skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homeostasis is hard. But there is an upward notch effect: gain is easier than loss. Therefore it can both change, and asymmetrically.

A priori, there is no clear "it won't change" about how the body's homeostasis reacts hormonally to stomach size and rate of gastric function. Surgery has no good real life analogue in this case. How do we know what happens?. The evidence is valuable.
Zoho announces $1 billion in revenue would be a better title
I've come to believe that quality of discourse declines as communities grow in size and scope regardless of medium.
Doesn’t all fsa account cover glasses? Pretty easy to use that for pre tax dollars on eyeware. You can spend it wherever you want.
I pronounce it like Dwight’s last name from the office
I dunno man, I came to check out the comments first because I wasn't sure if it was safe to click
Yes except eigenvalues need not be 1. e^(kx) is an eigenvector of d/dx for all k but is only a fixed point when k=1
You could run emulators on your phone if you want better games.
What’s your insulation situation? Heating source is irrelevant if the envelope leaks like a sieve (Cheap, plentiful fossil gas has papered over poorly insulated homes historically).

Recommend an energy audit, air sealing, and getting your attic up to at least R-38 (ideally you want to get to R-60) if not already there. Cost should be low four figures depending on what’s already up there (batts, blown fiberglass or cellulose, etc) for a retrofit, and there are typically some combination of utility, local, and state incentives. Get three quotes.

https://www.energystar.gov/campaign/seal_insulate/identify_p...

https://electrek.co/2022/08/19/us-tax-credits-rebates-climat...
Secret Sharing: The Power of Polynomials
Polynomial interpolation is a very simple idea that has profound consequences for threshold cryptography and sharing secrets among a group of mutually distrusting individuals.
Every exec at FB is compensated via share price. So yeah, they've all taken a massive hit to their comp. Zuck is down 100 billion YTD.
In some places. It started during the 'covid worker shortage' and never came back.

Where I live now, Prime shipping is usually 4 days, sometimes longer.
And here's Twitter...

https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817
For a large array maybe you are better off with e.g. a Reed-Solomon code instead of a Hamming code.
I’m going to miss Heroku free tiers. Using them while following the Rails tutorial is what got me into programming.
I'm glad Ethics for Engineers wasn't an elective but mandatory when I was in school.
Is TikTok a social network? Fundamentally, in order for TikTok to work you don't need to be connected to anyone. Doesn't it make it anti-social? Does it matter if the content is UGC or not for the app to be social?
https://melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html
Because they're not allowed to due to exclusivity deals.

Disney can just buy out content from competing services and HN will cheer them on with how amazing they are when they prevented other services from streaming the same content.
Software can be so buggy. It's a shame that the higher ups didn't recognize that.
So, in real world, i will just cache every thing with redis, and problem solved ?
Not popular opinion: I see no app here, but I nly an email address collecting webpage that needed one hour effort to create.
If you have something, publish at least a working demo.
So would it have been better if it's Vine instead of TikTok?
Take names friend, good luck with your future endeavors!
As an update, Google's "warning level" seems to have dropped to Yellow from Red:
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?u...

I still see an exclamation mark in mobile Chrome, but it looks like the big scary red interstitial is gone from most browsers I've seen. Perhaps it was enough different people reporting false positive? Or maybe a re-scan or manual action. Unclear but it's appreciated. Wish there was more transparency (ironic given the "transparencyreport" subdomain that URL is hosted at).
Glasses aren't that expensive.

I buy them from https://zennioptical.com

I don't think that I'd ever pay more than $100 for a frame again.

The sunglasses that we buy in a drugstore can be had for paltry sums, why not prescription eyewear?
Now i must acknowledge, rich does more harm than good to society (as well as for the individual).

