skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything we do online is soul-altering. The online world is a different place. Vastly bigger in some ways and ridiculously narrower in others. We are the guinea-pig generations. We rushed into it without much preparation and simply figure out what works and what not by trial-and-error, paying with our life coins.

What complicates things enormously is that these altered realities reallocate wealth and power. The mental and emotional health of users was not the first priority. But we are now past the first phase.

From social media and search to dating apps and everything else online, now people asking probing questions about how the new tech has been put to use and for whose benefit.

Will there ever be better "dating apps". Its a good question. The answer will depend on if we ever harness the economics behind technology to server people rather than the other way around
Last century they still made windows as opposed to rectangular areas on screen of different gray shades, where the poor user has to try to see if is there any function associated with them.
I love my lava lamp. I use it as the light for my bedside table.

I’m too young to have seen the craze the first time around, but for me they are the ultimate nostalgia object. You see, lava lamps take me back to being a young child visiting The Gadget Shop with my father. He knew I liked the place, so every time we travelled into the city centre together we’d visit. The place was small, but packed full with the sounds and flashing colours of the gadgets within.

The central island would always have a sales assistant behind it demonstrating this or that. A miniature blimp, effortlessly floating above us. A skilled performance with light-up juggling balls or advanced yo-yo tricks. A remote control car, driven and flipped onto its back to return the way it came. I vividly remember the tickling feeling brushing my hand over the tips of a fibre optic lamp on display, with its twinkling light at the end of each fibre.

All around the outside of the shop were wall to ceiling shelves, full of trinkets protected with panes of glass. Plasma globes flickering and buzzing with mysterious electrical power. A row of chrome perpetual motion toys each moving slowly and gracefully, dancing its own dance. Glow in the dark decorations illuminating with their curious green-white light. The rhythmic click-clack-click sound of a Newtons Cradle ticking away the seconds on a shelf somewhere.

And, of course, the rows and rows of lava lamps on display. A multitude of different colours of bulb, liquid and lava. Some had glitter inside, rather than wax, but to me they just weren’t the same. I could have sat and watched the spheres of lava split and recombine together for hours. But alas, it was time to go home.

I still live in the same city. I would love to share the same memory with my own children one day, but The Gadget Shop is unfortunately no more. It seemed to dissapear around the late 90s. What I loved about the place was how analogue and tactile everything was. Any item could be removed from the shelf and interacted with. In my memory, there were no digital gadgets there at all. Though, I could have simply forgotten about them.

There are similar shops around now, but they don’t spark that same joy in my soul. Sure, they have the odd remote control car or mini toy drone on display… but the torrent of lights, colours and sound is gone. Replaced by rows of boxed collectible plastic figurines or, what feels to me, like branded tat.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps it’s not the gadgets that have changed, but instead I have just grown up. Whenever this happens, I stop and watch my lava lamp for a little while. Without fail, it always invokes the same sense of wonder I felt as a child in The Gadget Shop, and takes me back to my fond memories of the time spent there with my father.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11277033
This does not solve the problem at all, and does not improve security either. Microsoft themselves could perfectly well have the same analysis in-house and provide free certificates to properly vetted projects. Adding layers of middlemen to deal with is a pain in the backside and a consequence is that some projects will just not bother. It’s inefficient on all levels and still does not protect from bad actors.
On linux I find it's usually necessary to enable WoL on boot with 'ethtool -s eth0 wol g' (you can check the current state of all most wakeup stuff with 'cat /proc/acpi/wakeup').
There is method to subscribe to an inbox [0], but it's unclear to me what this will accomplish. I have a use case for monitoring an inbox and parsing mail based on various headers/content (eg: bounced, auto reply, abuse report). Does subscribe subscribe to new email events? Currently using node-imap [1] for these events.

[0] https://imapflow.com/module-imapflow-ImapFlow.html#mailboxSu...

