skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been men who earned PhDs in mathematics during or after NFL careers--quite recently HN had links to an obituary of Frank Ryan, who led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL championship, and who taught at Case. More recently, John Urschel, a lineman for the Baltimore Ravens earned a Ph.D. and according to Wikipedia teaches at MIT.

I have the impression that college football was much less of a full time job in Ryan's day, but Urschel graduated from Penn State in 2012.
Are there non-alcoholics over the age of 30 that actually believe this?

I don't even drink, but alcohol after college has been nothing but trouble.
As a teen, I see this struggle. Hopefully, what I'm working on can fix this exact, specific issue. I'll launch to HN in about a week.
https://jaredmantell.com/blog/1
Hovering the mouse over the "21 years ago" timestamp shows it was posted on Sep 8th, 2003. :)
First impression:
No search
No browsing through categories
No longtail
No info on monetarisation US only later Q1

Seams to get modified on the fly, search WAS available, now it's just Error loading GPTs
Note that you can sometimes "fix" the issues you mention relatively easily with one or both of these. This method isn't always appropriate, but it often is sufficient:

* Have anything potentially updated by the changes users make auto-update (e.g. via websockets or server push). As long as the latency for an update to make it through the system isn't too high, this is often fine. E.g. let's say you're posting a reply, then putting a spinner in the UI to be replaced once the reply has made it "back" to the client can be fine - as long as it's quick enough.

* If it's not quick enough and/or instead of doing that, it's often sufficient to "fake it": Once it's been pushed to the server, just inject the same data back into your UI as if it came from the server. As long as what you submit to the server and what you get from the server is similar enough, it's often fine. If there are fields you can't populate, then just use the first method to still have the data auto-update once they make it through the whole chain. It does have the downside that if the user refreshes it might appear to disappear unless you e.g. put it in localstorage or similar, and then it does start getting hairy, so using it to paper over long delays it not a good idea. In those cases, there is the option of updating a server-side cache, but then you're starting to do a lot of work to avoid having consistent state and might want to consider if you should instead just bite the bullet and ensure you do have consistent state.

Of course this does not mean its always appropriate, or sufficient, to use this style anyway, and I absolutely agree that there are plenty of instances where not being able to immediately read your writes is a problem, but sometimes these kinds of tweaks can be very helpful.

I agree the claims made are a bit goofy, though, and I think I'd frankly mostly prefer to roll my own over dealing with their API, but the architectural style can be quite useful if its not overdone.
File under big if true though perhaps an area where the hype has outrunned reality.

"Their prototype battery uses a novel combination of lithium and sodium, generating enough energy to power a lightbulb, as an initial proof of concept.

Researchers acknowledge that the chemistry has yet to be fully proven, and might not work at a larger scale. They say it’s nonetheless a promising development in the quest for alternatives to traditional lithium-ion batteries, which are widely used but have drawbacks such as scarcity, cost, environmental impact and safety."
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/microsoft-and-pnnl-make-a-bett...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04070.pdf
Why client-side environment variables are a bad idea
Turing Tumble was a blast too! Solved a lot of the puzzles while on camping trips with my parents hanging out in their RV. I think they enjoyed the abstraction from computers to just figuring out how to make the balls fall in the correct way.
Just like yesterday [1] I’m confused by that name: what’s the "wiki" part in Wikihouse? Anybody can modify your house?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915999
I had the idea to do a 1 dollar donation and then see the campaign getting flagged for illegal campaign contributions, but that is probably illegal for me as well.

(non-us based not us citizen)
Show HN: An open source dictionary app to show meanings as notifications
I built an Android application based on Wiktionary to show meanings as notifications while reading from other apps like Chrome. The idea is to select the word and then clicking on meaning in the context menu will show the meaning as notification along with option to read the meaning aloud. This reduces the time to switch to a separate app or Google to lookup the meaning. Currently, English, German, French and Polish language are supported.

Repo : https://github.com/tirkarthi/NotificationDictionary
+1 for Google Photos and Chromecast or Nest Hub

I take photos on my iPhone, Google photos automatically uploads and I can set my Google devices to show a specific album or a "highlight" reel which is pretty awesome. Not only does it show recent photos, but also photos from the same time the previous year (ala social media "memories"). It's a wonderful, automatic memory machine!

More info here: https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9136992?hl=en
Unfortunately I am not aware of such a source.
Given the collab with Teenage Engineering, and the price, I think this is pretty much in line with the kind of stuff they do.

Will it change the world? Unlikely. But there is definitely a niche that will love this, even if it's just for the form factor and design rather than anything practical. I'd also expect it to fit into TE's range of musical equipment in some form.
I think what changed, which is pretty easy to identify is an increased invasiveness in placement and format of advertising.

