skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how do you integrate into your theory the additional fact mentioned in that article that sperm count and male health were associated?

> “One can view the decline in sperm counts as a biomarker for male health in general,” says Kristensen.

> In fact, a study in a 2018 issue of the journal Andrology found a higher risk of hospitalization among men who had lower sperm concentrations. Those with sperm concentrations below 15 million/mL—considered low—had a 53 percent greater risk of being hospitalized for any reason over the course of 36 years than those with more robust sperm concentrations between 51 and 100 million/mL. This effect persisted even after the researchers controlled for body weight, smoking, and other factors.

Sounds to me like that supports the chemicals theory.
Also probably due to corruption in the waste management industry. Why make it efficient if it makes it harder to graft?
The duplicitous behavior and business model of Brave is trash.

>Let me guess you use Chrome?

Speaking of trash reddit comments...
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Cool. I don't see a salary range in the job posting. Isn't that required for jobs located in Colorado?
ibuprofen and acetaminophen also affect quality, which are daily medicines for some people with chronic pain.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Keyboard Latency (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28399883 - Sept 2021 (114 comments)

Keyboard latency - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15485672 - Oct 2017 (265 comments)
Nice little app to remove backgrounds implemented using the Rembg package. Cool to get full resolution and not have to pay a SaaS company.
I'm no longer surprised, maybe it's "everything was better in the old days", but HN nowadays is full of reactionaries who think they have the correct facts when they don't.
for something written directly by Mr. Adams né Rhodes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33796427#33796594

He also has an essay on that site about the time the Las Vegas gun show was colocated with an Anime convention, causing him to ponder what life might be like beyond the Militia Movement...
We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Performance in graph databases is critical, and would need improvements of several orders of magnitude, rather than tens of percent points. Many algorithms are impractical in real world graphs because they are often O(n^2) or more, and in practice we have to resort to approximated algorithms instead (like pagerank and all the likes).
I have friends who still play (making it 20 years). They're at a level where playing on public servers gets them banned for cheating (some are/have been semi-professional).

Any latency, whether it's hardware, software or server, drops their performance significantly. It's at a point where they only play/practice under prime conditions, as their sensitivity is such that they will throw themselves off by practicing with more latency than they normally do.

It's crazy.
Kagi is excellent, and it's the only monthly subscription where I actually feel like I'm getting something of value.

Even my Pandora subscription feels like I'm getting ripped off since I really only ever listen to the same songs anyways, and the app is a dumpster fire. Netflix/Disney+/Hulu/etc also suck since they just feel like I'm wasting money due to feuds between companies that having nothing to do with me. I have a Proton Mail subscription, and it's okay, but extremely overpriced for what I'm getting, while a cheaper mail service would potentially get my emails blocked from the big service providers because they think I'm a spammer. There are also apps that are requiring me to pay a monthly sub while offering nothing in return for it just because they can. My workout tracker app for example is exactly the same janky mess it was ~2 years ago, yet I've been paying $4/mo for it!

..but Kagi? It works great, it works reliably, and it works for me.
Left for https://app.wallabag.it, couldn't be happier.
“and even attempt to control the movements of kitchen staffers in an effort to take over human jobs.”

And a Ratatouille reference too!
You should just come out and say that you’re against subsidizing the wrong people. But maybe you’re a libertarian and think government should’t subsidize any of the thousand other things it does, like parents and farmers. I would have called myself a libertarian too some time ago, but now I see it as just youthful naivety.
Is there any amount for which you would’ve instantly signed up and started paying or would even $1 a month still be something you “might give a try” (read: won’t do in a million years)?
Feels like a job for Vasiliy Fet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y4v1l5np_o
>Wouldn't you value someone who actually knows how to control vermin populations at scale in an urban environment? Why would you value someone who has a "public policy" degree. What even is that?

Probably because the real solution (not putting trash directly onto the streets like it's 1780) isn't going to happen, so a degree in public policy will help make it look like you're actually going to do something.
Additionally that water probably came from a plastic bottle.

Lately I've been seeing straws made from a compostable plant based polyester. It's unclear whether they are still using problematic plasticizers in them.
120k to efficiently exterminate rats? Dang, I'd love to do that lol
Guys, for computer network representation, graphs mostly, do you have a preference?
I don’t think the problem is that GPT is sourcing from an unreliable corpus, but that it’s taking fragments and combining them in grammatically-correct but semantically-incorrect ways?
>There are players that can do OTGF move every time they try.

