skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it comes to the importance of RSS to me, it is moral, almost spiritual. That might sound like I'm overstating it, but hear me out.

There is lots of interesting content out there. For an individual to develop themselves, they need free reign to information. RSS allows and enables an individual's learning about reality (on the web).

The reverse is mediated information. Corporations/governments would rather steer you to where they want you to go - to the sandboxed areas, the paddling pools of the internet. Many people think the internet is just youtube, facebook, instagram and twitter. These are social mediating platforms.

RSS is probably the most anarchic technological development of the internet we have had. More important than crypto or mobile phones. Continued unmediated access to the information you are interested in, without being distracted is what every individual should be striving for.

No wonder Google bent over backwards to try to kill it.
It’s almost a harder problem - I can regularly hear sirens in my town the moment they leave the fire station until they arrive at their destination - more than a mile away in each case.
The classic example here is the March of Dimes, which was founded to treat and prevent polio (an obviously laudable goal).

When not one, but two, effective vaccines against polio appeared, did the March of Dimes throw a big celebratory party and wrap up its operations?

It did not.
How do you suggest they technically not read the email at all? It is delivered unencrypted by Gmail, what do you want protonmail to do with it?
Three body problem – Ch. version online on YT (with subs)
That’s a very narrow definition of ‘technology’ that you’re applying. For a broader one, which those examples definitely fit, see https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=55838191...
I don't think that IS a fair metric. Be it for Tesla or for robotaxi and let me explain why.

Tesla vehicles should be compared to similar vehicles driven by people that can afford a Tesla. (Not to a national average that includes lots of small, cheap or old cars).

Robotaxis incident rates should be compared to taxi incident rates in the specific areas.

There should be some way of factoring in the overly-cautious driving causing other drivers to do stupid shit because they got annoyed by the cars in question. (Not sure how exactly though)
> people overwhelmingly agree that eating healthy is the first step in weight control.

It is an interesting thing. I know it is anecdotal but if you ask my mum how to loose weight her mental model is that you have to do more sports. That is her first reaction. And when asked what kind of sports she overwhelmingly defaults to ab crunches. (because your tummy is where you want to lose the weight, obviously that is what you need to exercise)

Now of course we know that you are not going to ab crunch your way to a healthy weight if you are eating too much. And if you try, you are most likely won't do enough exercise consistently enough to make a dent. And if you somehow do, most likely you will unconsciously adjust your caloric intake to maintain your current weight. And lo and behold my mum struggled to maintain a healthy weight all her life.

What I'm saying is that while it is indeed the consensus that eating healthy is the first step in weight control, maybe not everyone has internalised it quite yet? Of course one anecdote is not enough to say anything, but I would not be surprised if my mom is not alone in having unhelpful mental patterns about weight loss.

In fact, just the fact that you said "eating healthy" is tricky in itself. Because my mom would have said she is eating healthy! She read in an article that white sugar is bad, so she replaced it with brown. She heard that red meats are bad, so she only cooked with poultry. She heard that fats are bad, so she only used oil.

Now of course we know that in this context "eating healthy" is mostly about portion sizes. Doesn't matter what kind of sugar your pie is made with if you are eating too much of it.

What I'm saying with this is that even if "people overwhelmingly agree that eating healthy is the first step in weight control" they might have very different notions in their head what it means to "eating healthy". For example my mum would have professed that she is indeed eating healthy, after all there is plenty of vegies under all that cream sauce. (Doing this while serving you a manifestly unhealthy portion, and not even flinching.)

So we just have to be careful what it means when "people overwhelmingly agree" on this or that.
Russian hacking is very real. Highly recommend https://www.amazon.com/Sandworm-Cyberwar-Kremlins-Dangerous-...
> entire episodes of white noise, seemingly aimed at listeners who are asleep.

> Some podcasters are making as much as $18,000 a month through ads placed in these episodes

> shifting users away from white noise programming could net the company an additional $38 million in profit

I wonder what does Spotify think those people could listen to while sleeping, heavy metal? /s

A problem could be that ads in those stream are wasted unless we discover that sleeping people can be influenced as awake ones. Is the sum of those wasted ads that's equal to $38 M?
Thank you. You're downvoted, but I always really appreciate link dumps like these as a kick-off point for my own research.

