skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the definition of "premium cards"[0] they're actually business/commercial/corporate cards, not premium consumer cards. A horrendous term that's bound to cause confusion.

The scariest part of this pricing split is that Stripe seems to be determining the fee "based on the information available from card networks at point of capture", instead of being directly told what the card type is, and even allude to this determination being potentially incorrect.

This gets even more frustrating when you think that business spend is on average higher than personal/consumer spend, so charging a higher fee for this is just a triple whammy.

It's easy to crucify Stripe for this, but this is probably a product of a cost review they're undertaking as part of IPO/next round prep (if The Information is anything to go by). We need a new Visa/Mastercard.

[0] https://support.stripe.com/questions/what-s-the-difference-b...
This is super cool. Please consider adding the ability to save conversations. Also, as this catches on, you may want to introduce a CAPTCHA to prevent your inference servers from being overloaded. Again, really cool stuff!
Longitudinal analysis of biomarker data from nutrition platform subjects
Full title is actually “Longitudinal analysis of biomarker data from a personalized nutrition platform in healthy subjects”
Where, how, when does Google say there are more that two genders? By the way gender is a spectrum. A narrow spectrum where two genders describes most of the spectrum. But you get exceptions. Maybe being narrow minded is not the way. Expand yourself.
If you are aiming for virality, you need to use the lowest common denominator. A fast thinker will understand someone that speaks slow, a slow thinker will not grasp everything a person who speaks fast says.
Create Help Desk Websites from Notion
No, people on Hacker News don't read articles, they're too smart for that!

But I should warn you that it's literally against the rules to call people out when they clearly didn't read the article.
Or a million monkeys with typewriters, only these monkeys are not entirely random, they have been conditioned to write things similar to what people actually write. Most of the time the output looks very natural, but others you get nonsense because the noise is too loud.
Only if your school has any kids who would bully. Seems safe then /s
The F-35s in Eielson seems to be a quite recent development though from what I can see[1][2], while the article I linked to was from 2017 when they were doing final certification tests of the "arctic landing device".

But yeah, seems like it's definitely not an issue these days.

[1]: https://www.f35.com/f35/news-and-features/north-to-the-futur...

[2]: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/01/23/the-air-force-is-swappin...
I love the idea. As someone who grew up and was encouraged with computers (and became a software engineer), I think it's a fantastic thing to do for your kid. Mint or maybe even plain Debian would probably be fine. Looking at sugarlabs.org that another user linked actually seems pretty great for this purpose.

Maybe eventually you can shift them over to a raspberry pi since they have a lot of children's educational hardware and software as well, but maybe for children a bit older than yours currently.
IMHO, if you are 26 and have a cushy job and are not actively doing something in your spare time you don't really want to do whatever that is. If ML/AI were this burning passion you'd find 5-10 hours a week to work on it.

Obviously projecting a lot based on two paragraphs here but seems like you're suffering from ennui and are casting about for something to fill the void. Day dreaming about school or a different type of company or technology is just that. Dreams which probably do not reflect reality. Keep the cushy gig and start looking for purpose in a hobby, charity work, family, travel, whatever. If you hit on something that will pay you enough to live then great, do it. Otherwise, keep the cushy gig, do it in your spare time, and save money until all your time is spare.
Why entertain a hypothetical that isn't anywhere near reflective of what is projected?
At what point do you think punishment is warranted when companies or individuals break regulations resulting in people being placed at risk? This isn't software where the impacts are some user inconvenience and maybe a bit of lost revenue. If this incident had gone just a little differently it could easily have resulted in deaths, people receiving massive radiation doses, or even hundreds or thousands of people getting enough exposure to raise their risk of cancer. Regulations around handling radioactive material are a lot like aviation regulations, they tend to be written in blood.

This is a short list of major radiation exposure incidents in the past few decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accide...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_radioactive_material_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acerinox_accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samut_Prakan_radiation_acciden...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident
"Elegant weapons for a more civilized age"

https://xkcd.com/297/
A few years back I built a website for a large corn seed vendor in Eastern Iowa and learned that this was a VERY common job for teens in rural areas.
I have been robbed at knifepoint, intentionally kicked off my bike by a motorbike, pickpocketed and cash taken from the ATM(with a ruse)... All traumatic events that haunt me to this day.

And yet, I still can say that a city is still one of the safest places to be.

Your experience isn't invalid, it's just how it impacts everyone. The outcome of your and mine experiences are subjective, and people who go through them(you and me both) should stop pretending that our experiences are universal.
They’re expensive though. Looked into this a year ago. Have things changed?

