skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a recent twin study (and Netflix show) done that makes for compelling evidence that a healthy vegan diet leads to better cardiovascular health than a healthy omnivorous diet:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/11/twin-diet-veg...

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/you-are-what-you-eat-...

That being said, I think that an unhealthy vegan diet can be worse than an unhealthy omnivorous diet, because you really do have to be careful to eat a variety of foods and supplement in order to get everything that your body needs. This is especially true for children.

I follow a vegan Youtuber who regularly points out how unhealthy the advice that other vegan influencers give can be. Here's her video on beginner tips for becoming vegan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R906YsrBWjw
Two new updates have dropped.

Update 3: They resolved the sunward-pointing issue. That's the good news. https://www.astrobotic.com/update-3-for-peregrine-mission-on...

Update 4: They're pretty sure they're losing propellant, and may have to come up with a new plan. That's the bad news. https://www.astrobotic.com/update-4-for-peregrine-mission-on... "We are currently assessing what alternative mission profiles may be feasible at this time" (which is almost certainly press-release-speak for "You will not go to Moon in February.")
On Hair Color in France [pdf]
Some research on hair color in France by Leslie Lamport and Ellen Gilkerson. Visiting a restaurant from now on will not be the same for me.
hard to store arbitrary secure notes, credit card data is in a separate place, passwords not associated to a website are difficult, additional notes on top of the password (eg security question answers -- you should NEVER supply real answers to knowledge based questions) are difficult. i'm sure there's more issues i can't readily come up with on the spot.
That battle is long lost.

For me the revelatory moment was in mid-00s, when everyone screamed anathema at XHTML, saying it was bad because it required people to write well-formed documents, when everyone just wanted to slap random tags and somehow have that steaming mess to still work.

There must me some sort of law that says in tech the crudest pile of hacks wins over any formally elegant solution every single time those hacks lets one do something that requires extra effort otherwise, even if it works only by wildest chance.
It's tough because most of the games being benchmarked by reviewers were designed to work well on 4GB for 1080p and on 8GB high settings. So the extra VRAM doesn't help much for benchmarking.

But future games are likely to run better in >8GB simply because the PS5 and XBox Series X have more than 8.
an yet Ethernet port is limited to 2.5Gbps ....
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240108181325/https://tgrcode.c...

Followup post: https://web.archive.org/web/20230811134158/https://tgrcode.c...
How many connections per minute can result from being on HN frontpage?
When I was there to work on the main front end (hack/js) you ran a copy as you made changes to it. It had full access to real data. But if you tampered with access control logic in it or otherwise read other users (vs your own or a test user) it would get flagged and you get fired. Happen fairly often.
maximum speed comes way before 16000 ft... but either way, what surface did it fall on? It says on the side of the road, so Im going to guess grass.
> If that standard library would be written in JS, a new browser (or rather a new JS engine being a part of the browser) could just use some existing implementation

That sounds great, but I'm doubtful of the simplicity behind this approach.

If my understanding is correct, v8 has transitioned to C++[0] and Torque[1] code to implement the standard library, as opposed to running hard-coded JavaScript on setting up a new context.

I suspect this decision was made as a performance optimization, as there would obviously be a non-zero cost to parsing arbitrary JavaScript. Therefore, I doubt a JavaScript-based standard library would be an acceptable solution here.

[0]: https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/main/src/runtime
[1]: https://v8.dev/docs/torque-builtins -- As I understand it, Torque compiles to C++ at compile-time, which is then linked and compiled into the rest of v8[2].
[2]: https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/main/tools/torque/format-torqu...
Japan kind of considers Salmon a junk fish, though I agree with you.

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-n...
This actually happened to me when I lost most of my memory in an accident. I couldn’t even remember my job tasks enough to describe how to do them. They were repetitive, though, with it all in my intuition or muscle memory. I could do the stuff without knowing why I was doing it. My friends and I joked I was the Jason Borne of the place. It’s a strange feeling, too, because I could feel like something was missing as I acted.

I was also a supervisor in a competitive company with people gunning for my job. The Recession was not a good time to be disabled. I feared demotion or termination. I hid my injury while trying to get back in mental shape. They chalked up occasional forgetfulness to the stress we were all under and my constant partying. (That was before I was in a relationship with Jesus Christ and gave up those sins.)

Eventually, one of my recovery strategies was to take note of the specific things I did on instinct, think about why I did them, and re-create the mental models. I’d also just ask people how they did things and what they learned works best. Many were people I trained with my prior techniques who re-taught them to me. By practicing those, I both re-learned my mental model of how to do the job and connected it with the instinctual wiring.

