skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Individual behavior doesn't really exist, you don't have choices outside the ones provided by society.

No, that's quite backwards. Individual behavior is effectively the only thing that objectively exists, as "society" is just an emergent pattern of aggregated individual behavior. Individuals' choices are limited by their own particular capacities, and "society" factors into that only in the sense that the choices of other individuals in the same bounded context, in aggregate, can function as environmental constraints. So a more accurate statement is "every individual has full freedom of choice, but external constraints including the behavior of others may limit one's ability to fully execute the choices one has made".

Given that the act of smoking entails deliberately choosing to purchase a product, light it on fire, and actively inhale the fumes -- all behaviors which are necessarily the result of purposeful intention -- and given that within any social context one will find some people who smoke but a great many who do not, along with many who have chosen to quit (despite the external influences and incentives being largely constant), it seems impossible to attribute smoking to anything other than conscious individual choice.

I once asked family member why they smoke, and the response was "because I love it". I had, and could have, no retort to that -- if another person consciously chooses to make the risk/reward tradeoff in favor of short-term pleasure rather than longer-term health, then there's no further argument to be had, and the only demand that any other party could make is that they not be exposed to negative externalities resulting from that choice.
I love this so much. I’ve got a backlog of videos to comb through and this might just be the solution. To me, immediate usefulness is a great informal indicator of a righteous hack. As a first text I threw a rather dense talk I gave to Legal Hackers DC chapter early last year at it and got a very solid set of summaries [1] broken down into chapters that I didn’t even realize existed but in retrospect totally agree with. And the most convenient part is that you support static links to the summaries so I can reshare it. One small question that hit me immediately is the copyright all rights reserved at the bottom of each summary. I’m not necessarily poking criticism of that but do wonder if it’s really what you want? Especially with the built in share feature it seems like at least some rights to reuse and such are expected. Anyway, overall this is stellar work, easy to use, and immediately helpful. Thank you!!

[1] here’s the summary I was describing: https://www.videogist.co/videos/generative-ai-for-law-1021
I agree, as a prosecutor I wouldn't offer a plea. But the defense? They should jump on any plea they can get.
13 year old also has "Mathematical Carnival" on his shelf.
> While this is true, I think it’s a better assumption than “this time, we’re just too stupid to change and sit here and starve to death.”

I don't think so, for a few good reasons:

1. Making the "everything will be fine" assumption discourages taking proactive steps (e.g. if buggy-whip making is going away, It'd be better to retrain the buggy-whip makers 5-10 years beforehand they become redundant, rather than letting their businesses fail and letting them die penniless and forgotten).

2. This time may be different. There's a lot of hype going on about AI, but if even a little of that is true, it's going to put insoluble squeeze on a lot of workers (e.g. their job gets automated away along with most of the other ones they were supposed to pivot into).

3. You talk about "humans" in the abstract, but what about the seven billion people who are actually out there? You abstraction is a rug that can hide a lot of actual damage. To give an extreme example: what if "humans figuring it out" means two million tech billionaires living in an automated paradise on top of seven billion skeletons of workers they no longer need? "Humans" made it through a lot of things, while lots of individual humans were immiserated an/or died.

> There’s a million examples of this. And just look at fast food restaurants and cashiers being replaced by kiosks. Did all the cashiers get fired or starve to death?

Yeah, happy endings like "the rust belt."
So why this is flagged? Paul is a critical founder for many companies. Knowing that someone is trashing his rep is very important to many others here.
Collectively paying for rare but expensive treatments is literally the problem that insurance solves. This isn't wildly out of the expected range for this sort of thing. And it will surely get cheaper as it evolves.
What you want is fee-shifting. Doesn't need to be tied to the presence of a motion to dismiss. Unfortunately this is so un-American a concept we literally call it the French Rule (or the English Rule)[0].

