skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're conflating the wallstreetbets crowd with the crypto crowd who are kinda polar opposites.

Some of the applications crypto folks were going on about: decentralization (of course) until the IRS started taxing your crypto transactions; helping 3rd world countries with weak currencies (partially happened); international trade (quickly became untrue and monitored by government agencies), ledgers for tech companies (they can all already build audit trails. i've yet to see many applications where companies are willing to give up control over their trust to a 3rd party system with no scrubbing functionality. looking at you, AWS status page).

Like I said, same vibe, different applications. Until some are built it's all just hype and conjecture. The applications we've seen work well are already well-accepted for their faults (content generation, summarization, etc)
No I mean I had heartburn sometimes but who hasn't but really I didn't think it was unusually bad. Of all my symptoms the one that should have stood out was coughing. Acid splashes up and gets into your airway and you cough. There may not even be any heartburn feeling. I had that for years even as a teenager. I thought I was smart because I figured out as a teen an antacid would make my weird cough go away but I had never heard of GERD what teen has? This was well before the Internet age.

My issue is I can stop eating at 5pm or even 4pm but at night if I roll over on my stomach it pushes on it and I vomit up digest food. There's nothing like sitting bolt upright from that feeling as you aspirate into your lungs at 3am! Even lying on my side doesn't help I can feel acid pour into my throat.

PPI meds like Prevacid make me feel bad just an all around blah feeling. they are not supposed to be taken long term and I've read ppi medications may damage kidneys. I think similar to high blood pressure medicine it has some effect on kidneys and can even cause coughing due to it.

One weird quirk though is at my worst if I got sick with the flu my acid reflux went away.

So for now watch my diet, eat somewhat sensibly (almost impossible since everything is a trigger), and try not to eat too late.
Cruise and waymo are running ride hailing service without any drivers at all in multiple cities including SF
Came here to say the same thing. "Liberty"... I'm using a Pihole to block trackers.
As commercial enterprises currently are set up, they have no incentive whatsoever to preserve the ecosystem they are thriving on. Worse, they profit more when harming it. As seen here with Google, that is true irrespective of the nature of the affected system.

It's not just the quality of websites that is negatively hit either. The real victims are us, civil society and our future.

The information realm that is the internet should provide not only some basic tidbits, it should inform to the full extent of human knowledge.
Even more than that, it should provide us with the freedom to discuss among ourselves and reflect on ourselves, humans and humanity, about the future of society.

Without such self-reflection, there is only stagnation and retardation. We cannot change what we do not understand and we understand ourselves the least.
Is it really only 15 minutes at a time, or is it 15 minute units with possibly multiple in a row? Heat pump efficiency requires long cycles, so turning it off, on, off, on within the course of an hour to make some "never off more than 15 minutes" guarantee would be counterproductive.
Linux 6.5 Adding Initial Support for USB4 v2, Intel Barlow Ridge
I don't think the author understand how one is supposed to use branches and DVCS. It also compares an "ideal" situation of "trunk-development" with the worst usage of branches. Those unfortunate enough to have worked with CVS/SVN on a single trunk know that the ideal just does not happen and that by 2023 we know what not to do with branches (and it is perfectly realistic to avoid such mistakes).

> In the branching model, large and infrequent merges can introduce bugs that are hard to identify and resolve due to the sheer size of the changes.

You are not supposed to have branches that diverge too much, and if you do, what's stopping you in a centralized VCS from doing the same? I.e. having a large local changes that you did not upload back to the server. It actually makes the problem worse.

> In contrast, the branching model encourages developers to create separate branches for every feature, bug fix, or enhancement.

It seems the author suggesting not only a reversion the centralized VCS days but also to do it with just a trunk branch, where either each commit is made to the trunk right away (so it must be right on the first try) or you pile uncommitted changes locally.

Using a DVCS and committing to the local version of the `master` branch already counts as having a branched model, except more limited.

