skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently read the book deep work by Cal Newport.
He introduces the concept of deep and shallow work.
Deep work is the part the needs focus, concentration and complex thoughts. He argues that there is a limit of about 3-4 hours that one can spend in the state of deep work. That doesn’t mean in can’t do more shallow work in addition to the deep work.
But the brain also needs rest, therefore working long hours consistently diminishes the ability to work deep. Also some problems are better solved unconsciously while the brain is resting.

I can really recommend that book, I haven’t adopted to many of the practices that he recommends but I am working on it and it already had a profound impact on the quality of my work but also my general mental health.
i don't think that std::bind is that difficult to understand - here's some stuff about it i wrote earlier: https://latedev.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/using-stdbind-for-f...
> Why is Boost, or any library at all, relevant in a discussion about C++?

It’s what the article uses to make its point. Did you read it?
I find Kagi to be better than Google ever was. I don't think I've ever even had to scroll when searching for programming stuff on Kagi, let alone click through to a second page. There's a couple of things I've found where it could be better, searching for kitchen appliances like I have been this morning seems to return a fair number of low quality sites, though this could massively vary regionally.
Show HN: YCombinato – A domain-hacked "Hacker News" client
Hi HN,

This is a little "HN Reader" experiment I made using a domain hack of "news.ycombinato.com" <- notice the "r" is missing.

Basically, I thought it would be cool to make a "clone" of the "Hacker News" URL so you can quickly navigate to "YCombinato" from any post on "news.ycombinator" by just dropping the r in the domain. The benefit is a few extra features like; sorting, searching etc...

Unfortunately I realized it's essentially a phishing attack :( according to the browser, which means there will probably be a warning message on most browsers... but it's still usable and hopefully people find it enjoyable.

There's so many "Hacker News" clients now that it's almost equivalent to the TODO app for web developers. This project does take it pretty far by replicating the URL, so if moderators are unhappy with it, please let me know

It's a static site using the [1] algolia API, but I tried hard to make it fast and snappy. It's fully [2] open-source and hosted on github too.

Anyway, thought I'd share it, let me know what you think!

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/api

[2] https://github.com/benwinding/ycombinato
For those who are not from Sweden (or from Switzerland) this is a real "problem" that happens all the time, that people confuse the countries. And it is something we at least in Sweden take with a big smile :D And according to the comments to the video, those from Switzerland seem to do the same thing :)

Here is an example when Swedish Spotify was listed in the US on the Nasdaq stock exchange and they used the Schweiz flag instead haha. The list goes on :)

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a47E046_460s.jpg
Every time I visit Switzerland, I notice how wealthy this country is indeed.
Have they really spoken to him, or just summarised the paper (perhaps poorly), or clipped quotes from a university press pack?

The Economist:

Then it was the computer’s turn. The researchers fed their recordings to artificial-intelligence models that had been trained, using sound samples from elsewhere in Ecuador, to identify 75 bird species from their calls.

“We found that the AI tools could identify the sounds as well as the experts,” says Dr Müller.

The source paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41693-w

In the next step, we applied an independent artificial intelligence model for bird species identification, developed and trained in the region of our study prior to our sampling.

Despite the model identifying only ~25% of species detected by the experts in our data, the model-derived first community axis was the single best predictor for expert-derived community composition.

The thrust of his work is about bird population estimates via vocalisation being used as a predictor for insect biodiversity - number and breadth of insects.

There are several recent papers about this work, one that focuses on the bird <-> insect connection, another that looks at the AI utilisation to identify birds.

It appears that as of now the AI isn't as good as identifying birds as experts, only being trained to recogise a quarter of the vocalisations, however that's enough of a bird sample to get a reasonable estimate on the insects.

I strongly suspect (I lack the smoking gun) that The Economist has just sourced "quotes" provided in the full university presser (the Press Release pack they send out).

See, the lesser presser about the AI work: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/...

and a presser about some of the insect work: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/...

There are multiple studies and multiple papers stemming from this project:

https://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/ecological-statio...

and there'll likely be bigger press packs not directly public web hosted for newspaper journalists to pick from.
Would be interesting to see real world data of this.
Do any countries apart from US routinely do it under general anaesthesia? I don’t know anyone who was under during the procedure.
We already invested a lot of money into transporting electricity.
Same here.. especially feet can have a 100% difference in small and large feets, even in adults alone. Any human measure is prone to personal bias then, similarly obscure as if we had defined 2m to be the height of the average human?!
Are you working right now?
I think if you're OpenAI, at this moment, then you could recruit top talent even if you said they had to work in Antarctica.

Not sure what that proves. They are an exception, not the rule.