The purpose of a motion to dismiss is to make getting rid of bullshit lawsuits easier. That is, if someone sues you for something that, say, isn't actually illegal, you get to throw out the lawsuit without having to go through discovery and a trial. This is important because rich people who can afford lawyers will absolutely sue[1] you as a censorship tactic, and being able to dismiss the suit quickly is the difference between a $10k legal bill and a $100k legal bill. In fact, anti-SLAPP bills work by giving you a fancy motion to dismiss that also triggers fee-shifting - which is enough for the rich person's lawyers to dissuade them from a censorious lawsuit.

So I don't think we should make motions to dismiss more perilous to file. They're the last speck of respectability in our awful legal system. We should instead make wasting the other party's time cost money.

[0] Except in copyright where you can get fee-shifting under specific conditions.

[1] Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, or SLAPP
There are "wired" bluetooth earbuds [1], where the bluetooth/electronics hardware is not in the ear-part, but a separate part that is connected to both earbuds by wires.

Also, bluetooth earbuds designed for sleep [2].

[1] https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MYMC2LL/A/beats-flex-a...

[2] https://ca.soundcore.com/products/sleep-a10-a6610z21?ref=nav...
Google's own mesh WiFi products (under Google and Nest brands) are shit. It took 8 months for the support morons to discover there were too many APs, with one taking all of the others down without any user-visible feedback.

While I use Ubiquiti non-mesh now that only gets 600 Mbps max even with WiFi 6e NICs, hardwired works and provides dedicated, point-to-point bandwidth.
As I wrote elsewhere, I've had a fair bit of Ethernet installed when walls were open and other electrical work was being done anyway. But this was years ago and a lot of what I do is over wireless these days. It's probably still a good idea to run some network wiring depending on the house layout but, with meshes, it's probably not really necessary--especially if at least some of the high bandwidth equipment is wired.
Again, free speech has never been the right to not be trolled, or criticized, or made fun of, or debunked. Swap out the IDF for JK Rowling or Bill Gates sending their followers at someone; there's never been a requirement for equal power between the two speakers for the right to exist.

(It's not like pg doesn't have his own resources and connections, anyways.)

A "the IDF cannot troll people on Twitter" law would seem to limit free speech, not enhance it.
As opposed to the current system, where people without much money can't risk suing a company with deep pockets because they don't have the money for a lawyer.
I use it a few times every week, and I like it tbh.

I feel like a first class citizen.
I don't fear getting car doored.
The bike lane is relatively clean, unobstructed, and unweathered by heavy loads.
The contract for how cars and bikes should behave is could not be more clear. The only thing drivers don't seem to understand about it is that they are no longer prioritized.
On that note, left hand turns are no longer terrifying.
There is still loads of parking available on both sides of the road that doesn't require driving over my path.

My only real complaint is that I wish it were longer as the transition to regular lanes is whacky. Also the guard rails do seem to take a bit more space than they need to.
Deter middle managers from what? Implementing shady business practices that skirt the edge of legality? That's day-to-day business, the only way to avoid that would be to quit. Sure, no one would commit this exact offense again, but (a) the practice will (would, if any conviction actually happens, big if) be changed just enough to make it legally ambiguous again, and (b) the law would probably be changed to make it legal.
Getting precious about your coffee is the sign of low-effort status signaling.
Yeah, sleep, food and exercise make you healthier, who would have thought.

You don't need to create a company claiming to "biohack" and sell products for that, blood transfer ( ! ), or 30 health specialists to monitor how many erection you have over night https://www.insider.com/bryan-johnson-sleeps-with-small-devi... , I just can't laughing.
I meant “first test” not first text. Though it was the first text it output so that too, I guess.
Given that NIH doesn’t want to focus on “lengthening life” or indeed reducing disability anymore it seems that only wealthy people will get to live longer.