There were one or two other trucks that helped. That was the part relevant to your comment, though. I never quite got back to my old level of performance. Capitalizing on how intuitive memory is different than conscious memory has helped me in many places ever since. I just keep breaking it into simple things that I repeat over and over to. Then, keep applying those pieces in new ways to keep my brain fresh.
> abstruse and obscurantist syntax/glyphs/typing

I've often wondered what are the real blocks to having it both ways? Have the source saved as some lowest common denominator - IL, tagged AST, or somesuch - and then read and written in whatever pleases the individual. It would be hard to make it work between languages with drastically different semantics that don't map to anything in another language, I suppose would be the real reason... but I always think about the fact that it makes it down to machine code eventually, so it seems intuitive that the process could be reversed.

Or less drastically, an IDE for APL beginners: symbols have human language helpers or UI overlays, but the source is still APL.
Dear lord it is steer by wire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=93&v=KgAghyLo4os...

Remember, a programmer about as competent as you programmed the ECU!
> many of the problems that various industries have are in my opinion self-inflicted because of their structures.

I would bet my entire salary you only believe this because you don't understand the constraints. When I was in my 20's and thought I knew everything I had the same attitude. I have since gained seniorship and worked in regulated industries and it's much clearer to me now. People in the industries you're talking about are generally smart and well meaning, but the constraints imposed by things like regulation and legacy systems (internal and external) make things that seem like they should be easy really hard.
Seems like an opportunity for CRISPR to make tunas that are farmable.
YouTube can just set a flag to show video X.

LLMs don't work that way.
My anecdotal experience with Hyundai is their ICE vehicles have been completely unreliable. So I’m personally extremely hesitant to purchase an electric car from them.

I saw a video of the EV9 and all its motorized amenities. It’s cool in the showroom but it’s no fun to have stuff break after a few years.

But the design is quite nice and interiors feel premium. Hyundai and Kia have come a long way since the 90s.
By 2014 it wasn't great though, as too many people were using it as a "link dump" for whatever music they were making, because they all heard that SoundCloud was great for getting discovered.
That makes sense.

I guess we’re accustomed to thinking that absence of a file is not “exception-worthy” because it is expected under normal circumstances. But the cases you raised make sense.
> In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate.

Agreed. Creative, high performing people don't do well in a work environment that's structured like a regional bank.

Valve Software -- incredibly profitable, high performing and private company, did fun things like hire economists (and then later Greek prime minister) to study and simulate virtual, in-game economies [0].

Blizzard Entertainment had giant statues of orcs made and fan conventions before their downfall, ya know, in the ZIRP macro economic environment.

Google allowed their engineers 20% time. Before ZIRP.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis#Academic_care...
For once Jason on the All In podcast had an interesting point that you could see bolt-on data sources to your ChatGPT experience where you opt-in to having NYT available to the ChatGPT retrieval step. There's no reason that a data provider shouldn't be paid for the information they create, and I think most of HN would agree with that. The problem is how do you know a model didn't bypass your walls to include your data in the model itself, or as part of retrieval.
If data for machine usage is fair use why don’t they open up their model?
1491 (or is it the sequel, 1493? I could see this topic ending up in either) makes the case that there's nowhere near as much evidence of Native Americans eating passenger pigeons as one might expect given the vast populations (and incredible ease of hunting) reported in later decades. Instead, the vast numbers may have been a sign of a badly screwed-up ecosystem, with huge swaths of native-managed agriculture and land suddenly going unmanaged, freeing up tons of cheap calories of exactly the kind the birds could use, leading to a gigantic boom in species perfectly-situated to take advantage of it, which would include the Passenger. All this, on account of the continent experiencing an apocalyptic drop in population after European disease arrived (and for other reasons, of course, but the diseases did a great deal of it).

That's not why it went extinct, of course, but does put in perspective what may have been a more "natural" population level for the bird, previously—the shocking decline may have been from an aberrant many-times-larger-than-normal population, not from the range in which the population had tended to stay before extensive contact with Europe. It may also explain why it was possible for it to go extinct so seemingly-easily—they weren't truly thriving as much as one might suppose from the numbers, and in fact were quite vulnerable, especially if people got accustomed to eating lots of them and their population was already destined to rubber-band back to something under its ordinary level.
REST/HATEOAS design principles in the context of Rails [video]
Great insights on REST API design principles shared in this talk! Really worth checking out!
> a 2014 paper about Bee Smalltalk

Here's the pdf for this 2023 paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.16973v1.pdf
https://nitter.net/typesfast/status/1743654060673093754
Can Pakistan's Indus River dolphins be saved?
Is it actually unsigned? Or just not developer-signed? Those are different things! When you build an app with Xcode it automatically self-signs app bundles, even if you're not a registered apple developer. Most apps you download are probably built that way.

