skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current stable pattern changes into another stable one, probably quickly. Or it may split into two independent stable patterns. It will not disappear. It may result in long term climatic changes in different geographies, especially during transition, although it would be rather quick.
The techies are well-fed gladiators, not knights.
"Yes, Prime Minister" was made in 1986. We did, eventually, carry out all these policies and more.

Today the vast majority of the price of a cigarette is tax, about 80%; most forms of advertisement are prohibited; the packaging is required to explicitly tell you this is a bad idea (dominating the packaging, the brand name is relegated to small print since you are required to ask for the product by name so you must know what it is, displaying it is considered a form of advertising and no longer permitted in most retailers)...

We also prohibited smoking in workplaces, which includes bars and restaurants (since those are someone's workplace, even if not yours) with the notable exception of prisons (it's not as though prisoners could leave to smoke somewhere else) and oil platforms (again, it's not like you can just pop somewhere else for a smoke).

And despite this, a few people I know still smoke. The tax revenue is slowly falling though, fewer young people have decided to become addicted to cigarettes.
This is a very interesting discussion. I agree with you. I’m an application developer but I’ve had to debug what I consider to be very hard issues ( network driver bugs, kernel bugs, compiler bugs, hardware bugs, etc ), every time in what I thought to be perfect aabstractions. I mean, the compiler should compile properly, the kernel shouldn’t lie, and my memory stick should behave. The thing is, it eventually fails. So I have a maybe abnormally high level of appreciation for debuggable systems :-)
> things like “diet and exercise” are non-explanations

what?

CICO, period. You can’t beat thermodynamics. You can certainly separately explain why CI has gone up and/or CO has gone down, but the energy has to come from somewhere and go somewhere.
https://archive.is/vuHl4
10/10, no notes: https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/884fd5db560a3dce2cb2ed1c15596c...
The fact that you think a finance degree is centered around trading stocks tells me all I need to know about you and your beliefs. And even on the topic of stocks/derivatives, are they teaching the wrong dividend discount model? Or the wrong black-scholes model? Did they get the equation wrong or something? Or are you just mad because they aren’t teaching TA?

And just wondering, using TA, how would you calculate how much to change an M&A offer in order to compensate for including a poison pill?
Austin. Fully loaded - all electrical costs and monthly surcharges - we're still paying <$80/m for our (detached) house and both cars. Obviously summer costs are way higher than winter costs here. (We have a high-efficiency HVAC system installed 2018, decent windows and various efficiency improvements, thank god.)

We bought our BEV in California and were on Schedule EV with PG&E, and it was always a delicate dance of "charging at the right time" to make things cheap. Here, our EVs just don't cost us much.
Your stomach should turn more by actually realizing those losses rather than just letting it ride.

Market downturns mean nothing! You lose literally nothing; you still own the same things you did in the morning, and will own those things again in 5 years (or more based on splits/dividends).

Honestly yeah, this is kind of a critical part of profitable investing; if you can’t hold through downturns, you ought to find someone who can and then forget about that money entirely.
Porkbun supports sub-accounts[1] to manage domains and is generally recommended as a good registrar.

Cloudflare supports roles[2] but in my experience it's a bit annoying to setup and each user needs a full CF account. It's otherwise a well regarded registrar around here as well.

Namecheap also supports delegation[3]. I personally wouldn't recommended to use namecheap because of some questionable practices, but I know that many on HN disagree with this sentiment so it's worth considering!

1. https://kb.porkbun.com/article/182-subaccounts-guide

2. https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/account-and-b...

3. https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
get it here:

https://alpinelinux.org/
I wonder if anyone has tried to contact one of the authors to confirm the paper is legitimate (i.e. someone isn't spoofing the author's names in order to create chaos).
Using white text has been a red flag in these systems, before they were using today's "ai". They have been using ML for quite a while.
I just flashed on that Trash Compaqter scene in Star Wars: A New Hope.
I don't think they mean Apple's primary concern is their consumer UX, but that their customers' primary concern is consumer UX.
Cheap food is high in sugar and refined carbs but also lots and lots of seed oil (most likely rancid) along with additives etc. We have the sugar/carb hypothesis of obesity. We have the seed oil hypothesis. We have various claims of additives causing metabolic problems. Por que no los tres? These aren't mutually exclusive, and they're all correlated with shitty industrial foods.
Ask HN: Name an AI agent that you find useful
It all started with BabyAGI and AutoGPT, and since then there are already dozens of AI agents.

Which one did you try?
Did you find any useful ones?