Advertisements in the past had always been fairly simple to ignore. Billboards, commercial breaks, and print or even radio ads were disconnected from the content.

Today ads are in many cases often indistinguishable, even if labeled from content.

Facebook ads look like regular posts, and many ads ARE regular posts. A fitness podcast talking about their sponsors product with the same tone and passion as the content or simply being paid to influence on a product.

Everyone pretty universally used to recognize and be annoyed by commercials and pay little attention to ads.

Now, especially young people, can barely even recognize ads. Especially those done by so called influencers which are just part of the regular content flow.

Google, Amazon, And Facebook are 3 of the 6 largest companies in the US and are effectively advertising companies.

That's a huge change.
offshore workers
In most of Canada the drinking age is 19 (only a few provinces are 18), but it’s also slightly harder to get your drivers license in Canada. You’re required to take a written test and then two driving tests in order to receive a full license.
At the same time, if 1% of python programmers dislike it, then there are more dissatisfied python programmers than there are programmers in total for most other languages.
A better source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38147542/

TL;DR: a new substract for hydroponic + low Volts with few mA during 5 days and got a 50% bigger plant.
Ask HN: Why was HN down for the past 6 hours?
Not sure when it came up again, I probably last checked 2h ago. It was down from two vantage points in European countries. The site is now also extremely slow (ten seconds to load a page containing one comment). I'm surprised not to see an announcement, or a post on HNStatus.

What's up? Did/do others not experience this?
If you look at the people who did it early, they're very different in personality than the people who are now doing it. I was the kid who would have preferred to sit in the library all day reading. Not that they let me. For me, I've been plugged into the absolutely largest library mankind has ever been built, since 1994 or so... and I still find myself amazed at what can be found online even now. Some of it are recently digitized works that because they were obscure, I could never have known they existed. Other things are discoveries (even amateur ones) that people post online today that would have been forgotten or unknown in the 1980s (unlikely for the people to have even put it in one of those crappy xeroxed newsletters).

I check out Facebook once or twice a month because my wife tells me to like something on it. I didn't even create the account, she did it for me years ago.

Even now, I read. And read. And read. Everything from rigorous scientific studies on down to the weirdest shitposting. From great works of literature down to fringe science theories. But all I see other people doing, if I notice at all, is watching Tiktok videos. Are any of the rest of you out there reluctant to bother with consuming video/audio content, even if a search seems to indicate that it might be the only place the information you seek might be found? Well, then you might be one of those personalities for which being online wasn't/isn't so shitty.
doesn't that just mean games are also a form social media? The line is super blurry for roblox and similar systems.
Oh, yes they did. 200-300 GPUs for about 2-4 months at an average $0.10/kWh has a TCO of $100k-200k. 12.5 BTC was worth $375k back when it was solved. So definitely profitable—they would have made around $175k-275k, and end up with essentially free GPUs at the end.

Puzzle #130 requires about 5.7 times more work (2**2.5) than #125, but BTC has doubled since they solved #125. They have the GPUs already, so opex (electricity, etc) will be their main expense. And even at $0.10/kWh which is pretty average they will also turn a profit solving #130. I estimate anywhere from $30k to $150k in electricity, for a prize of $600k.
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making a specific kind of cheese is mostly about replicating the traditional procedures and ambient conditions of the place that cheese originated.

"go to this specific valley in switzerland and spend 20 years immersing yourself in their cheesemaking tradition" is arguably a lot more difficult than following some specific procedures and measuring carefully.
Seriously, we moved to the middle of nowhere when I was a kid and it sucked. Nobody to play with. Not much to do outside (it was mostly just fields).

So of course I found things to get up to that often got me into trouble. Boredom and lack of mental stimulation are not great for anyone, but for kids who don't yet have the skills to deal with it, the results can be a lot worse.
Show HN: I Made a Tool for Visualizing the Entropy of a Code Base in the Browser
That reminds me of a funny presentation which is basically "if we engineered a bunch of exotic sci-fi concepts... what would the perl programs running on them look like?"

More formally: "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORjyXcLDd9M
I see your point. Do you think some kind of federation could help here? If there were 10-100 different github-like servers all set up to "git pull" from each other, would that make it a decentralised system to you? Even email is not fully decentralised anymore since we need to use a proxy to send email nowadays.
I think it's just a very large area and jamming is far from fool proof.
Traditional ricotta is also made from whey.
Mental illness has become a badge to wear. "I have depression/ADHD/Autism/Bipo/sch"

Once you think you have it, you notice all the systems.

As a medical owner, I'm not going to deny someone money if they are coming. With grey areas, and the lack of science in medical, it very well could be a tracking thing.

