skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you cannot do a Webauthn authentication with curl. You would need to redirect to a Javascript-capable browser to do the authentication, and then use whatever the service returns as a token with curl (cookie, JWT, ...).

I mean, we already have this problem with stuff like OAuth2. Usually, at some point in the process, you will need to enter your credentials in some JS-capable browser.
One thing I learned about code and logistics was that no matter what you say time wise if you do "best effort" and deliver early ... people get pissed when you don't deliver early later on. But then if you've got packages it means you end up intentionally holding them purely for customer service reasons.
Yes they do? That's what fractional reserve banking is about.
> "Congestion is a separate problem from road design" what ??

Sorry that was poorly phrased. I mean that road design has to respond to congestion so that it's not a limiting factor to emergency service mobility. A low density suburb can afford to have a four lane road every mile with beautiful center dividers with plants whereas downtown needs four lane streets every block and they have to be completely flat to accommodate emergency vehicles moving into oncoming traffic lanes to get around congestion.

City planning/permitting is (usually) supposed to prevent situations where congestion might become a problem as a matter of life and death. For example, a large housing development next to my house was recently forced to stop building after completing less than 20% of the planned units because they miscalculated worst case traffic flow. Wildfires are a concern and the fire marshal calculated that the roads feeding into the development would not be able to handle all the traffic from people evacuating and emergency vehicles coming in.

> I will just say compare the space dedicated to cars between a random american city and Amsterdam, so much space wasted and so much more infrastructure to maintain; and I believe emergency vehicule are still able to circulate (might even be faster with less cars ?).

The average American city has a third to a fifth the population density of Amsterdam, awful biking infrastructure, and little to no public transportation. The density and age of old world cities have so many side effects that I think it's impossible to meaningfully compare them with American cities.

That said, don't read this as an endorsement of urban planning in the average American city. Here in SoCal even the suburbs are relatively dense and well designed (tons of parking lots notwithstanding) but I've seen some really awful examples like Salt Lake City where it seems every other street is a six lane megastroad.
Except in “Celtic” and “Cillian” the “c” is a k.
So you want to lower everyone else’s mental health and productivity?
I challenge you to measure the productivity of middle management.
Hang on, you're saying a plausible scenario in the US is office workers carrying guns. How common is that?

I've been sidestepping opportunities to go to Austin on the grounds that I might be shot trying to commute to the office. Do I also need to factor in that whoever I'm talking to at the office might be carrying a gun?
Doctors are just people. I personally don’t trust a single one and why I always get multiple opinions.

The sooner they’re replaced by automation that’s far superior in terms of accuracy and diagnosis, the better.

Just a hundred years ago doctors were doing wack shit like chopping off limbs and giving people toxins or cocaine. Maybe the cocaine isn’t so bad.

Today they give us SSRIs and opioids.

They are given far too much credit imo when they’re just mechanics. Just like you can get into an accident because brakes failed or something and you’re left with pain and suffering or you die.

I’ve had a misdiagnosis before. It has left me with continued pain and I do thank the second doctor who realized the former doctors mistake and did his best to make me as whole as possible.

I don’t trust doctors. And I don’t think that highly of them either.
Does screen sharing with desktop audio work?
Shader Art Using WebGPU
First time I heard of My Mind. Looks really nice, but how is it not yet another cloud note taking app?

To me, the biggest problem of this kind of tool is that if you use it to its fullest potential, it necessarily becomes a crucial part of your daily life, something that will cause very serious problems if you lose it.

And that means anything proprietary or closed SaaS is an absolute no go. My Mind's promise to respect privacy and stay independent of outside influence is nice, but worthless. They can change their mind at any time - or get bought up, or go bankrupt. Being a paid service might reduce the likelihood, but does not eliminate it, especially not over a timespan of decades.

So at an absolute minimum, such a tool needs to be able and willing to export all of my data in an easily processible format. This is far more important than shiny features.

My current solution is a self hosted TiddlyWiki. It may not have all the shiny features, but it is mine, and always will be, even 50 years from now. The worst case scenario is that it stops working on new browsers and nobody maintains it anymore - but I still have the data. Easily processible text files are actually its internal storage format.
I don't know what the limit is on pressure-cooking, the 30 minutes is for non-pressured "slow cook" mode. It won't engage the "pressure-cooking" mode if the lid is not secured in place. I never needed to pressure-cook for more than 30 minutes at a time, though. The longest recipe I had was, IIRC, 30 + 15 minutes. The recipe said to put dry beans in, pressure-cook for 30 minutes, release pressure, add sausage, cook for 15 more minutes.
Middle management usually doesn't set corporate strategy like innovate, franchise development, revive old titles.
Took my 7 year old daughter to a dentist. 8 cavities. Gotta get em right away! Went to another one. All good - zero cavities.

