skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of air quality sensors, what really made a difference for me was getting a CO2 sensor. "Fresh air" (low CO2) behaves way different than what j was taught. I live in a newly constructed building, which apparently is almost hermetically sealed. And we have no AC, since we're in Europe. As a result, air quality (in terms of co2) goes downhill unexpectedly FAST. And opening the windows for 5 to let in fresh air is definitely not enough to restore quality to sensible levels. EU norms say that public building should have less than 800ppm CO2, as anything above might affect cognitive abilities. However, reaching that level is almost impossible without constantly cracking the window (or an AC). I'd never have expected this....
I get the impression that like everything else, executives are strongly influenced by herd psychology. They see a few headlines and then that gives them the idea that they will be able to copy the other companies and reduce costs. And no one will be able to accuse them of doing the wrong thing if everyone else was doing it. Whereas if sales continue to be poor and they are one of a minority of companies that did not do layoffs, then the executive gets blamed for lack of profits due to inaction.
Same experience here.

I‘m also vegan, but I would say cutting back on sugar and highly processed wheat products helped me the most to stay at a healthy weight.
I actually hardly ever see thirst trap posts, my feed is pretty much just an endless wall of memes.

Maybe it’s because I signed up with a burner phone number and I avoid (as much as I’m able) giving Meta any scrap of data to link to my IRL identity
After reading all this talk about HEPA filters and 99.95% vs 99.5%, it's funny to read on that Sqair page "H12 HEPA (99.5%)". There's no such thing as H12 according to that wikipedia page for HEPA standards.
That is really shocking - that a diet change that resulted in less calories and an increase in physical exercise led to weight loss! :)
No, not just cost. Take a cessna columbus. An 8 seater executive jet. They chose to put fly by wire only on flaps. Is it because of cost? I doubt it. Pilots like "fly by wire" and people would gladly pay a 100k more for it on a $27 million aircraft. Even back in 2009 when it was still available.
Look. When your execs summarily execute the morale of the entire sales org to position investor narrative, you know the company is in deep shit.

Gemini Pro (future) beats GPt4 (today) by single digit percent when you use COT 32x - aka spend insane amounts of money. It’s bullshit.

The layoffs will continue until growth can be achieved. Which in AI is a long time away for them.
Very smart. Shifting from parallel input (keyboard matrix) and physical layout (keys, springs, etc) to the time domain and “serial” input.
I think you just made the point for me, if you have a system like PAYE there’s no room for minor clerical errors for the vast majority of people since there is no opportunity to even make the clerical error in the first place. You just look at the taxes and verify they are right and off to the races. This is how most civilized nations work, except the USA
I've made similar apologies upthread but I'm passionate about this being an inclusive conversation and so I'm trying to respond to everyone who I confused with all the jargon.

The trouble with the jargon is that it obfuscates to a high degree even by the standards of the software space, and in a field where the impact on people's daily lives is at the high end of the range, even by the standards of the software space.

HN routinely front-pages stuff where the math and CS involved is much less accessible, but for understandable reasons a somewhat tone-deaf comment like mine is disproportionately disruptive: people know this stuff matters to them either now or soon, and it's moving as quickly as anything does, and it's graduate-level material.

If you have concrete questions about what probably looks like word salad I'll do my best to clarify (without the aid of an LLM).
I'm always amazed when someone like Stalinist Barney Fife rises to head a significant company.

I shouldn't be amazed, but somehow I still always am.
Bitcoin keys in bank vaults guarded by security guards is exactly what is happening. I wrote about this almost 10 years ago here:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-163-zubair-2015-bitcoin-p...

My timeline for when things will happen in Bitcoin were way too optimistic though :)
It's not the calories, it's the carbs (aka sugar). The modern Westernized diet is carb-heavy, and carbs are the main macronutrient contributing to obesity (see the clear increase in obesity following the creation of the food pyramid).

