skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of all of these, creatine is the closest thing to what OP was describing, but even then it doesn't affect lean mass, it just draws water into muscles and increased endurance.
It’s difficult for a child to throw a normal dart through a friend’s skull. But this has happened with lawn darts.
> Yes, observing publicly broadcast posts for signs of deliberately posted disinformation (and ignorantly reposted/amplified misinformation) is an excellent idea, since this is a primary vector for enemies, especially authoritarian states to implement asymmetric warfare, falsely motivating a population to fight against itself.

It’s also the primary vector authoritarian states use to oppress their own citizens.

And the primary way they justify this vector is by saying it’s to defend against foreign disinformation.
You might end up having to create accounts on multiple servers if the servers decide to not federate with each other.

(I am on doll.social and mastodon.social, and found that it's impossible for users from the former to follow users on the latter.)
That's a bad idea; tuition is directly subsidized by student loans.

A better approach would be to allow student loan debt to be treated like any other debt during bankruptcy proceedings, as it was previously. It was only after bankruptcy protection was withheld from students that the student loan crisis and skyrocketing tuition became problems.

It's not like people used to file bankruptcy on graduation day just to screw over the system, so the changes to bankruptcy protection weren't actually addressing a real-world problem. Their only purpose is to shield institutions that are intentionally giving out bad loans.

Once that's done, sure, add textbooks to tuition. That way the university / student loan agency is taking on the risk that the book isn't worth potential future increases in the students' earnings.
You object to your taxes being used to improve society??
Very funny.

Also, you can actually make it cost competitive if the object you store is the last n milliseconds of packets instead of one packet each. So, instead of incurring two API calls per packet, you incur two API calls per minimum buffering time. If S3 is zero-rated for any ingress/egress then you get “infinite” bandwidth for 4.22$ * 3 (for the active case) = 12.66$ a day if you are willing to accept 500 ms minimum latency, or ~600$ a day at a more reasonable 10 ms. If you are saturating even just a 1 Gb link for a whole day that is ~10,000 GB which would be ~700$ via the blessed channel, so you could very well come out ahead.

You could do even better if you out-of-band signal the readiness so you do not need to poll while idle. Then you only incur a cost while actively transmitting so as long as you average 1 Gb/s on the channel you should be coming out even or ahead with minimal latency impact.
You can't reassign constants in JS, it throws an error: Uncaught TypeError: Assignment to constant variable.

But yes you can modify objects and arrays of a constant, which is not great.
...and Asus... and Dell.. among others
OAuth2 is impossible to use outside of the "give a third party service access to your Facebook photos" use case.

Imagine you're using LDAP for authentication and authorization for some internal LAN apps -- maybe gitea, zulip, paperless. Users can present the same credentials to all your apps but they'll have to authenticate with each app they use. For authorization, the apps can query your directory for a users' group membership for am RBAC. The main drawbacks of this scheme are that it lacks SSO like you'd have with kerberos or OIDC, and the apps may need more access to the LDAP directory than is required to strictly authorize/authenticate a user -- every app gets to handle user passwords, and 2FA would be difficult to retrofit.

Now if you install keycloak, users can authenticate to keycloak's login page, and keycloak will proxy this cookie to the apps which no lo longer need to handle passwords or 2FA. OIDC is an all round improvement, we've centralized authentication, hardened it with 2FA, and avoided wearying the user with superfluous login prompts.

The problem here is that though we've centralized Authentication, authorization remains uncentralized, implemented in different and unmanageable ways for each app. If we have 70 apps and want to audit what permissions each app will grant a particular authenticated user, it would be ideal if we could query a centralized directory like we could with LDAP. But in practice we'd have to parse the config files and database tables of all 70 apps.

I've been reading on OAuth2 to see if refactoring an app would allow me to use keycloak/zitadel/ory to centralize the authorization, the ACLs, and the group membership. This would be a huge win for a next-gen authorization protocol... But the "Facebook photos" use case is so dominant that there doesn't seem to be any reasonable path to having an Oauth2 server with the same utility for a small org that an LDAP server already provided 25 years ago.
It's also a way for big merchants to crush smaller merchants, especially with music gear. Guitar Center will accept returns where the product can no longer be sold new and eat the cost while a local merchant can't, and loses business as a result.

Plus the quite common experience now of buying "new" only to find that the unit is scuffed and missing parts etc.

It's another one of those things that seems like a win for the consumer but is really just anticompetitive and borderline fraudulent.
> I hope that over the next few years the Pi foundation can focus on its original goal for the Pi: a cheap and accessible device that could be used in schools to teach programming.

