skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can also consider hosting it at home. More than likely you've got fiber at home, with decent capacity, and you need (1) closet (2) UPS (3) static IP from ISP with a decent firewall/router. It's not ideal, but a lot cheaper and could be perfect for what you need.
Can you make more than $42 from using it? If so, worth it
I don’t even think it’s just that. Seattle is dense enough and we have an ok public transit system. But it’s just not used that much. There is benefit in privacy and comfort, the ability to move groceries and goods, the ability to get to parts outside your direct transit corridor in a reasonable amount of time, and the fact people enjoy leaving the city for nature regularly. I spent a decade commuting by public transit without a car in Nyc and left to seattle both for work and location but also because I loathed public transit. I know I’m the equivalent of a baby killer, but I hated every moment I spent on public transit with a passion. I just don’t like being in crowds and I hated how long it took to go anywhere not on my subway line, and I barely left the city in my 10 years because there wasn’t public transit (more or less) to the parks.
Look into Mounjaro. (I'm not a Dr)

I know a few folks who were on metformin long term for diabetes related things, and after the switch, lost a TON of weight from metabolic changes in just that year compared the entire past.

As with both generally, they're starting to clamp down on prescribing/filling for non-diabetic folks (aka, people using it just for weight and not clinical diabetes itself).
I completely agree, the start stop thing never worked for me. I also didn't like the idea of those apps that track what applications you have open, seemed really creepy.

I built a tool to extract the calendar data (mentioned in abother comment, don't want to spam). I'd really appriciate any feedback you have :)
credit cards are pure evil. And yet I have 2. What's worse is that they raise the cost at stores, payed for by people who don't pay them off on time. I'm no socialist, but that's certainly not progressive.
Experienced this first hand on an embedded device with an RTOS with a 5ms tick. The thing was locking up every 124 days (2^31 ticks). That’s long enough where it had to happen 2-3 times before someone put 2 and 2 together.
How does it prevent bots from getting a badge? Is solving a CAPTCHA all they have to do?
Plus much as I'm very much and definitively unhappy about a lot of directions and decisions taken by the Firefox developers, Chrome's (and Edge's, too) address bar search alone is a no-go – it's positively amnesiac and frequently (with no discernible rhyme or reason) doesn't return even pages I've recently visited and that are definitively still in my browser history (and it's not for lack of space to display the results, because often it returns no local results at all!).
I think all they were saying with that is that the long term consequences of smoking is often a problem that isn't apparent until it's too late, which is very much true, but it seems some jimmies were rustled.
FYI for anyone in the US, this means they're going to ask you for some sensitive information like a copy of your passport. Even worse, they're probably going to wait until after you've given them all your registration details, including your credit card information, to ask for it.
I grew up in New England where Dunkin Donuts is almost a religion, right up there with the New England Patriots. I wasn't excited about Krispy Kreme at all because I grew up with good donuts.

One of the first things I remember as a kid in the 1970s was reading the "no tipping" sign at Dunkin's and asking my parents about it. So it has been a policy there for a long, long time.

(Funny they put a Dunkin's in on my side of town a few years ago, I don't know how many people know the supermarket across the street makes better donuts, which is truly unusual.)

We had a Starbucks in Collegetown which went to only taking mobile orders during the pandemic which meant I pretty much quit drinking coffee there. Not long after Starbucks closed the location to bust the union that was forming there. In my mind that area is a "coffee desert", I mean you can get coffee but so far as I can tell the best coffee is at 7-11 and everything else is much worse.
Why does the landlord HAVE to increase rents?
Resolving a Synchro Shaft Angle Using Modern Hardware
If you're worried about costs, I run Nextcloud locally in my house, and just deal with the fact it's not externally available. Everything syncs when it is in the house, which is just about always for the laptops and pretty often for the cell phones, and when it is out and about it just doesn't. It all works out.

I have a backup process running on it, but back up disk space is a lot cheaper than live disk space attached to a VM, so it's a lot cheaper than the requisite VM disk space would be.

That said:

"and I think I know how to get that done without getting snagged by one of their runaway expense traps, but I'm not completely sure. I do not trust them not to find some way to slip a thousand dollar bill past me before I realize what their automated system is doing."

This is a per-service concern. EC2 may be old & busted & "just VMs, dude, get cloud native you early 2000s buffoon" & totally uncool... but also precisely because it is just a VM, it is also bounded. It won't blow up on you, because you can't just use 100 times the service you expected. Worst you can do is use the network like crazy, and for as expensive as bandwidth is at large scales, at this scale it's not going to break your bank unless you really screw up. I'm bounded by the fact my home network connection won't let me go too crazy anyhow. (Or on a small T3 instance you can turn on unlimited credits and then run those up, but there's a bound on how large that can be even if you're running 100% full time and it's not huge.)

