skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ Instead of plastics, we will mainly use paper, and a so-called 'original blend material' made from bamboo, used paper and squeezed sugarcane fibre,"
FTX Appears to Have Stopped Processing Withdrawals, On-Chain Data Show
I last used it more than a decade ago, but Pegasus Mail by David Harris was my MUA for more than a decade before that: https://www.pmail.com. Surprisingly it seems to be still alive even today.
> Bikes can’t accelerate all that quickly

Interesting statement. Do you have some data? I’ve often mused anecdotally that the initial acceleration from the first pumps on the pedals give a pretty abrupt change in momentum.
Here's a business idea: an extension that extrapolates the answer to the question/title of an article from the full-length text.

In this case, I would have loved a bullet list of ways living in a cold home affects my health, not a 5000 word text (regardless of how great or bad the writing is).
Thank you for this reply. I really appreciate you took the time to write this. It’s definitely a difficult thing to understand but the article made it sound like ARM was making changes that would essentially kill off ARM completely. (Atleast to me)
It's pretty easy to be jaded by the end of a PhD even if you went into it for the field. You often don't get true academic freedom until you get a tenure track professorship, which is increasingly hard to come by. Even then you need to spend a lot of time on showmanship.

Doing a PhD for the sake of it is still arguable IMO, I don't regret doing mine. But I wish I didn't go in with the delusion I was pursuing a long term career in academia. Post-PhD academia is a hell of a slog.
It's slower than a row lookup.

Specifically, this model is an ensemble of decision trees.

This involves

1. Row lookup

2. N (tree depth) inequality checks on fields in the row for M trees

3. Weighted sum over M trees
https://ntfy.sh/docs/faq#can-i-self-host-it

The next topic on the FAQ. Also install instructions are provided.
> It is harder to build something today than it used to be.

Interesting viewpoint. I really want to a bootstrapped software business, but I find it so hard to come up with a financially-viable opportunity.
In the case of outfits there seems to be a deeper psychological mechanism involved. I usually wear black jeans, but also have brown and blue ones. Black is more easily combinable with diffrent colors of shirts. So it is an easy choice in the morning: black jeans + any of my shirts. When I wear the brown shirt, I have to choose a bit more carfully, but it is not really a big deal. However, what I observe is that I fell always a bit uncomfotable after I made my decision to wear brown. It feels a little bit like I am in disguise.

A have similar observation when going to some of my favourite restaurants. Even when I take my time to look through the menu, I very often choose the same dish or from only two or three standard alternatives, although I was actively deliberating to choose something else this time.

It really seems that it is not only the effort of reaching a decision that is behind the default effect, but some unconscious risk-aversion process that does not allow the mind to rest easily in the non-default case.
That is not how much lamb costs - nobody’s believing you.
But really what you're saying is that programmers/product managers who follow "don't repeat yourself" can't develop and maintain software.

I mean: why would Apple write two separate Messages apps when their two types of devices run the same processor and share many elements of the same OS architecture?

Also, what is wrong with the current Messages app?

I think you're extrapolating a lot of early experiences with Catalyst apps because it used to be less polished and finished. I haven't experienced any issues with the Messages app in Ventura. If I was an end user with no tech experience I wouldn't have been able to tell you that the app was switched over to the Catalyst-based version, it looks and functions the same to me and now it behaves more consistently with the version that sits on my phone, which delivered value to me.
Sidekiq by Mike Perham is amazing. I’ve scaled multiple businesses on it’s back.
Another good open-source self-hosted alternative is Gotify.

https://gotify.net
If you run binaries compiled by the author of the software it wouldn't matter that it is open source, so play store is out of the question. So then it must be open source and you must use distributor you trust: your distro maintainers and F-Droid.

Also you must trust that people did really take a look at the code.
Parent explained in a metaphor how both metrics (more lines, less lines) can be bad.

