skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me take a stab at translating.

"Executive function" is a catch-all term for mental skills that are required for complex behavior. This includes things like working memory, selective attention, cognitive flexibility, and response inhibition. Toddlers have terrible executive function: they get distracted constantly and can't help themselves not do something. The stereotypical cool, collected NASA Mission Controller has great executive function: they identify and remember important details, juggle multiple tasks, etc. A number of brain diseases impair executive function, so we'd like to find ways to restore or improve it.

Exercise seems to help, but why? One hypothesis is that exercise literally gets the blood moving in the brain, and thereby changes neural function. Exercise does a lot of other things too though, by increasing metabolic demands, ventilation, and the like. In this experiment, they try to dissociate the effects of exercise generally and improved cerebral blood flow by comparing three conditions:

a) Active Exercise - pedal a stationary bike like at the gym

b) Passive Exercise - a motor moves the pedals--and thus your legs--for you without you doing much work

c) Control - do nothing.

In the first part of the paper, they show that the Passive Exercise does increase cerebral blood flow, but doesn't engage the muscles or make you breathe hard. Thus, comparing the three conditions is a good way to isolate the role of cerebral blood flow. If muscle activation or metabolic demands mattered, you'd expect only the active condition to show an effect, but if exercise were totally ineffective, you'd expect all three to be similar.

Next, they ask how these conditions affect executive function. There are lots of ways to test executive function, but here they use an eye movement task. The participant looks straight ahead, and is then shown a dot to the left (or right) of their gaze. They need to make an eye movement ("saccade") in the opposite direction ("anti"); that is they need to look away from the cue. This is unnatural--you need to inhibit your natural instinct to look at the new thing--and so subjects with impaired executive function are slower and more error-prone on the task. This paradigm has been studied a lot (my group uses it to look at Parkinson's disease and how various treatments affect it) and is nice because it's fairly standardized.

They find that participants make anti-saccades faster after both forms of exercise vs. the control condition, though the effect of real Active Exercise is bigger. Thus, they conclude that increasing cerebral blood flow improves executive function, and that passive exercise may be one way to do so.

As with most papers, it's one more piece of evidence, rather than a complete and final story, but it's kind of neat.
Great, let’s turn the area into a dump
That might be a plausible explanation if it wasn't for the fact that many government services in America cost vastly more than their equivalents in Europe: public education, public infrastructure construction, etc. Even advocates of universal healthcare like Elizabeth Warren don't argue they could achieve universal coverage without a trillion+ in annual spending increases.

Also, the UK does not have similar taxes to the US: https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-states.pd.... US taxes, at all levels, are 25.5% of GDP. UK is 32.8%. And those taxes in the UK fall much more heavily on the middle class. That's partly because the brackets are tighter (the 40% rate kicks in at 50,000 pounds, and the top rate of 45% kicks in at only 150,000 pounds). But also because a huge fraction of revenues is from the 20% VAT.
Nobody is forcing people to live in Atherton
Isn't this much of the point of gRPC? To generate clients/servers so that sending the wrong request to the wrong endpoint is much more difficult and inconvenient?

This property doesn't seem unique to protobuf nor does it seem relevant to type safety. If you're referring to protobuf's binary encoding as being problematic due to field numbers and default values, then sure, I agree that's a weakness, but again that's not what most people refer to when taking about type safety. It's perfectly reasonable to use protobuf as an IDL and not as an encoding.

> Confusion about with whom you are communicating has caused real, notorious outages, even at Google.

What does this have to do with type safety? This is authentication. mTLS and to a lesser extent TLS practically solve this.
I have another similar story. Firefox didn't behave nicely and after multiple days of investigation (I am not well versed in front end, neither are most people in my org) we decided to just let it be broken and advises customers to use Chrome.

I still personally use Firefox, at home and at work and will continue to do so. But the writing is appearing on the wall and it doesn't look pretty.
Xkcd numbers are our own Darmok.

https://xkcd.com/902/
No, that number is up significantly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...
Incredible video.
My understanding is that Google have a policy against sites doing that. Does Google not enforce the policy sufficiently, or are there exceptions made?
Yeah they are so shit eh? Like they have no relationship to how I think or feel in reality and I don't think treating humans like rodents in a maze or pushing cocaine or sugar levers you know we got to pick some number on a scale like when some random like the question and the way the questions are worded oh my God I think that space is ripe for psychological innovation isn't there a better way to test people's I don't know opinions. F**
So, um, I am a professional artist, and one of my regular tricks for figuring out why a drawing isn't working is to throw a desaturation layer on the top of the stack. Quite often it turns out that I have chosen colors that have contrast in saturation and hue, but very similar values. I play with the colors until they work in greyscale, then turn off that desaturation layer, do some small tweaks to make sure their hue/saturation work with their new values, and things look a lot better. A drawing with little contrast in its values is a drawing that is muddy and hard to make out. If the values are the same and it's high-saturation then it can even be actively painful to look at, as the colors start vibrating against each other in your visual cortex. Sometimes I do that deliberately; all rules of art are really guidelines, and any rule that says "never do this" actually means "don't do this without knowing damn well that you are going into difficult territory, and if you have a solid reason to do it anyway, make sure you're doing everything else extra well to make up for this".