Just some options. Mastadon is presumably more complicated to run on local resources, you'd still need something with a public IP that can be reached to work correctly.
But most importantly: build security features as if they'll be used against you.

In other words, "don't make them too secure"? I've always wondered whether some of those working on locked-down devices had this in mind, or if it's just by chance, that we can still manage to root (most of) them.
This is the code review model I've arrived at after going through a number of different processes throughout my career:

Code review is a health check from your teammates who don't have the authorship bias. It is not a replacement for testing, both manual and automated. Testing is solely the responsibility of the author, code review is just a design lint check and/or knowledge sharing opportunity. You can still have a QA team of course, but that is usually decoupled from application development and is done post-merge anyway.

Every shop is different so YMMV, this is just a personal take.
I've made a Regex Version, which should support international wikipedia articles once the new skin arrives for them too.

Description: Wikipedia Vector Skin
Example URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_campbell
Include pattern: ^(https?://)([a-z0-9-]*\.)wikipedia.org\/wiki/(.*)
Redirect to: $1$2wikipedia.org/wiki/$3?useskin=vector
Pattern type: Regular Expression
Pattern Description: Auto Redirects to vector skin version
Advanced Options:
Exclude pattern: ^(https?://)([a-z0-9-]*\.)wikipedia.org\/wiki/(.*)\?
The idea applies just as much to medieval or any-era weaponry, but I first heard it expressed about anti-aircraft missiles:

There is no such thing as purely defensive weapon. You can think that anti-aircraft missile turrets are purely defensive, as they can only shoot down enemy planes flying over your cities. But then, you can pack those turrets on trucks and drive over to the enemy and deploy them to shoot down their planes flying over their cities.

And so is with everything. A perfect armor the enemy attacks can't penetrate is an offensive weapon, because the enemy won't be able to stop your soldiers when they invade their land.

But also, conversely, a better sword, or gun, or bomb, can work well as purely defensive weapon, because the threat it projects deters the enemy from attacking you in the first place. This is the basic reason why you can't not have a military, even if you're a peaceful state that doesn't intend to engage in conquest. In most extreme form, this is what's been keeping the world largely at peace - threat of nuclear retaliation and subsequent mutual destruction.

War is not about offensive and defensive technologies. Any technology can be used as either (with varying degree of effectiveness). War has always been about the willingness and ability to get your people to go and beat other people, and keep beating them until either side gives up.
I could see the IRS offering some service to enter the market and compete with Equifax to bring more competition to the sector. They might have to compel Equifax to give up some data or data sources to the government and their competitors. The government did this in WW2, forcing companies to give trade secrets to their competitors so there would be a more resilient supply chain.

Something similar could be done to break up big banking if the US Postal Service allowed people to open up super simple checking and savings accounts.
Build quality, years of OS updates and security patch longevity are absolutely reasons why iPhones hold their value much longer than a bottom of the barrel Android device does.

> based on handsets with an initial buyback price of $700 or higher, Android phones lose value twice as fast as iOS models over the first two years of ownership.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/android-phones-lose-more-val...

Also, the cheaper the Android device, the quicker it depreciates.
It's a great module. See also: itertools.
No one in my family smokes but my childhood best friend's mom smoked a lot inside their apartment (not a very big space), and I spent so much time over there. It was sad, they always had a smell about them because of this. They were indoor kids and I spent years of my youth at their place playing video games and D&D. I didn't know any better as a kid but I think back on it and wonder how much that affected my lungs. I stopped going over so much around my senior year of highschool (mid-90s) and then eventually lost touch in the late 90s because our lives went in different directions so my lungs have probably recovered a lot from whatever damage that did. Now I hate the smell of cigarette smoke and can smell it from a good distance away.
I saw that Cloudflare moved from Elastic to Clickhouse for logging.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/log-analytics-using-clickhouse/
This space is getting so much interest that OpenAI will not be the only one providing LLM as a service forever.
> Surely a bank could just ask your payslip info and get a more accurate feel whether or not you are creditworthy?

