skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm on that LinkedIn train also. As founder I would really need to build an audience there, but can relate to comments about feeling physically bad about it. I really would like to be original myself but feels like it is total waste of time with all the algorithm hacks and "top 10 thing to do to get audience" bs. If any of you solves this I want to jump on that train too.
The world should fear 2024: Escalation lurks on every battlefield
We've finally managed to close our first customer with our tiny bootstrapped AI sales bots project - so, the only resolution I have for 2024 is to scale that stuff to more customers (never gotten to that stage before, so this is going to be first for me).
To have more fun and to enjoy the process of working on things, not focusing on the end result.
Thank you for the correction! I suspected I might have been off here. I've gone ahead and updated the article.
Depends how you define those terms, but i think the answer is an obvious yes.

Many looking healthy things are literally just your body functioning correctly.
Looks similar to https://templ.guide/ Which imho has a nicer syntax for the templates.
Automate LLMs jailbreaking using LLMs
The supply, demand and characteristics of the AI workforce across OECD countries
The "help.exe" in the path is concerning.
The icons being tiny pictures of the actual trains is cute, but makes the map quite confusing to look at!

Edit: I just noticed that the marker style changes if I choose something other than "Equipment" from the map style dropdown, selecting "driving/stationary" certainly makes it a lot more readable.
"... under the logic that our ancestors ..."

I generally find this logic unconvincing. Our ancestors lacked access to modern scientific knowledge and had far shorter average lifespans than us. Here are some examples of things that our ancestors didn't do: (1) perform CPR on cardiac arrest victims, (2) treat cancer with surgery / drugs, (3) engage in studies to determine which foods are healthier than others, (4) sterilize food products to avoid infection.

In my opinion it's a fallacy to assert that because pre-historic humans behaved in a certain way, that that way is superior. Pre-historic humans did the best they could with the tools they had and the environment they faced at that time. Gorging on a huge meal every few days made a lot of sense when the alternative was potential starvation. The priority at that time was surviving the next day/week/month, not living 80+ years. Modern humans can do better with more advanced tools and an environment containing a very different set of challenges to deal with.

It's also a fallacy to assume that natural > artificial in all cases. While there can often be some truth in that, there's no reason to think that we can't optimise what nature provides, or that we shouldn't try to do that.
Isn't this literally what banks do? Take peoples deposits paying a minimal interest rate and then invest that money to earn a return higher than the interest rate they pay the customer (they actually will also borrow more money on the back of your deposit). So, when it's the bank doing it it's ok but a bank employee doing it independently for personal gain it's an issue.

The book deal aspect was interesting also. So, the guy profits and has a potentially lucrative book deal with minimal jail time.
Better to use this tech as digital certificates of authenticity, or records of provenance of digital ownership, rather than a means of tracking physical inventory.

To use a comparison: if you buy a game skin from an app, a record of ‘digital ownership’ is modified in some central database. If you imagine a technological solution to this same problem that doesn’t rely on centralized payment processors and ownership databases, you might end up with something akin to NFTs.
"Maybe" isn't exactly scientific; what he should've done was keep his existing lifestyle, have the same measurements taken, but not actually look at them because they would influence the measurements.

Without a baseline, the numbers are meaningless. What if most people are under 1 but there's a few outliers that skew the numbers?
To finally figure out how to effectively design and test MVPs / prototypes without overdoing it. I think this has been a bane of my startup life for pretty much whole ~14 years I've been doing it.
It's so impressive that all of them got out alive.

It's also the first hull loss of an A350. Seems to be an amazingly safe plane considering this.
This Old Tony
About to be the subject of a UK TV series this month.
Isn't it the basis of active noise cancelling? It's pretty successful.
there is a better side by side of the syntax here https://haml.info

(i've been using haml for 17 years lol. if I'm going to need a template language, i find it more enjoyable to read and write than everything else)
The honest answer?

