skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poach your eggs and you don’t have to worry about sticking! :)
With very few exceptions obesity is simply the result of eating more calories than needed for a long time. Very obese people eat a LOT of food. 10,000 calories/day for years is not uncommon.
What do you think about embryo selection?
FastAPI is the better choice now as its ecosystem is much more up to date and has more batteries included than flask (eg FastAPI has authentication included).
Why Is It So Difficult to Build Walkable Places?
I can think of one who was once in the White House.
Ok I’ll take the bait

> BTC largely seems irrational.

I’d be interested in which parts are irrational.
I think we're saying the same thing. You're trusting the statistical analysis done by the author. When I peer review, I check to make sure that the conclusions the paper draws are in line with what it says statistical analysis was, and I check to make sure that the analysis used is the right one, but I don't check their math. And also, I'm not a statistician, so I'm not authoritative on the full space of statistical analysis, anyway.
The underlying problem is the same as the lottery: the human brain adjusts probability on the basis of severity.

Terrible things happen. They aren't likely to happen.
uBlock Origin URL filter lists don't work the same as ClearURLs.
Privacy Badger is an extension by the EFF. It blocks cookies, that's it.
The other one I don't know, but you should stop being condescending when teaching people about things you don't know about. Using uBlock Origin only might be a good option for some cases, but it's not a silver bullet.

For reference, ClearURLs can bypass redirects, has etags protection, both features which uBlock origin does not have (or at least didn't have last time I checked).
Privacy Badger removes outgoing link tracking by Facebook and Google, has custom well-tested lists to block cookies or blocking third-party without blocking them entirely when necessary/useful. It also has quite a few smart learning features (not the ones Google tells are "fingerprinting" you) such as blocking canvas-based fingerprinting on the go.

uBlock Origin is awesome. The default blocking lists are great. The other ones provided with the extension are even better. But it's not a magic silver bullet. What you're going to use really depends on what you want out of your browsing experience, what your threat model is, etc.
They're working on it: https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-view/.

We (Sourcegraph) are also working on it, and also bringing other kinds of code intelligence to the LLM so we can answer more kinds of questions: https://twitter.com/sourcegraph/status/1623339664428892162.
> I feel like an old man screaming at kids to get off the lawn

You are an old man screaming at kids and normal people playing in a park.

TikTok is the most non-toxic social media. It's a positive sign we can move forward past Facebook and Twitter.

And it's more positive than HN. You don't have old people on TikTok to trying destroy what young people are doing to reclaim their youth.
Yet ironically, McKinsey is now totally disgraced.
> If you don't assume existence of second moments, it is non-trivial to show that min E[(X-f(Y))^2] makes sense if any.

To show that

E[Y|X]

exists, essentially I did that.

Really, all need from X is its sigmaalgebra. That is, can do the argument conditioning on a sigmaalgrbra instead of a random variable X. For Y, I didn't include the details back to the Radon-Nikodym theorem, but may not even need that E[Y] is finite.

Sure don't need finite "second moments".
One thing to keep in mind is that even if all else being equal, being poor in the UK is much worse than in a southern country due to the climate and the energy requirement of heating. UK's awful building standards from back in the day don't help.

Also, inflation and energy prices are worse in the UK than many European countries, compounding the problem.
My Beanie Babies will still prove valuable. You’ll see. Any day now.
SQLAlchemy optimization: Speeding up a 21h job to 8 minutes
I think the future of gaming is to get rid of mechanics that computers are good at. Aimbots in an FPS are a common cheat, and they are pretty much undetectable with video analysis + a modded usb mouse providing the inputs. What I take away from that is that the next generation of first-person-kill-the-enemy games will simply rely less on aim and more on tactics and strategy; "press E to apply this debuff to this enemy" instead of "click the enemy's head to kill them". Overwatch is a good example of this style of game; you can be a top 10 player with garbage aim. (Aim is still a mechanic and people do cheat, of course.)