My holy grail is a powerful LED light source where you can adjust the spectrumin very granular detail, including at the extremes.
>Should people give their lives for a profession?

I have recently begun to appreciate how much (in the US) we structure our entire existence around our jobs, and how we earn money. The puritan work ethic, extrapolated out across BS jobs encourages so many of us to identify as our jobs, and make that our sense of self.

It's ridiculous.
"Doesn't make sense" is excessively vague. Are you implying that solar in Europe doesn't reach carbon neutrality due to its lower insolation? Because based on raw photons, a panel that is carbon neutral in 3 years in a sunny place would be carbon neutral in 6 years in a setting with 1/2 the sunlight..

These critiques and the silly book's premise that since solar/wind might not break even from an embodied carbon standpoint, that somehow burning actual carbon molecules in their place is "better" are just politically correct denialism.
Homo Sapiens have been on Earth in their current form for 200,000 years, and for 95% of that time (until agriculture emerged 10,000 years ago), they were primarily hunters, meaning they ate meat primarily.

From an economist's perspective, the return on hunting is something like 50x the return on gathering because of the huge number of calories one can acquire by killing a large fatty animal. I.e., six hours of hunting will yield you 50x the calories you could acquire from six hours of gathering. Competing with monkeys and parrots for fruit doesn't make sense when you could kill an antelope instead. (See the work of Miki Ben-Dor for more on this).

And it turns out that if you only eat meat, you develop a stronger, wider, and more attractive jaw, your wisdom teeth come in properly, you never develop cavities, and you have good gum health.

I avoided all plant-based calories in 2021, and when I went to the dentist for a cleaning, she specifically commented on my unusually good oral hygiene and gum health. Plants really aren't good for our bodies, including our gums and teeth.

Today we think of grains, fruits, and vegetables as being less expensive than fresh meat, but that is an artifact of technology and industrial farming -- it does not reflect the natural state of man.
Resonance as a Design Strategy for AI and Social Robots
I think I'd argue that AI does have experience. That's exactly what training an AI gives it. It is however true that that experience is currently less wide ranging than that of humans.
This is the answer that is always trotted out, but it's unclear whether there is any truth to it being the reason bloggers actually add the stories. Heck, if that were the reason they wouldn't need three pages of content they could have a single paragraph, it would come to the same thing. It never made any sense to me that recipe bloggers would need to resort to putting pages upon pages of detailed life history in every single post, just on the off chance that someone is going to steal their meatloaf recipe and re-post it on another blog.

I was glad the OP article didn't mention that theory.

I actually really believe that reason #1 in the article was the origin -- people actually liked reading the stories. When recipe blogs were new, and there were fewer of them, it was common to actually check back on the blogs and see if they had posted new content. I used to follow a number of recipe blogs, including Orangette, which I really liked, and would both read her stories and try her recipes. She (like similar bloggers) developed enough of a following that she was then hired by the Times to write similar recipes and stories.

Heck, speaking of the Times, or other newspapers, they almost always intro a recipe with a story of some kind. This is not just for copyright reasons, but because people actually read them. (e.g. [1])

This audience is different from the one who just googles "Meatloaf recipe" and clicks on the one with the most stars. When you do that, then no, you generally don't want to hear the "life story." But maybe some readers do read it, it connects with them, and then they actually go back to that same site again.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/dining/citrus-salad-almon...
One of the greatest freedoms in life is the ability to say no, to choose what we spend our time on.
Frida van Lisa – A generative AI story written by a human
Decomposing a large query into smaller subsets is the right approach, but I would strongly suggest doing it with VIEWs rather than CTEs. CTEs are a useful tool, but come with their own performance profiles and often using them too much will lead to slower queries.
I'm on Android and use Mastodon in the browser. I wonder whether this is disproportionately common on Android relative to iOS, and so there's less interest in Android native clients?
What if we had programmable LED bulbs that extended into the infrared, and the amount of infrared was inversely proportional to the weather?

In the winter, most electronics in the house are 100% efficient, because they heat the house. The only things better are heat pumps and insulation.

One of the advantages of LEDs is not needing to swap them out so often, so while I could swap bulbs in the winter, I really won’t, and neither will most of us.
Those are great examples of why iOS will never take over the entire phone market regardless of how much better a user-experience they have. Low price is another prominent "feature" that you can't get in an iPhone.

Apple is interesting in that they don't try to be everything for all people. They find a niche (usually a very profitable one) where they can execute better than the competition and they don't try to eat the whole pie. What other tech companies are like that? Nintendo?
Senior high-salary hiring is definitely happening at high numbers, but specializing and finding the right opening matters. We get a ton of CVs, but few in our advertised areas, and we know we can keep looking so everyone involved wins. If you don't have a network to find those jobs, I'd go through a recruiter.