There are some people who have climbed to relative positions of power not by producing value but by playing the business social metagame.

It's not about having the best quality product, there are two ways to reach those people. They need to either see you as a means to an end for them (caveat: they only deal in shallow self-promotional narratives, not nuance or detail), or they need to see you as one of them.

If the competition weren't happily(?) playing the game it wouldn't be necessary, but given that they do and that I have an obligation to shareholders I have to play along.
A common approach. Many of us wear blue and black jeans, few white.

The women who wear white tend to choose fabric that doesn't stain easily, an approach TfL might have considered earlier.
> Dude just got greedy.

It seems to me that once a person builds an illegal habit, it demonstrates they: (a) probably have a higher risk tolerance than most people and/or an inaccurate understanding of the empirical risk level and/or (b) they have, perhaps only temporarily, found a self-interestedly-rational aspect of law/society to exploit.

Once one's behavior crosses into that realm, "dude just got greedy" seems to miss the point. It was greed that got them there, right? How many optimally greedy criminals are there? I don't claim to know, but I'm suggesting that risk-adjusted _optimality_ and the criminal mind are not highly correlated.

Anyhow, it doesn't seem the 'level' of greed was the problem; it was the level of spending; the article suggests that Kara's lifestyle upgrade attracted considerable attention.

More generally, the risk-adjusted calculus between "steal a lot quickly" vs "steal a lot slowly" is interesting. First, being a repairman of said machines, he would be a suspect if any discrepancy was found. Second, dragging a larger-than-usual bags of coins to the bank for years seemed rather brazen. But perhaps the consistency of his behavior made it seem 'normal' to the local bankers? Putting both together, sure, larger amounts would attract more attention, but the relationship between intake and risk is probably not linear. As a guess, one might think halfing his intake might only reduce his risk by 10%. If so, a self-interested, amoral calculus might suggest that his intake was reasonable.
I recommend you first narrow it down to somewhere whose main language you can speak. I picked Germany because I already had some experience with the language and slightly Dunning Kruger'd myself. I like it, but… well, even native German speakers say „Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache“ ("German is hard").

Cyprus has a lot of English speakers (and indeed a lot of street furniture that looks just like the UK, plus two UK airforce bases[0]), but the national language is Greek… I don't know if I'd risk that, given the one time I tried to ask for «Ένα σάντουιτς και ένα τσάι παρακαλώ»[1] in Athens[2], the person behind the counter replied in English to correct my pronunciation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrotiri_and_Dhekelia

[1] https://translate.google.com/?sl=el&tl=en&text=Ένα%20σάντουι...

[2] I know that's not in Cyprus, but it is, as you may guess, another place where Greek is the national language.
That's really kind feedback, thank you! I'm glad people seem to be enjoying them.

It's also reiterated the importance for me to take screenshots as I go. For many/most projects, these intermediary and bugged out results are gone as quickly as they come if I don't make an effort to persist them.
That's a very succint description of the arrogant person and the one whom everyone mislabels as arrogant.
No surprise you're taking the least charitable view possible.

Perhaps what they're doing is cleaning and then looking for a way to mitigate the need for intensive future cleaning. Seems sensible.
Right, to be able to sight-sing, you need either perfect pitch, or you need to 1) have a sufficient musical theory framework to describe what to sing without perfect pitch 2) need to know how to translate the notes on the page into that musical theory framework. With #2 being the hardest bit.

Having a "simplified musical notation system" might enable many more casual people to be able to sight-sing. But how useful is that, practically speaking? After all, you can just ask your musician friend to play through the melody a few times and then you know it well enough that the full musical notation system can remind you.

In fact, one simple option would be to teach people basic music theory based on C being the root, then write the vocal parts transposed into C and on a C clef. No need for super fancy new notation.

But such a system would have the opposite issue if anyone wanted to play it on a real instrument -- then they'd need to have enough musical theory to be able to transpose whatever they were looking at into the specific key they were supposed to be playing.

