skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would a law preventing the purchase of a struggling company through raising large amounts of debt which is immediately stuck on their books so that they those same investors can immediately sell everything of value for profit off the scraps leaving a dead shell of a company that has to fire all their employees a bad thing?

If things are so bad just let the company go bankrupt and sell off their assets. If things are recoverable then PE isn’t going to help because they’re going to put on too much debt.

It doesn’t make anything better. It doesn’t fix the companies that are too far gone. It doesn’t fix the companies that could still be saved. All it does is make the investors a bunch of money at the expense of everyone else.
>As a culture, we've been brainwashed not to fund trains.

The billionaires are surely investing heavily on trains and farms.
Robert Lustig makes the point in this podcast with Huberman that the sugars and transfats in processed food are responsible for a lot of inflammation that comes from the modern diet.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/huberman-lab/id1545953...

~51st minute
...and why did EVGA withdraw from the GPU market altogether rather than pivoting to making AMD/Intel cards, if Nvidia was truly the problem?
Lots of average developers these days do not (or just barely) know SQL, and it shows when the ORM generates some nonsense and nobody can figure out why the app is suddenly two orders of magnitude slower.
It's more likely that it's the company making weird regional pricing. And the price in Canada likely is lower due to the Government negotiating for the lower price.

Just my guess.
Thats pretty cool. Ran out of memory on my browser though.
T2 Diabetic for ~12 years (actually probably a lot longer but I only got diagnosed 12 years ago).

I've "beaten diabetes" (i.e. I tested as not being diabetic) twice now by losing weight (via calorie counting) and getting fit, but found it too hard to maintain that lifestyle. I've made dietary changes but they had less/no effect. Keto was fine, but my wife didn't get on with it and making two meals every time we ate was too onerous.

I stopped measuring my blood sugar a few months after getting diagnosed because it was kinda pointless. I haven't had a single symptom. If I didn't visit the doctor every 3 months or so I'd never know I was diabetic (and I was probably diabetic for 10+ years before getting diagnosed). I take Metformin regularly mostly for the anti-aging side effect. The endless diarrhoea from Metformin is something I got used to, though I had to suspend taking it while travelling because the combination of Metformin shits and travel shits was too much.

It all feels like a non-thing to be honest. I know people lose limbs to D2, and go blind, and stuff, but it's hard to take that personally and know that as a definite risk that mean I need to make drastic and difficult lifestyle changes. I keep getting checked and told there's no sign of any damage, but my blood sugar is too high. For 12 years now. I know this sounds a bit anti-vax, but it feels like the science is wrong here. I do not want to go down an anti-science rabbit hole and end up in a conspiracy theory world of my own. So I just keep doing the thing they tell me as best I can. But when/if someone finds out that we've been thinking about D2 all wrong, I will not be the faintest bit surprised.

edit: and another thing: I've never had consistent advice from doctors around this. Some GPs say I need to come in every month to get checked up. Others says I only need once a year. Some examine my feet and eyes. Others don't. Some think I'm on too high a dose of Metformin. Others say it's fine. Some are really strong on the diet thing, others not so much. Almost every aspect of this disease seems to be subject to personal opinions about treatment.
Perhaps an uninformed question, but why do we need an llm rather than a simpler natural language to SQL NLP translator? Wouldn't that be much more efficient and reliable?
Only if they do their current business well others can create effective competition for Amazon. It took me 3+ hours to just get a label from their website for a special hardware I had to ship. Fun part is that after I signup and create and account and login, they want me to "Create an account", which I suppose it is their internal terminology for some kind of payment profile. Then they did not allow me to create that either demanding I call up their customer service.
I would argue the iPhone and iPad together are probably one of the biggest gaming markets on earth. There are after all 300M consoles and 900M iPhones out there.
I think they are, which is why much of the public accepts absolute shit-quality mastering now.

I take earplugs almost EVERYWHERE. Restaurants, pubs, obviously clubs, and even movies. I saw Dune on the WB lot and didn't think to bring them; it was literally PAINFUL. I sat with my fingers in my ears for most of the movie. Disgraceful.