What is missing? What technical capability do you think is missing?
Texas has the highest property taxes in the country, so it is false to think that moving to Texas (or Florida, with their insurance nightmares) is some sort of free-money trick.
> The closest thing I can think of would be Alcohol

Overeating IMO has become a bigger problem than smoking, at least in the US.
Google is putting the final nail in Android 4.4 KitKat's coffin
Just stopping by to mention, for the non-Americans, that taxes as in the plural is important here: Sales taxes here in the US vary at the municipal, county, and state levels and any or all can apply towards your purchases at the same time.
Half his arguments are bad. Like the argument against the correlation between BMI and altitude level? “Here’s a study that was poorly done. Because it was poorly done, it cannot be caused from lower oxygen levels.”
> no real point in comparing the intelligence of a person vs. an LLM

Say you're deciding whether to employ an AI on a fairly open-ended family of tasks, or put out a want-ad to hire someone. What do you call what you're doing?
No, it is not that attitude at all. It is simply recognizing that there are some things that you will not be able to influence directly.

The only time when you have a fractional input on this is at the voting booth and even there the chance is that climate change will not be expressly put on the ballot but you get a mixture of components that you will be able to locally influence. But that sort of mechanism isn't well suited to deal with global problems. Global problems require global coordination and for everybody to play ball. For a variety of reasons (some good, some bad) this isn't going to happen. Climate change is fact. The consequences of climate change are already visible all over the globe. And yet: as long as there is money to be made by industry, wars rage all over the place and various possible checkpoints are passed no single individual that is wondering what they can personally do about it is going to make a shred of a difference by worrying about it to the point that it affects their day-to-day affairs.

Let me be blunt: the time to tackle climate change for real was when we first became aware of it. But all of the above inertia pretty much guaranteed and continues to guarantee that we will not act on a scale where it does matter until it is much, much too late. This year many people will die as a result of climate change. They have no voice but they are affected in the most drastic way possible. Next year it will be more and so on. Until the developed part of the world, and in particular the people in power in the developed part of the world are going to be personally and inescapably affected you're along for the ride.

If this particular thing concerns you and you are not non-stop stressed that only means that you haven't understood it yet.
> Ultimately Texas A&M allowed Alonzo to keep her job after an internal investigation could not confirm any wrongdoing.
Related:

Arc from the Browser Company - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34795780 - Feb 2023 (3 comments)

What's Good About the Arc Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33932045 - Dec 2022 (6 comments)

Thoughts on Arc Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33539549 - Nov 2022 (83 comments)

The Browser Company’s Darin Fisher thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33414565 - Oct 2022 (90 comments)

Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31544988 - May 2022 (125 comments)
Republicans blocked Biden from appointing Gigi Sohn, and there's probably not enough time left in his first term to get a nominee through and get the rules approved. I think in any case Manchin and Sinema would block anyone who would support net neutrality. Biden did sign a executive order in 2021 that included instructions to the FCC to restore the net neutrality rules that had been undone during the Trump administration.
I live my life basically going against anything an average PhD in nutrition science would ever say.

If the people you're familiar with are anything but the top 2% in their field, their advice is basically worthless if not a net negative.
Editorializing titles on HN is against the posting guidelines
This whole article is horrifying.
My YOShInOn RSS reader.
Sure, but most airports are being used. If you're subsidizing it heavily and it's still a novelty instead of a part of regular infrastructure, then it's a different story. I was checking quick, and Amtrak is claiming that the train from LA to Chicago this Friday is 100% booked, but I'm unsure how many travelers that is, and they're only running the one train that day. It also takes nearly 2 days.

I'm not against subsidizing train travel, but you should be getting something for it. You could decide to add a train between any two places and dump money into it until it's cheap enough to fill up. The question is if you're causing people to take the train who would have otherwise driven/flown, or if you're just subsidizing a new market.

I don't live in either city, but the concept of taking one of the other long-haul Amtrak lines from Chicago to Seattle has seemed interesting to me. It's not that expensive and it would be quite scenic. That said, if I took it, I'd be flying to Chicago, then taking the train, and then flying back home from Seattle. That's not replacing a flight/drive, it's creating net new flights. Is that the sort of train line that we should be subsiding the existence of? I can see the value of doing it as a matter of culture and history, but if the goal is to reduce the carbon emissions of flying and driving, it may actually be counterproductive.
My own quick and easy Mermaid diagramming page I knocked up a few years ago and stuck on Netlify, and which I (and a few others) use very frequently:

https://sequence-diagrams.netlify.app

Note the credit on that page to bramp.github.io who did the hard work with the JS library it uses. And when you find UI issues remember it was a quick tool knocked up years ago and forgive me.
It's not that it's hard, it's just people don't go out of their way to escape UTF-8 glyphs into ASCII when dealing with exotic glyphs in a text editor. It's more mundane and tedious, but not 'hard'.