[1] https://github.com/mscdex/node-imap

PS: Thanks for your work on nodemailer, using it in production for years now.
Roe v. Wade
You don't even need to press a physical switch. Anything that can short a jumper on the motherboard would be enough.
It is not sustainable to have declining population numbers for many reasons (for example the social security system needs a large working population) so Portugal is working to have immigration, especially from Brasil, Angola and also from Europe.

Additionally while the population is declining across the country but rising in the Lisbon area where the problem is and where the jobs are.
LWN write-ups on fairly niche subjects are regularly featured on HN front page.
The problem is that available funding is not commensurate with value generated. And the value is in the hands of some companies that have very little incentive to give much of it to the upstream project.
There's HKEY_CURRENT_USER for a reason.
Advice too simplistic, end of colon can emit blood also and then it’s brighter
Ask HN: What do you think of an AI Landing Page Audit?
My Co-Founder and I are currently building an AI Landing Page Audit.

There are some doubts about being able to make a subscription out of it instead of a one-time payment, but we believe it can be very useful for start ups to increase their conversion rate.

What do you think?
> just make a new site that works like the old OkCupid

Is such a thing even possible in today's world where attention spans are measured in seconds thanks to a decade of social media and endless pursuit of "engagement"?
Devoxx conference and supply chain security, Java and Generative AI, Spring Boot and OpenTelemetry, platform engineering on Kubernetes.
IIRC Nassim Taleb would say that that's exactly the kind of outlier which is not modeled correctly by the standard Gaussian models.
How much does it actually cost? You set up a website. You put ads for chocolates and flowers on the site so you can recover your expenses. It's not like you have to build a state of the art fab. It's basically a messaging app, which is the sort of thing individuals have built as a side project.
> can’t get algebra to sink in properly yet. Doesn’t really click in the time we have and with the teacher he has (me). But in Python he is giving variables a name all the time. Perhaps there is something about programmatic math that helps, not hinders education.

On the hinders side though, I can understand it being confusing to try to grasp:

y = x + 2

As being sort of 'constantly updating', referring to x in abstract, when you've just learnt that Python will assign (once) the result of computing x (at that time) + 2 to y.

You could def y as being x() + 2, but you might just be delaying the confusion to when you try to introduce functions in math and find yoursel saying 'no no that was just a hack to get python to behave more like algebra'.

Is there any language that allows this I wonder? Where you can do something like:

y = &(*x + 2)

That is, y is a pointer to the result of adding 2 to the value pointed to by x, and this is somehow kept up to date, by tracking references like garbage collection perhaps, or at compile time by inserting the code to update y whenever x is updated. (Names would need to be globally unique I suppose, or else x transformed in to some kind of struct that could contain y and other dependents I suppose, and then also a link from y to x so you can remove that if y definition changes.. but that's a lot of load for the humble assignment operator!)
Yeah, good example is Preply. All the site and interactions seem to be geared into tripping you up. I don't use it but sometimes help people here who are learning a language and it's infuriatingly bad, making sure that you are booking the wrong (more expensive) thing. And support acting like they don't get it 'it should work'. Could be bugs, but if bugs, why does the amount always come up higher, never lower?
Who actually receives the money is not relevant to my core point.
I created an account after years of lurking. This does exactly what I want. Can anyone point me in the right direction? My pihole and unbound dna is working flawlessly and installation was easy. But I have lost countless bours trying to add wireguard to the mix. I got it running, I can connect but my dns stops working when the wire guard is running or my wirrguard has no internet. I have found people with the exact same issue but its still not working. This guy https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844... was facing similar issues but got it running but I couldnt even with these instructions. Also, Im running this on a pi 3, and adding docker is probably going to be a preformance hit so Im not too keen
>I always watched the screens: it was beautiful and fascinating.

