skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can look at any metric of disease, rates of violent crime victimization, life expectancy, and on and on and see that just being homeless makes you life demonstrably far worse than any alternative. Your position is totally divorced from data and clearly from any person insight.

Lmao there you go again. You can look at at anywhere but outside. You can cite anything but experience. Yes, my position is divorced from data, because fuck the data, it's not telling the whole story. I find it interesting for example that you're on the hype train when it comes to median income and whatever, but mentions of obesity and suicide rates are doomerism. You literally choose which statistics to interpret.

Here's what's happening. You think that once you're not homeless, you're suddenly not dealing with the same issues that you once were. If you stop and think about what these issues are, it's pretty clear that low SES people and homeless people share a lot in common. Here they are:

Mental health

Physical health

Physical safety (lesser)

Food security (lesser)

General unpleasantness (potentially lesser)

Spiritual health (potentially greater)

It's not crazy to think - again, unless you've made it and the only contact you have with the trenches is through metrics - that people with shitty jobs can have shitty lives. And personally, I'm not interested in quantifying how much shittier because that's inhumane. If someone is living a shit life, you have no right to tell them they're living better than someone else and wave their problems away while you have none. It's basic empathy really.
> ¹ The local paper is called The Weekly Advertiser. I’ve measured it a few times, and it’s consistently been about 75% ads by surface area.

I mean it's what it says on the tin. We have a local "paper" but it's not a paper, it's just an advertising flyer, and sometimes it is useful if I want to look up something local.
> Also what happens to medical patients, say after surgery?

Flying is probably worse since you don't have much space. Also you have to walk a lot more in airports vs train stations, security checks, etc.
Well, he was right about The Internet, so maybe we should listen to him on AI.
Except this is the first time in more than a couple of generations that kids were locked out of schools for up to two years.
Keeping stuff for sale can be expensive because of licensed assets. Licensed music has taken games down before and it will again. I don't know the publisher contracts Nintendo signs, but if there's a time duration in the contract, that may open up a very expensive "deal with keeping track of which developers relicensed their games" problem.

That said, I 100% believe this is just a way for them to make sure you can't mod second hand 3DS consoles in five years time when they bring 3DS re-releases to the Switch.
> Social media and phones have had a huge negative impact on the amount of time young people spend together in person and have amplified the stakes of one's social life

Social media and phones are what youth had left, after adults systemically wiped out every inch of their development environment.

I'm an early genx; the last generation to grow up free of constant supervision. I went everywhere by myself and learned countless critical self-sufficiency and social skills - skill building that was utterly and thoroughly denied to my own kids.

That is, my kids risked their parents being charged if they were capably on their own. My kids had nowhere to go if they tried to be independent. Were my kids to risk having some ambition, they also risked adult-sized punishments for kid-sized transgressions.

We couldn't have designed a more stunting experience, short of tossing kids in forced-labor gulags.
I see the note in the article around using -ldflags="-s -w" - is there any other useful tool for binary size analysis/reduction? I was surprised when my binary size doubled when incorporating the K8s client package to get a secret; just using the HTTP secrets API manually without referencing the client package shrank the size by many MB. It would be nice to find similar opportunities for size reduction that aren’t as obvious.
Social media is just the medium for which doom/despair is transmitted. Removing social media might slow down the transmission speed, but folks will eventually arrive to the same conclusions mentioned in OPs comment.
The issue is that you are neglecting inter-modal inefficiencies. It's (with rare exception) far more time efficient and less hassle to change planes in than it is to change to a train at a physically distinct location.

Also at a higher level view, the intercity flights presumably existed because some rational actors found them to be the best choice for their situation -- it shouldn't be a surprise that people are pissed off about being regulated into sub-optimality.
You would think, yet WinUI 3.0 is years away to achieve parity with WinUI 2.0/UWP tooling.
They really should have two exceptions, one for electric airplanes and the other for planes fueled entirely with atmospheric CO2-sourced fuels (CO2 + H2O -> renewable energy -> jet fuel). Neither of those options are all that economically viable just yet, however.
Ironically, older / cheaper phones often have SD card slots that make this a breeze.
That's muddling hypothetical rights with de facto rights.

Which was the same argument that lead (rightly, IMHO) to their enumeration in the Bill of Rights, in contrast to the unenumerated British system.

Individuals protecting "their" un-enumerated rights risk the violent wrath of the state, or are able to do so only because the state chooses to ignore them.
I don't know, there's a lot of red flags on his site.

"Slowed pace of aging by 31 years": How could one possibly quantify this accurately?

Depending on his body weight, a bench press of 240lbs isn't particularly notable or impressive.

Giving leg press numbers instead of something like deadlift or squat is a bit suspicious. Leg press is easy to cheat by limiting range of motion. Plus full body movements that require more stabilization would be a better measure if one is trying to prove they haven't aged.