I certainly wouldn't tell anyone I had a mental issue in the 90s or 00s. Today, its almost cool.
It's funny how every country thinks their approach to building is good and everything else has huge problems. For example Germans tend to think wooden houses will not last.

The approach taken here is similar to what people are commonly doing in Scandinavia. Most generally almost all houses are pre fabricated in factories and assembled on site. The actual blocks vary quite a bit, mostly they are large wall sections, but there are approaches using blocks like this. There is also a manufacturer that makes all sections out of plywood. With all of the approaches I have never heard of issues with leakage. In fact they tend to be much more tight then houses build on site (often meeting passive house standards).
Has anyone seen a good summary of the upstream causes of the decline of Boeing? The candidates I'm aware of are:

1. Boeing trying to break their union and opening a plant in a right-to-work state. That brings with it all sorts of adversarial realationships weird power-trips that are notoriously hostile to safety of quality.

2. The FAA devolving inspection to firms.

3. The MBAs at Boeing embracing margin optimization and disaggregating Boeing to allow "competitive" bidding. The complexity of integrating that many suppliers is beyond.
Question answered. Wish people would stop asking it!
OpenAI Unveils App Store for Custom Chatbots
Humans, including kids, are inherently social creatures, and are happiest when communing with their fellow creatures (including pets, but mostly other humans). Kids are most happy when they and their friends are playing together, and my personal belief is that they are happiest when helping other people together (so much of my childhood play was around pretending being a hero, sacrificing and risking my life for the sake of others - what if that was channeled to real world aid).
I don't recall that there was ever anything inherently wrong with using tables for layout, except that it was a misuse of tables so we were told it wasn't "semantic". Thus you had years of people asking on forums how to emulate tables using a mess of floating divs until flexbox/grid came around. In retrospect, tables are also clearly incompatible with phone screens, but that wasn't really a problem at the time.
This was a very similar conversation that the team at my last job had. Our data were customer-facing so it was a slightly different problem, but the question of "our application cares about what the present state is, but our analytics cares about trends and point-in-time" is a more universal problem.

We used Debezium and Change Data Capture + Outbox patterns in some cases, and solely outbox patterns in others. (See https://debezium.io/blog/2020/02/10/event-sourcing-vs-cdc/ ) - You then can use the change events to do the analysis. That solves your "log all actions" problem. It's still a lot of work to put together the analysis (a tool like DBT helps) but it is a solved problem with enough labor at that point and doesn't disrupt the actual application.

If I was starting from scratch on an application today that I thought might have analytics needs in the future, I would get this early on even if I didn't need it yet.
> I was a freaking network engineer I think I know how science works.

The fact you think having been a network engineer has much to do with the scientific method, does not bode well.

I've got a published paper with my name on it. It's about forecasting octopus reproduction using satellite data. Even despite that, I don't go around calling myself a proper scientist, because I appreciate the difficulties of proper experimental design and eliminating confounding variables and know that even "proper scientists" don't get it all correct on their first attempt any more than I as a software developer get bug-free code on my first attempt.
I haven’t been able to find a good distiller. Everything on Amazon looks to be rebrands of the same product which I tried.

It seems once the water is boiling inside it’s vigorous enough to kick particles out with the steam. (And it’s hard to refill without occasionally spilling on the cord which ultimately killed mine)
> Not worth it for anyone in the US or even Europe.

Lots of crimes are not "worth it". And yet criminals do it anyway. Because criminals (nor most humans) are not perfectly rational.

There's routinely reports where people try to rob a gas station with a loaded gun - a $200 haul if everything goes perfect. It doesn't and now they have 10 years in jail...
> I was just trying to point out that this layer is equally important as others for someone looking to gain a good grasp of networking.

I don't agree. For those onboarding onto the subject, their mental model will be focused around the higher level details implemented around the application layer. The physical layer only starts to become remotely relevant once you start to delve onto very specialized topics.
I am confused by the first example:

x = 1
t = now()
print(x)
at t:
x = 2

Why doesn't this print `1` before `2`, and then proceed to print `2` in a loop (i.e. treat `at` like a `goto`)? I think there is some detail that separates declaration and definitions of the environment from the execution, but the syntax doesn't make this obvious.
Users don't need to be aware of the header, they just need to use a client that knows what to do with it.
Provides extra protein; leads to more productive squats.
> give them an option to pay a consulting fee for the discovery in exchange for NOT publishing the exploit (after it has been fixed)

I'm not making any moral judgments, but purely from a legal perspective this sounds dangerously like blackmail. If anyone decides to take this path, be sure you understand the risks involved.
I would also like to chime in about some absurdity in this article.