Many dentists are criminals willing to drill holes in children's teeth in order fraudulently take your money.

She's now 15. Never had a cavity ever.
It sounds like that might be Zoom's plan?
That's the dilemma with modern work, it's almost impossible to measure. That feature you added this morning in four hours and 100 lines of code. Who is to know whether it could have been done in half the time and ten lines or whether most programmers would have taken twice as long.
When starting a startup, should you go at it alone as a sole founder or join forces with co-founders? Ultimately, this decision lays the groundwork for the company's culture, growth, and success. Here are some tips to help you make this decision.
It's more like saying that Germans like shitty meat because the best selling kind was the cheap, low-quality sausages at the corner store. Your attestation is the cherry on top.
A couple years ago my dentist sold her practice to a new dentist.

Before I had an appointment with the new dentist, my wife had an appointment, and he told her she had gum disease with bone loss and needed a deep cleaning and to go on a "periodontal schedule" where she would have to come in every three months instead of six. (Note: My wife and I have different last names and separate insurance, so he wouldn't have known we're related.)

When I went in, the hygenist measured my pocket depths, and I noticed she seemed to be adding 1-3mm to what I remembered the measurements being every time I had that done in the past. The dentist then came in and gave me what sounded like a rehearsed speech concluding in the same diagnosis he had given my wife.

I told him I'd like to think about it and could he please send me the records they based this on. They proceeded to rush me out of the office, outright refusing to do the regular cleaning.

I went to another dentist and only told her I left my previous dentist because he gave me bad vibes. She started off with the pocket measurements which were magically back to normal! She said my teeth looked great. Then she asked about my previous dentist and I told her what happened. She said: "I suspected it was something like that."

So... yeah... what an industry...

ETA: Although now in my paranoia I wonder if the new dentist somehow knew the previous dentist's diagnosis and realized the way to keep me as a customer would be to tell me they were wrong. But they shouldn't be able to get my past records unless I authorize it, right?
I remember a story of a fraudulent dental service that were telling parents they needed all their children's baby teeth pulled. They were finally busted because parents got second opinions.

I googled trying to find it and pulled up a bunch of other stories of dentists performing unnecessary procedures on children to defraud medicaid.

F'ing monsters.
Conspiracies are anything that contradicts or adds nuance to what the local newsman tells me on my teevee!
Well that's one way to discourage EV adoption
I like the CRPG genre a lot, but I think one reason that BG3 is taking off is that it _looks_ like a modern AA(A?) game while the rest look basically like Baldur's Gate did in 1998. BG3 lets you see the world in a lot more detail and it helps immerse you in Faerûn.

Many people will claim "graphics don't matter", but the reality is that they do help.
1/8th of them carried guns while going shopping or while at the office?
Install a HTTPS? proxy on the work-machine, and configure the other host to use that?

All requests would then route via the work-computer.

But honestly? Use the work computer, and if it isn't good enough ask for a better machine and let somebody else take care of it.
> There are people that get away with not working for months (in companies like google, make that years).

That's a myth. Google's performance reviews, as flawed as they are, still require one to provide references to deliverables like reviewed commit history and reviewed documents written. Doing no work will result in poor performance ratings after a couple review cycles, since you will have no deliverables to your name. Those who produce nothing at all are routinely put on performance plans and then fired if things don't change. I've seen that happen.

That said, the Google performance review system, at least in my experience, can favor those who are strategic about choosing and promoting their work even if it is lower in quantity, and disadvantage
those who do the a lot of work but aren't strategic about choosing and promotion it. That's almost by design, since in theory Google favors "impact" over lines of code.
Yep 100%. Get those wageslaves back in our buildings buying our overpriced sandwiches.
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NEAT and neuroevolution in general are interesting approaches. I also suggest to check techniques like DENSER [1] that can be used to evolve deep networks (by using the evolutionary part on the network structure and not on the weights).

Genetic Programming (GP), however, has not evolved to NEAT (which itself is not very recent, being published in 2002) but simply neuroevolution has become one of the topics that are part of evolutionary computation (EC). For example, one of the largest yearly conferences on evolutionary computation (GECCO) [2] was just last month with both neuroevolution and GP tracks. It is however true that the success of neural techniques had an effect on the community, some effects are the discussion of the role of EC and, for example, more space given to hybrid works (see, for example, the joint track on evolutionary machine learning [3] inside the evostar event).

Related to the original post, a place where some recent research on GP can be found are the proceedings of GECCO (GP track), EuroGP (part of evostar), PPSN (Parallel Problem Solving from Nature), and IEEE CEC (IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation) and journals like Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machine (GPEM), Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (SWEVO), and IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE TEVC). The list is not exhaustive, but those are some well-known venues.

