skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies for the late reply. Somehow I didn't catch what was going on here :|

Your are indeed correct, it is indeed an BMR calculation, specifically I use a revised Harris-Benedict equation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris–Benedict_equation#Calcu...

Perhaps though I should by default use a TDEE calculation...
You missed the point, the planet can still be there even if all life becomes extinct. We're not trying to save the planet. We're trying to save life.
I've spent most of my life doing one start-up or another, but most of them I could not have predicted to form or goal of in advance. So maybe it'll turn out that the next itch that you want to scratch is not an engineering one. Keep your mind open!
You could also appreciate that nature has examples of animals that are ugly or masquerade as something worse than they are, intentionally to fend off other animals that are evolutionarily disadvantageous to survival.

Digital products are largely detached from the burdens of physical effort excepting execution efficiency beyond a threshold, so unsound structures survive all the time and have to be tested in other ways. Whatever horrors exist underneath, so long as the intended audience doesn't care it may survive.

I was a dotcom boom designer, so design isn't alien to me and it's clear that many improvements could be made to HN. It's just that HN isn't a canvas. Many people try, by making their own self-hosted front-ends to HN. They pop up all the time as people inevitably see improvements that could be made and have to express it in their own way, because making things look better can be an addiction especially when the gap between what is and what could be is large. It's just not the point here. :)
It is the same with streaming. I am happy to pay, but not for 100 streaming services to get the content I want (Netflix, Disney+, Paramount, HBO, BritBox, etc).

If I pay for a social network, I want quality content and API access. Twitter wouldn't be the first platform I would pay for.
One man’s quest to revive the great American vacuum tube
I'd add that it's not only the extreme polarisation, but also a muddying of terms that have different meanings or uses between the US and Europe (at least my part of Europe).

I sometimes hear people conflating "the left" and "liberals" when... the left is here opposed to liberalism. Because liberalism means economic liberalism. And the local economic liberals are socially conservative. While the left is economically illiberal, and socially progressive. And our centrists are probably the closest thing we have to the US left, but since they are mostly allied with the right opposing them makes no sense.
> I do find it interesting that housing and living costs seem more unaffordable than the CPI data implies.

I agree with you that things "feel worse" than the data suggests. I asked an old friend a while ago about this, observing "I never worried about how much going out to eat cost 20 years ago, and I was making a lot less money then. Now, it seems so expensive."

"You have a family, house, and retirement to think about now" was his answer.

Part of the spread in feeling vs CPI is likely that CPI represents reported purchases. If people want steak and buy ground beef, CPI reports on the ground beef while you and I in daily life might be noticing our desire for the steak.
When there's so much spam, there's a cost to everyone.
ChatGPT Glitch Tokens
Agree. There's only a picture that comes to my mind to express my perception, from artist Erik Johansson, it is called 'imminent' [1].

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?va=u&t=hj&q=Erik+Johansson+imminent&...
Another giant nothing complain post. It just means that companies should not build their entire business on someone else's API and Twitter can change it and their prices at anytime. No different to other platforms that allow third party apps.

Contrary to this complaint post, the API is still up and far from 'unmaintained' or its 'immediate death' as incorrectly predicted 5 months ago with still 200M - 220M daily active users continuing to use the platform, even after all the chaos and nonsense articles.

Free APIs forever is unsustainable for a business and eventually price increases will happen. Believing otherwise is essentially wishful thinking, just like basing an entire business on someone else's API and not paying for it. There is always a cost.
It’s not about revenue, it’s about making spam unprofitable. Charging 0.25$usd is enough to make spam not worth it.

It also attaches an identity to the posting.
I wish there was a way to use Whisper for continuous recognition! Unfortunately, Whisper doesn't support streaming — and AFAIK it's unlikely that it ever will.
Really? That's the only narrative I've heard.
To do what? You also need people to install said package.
The planet is warming. Biodiversity is plumetting. By not eating meat we can have FOUR TIMES the food or keep the forests in place as REALLY NICE. Its not just the animals suffering. It will be many of us suffering as we burn the earth to fill our greedy bellies.
I think this is broadly the case. A few companies might be genuinely invested in improving performance with such a plan but for the majority it's a way of managing someone out. Over the years I've seen over 30 devs put on PiPs. 1 survived.
I do indeed assume good intentions. Doing that is one of the principles by which I live.
The fee structure is the most interesting in my perspective. It would be interesting to see how an open source platform could combat this with a gas-fee structure using their own token economy. You'd need to get tokens to submit, which you can get by donations by engaging with a community, or by buying them, etc.
Spammers are possibly trying to take advantage of npmjs.com domain's high Google rank. I found and reported this spam account [1] with links to download movies. They seem to be using npmjs as a free web host with good SEO.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/~aarilzd
I think in this analogy, I am the river and books to read are rocks along the bed. I flow over all the rocks and glean some information worn off the rocks.

