skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I would expect to find in the dictionary under the words "nifty", "spiffy" and "cute".

I would totally buy one (cuz I would also expect it to cost under $15k)
‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen
I'm very surprised to see milk negatively correlated with cancer risk - I usually see people calling milk unhealthy. Do we know exactly what the benefits are?
Health "insurance" in the U.S. is largely just health care paid by a 3rd party, which is inherently more cumbersome than paying for something yourself. If have say $1 mil in stocks your net worth bounces around $10K per day as stocks rise or fall 1%. You don't expect to be insured against such changes, and similarly you should pay at least the first $10K of annual health care expenses yourself. Your health insurance premiums would fall commensurately.

If you expect a 3rd party to pay all your health care costs, expect paperwork, since the 3rd party needs to guard against fraud.
Connect(ing) Chick-Fil-A
No, its an egg.

Are you just being contrarian or do you not get the general idea?
Interesting anecdote. I think there's a common theme with current LLMs, that people focus unreasonably much on "knowledge retrieval" from the models (1) and under-hype and under-appreciate the "language model" part.

These things are really easy to anthropomize, partly because they are good at "talking" and "articulating". So good that we tend to just accept that magical, enormous feat of statistical engineering as a trivial building block. But it's a brick made of gold.

Translating (from natural language to code, from text to audio, from image to image, one natural language to another), editing, summarizing, expanding/extrapolating is what these models do.

The inherent "knowledge" is just context.

(1) Vector embedding is in my view a little different - it's a form of semantic cataloging (akin to Dewy decimal) - and certainly enables search.

But "data retrieval" (who was us president in 1984) directly from the models isn't really all that interesting IMNHO.
The CEOs drawing a hard line on return-to-office policies
> must have at least 30% of their offering healthy

Who defines what "healthy" is?

In the US, Big Ag and USDA created a food pyramid that put processed carbohydrates as the base, even knowing at the time that that amount of carbohydrate intake is harmful.
This looks great! How do blogs get into the "blogs" tab? I see the "suggest a blog" link... are they all hand-curated from there?
The majority speed because it feels fun to stomp on the accelerator. If you compare door to door travel times, they’re almost always paying a good bit more - and maximizing their risk to everyone else - for a tiny fraction of the total travel time, especially at rush hour.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C...

tl;dr: Wikipedia's expenses grow exponentially year-over-year and it's not clear where the extra money is going, since the basic experience of Wikipedia hasn't changed all that much in the past decade.

Year Support and revenue Expenses Net assets at year end
2003–2004 $80,129 $23,463 $56,666
2004–2005 $379,088 $177,670 $268,084
2005–2006 $1,508,039 $791,907 $1,004,216
2006–2007 $2,734,909 $2,077,843 $1,658,282
2007–2008 $5,032,981 $3,540,724 $5,178,168
2008–2009 $8,658,006 $5,617,236 $8,231,767
2009–2010 $17,979,312 $10,266,793 $14,542,731
2010–2011 $24,785,092 $17,889,794 $24,192,144
2011–2012 $38,479,665 $29,260,652 $34,929,058
2012–2013 $48,635,408 $35,704,796 $45,189,124
2013–2014 $52,465,287 $45,900,745 $53,475,021
2014–2015 $75,797,223 $52,596,782 $77,820,298
2015–2016 $81,862,724 $65,947,465 $91,782,795
2016–2017 $91,242,418 $69,136,758 $113,330,197
2017–2018 $104,505,783 $81,442,265 $134,949,570
2018–2019 $120,067,266 $91,414,010 $165,641,425
2019–2020 $129,234,327 $112,489,397 $180,315,725
2020–2021 $162,886,686 $111,839,819 $231,177,536
2021–2022 $154,686,521 $145,970,915 $239,351,532
Of course I use recycle bin. Why wouldn't I use a great tool for the job? It would be negligent not to, when it or similar is available on the OS I'm using.

Even this tool uses recycle bin. It may not have a ctrl-z to undo a delete, but it doesn't permanently delete unless explicitly requested.

