skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's not my hypothesis at all :) The link I posted is a review of the literature on the topic.

I think the real problem with "participation trophies" is that it has very low competence signal. Not negative. But very low for everybody, regardless of performance. The winner's prize, at the same time, gives an extremely positive competence signal to the winner (at the expense of the negative signal to everybody else).

Again, if you put yourself into the shoes of a designer of an incentive structure, then you are facing a trade-off here. Do you want more people to keep doing this activity, or do you want to single out top performers? In sports, I believe it's more of a cultural element. Scandinavian countries, for example, are notorious for their culture of not expressing their personal success (Janteloven). That fits well with the Nordic sports model. More individualistic countries or post-soviet countries with "win at all costs" sports ideology tend to favor incentive structures optimized for early top performers.
I wouldn't mind if there was something akin to Windows "S mode" (i.e. a mode that forbids 3rd party apps), set at time of purchase, and reconfigurable with a visit to an apple store.
Surprised not to see Little Bobby Tables make the list. I used to see that everywhere. https://xkcd.com/327/
That's so cool! I think it could absolutely be harvested. Of course, the government will probably pass a law or regulation that you can't stand or sit, or have any whatever close to the lines, but for now, I don't see really any reason why you can't do this. It's like any byproduct that is being actively discarded.

I want to try this and see if it could charge a battery.
>> I think that's in part because the sources that were once credible, i.e. NGOs, universities, media, and other cultural institutions, have taken a hit to their own reputation as a result of their institutional capture over the years.

The part about "institutional capture" is obviously right, but the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) NGOs exist exactly in order to support and promote IHL. And it's a standard that when an IHL NGO speaks out against Israel's actions, Israel's or its supporters' response is to say that the NGOs are Hamas. That's where the main "hit" to those NGOs' reputation has come from.

You can see this tactic also in the defense Israel mounted to South Africa's case at the ICJ, where they basically accused South Africa of being in cahoots with Hamas [1]. In the most extreme form of this "defense", everyone is Hamas. I was watching this interview with Alan Dershowitz [2] where he says Doctors Without Borders have been recruited by Hamas, Unicef and Unesco have become voices for Hamas, and even the climate movement and Greta Thunberg is a mouthpiece for Hamas:

https://youtu.be/04ZdRUFITnw?si=T3Y4dUekvv4kfVgr [3]

And you know who is not Hamas, and therefore has credibility, according to Alan Dershowitz in the same video? The US State Dept., the UK, "some" of the other European countries, and Germany, and an academic who's a friend of Alan Dershowitz (although he disagrees with him). So, everyone who agrees with Israel's positions has credibility, everyone who disagrees is Hamas.

That is not NGOs lacking credibility because they adopt, say, a left-learning position, it's Israel and Israel's supporters doing their damnedest best to claim that those organisations have no credibility because they speak out against violations of IHL, which is what they exist to do, when it's Israel that violates those.

Well, the same NGOs have no hesitation to condemn Hamas' atrocities and violations of IHL, or the violations of IHL of any other nation-state or non nation-state actor [4]. That's what they constantly do. To quote Andrew Stroehlein, of Human Rights Watch, "If you only care about war crimes when your enemies commit them, then you don't really care about war crimes." [5]

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[1] Ask me if you need a reference to that, I don't have one at hand.

[2] The interviewer in that clip is also extremely partisan, no question about that. Also, it's a vile smear to identify Dershowitz as "Ex-Trump and Epstein lawyer", as if that's all he is.

[3] Full interview: https://youtu.be/O2UJgI0P-zk?si=fU8hWVszQyu7LJU_

[4] Numerous examples; ask for refs if you need.

[5] https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1716111114340049389
Seems it will only come into affect on March 6th, 2024.
Well the ground is creating that exact opposing electric field anyway. If trees were planted to the same height as the wire, then the loss to the electric company is the same.

