skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, ‘drop’ is an overloaded term. I don’t mean you need to release the bar from your hands or not follow through on the eccentric. By ‘drop the bar’, I mean you shouldn’t resist during the eccentric portion in the same way you might during a pull up or curl. Said another way, on heavy deads, your eccentric should be noticeably quicker than the concentric. The bar falls to the floor with you attached.

The other commenters explain why — you’re building up fatigue during the concentric, easier to over round on the eccentric if you resist.

It’s worth caveating to that there are many ways to pull, and I could imagine someone lightening the weight to resist and control the eccentric. But in the the style of pulling I grew up with, a set of 5 reps functioned more like 5 heavy singles in a row, with some seconds of rest and resetting form between pulls. I’ve never seen controlled and resisted eccentrics with that style, and the thought of it lit scares me.

PS. Pulling 455 means that you almost certainly have some expertise in this matter ;). That’s not an untrained pull
> Then prove that if it's true for n it's for n + 1, too.

Or you might be able to prove that it is true for n + 2
but not be able to prove it is true for n + 1. Right?
I‘m currently working on yanking a bit of XSLT out and reimplementing it in procedural DOM code—currently as in I have spent the last month on this, and hope to have it in a PR tomorrow. I share your stated preference for pure functions, and their accessibility to people who aren’t explicitly programmers, and I share your implied preference for declarative programming to achieve that. Unfortunately my specific use case needs at least to become more procedural before I can take it further, but I’ve at least structured the code so it’s adaptable to pure functions in the future.

I really don’t think YAML and its own terse but ambiguous rules are better suited. The problem I’ve found in XSLT during this effort, and in YAML in the past, is there’s no debugging story that isn’t full of pain and mysterious grasping in the dark.

I know actually functional languages like lisps do this better. I strongly suspect more declarative logic languages do better still. I also know from experience that the Excel interfaces most of our users interface are better than the XML experience, and I strongly suspect that’s closer to the pure/declarative + non-programming-accessible ideal than a markup language suited to other purposes.
Ask HN: What are youre favorite languages to debug in?
I’m looking to learn a new programming language. One of the most important thing for me is its debugability. What languages would you recommend?
Imagine a penguin looking at a albatross and saying:

"If they are eating fish like us since many million of years, why didn't albatross evolve since then?"

I choose albatross because the birds more related to penguins are albatross or something similar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procellariiformes

I'm not sure what happened when the ancestors of penguins split from the ancestors of albatross, but let me guess: <guess> They lived in different areas. In one areas there were less fishes per area and they had to continue flying to catch enough fishes. In the other are there were more fishes, but they lived in deeper water, so they have to enhance the diving abilities. <)guess>

Perhaps my guess is bad, or very bad, but I hope you can imagine that the same birds living in different areas may have different food source and different fishing strategies, so in each are the birds that were better for that strategy outnumbered the other birds, and after 60-80 millions year they look very different.

Both evolved. albatross look quite birdy like the ancient ancestor, penguins look weird.
I wonder if monkey archeology will have artefacts described as being ‘for ritual use’?
Without delving into any moral or fairness arguments, it is probably fair to say that a US tax payer in the top 1% probably already pays 10x to 100x in taxes, in absolute terms, compared to the median tax payer. If I'm reading this [1] correctly, in 2020 about 99% of the population was responsible for 56% of individual taxes while 1% was responsible for the rest 44%.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-stat...
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I’m guessing the op is referring to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy

“In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), under the Obama administration, revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes.”

Further in the article you’ll learn that conservative groups were targeted more than left leaning groups.
What are some quality strength oriented YouTube channels fitness channels that you’d recommend?

Kneesovertoesguy was mentioned already, I also like clarence0

Anyone else who puts out quality content and not memes/ tricks?
Or you can do it while hanging upside down with a lighter weight - 'lifting' is no longer an effort. /s
> ... and trust in God

Will this nonsense never end? He landed a plane in a land-able scenario with good training. Props to him, this whole part about god tho is weird and I don't understand it - I have to assume that that "trust" gave him extra confidence to pull it off? if so, I guess I gotta give god a +1, but it seems redundant and overall full of pitfalls in general use cases.
If you’ve ever tried to wipe peanut butter off of shag carpet… ya know what OP is talking about
> However, this 'icons on the desktop' approach has been out of fashion since people started building X desktop environments that used the same general ideas as macOS and Windows. Both of those have always used icons on the desktop for passive objects that had yet to be opened or activated, not active applications; active application windows were collected together in a taskbar.