Comparing pancakes to file management is an apples to oranges comparison.
What does this have to do with event sourcing?
Wonder how it'll handle Korean?

A friend who translates Korean has pointed out that it's kind of special, in that the symbols used are exactly the same for many different things. So the only way to know the actual meaning is from context, which is what then needs translating.

Apparently online translators from Korean to other languages are truly, horribly bad due to this.
Specifically so that EU companies like Spotify wouldn't be included.

(I am guessing there is a specific carve-out in the law that exempts Deutsche Telekom, which is bigger than $75b, and Vodafone, which is close.)
Researchers predict film popularity by the activity of facial muscles
Is there a good synopsis on their views and who they donate to? Preferably more than one. I don't typically trust wikipedia for things more controversial than climate data for a particular city, usually more like math or animal facts. But ut would be nice to know the typical biases.
This smacks of conspiracy, & is unfounded.
What alternative do you suggest, If I may ask without any intent of rhetoric?
You can use an Apple device without iCloud right? How would that work? They do know in which region the device was sold though.
An Internet of PHP
Are they saying milk deficiency causes cancer?
A post about PHP usage on the web which remains strong despite all the buzz about NodeJS, JavaScript frameworks or WebAssembly. It tones down the echo chamber always following the latest trend and reminds us that despite being twenty+ years old, PHP still powers up most of the web today.

First paragraph as a teaser for those not clicking the link immediately:

> PHP is big. The trolls can proclaim its all-but-certain “death” until the cows come home, but no amount of heckling changes that the Internet runs on PHP. The evidence is overwhelming. What follows is a loosely organised collection of precisely that evidence.
Ask HN: How do you take breaks, and stay productive?
Curious to hear how others are managing the endless DEV backlog and long hours at the computer. I know for myself personally if I do not take breaks and step away from the computer, I suffer from it as neck pain and eventually tension headaches.

I also notice my vision will improve\worsen based on how much time I spend at the computer. Long week with limited outdoor time I notice people's faces seem a little blurrier at a distance. On vacation or spending more time outdoors, things get clearer outside. Anyone else experience the same? What are others doing to help manage long hours sitting\standing in one spot looking directly into the monitor?
The Widgetification of Apple
Yes that is how a gubernatorial pardon works.
"simply avoid overeating" has the same ring of "simply stop being depressed"

People are a lot more complicated than that, and a persons diet is anything but simple.
I have several friends / acquaintances that have converted to this kind of concierge practice. At least a few years ago, $5k / patient / year was a going price for one of them, which gave you basically 24/7 more-or-less direct access to a physician. I'm not sure how it worked WRT lab and radiology costs, but it seemed that people could subsidize the expense significantly by changing to catastrophic insurance only, as simple visits (just a history and exam) were already covered, and many simple meds (eg antibiotics) available on the $4 list.

One BIG reason that my wife and I remain working in a U.S. Federal system (in which the federal government pays for all necessary care) is that I don't have to deal with insurance. It is soul-crushing to have pencil pushers hundreds of miles away díctate the care you provide.
As a general overview, I enjoy Dr Greger's definition of processed food - 'Nothing bad added, nothing good taken away'.
What I'd like to see:

Foreign manufacturers shipping devices to this country should make frequent firmware updates available. If they use open source / GPL'ed software then should release that too.

There should be a period of X (maybe 5) years after which a device is considered obsolete. At that time all sources inclusive of the opaque binary blobs should be released.

There should be a site / infra by FCC where manufacturers could dump those files.

The FCC itself should get a copy of the source of opaque binary blobs as soon as the device is introduced in the local market.

If that is made a mandate, there are couple of benefits: No device that suspiciously sends data to foreign servers. Less e-trash as community can build / maintain firmware as there is access to source code.
My working definition, taken from Michael Greger, is "nothing bad added, nothing good taken away".
I hate them so much. Otherwise great cars are completely ruined by touchscreens. What was wrong with tactile knobs you could operate one handed without looking? You’re driving for fuck’s sake.