I think that we will see deployment of more and more software for different levels of virtual workspace presence. I think it's fair to require some type of minimal live overlap one or more times a week. Whether that is just an hour being available in a chat room or something like a 3d desk in VR/mixed reality or video chat every day, etc. will be up for debate.

I think that for office work it seems unlikely the majority will really go back to full-time literally physically in an office. But I think you should consider a full spectrum of virtual attendance rather than just the physical attendance.

It does seem like you have to be pretty firm with monitoring work output and whatever live attendance or you will get many people trying to take advantage and just not do work or short-shift a job and even communication.

That just requires better/different management that actually can understand the work product and process to judge rather than relying on literally seeing someone in a space to guess whether they are working.
> You don't know enough about your own brain to say gpt is using different methods.

I said I wasn’t sure they worked in the same way, I did not state it as a fact.

> Gpt understands better cause it can answer better when I ask about it.

Assuming Gpt understands because it is able to answer you doesn’t seem logical to me.

If I understand Gpt correctly, Gpt does not understand anything it says, it is just exceptionally good at convincing you it does.

I don’t think thoughts and hallucinations are identical things.

> Don't put your code out in the open and then blame others (inc ai) for reading it and training themselves.

So licenses doesn’t matter at all if its out in the open?
And yet, almost every piece of commercial software is built on the free labor of open source devs
Ok, but the shallow work can perhaps at some point be done by LLMs.

If we have to compete with AI, then we might get more pressure to spend more time doing deep work.
I don't know. This was years ago. I saw doctor after doctor and last I checked - about six months ago - it was still happening (pain and swelling in my left shin after about 4 minutes of running). I moved to bicycling instead.
> But now many judicial precedents t say otherwise!

Please provide links to precedents supporting this claim of yours:

> People who drink alcohol can not give a consent!
That's one of the reasons I love Kagi, I much prefer signal to noise.
It's definitely not random, because arcade games are never random. They're usually worse than random. Whatever its position on a "game of chance" vs. "game of skill" spectrum, the machine has rules about how much winning the customers are allowed to get away with, and/or how much profit it's supposed to generate in a day; once the threshold is crossed, it'll happily interfere with your play to guarantee you lose.

Like, you thought you suck at reaction time games despite playing them a lot, because you always hit the button a split second too late or too early? Your reaction time was likely stellar - it's the game code that rejected your hit and animated it as near-miss. You'd never know without a high-speed camera - but these days those are ubiquitous, and YouTube has plenty of recordings of games cheating this way.

It's one of those things you learn as an adult and realize that people suck much more than you thought when you were a kid.
Will you notice if the software will be signed by certificate for "imagemaqick.com" or "imagemagik.com" or "imagemagick-developers.com"?
I think the local inhabitants have not read and agreed to the terms and conditions of big tech :-)
> but rather that they're being forced to spend it on something that many people don't agree is "essential" in any way.

Putting the price aside just for a second, are there really people out there who think that code signing isn't worthwhile? Remember paint.net/filezilla having ad links to "Download Now" that would download... not paint.net or filezilla?
So much for 'Developers, developers, developers!'.

If there is one thing that seems to be common amongst large tech companies it is that it all starts out looking great, then after a few years the rot sets in and if they manage to hang on long enough eventually they turn into parasitic entities. There is no way that a company the size of Microsoft could not come up with a way of working that would enable the FOSS world that they claim to be such huge supporters of to deploy on their platform without hassle or cost. All of this friction in the name of security always accidentally helps the bottom line.
Not a physicist and my time would be better spent learning phyics than speculation, but:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_i...

I like to think it's literally an observation that creates the universe, otherwise the entire universe is just one giant superposition.

An interesting thing is also the Quantum Zeno paradox, in that a consistently observed thing is less likely to do the unlikely (by collapsing the wave function according to the Copenhagen interpretation, many worlds by another).

So:
- observers contain the possible states of the universe but only with those which they are consistently interacting with
- observers interact and enter superposition with the thing they observe to an outside observer (shrodingers cat)
- an observer can only be defined by another observer through observation (when we open the box)

Which leads to: The universe was not created until it was observed to have been created, which is the observer-created universe.
Well, no. I expected the search engine to give relevant results right off the bat.
Everybody makes big assumptions that cheap ECC support is functional ECC support.
ken/ken

There are others documented on the landing page.
> German providers disconnecting customers every night is a ridiculous feature in itself.

It wasn't actually strictly at night, but just exactly 24h after the connection was established. But the problem was that even if you reconnected manually at a convenient time, every now and then you'd have a connection issue at a random time, and then it would keep happening at that exact time until you manually changed it again.