Many Pacific Island nations also saw massive obesity rates. The reason was carbs, not calories. Soda contributes to obesity because of sugar, not the calories.
Both are doing the same thing we saw happening to real-estate leading up to the 2008 meltdown.

Replace real estate with Attention and its the same story. Attention is finite just like Land. There is only so much of it that can be sold limited by money supply in the system. Once that limit is reached cook up bullshit to keep selling real estate and in this case view counts up.

Interesting difference is it's not just about bubble bursting but also info sewage accumulating in people's heads through this notion that info flow into people's heads can forever increase.
Short answer is yes. You can use statistical modeling techniques on an input dataset to generate numeric scores that estimate the degree to which someone is gullible.

This, of course, assumes that the input data has a strong enough signal to predict (or describe) gullibility, which may or may not be true depending on the data you have available.

Data scientists model personality characteristics like gullibility in domains such as message testing (advertising) and persuasion modeling (political elections).
Most home AC systems in Europe don't provide fresh air, that's a common misconception.
Is there a name for this tactic that people like you use? Where you think you can deflect attention from the disgusting atrocities of October 7 (atrocities which continue to this day as the perpetrators continue to torture hostages) by laser focusing on just one perhaps false claim made during the fog of war?

October 7 was a barbaric act of murder, torture, rape and kidnapping, involving men, women, children and babies. Women were forced to watch their children burned to death before themselves being burned alive. Men had fingers, toes, hands and feet removed before being shot in the head. I couldn't care less if the rumour of beheaded babies is false because there were enough atrocities at the same scale which have been confirmed. Shame on you for deflecting from this fact. Shame on you.
So bitcoin became something like money and stocks, just a number in a SQL database? And we can now finally make bitcoins out of thin air?

How long before the amount of bitcoins traded by hedge funds will be larger than the amount of bitcoins that exist in the actual bitcoin network?
Everyone who is skeptical of the proposed plausible cause of social media in causing depression in this thread should explain why their alternative theory holds up to the evidence that no significant increase happened both pre-2010 and is global

To my knowledge there is currently no other better theory other than the rise of social media use that explains the phenomenon. Other proposed explanations such as Bad economy, capitalist alienation, terrible politics, parenting habits, global warming, atomic individualism, and lack of purpose all either cannot be generalized globally or did not start in 2010.
Quote: "Pre-order now".

Just like for games, "no, I don't think I will". I'll let the quirks be ironed first then I'll see the reviews.
> All to say: the N64 Controller is a thing of beauty

Honestly, it's always been one of the ugliest controllers in my opinion, and I was under the impression my opinion wasn't super common. I'm not usually one to care about form over function, but if anything the function is even worse, because no matter how you hold it, 1/3 of the controls are unreachable. If I had a third hand, maybe I'd appreciate it more, but it just looks like it was designed by an alien who had never seen a human before...
Did I miss it, or was there not one person from engineering in that video?

Lots of bean counters and HR types, though.
The cope.

What normal human reduces its CO so that you wont lose weight? Are you talking about someone in a coma?
I hope you find some others because so far it's been 2 articles with claims that Jews control the media, and 1 article from an unreliable source.

(The unreliable source has lines saying, for example, that Israel beat Palestinians for not understanding Hebrew which is extraordinarily unlikely - Israel has plenty of Arab speakers. That newspaper is simply not a reliable source, and it should never have been allowed to become a post on HN.)
"Scala isn't dead" reminded me of this one "No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZw35VUBdzo
At least 62% of visitors on my PWA come from Play Store, with 20% being labeled "unknown".

It really depends on your app, but many mobile users just search for stuff in Play Store first before searching on Google, and even Googling it will help as you will get a widget about your app (sometimes). The web version is (for the most popular queries) on average 1.6th in Google results.

