skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure it is totally possible, but for most people it will take concerted effort. Most aging people at a relatively healthy weight don't get an optional proportion of protein in their diet, reducing the number of meals makes it only more difficult to do so without careful planning (which most of us don't do with our diets).
It seems like the point of this article is we could cure cancer if we wanted to. It’s just a matter of incentives.

That’s not true. It’s not a money or effort hurdle, it’s a knowledge and technology hurdle.

Now one might argue that with enough money the knowledge and technology hurdle could be overcome, but I would disagree.

There are too many elements that are missing - biological tools, chemical probes, analytical techniques, laboratory procedures.

Sure money could advance those, but we don’t know which ones we need. One key (of many) to curing cancer could be the discovery of some mammalian cellular pathway. But we don’t know it exists so how would you find it? And even if it was discovered, you might not know it’s important.

Science often advances by the intersection of seemingly unconnected discoveries. You don’t know they matter until you do. It’s not a matter of just finding a specific area.
HTML isn’t a templating language like HAML or Slim are.
This is awesome! I noticed on the 'Experimenting with lines' section, when smoothness is low, warp is high and length is high, that the lines end up mostly coalescing into big roads. It reminded me of ants forming paths, but it's interesting that this required no communication between the lines. Is this a particular feature of the noise function or does it always do that?
"Prophet Song" and psycho-political projection
The article's author probably just messed up the math somewhere. According to wikipedia, there were 18,220 daily rides in 1978 on the Edmonton LRT. If he got $900 daily and that's 20%, then there were a little under $5000 proceeds daily, so each ride would have only brought in about $0.25.
Well a lot of the scam artists are rich. It's not like they have stopped scamming
The graphical explanation of the scale is extremely helpful.
Netscape's failure seems to have been caused by years of incrementally piling new features over the old rotten core without much cleanup / refactoring, which is certainly not what Joel suggests
I would skip him and go to Peter Attia, who I have my nitpicks with, but he also has a research team, and is transparent about the whys
>b12 (because livestock are supplemented with it)

What do you mean "supplemented"? The vitamin comes from animal sources.
"Nazi" is too broad a word in today's vernacular. Many people legitimately believe Joe Rogan is a Nazi. Our society's excitement at labeling people we disagree with as "Nazis" makes it difficult to have discussions like we're having now.
Spot on. Just another symptom of a quantity obsessed culture. It's telling that people ask how many books did you read this year and not what was the best book you read about (a question of quality, over quantity).
You've certainly used them, but been unaware of it.

Made a menu selection? State Machine.
Interacted with a dialogue box/an HTML form? State Machine.
Used a dropdown/popup suggestions list? State Machine.
Written async code? State Machine.
Used a VM? State Machine.
Used a compiled executable? State Machine.

Any time you don't have all the input available when you start (equivalently, can be interrupted by some other task) either you explicitly, or a tool on your behalf implicitly, will need to reach for a state machine. Even if all the input is in principle available, if it is too large for practical processing, piece-by-piece processing entails a state machine (however rudimentary).

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/state-machine.pdf

"safety" (nothing bad ever happens) and "liveness" (something good eventually happens) are two key properties for systems, and they both have easy formalisations in state machine terms.
That’s what the Mac used, too. For examples, see http://kare.com/apple-icons/

Before TrueType (System 7, 1991), it was the only thing the OS supported out of the box.

(Adobe Type Manager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Type_Manager) is a bit older than 1991, but (obviously from its name) wasn’t an Apple product)
Edge will die in two years if Microsoft keeps using it to increase views for Bing and MSN. They should remove useless features like news section, bing background image... or at least make it easy for users to disable them.
Edit: I have misread the title of the thread and assumed that a different video was linked by OP. My original comment was a link to the same video that OP is linking to, so I have removed it.

PS I had initially assumed that OP was linking to Adam Neely's latest video, "Should sheet music be required for music school?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51P4-YQACvU
Coins don't seem to be their target, as very few seem to be magnetic.
> Obviously I wanted a way to do better than the system allowed and wanted to know if I could use magnets to pull the coins towards me[1]

In other words, you wanted to cheat. I can't comment on whether that's fraud in a legal sense, it's still cheating.
I have the Uber Eats app installed and I don't receive unwanted notifications. I think I only enabled the channel for notifications on a current order, and I don't get anything else.

Maybe they are more careful because I'm in the EU?
Of Mitchell Baker's Mozilla, Inc. the answer is probably "yes" in some way even if that corporation seems to be more bent on manipulating your political opinion than the contents of your wallet.