I'm not aware of an authoritative source for why this was the case, but most likely there must've been a technical reason like accounting, and then they just kept it around. Mind you, this only affected DSL, which at first was (apart from small regional exceptions) offered by the Telekom exclusively, and later on when resellers appeard, they had no influence on this behavior as it happened on a level where they had no access to. After a while you got consumer routers which let you choose an exact time where it would force a reconnect, so you'd at least be sure when it happened.

Ironically, when the Telekom introduced VoIP, they finally got rid of the dreaded daily disconnect, but some of the resellers kept it, like the one I'm on (cause it's cheap and otherwise rock solid). I just set it to 6 in the morning and scheduled all my backup scripts with this in mind.

While I'd have given an arm and a leg in the days of edonkey2000 for a static IP, nowadays I see the changing address as a privacy feature.
I instinctively scanned the article for pictures, but didn‘t find any. I closed the tab after 6 seconds.
The Lavish Bunkers Where Putin, Trump Plan to Fight a Nuclear War (2018)
Totally.

e.g platform PL45 (B5) is shared across Audi A4/S4, VW Passat, and Skoda Superb.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_B_platform

SEAT is also in the mix.

Seeing by them on the road it's quite obvious that most of these VW group cars within a segment are essentially the same with slightly different body panels, front grill, and head/taillights.

They're not upset, it's part of the whole strategy: it's basically an image/brand thing + aiming at specific domestic and/or wallet-size market, like, typically Audi usually starts off introducing the new platforms along with with premium "finish" (bigger engines, leather interiors, suspension tuning, fancy lights or features, etc...), then as the production tool gets amortised the platform trickles down to other brands with "lesser" "finish". The "premium" brand gets some amount of protection by being the first to have new shiny stuff for a little while.

It's a bit like Toyota GT86 vs Subaru BR-Z, only a notch further.
Sam is speedrunning the grifter persona it seems

I think some of his statements (either current or future) will age rather poorly
> or eventually become irrelevant

That's exactly what it should do. Stop adding features, keep the standard stable, let new languages slowly take over. The C committee's approach is quite close to what I would like to see.
It is still valid.. it would be invalid if C++ removed old features, but it doesn't.
That wouldn't really work though because Earth's mass over a longer period of time isn't a constant (and hopefully it's size is).
1. Plenty of Portuguese people and foreigners resident in Portugal work for foreign companies without huge tax burdens, plenty more work freelance for foreign clients without huge tax burdens.

2. I assume you are talking about Americans? You can't expect tax breaks just because your home country doesn't offer universal healthcare!

3. Indeed private pensions are not tax deductible here, but that doesn't mean taxes are higher, it means they are not less!

The 88% you said sounds more like your actual living expenses, not the tax you pay to the Portuguese government. So don't call it tax, because it is not.

NHR has unfortunately been abused by people who were in fact largely resident here, and the Portuguese are quite right to close the loophole. You want to benefit from Portuguese society? Then you contribute.
I have what may be a silly (or even ridiculous) question:

Why do recreational distance runners care about speed so much?

Background: I went through a phase of long-distance recreational running - I ran lots of half-marathons, marathons, and even the Disney Goofy Challenge for a few years (half marathon on Saturday, full marathon on Sunday).

It was all fun! Training was satisfying, the running itself was tough but rewarding, I lost a ton of weight, got into great cardio shape, and overall, arguably, it changed my life for the better.

But I never once cared about doing any of it quickly, and I still don't. It was always about the distance and the experience for me -- could I successfully run 26 miles? (and then enjoy the rewards of being able to eat a huge high-calorie meal guiltlessly afterwards ;)

It's still about the distance -- I love cycling these days and do it regularly with a lovely group of friends who also care about moving our legs and riding, say, 100 miles in a morning, which is a challenge. But so so many other cyclists on the road as so focused on both doing it and doing it FASTER.