It’s why things like the GR Corolla are nearly miraculous in 2023, it even comes stick shift only.
> how's having a monopoly even on weather apps good to consumers?

Having to pay for development and maintenance for 50 competing weather apps could mean higher prices for everybody. Also, third party apps have a tendency to 'blow up' their importance and be over engineered and distracting. Get ready for Electron Weather, using 2 Gb of memory just to show you if it rains.

> If you build something on top of some other "private property" that would take trillions to build a competitor yourself, and suddenly be unpublished or having an API change completely destroy your business.

Depends on what that API change tries to accomplish. If it's because an API is abused I prefer my security to your business model. Making companies liable for security _and_ API compatibility could lead to an impossible task.

I agree some companies are uncomfortably big, but I see lots of developers having problems with Apple's policies, but as a user I appreciate Apple for taking a stand to make sure your 'right' to get my attention, clicks, ads or use other distracting patterns doesn't impede my ability to actually use my computer.
> Even for VC backed startups, I think it was never a problem until cloud providers started competing with them.

Cloud providers (and SaaS providers before the dynamic provisioning for which “cloud” was coined existed) have been offering commercial hosted OSS solutions since before there were VC-backed “our whole business model is developing OSS and selling hosted access to it” startups.

The thing that changes was the startups trying to trade on OSS' cultural impact with a business model that made no sense, not the practices of cloud providers.
Also as shown in Mr Robot, the LE can remotely stop a car via OnStar.
It seems it's the chemical we're putting in ourselves. No government blame needed.

Where does it say that alcohol and tobacco consumption have increased in the time period? In fact for at least one group, as expected, it's decreased as a ranking factor.

So - while it's absolutely true that individuals must take responsibility for their choices, it seems reasonable to associate the increase with trends that have increased - highly processed foods etc. Not alcohol and tobacco.

The criticism of government inaction and lobbying therefore seems a good default position to take.
In the 90s at least, chip music for the SID was mostly called "SID tunes".

People didn't care about authenticity of real chips vs. chip-style tracker music until fast Internet and large disks became common. People stopped caring about small file sizes, and started making chip-style music using DAWs and releasing it as MP3s. There was backlash against this, and people began to think that only music made with hardware chips was authentic.

I believe tracker chiptunes were collateral damage in the rejection of MP3 chip-style music, because there's no way to to clearly define if tracker chiptunes are real chiptunes or not. Lots of tracker chiptunes use short percussion samples in addition to the looped single-cycle waveforms. When there was a culture of keeping file sizes small, this was accepted without question. When large file sizes forced people to start thinking about what counted as real chiptunes, this element of subjectivity became a problem. How long a sample is too long? With music for sound chips it's easy to test if it works on the real hardware. There's no equivalent test for tracker chiptunes. It's easiest to rename tracker chiptunes to "chip style", and use "chiptune" to mean hardware chips only.
Total revenue 154MM. Staff at 88MM. Total expenses seem to be 145MM and I don't see anything to indicate they are re-donating that money. Where's the source for your comment? It seems to be blatantly untrue, and I'm wondering why.

I think the use of the word "eclipsed" is a a bit odd. Eclipsed in this case, and the literal sense, just means it's covered. In this case, revenue exceeds costs by what, 8%?
A Quarter Century of Google Product Launches
I created an interactive annotated chart with a timeline of products Google released in the last 25 years.

You can see more details about each product launch by hovering the annotations.

While doing research to create this chart I also learned that Jennifer Lopez is the reason why Google Images exists, which is pretty funny.

This is the website I used to create this chart (which I also built): https://www.contextualize.ai
Your working for an Ad company, lets not overstate the importance here. Its like the bottom rung of being a techy, right next to finance. Next your going to say that 3M,Johnson & Johnson and Montasanto are "doing all they can". Even small wins right, token gestures of repentance? while execs laungh and continue to profit off the mass poisoning of our waterways & lives simply by influencing laws such that they can only be sued by one person/group at a time. Investor profit over all else, once you cut through the HR, is what it boils down too.