Of the Firefox browser project the answer is "no" notwithstanding some controversial choices related to the way self-hosted Firefox sync has been deprecated and the shenanigans around Pocket integration.
Indeed I don't feel like I see many overweight people over 70 - but it might just be related to where I live. Or older people might just eat less.
The newer 'coppers' are magnetic, so I doubt it. The reason was because they were becoming more expensive to make than their face value. Anyway you couldn't steal a significant amount in coppers, the main debate is whether to get rid of them entirely.
the REMOVAL of this feature from Google…
Thanks! Some splits are randomly generated by traversing the line and each point has a small chance (5% or so) to create a split and change color. I've tried other techniques as well where lines change color by which region of the the canvas they are in etc.

I even wrote a small UI using Rust and egui to render the drawings in real-time just to play around with that specific part. It looks like this https://imgur.com/a/Zfp1ls3 and is open source https://github.com/damoonrashidi/generative-art/tree/develop...
And I would say if you carry a cellphone, they also know where you go physically.
Hm, what about vending machines with things you make yourself, legitimately without any paper trail that would show what you are making?
I, too, found the author surprisingly obtuse. I'm actually surprised she's a famous poet. The subtitle "You cannot be both A and non-A, it's simple logic" and then leaving that idea aside was distracting and came off like a young child using big words to sound smart.
It is more accurate to say, that this helps to suggest they might be the right plates.
Then you can think of Spotify as a more user friendly alternative to Napster, Kazaa, Soulseek, Limewire and friends.
I think it's more about not having excess calories.

As for the science, my understanding is...excess calories = excess glucose = insulin-response, which is associated with inflammation.

A good book I read on it recently is, The Intermittent Fasting Revolution by Mark P. Mattson
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intermittent-Fasting-Revolution-Opt...
Hm, true. But I sometimes see people walking along beaches doing this kind of thing. Though they're probably hoping for rings (gold, silver, diamond, ...) rather than coins, which would make it much more lucrative as well.
It’s not only push notifications, it’s the combination of everything communication channel combined. I recently unsubscribed to a services that kept spamming me their “lifetime subscription” product, while I already was on their yearly premium plan. Over the course of 2 weeks, I received 4 push notifications, 4 emails and 2 times when I opened the app it had a full screen ad. I’ll never use this product again. Ironically, this app focuses on sleep quality, focus and meditation.

4 years ago I was using a Fitbit, and for some reason they thought push notifications was a great channel to promote a new watch product. It blew my mind that someone at Fitbit thought that was a great idea.

Anyone considering using push notifications for marketing purposes, I’m sure you’ll make a couple of sales short term, but for me, you damage your brand
Alas no, just yeeted a bunch of support staff and engineers in a montecarlo style.
My in-laws watch so much TV, it's stultifying. I start getting antsy from lack of brain engagement if I have to spend too long sitting there. Build a model, read a book, write a book (or write a Wikipedia article, or a wikibook chapter if you don't like Wikipedia admins: everyone has something they know that they could add and the best way to learn anything is to write about it), take photos, anything that gets the brain moving!

Of course it's easy for me to say because to me, a computer with a compiler or interpreter and a web browser represents a bigger, more expansive, more interesting and exciting logical challenge than every crossword, sudoku or puzzle book ever written.
I don't know about Edmonton/Alberta, but provincial and municipal transit in British Columbia and Vancouver (which is a separate entity but likely still benefits from provincial resources) are subsidized with taxpayer money. Fare collection supposedly makes up a minority of the funding for Vancouver's transit system.

Also, with 68 fare machines in the city in 1978, how many repairmen do you really need?
> "Nazi" is too broad a word in today's vernacular

This is true but irrelevant. The standard is calling for the extermination of Jews. Substack moderating sex workers' posts but not Nazis' (specifically, people calling for the exterminatino of Jews) is inconsistent; that's what Atwood is calling out.
99% of that is audition, not score reading. Reading a score mechanically is not difficult after a few not-especially steep hills are climbed.
That sounds.. not great, for li-ion batteries. Like you want to stress test the safety circuits which avoid thermal runaway.
Why does integer representation of a floating point approximate its logarithm?
Is not paying tax on income from theft actually tax fraud?

I mean, the theft itself is obviously unlawful. But perhaps you wouldn't be taxed on theft proceeds anyway, so no tax laws are broken in that case.
the only apps that i have with notifcations are, as you mentioned, instant messaging apps and apps that i'm using to build a habit (language learning, meditation that sort of thing). everything else is turned off
The fact that the only thing WebUI needs is a web browser is a bit of a problem for me, so I decided to go with Tauri, which uses the system's webview, for my HTML-based application:
https://github.com/christianhellsten/ollama-html-ui/

The biggest problem with HTML/CSS apps is that their look and feel are different from native GUIs. This is less of a problem for chat and document-based applications (Slack, Word, etc.), IMO. With Tauri, I can also customize the window and integrate native features to mitigate this. I'm not sure WebUI can do this.
How do you define it, then? You never had recorder lessons in elementary school?
Weight pulls on seams and fabric, and since they're likely to cut costs on something they give away for free, carrying a high weight would probably shortening its lifespan
Couldn’t you do without the angular brackets?