Good luck making this work despite having next to no value contrast.
Do Google Search Engineers use Google Search?
They used to.
My city has rarely enforced traffic laws for years. It’s not too much of an issue while driving, because everyone is comfortably cruising at 10-20mph over, and the roads can reasonably handle that. But it’s a big issue in places with pedestrians because people use the same “always go 15mph over” rule even on 25mph roads in residential neighborhoods.
You do know people need electricity to live right? That people that don't have AC die during heat waves, right? What do you think would happen if there's not enough power during a heat wave?
There are too many countervailing forces. People are loss-averse and disengaged from local policy; they only peek out when they get wind of some aspect of their lifestyle being threatened, and their natural response is to say "no changes, further study required". They don't have the time or the energy to think through the long term issues. They're concerned about their property value. Or they're concerned about parking. Or they're concerned that there's too much parking. Or they're concerned that utilities buildout will raise their taxes. Or they're concerned about shade. Or they're concerned about crime. Or they're concerned about noise. You can keep rattling them off, and the point is that everyone's got a different set of idiosyncratic issues and so, as an advocate for development, you've got a bursting dam of random public opinion to push back against, and it's just a nightmare.

The result is that almost everything in wealthy suburbs is SFZ, because there's never concentrated objections to SFZ, but there's organically concentrated objections to multi-family zoning even if people don't actively work to coordinate it.

It won't fix itself, you can't advocate or educate your way out of it. It's a powerful default that just naturally works to keep the most valuable/useful real estate in the country reserved for sprawling houses for wealthy people. It's easy to say "no" and risky to say "yes", so everyone says "no" to new development.

Hence the current proposal du jour (which I buy into): stop letting municipalities cordon off all their lots for SFZ, at the state level, where nobody's specifix ox is getting gored by policy decisions, which can be made in the abstract and in advance.

I kind of don't give a shit about Atherton zoning. No zoning rule is going to make Atherton economically diverse. If Atherton wants to exempt itself from statewide multifamily zoning requirements, it could simply be taxed dearly for the privilege. The residents there can afford it.
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There aren't really any details there either. Still no idea why the bank claims Firefox can't be supported.
My favorite shaggy dog is from the video game West of Loathing, about a buttfor. It's written on plaques in a cave and goes into lots of detail about the buttfor, the lengths to which the authors went to find it, and suggests the possibility that it might be hidden within the same cave. Alas, like a good shaggy dog, the cave is just a dead end, there's nothing in it, the buttfor is nowhere to be found, and you have to spend minutes walking back out of the cave like a chump.
"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. […]. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media, we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
I don't doubt that his views made the decision easier. But people made this a political issue. So it can't be fought with just facts anymore. There's going to be some politicking involved.
The Onion has been lampooning this trend recently

[1] https://www.theonion.com/conscientious-suv-shopper-just-want...

[2] https://www.theonion.com/new-ford-f-450-comes-with-shotgun-i...

But Americans have decided that they need to drive an entire apartment around to get groceries, and auto manufacturers have been happily servicing them with subprime loans.
I've been in crypto since 2016. There is more ICO fundraising in the latest cycle than 2018. DeFi is huge now.
But that's a different criticism to "he misrepresents himself"
I still think Cowen is about the most interesting interviewer out there, but I also think this is all spot on. I've absolutely had this skepticism for having ready answers for everything. He'd be more interesting if he said "I don't know" more often.
That's simply not relevant. Exclude nuclear from my above comment, consider only solar and it makes no difference. Using any kind of electricity, solar or otherwise, to split water to get hydrogen is not competitive with steam reforming of hydrocarbons and it certainly isn't competitive with batteries. The most economically efficient way to get hydrogen is to get it from hydrocarbons, and even that is not competitive with batteries.

Getting hydrogen by splitting water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_hydrogen

> Green hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of water is less than 0.1% of total hydrogen production.

This is not the way it's done, and it's not because we don't have enough solar panels. It's because electrolysis sucks. Hypothesize a country where 100% of the grid is run off solar if you want to, "green hydrogen" is still dead on arrival.
Why does multi-family housing automatically mean the town will turn into a dump?

