skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, but why pay money for functionality you're just gonna turn off (components, higher clock speed)
> I just don't get what westerners get out of reading the Tao Te Ching.

I really don't understand how ethnicity or provenance has anything to do with this. This is a philosophy book from more than 2000 years ago, the person(s) that wrote it is as different to today's Chinese as to westerners or anyone else. It just talks about the human condition and as such anyone can relate to it.

And about the appeal of Daoism versus, for example, Buddhism I would refer to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar_tasters. Laozi just smiles, Daoist writings have a kind of humor and lightheartedness to them that make them much more appealing to me. I don't concern myself with enlightenment, I just want to smile.
I hadn’t enough resources to delve into Linux too much back then, and switched to macOS instead. Fast forward 15 years and I’m back to Linux and don’t enjoy my macOS time any longer. Windows, always despised.
But you are not a corporation?
Also, imagine a thread does the following:

var result = stmt.executeQuery("select from ...");

When the thread blocks on the DB, rather than bring data from a remote machine, the runtime could serialize the thread, send its state over the wire, and unblock it on the machine containing the data.
Agreed on the common sense stuff but disagree about the difficulty to translate this to practice. Depends if you need it from Big Pharma or if you’re biohacking.

The authors highlight a multi step pathway and one of the steps is accumulation of alpha-ketoglutarate which is a common ketone we all already have tons of, and it increases from fasting. Seems like their research indicates there’s a second system hiding behind the first and it only turns on when you have ketones and can’t burn fat. That’s like the logical converse or contrapositive or something to fasted state. This is analogous to diabetic ketoacidosis but seems to have a healthy impact, which is surprising.

TLDR: if you think about it, fatty acid oxidation pathways are some of the easiest to target (even with zero drugs…just stop eating for a few days)
Interesting comment. I agree with pretty much all of it.

Although in fairness, I never claimed YAML was good in any way, shape or form. My comment was always about the pointlessness of it all. Either we get projects to not use YAML or we're yelling at the void.

Given how passionate you are about this though, I am curious what would you suggest instead of YAML?
Very true, although the digital-ness of computers isn't holding anything back at this point, now that storage is ~infinite and the virtues of immutability are widely recognised.
The medical system is not grossly unregulated. It is not centrally regulated in DC though there is a lot of regulation from there. It is states and localities that regulate it. For example, in some places, a medical professional can add an MRI without much more permission than safety concerns. But in most places, it needs to be negotiated with the various hospital systems, etc. This obviously drives costs up. Ambulance companies need to get permission from other ambulance companies to add an ambulance. These are just a couple of the examples I have come across, but I am sure there are many other examples.

Government in the US pays 60% of the medical costs in the US. State licensing applies to all levels of healthcare, not just doctors. Doing minor in home care requires some kind of nursing credential with a supervising doctor-type.

The common experience of patients is that they are interacting with private health systems and insurance companies. These systems are grotesquely obscure with prices and it feels like one is being fed to the wolves of capitalism unlike in almost any other market experience in the US. This makes it feel like it is unregulated. But, of course, this can only happen because the government has, by force of law and gun, created a medical cartel, limiting options, prices, and divergent practices.
Why do you say early next year?

Agents barely work as of now. OpenAI’s plugins that ~do~ things like browse are still quite slow.
Yes - people here talk like vendors are inscrutable black boxes, which suggests to me they have never been through a serious vendor selection process (on either side). This is not a problem businesses are unaware of, and solutions and enforcement mechanisms exist.

SOC2 may be kind of a tedious drudge to go through, and provide limited actual security, but a third-party auditor’s SOC2 attestation for a vendor goes some way to assuring you that they have some level of access controls and processes to protect your data. It’s not nothing. And the lack of a SOC2 attestation for a vendor is a red flag for sure.

Back in my proprietary SaaS days we used to regularly undergo third party security audits, code escrow processes, and numerous standards compliance hoops, to create sufficient assurance to clients to sign a contract.
Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?
Besides using tools such as Copilot, how do you take advantage of AI to automate your work or to improve your efficiency?
Long term retention requires spaced repetition of course. But I think the stressful pace does help not get bogged down on a first pass of the material.

