skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aside from scientific instruments it contains a variety of payloads, including cryptocurrency and human remains packaged by 2 private companies [0] . I think the latter is rather distasteful and turning the moon into a celebrity cemetery should be banned by international agreement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_Mission_One
I disagree that it is a weird take. As your logic is incomplete, respectfully.

I didn't mean to imply that being convinced of therapeutic benefit always means that there isn't any. There could even be a lot of benefit.

I meant to state or imply that being convinced doesn't necessarily mean that such a benefit was significant, if there at all.

This means that someone convinced of such benefit may have that benefit, but not necessarily.

Respectfully, using a binary life and death measurement example only means that you've cited a circumstance where we can definitely measure when there has been a significant benefit. Assuming that we can conclude that suicide was otherwise likely (we can assume that for this hypothetical).

Take another example:

A person can momentarily convince themself that their PSD is healed, even just out of positive self-talk, a single good therapy experience, and hope, and then go on to realize continuing debilitating symptoms for their lifetime.

What the experimental use of currently illicit street drugs in psychotherapy should be measuring, assuming that we can agree that we should be conducting such experiemnts (I don't agree given the available research), is whether or not they may make conditions such as PSD worse over the coming decades. In spite of patient verbal feedback at any point in time. Because people like street drugs, in general.

When was the lsat time that you witnessed an enthusiastic or otherwise "therapuetic" user of street drugs lamenting the thinning of their cortical white matter?

Or lamenting the loss of other brain architecture that theoretically would help them overcome mental illness should it survive their habit?
My dad has a small machine shop that specializes in producing single run parts like this. Generally speaking you'd be able to find small shops like this around the country, but machinists aren't great at advertising or having websites so you'd probably have to use something like the Yellow Pages or local business listing to find one.

https://oneoffparts.com/
A blog post came to be: Behind the scenes
I'm kinda loving the obvious "X" shills in the comments coming just to declare Threads dead. It is literally the 2nd most downloaded app in the AppStore (was #1 for a bit, but Temu is seemingly unstoppable).

Personally, it has become my preferred social media platform. It's overflowing with content and I check in on it several times a day, and have been really enjoying the community that is emerging.

It DOES however have a big porn bot problem, but I don't think that is unique to Threads. Hopefully, they can come up with a way to minimize it soon.
There are also trees behind the spot so it could have landed on them and then ended on the ground.
Another big part of it is the tax structure of a conglomerate. He is able to take cash out of See's Candies and Daily Queen (where they cannot do any good) and put it into big capital investments in Trains and utility infrastructure -- he can do this tax-free.

If you tried to replicate his strategy, but could not hold 100% of the companies, you'd have to constantly sell stock or collect dividends to do the reinvestment and would incur taxes along the way.
In other words, it is expertly crafted tech (legal) debt to the tune of $500 billion dollars
Twitter could have fired nobody and the advertising revenue would have still declined, those two things were mostly unrelated.

I've never personally believed in Twitter as a business model, so you're preaching to the choir there. As far as innovation, though, Elon has stated he wants X to be the 'everything app' similar to whatever it is they use in China, in particular payments.
Exactly, if I can memorise books and I sell access to call me and have me recite books then that's infringement.
> Bazzite

off topic, but does anyone know if this[0] is considered best practices for Fedora-based distros? the Dockerfile format already feels like you're fighting against legacy cruft for specialized containers; for specifying a general purpose, desktop container, it seems unsustainable

[0] https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile
They definitely are. Weird one word comments on a closed source product that is a wrapper of GGML, trying to cash in on AI hype. Even if we don't have a problem with your grift, please don't clog up this space with your nonsense.
Ask HN: How to avoid building the common 95% parts (auth/billing) for a SaaS
I have an app idea that is basically a clever AI-wrapped service.

In 2024, what's the state of the art to build a full-blown app without rebuilding every component that each SAAS uses (signup, auth, billing, password reset, etc).
I appreciate you telling me what I'm advocating for. Any basic macroeconomics class covers the effects of protectionism. Yes, in the short term wages may be artificially propped up, industries may be (temporarily) saved, but you do long-term damage to the economy, and the people are better off with free, open markets long term.
this helped me debug a docker thing recently, very handy tool!
Z-Wave has two range modes. The typical mode is designed to match the range of Wi-Fi to prevent urban areas from turning into a see of unusable noise because every suburban house and apartment is emitting kilometers of interference. "Long Range" Z-Wave devices are for the HaLOW IoT use case. 802.11ah does differ in that it has provisions to operate more as almost an actual bandwidth carrier than just an IoT network, though non-bridge type devices rarely implement the higher data rate provisions.
They could start eating jellyfish to pick up the slack.
Donut charts are atleast fun compromise between stakeholders wanting pretty charts with less misleading flaws.