Wall hacks are another common hack; getting information that the game client has but that you aren't supposed to know. I think games will have to evolve to being "perfect information", just let all players see behind walls.

All in all, I don't see cheating as ruining gaming as a whole. Game designers will design games that are more difficult to cheat at, and hopefully there will be less cheaters ruining your matches. I would definitely play the can-see-behind-walls-and-aim-doesn't-matter FPS!
> Mr. Johnson is now back to investing, this time only in bitcoin and with a longer time horizon

This is the way.
Concur interesting read!
I'm curious what was the price for London to Barcelona and what was time on the TGV return leg?
BTC is completely rational because its controlled by a few whales.

Whenever bad news happens in crypto land they pump the price to restore confidence so there isn't a bank run and the money laundering can continue.
would be really funny if both teams bet against themselves and are trying to loose.
For reasons having nothing to do with ownership structure, so that doesn't seem as relevant.
I was in a college class that had a mix of inner city and suburban kids.

Ask the suburban kids to describe the inner city? Dangerous. Crime-ridden.

Ask the inner city kids to describe inner city? Community. Know their neighbors.
It's not really worth arguing about the definition of "AI". All the things you listed as "not AI" could just as easily be a list describing what "AI" can do.
Sure, there are more technical terms for these particular "filters" and how they actually achieved, but almost no one cares about making that distinction IRL.

"AI" is going to stick as a broad term, get used to it.
So say you are right and that you’ve convinced me that I should be against electronic voting machines, my prior opinion on the matter was still formed in good faith, no?

edit: on a side note, that website’s description of electoral fraud is pretty sloppy. In their bullet points of what constitutes electoral fraud they include ballot harvesting. Their description of ballot harvesting is not illegal everywhere.
I wanted to like AppImage, but it just didn't seem integrated well enough. Flatpak gives you:

- Installation (no manually moving files from ~/Downloads)

- Launcher integration (no writing .desktop files by hand)

- Auto updating

As far as I saw, AppImage didn't have any of that. Though it was a while ago (and maybe some of this was my distro's fault). Has any of this improved lately?
Theorem Proving and Algebra book (2006) [pdf]
I think the point is that the corps should have to pay to keep their workers and the environment safe
Was. London no longer feels enjoyable to me since the pandemic. The high-street and hospitality/entertainment industry has been decimated, whatever's left is worse and more expensive. Transport is awful, even black cabs are hard to get nowadays where as before they used to be very reliable if you were happy to pay the price.
Tell HN: Edge has started showing banner ads in its UI
Edge just showed me a (huge) ad within the browser UI (between the address bar and web view):

> Take your AI-powered copilot for the web on the go! Download Microsoft Edge on your mobile device to sign-up and get ready for the new Bing experience!

This is especially irritating because there's no reason to show me this ad--I already use Edge as my primary browser on mobile (because the latest iOS update made Safari start losing its scroll position when going back to a previous page).

Between this and the frequent repinning of an Edge icon to my Windows desktop (every single update), I'm fairly annoyed.

Does FireFox do this kind of annoying stuff? Is there another browser I should try?

Edit: I've seen small "ads" before in Edge (like "try this new feature" or "oh no, please don't install Chrome"), but never just a literal huge banner ad.
"Still" is not a prediction.
That happens in places, but probably not in the places where people living here are.

But if you are adopting from a foreign country beware that it is easy to kidnap some baby from a remote village. Some of the less ethical adoption agencies have done this in the past.
> In any other market, if the product doesn't work or harms someone the company goes out of business or the maker is sued.

Not strictly true, here in the UK you wont get refunds for drug treatments that dont work if seeing a private gp (or vet), thats why the NHS exists, its harder to sue the NHS in those conditions.

NICE who decide what drugs to use, is veiled in secrecy unless you can attend one of their public meetings, just like its impossible to attend every court case, its a form of resource burning which only the rich entities can afford.

