skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well I am probably kinda the hardcore target group. I can clearly spot, articulate and act on problems (like being overweight and out of shape). I go deep into the scientific (and also pseudo for fun) discussions about anything in the process, can roughly understand it, relate that to my personal situation, and make absolutely great plans how to tackle it.

iE1 (body recomp): calorie counting app, tracking everything that goes in, including hydration + sleep, go into an optimized sports programme and give it all I got, keep an eye on optimal macro/micro, applying social pressure on myself... and so on, everything that might have an impact + preplanned schedules and optimized convenience factors to do the right thing, right from the start. After a few weeks, I just stop it. Doing unhealthy stuff again, ignoring all tracking/notes/plans/appointments and even handwaive the social pressure. Also initial investment (sometimes quite significant) = money factor is just something I shrug off in that mood.

iE2 (building software): I have a good enough idea, sometimes even things I really desperately want for myself. I have a vast toolset of mastered tech stacks at my hands I can use right away, can setup good implementation plans, start with shipping "hello world" to production first (me being a devops many years) and iterate quickly. Also include customer journeys and marketing key points right off the gate. Code written to my personal high standards including full testsuites/coverage, clean component libraries, whatever fits, and also keeping an eye on security and performance. I don't even have to worry much about any expensive hosting/operations costs at all at this point. Still after 2 weeks max, I abandon the project... quite often with a working state that actually is good and usable (most MVPs are in a worse state, as they should).

Its like no matter what I do, there are zero issues for me to research a thing and jumpstart doing it the right (as in: best effort research that looks like actually working) way, and then just stopping it after some time for no particular reason. Somehow my brain just can't be forced for an extended amount of time.

Being aware of that, I also tried several things that are recommended to build up discipline, from atomic habits of different flavors to gratefulnes diaries, so far nothing worked. To give you an idea: I am not able to brush my teeth every single morning/evening as a man in my 30s, its more like 5 out of 7 days roughly. Also I have no attention shortages and can comfortably read a full book cover-to-cover nonstop, meditate or keep the focus of a full-day meeting on track with multiple persons in the room trying to derail.

If someone truly had a solution that works in my case, I'd pay a high premium for that with a smiling face. So far, only failures, and a hopeless me.
> I wonder, when you go to StackOverflow, if you would start by checking answers at the bottom since votes are so meaningless?

I usually read from top down to the point where the answers get to a "have you tried sticking a fork in your toaster?" levels of bad if I don't already have enough domain knowledge to know whether an answer is good for myself. It's frequently of value to me to know what the wrong way of doing something is so that I don't inadvertently go down that road myself.

It's also lower effort to read a stackoverflow answer before voting. I have greater confidence that the person voting may have actually read the answer than that a person starring a repo us actually looked at even the first bit of code.
They must have added it back, for me right clicking in the empty taskbar brings up a menu with the options "Taskbar Settings" and "Task Manager".
Hey look, more ways to confirm bias and lose money.
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Mixpanel launches open-source docs
Every review I've read/watched universally warns that ceramic non-stick doesn't last long. We're talking on the order of 1 year before it's useless. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G21f_ny_lxs
The wealth of the victim is a great thing to weigh in if you want to steal. Surely you can see this.

If I steal a bums sandwich, I hurt him. If I steal Jeff Bezos' sandwich, literally nothing happens. There is no result. He never knew the sandwich existed.

Maybe you'll never have to steal a sandwich, but I hope if you do, you make the right choice.
> My wild guess aligns with Dr Gabor Mate. Dr. Mate emphasizes the significance of psychosocial factors, including stress, trauma, and emotional experiences, in the development and progression of various diseases, including autoimmune conditions.

Well I had what most would consider to be a perfect childhood and I got Graves Disease at 18 and had to have my thyroid gland fully removed.

So I guess you can count me out of this one.
The real reason --- iPhone buyers suck at math.

Paying $30-40 a month for an iPhone contract is insane when a $250 Android will easily do everything you need.

I ask all my iPhone friends, what does your phone do that mine can't for a lot less?

The response I typically get is just a blank stare or some blatantly false misconception.
> I don't want to advertise flags and wars on my license plate

I chuckled a little at this because the Maryland flag is on EVERYTHING in Maryland, including the current standard license plate.
The film had killed me (1946)
Yes, for Facebook accounts they require a real name.

That’s not the case for Meta accounts which are a completely separate thing. I agree it’s confusing.
Then songs like this would be in the charts :)

If you wanna be my lover

You gotta get with my friends

Make it last forever

Friendship never ends
A locking war story
Greatest means "made the most money".
I'm so bored, can't anyone find anything but money to give all their love anymore?