Although the dataset may not be very large (10k+ installs shown on Play Store page).
Syntax may be overrated but expressiveness is not.
Genuinely mortified. I'll resist the urge in future. Thanks for keeping HN such a great site Dan.
> I do agree that the set of actions I use Google assistant for is pretty static and are the same ones everyone else uses it for: What's the weather? Set my alarm? What's the first item on my calendar? Play XYZ on Spotify... But I don't see this at all as a "failed experiment"

So since 10 years, all it can do is play some music and tell the weather, all of this only online, so it is not a failed experiment. /s
Not sure if related to this release, but right now both the website and the android app een to be broken.

The app just hangs with a dot in the middle of the screen, and the website seems to load but asking a question results in "NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.". Sidebar menu also empty.

Anyone else experiencing this?
The person who believes in no conspiracy theories is the most gullible of all. They believe everything that "authority" tells them, and questions nothing.

The person who believes in a huge amount of conspiracy theories is gullible, but at least is picking and choosing, and not blindly listening to what they are told.

The person who believes in some conspiracy theories and not others is sane, because a lot of former conspiracy theories are now accepted fact.
Make each pixel a millennium prize solution.
The amount of fake bitcoins traded by exchanges and custodians probably exceeded 21 million already over the last 5 years.

Hence, “not your keys, not your coins”
Yes. They will use your data as input to the GPT model to deliver the reponse you have requested.
I prefer the method used in the article. All the settings are neatly kept in a git configuration file, and I don't have to track down where direnv keeps them, or remember that I need a separate tool in order to make it work. Also this allows you to set git config options that don't have a corresponding environment variable.
Yep, all true.

These days Java isn't slow to develop on at all. There are plenty of very good frameworks where you can get going with developing a web app or rest service in next to no time with far better tooling support, sophistication etc.

.NET is a serious contender though.

Node isn't really on the same ballpark in terms of maturity.
The reported group is not the Israeli government.

And what is the "racist Israeli narrative"?
> Keep in mind that modern quantitative approaches to LLM evaluation have been effectively co-designed with the rise of OpenAI, and folks like Ravenwolf routinely disagree with the leaderboards.

Sorry but you're talking complete nonsense here. The benchmark by LMSys (chatbot arena) cannot be gamed, and Ravenwolf is a random-ass poster with no scientific rigor to his benchmarks.
I suppose there were no full-on defunding, but it does look like there was some reduction in funding, which (from the article) is a trend reversal [1]

> With public pressure on them, mayors and city councils responded. In 2020 budget votes, advocacy groups won over $840m in direct cuts from US police departments

> Portland, Oregon, cut $15m from its budget

> Austin, Texas, has made some of the most dramatic changes in the country, directly cutting roughly $20m from the police department

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-de...
“ Nested functions can even goto back into their parent function, allowing for nonlocal exits to break out of nested functions like Smalltalk blocks, allowing control flow-like functions to be built using them.”

Wild!

Makes one wonder how something could have evolved if it took C and made it more “functional” and/or smalltalk-ish, without going the dynamic way of ObjectiveC.

I don’t exactly love C++ but I find it very useful. Maybe I could have loved that other never conceived C offspring.
No, but it’s crazy to think how much power this is. Clearly this was lost on the downvoters.
Which is really how the experience with portable APIs from Khronos goes, most people that claim they are portable never really did any serious cross platform, cross device programming with them.

At the end of the day there are so many if this, if that, load this extension, load that extension, do this workaroud, do that workaround, that it could just be another API for all pratical purposes.
The one major thing Kotlin still has going for it is null safety, and IMO it eclipses every other „nice“ feature. But Java will get this too, and then I‘m not sure I can justify using it.

Oh and I wish Java would support „it“ in lambdas, very useful.
> and you think Bitcoin will go to zero AFTER its available to every investor in the US through every finance app and is being sold by giant hedge funds?

The reasoning is (I'm not saying I believe this will happen just that it is an interesting thought experiment) that if people quit the shady exchanges and start trading Bitcoin ETF in substantial numbers it could begin to starve the crypto network of transaction fees and the exchanges and other crypto companies of customers.