- if user != nil
%strong The user exists

(That being said, the indentation bit also tripped me up in the past)
Similar one for Slovakia: https://meskanievlakov.info/mapa/
the regular table salt has been iodized for a long time, as pointed out by another comment.

although the rock salts of the world don't seem to be iodized iirc.
In the words of Ace Rothstein in the movie Casino.

” You can spot these assholes by watching the way they bet. Like this guy. He's bettin' lavender chips at five hundred each with only one little problem. He's always guessed right. If he wasn't so fuckin' greedy, he'd have been tougher to spot. But in the end, they're all greedy.”
> That in itself is a scientific claim that needs to be supported by evidence.

That experiment has been running for the entire human existence. Richer people live longer and better lives.
There’s a difference between “too expensive given the budget constraints we have imposed on ourselves” and “too expensive for any society to afford”. The author is asking us to step outside of the current political constraints and simply question whether these problems are truly as insurmountable as our political system makes them.

As for “other societal concerns” there are always societal concerns with anything. There were societal concerns with Social Security and free education for kids. Turns out those are good ideas despite the fact that they’re not free. In fact if you suggested them today a lot of people would shoot them down as infeasible. I don’t have any kids but I pay for other kids to learn to read. I’m not retired but I pay into social security.
What's the old saying - nine pregnant people won't produce a child in one month. I think that comes from the Mythical Man Month but not sure.

I think "faster" has been replaced by "profit". Is there a more profitable way of doing it. Etc. Hence things such as AI/CoPilot and the rest.

We as developers have lost the craftsmanship that coding once was. Crafting a good bit of code that might just be a single line but which has elegance and conciseness to get the job done just right.
Especially since he has a history of shall we say questionable ethics. He posted a video trashing Dorico, a notation software. He was shortly thereafter hired by kusescore, and the next version of musescore ripped off large elements of Dorico wholesale.
cinap once asked me

"how did you not go insane working from home?"

"who says I didn't" came my reply

that was back in the days before video calls.
Audition? Sorry, I don't entirely understand what you mean by that in this context.

> Reading a score mechanically is not difficult after a few not-especially steep hills are climbed.

If it's so easy, why aren't we teaching everyone, like we teach them reading?
I don't think he was blaming it on the two-party system. He was just explaining how the two-party system is one of those obviously broken mechanisms that effectively blocks against replacing it with one of the better alternatives.
The general category of issues he highlights, should be well known to people who have lived in and observed our real world and society for a while.
It is possible to produce USB-C cables that are robust and last - I know as I own some. But I also own and buy some that LOOK 'robust' but are fragile and stop working within a few months. The vendors make most money by optimizing for LOOKING robust (which is what I am 'demanding'), but in reality making a fragile product, so I anyway have to buy more.
For medicine, he is also obviously right - tons of resources are poured into developing 'money-making' medicines for 'money-making' diseases, by commercial companies. And comparatively little money is expended solving diseases which are harmful but not candidates for making money. As an example, investors prefer chronic diseases where you need periodic medicine, and aren't attracted to 'single-use cure' medicines.
He is really just pointing to, that a lot of the worlds problems aren't needing an inventor to solve them technically, they are needing politicians and a political movement to drive the will to solve and change them.
I recommend reading Machievelli's 'The Prince', for people who suffer from naivety.
From a normal daily calorie expenditure only a fraction goes on physical movement. The greatest share goes on cell biochemistry, followed by digestion, then normal stuff like heart beats. Additionally all the physical movement like rolling over when you sleep and reaching for a coffee. This means that for most people an hour work out will add less than 10% to your daily energy expenditure. And your body can naturally reallocate energy from different processes if you are in deficit. Like running some other things in a slightly lower energy mode.

If you are in a serious deficit for a long time it can be harmful. But the more immediate worry is getting the right things at the right times.
This is the video this post is linking to.
They might have a harder time fighting the use of Steamboat Willy considering that a trademark has less restrictions on its use than a copyrighted work.
It's how you end up with Blinkist.

Don't get me wrong, most books are overly stuffed and could stand to be much shorter, but you aren't going to take much from 5 minutes of a summary alone. I'm convinced that it's not really a learning app as much as it is for puffery.
Eh, there's more to it, the pathing has been one of maybe dozen components that came together like that.

There were more important factors, like having the limit to 12 units in a group - any more would make Zerg much more powerful - now Zerglings are easy to use en masse. Terran bio would benefit from it as well.
I distinguish between forgetting the content VS. forgetting the effect.