I heard that Love Of Money was the fundamental cause of all the climate change, war, and poverty we're having such trouble with. If that is so, and the emergent effects of individual's greed is indeed the root of these evils, then it is my responsibility to discover better values to pursue in life.
Perhaps I see too clearly what is coming. At this rate, nothing good.
The Race Is on to Crack an Artist’s ‘Test’ Signal from Aliens
> that's like every sysadmin's nightmare.

Not worst case scenario, but it definitely was up there.

I'll always remember it, both because nothing you normally had access for would work because no access, and my contingencies really paid off.

I had just come off a project fully automating configuration and deployment for our more common infrastructure components; auditing and meeting various security baselines.

Its nice seeing hard work you had just finished and tested in action working better than you thought.

Most of our time spent was ensuring all relevant data was migrated from the sprawl of endpoints to a central fileshare with integrity intact with no malware.

Entrypoint turned out to be one of the employees using a dropbox file-share. The previous admin had been directed to allow it by a person in upper management on a one-time basis for WFH. Their home PC had been infected and spread laterally. It was a brief blank stare/mental facepalm moment finding that out. Ultimately everything was back up and running, We made recommendations; and their IT wrapped everything else up.
It's complicated.

You can make larger investments. But, while you may have economies of scale for certain things, you probably also have overheads up and down and across the company for everything you do.
It’ll happen someday! Given computings history of exponential increases, this will come to pass.
The Rise and Fall of Evidence Based Medicine (1998) [pdf]
Interesting! My recollection was that it was a non-explosive tensioner, but maybe I'm wrong. Thinking about explosive tensioners reminds me of an EOD tool I recently learned about – the rocket wrench. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11qa5LFB6zI [1:36]
What does AGI mean to you? Something that is an exact simulation of a person, but living inside a computer?
Edge Functions General Availability
They are teaching chemical elements, atoms and all. It is just that periodic table is moved from class 10 to 11.

There is also reasearch that periodic table is difficult to teach in secondary schools.

https://www.ejmste.com/article/reflections-on-teaching-perio...
>Reddit could replace half of the links with gruesome ISIS beheading videos and people would probably just keep scrolling

That would absolutely increase engagement.

>Only something like a third of all web users even have an ad blocker.

That's actually way higher than I thought...
The Story of Microsleep (2012)
Show/Ask HN: I made this SEO related keyword finder thingie for my own needs
Lets say you want to rank high on Google for the keyword "pet dog care"

Before you write any content, you want to know what questions people ask on Google, Who is ranking on the top 10 and what other keywords do they rank for?, and 'Google Suggestions' for the phrase. So I made one and I find it damn bloody useful when creating highly relevant and SEO potimised content. Wonder if anyone else finds this stuff useful. I have been burnt building unnecessary stuff before so I am very careful to validate first now.

I will only develop this further is there is any interest here :-)

Here is the screencast of this thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-873SkJ2RI
When a masochist gets seniority or becomes management, they become a sadist.
They also don't do a good job marketing their metaverse.
I love that you explicitly call out how you make money and that it is not a percentage of deposits. Being up-front about that is refreshing.

Suggestion: a large portion of folks looking to use this app would like to do so to achieve fitness goals. The simplest possible integration with HealthKit may be closing your exercise rings. It’s general enough to not require integrating with specific vendor APIs, but is still fairly difficult to fake it. It may be a good MVP goal.
In robotics, numerical linear algebra expressions comprise a large part of the code base. If not by line count, then definitely by the amount of time spent writing, reading, and debugging such code. This makes Zig unusable for these applications, at least not without additional tooling. You can get a feel for how unergonomic this is by avoiding the use of all arithmetic operators in your code and instead forcing yourself to use user defined plus(a,b), minus(a,b), assign(a,b), etc, or programming directly with the C blas api.
I can’t get any normies interested in privacy. Even my wife, who is the most tin-foil-hat woman I know, is perfectly fine with NSA spying, the TSA, etc. Given that, how can anyone say that privacy is “one of the most fundamental human rights?” The masses obviously don’t agree. And who else even has standing to decide what’s a human right and what isn’t?
What is a use-case for a "collateralized loan"? Can you finance anything with it?
I think the writer's point is that Kubrick has been analyzed _to death_ on social media. It's true - there's a huge ecosystem of YouTube explainer videos, listicles, in-depth articles about his shooting style, camera tricks, editing, symbolism in his films, etc. So, I don't think he's actually wrong. In previous decades there was an ecosystem of books and magazines about films (for example I have books on the making of Dune, the making of Blade Runner, the making of Star Trek, books of essays on X-Files, Serenity, and Cinefex magazines that go into amazing detail on how the visual effects for Lord of the Rings were made). But most of this sort of thing seems to have shifted to online.
The executive question: is the business failing?