They're stacked bar charts in the polar coordiate space, after all.
This is a thing I've been wondering about for a while now. Energy and labor are the biggest factors that drive supply chain costs in just about every industry. The more you spend on something, the more energy and labor likely went into creating it. Energy production obviously emits carbon. Some methods more than others, but with how immensely complex the supply chains are for most products (a global market with materials and parts and labor sourced from thousands of places all over the globe) I suspect it usually just averages out for the most part. Similarly, labor is done by people, and people all have their own carbon footprint. Again, some more than others, but with a global supply chain it sort of averages out.

So if you're spending significantly more money overall on something in order to reduce your own carbon emissions, there's a pretty reasonable chance (barring any detailed analysis to prove otherwise) that the cascading effects of that spending are actually resulting in more carbon emissions in total than if you'd simply gone with the cheaper solution.

Obviously this can't be universally true. It's a bit of a hand wavy argument, and the reductio ad absurdum conclusion would be that reducing global carbon emissions is impossible (which obviously isn't true). But I still think its something worth considering before making individual purchasing decisions based on perceived "greenness" to the demerit of price.

(I'll also note that if hypothetically a carbon tax or carbon credits were instituted globally then this price-based way of estimating carbon emissions would suddenly become not just a rough approximation, but a highly accurate measurement.)
And the infamous five minute demo.. we drilled on that constantly. At my peak (2013), I was giving it 2-3 times a week in front of small groups, with the occasional sales reps, and in front of huge events.

My favorite times were:

- for one of Bob Metcalfe's courses at UT Austin. Yes, that Bob Metcalfe, the co-creator of ethernet. I talked about the origin of Metcalfe's Law here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35259442

- 1:1 for Werner Vogels at SXSW. I gave it to one of his senior guys and he said "wow, this is great, let me go get Werner" which was intimidating as f.. a lot. But I managed to nail it.
It's vague marketing speak, but I took that to mean now that you know the pan temperature you can monitor and not burn your garlic.

Now I'm envisioning a stove with a stalk coming out over each burner with an infrared temperature sensor and a lidar sensor to monitor the temperature and height of each pans contents.
I kinda stopped using Threads and then they started putting controversial posts on it all over my Facebook feed. Pretty clever. Now I check it often again
This is so perfect. Even just the PDP-11 color scheme hits right. The documentation is incredibly helpful in showing how both the language and the machine work. It looks like a great learning tool, but also you could play with it for hours.

My personal favorite piece of K lore is that the -entire language- supposedly fits in processor cache, which is why it's so mind-bendingly fast. Apparently it runs something like 85 - 90% of the algorithmic trading industry for this reason. I could have the details wrong, but...
Ok. I think we are just arguing about different levels of 'rigor'.

Of course, you can absorb information, observations, into your brain, and make judgments, like the road is wet, the light is red. It is fairly subjective, not recorded.
Whether you report to the police that you swear the light was green.
or
Crazy uncle says aliens ate his turnips.

They are really almost about the same level of verifiability. Then it is just probabilities that make us really dismiss the alien hypothesis.

That is a lot different from forming a hypothesis, performing a controlled experience and taking measurements to prove/disprove hypothesis.

When troubleshooting, I will take in all observations, no matter how strange. But I wouldn't say they are the problem without further verification.
Perhaps not everything is an invention, but I think everything we're talking about here is, including algorithms. In any case, that's just semantics: you can call it a "discovery" if you feel better about it, perhaps even run s/invention/discovery/g on my post.

The points therein still stand: [inventions/discoveries] which at least 1 person in the world thinks (after the fact) are obvious and just a "small modification" of other [inventions/discoveries], usually go [uninvented/undiscovered] for quite some time.

The paper and TFA asks, "why?" But the better question is, "why wouldn't they?" There's no reason to think they would be be immediately [invented/discovered] as soon as all the prerequisites are [invented/discovered] (again, even if someone thinks they're similar), for the reasons described in my above posts.
My comment wasn’t in response to an individual’s ability to do these things.

I was trying to illustrate (and so was the original commenter) that many things only become a problem when you start making money by doing it, especially at massive scale with millions of customers.

E.g. I have no problem with someone making a LLM (or a Netflix clone) using copyrighted material if they are doing it for pleasure and not profit.

If you’re going to make a Netflix clone and share it with your friends, cool (would probably get upvoted as a Show HN even, like Popcorn app a few years ago). But if you’re going to do that and turn it into a billion dollar business, not so cool and you should expect to be legally challenged.
I've seen celebrity CEOs in non-public companies a lot more than in public companies. There is a difference between being the public face of the company and being a celebrity CEO.
> I'm just explaining the truth.