For a less "daunting" starting point, some recent techniques are being added to the SRBench benchmark suite [4], with links to both the code and the paper describing the technique.

[1] Assunção, F., Lourenço, N., Machado, P., & Ribeiro, B. (2019, March). Fast denser: Efficient deep neuroevolution. In european conference on genetic programming (pp. 197-212). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

[2] https://gecco-2023.sigevo.org/HomePage

[3] https://www.evostar.org/2024/eml/

[4] https://github.com/cavalab/srbench
The biggest draw is A/C. It dwarfs other usage. And unfortunately, A/C is sometimes required to avoid death. Precooling isn’t effective in that the A/C will still run for nearly as long during peak.
It's not correct. Texas has enough power in "the winter"; the average winter.

A few outlier events don't change that unless your being hyperbolic.
Have you tried a waterpik? Considering an investment there myself.
Havent checked the vent stack, but it was clear as far as I could look down when I put the vent on top of it. Maybe some builders rubble blocking things.
For some reason the link isn't complete, this one worked for me: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Lang...
For great productivity
where do the takeaway food places buy their supplies

i have a couple of 1000-watt immersion heaters that can boil water in a coffee mug or, more relevantly, a one-liter thermos. they cost about 30 cents. the thermos doesn't have to be on a tabletop, though it's dangerous to touch it while it's plugged in because the water is electrically connected

i don't want to claim that boil-in-bag cooking isn't 'extremely inconvenient' but it is certainly feasible

also the rice cooker you mention can provide most of your calories for zero hassle
> supply side subsidies without cost controls are essentially useless, as the cost of the subsidized good rises to match the subsidy.

For a beautiful case study in this, in 2007 or so when they were turning off analog TV the US government allowed each household two vouchers worth up to $40 to buy a converter box, (provided the box did not offer a digital output). (Not) shockingly, not until these vouchers expired did any boxes come on the market priced under $40, even though they were not complex or expensive in cost.
Obviously most neighbourhoods are not 'starting' on this because most of the voters rather not bear the cost and disruption of moving electrical lines underground.
+1

My gums had been bleeding enough during brushing that I decided to break my 14 year run without a dentist visit and get things checked out, but felt shame about the state of things, so I gave myself a month or two of runway - and adopted a daily flossing and mouthwash routine.

By the time I got to the dentist, my gums were in good shape. They removed lot of plaque, but underneath, my teeth were pristine. In the 14 years since I'd been to the dentist, either the tools had become much more humane, or I just happened to be surrounded by sadists in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Upgrading to an electric toothbrush was another revelation, and I also learned that a tongue scraper is the solution to tonsil stones.

Genetics play a part, for sure, but flossing daily has been a total game changer.
Understood.

But my point is this linked-to essay appears not only to exclude some areas of good science, but to suggest that any topics which cannot be replicated before publication is only worthy of publication in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.

I gave examples to highlight why I disagree with author's opinion.

Please do not interpret this to mean I do not think improvement is possible.
What if Archive.today published torrents of its datasets?
On Friday there was a thread about "who's behind Archive.today?" [0], and it linked to a post by the developer saying [1]:

Archive.today is doomed to eventually die.

It's estimated the quantity of data under management is 1 petabyte. Given they've been going for around 8-10 years, we can extrapolate this is only 100-150 terabytes per year.

While not completely trivial, this is only 5 or 6 hard drives at today's maximum capacity of 28TB.

What if the developer published the data to a torrent on a monthly or other periodic basis? While not completely legal, it would enable their legacy to live on indefinitely and ensure future access to a lot of information.

[0] Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598 - Aug 2023 (58 comments)

[1] "archive.today is doomed to die" https://blog.archive.today/post/657822115776610304/not-respecting-peoples-privacy-copyright-laws
I disagree. I really like my work and I really like my family. The problem with commuting is that it introduces a gap of mediocre-to-awful time use in between those two things that I really like. Working fewer hours wouldn't solve that. I'd just be doing less of one of the things I like to do, replacing it with either a meh activity (if I can take public transport or there is no traffic on the drive) or a super frustrating activity of driving in traffic.
I eventually found a great dentist. The first time I went to his office, it was extremely obvious that he was a Christian. Did that make me trust him more? Yes it sure did, but only because he was young. I would also trust an Orthodox Jewish dentist, but there aren't any here in Seattle that I can find. If I needed a lot of really expensive work, I would probably just go to a high end place in Mexico.
The idea of data centers and the providers that may or may not own or run atop any given data center is the rationale behind our entire architecture at my business!

We started by adopting a common OS, and selecting against the use of entirely-proprietary services or tools.

Now our server management control plane is code in git, executed by applications in Kubernetes. As long as we can get a connection to the app or server, we can now pretty much take our system to any environment that runs the expected OS. GCP, AWS, Azure, Linode, DigitalOcean, OVH bare metal, you name it.