You should look into "musicians' earplugs." I have numerous sets of Alpine ones that claim to suppress the whole spectrum equally. Try these: https://www.alpinehearingprotection.com/products/musicsafe
Sometimes, although working with focused M&A bankers is the typical strategy for large transactions
Gaming is general purpose computing, or at least a part of it.
Ask HN: Why do people (like at OpenAI) want to create AGI?
It wouldn't impact developers who aren't working on important systems (safety, security, privacy contexts). HIPAA compliant software? Maybe they (org and, possibly, a "professional software engineer" in charge of signing off on things) should be held accountable when there's a data breach. Video game maker? Yeah, you wouldn't need a PSE. It also, if done like PE licensing, wouldn't impact the day-to-day developer. Only the ones who choose the responsibility (and usually better compensation for the responsibility).
This article gets the entire sector wrong!

The reason autonomous trucking is exciting is platooning. You have one truck with a person in it at the head of a long chain of trucks.

This avoids all of the issues mentioned and it's the near-term future of trucking. Unfortunately, this will eliminate many long-haul trucking jobs.
SSR issues and dependency hell are not unique to React.
This happens near loads of broadcast AM stations.

https://www.reddit.com/r/audio/comments/rfmfkq/home_audio_sp...
Yeah, that's how my car does it (unless you "shift" into coasting with the paddle shifters. It does feel a bit clunky when you change between regen levels since the throttle is mapped differently
Why is it "pure hyperbole"? Are you saying that all software is like your fridge, and that there is never a need for software that is like a bridge?

The concern is that the field of software can't seem to build a bridge when it needs to.
There are 4K and 5K OLED PC displays with 240 Hz capability being made this year, with some models reaching 480 Hz at 1080p!

E.g.: https://tftcentral.co.uk/news/asus-announced-rog-swift-pg32u...

Azure deployment pipelines are still slow as molasses. That hasn't changed.
“We use the word ‘inflammation’ colloquially, as if we understand what we are saying. But dig a little deeper and the word becomes a clown car of meanings. Is it the chronic irritation of an autoimmune disease? The lingering residue of a postviral syndrome? A nonhealing wound?”

Good description of a generic catch-all term that could have a variety of specific meanings.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/18/all-the-carcin...
Only because of the North Atlantic Gulf Stream bringing warmer waters. Everywhere else around there is closed in the winter due to ice. Murmansk is a freak of nature, an exception to the rule, like how you can’t freeze vodka in a normal freezer.
> power outage mayhem in pretty much any location where lines aren't buried.

at least in austin a big part of it was a failure of the power companies to respond to tree/line interactions long before the storm. People reported trees across the lines. The branches got super heavy with ice and took out the lines. Proper maintenance / arborcare would have meant far fewer issues.
It is worse than junk. most junk science is harmless, but bad diet advice can hurt your health.
> I don’t think it broke me or harmed me in any way.

Your denial is a telltale sign of PTSD.
Glad to be swapping ratoms while the hook phase of things resolves itself.
Anecdote (may actually not be related, but I think it is):

I had back surgery a few years ago due to infrequent recurring of sciatic pain that, during an "episode", made me unable to work for a couple of weeks at a time (I was unable walk or stand or sit for longer than two to three minutes without sciatic pain increasing to intolerable levels).

It looked like a relatively simple, and not even particularly extreme, bulging L5 disc impinging on the S1 nerve. What they found out during the surgery (because there's no high-enough resolution scanning to detect this) was that the S1 nerve was actually 'tethered' to the slightly bulging L5 disc due to scar tissue that had become 'sticky' over a number of years (apparently scar tissue, in areas that get recurring aggravation, can become sticky).