If Bitcoin ETFs become the main way bitcoin is traded then purchasing bitcoin is just for speculation and not an 'investment in crypto and the future of finance', in that case it's much easier for the bubble to burst.
I'm comparing the 2021 F/18 computers to the upcoming TR-3 upgrade of the F-35s which won't actually start until mid-2024!

They're upgrading the 1994 level of computer power to 2015 level of computer power... in 2024, when they already have directly comparable fighter jet avionics that has a "giga" where this thing has a "mega".
Yes. Git doesn't daemonize, so there's no way it can avoid reading its configuration every time you run a command. Ultimately what the command ends up doing likely takes orders of magnitude longer than reading and parsing the config file, so it's not really a big deal.
Terrible for the environment.
Yes it's trivial, but I'm asking for a commercial provider one can trust that uses software that doesn't suck horribly and one that doesn't just cut you off immediately if your payment to them fails, or locks your account until you phone them if you try the password too many times etc.

If I wanted to host my own I wouldn't ask about providers...

Email these days is about much more than just email. Calendar integration and sync between devices that lets you access email on said devices as well as resiliency one would want for an essential service mean just "hosting your own" is definitely not trivial.

Then there is antispam etc.
Speculative musings beckon, and we dare to embrace them. The crux of the matter appears to be the chasm that separates novel advancements from the moment they are quantified for mainstream consumption. Retaining vivid memories of past entanglements with industry titans, circumspectly explore and exploit these innovations until they become both affordable and practicable for on-premise utilization, finally unveiling competitive prowess. The overarching question looms large. Perhaps, Mistral has not yet amassed the financial resources commensurate with such largesse.

"My hips don't lie."
Guard clauses, something so simple yet so underrated, you never know how much you love them until you meet people from the single return per function church.

It still amazes me how they can believe that putting all the guards in tens of nested ifs can be saner than a few extra returns at the top.

And don't get me started on those that goto is bad but it's ok to put everything inside a do while (0) they can break out of and clean up at the end.

Sorry for the off-topic rambling, tidying is like "clean" code, everyone has their own definition and sometimes changing code for the sake of making it tidy is more dangerous than just changing the behaviour, especially if it was already tidy by some other people standard.
Minimize typing as much as possible.
> Your no-serverside-detection absolutism is disproved by the many instances of UA-string parsing in our present reality.

By your logic, because McDonalds is popular, it must be a healthy choice then.
You will find work but a lot of those jobs got pushed downmarket, to early stage firms, as late stage and public companies are short of cash now. And those early stage companies dont pay you as much or at least not in cash
If by "station wagon" you mean LC-130 ;) IceCube switched from tapes to hard drives I think in 2015 or 16.

In 2014 we spent a lot of time fiddling with tapes and drives... At that point, all the data was recorded to tape and flown North in the summer. Additionally, software at Pole filtered out the more interesting events to upload over satellite within hours. I assume it's still basically the same.
Usenet is not controlled by a big corporation, that is what threatens its existence.

You didn't need Meta or X or Instagram to exchange information. Algorithms didn't decide what you get to see or not. You weren't forced to consume large amounts of ads and you weren't tracked. This is very bad! :)

Can we, somehow, revive Usenet or build a better version of it?
I've seen plenty of "pro israeli" threads get flagged immediately.

It's just a divisive topic.
Instagram recently removed keyboard slipping in stories. Now it’s useless. Some people have 50 items in their featured stories.

If you stop/switch while watching anything, you’ll have to start one again. If does allow you to scrub within certain videos but the UI is very finicky.

They try to trick you into “opening” ads by swapping gestures for ads (swipe down is different)

TikTok is simply a lot faster in terms of ui and responsiveness.

At a certain point, if will hang with videos until you change networks. Might be related to my network, but if it’s the only app that has this issue.

