skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last time I tried I was unable to sort out the dependencies. IIRC it was something to do with Qt and sbcl.
> The only intervention that does reliably work is bariatric surgery.

My understanding is surgery only works reliably because failure to comply with life style changes post-op is easily fatal and ethical doctors only perform the operation after patients have demonstrated that ability. In all but the most extreme patients, about a fifth to a third of the target weight loss has to happen pre-op for doctors to even consider the procedure. The surgery is essentially a sword of Damocles hanging over patients, reminding them that they'll die much faster than normal if they over eat.
and has drivers to use Windows GDI so you don't have to mess around with drivers

This was a thing? So, would it still run in the "MS-DOS Command Prompt" in Windows but talk directly to Windows for its screen drawing?
Show HN: Freenet 2023, a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web
"Why are we EDMing out a $4 tool?" "Because it's stuck in a $60K casting."
Yes. So states can’t just abolish prior appropriation and move to riparian rights. They’d also need to allocate money to buy out all the old rights.
Very rarely does that happen during meetings, in my experience it happens async during RFCs, pull requests, and chat conversations. Fostering async communication is slow productivity to me, and it results in better outcomes than forcing decisions in meetings.
PQ is just a vector compression/quantization method, not an approximate k-NN search algorithm (like cell-probe or bucketing based methods such as IVF or LSH, or graph-based methods such as HNSW). HNSW can be used together with PQ encoding, for instance.

However PQ does have the nice property that distance computation can be performed with lookup-adds instead of multiply-adds but in practice performance is lower than normal brute-force multiply-add inner product because lookup table gather is slow on CPU or GPU relative to arithmetic. The gain of PQ is by dimensionality reduction (a 128 dimensional vector can be compressed as 8 PQ codes resulting in 8 lookup-adds, versus 128 FMAs for the brute-force inner product, say).
No posing for photos! Never ask a movie star to pose with you for a picture. No movie star ever wants to do this. They may smile, but they're gritting their teeth. "It is the Chinese Water Torture," Clint Eastwood told me. "And 99 times out of a hundred, the stranger they hand their camera to looks through the lens, pushes the button, and says 'It isn't working!' and then the fan has to walk over to the guy and demonstrate the camera and say, 'now try it'. And then it isn't working again. Looking at someone looking puzzled at a camera, that's the story of my life."
Congress can change the Constitution.
I've always thought of developing a Hacker's browser. One where there are no restrictions of what it can do. For example, you can't write a chrome extension to spoof the Referrer header on requests. The Chrome browser is more locked down than you think.
DoorDash accused of charging iPhone users more than Android users for deliveries
The SC only hears a handful of cases in a year, and only those that have managed to bubble up through the lower courts. The SC does not invent cases they can then rule on.
They don’t need to scramble to get sales
right now to become profitable is what I mean. They can get more investment. What matters is not how much sausage sales revenue they get this quarter.
Athens was.
You overestimate the effort and cost required in planning union stuff. It's relatively low effort.

(I contribute to labor organizing efforts and building tech to help scale it)
The professor who made $10B by cutting Google its first startup check
You could always start your own 'Web Archive' or start a nonprofit that funds the maintenance and operation of one
Exactly: what would they need to do to prevent that?
We don't need to create the universe to bake an apple pie from scratch. I agree that a history of the suburbs might begin before WWII, but the general concept of needing to start at the beginning is a slippery slope. I'd say nearly all histories must pick an arbitrary start, mid-stream.
Stephen Wolfram is training an LLM on his twitch recordings
Also got sucked into Street of Crocodiles (Penguin Classics translation) due to dang's bio. My favorite story is Cinnamon Shops; a few minutes into reading it, and I'm relaxed, like a kind of meditation.
I halfway agree, but I think at some point most people hit diminishing returns. I went from a regular job at a medium large company (though I didn't have 4 hours of meetings each day...) to a job where there are 4 people and none of the software ceremony. I definitely produce a lot more code, but I found that the limiting factor is that writing code is just more mentally draining than sitting in meetings which aren't productive. I get more done quicker, but hit a wall sooner. Fortunately there's no pressure to fill up the rest of the day with fluff just to maintain the illusion of productivity. Overall it's a huge win, but I don't think it's totally linear for me.
What is it about musical hooks that makes them so catchy?
He says "coming soon" in the first couple of minutes
This isn’t really what tends to happen in meetings ime. Usually the problem is well understood and the meetings are spent with architecture types micromanaging the implementation of the solution.
> At the same time, employee feedback tells us that when people work in the office regularly they are more engaged, have a stronger sense of belonging and report overall higher satisfaction with work.