> Data models are restrictive / Restrictive schemas

Yep, that’s intentional. Type systems are restrictive, too. And both strict data model and strict types help reduce bugs.
I'd just rename the spam folder to "Inbox-2" or something. ;-)
Sure, you don't need technology — as long as you have exactly the same climate and other conditions as where the original cheese was made.
Rabbit R1 [video]
Wallabag[0] is useful too if you want a self-hosted bookmarking solution. I'm with Pinboard too, but regularly export my bookmarks so I have a backed up local copy of recent bookmarks I've added to Pinboard.

[0] https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag

[0] https://wallabag.org/
Maybe it will just be a counterculture thing but I could imagine a group of people thinking it’s really lame to follow all the latest internet trends. We need a version of punk rock that hates the internet.
The instinct is to treat this as an apocalyptic change of some sort in society.

Here's an alternate framing.

The DSM-5 was released in 2013.
Put up a picture rail
The 'walking route': an underground industry helping migrants flee China for USA
That's what the article suggests (at the end)
Either way it is a fascinating write-up. It will hopefully be a cautionary tale for other businesses and companies out there, and will inspire them to lockdown this credentialing issue. I've noticed a similar blasé attitude when implementing SSO; the devil is in the details as they say.
Streaming RAG Applications (video)
> In Q1 we will launch a GPT builder revenue program. As a first step, US builders will be paid based on user engagement with their GPTs. We'll provide details on the criteria for payments as we get closer.

This doesn't inspire confidence, especially if you have a GPT that requires access to a different server that you have to host and pay for, which I think is the only way to do something genuinely useful beyond sharing prompts.
My iPhone 13 mini burns a percent of the battery every few minutes in areas with poor cell reception. That was the first year with 5G support if I remember right. Locking to 4G doesn't seem to make a huge difference. Maybe the new modems don't suck?

It'll last a day or two with good cell reception; longer in airplane mode.
That sounds awfully close to "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"
Side note: I imagined something like this in a Sci-Fi novel that I wrote in the early 2000s. It was called GiWiki in the novel. [0]

I don't want to bore you, but please read "note for the 2023 reader", to get a quick sense of some of the good guesses that I had back then.

I am amazed to see this happen. Congrats to the Rabbit team.

[0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/Nonovvio/blob/main/nonovvi...
He decided it was for life, just not his.
This is really weird. Why would a digital transfer do this? I could understand if it was dividing up a single bitcoin, but why would it require sending all the Bitcoin?

To fix your example, it’d be more like paying for a $20 item with $100MM worth of $50 notes, and receiving $100MM-20 in change.
I’m still trying to figure out why I can’t buy a drip coffee maker that’s not plastic.

Hot water and an acidic beverage running through plastic every morning. Doesn’t seem good.
This phrasing, "U.K. government to pass a law" hints that this law will be pushed thru soon and victims can expect relief soon after.

I'm less confident that relief is coming soon for all the wrongly convicted. Some of my skepticism is because the investigation has been lumbering on for ~2years. And some is due to remarks by other UK Gov officials.

The government has been considering options to speed up justice for wrongfully convicted sub-postmasters.

On Tuesday, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said the idea of using legislation to quash convictions of all Post Office workers caught up in the scandal was under "active consideration".

Former minister Nadhim Zahawi has called for a "simple bill" to quash all the remaining convictions based on "bad data".

However, others have disagreed, including former attorney general Dominic Grieve, who told the BBC that it would amount to "parliamentary interference in the judicial process".

Instead, he said each case "ought to be considered on its own merits", and sent to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which investigates alleged miscarriages of justice.

ref: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67925304
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38930011
How do you propose such a law would work?
U.S. tech layoffs sent Indian workers home to an even worse job market
KX Fundamentals [video]
> - less convenient: Addressed by my comment.

Not addressed, Shift+1+w is less convenient than w, try to address that by your comment!

> I do not want preview, so this is a bonus.

Not a bonus since you can achieve the same natively, so again not better

> It's also orthogonal, since if the search bar was configured to preview, it could also display bang results.

No it couldn't? What's your preview link to DDG to show the results of a Wikipedia page for a given search term in the browser?

> - not portable across search engines: It already works on all non-terrible search engines because they standardized the bangs.

Since these don't exist (DDG is very similar to Google in search quality), it doesn't work. But this is personal, so if your needs are narrow enough to be covered just by DDG+Kagi, than you obviously don't need portability.
Broadcom Ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers
Even in the EU there are still occasional counterfeit problems. The recent counterfeit Ozempic scandal comes to mind
The Butterfly Effect of Prompts: How Small Changes Affect LLM Performance
Of course, people are people and react to certain stimuli.

But I still remember the internet of old. Not only the small, semi-gated internet forums, but at also when Facebook just started out and you would just talk to your friends and not everything would be about polarising subjects.

This is clearly something that has changed due to social media algorithms, though maybe as a society we're now already brainwashed by it and I'm not sure if we can go back.