Can you imagine no middle ground between the richest zip code in the most prosperous country on Earth, and a dump?
This seems to be based on the assumption (and perhaps growing expectation) that codes of conduct apply outside of their projects, though the appeal should have been made more professionally directly to that.
I don’t all that much about excel but I remember being blown away as a 17 year old kid at my first job when someone showed me pivot tables.
We last looked at JetBrains academy ~6 months ago and at the time it mostly had beginner-level content. Looks like they've got some advanced content now, like this one: https://hyperskill.org/projects/112?track=2.

I'd consider them a competitor, and I like their approach - hands-on project-based learning with automated tests to guide your implementation.

I think the primary difference (aside from their content being slightly skewed towards beginners and the limited languages on offer) is that our format involves re-creating devtools from scratch.
Ignoring the fact that liquidity provisioning is a very valuable service (if it wasn't, people wouldn't pay for it), what are you doing that is so world changing?
Apple's a big company so I'm sure there is misconduct there.

I would encourage you all to remember that there are two sides to every story before you get your pitchforks out. This story doesn't even attempt to investigate anything beyond compiling and accepting the allegations at face value.

With the instance of rape called out in this piece I was shocked but I was also confused as to why she didn't go to the police. That leads me to believe that there is likely something else going on here.
And there’s Buf Studio :-) https://buf.build/blog/buf-studio https://studio.buf.build
Hmm. I disagree with several things in that review, but I think this is su3su2u1’s biggest mistake:

> The author is practically screaming “wouldn’t it be lazy that Harry’s darkside is because he is a horcrux?”

This is completely backwards. Eliezer goes to great lengths to put big clues all over the place that Harry is not a normal 11–year old, with the intent that the reader will _notice_ that something is wrong and try to figure out what it could be. Yes, “Harry is a Horcrux” might feel like an anticlimax, or even a cliche, because that’s how the original books went. But you’re supposed to look even deeper and realize what a horcrux really is. In order to work, a Horcrux has to preserve a copy of the caster’s memories, personality, intentions, etc. What really happened that night in Godric’s Hollow is that Voldemort copied his own memories and personality into the brain of an infant named Harry Potter.

I think it is fair to say that Eliezer is treating this as much like a Fair–Play Mystery as he can, so that it is possible for the user to make correct predictions about the end of the story. Not everyone likes this type of story, but for those who do the game of putting the book down at a certain point so that you can puzzle out the murderer’s identity is a big part of the draw. The “rules” of the Fair–Play Mystery are there to ensure that the author remembers to actually make all the clues available to the reader, that it isn’t always just the butler, etc.

To that end, he has several important scenes that examine the consequences of erasing memories, or adding new ones. The most blatant is when Harry is training with Mr Bester, who has all memory of the training erased after each session. As a result, Mr Bester ends up asking the same questions over and over, and being surprised and troubled by the same revelations each time he reads Harry’s mind. And then of course there is Rita Skeeter, and later Hermione, to hammer the lesson home.
-- Not In My Backyard for those also wondering --
NTSB Aviation Accident Final Report American Flight 300
Is that a stealth James Bond reference?
in a very strong or vigorous manner

"he coughed violently"
Isn't this what taxes are?

Also just ignore that line, it's not actually true.
This is a dupe of the much more informative Atlantic[0] submission[1]

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350657
Which is it, Atherton can't build there's a water crisis or because it would become a "dump"?
I see love like this as a sign of a loving God, in itself. Thanks for sharing.
> I don't know how I missed it

That's what she said
What does string escaping have to do with market making?
Sell it to someone.. anyone else..
Feel free to brush up, the word was used correctly.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/violentl...
Introduction to Faller Car System
>Probable Cause and Findings
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
The captain’s excessive left rudder pedal input during the takeoff ground roll, which caused a large heading deviation and a left roll upon rotation that resulted in the left wingtip striking the ground.
It's unusually forceful for a planning commission objection or public comment, which is what Demsas is trying to communicate.
I'm not sure if you're trying to route your traffic back through your home network to use it as a VPN, I've not tried that... but otherwise I've had good success with ZeroTier. They seem to have a solid head start with their clients UX ahead of Wireguard.
tqdm also supports Jupyter Notebooks, which is really nice.
Ghost Robotics now makes a lethal robot dog
My opinion, as in I think this is true but I can't claim it's an immutable law of nature: You don't get a billion dollars by leaving pennies on the table. You need a ruthless focus on money über alles. And that focus never turns off, and doesn't exclude anything. Everything is an investment. Everything is about how it can make you more money, or potentially make you more money. Everything is about increasing that lifetime high score. So it's not that you care about your property value per se, it's that you care about every value, obsessively, all the time.
> The following has no place.