I love the corporate bullshit speak. The people who report “higher satisfaction” working in an office should go and do that instead of forcing their views on everyone else. Some of us have lives and don’t require forced socialization or a crowded open office to feel a sense of belonging.
Not to be too picky... but water is not black in IR imaging because it absorbs so much IR radiation. It is true that liquid water reflects very little IR radiation (less than 10%)... but water also emits thermal radiation (important to note that IR emission from water is quite different from black-body sources).

Water that looks black in an image is simply emitting less IR radiation than other objects in the image... typically because the water is colder.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcyU8oXBn6k

<-- used to work on infrared detector development and IR radiometry
I find my 2017 car is the sweet spot between tactile controls and touchscreen: the touch is useful for the GPS nav, but for everything else there are buttons.
> Military science is always far ahead of mainstream science.

I don't know about this. I think it's more of a romanticized view than anything else. I don't doubt they have some of the top aerospace engineers but scientists? I can't imagine they're years ahead of top professors in academia - the chair of quantum physics at Hamilton College described Salvatore Pais' patents as "bearing no more resemblance to quantum physics as I understand it than does ‘The Force’ from Star Wars" [0]

Either leading academics in quantum physics are so far behind they can't even understand military academics or these patents are sci-fi gobbledygook. For example the energy required for his room-temperature semiconductor is greater than that of a magnetar (according to some physicists whose summaries I read) - that's 1.4* more than the sun.

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-g...
LLMs being bad at math is a known issue, but what they are good at is writing programs. For example:

>>> Write a program that calculates if 120 is greater than 0.7.

>Sure, here's a program in Python that calculates if 120 is greater than 0.7:

if 120 > 0.7:
print("Yes, 120 is greater than 0.7")
else:
print("No, 120 is not greater than 0.7")

For straight input/output like what this model is trained on, questions like this don't work well. However if LLMs are equipped with tools (like a code interpreter), they get a lot smarter.
Work is where you provide value to the society, create something for other people and make world better, while simultaneously applying and improving your main set of skills.

Why wouldn't you want tie your identity to something like that?

Just to be clear: I have a few hobbies aside from work — I make music, DJ, paint, cook, hike sometimes. I have friends, and I'm also not a productivity maniac (I actually work in a 4 day workweek startup). But do I see my main job in the way I described above, and I wouldn't want to tie my identity to any other community or hobby. In all other aspects of my life I'm mostly just enjoying life, but at my work, I'm actively improving someone else's. When I worked in gamedev, I loved interacting with players and seeing how they enjoy my work. Now I make professional software and relish in the fact that I make other professional's work easier and more enjoyable.

May be people don't need other identities, but just more fulfilling jobs.
Was that the same Patriot system that the US acknowledged was hit recently?

Must be it has arisen from the grave. Especially after the US banned the use of Patriots in Ukraine after that attack.

Don't you just hate it when you write some lovely propaganda article and then your Allies cut the ground from under you?
Touchscreens require significant user visual attention. You can't just feel for the button while watching the road and the traffic, you have to look at the screen and place your finger.

