skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having consumed something for a long time doesn’t mean that thing fits our health goals today. e.g. saturated fat contributes to heart disease but didn’t stop us from reproducing.
"suicided" isn't a word
The difficulties with gps seem over stated,

Which Track? Trains don't randomly switch tracks except in yards, instrumenting each switch to understand when a train switches tracks seems like an easy problem.

Tunnels? First there aren't "that" many and there aren't many long enough that a single long train shouldn't count it as occupied in the interest of safety. It also shouldn't be a high effort to add a satellite or wireless repeater with a known location at at least each end of a tunnel.

An arduino with GPS tracking an accelerometer (or gyro), a compass, add a few wireless location nodes around tunnels and other dead spots and every difficulty here is solved. The accelerometer can even early report rough tracks or switches.

What excuses the economist entertains while we have successful tracking in many other forms of transport.
Life expectancy is primarily a statistic that reflects child & early mortality, it’s the wrong metric to understand how long healthy people live. Life expectancy of all 20 year olds (people who didn’t die before that) has been more like 50 years old for thousands of years. Maximum life span, or longevity, has been around 70-80 years for as far back as we can figure. Hastily googled but decent explanation: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-anc...

I don’t understand what you’re implying about life expectancy and macronutrients, can you elaborate? How does life expectancy (or longevity) affect macros?
SetFit – Efficient Few-Shot Learning with Sentence Transformers
"Look that swarm of krill is shaped like a toroid."
That's not what arbitrary means.

Arbitrary means there was no logical reason behind the choice, they just picked one. You can dislike the reason all you want. You can disagree with their choice, or think there are more important reasons to choose what you think they should have chosen, but that doesn't make their choice arbitrary.
Tesla boss Elon Musk presents humanoid robot Optimus
Edit: wrong post
SuperAger brains contain ‘super neurons’
Indeed. I think it's always interesting to read what people thought then, without benefit of hindsight. If you want to dismiss it based on what we now know, I'll just ask, "What things do you believe today that will be embarrassing in 40 years?"
This is cool but, like anything, practice is far more important than theory.

There are tons of websites that give you fake briefings and challenges to practice on:

https://uxtools.co/challenges/

https://fakeclients.com/ui
It's a bit of a separate issue. When Ford first mass produced cars if probably reduced jobs in buggy whip manufacturing and similar fields but that's more a thing for the government to maybe worry about rather than car makers.
I think we're getting very close to a commercial office real-estate collapse in North America, and all the ensuing chaos that comes along with that. Commutes will plummet, houses will need space to work, neighbourhoods may need more services as people "stay local".
Once again, law enforcement getting special treatment. Encrypted radio use is forbidden for the general public is it not?
Re: Art, it'll be interesting what all this brings to the table. On one hand, tools for artists, on other replacement for artists. Turns out, we might be getting into polemics of what art is and it'll turn out that skills (as in trade) are part of it, but not the most important - it's artist's taste that sets them apart and drives them above. Now, everyone will face the same since skills barrier will be brought down.
Fermi estimation is just adding up the number of digits of every factor, what's really hard about answering these questions is having an encyclopedic knowledge of random quantitative trivia.
I was in Paris for work two weeks ago and fell in love with it. What a wonderful city!

Even though I (shamefully) don't know how to ride a bike, I was amazed at how many bikes there were and how bike accessible everything was.
> See Also:

> "Nothing to do with man" - Astrophysicist says climate-cultists "are on a gravy train" to make money

I dunno about the credibility of this site.
Elon mentions near the beginning that optimus being developed inside tesla, a public company [as opposed to spacex which is a private company], as part of the governance model.

But this is a recruiting / technical event, so you won't find more ethics considerations in the rest of the video probably.
A sensible approach. On site work is a thing of the past. We need more remote people for a higher quality of life, less pollution and improved mental health. I appreciate there are those without friends or family that want to fill in the void with coworkers but your coworkers are simply not there for that.
Private Texts Reveal World’s Rich and Famous Groveling to Elon Musk
Show HN: Sksql a Database Engine in TypeScript
Hi! I wanted to understand more about databases' internals so I wrote one from scratch. It has a T-SQL inspired syntax with support for functions and procedures. It can be used stand-alone as a SQL engine or with a server allowing for persistence and replication to other connected clients.
Performance are nothing near sqlite of course but that's beside the point. It’s a small database engine that can run in a web app as a way to store session data, do small calculations on a web worker, store the document/data the user is editing or facilitate “multiplayer” feature by broadcasting the queries the web app is running. The server runs in a container for that specific document and shutdowns automatically after a set amount of minutes of inactivity.
In terms of market share sure, though the Vulkan/Metal/whatever approach is clearly the future, no? AFAIK that isn't in question, it's just a matter of how long it will take for mass adoption.
Make sure you use distilled water and not tap water or you will get infections and risk fucking up your brain.
I've been using node/react for a lots of years. This year I started working on a project built with Laravel. I can confirm it is a GREAT framework. Suddenly everything is reasonably easy again.
If you've never been why would you comment on it?
Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory
I was in Paris a few weeks ago and while I think they have decent bike infrastructure, the car infrastructure was terrible.

