skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this researched I heard an interview with about 15-20% of the population has some level of intolerance for histamines. Having high histamine levels affect sleep.

I find it interesting that it is never addressed in these common list of what to try to improve sleep. It's not rocket science managing it, just a matter of avoiding high histamine food after 5pm or so. Good sleep might be worth it.
Nukes are powerful but not that powerful, most modern nukes are under a megaton because more power does not scale well in regards to more destruction, instead we moved to multiple smaller warheads.
According to nukemap[1] a Russian SS25 with a 880kt yield would devastate NYC city but not much more.
Furthermore, a good argument can be made that a counterforce strike (a strike aimed mostly at military objectives and command and control infrstracture) is more probable than a countervalue strike (a strike targeting large cities and economic and industrial centers).
[1] https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=800&lat=40.72422&lng...
>> Also, rattleCAD has been inspired by Linkage app.

If you like Linkage, you might also like Solvespace.

https://solvespace.com/
IMO the EV transition jumped to pure EVs too fast, skipping over the important midway step of PHEV/EREV. Those models were few and made for only a short time: Chevy Volts, BMW i3, Honda Clarity, Ioniq PHEV, the only exception being the current Prius (which is pretty much a Gen 1 Volt)

So now, it seems like there are two camps. The “purists” or “early adopters” have an EV (homeowners or have access to chargers, can afford), and sometimes have ignorant views of others and argue against PHEVs for “lugging around an engine” and “still burning fossil fuels”. The “normies”, even if interested in EVs and can afford one, might be renting, have no easy access to chargers, or not be able to charge on longer trips. All of which would make PHEVs much more attractive.

I bought my first-generation Chevy Volt when I was still renting, but I had access to charger at work. It has been great for both commuting and long trips.

Another point: Public chargers are a complete dumpster fire of fragmented apps, accounts, and nonsense pricing (AFAIK only utilities can charge per kWh, so chargers have to do it by time, or idle time, or some other way). I tried to use public chargers whenever I can, but most of the time, it has been frustrating. Just let me swipe my credit card!
You and I have matching stories, unfortunately. I've made a point of sending my sons to public school for this reason. Now, of course this also means that I shopped for a district that aligned with my expectations. But would never want a repeat of my own experience.

I think being accountable for your work to a person who isn't in your family is actually an important thing to learn.
It also turns out, parents aren't really qualified to be teachers just because they believe that they are.
I would call a reference-counted mechanism automatic memory management. I would only call it garbage collection if there were a mechanism to try to collect cycles among reference counts.
Bad advice IMO. Not because it's wrong - it mostly isn't - but because people will hear it and think "ah I don't need to consider performance at all until... later".

His first people is not technically wrong but it is highly misleading. Sure you can't know which bits of a program are going to be slow without measuring, but that doesn't mean you have no clue at all. You can often make a very good guess!
The cows are not putting on enough weight, better weigh them more often.

Teaching to the test is akin to teaching music only through sheet music; no instruments. The test is a mile wide and an inch deep and instead of helping students appreciate and understand topics and apply that knowledge creatively, we rush temporary memorization and regurgitation.

Like all measures, once they become a target, they become a poor measure.
Solving Optimization problems using LLM and Agents
Going out of your way to specifically track people who indicate they don't want to be tracked is worse.
I mostly agree. The fallacy of the government knows best approach is the “who watches the watchers?” problem.

What happens when the government decides to teach nonsense?

There is nothing magical about the state that makes it a better arbiter of truth than other institutions. Historically states have a pretty poor record. They tend to push ideas that benefit the people who control them, whether that’s a nobility or a majority faction in the electorate (or both).
What kind of programs do you use? I can get ~20 hours on a zenbook flip with OLED, because I use mostly terminal programs (black background, so most of the pixels are off).

Have you tried running powertop for a bit? It would be interesting to see if the screen was consuming most of the power, or if the draw can be attributed to a particular device (maybe it is something useless like a Bluetooth radio that you can shut off!)

I wonder, if you can’t see the difference, maybe try halving the screen resolution? No reason to render all those extra pixels if you don’t need them, right? Plus, I guess it is rare in 2023, but any UI elements that are badly coded and not scalable would be sort of “normal sized.”
Awesome, don't hesitate to reach out to the team at https://slack.questdb.io/ if you have any questions!
My wife's been writing on her blog since 2005. I know she feels no one reads it; I suspect that's not the case, that her posts do find readers occasionally.

Regardless of audience, she finds it useful as an outlet and as a personal journal.

http://knitowl.com

I keep my own journals in text files (i predate org mode); but the notion of making them public would never occur to me. My first thought would be "how could this be used against me?" not "can these maunderings help or amuse others?"
>Going full Volcker is not called for. Inflation hasn't been building for nearly two decades; it's been nearly nonexistent for nearly two decades. Inflation hasn't reached 14%, nor anything close.

