skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fast software that nobody uses helps nobody. Slow software that everyone uses is, well, slow. So I'm curious: how many people use your software? I get that this topic is like nerd rage catnip but if people actually want to help users, then they need to meet users where they're at. And if "marketing" is what's needed, then maybe it is. Software is generally built for humans after all.

Don't get me wrong, All of my servers at home run Void Linux and use runit. Pretty much anything that runs on them is snappy and they run on 10 year old hardware but still sing because I use software written in Go or native languages. But remembering the particulars about runit services and symlinks is something I forget every 3 months between deploying new services. Trying to troubleshoot the logger is also a fun one where I remember then forget a few months later. Using systemd, this all just comes for free. Maybe I should write all of this down but I'm doing this for fun aren't I?

The reason users don't care that much about slow software is because they use software primarily to get things done.
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's that aria label. The first line of this code.

<span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true">
<span class="base">
<span class="strut" style="height:0.6444em;"></span>
<span class="mord">2</span>
<span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03588em;">π</span>
</span>
</span>

My first inclination was to simply run `say` on my Mac comamdn line and paste the line in. That read it correctly. The other commenter called out the `aria-hidden` attribute and I'd guess that's it. It's explicitly hidden.

Apparently this is all intentional as outlined in this bug report.

https://github.com/KaTeX/KaTeX/issues/38
Very true, but if you're planning on expanding the work of a small, pilot study like that and you don't have the people who were involved in the original you probably need to recreate the study (to shake out the kinks in the protocol, confirm results for yourself, etc).

It would be challenging to find a solution robust enough for CERN type data but also simple enough for an n=3 undergraduate research project (that may have yielded some interesting results).

I don't know what the solution is there. My intuition is that university libraries could be involved, and that a data librarian could help you get your small study into shape or be embedded at a percentage effort on a large study.
Using a Particle Accelerator to Look Inside a Chip [video]
I assumed this was a riff on the classic bash.org transcript.

http://www.bash.org/?244321
I think thou protest too much.
Mythbusters did a test at one point where they exposed a dead pig to a mere 9 atmospheres/300 feet of water pressure. The result is... not pretty. It's safe to say that no matter what happened to the Titan, there are no bodies to recover.
There may not be any magic, but there is science advanced enough that we cannot tell the difference (the impact of personal microbiomes is largely unknown at this point).

And the reality is that simply taking in fewer calories will often cause your body to burn fewer calories because your body is meant to conserve energy for the times when it is needed to run away from the bigger predators.
Ok, a few thoughts.

Direct to consumer lab testing is offered in ~47 states in the country. It has been available for years with thousands of tests available. To date, there has been no apocalypse from empowering consumers to know about their own personal health.

NMS is one of the preeminent toxicology labs in the country. This test is Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry which is known, quantifiable, extremely accurate and repeatable test methodology.

National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine explicitly references this lab in their report. Further, they go on to elucidate the risks and benefits of offering PFAS testing to people.

"Harms of PFAS testing include fear induced by blood draw, a small risk of injury or infection at the draw site, difficulties in interpreting results, and psychological stress that may occur when people who are tested learn that they or their family members have high levels of PFAS exposure. On the other hand, biomonitoring for PFAS blood levels may also alleviate fears associated with not knowing one’s PFAS levels. Another potential benefit is increasing awareness of exposure so that exposures can be reduced. If sources of exposure are identified, actions taken to reduce these exposures, such as using a water filter, may also benefit family members in addition to the person who was tested. Community-level benefits may be associated with PFAS testing as well, such as empowering communities to respond to contamination and providing a baseline with which to evaluate the impact of community-level interventions to reduce exposure. Additionally, biomonitoring for PFAS in the context of epidemiologic studies could provide more information about PFAS-associated health effects."

Also a couple of quotes from the same paper.

"Kristen Mello of Westfield Residents Advocating for Themselves (WRAFT) said to the committee:

You don’t have a problem getting an insurance assessor when your car is hit, you don’t have a problem getting an insurance assessor when you have a tornado, but this slow motion unfolding environmental and public health disaster … is intentionally keeping the information from us so that we cannot take action.

Furthermore, Emily Donovan of Clean Cape Fear, said:

Sadly it feels like guinea pigs are treated better, because at least their exposures are thoroughly studied for the betterment of humanity.

And Cathy Wusterbarth of Need Our Water said:

We’ve tested the fish; we’ve tested the deer; we’ve tested the groundwater, the waterways, and the foam. When are we going to test the people?… The only risk [of testing] is to the polluters who do not want us to link them to our exposure."