Note that Windows only started doing this with the taskbar in Windows 95; prior to that, it did turn windows into icons when minimized.
I would still use version control since it's literally a zero cost addition and can help with things like bisecting issues. Sometimes I do mini self code reviews via "git add -p" anyways too. Plus it's easier to copy the files/folders from one spot to another without losing any files to data corruption or forgetting to copy a file.
I don't see any rights being taken away from me. CoPilot doesn't copy my code, it just learns from it, just as you can. "Others can learn from this" is one reason I release stuff as open source in the first place.

People will quote that John Carmack Doom example where it copies the function verbatim, but as far as I can tell that's a rare thing, and it's a function that's been widely copied around without proper licensing; a human could also get it wrong by copying it from github.com/random-person/mit-project with the wrong license (and since then there's also been work to prevent this kind of thing).

Co-pilot isn't unique, or the first AI/ML project to use copyrighted works; all the GPT models use copyrighted works as their input. Some doubts have been raised over the legality of that too, but it's received nowhere near the amount of criticism that Co-Pilot has, certainly not on HN, and I've never seen anyone doubt the morality of it – only the legality.

If you were to go through my public open source code I'm sure you can find stuff that's very similar to some code from my previous employers or other open source projects. Not because I copy/pasted anything, but because my brain was trained on that dataset: you see or write something that works, you face a similar problem a few years later, you write a similar solution.

"Using existing works as input" is common throughout creative works. As Phil Anselmo once said: "with Pantera we took our five favourite bands and ripped 'em off to hell".

People are already getting sued because "that one melody sounds a bit similar to this other melody"; fair use is already widely ignored/disrespected. Much will depend on the exact details, but any win in this lawsuit has a very real chance of empowering that sort of nonsense.
What I've seen, it's only the people who are have checked out and are happy to stop trying that stay. Maybe they decide they want to spend more time with their family and not worry about their career anymore, or sometimes they just wouldn't be competitive in the job market. But I think, especially when it's a big company buying a small startup, all the people who actually wanted to be in a startup leave as soon as they can
> The rust is essential to bind it to the cement

What? This is total nonsense.

> Modern concrete isn't expected or designed to last more than a century. It could have been made to last longer, if they wanted, but that would cost a little more.

Is hacker news a conspiracy theory website now?

> We have a very great deal of infrastructure that will fail on a predictable schedule

Wood rots in a few years under certain conditions and can last hundreds in others. Concrete works similarly.

The 3rd pantheon is currently standing, but it is a huge mix of repairs across centuries. The Romans built many structures that are similar but now are in ruins because the Catholics didn’t maintain the roofs on bathhouses.
It’s amazing how much incorrect crap just gets passed around because people just accept it at face value.

Egypt for example only had non destructive flood myths yet they get lumped into the every culture has a flood myth trope. It’s true only in the way basically every culture also has a myth involving rain, dirt, trees, wild animals, death etc. The content of these myths generally have little in common beyond similarly broad categories outside of cultures in some form of contact with each other.
To be honest, I'd struggle to think of a language with generics or dynamic typing where you couldn't do function composition.

Even in C, you could do something like in this godbolt link (ugly, I know):

https://godbolt.org/z/aKTz6fdbc
You're not wrong about sugar, but you're not right. Some of the marked increase in diseases is shown to happen regardless of sugar consumption, so it's a mix of things? Sugar, processed foods, additives and emulsifiers, seed oils. We don't really know yet.
Ah ok. Not available in my country unfortunately.
I'm convinced this guy was just trolling, similar to the Sokal hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
Get over yourself. We have 7 days because the ancients attached the 7 classical planets to the days. Not rocket science.
The end of the article made me wonder: are museums insured for theft? Maybe they could offer safe deposit boxes :)
Of course they don’t, that’s not what your articles say. Did you read them? They, respectively, say that the market is forward-looking and that major gains are made after downturns.

It can simultaneously be true that major gains are made after downturns and that there has historically been a strong correlation between downturns and unemployment.
I'll have to look this one up. Thanks mate#
It's reasonable to claim that scaling up the dataset might not get us to AGI. But I find it unreasonable to say it definitely won't work. How do you / Marcus know this with any certainty?
The legal threat coming for venture capital
> The only plausible spots for "bullshit jobs" are in government and in endowment-funded academia

You should read Graeber’s book sometime.

There are jobs that are useless but still benefit business owners financially. Graeber gives the example of a receptionist at a small firm. The firm had so few callers and visitors that the receptionist was totally unnecessary and sat idle most of the time.

Why did they hire her? If the members of the firm answered the phone themselves, they would not be taken seriously. Every serious firm has a receptionist to answer the phone, so they felt they had to hire one. She was essentially there as decoration.
Wait till you do the math on how much money that 1% has relative to the 99%.
I don't miss it. I had several projects where it seemed like a good idea. I pushed it as a good idea. I really wanted it to work. Some developers (usually the sharper bulbs) got it. A lot of developers really struggled with it. Especially the folks who were 'front end' developers. Even in the 2000's, when everything was trying to go XML, staffing those roles was hard.
Is there a structured data exchange format that's not currently widely-disliked?

yaml, json, xml all seem to be disliked.

ini works, but is pretty limited. It's also likely disliked, but just (at this point) obscure.
checkout.com is bad?
That might work, for everyone except the slave waiting for the central authority to come liberate them.