It's actually about 20-30% since 2020, if you measure the way they used to. People at the bottom are hurting, but the goal is to prevent full institutional collapse, so they get sacrificed in a slow walk to stabilization that risks hyperinflation, versus just getting it over with and starting on a recovery.

>a less damaging one than going full Volcker.

Well, a lost generation or two begs to differ.

>Don't vaguepost. If you've got something to say, say it.

Unknown unknowns. I have no idea where a hypothetical sucker punch is coming from because it's a sucker punch.
This should be Rule #1.
>Does anyone know if it's possible to buy thinkpads with a US keyboard layout in Europe?

Order them from the Netherlands, Romania or other EU countries that use the US-INT layout.
I find Netlify has a nicer interface for setting up a site through Git(Hub) (more hand-holding), but it also lets you upload a site by dragging and dropping a folder into their UI.
The Behringer X-air mixer does everything realtime with a lot of processing for 18 channels on a bog standard 400Mhz arm core, no special hardware needed.
Building AI chatbots is easy; customizing's hard. Start here
We’ve got another visitor running Linux on it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38098486
Yep, that'll also reduce the negatives of bad gas. Then on top of that you've got lots of detergents blended in these days to try and help prevent/cleanup that stuff, and modern ECUs can detect and dynamically remap when the gas is starting to go bad, etc.

Unless you're leaving the gas in your modern car for >~1yr I probably wouldn't worry about it too much.
Right. I could also have said “If GC were all you need, no one would be using RAII in the first place”. No contradiction here.

So it can make sense for a library to support both, to accommodate different application needs.
It's on a country to country basis. Africa is big.

That said, "European investors remain, by far, the largest holders of FDI stock in Africa, led by the United Kingdom ($60 billion), France ($54 billion) and the Netherlands ($54 billion)" [0].

China's OBOR tends to be infamous largely for it's infeasibility. It's the IDC equivalent of a subprime loan, as most OBOR projects in Africa tended to be those that larger FDI contributors decided to pass on.

There is a regional segmentation aspect as well. Africa is large and some regions saw outsized Chinese investment (DRC for example), but in other regions there was much more competition. For example, most FDI in the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somalia) and North Africa came from Europe, Türkiye, and the Gulf States.

In the former British colonies in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan), Indian Ocean (Seychelles, Mauritius), and Mozambique Chinese companies were directly competing with long established Indian and Pakistani conglomerates due to the centuries old existing Asian business community in the region.

In Southern Africa China would be competing with South Africa along with smaller players like India.

I can't speak for the rest of Africa, but I've seen China having a significant impact in West Africa and the DRC.

[0] - https://unctad.org/press-material/investment-flows-africa-dr...
On a partially-related note, has anyone packaged any version of whisper as an Android keyboard? It seems like a reasonably good fit, and I would be interested to see if it worked better than the deteriorating quality of Google's offering. I think it would work even with the existing versions, but a faster+smaller version would obviously be a better fit for running on phone hardware.
Is it approximately correct that most sites (beside Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc.) that get your email address are selling it to data-brokers and sharing cookie/browser-signature information so you can be de-anonymized across the web?
"In 1997 federal funding for residencies was capped, forcing hospitals to either limit programmes or shoulder some of the financial burden of training their doctors. Some spots have been added back, but not nearly enough. Many potential doctors are being left behind. “Not everyone who would be willing to go through that training and could do it successfully is being allowed to,” says Professor Gottlieb, the economist."

I regularly hear it is the AMA that is creating an artificial shortage, but this seems to indicate that the logjam is at the level of residency funding.

Does anyone have a good insight or data about this?
Steps 1 and 2 are more reliant on human-to-human communication if you are developing an application to be used by some end user and not something that just ingests data and processes it. It takes skill to translate non-technical speak into a clear goal and specifications required to achieve that goal, to probe the third party and ask specific questions to tease out their expectations of the application. That, LLMs can't do yet. I have no doubt that they'll get better at that in the near future though.
How does the sensor track "deep sleep" reliably?
The situation with HTML was worse in 2000 than it is today.

Early on Netscape introduced its own non-standard behavior for broken HTML (tags not properly closed.) Somewhere between 30-60% of HTML was broken so any competitive browser had to (i) render broken HTML and (ii) render broken HTML in the same undocumented way as Netscape!

Microsoft figured this out with IE but it was one barrier in the way to alternative browsers. This undocumented behavior was finally documented in the HTML 5 spec.