So I can work on selecting what kind of rocks go into my path that I flow over.
Head on over to apl.chat! People are really friendly over there.
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Great team do a great job. Go Global World helps a lot for startups any opportunities they have. Thank you!
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Alabama Joins Ranks of Regressive States with Remote-Worker Tax
With one memo, Stephen Elop [1] drove Nokia's market cap from its peak of over $57b in March of 2010 to a trough of less than $7b in July of 2012 [2].

[1] https://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/08/coinin...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NOK/nokia/market-c...
Thank you. I do take this “silkworm supplement” in addition to NK. Thanks for sharing some research behind it. I hadn’t come across it yet.
I know you're joking here, however, increasing marginal costs products are well-know and studied in microeconomics.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingmargina...
Thinking about it a bit more, I think Prusa is simply struggling to maintain a foot hold in the industry and remain open source. All the complaints are about the printers. But Prusa does more than just printers.

Prusa forked Slic3r into PrusaSlicer and continuously deliver great improvements and still keep it open source. If you go to the PrusaSlicer page, their github link is right there. And they support Windows, Linux and MacOS. They also attribute Alessandro on the website and the launch screen. The Prusa github also seems to have all their projects and software.

Bambu Labs forks PrusaSlicer and the github link is no where on their site and they only support Windows and MacOS On a piece of software that already had Linux support and the only acknowledge it's a fork on the github. Fortunately the github is still the 2nd link in google. But they aren't really committed to releasing their work if they won't even link to it. And their github has like 2 projects.

Prusa created printables.com to clean up the mess that is thingiverse. Creality created Creality Cloud and then just steals your models even after Naomi Wu advised them not to do that. Prusa runs competitions, has prizes.

Prusa seems to want to keep things open source, try and create a community. But like most open hardware, it's expensive relative to the competition.

As an Apple user, I completely understand the need to not mess about. But I also like to use opensource where possible. Especially for things I want to tinker with. So it's really surprising to me that what seems to be the majority of the hobbyist 3D printer community, a community that tinkers by definition, wants more closed, less repairable hardware. And more propriety software. They just want the cheapest appliance they can get for the money. I think this is what broke my brain. We started open, and could remain that way. But we'd rather not.

It's hard to fight against the might of cheap Chinese manufacturing. I hope Prusa works out a good strategy to survive before we end up in a situation where all the 3D printers requires Windows or MacOS and a login to some cloud service that I don't want.
Western Electric confirms plans to tackle the tube crisis with its Georgia
I already saw integrations with iftth and with Google and with memory stores and zero shot agent that are goal driven

Now the model itself is not intelligent but can parrot enough the human behavior to be dangerous with the correct tools

Now it won't produce anything in the physical world yet unless with iftth but I bet it has already enough agency to be able to maintain a pool of fake account and post inflammatory content if one so wished.
Unmaintained APIs are generally not a problem as long as the underlying platform doesn't change. Let's talk again in 18 months.
Then you give up the benefits of using a managed language, and you now have to maintain two stacks.

IMO/IME much better to go with a language where you don't have this dichotomy in the first place - e.g. Java or C#.
…the “something worthwhile” WAS the projects that the spun up and hired people for, which they are now shutting down since it’s no longer economically viable to continue.

Every single time a layoff is done, there’s a conversation about what initiatives are on the chopping block as a result. Investments that are now lower priority are cut.

It’s really quite disappointing that the prevailing sentiment on HN seems to be that all corporate leadership are a bunch of bumbling fools. Just like technology is more complex than it looks on the surface, so too are large enterprises.
This is my experience exactly. I’ll add to the list of inconveniences:

- hyperlinks in iMessage/SMS aren’t clickable (but they can still be copied/pasted)

- installed apps that use JavaScript in their interfaces can have the same issues as websites (but you can turn Lockdown off for apps as well, if needed)

Overall worthwhile. Something about these “inconveniences” also gives me a sort of psychological disconnection from my phone that I personally find to be very healthy. Similar to how I felt limiting myself to F-Droid in my Android days.
It probably goes even beyond that. Most languages are related to other languages, and somebody good in German and Norwegian could do an ok job transcribing Swedish with minimal training. Similarly, learning English is a lot easier for German speakers than for Chinese, even though German and English are quite different in pronunciation.

