDK [4] on our website. The SDK pings our backend and we boot up a VM. The VMs are ephemeral and get destroyed after a while of not getting pinged.
You can predefine what the VM filesystem will look like through our CLI via a simple Dockerfile [5].
We also have an open sourced UI library for components like terminal, file system explorer, or code editor [6].

The need for Devbook came from our own frustration with dev docs. It has always felt strange that dev docs contain so much code but none of it is actually runnable. You as a developer have to set up full environments to see how the API works and get a deeper understanding.

We are very early so we don't offer self-serve for now. A bit of manual work is still required when we are onboarding new customers.
We are looking for some specific use-case that would make our go-to-market strategy much easier. It feels like the product we offer is way too general. We basically say "here's a whole computer, have fun".

I'd love to know what you think about it. I'll hang out here and I'm happy to answer your questions!

[0] https://usedevbook.com/

[1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

[2] https://app.banana.dev/docs/carrot?ref=navmenu

[3] https://runops.io/

[4] https://github.com/devbookhq/sdk

[5] https://github.com/devbookhq/devbookctl

[6] https://github.com/devbookhq/ui
There's a gargantuan amount of professional scholarship on it.
How much energy powers a good life? Less than you're using, says new report
I don't care if someone is just wrong about some belief. I care when they have a megaphone and they're convincing other people of their reality and that leads those people to their own early death. If you sat at home and did this, nobody would really care.
>Bosses can add and subtract, and so can employees. They both know healthcare is getting paid for from the paycheck regardless.

It's not clear to me that most employees do know that, actually. I see a ridiculous number of people that oppose nationalized healthcare "because they'd have to pay taxes", not realizing that there is already a deduction from their total compensation to pay for their healthcare (i.e. a tax).
Kind of but they're really a government agency in essence, no? I mean that's like calling In-Q-Tel a nonproft, really it's just the CIA's venture arm in a nonprofit shell for legal/management reasons
None of the science of Covid is settled. It took over a year for scientific bodies to recognize it was an airborne virus. The medical field made a basic aerodynamics mistake for about 50 years that lead them astray.

There is a ton we don't know about it.
I think this is why it's hard sometimes to argue in support of something you believe, even if you're right.

At one point, all of the relevant facts and figures were loaded into your working memory, and with that information you arrived at a conclusion. Your brain, however, no longer needs those facts and figures; you've gotten what you needed from them, and they can be kicked out of working memory. What you store there is the conclusion. If it comes up again, you've got your decision, but not all of the information about how you arrived there.

So when your decision is challenged, you are not well equipped to defend it, because you no longer retain why you arrived at that decision, just the conclusion itself.

It's immensely easier to trust that you arrived at the right conclusion and the person who is in disagreement is missing something, than it is to reload all of the facts and figures back into your brain and re-determine your conclusion all over again. Instead, you can dig in, and resort to shortcuts and logical tricks (that you can pull out without needing to study) to defend what you've previously concluded (possibly correctly, but without the relevant information).

If this finding ends up being generally an approximation of how our brains work, it could explain a lot about what's happening to global conversations, particularly around the Internet and on social media specifically. It also suggests a possible solution; make the data quickly available. Make it as seamless as possible to re-load those facts and figures into your working memory, and make it as unpleasant as possible to rely on shortcuts and logical tricks when arguing a point.
I don't agree that this is a "principle". Having free access to the source is IMO the only principle. As stated in the wikipedia article, the rest is just a "suggestion". I think there's plenty of room to evolve while maintaining the core principle of actually being open source. There already exists a lot of OSS that does NOT grant low investment contribution, and that's not always a bad thing.

The point, as I see it, is to raise the investment / friction required to contribute. You are less likely to pollute a project with inane comments if you're invested (not guaranteed, just less likely). I wouldn't recommend this for any / all OSS, but instead when you start getting tons of low value contributions. In fact you'll see a lot of issues on large OSS projects that I wouldn't even categorize as "contributions", but more like complaining or simply asking questions that are often already clearly documented. E.g. "Doesn't work! Fix please!"