He's just in effect increasing the height of the ground slightly and tapping the potential difference. You might as well park a car underneath it, attach a wire between the body and ground, and get same or better results, because the surface area is larger (capacitively coupled).
The root cause IMHO is not an individuals ability to broadcast to their connections, but the ability to micro target an audience as a business model. And doing so without any regulation of where that money comes from. So yes it's the platform and the people who run it.
RWKV-5 "Eagle" 7B: beats Mistral-7B at multilingual,reaches Llama2-7B at English
This was very simply explained.

IMF: Inflation is the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time. Inflation is typically a broad measure, such as the overall increase in prices or the increase in the cost of living in a country.

Milton Friedman (famous Economists)
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”

My take is that if more money is produced they will chase the same amount of good until the prices increase enough to accommodate the new money.

Carl Barks described inflation in the best way in his 1950 Donald Duck classic: "A Financial Fable"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Financial_Fable
> Al Gore predicted

I see no predictions by him.

What I do see are examples of him selectively quoting other people and that he was in turn selectively quoted himself.

This is also why you shouldn't rely on politicians for anything.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/
Always the tradeof between freedom and security. There’s nothing more secure than living in a well-groomed prison. In this case though it’s pretty easy : don’t install third party app stores.
> They have a lot of shared decks hosted online

I have mixed feelings about shared decks. I’ve tried many, yet always find something about them that irritates me - aesthetics, content accuracy, etc. Or more likely that just doesn’t fit contextually with what I’m learning.

However, the low startup energy with shared decks is certainly a selling point. I can’t even begin to estimate how much time I’ve spent over the years creating 50K+ cards…

> highly personalised system that doesn't need to work for anyone else.

My experience exactly.
CFC-11 is one specific CFC, you need to look at all of them. Overall they’re increasing, yet the ozone layer has continue to “heal”.
He briefly hints at it, but I think the author makes a mistake common to well-read, intellectual-type people: he assumes that people like to read as much as they like watching video, and therefore that the blog vs. video decision is one made on "proper format."

The reality, I think, is that most people fundamentally don't like to read, and that reading more than a few paragraphs is rapidly becoming something akin to a chore for the majority of the population. Watching a video, on the other hand, is an entirely different experience and one that more-or-less comes naturally to human beings, no matter their education level or cultural background.

I run a Substack myself, but I've increasingly become convinced that text-first platforms don't have a mass-market future and at best, will exist as a niche thing. Instead, I think video-first platforms will gradually solve the advantages text still has over video – for example, search and scrolling. As such, I'd recommend any writers/content creators seriously consider adopting a video-first approach, or at least a hybrid one.

Also see a recent discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38924022
Yeah, that's less a clever "hack" and more just plain old fraud. Like putting a loop in an ATM and calling it free money.

It's not a free ride, your nephew is just dishonest.
Inductively. You're not actually splicing into the line, or damaging the equipment to retrieve the power. It would be the same as putting a rain barrel to capture water runoff from a public road.
There won't be an extinction event. We already know that warm periods in Earth's history are the most friendly for all kinds of life. And we know that cold periods kill species and reduce biodiversity. In the most catastrophic case Earth will end up as a tropical paradise, resembling the Eocene period [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene#Flora
For others interested, this doesn't seem to be fully accepted. A few studies in EU countries (and Australia)) have shown slight regressions from past increases.

No studies done in the US which is the cohort here.
Take the Road Most Documented
Pointing and calling method for avoiding mistakes and occupational safety
I lived in Oulu for a time, and yes it does indeed live up to its winter cycling reputation. Actually most of my wife's family lives around that region, so we'll probably return up there in a few years.