We use cross-compiling infrastructure on linux/docker for the app I maintain, which don't generate these signatures. This causes the resulting binaries to be rejected on recent apple devices (although they used to work just fine with user override on intel-based macs).
truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
AC outlet is the clock speed!
I see a world of difference between; here are the first three paragraphs from a NYT article, what do you think the fourth is? And what is today's news and getting a paragraph from the NYT.

OpenAI is saying they are going to try stop people tricking them into a copyright violation.
Let's not go there.

Please.
Could you speed up CGI by, say, having an array of processes ready and waiting to receive data?

Like an array of Haskell CGI processes or something...
I took wonder about this. I guess you have to get in touch with them.
I truly hope it's not the divide and sell that activists have been pushing for. The time to sell to CRM or ADBE was during pandemic highs, now both those are probably more interested in AI hype. I think AWS or another cloud provider would be an interesting pairing though, but with Jeff out so does the hopes of an Amazon relationship besides 2023's announcement

https://investors.twilio.com/news/news-details/2023/AWS-and-...
> In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate.

My anecdote, FWIW, is that some of the worst performing startups do these tricks too.

There's something about flashy events and boondoggles that sound good on LinkedIn that draws bad founders into spending waaay too much on parties and fun activities.

Stripe obviously isn't in that category, but never assume that because a company spends a lot on parties and events that they're doing well.
While I imagine building knowledge of sources into the model itself is no trivial task, it would be so easy to search the training data against the output of the model to generate references.
"hedged fund" implies that the fund itself is hedged. It is the original and correct term (hence the link).

"hedge fund" implies that the fund IS a hedge (presumably against other assets one might own). Except that in and of itself the fund cannot hedge you without knowing what you own.

Nowadays, everything is called a "hedge fund" incorrectly - they should be called "hedged fund" as per the original term. They provide diversification and hopefully some return above CPI, or some well-defined risk-adjusted return.

By the way, "hedging against volatility" doesn't mean much. Most of those funds are short volatility.
TikTok Curtails Data Tool Used by Critics
This is true even at large engineering schools with decent reputations.

Ran into this for Master's level MIS courses. Admittedly they were the pre-req / must take courses, and were mostly overviews of X, where X = Java, Assembly, Mid-level Linux, etc.

But cookie cutter Pearson material. You could search some of the slide bulletpoints and find the same presentation archived at Duke, or UNM, or other schools. Ditto for most of the test questions / homework. They'd change a few of the numbers but it's clear that the course was 100% manufactured.

The instructor was mostly there to answer questions and give a low effort recitation. Some classes were great and had teacher than went above and beyond, but others were clearly a phone-in.

edit: worth noting that plenty of the courses weren't cookie cutter and were very bespoke -- and challenging. Some of the CE and Assembly stuff was clearly designed by specific professors and was quite rigorous.
What if you kept statistics of what access patterns you encounter every day. A lot of workloads do the same thing day in day out. Some workloads almost never scan, others only scan, it would be a quick win to automatically optimize these cases.
Ambient Photonics shows off battery-free devices with indoor solar cells
"Fly safe." o7
Show HN: A CLI agent that runs commands on your computer
I’m finding it super fun to play with LLMs that can actually do things in the real world. I started here with an LLM-powered CLI that can run commands on your computer. I tried this first in Deno and then switched to Go; thrilled with it and the level of precision it gives you, with zero packaging/linting/config related headaches.
Can't have private enterprise find the secret Moon bases. /s
Fred Wilson: Read Write Own
Only if they are armed and you’re willing to go to war over fish.
Fun fact (for me, anyway): I live 35 miles from the launch complex, and the ground-shaking launch of the Vulcan Centaur rocket woke me up at 2:19 this morning.

I can't imagine how intense it was for people much nearer to Cape Canaveral.

That is one hell of a rocket!
They're free to patrol the waters in the South Red Sea though. Doesn't Egypt have a navy? To me this situation seems like it would warrant sending nearly their entire fleet to the South Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
It is nigh impossible to be "unnecessarily negative" about a philosophy that is ok with killing all humans in the name of a greater good.
Most likely Nintendo (being an extensive AWS user) will just ship the levels to some S3 bucket; never to see the light of day. Even if each level were just 2 MB, that would cost them only $46/mo. to keep 1 million levels.
Nice work!

It’s great that you can track your progress in this app!

When I was learning German, I used the dictionary lookup on Kindle a lot and made a web app to extract that vocabulary as Anki flashcards. It’s available on https://fluentcards.com. The code is open source on GitHub.
Probably not, but with a 25 hour recording window one could make sure that the previous crews did not notice any irregularities (that they might not have reported) or anything else that might have lead up to this incident. That's pretty mind boggling that a modern age voice recorder doesn't even support storing the timespan of an intercontinental flight.
Bet365 boss Denise Coates sees pay jump to £221M
Have you tried ShareDrop or SnapDrop (first two Google results for "airdrop alternative")?