What's the point of become "money" rich ? Life is too short to earn only money at all cost.
I interpret their data differently: only 47% of DNS lookups were for expired entries due to TTL. If some of those were for longish TTLs, some for actually changed records, then an even bigger majority of requests would be needed anyway, and longer TTLs would not have stopped them.
Apple is supposed to be good for privacy.
I don't understand the point. Every social media's goal is to take advantage of people's desire to be entertained. Youtube, Instagram, etc. Yet TikTik has managed to come from behind and overtake all the other apps. People are so quick to dismiss its algorithm, yet no other app comes close to recreating the experience.
I have an iPhone and don’t use Google search (I’m not logged in to any Google services actually, unless Apple Mail loading Gmail counts) so I’m pretty sure Google is not tracking _all_ users’ searches.
Dang’s explanation of the moderation of that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32773299
Let's see, am I going to believe the overwhelming amount of evidence or am I going to believe the guy that makes a baseless emotional claim denying the evidence. I think I will go with the former.

If Israel is not a terrorist state, then there is no such thing as a terrorist state in the world:

[Empire Files: How Palestine Became Colonized](https://youtu.be/BT5L4YU_Fl4)

[Israeli Army Vet’s Exposé - “I Was the Terrorist”](https://youtu.be/1Rk1dAIhiVc)

["The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" by Israeli scholar and historian Ilan Pappe](http://a.co/d/6Y5oaxm)

[If Americans Knew - What every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine](http://ifamericaknew.org/)

Israel is not only a terrorist state, but an apartheid state on top of that:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apart...
You're right that Java's Hashmap only ever resizes upwards - the most common use case. However, if there's a need to remove that memory after clearing() then the typical use case is to do something that allows the GC to sort it.

E.g.,

var map = new HashMap<Bla, Bla>();
// Many things added to map
// Many but not all things removed from map
// to shrink it to size of remaining items
map = new HashMap<>(map);

Yeah, it's not nice, but the people who wrote the JDK are far smarter than me, so I figure they optimised for the 99% use-case, not the 1%.
You're projecting. Why do you have such a strong opinion about how bikes should be used?
Isn't that somewhat the usecase of Microsoft Access?
Most of the stories I read these days aren't technically books but web serials. It can be tricky sifting good stuff from meh, but royalroad's reviews are much better than Amazon's, and Topwebfiction is a pretty good ranking board (as long as the serial is still being updated. Although Worm's been finished for almost a decade now, and as of right now it's #10 on the weekly leaderboard)
As long as it doesn't need to be panic-safe UI where the operator needs to operate even if panicking, such a request could be granted, at considerate cost (severe engineering and likely compute hardware costs to station equivalent/suitable levels of reliability), which should make the entity bankrolling the project shudder and take back their unreasonable request.
I started looking at getting new glasses recently and due to my extremely poor vision, need all these extra addons for lenses (high-index, progressive etc.) and they get EXPENSIVE very quickly.
Waves has a plugin, MaxxBass which is meant for adding/raising harmonics to create the illusion of audible lower bass tones than the system is actually producing. It gets used pretty commonly in electronic music nowadays but was originally made for more mundane applications like audio mixed for television or theme park speakers.
no shade, but just reading this I was sure this was written by someone who works in BigTech. Because this was very reminiscent of ceremony required for BigTech performance reviews.
done this? I am this.
This pretty much exactly describes Alyx. They defied expectations about what Half-Life 3 should be and disappointed a large number of people (who were mad that it was VR exclusive) despite producing something incredible and unprecedented.
Counterpoint: I have only worked 3 months since receiving an Exceeds Expectations from my employer.

I got laid off last week along with 1 more of my 5 teammates.
I know earlier (pre-2000's) versions of VMS were written in BLISS-32: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS

This would have been 1991 or 1992 so DEC was probably still a BLISS shop. Maybe they didn't ship C manuals or something.
It’s definitely ruby that’s slow. Your database may also be slow.

I love ruby. But it’s slow. It’s a great choice for a lot of things.
Classic HCI Demos
man those bring me back. cheers
This is imo how most people should start and use it. All these "structure first" approaches are like using someone else's preferred way of learning and memorizing, if it works its an happy accident.

You'll get your structure out of your mind once you learn to know it.
>Sure, sorry about my little previous joke[1], meant no factual offense. The very best of luck to you as a programmer and a wonderfully polite human being with a great sense of humor.

