skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Near as I can tell, it’s also evolutionary advantageous to have significant ‘randomness’ as far as traits across a population. Especially for humans due to the extreme variation in environmental conditions and stresses we end up producing for ourselves.

Being a hero by jumping on a grenade is a pretty terrible survival trait for an individual for instance, but essential for the group to have at least one in any decent sized population. All the non-grenade-coverers will strongly support such folks, as long as it doesn’t hurt their own survival chances somehow.

So if we look at individual tendencies as coming more from die rolls than anything else, with a wide distribution, a lot of outlier behavior makes a lot of sense.

A hardcore survivalist most of the time is going to be selected against, for instance, for many reasons when things are going well. They’re dumping all their stats points in the wrong categories!

But any population that doesn’t have at least a few is going to completely disappear on those rare long tail events (an actual nuclear war?).

And if those survivalists are actually capable, they get the benefit of ‘seeding’ the next generation without any competition! Long odds, but potential huge payoff biologically.
From what I've heard, The better anti-HIV drugs we have these days actually decrease your viral load so much that you can not infect other people. (Please correct me, if I am wrong.)

From the perspective of your theory, that would seem counterproductive. As a greedy pharma company you'd want people to take a drug that makes them feel good while they are on it, be no permanent cure, _and_ still allow them to spread the condition.
I would be happy to pay for the service. It wouldn't be just the cost of the certificate. It would be the months of labor spent fighting the operating systems and their intricacies. This feels like knowledge that could be managed at scale much better than me doing it in isolation. The cost to me is much greater than just the cost of the certificate, though it's an issue for open source work. And I would be so happy to subsidize that work through a reputable service that was consistent and did that fighting for me.
Could you share a bit more of your reasoning for choosing Fastify over Express and how was your experience since you switched?

Express is my go-to but I'm always open to improving my ways.
Now the local paper is owned by Gannett, has two full time staff members, is put together by a team in another state working on 20 other “local” papers, and is 70% USA Today content.
My experience is that chatGPT is at least an order of magnitude less full of shit than the average human.

I notice it listening to NPR though that there is a class of people who are just so worried about safety that they are only able to process the world through the lens of potential dangers.
I feel vindicated that I still default to just cutting the end off of an old USB-A cable and directly drawing from the power and ground lines.
I hear this claim alot on social media but is there any solid research backing this up?

I want to propose a different hypothesis - men and women lie differently. Men are more likely to say they got no matches on a dating site and complain whereas women are more likely to keep quiet of they get few to no matches and exaggerate the number they do get.

Maybe men are more likely to blame the site or algorithm whereas women are more likely to blame themselves.

Maybe ratios of unsuccessful attempts are roughly evenly distributed and the difference can be explained solely by the fact that men must ask and make the first move in most cultures whereas women don't have to.
Watching TV barely qualifies as a hobby at all, it's something you passively do in a pure-consumption mode. A common hobby that involves you going through a creative process is much better than a pure-consumption 'hobby'. Even "I like to discuss the TV I watch" would be a huge improvement.
I had the same problem and ended up buying Certum Open Source set for 69 EUR: https://shop.certum.eu/open-source-code-signing.html

The set does include hardware token for storing the private key as well as a certificate valid for one year. Renewal is 25 EUR.

It does require verifying identity with government issued ID though. I haven't seen anything cheaper on the market (happy to hear suggestions).
Eliminating separate but equal was based on the evidence of how that statue was used.

Eliminating abortion protections was based on "we don't think the founders meant that" which is a form of consideration never before used.

This kind of test is effectively in the eye of the beholder. You can say whatever you want and disproving it requires Goldilocks evidence.

You can't talk about the case law the American system was based on even if it was adopted wholesale and unchanged. You can't talk about the intervening decades and how the legal system handled things.