> In a trunk-based model, continuous integration becomes more straightforward because your code is committed frequently to trunk, and that's the branch your CI environment is running the build and tests on.

You can run CI and test in any branch you want, and you can rebase prior to running the tests. It is not a big deal.
Taycan: 2022, Plaid: 2023. Took them some time (and a real round steering wheel) to get there after some squabbling between those two.
Ask HN: Which server-side language(s) do you recommend for web applications?
I've been a professional PHP developer for over a decade now. While I have plenty of experience with other languages, my coworkers and I tend to default to using PHP for new projects, typically built with the Laravel MVC framework.

We may be starting a new project soon and now seems like a good time to reconsider this approach, rather than just repeating the cycle.

So what languages, frameworks, etc. are you recommending to people these days? I understand the answer can vary depending on the details of the project, but for now, let's assume it's a pretty standard site with user account registration, a dashboard, and some basic tools for users that mostly boil down to CRUD operations on the back end.
Not sure how reliable can a toddler call 911, I'd rather think at a panic button or monitor like other commenters mentioned. But I have another question about this story: how many Alexa emergency calls are jokes/accidental over the entire user base? A few for sure are life saving, but I also expect quite some useless noise.
how is programming "democratized"?
I recall at some point a huge flood of ads for TRT and Testosterone boosters, seemingly out of nowhere. A bit separate from the whole line of more typical products from companies like Hims (for hair loss, ED, etc). For that reason, I don't trust it. It's some land rush and money grab and I don't think proper due diligence is being done.
>For a lot of people the gym is a relaxing "third place"[1] that they truly are sad to miss for a period of time.

Not at all in my case. In my youth gyms were places for hooligans, _heavy_ steroids abusers, low end criminals, and thus places to avoid. Then spent some years in Germany where gym contracts are famously predatory and abusive, again a place to avoid. Only around 2 years ago had found a civilized place finally. Starting to visit regularly meant to actually overcome some traumas.
OK, if two "self driving" cars meet they can negotiate somehow, nice. But they will have to cope with all those older cars and often older drivers in rural areas. Or cows, sheep, or snow drifts or landslides.

I soon will be on holiday in rural France again and you might not believe who and what is driving on those small roads. Which is totally OK with me, but I highly doubt tech will handle that in the near future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0GvSM_HevY

This needs to be translated. This is the depiction of the "human" flag computer in the recent Tencent adaptation plus some kind of explanation of how it relates to modern computer hardware.
The DevOps Paradox: A Shift Away from Ops
Not a chance. The surveillance cameras on wheels are so cheap to query that you might as well be analyzing the streams constantly, and have them tell you when something interesting is happening.
If you are full-stack it probably seems obscure, and fortran seems outdated. But depending on your country, if you are safety critical embedded it is potentially the only option. It is in the top 2-3 in any case.

Edit: to finish my thought, if you are in physics or meteorology fortran is still common as well. There are a lot of software niches, and full-stack web dev is just the largest, at least as represented at HN, embedded might have more people if you combine planes, trains, automobiles, industrial, manufacturing, and more visibly IOT.
> I've always wondered why the body stops producing adequate amounts of it as we age

As our organs, tissues and glands age, they decrease their output including our testes.

This paper goes a bit into detail:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8619877/
> Crypto still hasn't proven itself to be useful in any way shape or form that isn't immediately over-shadowed by a different medium.

Seems like it has proven very useful for Stripe [0], Moneygram [1], TicketMaster [2], etc.

Unlike AI which continues to consume tons of resources to burn the entire world down to the ground without any viable efficient methods of training, inference or fine-tuning their AI models in the past decade with its chatbot hype and gimmickry [3], crypto does not need to consume tons of CO2 to operate, thanks to alternative and greener consensus algorithms available in production today. [4]

Being 'useful' is not an excuse to destroy the planet around untrustworthy AI models getting themselves confused over a single pixel or hallucinating in the middle of the road.

