skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some relations are already plural. Say you have a class called UserFacts that store miscellaneous information about a user, like age and favorite color. What will you call the database table?

> The last argument above is the strongest, because it only takes one such exception to wreck an entire schema’s consistency. You won’t run into problems with singular, now or later.

If it's valid to have a named User that stores User for the sake of consistency, then it should also be valid to have a table named UsersFact that stores user's facts for the sake of consistency? Doesn't it work both ways?
> Most of that 70% has enough control of these factors to reap their benefits

And yet they don't, so it suggests to me that "it's not that simple". It's better to imagine that people _are_ doing what they can and it's still not enough, so rather than victim blaming, we can discover what's actually going on in these people's lives that's stopping their ability to reach it.

Are they so downtrodden that it's not worth the effort anymore? Are they actually working 2-3 jobs and 100 hours of unexpected time a week so they literally don't have time? Do they live so far away from work because they can't afford to live close such that all their time is spent commuting and they have no extra time anymore?
I've been experiencing similar things recently and have also been making a couple of changes to try and help. Removing caffeine/alcohol has been a huge one for me -- initially I found it very difficult to not drink, because I thought that drinking always leads to 'fun'. After stopping, I tried a couple of times again to drink (a couple of glasses and even one total binge session). I've noticed that I just don't enjoy the feeling anymore, and the hangover effects are just not worth what little gain I now get from it. It was journaling that helped me uncover that -- I could track how I felt after days with caffeine, days after drinking, and then the answer became pretty clear to me. Maybe i'll enjoy drinking again soon, but right now I'm content to skip it.

One thing I still struggle with is being able to give myself downtime after work. I always feel the need to be progressing with something -- completing more video games, reading more books, or getting stronger at the gym. I'm not sure how best to deal with that feeling.
"good genetics" (if we can even say that) might help give an edge for elite athletes, but really, for most able bodied people, it's not a factor you should be thinking about when it comes to exercise. Just get out there and use your body, it's amazing.
Why not just sell these houses with no restriction even at a market profit?
If reasonably priced nice houses are required to attract talent, just solve that problem.

Healthcare shouldn't be tied to employment, WWII is over. Housing shouldn't be added to that list.
We don't need to have a Company Store model.
How is Ben Mckenzie's opinion on "crypto" relevant to HN?
You can’t minimize the chilling effect of being targeted and prosecuted by the government even if it is thrown out on appeal. Were they jailed during the appeal process? Were they allowed to leave the country or even state with a pending court case?
It would be good to know how it affects various subsets of lymphocytes. Does it boost immunosuppressive lymphocytes, i.e. Tregs?

Could the transient boost result from a boost in Tregs which actually chase inflammation that is caused by exercise?
In your definition, theocracy is only a theocratic dictatorship, however there are other forms of theocracy, and I am pointing out one such case. I do not believe either Israel or Utah are literally theocratic, only because they have constitutions that allow the free practice of religion, but in /practice/ both are.
I’m not sure if you know yet, but one of the first ChatGPT plugins was WolframAlpha. That adds a rather advanced calculator to it’s toolset.
There's definitely some ambiguity there, that's a good point.

I'd probably say that users_facts would be a to-many join table between users and facts, like if you had one row per fact and a multiple facts per user though that example doesn't really make sense here (could just have the FK exist in Fact and not need a join table). If UserFacts were stored in a table with multiple facts in one row about a single user, I would probably call that table user_facts.

Would probably also be fine with running across either in any codebase (or even singular table names, for that matter! as long as it's consistent :D )
Speaking only for myself, it took a few months of regular writing.

Like (perhaps) others, I had been forced to use them in grade school -- we were told that "it would improve our handwriting". It laid a foundation for fluency in cursive, but my actual handwriting was terrible.

However, when I came back to fountain pens (after a couple of decades), it was relatively easy to improve my script to where I'm happy with it. Having the "cursive" foundation probably helped a ton.
Nah, you can easily get a residential mortgage from smaller lenders with just proof of income/savings, and the sort of light credit usage you get from monthly CC payments, rent, utilities. That will net you a solid credit score, too.

The issue is with very large banks. They have rigid underwriting deparments and poor CS, so if you approach them as a first-time buyer who isn't already leveraged to the hilt, they will make it a long and painful process. Mortgage agents are a prime target for AI replacements, because all they do is relay information between you and the underwriting departments that make the real decisions.

Other people have pointed out that when you take a loan for something you can afford, you can use the money you would have spent on other things in the meantime. (As long as you're confident that you'll keep making enough money to make your payments for the life of the loan.)
Oracles free forever tier is so underrated. They just throw half a startup at you at no cost.
That seems really a really weird combo, I wonder what the thinking was.
I agree that the usefulness of documentation systems such as odoc comes from a carefully curated interface, but I disagree with them needing a separate file which in my experience is cause of friction.