You need to basically quote the founding fathers talking about a specific topic or the Supreme Court can say "no I disagree" and overrule you.
Isn't it interesting that his biggest regret isn't, you-know... stealing customer funds to prop up his failing trading company?
I recently saw Nathan Pieplow's talk The Language of Birds. It was a pretty good intro to the kind of things we know about bird communication (a fair amount) and what we don't know (a lot).

https://earbirding.com/blog/talks

Maybe you can find a recording somewhere or further references.

The whole concept of birding by ear is pretty cool. We always have the Merlin bird sound AI app at the ready whenever we're hiking.
Thoughtful.
Pleasantly surprised to see this on HN! This is an old (and incomplete) project of mine to reformat Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs into a browser-friendly format, with a built-in code editor and interpreter [1].

I think today, you can use Racket in its special SICP mode to get a much better experience. But maybe the HTML (Bootstrap) formatting is a little nicer to read (and with the bonus that it probably works on phones).

The interpreter was incomplete and written from scratch, as a learning project [2]. This was done in the pre-WebAssembly days, so I couldn't just recompile, say, a Scheme written in C for use in the browser.

If I recall correctly, I took the SICP source files, ran a bunch of regular expressions on them to convert the content into XML [3], and then used XSLT to generate the web pages [1]. I was really into XSLT at the time :)

Anyway, hope people find this useful! It's outdated and incomplete, and the interpreter has an odd implementation, but it was a fun project.

Source code links:

[1] HTML generator: https://github.com/jaredkrinke/learn-scheme

[2] Interpreter: https://github.com/jaredkrinke/jslisp

[3] SICP-to-XML converter: https://github.com/jaredkrinke/sicp-reformatter
The Forks episode of The Bear is one of my favorite stories on giving a shit: a fork polisher at a fancy restaurant learns you don’t work in food service because you love polishing forks. You do it because you want to bring people joy and polishing the forks is one of many steps to that end. You can find purpose in fork polishing through both excellence and empathy for your customers. There’s a lot of days the code I write is about as exciting as fork polishing, but you do it for your teammates and users.
Rails. It's all about developer comfort. ruby as a language is a delight to work with. Rails as a framework has all the features I need and then some more. Postgres as the database of course!
IRL relationships still involve a lot of imagination. We can't directly experience other people, we have to rely on our fallible and low bandwidth senses.
I’m going for broke!
Is there some way for me to run my IP through a bot detection so I can check if what I'm doing is making a difference?

Not really. Each company will have their own appliances. There is not a single source of trusted truth AFAIK. Some vendor devices may report back to their vendor but there are multiple vendors and I doubt any of them would expose a lookup tool given that malicious people could test which of their bots to use.
The poster went

«But if Wikimedia is taking broad approach to enforcing their principles, they would refuse to interface with such a privacy destroying service anyway»

You replied

«Wikipedia don't refuse to interface with privacy destroying payment systems required to collect donations. They will be fine»

You were replied with observations that attempt to explain to you why your comment is out of context, and try to show you the point:

-- normal people, i.e. dignified people, and prudent people, refuse to be tracked in their consumption of information.

-- Wikipedia seems to be aware of the above.

-- Wikipedia seems to be unavailable to enforce «privacy destroying service[s]», there where relevant: consumption of information.

-- Wikipedia also accepts donations, and the process may involve tracking that somebody promotes Wikipedia financially. This is completely different from tracking individuals in their consumption of information, so it is irrelevant in that context. That an entity accepts non-anonymous donations does not imply anything about the approach such entity holds about the treatment of privacy of its users, of the fruition of its specific services.

You seemed to advance that «Wikipedia don't refuse to interface with privacy destroying payment systems required to collect donations» as in «They will be fine [in employing other «privacy destroying service[s]»]»: no, they may not, that is not good reasoning, because one thing is accepting donations, another is revealing which specific services your customers used - for example, whether they read a page about Kennedy or about Oswald.

Spend the required effort when reading posts.
Exactly my thought!