There really is no way around it, local, state, or federal power have all been shown by history to be guaranteed to screw people over.
WinUI? https://microsoft.github.io/microsoft-ui-xaml/
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Plant cells have rigid cell walls and are damaged more by freezing than animal cells
Probably this is because the ostrich doesn't need to be as intelligent. No flight, big clumsy beak etc. And they can avoid predation just by being huge and kicking really hard.

City birds like crows and pigeons have puzzles they can play with like getting food out of garbage bins and so on. City birds tend to be more intelligent than countryside birds, even within the same species.

I always felt like cats are actually smarter than dogs in a lot of ways. Dogs have a lot of their brain power dedicated to manipulating and communicating with humans, as well as trainability. But untrained dogs just seem kinda stupid and helpless to me whereas cats can learn to be almost completely independent with next to no training. Dogs are evolved from pack animals of course which explains a lot of this.

I do love dogs though, just to be clear.
Desktop icons as windows is not something I've ever experienced or even thought about but seems surprisingly obvious as an option in retrospect. I've really gotten into the way tiling WMs do different things these last few years too, I wonder what other tidbits like this I might not have learned about!
That doesn't matter. You don't get taxed on how much you have, you get taxed on every dollar as it comes in.

What they have is post-tax. You can't just eye up what they have left over as if it has never been taxed.
How're they better than foam?
Not only that, but if it's a capacitive screen you can't use it with gloves.
Having to register a NID of a URN would stop most developers from using official URNs (costs time&money for possibly no immediate benefit --tragedy of the commons)
You’re saying the acquired company needs to be assimilated into the parent company, although there are many examples where the acquired maintained its own culture. Not all acquisitions are the same.
The Pixel 7 is the latest smartphone with spontaneously shattering cameras
Not quite sure why, but large organizations are always like this.

It's one reason startups so often can outcompete them, despite the huge resource discrepancy.
I'll probably get a ton of pushback on this, but I never found huge value in debugging compared to using a strict type system and writing easily testable code. I haven't debugged, as in used an interactive debugger like gdb, in many many years, not counting occasions where I needed to reverse-engineer some C code.

I would prefer languages where the need for interactive debugging is minimized through the type system, good abstractions, and good testing frameworks. Functional languages (ideally strongly typed), or something like Rust, tend to fall into this category. And even for less strict languages, I find debugging to be significantly slower than spending upfront time writing testable abstractions, which usually means functional code that operates on immutable data structures when possible.

Debuggability is nice... but isn't not having to debug even better?
What’s sobering is even a prescient leader like Butterfield was snowed despite that clear evidence.

I tell everyone founder - acquisition is the death of everything you worked for. Acquisitions teams are sales teams with 0 follow on accountability, structure, or goals. They are quite literally there to tell you what you want to hear & get you to believe it’s true. With maybe the exception of Microsoft, it’s not.
I read about a lot of issues with Intel 12th generation. Yes, I am suggesting to officially support a linux distro.
There is something inherently wrong there. The up/downvotes do not make sense, there is a seriously lopsided (non human?) feedback that goes against common sense. And certain very popular reddits are just puzzling. There are things you wouldn't do in real life if you would know a bit more about the context... and yet people get feedback at those reddits that what they are doing is good, every critical thought is downvoted in an instant and the list goes on. It's like an experiment on groups of people where their feedback is totally distorted.

I can compare it to a relationship where a parent praises their child when they do something wrong, instead of scolding them and explaining what is right. So in the end the child is doing totally batshit crazy things and thinks that is normal.

Or imagine that you get in a bubble where your sense of excess heat is distorted and you can touch a red hot iron without any severe pain, yet your hands are slowly crumbling away like a charcoal.

The patterns there are very very strange.
Dumb study with:

>Non-resistance-trained young adults

As long as novice lifters fuck around consistently with challenging weights they'll milk their beginner gains within a reasonable time frame (months), being slightly suboptimal will make the process slightly longer. "All you need" is just finding a routine that you can stick to consistently / sustainably that leads to your goals. Sure you can do only negatives but just about everything works for beginners, so do something you enjoy. In my experience most people don't like negatives, they're challenging/fatiguing vs normal reps work. Exception being bodyweight exercises like pullup/dips where slowly moving in space (forgot technical term) works very well for building groove.
Why 2023 Is a Breakout Year for Generative AI?
> Flying in small planes seems so overrated

Flying in small planes is a huge thing, not just for fun or hobby. It has literally been going on for decades and an essential service in many cases. If it were as fraught as you make it seem in terms of actual statistics of the danger, it would not be this way, yet it is this way.
Honestly, anything that makes ivory tower alphabet soup credentialed academics seethe is a good thing.