It's impossible to cover everything about a topic in a short amount of time, but when you try, you at least develop a map of the terrain.
Using IntelliJ to edit YAML files is a bit much
Yes, the OP is explicitly talking about case 1, and the quoted GNU docs are as well?
Why not?

But on the same note, I would also consider suing child services for failing to act according to their own principles and mainly for ignoring evidence.
How much power is safe to send through a GPIO pin? I'd imagine you'd want to make use of the Pi's 2 5V pins at that point.
This sounds like a super interesting insight, but I'm not sure I've fully understood - any chance you could provide an example?
Yeah, sure looks like it. With some of the emotions I'm seeing in this thread, it feels almost like catharsis for a lot of folks.
The great Tao is broad and plain
But people like the side paths

Does a long history of Taoism and all the traditions and beliefs that arise around it make it easier to discern the Tao?
> raspi 4 was just on the cusp of being usable as a main computer

I use a Pi 400 (running Debian) as my primary dev box and access terminal to the Internet. ^_^

It definitely works for me, but I fear that you will next tell us that you need to run software that isn't compiled for ARM (e.g. Adobe graphics suite) or to connect some specific hardware, such as a centrifuge that works only with Windows drivers.

Cheers!
Well it is ... Chapter 42...

Coincidence? I think not!
Machines are tools... what you're really afraid of the unbridled capacity of one human to be so oppressive, cruel, exploitive... to another human(s). Change starts from with in.
Science is not theology: ideas must be tested against reality.

We thought antimatter would fall down, but it's been very hard to test (since gravity is so weak). In particular, antimatter tends to form as fast-moving charged particles, whose gravitational behaviour is drowned-out by other forces like electromagnetism. Hence we need to form neutral particles, like atoms of anti-hydrogen; and that requires slowing the particles down. Even then, measuring the gravitational effect on such tiny scales requires incredible precision!
https://archive.ph/pvg26
That explains yoga mats
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I spent a few days in Berlin as a tourist, and I must say that if you do buy tickets it can be a bit daunting.

Multiple machines for different Bahn companies, zoning that's not very well explained, multiple checking machines etc...

In the Netherlands there is a single system for the entire country where you can just tap your transit or debit card and it goes.

I'll keep your tip in mind next time, though. :)
Taoism explained by a Buddhist:

https://youtu.be/Ql4wGGTDapA?si=v7C0s1LYPQ08CddJ
I think at least with the Pi 4, you can limit the CPU clock by editing a config file, which has a power limiting effect.
I use

* 1 CM4 for a PiKVM on my desktop (my main home server uses a proprietary iLO).

* 1 CM4 as router running OpenWrt, to replace my ER-Lite.

* 3 CM4s in a Turing Pi 2, one Jetson Orin for ML. This is my homelab. The CM4 are running Dietpi.

* 2 RPi4 as remote VPN (Wireguard) endpoints to do tech support for my mother-in-law and mother. Also serves as Jellyfin server containing old movies, and jumphost for NAS backup.

* 2 RPi0 2 W with Enviro+. One indoor, one outdoor (with different, custom 3D printed casings). Runs Raspbian, will switch these to Dietpi.

* 1 RPi3 for with my portable HackRF (with custom 3D printed case). Batteries included!

* 1 RPi0 W for Pwnagotchi. Not really used anymore but too cute to break.

* 1 RPi0 W for Pimoroni grow to track water management in plants (with 3D printed case). Need to get that project moving, it is for my mother.

All my Docker containers run on my main server but I'm considering to switch to my Turing Pi 2. I got solar, so the Xeon is OK for now, but still...

Then I got: 1 RPi3B+, 1 CM4, 1 RPi2B, 1 RPi0 W. I should sell as they're right now 'Raspberry Piles'. Won't use them. To be frank I'd like to upgrade the RPi3 with the portable HackRF at some point, and once I get a 3D printer I might need Octoprint so I suppose I could use one of these machines for that.
> Innovators should have to assume the burden of identifying and resolving the externalities before widespread distribution of the innovation.