FWIW I think they really are. In the middle of last year they deliberately pivoted both MagPi and Hackspace Magazine to projects involving the Pico, and they've done, IMO, a very good job in demonstrating that many of the educational projects around the Pi Zero are little more than simple Python (usually) scripts that toggle a few GPIO pins. Not only do they run just fine on a Pico or Pico W, it's arguably of more obvious educational value to see them running on such simple devices.
The shift to dual income was a middle class thing. It didn’t change anything for the lower class, both parents were already working in their struggle to survive. The standard of living today is higher than 40 years ago, but we are paying for it by having more people in the workforce. The corps didn’t magically gobble up more profit.
I support this kind of piracy. If society thinks education for kids is important, they should make it easy for kids to get that education.
lets also mention this is a .22 not a .223
So peacefully protest the University Executives and Administrators?
IPv9 is already a thing
I dont think Cam. Analytica is related to this. I firmly remember it as some code change at Facebooks side as they wanted to monetize groups (sponsored posts). It was not possible to "go viral" on Facebook anymore in a natural way. They capped it somehow. I worked at a newspaper at the time and the change was very clear.

At about the same time these "Bod Dylan has died" fake click baits raged at Facebook, and somehow they stopped. It is probably also related.
>But it's just an empirical study; I'm not expecting to learn something that surprises me from it.

What?
Gotta teach them fear and violence soon. Otherwise they might end up friendly to strangers.
This is incredibly good. It maintains the breathlessly approving tone of a language readme the entire time, it has incredible comedic timing (a lesser shitpost would have revealed that of course the file extension was .db right at the start), and it has incredible internal consistency. For some reason it was the fact that it demonstrates how "files" work by rebinding a const const that sent me completely over the edge. Or maybe it was the regex describing valid regex labels
Ha, not even close to the Cox E-Z Flyer https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-worlds-most-...
This sounds like a weird Neil Stephenson plot about the nature of choice in an AI controlled artificial world
It’s not FUD if you are making hundreds or thousands of calls. Many “chatty” apps slow down dramatically when the wrong network boundary is drawn in the code.

The difference between a function call and a network request is vast for even modern networks.
Unfortunately many CLI tools are written in JS as well (looking at you wrangler).
Forks of private repos are similarly private by default, with some hoops and warnings before you can extend it. I still dont see how that recommendation brings any benefits in this regard.
This all seems very obvious?
> it's rare to break 1M isk a month (which is about 80,000 - 85,000USD

I assume there must be an order of magnitude mistake somewhere here, either in the currency conversion or in the timeframe.

> Inflation has been hovering around 8-10% a month

Likewise I don't believe this for moment. It'd mean an annual inflation of about 300%.
Has anyone actually done anything of use with autogpt? I tied it for 4 tasks and it would inevitably get stuck on each and produce absolutely nothing of value.
These were fairly simple like research popular topics and write articles on them etc.

It would do things like Google something, the result wasn’t relevant , try again , got an error from one of the pages and then seemingly started to do something completely incoherent related to the error message
Shikata ga nai in Japanese (famously fictionally adopted by the First 100 in Red Mars when they encountered difficulties when colonising Mars), as well as mei ban fa (没办法) in Chinese.
> Soofa is the ultimate outdoor advertising and smart city communication platform.

<vomits>
One fact I can add to your knowledge is that at my firm, the lawyers who have been practicing longest have the highest billable rate.

One more is that I very, very rarely ask any 29 year old lawyers at my firm any questions, although I love them dearly. When I need someone to review my work or answer a ticklish question, I seek out 72 year olds and ask them. I'm not sure who clients prefer but when it comes to legal problems I prefer elder lawyers.
I came here to say the same. Thanks for the per capita stats!
What echo chamber... chamber... amber... ber...?

I don't really care too much about echo chambers themselves. It's more about the effect if you don't do your own research. With the right mindset, you can survive in one.

An easy way to check yourself is to seek out opposing views, try to build the thought models in your head, try variations on those models. Depending on the constituents' attitudes it might be a good idea to keep your new ideas to yourself if you want to remain part of the group.
I have loads of empathy for the millions killed by emissions that nuclear could have avoided. Is my empathy for the innocent not more important than empathy for people who caused the innocent to die?
Yes. I know two persons that did.
> ... your unsupported suggestion that they're charging extremely high rates to government

I did support it by linking to a CNN article which cites what government officials say they were paying (hundreds of millions of dollars per year) as well as Musk's own claims about the service price.

Look this is very simple: Musk receives a certain amount of money from providing service and terminals in Ukraine (hundreds of millions of dollars a year). You claim that this is substantially less than what it costs to provide those terminals and services (even in a war-zone) which is absurd.
Money has never been a consideration for the Pentagon since 1941.
> I don’t see any obvious reason why an employee would ever need to fork a company’s private repo to their personal GitHub account.