[0] https://stripe.com/gb/use-cases/crypto

[1] https://stellar.org/moneygram

[2] https://business.ticketmaster.com/business-solutions/nft-tok...

[3] https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training...

[4] https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/ethereum-blockchain...
True. I saw a self-driving car (not a Tesla) approach a parked car from behind at around 15 mph, then at the last second, swerve around it, leaving what looked like a 6" gap.

I was frightened, but impressed. (Good thing nobody opened the door.)
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Afaiu, in the UK many (most?) males over 55 get prescribed TRT.
Male mortality tracks quite closely with muscle wastage, so it makes a lot of sense.
I'd be interested to know why you imply that the (GNU?) AGPL is a bad licence. AGPL-3.0-or-later is a very sensible FOSS licence in my opinion; some awkward punctuation is about the most I can level against it.
The actual announcement: https://www.suse.com/c/suse-liberty-linux/

Interesting play - basically they will offer generic enterprise-grade Linux support, with a not-so-veiled view to slowly replace existing installations (typically RHEL or CentOS, both explicitly namechecked) with SuSE, leveraging "SuSE Manager".

It's clearly a reaction to the civil war in the RedHat world.
Because Testosterone is a bad choice for women if they want to use PEDs, Anavar is a much better option, and Clen is often used for fat burning (although Anavar on its own is really decent for that as well).
I've made a presentation about it in 2013[1]. Back in 2000, when Perl was riding high and 13 year old, Larry Wall announced "Perl 6". However Perl6 (now Raku) was hugely ambitious and not production-ready until 2015 ...

So for the best part of the naughties, people said things such as "don't bother learning Perl 5, Perl6 is coming"... Then the 2010s came and people got on the RoR and PHP and Python trains in the meanwhile instead.

https://www.slideshare.net/eflorac/perl-presentation-2013-pa...
When low/no-code started its hype? 5-10 years ago? Or something like that. First release dates:

Mendix 2005
Outsystems 2001
Appian 2004 (no info before)
Quickbase 2000
Zoho Creator 2006

~20 years ago. I agree with the idea that it’s a new cool way of interaction with systems, but I also think you trust too much in our development cycles. Five years is nothing. Companies will try and fail, try and pivot, try and barely swim for years. Few of them will arrive alive at stage 2 where the real deal starts.

If it were easy, it would hit frontpages last week, because small companies and single developers can prototype things 10-100x faster than any bigcorp.
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Self driving is a cost problem and a software problem. Over time it will become solved fully and cheap. I can't believe that a human can outperform a computer at paying attention.

re: 1.5 car width lanes or trails or whatever

Have you seen humans drive in other countries? Italy, India and Boston (lol - many more) have driving situations where lane lines are not obeyed and cars pack pretty tightly on a regular basis. I cannot imagine a world where that is not solved.
GNUCash => https://www.gnucash.org/
I'd like to point out that humans, too, are not trustworthy in high risk situations. For this we have procedures, deterministic automation and so on.

I like to think of capable LLMs as pf gifted interns. I can expect decent results if I explain well enough, but I need processes around them to make sure they are doing what they are told. In my industry thats enough to produce a noticeable productivity gain, and likely some reduction of employment as its a low margin cut throat business relying on low grade knowledge workers. I see the hype and honestly cant stand it, but its measureably impacting my industry and the world around me.
Alternatively, you could compile the C++ (or rust or zig) to WebAssembly, and a single binary would run anywhere.
Although it is inconvenient you can still ask an administrator for the page log https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Page_history#Moved_and_de...
Ah yes, the famously narrow, cramped and heavily utilized by pedestrians streets of Phoenix.
It's actually a thing that's only close to universal for civil engineering. Electronics and mechanical engineers for aircraft, for example, are not usually licensed in the US nor the UK, and in places like Canada where the use of the term is more heavily regulated, it had more of an impact on job titles than anything else. Like a lot of aspects of other branches of engineering, I think it's often viewed with rose-tinted glasses by software engineers. Basically everything that software engineers complain about happens with other disciplines as well!
Article says that the former CEO was sidelined by new ownership and claims that investors were misled. But it doesn't actually say what happened. If the existing shops were making money, why would they have been closed? The actions ascribed to the investment firm do not make any rational sense.