Finland is terrific! Learning the language is tough, and recommended, but ultimately optional for white collar migrants. The lower salaries here are unfortunate - I make a third of what I could make as a software lead in the US (~50k vs ~150k). Doubly so as there really is a lot of top notch engineering talent here, probably because it's so hard to hire people that FTEs end up having to learn a lot about everything lol. I haven't yet carved a path to make US level money while living in Finland - but you'd better believe it's on my list of things to beeline towards once I hit my thirties.
It's interesting, I'm not sure what problem is solved by recording the time I entered the task. Based on the UI I was expecting to put the start and end time, to see a task timeline view. There is also a bug on Android chrome mobile if you edit, and cancel, it deletes the task details. Keep iterating!
The only existential risk that worries me is nuclear weapons proliferation. It's the only one I have nightmares about.
Another one to look at is Coros. Excellent much more reasonably priced alternative to Garmin. EInk. Works underwater. GPS. Maps. Notification. Been searching for something good for a while and so far this is one to watch⌚
Second order effects will be the killer. It won’t be the coastal flooding, it will be the dispossessed hordes. It won’t be the uninhabitable areas, it will be the rapid rise in price of food staples. No matter where you are, the chaos will come to your door, when it comes.

Takes surprisingly little to collapse a civilisation when you kick its knees out from under it.
There is no scientific consensus that global warming will be a mass extinction event that would threaten humanity.
The magnitude of our recommendations differ quite a lot. The phone is the most important thing in your life. Changing it is very expensive, both in money and in your own time.

Changing which app you use is, in most cases, a far less costly endeavor.

If you were upset that an injustice was occuring where you lived, would you want people to tell you to move to another country?
Possibly because it's newer and had less time to pick up citations.
The degree to which you undercook is really about how scared you are of overcooking. The phrase I've heard used is that removing pasta from boiling water and putting it in the sauce is like "pasta bullet time". It slows the cooking enough that you now have lots of extra time to play with.

So it's not that you need to pull the pasta very early. You just can, for greater insurance. But pulling it just shy of al dente and then finishing it in the sauce over a few minutes will result in an al dente pasta. If your sauce needs lots of reducing, you're making a huge batch with an undersized burner, or anything else that would greatly prolong the cooking time, then yes, you'll need to pull the pasta earlier.
Uh... Finland could be one of the bigger victims of global warming. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4118630-atlant...
Anyone got any recommendations for FOSS Generative Design instead of F360.
He's not wrong though, although the way he put it was harsh. You can't truly hide your IP with mere CGNAT. Epsecially when modern CGNAT is all about "how to log the 5-tuple efficiently?"[0]

You need a log-less VPN service at the very least if you desire true privacy. Otherwise, IPv6 with privacy extension will achieve the same effect as CGNAT.

[0]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6888#section-4
Try to make sudo less vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks
Having to code like this everywhere would be hell!

Scroll to the top for the reference to the Mayhem attack it's trying to guard against.
I have made this and a non-stick pan is essential. Otherwise, you have a very annoying mess to clean.

The relevant Cook’s Illustrated/ATK recipe: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/article...
> HTTP/1 remains the one with the highest bandwidth.

To be fair, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 weren't exactly aimed at maximizing bandwidth. They were focused on mitigating the performance constraints of having to spawn dozens of connections to perform the dozens of requests required to open a single webpage.
I mean with WordPress hosting - I don't doubt Caddy is used in production by companies elsewhere. :)
Certainly explosions and fighter jets result in a lot of GHG emissions. You seem to be suggesting that it might be significant enough to explain recent accelerated warming. That's how your comment reads.

My comment was mean to point out that the scale of warming is far more intense than two conflicts would produce.