Based on what timescale, though? We can only work with what we know about. E.g. until Radium was deemed highly unsafe, it was deemed safe. No one paints Radium onto watch hands any more because we discovered that that's a terrible idea.

Or, it might turn out in 30 years that CO2 has a large positive effect on re-greening the Earth, and all those low CO2 innovations were harmful.

In other words: I don't understand how your statement makes sense without hindsight, and I don't understand how any innovation can happen if hindsight (that is based on that innovation happening) is its prerequisite.
Yeah, yours sound less prophetic because you don't speak as if it is obviously going to happen. You add things like "for I see it in your future", "even though [it hasn't happened yet]", "just you wait", "you just don't know it yet", "get ready"
But you can avoid binary search because there are at most one power of tens between 2^k and 2^(k+1). So you can turn it into a lookup table problem.
How come said typical corporations need binary modules? Those aren't very portable, and make maintenance long term a lot more complicated.
That explains why the article is bottom up. I'm so tired of "journalism" now being bait and switch.

The interesting bait is at the top, then there's ten pages of stuff that has nothing to do with the bait - of course, filled with inline ads. Then finally comes two paragraphs of the stuff you actually wanted to know.
Ask HN: How to improve terrible home WiFi?
For the last 7 years the WiFi reception in my home has been very poor. I am curious how others have gone about troubleshooting and solving WiFi reception issues.

More details: I pay good $$$ for a business-grade fibre (FTTP) connection (500 Mbps down / 200 Mbps up). I have a direct Ethernet connection to my main work computer, and from there I do actually get these advertised speeds and low latencies (a few milliseconds) to my local AWS data centre, and life is good. But whenever my wife or I try to use our laptops (both Mac and Windows) or iPhones in the home, the WiFi reception is intermittent and often unusably slow from most rooms. For example, here's what I see right now on my MacBook Pro (2021):

```
$ networkQuality -s
==== SUMMARY ====
Uplink capacity: 0.000 bps
Downlink capacity: 349.330 Kbps
Uplink Responsiveness: Low (10 RPM)
Downlink Responsiveness: Low (18 RPM)
Idle Latency: 220.875 milliseconds
```

In other words, the downlink capacity is 1000 times worse with WiFi than with Ethernet.

I have tried a DLink COVR mesh network with multiple access points (and am using it now), but WiFi speeds in most rooms are woeful either way. The house is not large (130 m^2 or 1400 sq feet). I've tried some WiFi scanning tools and there's no significant WiFi interference from the neighbours (it's a low-density area). Signal strength to my nearest COVR mesh router is apparently -59 dBm, with a SNR or 36.

Perhaps the exterior fibro walls are to blame (good old asbestos cement sheeting) but that's just guessing; WiFi speeds are often terrible even from rooms adjacent to the router with only flimsy interior walls in between.

What I really want is a recommendation for a systematic approach to identifying the real cause of the abysmal WiFi, along with some troubleshooting tools (preferably open source). Or some success stories about how you overcame crap home WiFi!
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I don't think using it makes you an advocate. I totally understand the point that most of the time we're not choosing it. It has been chosen for us in one way or another and that sucks.

My whole point is that we should focus on the projects using YAML instead of the format itself. Complaining about YAML at this point is like kicking a dead horse. We know it's not ideal, but saying it's crap is not gonna change anything.
Serves me right for not checking! I certainly became aware of YAML long after I started using JSON. But I do think people are choosing it over JSON for it's alleged improved read/write friendliness.
If gaming, GSync and similar technology seems to have a similar effect. You don't really need the high frame rate, but the smooth control.
> What would be your dream linux fan-less setup?

I am quite satisfied using the Pi 400, a portable LCD display, and a wireless backlit keyboard.
> my first one hasn't done more than collect dust.

If you mean a Raspberry Pi 1, try RISC OS.