Maybe engineer A has a easy feature to do. Lots of lines of code but it's smooth sailing. Another engineer, B, has a tricky bug fix to do, which requires him to read documentation, navigate the fode, reproduce the issue, until he published a fix with a handful of lines of code.

Who's the better engineer, A or B?

Even if we consider the average over time, one may be getting more tricky features than other. Or spending time in tasks such as hiring, mentoring, etc, which is worth a lot to companies.
The author adds right after the quote:

> But the only way to tell whether you are most people is in retrospect.

Meaning that one should take the necessary precautions, i.e. get the vaccine.
Sorry, I did not mean that Saint Petersburg is bleak (quite the opposite). I meant that the further away you go from these big cities, the worse everything looks.

I don't quite understand what you mean by superficial attempts. If their stats say that 10-20% do not have indoor plumbing then that what do you think they mean? (https://web.archive.org/web/20210630123627/http://www.gks.ru...)

Russia is huge... if you go to a village that is far away from any larger city, you'll see a lot of stuff - even stranger than not having indoor plumbing. If you can, I suggest travel to non-touristy areas, far away from large cities and see it for yourself :) Then report back and prove us wrong ;)
Maybe the movies and "he hacked through four firewalls!!!" are correct after all.
The article seemed to offer very little information in this regard, unfortunately. But a summarizer would make an amazing Chrome extension.
> 2. Zhang is 67 years old. If the paper is correct, then Zhang constitutes a strong counterexample to G.H. Hardy's famous claims that "mathematics is a young man's game" and nobody alive today could say, as Hardy did, that "I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past

I think the actual truth is more like, "big breakthroughs mainly happen early in one's career". Most mathematicians start their careers young, therefore they publish breakthroughs while young. Zhang started quite late so his innovations are later in his life, but still early in his career.

And it makes sense, everyone has a slightly unique way of thinking, and long-standing problems will only yield to unique thinking. Eventually someone will come along that has just that right type of unique thought process that will find a hole to solve such a problem.
Would the House be more or less effective if there were 10,000+ representatives to meet the 30,000:1 ratio in the original Constitutional setup?
That seems crazy to me! How are blind people, or people with reduced mobility, expected to navigate a crossing if they can't trust the light?

A bike has less mass than a car, but I'd rather not be hit by a bike at all, to be honest. Let alone a child or someone more vulnerable.
Rhetorical tricks to reframe problems are annoying to me. More so when I find myself reflexively doing it. For example, calling something simple. Or referring to a desired feature as "making it easy."

I think often you can be specific. Don't push for the team to make a feature easy. Push for the number of steps necessary for something to be reduced. Or to enable undo/redo.

I wish I had an easy exit for the "just" advice here. I don't, sadly. Empathy is the best I can come up with.
Ownership rates of iPhones are very different from Ferarris. I'm sure there is a logical fallacy in this argument somewhere.
If you don’t trust a communication channel, you could always do a Diffie-Hellman key exchange in the clients which lets you create a shared encrypted channel between two parties by sharing public keys. This works even if they are trying to monitor you.
> That is kind of like saying the purpose of human life is breathing. Yes, breathing is critical and fully integrated into existence, but there is so much more to living well.

Yeah, this is inaccurate at a systems level. It would be better to say that human life is about ensuring your genes pass on to the next generation. That's life in a nutshell, and from the POV of nature, you're either contributing to that endeavor, or a waste of resources for those who do.

All the higher things of human experience are running on top of the substrate that's self-optimizing to propagate itself further. The purpose is what we ascribe to what we see; nature has no obligation to agree, and as much as it doesn't, we can either suffer, change our understanding of purpose, or - thanks to technology - work to realign nature to our sensibilities.

> Similarly the purpose of business is to create value. Survival through flows of money comes as a result of that.