IF you do challenge any drugs, you'll get passed from pillar to post until you under up in the govt's lap and they make the rules up as they go along, but its very hard to get any recourse unless you can afford expensive lawyers who know the technicalities to use as an approach vector.
> Zoom, Slack, Spotify, Steam, Discord, Obsidian

Most of these are proprietary. I view these third-party stores mostly as a way to ship proprietary software. Not sure what else they add, and the downsides of having yet another package manager on top of your system's are obvious. I'm surprised KDE is behind this.

Some sort of packaging standard that works across distributions would be beneficial, but it'd have to be integrated with the system's package manager, not tacked on.
For anyone curious as to how I solve the problem right now, I just have two separate Firefox profiles. One has a ton of plugins; I use it to browse the web. The other has no plugins; I use it to visit my bank's website.
Egg color has to do with breed and diet, the dominant hen type in the US produces white eggs but brown are fairly common. At the co-op I can get eggs that are blue and green, just different breed of hen. Washing does not affect color in the slightest.
Not to mention, most of these companies keep on saying there will be exceptions for exceptional employees in a clear attempt to still keep the high performing employees they like.
They've already added custom logic to prevent their LLM from e.g. praising Nazis or whatever restrictions people are upset about -- seems it'd be easy to configure the software to exclude references to known unavailable services.
In Principles, he describes some high-level decision making processes. Bridgewater is split into groups of about 300 people. Within those groups, smaller groups are formed to discuss particular strategies. Everybody has "baseball cards" of their coworkers with stats showing peer-rated talent in various sub-domains. When a decision is made, there are two rounds of voting: a raw vote, and a vote weighted by stats (e.g. somebody whose peers have rated them as knowledgeable about agricultural trades would have more votes in this phase). If the two rounds of voting don't align, they try to keep discussing the issue until they do align (though there are tie-breaker rules if deadlock is reached). I'm not saying this system is perfect, but it's interesting to me as a meta-strategy for evaluating potential strategies.
Very worrying to see this here. The fact that the population has resorted to using the government to create such a bill goes to show the problem is not being looked at in the right perspective. A silly solution to a serious problem
The current tech zeitgeist (generative AI) is moving bewilderingly fast and has changed writing and programming in ways unimaginable 5 years ago, but it still warms my heart to see HN posts about the latest in plaintext formats and static site generation
The Role of IPFS in Promoting Data Accessibility and Stability
I just spent two weeks going across Europe by many modes of transport.

- Australia to Amsterdam by plane (of course)

- Amsterdam to Berlin by train (first class cabin, ~6h)

- Berlin to Krakow by plane (Ryanair, at airport 2h before flight via train, plane ride is 1h)

- Krakow to Vienna by plane (roughly the same deal as the previous flight)

- Vienna to Verona by ÖBB sleeper train (11h or so)

- Verona to Breschia by train

- Breschia to Milan by bus

- Milan to Australia (3h buffer before flight, 20h flying total with 3h stopover in Doha)

- More transport to get home from the airport after that.. a bus, a train and another bus.

A hell of a lot of transport. I was glad to have it all over and done with. Plane trips were quicker and cheaper normally. I would only travel by train if I there’s a sleeper cabin available and you can book it so it’s private. Otherwise you’ll be travelling and sleeping near other people. If I could, I would probably just take planes everywhere. The night train to Verona was OK, but it’s still cramped and uncomfortable depending on the cabin you book. And it’s pricey depending on when you book. It’s fun to experiment but planes were a bit better, at least on this trip.
- Hey check out this AI tiktok feature

- You mean advanced image processing?

- blank stare. uh... ok, whatever, it's really cool

- It is advanced image processing, not "AI"

- yea, so anyway, check this out
Chrome doesn’t have to be a beacon of quality for Firefox to look bad in comparison.
All our kids are creative, but he's also got the execution and promotion genes, I'd claim good parenting but it's just the roll of the genetic dice.
You don't give permissions to an arbitrary Android app because you don't trust it, whereas GNU Emacs can be fully trusted, (unless you run untrusted Emacs Lisp code, ofc). I even tend to think it requires too few permissions, e.g. it cannot initiate phone calls.

