skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If "Capitalism" involved the conscious coordination of all industry to maximize consumption, perhaps not. But in the terms of, raise money to buy a factory, have factory produce goods, sell goods, there seems to be a huge market for these, quite expensive, goods.

edit: You could even argue, in a conspiratorial mind, that by getting people addicted to sugar ($0.0002 / mg) in order to then get them addicted to a drug that costs ($10/mg) is peak "Capitalism"
Too many choices.

Want to learn too many things. All right now.

It's so bad it’s almost always crippling.
I think the "confident but inaccurate" problem is one of the biggest hurdles for most of the powerful usecases of these models. We don't seem too far from being able to automate filler text or stock images, which is certainly useful but only so valuable, but a long way off from more technical usecases like law or medicine. Being right 90% of the time but completely wrong 10%, without any way to distinguish the two, isn't going to get very far in many fields of work.
Interesting, could have sworn I heard this back in 2011 or so, but searching for a source now I have no clue how I got that impression. :) Thank you!
Overton window, and people giving up is why it’s happening.

And yeah, we’re all living in bizarro world.
Seems like a random excuse to Trash talk unions.
Playing music for me is a deep, deep state of being. If all goes well it is a bit like what I feel when programming when I am in the flow, but even more direct and imidiate.

But it took me quite some time to get there, especially without teachers. But compared to my neighbor who learned the same instrument aince she was a kid I could just sit there and play. Without notes she did not know what to do. "Just explore the instrument" seemed like a wild and undoable prompt to her.

My believe is that many kids who go into music, imagined something else than it turned out to be. My believe is also that many music schools teach things in the wrong order. They teach you how to speak before you know how to make a sound. Even after more than a decade of playing I still find new ways to make my instruments sound.
Ask HN: Spred is looking for UK/EU-based early adopters
Hi folks, last week I built Spred (https://just-spred.com) in just 2 days. Spred is an Open Banking payment solution focusing on supporting indie creators to earn more through micro-transactions.

If you've ever used Buy Me A Coffee, Ko-Fi, Patreon or GitHub Sponsors, you'll know that for small amounts (e.g. < $10), by the time the service and processing fees kick in, a huge chunk has been taken out of your income. And in some cases you have to wait days for it to clear into your account.

Open Banking is poised to change that, with much lower fees, faster checkouts, and faster settlement (usually within minutes!). You can try the consumer-facing payment flow here: https://simonhamp.spred.me

Right now, I'm looking for UK/EU-based early adopters who want to give Open Banking a shot. If you already use one of the other services I mentioned or are thinking about doing so, would you consider trying out Spred too?

There's almost zero effort required on your part and once your payment page is up and running (which I'll take care of for you) you'll be able to receive real money into your actual bank account. I'll even send you £5/€5 to confirm that everything is working.

All I'm looking for in exchange is your honest feedback on what would make this a truly useful product to you. This feedback and testing will help me determine whether I continue investing in the idea further or look for an alternative approach.

If you're interested, please feel free to drop me a comment here or email support@spred.helpscoutapp.com and I will reply with more details.

Thanks in advance for your help

I'm really hoping to get some insightful feedback in these early stages to help shape the product and I'm keen to see what the HN community can bring.
We already have the internet.
Ok, so replace him.
DHL, which has normally been spectacular, got me the other week. I was getting a package delivered on Monday that I needed by Thursday at noon. It required a signature, so I filled out the release for them to leave it without one. It also had a spot for delivery instructions. I have a simple gate with a latch and no lock, so I said the gate is unlocked, they could open the gate to deliver, leave it inside or outside the gate, or even toss it over the gate.

The Friday before the Monday which they were scheduled to deliver, I got a delivery exception saying that it was unable to be delivered according to my instructions and that nobody was home. I WAS home, though I was not notified they were coming, and I can't think of a scenario which "inside or outside the gate" does not cover.

On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday they updated to say it was 'out for delivery', each time updating in the evening to say the following day after they failed to return to my house. It was finally delivered 1 hour after I left for the airport.
> Music lessons—like many activities taken up during our youth—rest heavily on the student–teacher–parent triad. “Some teachers find it’s their job to make students get better,” Pappas says. “But what a teacher really needs to do is give their students the tools to make themselves better.”