But why?
There must be a reason to use something different than what is normal made.
This depends on your goal: Are you trying to build + finish a project, or learn a new skill? I like to separate these goals, or otherwise try to scope projects very narrowly.

For the former, I tend to reach for the tech stack that I've spent years working in and can very quickly spin up projects in. This is heavily specific to your background, but for me:

- Frontend: React, vite, react-router, Chakra UI.

- Backend: Node.js + Express

- Database: PostgreSQL

- Scheduled jobs/ML/data processing: Python

- Deployment/Infrastructure: Docker, docker-compose, AWS EC2 or Lightsail, Digital Ocean droplets, Netlify, Render

For the latter, there are lots of potentially better options, whether that's server-side rendering, serverless functions, etc. (Next.js, fly.io, supabase, are a few examples) and again depends on your industry.
I still have no idea what an ounce is supposed to measure. Is it mass? Is it volume? Is the ounce for measuring gold different to the ounce for measuring food?
MIT's soft fiber implants could offer drug-free pain relief
The math checks out.
It's still very rare even in Islamic countries. Look at this map.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/12/07/polygamy-...

It's basically just Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and sub-Saharan west African countries that have >1% rate of polygamy and only the African countries that have more than 5%. Not exactly the most stable countries.
The headline of this post implies he already testified (which would make the piece way more interesting), whereas NPR's headline correctly places his testimony in the future.
Likewise, and have been burned enough times that I can _usually_ recognize the patterns within my first few weeks at an org (assuming they were clever enough to "hide" the institutional level problems during the interview process.)

A sample of my "Giving a shit" checklist includes: Do they not utilize metrics or care when they tank? Do the rank and file engineers have a general malase and use terms like "not my problem" with impunity? Does management continually deprioritize critical "keep the lights on" work eg security patches WHEN they are fully aware of the repercussions (this knowing is key.) List of red flags goes on.

No org is perfect, but why endure the pain when it can be avoided. Especially so when it can easily be recognized early enough in many cases.
Remote online notary services (DocuSign is one) has a TON of legal and regulatory requirements, for obvious reasons.

https://www.nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/remote-onlin...
Yearly? That's crazy. I had yearly colos AFTER I had rectal cancer, but now I'm on the 10 year plan. I can't see yearly being both cost-effective and safe.
To me, it's glaringly obvious, and it gets me every time. I'm not particularity sensitive to frame rate.

It also serves to prove the thesis of TFA, since they certainly don't look photorealistic. Despite that, I do think they look gorgeous.
The problem with sandboxing is that you're limited to the APIs that your vendor provides, which stifles creativity. For a vendor to open those APIs up, they have to realize that there's somebody out there wishing to use these APIs. If all platforms were properly sandboxed from the start, a lot of software we now know and love would never have existed, it couldn't be created because of the missing APIs, but the APIs wouldn't be added because the vendor wouldn't know that some software needs them.

Screen readers are a good example, proper accessibility APIs came later, as a response to screen readers' needs. The first screen readers used various tricks for injecting code into other processes and emulating GPU drivers to intercept GDI calls.
PIRG petitions Microsoft to extend Windows 10 support
Unless you cross the Rubicon like one of my friends and then go into ultra marathons.
Next.js, material-ui, trpc

Most of what you need to get something functional and not totally ugly, not a lot that you don’t.
WASM and WebGPU are closing the performance gaps between browser and native. It's getting to the point where if it's not a device driver, it can probably be recompiled for use client-side in the browser.
Yes, this is unquestionably a fact. I am 6'1" so not exactly complaining but it's definitely the reality we live in.
Nice concept. What's this Dubai Fitness Challenge?
I see this as 'steel is going to be affordable again'
I mean sure. Or you can look up a really interesting feature of American history that is not widely known. The Comanche Empire commanded an incredible amount of space with only 10s of thousands of people.
Or maybe you want to figure out what the best thing to learn is before committing to it?
You know that people are allowed to save money and take out insurance? Even in the US.
Next.js. I consider it the industry standard
The Wikipedia page links to some papers (if you can find them - they are online but paywalled sadly).