That has nothing to do with latency. Human nerve conduction velocities just aren't quick enough for things like that to be done closed-loop under the control of the brain - it's just physically impossible.

Although the person doing the action may feel otherwise, that's just a well-trained sequence of actions performed open-loop.
Some cities in Europe use underground containers. (An arm on the collection truck can lift them right out of the ground. It's pretty neat.) I wonder if that is feasible for NYC.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JtoSafhvLM
Time to investigate

- who came up with that idea

- what partner got selected

- who lobbied

- what technologies did they use

- what cloud platform did they choose

I remember about that news last year, but forgot about it, thanks for remind us about it
You've clearly never used a modern game engine; things have changed a lot in the past 20 years. Using a modern game engine and building a game engine are as different as building your own car and driving, or even designing a digital camera and being a fine art photographer. Both go really deep, but in entirely different directions. There probably isn't even a statistically significant overlap between people who are great at one being great at the other. The people designing and assembling the high-level logic for Zelda Breath of The Wild, for example, would get absolutely no use out of knowing how to build a game engine, and that's a good thing. When it comes to the way the game works from a player perspective, the underlying implementation details are invisible. Studios employ game engine engineers for a reason and they're not really using the engine. They're using code to make tools that other people use in the engine.
I've been in situations as a dev where I've figuratively screamed from the rafters "X is happening - we need to do ABC". It's almost universally ignored because "well, devs just like to do ABC! not happening this year... etc".

No... I hate doing ABC.

What's in my immediate interest is to quietly paper over problems, and pass them along to someone else.

What's also in my interest longer term is the organization to fix operational issues to help ensure there is a 'longer term' for the organization to continue in to. To think I'm not thinking of that, and just wanting to do bullshit busy work because "he's a dev! that's what they do!" is patronizing to say the least.

Many people are capable of looking at things from a few perspectives.
In the first example, the AI seems more focused on extraneous stuff about aligning the equation, while the search result starts off by answering the question asked
> Meanwhile you keep forcing the US-centric view onto the world.

You keep saying this, but the world view presented i've presented is anything but. The coolie example is specifically addressing non-US racism right?

> Of course what makes it dishonest is your monopoly on the truth, got it.

No, what makes it dishonest is that a bad example was specifically chosen because it helped the point. Where a good example would have been detrimental to the point.

> which was probably supposed to evoke some kind of indignation from me

No, you've been indignant the whole time. The US existing and having people in it that have their own perspectives seems to be some kind of attack on your identity which is causing you to lose reason and froth at the mouth.

You keep talking about "shoving" and "forcing", but the only person forcing anything is you and your ad nauseam repetition of some "US centric" accusation. It's just as baseless and pointless the 10th time as the first. Everyone gets it, you can chill.
EMFs????

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S230505001...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
I'm always confused about the bigger car thing, and I think it's marketing hard at work.

I'm getting myself, my wife, and my two kids to BMX practice (yes, with bikes) in a compact sedan.

What are people filling all that space with? Do you pack like you're crossing the Sahara every time you leave the house?

I came back and added this:

If houses were still built like they used to be, with walls and separation, it'd be easier to fit more people and stuff into fewer square feet, but even a roomy new home feels like there's always somebody with you.

I'd love to move into something small and inexpensive, but my 2 bedroom town home will have to do for the time being. Works just fine for us.
I feel like the qualifications should just be "competent Civilization player" or something.

Actually I think...a lot...of jobs could be filled that way?
Your comment really resonates with me (as a general point, not specifically about OP article which is about note-taking as a whole.)

For example, when a Youtube creator makes videos about new PKM apps/systems, they are getting secondary benefits that ordinary users are not. Tinkering with new apps can be fun, but often not worth the actual trouble of learning and converting over to a new app/system. Worse, it can be a source of procrastination in itself.

But the Youtuber pushing out monthly videos about the hot new thing is accomplishing their main purpose of making new Youtube content (which is of course fine.)

I personally started using Obsidian late last year, and have no real desire to look at anything new. It works great for me, and the active plugin development community provides enough new shiny stuff to try out at every now and then. ;-)
AI is often over-hyped, especially during the recent months.

But I think that we've all noticed the progressive degradation of search engines, including Google.

It is often more efficient to search on Reddit or Wikipedia or event YouTube.

But a good interactive LLM based chat agent could be a game changer.

I've used the demo and it is very useful to quickly get structured data in plain English or French, with well written code examples when needed.

It is not 100% there yet, the agent should be connected to a search engine backend, and maybe keep some long-lasting state for each user.