In Manhattan (which has 4x the population of Paris) you can get an Uber and go a few km in maybe 15-20 minutes. In Paris it’s an hour+. Sure, stealing infrastructure from cars to give to bikes will make biking quicker, but it’s a zero-sun game. You’re basically stealing resources from people who are elderly, disabled, have families, etc. to prioritize bicyclists. Great for some people at the expense of others.
Just want to add, I followed pretty much the same path with Windmill [1], which is also in the developer tool space, and also open-source. Built everything solo for 5 months. I thought it would be impossible to get into YC, it is not and I was fortunate enough to join YC on the latest batch, on my first try [2].

Getting into YC changed the course of the company, increased many orders of magnitude my ambition and made fundraising much easier. Most importantly, even though I worked in tech in the bay many moons ago, at the time I was very isolated in Paris and thought I understood the startup game but I did not really. Being part of a cohort like YC with like-minded amazing peers, truly felt like I was able to go up to speed on many subjects that would have been out of reach for a solo founder.

If you are a solo technical founder and considering applying to YC, reach out to me, I am more than happy to help.

[1]: https://windmill.dev

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31272793
fMRI has fundamental limits due to measuring blood flow as a proxy for neural activity. The resolution remains on the order of millimeters and seconds.
> I gave examples.

If those are your only examples, I addressed them the line after that. Please take my comment as a whole.

> Every design has a trade off and all too often there are unforeseen consequences too. If you honestly believe there are zero downsides

It's always possible something somewhere could go wrong but "don't change anything on smaller videos" is pretty hard to screw up! If that's too risky, then your standards are too high and you interpreted "roughly zero" much too precisely.
Was going to make sure you did this. There is a high chance you will be able to get a lot of the files back.

You can use autopsy which is open source to carve for files. Or you might be able to use binwalk.
Good point. Why enrich them beyond other human beings? One of billions is a much more reasonable view of who they are.
Neil Postman came to much the same conclusion about modern entertainment.

https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Bus...
First evidence of social relationships between chimpanzees, gorillas: study
> The approach also seems to breed a certain level of flexibility that other languages struggle to match - I have seen software that does a better job of editing text than Emacs, but I have not seen software more capable of taking on any challenge.

I think the author would agree with you. In the last post of the series (https://blog.lfe.io/excerpts/2015/03/27/1101-the-hidden-orig...):

> And here the answer arrives, not as some astounding epiphany, but again in humble simplicity: Lisp's fun and its beauty rest not only in its syntactic elegance but in its power of expression. This is specifically important for the adventurer: if you want to create something new, explore some new programmatic territory, you need tools at your fingertips which will allow you to do so flexibly and quickly, with as little overhead as possible. Otherwise the moment of inspiration can be to quickly lost, the creative process swallowed in a mire too heavy with infrastructure and process.

Sadly it looks like their effort to translate SICP to LFE stalled out a long time ago.
I'm working on a project with Laravel + Unpoly. It's an extremely easy and straight forward stack. And I knew zero PHP when I started, but I don't find it difficult at all.
Developers selling to Developers is the exception.

There are many talented Sales/Marketing people. But few who can effectively target Developers.

The Authors path of bootstrapping via open source is a known tactic/strategy.

Ultimately growth will require directly approaching other Developers with a commercial proposal.
I think the biggest driver of Vulkan adoption is the fact that since all the graphics APIs are so low level nowadays, everyone is writing abstraction layers. Plus, Vulkan is a hedge against all the proprietary APIs. Also, 2/3 major consoles are on AMD, Vulkan was originally AMD Mantle, gonna guess there's some common tools and functionality...

Anyhow, Vulkan will survive for the same reason as Linux; no one truly trusts MS, Apple, Sony, etc...
Theoretically yes. Deleting a file doesn’t actually delete anything, besides the file table entry. The contents still remain on the disk, until they get overwritten, that is.
not op but for me structured editing is one of the biggest pluses when it comes to editing lisp code. here is a good example of what i mean [0]. btw autolisp standard formating is kind of an anti-example of good lisp formating. in emacs lots of excellent tools exist to make parantheses an extremely helpful feature [1]

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D6h5dFyyUX0

[1] http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/parphobia.png
If you live in a place that only gets four hours of sun a day, sure, look more into nuclear.

But instead of being so "black and white" and insisting it must be nuclear that powers things, also evaluate options like thermal storage to gather summertime heat in reservoirs for use throughout the winter. It's super cheap, and makes a ton of sense in most areas, yet it's so low tech that it gets ignored.