Other languages (I am familiar with Rust and Python) also have documentation systems that only show you public methods (and functions, types, etc.), and I find them equally useful as odoc. They just take the visibility information from inline annotations (which are enforced by the compiler, in the case of Rust) instead of a separate file.
And you don't even need to go that far. Bourdain is talking in the context of running a successful restaurant -- serving quality food to customers that they want, on time. The artist can be everything GP said they were and still be inferior to the mercenary in that context.
But exercise yields more benefit than just cancer prevention. Don't you want to maintain strength and mobility as you age? Sleep better? Build mental and physical resilience?

I'll wager that we won't see a substitution for exercise and its benefits. Ever. It's just part of human life, and embracing it is by far the healthiest mindset.
> Except despite the vast amounts of counter-evidence, people still are somehow dumb enough to think that hiding stuff from kids works (drugs, guns, porn, e.t.c).

It's super effective. Not perfect, but "hiding stuff from kids" has excellent ROI—relatively easy, and damn effective. Ask any parent, we do it all the time, and if it didn't work, we'd stop.
> would be forced to be outside doing physical activity more

I have no citation, but I believe most low-income jobs in the US involve:

* standing for long, long hours and not moving (cashiers)
* sitting for long, long hours and not moving (call centers)
Definitely even, no chance half of infinity is a decimal.
I'd call it user_facts too, it's an 1:n relationship from users to facts. Maybe `users_facts` if it's an n:m relationship, but frankly I can never come up with good names for many-to-many tables.
That most of the historians involved in studying that period and forming that consensus were Christians (or Muslims) before they started...

There's no particular reason to believe that a historical Jesus-figure didn't exist, but the attestations to his existence are the New Testament, written some decades after he is believed to have existed (generally believed to be based on a single document which has been lost despite its obvious significance to early Christians), a couple of secular Roman references to him as the figure the Christian cult was centred on also written some decades later, and a couple of lines in Antiquities of the Jews whose wording varies greatly depending on which of the much later copies you read...

On the one hand, that's more attestations to his existence than most of the people who lived in classical antiquity. On the other hand, we have plenty of references to the angel Moroni that Joseph Smith met from a wider variety of sources written within a few decades of the meeting supposedly taking place, and I'm still completely comfortable doubting that the angel Moroni was a real historical figure.
>Reddit (and other social sites) destroyed the small websites

I disagree here, Reddit didn't destroy the small websites, the users leaving the small websites destroyed the small websites. Reddit did not put any duress on the users and force them to leave. Instead having everything they wanted in one place without 20 different logins motivated the users to stay on Reddit instead. Convenience motivates individual action.

Also, coming back to your first point on Google, but tying into Reddit. Spammers are destroying the internet. The reason Google is failing is spammers are expending far more energy to spam than Google is willing to spend to detect spam. Reddit is still very willing to expend energy to prevent spam on their site, hence becomes a higher quality source of information than the average search.

The size of Google and Reddit both make them targets for spammers, and I believe eventually their success will be mostly eaten by the costs of preventing spam from ruining their services.
I was walking 10+ miles every day when I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Lung Cancer, which means it was growing pretty much the entire time I was exercising. It’s not just Diet, exercise and sleep (and proper eating). Some of it is just plain luck.
How am I not surprised to find our favorite kernel level anti-cheat company doing this.
Although the most egregious examples are probably fake information, there will be no shortage of simply low signal to noise information that will use sheer quantity to drive out stuff more carefully crafted by people who aren't going for volume.
It's the same for almost any profession I think. As long as you can't decide what to do with your own time, and you work from the supervision of someone else, you will always feel like that. Maybe you are better off trying to create your own business instead.

Or become a freelancer, and switch jobs every two years or so. It isn't easy either way.

But there are other jobs where you would be a better fit, so I think you probably should switch jobs, and avoid the risk of getting burned out.

There where you are currently at, it's not going to get any better, right?
"Countably infinite" makes zero sense to me.

Whatever method you use to generate your decimals, you can just slap an integer on each step of the way. You'll never run out of integers.

I'll put Cantor and his proof in a box, tell him to give me his fancy decimals quick as he can, and I can match each one with an integer no problem.

And pairing one infinite list with another infinite list doesn't make either one any more countable, because however high you count, they keep on going.
Cotton/plantation sharecropping, ~1860-1950 in the US south.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping

Generally exploitive features include: an exclusive buying right by a certain party (allowing them to set prices), incidentals and necessities of life only being purchased from a certain party, mortgaging future assets in exchange for current goods/services (often with steep or complex credit terms), and restrictions on free sale of assets to arbitrary third parties (preventing price discovery and realization of fair market value).

