skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
do we "need" 50 brands of soda, or 300 varieties of cheese?

> The ad-supported business model has allowed perhaps _too many_ people per topic area

"Too many" according to whom? You?

If no one "needs" them, then they won't get viewers and thus eventually won't get ads, either.
There is a grey area though when a company becomes the defacto monopoly over a service. Google and Microsoft email both have history of blocking email from other providers and have created a landscape where trying to run your own email server is a nightmare. But should they be able to refuse service to you if you block ads?
PDF is objectively much better than HTML at rendering text documents. And it's not even close. This could easily have been done 10, even 15-20 years ago. That it didn't is not just inertia. Latex and PDF have enormously better text rendering, and the static format locks a state-commit in time that is much easier to go back to and reference/critique. Unlike the intrinsically fluid nature of HTML. For academic work, milestone-like formats, that lock state in time, are useful for those who later build on them. And again, the rendering just doesn't compare and that imparts [sub]conscious quality signals.
Displays We Love Hacking: SPI and I2C
Nice to be vindicated. To this day people look at me like some kinda maniac when I talk about the difference in effect before and after they took pseudo out.

The only reason I know is because someone's mother hoarded pseudo tablets and had probably 30 years supply.

One year as a teenager I got such bad hayfever that my nose was literally just running constantly and I was losing 2 litres of water an hour in just watery eyes, I could barely see, my skin was inflamed, and I was having trouble breathing.

All the hayfever medicine I took was totally ineffective.

She gave me a single pill, and the effect was actually incredible. I've never seen such an enourmous effect in such a short time from any medicine except maybe morphine. In the space of 15 minutes I was almost completely back to normal. My nose not only stopped running, but became completely unclogged. My eyes stopped watering and subsequently completely lost any irritation, my skin cleared up and my breathing was completely normal.

Not only that, but after suffering like that for days, I was completely normal for the rest of the season. The drug just completely broke some kind of inflammation cycle and the hayfever never returned.

I really think that the gaslighting around this was a kind of crime perpetrated on people. Rarely has there ever been a drug that can improve quality of life so effectively. Hayfever for those who suffer it significantly is truly hell. It's not a scratchy throat or itchy eyes, it's a full body experience. Imagine having a bad flu,but it can last months, and nobody has any sympathy for you whatsoever. And then society takes away a completely effective treatment, substitutes with one that has essentially zero impact, and gaslights you incessantly that you're wrong and it works at least almost as well.

End rant I guess.
They'll lose customers if they charge a market price, it's already as expensive as most streaming video options (many of those are also not profitable).

This is the Silicon Valley B2C model writ large: charge below-market prices with VC funds, hoover up millions of users, go public, then use outside financing to cover the operating losses and invest in new business areas. Finally, when financing becomes expensive, start raising prices.
News to me! Will definitely break some of my current code (chained assignments no longer work), but is probably a more sensible default.

To be default mode in Pandas 3, but seeing as how long it took them to pull the trigger on Pandas 2, that could be a while.
I see. Here nabewaking is much cheaper, a couple euros per day at most (maybe more in expensive private schools, I don't know). It makes sense to me because it's much easier to keep older children compared to babies.
If I cannot use an ad-blocker, then I should be able to have a perfect measurment of what % of my bandwidth, for which I pay for, is consumed by ads, and then charge them a fee for resource utilization, convenience fee, fcc annoyance fee, corrupt-packet fee and dropped-packet waste of resource fee, and congestion fee.
As I became senior, I realised that you always have that alternative course. It’s definitely a skill to avoid technical debt, even when you don’t have the knowledge at a given time. For example, if you code something in Spring and it seems that something is against the “Spring mindset”, then it’s almost 100% that you introduce technical debt. There was only one single time when Spring utterly broke its own methodologies, and it was needed for my day-to-day job (ie Spring Security with multiple providers). Looking after such cases is way more beneficial, than that one case when it took me a deep inspection of Spring to figure out, that there is really no nice solution.

Nowadays it’s even easier with LLMs, they can help you point to the right direction, then it’s easy to validate with some search engines.
> anecdotal evidence suggests this is not the case.

Ah, and we all know the plural of anecdote is "data". /s Oh wait...

The fact that you said this, suggests to me that you were the odd-person out on a hiring committee, and because the person got hired anyways, you feel like that means all hiring decisions are made on the basis of race. When in reality, you just didn't like the one candidate, and everyone else was fine.

I don't know for sure that this happened, but I've met people who made these cases, and they pretty consistently overvalue their own opinions.
Awesome to hear this has worked for you! I haven't tried this properly, just was just an idea I had that I thought was worth writing down.

Any details I might have missed or things to think about when trying this you have come across?
Apple Maps is terrible at discovery which is what I am doing with Google Maps 90% of the time.
A summary of my own looking into it is “don’t worry too much about it”.