Edit: here's one of my own! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33359963
Let’s not forget such modern inventions as overthrowing democratically elected governments and replacing them with brutal dictators who violate everything the United States purports to stand for.

It’s quite a technological feat to somehow support US ideals by doing the exact opposite. As a boy I always marveled at how they pulled it off. I suppose to this day I’m seeking an explanation of the technology.
You're missing out if you're not having whole eggs. They're a rich source of choline and other vitamins and minerals. I wouldn't say 4 a day, but 1 or 2 a day isn't bad. Egg yolks are much better for you than cheese, which isn't very nutritious.
Cities aren’t loud. Cars are loud. Especially the ones that are modified or designed to be loud.

Given the newest research regarding excessive noise’s impact on human, I wish more countries put some kind of effort into reducing noise on roads like the Netherlands does (this isn’t the only thing they do).
Amusing and unrealistic if you consider our ancestors and cultures in hot and cold climates...

It makes me wonder how some people don't seem to recognize, that we as a species have been on this planet for quite some time now, and that IS the greater part of out existence on this planet when compared to how long we've studied science and medicine of today!

The timeline of either is heavily weighted on the side absent of anything we would call "modern." :-)
> But they're willing to work second and third shift at times, which R&D engineers in bascially every other first-world country refuse to do.

What do you mean by "refuse"? If the price is right plenty of people would agree. Although I suspect the value I would bring during night shifts would be net negative...
True ... and we're already getting 63% of protein (and 82% of calories) from plants.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
yeah, these are the kind of pictures i most often wish i had made. how did my room in that house look like back then when i lived over there? most of my pictures seem to be of people, friends, family. others mainly are made with the intention of sharing.
Thanks for posting this

Looking forward to share notes from other podcasts as well.
You're asking for a negative proof. How do you want an email provider to demonstrate they are not storing your nonhashed password? I don't see how that's feasible. Audits are a step in that direction, but it's not like mathematical proof.
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Are there any long-term effects on hearing or health caused by listening to white noise while sleeping? Or from the hum of an air conditioner, humidifier, or dehumidifier?
I am in Amsterdam right now. Two things you notice quick when you are where Dutch people actually live (i.e. outside of Centraal): first, that it is remarkably quiet, and second, that cars are remarkably loud.

The loudest vehicles are the mopeds, though. It's almost like they don't have mufflers. I wonder if they are regulated differently?
> Important CIA Contributions to Modern Technology

facebook, google, cameras on both sides of the phone, non-removable phone batteries, tracking via ads....

any more?
When there was the "petrol crisis" in the 1970's in some countries there were "alternate plate numbers" circulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%E2%80%93even_rationing
Exactly. Some criminal acts are so simple even an animal could do them - destroy something.

Others are so complex or use the software against itself that they clearly are hacking; even if they remain criminal.
I do not miss the high pitched whine of 90's harddrives.
So, what then? Allow people to be in contempt of court with complete impunity?
The parent post I replied to referred to a plant-based diet.
Yes I do think that we (society writ large, acting through the mechanism known as “a democratically elected government”) should be able to compel people to face our justice system.

It’s all part of due process.
Did you read the article? It attempts to explain why verifying "pain" is difficult: simply reacting to a stimulus is an unacceptably low bar, unless you're living your life believing that all the plants you've eaten and the bacteria you've soaped off your hands were murdered, so they're attempting more subtle analysis to pull back the curtain on the inner states of animals, point being that the inner state is what's necessary for pain.
Recruitment and propaganda for the general public.
In fact, if they kept pushing it gives an easy excuse - it’s the coners! Even if not completely true.

You have to know when to stop and let the cards fall where they may.
I was reading your message, why an airplane was flying overhead.

There is more than just cars that make noise, but at least we have all the tools and technology to make cars in cities almost completely quiet.
When you right-click on the file and choose Compile to Wat (second last menu item), you can see the WASM text directly.