If it is, it will probably be less painful to act on that fact now rather than waste away a little at a time.

If it isn't, what is holding back sales?

If it isn't, why not focus on selling?

How can the business find new customers?

How can the business provide more value to existing customers?

And so on...good luck.
That's unfortunate. I've been on their mailing list since I was in my early twenties - I was married, and while I didn't particularly want more children, I would have been willing to accept the risk as part of a study to help the technology progress. I would have even been willing to participate in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study on its effectiveness, knowing that there would be a ~50% chance that I was just having completely unprotected sex.

Now I'll be 40 in a few months and it appears it's no closer to market than it was when I was 20.
It’s long been this way, even in the days when we had to (gasp) spend money for compilers. I remember feeling like the typical user on Usenet back in the day would rather smelt sand to make a microchip than spend money on computer stuff.

It’s also why I spend my own money on subscriptions to IntelliJ and CLion. I spend a lot of time in those tools and it’s worth it to me to pay to see them advance. Likewise, I just signed up to pay for Mimestream email because that’s something else that I always use.
I have not started a new software subscription in ages. The last software subscription I subscribed to is probably Jetbrains Toolbox, and I don't plan on getting any new software subscriptions for the foreseeable future; as far as I can recall, that's the only one I currently have. I have other subscriptions, but they're for services, where the point of the subscription is the constant flow of new things rather than access to something.
Kotick didn't go to Harvard, doesn't have an MBA, and in fact dropped out of university.

It's not about MBA vs not. He's just shit.
Web Game Dev Newsletter – Issue 016
>A criminal charge would have ruined his life

The typical punishment for petty theft in Japan is having to pay for the item and a slap on the wrist. If you show remorse, settle with the victim, and aren't a repeat offender, prosecutors in Japan will pretty much never take it to a formal trial. Amazon gets no say in this: If prosecutors aren't interested, there won't be a trial. It's their exclusive authority.

>According to Japanese criminal procedure article 248, a prosecutor may choose not to prosecute when prosecution is deemed unnecessary considering the character, age, and background of the offender, the severity of the offense, and the circumstances following the offense.[1]

[1]: https://www.criminaldefensejapan.com/post/how-much-does-it-c...
> They attribute the increase to three factors: agents, who could participate in multiple chats at once, spent about 9 percent less time per chat, handled about 14 percent more chats per hour, and successfully resolved about 1.3 percent more chats overall.

14% is good during focus time but it's interesting that this results in "only" 1.3% overall increase. One potential limiting factor that comes to mind is the energy of the support rep. Doing 14% more during the same time might result in more fatigue, more recovery time, smaller increase in overall productivity. I also consider if there's some other process bottleneck downstream but that's a thought that stuck out to me.

edit: Reading it again, I see "successfully" resolved. Maybe it's as boring as incomplete data.
My guess is most of the % that is unbanked is either undocumented, has a history of bank/credit fraud, or has some alternative bank-like structure they are relying on (when I attended an inner city black high school, a lot of (largely black) people used cashapp seemingly in place of having a bank)
This is what I was afraid to hear, thanks for sharing this. My guess is that if you want to build on their platform, you’ll have to kiss the ring of social networking, which is something I’m not too interested in.
The problem is it's not a binary problem.

Is AI keeping around a few thousand zoo animals or lab specimens a better outcome?

also it could be accidentally or intentional(human goals or AI) or just competition for resources.

The biggest problem is we already do all the things that we don't want AI to do.

War. check

Let humans die for our own financial material gain. check.

Destroy things necessary for human survival again for financial material gain. check.

making highly addictive substances and activities for others people and leaving the consequences to other to deal with.
Do you mind sharing your comparison of polymode versus org-mode for literate programming?
An iPhone lasts longer and has actual resale value. Your argument falls flat.
The only prerequisites to play it on a real console are:

- A hackable/hardmodded console (plenty on ebay if you don't have one)

- A computer

- An internet connection

- Basic reading ability
This is where games excel as a medium of artistic expression. They can get you invested in these decisions in a way that can let you see both sides.

I remember the moment in Mass Effect where you're called upon to either exterminate an intelligent species ... or not. You've just spend hours fighting genocidal attacks by the same species, so it's not an easy choice. You could read the same story in a novel, but without the same impact because it wasn't you making the decisions leading up to that.