Furthermore, if you're looking at music, you're almost certainly going to be playing with an instrument anyway; in which case, you ideally want to practice in the same key the instrument is going to be in. In which case, it's probably better to just teach singers enough piano to be able to plunk out the tune on the piano when practicing privately until they "get" it.

On the whole, it's not clear that any possible improvements to the current system of "Have the people who can't sight-sing listen to the instrument until they get the idea" will be worth the extra costs.
I recently raised this point in a similar thread but I couldn't reproduce it at the time. Yesterday I came across this behavior again in the Settings app of Windows 11 23H2 by clicking on any of the links in the bottom "Related help" section, e.g. Settings -> System -> Display -> Help with Display.

I also remember web results from the start menu opening in Edge before I ran one of those decrapifying scripts which disabled them completely.
That's not to do with the voting system. It's because political disagreement is almost always ideological disagreement, which is one dimensional. See Sowell's analysis in his book "Conflict of visions" for an explanation of why.
This interested me, as it would be a nice concept to build a manual around.

On the face of it, it could have suited me ("What to push: Being helpful and engaging")

But looking into it, I feel the writer has a more cynical worldview than me, and I found this a bit distasteful.

I think that this resource is not useful to me, because it is undermined by greed. The end goal with this article is, IMO, people's pockets - not fulfilling people's needs.
Sorry what does that mean? There are many people creating content and software for commercial use cases with these cards and I've never seen a EULA anywhere preventing this.
> We saw in ICSID’s case database that a pair of suits had been filed against Germany, by a Swedish company. One was worth billions and was ongoing, over the country’s decision to close down its nuclear power plants. The second was about a controversial new coal-fired power plant that seemed to contradict Germany’s much-lauded promises to pursue an epic ‘green energy’ transition.

> If Germany – sometimes called the ‘grandfather’ of the international investor-state legal system – could be sued, it seemed like any country, and thus every taxpayer and citizen, globally could be at risk.

It's an interesting article, but these last two paragraphs show that the author fundamentally doesn't understand the purpose of contracts and courts.

In the context of corporate personhood, people speak of the "right to get sued". This might seem like a paradoxical "right", but it allows those who don't trust you to make contracts with you.

This court system gives countries the same right, and this allows corporations who don't trust them to invest in them.
It's counterintuitive; people need sunlight to generate vitamin D, but it also causes cancer. People in both the middle-east and the north are often vit-D deficient because of a lack of sunlight exposure, in the north because there not being a lot of sunlight, in the warm/dry climates because they dress and live for the weather which means not a lot of skin is exposed.
I’m not sure that’s efficient. The number of digits in that tenth power grows very rapidly (59049^¹⁰ already has 47 digits; (59049¹⁰)¹⁰ around 477) and there’s the risk that rounding introduces errors (did you really do that with “a 4 function calculator”?)

On the other hand, (hand-waving) it takes many generated digits before the “far away” get shifted left of the decimal point, so numerical analysis probably can show you don’t need them all to reach a target number of digits.
Ha, now that I checked it's much more than $60, it is around $110. Six domains in total.
I wonder if some kind of "TCAS" for runways can be implemented - once the controller clears an aircraft for a given runway, some antennas start broadcasting that aircraft's identifier so any equipped planes approaching the runway can tell whether they've been cleared for it.

For planes on approach, the existing ILS antennas can be reused but I'm not sure whether that will work on the ground - do the ILS antennas cover enough of the ground to accurately target a plane that's approaching the runway perpendicularly (off a taxiway, etc)?
I agree, defense by depth.
Bing chat is GPT4 and, in my experience, provides better results than any search engine. I haven't been using search engines at all since they rolled that out. I can just ask GPT and I get a neutral answer without visible ads, sponsorlinks or SEO.
It depends on what you want.