This is the output of the Fibonacci example:

(module (import "spectest" "print_i32" (func $printi (param $i i32)))
(memory $rael.memory (export "memory") 1)
(table $rael.global funcref (elem))
(func $fib.fn/2 (param $n/1 i32) (result i32) (local $x/12 i32)
(local.get $n/1) (local.set $x/12)
(block $join:11 (local.get $x/12) (i32.const 0) (i32.eq)
(if (result i32) (then (i32.const 0))
(else (local.get $x/12) (i32.const 1) (i32.eq)
(if (result i32) (then (i32.const 1)) (else (br $join:11)))))
(return))
(local.get $n/1) (i32.const 1) (i32.sub) (call $fib.fn/2) (local.get $n/1)
(i32.const 2) (i32.sub) (call $fib.fn/2) (i32.add))
(func $fib2.fn/1 (param $num/2 i32) (result i32) (local $n/4 i32)
(local $acc1/5 i32) (local $acc2/6 i32) (local $x/16 i32)
(block $join:3 (local.get $num/2) (i32.const 0) (i32.const 1)
(local.set $acc2/6) (local.set $acc1/5) (local.set $n/4) (br $join:3))
(loop $join:3 (result i32) (local.get $n/4) (local.set $x/16)
(block $join:15
(block $join:14
(block $join:13 (local.get $x/16) (i32.const 0) (i32.eq)
(if (result i32) (then (br $join:13))
(else (local.get $x/16) (i32.const 1) (i32.eq)
(if (result i32) (then (br $join:14)) (else (br $join:15)))))
(return))
(local.get $acc1/5) (return))
(local.get $acc2/6) (return))
(local.get $n/4) (i32.const 1) (i32.sub) (local.get $acc2/6)
(local.get $acc1/5) (local.get $acc2/6) (i32.add) (local.set $acc2/6)
(local.set $acc1/5) (local.set $n/4) (br $join:3)))
(func $init/3 (i32.const 3) (call $fib.fn/2) (call $printi) (i32.const 46)
(call $fib2.fn/1) (call $printi))
(export "_start" (func $init/3)))
Data storage is one example, a lot of time loading of data from HDD was the n°1 performance issue as it was thousands of time slower than CPUs ; nowadays the fastest SSDs have sequential reads that read at 12GB/s (DDR3-1600 speeds!) which can easily be much faster that whatever non-trivial processing you'll apply to the data, so the bottleneck moved from IO to CPU.
Why do old books smell so good?
Its a fun little game, I liked it.
It was said by main propagandists who are the official mouths of kremlin on national tv channels. Also it was said by Lukashenka.
That can be true of any file. One person's gif/pdf/html/whatever is another person's stegano-encrypted data...
This principle should be applied more broadly in society. If a space is deemed women-only, for whatever reason, then it makes no sense to grant access to men who say they are women. It's no longer a women-only space at that point, completely undermining the original intent.
I see two main camps of modern application installers, if you want to call them modern. one is Squirrel which is userland based (Microsoft Teams, Spotify, Slack irrc use this) and it's all but impossible to deal with as an admin.

the other camp is Omaha which chrome uses (along with Edge) and runs as a service to handle updates and install.

Neither of these handle the actual problem but push it down the road a bit - you'll find .exe and .MSI installers for both flavors of these applications (usually a boot strap to install the updater and then have that install the application)

I think one push for userland installers was that "you don't need admin" and to some developers it feels like the right place to install an app (user profiles) however I absolutely agree, this makes it a nightmare to deal with as an admin for windows devices.

I really do not like how squirrel handles updates since it feels like any app that uses it you have an in-your-face update experience vs. Omaha where it does background updates and you typically have no idea as a user anything even happened.

As far as code signing I went on a tangent one day trying to figure out why most code isn't signed and I think it's just too expensive and or complicated for developers not forced to be in a position to actually need it - enterprise or an app store requiring it.
There are definitely less roles being advertised right now.

Having said that - I don't know if it's for the better or worse. A lot of the past roles were highways to burnout.