In practical terms I found Tierra and my system to be very interesting to observe.

(Since I can't edit the original comment above ...)

Here's the description I wrote of my artificial life system: http://oirase.annexia.org/dlife/machineref.html

And here's the "god cell", the initial hand-written cell, from which all other cells evolve: http://oirase.annexia.org/dlife/god.dla
Could you name an example of how (and for what reason) this might happen?
https://archive.ph/V3zr0
> There are plenty of valid use cases for a rich full screen, interactive notification-e.g. something that is extremely time sensitive.

Like ads?

Yeah... Is there ever a thing that wasn't abused by ad companies yet?
I agree with the general goals, but I think it would be fighting hard against the current culture trends. I'm not gonna comment how I feel about them, but depended on age groups, people have different wants and needs. For example, I can comment for people in their 20s, it is completely normalized to be in "talking stages" with multiple people. Not sure how "a person can only talk to one person only" would work in this scenario. Not even talking about you match, but the other user doesn't use the app for whatever reason, so now the person is wasting their time.

I guess, my main question is, whether this hypothetical non-profit is supposed to replace Tinder/Match group as is but remove the behavioural UX that optimizes for profit, or actually try to affect the culture trends (which would need to be discussed first, before figuring out the "gameplay").
> There is simply no way to feed 8B with cozy 'holistic regenerative' approaches to farming

This is exactly wrong. I highly recommend you dig deeper, start with Wendell Berry and then into the authors and scientists in his orbit.
If it’s a rule that I can break and make a funny joke or follow and make an unfunny joke, I don’t think it can (even colloquially) be called a “rule” — maybe a predictive element, maybe nothing.
Rails 7.1 deploy with Kamal to a low cost place.
Show HN: Kimchi Reader – Immersive Korean Learning with a Popup Dictionary
Actually, it is yet another tool to learn a language through immersion (classic set of features, watch on youtube/netflix, read a website or book). It has a popup dictionary so you can click on a word and it will show the definition. Nothing new in that regard, except that it has been made with only Korean in mind and does not plan to extends to other languages.

I was learning and still am learning Korean (now using my own tool to learn!). I initially made the tool for myself because none of the tools out there could correctly figure out what a word was in the text. And that's where the biggest challenge was: recognizing the lemma.

A lemma is the dictionary form of a word. An example in English would be "break, breaks, broke, broken and breaking" all becoming "break". In Korean a word cannot always accurately be returned to the lemma; this might lead to several possibilities. Then the reader, with the context can understand which one ends up being the correct one.

Zero IA was used, pure rules based bruteforcing. I do perhaps intend later to use AI, but as a layer on top. I wanted to make sure I can parse massive amounts with cheap computation first. This open me doors to more crazy ideas for later.

You can see a live example on the landing page. Any feedback is appreciated!
It would depend whether the web app is a "dynamic website" or a "super interactive app that happens to run in a browser".

For a website, it'd be Go + HTML/CSS (sprinkling JS where needed).
Here's why: (1) Code will "just build" years later (2) Deployment is stupidly easy -- just build to a single binary with all resources embedded (3) Everything about the stack is stable and easy to reason about. Though perhaps not exciting.

For a "web app", I feel there are no great options. The half life of the JS ecosystem is about 5 minutes, so whatever you start with will be out of fashion shortly after. React has had some staying power, though isn't without its flaws. I generally feel like most "web apps" could actually be websites though.
My point is the opposite of that- the quality of my dating experience depends entirely on me. Instead of blaming women, apps, etc.

The guys that are having a terrible time are claiming everyone is the problem but them… and not wanting to confront the painful truth that dating them isn’t going to be a good experience for the other person, because of their choices.