Try working with raw UTF-8 in JS and find yourself in a world of pain. Mathias Bynens talks about these gotchas here:

https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode
I'm essentially asking you what system you are proposing.
"One more step

Please complete the security check to access"
There is a huge advantage to surfacing search results directly in the document. You drop the friction to effectively zero, which means you're far more likely to search random phrases in a document when you never would have before.
The sooner SQL is phased out in favor of something more akin to Hadley Wickham's dplyr the better. Don't particularly like the syntax of this but it's the right direction.
They had a ~1500 in 310m chance of picking someone who would become president. That is a pretty good job given its a 0.00048387096% chance of getting it right.
How would a user ever verify that every attlestation/id check isn't recording their web activity?
Ask HN: Which is your favorite programming game?
which is your favorite programming game? which language do you play it in?
I used to work with a long-time AIX kernel developer. His method of shutting off his machine was "sync; sync; kill -9 1".

Of course, his method of preparing to move offices (a common occurrence at IBM) was to

1. Take his (RS-6000) workstation home with him the night of the move.

2. Otherwise, just lock his desk.

He didn't have anything in his office but his chair, desk, and workstation.
The thing that makes "family" different from another organization is what happens at the extremes, not day to day. When you're down on your luck, failed completely, and lost everything your family will still be there to help you and take care of you. Your company will not. Trying to create confusion around this concept is deceptive. A family is not just a bunch of people who are nice to each other when times are good.
A fan?
Add Compuserve => AOL => Newsgroups to the beginning and same.
I do think that there is also a "bitter lesson" in optimization: simple optimizations are usually more effective, robust and powerful than complicated ones. Also, optimization becomes progressively harder as the system trends to optimal performance, which is likely to cancel out the advantage of higher intelligence in finding them.
A counselor told me emotions are another information input about what you value, and you can take them or leave them as far as acting on them, but you can't avoid feeling them for them very long and be healthy.
I need to learn the languages used. I am 20 years or more out of date. I last used Visual Basic 6.0 that should tell you how old I am. I can do some Javascript and HTML though.
Latest I heard is that teachers are requiring homework to be turned in in Google Docs so that they can look at the revision history and see if you wrote the whole thing or just dumped a fully formed essay into GDocs and then edited it.

Of course the smart student will easily figure out a way to stream the GPT output into Google Docs, perhaps jumping around to make "edits".

A clever and unethical student is pretty much undetectable no mater what roadblocks you put in their way. This just stops the not clever ones. :)
If you're happy with SQL then there isn't much point.

For the folks building and supporting PRQL, SQL just has a few too many warts and the popularity of tools like Pandas, dplyr, Polars, LINQ, ... shows that for analytical work we often like to work with our data differently. Other frameworks and languages feel that we should throw out Relational Algebra as well but we feel that's like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

PRQL's core tenets are that Relational Algebra is foundational and a great abstraction but what's needed is a modern, ergonomic language that allows us to work with data the way most of us conceive of it - as pipelines of transformations.

Personally I feel much more productive in PRQL. I can start with a dataset and append one transformation at a time, writing from top to bottom as I go along without having to jump back and forth between the SELECT and the WHERE and the GROUP BY clause etc... .

Also, if I want to take out a step, I can just comment out that line and the rest of the pipeline usually still works. This might seem like a minor thing but in my experience it's those kind of ergonomics that make the difference in actual day to day work rather than fancy theoretical features you only use once in a blue moon. It's therefore worth noting that this was an intentional design decision. You try and take out some steps from your SQL query and see how well the rest of your query holds up.
Agreed. Modern Java is nice to work in. And to your point, I wouldn't know how to write even the single Ruby or Python line without looking it up since I don't use those every day. Though, I could cycle through print, println, printf, etc...
> plain index everything I’ve read

Recoll together with the extension can be configured to index every single web page you browse.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/recoll-we/
Hello i am Marc BOKO, i am from benin and i am backend developer. I am proficient with Laravel.please how to work with us ?
You’ve clearly never met people who live on 7/11 food
I SO agree with you. It basically destroys everything Twitter stood for.

And yes, it doesn't have to be huge blocks of text for it to be meaningful. And while we were making do with the (relatively) smaller changes in hindsight, this everything app thing (with super long videos and whatnot) is outrageous.

Also, constraints are actually good more often than not. Just because you can say (write) more doesn't mean you have to. Sigh.
Not as cheap as it used to be. Here in NC, just those last 2 years at a state school, instate costs (NOT including lodging or other living expenses) are almost $40,000. Not nothing.
> Defending the integrity of the internet isn't OP's job.

It’s everyone’s job. It’s the least we can do to prevent entshitification of this beautiful and wild ecosystem.
Anxiety it says is a call to pay attention to something I am ignoring. Not sure how because anxiety on the other hand makes me focus on something too closely and maybe instead I should step back and say F** it instead?
Is that still invite only? Anyone have an invite to share?
TIS-100, Shenzhen IO
Lots of our patients own gas stations and lie about their income. What they do is have 1 person own the gas stations for credit card purchases, and everyone else claim the cash purchases.