Very un-Unix-like, predates Linux by nearly a decade. Single-core and goes very fast on a Pi 1.

https://www.riscosdev.com/direct/
Please learn to redirect output. Printing help to stderr will not mess up piped commands, instead you'd know right away that somethings up.
Absolutely sure. The conductor of the train I ended up boarding explained the situation and showed me the updated timetable on his phone.
Obsoleted by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37673413

Effective dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37641393
As I attempted to make clear, none of what I said was judging you or your life or choices or anything of the sort, it was simply a reflection on a turn of phrase (a semantic nitpick as I said, but one I thought worth exploring because of the how often that phrase is used in I think subtly pernicious ways, again to say nothing about you specifically). But my apologies if this wasn't clear enough and it seemed I was judging your individual choices, definitely not my intention.

Of course there are trade-offs and it isn't easy (or possible) to get everything you want. My point was specifically around ensuring we feel responsible and in control of our life, not as though it's happening to us (which again is not a hypothesis about you specifically, just commentary on the language). It's a common trap, one I fall into all too easily, and language is I think an important way the trap gets lain. Perhaps you have not experienced that trap at all, again, was just focusing on the language.
It's exactly the same before tax:
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Sorry to hijack your question, I'm also software engineer with focus on security and one thing that has troubled me is where I should continue learning within security for the purposes of staying competitive (I have no issue learning to learn!). Seems like AI and Web3 (smart contract auditing) security flood my x feed, curious to know your thoughts on good skills to have for the future 5 years within security.
Is this the first Wikipedia article you've ever seen that isn't as good as it could be? Real people, most non-experts, write these pages. Not all of them are well-written or feature complete.
> how many people think they are defending human freedom

So... what's a better way to defend human freedom? Letting market conditions deteriorate further?

Tell it to me like you're trying to convince the European regulators, not like you're sitting across from Tim Cook. Petty solutions are a non-starter.
That's not obvious and second, even for configuration it highly depends on the domain. I've seen game engines that used YAML for configuration of in-game entities, where YAML brought its own set of performance misery.

Just because you use it for one page docker conf, doesn't mean someone won't use it for 3000 yaml files that need to load in under ten seconds.

Not to mention complexity of the language will reflect onto complexity of the tooling. The more complex writing tooling is, the less likely someone will write it.

Also I hate the term "human readable". JSON is human readable and editable. Sure you might have problems with editing it, but my work colleague can read binary blobs. That doesn't make them binary blobs human readable.
Certainly. But that’s two vulnerabilities and usually by different groups.

So that’s a pretty sophisticated group to pwn a package and the submit all the dependabot version bumps.

Not impossible, but less likely. And I don’t blindly accept version bumps as I read the associated CVE and see if I need it. And I think it’s pretty rare for major packages to get compromised. When pandas or numpy get breached, I think I’ll hear about it way before I accept a depdabot PR to change my version.
Imo it is reasonable, but still disgusting. They don't want the public to know how they operate, because that reflects badly on them. A bit like you wouldn't necessarily tell your neighbor you're having an affair.
Think of it another way: transparency hurt a criminal corporation’s ability to use its army of lawyers to defend itself.
Really 99.9%?

The thing is that even if this is is true we can explore things like TOR which mice definitely have and it definitely adds to the list of evidence that inhibiting TOR extends lifespan
Show HN: Filebloc ~Slack app for direct file uploads to GDrive, Dropbox, and AWS
Looking at this as a 'black box', You have the heat resource of the sun that will heat all the water. Let us say 10% evaporates and condenses into the storage area, the remainder is now 3.5% salt plus .35% saltier and it maintains it's heat. If you allow 10% to exit and be replaced with cold 3.5% salt water, AND it exits via a counter current heat exchanger = heat stored is kept, the added .35% salt is a minor effluent and will disperse. The greatest problem is the propagation of algae and suspended sea life that will soon proliferate to clog all surfaces, with free floaters exiting as well. Any salt/fresh water aquarist will know that this will be a problem. The system will work until the algae problem(not to speak of clam/mussel/barnacle etc larvae that are ubiquitous in sea water.
I really like what dhall-lang (https://dhall-lang.org) is doing in that sense. It manages to strike a nice balance between power and simplicity from the start.
> People have tried inventing a new paradigm (julia) that combines usability with performance but it has not struck a chord

For any non-scientific purpose, Julia is not attractive, so I doubt it will gain much more traction.