For the average gym goer the most important thing is working out consistently to failure and periodically reevaluating your training so that it’s safe and optimal based on the latest research. How much protein you can shove in your face is rarely a concern, westerners get enough. Getting a bigger chest or shoulders when what you are doing isn’t working requires looking at your body mechanics and how to activate those muscle groups. As an example, I couldn’t squat for shit until I learned that I require a different stance than most people, due to how my hip sockets are angled (my feet naturally come to rest when standing at about a 80 degree angle, extremely wide compared to most)

Everything I’ve read seems to indicate that it’s probably ideal to eat something within a few hours after a heavy workout, but you don’t need to immediately rush down 2 scoops of protein shake or waste away. Excess protein doesn’t really hurt you either. Protein eaten is gradually absorbed throughout a surprisingly long time as it travels through the gut (the time of which varies greatly between people, I digest extremely slowly), which in practice can act like a “store” of amino acids despite the body not really having something dedicated for that purpose like fatty acids and carbohydrates. I haven’t seen studies on this, but I personally also suspect some amount protein is “stored” and released via gut bacteria, much like what happens with soil bacteria and nitrogen fertilizer. And that’s ignoring all the recycling of amino acids the body does anyways.

Likewise, muscle repair is a progressive demand over days, not an instant demand. Photos of muscle cells over time after a workout are illustrative of this.

Basically you don’t need to treat protein like a diabetic treats blood sugar.

For those people at an advanced enough level where they need to find optimizations to obtain more results, then yes, individual amino acids have metabolic effects that can likely be exploited. In fact, some amino acids (like leucine) can likely be a contributor of not just muscle gain, but also obesity because of how they work. Some people can benefit from restricting “protein” in order to lose weight, because they start burning body fat for fuel again. Likewise, fat isn’t just fat, but each fatty acid has its own complex waterfall of metabolic impacts (beware omega-6’s, which are very high in western raised pork and chicken fat).

Food can be thought of as a load of chemical signals for your body. So the above study isn’t surprising.
Arxiv encourages users to submit the latex source of their papers rather than the PDF
I started using it but I wrote my own using raw token prediction after getting the gist.

Assistant API feels like training wheels right now.

Even function calling seems essential on the surface, but you definitely don't need to use their approach. It's just more raw token prediction at the end of the day.
That's not a reason to not allow individual signups on @customer.domain AFTER customer.domain is a Google Workspace domain, which is the hole being discussed in the article.

FWIW Adobe actually lets businesses take ownership of individual accounts with the same domain... see https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms.html section 1.4
Cancellation on gym membership is definitely a pain in the ass. I usually just go with the annual prepaid packages and never give them my credit card.
Apple photos is wonderful for this. I can search for “cows” and I get photos of cows. All on device in the middle of a mountain with no internet 50 miles in any direction.
No article touching on pseudoephedrine is complete without a link to A Simple and Convenient Syntheses of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine[1]

1: https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume19/v19i3/Pse...
Not sure what you're needing that you're note getting -- there is certainly a lot that it doesn't do -- but Siri works like a champ for me these days for maybe 70% of the things that I would do with my phone or ever computer without it. I initiate all calls with it, do tons of texting with it, cue up all my music in the car with it, constantly add things to reminders lists ('hey siri... add soy sauce to the grocery list' results in soy sauce on my grocery list... in the condiments sublist)

I hadn't noticed the improvements until I started using my apple watch a lot... I had given up on it a few years back, I guess.
It does have a large header at the top of the page
that says:

"WinUAE Amiga emulator"
Ask HN: Why not natural gas powered heat pumps?
It has been said on here previously that it is more efficient to have a gas powered generator that sends electricity to a house, to run a heat pump, then it is to heat the house directly by burning natural gas. My question is why not both? Use natural gas to the house to run a combustion engine, that in turn runs the compressor on the heat pump. And use the waste heat off the engine to also add to the home eating. Wouldn't that be effectively a very efficient way to heat a home (compared to direct natural gas, or electric heat pumps that run from non-renewable electric source)?
> considering how they mainly replace walking

I can't speak for wider stats, but anecdotally I used them instead of things like taking the bus, or getting a lyft. If is close enough to walk I generally wouldn't want to spend the money.
It has nothing to do with American, hence the effect being almost universal around the world.

Evolution resulted in a shit mechanism for procreation and child rearing is costly, and requires a lot of short term pain. While there obviously are long term benefits, we see the same problem here of humanity needing to bridge short term pain with long term benefits and individual sacrifices for collectivist goals.

Pendulums swing both ways, and the past was not pretty for women, and it seems like it will require over correcting before it swings back.
I’m talking about financial benefits. Emotional benefits like bonding with your children are great. They just don’t pay the bills. And they don’t accrue to society at large in any measurable way.