It is a weird experience. The ultimate form of introspection!
> If you take that model seriously, Usain Bolt could have been anybody in the entire history of mankind

Wat. His model says that many factors have to be perfect for someone to be as fast as Usain Bolt. If anything, it implies the opposite of what you said
https://old.reddit.com/domain/ipv6forum.com/

https://old.reddit.com/search?q=ipv6+forum

And nothing on HN.

Seems just as focused on cryptocurrency as is focused on IPv6
I think you hit the nail on the head in a lot of aspects but I don't fully agree. Our society does endorse and actively support the virtues of personal growth. The issue is, as you pointed out, it only values the growth of those "chosen" to reach a high-percentile level at the end of their journey. There's nothing more abhorrent to our societal myths of a just road for everyone to take than someone who worked years to reach some level of success in a field they want to excel in but only hit a point barely above mediocrity.
> It allows you be tracked via your card, and if you look at this with an dystopian viewpoint could enable you to become targeted by specific advertising based on your purchases while riding the escalators for example

Transport for London already do much deeper tracking than that based on WiFi. They know how many people use the stairs vs the escalator, which areas of the station become congested fastest during peak. It's helped them redesign stations for the better. I'm fine with that, I can opt out by turning WiFi off.

TFL is run by the Mayor, so if dystopian microlocation-based advertising was even proposed I would expect it to end very badly for him in a political sense.
There would be an reduction of 37% in diagnoses if everyone would have accepted the treatment (but no data for mortality).

How significant is reducing a small risk (1%) significantly?

(Base rate fallacy)

"The right graph compares those results to the observed outcomes for acceptors in our branch of the multiverse, where they did have colonoscopies. At the end of the trial, there’s a reduction of 37%. Unfortunately, data aren’t available to do this for mortality,..."
People are all burned out on "engagement" and hankering for something legitimate.
The large(100k tokens) context window together with the fact that it can actually use the information in that context window. From personal experience other models including open ai fail to properly answer when provided large(more than 5k tokens) inputs as context even when the model officially accepts much larger contexts. But Claude 2 models are uncannily good at taking all that context into consideration.
Gadget Review: Plugable USB-C Voltage and Amperage Meter (240W)
I have the Asus Prime N100I-D4 and picked it over the Asrock as I didnt want to deal with a powerbrick. I've stuffed the mobo in a 1u case with a modular 300w flexatx psu

Otherwise they are very similar boards.

Also thank you for reminding me of clear linux.
It's much easier to maintain mental fortitude if your body is only 90% worn down instead of 99%.
> I am saying that if you want to truly move the art forward, well, we have 5000 other problems that are at least 100x more important than "oh look I can code a basic LISP interpreter".

How does one "move the art forward" without understanding the landscape first? That is, an individual can't know what "forward" means without understanding where they currently are. There isn't a finite number of people over a fixed period of time doing all this. Just because something "is known" to humanity doesn't mean it's known by every individual presently. Each generation must rediscover what previous generations knew, either through raw insight or by knowledge transfer. People aren't born with computing knowledge :)

Viewed this way, how many people in the world, presently, have sufficient knowledge to "move the art forward"? How many have the means? I'd put it at a few hundred. Maybe you're one of them?

You explicitly say you can't be easily disuaded from your opinion, so maybe I'm just spitting into the wind. However, rather than talk down on people doing the hard work of learning where they're at in history, being excited my genuinely exciting things, and taking the necessary steps to "move the art forward", maybe you could assist them by sharing your experience? Or, simply move the art forward yourself :)

PS: Play is exactly what's needed. That's how humans learn and discover :) But maybe we need to play more efficiently? ;)
The Fake Villages Erected Around the World
Network effects. Your business could run the worlds most perfect dating app but it doesnt matter if it only has 10,000 users globally.

Dating apps were easier to bootstrap back in the day before the whole market was swallowed up.
Unless, of course, you uave both: the office worker hemorrhoids and colon cancer. Ask me how I know that! So no, if ypi start bleeding from your body without having injured yourself, see a doctor and get it checked out.