(Aside: the initial scar tissue was likely caused by a particularly memorably nasty football injury, after which I couldn't walk properly for a couple of weeks - knee drop the spine - yep, that'd do it)

So, my issue was not actually caused by a bulging disc impinging the nerve. As it turns out, when doing physical activity (tennis, roller skating, trying to catch my misbehaving children) the S1 nerve moves slightly up and down the spinal nerve cavity as you move your legs whilst running, and this movement of the S1 nerve was 'pulling' on the 'tethered' L5 disc, causing aggravation and inflammation, and it was this inflammation impinging on the S1 nerve and causing the pain.

And since the inflammation came well after the activity it takes a while to realise what's happening, such that the cause and the effect are separated by enough time as to make the (secondary) cause (ie. running activity) difficult to diagnose.

My pain was caused by inflammation, but that's still only a symptom. The underlying cause, the real thing that actually needed to be fixed, for me, was the S1 nerve/L5 disc tethering.

Inflammation is not a cause, it's a symptom. But it could be a symptom of an individual's genetics, and therefore not treatable by anything other than anti-inflammatory drugs.

As another anecdote: I get phlegmy after eating certain things. I've heard this is a manifestation of low level allergy to whatever I've eaten. What makes sense to me is that an increased base level of inflammation is a symptom of slight allergy to something environmental.

What also makes sense to me is that physical activity reduces inflammation as increasing the flow of blood around the body increases how quickly ones blood is cleansed (by the liver and kidneys and whatever else) of things that may cause inflammation.

P.S. The surgery was a success, and I'm back to leading an active lifestyle - even more active than it would have been as I was able to experience life where movement is pain, and thus how wonderful it is to be free of that.
https://prql-lang.org/ might be an answer for this. As a cross-database pipelined language, it would allow RAG to be intermixed with the query, and the syntax may(?) be more reliable to generate
Balanced signals are widely used in professional gear, and twisted pairs indeed reduce loop area, but it’s not perfect. I once helped out in a sound booth where the cables picked up AM radio, and some nonlinearity in the system made it audible.
That Cisco anecdote is pretty great!

Do you have a source or any additional keywords I might be able to use to search for it?
I had smaller 3" drivers mounted high, near the ceiling. In the cabinet with them were even smaller tweeter type, dome shaped that I am sure picked up the high end.

I am not sure I used the big drivers at all for recording. Hard to remember.
The rules are different for <=4 AWG wires versus smaller wires. I don’t know why.
Rationale from the README:

> Lua, Luau and even LuaJIT have fairly substantial overheads when making function calls into the script, especially when many arguments are involved. The same is true for WebAssembly emulators that I have measured, eg. wasmtime.
a charger like a trickle charger? Or do you mean a warmer (like diesels have those battery blankets) ?
I'm a science teacher, and every time I introduced students to the periodic table I tried to use one of the extended versions. For people just learning atomic structure, that version is much nicer for building an understanding of the connection between atomic structure and the periodic table.
Nope. Left them in position. Moving things tends to break the illusion.
People have been working on simple natural language processing algorithms since the 50‘s. If it were easy we'd have one by now.
> The problem is you literally need to use effects to make api requests

No. Wtf? Don't do that. Never do that. Effects are for legacy DOM manipulation (and ad-hoc use of browser apis). Pretty much nothing else. Who tampers with states and data in useEffect is hellbent on creating spaghetti.
Also, old forums didn't organize comments in tree structures, they were just flat chronological comments. This is technically inferior, but it helped keep everyone more focused on a single thread, as it were.
Right, sorry for the poor choice of words. I agree with the groundings, I'm just surprised by the enormous response in the popular press and HN.
Here in Austin my usage cost is about $8-16 of a >$100 bill once you include all the fees, mandates etc. Meaning I can only swing my bill by about $8 by lifestyle choices.
yup but ... right now things are in a bit of a primitive state.

i have tried a lot of stuff with the ChatGPT Wolfram integration and it just fails all kinds of ways. its really cool when it works, but a lot of time it just gets really confused and cannot do basic things like "make that line black instead of red"
Are you a “business person” or analyst ?
CTO?
Legal, but wrong. There is no such thing as a ambiguous consent, and it's a fucking catastrophe that we've legislated ambiguous consent into our statute.
nix shell is just another shell instance, with new things brought in via $PATH etc. Not a container, still part of your "current computer environment".
I wander if there are any publically available topographical maps along the roughly estimated region available to find an optimal path, even if it's a "as the crow flies" estimate.
Going to a further degree, one would hope that they are testing to make sure the recordings sound good on middle ground equipment.