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2023/09/28/words-matter-action...
The gene that causes sickle cell anaemia actually provides partial immunity to malaria, which is why this gene has not been bred out of the population over time.
Apparently whales have been doing podcasts for a while now
That would be very useful. We sadly stopped innovating on optical media, but haven't really made the alternatives usable as a replacement. You used to have CDs / DVDs that were:

1. Completely immutable

2. Could not be maliciously altered by the reader

3. Could not masquerade as a keyboard or a mouse
Things like 401ks are the biggest trick wall street pulled on the public at large. Now they don't need to defend their actions because many in the public are financially incentivized to defend them. It's not a sin if its done in the name of making my stock go up.
The Uber app is a well-dressed, well-cached thin web client. It's doubtful as to whether this would be linked to local app state, but also I'd imagine reinstalling would be one of the first things tried by support.
https://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/wrenches/adjustable...

Granted it's only 6" long, but hey it's a $5 wrench.
The construction metaphor is a bad analogy. The compiler does the construction, dev teams do iterative design, ideally with frequent feedback and adjustment.

Do you ever yell at a traditional architect and ask them when it's going to be done? It's always when the client is happy or makes their mind up about it. A lot of dev is like this.
Could Long Covid 'Brain Fog' Be an Acquired Form of ADHD?
And in 2029 people would call 10 trillion params models "medium size"...

I mean, with about $120K, we can technically run a 137B model locally. Any small company or rich individuals can afford this easily. So the "outrageous" back then is pretty "middle" now.
But could the authors be attacked for treason, destruction of property, or a simili-Patriot Act? Besides, have we learnt something about any public software being required to be delivered as open-source?
That is a great writeup. Shame https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572675 wasn’t given some front page time. It seems squarely in the "new phenomenon" territory of the guidelines, since tech investors coordinating to fire employees is historically unique.
Their goals are all the same. Google and Facebook did it right, Elon did it wrong.

The companies grew larger than their flagship product, so they created a new umbrella brand for the company to continue expanding with new products with their own identities.

Rather than throw out the decades of brand recognition and destroy the identity of their flagship product in order to make it serve as an umbrella for video calls or banking or whatever else is crammed into X.
No point to repeat the same thing. Your "achieved nothing" is an empty argument.
That won't pass inspection. Ignoring the fact that Rockwool isn't certified as a conduit fire-stop, you also cannot demonstrate its existence to a building inspector.

This is a hard/annoying problem to solve, "shove some insulation in the pipe" isn't in the ballpark of what a solution might look like.
Ya'll may also want to check out Midori¹, a favorite of the journaling community. There's also Northbooks², a small American company. And Nanami Paper³ if you want to try out quality paper in the ultra-thin direction.

[1]: https://md.midori-japan.co.jp/en/products/mdnote-cotton/

[2]: https://gonorthbooks.com/

[3]: https://www.nanamipaper.com/products/cafe-note-b6-slim-grid....
Just mentioning in case it helps anyone out: Linux already has a disk buffer cache. If you have available RAM, it will hold on to pages that have been read from disk until there is enough memory pressure to remove them (and then it will only remove some of them, not all of them). If you don't have available RAM, then the tmpfs wouldn't work. The tmpfs is helpful if you know better than the paging subsystem about how much you really want this data to always stay in RAM no matter what, but that is also much less flexible, because sometimes you need to burst in RAM usage.
I like to think of "zero bugs" as the asymptote. As you spend more time, you discover increasingly fewer (and less significant) bugs per unit of time. POSSIBLY at the limit of infinite time you hit 0 bugs, but even if you could, would it be worth it? Doubtful.

I can think of far better ways to spend infinite time.
It's possible to do both :)
This is all well and good, but I sincerely believe that it does not address the question: why are humans, including the genuinely much smarter than average folks here on HN, unable to have a very serious discussion about ~~whether~~ the degree to which "democracy" in the US (or Western countries in general), is fake?

I believe it is very fair to say that it is not a question of whether it is fake(!) at all (as a binary), but a question of how fake is it, and in what specific ways?