We also have a few farmers/rural people who sell stuff for cash and don't report it.

Definitely not everyone is doing this loophole, but I always find it a bit brazen they are telling us this.
Isn’t technical analysis ultimately just reading patterns into trading exchange data - and don’t quantitative hedge funds have strategies that make money from doing precisely this? (albeit automatically and at massive scale through the use of computer systems)
This reminds me of something I found useful: "Grok" cards[1]. I haven't really played the "games" they're packaged with, just using the cards to identify what's going on in a non-confrontational way.

One useful thing is to distinguish between emotions and needs. I believe they're different colors on those cards (red vs. yellow).

Also distinguishing emotions from judgements/perceptions is good (eg: "I feel ignored" is not really the feeling so much as a guess about _why_ you feel a certain way).

Some other good resources from the same people: https://groktheworld.com/products/feelings-needs-body-sensat...

[1] https://groktheworld.com/collections/all-grok-products/produ...
"Today, we live in a rentier's paradise. People don't aspire to create value – they aspire to capture it."

Wow. Love this.
Between the tech industry particularly leaning well towards remote work and the US being predominantly rural countryside geographically, more people should consider not living in the big cities where housing and costs of living are exponentially higher.
JS Party episode on Socket, if anyone is interested: https://changelog.com/jsparty/272
Favourite unicode fact: properly rendering unicode requires understanding of the current geopolitical situation (Depending on whom you accept as a country and whom you do not, two country-code-letters may or may not render as a flag. This changes sometimes in today's world.). https://esham.io/2014/06/unicode-flags
This is fundamentally different on multiple fronts. Insofar as security if the host is compromised the VM has none because of the hosts control over the VM's environment. For the same reason anything that requires you to be in an authenticated environment is probably not going to accept an authenticated environment that is itself hosted in one that is not. The browser/system would assert that it isn't in the Matrix by testing naively by looking for the presence of VM specific information or devices and more securely by performing operations which must work differently in a vm see this post

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39533/how-to-identify-th...
I recall it taking years for BTC ASICS that were generally available.
Sure but there are plenty of obese people living in “McMansion Hell” suburbs who can clearly afford vegetables. When visiting my parents in such a wealthy-ish suburb, the difference from similarly wealthy parts of NYC is very obvious (hey also you can’t walk anywhere in the suburb, weird…)
I'm definitely not an expert, but my understanding is that it is impossible to point to one single event and say climate change is responsible for that event. Weather is dynamic, you know? But climate change does account for there being more events (more hurricanes, more days of record breaking temperatures, more wildfires, etc). And as someone on the west coast who now assumes there will be at least one or two weeks of miserable wildfire smoke every summer, I think that impact is worth taking seriously today.
You are correct. I'm in the process of trying to find software to manage the collection of 1000s of fines. It's a very niche area. It's not even the payment part, as we have that part completed, it's the tracking and "attempting" at contacting people which may or may not want to be found!
There's been a vacancy on the board for some time [1]. The previous nominee withdrawn after a successful appointment seemed highly unlikely [2]. I believe there is discussion about another nominee but who knows when they might actually get appointed.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commiss...

2. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/politics/gigi-sohn-withdraws-...
Curious though, were the medical devices implanted? Transhumans become upset when vivisected.
If I leave my home unattended for a month on vacation, but leave my fridge and water heater going, my gas and electric cost is about $70. California is a special place.
They specifically act in a way to rule out fakes. For example they turn the magnet around to show that there are no small wires connecting the edges. They start and stop many times, they move in different directions. They knew the video would be watched with the default mind set that it is fake.
I thought after Netflix's culture deck and Reed Hoffman's book Alliance, it would be pretty clear that a company is not a family. It could an alliance, it could be a professional sports team, or it could be some business entity, but definitely not a family. I particularly like the concept of alliance, as it reflects the reality. Well, I guess the memo is not as well known as I thought.
Well, there is one way, which is timed, proctored exams.

Which sucks, because take-home projects are evaluating a different skill set, and some people thrive on one vs the other. But it is what it is.
I had a Iranian girl sitting next to me in one of my classes during the Iranian hostage crisis. I can not not think of her sitting there in class as students would go off about what they wanted to do to Iran.

Drove home to me that the small groups of people that run all the various countries have their agendas and spats with each other that have little to do with the interests of the populous.
The fact that they chose to suspend the professor as an initial step is still an issue.
Nothing to see, move along. We will definitely not do it again to someone else with less connections.
Front running is illegal, so no.
nice!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317978
have you open sourced it or made it available somehow?