Similarly here, the importance is reversed. Money flow and profit are fundamental, they're the substrate. They're what the system will do naturally. Value creation is the meaning we ascribe to it, which is not necessary for businesses to run (this one should be plainly obvious, as a lot of well-known businesses, including many hot startups, are arguably net negative). Making the market better align with our ideals takes work, because it's counter to its natural dynamics.
FWIW, I have submitted Apple Maps corrections several times in the app, and have always received notifications that my map updates were completed within 1-2 weeks.

Ranging from simple updates like hours, address corrections - to more human-oriented updates like "The end destination point is about 500 ft off from the actual location".

I believe someone really is looking at them and correcting them.
This seems designed to start a bicycle argument.

I'll go ahead and present the cyclist's view, and try not to get flamed:

A cyclist's head is much closer to the end of their vehicle, and they have a much more unobstructed view around them. By the time they are a few feet from the stop sign, they can already see much further down the street than a driver in a car could. This means it's easier to assess safety and make a snap decision to keep going. Coming to a complete stop doesn't really add any more safety.

Further, while accidents that harm pedestrians do certainly happen, and shouldn't be minimized, the vast majority of the time the biggest danger to a cyclist is themselves. Cars kill people every day, so it is reasonable that they be held to a higher standard. If you started out with a bicycle-only intersection with a yield sign, and then started allowing cars through, wouldn't you want to increase the safety of that intersection by requiring a stop?

As a final thought, most red lights in America could probably be stop signs or yield signs. The UK has been working towards this (with roundabouts too) and in general roads are safer when you require drivers to think and make decisions. I think much of car drivers' anger towards cyclists treating red lights as stop signs is not so much the safety aspect as a feeling of unfairness that they are stuck at the light while the cyclist checks the road and then bikes through.
The world needs to unite and eliminate Putin. Then we can start trying to fix this disaster.
Related: if someone has a chronic condition, don't drop on them unsolicited medical advice, especially things like "have you tried yoga?", "you just need more sunshine", "you must try my cousin's healing tea!".

You're not their doctor, and they haven't shared all the medical details with you. Your 3-second diagnosis is almost certainly terrible. They've heard it a dozen times already, and it's difficult and tiring to politely decline well-meaning but frustratingly useless advice.
Like how they approach cooking recipes online - an overly long, disconnected narrative up top with a "scroll to data" button which is presented at the bottom of the page?
Consider this a novel economics lesson, not a marketing lesson.

Think of how your valuable NA/European customers will react knowing their peers in country XYZ get the same product for 80% less?

How will that affect the perception of your brand?

It's quite a complicating factor.
I kinda miss Notepad++. Or rather, I miss the OS having a unified look and feel, and Notepad++ being a great editor within the constraints of a unified look and feel.
This was the second most played song on the radio when I drove to Idaho for the 2017 eclipse.
> Many studies show that we tend to generally accept the default option—the one that was preselected for us—and that making an option a default increases the likelihood that such an option is chosen.

Personally, I find this makes sense in a society of (some) trust. My default options are derived from previous experiences. I have tried all those different snacks between meetings, found them to be lacking, and now set this one to be the default.

I think I choose default choice in contexts where I have a some trust in where the default setting came from.

I trust my favorite restaurant's "today's special", the default option. They have not steered me wrong. I trust my dentist to use the default periodic procedures.

So, to me default is not just blind acceptance, but specific and contextual trust either from previous experiences of mine or with the decision makers' previous decisions.
Ahahaha. He is the source of all of the evil, right?
/irony-off
Yes, but I didn't say there are no people who think about these things, just that there is a strong materialist bias in modern thinking against anything beyond the five senses. Progress is being made but we still have a long way to go.
>”and occasional deliberately try to mame and kill cyclists?”

That seems more than a little hyperbolic, no? Road rage is real, but I don’t think there are drivers who are actively and deliberately trying to maim or murder bicyclists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_erro...
Also left turn yield on green lights. I’ve found that to be especially dangerous both as a driver and pedestrian at night, where it can be hard to see whether there is anyone crossing on the far parallel crosswalk when you yield left on a straight green light.
I use echolocation myself,

> Isn't it just a matter of listening to the ambient noise in your environment. open space sounds different to a closed room.