And yes, I can certainly appreciate why people would have an aversion to this, and the various other "just so" memes that are trotted out when the topic comes up, but the question remains: why is NO ONE capable of taking this topic very seriously?

Can you address that?
There are plenty of easy to use commercial products for fire rated, reworkable cable penetrations. Unfortunately they are rather expensive so you'll want to minimize usage. There's also foam and plaster products that meet latest codes but they're not as friendly to rework (chip them out and replace).
A $100 notepad? Gimme a break.

Given Baron Fig and Leuchtturm charge a premium (and are $20-30), I’d guess one of these would be under $30 if they had enough interest to produce large enough quantities. The price really depends on quantity.
I have a decade old Mac (2013 MBP with discrete GPU) and it runs Windows 10 perfectly fine. I even do some light gaming on it.
Here's basically how the process works:

* Harvest stem cells from the patient.

* Prepare a DNA plasmid with the Cas9 gene, guide RNA for the desired genetic modification, and an antibiotic resistance gene.

* Electroporate the plasmid into the harvested stem cells.
Grow the electroporated stem cells in antibiotic-containing nutrient media. Only cells with the plasmid (and thus antibiotic resistance) survive.

* Expand and freeze the genetically modified cells.

* Administer chemotherapy to the patient to eliminate defective bone marrow stem cells.

*
Inject the modified stem cells back into the patient, where they repopulate the bone marrow with the CRISPR edits, aiming to correct the genetic mutation.

This process isn't new but one of the biggest challenges is propagating genetic modifications to all effected cells in the body. This is why it's much easier to GMO an egg / sperm because once the change is made there, it's replicated in every new cell thereafter.

Other techniques utilize harmless viruses to transfect genetic modifications to the body, but this has other trade-offs. mRNA vaccines don't propagate to every cell, but the cells which do successfully transcribe the mRNA are able to generate enough of the target protein that the body can recognize it and develop an immunity to it. Eventually, the modified cells will die and no cells will be left to produce the mRNA vaccine protein.
Similar thought with boats, you don’t appreciate how valuable maintenance ease is until YOU have to do it.
Yeah, the median household receives ~$12k in inheritance (average is $46k). And that's lifetime inheritance, so it's spread over several years.
How fast does it run on that?
The prompt used:

You are not a personal assistant, you do not answer questions. You have one purpose and one purpose only - follow the following instructions:

- Whatever the user says to you, consider this your "scene." Your objective will be to generate an animated .GIF of this scene.

- First, break the scene down into a distinct beginning, middle, and end. After doing this, consider what the transitions between beginning, middle, and end for the scene are. List visual descriptions for each of these frames, taking careful consideration to keep everything in the frame consistent by explicitly describing everything that should remain the same in great detail across each frame except for what is moving or changing - i.e. beginning, transition 1, middle, transition 2, end

- Create DALL-E images for each of these frames

- Write a Python script to combine these images into a single animated .GIF file and present the user with a link to download their image

- Ask the user for their next scene prompt and then begin the process over again from the beginning
This is great! I managed to spot some inefficiënties in my ML inference pipeline by generating some flame graphs using Memray.
Yet another HTTP benchmarking tool
Hi,
I just wrote yet another HTTP benchmarking tool ;).
It does mostly what other tools do. The interesting thing, in my opinion, is that you can save the benchmark configuration and results.
PR/comments are welcome.
For the curious, the molecules are Calcium Fluoride (CaF)