I don't see it as well, but Github docs seem to suggest that forking a private repo inside the same org is allowed/forbidden by the same setting?
Yeah, but also it didn't snow much this winter in NYC, so I'm pretty sure this is all in the heads of the author. I look forward to the free market solving global warming while keeping stock prices at a reasonable level of profitability if it is real though!
> Also, 80k USD a year is a ton by European standards

The rest of Europe doesn't have to import nearly as much food and at high tariffs.

If it isn't fish, lamb, potatoes, some garden veg or oats, it's coming over on a boat. The price of a single lime at Bónus will make your eyes water.
Question: AI Powered Local Document Search for Companies
Hey there,
This question is directed primarily at developers relying on documentation, specifically internal ones. Would an AI-powered search for local company documents, even for non-development purposes (I personally don't know any), be a viable business idea?

For Example, Say you have a query about a specific function of an internal library, and the AI search works better than the regular keyword search.
I build windows and Linux and iOS and macOS all on my MacBook Pro.
The radiation is not the part I'd be worried about, but uranium is about as toxic as lead.

And a chemistry set that contains brittle lead ores/alloys that "tend to flake and crumble" is not something I'd want a 12 year old using unsupervised. Nor would I trust the vast majority of adults for that matter...
Of course it would. There’s an argument that cheap student loans combined with need-based scholarships are one of the factors that caused college prices to balloon in the first place. Need based scholarships allow universities to charge everyone the maximum they’re willing to pay (“just give us your parent’s income and a ton of other data, and we’ll tell you how much you have to pay to go here!”)
Twitter Briefly Pretended to Take a Stand Against Hate
It can also be an advantage. You are only taxed on profits so it's only a disadvantage for those who are in a business for the money. I would assume that this leads to better business relations with better opportunities because greedy people will leave.
Because technology has no educational pathway. Sure, you can go to a college and study algorithms or math for a while, but plenty of people with "good degrees" can't code. Plenty of people with no degree can.

It's also kind of challenging to tell an eye surgeon whom you are interviewing to do an eye surgery if you're really not sure he knows how to do it or not.
Any recommendations on a genetic test to check for susceptibility?
exactly! of all the things that were random access i had to ask, and explain where and why to use it.
Are you sure about that? Have you actually talked to the students about the cost of everything right now? Especially the housing stats is such an easy stats to game on. They usually mean the family unit who owns the place they live in, so if a student who lives with his parents, the whole family would be considered as home owner.

Btw Im not a student and I lucked out in the tech. I just feel sorry for the current kids
The prevalence of spectrum disorders being used as a catchall leads to over-diagnosis/mis-diagnosis. Many times there may be underlying causes that never or rarely get resolved or correctly diagnosed.

Chronic heavy metal poisoning for example was a common underlying cause that was often diagnosed as a spectrum disorder depending on symptoms presented.

It was very difficult to test because it doesn't stay in the blood but instead binds almost immediately. You had to work with a willing doctor and use a chelator and cause acute poisoning to determine if this was the case. Treatment options were not very good either.

For example, many people who received silver dental fillings have had this, while the ADA called it silver, and promoted it as stable, science in the last 20 years has shown marked neurotoxic effects which is why its mostly not used anymore (to my understanding).

The chemical composition of those fillings was 50% by weight mercury which leached when people drank acidic drinks (i.e. soda). Teens and young adults were at higher risk.
Ask HN: How to Get into Freelancing in 2023?
I'm a full stack developer who moved into product management several years. I'm a little unsure of what I want to do going forward so I thought freelancing might be a good move to give me some flexibility.

Does any on Hackernews have good advice for how to start freelancing? It's a world I know very little about.
Were you using it with gpt3 or 4? Personally, I can’t get gpt4 api access despite being a PI at a well known research institution with a project that would be great publicity for OpenAI. My theory is that people are running it mostly with 3 and then saying it’s useless. It definitely is useless with 3.
Google already pays remote employees differently based off their location.

>decides to work for a month from Nairobi

You are allowed to work from a different location for 4 weeks per year, so no your wage would not be reduced in this scenario.
> which would you take with you on a one way trip to a desert island?

How long are we going to be there?
I agree.

Color values when comparing to old systems is not a definite thing. Between the television / monitor used, the settings on that monitor, the video format standard (NTSC, PAL), and even the run of hardware (for example, it's said even C64 VIC chips made just years apart output slightly different colors).

The color values used mostly come from a slightly altered atari800 emulator color palette. I think it's the case of the palette values the original authors used ran on the dark side because of the brightness effect that CRT televisions had at the time.

That being said, I plan on adding a setting to increase the brightness of all colors (besides black).
I was so tired when I posted I didn’t notice I omitted a word from the lyrics: “This light looks good on you, morning came early. Sitting on a park bench that’s older than my country.”
The next video in my feed explained a more complete rehab, including replacement of the sleepers (ties) and rails while allowing the adjacent track to stay in service. F’n amazing.

https://youtu.be/7zsyMxRnQ68
Agriculture is the primary cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss, making it the biggest killer.