Jokes are supposed to be funny. Not offensive. Your intent was offense under the guise of humor. Common tactic. Anyone serious doesn't take well to the other party being sarcastic or joking, you know this, yet you still play games. It's a typical strategy to win the crowd by making someone overly serious look like a fool. But there is no crowd here, nobody is laughing. Just me and you.

So your real intent is just to piss me off given that you know nobody is here to laugh at your stupid joke. Your just a vile human being. Go ahead crack more jokes. Be more sarcastic, it just shows off your character. We're done.
Initially I read Erlang ... and was unorthodox choice, but not bad. Then I reread the title ...
Election Predictions as Martingales: An Arbitrage Approach: Taleb (2017)
Show HN: I made myself a HN site in English and Chinese, so I can read more HN
It is a single static html page, I also provide jsonfeed[0] and rss[1], and I incidentally support Traditional Chinese[2], Japanese[3], and English only[4], but I don't think I currently have English users or Japanese users.

I tried to get `og:image` at the same time as getting hacker news' post to display the image, and I used deepl's API for translation.

If you happen to need this, feel free to use it!

There are more hn topic subsite like Show HN[5], Ask HN[6], Best HN [7], HN Front[8] etc.

[0]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/feed.json

[1]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/feed.xml

[2]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/zh-Hant/

[3]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/ja/

[4]: https://hnnew.buzzing.cc/en/

[5]: https://showhn.buzzing.cc/

[6]: https://askhn.buzzing.cc/

[7]: https://hn.buzzing.cc/

[8]: https://hnfront.buzzing.cc/
Like, what’s the security or privacy problem with Ubuntu, or most distributions in fact?
That also doesn't make it inherently unethical, and so far nobody has provided evidence of that claim.
Got some sources? Ruby3 was faster than python at some point, iirc
On the other hand, weird things can happen at scale inside an RDBMS.

For example: window queries, where you're trying to extract `row_number() = 1` of each window-partition. (Or "DISTINCT ON" queries, which are basically syntax sugar for this.) These can be extremely slow, because in many RDBMSes† they generate a query plan that reads+materializes all the rows of each window-partition, in order to then just discard all-but-the-first row-tuple of each window-partition. (In other words, the filtering-out by rank doesn't get pushed back through the query plan to turn the whole-index scan into an index-prefix scan.)

The (surprising) solution to this over-materialization, is to use a recursive CTE, using the previous query's matched key as the inductive case's filter condition, to cause index-prefix matching to happen "one query step at a time." Which, if you think about it, is just "causing hundreds/thousands of individual queries"... just with all of those queries happening within a single tx, statement, query plan, table lock, and (hopefully!) page cursor.

† Some RDBMSes do know how to push this window-node attribute back into the fetch node; the feature is called "index skip scans" or "loose index scans." (Before anyone asks: Postgres isn't one of them... yet. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Loose_indexscan)
Right, in topology a “point” can represent any mathematical object e.g 1 of “e^(kx)”
Ask HN: Blind folks, Would you prefer a CLI app over a web app?
I'm contemplating on building an application which would serve people with disabilities. Majority of my users would be technically inclined.

Has anyone explored the accessibility benefits or lack there of in creating a ssh app instead of a web app ?

Especially serving those with visual disability, Considering there have been decades of investment in console screen readers would an CLI app be more beneficial than a text focused web app?

I've seen few blind users on HN, If you are one then would you prefer a CLI app over a web app? Few examples for either case would be much appreciated.
It's intrusive. My web server is none of their business.
It even have a jupyter competitor in LiveBook[1].

[1] https://livebook.dev/
FDR went by FDR because those were his initials and ehh, people do that sometimes. Have enough presidents and sooner or later you'll get a president who does it. JFK and LBJ did it as conscious homages to FDR. There is a book "In The Shadow of FDR" about post-WW2 US politics that mentions this.
Yeah, I mentioned Elixir in the post as an example of a better alternative.
I think you're taking it in a different direction than I meant. It's not about massaging anyone. Information can only be acted on to effect change if it's delivered with the context to do so.