If you don't trust the F-droid build, you can always build it from the sources.
> He thus set the standard for future generations of partners,

said who?
The WSJ isn't what it used to be.
So what if determinism is true? Does responsibility even make sense in an ultimate sense? And any meaning you give yourself is dependent upon past environmental history.
A revolution some might say
Like a stalker x-lover.
> But is it really “AI”?

No, nothing is “really AI” except AGI, everything else is only called AI when its new and shiny. Once its established, it stops being AI.

E.g., rule-based expert systems are no longer described as AI by almost anyone, despite being one of the earliest kinds of “AI” systems. In a few years, LLMs and diffusion-based text-to-image and image-to-image systems won’t be “AI” either.
>To which you have to get on microphone and plead "I'M HUMAN, I'M HUMAN!"

In a few months even this won't be good enough.
Zuck didn’t get hired. He owns a controlling interest in the company.
I have seen this, if I recall correctly, on an NVIDIA system. I suspect the Flatpak had trouble working with the (proprietary) driver.
Tim Urban of Wait But Why wrote a book
That's fair, and I don't disagree that parents and guardians should have rights over their children to punish them for discipline. That said, you certainly still can't spank your pets...

Look, I agree that the state should have a lot of leeway in letting parents decide what is best for their children. But in and of itself, spanking is the direct use of physical harm (the fact people even split straws on whether or not it causes "lasting damage" is really the wrong question to be asking) to a child to get your way, whether you feel it's justified or not. And there is this reflexive defense of it because it's just this completely weirdly ritualized punishment where people have completely distanced themselves from the idea that while yes, they are inflicting physical pain upon their children, they've made themselves comfortable with the idea because it's a traditional parenting method.
You're literally on a site founded by a billionaire who coded.
Isn’t TikTok still growing like crazy? I don’t see why they need to layoff now - that’s like OpenAI saying they’re laying off 10% because the market is so tough.. not for you it isn’t!
One of the reasons we built https://ftd.dev is this. Check out this example: https://fifthtry.github.io/bling/chat/

Unlike what you did, here you can create new component in ftd itself, so there is no limit to how many such components you can create while authoring content.

Maybe you are tired of single quote block: https://fifthtry.github.io/bling/quote/
That’s a heck of a take.
Obesity started rising across all age groups at about the same time (ca. 1980).
The whole financial system is a scam and a pyramid scheme of unprecedented gargantuan proportions. That's why crypto thrives in that environment. It doesn't make sense to say that crypto is a scam any more than it makes sense to say that stocks are a scam. They are both systems of allocation and accounting; nothing more. It always depends on which specific cryptos and which specific shares you're talking about.

If cryptocurrency, as a concept, is a scam, then you might as well say that accounting, as a concept, is also a scam.

A cryptocurrency is just a ledger of accounts which is extremely reliable and which is open for public auditing. What's bad about that?
It sounds like an amazing product, why not use it?

The whole thing just turned into a dumb religious war.
Ask them something specific that only they would know. Classic anti-cold reading technique.
Not smart with economics, is the mainstream idea that it will always go up long term? I always kind thought crashes were inevitable occurrence, and that its gotta go down for it to go back up again. And inflation and the ever higher line and so forth is just ultimately a superficial thing to keep things moving.

Or rather, wouldn't it be more rational to strive for the line to stay even? Such that we can save all the tumult, the upticks in suicide, the poverty.
Geez, that's really hard in so many ways, even without accounting for current conditions.

There's a lot of new personal/social energy-awareness these days (= recent decades really, but constantly growing), including especially awareness of mental health and an unprecedented elevation of meaningful workplace concerns, to say nothing of natural sensitivities and so on.

This is all good, but in order to be good, it has to first surface a lot of easily-transferable, easily-projectable, highly-personal information.

So, that's all out there. Suffering, made clear, made free-er, louder than it was. Otherwise it's legitimately harder to process and eventually overcome.

And that's just one situation going on, amidst everything else.