Comparing strength numbers to an 18 year old is probably not the best metric, given that strength takes a certain amount of time to build. Not that there are good scientific papers on this but I think general consensus is it peaks mid 20s
Sometimes it seems that if any effort takes Intel more than a year or two to show results, they cancel it.

If AMD had done the same, Intel would still enough enterprise marketshare to let products breathe.

Maybe they're right? The fact that Intel's competitors are moving ahead with variations on XPU is telling.
I’m curious how that isn’t obvious to someone going into research.
Because those otherwise smart people are looking for that universal truth and if they didn't find it in scifi they'd find it somewhere else.
That's kinda how FYAD used to do it with regular election of a new "Idiot King" https://web.archive.org/web/20031023125845/http://www.stateo...

“Originally FYAD was a complete anarchy. Nobody moderated it, and it was good. When it started to become more popular, however, certain users did stuff that was just annoying (spamming huge images that broke the tables and made threads impossible to read, posting a billion threads, posting illegal porn, that sort of thing) so certain people called for some kind of moderation. Others said that a moderator would ruin FYAD. Fistgrrl, in her infinite wisdom, proposed the Idiot King contest.

Once a week, she (or another admin) posts a thread. The admin has already two numbers, one for the Idiot King and one for the Loser King. Everyone who wants to enter the contest posts under that thread, and chooses a number between 1 and 100. When the contest is over (Usually 20 minutes or so), the person who posted closest to the Idiot King number becomes the Idiot King for a week, with most of the powers of a moderator and a ceremonial title. The person who posted the number closest to the Loser King number is banned for a week. Anyone who posts a duplicate number, a number that is not between 1 and 100, or posts in the IK thread but has not posted in FYAD in the last 24 hours is also banned for a week.

UPDATE: April 30, 2003: Lowtax did the IK contest this week, and instead of numbers he asked people to post states. What a crazy guy!”

I never read actual confirmation for this but I assume the position was named for the Soul Coughing song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qAxjmvvtOk
> Is there any way to fix one of the main biological drives of the majority of your employees?

What a weird world you live in when this is considered a reasonable defense...

"Your honor - she had big hoo-ha's, and I'm a man" - that's YOU
> Everyone is saying Passive Investing is the best for the average investor, but they never tell you what index fund to buy and more importantly when exactly.

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

EDIT: Bogle's main problem with ETFs is that they allow people to get in and out of the market during the day, lending more towards speculation/day trading than long-term investing. With mutual funds, you can only buy at the end-of-day prices instead of the many prices available during the day.

TLDR Less trading is better. You dollar cost average into broad low expense ratio funds, and you will (very likely) end up wealthier in the future.
When an argument is about a particular person, it's not a fallacious ad hominem to impeach that person. If that's not obvious to you, there's not much point in continuing to discuss.
I think most children find it significantly more invasive for their parents to be snooping through their messages, than to have that information being collected in some government database.
>> An elephant goes where he wants and does what he wants, and only extremely thick steel or a fearless / stupid human with an elephant gun can stop it.

Or a small ditch. Or fast-moving water. Or rocky terrain. Or any incline of more than 25 degrees. An elephant is about as off-road capable as a Humvee or Jeep. It can do great things in the commercials, but in reality can only handle a small percentage of realworld terrain. Humans and other predators are amazing capable across most any terrain. Even without firearms, we would have wiped them out in a single generation had we put our minds to the task.

We managed to deal with mammoths.
I've often dreamed of making a city builder MMO.

But to do it right, I'd want it to be the scale of a moderately large nation like the USA. You'd buy plots of land one square mile as you expand. The game world would be seeded with a major highway and railroad system that you could not remove, just add connections to.

I'd want traffic to be simulated in the same depth as Cities: Skylines, and have freight have to move over a thousand miles to reach destinations.

But most importantly, I'd want the entire game world to be seamless. You should be able to pan from one side of the country to the other.

But such an ambitious game would require immense processing power. I don't know how I would scale it.
Looks like a good resource for go beginners.

Would there something similar for a next, second, step that focuses on go concurrency aspects?

Go (and erlang/elixir) as touted as concurrency-ready platforms and good overviews of setups, tools and best practices might help more people benefit.
How to start a new Go project:

go mod init mymodule

Go's default toolchain is fine, everything else is optional. Some questionable advice in the article:

- Vendoring dependencies using "go mod vendor" is not a good default workflow - it bloats the repo, the checked in code is impossible to review, and is generally a pain to keep up to date. Don't, unless you really have to.

- There's no point in stripping a binary or even using UPX on it unless you're targeting extremely low memory environments (in which case Go is the wrong tool anyways), all it'll do it make it harder to debug.
You’ve gotta check out Charm’s tools for CLI/TUI dev. They are doing some great work.

https://charm.sh/
People here arguing about whether "Google could / could not bang out an Uber app in a weekend" are apparently completely unaware that Google has already done this.