The absolute critical thing for learning, the thing a teach and/or parent must do to make a child successful, is not just giving tools. You have to inspire a child to love music. You have to plant in them the seed of desire to create beautiful sound. And you have to make it fun to do. Otherwise it is just another boring chore, with no clear internalized goal.

When we wanted our children to learn to play an instrument, we spent months playing Bach and Mozzart for them, and explaining what was going on in the music. We played our instruments around them, and let them investigate them. Eventually they started asking us how they could make their own music, and that's when we began lessons.

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
...the costs of icy sidewalk slip and falls...

No garbage-truck/plow is going to fix that, whether it be powered by EV, ICE, or unicorn farts.
> apparently some change there was causing lower-end browsers to crash.

Was the change CSS specific or was it domain specific?
The other aspect not mentioned here is automatic detection. OpenAI is working on watermarking content [1] and it’s extremely likely Google will have access to this. When all the SEO bros shift from content farms to GPT, Google’s job might suddenly get a lot easier. OpenAI may also license the “bot detector” to universities, etc.

Of course, there will be other models that aren’t watermarked. But there may be other signs that are detectable with enough confidence to curate and rank content effectively.

[1] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6823
Ulefone Power Armor 13, one year in no issues. Occasional blow with low pressure high purity nitrogen out of a cryo tank we have at work for the laser cutter.
I would encourage you to revise your summary. We don't know what the third-order drivers of obesity are, but we absolutely know that caloric surplus is the primary driver, and that surplus is driven by both lower energy expenditure (sedentary lifestyle) and increased caloric intake (junk food). There are other causes for individuals, but not at a population level.

The question is much more: why did people start moving less & eating more? Each have complex factors (less physical jobs, increased wealth, food addictiveness, cultural shifts, etc.), and on THOSE, there's lots of debate.

But we absolutely know what causes obesity at a population level.
Roosevelt Island (which is a part of the Manhattan borough) actually has an underground, pneumatic trash collection system: https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/09/inside-roosevelt-islan... . I think it would be hard to retrofit such a thing onto the already-built-up parts of the city though.
>The new idea (mostly in the West) that being obese is/can be a healthy lifestyle is absolutely maddening.

We took the extreme of anorexia being healthy to obesity being healthy. The fact is neither extreme is healthy. Being not anorexic is not the same as being obese, there's a huge range of fairly healthy weights in between the two in terms of body fat percentages and muscle ratios.
> there's nothing explicitly stating

Are the fitness goals of the other 2 actors explicitly stated?

Should fitness products only advertise with actors who are ALREADY fit and maintaining that fitness?

What exactly are you expecting? How exactly do you want fat people to be portrayed in advertisements for fitness that allows them to attempt to get fit?
I've only used OpenSnitch, a Linux equivalent of LS.

Pihole operates at domain/subdomain level. So it won't resolve domains that are in your blacklist.

*Snitch operates at packet level, so whilst you can block a domain, you can also block an app's access to a particular domain but allow another app access, maybe only by one user and to a specific port.

Snitch takes much more setup and will annoy you until you've worked through all the usual traffic. It reminds me of the Proxomitron back in the day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxomitron).
I was responding to someone else who’d talked about Linux, so I think the question is better directed their way.

However, they talked about Debian and put it in the category of Linux, and then specifically contrasted against Android as a separate thing, so I think we’re informally talking about the conventional desktop Gnu+SystemD+Too many other groups to list Linux ecosystem.
Because it's brilliant.

They need to do both:

Drive a big truck around the city streets pushing a plow to clear them of snow and ice

And

Drive a big truck around to collect garbage

It's much more efficient to do both at the same time, use the same trucks and skilled labor to run them.

It's a classic two birds one stone situation
This pretty much sums up why I've switched to "low-code" platforms. I can still do about 95% of what I was doing before and I don't have to put up with this nonsense.
I think the reason we can say something like a LMM doesn't suffer is that it has no reward function and no punishment function, outside of training. Everything that we call 'suffering' is related to the release or not-release of reward chemicals in our brains. We feel bad to discourage us from creating the conditions that made us feel bad. We feel good to encourage us to create again the conditions that made us feel good. Generally this was been advantageous to our survival (less so in the modern world, but that's another discussion).