When new information is ingested, it "changes you", i.e. is having an effect on your views and thought processes. Sometimes subtle, sometimes profound. So I might not remember what a book was about, and upon re-reading I have this weird experience: it feels familiar, ideas were somehow already processed in my brain, but due to forgetting the content I feel like I already read this in a past life.

I forget the content of most books, articles, movies, etc., and I have to constantly remind myself that not remembering it is not a bad thing, is not a failure, and it was not useless. It's like my brain RAM + cache are large, but short lived, but the permanent storage is small, too abstract and incompatible with the raw data content.
> In 1981, Kara was hired on a $ 38k-a-year salary to maintain and fix the 68 ticket machines of Edmonton’s LRT – light rail transit system.

If that was their 1981 salary, that’s damn impressive.
Nazi is not a precise word in 2024. A Nazi can refer to any of the following

* Militant anti semites.
* American anti-immigration Republicans.
* Non violent, white supremacist groups.

But really what we want to do is kick violent extremists off the platform. There are many violent extremists who should be banned who are not Nazis. For example

* Calls for the genocide of anyone (Jewish or otherwise)
* Calls for political violence.

Deplatform all the "bad guys" but we shouldn't pretend "deplatform Nazis" is a precise call.
If a user specifically uses a feature that asks for notifications about a product, then you're just doing what the user asked you to do. The problem comes in when sending such notifications without them being requested by the user, which includes if the user "favorited" a product but that "favorite" operation had nothing to do with requesting promotions of that product. ("This is a thing I like" is not an invitation for spam about buying it; "Help me buy this" is an invitation for desired messages about buying it.)
It seems indeed very nice, the examples are clear and everything works from async. I tried with Deno, and now experimenting with my own VFS.

It does seem to suffer from maintainer problems too though, and I don't blame Roy Hashimoto for that. I wouldn't want to maintain such an obvious wrapper when it should be a task for SQLite's team to upstream the changes.

Roy Hashimoto doesn't want to maintain it as an NPM package for instance, as it is just an experiment: https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite/issues/12

"Low traffic is a happy place - I don't have any motivation to mess with that."
Hmm, there's a distinct change of opinion by andrewrk from the linked issue (2022) to now

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12064 (July 2022):

> Hope you don't mind I'm going to reopen this issue because it concisely demonstrates a design flaw with result location semantics and I'm not ready to accept status quo as permanent due to aliasing issues like this.

Compare to a very closely related issue regarding destructing, which exhibits the same problem

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17283 September 2023):

> This is working as designed. Everybody was aware this behavior would be a consequence of destructuring and there is no plan to change it.
It’s not their money so “meh?”. Actually calling it out probably meant more work for them.

They should have incentivized them with an annual bonus for reconciliation. Obviously keep the ticket and cash people separate (so they don’t just game it to get a bonus).
Yes income from illegal activities is still taxable income in most parts of the world.

Edits, thinking about it...the article says he claimed the money was from his business. And the bank took in the money. So perhaps he did pay tax?
Domestic artists whose music is otherwise insufficiently supported by the local industry and who would risk being totally crowded out in favour of blasting the new Doja Cat at the expense of ever airing anything unfamiliar.
Musical notation is fine. But you have to go out of your way to encounter it. By comparison, written text is literally everywhere. I walked past a couple of pages of accumulated text just by walking to work and did not see a single musical symbol anywhere.
It reminds me of this part of Vernor Vinge's "True Names", https://archive.org/details/truenamesotherda00ving/page/50/m... :

> You're no innocent. Pollack. An honest citizen is content with an ordinary data set like yours there." She pointed across the living room at the forty-by-fifty-centimeter data set. It was the great-grandchild of the old CRT's. With color and twenty-line-per-millimeter resolution, it was the standard of government offices and the more conservative industries. There was a visible layer of dust on Pollack's model. The femcop moved quickly across the living room and poked into the drawers under the picture window. Her maroon business suit revealed a thin and angular figure. "An honest citizen would settle for a standard processor and a few thousand megabytes of fast storage." With some superior intuition she pulled open the center drawer — right under the marijuana plants — to reveal at least five hundred cubic centimeters of optical memory, neatly racked and threaded through to the next drawer which held correspondingly powerful CPUs. Even so, it was nothing compared to the gear he had buried under the house.

Buried would make it harder for the data storage detector dogs to find.

FWIW, that forty-by-fifty-centimeter display has a 64 cm diagonal or 25.2 inches, and the twenty-line-per-millimeter is 508 pixels/inch or slightly above a good Retina display. That sounds pretty decent.

On the other hand, a few gigabytes of fast storage sounds ridiculously small.
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