Animal agriculture, which accounts for 75% of agricultural activities, is particularly responsible for this devastation.

Our love for burgers and cheeses contributes significantly to the problem.
Diffusion Weekly: Falcon 40B and GPT4 plays Minecraft
US Obesity rate: 41.9%

Iceland Obesity rate: 21.9%

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...
Would be great to run GitHub actions locally that use whichever VM is required.
Lack of immigration? Where did you get that from? Iceland had quite a high rate of immigration. In Sweden, 30% are either foreign born or have foreign born parents, with the largest immigrant group being from Asia.
This is astoundingly well-written and informative. It's the sort of thing I come here for. It's also engaging and charming in a way rarely seen in tech writing.

I like that they started out by talking about $0.07/G cost and went through the whole exercise before pointing out what immediately came to mind for me when they started pushing bytes in and out of S3.
Yeah, and with Fibers things are getting even easier to do. But there are other performance issues and ultimately the benefits are minor.
The only useful textbook I had in college was the book algorithms, which was a $20 paperback.

Price to value was solid.
While not a toy, in shoe stores they used to x-ray children's feet to measure them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
You could use Slack, too.
Years ago it was shockingly cheap, but I still found local lodging and eating out expensive. My last trip was in 2009 for EVE Fanfest and a week-long stay in a hotel on Laugavegur ran me around $5k USD. Most other trips for same length of stay at that time were running me half that or less.
Textbook marketing is predatory; prices are often set to match what financial assistance can bear, not the budget of actual students.

Electronic distribution changed the calculus of the new/used/rental market, but didn't improve things. I rented a textbook, but I should've purchased it, because the rental smelled of perfume and the book had enduring reference value.

Free and open course material, or bundled curriculum, resources are available and in use, but also an imperfect solution. I took some Community College courses as they transitioned from Debian to Red Hat materials, and the instructor appointed me as beta-tester, so I reported numerous errors throughout the course. On the other hand, Cisco Network Academy was online with great texts available, well-edited and very slick. I passed every certification I prepped after those courses.
I think you missed my point. Let's say for the sake of argument that HP48 art is more restrictive than C64 art. Why weren't the C64 artists using HP48 calculators instead? And why aren't we looking at HP48 art in awe, instead of this C64 "non-art"?
Static compilation solves everything, that and cosmopolitan should solve the portability problem. Looking at redbean, we could be programming native applications in lua that would be portable across OS and be lean as well as static (and fast, without depending on a browser).

The main problem is dynamic compilation, I wouldn't fault the "every lang wants to reinvent everything", go took its lessons from plan9 and seems to me the correct method of compilation in nix. for versioning, the only way to do it correctly is tossing away the FHS and using the structure of gobolinux.
I use Mastodon for social networking. Not for consuming news or media. Things where it being a two way street is nice.

I actually just have manual bookmarks to Twitter pages of the like half dozen people I think are at all worth reading. And then I use libredirect (https://libredirect.github.io/) to avoid hitting the actual Twitter website so I don't have to log in (don't have an account anyway) and don't see nonsense recommended posts.

I assume that will break with API changes, at which point I just won't read those people anymore unless they cross post on Mastodon. But it's worked well so far.

Obviously eliminates any possibility of trying to win the comments section, but I don't really see that as a true negative.
> maybe they are more brazen about it now,

They are not. In fact, much of the controversy is because of the opposite, that they are stealthier about it now.
Same. I used to have an alert to notify me when pretty much any Pi was in stock. I’d purchase and stick them in a drawer. I have a drawer full of Pi’s that have never been turned on.
I believe that an intelligent person should be able to hold two conflicting perceptions at the same time.

Therefore, I understand and accept that free speech is a foundation for a civilized life, that there should be no restraints on free speech.

But, I also acknowledge that free speech isn't so free at all. For a long time and in many places in the world there are minorities without the right to speech. And the barriers aren't just authoritarianism. In many places, even in democratic countries, there are non-formal mechanisms to restrain the speech of women, ethnic and sexual minorities.

When an European soccer fan shouts "monkey" to a dark skinned African or Latin American player of an adversary team there is a lot more than free speech at play (e.g.: google for "Vinicius Jr Valencia"). There is the fact that the power of black people to respond and argue is severely constrained in Europe, even more with the rise of anti-immigrant right-wing parties. The key issue here is that the channels of expression are not free, are not open. The same thing goes for, say, women in South Korea, Christians in Muslim countries, Muslims in India, native American people in Latin-America, etc.

Wanting "free speech" to justify oppression of a minority that is already constrained in their speech is not exactly advocating freedom. A lot of times it is advocating hypocrisy.
I've used GPT4, and never got it really do anything useful.
"apart from Musk's statements"

So the CEO of the company?