Not sure why people think its respectable to work as a propaganda piece for a corp covering its tracks. So many challanges there to solve, so many "smart" people dedicating their lives to making people want things they don't need. Sounds inspiring to be surrounded those types. Truely.

So innovative and cutting edge it is working for a giant ad company that we all know takes money from whoevers shell company offers it or whatever reason. Plausible deniability is the game at this level, just enough to paint a favourable picture in the court of court of law when the day eventually comes.
That just means they haven't been sued, there is no copyright czar that makes sure infringement never happens. Owners need to sue.
If I'm reading the article correctly, those factors mean that current young smokers have a higher chance of dying from cancer than young smokers from the 90's. The probability is so much higher that the total of deaths increased by many tens of percent, while the total number of smokers decreased by an order of magnitude or so.

I do agree that it makes no sense to blame the mortality on smoking. The change in smoking is clearly not what is leading it.
go run for the office / senate, mate. imma support you. too bad, i ain't eu citizen.
Well, my twinky has "cake and cream" so I can list all it's ingredients. Makes it healthy, right?
Turbo 8 is dropping TypeScript
Great comment! For anyone looking to learn a bit more about this, the "crossing" technique described above is called "chiasmus": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus

Another famous example is "Vivāmus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus" from Catullus 5 (there are several instances of it in this poem, in fact).
> the addition of nutritional information for fast food outlets would be very welcome,

I really don't see it... We know a Big Mac is a shitty life choice, how is putting a number next to it going to help (we already do this i think)

When did you leave school out of interest? We did pretty comprehensive sex education, self care, hygiene, cooking, nutrition classes ect ect. Hell we even did managing money and understanding taxation.

I dont think the issue is education, the information is out there and has been for a long, long time. The issue is getting people to care.
Interesting. I've never connected my car to my wireless network and I've never used the Nissan app. I think I used a burner email when setting things up, but that was years ago so I don't remember the details. I'll see what happens if I try an OTA update later today and report back.
And how does that result in a more reasonable cost profile than paying an insane dealer markup that’s half the MSRP of the car? A Corolla shouldn’t cost $70k.
At a certain point, cost of customization could become prohibitive.
This will have a world wide positive impact.
> I don't have a single computing device that has lasted longer than 10 years. Reasonably speaking, either performance or features start to make the device largely obsolete and unusable.

Are you just buying cheap junk? An i7-3770 PC - a good example of an 11 year old PC, and one I happen to use every day - can be quite usable today.
I wish I understood the commercial license. If you can’t host it, and they don’t offer it through an API, how can you use it commercially?
It's not about whether or not it was created by AI. It's about the quality, relevance, usefulness, and uniqueness of the content.

Or as Google likes to put it: Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness (EEAT).

I use AI in my writing all the time, but I don't simply let it write the whole thing. AI can only work with what it's given. If you ask it to "Write me an article about XYZ", it will regurgitate what its read online. Google will see that and say:

- This article does not demonstrate that the author has the right Experience.

- They may or may not have established their Expertise.

- No one else is linking to this content, so it's low on Authority.

- There's nothing to show this person to be trustworthy.

- The content may be relevant and useful, but it's not unique.

That's a lot of dings.

By contrast, if you use AI as an assistant rather than a writer, you can:

- Base your article on your own unique experience.

- Establish your expertise faster than ever before, by allowing AI to help you brainstorm, finish thoughts, and edit your content.

- Build relationships with real people. No one wants to link to a bot.

- Create bonds of trust by actually engaging with your audience.

- Create content that has never been created before.
They all do, and also steal people’s intellectual property. Not exactly a secret.
Rewriting My Toy Blockchain in Rust: Lessons in Type Safety and Performance
Few have ever went bankrupt gambling that people are impressively, unbelievably stupid.
> Each verb on the first line has a "mate" on the second.