The more languages from a language family a human speaks, the easier it is for them to learn each additional language from that family. It stands to reason that deep learning can benefit similarly.
I argue that in this context money spent on a one time feast can be interpreted as money spent on drug rehab. Rehab after all is meant to be a process, even if lengthy, that results in one no longer being dependent and hopefully not relapsing. Rehab is not a process of feeding the vice (unless there are various corporate interests and the process is perverted).

The point is to contrast retribution and discrimination with rehabilitation and empathy. Christianity very much endorses the latter option at least as long as the other is part of the in-group.

But maybe the in-group and out-group separation is very much the point of these laws since the war on drugs (started by Nixon) is a direct continuation of slavery after peonage was ended by FDR during WWII.
The things aren't moving apart.

Space itself is expanding.
SINAD is a simple but good litmus test of DACs, if it has a bad SINAD it will be bad. If it has good SINAD it will be at least good. Given two devices with the same SINAD, one can be better than another in other measurements and/or listening tests.

Power delivery is a secondary parameter for qualitative analysis. Although for end user it may be actually the main parameter and SINAD is a secondary.
I don't buy it. Internal reports from SpaceX and Tesla detail Musk's chaotic, capricious management style that they have to spend resources to actively manage. SpaceX is better at it I guess, because he's seemed to have caused far more problems at Tesla with his antics.

Either way, he's essentially abdicated his CEO role at both companies, and his chaotic management style is on full display now, which confirms the Tesla and SpaceX reports. But why did Tesla and SpaceX thrive where Twitter is failing? Because the former companies grew up to create processes that contain Musk; whereas Twitter was bought outright, so his blast radius is unlimited there. Twitter has no Musk immune response.

At SpaceX when Musk suggests X, where X is... I dunno, an really dumb idea that no one would ever want, the people at SpaceX know how to redirect Musk until he drops it, or they know how to shape it into a good idea. At Twitter, they have no idea how to do this, and so Musk always gets his way, every time. All the people with the skills to turn bad ideas into good ones have left, all the people who tried to manage Musk were fired, so now he's left to his whims. And it shows.

If anything, Musk has proven how ceremonial the CEO role is. He has the title CEO of at least 4 companies, and claims 80 hours per week is a full time role. So at best CEO is a part time job.
Literally everything I have heard about twitter came from twitter or here and it was all negative.
> but the need for real LTS releases is stronger than ever

Actually, I think the LTS mentality is one of the bigger problems in security right now. The hardest problems I've had to deal with in tech all stem for LTS:

* Getting an not-substantial budget to update an essential but forgotten server with custom software and an unpatched heartbleed problem.

* Convincing developers to even look at old web services that have massive SQL injection and were built with libraries with known (six years ago) exploits, all running on some 13 year old version of RedHat.

* Inevitable meetings where you try your best to avoid saying "I told you so" when a disclosure, cryptolocker or malware infestation happens because of the above. These are no fun because they quickly devolve into career-end bingo.
Ask HN: How can someone increase their soft skills?
On Google colab

import numpy as np
import time

vals = np.random.randn(1000000, 2)
point = np.array([.2, .3])
s = time.time()
for x in vals:
np.linalg.norm(x - point) < 3
a = time.time() - s

s = time.time()
np.linalg.norm(vals - point, axis=1) < 3
b = time.time() - s

print(a / b)

~296x faster, significantly faster than the solution in the article. And my assertion was supported by nearly 20 years of numpy being a leading tool in various quantitative fields. It’s not hard to imagine that a ubiquitous tool that’s been used and optimized for almost 20 years is actually pretty good if used properly.
See bunch of recent discussion on the essay about origins of the project etc:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35361473
Searching for the string "down_load_ebook" does unearth a lot of packages. https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=down_load_ebook

About 100k spam packages, with no false positives that I can see.
Hi quickthrower2, thanks for the feedback. Glad you like it and apologies for the late reply. I somehow totally missed that there were comments in this thread. I got a lot of feedback on producthunt and apparently that was enough to distract me.

It should have definitely asked for height and sex, I just tried it and it "works on my iPhone". Perhaps you had to scroll down and that wasn't obvious? Good feedback though, I'll see what I can do there!