Wrll, actually, if thebimjury is beyond "a self applied band aid can fix it", see a doctor as well!
As with a lot of things, the answer is Excel.
> 10 miles every morning

Holy cow! That's pretty impressive, I run only like 35 miles a week during the peak of my marathon raining blocks.
>3. It’s irresponsible to call colonoscopies “invasive” (as CNN did) since that might make people think they are unpleasant and not do them.

They are invasive, they are also unpleasant. It isn’t irresponsible to say those things it’s just true.
Hot take: VisionFive 2 is fast enough, reliable, and has low idle and peak power consumption.

It also is RISC-V, instead of legacy ISA.
I see several personal accounts and I could also share mine but given that colonoscopies "rarely — but not that rarely — have serious side effects" and that there was only an overall 1% difference of all cause mortality between the groups in the trial, is it worth risking the side effects if you are healthy and don't have any symptoms?
What Demonic Possession Is Like from a Vatican-Trained Exorcist
What's the fanless model you use?
> One thing is clear: Screening works. If you’re of the appropriate age, please get screened. If your tubes are acting funny, please get screened without delay. The best method and the level of benefit are debatable, but we know it helps.

That's unfortunate, because it's a poor summary of the actual paper the article is discussing. If you bother to read the rest of the article, you'll see the actual summary of the trial, and it's pretty darned easy to interpret for yourself:

https://asteriskmag.com/media/pages/issues/04/you-re-invited...

to wit:

> The 18% reduction in colorectal cancer incidence was statistically significant, while the 10% reduction in colorectal cancer mortality and 1% reduction in overall mortality were not.

(Those reductions are relative risks, which are on very small baseline numbers.)

Then the article goes on for many pages about how American gastroenterologists do not agree...which isn't terribly shocking, considering the source of the argument. But a number of rebuttals are made, some of which are reasonable (i.e. colonoscopies are one of the few screening tests to actually do something to prevent disease, in the form of clipping polyps), and others of which are quite simply lies ("other studies have estimated larger benefits for colonoscopies" -- yeah, but those studies were bad, and this one was good, which is why we're talking about it!)

Note that American gastroenterologists do a lot of colonoscopies, mostly without good evidence. This was the first major RCT in decades to consider the question at all. The other screening methods have even worse evidence, and certainly no good evidence at the young ages we do them in the USA (currently 40 in men; the studies are all in much older age groups).

Overall, the NORDICC trial paints an incredibly ambiguous picture for the effectiveness of colonoscopy at preventing severe illness or death -- at the very least, the benefits are likely dramatically overstated. Discussing all of this, then turning around and claiming "it works" is an insult to evidence-based medicine.

(FWIW, I'm personally torn on the meaning of the study. I just think that "one thing is clear" line is a particularly odious bit of "journalism" -- not the least because it confuses symptom-free screening with doing something in reaction to symptoms. The rest of the article is pretty fair, IMO, but that line is substituting the opinion of the author for an actual summary of the data.)
The cost should be closer to what current ad impressions cost though, which is a few cents per page load at most.
Of course it’s possible to customize and extend, just as with other frameworks it is possible. We aren’t talking about closed systems here.

Even writing a fully custom “admin” interface for one part of a business process isn’t usually much work if the system itself (which Django would also depend on) is reasonably designed.

Writing something from scratch isn’t that difficult, and you get exactly what you need without fighting against the framework.
> I have 4 Intels 2.5G NICs

I was looking at something like this for my router needs, and I'm currently running OPNSense (but I'd be OK with switching to Linux). I've read many comments about these being wonky, on HN and other forums. What's your experience with them, especially under high load?
I think the point is that all these traits are multiplicative, not summative. Your maximum running speed at the age of 40 is maybe 0.8 times what it was when you were 20, not your running speed at the age of 20 minus some. And when you have several multiplicative traits like age, gender, training history, all different aspects of genetics, etc., you get a lognormal distribution instead of a normal distribution, and with it a much larger variance between individuals.
I vividly remember the old "disgusting powder downed with 4-5 litres of water in two hours" followed by thebsame time on the toilette. Nowadys, while still not delicious, the stuff is acceptable taste-wise, takes all of 1 litre of liquid and after three trips to the bathroom you're good.