Personally I found that trying different work-support theories really helps me. This is a hell of a hand-wavy term, but what that means in effect is maybe trying a nootropic developed for Soviet cosmonauts, see if that makes work more interesting in some ways. I got some caffeine toothpicks in my shopping cart. And some "Another Round" (film) type ideas I'd like to take a crack at some time, in a procedural way.

Playing more with work/life balance too, finding a more efficient way to take on problems before they get too monotonous, and then moving on to stuff I like.

My spouse is good at finding new teamwork theories that help her at work as well. She schedules regular training, and those trainings (depending on the topic!) are actually really good at helping people find meaningful comfort or restorative energy in a lot of cases.

We've also found that creating a pocket of joy--to borrow your term, means pushing for what you want.

Otherwise life, people, problems, will keep encroaching. That feeling _is_ dark.

These boundaries come in a lot of forms, but a huge one is expectations. Of myself, by myself. Or of myself, by others. Or of my team members, by others, and so on.

For example, today I took time out to set a boundary. It took me four revisions of two emails, sending drafts back and forth to involved parties before I was ready to send. I started getting a migraine just as I hit "send".

But now I feel great, because I heard back, and that problem will never be a problem again, and I can keep doing what I enjoy doing without the previous interference.

So some things like that can come up. They are depressing in their arrival. But their goings-away can really create new space for rest and appreciation of life.

(This is to say nothing of thousands of other perspectives, from energetic to sensory to creative and so on. Like, a damn good nap or 9 hours of sleep and a hot shower...a newly-installed Linux desktop of an interesting distro...a new release of some favorite software...this all helps)

Well. Just some thoughts. No fixes offered or guaranteed, but just to share, chime in a bit, etc.

I hope it also helped you a bit to write it out.
I've found that one of the best ways to manage technical debt is to treat it as much as possible like "ordinary" debt.

At times, it can be advantageous to take on some amount of financial debt. For instance, you might be able to pay for a car with all cash, but if interest rates are low and you want to retain a healthy emergency fund, you might decide that it's more valuable to take on a loan.

But any auto loan you take on will have a repayment schedule that you have to agree to up front. And that is exactly how you should treat technical debt as well. You should figure out a term and a repayment plan, then get your stakeholders to commit to it.

Easier said than done, of course. But too often we label something as technical debt and it ends up at the bottom of a Jira backlog, and it's still sitting there years later.
> that I've always found delightful

Leaking user data to me is a betrayal of trust, incredibly distasteful, and probably borders on illegal (it ought to be imo). Note that this is fundamentally different than watermarking streaming content or other material that the user is not legally permitted to copy. Watermarking the game binaries themselves, for example, would be entirely different and perfectly acceptable from my perspective.
It’s up like 50% over 2 months. Nimble traders are raking.
Oh, come on, you're being willfully ignorant if you believe there is no relation between the two.

Sure, the buyback plans were made before the derailment, but the fact that plans haven't change shows how little they care about the victims versus their profits.

Even ignoring individual blame, there is the question whether as a society we should allow corporations in general to distribute huge sums of money to their shareholders after a fiscally-significant incident like this. Victims will require compensation, probably for decades. If the company reorganizes or folds in bankruptcy -- which seems somewhat likely -- we the taxpayers will be stuck holding the bag.
Honestly I’d love the dadaism if the TikTok CEO would do one of those obnoxious TikTok videos announcing the layoffs.

Robot voice and pointing at things while making dumb faces or dancing
Well, the only part of flatpak I honestly like is bubblewrap, the only reason flatpak even makes any sense to me
An AppImage is just a regular binary. Basically if you have a directory containing a binary plus other files it needs (libraries, assets, etc), AppImage packages the whole dir up into a single binary. That's it. Running the AppImage is the same as extracting the dir and running the binary inside it.
Even of Bridgewater was a public company, that does not mean it is a public good / owned by society at large / owned by the government.

A public company is one that is publicly traded. In other words anyone can buy shares in it which means you become a part owner.

You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company