Yes. Absent of light and suitable noise, you make the noise yourself. And this is something instinctive to me, so i would assume other people could do it, too.
Once they own the patent, could they not break with MAVEXAR and keep 100% of what they would get from the litigation? In theory, I'm aware they probably had neither the know-how nor the funding.
Using PostgreSQL instead of Elasticsearch for traces
In this case, they are talking about xgboost inference, which can verge on the hungry side of things, but this is no match for deep learning, although word embeddings and transformers are supported[1] by PostgresML regardless. GPUs are supported[2] for Transformers as well as xgboost, so this approach is also kind of future-proof in the sense that you're not going to ever be limited by your compute, as well as the size of your replica set. But now, yes, to answer your original question— yes, for the most part typical regression-type task inference is marginally slower than fetching and involves crossing the process boundary, can't be easily parallelised, and so on. Hopefully, this is something that could be dealt with on PostgresML side, as Postgres exposes some neat parallelism primitives AFAIK. COMBINEFUNC is how you make your aggregates parallel and with SERIALFUNC potentially multinode-friendly, although here I'm not sure as I haven't maintained custom aggregates over a high-availability Postgres cluster... At any rate, this is a clear area of future research; now that there's inference, how to best parallelise it in the model of Postgres.

[1] https://postgresml.org/user_guides/transformers/setup/

[2] https://postgresml.org/user_guides/setup/gpu_support/
>Food and drink spending is generally non-discretionary so it’s not easy for shoppers to cut back.

I would bet that the majority of spending by nearly all people in the supermarket is discretionary spending.

It isn't the bread veg and meat that push the bill up for me, it's the alcohol, Sweet things etc, and that's ignoring all the stuff on the centre isles.

So I don't really agree with this statement at all

edit:

I am wrong, posted below, but I'll put it here too.

the uk spends £117.97 on food and non alcoholic drinks annually
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

£27 billion on alcohol consumption in the home https://www.statista.com/statistics/281935/spending-on-alcoh...

savory snacks seem to be around £3bn, sweets around £6bn, and the soft drink market around £10bn

So it doesn't really get close, no matter how you slice it.

total supermarket spend is £188bn

https://www.ibisworld.com/united-kingdom/market-size/superma...

So actual food still makes up the majority of sales, which im surprised by.
> a 90kg human on a 10kg bike going 15mph

Sure, it's not a car crash but this is still equivalent to someone throwing a full bodyweight punch which can easily knock you unconscious and kill you when your head bounces off the pavement.
Microbin – A self-contained, configurable paste bin written in Rust
Ask HN: Best Books on Systems Theory?
I'm halfway through John Gall's Systemantics and have been really enjoying it.

What might I move on to next?

I think I'm more interested in the real-world applications of systems theory (e.g. how we might go about fixing a massively complicated system like the NHS) than anything purely mathematical, though understand there's probably quite a lot of overlap here.

Thanks!
Even though I can afford my heating I, like the couple featured in the article, don’t want to turn the heating on because I have no idea how much it will cost. Someone I know recently received a prepayment request of 1,000 euros per month from their energy provider.

I realized it might even be cheaper to relocate for the winter. In the meantime, I bought an electric blanket that is surprisingly efficient.
Show HN: Focus Pointer for macOS
Dims parts of your screen for better focus and reading experience.
You can still interact with everything on your screen while the app is active.
Option to dim screen apart from the selected window.
Lots of indicator styles for you to choose from.
Didn't look deep but looks like the sever code is provided + multiple ways of self hosting.
https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/blob/main/server/serve...
thinkpieces have got to stop
I think the "most efficient" and effective way to do good is to look around near you, i.e. to see first-hand the issues and the effect of your actions.
Not in Tromp Taylor rules. Basically, this paper is cheesing a win with a loophole in a rule set that no one actually uses. Kind of a shame that it is getting so much attention despite the fact that the result is so heavily exaggerated, and the actual accomplishment is pretty minimal.
This is great. This is how I ride.
Mysterious company with government ties plays key internet role
I think it could be a problem for manufacturers as well. People will eventually get tired of getting ripped off and switch sports.
The question is not "comfortable", but "how comfortable", which is an important distinction.