I understand the journalist tried to get comment from them and it's not their fault they couldn't, but ultimately the story is unsatisfying because the picture is so incomplete.
This is not how credit cards work, because the system of "credit card payment" is typically used with things other than credit cards. At least in Europe you go through extra expense and hassle to get a credit card, if you're even allowed.
Student team sets distance record with hydrogen city car concept
> It's much easier to get a detailed image of a person's iris from 100m.

Seriously? That sounds insane, wow. I mean, an iris is like 1cm wide, can you really get a detailed image from 100m away, while the person is walking, looking around, blinking etc.?

EDIT: I mean in the context of surveillance, I can imagine that a dedicated photographer could get such a picture with a fancy camera, but we're talking about 24/7 video surveillance.
Private motor vehicles are a very space-inefficient means of transport.

India is pretty crowded.
You are displaying exactly the problematic cherry picking that you are railing against, but from the other side.

Reference ranges are always adapted to specific populations.

Testosterone levels have not necessarily been falling since industrial times - records farther back than 50-70 years are extremely error prone and sporadic since methods of testing have changed dramatically.

Doctors are not saying that a 40 year old having the same testosterone level as an 18 year are "unhealthy" en masse. It is simply normal for the hormone to decrease as one ages. There is no "strange and contrived reason". It's just how the human body works and isn't a problem unless it goes too low and causes dysfunction of some kind.

The reason for lower testosterone is probably very boring and not some insidious thing like you're implying: people are more obese because they eat more calories, and this is strongly linked to lower testosterone levels.
Andrew Kelley gave an informative and entertaining talk on how DOD had inspired a lot of his work on the Zig compiler: https://vimeo.com/649009599
Ever notice how the same folks who loudly claim race-based affirmative action is obviously wrong never have the same energy for legacy or athletic scholarships?

Take Harvard. A large chunk of Harvard's white admissions are based on legacy (my dad went there, so I get to go), athletics (I can lacrosse like nobody's business!), donor (my grandfather paid for this building, so you gotta let me in!), and Dean's choice (my family knows the right people). Of the (overwhelmingly) white folks listed above, 75% of them would not have been accepted to Harvard based on their academic performance. 75%!

But whenever conservatives talk about unearned access to higher education, they ALWAYS mean black and brown folks. It's a curious thing, isn't it? I mean, it's not like Harvard is mostly black and brown. Not even close. What could the motivation be, I wonder?

Truth is, one party talks about equality and currently has SCOTUS backing them up, but really doesn't care about it. Just that white folks remain in a position of privilege.
"Most free", not "totally free".
Everyone can fork gcc and glibc, they are fully open source. In any case the question remains why one would want to... there are alternatives for both of 'em (musl/dietlibc for glibc, llvm for gcc).

As long as you keep to the POSIX/C/C++ standards and don't use vendor-specific attributes (or at least abstract them away via macros), you shouldn't run into issues using another kernel, libc or compiler.
Genetics is a sonofabitch. I haven’t been a to a gym in 20 years, and yet people ask me what my routine is.

Sit on the couch, smoke, eat chocolate. Your mileage may vary.

I did do an unholy amount of exercise from 12-20 (rowing), which may have put a few epigenetic switches in useful locations, as before that I was a spherical child, but honestly, I have no idea how I maintain cardio and strength with frankly small bursts of infrequent activity.
>For example, it’s extremely hard to get arrested and pretty much impossible to get convicted for saying words in America (despite all the hysteria + legitimate complaints about cancel culture).