I will be black and white that fission is not a feasible solution for the vast majority of the human population for at least the next 20 years, and probably forever. Despite more than half a century of experience, it has not improved as a technology. There would have to be some sort of drastic breakthrough for nuclear to be a realistic power source for most of the earth's surface.
I find they're very different parts of memory. Keyboard shortcuts live in your hands -- they're muscle memory.

Trying to remember where some option in a cluttered dropdown menu you used 20 minutes ago is working memory, something I'm personally terrible with. It's either whiplash out of a flow state, or risks sidetracking me.

It takes practice to build muscle memory, but it's something that generally stays with you for a long time, so it's an investment.

The point is that you don't think about keyboard shortcuts. You just think about the thing you need to do, and let your hands do it.
That's irrelevant to Lua/Ruby embedded in Nginx I'm afraid
Why not just something similar to (forgive the pascal)

if isinstance(node, WithStmt) AND
(len(node.expr) = 1) AND
isinstance(node.expr, CallExpr) AND
isinstance(node.expr.callee,NameExper) AND
(node.expr.callee.name == 'open') then
begin
do stuff here
end;
The anti-soy stuff is ridiculous. The phytoestrogens in soy are minimal and nowhere near as strong as real estrogen. Hops in beer has more, and milk has a lot of real estrogen, but no one seems bothered by those. I'm convinced it's all meat industry propaganda. I'm a male and have been eating a lot of soy and a recent blood test has shown optimal testosterone and estrogen levels.

There is a bit of science behind the seed-oil stuff, specifically poly-unsaturated fatty acids, but the paleo community has grossly exaggerated the issue. I've had people tell me that eating any seed or nut is crazy, and I can't take them seriously.
What a something means is defined by how many people use it for a given definition. If tomorrow half the earth starts saying "fork" for knife then that is what "fork" will mean - the ratio for ctrl-c meaning copy vs its Unix meaning is even stronger. Being there first has exactly zero importance
> Bellamy’s and Morris’s future-utopian novels form two ends of a spectrum: the former envisions an idyllic America in the year 2000 whose just and equitable society is enabled by technological development and the gradual consolidation of capital in huge monopolies eventually taken over by the state, while Morris sketches a future neo-feudal pastoral idyll in which human beings live in harmony with nature, dwell in small communal units, and labor by hand.

I've seen both of those Utopias. The first in Google's Mountain View campus and the second in an intentional community in Northern California.

> My grad class, on the other hand, started inquiring of each novel, “What does the author do about human nature?” by which they meant all the selfish and combative impulses that would presumably prevent us from living together in an egalitarian society for any length of time. (Getting them to unpack the idea of “human nature” was the work of an entire semester.)

At Google the problems of human nature are covered (more-or-less well, opinions vary) by basic professionalism and a fire hydrant gushing money.

The folks at the commune seemed emotionally mature and were reliable and stable enough to build their own buildings (including a kind of micro-dairy for their cow!)

> I’m still grappling with what it meant that these first-year students (who are now in their mid-20s) did not find climate change fiction particularly depressing—or rather, particularly surprising or disorienting. As I’ve written about elsewhere, I think our greatest hurdles in trying to think like utopians will be intergenerational.

From my POV the writing has been on the wall since at least when I was in school (roughly a generation ago.) So I'm not surprised that they're not surprised. At least I had grounds for hope back then, but the inaction and active destruction of the last few decades has made that hope seem more and more irrational.

In any event, going forward we have to manage the global ecosystem(s). Like it or not, whatever your personal beliefs about the causes of climate change, we are in the driver's seat now, so we have to either learn to drive or we'll crash or go over a cliff, y'know?

We have satellites and computers, we can gather and process all the data we need, ans we also have a ll the technology we need already (not to say that we shouldn't keep innovating, of course we should! Just that that's not the limiting factor.)

When it comes to changing society and dealing with the problems of human nature I think the missing piece of the puzzle is the recent advances in emotional and spiritual healing, things that are totally off the radar of the academic sphere. E.g. Reiki or the Core Transformation Process, things that help people to change for the better quickly and easily but are practically invisible to mainstream/academia.
Scheme is so nice. Common Lisp is much more of an amalgamation of ideas.
I’m currently building one by myself in Elixir/Phoenix/Liveview/Tailwind using Fly.io for deployment. Elixir has been amazing for more complicated app dev. A lot of previous ruby people there. Liveview gives a React like experience without the extra complexity.
Tesla is great for building api integrations. Knock has a great elixir api for notifications and emails. Telemetry is built into most things. Livebook is Jupiter notebooks but better, great for quick prototyping or doing adhoc data analysis.