They do that, too. You have to provide all of your income data over the past like 3 years and explain any extra income (why did your parents give you $1000 a couple years ago?). Credit score is just one more datapoint, and I think it's more about your score being "not bad" (i.e. you didn't screw a previous creditor) than it is about it being "good."
the input was generated by chatgpt. and is non-functional.

so, ROUGHLY, what is it trying to do?
Hi Nick, thank for sharing that project, it hadn't been on my radar. I think it is a project squarely in the Eve ethos! Sadly I can't find any code on their GitHub accounts, so they must be doing development in private.
>the first thing I'm suggesting they could do is publish their credit scoring methodology

What's that supposed to accomplish? At the end of the day, a credit score is ultimately supposed to tell the lender what % chance you're going to default. Suppose the data is already accurate (remember, you can already request your credit report to check whether it's accurate), what additional value does having the methodology provide? Are you doubting their ability to correctly execute the model? Or do you want to dispute the fact that their model gave you a credit score of 573 when you think it should be 605?
So cloning yourself is the actual idea you should pursue? ;)
I have had the same experience with Typescript and Python.
what I find baffling is that supposedly enlightened societies like Sweden are at the forefront of this cashless "revolution". Maybe they are simply overconfident / delusional about their ability to control the risks of the digital age or maybe the progressiveness was a shtick all along, confined to signature issues and not applicable towards the outstanding challenge of building a truly democratic and free digital society.
If you're worried about costs, I run Nextcloud locally in my house, and just deal with the fact it's not externally available.

I do the same but then have a VPN so I can reach it externally. One more thing to maintain but worth it.
Thinking about your comment on QR codes --
If memory serves its not difficult on iOS to set something up to display the QR code data as text instead of acting on it.

I assume it's similarly opaque to use a URL for the same purpose, which would almost certainly be a "enter your phone / email so we can send you your URL...".

In your opinion, assuming electronic ordering, what is the best alternative to a QR code when considering privacy + ease of use?
It’s called hiring?
There's pro and cons.

There's a lot that can be automated now. I self-host everything, been doing for more than a decade now. Partly on home server and partly on servers I rent.
Everything is kept up to date and the pain points have been fairly low.

It's definitely not a set-up and forget thing, but it is definitely not a lot of work.

It's also a good way to learn things, the process itself is not a waste of time.
The Pi's will be using those 200Watts at near full tilt. The main use here would be larger computational tasks that you can easily split up among the blades. Or you run a very hardware-failure tolerant software service on top.
Are you just now realizing these LLM’s can’t factually determine if what they output is correct?
Google CEO answers qustions regarding layoffs
When I was in my 20s, I could code for days on straight. I had so much energy and the perception of the bottomless capital of time. Now that I am forty, the cost-benefit analysis is getting tougher.

Can I have my big break and retire early? Sure, but the chances of that happening are not that great. Many serial entrepreneurs fail multiple times with nothing to show for it.

All I think about now is - when I am on my deathbed, and I look back at my life, will I regret not living it, or that I didn't spend enough time writing code in front of my computer on an off-chance that my idea works out?
Society very rarely knows what the right thing is. Hence why the USSR existed in the first place post Lenin.
I've installed Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) on my phone(s) and it syncs selected folders directly to my Synology NAS at home. As Syncthing uses its own discovery system, there is no need to open anything up to the internet.
There have only been a few major stock declines since at least 1996 when I started working.

2000 - there was a major correction and the companies that were laying off were mostly in the nascent tech sector. If you worked as a software dev in a profitable “enterprise company” things kept humming along. I personally saw no decrease in demand in Atlanta for instance for software developers at banks, insurance companies etc.

The overall tech market was so small back then it didn’t affect the rest of the market.

2001 - After 9/11 - it didn’t really have any effect on the job market.

2008-2011 - there was a real slow down in spending that was partially offset by the then new mobile market and BigTech really started taking off.

2020 - Covid - of course in some industries people were spending a lot less.

2023 - even now we are just getting back to levels of employment for the profitable tech companies that they were pre-Covid. The overall job market is not seeing layoffs and unemployment is still low.
> KiwiFarms is just a website to organize doxxing and online harassment

KF is a gossip site, like Lipstick Alley or DataLounge, but with a focus on e-celebs and internet phenomena. I go there whenever I want to get the dirt (ie. truth) about e-celebs or some weird internet trend or subculture. Its users literally just passively document and discuss this stuff, and there's a policy (and ethos) of "no touch." You and others endorsing its erasure (despite it not breaking any law) would know this (and perhaps secretly do) if you actually lurked there for a while instead of just credulously accepting its critics' characterization. It's also strange how the site is supposedly such a hive of doxxers, harassers, etc., yet nothing seems to happen to the journalists and tech people organizing against it.

