skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if this is true. What you might be observing is the effect not the cause.
In other words ... older people that are healthier are able to exercise more. Just a thought.
Statistical effects can really mess with people's perception of cause and effect.

"Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not."

A classic example of something like it, is during WW I the British saw a lot of airplanes were coming back with fuselage damage. So they started reinforcing the fuselage. Why this is a logical mistake is that these were the surviving airplanes.
Probably a mechanical failure with the pump
Yeah, you are right, that is why I said that they are close to visual distortions, rather than hallucinations. To top it up, delirium-induced hallucinations differ from disassociatives (such as ketamine or DXM) as well.
Trucks deliver to individual warehouses. You’re still going to need trucks for last mile delivery.
My longest BEV trip in one day was 896 miles (1442 km), with about half a dozen short breaks, driving alone. 396 miles longer than your trip in your ICE car. Not sure what your data point is supposed to be proving.
Psychedelics Gave Terminal Patients Relief from Their Intense Anxiety
For even like, $500 you can have an absolutely kicking sound system. There’s no way that you’re going to get the range of big ass speakers in small headphones, but regardless this is kind of apples to oranges.
GPS.gov: Control Segment Systems
>This year’s Advent of Code has been brutal (compare the stats of 2023 with that of 2022, especially day 1 part 1 vs. day 1 part 2).

I enjoyed completing AoC this year. While it was very clear that day 1 (esp. part 2) was significantly harder than previous years (I wrote about this among other things [0]), OP's claim seemed not obviously self evident when comparing _current_ 2022 stats to _current_ 2023 stats, as folks have had an additional full year to complete the 2022 puzzles.

I grabbed the 2022 stats from Jan 14th 2023 [1] and, indeed, the difference is quite stark. Graphing the part two completion stats[2] for both years, there was a relatively similar starting cohort size on day 1, but 2023 looks clearly harder than 2022 up until day 15. As OP observes, the ratio[3] of folks completing pt1 but not going on to complete pt 2 is way higher for a lot of days in 2023 and suggests the day 5, 10, 12 and especially day 22 part 2s were particularly difficult.

[0] https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2024-01-02-advent-of-code-20...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230114172513/https://adventofc...

[2] https://blog.singleton.io/static/imgs-aoc23/completion.png

[3] https://blog.singleton.io/static/imgs-aoc23/ratios.png
Yeah I agree. Saskatchewan here. It's brutal out but it happens every year. Was introspecting on the obvious necessity of preparation that the harsh outside world illuminates.
There have been tons of nutritional experiments which are extremely rigorous.

Unfortunately, like most fields it’s the junk you read about because rigor is slow/difficult/expensive and therefore less common than BS. Just look at say fusion research and all it’s seriously flawed experiments.
No. I'm fine for people do drugs, if that's what they want to do. Their life, their choice. As long as they aren't harming anyone else. Do drugs recreationally if you like, with the person you're in a relationship with - no problem.

I'm saying you shouldn't take drugs to change yourself to accommodate something that you already know makes you unhappy. To me, it sounds (roughly) equivalent to getting drunk to deal with a broken arm - it's not really a solution that is going to work in the long run.

Re fixing things, of course one should try this! But if the fix is to take drugs... either you don't know what 'fixing' means (and, imo, it's 'talking things through') or, if you have tried talking and that failed, the relationship is probably already irredeemably broken. No need to contort yourself further, take your loss.

Put simply, I think you need to concentrate yourself, not dilute yourself for the benefit of others. You should do what makes you stronger. And happiness is your guide, or in reverse, unhappiness is your guide of what not to do. Buying happiness in a pill is not the long term answer.
I don't understand this comment at all. Huberman, to me, has provided the most nuanced understanding of dopamine and dopaminergic effects accessible to the broader public. There's a lot of clickbait around him, and no doubt many "influencer doctors" who make a bad name for themselves, but this is a very clear take on dopamine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU. I wouldn't call it babble.

(Huberman is also not a physician, but a PhD, which is an important distinction.)
You can try, but that would be a political problem to solve. Political problems are much harder to solve than technical problems.
They do take backup offers. We got our place that way. We didn’t want to beat the winning bid, but had a no contingency offer. We let them know if first fell through we’d still be interested at our price with a quick close. Someone missed some deadline and they were quick to call.
> Then there's Apple's drama, which involved warranty claims for laptop parts that led to them being AMD only until the Arm move (https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w...)

It’s second-hand info so take it with a grain of salt, but I read somewhere that there was a lot of friction between Apple and Nvidia because Apple likes to tweak and tailor drivers per model of Mac and generally not be wholly dependent on third parties for driver changes, but that requires driver source access which Nvidia didn’t like (even though they agreed to it for quite some time — drivers for a range of Nvidia cards shipped with OS X for many years and those were all Apple-tweaked).
Absolutely no idea how it works. How do you control the position of points without inputting coordinates?