I really hope the recent acceleration in warming can be traced to industrial methane emissions that could be stopped.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering
I'm guessing a former Soviet country (oldest male child) but I could be way off.
The irony of posting this on substack.
I sure prefer videos but there is a serenity to reading. It is very quiet and all you can hear are your thoughts.
from TFA

> Moody’s Analytics has found 21 million “red flags” associated with shell companies that could be used to enable financial crimes, from ancient directors to dubious addresses.
This is awesome! A question for Italians in the audience though: is using butter as a fat something that’s commonly done? Being Portuguese and fond of Mediterranean cuisine, I always saw butter as a fat as being a more American thing but maybe that’s just the wrong perception and it’s totally fine if you use a dab of butter? PS: I do it myself, reason being that usually I’ll use extra virgin olive oil while preparing a sauce and I like to add butter to save on the oil, which can be quite expensive.
I usually bought a Mac every 1.5 years or so, because I liked being on the cutting edge. However, I am now still rocking a 2021 MacBook Pro 14" because it's still great. In half a year the model is about 3 years old. When I purchased it, it was close to 3000 Euro, and it has 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD.

If I'd sell it, I'd still get between 1000 and 1500 Euro. Let's say for the sake of the argument I get 1200 when it is three years old, then the yearly cost was 600 Euro. Which is... cheap for a tool that I use daily and my income depends on? I mean, if I had to drive by car to work, my yearly cost would be much more than 600 Euro.

I would readily agree that Apple overcharges for memory and SSD, but the amortized cost is not really large.
I would add that I can find 5k of useful resources for USD 50 each. It is not the individual item but the all the context.

Personally, I am not focused on a specific topic such as LLMs but work on an spectrum of topics more akind an analyst job + broad research skills.
I'm not surprised that the generated imagery was sourced from already existing content. What is alarming is that it seems the AI simply regurgitated a source image almost unretouched! Where's the intelligence?
The mute on the touchbar on my MacBook Pro has a slash when unmuted (and also when muted).

It looks like this unmuted: https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/e909bffc-81...

and this muted: https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/e3e9c230-e4...

I believe the reason it always has the slash is to distinguish it from the "change volume" button (which, when pressed, pops up a volume slider). But it's still confusing.
Yeah even I was not aware that China has from 2023 started installing more solar and wind than its annual energy consumption growth ie they have actually started replacing coal produced electricity. And with all the new solar and battery production capacity coming online in 2024 by 2030 China coal usage should be down dramatically.
my standard of living is very sustainable. i don't drive, i don't eat meat, i rarely eat dairy, my electricity is 100% renewably sourced, i recycle diligently, i heat my home to the absolute bare mininum temperature required to be liveable and rely on wearing extra layers for warmth, i don't spend hours using power-hungry entertainment devices, i've been wearing the same shoes and clothes for ~4-5 years and i only replace things when they completely break, or if replacing it allows me to use less energy or be less wasteful in the future. it's not hard.

some of the "innocent poor countries" you're talking about are the worst offenders for deforestation, pollution, and other habitat destruction. get off of your high horse, we are all responsible for the state of the planet we live on.
I think what drives some of the comments that it is illegal is a little bit of righteous indignation. "How dare you get free electricity, that's illegal because I'm not getting free electricity." It's kind of fake moral outrage
The counter to this boomer MD complaining about opioids, is that this crap is making getting legitimate painkilling for pain damn near impossible. Now, unless your injury is obviously painful, you're just drug seeking, etc etc.

But again, it's not about solving pain or helping people. It's all about the puritanical abstention of all substances.

Oxycontin was misclassified due to fraudulent reportings of the drug's capabilities and marketing campaign. However that should have never affected people getting legit pain care, but it definitely did.
You're in one right now.
I definitely don't want to disparage reading – I generally prefer reading to video, at least for some topics. But I do recognize that it's not a common attitude to have and it does require more "buy in" than video.
I wish it weren't so but it appears to be. Even when timing is at a disadvantage - I.e. most of my friends will rather watch a 10min video with data content of a 3 paragraph article (how entertaining is that 10min video, is a matter of personal judgement :)
Does anyone have a design inspiration site that isn't this useless portfolio garbage?

It's incredibly annoying, and i say that with a an interest art, the abstract, cool concepts etc. but i want to see sites and interfaces with "actual messy real life content" not just one big image or whatever idiotic whitespace hell everyone's doing with way too much scrolling on Awwwards, Behance, Httpster, Gsap etc.