> Obviously without looking at the code behind it I can only speculate

It's funny how you can say these two contradictory things right next to each other.

> the concept of "bullshit ban -> provide personal info for security -> automatic unban" procedure is routine nowadays, pioneered by Twitter.

I already said this in my original comment: "Twitter used to auto-ban me too in order to extract my phone number, and we know that Twitter illegitimately used phone numbers for advertising purposes." So there's no need to speculate about my "software stack and/or behavior" that somehow makes me "naughty". The only naughty one is Meta itself, attempting to extract my personal information.
Hello, I like your app and the ethics you push forward. Do you plan to add the possibility to request for Dall-E 3 images within the chat? I’ve yet to find an app which does that and makes me use my own api key
Wanna second the Array Cast. Really, really solid stuff even if you're not specifically interested in the array languages.
Maybe. Cod suddenly collapsed by like 98% but never went extinct.
> … I think pointing out this human tendency and calling it out with examples like this is the best way to combat it. Once people become aware of it, they are more likely to fight it internally.

Sometimes that works. Sometimes it just causes people to dig in deeper.
And surely it doesn't need that height to achieve it. So at some point the height stops mattering.
If the models had a total lifetime output similar to a human we wouldn't be worrying about this.

Instead they're rather fast, and that makes them something different.
It’s only really simplistic if you come at things from a pro US/western point of view.

The nuance is that not everyone agrees about US backed hegemony in the region. The goal isn’t to “destabilize”/whatever neutered phrase the pentagon is using, the goal is to assert a different political order. The language you’re using here takes the current state of affairs as neutral or a given when it is not.
I do. Because pilots being worried about what they say in the cockpit can have a negative impact on their reaction times, behaviour and crew management. All.of ehich can negatively impact flight safety. I want my pilots to feel comfortable while flying.
That's a shame. Works really well on Android.
I'll take "collision" over "galactic hug". How many women and minorities are really deterred form studying astronomy because of words like "collision"?

'This summer, a team of students and I were enjoying breathtaking views of the night sky while we collected data using telescopes at the McDonald Observatory in West Texas. One night, when we were outside on a telescope catwalk between the screams of a mountain lion, one of my students amazed me with her interpretation of the fate of Andromeda, the galaxy closest to our Milky Way. In describing how these two galaxies will merge a few billion years from now, she said they will experience “a giant galactic hug.”

The kindness, but also the accuracy, of the language my student used was in sharp contrast to the standard description we use in astronomy to explain the final destiny of Andromeda and the Milky Way: “a collision.” But as astronomers have predicted, when Andromeda and the Milky Way finally meet, their stars will entwine and create a larger cosmic structure, a process that is more creating than destroying, which is what we envision when we use the term collision.'

...

'As astronomers, we must strive to create a more inclusive and diverse community that reflects the composition of our society. Valuable efforts to provide opportunities for women and minorities to succeed in astronomy have been created. However, by many metrics, the progress made towards gender equality and true diversity has been painfully slow.'
This doesn't make sense since it's quite possible someone on HN has more expertise on the topic than the article writer.

So of course we can't rely on the writer, or the written words, of any 'linked article' to be authoritative and decisive in any sense or in any capacity.

i.e. Everything is only tentative until someone offers a better argument/proof/analysis/etc...
> It is stored in cache so the system hardly ever goes to the cache.

Typo?
It can be more sinister.

(Disclaimer I'm not a scientist) Apparently in scientific circles, people can shoot down new claims by saying it doesn't have enough evidence, while the "default/fallback position" (held by the "establishment") is backed by even less evidence.

I'm not saying it's a common thing, but if you're looking for "evidence based" red flags, this might also be something to look out for too.
My colleague reports that this was true for him and that he periodically reinstall some drivers to restore USB functionality

I tried to advertise ubuntu to him but he said he wants the 100% percent of excel and word features
UK Post Office burns 31M pounds on failed cloud migration
Timer calibration is a big time suck.
Map Boeing facility locations, political district boundaries, and bribes (exchanges of cash for the explicit purpose of achieving a specific political outcome), and it looks a lot less amazing. Boeing is structured to be immune to any sort of oversight, consequence, or inconvenience. This may have harmed their reputation, but they've reshaped the world so that their reputation doesn't matter.
> $800,000 for a single bluefin tuna. Granted, it was large (over 500 lbs), but you don't hold auctions with winning bids approaching a million dollars on a single fish when they're still in easy supply.

That had nothing to do with supply. It was the first tuna of the season and people bid on it as a status symbol.
A big limitation is that pwabuilder doesn't support push notifications on ios
Generally what does this cost - whats the ballpark?
Only if you pretend that the CEOs job is purely for raising money.