For example, how does one make an image similar to this?
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1109967/problem-inv...
> they are not a marketplace

Sold! Thank you for sharing. It seems the marketplace nonsense and its fake vendors who have their products comingled with legit vendors have ruined almost every online store.
Re: nicotine

1. https://peterattiamd.com/ama23/.

In the U.S. Department of Health’s list of 69 potential and known carcinogens in cigarettes (https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...), nicotine is not one of them.

If [the U.S. Department of Health] can’t even recognize nicotine is carcinogenic given their sensitivity for identifying carcinogens, the likelihood that it has any cancer causing properties is approaching…zero.

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151730/

There were sufficient effect size data to conduct meta-analyses on nine performance domains, including motor abilities, alerting and orienting attention, and episodic and working memory. We found significant positive effects of nicotine or smoking on six domains: fine motor, alerting attention-accuracy and response time (RT), orienting attention-RT, short-term episodic memory-accuracy, and working memory-RT (effect size range=0.16 to 0.44).
What gives the biggest bang for the buck for home office treatment?
How do I reach out to you?
> Green text bubble? Non starter for most under 30.

American?

I live in a country where SMS/iMessage/RCS are primary comms and it's rarely if ever brough up or an issue.
AI disproves differences between same-hand fingerprints
Researchers from Columbia University revealed a new artificial intelligence system this week that disproves the long-held idea that each human finger has a unique fingerprint.
Yeah. Headphones will introduce their own issues like a lack of cross-talk between ears, absence of body feel for the low end, and a skewed frequency curve, but yeah they do remove the room from the equation. Your perception of the record won't change when you turn your head or step back two feet. They've got that going for them.

I should stress that most casual listeners probably don't need to fret about this stuff unless they're really committed to the experience. My work studio may be well-optimized, but when I listen to music in my living room there is zero room treatment and it doesn't get in the way of a pleasurable listening experience.
Startup stock can get diluted to hell during a non amazing acquisition. So founders and key staff (3-4) sometimes get a deal structure that rewards them for doing a year or two at buyer
Coined as mann-gell if I'm remembering this video correctly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wBBnfu8N_J0
Well, I’m starting to finals h a medical treatment tomorrow and I’m worried that that may disqualify me… some countries do, others do not. But yah, I think Portugal would be cool, I spent a bit of time in Galicia this summer and in 2018 and loved it, slightly south of there would be nice.
I have tried things like this, they are good for debugging and asking simple questions but is really hard to train them to be good enough for production. You'll get enough frustrating results, that you'll abandon them soon.
The main point is that languages like C++ make designs possible. The language doesn't dictate the design, the programmer does; the language will do whatever you need for it to do. You can make beautiful designs or ugly ones, the language doesn't care. But it will never refuse to execute your beautiful design just because that doesn't match its opinions about purity.

There are reasons why C++ is the preferred language for difficult problems, and why the highest-paid programmmers all use C++ in their work. It is not because of some shadowy conspiracy dictating the future. Every detail of C++ was chosen for its usefulness first, so each new ISO C++ Standard is more useful and usable than the last. More people pick up C++ to use professionally for the first time each (short time unit) than the total number paid to use (current hipster language). That will be true for a long time.

Most importantly, C++ will never "run out of steam" when your project grows beyond its initial intention.
per departure comparison makes sense if the risks are concentrated in things that are 1:1 with departures. https://accidentstats.airbus.com/statistics/accident-by-flig...

Comparing different operators within aviation, using a rate per departure makes sense I think.
Interesting, but I contend that even without a franchise model, you still have humans doing the work in the end, and human error and inconsistency varies greatly per human. You might say the bad workers would get fired in a well functioning company, but then if there's a high churn rate, that isn't a guarantee of high quality at that low a level in an organization.
Probably whatever happens before "breakfast". Basically, don't have a midnight snack.
What are you talking about? I’ve been a bunch of places, there are places that are better and places that are worth, but largely it’s about the culture I want to be a part of. I’m ready for a cultural break from America for a bit.
I think a lot of people tried just asking GPT-3.5 to "Write me full stack web app no bugs please." when it first came out. When it failed to do that they threw up their hands and said "It's just a parrot."

Then GPT4 came out, they tried the same thing and got the same results.

I keep seeing comments regarding it not being helpful because "super big codebase, doesn't work, it doesn't know the functions and what they do."

...so tell it? I've had it write programs to help it understand.

For example: Write me a Python program that scans a folder for source code. Have it output a YAML-like text file of the functions/methods with their expected arguments and return types.

Now plug that file into GPT and ask it about the code or use that when it needs to reference things.

I've spent the last year playing with how to use prompts effectively and just generally working with it. I think those that haven't are definitely going to be left behind in some sense.