If a computer program lacks a pain mechanism it can't feel pain. All possible outcomes are equally joyous or equally painful. Machines that use networks with correction and training built in as part of regular functioning are probably something of a grey area- a sufficient complex network like that I think we could argue feels suffering under some conditions.
Has the health care cost been studied? I wouldn't be surprised if morbidly obese people are cheaper in the long run due to a reduced lifespan (kinda like how smokers can be cheaper than nonsmokers-they may cost more to ensure before retirement age, but it more than evens out when you looked at reduced years after that point)
You might be interested in ragtime video game covers. There are lots of videos of a ragtime piano player called Tom Brier who *sightreads* video game music notation. That is, he plays a score while reading it for the first time. He's incredibly skilled, it's awe-inspiring.

https://youtu.be/ffwVKDP8nzQ
I agree about the trolleys on rails and obstacles, which I've seen for myself, but electric vehicles would likely have some battery and run on tires, allowing diversions from the route.

Anyway, I'm guessing it's been considered and I'd love to see the study.
Might the better option be a hybrid truck, which runs on electricity 90% of the time but has the capacity to use fossil fuels in situations such as these? (snow is but one example, I can imagine other exceptional circumstances where such a vehicle might need an extra boost).

To balance your suggestion, the environmental cost of constructing, shipping, and maintaining a fleet of single-purpose snow plows is not close to zero.
Desktop PCs don't seem to have many issues in this environment, but they're stuck at our work stations, phones tend to get carried in to the dustier parts of the workshop.
Could you link to a peer reviewed study concluding that?

Just to point out one potentially complicating factor Dr. Robert Lustig's work appears to show that our diets increasingly include processed foods which are strongly associated with health problems including weight gain and metabolic disease. So if you can completely avoid institutional food such as served at company canteens and figure out and stick to a good diet then maybe. Even then it seems like the stigma is just sloppiness that results in perfectly respectable contributions to society not being recognized.

Early on I made a habit out of becoming friends with fat people I met because their exposure to social stigma tended to make them strong as individuals.

If anything it seems like the person who is addicted to something that should be stigmatized is you.
Side point: cool to see DALLE images replacing stock photos…
It was the first programming language available to the general public that was easy enough for the public to use without a CS education - and it running on the web made it ubiquitous.

Then SV happened, and the web became Serious Business. Then Node.js happened and Javascript became Serious Business, and with that came the byzantine horror of complexity necessary to get a toy scripting language invented in a week to replace every enterprise programming language in existence because managers could toss a rock out of their office window and it would bounce off of three web devs before hitting the ground.
You cannot fight government propaganda.
How climate change is causing more frequent warm winter temperatures in Canada
At the end of the day you don't have to smoke, not that people won't.

At the end of the day, or maybe week, or possible even month you have to eat or you're going to die. Simply put you require caloric intake to survive. Yea, you can ban coke and candybars, and hell that's a good idea. But what about bread? Or do you monitor and watch to make sure everyone only eats two slices? Make sure foods at restaurants only have so many calories per serving and ensure they people can only buy one meal per meal?

At some point it still falls apart because it is human nature to massively overconsume since the vast majority of history we've been calorie short. You're dealing with an animal response here that is going to be very difficult to override to the under/normal consumption side.
Negative externalities haven’t been properly priced in because the cost of dumping carbon into the atmosphere is zero. Change the cost structure and even the short-term calculations change immediately.
I quit because I hated the music I was asked to play. When I was 5, I started piano with an amazing teacher (a local college professor) and made serious progress, both in skills and learning things like chord theory over the next four years. He would write out every piece I was to learn by hand in my book when I was getting started

I moved and the teacher my parents found that I could walk to only selected pieces that I didn't like which were technically difficult, but didn't sound good to me even after I learned them. She had to figure out what level I was and go through boring books of theory that moved way too slowly. I only much later found out you could buy sheet music of artists I actually liked.

I quit lessons and started composing instead, moving that to the computer when I got an Amiga 1000.
I'm not sure why you're focused on startups so much when a minority of engineers work at them. Python is also used heavily for data analytics, data science and data engineering which aren't AI/ML and likely much more common at startups.
I wouldn't even say that the point of music teachers is to do anything about music. It's life mentoring, with adults who have different experiences and ideas than your parents do.

Practicing an instrument is a way to learn how to get into a flow state
So drug companies should be seeing alarm bells going off. You can profit off this drug, and it's an endless supply of revenue.
> Maybe if you click on an identity, it will connect you with a preconfigured proxy or VPN and allow you to post as them on websites.