Search is just bad… super bad. I have to rely on google to search on Instagram

No links/ ways to go to part 2 etc.
Why downvotes? It is the most effective way to separate config. If any of those "condition" fails, you may nuke or compromise your repo!
If you want to have a nice experiment, create a new FB account and identify as a 30-40yo male.

Don't like any pages or anything, then check the suggestions: It's a 100% softcore porn for horny dudes.
What kind of emacs distribution is on the screenshot?
This is extremely aggressive. I thought the author might jump out from my monitor and attack me after I read such statements.
On the one hand, yes.

On the other hand, if you want unbiased, quasi-scientific tests, who is gonna pay for it?

It is actually in your best interest if YOU are paying for it, since then you are the customer and not the product.

That said, it isn’t even that expensive. When I buy a washing machine, I just buy the Warentest article on washing machines first which makes the overall purchase, like, 0.5% more expensive.
The US Army has thousands of helicopters, which count as aircraft. They have a limited inventory of fixed-wing aircraft. Only about a thousand of those helicopters are combat systems (almost entirely AH-64 Apache), there are a few thousand utility and transport helicopters that exist for quickly moving troops and equipment.

I always find the absolute numbers of US military systems surprising, particularly considering that they are largely state-of-the-art and continuously upgraded. US equipment inventories are vast, since they were originally trying to maintain parity with Soviet numbers. The situation in Ukraine suggests that the exchange rate is not anything like 1:1 but the equipment is a sunk cost at this point.
You have already taken a side by comparing Row vs Wade to prohibition. If you don’t want to take a side… don’t present arguments for that side.
I haven't played Monopoly in decades. Reason: mostly I played with family and we ended up in fights and arguments. It brought out the worst in us, we'd deceive one another, hide $500 notes when others were not looking and gloat when one's opponent was sent to jail, and so on.

Monopoly really is a nasty game, it amplifies the worst aspects of human nature.
Well I understand they use it internally ( job scheduling, data center optimization, code analyzers, etc ) which to some extent is shipping and does provide you with an advantage ( basically you reduce your operating costs).
I screenshotted my emacs session upthread in a bit of a cheeky "AI-talking-about-AI" joke: https://imgur.com/WDrqxsz.

While I heavily rely on `emacs` as my primary interface to all this stuff, I'm slowly-but-surely working on a curated and opinionated collection of bindings and tools and themes and shit for all the major hacker tools (VSCode, `nvim`, even to a degree the JetBrains ecosystem). This is all broadly part of a project I'm calling `hyper-modern` which will be MIT if I get to a release candidate at all.

I have a `gRPC` service that wraps the outstanding work by the "`ggeranov` crew" loosely patterned on the sharded model-server architectures we used at FB/IG and mercilessly exploiting the really generous free-plan offered by the `buf.build` people (seriously, check out the `buf.build` people) in an effort to give hackers the best tools in a truly modern workflow.

It's also an opportunity to surface some of the outstanding models that seem to have sunk without a trace (top of mind would be Segment Anything out of Meta and StyleTTS which obsoletes a bunch of well-funded companies) in a curated collection of hacker-oriented capabilities that aren't clumsy bullshit like co-pilot.

Right now it's a name and a few thousand lines of code too rough to publish, but if I get it to a credible state the domain is `https://hyper-modern.ai` and the code will be MIT at `https://github.com/hyper-modern-ai/`.
I'm not too suprised by the move, it's a classic segmentation steategy but I was surprised how poorly the example screenshots they gave reflect on the product.

You have one non actionable marketing answer, a growth graph created without axis (what are people going to do with that?) and a Python file which would be easier just to run to get the error.

That kind of reinforce my belief that those AI tools aren't without their learning curves despite being in plain English.
hn is all about the vc ecosystem which deals in dollars, so this is understandable. same with banks
It's literally been in the headlines off basically any news outlets for the last few months.