What society gets out of investing in children is measured purely in economic terms. That calculation is quite messy if we’re talking about government provided full time child care!

And honestly I think paid child care is a red herring of an issue. The real problem is that housing costs have ballooned out of control. This has forced moms back into the workplace in order to pay the mortgage on two incomes. If housing was cheap like it was back in the 50s-70s, we wouldn’t be worrying about child care costs!
You might as well say "He has psoriasis, he might also be an axe murderer." No, one fact doesn't preclude the existence of other facts, very good. That doesn't mean that making stigmatising connections is reasonable.
> Some studies show that when we eat whole foods our bodies generally maintain healthy weights

I wonder if it's because it's harder (though not impossible) to eat too much of a well-balanced, whole-food diet.
The problem is that FPGA companies are really CAD tool companies who see their chips as copy-protection/payment-assurance schemes for their software.

Unfortunately their CAD tools suck, but that's beside the point.
People living the life they want isn’t sad. They are empowered, and we should be happy for them. If the question is regret, life isn’t fair, and we all eventually die. Cultivate emotional fortitude for adult choices made with all available information. If you’re lacking wanted family, cultivate community.
>American families are shrinking in general, but with cousins, that drop happens at a dramatic scale.

Not sure why this is surprising. You have many more potential for cousins if mom or dad was one of six, than if they were one of two. If they're only children, there's no potential there at all.

So as the fertility rate drops, cousin count drops as a power of that decrease.
You could ask the same thing -- why does everyone use WhatsApp?
The FDA doesn’t prove anything. They evaluate claims.
> How is your tinkering enhanced by Apple making it difficult to communicate outside of their kingdom?

OP didn't say they tinkered on their phone - actually the total opposite. Read it again.

"I do more than enough tinkering but my phone‘s supposed to just work."

Anyway, you've missed the point that at the end of the day there's real-world benefits to many of the things people complain about. The FindMy lockout prevents phone theft (and has strong reductions in theft rates for these users). Serializing parts prevents thieves from stripping stolen phones and selling for parts. Having only one app store prevents large players with high network effect (tencent, facebook, etc) from demanding you install their app store to bypass the Apple's review/permissions process to spy on you (FB already got caught using dev credentials to do it anyway). Etc.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-...

I tend to agree, that a phone is not where I care to tinker in my life. Having it be secure and well-integrated is more important to me, I have a PC if I want to tinker. I can sign and sideload apps already if I want to try something (for 7 days), or getting an official dev credential extends this to 30 days. Android phones have a real problem with OS support lifespan and OEM parts availability, and I have no desire to install third-party ROMs and then spoof safetynet so I can run my bank app. Assuming that's even an option at all - Sony for example will wipe the camera's firmware when you unlock the bootloader, so it degrades a premium cameraphone to flip-phone levels.

"Not everyone wants to be stallman trying to figure out how to root their phone and spoof safetynet" is actually a great way to put it.
What I wish someone had told me
There are lots of issues with flying. Fees galore, fewer amenities on the plane, smaller seats, etc. Yeah, you can't blame any of that on TSA. But having to arrive at the airport several hours before my flight, yeah I can blame that on TSA or it's equivalent counterpart in foreign countries.
But what is worse is there is no obvious upside for TSA. It costs time and money with no apparent increase in safety. In fact the only time I'm unsafe is when I'm going through the security line. That is standing in a bottleneck next to barrels of suspected explosives and letting my bags out of my sight.
Perhaps I'm pessimistic, but I feel like humanity is a long way from our collective advancements being used for altruism. Space represents new territory to conquer. Smartphones aren't being used as the windows into global enlightenment, but more so as a means to spread hate and misinformation in manners that benefit the powers that be. Any of these things are relatively agnostic and still hold promise for the optimistic, but humanity needs a lot of growth for those dreams to be realized.
Wow I did not know they have the LaTeX for all the papers and compile it themselves! That's pretty crazy. What if they don't have packages you need? What if your paper isn't written with LaTeX?
I would not make the same inference because we know that ML systems generally struggle with robustness and the long tail, while humans tend to be exhibit much more flexibility to adapt to distribution shifts or unusual situations. For a concrete example of this in computer vision, see work such as the Imagenet—C dataset where simple distribution shifts generally tank ML models but do not impact human performance.

But regardless, the claim here isn’t “under some assumptions that some people (and not others) find reasonable, we can extrapolate and predict that self driving cars will be found to be safer”

It’s “self driving cars are safer”, which there isn’t enough evidence to claim yet.
Google (and most email providers) also treat the user portion as case-insensitive.
OpenAI will always be in a different league. I know Apple is making some amazing advancements with LLMs, but OpenAI basically recreated Google Search as a chatbot.