This is promising.
Not really an answer to your question but I have my password manager integrated with my email host and can generate a new masked email with one click when creating new accounts. Not sure how it is as far as privacy (Bitwarden can't read my email, only create new masked emails - the option to allow read access is provided however) but as far as being able to disable problematic addresses on a whim without changing my main is pretty great.
There are tons of rats in the subways, and until the MTA puts up a platform wall or something like that, they're not going away because they live off the food people throw on the tracks.
The conclusion, that a low-complexity statistical ensemble is almost as good as a (computationally) complex Deep Learning model, should not come as a surprise, given the data.

The dataset[1] used here are 3003 time series from the M3 competition ran by the International Journal of Forecasting. Almost all of these are sampled at the yearly, quarterly or monthly frequency, each with typically 40 to 120 observations ("samples" in Machine Learning lingo), and the task is to forecast a few months/quarters/years out of sample. Most experienced Machine Learners will realize that there is probably limited value in fitting high complexity n-layer Deep Learning model to 120 data-points to try to predict the next 12. If you have daily or intraday (hourly/minutely/secondly) time series, more complex models might become more worthwhile, but such series are barely represented in the dataset.

To me the most surprising result was only how bad AutoARIMA performed. Seasonal ARIMA was one of the traditional go-to methods for this kind of data.

[1] https://forecasters.org/resources/time-series-data/m3-compet...
My personal administration involved a lot of digging through installed software's FHS to figure out how things worked. Especially coming up through Slackware. It's probably a learning style thing.

Mutable distros you directly edit stuff in /etc, then build your knowledge on top of that foundation. Whatever better practices you end up adopting, you're still ultimately modifying files in /etc (and probably elsewhere). A NixOS beginner shouldn't be touching config files, and can't even do things like replace a binary with a shell script wrapper to understand when and how a program is run by a different program.

So I see that departure as a pretty huge one, that will affect someone learning Linux on NixOS for many years, as they need to dig through NixOS specific docs to understand how they're supposed to configure something, rather than falling back to the regular packaging docs. Whereas with Debian you only need Debian documentation to know how to install a package, but after that the upstream package documentation tells you everything else.

As an aside, I feel like NixOS asks a fundamentally different question - "how can we mitigate Linux/Unix's complexity" rather than the traditional mutable distro question of "how can we best interact with Linux/Unix's complexity".

(Also, that sounds like a great approach to explaining NixOS!)
Which will promptly freeze to death during the first winter snow.
Any good guides for embedding generation?
>It was free, so they never sold it and nobody ever bought it.

I mean, OP's not wrong. The phrase doesn't have to specifically mean an exchange of goods for money - can sell you on an idea, for instance. They "sold you" on the idea of using Brave by being very anti-ad. Now that you "bought it" and are hooked, they'd like some money.
Lack of political will and corruption are NYC (and by extension NYS') biggest problems. It's incredible how little progress is made here, how expensive projects are, and how long it takes compared to even other union-heavy areas like France. In this case, it would likely require significant investment to create central trash receptacles on each block and require taking parking spaces. Both of which NYC politicans are too pathetic to push for.
That's exactly my point. People asking the questions are awfully entitled to answers that fit their narrative or expectations of the events. Saying "that would be speculation and I'm not going to engage in speculation" is a direct answer, and a rather mature one at that. Nobody is entitled to somebody else's speculation. But in this thread it seems that answer wasn't appropriate. Again, my point is that Rachel did answer but everyone immediately dismissed her answers and her being passive aggressive when in reality she seemed to be acting in good faith and divulging as much as she could responsibly and factually.
Why Penrose thinks General Intelligence is unachievable
Things change. As of right now the US can't compete.

In the past the US could compete, but that doesn't speak to the status quo.

In the future the US may change but this is unknown. It may very well be the US will never recover. This is a realistic possibility.

Either way the status quo is that the US is currently inferior to Asia in terms of semiconductors.
There are three elements to reducing rat populations:

Removing access to food, destruction of their warrens, and killing the rats themselves.

New York City can not hope to begin on this while garbage disposal involves piling bags of trash on the sidewalk.

Other cities address this by improving their dumpsters and garbage cans, and while that doesn't eliminate rats, it drastically reduces their population, and limits their ability to spread as quickly.

After that it becomes possible to populations further by filling warrens and killing the actual rats.
We tag releases for the container which gives you flexibility to manage updates on your deployment schedule. In a production setup, our proxy engine automatically clusters across multiple nodes, so that rolling updates minimize downtime.