It's really bad design to require a car driver to be distracted just to perform normal operations. Touchscreens are very much the wrong choice for cars, planes, etc. They're fine for something that is intended to be the users' sole focus, but are distraction-by-design where the user has other priorities.
Picking up traction.

https://www.4dayweek.com/

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/14/countries-that-are-embracing...

https://www.google.com/search?q=4+day+week+pilot

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
Don't Feel Obliged
> triumvirates are notoriously unstable

It works for the US. Also the Soviet Union - the Party, the KGB, and the Army. The reason for stability is one can block the other two. The Constitution is full of checks and balances to this end.
> Alas one of the most defining aspects of business seems to be an entire lack of rewards for being the Johnny On The Spot, for tackling shit.

Rewarding this behavior incentivizes the creation of unnecessary problems only Johnny knows how to solve.
If you make me start statically typing the random scripts I write to munge data round to answer business questions, I quit.
Tree-of-Thought (ToT), complex and general problem solving with LLMs
Showing that orcas can naturally be aggressive and attack humans unprovoked throws a giant wrench on the media machinery that generated the documentary "Blackfish", which revolved on the supposed fact that orcas go crazy when they are held in SeaWorld parks.
After Liberalism: What Does Alasdair MacIntyre Want?
The US is the most prosperous and free'est country ever.
"But Malthus!" might be persuasive to people unfamiliar with science and/or history, but (being neither), it just makes me sigh. Another pointless repeated diversionary trope. And as for Gore - your weird obsession with celebrities illuminates nothing.

Not a single person (I mean that quite literally) familiar with the actual, hands-on, empirical work going on in the field by tens of thousands of real scientists in thousands of research institutions private and public alike in a couple of hundred nations covering every ecosystem on the planet is in doubt that the living world is in deep peril.

Neither is anyone who has ever lived for any period outside of a well-protected urban area. My region has been swept with an unprecedented sequence of floods and fires over the last few years. Two almost total destructions by flood in 2022 alone. We will never again have permanent road & telecoms infrastructure (it is routinely destroyed). And that's just the most obvious surface. Anyone familiar with the flora, fauna, and water systems here knows that the ecosystems are in an advanced state of collapse. That's repeated over almost the entirety of the globe.

Forget historical culture wars. Just survey contemporary, real-world, empirical science. I'm not going to cherry-pick a few irrelevant links from a google scurry like you have done. You need to do a bit of homework. You just look daft without it. Get over your fear and have a good, clear-sighted look at reality. You'll probably feel better.
This looks like a modern browser UI with an embedded cli that uses the page as a database!

Genius! I’ll be trying it out
They can! It takes a while for them to grow to adulthood though
Dr. Garry Nolan on ET Reality, Whistleblowers and Reverse Engineering
Maybe the author's tweet is a better source: https://twitter.com/ShunyuYao12/status/1659357547474681857

They give a TL;DR in the thread
Even if the disk sorts directory entries by file name and you want to show them sorted by file name, chances are you have to sort.

Reasons? Firstly, you’d have to know the entries are sorted. For that, you need an API that tells you that or hard-code information about file systems in your code. They may exist, but I’m not aware of any file system API that provides that information.

Secondly, the file system may not return the names sorted in the locale you want to sort them in.

Thirdly, the sorting code used in the file system may contain a bug. Once file systems are out there, you can’t fix them (happened in one of Apple’s file systems. HFS, IIRC)

Lastly, modern GUIs tend to sort file names containing numbers non-alphabetically, so that, for example “file 2.jpg” gets sorted before “file 12.jpg”.

So, I think it’s easier to always sort. I would pick an algorithm that works well when items are mostly sorted at the start, though.
Show HN: CharitySense a donor-centric data browser
I'd like to share with you a project I've been working on called CharitySense. It's a straightforward and user-friendly website designed to help donors like you make more informed decisions when it comes to giving.