Can you clarify what a "mate" is? What determines a word's "mate"? The position on the line? Their meaning?
Percolate while you take a break. Try to think about the issues you face from a different view. Get a soda and popcorn or whatever and take your 15 minute break.

I got glasses with a coating on them for UV to block monitor glare, ask your eye doctor about them and say you need eye protection from long exposure to computer monitors.
"Can LLMs learn from a single example"?

Sure. Neural nets in general can: after they've been trained on billions of examples first.

It really helps if they've previously seen the same or similar "single example". Which, let's be fair, the larger the training data, the higher the chances they have.

>> This seemed, at first, quite impossible. It would imply that the model was learning to recognise inputs from just one or two examples

To be more precise: the article is talking about fine-tuning a pre-trained LLM, so that's a-few-billion-plus-one-or-two examples.

Btw, what model was that? The article doesn't say.
I don't think android auto even works on graphene anyway.
Groups of people in my office sometimes go out for 20-minute walks because they are tired of staring at their screens.
The point of the piece is to highlight the discrepancy between the tone of Wikipedia's fundraising and mission and the reality of their system and financial situation.
Just regular Bluetooth, Android Auto and CarPlay are no-gos for me. I want less connectivity, not more.
I would still apply, and explain in the email / motivation letter why you qualify and they can benefit from you in this position. No need to highlight where you don’t meet the requirements.

Personal introductions also help.

As a manager I try to look at the entire picture and rather have someone ambitious and capable than someone resting in their laurels. Of course sometime you just need some seniority to stand up to your stakeholders, so it depends on the role.

I also wouldn’t be in the position that I am today if I just applied according to requirements.

So give it a try.
The ones I hate the most are "organic" and "bio" foods. The sweet talking marketeers (professional liars) have won.

It's likely just my biases but I've noticed that the vast majority of people using these nonsense terms are, hmmm, let's just call them high calorie humans. They really want to believe
This is especially true for USB hubs of any kind, so much so that I think even Caldigit sold a hub that wasn't fully compliant to it's advertised capabilities.
Yeah, that. I'm okay with it opening my browser if I literally search for my browser.
I disagree. Those were substantial edits that exaggerated and biased the reporting. And those are just the ones we caught.

It's not OK when reporters or papers do things like that.
I don't think so. It could've said it's a native app.
> The oil/gas industry has made some progress to curtail methane emissions so we don't think it is that gang.

I don't know if we can reach that conclusion. It's been discovered, in Canada at least, that O&G is vastly under-reporting its methane production. I imagine other areas of the world might be even worse.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/30-40-per-cen...
The article appears to be a beef about moderator structure and the author's perception of a Biden bias over an article they hand-picked.

The revenue and expense statement, the subject heading an entirely misleading heading given the bulk of the article is not about revenue/expenses strapped on at the end appears to have no, or at best threadbare connection to the main article other than 'politics' - well, what I had for breakfast is 'politics' too, perhaps that influences my reading of this article.

The moderator discussion and revenue/expense discussion offers nothing of substance in information of discussion over multitudes of other articles that have discussed the same thing with far more insight.

HN political flamebait, really. {Edit, thanks for the downvote.. author? That was 3 minutes. I really don't care, the account's literally called 'throwaway'. Censorship, eh?]
Universal health care doesn’t preclude the existence of private care. A number of countries have universal public health care, but if you want to pay extra, there is also private insurance and a private network of physicians and hospitals.
If something else kills you then yeah
It doesn't matter, but does your post here mean:

"So, funny thing about software prototypes."

or

"SO FUNNY thing about software prototypes."

Either is valid, but it struck me that I couldn't exactly divine your intent.
Fall’s Vaccine Routine Didn’t Have to Be This Hard
Ah, yes, the technical correct, best kind of correct.

Remind me, why the country an ocean away has it's troops in these countries?

And while we are it, can you explain why the country with only two countries on it's borders (one is allied, the other one is clearly not hostile) has a standing Army (not navy, not air force) of 460k+ active personnel?
Signal, iMessage, Telegram, Line, WeChat, Element, SMS ...the list goes on n on