skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Viewing things like exercise and diet as a non choice is insanely dis-empowering. I want to know that I can choose to change if its important to me, I don't want to feel powerless to genetics or the society in which I was born.

It's not that I think people are destined to eat junk food, it's that describing what you eat as a choice is shallow and useless.

A choice is only meaningful if you are able to implement it. Only with knowledge, training, and technology can you overcome the deficit. Combining that by changing the structure and incentives of society will amplify that effect.

If people are continuously trying and failing to implement exercise and weight loss programs, it suggests that our knowledge and tools are incomplete. If we reach the point that obesity and 'lifestyle' related issues are a non-problem or can be overcome successfully long term, only then it becomes a meaningful choice.

This is why I emphasized knowledge and skills, cause and effect over freedom of choices. Obesity is not just a problem on an individual level, but also on a societal level. If you want to solve them, you must manipulate all the levels of causality.
It doesn't even have to be waterproof to prevent 99% water damage cases. It just needs to be water resistant against liquid pours from the top, like how a car can withstand rain.
ollama or llama.cpp
RF is harmless below the point where it directly heats tissue.

Having a full strength cell tower transmitter inside your home is not safe due to the intensity of the transmission, it will directly heat tissue inside your body.
That low accident rate is nigh inconceivable. It's an incredible achievement.
It's not as if Elon invented the idea. Every successfully entrepreneur who went on to found a large company has done it in one form or another. Maybe it didn't take the form of layoffs, but cost-cutting is a natural behaviour when the soft money disappears. Happened in 2008 as well.
This is a really fun and useful app for kids, thank you!
I think (-.*/~)2}.i.100 is a little more idiomatic.
At the risk of being overly negative (but in the interest of possibly saving someone else some time), this may be one of the three worst books I've ever read. I am not exaggerating – I keep a list of every book I read, and it's at the bottom.

If all you need is a barely-sensible motivational speech, go for it. Otherwise, don't waste your time.

I don't use goodreads, but went looking for reviews to see if I was crazy, or if I was missing something, or if it really was as terrible as I thought. These selected reviews sum it up better than I could have:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55761871

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/732294700

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/735909209

The reviews seem fairly polarized overall, so maybe the book really does help people. At the very least, I encourage you to read some of them before picking up the book.

If the positive reviews seem like they come from people you'd agree with, then by all means, go for it. Otherwise, stay away.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1319.The_War_of_Art
How can pilots handle flying an airplane, including in crisis situations, if the 'stress' of recording is too much? It's hard to take the argument seriously. Customer service agents can handle it, so can you.

I get that people want their privacy, but if it saves lives, it's a workplace (like customer service and many other jobs that aren't life-threatening), that outweighs it. People get surveilled constantly in their private lives and live with the stress.
The survival of the individual is exactly what is being selected for.
The influence of an individual gene is not distinguishable from those that are packaged with it.

So what is selected for over any single cycle is sets of sets of genes conveying advantage.

Taking half of your genes from each parent could only select whole useful chromosomes from each parent (but is far better than nothing);

In order for genes to be selected in their own rights, you need more.

Chromosomal crossover copies genes across chromosome pairs - over the course of repeated iterations this allows useful mutations to be more easily distinguished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_crossover
I'm still not sure of the error. Could you complete this sentence for me:

Their preferred candidate didn't win, therefore...
Unsure what Simon Wilson's program does, but you can pull models via many methods.

For CLI, Ollama: https://ollama.ai/library/mixtral

With UI, GPT4All: https://gpt4all.io/index.html (doesn't yet support Mixtral)

In-app, superagent.sh: https://github.com/homanp/superagent
You can't imagine bad things that mass surveillance will lead to?
My daily driver phone is a Galaxy s10e (which I bought when my s7 got hinkey, because it could more or less fit into the same leather wallet case). It is not rooted because TBH I don't do much more than calls, web, chat, email on it (in that order).