Now I'm playing Kenshi, and to upgrade the army of super soldiers I've been building for over a hundred hours, the next obvious step is to painfully rip off their arms and legs and install improved robotic versions. I recruited each soldier and spend hours training each, so it's a little fraught to irreversibly tear their limbs off.

Games are a great place for morality plays, because they can let you explore the grey areas from all sides in a way that can earn sympathy for the devil.
App doesn't work at all
My codebase is significantly larger than yours (mine's a mix of mostly-C++ & some C) — perhaps 10–12 million lines. Clean builds are ~10m; clean-with-ccache are ~2m; incremental are millisecond.

I know this probably won't help with your current project, but you should think of your compiler as an exotic virtual machine: your code is the input program, and output executable is the output. Just like with a "real" CPU, there are ways to write a program that are fast, and ways to write a program that are slow.

To continue the analogy: if you have to sort a list, use `qsort()`, not `bubble sort()`.

So, for C/++ we can order the "cost" of various language features, from most-expensive-to-least-expensive:

1. Deeply nested header-only (templated/inline) "libraries";
2. Function overloading (especially with templates);
3. Classes;
4. Functions & type definitions; and,
5. Macros & data.

That means, if you were to look at my code-base, you'll see lots-and-lots of "table driven" code, where I've encoded huge swathes of business logic as structured arrays of integers, and even more as macros-that-make-such-tables. This code compiles at ~100kloc/s.

We don't use function-overloading: one place we removed this reduced compile times from 70 hours to 20 seconds. Function-overloading requires the compiler to walk a list of functions, perform ADL, and then decide which is best. Functions that are "just C like" require a hash-lookup. The difference is about a factor of 10000 in speed. You can do "pretend" function-overloading by using a template + a switch statement, and letting template instantiation sort things out for you.

The last thing is we pretty much never allow "project" header files to include each other. More importantly, templated types must be instantiated once in one C++, and then `extern`ed. This is all the benefit of a template (write-once, reuse), with none of the holy-crap-we're-parsing-this-again issues.
Yes, much better to let 55 million users blame the browser for redirecting search queries, excessive ads, erratic behavior and data leaks. :-)

Funny thing is: I can imagine Google being fine with everything on this list but the first point. When it comes to hijacking search, Google is absolutely no fun.
I'm in a similar mode.

But what no one thinks about is how much the productivity we lose from wasting time on Reddit is costing us. If I cut out my Reddit use (while just at work), and replaced that with actual work.... I could easily make $3,000 to $4,000 dollars more a year.

And I am not particularly well paid. I don't make 6 figures, so that amount of money is a pretty huge deal for me.

But still our brains think in terms more like.... well I'd pay $25 for this one time, but I won't pay $5 per month because that's just TOO MUCH.
So is it immoral for a farmer to farm?

If EVERYONE farmed, there would be waaaay to much food and no water left on the planet.
Ask HN: Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit?
I recall the comp., sci., and soc.culture., from just before AOL opened the flood gates (access), and even soon thereafter, as they used to be so fun...
The Birth and Death of the Orange Book (2015) [pdf]
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Diablo IV is shaping up to be very successful, though.
There's a common belief that .org domains are much more tightly controlled than they are. They may have thought they were doing the right thing.
You're right in that I've overgeneralized my statement earlier. But I argue my point still stands.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WRMFNS

Retail component of money market funds remains part of M2. Meaning that if depositors switched their money to VMFXX (or other retail money market funds), then it'd still be part of M2.
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* Rails (8 years)

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GenAI allows me to stay in a flow state for longer and it reduces cognitive fatigue.
Nicholson's eyes don't just graze the camera or sweep past it - he's clearly been directed to pause (even for a tiny moment) looking directly at the lens. It's the opposite of what film actors are trained to do, which is avoid looking directly at the lens. In a typical dramatic film a shot where an actor looked directly at the lens would be a ruined take.
The Developing World will have ChatGPT as well.

They can learn new things and cover over the things they do now know. Hopefully they can join the Developed World quickly.

Every time someone says X is going to suffer under ChatGPT, I remind that person that X will also improve their productivity by using ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is the most amazing personal tutor I can find. I'm adding 1 IT cert per month, largely due to ChatGPT's help as my personal tutor.
hello! engineer from Retool here. while the main focus of the work was performance, we also re-thought fundamental APIs for write-back, server-side pagination, filtering, and more. we're so excited to see what you will build with it!
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