Now you might say the "whole stack" has the Chrome problem in that Chrome has some features that (some) other browsers don't have such as

https://caniuse.com/css-cascade-scope

https://caniuse.com/view-transitions

https://caniuse.com/css-text-wrap-balance

but a lot of those features are in the "cherry on top" category and there is a fairly healthy process of documenting how they work and the features proliferating to other browsers except when Apple doesn't want them to. (Gotta keep developers in that app store.)
There wasn't any. But just as I can say "having owned one, I can say buying a BMW is no guarantee of quality", I'm not implying that all BMWs are low quality, and don't need to explicitly say that stop people inferring it. It's not a logical inference.
EverTry is a leading fintech company in Nigeria, and our mission is to empower Nigerians to make international transactions without friction.
UPD: Here is guide for rattleCAD 3D plugin for export FreeCAD Macro.[0,1]

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20180603133516/http://rattlecad.s...

[1] https://www.rattlecad.com/docs/features/feature_mockup3D.htm...
Not meaning to sound condescending, I explain to users that the cooling systems are much like cars. At idle the fans may turn on then turn off. But when you're driving on the highway or racetrack or even stop and go traffic, those fans are always on.

>The moment that Chrome, Slack, Docker and PyCharm are up and running, it gets quite loud :(

It sounds like you're at least cruising on the highway. Not to mention, you may be experiencing other bugs, either with the software or OS. Maybe try toggling windows defender and see if the issue persists.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-293604/IntelliJ-is...
How does it work?

What shell it is using? It doesn't seem POSIXy (eg I can't `echo $$` to see the shell pid), and the filesystem is pretty bare
They’re like koans worth contemplating. Not usually direct advice (though that’s there too!). Taoism is about the limitations of our ability to comprehend and “name” things. So by definition it would say we cannot have a literal understanding of the Dao or the universe.

A lot of Taoism is about opposites. Both coexisting / feeding on each other and they’re waxing and waning. You can’t achieve victory without inevitably seeing what you fought for defeated. Learning and unlearning. Power through subservience, etc

Taoism is also about the connection to the natural state of things. In terms of physics this is about things unfolding in a way towards highest entropy and lowest potential energy.

I see it as a reminder of both how transitory and eternal life / the universe is. We’re all part of an ongoing flow. It’s a way of finding balance, and a degree of tranquility, as a mortal in this world
My challenge is that even in the dense Northeast I95 corridor, chargers are in the minority rather than majority of rest stops.

So you may end up taking all these bathroom breaks and then still need to take discrete charging breaks at different stations. NJTP for example has been in the evGo build out/expansion project for the last year. If you have a Tesla it's not too bad but on CCS you are screwed.

Not all EVs trip computers are built the same either. I love my BMW but the thing lists gas stations as prominently as EV stations on the map in my EV, lol. The list of nearest stations lists each pedestal/stall individually so you have to scroll and scroll to see the distance between the next 1,2,5 stations is.

For example yes you can rely on the computer to tell you when to stop & charge, but if you feel like you could go a bit longer before bathroom/food, you may want to know what is the next station beyond the one it is routing you to. In a Tesla you can wing it and there's probably 1..2..3 more stations before you run down to 0%. On CCS.. it could be 0.
All home schoolers are required to take state standardized tests annually in many states. They consistently score in the top 20%-30% on average.
Yeah the only ambiguity here is if learning is being promoted or if officialdom is. That is, is it saying that "Learning and excellence leads to officialdom" ie. that the end goal of studying is to become an official or is excellence in learning just a prerequisite for officialdom but that is not it's main goal. I think the common usage tends to imply that studying is a means of becomimg an official.
> Ostensibly education is why the schools exist.

Does anyone actually believe this? It would be more than naive to do so. On r/teachers just the other day, I was reading about one of them complaining that all they really are, are baby-sitters so they parents can work dayshift. Even they know what they're for.

But if everyone were to suddenly be willing to speak this truth aloud, it'd be too absurd to continue. People are shamed and guilted into paying the taxes for education. No one could be shamed or guilted into paying for someone else's teenager daycare.

> The math situation is a clear signal that school administration/education departments do not prioritize education, and in fact find it unfair that some students actually manage to learn something, and want to stop that.

I was in first grade in 1980 (1981?). It was like this for me the entire run of it. Wanting to learn more, hungry for it, with them rationing what I could learn to tiny little crumbs a few times throughout the school year. Studies were paced out for the dumbest kid in class. I think I made it to my sophomore year of highschool before I gave up, and when I did, that was my fault too.

It was bad even then, and at least back then they were still pretending that it was about education.
I tried my best to. What is your user agent?
I don't know, it's where "stand-up meeting" comes from though. At the minimum, as the manager you'd probably feel uncomfortable that you're forcing everybody to stand up, which might be the key point.
If your sleep tracker is one of these consumer devices that you put on your wrist, they are notoriously unreliable (here is a study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603649/ ). Worse, they have been shown to cause unnecessary stress by causing people who are actually perfectly fine to chase numbers.