On CharitySense, you can view human development indicators from countries worldwide, such as poverty rates, literacy rates, and access to clean water. I've also gone through all approximately 3.9 million non-profit tax forms, covering 500,000+ non-profits. The data browser allows you to quickly get an idea of the financial health and impact of the organizations you're interested in supporting.

The idea is to give donors the ability to find the greatest need and then quickly find a relevant charity. It would be great to get your feedback and hear about any frustrations you have with the current giving process.

Take a look and let me know your thoughts!
it's funny in that a few years ago we were (and still are) excited by the potential cellular protective properties of GLP1 agonists, not just in the pancreas but in brain glial cells or whatnot. So much so that it seems to be the most neuroprotective of recent candidates for Parkinson's disease disease-modifying-therapies (DMTs).

to whit, (like botox), all the initial promises of the stuff have been waaaay overshadowed by...cosmetic value.

(I'm oversimplifying a bit...for those who are morbidly obese, yes, the weight loss really helps, but then they also have diabetes most likely which is the primary indication of the drug)
> So it doesn't dull all pleasure just almost all

That is not what that quote says.
> whoever owns the means of production

This 19th rhetoric century doesn't work in modern world, especially when you're talking about creating software. To "produce" most of what HN readers do, you don't need anything more than a laptop and some cloud services — which you would need to scale up proportionally to load, and, therefore, revenue. If you need capital to hire others, it's also never have been more easily available than in the last 10 years.
We're talking about the streaming API which streams generated text token by token, not the normal one-shot API. I have no insider knowledge but would agree with your intuition on the normal API.
FWIW you can do the same thing with a cloud server & a couple bucks a month. I use AWS/t4g.nano reserved instance & WireGuard, and I think it runs me less than half a beer a month.
Theater is a niche now. And whenever I go to the theater with my wife we are the only members of the audience under 50. Doesn't look like this form of art will survive very long. I don't think people care very much whether characters are played by real humans. It used to be that dangerous stunts were performed live. Nobody cares that they were replaced by CGI. Nobody cares that Tom Cruise doesn't really jump out of the burning helicopter.
Our teens aren't this determined t use a banned platform, don't bet on them suddenly buying VPN services just to use TikTok. It's like saying "oh look Elon bought Twitter and suddenly the select few of our special users will flee to Mastadon as a result and Twitter is dead." Just a bad bet. Convenience is king.
Idea: Make a browser addon that allows comments when “comments are disabled”
You may have better success in a smaller caloric deficit. 1000-1200 calories a day is very few and that’s a very fast pace of weight loss. Try removing 500 calories or 10% of your calories. Progress will be slower, but you may feel much better.

Also, as a sibling comment alluded to, when you have fewer calories to eat, the micronutrients in the few foods you do eat matter that much more. The nutritional quality of food you need to stay healthy increases greatly when in a caloric deficit. Fruits and veggies are great for helping that, and multivitamins are cheap insurance policies to make sure you aren’t deficient in anything important, IMO. YMMV. Best of luck with your goals!
Things may return to normal by next year [1]:

> Jeff Geerling, having flown to Raspberry Pi's headquarters in Cambridge, England, with his supporters' backing, digs in on Upton's "Supply chain update" from December 2022. Upton said then that by the third quarter of 2023, "hundreds of thousands" of mainstream Pi units should be available, with Zero units, then 3 and 3B models, then 4.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/raspberry-pi-ceo-sup...
I don't personalize shell environments on every machine I ssh to, no.
Thanks, that's a good point that it does not clearly explain the use of that table. I will update the page soon to explain that the table cell represents the last 2 digits of a year, and the left column is the result of the year calculation for that year. The table has only 28 years in it since any year 28 or higher can be simplified by subtracting 28, 56 or 84.

I recommend only attempting to memorise the table after you are already able to calculate the year number using the normal algorithm.
I wonder if you could not do some operator overloading on the TS side to do some rewriting to get things like tensor addition on tensor types.