I've been in similar situations. The fallacy is thinking that "truth bombs" are an effective communication style. If you want to effect change you need to do some social engineering and politicking. Hate it all you want, but the human psyche isn't a technical problem to solve with data and figures. What you do is manage expectations and present ideas that let people walk out of the meeting feeling like there's some direction that can be taken without disaster. Otherwise you're Chicken Little.

Good management responds to bad situations by negotiating scope and translating delays into milestones that are achievable. Like the story makes ICs feel like heroes for dropping truth bombs and quitting before seeing anything change, then seeming to be proven correct is an example of that. In my opinion they failed at the task given to them, which was to analyze the state of the project and implicitly give management something to do about it.

And that was a lesson I learned early in my career, being tasked with analyzing the state of a project and assessing why it was shit. The mistake was concluding that it was shit, because someone got fired afterwards who could have actually done a good job. What I didn't do was deliver information in a context that could have translated into change. The same is true of the ICs in the story. This is bragging about failure.
Why do appendices sometimes burst? Maybe having a burst appendix is a good thing and the horrible pain serves some beneficial purpose???
Indeed. Asking the question not because i am defending apple, but just pointing out that this common practice. If you want typeahead there is no way around sending all keystrokes. Poor phrasing on my end.
I'm a customer of Zenni Optical. They have glasses from $10 - $100+.

I usually get the same set, for $100-- frameless. And that price includes blue-blocks (to reduce blue light from screens). They last long and are easily replaceable.

[1] https://www.zennioptical.com/
tl;dr the author uses "docker export" to squash a container image layers into a rootfs, and uses chroot to make it the root of that filesystem and runs a binary there.

This practically has nothing to do with the term "containers". Author says "Others will tell you containers are about namespaces [...] But for me, containers are just chrooted processes. " , however containers are very much about isolation, resource controls, and various network features like port mappings for many people.

So you really didn't build anything even remotely resembling a container runtime, you redefined the term and built something that does "docker export | tar zxvf && cd /dir && chroot /dir && /prog". :)
Have you seen this model work for others? Have you seen it fail for others?

I ask this not to rain on your parade, but to probe how much of your word "hope" comes into play here.

I'm not sure a compeditor would be "less genuine" than you.

Customer service can be a differentiator, (so at least Google isn't your problem) but good customer service is expensive. AWS provides pretty good customer service.

Relying on brand is likely to hurt rather than help you - you'll be unknown whereas AWS is, well, AWS.

I get that if your target market is Open Source developers, then releasing source is a good thing. Hopefully you remain small enough to fly under the radar.
Purchases probably meaning the in-app purchase for things you can send to people on TikTok lives. I have seen app dev advice that if you store purchase info on your server in any way, instead of it being a local only purchase, then you must check the box that you collect purchase info.
The only source we have that it's a rumor is Netflix. Netflix is also my source: Several shows that were released in bulk for previous seasons are releasing between 1 and 3 episodes per week for their current seasons.
What? If they switch devices and accounts, it doesn't matter WHAT is being "fingerprinted'... there's no way a unique identifier will persist across that type of change. Points for the theory though.
That is very much a problem in the US (AFAIK) where news and entertainment are merged. Other countries have laws to ensure that news are presented emotionless and factual.
Its really fast. Their site used to be really slow. Big change
I can see Obsidian being popular because it makes notetaking fun and customizable and may motivate people to do it more. But as far as actual productivity goes I can't see any benefit it adds.
It's pointless arguing with you, as you have no intention of considering alternative viewpoints.

I'll just say that I wouldn't dismiss an entire field of study based on wrong actions by some, or even a majority, of practitioners. Psychology and psychiatry do help many people, and it's the best we can do for many psychological issues. Can it be abused and wrongly applied? Sure. But it's not pseudoscience, and its practitioners aren't "kooks".