What good is a record that requires a $50k system to enjoy?
Gatún Lake is 425 km^2. It provides the drinking water for Panama City. It has a watershed covering a large portion of the country. You might be underestimating the scale of the problem.
OP: this is a dupe. original here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950466
Which is not at all how it works in practice. In a large React codebase you have state scattered throughout contexts, GraphQL caches and complex hook dependency trees.

Throw in SSR and component memoization and you really have no idea what caused a UI change to occur.
Reminds me of how you can get a mold of your ears made to put over a mic, then the recordings sound more like they're coming from outside your ears when you hear them even with in-ears.
Well, if you s/apple\ notes/vi/g ...
I come from different perspective: I would love to pay $15 per month if it gives me sync with my private storage and work on ios.

Luckily for both of us there is a solution
https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

Works well on ios.
http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

This has been tried for forever and never works. In fact, LLM's emerged from the *rejection* of traditional linguistics based techniques in favor of Moore's law based methods. In general, it seems that more general methods seem to win given enough data and compute (since the domain knowledge on complex problems are too difficult to encode into our programs and models). Getting English majors curious about mechanics and motivation of English is counter-productive because of their knowledge and flawed understanding of how language works.

Speak for yourself, but we're very much qualified to opine on this since we have a 70 year track record of having linguists in the room never working. In the same vein, I highly doubt high school teachers have any special insights into the most effective way to implement instructing LLMs or transfer learning.
Or just use electrified trains in the first place, like most of the modern world
Do Our Goals Hold Us Prisoner?
A reason not mentioned so far: lots of software “phones home.” If home doesn’t exist, or network changes take place, the software when can confused.

Most software that phones home is designed to work regardless. But the functionality can degrade and performance takes a bit.

Obviously, updates become impossible.
First they came for the fish f*ckers, and I did not speak out—
Because I did not f*ck fish.
I mean it would seem to be an innovation but "invention" seems like a stretch as there is nothing new about stacking stuff. I mean it should be a staightforward idea/extrapolation for any "good" mechanical engineer familiar with railroads and trains?
I didn't make my own but I have a UHK v2 with a similar setup, this photo isn't my own (so don't ask me about the mapping choice of the keys shown) but it's identical to this:

https://kagi.com/proxy/uhk60v2-gmk-oblivion-scaled.jpeg?c=4N...
Yes, I used to work in the OpenGL architectural Review board. OpenGL, had fundamental limitations, that only a clean sheet design could overcome. Vulkan is in my opinion 90% the right design. The fact that Apple continues to be Apple is just dumb, and hurts developers and Apple.
We have been considering Ubuntu Pro as an IT team to simplify managing dependencies and security for any of our Linux VMs. Ease-of-use is a big priority in this particular team. I'm working towards getting them some ansible infrastructure in place to mass-configure many of these systems. This team also can't always be expected to be super competent with Linux or a command line.

Any suggestions or alternatives to Ubuntu Pro that I should consider?
Yes, it is. Nitter is just a front end for Twitter, doesn't host anything, doesn't have anything to do with what's posted on Twitter, it just shows it.
Inflammation is absolutely a symptom and not a cause like you say.

Exercise reduces inflammation long term because exercise creates stresses on the body, which signals an inflammatory response to repair and rebuild. Of which the muscles, tissue and cardiovascular system adapt and condition themselves to that level of stress. Therefore, our bodies become better equipped to deal with daily movement and exercise. (Very simplified to the muscular and cardio systems).