As for the calculation: the child comment is right (see below), it's a BMR calculation. However, I think I should change it to a TDEE based as that takes daily movement into account. That should make it more realistic. Any thoughts?
Waiting in order to have more grifters and parasites be part of the AI revolution would be a horrible.
I've been monitoring NPMJS for a few months now. Up until Feb 28th they had a very close handle on these packages and removed them in around 8 hours. We're seeing these packages stay online for a lot longer now (and the volume is much higher)
Note that seems to describe apl-style tacit programming, which is a lot less expressive than j.
it's definitely error in AI giving more complex answer for some answers.

about the image : when there is not enough description on the prompt you sent (at least 5 words) , i add more descriptions depending on the context of the prompt provided , then i generate the picture and send it back.
if provided more description it would be more accurate such as :
"generate image of princess riding a horse and behind her sunset"

i would work on improving it more to fit the entire object in the image
Thankfully archive.org exists, otherwise it would not be possible to get good training data in a few years when the internet is flooded with AI content.
Modern Java and modern C# should be closer to what you described.

On a side note, python is strictly pass by value. For non-primitives, their references are passed by value.
Im sorry, I misread what you were saying. I understood the opposite of what you were saying.
Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird
Rust is great but isn’t the core problem here using the wrong algorithm? It looks like this is ideally suited for a quad tree instead of a naive for loop. I would expect that to pulverise any current benchmark.
But which advertisers? It's not enough to get +10,000 people trying out a $10 or $100 ad while rates are low due to low bidding competition. Twitter needs the big advertisers who expect to have someone at the company support their campaigns. The new owner fired the people who did that. Worse, he fired the people who'd spent years earning those advertisers' trust and patience.
6% is not large scale.

Many would say that if the company only had to lay off 6% they were taking "reasonable" risk.

Compare to say Luno who had to cut 35% of staff: https://techcabal.com/2023/01/26/luno-layoffs/

Counter: What's better for morale, your project to get stopped now and cut and you re-prioritized or let go, or a slow bleed through the year where no new headcount get put on the project as people leave for you to eventually find out in a year that management knew and kept you on that project aimlessly to "avoid a layoff"?

Personally, I'd prefer the former, as the latter would give me a lot more doubt for future projects
Are people who submit to NPM really that short on cash?

I doubt it.
Many people already think that power is mis-used and/or abused and would want to see it pared back rather than extended, myself included.
Did Google ever agree to these terms of service? Why should they care?

From a legal point of view this doesn't matter and from a moral point of view it's hilarious.
> What to do about bogus projects sponsored by wealthy companies?

Does this happen in the real world, rather than as a theoretical concern?

As a thought, when a problem is pressing then sometimes it's best to start with a reasonable action then course correct over time. Rather than doing nothing waiting for a perfect solution.
I would love to use Appsmith and pay-by-usage, but I’m blocked by not being able to SSH tunnel into MySQL.

Anyone with this same issue, please upvote!

https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/issues/518
To be fair, smaller cars are safer.
Made sense to me when I used it. Have a good one.
Qualcomm-backed Aravita wants to help Brazilian supermarkets control food waste
None of which invalidates my original statement that the situation in which a monopoly corporation controls a utility is strictly worse than the government controlling it directly because at least there is one less layer of indirection.
I think the suggestion was that the revenue generated by NPM's commercial dealings should cover any cost associated with a review process for OSS submissions (which in itself would make such spam repositories ineffective)
Diving into the Vehicle Routing Problem
Google has already denied this. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/29/23662621/google-bard-chat... (For whatever that's worth.)
I found Bill Joy's, “Why the future doesn't need us,” much more convincing.
I'd recommend using lower resolution inline images on your pages... they're very slow to download.
Just think of it, there is a real developer who decided to do this. Spam is immoral, but doing that to an open source repository is your personal all time low.
Is this spam not easily mitigated by simple Bayesian approaches and collection of link features by visiting them?
Who cares about an argument on some random Internet forum? Doing a study and then publishing a paper on the efficacy of using Narcan to treat OUD would open up that treatment to more people, saving lives.
Great work happy to see project made for fun here!
Please thoroughly read the comment you are replying to.
Is that not what schnorr signatures solve?
I'm sad you feel that way, but I guess I won't change your mind with any arguments I might make.

For myself, I see myself primarily as a human, not a white human, or a male human, or an English human, although they all contribute to my identity. I just don't see those things as of primary importance, and are merely accidents.
If we don't choose option 2, we're choosing option 1.

We need to address the source and the problem at the same time. Regulatory capture doesn't really apply here, but lobbying (which is synonymous with corruption at this point) definitely does. Fixing the citizen's united issue would be a proper start at addressing the lobbying problem.
A lot of counties (like mine) don't have access to global payments. Having a card in Euro or USD requires special paperwork.
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Damn my eyes. Upvote earned with prejudice
The problem for Musk was that he had to borrow a lot, and interest payments are now significant for Twitter.

Twitter could have easily be turned into a profitable business by cutting 15%, rather than 50% of staff.