Policies are cluster aware, so that individual policies can be pinned to a particular cluster.

For troubleshooting, our engine publishes events that you can ship into your observability or monitoring stack (datadog/statsd, prometheus, cloudwatch) so any degradation can be handled by an IR process. And we support our customers with quick responses on shared slack channels directly with their engineering teams.
SBT was 'delusional' in NYT interview
Very interesting, would love to know more about the library ;)

It does sound like you have found a _great_ use case for WebAssembly, and yes, Extism could provide similar functionality! We call it a "plug-in system" because that's a fairly concrete thing to say, but there are many other ways to use it.
...but it appears to be correct, as long as you glance at it (and don't have the time and/or expertise to actually read it).

We're clearly in the phase of society where "Appearance of Having" is all that matters.

> The spectacle is the inverted image of society in which relations between commodities have supplanted relations between people, in which "passive identification with the spectacle supplants genuine activity".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
It just works.

It blocks almost all ads. It has a simple button to turn ad blocking off when I need to use websites that don't work with ad blockers. I don't need to fiddle with an extension.

I can use it on android without effort.

This is about brave search, which I have never used.

I don't use the brave homepage, so I never saw the homepage ads that folks complained about.

HN seems to hate Brave for some reason. But it has worked perfectly for years. I don't care if it's perfect privacy -- not sure I ever felt Brave promised that.

I have never heard of the browsers you mention. I tried to use Chromium for a while, but you have to find distributions that include basic features and it was a hassle. Not a big hassle, but made me stick with Brave.
We have eight sponsored developers and about six million users. I don't think we're gonna asphyxiate any time soon :-)
Reaction time is a different measurement than perception time. The linked article goes into this.

You can absolutely tell the difference between 150ms and 1.3ms. Hell, people can easily tell the difference between a 60 FPS framerate and 30 FPS. That's a difference of only 16 ms per frame.
Neither, this mess is going to take time to figure out, especially in the hopelessly-regulated world of cryptocurrency finance.

It's a hard mess to unpick and understand, HN-ites are struggling with it too.

Spam Fried should really be keeping his mouth shut, but he can't help himself with his "I know best" attitude. He's the best gift a prosecutor can have, let him carry on until he's in jail.
It's decent for some results, but almost meaningless in others. I'd asked it to build a SwiftUI VideoPlayer application which is 5 lines of code. But I got an old solution, and despite giving proper guidance, it failed colossally and printed garbage towards the end.

Here's my convo with ChatGPT: https://imgur.com/a/eIjvh8C

If the text and code are just random stuff making no sense then I wonder how different it is from the Copilot results (besides the convincing style of answers).
> It absolutely baffles me how everyone doesn't want considerably more information and transparency about our foods and cosmetics.

People do want that, which is why organic food is rising in popularity, why vegan cosmetics are a thing... the problem is politicians are bribed by big industry influence to not regulate too hard.
This is great, one of the annoying bits of doing anything in Crypto has been buying Crypto in the first place, this certainly makes the whole process easier. And since Stripe is handling the KYC portion it reduces the complexity tremendously on anyone building and Stripe is a trusted party so great on all accounts.

Now ... if there was just a killer app that was actually useful ;)
Why does it matter where the indexes come from? As a user, I only care about the results.

Also, idk if I'm grandfathered in to an old price or anything, but my subscription is $10/mo.
Yeah, the mix of permissions can definitely be a big pain. We're building with that in mind - policy exceptions can be set so that specific groups of applications get the raw data when querying. All of the policies stack too; one common setup is to encrypt by default, then allow some specific tool to get raw data but audit the queries it's doing.
Interesting, 300 articles sounds a lot.
When do you normally follow this routine (morning, evening, between tasks)?
Even for certain applications, 50ms is quite a lot. When using MIDI devices and playing piano over the computer, I certainly notice anything above 20ms.

We may be slow to react to sudden events, but we are very good at noticing the lag for predictive events (keyboard typing, piano playing, ...).
Although note that the gigachad Microsoft didn't even post in the thread, just silently obliterated the root:

> From a practical standpoint, Microsoft seems to have set the distrust date for TrustCor's roots to November 1, 2022 instead of November 30
This is the new threat vector. AI copy pasta. Gonna make pen test research way more fun. Just describe the website you’re at and read the source code.
Craigslist has done a pretty good job resisting this.
The mayor's nephew needs a job and holds the degree, obviously.