Physical activity during exercise doesn't reduce inflammation but actually creates it in the short term, for a long term reduction in overall inflammation.
We used to play Quakeworld and later Team Fortress after hours at our office. A networking consultancy. Where we went through dedicated T1s, multimegabit SMDS on to metro ethernet. We were the LPBs and got accused of cheating constantly, which was kinda true.
why wouldn't it apply to electrified railways? I mean it's all energy in the end. I'm sure they make electric motors powerful enough and you can pull your own batteries as part of the load.
I've been saying this for some time. This is all in line with the bullshit jobs phenomenon which is likely the result of reserve bank 'full employment' agenda.

People used to think I was a conspiracy theorist for suggesting this. Yet it's clear as crystal that the incentives in the monetary system itself are set up this way. Can you think of a more powerful incentive than money to drive behavior?
Imagine no onClick() events smh…
couldn't you just use more trains rather than longer trains? I'm sure it wouldn't cost as much as developing entirely new types of trains.
How can you possibly argue that taking a bunch of text and creating an application that creates text isn't transformative?

The tool itself unambiguously is fair use.
We had electric buses for many, many decades. They are called trolley buses and they are awesome. Why they see so little use is crazy to me.

All these low carbon plans but instead of just investing in infrastructure, they invest in all these fancy new technologies that really aren't an advantage.
Hooks are not like functions. They are like imports. They provide your component with piece of functionality.

You don't put imports in if-s or for-s. It's as simple as that.
The big factor is before Zen it was dual-core low-end, quad-core high-end for Intel consumer chips on both the desktop and laptop. Advancement in core count and multi-threaded performance clearly was a direct result of Zen.
I sometimes think that headphone + subwoofer should be the best for most people who can't adjust room enough for speakers. I'd like to see such setup but I don't see much.
Turns out it was! But, the amazing outcome was limited to playback on that system.

Playback on another one sounded good, even better than mine, but the illusion I described was not there.
There is risk in being a doctor, lawyer, pyschologist...

the thing is, a lot of people trust what we do and our negative impacts scale up much worse. A friend shared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJ4qv5RLRc with me today, and it made me enraged. Too many incompetent technologies are deployed.
so kind of like memory? "unused rail is wasted rail"
I run the largest medical education platform in MENAP as a solo founder. I'm Pakistan's first ever full stack technologist who is also a medical doctor (country of 200m+ people). I firsthand have experienced how broken medical education is, and our platform has over 75,000+ doctors/future doctors and 70m+ questions solved. Looking for help with selling/pilots to medical schools and our cost is far less than pretty much everyone else in the globe in the space, while being more innovative.

If anyone is interested or can help, please do ping me - I'm sure we'll work something out. Email is azib [at] medangle [dot] com
If the danger KFC is closer and chance of instant oil death is low enough, I would go to that one.

And to answer your second question, I would fly on the airplane with the worsening safety record if its other characteristics made up for it (price, timing, etc).

Why would an airline want the bad press, reputation effects, etc? That's a circular question to mine. My question was: why do people care so much about this minuscule increase in a minuscule risk? I agree that the game theory of such caring about caring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest) makes sense, but I still wonder why HN readers care about it as individuals, not as Boeing execs.
The point is that you don't have to exactly fill the 2D array to solve the problem in that way. The 2D array is an optimization in this view, and can be safely replaced with a cache without breaking the correctness. Of course there is also some learned techniques specific to dynamic programming, and that makes it worthy to learn at some point because otherwise you will never think of them, but at its core dynamic programming is just a specific way of doing recursion.
Corollary to your statement: of the very small (<1%) group of users running such ancient versions of Android, 100% read HN and will be responding to your comment. As if it invalidated the stats on actual usage: https://apilevels.com/
FedEx can't get a package delivered on time... I have a really hard time seeing how a technologically outdated legacy corporation could compete with Amazon fulfillment and other 3PLs...
I know. I've looked into it and am pretty sure it was a missing optional build dependency during the build of the package. The feature is obscure enough that it was easily overlooked by the maintainer who in all likelihood doesn't even use kde.