It's like they aren't understanding the meta and the crazy implications of that. In the last year, I've written more code than I have in the last 5. I can focus on the big picture and not have to write the boilerplate and obvious parts. I can work on the interesting stuff.

For those still not getting it, try something like this.

Come up with a toy program.

Tell it it's a software project manager and explain what you want to do. Tell it to ask questions when it needs clarification.

Have it iterate through the requirements and write a spec/proposal.

Take that and then tell it it's a senior software architect. Have it analyze the plan (and ask questions etc) but tell it not to write any code.

Have it come up with the file structure and necessary libraries for your language.

Have it output than in JSON or YAML or whatever you like.

Now take that and the spec and tell it it's a software engineer. Ask it which file to work on first.

Have it mock up the functions in psuedo code with expected arguments and output type etc.

Tell it to write the code.

And iterate as necessary.

Do this a few times with different ideas and you'll start to get the hang of how to feed it information to get good results.
Not in a way V8 does it for example. I would call it AOT (ahead of time). Normally you first compile and initialize scripts and then you can call into their functions and the other way around. But sure you can also compile and execute function in one step so be my guest and call it whatever you want.
"The Greatest Mathematician in the World": Norbert Wiener Stories
How'd you pick UHK over the moonlander and ergodox?
Opinions vary a lot, because people vary a lot, and because of this science "that applies to everyone" is very hard to do.

There's no question that there us good medical science, but equally there is a lot of junk-science and so in this age of "hearing everyone's opinion", it can be hard to separate fact from opinion.

I think we can agree on some stuff. Smoking is bad for you, exercise is good, and so on. Keeping your weight down, more accurately keeping % body fat down, and so on.

Making small, incremental, sustainable changes to lifestyle that trend you in good directions, are definitely the best.

GPs are (with respect) not a terribly good source. They tend to see sick people all day, and gather lots of superficial anecdotes. Which is not to ignore them, but to understand their POV. But it's worth taking their opinions on board as an hypothesis.
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Generating diagrams with plain text notation is a game-changer! The simplicity of using text on cmu.edu to create diagrams enhances accessibility and collaboration. It streamlines the process, making visual representation effortless. A fantastic tool for those who want efficiency without compromising on clarity and precision in diagram creation.

website: https://simplified.com/create/badge
I think EVGA’s withdrawal had to do with how impossible it was to compete with Nvidia’s first-party cards with the terms Nvidia was setting for AIBs. Other card makers like Asus have several other flagship product lines to be able to sustain the hit while EVGA’s other products consisted of lower-profit accessories.

They may have seen AMD selling their own first-party cards and anticipated AMD eventually following Nvidia’s footsteps. As for Intel, at that point they were probably seen as too much of a gamble to invest in (and probably still are, to a lesser extent).
I think rail like truck fleet where a single driver controls a fleet of 10 something autonomous trucks for local time low latency backup control and Starlink for remote backup control could be something that could be useful.
GoTorch: A Go Implementation of PyTorch
I'm starting to implement a barebones version of pytorch in Go. The primary motivation is:

1. I want to better learn Pytorch and how it works so what better way than to just re-implement some of its core features.
2. I write mainly in Go and haven't come across a lot of ML support in Go
3. I'd rather have a Go ML service instead of spinning up additional infrastructure to just support a python ML service in my Go projects
3. Go's static typing, native concurrency (avoid GIL problem in python), efficient memory management, single binary deployment and more make it a better interface compared to python IMO

Knowing the Pytorch is mainly implemented in c++ and c under the covers, I'm not expecting any performance gains by porting it to Go. But still, will be interesting to see how it compares.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts!
This is the type of thing I want to use AI for. Beautiful tool, but this looks daunting.
I have an idle ampere box from equinix waiting to be used, just needs someone to wire it up. I think I know a guy.
Did they?

I found an article from March 2005 stating that ETrade will soon launch 2fa [1]. And a similar article about Blizzard launching 2fa from July 2008 [2]. Maaaybe ETrade took 3 years from anouncement to launch, but I'm pretty sure I saw ETrade branded RSA tokens around 2005, and Blizzard tokens later.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2569503/etrade-touts-t...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/blizzard-introducing-two-facto...
Book Review: The Education of Cyrus, by Xenophon
I think people in the US are just entirely too willing to live in perpetual debt and then whine about how expensive everything is and how they can't retire comfortably.

When people find out that we drive a (totally reliable) 2005 CR-V with 235K miles on it and are going to sell that and replace with a 9 year-old 2015 car, they can't reconcile that with me being "able to afford" a new car if I wanted. To them, the only reason to buy a used car is if you literally could't afford something new. It's madness, but I'm glad they buy/lease new cars so that I can have used cars to choose from later.
It's not the C–suite that’s the problem, they’re just doing the bidding of the “shareholder activists” and stock market geniuses who are so brutally focused on extracting every last cent of value from enterprises that sacrificing anything longer term than the next quarter is perfectly acceptable.
This comment made me chuckle.