I think the real reason it's in hot water is precisely because they just passively, permanently document so much, some of which some people with money and influence don't want documented. Maybe they documented something someone (some billionaire?) secretly doesn't want out there?
Yep. Or somehow focus more, that would help knock a few more ideas out as well.

My backlog of games/puzzles/stories I'd eventually like to get out there might be >100 at this point.

Focusing mostly on a bit more of an ambitious game right now, and it's probably still 6 months before I get it into Steam early access (coding in my spare time and energy, which is sparse lately), so everything else is just waiting at this point.

But sometimes I get an idea that I need to at least get some playable prototype with index cards, pen, paper, and tokens, at least. Just had another concept pop into my head a couple days ago for a roll-and-write I should at least make a board and write up some rules for before I forget.

Waiting for the day when something like ChatGPT can code up a basic but working game based on my description of its mechanisms. Even if it can only handle abstract games on a sqauare or hex grid, that'd still be useful for me.
Those cash processing fees would only apply if the cash was repeatedly deposited and withdrawn, and probably only by businesses. The hygienist can probably deposit cash for free, I don't think I've ever paid a fee into a consumer bank account.

Taxes will do the same, though. Employers have to payroll taxes, employees have to pay income taxes. The $50 will eventually all bleed back to the government.
no, i am just now realizing what a clout hero alex is
https://twitter.com/AlexAlexandrius/status/16178852870484254...

So, all I've learned is that ChatGPT knows the obfuscated and de-obfuscated versions of code that it itself has generated.
The worst browser experience I have had continues to be webkit based browsers. They just don't work in enough situations for me to justify leaving Firefox.
It’s another scam…
When the ban was first instituted in Virginia there was a lot of pushback from restaurant and bar owners, but not many were willing to put their money where their mouth was and invest in separated HVAC systems. For the most part the handful that exist now are smoking-focused, e.g. cigar and whisky bars, which just aren't that popular any more. The one bar I remember well never did better business than the non-smoking bars around it and closed after a few years.
Experiences of daily stress decrease as people age
Define accurate?

It's just like any other AI system, it returns results as a best effort proposition of accurate with a % confidence that doesn't map well to binary outcomes.

So yes, it can be accurate. But there are scenarios where it must be strict or binary correct, and its not great at that bit.
Just get the oracle free tier. I've read my share of FUD about how bad oracle cloud supposedly is, but went ahead anyway. It's been something like 3 years, no complaints (including ~1.5 years of running their 4-core ARM/24 GiB RAM/200 GB HDD machine).

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free

I've used many other free tiers over the years (living in a low-income region you pretty much have to), and they make it difficult to fuck up your trial and go over the free limit. With GCP or AWS (especially AWS) it's trivial to start running paid resources and be surprised with a large bill at the end. Here you have to explicitly opt into it by clicking through multiple dialogs and confirming via an email link.
Collect a list of problems. Then roll a dice. Work on the matching problem and let the other yous in the multiverse work on the others.
So you think being trans is fake and comparable with anal fisting. Cool cool. That means you are precisely one of the people I described, trying to ban books about the existence of gay, trans, and other queer people.

I guarantee you there aren't more than 1 or 2 parents or teachers in the entire country (possibly not even that many, but there's always some nutcase somewhere) who genuinely think that having books on anal fisting available to elementary schoolers is a good thing.

Books on being trans aren't remotely comparable. And, just as an aside, if someone realizes they're trans before they go any significant amount through puberty, they can take very safe hormone treatments in order to ensure they never have to have more expensive and potentially traumatic surgery to present as their true gender.
The real problem isn't AI content generation, it's a lack of content filtering. There has been a mountain of human garbage pushed out by people trying to make money which is already too big to navigate, AI will make the mountain much larger but the problem won't change.

We need AI discriminators that analyze content and filter out stuff that is poorly written, cliche, trite and derivative.
> "my fingers into less efficient movements" - don't lie to yourself.

I used to type at 120+ wpm using my self taught typing experience.

I purchased a new keyboard recently with ortholinear layout and figured it would be a good time to learn proper touch typing. I'm at 70-80 wpm and cannot see how to improve unless I _free_ myself from pure touch typing.

There are just limitations to how a single hand can move when multiple keys have to be hit on the same side or even the same finger.
Make a Resume in LaTeX
Most LaTeX resumes are just templates people slightly modify but don't really understand, so I wrote a small guide for actually understanding how to build up to one
There are reports on Apple support pages¹ and elsewhere² that the ‘blue’ series Yubikey doesn't work.

¹ https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254582672

² https://www.reddit.com/r/yubikey/comments/10jll3q/security_k...