You can still be fingerprinted across "personas" when your useragent/screen resolution/IP address/proxy provider/etc. are all identical, since you're presumably doing all of this from the same device. This does not mean spin up a bunch of EC2 instances.

Buy a bunch of different burner phones/old laptops from Goodwill or whatever-- use discrete hardware. Get SIM cards from different providers. Pay with Bitcoin or cash where possible. Etc.

These are the sorts of things scammer sweatshops do to avoid accountability. They'll have literal walls full of phones wired up, each preconfigured for a particular identity. Even teenaged fraudsters like Eleanor Williams think to do this sort of stuff to maintain opsec.
Human brain organoids placed in the mouse cortex react to visual stimuli
Nope not at all. I didn't intend for that to come across as a bad thing.
These toy sets epitomized learning through failure for young me.
Good advice. In my experience within some companies you don't have the autonomy to make those sorts of changes. The higher ups have a firm grip on how they want things to run and how individuals have to comply with their vision. In such situations I have found it easier to switch to another company.
> Yea I'm not going to dox myself on this site, but having actually submitted papers and presented at various cryptography conferences and worked as an applied cryptographer in this field for 10 years, I think I have more cryptographic domain experience than some random furry-avatar security blog writer.

I believe the random furry-avatar blog writer works in the field as well, and writes under a pseudonym to "avoid dox[ing himself]. But I dunno, I'm not a regular reader

> Nobody recommends secp256r1. Nobody. The Koblitz curve is strictly better.

Well again, you have to see that from my perspective, your credentials are the same as the other guy. To be clear, I believe you; I just also believe the Soatok guy.

> Unlike curve25519, whose non-unity cofactor for example was a source of inflation bugs in CryptoNote-based projects (e.g. Monero).

Ah, I hadn't heard of that issue/those issues. I'll search for them tomorrow.

To be clear, I don't recall anyone ever saying secp256k1 is insecure, hence why I didn't want you to think I was calling it deprecated. I appreciate your insight.
I'm not a medical professional but find taking magnesium just before bed makes it easy to sleep undisturbed. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magnesium-the-most-powerf_b_4...
You haven't controlled for body weight changes though. Nobody doubts that diets (if adhered to) can reduce weight. So if biomarkers improve relative to an alternative diet, the question is it because A) the Med diet is more effective at weight loss, or B) the Med diet has benefits outside weight loss. The research you linked is interesting, but confounded by weight loss. Research that has directly tried to control for this has generally found that the health benefits of the Med diet are mostly or wholly attributable to the mediating impact of weight/fat loss.[1]

This is a critical question, because GLP-1 agonists like semaglutide are far more effective at weight loss (with much lower dropout rates) than any diet known to mankind. So if the benefit of the Med diet is mediated by weight loss, who cares in the age of GLP-1 agonists? It's like arguing about the fastest hot air balloon after the invention of the jet engine.

[1]https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Obesity-Mediates-the-A...
In that case you would still need a transmission for the engine which would likely increase cost and complexity compared to the surprisingly simple and elegant planetary gear transmissions used in most modern hybrids e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Synergy_Drive

By using two electric motors connected to a planetary gearset you can replace the starter and alternator, allow for electric drive and regenerative braking, and provide a continuously variable transmission for the gas engine all with a set of constantly meshed gears (i.e. no shifting components).
There's no reason that behavior wouldn't translate to internationally.
I've always wondered why there aren't diesel hybrids on the market given the higher energy density of diesel plus its long term stability. It would seem to be the ideal use-case since the diesel engine could be run at the RPM needed to be to minimize emissions.
Because the teacher was a jerk. I wish I never quit. I loved playing sax.
On design and foundations of dynamic languages for scientific computing [video]
Also the database and operating system support issues both seem to specifically Ghost ecosystem issues (JS as a language/ecosystem mostly doesn't care what DB you want to use and Node itself runs largely the same on every platform and probably doesn't even know the specific difference between Debian and Ubuntu). This seems a lot more a "Why is the Ghost ecosystem like this?" more than a JS ecosystem problem.

(The answers to that question seem a lot easier to answer: small team, limited testing resources, and they focus on a paid SaaS platform as their business model to pay the bills and that likely comes first ahead of self-hoster's concerns/needs.)