Work requires an android security patch level less than 6 months old, so I decided the new Pixel 8 pro would give me at least 7 years before I have to replace it. I use it on Wifi only, and my life is improved by not always being connected to work. It takes nice pictures but so far I am wasting all that power. I need it to last 7 years.

I have an Android tablet for movies on travel (Galaxy Active Tab Pro). But mostly - I prefer a machine I have close to full control over. I am a Windows guy, so I have a a 2014 era HP x360 for super light "throw it in bag and forget it" and a cheap Dell Latitude refurb which came with a GPU (200 bucks shipped), 32gb RAM and a 2018 era i7. It runs older games admirably. When I had my work stuff on my s10e, I would bring the x360 on vacay instead of my work laptop and just use Dex if something blew up which needed my attention. (Mostly not needed, but I lole to be ready).

I have a NAS device running Windows Server 2022 which does backup / JellyFin / misc duties. It is an old i7 from 2015 with 32gb DDR3. Runs like a champ.

I am looking at some point to clean up my Google account by pulling everything down and burning it to MDISC.

I have a fairly modern gaming PC I built, but mostly don't use it. The Dell laptop is my daily driver personal machine and I love it. Possibly the best 200 bucks I have spent in my computing life.
100k firms have joined database aimed at unmasking shell company owners
Build your own product copilot
And the CEO’s own medium
That seems ripe for optimization, if true, especially since those layers are all immutable.
When I shopped for a new watch two years ago, I was looking for a simple non-smart, easy to use, robust watch that didn't have a ton of features. I ended up getting a Freestyle watch and I have been very satisfied with it.

It tells the time and tells me time elapsed, the light isn't obnoxiously bright at night, I'm not fiddling with the interface, I'm not getting pinged, my data isn't being collected, I'm not afraid of breaking it or soaking it, I'm not charging it.

It just works.
MPs: The Domain-Specific Language Creator by JetBrains
I’d assume annual since the first number says “/year”, but that blows my mind captable mgmt is $250M in annual revenue.
I've had excellent results with Mixtral too - it's genuinely impressive. Only problem is that it's a relatively big model that's difficult to run with full GPU inference on consumer hardware (vs the 7b/13b models people typically use).

So far, the main consumer platform capable of running it without 'ruining' the quality of its output (with high levels of quantization) is the newer Apple Silicon Macs with unified memory - generally >=48GB. It can apparently be done on 32 or 36GB, but there's not much headroom.

Edit: As coder543 points out, yes - you can run it without more lossy levels of quantization on multi-GPU setups providing those have enough combined vram.
I was laid off at the end of last year and at the time I felt pretty bad about it. To land that job I spent the longest period in my entire career applying to jobs and I was extremely worried I'd have to repeat that process. But you know what: there is something fundamentally different about the job market at this point of time, during this time of year. This is only anecdotal but I'm seeing some of the best companies hiring for new positions. I'm seeing new, very promising startups spring up that are managing to raise money in a crushing bear market (I work in FinTech which due to regulation and a serious number of horrible events have sent the industry to its lowest point yet.)

If you're currently jobless you have one amazing advantage for you: January is the best possible time of year to find roles. Don't be discouraged when you see jobs with hundreds of applications. Most people just mass spam and aren't even remotely qualified. If you have the experience the best way to get hired is to engage with the job post. Show that you've read it, that you understand the companies mission, that you understand how the company is uniquely positioned and what value they're trying to create compared to everyone else. Then talk about how you can help solve their main challenges to make them successful. I guarantee you will stand out above everyone else who is just spamming generic cover letters. But this means only applying to jobs that also stand out to you.

tl; dr: im getting interviews just like every other time when the market was actually healthy. At the very least this is the best time of year to apply. So take advantage of it while you can.
GitHub: Subversion support has been sunset
I wonder how reliable this will be. Back in the summer, my mom plugged her iPhone in to charge, and it gave a warning saying that it couldn't charge because there was liquid in the charging port. However, the port was bone-dry, and there was no liquid anywhere near the phone. It turned out that the charger didn't like the extension cord that it was plugged into. I took the extension cord away, and the phone started charging.
I assume that this is to help the user memorize their new password. I know we on HN all use password managers, but most people out there don’t.
I like it. Not because I am a software engineer. But because it cuts down on problems.