I'll make sure to add this one to my watch list.
Rimworld, another "story generator", is a game that my wife refers to as the "drunken dog" simulator - because at one point, the only source of calories on the world map was some beer, and so my colony's pet dogs were drinking it to stay alive, causing them to deliver cirrhosis and die.
You can view the first part here, looks quite relevant -

https://books.google.com/books?id=MZrKDwAAQBAJ&pg
Ask HN: Tesla's Process for Rapid Innovation (?)
Are there any engineers here who can confirm whether or not this is how Tesla / SpaceX operate? Theoretically sounds nice, but based on personal experience I struggle to believe this type of process is effective in practice.
Are your colleagues just hitting the stimulants hard? Worked for Erdős I guess...
https://shubhwym.me/

I saw a site a few weeks back and create a similar website for myself.
Do you know if there are videos of those talks posted anywhere?
No way this website will still be up in 15 years.
There's a real chance the year 2038 problem will be worse than the year 2000 problem. Huge numbers of embedded things out there with no hope of software update/new OS/patch that will do something weird in 2038.
Ceramic Earth Pan by Ozeri
I don't think so.

Low tax advocates want a more streamlined government that looks after core functions (managing trash, police, etc) rather than what it has taken on today (entire multimillion dollar agencies tasked with getting more women into high status jobs, regulation of the size and shape of cabbages, etc)

The idea that "people who want less tax than I do just crave widespread poverty" is a sign you have an ideological brainworm. No one thinks like that.
https://gavinhoward.com/

I write about anything that interests me, from tech to religion.

If you only want to subscribe to tech posts, there should be RSS feeds for specific categories and tags. Let me know if they don't work.
You set the price as high as you can. The production is highly automated. There is some price elasticity meaning if you lower the prise you would sell more, but you are limited by how many buyers there are on the market.
Great explanation, one thing missing is extinction events. Small extinction events in a matter of decades (for birds) drastically influence characteristics that are favored or disfavored - like a drought, or too much rain, or invasion by another species or whatever. Apparently[1] the characteristics that help animals eat in threatening times are the ones that drive evolution.

[1] The Beak of Finch book
> the idea that only the rich need to pay taxes is unmaintainable

I'm not so sure.

Taxes are for lots of things, but one of them is making sure a power hungry psycopath doesn't set themself up as king. We might end up spending less of it on weapons that cost thousands of dollars every time you pull the trigger if we taxed the problem away before it could gain momentum.
Would really love to be a part of this group, any chance I could join in?
Hard to imagine something as loving and magical as Tiny Speck's game, Glitch, wound up getting pivoted into office productivity software acquired by a titanic mediocrity such as Salesforce.

As a former Glitch player it just makes me think of drinking bureaucratic water.
Are there a lot of people that decide they need a Tesla but aren't sure which one they need?

Seems like a strange approach to buying a car.
I Feel for the NetBSD Community
I mean, part of the issue is lack of income and I could be a great analyst in a large company or CSO in a smaller one. Someone could hire me and solve my core complaint fairly easily.

As for content, I’ve got a few tools and techniques I could put on the dot com but keep getting sidetracked coding it up - trying to avoid Wordpress this time.

(But last time I published, they had a riot outside the mayor’s house, so I’m hoping folks choose a different adventure.)
IMO, there is likely much more that we don't know that what we do know.
> Metabolism is so complex

There's really not much variation in metabolism. Most peoples' metabolisms are within ~10% of the average. [0]

Of course, even a very small variation adds up when compounded over years. 100 extra calories a day is a 10 pound weight gain per year.

But the variation itself is actually small. No one can "eat twice as much and not gain weight."

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15534426
https://hjr265.me

Blog and other personal site stuff
$12/year domain registration and $3.50/month VM would probably host it just fine if somebody remembers to set up the recurring monthly/yearly billing correctly.
Competitively, sure. Casually, no.
I used to write web applications in C++ which used XML and XSLT for almost everything. Our tag:content ratio was probably "very poor" (I don't believe we used attributes often at all).

Don't really have anything bad to say about it.
>Requires a ps/2 keyboard

This is one of those weird requirements where you just know there’s some chaotic shit going on under the hood (of windows or bugchecker)
This outlet is notorious for this sort of stuff. They basically just confirm upper-class left wing priors by any means necessary.

Scroll through and open a random sample of articles - you will quickly see they're basically a slightly higher-brow version of the "women have better sex under socialism" school of modern pseudojournalism.
Landfills become "ceremonial mounds" filled with trinkets and household necessities for the afterlife.