Amazon in Germany has two problems in my eyes:

It's not possible to filter out the marketplace. The marketplace is full of dropshippers with highly inconsistent delivery times. There are some things I just want to buy from Amazon directly.

Chinese fire-and-forget brands crowd out real brands. Fine if you e.g. just want cheap gloves, but a terrible experience if you want more than that.
Bugtraq: Userland Exec (2004)
> Being more optimal only really matters at a very high level of athleticism goals, if one is at the point where they need to optimise their protein intake windows they'd already know about it given that reaching such high level requires a lot of nutrition knowledge.

It's not just about anabolic window timing though. In fact, my point in using the word optimal is about the opposite of how you are approaching it above. For the majority of HN audience that fall outside of the switched-on bodybuilder/diet planning over-optimiser type, a restrictive TRF window simply makes it more difficult to get all the protein that one could benefit from. I'm not talking about optimising to the point of diminishing returns; the simple heuristic "don't skip breakfast but have one with protein" can have a significant benefit to the dietary macronutrient composition for many people with no other effort. Because even if they know two scoops of whey after or eating a second chicken breast for dinner might be a good idea, it doesn't always happen because there are more hedonic choices.
Yes but banks do it within a legal framework that moderates the risk(at least in theory) and people know what they are signing into and what are their guarantees. You don't see too many banks collapsing, don't you? When it happens, its a big deal like with the SVB earlier last year.

It's also what Sam Bankman-Fried and others did in exchanges that acted as unregulated banks.

The system is not perfect and there are many scandals but if you compare it to what happens in crypto exchanges, its a day and night difference.

Running a machine as intended and screwing up is different from pretending doing one thing and actually doing something else and screwing up. This is also why bankers and fund managers don't usually go to jail when they lose clients money. It's not illegal to suck at your job as long as you follow the rules.
More likely he'll publish a book (like Tim Ferris mentioned elsewhere) aand... that's it.

Min/maxing your lifestyle is a privilege and wealth thing - mainly having to do with time and mental leftover energy.
I want reduced aging for humanitarian reasons, but i don't buy your reasoning

> 30 years of education before they have the wisdom to do anything halfway useful

If scidnce advances obe funeral at a time, this probably means science will advance a lot less.

> How about government policies that operate with a decades long view instead of just one election term

Seems unlikely to change. Election terms are 5 years and people already live a lot longer than that.

More importantly, i'd worry about an increase in concentrated power.
I would argue that Zig’s inability to produce static or dynamic libraries that use Zig features in its API is a much bigger problem that Odin’s lack of a package manager.

Neither Odin nor C3 has any problems with this, and it simply follows from Zig’s semantics that it is rendered impossible.

So will Zig semantics change (which would be a big change indeed), or will Zig precompiles libraries always be forced to go by way of special C-compatible calls and types?

Before I’d declare Zig the winner due to a package manager I’d be sure to figure that one out.
Even without customization, I did not change anything yet, Kagi provides far superior results to Google.
Yes and no. Active noise cancelling works well at a point and against some common kinds of noise, but if you want to act on a large area such as a tube station, active noise cancelling won't work. Much better to introduce a bit of white noise or music, that makes e.g. the clack-clack-clack of footsteps on the stairs much less noticeable in the wider area.
Sure. Check out my personal website. https://prettydiff.com/

Just open a bunch of windows and you will get to 10k page elements. The primary window shows the page load time in bold red font. The page load time includes all network calls, all initial script execution, state restoration, and graphical rendering. Total load time should always be around 1 second of which most is visual render. The script execution typically takes about 60ms or so but you can see the complete breakdown in the browser performance tab. The CSS could use a lot of clean up. I pulled all of this code from a browser based OS highly distributed OS I am working on.

Also, on that site you can easily check element count in the console using the following custom DOM methods:

document.getNodesByType(0).length; // all nodes
document.getNodesByType(1).length; // all elements

EDIT

I just got to 10000 visible elements on the site and everything still loads in about 850ms, give or take 50ms, on my 7 year old desktop. Base load time for a new user on the same machine is about 550ms, so difference in load time is not significant. The real significance is page repaint on a fully loaded page. Drag and drop of any one window is noticeably slower.