You can't get arrested but you can be socially lynched. You will be fired and unable to find new employment.
Practically only games that are continuously updated have longer shelf lifes. In that case only the original version would have to be opened after 10 years and later modifications would have to wait ten years after their release.
Please avoid SARMs only cycles if you can, SARMs will suppress your natural Testosterone production either way, so running a Testosterone base is always recommended, at which point, why even bother with experimental chemicals instead of just running a reasonable T cycle?
Would It Be Possible That Some Advanced Tech Is Hidden from Public?
Weird. Should tell that to the Waymo that drove me 20 minutes from my home to a restaurant downtown last night. I was the only human in the car, located in the back seat.
The primary issue that I see here is that as a natural language interface to a computer, I don’t know that there’s enough profit to support the hardware and training costs. Also, there are copyright questions involved. There also issues of hallucination, and limiting these neuters the creative aspect of the LLMs.

Personally, I truly hope that this technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and that it can be run on a device the size of a pager in pocket with a pair of AirPods on. If that were my computing environment 90% of the time, I’d be thrilled.
I just can’t find a good space one to scratch the itch that Sins of a Solar Empire left me. Stellaris doesn’t cut it. The constant blitz to expand at the cost of literally anything and the non-viability of 95% of non-expansion focused strategies just sucks the fun out for me.
Yay, some facts!
> I can't believe that a human can outperform a computer at paying attention.

The issue are the millions of edge cases in which humans remain far better at analyzing, figuring out a solution, and compromising in.
Sure, some people say this is possible, but in my experience this is practically impossible.

Maybe that was a failure on my part; but I never was able to get it to work reliably. For a certain combination of versions of tools + some hacks, you can make it work. Then it breaks with the first update to any of those tools.
Yeah, I agree. If everyone was in a self-driving car and predictable it would be fine. As it stands now, the car is basically trying navigate chaos. Humans already do a terrible job, yet we are expecting machines with less experience and less information to do better. It’s asinine.
Evolution stops at the neck.
This is far too cynical. Firstly, DNS is mostly irrelevant to hyperlinks, it's been a long time since everyone fought over getting "the right .com name". With a proliferation of TLDs, is this is really even a big deal?

The web is still there as the foundation and glue. It's not dead, it's used all the time for eCommerce, support, documentation, research, forums, and most importantly for universal interoperability across whatever "silos" are out there. URI, HTTP, MIME, HTML, and JavaScript are literally the glue that holds even the silos together, or allows our myriad devices to interoperate with them.

How else did TikTok take off? Hyperlinks! There's no central hierarchy , the network effects of the web won out.

I think the issue people have is they confuse network effects with even distribution. But that's never been the case: think of the countryside Vs cities. Network effects often lead to huge clusters. Even peek web circa 2012 had Google Reader as the ultimate blog aggregation experience.

All the architecture and tech of the web is sitting there ready to be used. It's up to software creators to make decentralized software people actually want to use.
I guess the political connection is the politician. As opposed to eg the rock.
The point of the communication is not to contain actual significant content; it's to declare a fait accompli. Lots of text is like this. Being fresh and exotic isn't the goal.
I've had several non-tech people ask me how ChatGPT has changed my job. To which I answer "it hasn't".
Agreed, but this is a blocker for anyone seriously considering using the product. CPU-only inference simply isn’t good enough for anything besides toy workloads. If they’re waiting for people to use Constellation before investing in GPU support, nobody will use constellation because it doesn’t have it, so they’ll never end up investing in it, and so on…
Databases Can’t Be Just Databases Anymore
Seems to be nothing to do with Tavistock, and transmasc people are (perhaps surprisingly) never mentioned in the article. The OP was making the point that "making your body conform to your gender" is also something that cis people can and do do.

(By the time it was closed down the queues at the Tavistock were on the order of years, so lots of UK trans people have had to go private at some point)
Already switched to suse. Very happy so far.
Are you even confident in your ability to spot someone who is "roiding" brother? TRT is a pretty standard hormonal therapy that helps men with low testosterone levels, it is not comparable to dbol or other literal anabolic steroids. In most men it will improve attitude and mood, not cause "roid rage".