We're seeing a lot of OSS projects simply close down their issue reporting because they don't want to deal with it. If there was an easy way to enforce investment / quality of feedback I think some of these project would probably keep their issue reporting open.

User scoring could potentially work too. It would be an interesting experiment. I think there's a lot of room to try things. For example, you could complement a paid model with an application process to gain free access (for those who can't afford it) as both would require user investment (money OR time).

You mentioned Linux as an example. They have a detailed process for reporting issues. You can't just one-line tweet an issue and expect it to receive attention. https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/reporting-issues.html#st...
Also their perpetually young audience means that it's inherently not suitable for lots of kind of communities.
>able to compress data into a _useful_ representation. Note that as a result of this, the quality of the compression is important. Some forms of compression might be very efficient but they also tangle concepts together, resulting in loss of composability

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I wonder if various factors inform how/what compression is used on a memory...

For example, a memory of putting the object back where it belongs/got it from vs the memory of a violent attack is through the lens of emotional (trauma) and thus the memories will be stored differently.

Its interesting in that I have been wanting to post an ASK HN on memory and dreams...

Now with this post, and your comment, I will post that.

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The idea is that the surunding meta-information of a memory is important.

Lenses of senses that colour a memory are many, and individualistic.

i.e.

A person who is a psychopath, has an emotional block on the lens that they would see their actions through (remorse, guilt, empathy, etc) - thus they may not recall or RE-MIND themselves of an action/situation.

A memory that is laid with a sensuous experience, such as sex with someone you love/lust deeply may last a lifetime.

Certain things that one does/says can also lead to a lifetime of regret ; a cringe-worthy action/comment from decades ago can still haunt your thoughts.

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I think the mystique btwn ML and biological memories is a really interesting space, as an ML|AI based system will never achieve the 100th monkey or DNA|biological transfer of information, but an approximation/facsimile based on evolved|updated libraries/files/code which are maintained exclusively by the AI entity will/does exist
Thanks that's helpful. Does pion support RTCP? I've tried sending pre-recorded media over WebRTC before. The issue I ran into is that I needed to send keyframes too often leading to a bitrate that was too high for users with slower internet connections. For whatever reason, not all browsers seemed to support keyframe intra refresh, so there were large bitrate spikes whenever a keyframe was sent. RTCP would have solved this problem by allowing clients to request additional keyframes when needed rather than using a high keyframe interval.
This is simple mindfulness. Being self-aware of your own internal processes is the first step along a very long path of self-realization.
And it does https/tls, where thttpd does not.
I will try this and see if I discover something nice, cool idea!

Not a long time ago I wanted to build something where users could share their favorite RSS feeds/blogs (like Julia Evans does [0]) so that others could, maybe, find something new and interesting. This is a similar concept.

[0]: https://jvns.ca/blogroll/
some in the US seem to disagree with you on that one... disinformation reigns far and wide.

https://nos.nl/l/2424827
The thread looks to mention best "value", and not just lowest TCO. If he wants lowest TCO then Android for sure will win since it occupies the lowest price brackets that Apple doesn't even try to compete in.
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Okay, so I'm guessing CLRS comes from the last names of the authors:

Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein
They look like an interesting company, but I don't see any kind of offering like this.
Yes, they do. But if you use a wildcard cert for your review app, then you are not testing the same cert machinery as your production application. (Unless you want to use wildcard certs for your prod app too, which I'd rather not do.)
Ha, seems I am on Justin's site: https://justinakapaste.com/search/tsa
I attended an aviation camp when I was 15 and I couldn't believe that the FAA allowed any pilot to fly VFR next to an airport. (Then I moved to Washington DC where you can't fly VFR anywhere.)
Do you know of a "blind" A-B comparison between photos made with those different technologies?

It's not even clear to me how to establish a like-to-like sensor resolution.
That looks extremely unfree, yes: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/blob/dev/LICENSE.LGPL3
I can easily go a full day without a sip of water. I have to remind myself to drink. I have forgotten what thirst feels like.