> whether you can stick close to the C++ universe yet build powerful tools that hide complexity. Its not trivial, e.g. would it automatically make good use of heterogeneous CPU's/GPU

That's where we are going. Technically being generic over CPU/GPU (for defined set of operations) is not hard, just takes work (and leaders in this domain are interested in keeping thing proprietary), but that's already work in progress.

In general terms, copying Python usability (or 90% of it) is also simple and other languages head that way. Rust or Nim can come very close (when you have good set of libraries and pass the boilerplate).
Similarly, I got a ThinkCentre M73 (8GB/128GB, Win10) on eBay for £125 3 years ago. It's great.
Same here. A great advantage of such devices is they can later be easily repurposed to control home automation, audio system or make a simple DIY project with them. It is much harder with other types of hardware, like a laptop for example.
I think JSON5 is fairly close to this: https://json5.org

I reckon the only thing it's missing to be truly accessible to non-techies is that string values still need to be quoted, i.e. you can't have:

key: this is my value

(I'm definitely not saying it would be a good idea to allow quotes to be dropped, just that that's the only potential stumbling block I see for non-techies.)

Edit to add: oh, hmm, I guess trailing commas are fiddly too. Possibly I want some even laxer variant of JSON that lets you use just newlines! :P
Right. I don't understand their thinking process here.
I love the principle of the mini elitedesks, but some have a terribly annoying fan. It's not firmly attached to the chassis, so it rattles while spinning (and it spins all the time). The heatsink uses a proprietary 3 point attachment, so you can't use a big aftermarket cooler instead (even though it wouldn't fit in the case, I would have accepted the compromise).

Not sure about the <=G3 and >=G7, but the G4 and G5 have the issue. The G6 seems to have the fan attached more firmly, but I've never tested one in a quiet room.
It's more energy efficient than the RPi4, so you should be fine if you're doing fine with any of their older products?
Alcohol is not banned. Purchase of alcohol at bars is. Employees can still buy alcohol at the store.
...I know.

To be fair, humans make mistakes at an incredible rate. Even the ones who make life or death decisions.

I'm talking about the constant stating of the obvious, if these models weren't useful we wouldn't deploy them. It's like the whole internet constantly making the statement "cars are better at covering distances in shorter time frames than humans"...we know, that's why we build them and pay a bunch of money for them.
Is there a reason you're not interested in those NVIDIA Jetson modules? Even excluding the GPU compute, I had thought the Orin boards were significantly faster than a Pi 4.
Brook Ziporyn recently gave a short talk on his translation of this text, well worth watching:

https://youtu.be/EJ1bB2w2gBk?si=qxBQq9KiL6pSom2Q
> A friens of mine is kindergardener, and he came close to quitting, as his illusions of what his job is were utterly shattered, as it became clear that many parents did not care about the safety of their own and other kids or about the staff.

This framing assumes that the teaches had an accurate risk assessment, and the parents didn’t, but in retrospect we have seen that depriving kids of socialization was much more damaging to the kids than covid exposure was. This conclusion was reached by the majority of developed nations, whose schools either didn’t shut down or reopened months before schools in the US.
It's also interesting that Bottles is a Gnome app.

And I don't know why they promoted Bottles and not Lutris when the latter is way more popular and just works.
Again, here is a case of rationalists misinterpreting risks based on data.
...basically any physician?

Anyway, a two minute Google search can even find some US-friendly related material (but probably someone could be able to say that Harvard is a vegan-soviet-wokist psyop, one could never know...)

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/disease-prevent...

"The best diet for preventing heart disease is one that is full of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, fish, poultry, and vegetable oils; includes alcohol in moderation, if at all; and goes easy on red and processed meats, refined carbohydrates, foods and beverages with added sugar, sodium, and foods with trans fat."

See also https://web.archive.org/web/20131207154611/http://www.cnpp.u...