The only think I would change is that the host can forgo the paid-for meal if they want. The paid-for meal make sense for a developing country host, but if you live in an expensive city then don't want to make the guest pay even more, and if you live there you are probably not poor yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodology
Background: https://apnews.com/article/small-business-regulation-digital...
fun trick with bit.ly (and bit.ly-hosted shorteners): add a + to the end of the URL to see where it leads. in past times you could also see stats, but they killed that :/
A phone battery is 3.8 volt. No worry, right?
If a pilot can't be expected to maintain the pitch of a plane on takeoff, he has no business flying ANYTHING.

What Boeing did (and is STILL doing) is expect pilots to know or remember obscure NON-PILOTAGE (and in the case of MCAS, BURIED) trivia to prevent disaster.

Now... what's the more-responsible approach? Expect pilots to pilot, or expect them to recall an ever-growing list of workarounds to incompetent system design?
Nice, you have experience in data frames in R, Python and Julia! Which one of those do you like the most? I know that the ecosystem isn't really comparable, but from your experience, which one is the best to work with for core operations, etc.?
> some people disagree with the ethics of importing a migrant underclass

and those very same people would also "disagree" with higher prices for essential goods/services.
This email address and blurb seems to have been spammed on things as diverse as a wine blog and an obituary, anywhere they can shove it with little oversight.

No, they are not legit. No, they cannot recover your money from scammers. Yes, this is just another scam and it's right here in plain sight on hacker news.
The crazy thing is that since the old Max fiasco several of us believed that the priorities of the Boeing company were completely wrong: they had decided to cut so many corners to increase profit to the point of negligence. Doing That, in an airplane is just crazy.

Their manufacturing process is just kaput. And there is no force that will make them fix it until their planes start falling mid flight in pieces.

I find it unfathomable that the FAA is basically sitting watching with their arms crossed. They should fine the heck out of Boeing and ground all their planes. But american protectionism is strong in this one.
> just look at doing something as simple as a join (don't forget to reset the index)

It's slightly ironic that you mention this, because I always thought the biggest problem with Pandas was its documentation. Case in point: did you know there's a way to join data frames without using the index? It's called "merge" rather than "join".

Pandas was originally very heavily inspired by R terminology and usage patterns, where the term "merge" to mean "join" was already commonplace. If I didn't already know R when I started learning Pandas (~2015), I don't think I'd have been able to pick it up quickly at all.
There was a tech company in the UK who was doing it (irritatingly, I can't remember their name atm) with Oxford and Cambridge humanities grads. Just googled it and couldn't find it. If anybody remembers what I'm talking about, please reply below because now it's bugging me.
Ask HN: How hard did Annie Easley work compared to
...you?
Phthalate contamination in food uncorrelated with packaging type
FWIW i just looked at the specs online and the iphone 15 pro is rated to IP68 while the ipad-pro and MacBook Air specs are silent on this.
Why is everyone's marketing team underlining a random word in their slogans these days? Is the most important takeaway not to be forgotten from this product the word "era"?
bigforth can (it's written in forth and compiled with itself) but i don't remember if gforth can

bigforth incidentally had some minor updates last march (autoconf stuff, waveform.m, and example2.m)
Cheap labor needs cheap food and cheap housing.
oh, sorry i missed it
Interesting that HPE acquired Aruba networks almost a decade ago: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2017/03/hp-...

At this pace they will buy everyone up except for Cisco, sometime in the 2040s :D
It would be great for governments, if that’s how it worked in European countries.