Waymo One is the name of Google's app, and it's live and serving customers already in Phoenix, AZ.

Imo, the fact that Uber knows this, and is still partnering with Waymo is a sign of weakness bc Waymo's intention is very clearly to own the customer eventually.
Hot Pixels: Frequency, Power, and Temperature Attacks on GPUs and Arm SoCs
It's not like travel by car is outlawed. You can't travel by air anywhere unless you happen to live right next to an airport; there is always travel to and from the airport.

If a medical condition mysteriously doesn't allow for train travel, but going by car and plane is fine (odd), than travelling for 400km by car is fine too. Most people live quite a distance from the nearest commercial airport in any case (200km in my case, and that's in the tiny Netherlands).
B+ trees scale vertically very well, until they don't.
1) Right, you have locks on the doors. You don't not hire entire genders of employees because they may or may not steal...

2) lol, no.
Hm odd. Facebook was forced to sell a meme generating business because it became a monopoly yet microsoft can do search, mobile, hosting, ai and gaming without an issue? Wondering how much of their budget is spent on bribes and influence?
Banks control the deal you can get as a payment provider if you want to process credit cards and they will never offer you a deal that will let you profitably offer a differentiated service. (e.g. look at the Google Pay fiasco)
Which you do not describe, but set that aside: A post that honestly said "we do not like PGP, but here is our alternate plan" would be great. On an actual better solution, I don't think anyone has proposed a good one. Here is the closest I've seen from PyPi (or at least linked from this post as describing their thinking), from 10 years ago:

"Everything is Terrible So What Do We Do?

Bluntly put, I don’t know for sure. This isn’t an already solved problem nor is it an easy to solve one."

https://caremad.io/posts/2013/07/packaging-signing-not-holy-...

What I'll say on PGP is the perfect is the enemy of the good. It's not a tech anyone has much fun using, but in a group setting, used regularly, I have found it can fade into the background at least. I don't want to go any further down the "is PGP good or bad" rabbit hole than that.

But if you have a better solution for package security, please do describe it here.
They've ramped up e-mail spam to the point that I unsubscribed and am going to delete my account. Can't be a good sign, be careful.
A better answer would be some recommendations for component pieces. e.g., I will need most of the essential things in https://github.com/go-chi/chi, so why bother rolling a version myself? The same goes for things like sqlx. I'm averse to leaning on a "framework," but do find good value in targeted libraries.
While I agree it's better to travel by train, the way to implement this should have been with carbon taxing.

Most people wouldn't fly if the ticket price was like 2x compared to the train.
It seems to be bipartisan, so no.
If you need someone to explain to you why you should care about other human beings, you might be the problem.
Are there boilerplates that include things like this?
(I’m coming from the JS/TS world)
You are aware when your coworker wears a padded pushup bra? Are you measuring her breasts? I'm so confused by your statements.

>I like to think of women as intelligent people so I assume they are aware of what they are doing.

Uhhh, I think we found the problem, and it's you.
I am sure that Germany has many more words on how to describe cooked onions. Likewise, we have at least a dozen words in the English language for how to cook onions, that also translate directly to the German oddly enough. Unfortunately people who write on-line recipes have latched on to the caramelized onion notation and are not particularly explicit in what they actually want. Having gone through four years of culinary training, I now look at recipes on-line with a very critical eye and much like how you can identify the copy & paste code and architecture of a junior developer, you can also identify the recipe borrowing and construction of people who are better at blogging than they are at cooking.
I don't believe they would.

Looking at the top 20 packages in the last month by download (packages with hundreds of millions of downloads), only 1 of them shipped a GPG signature with their most recent release. I haven't asked the author of that one, but I do know them and I suspect they agree with the idea that it's not a valuable thing and they do it largely because it exists.
Results in the used market become blurry as to whether a 3DS will be hackable or not, which is probably enough of a barrier to block off anyone who'd consider getting one for homebrew that doesn't 100% know what they're at.
Basically an effort to lock 3DS games into a vault until they can find a use for them.

It happening so late into the 3DS life with basically anyone who wanted a hacked 3DS already having one it potentially reduces the amount of manpower that will go into finding an exploit too. I'd say they intentionally waited until after the eshop was closed to release this.
At around thirteen it's almost impossible to get into calm rational discussions with things as emotionally charged as this.
Just so you know.

https://www.news24.com/amp/life/wellness/body/condition-cent...
Does hacker news qualify as social media?

The paper talks about the amount of time spent, taking time away from sleep and physical activity. This might apply.