Make what you will.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK584705/
Yeah that's main thing missing, media queries should have been "relative" to its parent from the start not window absolute.
I know a person that can only see red clearly, so he shifts colors in the iOS settings to a red tint. Green icons shifted to red work fine, but what doesn’t work are the health and music icons which are white on red. Applying the color shift in iOS just turns these into red squares. This stuff is hard to get right. For him it’s better to not have single color icons with no outlines, but that’s the trend today. You might think less detail in icons would help accessibility but that’s not always the case.
Because American individuals (not pseudo individuals known as corporations) don't have any money since it went to corporations, shrinking real wages, and loss of employment and housing. 60% of the hyperinflation was due to excessive corporate profits in a positive price spiral that had no fundamental supply-demand basis. The very rich currently enjoy a Roaring 2020's.
Yeah, when my cast iron skillet starts to act up I'll just lightly scrub it with dish soap and a brillo pad, dry it, then add a very light coating of oil and heat it up on the stove until it smokes. You want some ventilation of course. Then, it's restored to easy fried egg condition.
A little off-topic, but I would have loved to see mifos / fineract[0] referenced in the article. Great open source banking core having many of the strengths listed

[0] https://github.com/apache/fineract/
> that these so-called common sense ideas are so deeply held in our society that few have really questioned them

Yes, these issues have been studied and questioned. In traditional hunter-gatherer societies (people whose diet and lifestyle matches what humans evolved for), obesity is almost unheard of, as are diabetes and other metabolic diseases. But when these same hunter-gatherers adopt a modern lifestyle and diet, their rates of these diseases go way up. From this evidence, we can conclude that obesity is not a purely natural phenomenon, but caused in part by modern lifestyles.
It's 60 calendar days.
I agree and I'm not understanding the seemingly dissenting opinions in the larger comments. This is basic thermodynamics.
Kagi Raises $670K
You're absolutely right on all of those points. You have to eat less for a long enough period of time where the body adapts to that new, lower amount of calories. Then it becomes easier to maintain. But at the start it's really rough. Constantly feeling hungry isn't fun.

But just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not doable. For the vast majority of people it is doable without any form of medication. It will be slow and uncomfortable, but doable.

I think that a prescription should be a last-resort option for people who genuinely have a condition that makes a traditional method not possible. There's a variety of reasons for that, from monetary ones to health concerns about being on something like these medications long-term.
I, personally, have actually been having pretty good results with berberine (yes, yes, I know its a TikTok trend right now). Its really helped control my hunger and I haven't noticed any side effects.
They know enough to stay away from it.

I created software to expedite discovery analysis of labor disputes, and when pitching it to lawyers I was literally told “you’re saying you created something that will take milliseconds to do what would take me weeks? Why would I want that? I get paid by the hour.”
I can understand this sentiment in many countries, but Canada is in the Americas, where very few families have actually been settled for long. So I don't get it.
Sure, but that just reinforces the idea to not support them in the beginning?
What Is an SDK for a REST API?
I always found it hard to explain exactly how an SDK makes the experience of integrating a complicated REST API 10x better and I recently found this library that helps you make code walkthroughs https://codehike.org/ (huge props to Rodrigo the maintainer!).

FYI view the link on desktop for the full effect of the animations.
Vaccination Reduces Risk of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Other Disorders
There's another post with a video of how an old machine running NT 3.51 is so much faster than what we have now running on modern hardware.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503983
Just write simple script. Why this service is needed. Provisioning VPN server is not a rocket science.
> You don't need an LLM to be able to write SQL though?

For 1-liners, sure, but I've seen some horrendously long SQL queries with multiple joins that are prone to bugs of sorts.
> There's plenty of people that would hate to live in the US, and much prefer Canada.

For what reasons?

Having worked with a lot of Canadians over the years, I've discovered that a significant number of them have this very negative perception of the USA that is not accurate. I can see a lot of these reasons being based on incorrect assumptions, especially when considering how educated upper-middle class people live.

I spent a lot of time in Toronto about 7-8 years ago and I couldn't imagine living there as an American. Everything is so expensive (housing in particular), traffic is terrible, the weather sucks, and my role in Canada paid like 25% less. The food was pretty good, but that's about it.
It still provides value
Cities: Skylines II Development Diary #2: Traffic AI
> Texans don't read, or worse, choose not to believe those news articles.

There's "blue Texas," i.e., the big cities, generally voting Democratic but outvoted in the state legislature (thanks in part to aggressive gerrymandering) and in statewide races (governor, lt. gov., etc.) by "red Texas," the more-sparsely-populated regions that consistently vote Republican (and, increasingly, MAGA).
There are a lot of stupid comments on HN (to be fair, I've contributed some of them, willfully or not). One real "distinction" of HN - as much as this seems to pervade far too much modern & social media 'discourse', in general - is in strident arrogance. The confident assertion of BS, often couched in fancy language, is par excellence*.