It is fantastic.
What kind of support do we have editor-side for swapping between "LSP contexts" automatically? If I'm editing a .cs file and my editor is using the C# LSP, then start something that a plugin <somehow> recognizes as entering into an SQL mode as I type `foo("SELECT ..` can that somehow trigger the pgsql LSP too?

(I'm a vim user but I'll accept a VS Code answer since that's basically "state of the art" when it comes to LSP and where most others get their inspiration from.)
Quebec has hydropower. Texas is flat.
Precooling is only viable if homes are really insulated and / or all the electricity comes from renewable as otherwise it will increase the overall energy used (as precooling is less efficient), which will increase CO2 emissions. In think the population also needs to “meet in the middle”, for instance by increasing the temperature of the AC by one degree in summer. This could get automated to offer a best effort service.
Pretty much everything inside the pressure cooker is a nucleation site, so if you could make the lid just disappear, the superheated contents would explode.

Water is only converted to steam while there's energy for it, so only a fraction of the water actually boils*. The risk is that it's a rapid process that propels a lot 100C water outside of the vessel.

*) I haven't done the full calculation, but I'm pretty sure the upper bound is something like 10%, with 2-4% being the best most normal people could accomplish in a microwave.
Clickable links:

[0] Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598 - Aug 2023 (58 comments)

[1] "archive.today is doomed to die" - https://blog.archive.today/post/657822115776610304/not-respe...
I think a lot of it is going to be both the person and their environment. I have a separate office workspace, and have built up a fair bit of compartmentalization at home.

I'm also very frenetic about focusing (or not), so the ability to work for 10min and then be distracted for another 10min is great for me. That might sound like I'm less productive, but ... my work output is higher than my coworkers and is generally completed earlier.

I can realistically see it being a net loss, because I think a lot of workers aren't in tune with how their minds work relative to focusing on a tast, and a structured environment is perfect for dealing with that.
The ends can justify the means though. Writers often suggest otherwise as a lazy crutch. Guy tries to do good and ends up preparing to genocide a whole country. Yeah no shit that sounds pretty evil. But you can’t really extrapolate that into every scenario.

Batman’s an idiot who generally argues with slippery slope bullshit about “where does it stop” if you start killing villains. Killing the joker is a no brainer. Killing a goon probably not so obvious. But let’s not pretend either that breaking his spine is fine.

Evil may be banal, but in practical settings it’s not a twisted duality. It’s just hoping that the person in question at least wonders if they are doing the right thing. That’s more than we get.

There aren’t really complex characters. There are complex situations. Very rarely is it unclear who is trying to be a good person and who is not. And while fiction writers may portray some folks as trying to be good while doing humongous bad, they’re full of shit and just not particularly realistic viewpoints. Geralt from the Witcher is thrown into a lot of complicated moral choices, but there’s no ambiguity that he’s trying to be a decent guy.
I wonder if this is the reason dentists seem to be kooks more often than other types of doctors?
Thanks a lot for the link!

This book is absolutely the best: http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/rndwar/index.html
The sci-fi story solution I've come up with is we put everyone into a lottery. Everyone draws a number. Evens get their salary doubled, odds are no longer allowed to work. Everyone find a partner.
Microsoft has over 90% of the desktop OS and Office software markets. It’s impossible to come up with a reasonable definition of monopoly that doesn’t include them in those markets.
You're assuming that the AGI will communicate with the agents directly instead of through an LLM. If the agents are actually intelligent agents then the AGI may not be able to assume that the agents are not human, in which case it's safer for the AGI to use the LLM to define instructions for all tasks. And if that's the case then it will want to do all the work itself, if it's generally intelligent.
>Bless Elden Ring, one of the only big new games that wasn't a sequel last year.

Elden Ring may not be a narrative sequel, but it is definitely a mechanical sequel in the line of From Software games stretching back to Demon Souls in 2009, which makes the series 14 years old. It's innovative in its series, but I wouldn't praise it for a wealth of conceptual originality.

There's also an inherent bias with looking at the Top Sellers - for a game to be bought by lots of people, it has to be known about by lots of people. Brand recognition makes that easier, so even if studios are innovating all the time, you would still expect existing series to show up much more than new IPs. It would take an exceptionally strong game, with good marketing, to break into that list.
Show HN: Lottie Animations in Jetpack Compose for Android
I tried the entire first page of Google figuring out how to add Lottie Animations into my Android project. Finally, I wrote the working tutorial. What else would you like to know on creating with Jetpack Compose?
There needs to be other people at the office for there to be a point in going there.
Stupid question, but why did radare fork and become rizin? Are both relatively similar development wise or massively divergent at this point?

I ask because I wrote a load of shit years ago that relies heavily on radare, various scripts etc