Nominally, CEOs are supposed to run the company and help brew the culture that makes that company productive.

We've grown a bunch of celebrity CEOs because people stopped caring about how companies worked over the last 10 years of low interest rates. But now that it's harder to raise money, it's time to see these guys run the companies they built.
it has changed, at least on MacOS Sonoma. I can "add a website to dock" and it launches in fullscreen if the manifest.json is set up correctly.
"Depends" is a misnomer. There are exceptions when it "depends" but the overwhelming majority of programs written are not theory based at all.

So much so. that the alternative is negligible. The language compilers compile is theory based but the implementation of said compiler has a huge part of it getting unit tested and not theory based at all.
Meta actually do promote the use of an iPhone in their codec avatar videos to capture a face.

Granted, none of that is available to consumers yet.

Epic as well, recommend an iPhone for their meta human capture.

Feuds don’t often stop pragmatism.
Can one person belong to multiple teams at once though?

A person being both in a Stream-Aligned Team and an
Enabling Team at once would kinda turn the latter into a ”guild” in the Spotify [1] lingo.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/agile/agile-at-scale/spotify
I recently have to reconsider this definition and set boundaries with my friends. Finding the ability to have a fun experience together that wasn't centered around paying for access to the experience, such as access to a place or event, or in drugs/alcohol. We were all kinda taught we have to "buy" something in order to have fun. Beer, food, vacation, concert tickets, so on. I'm not saying I don't do that any more but when I'm with my friends I'm there for a reason and I want it to be them, not the thing we paid for, it comes secondary.
There's quite a lot of truth to it though.

Exercise (the right kind) has comparable effects to anti-depressants. It can help people with very hard to treat depression manage symptoms. It improves cognition and induces neurogenesis.

Sleep. It's quite a curious fact but after a person experiences sleep deprivation their dopamine and serotonin levels spike. It's been noted that this helps with depression. Psychiatrists have observed the relationship between sleep and mental health and used sleep modulation to treat bipolar. They call it triple chrono therapy 'sleep deprivation for 36 h, followed by 4 days of advancing the time of sleep and daily morning bright-light therapy for 6 months) has demonstrated benefits for the rapid treatment of depressive symptom.'

So that's an interesting example of using sleep as a way to treat illness. The more common knowledge is that having poor sleep negatively effects mood and cognition. If you look at so-called 'biohackers' the number one thing they seem to emphasize is sleep. Because if you have poor sleep it's infinitely harder to manage every other aspect of your life. Never mind exercising or eating well. You're not going to feel like doing anything.

The last one -- diet. In those with mental disorders its interesting to note that the prevalence of nutrition deficiencies is much higher than the general population. I've seen some interesting takes on the potential role that nutrition may play in mental health. There are some that say that some of these illnesses may be caused by potential issues with absorbing nutrients. While others say that specific diets have managed to cure seemingly incurable disorders. There does seem to be evidence of direct dietary ties as a kind of treatment for mental disorders. One of the most important medications in psychiatry, lithium, might also be an essential micronutrient.

It seems the more we understand about diet, sleep, and exercise, the more important they actually become for maintaining mental health. Though the specifics do matter.
Maybe we should not be mixing the meaning of "evidence" in a scientific context with the meaning in a legal context. Clearly science does not care about human laws, verdicts, juries, etc.. Different contexts, different meanings. Just because an unsupported claim can be valid legal evidence does not mean it can be scientific evidence.
Depends on how you look at it I suppose... It's not unusual for growth companies to operate at a large GAAP loss.

They were never losing that much cash, and they have recently become cash flow positive, https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWLO/twilio/price-...

The large GAAP loses comes from dilution – mostly in the form of stock based comp. In theory if growth exceeds dilution then investors are still owning an appreciating asset, and if the stock is richly valued (as TWLO was) then it makes sense to fund that growth with capital rather than debt.

But yeah, as a shareholder I felt their stock based comp was egregiously high and it took management a little too long to realise we're in a new world and things needed to change... A side point, but that's actually why I invested in TWLO because the stock got so beat up and their SBC was so excessive that it was kinda obvious that things were going to need to change and the market would react to that positively.

The markets seem to be reacting favourably to this news and again I think that's because there was an assumption that Jeff Lawson was largely to blame for the lack of focus on profit optimisation.

Personally I think Jeff is a great CEO though and I didn't want to see him go. I just wanted him to make some tough decisions to stop the burn – which more recently he seemed to be doing. While I do think they need to be more finance minded in this next stage of the business, I would doubt whether a developer focused tech company like Twilio will benefit much from a managerial leader like Shipchandler. We've seen this mistake made repeatedly by tech companies in the past.
I hope you don't design avionic systems, or any other safety critical piece of hard or software...