There are still startups hiring. Also it depends on the domain, language and other factors. C# is still going strong.
> desperate to rationalize their purchase of mediocre hardware at a 10x markup

Are silly claims like this necessary? Yes, Apple massively overcharges on memory and storage upgrades because their users obviously have no other options...

But besides Macs are pretty good value if you're prioritizing battery life, slimness and fan sound.

I guess latest XPS 15/17 are fairly competitive with MBP 14/16. Especially if you don't care about battery life and heat that much, the 13700H/ 13900H seem to be on par with the M2 Pro/Max. The base price is up to $500 lower and you get replaceable RAM (also slower) and 2 m2 slots.

However I don't think there is anything that's close the the M2 Air on the market atm?
What boils my blood each time I hear self driving company talk about metrics, is total ignorance to decades of safety engineering and processes developed there.

They act like reasoning about safety of automated systems is brand new area that they need to develop and disrupt.

Sure, heavy reliance on AI makes some traditional forms of validation more tricky, but BS metrics and test in prod is so reckless, that will end up only hurting the industry. When there will be a big tragedy, because of reckless approach, government will be forced to drop heavy hammer of regulations and make it much harder to develop self driving tech.
That's a guide for how to learn the language once you've already decided that you want to learn it. There's nothing to convince me that I should bother.

Hello world and variable declaration syntax isn't going to make me go "ooo interesting! Tell me more!".

I skimmed the guide and found none of the promised "Grain is a new language that puts academic language features to work".

It seems to be a reasonably nice ML/Rust-alike presumably with GC and depending on the unstable WASM GC proposals, though that's mostly a guess - obviously they don't say that anywhere in the main page.
You’ve not been a city long if you haven’t seen an emergency vehicle have to get on the PA to start yelling at a vehicle in person.
I wish they'd bring this to near me. I'm especially interested because I'm a motorcyclist. Seems 90% of riders get angry when an exhaust isn't loud as a jet and it's often one of the first mods people make.

I couldn't care less and prefer not to annoy everyone in a 100 yard radius from me.

Unlike what most riders will say loud pipes don't really save lives, good and safe riding does. They just use this excuse for the mistakes they make most of the time.
> Live in Manhattan and make a million in W2 wages, boom there you go.

In what universe is a hedge fund manager making W2 wages?
In a sensible world, vegetarian would mean plant based diet and vegan would still mean no use of animal products at all (extending beyond diet).

But you can be a vegetarian and eat fish apparently.
Indeed.

Clearly it was Putin who was such a madlad that he destroyed his greatest bargaining chip in the Nordstream pipeline, and setoff a chain of events that will both destroy EU's economy and the threat it proved to US hegemony, while simultaneously ensuring that EU buys its LNG from US.

Why is Putin helping us ? What a madlad.
Similarly, I’ve been thinking about how all our experience of things that are “intelligent” overlaps with things that are “alive,” and how AI breaks that connection which makes it hard to reason about.

On the one hand, if you asked what’s the most complex intelligence humans have created, or where ChatGPT falls on intelligence spectrum between bacteria and humans, the median HN response might be somewhere between chimps and humans.

On the other hand, if you asked what’s the most complex life humans have created… maybe an attenuated virus vaccine would qualify? We’ve mapped the entire brain of a nematode but have no idea how to get an artificial version of that to actually behave with the agency, goals, motivations, etc, of a nematode.

But most discussions about ASI assume that it’s both “intelligent” and “alive”. Are we really close to creating “human-level” “living” “intelligence”, or are we really far away? How many of the discussions that make analogies of ASI and humans to humans and chimps are conflating “intelligence” and “life”? Does it even make sense to do so?
I'm not disputing that it's brute force, I'm just explaining how it results in polynomial time algorithm.

> but as a programmer I can guarantee this solution is completely useless

yeah, no shit
> Ampere CPUs on Oracle, Hetzner and (I assume?) Azure are still remarkable cheap compared to Intel/AMD if they are sufficient for your workflows.