It's relatively easy to make a big font, a big picture and a 3d effect look cool, much harder to present 15+ items on one page and create a cool visual narrative around it that both grabs attention and lets the user go solo if he wants to without scrolling two miles.

I feel like a few newspapers were okay examples of this 5-10 years ago, but now they've also gone whitespace crazy.

We need a site like "Real life UX" or "Actual usable design" inspiration.
Split Apple into a software and a hardware company.
HTTP3 also wants to minimize latency in bad network environments, not just mitigating the issue of too many requests.
We also seem to take it as fact that intelligence is an unchanging attribute you get at birth. Wouldn’t your brain upgrade itself as it optimizes for the world around it?
The claim is more that the C++ std is designed to take advantage of C++ language features. Mimicking the same API in C isn't a good lib, the C API shape would need to be different.
I don't get this safety defense from the Apple side.

They could allow a different store like F-Droid on Android. Nobody would force your elder parents to install that one.

For every other app on the "original store", charge a one time fee for checking the security and be done with it.

Implying that being open = being attacked is fearmongering.
It depends on politicians: If they do something just to please the masses, they' ll let this slip. If they are doing if for ideological reasons, and it's about the power of a CEO vs. the power of the politician, then Apple will ultimately loose.
Most do have some cyclist helmet law. However, only a few have laws that apply to adults. Most are only applied to children of various ages.
>People here who are judging

Shouldn't be surprising, in any group there will be a normal distribution. A person that didn't finish high school and succeeding isn't shocking, but falls way to the right of the distribution.

Of course they exist, but until you find one yourself one would think the same.
Be mindful of where you focus your attention.
Focus on what’s actionnable right now, be prepared but never anticipate nor procrastinate. Don’t worry about that which you can’t control. Be humble about what you think you control.

This is just a tribute to the stoic philosophy. I recommend reading the classics. You can start with this article.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/
Lol no, I don't think I should have to identify myself to Apple if I want to use a device I've obtained on the second hand market the way I see fit.
Ah, that is what that design is called? Heh. I've seen it, among other names, also been referred to as "chalkboard design". It also reminds me quite a bit of the style you use when drawing on flipcharts, and actually of 90s web design; the good parts of it, that is. I like the ideas behind it and the clarity, but I think everything tends to be hideously oversized on it.
No offense intended, but all of your suggestions sound very stereotypically Italian, which is to say they put an enormous emphasis on the traditional ways that pasta and sauces are made in various places in Italy. There's nothing wrong with this, celebrate tradition and heritage all you want, but that's very different to what Kenji goes for in general and what Serious Eats goes for in general. Their goal is usually to provide techniques that are then used in recipes to achieve a desired outcome.

Whether that outcome is considered traditional or correct by anyone is not something that is considered. The techniques are a tool to achieve an outcome, and how much or little you use those tools is left to the cook, rather than being dictated by tradition or custom.

Pasta water contains starch, which helps to thicken sauces. If you want a thick and glossy sauce, it is one way to do it. End of story. It is a technique to achieve a desirable goal, nothing more. Whether anyone traditionally in Italy does this or not is immaterial.

Similarly, fats are flavorful. Adding flavorful fat to increase flavor in a sauce is desirable. Whether anyone traditionally does this is immaterial if people think it tastes good.
HN readers might like this version too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QYWGCEm2Dc
The main reason for tagliatelle/pappardelle is to get "fresh" pasta. "Pasta Fresca" or "Pasta all'uovo" is made of different ingredients than spaghetti. It's usually soft wheat and eggs versus hard wheat (durum wheat, semolina) and water.

I agree that finding the right pairing of pasta and sauce does make a difference, but I would also say not to overthink it. Most italians will use whatever's available in the pantry, even if it's sub-optimal.