* Those who miss my own self-mocking should feel free to consult "Catullus 16" in lieu of submitting their critical commentary on my comment
He's openly fascist and a charlatan. I shouldn't be surprised that people here like him.

Also no surprise that people influenced by him, i.e. Mark Fischer, killed themselves.
As someone who monitored services that participated in unprompted mic-popping and camera-popping, at-will, for a FAANG company, for multiple years, kindly shut the fuck up.

Additionally, don't be mad when you find out later that companies know about your hyper-personal tendencies.
I think socializing after work is fine in a lot of cases, but I personally feel like a manager should avoid anything that even has the appearance of playing favorites. I recognize that this is probably a much more strict ethical stance than most people will hold though; in a lot of places it's not even forbidden for managers to date their direct reports, which is even more obviously a conflict of interest.

I also totally understand that there's no requirement to drink at a bar; I just don't typically find them to be very fun environments. At least in the ones I've been to post-work hours, they tend to be loud and crowded, and I've always assumed that the only reason people tolerate them as a place to socialize is that drinking makes those aspects less annoying. Imagine if all your coworkers really loved comic books, and after work they always went to hang out in a comic book store, and you had no interest in comic books; you certainly could still go, but without actually being interested in what the venue provides, it's just not going to be particularly fun to hang out there.
I'm not claiming anything extraordinary, though, most or all of what I said is well known in the field.
LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
Ok, you've replied to quite a lot of my comments, with some fairly confusingly worded responses. Some of your claims appear to be incompatible as far as I read them.

For example you claim that angles are not dimensionless, but that dimensionless quantities are formed by the ratio of two quantities with the same unit. Since the angle subtended by an arc in a circle is the ratio of the arc length and radius, it would seem that these two claims contradict each other.

I do agree that without some aditional work the power series argument I wrote above does seem to be wrong.
There is a Raymond Chen post (I'll come back to add the link if I find it) that explains how the developers working on Windows 95 were only allowed to use machines with the minimum specs required by the OS. This was to ensure that the OS ran well on those specs.

And, IMHO, that's the way it should be: I think it's insane(?) to give developers top-of-the-line hardware, because such hardware is not representative of the user population... and that's part of why I stick to older hardware for longer than others would say is reasonable.
$10 per month
+$0.05 per connection
+$0.02 per hour
+$0.04 per GB (I use about 300 GB)

So in total: $10 + about $12 + $1.5 (30x connections per day)
= $23.5 per month

Mullvad is $5.

Using the big 3 for a VPN is suicide. You do not want to host a business based on bandwidth on those.

A cool tech demo but definitely not viable as a business.

Also, why a California LLC?
I thought that it was universally understood that spying on your kid's activity is bad parenting?

Limiting what your child has access to in the first place, and setting time limits, is a good way to set barriers on viewing activity that you can break down over time as you continue to educate and talk to your child about the dangers of the real world accessible over the internet: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201304

And Apple is continuing to introduce privacy-preserving (and safe-from-russian-companies) solutions to kids seeing inappropriate content https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-17-preview/#privacy-security:~...
To keep Americans happy about the over 3/4 Trillion dollars we spend on defense every year?

“You spend a lot, but you get the best!” sounds a lot better than “You spend a lot, but we still suck!”
Aaronson's point later in the post that it is possible to construct a function which has an arbitrarily high phi but is nonetheless obviously not conscious-- which wrecks IIT completely, at least in its current formulation-- does not depend on anything to do with the hard problem of consciousness.
Agreed. Unlike the AI stuff with its "empty textbox" problem, fast incremental search is capital-A Awesome! Pretty much my favorite UI paradigm ever, at least out of those that gained adoption after I started using computers.

The best incremental search UIs are those that respond near-instantly, and have a stable list of candidates that is (or at least feels like) being filtered, and not like every keystroke re-runs some search from scratch. Prime example, which made me love this UI paradigm, is Foobar2000 - even back in early 2000s, I could have hundreds or thousands of entries in the music library, and then I would type into the magic textbox and watch that huge list (or tree) get instantly trimmed with each keystroke.
How does déja vu, that is the re-experiencing an experience, fit into this theory? It appears that the Information axioms fails to be Essential when one considers déja vu.
A lot of people think that their daily calorie intake is lower then it actually is. A pill or injectable is not a cure to this problem, no matter how good they say it works.
Interesting, if they were going to provision a disposable vpn, couldn't they have done the same with the DNS.
From what I understand, Ozempic works by slowing down digestion and thus reducing appetite. If that is the case then wouldn't this be precisely evidence that caloric restriction is all you need to reduce obesity?
I think you're overestimating how sensitive immigrants are to this stuff. Comarriage is way more about preserving their family culture than it is about finding someone accepting. Religion and spoken-at-home language will matter.