I'm not saying Apple couldn't do the same thing, but the model alone would take up so much space on the phone that it would not be practical. I can see Apple making something closer to a very fine tuned mistral 7B than GPT4.

But I'm sure in a year this comment will be wrong.
Something's not right. I say "hey siri 10 minute timer" or somesuch like five times a day. I'd play with your timing and word order. For instance my kid has trouble making music work with siri in the car, but if I say "hey siri play the album technique by the band new order" just like that it works 100% of the time.
There's no way this is true ⊙ ﹏⊙
Yes. The police cannot be assumed to be good guys, or even law-abiding.
That’s a separate question. I’m just an Apple customer who doesn’t want to subsidize Android customers. That’s it. Explain to me why I should.
Well we were already in security theater. But what strong authentication did they have before?

Not that I agree with facial recognition
Isn't the Vision Pro is using microLED?
It can be something relevant to seek out but wouldn't use the word desirable at all.
It may improve judgement but hopefully serves better to improve humility and gratitude.
I guess it depends on how big the pieces are. If you break a very large asteroid in 3, still large, pieces that might not be an improvement. A nuclear weapon exploding in a vaccum is likely to be a lot less destructive than one exploding in the atmosphere.
This is where the government could step in and provide nursing homes. They already end up paying for most of it via Medicare, why not have more control over quality and standards. You could even trial it via a (much needed) VA nursing home program for vets
Why do you think the rules are decided by "a small committee of non-technical representatives and career bureaucrats informed by the news cycle of their time who make decades-lasting rules and ossified agency directives"?

That would be highly unusual in the US. Most rules are at least heavily influenced by lobbyist paid by the industries.
All that means is that he used his phone and another android device (the fire stick) + the TV as a monitor, to access whatever remote machine he has via SSH, not exactly rocket science

And that's the point, the propaganda machine is working overtime to paint the kid as some horrifically dangerous criminal because he exposed the clowns in power that easily could've pdevented all this.
Um...okay?

Is cross-provider compatibility related to this article about the security of Google OAuth2?
I looked at, at least 8 different moddio games. They're all top down Newgrounds games with painfully obvious similarities. The only exception was one where you control a fish. In that one the water splash animation occurred on the grass leaving me to believe the game was pushing the envelope of what the engine could do.

One trick pony engines worked in the 90's because something like an FPS required rare personnel to develop given the limited hardware. That's why you'd get weird kids stuff like Nerf Arena Blast (Unreal 1) and Super 3D Noah's Ark (Wolfenstein 3D engine). Eventually you had Renderware, but that was like the Unity of the 2000s.

There's a world of JS game engines, more advanced, for free today https://github.com/collections/javascript-game-engines

Moddio has built in multiplayer server support that seems pretty intuitive, that's definitely something special. But a screwdriver that makes Stick RPG clones isn't very profitiable.
From what I've read and heard, Istio's complexity makes the bite barely worth the chew.

Regarding Cilium, there's a backup plan as soon as there's a license change, which would be a herald of things to come:

the fork.
A Tesla owner says he got a $14,000 repair bill one day after buying a Model Y
Tesla, which disbanded its press department years ago, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I have a friend in law enforcement, and he claims that their crackdown on meth labs where he worked (Indiana), even before the Sudafed restrictions, was not to reduce supply. Even in Indiana in the early aughts, most of the street drugs came from Mexico. Rather it was due to the hazard that the meth labs caused to the surrounding area (not to mention financial issues with remediating property that had been so used).
Mistral is amazing for its size.
I like that you put Google’s solution into apostrophes, while Apple’s current solution has the same problem, and even more. But I’m glad that we agree.
If there were a way to filter sites that serve ads out of Google searches, that would be an interesting thought.

As of now, any given random website is far more likely to have ads than not, and many of the drawbacks of getting served ads (tracking, data collection, and performance issues) arise before the page is even loaded enough for you to know they exist.
I think people (and the market) make this assumption but the correction isn't Apple doing something differently it is the market and public assumption seeing that when you sell something that lasts longer than a year and works really well you need to accomodate the ebbs and flows of sales across a 5 year period instead of quarterly and YoY.
If you're trying to claim something relevant you're going to have to do so more explicitly.
Apple is a massive company that swats away pesky threats all the time. It's like Exxon executives losing sleep over a guy with a hose siphoning gas from the corner station. From a PR standpoint they won't dignify it with a response of any kind, other than to quietly crush it to dust.
>> I thought AMD had to spin off their fabs due to cost and cash flow issue because Intel was too busy playing dirty?

IMHO Ruiz cut back on engineering and increased marketing. Then purchased ATI which I though was an odd or even dumb move (it was not). But that expensive purchase along with the failure of bulldozer almost killed the company. That's why they spun off Global Foundries - to stay alive.