No idea ehy people are so afraid of that. Ifbyou have nothong, fine. If you do, it migjt very well save your live or very serious surgery down the road. After all, whatever it is, it wont go away just because it remains undiagnosed. After all, a falling tree in the woods without anyone next to it still makes the same noise.
They all start with less than 5000 users. Everyone is constantly complaining about the incumbents. Go to where they're complaining and tell them you've done it properly. Since you actually have, they tell others.
> is it true to say the golden visa is not attractive to US citizens?

It was still attractive because it gave you a pretty fast path to a second citizenship.
I think we've had this same joke except with Lada.
It's caused confusion, but that is a server side component. Dan Abramov confirms that here:

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1717648341234778376

The html for the button gets SSR and sent to the client. The button click handler is an RPC that runs the actual sql statement on the server.
If you're in the UK (you used "GP", so I'm guessing), then you absolutely can. Just go private. (https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/nhs-services-and-...).

Don't bother with the NHS, it's a carwreck. See this, for example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67239548

Last month, after years of waiting, I got a letter again delaying my assessment for a growth on my neck, for the foreseeable future. It's a good job that I'd gone private a year ago, as it turned out to be extremely advanced, with neural invasion, requiring two rounds of surgery to be removed.

Nationalised healthcare ought to be means-tested to target help at the people who need it, and not delay others who can afford to pay their way. The population 'pyramid' as it stands can't support the health and social care model we're using, and the lack of market incentives means that we don't train enough medics.
I never played pinball that much since we never had a lot of money when I was younger, but even with little time on them it was clear there was a sequence you need to hit. I just never had the time to figure it out. Also the video states most people randomly move the flippers -- can't say I saw this too much, most people I saw tried to slow down the ball as shown in the video.

They really are amazing, that feeling if the ball gliding on the surface is incredible.
Probably not much. I'd love to be wrong tho.

Best possible fibre speed LA to Sydney is about 120ms. Not sure what the minimum additional latency for packet handling is.. but I did a few test..

Via one looking glass service, I get 215ms, LA to Melbourne. Traceroute shows 12 hops.. but the path goes via Perth and Singapore....

Via another, I get 170ms, traceroute shows 22 hops, but with a more direct physical path, at appears to go Sydney > Hawaii > LA.

I was going to dis Telstra here because the first lg result is from their pop in LA.. but the second result includes a bunch of telstra hops - although the international ones appear to be level3

The first one appears to be telstra for the international hops so maybe I can bag on them.

My point t being that there's already faster that 250ms available, but we're at the mercy of the providers routing policies.

So I guess it'll help if it convinces telstra there's a competitive reason to improve.. but I'm sceptical in the short to medium term.
Until Intel can prove to me that all x86 security mitigations are done in hardware sufficiently, instead of cycle/power/time wasting microcode fixups, I don't see Intel ever being on the list, no matter how cheap it is.

Your CPU doesn't have to be perfect, just your solution shouldn't be actively hostile.
Except a 200m sprint is over before you even tap into your stamina. It certainly takes serious mental fortitude to stay several hours on the racetrack, doing your 200m sprint again and again, trying to perfect every aspect, but if you can't perfect one of them due to your natural limitations, you aren't becoming a champion runner.
I never suggested it was not extensible in Django.

But whether starting from a scaffold of another framework or building entirely custom, the effort in making custom, complex admin interfaces isn’t difficult.

As with most software systems, the biggest part of the work is dealing safely with end users. Admin interfaces can be simpler because of this, and therefore they are less effort to make.