The Netherlands specifically had cabinets (i.e., governments) fall due to the responsible ministers not knowing what their agencies were doing, with snap elections as result.

In fact, in the last decade or so this happened quite often. Accountability in The Netherlands isn’t just based on knowing something and still doing the wrong things, its often also based on “should’ve known something as the person responsible for the agency in question” and not being in the know.
In terms of accountability, in both cases the person in question is considered to have fucked up.

So the plausible deniability angle, is not really a benefit. Provided it comes out during that person’s tenure, although in rare instances even current office holders have been held responsible for the lack of knowledge of their prior office holders, based on the idea that the current office holder should’ve been aware such a thing happened and should’ve informed parliament post haste upon learning about it.
My answer is: very
https://archive.is/DSBmA
I’m CEO of Linear who raised the alarm on this.

I have to commend them for making this decision and removing the conflict of interest.

However they didn’t address the fact that sales people had convenient access to data and how long & broadly that access was abused.

Edit: fixed “Linear CEO” to “CEO of Linear”
I’d hate that teacher. Sad to see instructors not being aware that people focus in different ways. If anything, I thought that “looking into the distance” was the default way to focus? I’m literally looking at my window while thinking what to write in this comment.
agreed, it means the fluid-dynamics chaos in the lava lamps is useless for their cryptographic purposes
I love the idea of the Internet of Things, but I hate how it primarily seems to be playing out. I am loath to have anything on our home network that needs a third party server and its own app in order to operate. I do have some smart plugs and smart lights and I love what they let me do--and I am working to integrate them with Home Assistant and cut off all traffic from them to the Internet at the router. No smart TV. No smart speakers. No voice-activated anything (which seems a bit hollow since I also suspect our phones are listening anyway, but that's apparently where I draw the line at my own security theater) but also I would love a voice activated house... once I've managed to set up something like Talon[0] to do it!

[0] https://talonvoice.com/
Ageism is one of the bad things about our industry. It's the last accepted form of discrimination. The irony is that when you're young and starting a family, you feel guilty about working crazy hours because you're not spending time with your wife and kids. Then when the nest is empty you've got plenty of free time to work hard and even learn some new things, languages, frameworks, &c. but at that point a lot of closed-minded companies think you're too old for software development.
This project is a solution to a particular kind of problem. The way you become a target user of that solution is by first having the problem it's a solution to.

If you have the problem "I want to analyze a bunch of tabular data", you'll start researching and asking around about it, and you'll quickly discover a few things: 1. people do this with (usually columnar / "OLAP") sql query interfaces, 2. people usually end up augmenting that with some in memory analyses in a general purpose programming environment, 3. people often choose R or python for this, 4. both of those languages lean heavily on a concept they both call "data frames", 5. in python, this is most commonly done using the pandas library, which is pervasive in the python data science / engineering world.

Once you've gotten to that point, you'll be primed for new solutions to the new problems you now have, one of which is that pandas is old and pretty creaky and does some things in awkward and suboptimal ways that can be greatly improved upon with new iterations of the concept, like polars.

But if you don't have these problems, then the solution won't make much sense.
Toughbooks are not fashionable and look like tools.

Macbooks are supposed to look like jewelry.
Just post a link and tell us why we should trust you. It's an appropriate time/place for you to self-premote imo.
“This site is an old friend, from Google’s past, kept in its original form. Enjoy”

…so the mumbo jumbo about smelling the air in front of your device never took off…

Was this an April Fool’s Day joke?