The mind is an abstract concept, and we don't yet have the knowledge of how it interacts with the brain, a physical entity. If we did, all psychological issues would be studied and treated by neuroscience instead. In the meantime, we need branches of research that are not as well defined as traditional "hard" sciences.
It's a pretty long list of sub-brands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EssilorLuxottica#Brands
One my biggest pet peeves is people reusing existing names like this for random software libraries. If you're thinking about it please just don't, it's not cute and it makes things worse for everyone. I love real VHS tapes and still have a collection, so of course I checked out the post... naturally it has nothing to do with an actual VHS whatsoever. Libraries with well established preexisting names like Zine, Hegel, etc. bug me to no end.

Now many natural search terms will be polluted by each other eg "VHS not recording".
Stuff like this is why I never use those "block malicious sites" sort of features -- not only because I assume they involve sending every URL I access to some kind of checking service, but also because I don't trust Google or Mozilla (or any other corporate software vendor) to be the arbiter of what makes a site "trustworthy". Further, maybe I wouldn't have to worry so much about whether I can "trust a website" if they would stop turning their web browsers into full-blown operating systems?

To me there's also some irony to the name "Google Safe Browsing", because IMHO that is an oxymoron -- browsing with Chrome is never "safe" for you because of the inherent/persistent violations of your privacy.
I believe NVidia develops PhysX mostly for robotic/metaverse simulation, not for games.

See positioning of NVidia Omniverse for example.
Yup. In both cases, I was presuming a worst-case workload — e.g. an OLAP workload where you have to read all the data in the DB to answer a query, and "all the data" is far larger than RAM; or 10k concurrent queries from different tenants who all care about different things. That's really where bottlenecks will hit you. "More RAM" does help when your problems aren't worst-case problems. :)
I work at a company that at one point attempted to form “guilds” around some unowned, decaying cross-cutting concerns that were still very important.

The guild was great at identifying issues to work on, but most members didn’t have the time to actually contribute on any of the more hairy issues. It was basically group therapy.
>why shallow, expedient, temporary symptomatic treatment is valued above long-term root-cause change.

Treating PTSD is easier than creating a world without trauma.
Why are they looking at software from 18 months ago and not iOS 16?
Yes, you are right. Additionaly, chinese users are not using google, although they are certainly being tracked. I've added the word "almost" into my comment. So it now reads:

>google pays Apple "an estimated $8-12 billion"[0] to be default search and as a result track almost all iPhone users' searches
> DNS caching has become next to useless.

Another example of the Internet routing around damage. The DNS caching design dates back to the 1980s when it made perfect sense. It no longer does.
One issue with carrier email-to-sms gateways is that they truncate messages at a relatively short number of characters.

Twilio SMS API, on the other hand, does not have that limit and you can send long SMS messages with a single 'curl' command:

/usr/local/bin/curl -s -X POST -d "Body=$msg" -d "From=$from" -d "To=$to" "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/$accountsid/Messages" -u "$accountsid:$authtoken"

That's simplified - I actually pipeline through 'tidy5' and 'source-highlight' to make the output pleasing:

/usr/local/bin/curl -s -X POST -d "Body=$msg" -d "From=$from" -d "To=$to" "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/$accountsid/Messages" -u "$accountsid:$authtoken" | tidy5 -xml -iq | source-highlight -s xml -f esc | awk 'xor(/TwilioResponse/,/Message/,/To/,/From/,/Body/,/Status/,/ErrorCode/,/ErrorMessage/)' | grep -v "/2010-04-01/Accounts/"
> That it's on your own app where you anyway know exactly which backend endpoint has been called by the user does.

If it only exposed information the user was already sending, the vendor wouldn't bother with the spyware.

> What private information do you think is sent to the vendor that would not be otherwise?

Depends on the app; I expect, for instance, market apps (Amazon, Walmart, etc.) to watch the user's every move to try and better model the user's mental state in an effort to get them to buy stuff that they wouldn't have done otherwise.
Tiktok in India had some of the most fun and entertaining short clips. Unlike instagram tiktok feed broke through class barrier.
That’s cool by me. Democracy’s had an OK run but state socialism merged with fascism is the future.