Hetzner has always been there. It didn't impact Intel/AMD use cases. There are lots of cheap providers (since the start of time) and I doubt that's the space Apple would ever get into.
The current bid for demand response though is still higher then for conventional operation, and piggybacks off the infrastructure for gas supply which runs constantly

If you don't have regularly operating gas power stations any more, then the cost for underproduction protection is going to be a lot higher - because rather then running an extra turbine or increasing fuel burn, you have to justify the whole powerplant and it's sort infrastructure existing.
Because they are a monopoly, they get to ignore the HTML standards and set the defacto standard which is the subpar rendering of Word as an HTML browser.

If real competition existed senders would send modern HTML mail using CSS and Outlook would not be able to render half of it. But instead developers have to write email to the antique standards used by Word, with layout using tables and without css.

And Microsoft doesn’t care, they get away because Outlook is the monopoly.
The former, but not even the primary details of a registered account; they subscribed the emergency contact email addresses, which for us included one of my board members, who then contacted me saying “why am I getting this noise?”

It was neither an emergency nor a transactional message, making it exactly the kind of behaviour they don’t permit from their own customers. Doubling down with the instruction to unsubscribe oneself could only be interpreted as a “fuck you”, and coming from an email company claiming such a moral high ground as Postmark formerly occupied, a sensational own goal.
> Everyone, including you, has read at least one text while driving.

No.
Robocop, by comparison, was running on MS-DOS. :-)
> Do you saturate the resources of one machine and need to split things off?

No, of course not. We divide a single machine in an uncountable number of virtual ones; write some code to make sure they don't talk to each other; write some code to make them able to talk to each other; write some code make more or fewer divisions on the run, automatically; and write some code so we can set them up automatically too every time we get a new split.

That's how you use software scalability and create a simple, predictable ops environment.
Where does bad code come from? [video]
Colorado, California
Sounds like hydrofluoric acid to me, which is even more dangerous. But seeing as you're making a vacuum chamber anyway, perhaps oxygen plasma could be substituted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cleaning
Next time you're in an accident, make sure to be more famous.
I did a brief stint in Hoogte Kadijk one summer a few years back , seriously I actually developed severe depression which I think was from lack of sleep due to the unusual heat , the mopeds going past and the Airbnb guests checking into our old building at all hours making so much noise.

I couldn’t wait to leave, which was sad because the winter and autumn was absolutely bliss. We had a great life there.

The mopeds were astoundingly loud though, I’ll never forget it, I had PTSD, I could hear them coming from a ways off and it would make my blood boil before they went past and fuel my insomnia.

What is funny is the mopeds are still plaguing me in a different part of the world now :) they should be banned altogether, they suck.
I've got a really bad feeling about this, the evidence against her seems to be "she was there when it happened" and a post-it note where she writes "I am evil". Hospitals are full of CCTV cameras, especially baby wards, is this all they have?

We've just had Andrew Malkinson released 17 years after a wrongfully conviction, more of the same?
> I guess latest XPS 15/17 are fairly competitive with MBP 14/16.

Nah, there's been a history of poor QA and just general poor build issues. Have they fixed the coil whine yet? It's still there last I checked.
First line of the article: "Amsterdam has started the fight against noisy motorcycles and cars."
My maxi scooter has its OEM mufflers and it isn't too noisy.

Problem is many people mount noisy aftermarket ones. They mount back the original one when they have the scheduled inspection.

Having said that, outside of the amount of decibels there are engines that are more annoying. 2-strokes high pitch screamers and single and bi-cylinder with lots of low frequency / bass noise.

And there are models that are probably made to pass homologation but do higher noise outside of the rev range used during homologation/inspection. The Yamaha T-Max is one example. It should be prohibited and all its drivers euthanasied. I am obviously joking for the second part but I have never encountered a decent human being riding one, they only attracts the worse of humanity. Yamaha should be ashamed of that.
pescatarian (if we want to get deep into dieting labels)
5.25“ HD floppies were 1.2MB. 3.5" HD floppies were 1.44MB.
And yet defaulting into grug-mode is clearly self-defeating.

The wisdom only applies to the places where it applies, and there is no wisdom there on telling where those places are.