As for how to improve sleep, there are plenty of advise, many of them commonsense (see in this thread). But I think that unless you are actually followed by a healthcare professional, in which case he would probably give better advise than random people on HN, how well you feel the next day is probably a better metric than some number on a smartwatch. And if the answer is "fine", I don't think there is a reason to worry much.
Sadly a paid standard though :(
Yeah, yeah. Urgent action so that Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Apple will all have a monopoly on "highly regulated" AI, especially considering that they are the ones the government is consulting to develop the regulations (and paying them to do it!).

What do you want to bet that only those companies' AI will pass regulatory scrutiny?
I think forums are better. Try

https://coderanch.com/

I'll also add the question of what exactly your motives are, who you want to be noticed by, what you want to be noticed for, etc. Blogging or LinkedIn or some other venue might be what you really want.
Curious what % of Clearbit revenue was from the Salesforce integration (which I imagine will be shut down). I remember years ago when I was looking to use Clearbit it was significantly more expensive to use directly from Salesforce.
> The US medical system is also ludicrously oversubscribed and has insane wait times for lots and lots of routine health things.

The number of doctors per capita in the US increased a lot for decades[0], but stalled over the past 10 years. I wonder if the blame lies at the AMA's feet.

For what it's worth, my personal experience with routine medical care hasn't been too bad in three (very different) states, though it's unclear to me what my expectations should be. It seems like the US is worse than average for primary care wait times and better than average for specialist wait times among developed countries[2].

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2020-2021/DocSt.pdf

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/186092/active-physicians...

[2]: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/242e3c8c-en/1/3/2/index....
Not revolutionary by itself, but single-digit improvements in performance efficiency are hugely important at the scale chips are now being used.
Could focused breathing be a key to better health?
We've Used Showers for Centuries. Why Can't Hotels Make Them Easier?
The page doesn't load for me, I'm stuck at some captcha/anti-bot thing; I tried checking the console for any errors and found there's a debugger trap.

Really odd.
I said WeWork sceptics not short term leased office space sceptics.
When someone comes along whose code is so good that a small-to-medium percentage of it is more than enough for a decent employer to rake in the bucks on, it would be downright medieval for us to hire such a candidate.

We have habitually been screening for and only considering below-average performers using proven techniques and experience has shown that bringing in just a single average-to-above-average performer will disrupt everything and only result in making everyone else look bad.
Show HN: A Google Sheets Add-On to Run Python
tl;dr: we built a Google Sheets extension that lets you run Python in your spreadsheet.

Hello HN! Douwe and Jack here - we’re the founders of Neptyne, a Python powered spreadsheet. We launched here in February and our users like the product but some of them also let us know they can’t always switch spreadsheets just to be able to use Python.

So we built an add-on that lets you use Python from Google Sheets. You can try it here:
https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/neptyne_python_...

Our add-on gives you a code panel next to your spreadsheet where you can define functions in Python. For each active spreadsheet, we spin up a jupyter kernel and every time you edit the code, we evaluate the code in that kernel. The add-on introduces one new function (formula), Py(). It takes the name of a python function and a list of parameters. When the formula evaluates, we send that off to the kernel and return the result to the spreadsheet.

There's a cost to running custom functions in Sheets, so there's a minimum latency of around a second. Python functions can only read their inputs and write to the current cell (though multi dimensional data will spill which allows you to return a table for example from a dataframe). We’re working on making buttons and graphs work, but it doesn’t work out of the box.

Our standalone product doesn’t have these restrictions, but then again being able to run Python from Google Sheets to us still feels like magic!
I think you’re missing a “not” somewhere in there…
It's basically impossible to make managed hosting more expensive than cloud. Marginally easier for actual on prem or colocated setups because there is more room for error.

The devops time you need to provide to manage most cloud setups is generally far higher than what it'd cost you to get someone to manage your managed servers both in time and retainers to have someone to escalate to. When I was consulting, cloud focused customers were gold dust because they needed so much more help and had no notion of cost control.

The idea that cloud is cheap is pure fiction from people who haven't run and costed both.

Put another way: The notion that anyone needs to drive to the data centre reflects a very outdated idea of both.the alternatives and the support options available if you actually choose to own the servers rather than rent managed servers.

I used to manage a setup spread over multiple data centers, and the only visits to the data centre were scheduled trips 3-4 times a year. We regularly priced out cloud alternatives, and every time it'd have bankrupted the company if we'd switched.

I love using cloud when working places with margins enough to afford it, but it's an expensive luxury and the idea it's a cost saving really needs to die, because it takes a really large setup where you have power to demand crazy discounts, and a lot of engineering, to even get close to break even against a moderately competently set up managed setup.