Sizeable chunks of some immigrant populations simply won't melt, which IMO is fine in a place like Canada or the US. They'll still work with everyone else, and I feel like profession and class are both way bigger dividers than ethnicity anyway. A white SWE probably knows more Indian SWEs than white janitors.
Politely, I think this comment may be incorrect advice.

I think correctness and precision requirements of financial transactions outweighs any devex concerns. Lots of banking and trading APIs do exactly this: pass your currency fields as strings.
Interesting to see this, as I feel like I've seen arguments against this kind of state-based querying come up to avoid cases where you end up with an infinite loop of state query applying -> new styles applying -> new styles undo the state -> state query not applying -> styles removed -> original state query applying, repeat indefinitely. I believe this was the rationale for not having pseudo states for when a container is scrollable, for instance. I wonder what they've done to avoid these cases.

For instance, in their `state(wrap: true)` example, now that the wrapping element is hidden, isn't it no longer wrapping? Why does the query continue to apply?
tptacek could be referring to the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs

This video does a good job at explaining how the "UFO" is probably an infrared glare, hiding the hot object behind it, and rotating only because the camera rotates when tracking the target from left to right.
That was a great read thank you for sharing.
Privacy.com allows you to use completely made up billing information - transactions won't get rejected if the name/address is a mismatch. You can just feed a fake name and address into each site, even if they wanted to, how would they identify you? Of course, this likely works best if you use an email aliasing service that hides your real email completely, and a VPN to obscure your physical IP address.
True, the author of the video should probably have done even more range reduction.
I have built a side project with a user base of less than ten people. Mostly people I have known for years. The only counterargument is "why aren't you using <more popular software> instead?"
Another part is that people don't realize how within the government, and especially the military, there are a lot of false documents and reports that are sitting around AND highly classified. You do this because there are spies and they will steal shit. You want to make that process noisy. It's also beneficial because you may get your adversary to spend millions or billions studying a thing that isn't even possible. Sometimes they even have people "working" on these things (sometimes even unwitting fools that are true believers) because it makes it look more legitimate (and you can funnel money through these). See the ridiculousness of the US and Russian psychic programs.

There's a lot of disinformation as well as smoke and mirrors. It's annoying, but you can't take military documents at face value. It's like reading a scientific paper, you realistically can only judge the merit if you have some domain expertise or enough in an adjacent domain to understand the work itself. That's the whole reason disinformation works in the first place (which is specifically meant to fool experts, even if not all of them, just enough).
There are no bodies left to recover
Have you ever used Sublime or Vim?

Vscode is fast compared to most modern editors, but it's still twice as slow as Sublime in terms of input latency, UI responsiveness, text coloring etc.

An hour with Sublime/Vim followed by going back to Vscode is a painful experience...
Fundamental sounds meaningless to me.

Talking about statements and words with meaning I am sure, that Tau is the more useful circle constant out of these two: less symbols, conceptually clearer equations.

Also turn is generally a more useful measurement unit for angle than radian or degree, but radian has its own merits, and not disposable, unlike pi.
Even Newton's Principia has symbols, they're just different. His notation used dots and lines & boxes in various positions.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation#N...
Mullvad is awesome, but it’s not even about the price.
June is cool. Best of luck!

Would you consider adopting the STARS framework[1] ? It was designed to solve the questions you mentioned like “Are our key customers adopting the new feature we launched?” but at the same time it also incorporates qualitative feedback.

[1] http://starsframework.org/

Full disclosure: I helped design it.
Maybe. What about questioning the discretion of anyone who uses childish terminology like "cryptocrappency" and ad hominems instead of making an actual point?
That is what is sounds like for now, but Netflix might try to close that loophole in the future.
Don't forget the per/hour connected price if you stayed connected 24/7 for 30 days thats $14.40 + BW charges.

The only real use case I can foresee this for is for people who might use a VPN for a few hours, a few times a month. With that kind of usage pattern $10 (The min topup value by the look of it) could last you a fair few months so works out cheaper than some of the other mainstream VPN providers who offer a flat fee service.
to be fair, it should be possible to study rates of cancer incidence for a given population and predict which drugs would be needed based on typical progression rates, with a national reserve of the ones that are less common to supply shortfalls as needed
Defense is contracted out. So private mil-tech companies can develop high tech items with high paid engineers and sell it to the military...