Does comfortable mean being able to find specialist doctors? Or even just enough doctors? Being able to eat a variety of fruits/vegetables year round? Constant supply of avocados? Being able to live near family? How secure is one's income, or how many possible buyers are there for what you are selling? How are the schools for one's kids? Will the school community be of acceptable quality?

Of course, these answers will vary person to person.
From the point of reference set to HN? I think so, yes, why not?
I've been hit by a cyclist whilst walking on a pedestrian pavement ('sidewalk' in American). I was OK, but my child wouldn't have been.
This is nostalgic bias.

Early OS X was a mess. Doing basic tasks like resizing a window was laggy and slow. There were most definitely bugs and issues.

What evidence do we have that today's corporate-employed developers are less competent than before?

You're blaming annual releases but Puma, Jaguar, and Panther were all a released year apart.

My take on it would be that the early OS iterations were more impactful and exciting, but now macOS is mature and "complete," so of course all the additions are going to be convenience and consumer features rather than things that make the core OS better.
The most important bits aren't the technical aspects, but rather who controls them.

It is entirely meaningless when the keys are generated by a closed source application, when there exists no way to verify that the data isn't exfiltrated before its encryption or after its decryption, or when the only transportation method is entirely in an untrusted party's hands.

When all those things are controlled by the same entity, especially one with a history of abusive and manipulative behaviour such as the operator of WhatsApp, it's not "encryption" but a "bad joke".
Wasn't he ordered by a court or SEC or something to have someone from his company handel his account.
Right, good point.

In some ways, sonic Pi is already a higher order interface than whatever language it's written in.

I am mostly talking about the way of inputting the code though. Having someone bent over a laptop is fairly disgraceful.. Maybe people said the same when knob-turning DJs appeared.
The natural gas prices were already beginning to go through the roof, they were at about the same level (slightly lower, even) compared to now.
I always wanted to be Internet entrepreneur, that is, start my own thing. I do run business and earn money, but it’s family business and highly un-scalable. I agree with most of the point present. I wish I could use the knowledge acquired till now that may somehow converted to a software that will benefit me and others. But If nothing, I guess, I’ll be happy if in the end, I can summarise everything with a good blog post.
Could a UK HN'er give a first-hand perspective? I'm curious to hear what it's like "on the ground" in your area, versus what a government or industry announcement might say.

At least for the US, it's a lot more nuanced than "inflation is X%" -- certain things are consistently more expensive, others are more variable, and others yet are cheaper/the same price. I'd like to understand if it's the same there.
It might depend much on how sensitive your hearing is. I inherited a very sensitive hearing and picked up echolocation unintentionally.
Should be: Trust, but sample to validate the right outcome. Didn't get the right outcome? Then understand how the system achieved the wrong result.
Encryption by default eliminates the biggest advantage: simplicity. But as an option, it's an useful addition that will be implemented sooner or later.
The key to this adding safety is predictability.

As a former bicycle commuter, I had to ride defensively because automobile drivers would behave unpredictably around me, but I can't be certain how much of that was because bicyclists are, as a whole, unpredictable. Commuters and tourists on rental bicycles behave very differently.

Rolling stop signs and lights when safe to do so is normal for bicyclists everywhere (when police are not present). Legalizing it so that automobile drivers become accustomed to it makes things safer. The principal hazard to surrounding traffic from a cyclist is when a car makes a sudden move in response to behavior by the cyclist that the car driver did not anticipate.