As GP observed, these specific modern agreements generally avoid those pitfalls.
Or, you could eat the spinach. Seriously, blended things as drinks can good and bad. At least you get some fibre with a smoothie, a lot of de-pulped fruit drinks are more sugar than beneficial.

Raws spinach has higher oxalate. Cooking oxalate rich food can be important for some kidney stone sufferers
Very cool. I found the author's candid FAQ page worth a read. Their head seems to be in the right place.
Long ago I was reading someone registered corp in some other jurisdiction with the same company name which he wanted to impersonate with EV cert. And succeeded.

So what are you proposing is of questionable value.
Yeah, I can’t wait to live in a real life version of Rapture from the BioShock series. ;-)

I’m looking forward to Incinerate and Telekinesis myself.
aliases that you have to use frequently are a sign that something in your schema is named inaccurately.
> Transfinite ordinals also known as hyperreals should really be taught in school as they make many parts of math easier: algebraic definition of derivatives

Q: What proportion of children study maths long enough to understand derivatives?
Query Hacker News Using Auto-GPT
You definitely need a new job. All jobs have their ups and downs, but they don't need to be all downs.
If there's one hill I'm determined to die on (given the information that I have anyway) is that any scientific finding extrapolating information from "brain waves" or "region activation" is little more than modern day phrenology. Of course this is not an original thought, though I find it alarming that it's the minority opinion seeing as EEG/fMRI augury suffers from blatant methodological and even statistical flaws.

There are too many sources to list but I think [0] has a good and varied collection of what I consider to be statistically informed thoughts on "cognition" research, see e.g. [1] [2] for a gentle introduction.

(I should like to point out that I recognize the usefulness of brain measurements in medical contexts; I'm just saying that using them to say anything about non-pathological perception or metaphysics has so far been fantastically unsuccessful.)

[0] http://bactra.org/weblog/cat_cognition.html

[1] http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2017-08.html#neuromania

[2] https://www.powells.com/book/neuromania-9780199591343
> A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of death.

Ah... so it happens nine times out of ten.

> The micromort concept was introduced by Ronald A. Howard

I was genuinely surprised that not by Terry Pratchett.
I am kind of curious how it got this far. Was the software never audited in any way? Were the defects so subtle that they could not be reproduced? Was no manual audit required for the convictions?
Stress generally comes from being or feeling powerless to change your state of being. It's the negative feedback your mind gives you in an attempt to spur you to regain control. There are two ways you can overcome it: gain control or relinquish the desire for control. You just don't want to be in the middle, craving more control but having none. This is the position most employees find themselves in, unhappy but trapped and in need of a paycheck.
That makes sense. Mozilla's handling of Pocket was very poor.
I think this is a gnome bug rather than an ff one, but it's pretty shit on my desktop. It reports absurd (<10ft) accuracy while being off by miles.

Edit: s/100ft/10ft after I remembered better
Beans, rice, eggs and oats are cheaper, healthier and quicker than Mcdonalds. (Rice is not quicker). If McDonals were the only choice they wouldn't be spending millions on advertising.
Size of the company is actually irrelevant.

What's important is the number of developers they put on the project.
Idk how fair that is but reminded me of the email fiasco some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27706128
A very recent conversation on HN: “I’ll tell you what your doctor might not be telling you” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35746215
In psql:

wiredfool=> select * from user;
user
-----------
wiredfool
(1 row)

Rule 0, Don't name tables with reserved words.
> Say you have a class called UserFacts that store miscellaneous information about a user, like age and favorite color. What will you call the database table?

“It has user_factses in its database, precious”
Yeah.

One of the interesting things about running a search engine (Blekko) was when the crawler would discover web sites that are were "SEO[1] boosters." Under the .tv (Tuvalu the country, not television) domain our crawler found hundreds of "discussion boards" using off the shelf open source phPBB software and, at the time, a text generator based on markov chains, where the entire "discussions" were presumably supposed to look like users discussing the merits of products and recommending one over the competitors. ChatGPT makes this even easier and harder to spot algorithmically.

Another of the 1000 cuts in "Internet advertising" that are whittling away at "search advertising" and reducing the margins on those ads.

At some point we'll look back on the "age of Google" and trace out its genesis as it killed Alta Vista, to its amazing growth, to its self destruction by relying on network scale to do what it does without protecting itself from adversaries with equivalent scale.

[1] SEO, aka Search Engine Optimization, aka the somewhat shady practice of employing tactics in order to get a search engine to rank your content high enough to appear in the organic results.
> there were no "operating systems" back when Common Lisp Standard started out other than Lisp itself.

This isn't really true, of course.

Sure, Commonlisp was mainly the standardization of MIT Lipsm lisp (based on MACLISP), influenced by good ideas from PARC's D-Machine Interlisp-D (based on Interlisp). Both ran on the bare iron of their respective machines.