Edit: I see that yes, it was an April Fool’s joke: https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/04/02/is-google-nose-real/
Explore is the keyword I think. When you are stuck is when you are free to explore. Since there is no 'lead', you can go anywhere. The temptation is to go back into the places you've been before, the rut. But if you keep doing new things, or 'vitamin new' as i call it, new leads will appear.
Still no DHCPRELEASE.
not necessarily, it might be transmitting a heartbeat so you can detect that that part of the wiring harness is still turned on. i've seen embedded systems with literally no inputs, like the minipov2, but never one that transmits on a network
The FAA is susceptible to Boeing, the huge conglomerate and defense contractor, not any random airline that could go out of business without anybody really caring. But the status quo is good for Boeing because they don't have to pay to design new stuff, or at least they're ambivalent to it. Change that and see what happens.
Thanks--I've been looking into AwesomeWM as an alternative but I'll check out bspwm too!
Are they? Do we expect to see another "wow" signal?
There's at least 1 million root causes of the incident and while I have my own predictions, this industry is a great example of checking all possibilities before jumping to "2 possible causes".

It's really unlikely that washers are a root cause (spring/split washers are useless and are definitely not used for this type of apllication). "Correct torque" is not trivial to determine and maybe it was calculated right or wrong based on right or wrong materials/conditions or maybe conditions were changed or maybe...

I am 99.9% sure a procedure was followed and a torque or other measurement applied and was documented. This is probably not a trivial error but a cascading failure in design and/or documention and/or integration.
> as a rubber ducky

What do you mean? What do you type into it to get unstuck?
Stabilizing on shit is a sad thing to double down on. But Microsoft is doing that at every opportunity now. Witness their offensive, relentless hounding to log in, log in, LOG IN WITH YOUR "MICROSOFT ACCOUNT!!!!!!"... or you can't do anything, including install Windows.
I got annoyed at the verbosity as well. Pandas is fairly verbose compared to eg data.table, but Polars really feels more like using "an API" than "a data manipulation tool".

I probably wouldn't use it for EDA or research, but I have started to use it in certain production scripts for the better performance.

R dplyr + data.table is still my favorite data manipulation experience. I just wish we had something like Matplotlib in R: ggplot is too high level, base graphics are too low level. Also Scikit-Learn is much more modular than Caret, which I don't really miss using.
Mixtral 8x7B. Short of that (high ram requirements), I've also found Mistral v0.2 to be pretty solid for a 7b model.

YMMV though - it's going to depend on your use cases.
Ollama is probably the easiest way. https://ollama.ai/library/mixtral

LM Studio is another option.
Isn't Canada still hiring loads of Filipino nurses, physical therapists, and caregivers?
LLM can work like human brain, but it doesn’t mean it is like a human person.

First, we know that personhood cannot be reduced to the brain (cf. the gut flora studies and all that).

Second, more generally that claim would require solving what’s known in philosophy as the hard problem. The arguments that consciousness arises from a certain arrangement of entities we perceive in reality (or that it doesn’t exist at all) is specious: it implies that those other things exist in absolute sense, i.e. are the underlying territory, even though the only evidence for their existence is coming via consciousness. That’s a lot of entities to grant magical existence to out of nothing. Once you assume that those things are more likely to be a map, the question turns into what is the territory then, and the spotlights shift to consciousness (a.k.a. the only thing we can be absolutely sure to exist, as it is required for the “we” part to exist in the first place).

And yes, of course, if OpenAI uses the “sentient LLM” defense, all the power to them, but the next logical step would be to consider that industry based on forced labour.
Perhaps we could apply a data driven assessment, to find which countries run on violence, e.g. people killed domestically, abroad, per country, per capita. The results may be surprising to many and not consistent with the mainstream narrative of the Collective West.
I've read many news reports over the years that it's the Chinese fishing vessels encroaching upon the national waters of other nations, and overfishing them. Those vessels tend to obscure themselves by illegal means, whether by fishing at night and with almost no lights, or other means. They're also reported to be very aggressive, and their unsafe fishing techniques are very damaging to the environment.

Nothing xenophobic or random. It's facts.

Here's one article:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-chinas-expanding-fishing-...
This is probably the best trick I learned. It’s much easier to come back to a task that I left unfinished, maybe with a comment saying what’s next.

When I’m really done with something and then come back later, it feels like starting from zero.