I don't follow. Why do the results of their study have no place in the abstract?

And merely sarcastically re-stating the findings of the study is not a counter-argument.
It soumds like they are only modifying the presentation of results, rather than the quality of the results. Useful, yes, but it's not necessarily what people are looking for.
Violent: Intense or extreme, especially in emotion.

He's using capitals to specifically show intense emotion. Violent doesn't always mean physical violence.
Nope, that's true. They're forcing them not to.
I agree. For me, the DarkContrast++ looked best to me. Clear, crisp and easily readable after a long, sleep deprived day. I'll definitely be giving this a shot in the morning.
Of course! But if the universe is the result of all the quantum field interactions, what if there's a quantum field that, on its own, brings the consciousness interaction, and it manifests in ways that are computationally prohibitive for a process created from atomic-scale logic gates to replicate believably?

What if there's just no way to build consciousness from the building blocks that are within our reach?
I'm still coding now, but some of my most memorable adventures were with QuickBasic in the early 1990s, when I knew essentially nothing.

My first one was fixing a flaky TSR "new mail" notifier that came with Microsoft Courier, a pre-cursor to Microsoft mail. I decided to write a new one which "merely" involved reverse-engineering what memory location to check to know that there is new mail, and then reverse-engineering the memory location to update to put the info on screen in the same place with the same colors. It was a drop-in replacement TSR that looked and behaved exactly like the original except it worked properly. (I made generous use of Norton Utilities to figure things out.) To this day I don't know how I came up with that approach, or why I thought I would be successful, or how I actually WAS successful. Yet hundreds of people used it for years with no issues.

The other memorable app was a pop-up TSR chat app for NetWare. I sold that as shareware and made at least $500 selling it for $35 IIRC. That was the last time I made any real money from software I wrote for myself :)

My code was terrible, and bug-ridden (like all the best code), but I was able to be very productive with QuickBasic and it heightened my sense that with a little effort you could do almost anything with computers.
That's darn good compared to the Industry Incumbents, though. They do CenturyLink levels of service.
I'm still looking for a copy of Tunnel Striker!
She wrote the article (maybe this is what you're saying); I think she's just promoting the piece on Twitter. Disclaimer: big Jerusalem Demsas fan.
Not only developers, but I’ve read a research where a POS system was upgraded from a TUI to a GUI, and while new hires enjoyed the new system, experienced ones disliked due to the reduced performance.

There is also an old research showing that a small delay in the response time has a big impact on the productivity [1]. The keyboard only interface and high performance/low latency can be an excellent choice for power users/users who care about productivity.

In theory we can have all that using regular GUIs, but almost no developer/UX cares about this today. The TUI constraints ends up being an advantage for getting things done in some situations.

The Economic Value of Rapid Response Time https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/the-economic-value-of-rap...
OpenVINO Inferencing Using WasmEdge WASI-NN: AI Inference for Road Segmentation
Using WebAssembly and Rust you can implement high-performance AI inference functions, and ensure function safety and cross-platform ease of use with Wasm.
All analogies are flawed but this one doesn't even register to me as useful.

Style is inherently subjective so obviously there's going to be personal preferences, and consistency means enforcing one and only one version of preferences onto others.

That's not exactly the problem with more housing. It's not a question of style or character. People use those words when they talk about "the character of their neighborhood changing" or "these ugly concrete monstrosities", but really it's always the same thing:

1. I don't want my housing prices to go down. I want my house prices to only go up.

2. Lower priced housing will be populated by more poor people who are more likely to bring crime, and I don't want crime to increase in my area.

The thing is, they're not even wrong. They exaggerate, sure. But you can sympathize with both factors.

On 1: The American dream has been sold to everyone that housing is a guaranteed investment that should always go up. For many people it's the only retirement hope they have or any inheritance they hope to pass to their children.

On 2: Income IS inversely correlated with crime. Because our modern capitalist culture decided not to optimize for a social safety net, the only solution we've thought of so far is deep segregation (not racial, but economic)

So, in isolation, individuals making the classic "I want more Housing but Not In My Back Yard" argument is entirely logical. But in the aggregate, it only contributes to a vicious spiral.

And there is NO good reason for a billionaire to dare make that argument. He can afford a small dip to his housing value. Holy shit, leave some crumbs for the rest of us.
PageRank is basically worthless at this point. Its baseline assumption, that keywords and in-links correlate with relevance, is now broken. The vast majority of stuff out there is SEO'd and link-farmed to death. If you want to find anything relevant with PageRank these days, you first need to find a way to filter out all of the spam. This is why search is so hard now.