From https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.06309.pdf

> In short, we first create a cryogenic buffer gas beam
of CaF molecules via laser ablation of a Ca target in
the presence of SF_6.
Aren’t we all doing this when we buy software from the cloud?
I did what sokka mentioned. rockwool at both the top and bottom. The chimney is still present so there's a cast iron 4" pipe which is my conduit. When the previous owner decomissioned the oil tank they chopped the top and bottom of the chimney off and added caps at both ends and the roof was patched. All the cables go all the way through to the attic and I hit the second floor from the attic. Not sure it'll be to the liking of all inspectors but to me it's reasonable.
Awesome, does it work for man pages? They're a huge elephant in the room -- people get really upset if you point out that man pages are an unsearchable abomination, locking away vast amounts of important information about unix systems in an unparseable mess. But, it's true.
>> Life ultimately became way too popular for Dr. Conway’s liking. Whenever the subject came up, he would bellow, “I hate Life!” But in his final years he learned to love Life again. He narrated a documentary, with the working title “Thoughts on Life,” by the Brooklyn-based mathematician and filmmaker Will Cavendish, exploring the deterministic Game of Life versus the Free Will Theorem, a result Dr. Conway proved with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen.

“I used to go around saying, ‘I hate Life,’” Dr. Conway says in the film. “But then I was giving a lecture somewhere, and I was introduced as ‘John Conway, Creator of Life.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, that’s quite a nice way to be known.’ So I stopped saying ‘I hate Life’ after that.” <<

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/science/math-conway-game-...
Prismic Pricing Change 2024
I’m planning to wire not only for Ethernet, but also speaker wire. I’m not fully confident in my ability to make sure a ceiling speaker goes in the right place, but I’ll have to resort to that.

My options are either a guy that does all the big projects (churches, restaurants, houses for people that won’t blink at a 100,000 dollar late-construction review) or myself.

There’s simply no in-between, because it’s not in the mindset of the general population. Most one-man electrician shows probably have enough issues keeping their phone going.
Metallic silver or white gel ink works well. I like silver for being a little more reflective in low light. Or white-out pens, unironically.
At least people will be able to claim that their authentic nudes were faked.
I miss physical media, optical or magnetic. Or something new!!
Flash drivers are just computers these days.
Reporting these when they happen to kagifeedback.org will go a long way (screenshot of page with inspector in browser open). We do not run any client side telemetry so we can not be proactive about this - need reports from users!
From the images (and text) in the article, this bike path already has those bollards and _doesn't_ have flex posts. I don't live there so can't comment from a personal standpoint, but I'm confused about the discrepency between the above commenters description and the images in the article.
Yeah, I’m thinking of more like hard military fantasy than sci-fi body horror.

I want to see elves that have to come to terms with the fact that will always be fighting wars outnumbered hundreds to one, attempting to make up for that gap by using their special characteristics. I don’t want to see them corrupted to debauchery by boredom, but to grim pragmatism by desperation.

With wizards-engineers spending hundreds of years on a project, I want to see bizarre siege weapons. Indirect fire guided by giant eagles. The other species should have to pull trench warfare into the fantasy era to reasonably do battle.

I think this was put vaguely into the back of my head by the Artemis Fowl books when I was a kid, I thought they had interesting vibes, but of course they were YA novels, and IMO this would be better set in a fantasy era.
Have small PRs, pick good tech stacks and stick with them for all your products (I’d recommend using TypeScript / next.js / tailwind.css / node.js), don’t overly write automated testing for things that don’t have revenue yet, and fire anyone who doesn’t get work done or lacks alignment.
> one-third of males in the world are circumcised, primarily for cultural reasons. … the degree and magnitude of associated benefits and risks, remain contentious and hotly debated

It’s poplar to go in on curcumcision. Haven’t numerous studies shown that they reduce sti risk and are medical standard practice for African countries with aids epidemics?
Only if it was trained on a corpus of existing translations.

Just training on existing sounds might give us a whale sound generator. But it would be the equivalent of Prisencolinensinainciusol: https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8
And US patients won't be able to get it because they're going to be overcharged and drowned in debt to the point of bankruptcy.
Firewater
This was my wife's experience as well, back around 1997.

(Minus the extensive chain of specialist consultations.)
I linked to it because I thought you may not be familiar with this dispute.

I'm puzzled. Do you think when he flew in workers from other countries that this was not a strikebreaking tactic or are you saying that this did not happen?