I trust random street thug much more than Shopify.
This was clickbait for me because last year I implemented an ISAPI DLL for a web server doing lookups against a SQLite database. But I was disappointed the article seemed to immediately decide to implement a solution for a problem that is barely described.

He's got a growing database that SQLite can handle, but "the server I am renting will not". What kinds of transactions are coming in/going out? How many transactions per second? How big are they? What response time is required?

Since none of that is specified, worrying about sharding smells a bit like "the cart before the horse". Indeed, his final concern about "over-engineering" seems appropriate, and I think the author's fascination with implementing sharding is the solution for which he might not yet have the problem.
The US grid battery fleet is about to double – again
Apple Offers Rare iPhone 15 Discount in China Amid Demand Fears
I don't recall the name of the company but I read about a startup who's product added chat features to a client's website. They noticed a developer using it for IPC, and ended up pivoting into making a product to enable IPC for web apps. (Or inter-something, like you point out it's not an OS process, it's an application-level process. Intertask communication if your prefer.)
I think of it as having a nice set of 256 “registers”, in the zero page at addresses 0-255. I think of the A register as kind of an intermediate location for data that is going from memory to the ALU or the ALU to memory. The article says as much:

> In effect the 6502’s ‘page zero’ in memory provides a large number of ‘pseudo’ 8 and 16-bit registers, slower than real registers, but still faster and more versatile than having to use other parts of memory. A skilled programmer making effective use of ‘page zero’ could write code that was fast when compared to other 8-bit designs.

I haven’t done a lot of 6502, though. I learned Basic on the Apple II when I was young but moved to Think Pascal, HyperCard, and CodeWarrior on the Mac.
Is there anything to search not working because the platform has allowed itself to be gamed with key word stuff to the point of simple things like a title being useless in and of itself?

Places like Target and Home Depot do not have an unlimited number of suppliers for the same object. So each object has one page and not a varying number of pages for the same product for different vendors.
Ah right - I remember looking at their site maybe 15 years ago and they definitely seemed independent.
I didn't realise they'd been bought out but probably makes sense - I assume Epic uses their tools heavily.
Yeah, I'm a bit burnt out on startups personally. They tend to give somewhat mediocre compensation, and they give you a bunch of shares with some bloated arbitrary value number to make up for it.

Obviously it would be awesome if those shares end up being as valuable as they claim it is, but honestly it just kind of feels like lottery tickets. Most startups don't end up becoming the next Amazon or Apple, and as such those shares end up not being worth anything.
1) women were more limited, so they "settled" more

2) the "winner" males, which are DOMINATING dating apps, would be reduced in scope of "stealing" mates, which also leads back to women "settling" more

3) the dating apps and communication that comes with the internet have increased visibility to the inequality relative to the "civilized ideal" of monogamy

A lot of incels are accused of assuming privilege that a man deserves dates, etc. And really, that does underpin a lot of the incel anger: "I followed the rules, worked hard, got job, behave, did as I was told" which is really what the bargain was with "surplus males" from the last couple hundred years: don't cause too many issues, fit in rather than rebel/usurp/raid, and your odds of mating go way up.

Women of course think this is nonsense, they were limited by the "male dominated" system.

Sociology has said for decades that being in a reasonably stable relationship is good for the male/female and civilization in general. That carnal desire to just chase the most physically attractive hunk of mean has some actual truth, but in civilization it also leads people to bad relationships and decisions more often.
Man, I went through the same thing with dirigibles when I was a kid. Never gonna be able to afford a blimp hangar though...
The OLED Deck in particular is great. On less demanding games or streaming with Moonlight where I can crank down the TDP it’s not hard to squeeze 10+ hours of playtime out of its 50Wh battery.

Linux probably helps here, with its greatly reduced background activity compared to Windows.
Adobe Illustrator and more importantly, a good graphic designer
They have a point. It's easy to come with your high IQ and miss some obscure subtle data that people in the field learned the hard way. Sure the man is capable of understanding it quick and even do more.. but it's too easy to get carried in your own newcomer theory.
This made no sense to me at all and I doubt I'm alone.
In which states can't you? California? You're a mortal lock for Illinois with those stats.
I did this for a time and had attempted to commit to staying “no build tools” but after writing a few blog posts and needing to move content of the post around as I was writing it, I gave up the masochism. I do think that it’s important to know HTML as a web developer, and to get your feet wet sometimes, but unless you’re really able to deal with the genuine annoyance of writing only HTML and are doing it for puritanical reasons I don’t think there’s any real reason not to use a tool, especially if you plan to add things to your website.
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