But their predecessors MACLISP and BBN Interlisp both ran on PDP-10s under Tenex, Twenex (and those latter two's official OSes) and MACLISP also on PDP-10 ITS (its original home) Multics (both hardware and an OS). Other MACLISP-ish Lisps such as VAXLISP (VMS) and franz lisp (Unix on PDP-11s and Vaxes) contributed as well. These were all user space environments.
Because of the restrictions do the homes show up as assets on the company's books? If so, what happen in bankruptcy? Something about the deal doesn't sit right with me but I can't put my finger on it.
Everybody has a group they consider 'those people'. It is at least best we have a discussion before banning any of 'those people' before we realize that the people in charge consider 'those people' whatever group you are in.
I think there are three fundamental aspects to the nature of the death of near death experience.

Struggle, acceptance and (what I'm going to call) decay.

The first two I believe to be evolved mechanisms, the third whatever fits incidentally within the constraints imposed by the former two.

The struggle is obvious, we fight to survive or we do not replicate.

I think the acceptance is an aspect that emerges from the constraints applied to social organisms.

There is no evolutionary impetus for something that cannot survive to continue with the struggle, but there is the impetus not to harm its relatives in the process.

What remains is hallucinatory nonsense born of a failing mind, understanding is lost piece by piece - your conceptual framework perceiving what remains even as it falls apart.
Yup. Also, desktop is recommended. Mobile site does not work well even in landscape.
Congratulations on the launch preview! This is exciting, as I've been waiting for this announcement since Jim Keller's callout on Lex Fridman podcast two years ago[0].

I'm curious about the teasing around open source. Obviously the amount of money and the slick product launch dictate a need to capitalize on this pooled expertise. Don't want to give away the game to the hyperscalers.

I wonder what the revenue and license models are going to end up looking like. A cloud of their own, professional services to HW manufacturers to optimize their performance, professional services to hyperscalers?

Curious if anybody has any ideas beyond the obvious.

[0]https://youtu.be/G4hL5Om4IJ4?t=4048
Don’t forget all the evidence suggesting adult neurogenesis specifically from running.

As for VO2max, Levitt had a longevity researcher on his podcast who found that a high VO2max (used as a proxy measure) is causally related with higher impacts on 5 year all cause mortality than smoking. In the good direction. As in: being in shape reduces your risk of death more than smoking increases it.

Sauce: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/adding-ten-healthy-years-to...
Rails seemingly handles it the same way as Laravel and it all makes sense very quickly.

The argument here that you would end up with 'addresss' is silly as you can also quickly handle that with a new inflection and it rarely even happens in practice.

Also, to be pedantic, rails handles this just fine by default:
irb(main):001:0> "address".pluralize
=> "addresses"
Listen to this old timer. I'm only 32, but I've recently come to this conclusion as well around my career.

You have to be willing to let a job just be a job. No more, no less. Funnily enough, you'll often hear the same advice from older folks who own their own business. Even when the business is their own, they advise finding something else outside of the work to drive you.

The important thing is to have an invigorating activity you enjoy that is an outlet and not a chore. Work will always become a chore, that's why it's called work. Find that balance and you'll likely survive in the end.
Is there something notable to discuss about this release? uBO seems available for thunderbird for a long time now.
Honestly I found that chrome remote desktop was harder to use, I bet a baby could setup rustdesk
Have you considered that those white collar crimes may help create an environment where people are more likely to commit those other crimes? Not paid enough? Steal! Overworked and no more joy in life? Go get an addiction and that vice results in harming others, and so on.
Similar to the robodebt problem in Australia.
I want to use Firefox but never caught up to the performance of Chrome/ Brave on Mac. Recent browserbench shows 350 and FF half that :( sluggish. They should purely focus on performance instead of new features.
How big are the binaries? (what I mean is, are they 1MB, or 100MB, or worse?)
Let's be intellectually honest here.

It's not victim blaming to point out that "can't" isn't reasonable language. Life is hard. Doesn't mean we "can't" have some control over these variables. As I said, there are edge cases that deserve sympathy but they don't represent the bulk of scenarios.
So as long as you're not color blind or vision impaired or from a country where red doesn't mean danger, sounds fine

Government oversight of TLS certs? No way this could possibly go wrong
In my opinion the best of both worlds would just be to have Rust-style inline annotations and an "interface mode" that hides implementations (most modern IDEs can already do that) and non-public function.

BTW I am not sure why you would want to hide the types, I find them always useful.
The Importance of Time Management and How to Improve Your Skills
Time is a funny thing, isn't it? It seems like we always have too much of it, and yet, somehow, it always manages to slip away from us. Whether we're working on a big project, trying to get in shape, or just trying to keep up with the demands of daily life, time management is key to success.