I don't think other factors like privacy or cyberbullying apply here.
Embrace the future -> Extend the future -> Extinguish the future

Thanks but no thanks, it is a long time ago I took a different path which leads to a different future, one which is not likely to be extinguished.
Congratulations on launching, it looks like a very polished product. I'll be interested to see where the conversation goes on this here on HN. Having recently worked closely on a Contentful + Gatsby website, I'm more convinced then ever that headless CMSs are overkill in all but the largest companies. Contentful was eye-wateringly expensive for a laughably limited feature-set and the complexity was soul destroying. Hopefully things are better in Cosmic-land.
Show HN: Custom Checkbox with an Animated SVG
Hi folks! I built this example of a custom checkbox component using Ariakit. You can play with it and open the code on StackBlitz (using the button on the code block toolbar). Let me know what you think!
> It works with all applications. It sees what you're seeing.

Sounds like it will also see prompt-injection malware hidden in plaintext documents.
It's not clear to everyone. Until I read that comment, I had exactly zero idea of that. When a recipe says "carmelized", I foolishly thought it meant "carmelized".
I'm speaking generally, but I feel it still applies to Wall Street. Research shows the "hard work" mindset is only a state of mind, and not a correlation of income:

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

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-us-still-believes-in-hard-wor...

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/12/17/views-of-the...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/06/29/stuck-on-...

Some specific research looks at "earnings elasticity" between generations:

>> While faith in the American Dream is deep, evidence suggests that the United States lacks policies to ensure the opportunities that the dream envisions. According to the data, there is considerably more mobility in most other developed economies.

https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobi...

We can conclude there are many factors involved besides a general attitude of "hard work".
It's hard to say how long "distribution lifetimes" are. If the 3DS flopped like the Wii U, it'd be foolish to sign a 5 year contract. Instead it became a success that went on to stay popular for ten years.

Nintendo also isn't giving you a detailed timeline of their upcoming consoles if you're trying to sell games through their console. For all you know, the Switch 2 is right around the corner and signing a distributor contract now will launch your game onto a dead platform.

Vagueness can be good in these cases.
Somebody please come put their incel back in its box. Please.
Kde is so choppy! Kde doesn't work properly even with 16gb Ram and useless options. GNOME is far better in smoothness and switching apps even.
Lots of companies are cutting ties with China, Apple is obligated to do so. But the more companies cutting ties with China, make it easier for both China and US to have Military conflict on Taiwan. Replicating TSMC is in the making by intel but It will take Years, and would have been nice if APPLE, AMD and Nvidia would Start a Fab Together in the US as a part of the Chips ACT.
Unambiguously? Truly? What about murder in self defense or war?
Great work on the Gladiator package! It's fascinating to see the application of parallel drafting and model judging to enhance the responses generated by ChatGPT. The ability to generate multiple drafts and then have a second model judge and select the best response brings a new level of reliability and accuracy to the system. This approach not only helps in reducing hallucinations but also allows for precise control over the criteria for selecting the winning draft.
I also appreciate the potential for extending this idea further by incorporating another model to extract and combine the best aspects from each draft. The versatility of this approach makes it particularly valuable for cases where the output needs to be highly precise, such as writing code.

Looking forward to exploring the Streamlit demo and seeing the Gladiator package in action. Keep up the great work!
> Very expensive "deal with keeping track of which developers relicensed their games" problem.

There is tons of licensing issues in the gaming industry under the surface that causes problems all over the place. An extreme example would be Sega's mistakes with Sonic.

Sonic 3, despite not having him in the credits, contains some works by Michael Jackson. That has complicated things tremendously in re-releases, so much so, that Sega has re-released that game far less than Sonic 1, 2, and CD. Sonic Origins, the latest re-release, contains redone music from prototypes rather than solve the licensing quagmire.

But that's not the only licensing quagmire. Guess why the Sonic movies don't have almost any soundtracks or sound effects from the game? According to the Directors, it wasn't a thematic choice, but a legal one. Sonic CD's re-release on smartphones had a similar issue with the opening scene having the vocals removed, because they were from an obscure band that went through a series of legal changes, acquisitions, member changes... This is actually a big problem with re-releases in general. Hunting down who actually owns the rights to a series can be a mess when acquisitions are involved; and you'd better hope the new owners at the end of the road are reasonable and not eager for a quick buck.

And to top it all off, just look up the Kenneth W. Penders story, which single-handedly took advantage of Sega's lax copyright protectionism to "steal" almost 200 characters right from under Sega's feet. Nintendo is no doubt looking at that, and the Sonic music issues, and thinking... man, this is why we protect.
Almost nothing was created with privacy in mind. Security and privacy are different things.

I hate that people think that a VPN is private as in anonymous. But then again, those providers had great marketing.. So now devs and sysops need to call VPNs "tunneled networks".
I can't wait for somebody to figure out a webpage that tricks this LLM into deleting C:\Windows.

Edit: A less harmful proof of concept could be, say, turning volume up to 100% and opening fifty Edge windows with the Baby Shark video.