FAANGs, banks, etc have hiring freezes and VC-funded co's don't even know if they can ever raise again: Unspecialized desperate learn-on-the-job well-paying senior hires aren't as big a thing right now
Nothing surprising here.

Real results of studying like for many other activities is not about amount of time spent or effort put in.

I met a lot of people who would spend a lot of time learning things and then immediately forgetting it. Why? Because they were not interested in it.

Being interested in stuff is what causes you to suck out the information about the topic from the environment. We even have whole structures in our brains like reticular activation system that evolved to help with it.

Have you ever noticed that when you got interested in, say, bicycles, you suddenly start noticing what kind of bicycles people are riding, where are bicycle shops around you and that some people in your family have bicycles and some not? Even when this information was previously available to you but you just ignored it because you were not at all interested? You don't have to be actively searching for the information, the information just magically becomes available to you. Our brains are built to ignore everything that is not immediately interesting to you, you have to be interested in something to allow information to pass.

When you are interested in something, you will develop complex, long lasting connections between parts of the material. If you are not interested you are at best just forcing yourself to store the material for retrieval.

When you are interested in something, whenever you read new information it will cause retrieval of information you learned previously, it will cause you to think about both and will put the new information IN CONTEXT (connected with) the old information. It will also reinforce the older memory. It will also make the new memory much more discoverable, more likely to come up when you think about something else related.

This is why students who put in a lot of work but are only interested in good grades can give you answers to the questions but will be unable to connect different things in a way that was not presented in the book.

This is why topics like math (which is what I studied) are mercilessly punishing to people who think they can just memorise it.

It is also why current way that math is being taught to kids is so misguided -- because it tries to turn the topic to something that can be memorised by only ever testing with tasks that were previously listed in a book so that the student can just memorise all types of tasks and the only thing they have to do is recognise which type of task they are faced with. This does not lead to any ability in math.

As an interviewer I am very wary of hiring people who are not interested in what they are doing. Regardless of whether they are able to put in hours they are unlikely to ever improve in any significant way and are almost always only doing minimum to get by. Which in software development tends to result in a lot of technical debt because getting something to run is just about 20% of effort.

Employees who are not interested are unlikely to form deeper connections about things they are doing. They stay forever amateurs in their field where mastery requires deep understanding. They will not react to complex problems other than in a shallow way.
We are asked to bow down to the sun and internalize the rays and glory every early morning and during twilight :)
I worked for a linen rental company when I was in HS. We would rent tablecloths, napkins, aprons, etc to restaurants. When they were dirty the restaurants would put them in garbage bags and leave them outside until we picked them up. During the summer these bags would fill up with maggots, and the smell would be atrocious.

My job was to take the bags that we picked up and sort the linen by color, type, etc.
>Treating employees this way (no guaranteed hours, unpaid scrambling for individual gigs, etc.) is simply evil.

Did you have an employer that managed placement or were you contracting directly with the schools?
What bias? I never even mentioned the other Muslim nations. What concern is it of theirs that Abdus existed? His own land disowning him is to their utter and ever lasting shame. This is of the order of the castration of Turing. The neighbouring nation that Pakistan always fights with would’ve gladly accepted him if he’d wanted to switch.
What strikes me is that even in the Neatherlands, a place with the absolute best mix of public transit and bike infrastructure, there is still 1 car for every 2 people.

When people make comparisons of car ownership vs public transit, they always vastly inflate the cost of ownership, and more importantly, they do not account for the value of one's time. Just to give an example, if I were to replace the driven commute to my office with public transit, my commute time would grow from 30m to 90m each way.

Do not get me wrong. Public transit and especially protected bike infrastructure would be wonderful to have, but we're not going to be replacing cars any time soon. We need to be pushing EVs hard.
I once had to defend myself against an automated red light ticket from a car I did not own, with a driver of a different ethnicity and race than me on a day when I could prove I was not in the country. I've never lived in SF.

From what I can tell, that wing of the SF court house is administered by crooks.

My experiences with SFPD have been mostly fine, but I'd pop open some bubbly if I heard the court house was razed by a frustrated real estate developer.
You might want to track down the information they release from multinational training exercises like Red Flag. Reportedly the F-35 has put in multiple dominant showings at Red Flag since its debut. I'm not sure how complete the information they release from these exercises is, though, and some of the aircraft involved (most notably the F-22) are notoriously restrained to keep the true capabilities of the platform secret.
At first I thought that a code alternative for a no-code solution like zapier was counterintuitive.
But as an engineer using Zapier (for the first time) these past few months I got so frustrated by the lack of an option to just write some "if" or just 2 lines of code to make things work the way I want them.