I use AirDrop most of the time, but I use a macOS/iOS SSH shortcut to copy files (mostly camera snaps) from my personal devices to work devices and vice versa.

Edit: My shortcut is highly specialized for my use case, but the comment at this link is a basic example of how it works: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/412331/ios-ipados-...
These Scooby Do Mystery Wagon shape van EVs seem to be all the rage. There's a company here is SE Canada making a small EV van that looks similar to the Canoo. If there ever was a vehicle called a Canoo it should have been Canadian. Maybe we call make a Moose, Beaver, or Canada goose EV next?

Canadian EV site https://www.potentialmotors.com/
Show HN: AI browser ninja that can complete any task on Chrome
Hey folks, so I built a chrome extension called [name redacted], an AI assistant that automatically completes your browser tasks for you. You simply enter your task, and [name redacted] uses GPT-4V to “see” your screen and figure out the best browser action to perform repeatedly until the task is accomplished.

We’re trying to figure out the best use case for [name redacted]. Some ideas we’ve had are natural language UI testing and automated UX feedback. Is there any task that you’d like to use [name redacted] for either personally or at work?

If you want to try [name redacted], download the chrome extension and let us know what you think. It's completely free with no sign up required!
Solver Performance: 1989 vs. 2024
First of all, I was disagreeing with the metaphor on premise, and thus that it is a 'purely speed based system', because it is not. Emergency vehicles can drive faster, and you can argue with a cop or in court that you had a good reason to drive faster and be relieved of the offense.

If you really believe in only 'the letter of the law' then why do we have courts? It isn't just to determine guilt or innocence, since only some of the courts do that and only some of the time.
> In my 32 years in the industry the best performing companies always did these things regardless of the macroeconomic climate.

I think the question is more about whether doing these things caused the company financial success, or whether the company's financial success caused them to do these things. It strikes me as plausible that it's almost always the latter, even if the company's financial success isn't attributable solely to the macroeconomic climate.
Yes, it is a tradeoff. I don't know about AWS Lambda specifically but this sort of behaviour can be mitigated with pre-warming. So you always maintain N% extra capacity. Then you allow the instance to start up before actually sending any requests there. Of course if you scale up >N% faster than your instances can start up you will still hit a cold start, but if your app starts relatively quickly and you maintain a decent buffer that should be fairly rare.
I don't see there being any basis to the claim that training is fair use, which is the premise their argument rests on.
Hey thanks for your comment. I certainly don't want a "how to get mugged app". I look at it as the local is the tourguide and you're paying for a tour. They pick the restaurant and if you agree that's where you go. Since its just meeting in a public place I would hope the chances of getting mugged are low. My hope is that by looking at their social media profiles you'd get an idea of what type of person you are meeting with.
There is a lot of luck involved in posting on the internet, for sure. I posted a Show HN one time that ended up on the front page for over a day, with half of that time at #1. That led to media coverage all over the world.

Another Show HN I posted went nowhere — even though it was a good enough idea to separately get media coverage because it was timely (including in a front-page article of the NYT). There is a lot of luck involved, but you can also make your own luck, by reaching out to folks who might be interested.
but every animal that lives in the amazon shits in it? whats so bad about human shit. its just acid washed organic matter.

what point are you making? if you acknowledge its only a matter of taste, then who cares about navajo tastes? especially when the taste is wrong. the moon isn't sacred.
Good to see this eventually come
As if that proves anything...
Of course it's fair use.

It's a transformative application of copyrighted materials it's the textbook definition of fair use, and anyone pretending it isn't because of some anti generative AI luddite sentiment is risking to destroy a precedent on which much of the modern internet is built.
Some notes here on OpenBSD
https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html
What's your point? In practice, people doing work on solid research infrastructure code don't get social or financial support, don't get tenure, often can't keep academic jobs, and typically end up giving up and switching to (highly paid and better respected) industry work. Sometimes that code ends up supported as someone's part-time hobby project. If you hunt around you can find this discussed repeatedly, sometimes bitterly. Some of the most important infrastructure projects end up abandoned, with no maintainers.

In practice, most research code (including supposedly reusable components) ends up getting written in a slipshod ad-hoc way by grad students with high turnover. It typically has poor choice of basic abstractions, poor documentation, limited testing, regressions from version to version, etc. Researchers make do with what they can, and mainly focus on their written (journal paper) output rather than the quality or project health of the code.
It actually did end up as RFC 9413, albeit somewhat softened.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9413/
Eating marine animals can be beneficial for the oceans. Eating sea urchins can help save the kelp forests off of California, eating Lion fish can help save the reef fish in the Caribbean.
So you don't eat fish... twice?
I think quest 3 is reasonably sharp so something sharper than that eventually will be pretty sweet.

Personally I’m more put off by the bulkiness of the device, something very light is necessary!