Heck, if you are doing that, maybe convert to webgpu automatically as well.

Someone very enterprising might do this in bun using zig.
Did a quick run with it and turned on vi mode from the settings menu.

The first thing I found awkward about it is that prompt fields are always initiated in normal mode. So if you want to execute a command with : or interact with an element using f, you have to manually activate insert mode first before being able to enter text into the prompt.

I'm sure there's a way to change this since the entire thing is in Lisp, but it sure is an odd default.
If someone with some experience would take a few moments to describe a "persona" and a behavior that would only take someone a few minutes every day to find and report a small random collection of these scams AND that this would almost certainly NOT result in getting restricted or banned for doing this this... then this might result in a modest collection of people willing to contribute a little effort to try to help combat a bit of fraud and spam on the net. In my case, I don't spend time on Facebook so this may need to adjust the described the behavior. This idea might even be more widely applied. If it could be even partly automated that might be even better.
It's 1/r², and the pulsed currents induced into the proposed wire mesh would likely produce some strong local EM effects -- possibly enough to overwhelm the rest of the drone electronics.

Sure, you could build a drone to resist this sort of attack, but SWAP would go way up, and range + mission effectiveness would go down.
Didn’t they just get funded too? Sounds like more of a side project than a serious venture.
I wouldn’t judge those people too harshly. That might be all they have the mental energy to do at the end of the day, they need to let their brain reset.

As someone who tries to spend most of my days after work making games, there are days I just don’t have the mental energy to do it. And there have been months where I haven’t worked on it at all, as work and things in my personal life get more stressful.
" failure to comply with life style changes post-op is easily fatal"

My understanding is naive but I always thought it was no longer possible to fail to comply after this intervention?
This looks easier to memorise than another method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule

Nice work on the site!
We must be speaking past each other. I am not out for acclaim and sorry for any confusion. Everything you say is exactly the point I'm trying to make, evidently clumsily. The "mysterious thing" is the human element. I don't know what else to call it? Humans that ace tests prove only that they are good at acing tests. Not that they're good at running businesses or practicing law. Not creating films (in this example), or music, etc.

I am not knocking the advancements, the capabilities are incredible. But machines have been doing what humans cannot since the dawn of time. I'm just pointing out what I think (thought?) was obvious: machines will soon be able to do just about everything that doesn't really matter.

PS. are you familiar with Wittgensteins ruler? Ask chatGPT about it.
Definitely check out "choose your comfort level"[1].

> PostgREST's limitations also had me going back to an API server architecture because I definitely didn't want to write logic in database functions.

Because of PostgREST's philosophy[2], you're expected to write database functions(not necessarily SQL, since PostgreSQL offers many PLs).

So if you're not comfortable with that, you can treat PostgreSQL just as a data store and pair it up with your favorite ORM. Supabase doesn't force you to use PostgREST.

[1]: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/getting-started/architectur...

[2]: https://postgrest.org/en/latest/#database-as-single-source-o...
Contemplating my navel, I propose that it didn’t happen because the purpose of an editor and browser are so different. (Realistically the driving factor is that an editor is much more useful for making money.)
Apparently, Intel hates that Linux (properly) names the architecture amd64 according to its creator.
I think you're right. I'm using Cloudflare Tunnels with SSH just fine, though I haven't tried anything else yet. They definitely have a direct integration for SSH.
Crash test/safety ratings are useless for comparing across vehicle classes.

Generally speaking smaller cars are the loser when it comes to collisions, if the other vehicle is larger/heavier. Even if both sides have best-in-class safety scores.
Amazing this hasn't yet been done?
The problem here is that it is really hard to get a sense of your true feelings. Stop trying to hold it all inside you. Just let it out!
A neat solution, but you can’t alter the position of the argument per function.
do you know what tolerance effects are acknowledged by the makers/doctors? I was thinking this was more like insulin; is it more like an opiate?