I think trigger.dev nails it. This is exactly what I needed.
I can highly recommend this seller of IR products and also their educational resources/blog for insight into good ways to measure these types of products even if you decide to buy elsewhere, https://gembared.com/blogs/musings

An example of the level of rigor you can find in their blog:

"Several studies and guidelines have stated that a NIR exposure intensity to the eye of up to 10mW/cm^2 has no risk of cataract formation especially for long-term chronic (daily) exposure over 1000 seconds (16.67 min). [3][4][6] The ICNIRP notes that higher intensities than 10mW/cm^2 are safe for shorter time periods or in cold environments.

They specifically note the guidelines are set to avoid cataractogenesis (formation of cataracts):

"To avoid thermal injury of the cornea and possible delayed effects on the lens of the eye (cataractogenesis), infrared radiation (770 nm - 3 m) should be limited to 100 W/m^2 (10 mW/cm^2) for lengthy exposures ( >1,000 s), and to 1.8 t^3/4 W/cm^2 for shorter exposure durations" [4]

To be clear these guidelines are intended to include incoherent (non-laser) exposures to near-infrared light including incandescent bulbs, infrared heaters, industrial furnaces, and LEDs. And this calculation is for Cornea and Lens safety only and they have other calculations for different wavelength ranges and different parts of the eye.

For shorter exposure times less than 1000 seconds, they give us this formula such that higher intensities can be tolerated according to the guideline.

E < 1.8 (t) ^-3/4 (W/m^2)

From this calculation we can find that 100mW/cm^2 can be tolerated for up to 47 seconds before potential damage could occur according to the ICNIRP.

Other researchers have noted that 100mW/cm^2 of NIR would not cause significant temperature increase in the eyes to cause damage, but the ICNIRP comments that such a high intensity from an incoherent source is impractical because it would felt as “painfully warm” on the face. [3] [5]

Good thing nobody makes “painfully warm” intensity panels that emit >100mW/cm^2 at 6 inches away. However, feeling too much heat on the face is a good warning to move further away, and we are reassured by this data that we don’t immediately get damage from such a high exposure."
This comment is not a troll comment. I just wanted to express my opinion on the subject. I know what we call a joke is as old as human history, thank you for reminding me
I just use a web browser
It was a ballot proposition. That was the stated reasoning of its proponents but assigning motivation for why a referendum came out the way it did is a fools errand. The actual reasons why millions of people voted the way they did will invariably be multi-causal and include things no one in their right mind would consider condensed down to one “Yes” vote.

I remember that vote, and crowding in the prisons wasn’t even a consideration for how I voted because if we wanted to resolve that issue we would build more prisons; therefore it was a useless justification in either direction. In truth, the sum of our choices in California does not make it look like we care about crowding in the prisons, only that we care about looking like we care. It’s been more than 15 years since the first time I read an article about how our prisons are overcrowded, and they’re still overcrowded.
i think, but am not sure, that he was trying to sell OpenAI as unimaginably (near exponentially) awesome
Tesla lost $140M on Bitcoin in 2022
We see versions but maybe there's a lifecycle to every medium. I m sure when TV was invented people made blue-sky predictions about how it would change the world for the better and not become the means that rich people use to rule over democratic audiences. The internet we know was the medium of one-to-all communication but it seems we -very soon- stumbled on the limits of such communication with all the censorship & tracking . Maybe the next medium will use some other mode, where one-to-all does not matter anymore

And while the internet changed societies, it did not "change societies", as in the western world democracies function pretty much as they did in the 80s, but with digital tools instead of analog. We did not see huge changes like when printing was invented: The world map is still the same
I've been following Colossal and de-extinction efforts more generally with some interest (Beth Shapiro's books How to Clone a Mammoth and Life as We Made it are very eye-opening both to the weirdness of the advances of the last 10 years and how far we still have to go)

However I'm getting a little cynical/skeptical when Colossal announces new species to their roster without announcing progress on the other ones, especially given my understanding that mammoths are supposed to be one of the easiest (relatively). I'm guessing the Nicobar pigeon to the dodo is much farther than the elephant to the mammoth, and I think Shapiro thought there was something fundamentally more difficult about working with eggs as well.

This page is pretty heavy on pretty graphics and history and pretty light on recent technological breakthroughs that would make this more feasible.
I had the same question, so I made https://SimplifyRecipe.com a few weeks ago!

There’s an iOS shortcut and chrome extension to reliably get rid of the life story. Hope it’s useful. :)
I guess in the old days...people just died younger? (as a result of the risk taking of moving around quickly)