You can get most of this from just using https://legendaryframework.org/

Want native apps? LiveView Native is a thing https://native.live/. One app to do it all.
So we actually did this to ourselves, it’s sometimes called “botanical sexism.” The majority of flora we plant are pollen releasing rather than fruit or seed bearing because we don’t like cleaning it up. This makes allergies so much worse if you live in area that is professionally landscaped compared to nature.

In truth we could have the best of both worlds if we were diligent about only planting seed bearing trees because no pollen no fruit but that’s a lot of work.
Without knowing what types of files they lost, this might not be too bad. For the first round of organizing, sort by file extension. E.g. Anything with .exe was probably Downloads, video files go to My Videos, and so on. A number of apps will organize JPGs into a consistent directory structure based on the date or other fields in the metadata. For the remaining documents, view by x-large icons so your relative can quickly categorize what goes where.
Do you mean altitude?
Yea going towards low overhead APIs like Metal, Vulkan and DX12 are definitely the way. DX12 has a very significant market share lead and is what most game devs on PC would target. Vulkan being a distant second and Metal being an even more distant third.
It’s been a number of years since my last reading but what I remember is it pulling at the thread of the concept of quality. The author stumbles upon this while teaching an introductory writing course at college. What he discovers is that it’s difficult to reduce the act of writing to a prescribed set of rules to follow in order to produce a quality piece. And yet, somehow his students, without training or much effort, are able to judge which pieces exhibit quality. This idea literally leads the author to madness.
I'm not sure I could find the correct scientific paper on it, but I do believe it has something to do with altitude sickness. I do know that at the last camp (17,500ft) it was near impossible to sleep because of shortness of breath.
It's a well meaning article. My first thought is that it's generated by AI in the service of some moderate yet far reaching religious org.

"Finding our intrinsic values is no trivial task, but something that forces us to stare into the core of our humanity."

I think it misses a critical topical conclusion which is that "intrinsic values" means little or nothing to many, and many folks are fairly incapable of competently doing the kind of contemplative meditating required to arrive at some set of rules like that, and so they look to others.

And here's the crux of the missed point:

To really resonate with our intrinsic values, we need to drop the myth that a rational economic system exists, and build one with the value of present and future human life explicitly built in.

We already have a massive framework for understanding individual intrinsic values in terms of the sanctity of human life and that's the great mystery religions that have birth to our modern age. What's needed now is a planetary ethos where intrinsic human value is put in the proper context of the ecological reality of the biological and geological systems and processes that sustain us. Building that culture requires myth and magic, but also is an intensely rational project. There is really no way around it, and any philosophical text intended to shift the cultural landscape is incomplete without it.
A backend you're comfortable with as others has said.

App support is the tricky part in my experience. I haven't found a workflow that I love yet.

Developing for web and creating an app that wraps the website works fine. The problem is that you'll likely get rejected when submitting to the app store & play store.

You could go with Flutter for app & web or react-native-web but it's still very early days and there's lots of issues. I find it's not worth the effort.

The best compromise I do right now is React for web. And then a separate react-native app. Realistically, you could have similar architecture for handling data. However, the rest will still be different. Eg: Routing & Display components.
How to Become an Expert
Since a solo founder is a dreamer role, CMPO: Chief Metaphysical Officer.
> but your coworkers are simply not there for that.

Yes they are, many of them would be there in a similar situation. The work place colleagues is the main pool one draws "friends" from nowadays in very many cases.
SvelteKit fails the maturity test but is something I'd use in a heartbeat once a stable version is released. It's what I've always dreamed of — one framework all in one language (JS/TS) that gracefully bridges the front/backend gap built on web standards:

https://kit.svelte.dev/

From the docs:

> Building an app with all the modern best practices is fiendishly complicated. Those practices include build optimizations, so that you load only the minimal required code; offline support; prefetching pages before the user initiates navigation; and configurable rendering that allows you to render your app on the server or in the browser at runtime or at build-time. SvelteKit does all the boring stuff for you so that you can get on with the creative part.
The important point here is that he got funding first, and it sounds like at least half a million because he didn't talk about begging angels for money or running out of runway.

He was able to hire someone fast.

You won't be this good/lucky.

In the traditional non-traditional startup you need a salesperson and engineering to be free, because money. I suppose with dev tools you can get rid of the salesperson because you're selling tools to individuals? Which is more risk, but if it works then go for it.
Try Unpoly. It's the opinionated, batteries included alternative to htmx. But still in the same spirit.
Gazprom Cuts Off Supplies of Russian Gas to Italy
Well, people live at least twice as long, on average, as in paleo times so much of the damage from that diet wasn’t observed in the fossil record due to the lack of really old skeletons. Must have food surpluses to value the old and infirm…

Also, the exercise of those in paleo times is staggeringly better than today’s carnivores. Good for the heart, even though fat was prized as a calorie source.
And yet the era of being able to do anything really useful with the information has yet to arrive.