To reset state execute the following and refresh the page:

delete localStorage["gui-state];
Most kids hardly encounter musical notation in their daily lives though. Reading music is like any other kind of literacy — it needs daily practice and a lot of work. Most people are not music literate just like most people are not calculus literate or chemistry literate or programming language literate — it takes a lot more than a few classes in elementary.

I took many more music classes than required and sing/read hymns regularly and I feel fairly musically literate. It just needs regular practice like anything else, especially singing. Another thing to keep in mind is that musical literacy is of limited practical use and most people get by with performing by ear just fine.
Are those test results compared to average and "unhealthy" people, and/or his own baseline tracked over a few years before he started this thing?
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p525#en_US_2022_publink1000...

For the US, yes.
Please do add your own review. It's bizarre that manufacturers think unnecessary lights, and especially bright blue ones, are a good idea. Manufacturers have fallen a bit too much in love with blue leds.

I've got to admit, the desktop cases I got from Fractal Design also use bright blue leds. I didn't think about it until I had guests sleep in that room.
I might be in the minority group. But any app that sends me a push notification that I haven't specifically opted in for is going to have all notification privilege removed right away.
A lot of the time it's actually a reminder for me to uninstall the app.
Drinking mercury is quite a bit different than having dozens of biomarkers showing that you're 95+ percentile in health and fitness.
Isn't he the guy who inject himself the blood of young people ?
Tracker notation is even more complicated in that duration is built into the sample, and whether the sample has endless looping repetition built in or not - none of which is possible to discern from looking at the tracker notation itself.

Let alone thoss 'notes'are actually a bunch major and minor synth chords in different keys, or orchestra hits in a 2-unlimited mod.
Notes on the Ivory Coast
I don't think the 1980's loonies were steel, they appear to have been mostly nickel.

I suspect though, that some detail of the various ways he did this just got lost over time. You could probably fish them out with superglue or sticky mastic on the antenna rather than a magnet, for example.

Or maybe the magnet was always used to hold some kind of trap door open rather than directly fishing the coins.
That's, uh, not exactly universally applicable is it?

Or have they finally quashed the used book market entirely? Most fellow college/uni students valued getting a few bucks back for their books at the end of a semester.

Also this obviously can't work for primary school students who can't destroy their books at will.

But, good solution
>So, when it's the bank doing it it's ok but a bank employee doing it independently for personal gain it's an issue.

Yes, this is correct. The bank does it in a somewhat government controlled fashion, with checks and balances, which the world has been fighting for a millennia, if not more. And the guy inside does it with stolen money, for personal gain.

Consent, for one, is a difference between the two actions, if we're talking morality.
Because that is how you lose your medical license.

Go back 150 years and it was much more common.
I think many kids carry a packed lunch (bento) but carry it separately in a box wrapped in a cloth or separate bag.
I've not visited nor lived in Japan, I'm sure somebody can correct/expand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento
It's glass fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC). Very much doubt it's heat-reactive, suspect it's just oil & dirt on a somewhat porous surface (so cleaning properly is labour-intensive, stickers are cheaper)
The normal web app[0] for finding journeys calls a file called "iphone.exe".[1]

[0] https://rejseplanen.dk/webapp/
[1] e.g. https://rejseplanen.dk/bin/iphone.exe?rnd=1704195748374
I love Haml / Pug / Slim. I think it's very clear what problem it solves: you don't need to worry about closing tags, and doing it in the right order, because the tree is visually in front of you. It also means less code (because of no closing tags), which means it's easier to read.

It's like HTML but less verbose, less errors prone (<p>foo<b>bar</p></b> is impossible to write), and basically the formatter is part of the language. What is there not to like?