I just don't really fully comprehend why so many people care so much about the clock, beating other people, etc. I know I'm not alone here, but I also know I'm in the minority, so I'd love to hear some perspective.
Picking a partner is not pink fall in love story. It’s a hard work for many years. To have later much more happy years together.
The purpose of the American prison system is to make a profit. It only makes sense when viewed through that lens.
Something to take into consideration with the 10 to 1 ratio (in heterosexual dating) is that if true it results in a "not great" experience for men but probably in an even worse experience for women.
While men may barely get any attention, women get too much and have to bomb through a lot to basically find the needle in the haystack.
Another thing I find interesting about dating apps is that almost all dating apps are owned and operated by Match Group Inc. (even on an international level). I have long had a running joke with my friends that if we ever want to get semi-rich we just have to create a mediocre dating app and have it bought up by Match Group.
Dating apps themselves have a weird premise because if they work for people, they leave the app so a working app results in a loss of customers.
They just overall seem like a very weird phenomenon and I also wonder why people sign up there considering all of this.
Show HN: PyRathe TKinter Text Playground
I started coding Oct 1 2023. By trade I'm a "badUser". Nothing more than a really krazy lover of simple tools and text and *nix. Not trying to reinvent software or bring converts over to my project. I wanted to learn so I fired up ChatGPT. It is a micro app and it does almost everything mu editor does; mu is 40k loc and Qt(yuck). Anyways... Made in FXBG, VA <3 Be Kind! #allerrorsmatter #0xfu
Standing on the shoulder of giants. Thank you to all!
edit: Uploading videos to youtube to show how I use it and why it's called such. Plus on SoundCloud Pyrathe has some good D&B. I googled before naming it. OT but fun and artistic for sure.
There are some open source technologies keeping the internet-as-we-know-it alive. Surely the might of Github and Microsoft could support them or, even better, a consortia of the Big Tech companies could get together a comittee, like they often do for standards, and agree to fund the most used open source projects with stipends, grants, security audits and some sort of badge of trustability.
If feet is so universal and superior why is yards and miles used?
Comes to mind ..

"The latest USB-C chargers are apparently more powerful than Apollo 11’s computer"

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/2/11/21133119/usb-c-anker...
Hopefully Windows will remember that I downloaded the file from imagemagic.com check that the certificate matches the place I downloaded it from...

Although... As long as downloads are always provided from the official domain via HTTPS, and the OS can keep track of that, I don't really see why the executable itself needs to be signed...
Technically I think so, so there’s a tiny bit of faith for RSA but absolutely none for primality in general https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test
NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently rebuilt
I agree dating apps are soul-destroying, especially for those of us who want a serious relationship but don't want children.

Here's an alternative I saw today: Manifold markets launched a dating app, so markets crowdsource on which couple would last 6 months.

http://manifold.love
> If you can sit through a visit to a dentist

Do you mean with local anesthetics?
I'm not the parent but I'm a fan of WeAct's modules. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803150519042.html

Fairly cheap but easy to configure with the dip switches and the boards I've been sent have been high quality with good solder joints.
Software programming of the most mundane kind. I just take it more emotionally than most people, I guess.
Wow, thanks!

Next month it would be the 100th Anniversary of ХВЗ manufacturing.[0]

There is a good playlist on 'Oleg AC' YouTube-channel, with many video reiews of all existed variants of ХВЗ bicycles and some other vintage bicycles and in private collections and musuems.[1,2]

There is might be more videos highlighting ХВЗ on his channel be added commemorated to 100th Anniversary.

ХВЗ plant still continue producing bikes with self made frames, jigs and aluminium rims, and using all the rest parts from Shimano and China. But, sadly till the end of 2021 it planned to relocate to suburban of Kharkiv.[3]

All old factory buildings[4,5] in urban area of Kharkiv has been sold, demolished and replaced with residential and office buildings in last years.[3]

P.S. Also there are two forums, with a lot of info about ХВЗ and discussions by its owners.[6,7]

N.B. I'm Ukrainian living in Ukraine.

[0] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/ХВЗ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbAmFP04yU_ukleg9VCw_...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbAmFP04yU_vdHrE2Ek3y...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DvoK2IZgYg (2021)

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z9Cmv-nGJA (1957)

[5] https://xt.ht/xtreport/YEkskursiya_na_zavod_HVZ (2009)

[6] http://xt.ht/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=31

[7] https://krokovod.org/forum/index.php
As "current hottest thing", he could recruit them even if their office was to specifically be his personal bathroom, work and sleep. So he's really just talking his own book.
Mostly if this is a problem on other people minds, too. Trying to understand what they've been using in the meantime also.

The thread is from 6 years ago, lots of technological changes and the world is more digital right now. Do people worry about all their digital and physical services?
... having to pay $629 just to ship a thing you made for free?

I refuse to accept this as a normal thing to do. Microsoft inflicted this upon the Windows ecosystem themselves.
Shocked to see mindblowing clickbait title.
You need a sprint specific coach. Most coaches and clubs you’ll find start at middle distance and go up in distances they train. While you’ll learn basic drills that sprinters also do, the details, cues, form etc will be different, and the training program will be very different. It will involve a lot more plyometrics, more drills, and shorter distances. So you’ll see improvements if you’ve never run before training for mid distance+, but to eke out maximal sprint performance from form, you’ll plateau and also have poor sprinting mechanics. Also, I see some advice about lifting weights. Great adjunct to sprinting, but you need to learn proper sprint mechanics and training to see carryover (see: the number of big number lifters who can’t sprint worth crap v. 14 y/os who can dust them and have never seen a weight but have trained formally).