Women actually have a worse time on these apps then men, because despite lots of matches the guys all have serious issues they aren’t willing to admit or work on. If you work on yourself, it is really easy for men to stand out in a way that is much harder for women.

This attitude difference is actually the very crux of the issue. An attractive, mature adult is someone that takes responsibility when things aren’t going well, and does something about it instead of blaming and complaining. The guys complaining about how apps and dating are terrible and nobody recognizes how great they are, are not realizing that this complaining and entitled attitude itself is their entire problem.
The Dubai Fitness Challenge is a month-long initiative that encourages residents of Dubai to exercise for 30 minutes a day for 30 days. The goal is to make Dubai the most active city in the world.
i am using svelte and firebase
The important thing about those other phrases is that they originated in the UK where we use understatement as a form of humour, but it's important to understand the relationship between the speaker and listener and hidden shared context.

E.g. your example "how was your food" ... "it was edible".

If you've just been to a fairly average restaurant, that would be understood to mean it wasn't terrible but you didn't really enjoy it.

If you're at a close friend's house for dinner and they served something amazing, and you replied "it was edible", it would be understood to mean that it was really good and far better than anything you could have made yourself. If you said the same thing to a mutual friend who didn't know about their cooking skills, it would be interpreted negatively.

Another example would be replying to "How are you?" with "I'm not dead yet!" could mean anything without context, but most likely would be said to someone who knew your situation and that there'd been bad stuff going on, and would probably mean you were actually doing better than might be expected.

As for "I could care less", I think it was probably just misheard as the negative is very weak "I could'(n) care less". Coupled with the end of "could" and start of "care" being the about the same position in the mouth, and the (n) requires the tongue to quickly block and release the air in the mouth whilst also nasalising the sound that lasts a fraction of a second, it would be easy for a lazy speaker to not make it clear and/or omit it, and then if the listener never bothered to think about the meaning, they could repeat it wrongly. The deliberately inverted meaning only really makes sense if it was followed by "but" that later got omitted. To me "I could care less, but ..." (and then just stopping) would have about the same effect as "I couldn't care less".
The author here. Cool. Yes, it's a similar experiment. The difference is that you use Python. I guess from your code, it's a CLI application that talk to MIDI devices and read the data from Sheets. Is that correct?
Well, if that code was written at any point after the 12th century, you need to add Purgatory. Also, for Limbo, you need to never have heard of the Catholic Church, so you probably need some kind of information tainting.
> The basis for the metric system was not defined by some arbitrary prototype at first, but by measurements everyone on the planet could reproduce using the sun and a bit of water, at least to a very acceptable approximation.

I've got sun here and a well that will give me almost 50 liters/minute of water indefinitely. What measurements do I need to do to get a good approximation of the meter?
Do you happen to know how Garmin compares to Fitbit in terms of performance analysis? Fitbit made some changes that I'm unhappy with and they refuse to offer us a way out. I'm thinking of talking to Santa Clause about this.
macOS by default doesn't run unsigned or incorrectly signed apps, period. Only Apple can hand out certificates and certificates are at the very least associated with payment info (though sometimes they want more, DUNS number or whatever). Signed application bundles remove many attack vectors. The primary remaining vectors are:

1. A malicious entity can sign up for a developer account.

2. A non-malicious entity's certificate can be compromised.

(1) does not seem to happen often, if it does happen, Apple can revoke the certificate. They can also increase the burden of proof for creating a developer account if it becomes more common.

(2) happens occasionally. Apple can revoke the key. But in general there is a strong incentive for developers to properly protect their signing keys, because Apple could ban them by not signing their keys in the case of repeated issues.

Code signing substantially increases platform security and as a 16 year macOS user, I would not want to go back to pre-signing days, where you could never be sure whether an application bundle was compromised, unless you'd verify the archive/disk image with GnuPG. But that is opening a big can of worms (WoT, etc.).